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It’s Monday again?
It’s Friday again!
three days until new TAY 😛
Welcome one and all to TAY300
Can’d Meat write-up.
Saturday 25 October
I arranged to meet @blaghman at his house. I met his mother. We exchanged witticisms for approximately two and a half minutes. I left with more stuff than I came with, and left at the exact point where my ability to small talk dried up. In and out in two minutes – perfect meat.
In other news, my Kickstarter launches on Friday. Seeing how @liondrive pep-talks are a thing, I’d like to commission one for Friday morning, please.
I, uh, asked Blaghsy a little bit before you two met up to tell you on my behalf that you are a handsome man. And then right after I told him to tell you to take it back because I’ve never met you in person and so I wouldn’t know how you look.
DId he relay all that? It’s been on my mind.
Oh, I thought he was flirting with me. Now it all makes sense.
Three nights of just four hours’ sleep. This should be interesting.
*grabs the popcorn*?
#TAY300 IS HERE. I don’t KNOW how TO act.
CEEEEEELEBRATE GOOD TIMES C’MON!
ARRRGHHH fuck you got this song in my head again! I swear to god I was humming it for the better half of last week just from reading your comment =P
Hey Mickey you’re so fine, you’re so fine you blow my mind – hey, Mickey!
*clap-clap.. clap*
I’m sure there’s plenty of other career options.
What is this TAY300 of which you speak?
@shane took @strange’s advice on board, now if you enter TAY300 at his checkout you have to pay three times as much.
Check out the URL for TAY this week.
The URL for this weeks TAY seems to be suggesting that this is the 300th edition of TAY.
Sooo I guess in roughly 3 months, TAY will be having it’s 6th year old birthday.*
*Complimentary snacks, BYO drinks.
Edit: **Venue TBA
Edit 2: ***Birthday party TBA
Gotcha.
Technically we’d be over 300 by now due to wrong URLs on a handful of weeks ;D /party pooped
Including my personal favourite typo week “Talk Amongst Herself”
Imitation fake TAYs do not count.
Is it just my memory or didn’t it have a random number early on. I didn’t think they were always sequential
Hey, those who are going to Pax meat, You have 5 days left to pay (I need to pay on the friday)
I want to add, if people could post 3 songs that they would like to sing at the meat, that would be super helpful.
I was just thinking last night that I still need to pay you for that. What’s the info/where do I send it?
Also is there a list of available songs or something?
Everyone wants to sing ABBA’s Dancing Queen. Over and over.
#sorted
I’m still convinced that song was about a stripper. No-one can convince me otherwise.
Did you receive my payment? I think I remembered to put ‘Benny’ in the description. Karaoke songs I can sing:
David Bowie or Wallflowers – Heroes
Radiohead – No Surprises
I wanna spit some dope fresh rhymes. Get summa dat rap yo. Childish Gambino: Sweatpants and 3005!
I want to hear someone try Rap God
Clearly some Sugarhill Gang (Rapper’s Delight) is in order. I said a hip-hop, the hippie-to-the-hippie and the hip-hip-hop-a you don’t stop the rockin’
Put some busta bust on that tracklist
Isn’t there usually just a list to choose from?
The cost of hiring the karaoke machine was super expensive so I’m bringing my ps3 and xbox 360.
In that case, whatever songs are on Rock band/sing star/just dance are fine
Archenemy!
More seriously, Airbourne.
How much does it cost? Have you posted bank details or something or do people just need to email you?
Email, or facebook or direct message on twitter
What’s the address?
scree(at)y7mail(dot)com
B-52’s Love Shack. I just need someone to duet with to do the girl parts. @rocketman?
Maybe also Squeeze – Cool For Cats.
Also – @Scree – Did I pay yet?
You paid
I WILL SING ONLY ABBA
also how do i pay you????
im bringing my fiend along for the madness so need to pay twice.
I really want to come, but it will depend on what some of my other friends are doing that night.
How last minute can i be scree?
I believe that numbers need to be locked in the day before so Thursday night
Friday night, actually.
Cool thanks, can i pay on the night if i come?
yes. I’ll have to pay out of my pocket on Friday, but that is fine
alright i’ll give you a heads up friday if i can come
How do I pay?
Either of those options for scree’s bank details
Take on Me, and Desperado.
Everything else is secondary.
I don’t know how to bank good. Also don’t know if I’m going yet. If I do decide to go, can I just pay you in cash on the Friday? It’s $50, right?
That is fine
1) Desperado by the Eagles is a must. Necessary. Essential even.
2) Either Tunnel of Love or Romeo & Juliet by Dire Straits.
3) Either Let Her Cry by Hootie & The Blowfish, or Wherever You Will Go by The Calling.
ARE YOU REAAAAAAAADDDDDYYYYY?! FOR PAX? FOR FUN TIMES?! FOR ME?!
http://i48.tinypic.com/2z9br4h.png
It’s really concerning the tag is anal in that.
There are tags? Concerning or…. no, just concerning, yep.
It’s strangely similar to the Wicket ‘PREPARE YOUR ANUS’ meme.
Concerning in general or just concerning for you?
Well, I know me and Faction are gonna get friendly at PAX now.
*bow chicka wow wow*
aaand deleting that url from my history.
Two out of three.
I’ll leave it up to you to decide which 2.
Are you ready for a good time?
Good morning everybody!
Hard to believe PAX is almost here. Doesn’t quite feel like I’m going to be getting on a plane in 4 days and flying off to Melbourne for a whirlwind weekend of fun. But that’s this weekend coming, how was your weekend just past?
Mine was pretty stock standard. Played a lot of Civ:BE on Friday, really enjoying it. The Tech Web makes me wish that it existed in vanillaCiv. Completely changes my approach to the game. Great stuff. Saturday coffee and shopping, lots of prep for Thailand (which is in 10 days, too!) and a bit of cleaning around the house. Sunday got engaged, more coffee, dinner with friends. The usual, right?
And now, back to work where I’ve already mentally checked out in anticipation of 4 weeks leave. Woo.
Love it how you just casually drop that YOU GOT ENGAGED!
Congrats man. I wish you all the best.
Testing to see who actually bothers reading multi-paragraph weekend summaries.
I read it! Congratulations @beeawwb!
You get me. <3
Yeah, I basically read PAX, Civ, Coffee, Shopping, Thailand, Engaged, More cofffee…… hang on ENGAGED!!!
I have no idea what you’re talking about. 😛
Thanks, very excited. 🙂Hooray! You sacked up! Or got told….
Congratulations either way.
I’m guessing that was your partner that expressed horror at the thought of having that plate I made for you?
Yeah, although she only saw it because I sent her an email saying “look at this awesome thing that just happened” – and she’s joking. She thinks it’s hilarious and disturbing.
Well that sucks all the fun out of it 😛
That’s what she … said?
Congrats!
Not sold on the tech Web yet, seems a bit unfocused
That’s exactly what I love about it. In my first game I was running around with Xeno Titans but no idea what these “Floatstone Quarry” things are that everybody keeps banging on about.
Congrats on the engagement man! 🙂 Exciting times!
Thanks! It’s very exciting, but also daunting now thinking “Soooo how does one actually plan a weeding?” 😛
Step 1: Find a location with a shitload of booze.
Step 2: Find a way to get people there.
How hard can it be?
That’s pretty much been the discussion so far.
Where is the discussion about which style of serviette rings to have?
Should the flower girl bouquets have as many flowers as the bridesmaids or less
Tie, bow-tie or cravat
And that’s without thinking of the critical things like should the chair covers in the foyer be satin, silk or cotton.
And where does one find 100 pure white doves at short notice
Burger rings.
Less flowers. Much less. Like, the fewer the better.
All 3. At once.
Cotton. But like, fancy cotton. Unspun.
@redartifice can probably organise a zoo fiasco for doves.
I can bring de birds, but cousin Roman, I have questions…
Step One. Put on gloves.
Step Two. Go to your garden.
Step Three. Start pulling weeds.
It’s true, too. Webster’s Dictionary describes a wedding as, “The process of removing weeds from one’s garden.”
A marriage is a lot like an orange.
well it was easy for me. Invite family and a few friends to attend “ceremony” at registry office, then went for dinner at Jade Buddah. DONE!
Yeah, we’ve pretty much said it’ll be just a party for close friends (and minimal family) that happens to have some vows exchanged at it. I think we’re more concerned with the band. 😛
One doesn’t plan a wedding,one elopes. In awesome outfits. Otherwise thievery occurs every time you mention the word “wedding”.
Unless you really meant ‘weeding’, in which case @shane has you covered.
“Party” 😉
That won’t always fly, but it’s a good rule of thumb to not mention the word ‘wedding’ unless you have no other choice.
Also, if you rent nice cars from Apex and get family to chauffeur, instead of hiring wedding cars + drivers, you can save literally thousands of dollars and still get a nice ride.
You severely overestimate how many people we’ll want in attendance. 😛
Even if it’s just a car to take the bride to the ceremony, here’s a price breakdown:
Wedding car + driver: $400 per car per hour, minimum 3 hours ($1200)
Hire car from airport: $75 for a whole day + $2 for a roll of white ribbon (if you want) ($77)
@shane Hire property for a few days, self drive. Already at place, walk to backyard.
Or summin’ like that. Lower than low key is the theme of the day.
Well TAY alone will be enough to have per head increases hurting
Hardest bit is booking the reception venue and/or church. Just a tip – If you get married in winter (ie May->August), you can often get a good discount.
We actually agreed “we shouldn’t get married during the footy (AFL) season” – however cliche or stupid or silly that might be. Otherwise would totally agree with you.
As long as you don’t book during the finals you’re probably ok, and it wouldn’t be the first wedding to have a TV with the game on at the reception.
Yeah, no finals, and don’t want to potentially miss the 1 QLD game we get to attend before the fixture is released. Mid-Oct 2016 is looking like a goer.
WAY TO GO, BOB! 😀 CONGRATS!
THANKS DC, I’M SMILING IN ALL CAPS TOO! 😀
The caps make up for my inability to favourite posts this week. 😛
I’m so happy for you! Congratulations 🙂
Very happy times, many thanks. 🙂
So your engaged to coffee now? Did you meet at decafe?
Congrats bud!
This is what they say to decaf: http://instagram.com/p/Ytjd2RN1dz/
Does she? Haha
SFW.
GRATS!
Oh, I totally missed this. Twitter makes sense now. Best of news. 🙂
The system works! 😛
Howdy Buckaroos! How were your weekends?
Mine wasn’t too bad, picked up Bayonetta on Saturday, played for about an hour, the the wife and son came home so I had to stop. Went out to a family do on Saturday night and got fairly drunk. Sunday pretty much spent the day playing Forza Horizon 2, while checking the 360 marketplace all day long for GTA: San Andreas HD. Watched Last Vegas last night, not a bad movie.
Just checked the Marketplace again and GTA: SA HD is still not there, apparently it’s up in the US UK and various other countries, obviously we’re not that important. I know I could just chuck my original disc copy in my 360 and play it, but I want achievements dammit! Starting to look like I might have to make a US account.
Yeah, I checked this morning and no sign of it. Very disappointing. Wonder what’s going on there?
MY WEEKEND IN REVIEW: BAYO 2! FRIENDS! BONDI! There was another thing, but just so we’re clear, Tusk by Kevin Smith was shit. I hated it. Don’t see it.
Aw, that’s a shame. I was thinking about checking that out.
s’cool. I’ll just keep hanging out for Clerks III.
Bond? James Bond?
James Bondi.
Bonds aussie cousin
Heeey peeps… Been a bit absent lately for various reasons, so can someone fill me in what tay300 is? :P…
Secondly weekend was decent:
Spoilered because potential length and personal issues:
Had a nice long chat with my mother on Saturday (helps she’s a psychologist :P) about my various issues and its kinda nice to get some insight into what’s going on in my brains :P… She doesn’t suspect I have clinical depression caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain but rather due to all the stress and frustration causing the depression… Doesn’t really help with my situation but it’s good to get some insight… I’ve been absent from TAY the last week due to bring in a particularly foul mood and I didn’t want to keep posting negative drivel on here… One thing I’ve noticed I’d that my mood is quite unstable, I can be in a perfectly normal happy mood, then the smallest thing or comment happens which sends me into this dark self destructive cycle… It’s really freaking annoying :P… I’m trying to be mindful of it, but once that plunge into despair starts It’s really hard to stop/rambling
… Sorry, it’s nice getting it off my chest and you guys are so awesome and supportive!
… Kingdoms of Ramalamadingdong is pretty rad
URL for TAY this week suggests that it’s the 300th one.
Insight is good. I recently bought a book about depression that I intend to read. Knowledge is power.
But with great power comes great responsibility…
(sorry couldn’t resist!)
I really enjoyed Ramalamadingdong. Not enough yet to try for 100% but we did complete it.
i recommend playing it on hard difficulty. How far into the game are you?
I finished it on hard. Kept waiting for it to get hard.
Only just
home to Dellach because something something theater of fate :P… Playing as a sneaky character and its heaps of fun due to the simple combat system… Also digging the art styleThe TAY 300 is a race using the scenic Melbourne as a backdrop. This weekend, over three nights competing TAYbies must race around Melbourne consuming as many beers as possible.
The first to 300 beers consumed wins?
Wins a free trip to the hospital! Includes activities such as stomach pumping!
Ah, race to the bottom.
My mic on my standard Xbone headset has somehow broke, so I went in to EB Games on Friday, traded in some old 360 games and put a pre-oder down on this, which I thought looked pretty good and well priced.
I know there’s not many
Xbonerspeople whom play the Xbox One around here, but wanted to share in case any one is eyeing up a new headset!Shit yeah that looks awesome
I’ll be giving by Xbone some love over the next few weeks. Sunset Overdrive and Halo are gonna pull me in.
I’ll be picking up halo straight away, but let us know your thoughts on sunset!
Will have to pick it up after PAX 😛
I almost have 100 photos on my flickr stream. I’m absolutely loving photography. I’d love to hear what you guys think of my stuff! https://www.flickr.com/photos/brendancurtain/
Checked it, not a single photo of your “stuff”… Disappointed
I’ll see you at PAX 😉
Oh! Wooden and Guardian are great!
Some interesting shots in there. I like the little bags packed dude, where was that taken.
Also the everywhere shot is very well done
That was at the Nan Tien Temple down at Port Kembla. Really nice place!
I like the ones with me in them.
(Nah, the others are good to. I really like that Dogman one from yesterday)
Dude those are awesome! All I take photos of are beach sunsets
Some impressive shots there, Shigster.
Looks like you have a rather nice camera, and a decent eye for framing your shots.
More. Now.
but im poopin right now.
Had a pretty great weekend. Went out for coffee (and cheesecake) on Saturday morning, and on my way home, I bumped into friends sitting at the cafe near my place and they invited me to have a coffee with them. Long story short, I had lunch as well, and they shouted me. Then I had my NaNo writers group meeting, which was good as I got some more details into my plot for my novel. Also I watched Rush on Saturday night, which is an absolutely brilliant movie.
Sunday I had church, and found out one of my best mates is going to PAX. (Soooooooo jelly). Also watched Doctor Who and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. I enjoyed both. All in all a pretty great weekend.
why were they shouting at you?
Well he bumped into them, so I’m assuming he made them spill their coffee
Hey petals. I had a mixed bag of a weekend – lovely time at the markets with my dog, on his sixth birthday (he got lots of pets and smiles and made me very proud), saw Whiplash, which was really good, and very intense, annnnnnd I was diagnosed as being allergic/intolerant of the Nightshade family, ahahaha. What a loser.
Ouch, that allergy/intolerance sucks. No more potato or tomato? I couldn’t live with that.
I know! Potatoes are the best but they just hate me. Goodbye, my love.
…potatoes and tomatoes are related? Huh.
Also I could not imagine a life without tomatoes /o\
Yeah, I had no idea right? The doctor said, “You’re allergic to nightshade” and I thought he was kidding, because I only knew of nightshade as the poisonous flower, haha.
I thought it was a comic book character 😛
It wasn’t until you said it that I realised potato was part of it too. I mean, tomato I could deal with, I suppose, but potato? Fiddle-di dee, that SUCKS. :O
My boyfriend could not stop laughing when I told him, because just that morning I had been singing the potato song from LoTR. That night I was singing it real quietly to myself and it set him off again. “Boil ’em… Mash ’em… Stick ’em in a wahhhhhhh”
Tomato is in everything though. It’s really hard to avoid. Like trying to avoid onion.
Yeah, that’s why I put the “I suppose” bit. I started thinking about it and realising how much it gets used, just in sauces / additives etc.
Well I guess Mr and Mrs Nightshade can’t bring the kids over any more
Pretty much everything I eat has a component from that family. Not tomato or potato makes it hard, is that your only allergy that you know of or is this just another limitation of what you already knew.
Does it look severe enough to affect which medications you can have?
Puppy \o/
My reaction is so weird. Like, I already knew I was allergic to pepper (nothing life-threatening, just very uncomfortable with standard spicy stuff, but it’s not like I’ve ever tried a Trinidad scorpion chili, you know?). I don’t eat tomato anyway (I just don’t like them), but it’s the potato that’s so hard! That’s what made me get tested in the first place. Medication (not that I take any except birth control) shouldn’t be an issue. I’m heartbroken. No more chips!
Unfortunately that nightshade family includes capsicum and eggplant too. But you can still eat sweet potato, and parsnips make the most delicious deep fried chips too.
Yeah, I already knew I couldn’t have peppers. I don’t care for eggplant (too spongy). Sweet potato is good if it’s realllly skinny. I’m going to write a letter to Pringles, hahah.
Oh god no tomato OR capsicum??
That is even worse than being stuck with lactose intolerance.
Kumara / Yam chips are even better than parsnip. Add a bit of bacon & sour cream.
How was your dinner party?
Memory like an elephant, you! It went well. Thankfully they were late, so I actually managed to get almost everything ready before they even arrived, including making a pudding! I made mustard-honey pork leg steaks on baby spinach, milk-roasted potatoes, garlic-butter green beans, and caramelized mushroom and onion tarts (a go-to these days).
I didn’t eat, but brought the gin they brought as a gift, and well, things got blurry after that ;P
*mouth waters*
Oh man, I’m seeing Whiplash today.
So keen.
So so good. I got such sweaty palms, hahah.
I have noticed a handful of food types which seem to make me very refluxy, but I refuse to go test for any kinds of intolerances in case they tell me what I already suspect and give me actual confirmation of problems. As it is, I can cheerfully claim ignorance of any intolerances and eat whatever I want without guilt! But I do, er… usually avoid some things.
It is an uneasy truce of self-denial, self-gratification, and self-preservation.
#OldManTransient 😛
Hi folks. Weekend summary cause why not 😛
Had a pretty decent weekend, played nothing but Hyrule Warriors, almost cleared the adventure mode map with all As, only 3 weapons left of the 61 before I can unlock the Master Sword’s ability. On Saturday night I had to rescue a possum our dogs somehow got hold of, I was expecting to have to rush it to a vet but luckily our dogs seem to be lacking a killer instinct and instead were playing with it, they just pinned it and licked it a lot, so I shoed them away and the possum scampered off no worse for wear. Yesterday caught up with friends I hadn’t seen in a couple of years, his 2 babies seem to have turned into small humans who instantly fell in love with our dogs and proceeded to exercise them for a good few hours, almost had a heart attack because while the kids were leading my dogs around (40 kilo German Shepherds Kratos & Moon) they decided to go introduce them to a toddler that was about half their height, thankfully our dogs have beautiful natures and one crawled on its belly over to the kid and gave it some kisses and the other lowered its posture and really gently did the same, it’s great that they seem to instinctively know that babies are fragile. Hope you all had decent ones.
You suck, O’Doyle Rules!!!
I love big dogs so much.
Me too, nice and tough and I don’t have to worry about them getting under foot and standing on them.
We had a little run-in at the dog park yesterday – there’s two fenced off areas for off-leash play. One for big dogs (and little dogs who live with/can handle big dogs) and a second part for little dogs. We took our two boys (Lab and Wolfhound) into the big dog area, and these people were standing there holding these little dogs, and then started yelling at us for letting our dogs in. I got so mad, I yelled at them that this is the park for real dogs, not their toys. They left after that.
that sucks, people at dog parks are either really nice or total jerks from my experience, hopefully next time you’ll get to let them run around. I went to one once where the other peoples dogs pretty much attacked ours and they tried to yell at me about it, I got a bit shouty and left.
YOU HAVE A LAB PICS NOW
Big dogs are the best dogs.
We have an Old English Sheepdog.
I finished The Evil Within, if you loved Resident Evil 4 or can handle a clunkier The Last of Us without the heartbreak, check it out!
I have always considered RE2 to be the BEST RE, but after playing it fairly recently and getting my nostalgia-goggles all scratched up on its low-polycount, I have had to revert to RE4 as my favourite. So this is a good point! The Kotaku review left me very wary.
I replay 2 almost yearly.
What did you play on? I find PSX games eye bleedingly painful on modern TVs.
If you own a PSP or a Vita, that’s the place to appreciate PSX.
Nah, always played it on the PC, from the very early days when it had a time-limited demo (that you could hack the timer off, giving you significantly more play).
Get a really small monitor?
If you’ve never had a chance to play either Code Veronica or the REmake (1 redone for the Gamecube), I highly recommend both of them.
Nah, I stopped being a Nintendo person after the Console Wars. Are there reliable emulators, or would I need to go hunting for an antique console?
Code Veronica was redone for PS2 and they’re making a HD re-release of the REmake (so remade the original twice now technically) that should be coming out early next year for the new consoles and PC.
Don’t know about emulators but I imagine there’s a Dolphin emulator working for the REmake and Code Veronica if you can track it down.
Dolphin seems to have a pretty good rap as the go-to GCN/Wii emulator.
This game appears very divisive. It apparently has a lot of design that some people will like, and others will hate. For example it has a combination of checkpoints every 30 minutes and unexpected trap deaths. Some people like that. (I assume)
My first opinions of the game were influenced by 20 minutes of Jesse Cox’s ranting on the Co-optional Podcast, so my view is very much tainted.
Pah. There is no ‘division’. It is simply a difference between love and appreciation, or ignorance. That is all!
@gutsoup: Boardwalk Empire finale today! *flails arms in air* I’m caught up just in time, too.
holy shit finale? I didn’t know it was the finale. *cries*
Season five spoilers:
They’ve certainly done their fair share of killing off character this year, huh? 😀more Season 5 spoilers
I need to try find that last spoiler I put up, it was pretty much me having a cry about all the death. I’m going to be sad when it’s over, need another show from that eraNot quite that era, but Manhattan is supposed to be great. Set in the ’40s and is about the scientists who developed the a-bomb.
You’ve caught my interest…
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/10/talk-amongst-yourselves-299/comment-page-4/#comment-2996465
My Boardwalk post 🙂
Good post!
I suspect tonight’s ep will be all about Gillian and Nucky. If there’s a happy ending, this might be it. Though when Gililan tried to escape and that shadow appeared on her, hope the doctor doesn’t get to her before Nucky can. D: Also I like how Nucky sees Jimmy in all the young guys in his life. Trying to protect them instead of recruit them this time.More Boardwalk Spoilers
I was expecting the last episode to go very differently after the previous one ended with Mickey doing a Paul Revere and gathering a posse, really thought Nucky was going to strike back, hopefully lots of people get their come uppins tonightcould be pretty interesting, will have to check it out.
I have a new favourite YouTube video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMy0KPz8Vvo
Somewhere @Liondrive is rolling in his grave!
Imagine if they were all wearing mustard pants. That would be perfect.
People of PAX! We are going to play a massive game of 2 Rooms and a Boom.
The game is simple: everyone is given a role card that will put them in the red or blue team. There are five rounds where the group of players are split into two rooms, in those rooms is a leader and at the end of the round the leader nominates people in that room to be a part of a hostage exchange. At the end of the fifth round, there’s an explosion.
You see, one member of the red team is the bomber and their goal is to be in the same room as the president (a member of the blue team). The two teams are trying to work against each other to get the right people in the right room to get the outcome they want.
To do this, you can show your card to people to win their trust or just flat out lie. It’s a lot like the Resistance except there’s a whole lot more going on.
Also, some role cards have special rules: the shy guy can’t show their card to anyone, the fool must show their card whenever asked.
And finally, there’s the mysterious grey team that doesn’t care about the others but will have individual goals to achieve.
Best of all, it’s on a timer so it only takes 20 minutes, including faffing about.
My plan is to do a game on the Friday afternoon and then again as often as people want. Which, with any luck, would be pretty damned often.
I was just listening to an Idle Thumbs podcast this morning where they talked about this game!
There’s a big buzz around this game and it still isn’t out yet. We’re going to have to use a print and play version of the game (which involved me doing some arts and crafts stuff with scissors, random Magic cards and sleeves).
So this is at PAX or after? 20 minutes is good either way for me, I can do that!
At.
I’m planning to spend as much time as I can playing games at PAX and 2R1B is one that I’ve been wanting to give a try for a long while. It definitely helps that it’s a game that gets played a lot at other gaming conventions.
Keeeeeeeeeeeeeen
My Friday afternoon doesn’t start until after 4:30 (after the Chris Roberts ‘chat’ panel) but otherwise I’m interested.
I’m pretty blase about the panels this year. I’ll be heading to a handful of them but I’m sure there will be plenty of opportunities for people who are going to every panel they can to join in.
Yeah, most panels I can take or leave, but the Chris Roberts one is unmissable (since my whole trip is Star Citizen related) for me.
Sounds like fun man!
Sounds fun. Count me in.
Hola Tayberinos
My phone has Tayberinos in autocorrect these days.
This weekend I went to a party on Friday night, then DMed Saturday morning and pretty much spent the rest of the weekend playing games. Played a bunch of Destiny Saturday (was trying to get a raid team together but we didn’t get the numbers) and then a bunch of new borderlands, which I’m enjoying.
Big storm here last night, so I shut down all my electronics and finished reading my book… And started two more. SHUT UP YOURE THE ONE WITH A PROBLEM
This morning I’m off to give blood. You lot should do so too.
A Monday morning question: one of the books I’ve started is the George r.r. Martin-edited anthology Rogues. who is your favourite Rogue in fiction?
Indiana Jones for the lovable rogue.
Trickster from Flash’s Rogues Gallery (he’s a shitty Joker ripoff that was once played by Mark Hamill and had some fantastic moments in Justice League Unlimited).
Clearly Indiana Jones is a Bard.
Fine, Han Solo then. He’s basically Indy without the whip.
Lupin III. No, Han Solo. No, no, Zaphod Beeblebrox.
Algernon Moncrieff?
I remember quite enjoying Jimmy The Hand’s story back in the day. Haven’t read any Feist for at least ten years, though.
More recently, and to put forth something a little unorthodox, maybe Dmitri Prokofich Razumikhin from Crime and Punishment.
Edit: thanks for the reminder re: blood. Have just booked in a work-organised courtesy bus for tomorrow.
I kind of gave up on the Feist books. Loved the early ones, really enjoyed the middle ones, then it went downhill. Seemed like he was grasping for new Big Bads that made all of the previous struggles somehow pathetic by comparison, editing was horrendous (one book had a sentence suddenly stop midway and another sentence begin with no punctuation break, had typos in the names of races, etc), stories dragged on… Still haven’t read the last three or so books.
Chanel and YSL tend to give me the coverage and shade I need for….
Oh wait. Rogue. Never mind.
My WoW character is my favourite Rogue in fiction. Even if her story is largely made up by me. 😛
In ‘official’ not-made-up-in-my-head fiction, I’d have to go back and read some of the Raymond E. Feist stuff to find a name. Does FitzChivalry or ‘Fitz’ in Robin Hobbs’ books count as a rogue?
Rogue Leader is the best.
I presume you mean Wedge, and not the original Rogue Leader.
I like Jaxyn the lord of temperance from the Jennifer Fallon series
I spent the entire weekend playing Destiny and watching the Rooster Teeth Extra Life live stream.
I felt like this year’s live stream wasn’t as much chaos/fun as last year’s, though this year had LeVar Burton reading Go the Fuck to Sleep so it all evens out.
I’m tired and bored and want a holiday.
/livejournal
So that’s what all those strange and off putting hashtags were about?
I deleted my tweets after failing to win anything in their periodic raffles, but yes. I wasn’t trying to tell some abstract story about someone named Steve enjoying some sangria and lazers. 😛
I thought they had gotten to you! *puts on foil hat*
So Civ:BE is a pretty cool guy! All you other Civ addicts out there I’m having a bit of trouble with my early game curve in this game. I usually play really aggresively early on i.e. establish lots of outposts and a strong military presence to take out my nearest neighbor and then slow down, however with BE I’m unable to establish that military domination early on? Not sure what I’m doing wrong maybe being too broad in scope in my research but usually the AI (on normal) seem to be churning out units and unit upgrades faster than I can even though they usually only have one or two cities while I’ll have about 3-4….
Any advice?
I wish I could help you but I’m the exact opposite. I churn out military units much later.
(Although hilariously last night the Africa guy declared war on me very early, I held him off from my capital with 2 missile rovers and a gunboat, then moved in on his territory where he immediately gave me 500 Energy, 2E p/turn, a Favour, and a bunch of resources if I’d spare him. >:D)
Yeah they are a bit passive like that… I declared war on Brasilia a few times and my armies would just crash against their cities and die and a few turns later he’d be bribing me with all his resources for a peace treaty….
However this where I’m hitting a snag with how the AI works in BE, I knew for a fact he was giving me everything because he had 0 energy left when we’d go back to the diplomacy screen, however he was still able to keep maintenance on about 6-8 units following the peace treaty and kept churning them out even when I would wear his units down… Like what the hell?!
Remind me how things work: If I have 0 energy, and a negative net (e.g. -2E per turn) can I construct a new building that has a maintenance cost, or a unit that will require upkeep?
I just never find myself having no energy (negative income, sure, but I always correct it before it bottoms out) so not sure.
Well I was under the impression you couldn’t create units without money in the older civ games? However given BE is a different beast…. possibly you get a nerf to how fast you can build them? i.e. more turns needed per unit?
@jocon @rize @sernobulus Can anyone confirm what happens when you run out of energy?
I might try starting a new game and purposely run out of funds, see what happens. I suspect we’re all too awesome to let ourselves get in to such a situation. 😀 / 😛
I’ve never been in that position so I don’t know, sorry.
I’ve not played a CIV game yet but am thinking of picking this one up, am I making a huge mistake starting here?
I don’t think so. It’s different enough from Civ that you’d possibly be more confused if you’d already played one, and the tutorial can be as hand-holdy as you want it to be. I think it’s a decent entry point.
Even when you put the ADVISR on “Experienced Player” it still holds your hand to a significant degree. “You found a resource pod. You should go collect it!” I know. I knew the last 3 times you told me as well. `:S
There REALLY needs to be a, “Don’t tell me this again,” tick-box.
30 seconds after starting my first game I switched it off in annoyance.
It would be so great if there was an “I know what I’m doing but if I leave something for more than a turn (e.g. forget to send a spy out) then maybe give me a gentle reminder” setting.
You could always ease in by getting CiV and the expansions which will probably be dirt cheap either during the steam holiday sales if not before.
My game is strange with everyone, including most of the aliens, being all nice to each other.
5 hours in and no Civ aggression and I have a pet worm happily circling my territory ignoring my convoys as long as they stick to the roads.
So I have not really tried the combat, but I usually tend to focus too much on teching up so tis suiting me well.
Hints for dealing with worms and trade convoys (spoilered in case you want to figure it out yourself!)
After you research the ultrasonic fences and build one you’ll get a quest decision where the fences will either push aliens back one extra tile from the city or provide the convoys to immunity from aliens, choosing the convoy immunity makes sure your trade routes are always safe from dune *cough* siege worms =]Also fuck the worms and the aliens my very first play through I got planetfall next to 3 alien nests! Not one, not two but three! And I knew because I chose that perk that lets you see all alien nests on the map, so I was basically at war as soon as I landed =_=
Handy. I did not bother with the fences cause the aliens rarely came near.
Sure will now.
So I was playing in the Spooooky Pokemon XY Friendly* Competition over the weekend, but my internet connection kept cutting out! It cost me 3 matches, which I’m pretty bummed about.
*grrrrr Pokemon is serious business you guysss!
Agreed.
Weekend Summary. It was hot. New week begins.. it’s still too hot.. in fact.. it’s even worse! FML!
Yeah, was starting to actually sweat in the living room this morning, put on the AC. Not looking forward to Summer. 😛
My wife’s grandmother gave her $50 for a cheap patio furniture set from Bunnings so she’s got me cleaning up our balcony so we can enjoy sitting outside when the weather heats up. This is the opposite of what I like to do when it’s hot, but our balcony is pretty shady most of the time and sitting out there if there’s a nice breeze is not completely out of the question. Might even get rid of the shitty dead plants in the garden boxes at either end and put in something low maintenance like grass.
Only shade I have is inside my house. If I open the curtain, I get roasted 😐
That’s the situation in our mast bedroom.bathroom. We have a metal shutter on the bedroom though, keeps out the worst of it.
The walk to and from the school this morning was a terrible reminder of why I hate summer and that it’s only getting worse from here.
We have no aircon, and the ceiling fan in our loungeroom isn’t working. D:
I think you need to hijack the calm down tent and put it in front of the fridge!
I have a feeling I’m going to be taking advantage of Garden City’s air con, and new comfy seats with power and USB points numerous times over the next few months. I’m gonna sit and hand sew things like the little old lady I am. 😛
Can you set the oven to cold?
I’m the same. I dread having to drive during the day now. It’s just too hot in the car with no aircon :\
It has been unexpectedly mild in Perth the last week. Not a day over 30. You’d think it was August. I expect the summer to return hotter than ever before.
OMG YOU GUYS IT JUST HIT ME THAT PAX IS THIS WEEKEND AND ITS ONLY 6 WEEKS UNTIL WE TAKE OFF FOR EUROPE AND ZOMGIGOTSOMUCHSTUFFTODO!!! *heavy panting*
Edit – \o//o\\o//o\\o//o\\o//o\ page get cart wheel
Edit edit – youknowwhatsgreat? Coffee!COFFEEISAMAZING!
*backs away slowly from the unseemly heavy panting*
That reminds me, I need to write a list of the stuff I’ve already confirmed I’m going to inside and outside of PAX…
I will be inside you at PAX
My wife doesn’t get to Melbourne till Saturday arvo.
Just sayin’.
I get there Friday night…plenty of time.
You should come over for dinner one night that’s what you should do!
I think the only night I have nothing on is Thursday…
Are you still going to the Friday SC thing?
The BBQ? Didn’t score a ticket in time 🙁
Bugger…ah well, there’s always Saturday! 😀
Sc thingy? Picked going to the meat, more important to me 😛
I’m sorry
No…the meat 😛
@scree, don’t be, I’d definitely much rather hang with you lovely people then go to that!
@rize excellent! Should be awesome!
PIXEL PAX FUN
Going to see The Lion King on Wednesday and maybe see some of the cool light displays for the g20 festival in Brisbane.
there’s a festival? The boulder in front of my hermit cave will keep it away.
https://twitter.com/GrumpyOldGamer_/status/525824050996576258
https://twitter.com/GrumpyOldGamer_/status/525823496325054464
SO PRETTY!
Do you know the grumpy old gamer?
I do! We met at Supanova last year! Nicest of guys!
He makes cool stuff.
Yeah, swords and the like, right? You guys go way back to Firefly days, if I’m not mistaken!
Popdart, Shane, Joe and I all had a meat of sorts. Haha!
I will offer hugs and kisses for you all at PAX. I cannot wait to see you all.
Someone needs to dial back shigs morphine intake..hes acting like that one hippie girl from a music festival that grinds on a pole outside the toilet for 8 hours
Don’t fucking tell me what to do. You’re getting fucking kisses AND YOU WILL LIKE IT.
Any tongue?
That second f-bomb… adjective or verb?
whynotboth.jpg
You have one job – to take good pics of me and the boy in our cosplays.
OH JEEZ THE PRESSURE
Weekend summary: Switched into Ultimate Determination mode to try and get my costume done for PAX, only taking a break to sleep (minimal hours) and to duck out and grab Bayonetta and a couple more supplies first thing Saturday morning.
I have had to concede defeat though. Between pinning things taking absolutely freakin forever, and the sewing machine going all asplodey on my on Saturday night, there just isn’t enough time left. Also wondering if I’m going to have some structural problems with the design I’ve gone with, could require some rethinking.
So yeah, I’m gonna have to shelve it and complete it some other time. Now I’m wondering what to bring in its place. I’d probably most like to bring Shredder along since it’s the newest, although I’m not sure about how I’d get all the stuff to survive the trip. Would have to check out boxes and stuff available at home, and see what fits in a suitcase. The other question is whether to just bring that or if I still want to do Manny on Friday. Though that could be troublesome for travel, because pretty much both those helmets need to be carried. Hmm.
In totally unrelated news, I don’t think I’m going to make it through the day without passing out.
Infinite caffeine and a light work-out at lunch! I highly recommend it!
Coffee when I’m tired usually just makes things worse rather than helping.
I opted for a lunchtime nap, though I’m not sure it actually took place at all.
Is the machine behaving itself again or did you find another?
Yeah, it started working again with a change of thread.
\o/
Hey, TAY!
Weekend was pretty okay. Saturday was spent scouring the city for a luggage bag for Melbo this week. Went to every shopping centre and Op-shop in the place and nobody had any for less than $200… Ended up going to the markets and getting a decent-ish one for $35 😛 Bayonetta 2 is also a pretty cool guy! Very pretty locations in that game!
Sunday was full of ART. Sculptures by the Sea is pretty cool, but I don’t pretend to understand art. There was a giant frying pan on the beach though so that was cool. It was quite hot too, I now have a healthy neck-tan. Always good to catch up with a Sydney folks again too!
Question about PAX: Do they give out lanyards for your PAX Passes or is it a bring-your-own/buy one deal?
Pretty sure they give you lanyards. ALSO ART.
They better! Im just gonna carry mine in my wallet till i get one
Excellent! I have one I can use but it’s Xbox branded, so… 😛
I want a Nintendo one!
On hot days, can you cook up giant bacon and eggs in the frypan? Smrt public amenity!
They give them out.
Last year there were the official Halfbrick ones and also League of Legends ones going around.
They give them out but be warned, they may not be entirely reliable.
I lost my 3 day pass on the first day because the lanyard didn’t hold it properly. Got lucky and convinced them to give me another one. After that, I used two lanyards, a keyring and a scause to keep it tightly around my neck.
Man, art is like heaps deep and stuff, hey?
Why can’t a statue just be a statue?
Totally… Like, as a kind of commentary on today’s society and the lack of contentment permeating the western, middle-class? The artist is presenting the work as a statement. They’re asking the audience “Hey, this statue is just a statue, why can’t you just be you?”
Yeah, that’s a really good point, Pow.
I had the post interview blues on Friday. I couldnt stop thinking of all the mistakes i made.
But then i went and got Vietnamese Pho and everything was dandy.
I started redoing my pokemon team on the weekend. Not redoing as “fixing” my mistakes when breeding the first lot of pokes. I have to say despite the grind i have enjoyed the learning and battling with pokemon i “designed” pretty dope.
I Also am excited for PAX. Flying out on Thursday with my bestie.
BEST WEEK EVERR
Oh man, I annihilated a pho on Friday.
Sah gerd.
Chin up on the interview blues, I know the feeling.
Which Pokemon are on your team? I’ve been SUPER lazy about breeding some Pokemon that the Lucario I use in rating battles and online competitions is still the one that Korrina gives you in the story. And many others are just 4-IVs that I get randomly from Wonder Trade.
I can’t remember how far I got into new Pokemans, nor can I remember who is in my team (pretty sure there has to be a squirtle evolution, though, just because).
So not gonna beat anyone haha.
Morning errbody hows every little thing?
My weekend was chock full of driving and buying stuff, last weekend was cathryns birthday so this weekend we spent her birthday money on a full length mirror at ikea and a new entertainment unit that makes our tv look midgit.
That night we took Moni to the beach where she had her first taste of sea water http://instagram.com/p/uh0bJVwSjN/ as seen in this video Cathryn took.
The rest of saturday and sunday was spent lounging around, going to the beach and getting my ass kicked at DJ hero.
A Monday question because TAY300 if you could hold a grand convention such as PAX what would you call it, what would it showcase and what part of it would you run?
PUPPY PUPPY PUPPY PUPPY PUPPY PUPPY PUPPY
For more puppy http://i.instagram.com/moni.the.puggle/ she has an instagram haha
The Festival of Shane would celebrate a lifetime of Shane W Smith fiction, and would be filled to the brim with stalls selling official Shane W Smith merch, panels in which academics debate the myriad of nuanced meaning in Shane’s work, an artist alley in which lesser creative minds like Stephen King and JK Rowling could be hocking Shane W Smith fan fiction and artwork, and exclusive multimedia virtual reality previews of upcoming work.
It would be a spectacular failure, cost millions, and would not even attract a single visitor.
Nob-Fest
…
OH DEAR GOD NO! D=
Going to challenge sexpo i see
One ticket, please.
Glancing through, misread bolded part as the Festival of Shame and I was a bit worried about you.
I always think you’re@redartifice when you ask Monday morning questions. 😛
I stole the idea from Red as it seemed a good morning topic
MELBOURNE TOMORROW! LAST DAY OF WORK TODAY!
\o/
Melbourne everyday. It’s about to get a lot fuller. At least the Jehovah’s have gone away now so there’s room for the PAX-goers…
Howdy Fronds!
I spent all weekend playing CIv: Beyond Earth. Good game, great game actually. I think I prefer it over Civ 5, it does take a bit of getting used to though. I haven’t tried a Military/Domination victory although it does seems kind of interesting. The biggest surprise is that Spies have gone from next to useless in Civ V to completely game changing in Beyond Earth.
Spies were useful in Civ 5 after they added using them to mess with world council votes, but yeah, BE spies are amazing.
I found by the time I got to World Council I could just buy out every vote.
Totally tripped me up, too! I was expecting spies to be useless (“as usual”) and so ignored them / ignored beefing them up and was then shocked that I could actually do stuff with them.
Arrrrgh! Can’t wait to see this on Wednesday! XD
http://www.glamour.com/entertainment/blogs/obsessed/2014/10/taylor-swift-lion-king-mashup
Mr. Strange bought Shadows Of Mordor on the weekend. I don’t have time to play it. 🙁
Edit: I should add that this is self-imposed so don’t feel sorry for me. 😛
Shake your fist at everything! It’ll cure what ails ya!
Everyone is getting excited about PAX, whilst i’m here watching Knotfest live stream & waiting for Slipknots closing headline set. Their set last night was awesome, can’t wait to see what tonight’s set brings, since Corey said each night of their tour is gonna be a different set, should be an interesting challenge for the new drummer & bassist.
Gonna spoiler the next bit, just cause.
However, the new drummer is a bit of a concern, feeling they went for someone young (if it is Jay Wienberg) & impressionable over someone with proper experience. Cause as a lot have pointed out he’s been missing a lot of the fast double kicks, despite his fills being great. I mean there’s a few very good established drummers out there who don’t have permanent gigs who have played with big names like Slayer, Anthrax etc that would be more than capable for the job, and have played with members of Slipknot in the past.I’m not excited for PAX. It’s been Quilt Market weekend! \o/
That’s the spirit 😛
I’m sad for PAX, because I just realised it’s gonna poop all over my Kickstarter launch! 😛
I hope that the Karaoke folks will instate some sort of bidding-game. Sing a song, pledge a tenner type of thing.
OR and here me out on this it could improve your kickstarter via mass marketing
Yeah, that would be nice, but that sort of thing usually needs a catalyst.
I need someone on the ground who intends to publicly and generously contribute to the campaign while with the group, and encourage them to do the same.
*hint*
I will publicly donate $500 to undad in a cheque that will probably bounce but the love is there..also if you dont back it you kick puppies and hate freedom
Don’t forget that sometimes it isn’t about who is the best musician but who fits in best with the band.
I remember Sonata Arctica had to fill a spot once and after the basic audition process, had a night drinking with each of the prospective members. The person they enjoyed partying with the most got the gig.
… I type too slow. 😛
Learn to word fasterer :p
It’ll help your sewing, probably.
True. But, then again it was their first live performance as a new 9 piece band, a lot of that could be put down to nerves of a big debut like that where the band is headlining their own festival 2 nights in a row with different set lists each night, which has to be a test of skill in its own right.
Also re your spoiler. Sometimes in bands you have to go for whose personality fits, rather than who is the most technically proficient.
I’m sure with some practice and some coaching on where he may be going wrong from the band he can get there, especially if it is Jay who it is rumoured to be, then he’s only very young (my age I think?) Saying that it’s pretty big shoes to be stepping into, considering how Joey was/is regarded in the drumming community.
You say that in your spoiler, but sometimes watching live I would notice when Joey used to miss double kicks sometimes. People rave about him being the only decent thing in Slipknot, but live he wasn’t as tight as someone like Lombardo, Benante or Hoglan
For sure. I ain’t gonna dispute that. Cause i’ve seen him not give a shit in a live environment, but saying that the few times I saw him with Slipknot however, he was bang on, but he also does like to change some of his parts up live, to make it easier on him I guess. A bit like how Lars Ulrich has changed parts to some Metallica songs to cope with them live, then again he is 50 something so fair effort, doing better than me 😛
If you ask me Joey was never the best musician in Slipknot, basically he is known for playing fast with a lot of fills, which is a little average I reckon, but some beg to differ. Then again a lot of those who thought he was the bees knees were literally his exclusive exclusive fan base who have now written Slipknot off since he was dismissed from the band. Fine by me, I got fed up with the Joey fanatics on the official forums & at gigs 😛
Paul & Jim by far were/are the better musicians if we’re comparing with Joey in terms of writing material, Jim is a fantastic player & Paul was as well. I never liked how Joey had to be controlling like he was over material, he was a real prick like that, he came across like that a lot during the whole recording process of All Hope Is Gone where he went & tracked a lot of his parts before the band really had any songs ready and gave them no choice but to work with it. Also he proved this with Scar The Martyr & Murderdolls that he sucked without Slipknot, he wrote lame crap, and in Scar The Martyr’s case had no idea when to finish a song. A band which died before their first album was even released basically.
He also wasn’t much about the fans a lot of the time, where as Corey, Jim & Shawn most certainly are. A good friend of mine who is on a first name basis with at least Corey from the amount of times she just has happened to run into him on the streets, has said the multiple times she has met Joey he’s been rude/disengaged with the fans. Then again I guess that’s what a coke/amphetamine addiction will do to you.
I figured drugs was the reason he was kicked out. Looking it up, I’m confusing Scar The Martyr with Scars On Broadway. I wasn’t interested in Scar the Martyr though. Maybe if Jed Simon had’ve played more of a part in it, but yeah, a Joey Jordinson record isn’t something that interests me. I saw Murderdolls as what it was, a fun side-project not to be taken seriously. None of the songs are memorable though, just noticeable because it was Joey. In Slipknot, with their being two percussionists as well, I think a lot of people assumed the majority of what you heard on record was all Joey. On the new album you can definitely tell the drums from the percussion drums and how much they add to the sound which makes me wonder how much on the older albums that kind of stuff got lost in the mix and as a result, Joey sounding like he was doing a lot more than he actually was. Also when it came to interviews, it would be him, Corey or Clown doing them. Corey would be hyping up the record, Clown would be trying to be cryptic in his answers but Joey would (from memory) be talking about the recording process, but from his point of view so it would sound like he’s had a hand in a lot of the song writing.
Basically, I’m a massive fan of drummers. My first hero as a kid was Roger Taylor (the Queen one, not Duran Duran :P). Joey never really made it onto my list of favourite drummers though
Slipknot are strange though. I agree that the guitarists are the most talented guys in the band, but they’re not guitar driven at all which frustrates me no end. Hopefully though with the new guys playing their live show will be back to the old days again. Just after All Hope came out their tour on the back of that felt flat
There’s no official reason as to why he was given the flick, but from what Corey has said in interviews basically he confirmed it was without confirming it. Murderdolls, had one good album which was just reworked older songs from Wednesday 13’s previous band lol. I never could get into the 2nd album they released, it just seemed too forced. Even though it was like 8 years after their first.
Yeah the whole percussion thing with Shawn & Chris plays a big role in their sound, you can really hear it, and it is really emphasised across the album Iowa. That was such a brilliant record, despite it almost tore them apart. But then again they’re there to add a little more depth a lot of the time to the drumming, either play same/similar beats or filling in adding a bit of a tribal sound, which you can hear across the Self Titled & in Vol. 3.
Ha, that’s Clown in a nutshell, the dude is weird, but he is a really nice down to earth bloke despite the image he paints 😛 Joey was definitely a main song writer along with Paul, which never gave the other guys much of a chance to write a lot of stuff. I love that Jim went and started the album himself even though it meant him not being part of Stone Sour, something he has commented had to happen because he wasn’t happy in that band any more which was trying to write for radio rather than themselves. I respect him so much for that decision.
I would personally only be thinking of Roger Taylor of Queen if you mentioned the name haha. As I said Joey is fast, and up to a point skilful. But he doesn’t have the chops to compare to the likes of Neil Peart or Even Dave Lombardo.
Yeah, I guess that boils down to how they were originally produced and structured with producer Ross Robinson who helped them find their sound and style, which he made into a Nu-Metal sound. But Vol .3: was a bit more guitar orientated especially with the addition of guitar solos and the venturing into an all acoustic song (Vermilion Part 2) and guitars were just more prominent, there were some really good riffs on that album, which is what I think made it a good turning point for the band musically which is what they really needed.
The tour seems like it’s full throttle and what you would expect after their performance last night at Knotfest. The All Hope Is Gone tour wasn’t too bad, but it wasn’t what I expected in terms of energy though.
Morning TAY, I know you folks are coming down to Melbourne this week for PAX.
If you’re lucky you might just get some weather like this: http://www.skynews.com.au/news/top-stories/2014/10/27/storms-wreack-havoc-in-melbourne.html
I picked such an awesome day to ride my bike.
I like Melbourne’s erratic weather. I WANT A WEIRD STORM HERE.
Then finish that weather controlling machine and make one yourself! (And then world domination. But weird storm first, k?)
I’ve been having complications with it. *shakes fist at heat*
So that’s how dc is going to do it!
When people say they don’t like Melbourne’s weather, I say “Why not? Isn’t there enough for you?”
Quantity not quality, that’s Melbourne weather. All the weather, all the time. Lots and lots of weather. 🙂
And yes, I rode to work today. As did my partner. Wet weather jacket, on the Winter Bike, with lights ablaze and airhorn at the ready to sound a blast at any other road user who looks dangerous (like the Last Second Left Turn, had a couple of them this morning).
A winter bike? I’ve not heard of this new bike concept before! I rode my $200 pushy to the city instead, I’m hoping everything dries before 6 lol.
I’ve noticed an increasing amount of people putting a significant part of their car in the bike lane lately, have you noticed this?:
You’ll be riding, there’s you in a bike lane on the left and two lanes on your right. The lane closest to you when there is significant traffic, will pull pretty hard into the left lane and just sit there like as if they are trying to go around on the left of the traffic. There’s probably 3-4 cars that do this when there’s a traffic jam, I’ll get a photo and show you what I mean if it doesn’t make sense lol.
Yes. Actually there are several bikes. I just call my commuter the Winter Bike as explaining why I have 5 bikes takes too long (7 bikes in a two-person household…). 😉 Certainly wasn’t riding the carbon road bike today!!!
The WInter Bike is a Focus Aventura flat-bar touring/trekking bike with hub dynamo feeding some bright integrated lights, disc brakes, mudguards, built-in pannier rack and nice fat tyres for grip. Set it up pretty aggressively – the riding position is very close to my road bike’s. I’ve been known to sit on the back of a bunch of roadies with my panniers and lights on. 🙂
And yes. I saw some very scary video where a car did this to a guy in a velomobile in Melbourne a couple of weekends ago and hit him. 😮 The half-blocking the bike lane is very annoying. I reckon most are just inconsiderate, but there are probably a few gits out there doing it on purpose. My handlebar once clipped a mirror of a car that was in the bike lane. I waved and said sorry, and there wasn’t any damage at all, not even a scratch.. The driver drove past me a bit further up the road, SCREAMING and shaking her fist. She nearly drove head on into a tram because she was so busy screaming at me. Very odd.
I finally managed to order my new laptop and it’s still not been shipped! Come on PCCG, it’s not like Melbourne has been hit by a massive stor… oh wait…
It’s such a sad thing to look at my bank balance though, it went from $1200 on Friday to $5 today. For a few hours it almost looked like I had a job!
Good morning everyone. I’m going to be busy this week so I’ll be ducking in and out sporadically.
My weekend was pretty good. Caught up with a whole bunch of people, played some Cards Against Humanity which was hilarious, and GMed some 40K Dark Heresy.
Card of the Weekend: Upcoming porn star, Joey An M Night Shyamalan plot twist McGee. “You’ll never see it coming.”
Also I realised I’m a terrible person in Dark Heresy.
I’ve basically made the equivalent of the Red Cross mixed in with Lifeline and made it a front for a cult of Nurgle. A chaotic charity sounds terrifiying.Also it enables me to essentially play Plague Inc against my players. Just wait until I start unleashing the terrorist bombings. 😛
Hahaha, that’s *fantastic*
It makes me wonder if CAH could be done in Roll20. I suspect TAY-CAH would be all kinds of hilarious.
Theres an online CAH already i think you can make private rooms for upto 20 people
That works too. Should make it happen post-PAX.
On sex related puns, at my Writers Group on Saturday, I brought up the theory that songs replace sex scenes in Disney movies. I had them rolling in the aisles when I said ‘Brings a whole new meaning to Someday my Prince will Come.’
Darling it’s better / down where it’s wetter / take it from me.
What the hell now I can feel the air conditioning coming at me from behind
WHO IS CONTROLLING THIS THING AND WHY DO THEY HATE ME
That’s what you get when you break a young lady’s heart and she runs off crying to climate control. IDIOT.
They want to see how far you’ll take this construction project of yours.
I’ve already started eyeing off these seemingly spare dividing walls that are propped up against the wall near the kitchen.
So, after resolving to get an alt warlock up and running on Friday afternoon, I did the heroic story twice last night with my two level 29 warlocks (I may have a problem – send help D:), and got another legendary shotgun (the comedian) for my efforts. I hate shotguns, but at least my alt can have her own gun, I guess.
Also, picked up the Bad Juju bounty on the weekend, so now I have two exotic bounties taking up space. That said, I think I may be able to actually finish this one, as it apparently just requires persistence, whereas Thorn’s requires you to be at least mediocre at PvP. @mawt – I know you’ve got juju; is it worth the effort? I hear people saying it’s a lot of fun to use, but also completely useless.
I’ve been told that it sucks as well, but it will be a part of the next hotfix to make it stronger. I finished the Thorn bounty last week, surprisingly it only took a few hours of crucible Free for All mode to get the required kills. Frustrating as all hell, don’t be afraid to have a rest and come back to it in a better frame of mind like I did lol.
I tried on multiple occasions. My current progress in the crucible is 1/500, after several hours of perseverance. I think I peaked at around 15/500. My overall KDR is 0.48. I’ve made my peace with that. At least Juju doesn’t take points off for deaths (as far as I’m aware). I’d do Thorn if it didn’t have that stupid “-2 points for every death” thing – it would still be a meat grinder, but I’d at least have a defined endpoint.
So you have TWO L29 warlocks and are building a third, or you started your second on Friday and it was L29 by Sunday?
I’ve got some legendary Warlock armour now so should probably start levelling him past L4… 🙂
No, I had one 29 warlock, and started a second on Friday, got it to twenty by Sunday evening, and used my main’s armour and weapons on both main and alt to do the story twice.
ie. I have two level 29 warlocks now, but they’re sharing equipment. I’ve got some legendary hunter gear and a hunter planning to use it eventually, but I won’t bother getting levels 16-20 on her until I get a bunch of excess shards that won’t be used on my ‘locks.
I’ve got Juju. It’s useless, but is getting buffed soon.
It’s a grind to get it and I’m skeptical about how good the buff will actually make it, but at least it looks badass.
Not too worried about the grind – strikes I was pretty much planning on doing anyway for vanguard marks; crucible… well, we’ll see. If I get tired of being ground into a fine paste, I can always stop for a while, and not lose progress. It may take months, but it’s doable, even with my level of ineptitude.
Bad Juju’s unique affix/perk is “String of Curses: This weapon reloads instantly and increases damage for a short time after each kill.”
I read this wrong and for a long time I was upset that the gun wasn’t working. To clarify, both the instant reload and increased damage are part of the same proc, although this is guaranteed after each kill. I think the short time is somewhere in the range of 3 to 5 seconds.
Bad Juju has a relatively small clip for a Pulse Rifle; iirc it’s 15, which is 5 “shots” before you need to reload. If you get a kill, then it’s not so bad.
However, in Vault of Glass, enemies don’t give experience, and it seems this is actually the deciding factor in getting a “kill”. So that means you don’t get the unique to proc from those waves of Goblins/Harpies/etc. Red Death suffers from this as well. For Strikes, etc. it should probably serve you well, but I think you’ll also likely be accustomed to using a different weapon, or making the most out of elemental damage if it’s the Nightfall Strike.
In PvP, I think that there are probably a bunch of better options: Red Death, Suros, even Atheon’s Epilogue – it’s got a huge clip, so if your opponent ducks behind a corner you can usually fake a “reload” and still have nearly 30 or so rounds.
That said, Bad Juju’s quest is one of the easiest;
1 Strike (Heroic or Nightfall. Apparently this can be completed in the “Tiger” playlist),
25 Strikes (any Strikes. Apparently doing the Nightfall counts as 5 Strikes),
Buy a frame from Xur (costs 1 strange coin),
10,000 points from kills in PvP (Titans, Hunters are worth 25, Warlocks are worth 75)
I would probably advise against doing 25 Strikes in one day, because there’s really not that much variation. If you do want to though, don’t forget that there’s a weekly cap on marks of 100. If you do the Viper (I think) playlist, that gives 3 marks per strike. That will leave you a nice gap of 25 marks to pick up via dailies, etc. for the other 6 days in the week.
After all that, Bungie have said that it’s on the list to get buffed, although haven’t actually said how. I do assume that they mean the gun will be getting a buff aside from the fact that “on kill” isn’t proc’ing in Raid(s). Also the gun looks pretty cool, but that green mist does kind of obscure the sights a little bit.
I think that should be enough information to work out if you want it or not.
Oh, you want a definite yes or no? Then yes, get it. It’s going to get better and it’s not even the worst exotic right now anyway.Wow… that’s far more extensive than I expected. Thanks!
I didn’t realise the heroic strikes could be done in the playlists, tho that would make sense as heroic story missions can be done outside of the dailies. I was delaying it until I could find a group for the weekly, or for it to not be Phogoth so I could have a hope of soloing it on the lower level, but I’ll give the playlist a go when I get time – should have it to the crucible stage in 2-3 weeks.
I don’t particularly care about PvP viability – it’d take more than even a pre-patch mythoclast to make up for my ineptitude in that arena, and I much prefer PvE. 😛
I’d be interested to know if it and Red Death worked in the Gatekeeper fight – I’ve had weapons level in that area during the raid, so there must be XP to be had there, if nowhere else…
Bad Juju sits in my vault.
Not very powerful, and only 5 shots before reloading (with the perk, killing something gets free reload, but that’s situational at best). Not too happy with that one.
Thorn is also underpowered. I like it, it’s stylish, and the dot effect is cool, but it doesn’t perform as well as my legendary hand cannons.
I’ve got a rule. Don’t buy a console until there are ten games I want for it. I broke that rule with the Wii, and it fell into disuse quickly. I broke that rule with the Wii U and it’s heading the same way.
I won’t break that rule with the PS4. So far, I’ve identified
six(edit: seven) games that I’d want to play on that console. Of those, only six are exclusives, and only three have been released.I’m comfortable waiting.
*chews fingernails down to the second knuckle*
MONDAY MORNING QUESTIONS (they’re a thing): Do you have rules for this sort of thing? What’s your threshold? How do you rationalise buying things? How do you rationalise reluctant restraint?
Rime. The Witness. The Order. Uncharted 4. The Last of Us: Remastered. inFamous: Second Son. Alien: Isolation. Beyond: Two Souls. The Vanishing of Ethan Carter. Something!
1. Bloodborne (not released).
2. Last of Us (remake).
3. Beyond Two Souls (rumoured remake, not released).
4. Shadow of Mordor (non-exclusive).
5. Grim Fandango (remake, not released).
6. Octodad.
And I suppose I’d better add
7. Uncharted (not released).
8. Batman Arkhamthing (not released).
9. Metal Gear Solid V (not released)
Craaaaap…
GRIM FANDAAAAAAANGO!
Why do you hate Rime and The Witness so much? WHY?
I don’t even know what they are! So I fear and despise them.
You considered a job in politics? 😀
I decided to go straight for malevolent world dictator. The plan is in motion, my friend.
RIME!
THE WITNESS!
Are you a Persona fan at all (you should be!)? Persona 5 was confirmed for PS4 as well as PS3…
Do you have a gaming PC? If not maybe The Witcher 3? Don’t know if that’s your sort of thing or not either. Ditto on Disgaea 5. How about Metal Gear Solid V? The Order: 1886 (that’s actually an exclusive)? There’s new Batman coming, FF XV and FF Type-0 probably will be better on PS4.
Personally the thing I’m most excited for is the new PS4-exclusive Ys.
I was considering buying a PS Vita during the post US Halloween sales here if it gets cheap.
Not particularly because there are so many things on Vita I want, but just because it would be cheap. And if I don’t get it, it’s like I’m losing money, even though that money doesn’t need to be spent at all.
Masterful rationalising. Exactly the kind of thinking that got me a Wii U during the KMart and Target sales 😛
Sometimes I like to imagine all the no gaems I can play on it.
So many no gaems. I wouldn’t even know where to start.
It tends to be not a rule around number of games, more around time it’s been out. 18 months tends to be my threshold, and it can stretch out MUCH further. I didn’t get an XBox 360 until Halo 3 had been out for a while, I only got a PS3 this year. The exception was the Wii which I picked up on launch day, and like you it fell in to disuse. PS I got around FF8/FF9, PS2 I got a couple months after FFX came out.
Seems to be pretty solid. Haven’t found myself tempted by PS4/XB1/WiiU yet. Sunset Overdrive has tugged at my “That looks cool” strings, and I would enjoy some Mario Kart 8, but I’ve got more than enough entertainment to keep me interested.
I have some rules, yeah:
-Is it a Nintendo?
-Is it a base product you don’t have yet (ie not a hardware revision)?
-If not, then does it offer any benefits over what you’ve already got/is the price justified?
I rationalise things in whatever way I can. When I saw the chance to get a 64DD with almost all the games, I asked myself “would I go two weeks without pay if I could end up with one of these at the end of it?” (only working a half week at the time?” and the answer was a resounding hell yes 😛 Of course, that only came up after having done the research and looked up recent prices and availability to work out whether it was a good deal or not, etc (it totally was).
I bought the Wii U because I was reading some articles on Nintendo falling on hard times, I felt as a lover of Nintendo games as a child I had to do my part and support the cause. I haven’t used the Wii U in probably 4 months, but I hope that one day I can come back to it and play Luigi Bros U with my girlfriend.
I don’t really have a hard rule, just ‘if I feel like it’s worth it I’ll buy it’… which, come to think of it, is pretty much the most basic rule of buying anything ever.
So… no not really.
I bought a PS4 on launch because I wanted a console on launch (never had one from day one before). Probably not the best reason to get it, but I would’ve got one at some point anyway and this way I could play each game as it came out rather than buying a couple of years into it’s life and then looking back at what games there are to play and only getting maybe half of them as I’m prone to do.
With you though, I did the same with my Wii (well, it was a present for me but didn’t end up buying many games, also a fact due to Nintendo being completely rigid with pricing), but with the PS4 will you actually buy the games later on? If that’s the case then it’s not so much a wasted purchase in my eyes if you have the games to play now and are more than likely to pick up more games later on. There might be a bit of time where you’ve played all what you’ve got and you’re biding your time til the next purchase (tbh, that’s a problem of any console in the first couple of years), but I reckon there’s enough to keep you busy until the big releases next year like The Witcher or Batman (if that’s what you’re waiting for)
With buying other things, it’s a case of do I have money? Yes? Do I need savings or pay off credit cards? Yes? Buy item anyway. It’s not a recommended way of going through your disposable income
Ha. Restraint? That’s cute.
Back when games were $100, I would take the console cost, divide by the game cost, and need that many games that I was excited to play on that platform. Served me well. I swapped over to just getting stuff when there’s a game or two I want to play on it though. Just need to be able to justify it to myself.
It also meant that I would hold fire on systems until they were cheaper sometimes in order to reduce the number of games needed to justify it. Case in point: I paid only $100 for my Gamecube, so the fact I was able to get Wind Waker, Metroid Prime 1 and Tales of Symphonia for it easily made up for that.
I broke my rule for the Vita but it’s worked out fantastically well for me in the end regardless. I also broke my rule for the 3DS and it’s worked out okay, but a lot more disappointing than I hoped. I also broke my rule for Wii U and I hope I don’t regret it (Hyrule Warriors, new Zelda, xxXenobladeXxx are the only ones I want to play right now so I probably should have waited)
If Hype is equal to or greater than I have for my current game/console, I purchase without hesitation,
This method is fraught with danger and regrets aplenty.
Recent examples with playtime;
Spoilered for length:
– Alien Isolation (1.5hrs)– FIFA 15 (2hrs)
– Destiny (80hrs, what the hell is wrong with me!)
– Titanfall (42hrs)
– Wii U Console
– Mario Kart 8 (9hrs)
– Monster Hunter Wii U: (0 seconds)
– Super Mario World 3d (0 seconds)
I see games and I want them then and there, and I buy them. I do this with books as well. So so very very bad, my poor partner suffers these indulgences but I feel I am now in a place to say ‘no more gaems’ .
That being said being on this website right now makes me want to buy Shadow Of Mordor and Civ:BE.
I have a problem.I agree you have a problem. The problem is you don’t have Shadows of Mordor and Civ:BE
Gods, please don’t enable me lol.
When PS4 was coming out it was common knowledge around my house that I wasn’t gonna be able to get one due to Disney World.
When we got back it was so close to Christmas but I hadn’t gotten SOS anything so my gag became “I’ll just get you a PS4.” to which the well deserved response was “Don’t you fucking dare.”
This went on and on until Christmas morning when, naturally, no PS4 was given. (I think I got her jewellery or something boring.)
Our anniversary is in February so that became the new date of the hilarious “I’ll get you a PS4” bit I’d been refining for the last few months.
In the weeks leading up to our anniversary PS4s became much easier to get so now she started getting actually worried that I was gonna get her one. All of a sudden my gag started looking like it might actually be a really, really mean prank.
So the day before our anniversary I was going through the City when I saw JB had PS4s for sale. Naturally I bought one but not so that I could play it.
See, I’d already bought SOS her anniversary present, more jewellery/not electronics thus boring, but I didn’t have a cool box to give it to her in.
My point is, I usually buy big ticket items now when I can get a laugh out of my girlfriend.
How hasn’t she stabbed you in your sleep yet? 😀
There’s a joke here about who stabs who in the bedroom but I’m too classy to make it.
That’s why you’re a keeper!
I normally don’t buy a console until the initial bugs are ironed out. Broke that with PS4 as it were a significant birthday and I wanted a launch day console. No regrets. 🙂
My rule is similar but 5 games I really want to play.
Buy generally break that for must plays such as Demons Souls as long as there is likely to be more in the future.
Brought almost all my consoles at launch because I like shiny new things.
Only ones to fall into disuse are the Wii and Wii U (effing quickly in the U’s case).
Mine’s don’t buy a console unless the cost of games you’re intending to get for it outweigh the cost of the console. So it varies depending on cost of the console, and RRPs, but it seems to be flexible enough to apply to just about every games console. Unfortunately, it can lead to leaps of logic if you’re not careful, such as “it’s only worth buying the console if I get the super mega hyper deluxe special collector’s edition of X”.
I figure if I stick to that, I end up focussing less on the cost of the console itself, and more on the value in the games themselves.
I am a grown-ass woman with a disposable income; I do not wait for these things. But you are responsible.
Your comment reminded me of this:
http://www.fowllanguagecomics.com/comic/fitness-classes/
That is 10/10 accurate for me, particularly with gym.
Also, with ordering dessert at a restaurant only.
I bought a PS4 pretty much for Destiny. It was suddenly cheap with a silly Dick Smith deal, Destiny was around the corner, I’d enjoyed the beta on PS3 and was looking forward to what it would be like when it was finished… (Imagine my surprise when it turned out the beta WAS the finished version, and no, no it doesn’t actually get any better than that. The only real fun left in it is the weekly raid, which honestly would be just as good if I just hung out with those
nerdschampions in a bar for a couple hours.)So far I’ve really enjoyed Infamous which felt tight and just-right in length, not interested enough to revisit the expansion/DLC. ‘Meh’d at Watch Dogs which turned out to be pretty much what I expected (a less-characterful GTA with some interesting gimmicks), and Alien: Isolation – the first Horror game I’ve ever played more than a half-hour of. Diablo 3 was better than the PC version, apart from the fact that I needed to start from scratch due to no imports, so apart from some awesomeness of spontaneously getting game-crashed by rad people, my experience with it was very mediocre.
It hasn’t been an indispensible thing so far. I’m not interested in revisiting TLOU, Black Flag, or Tomb Raider. Wolfenstein is a shooter, which means PC and KB&M get first dibs if I ever do visit it. Shadow of Mordor turned out to be better on PC, same as Sleeping Dogs, so there’s not a lot really justifying that PS4 purchase.
Warriors Orochi, maybe? If it ever drops below $40, anyway. Maybe $30. Same goes for Killzone. Lords of the Fallen is looking pretty worthwhile, hoping it turns out more Dark Souls than Bound by Flame. I have to confess that Uncharted bored me. CoD? Nope. AC: Unity? Ennnh, maybe… AC4 bought some goodwill. Might wait for a price drop. DA3? More likely on PC. FC4? Ditto. Witcher 3? Man, PS4 can’t catch a break without exclusives, for me…
There’s nothing really ‘must-have’ on the horizon other than Bloodborne.
My rule is to buy things when I can afford them. And not to get impatient and trade other stuff I love to get a new thing, a lesson learned from the Dreamcast. I adore my Dreamcast and it’s my favourite console besides the PS3 but some of those things I traded I miss dearly and even ended up repurchasing them later.
I tend to buy first and delude myself afterwards.
This applies to buying things in general, but I find that a cost-benefit analysis is a very good thing to conduct when considering buying pretty much anything.
Oh man, so I finished Mordor on the weekend and, like, am I missing something?
Ima try and keep the following as vague as I can for people who haven’t played it.
It’s fine but the savior of open world action games? Heck no.
It’s a game made almost completely on the coat tails of other peoples work.
Every gameplay system, except the nemesis system, is ripped directly from other games. Combat is Batman but not as refined, Relics is Tomb Raider, Outcast missions are every other open world action game.
The story, holy shit the story, is terrible. The idea is great and there’s some great fiction given to the supporting cast, like the Black Hand’s backstory, but Talion’s actual story has nothing to it. The Wraith is way more interesting but he’s just so sour the whole time and toward the end he has this weird, mean turn that comes completely out of nowhere.
Also Ratbag is criminally underutilized.
The final, climatic battle, the battle you’ve been working toward the whole game, battling Uruks to get your combat up to snuff for a throwdown with the big bad, is a cut scene. Remember when boss battles were a test of everything a game taught you up to that point not just something that looks really flashy with some mature themes?
I did really like the Nemesis System and the fact that it’s the first game system in a while that doesn’t really have an imposed limit. You can dominate every Uruk you can see if you want and then make them all attack the guy who killed you earlier. Cool stuff.
I, just, I dunno man. It’s like Sleeping Dogs. Everyone thought the game was gonna be average and then when it came out people were surprised by it being pretty good that it immediately became a game that got way more credit for being just a good, not great, game.
Plus, you know, swords and magic are dopey.
Set that shit in space? GOTY.
Disagree. Combat is better than Batman’s once you get a bit into the advancement tree. Also who gives a shit if they take mechanics that work really well from other games? Not everything has to be brand new. When developers try and come up with a whole new different control scheme and stuff for games half the time we get Too Human. :\
Nothing wrong with taking stuff from other games but when that’s used as a negative point on other games, why not for this one?
Guess we’ll have to agree to disagree on the combat. Batman’s combat system is just way more technical and that’s something I like. Mordor’s is very forgiving and much more button mashy. There’s not really any skill needed to be great at it.
It also has the same problem that Arkham Origins had in that a lot of fights are spent countering rather than using your full arsenal of moves.
In regards to the upgrade tree, what really changes the combat outside of getting double executions or taking one hit without breaking your combo? Combat brand is handy but I find those Uruks mess up my combos or get in my way when I’m triggering an execution that they’re more of an annoyance than an asset.
You don’t use shadow strike in combat? I have a setup where executions gain focus and got far enough in for the 5x hit to get a combo thing and also the combat drain. So I’ll get into huge melees where I shadow strike instant-kill the spearchuckers and the berserkers and the shielded dickholes alternating with doing some countering etc to get an execution on a random orc that I then combat drain and then continue the shadow-strike carnage as well. Heaps of stuff going on in each fight, feels awesome.
Haven’t gotten the combat branding yet, maybe my current way of approaching combat will get fucked up by that. :\
Nah, I use Shadow Strike to get into fights then rely on my combat finishers etc.
It’s definitely the better of the Arkham Style combat systems going around, don’t get me wrong. There’s some great stuff there.
Yeah but Batman doesn’t cut motherfuckers heads off so instantly worse anyway.
I found I was completely uninterested in the story but had some ridiculous fun messing with the Uruks, by the end though I did feel like the were right on the verge of something spectacular with the nemesis system but something was lacking, I felt like it should have led somewhere more climactic, like pitting all the uruks you’d dominated against another lot of Uruks in big choatic battles. Still thoroughly enjoyed it though.
Yeah totally.
I bet Mordor 2: Ring Lord? will have refined and expanded the nemesis system into something really great.
If they do a sequel is there anywhere they can actually take it? Have not finished the game yet.
I’d love to see a series of games in that style set in the historical parts of Middle Earth based off the Silmarillion etc…
Definitely.
Expand it past just Uruks for starters.
Large scale battles would be amazing, too.
the final battle was a massive letdown for me. My first thought after it ended was “what the hell?”.
I think it would have been awesome if they had an option to release Uruks from domination.
Yeah, really disappointing.
I’ve heard there’s DLC where you fight Sauron so that makes the final battle even more disappointing.
Feels sometimes like I’m alone in wanting ‘expectations’ to be a score influencer. If I’m hyped for something to be the second coming of gaming and it turns out to be ‘pretty good but not great’, I’m going to be playing it with a hefty dollop of disappointment.
That disappointment affects my experience.
If I play something that no-one expected to be ‘pretty good’ despite expectations, and I’m playing that game with a smile on my face the whole time, going, “Hey, this is better than I expected, you guys should try this!”, that affects my experience too.
Sleeping Dogs is a good example, though. I’ve been playing through the Definitive Edition lately with my brother watching on. And seeing his reaction to things fresh puts it in perspective a little. By far the best part of the experience is the narrative, and it feels kind of like every other nod to the ‘open world games’ it vaguely resembles is a disservice to the pursuit of that narrative.
(Kind of the opposite to SoM. And what the hell was with those ‘romance’ arcs? And why on earth were they necessary to advance the plot? Something more in-depth was planned and cut, there, I swear it.)
Mordor is great. SO great. I had a BLAST for the time I was playing it. And when I was done with it, I put it down happy. It didn’t try cheap bullshit tactics to try and convince me to play despite myself, and I wasn’t so invested that I felt I had to play more and more, desperately seeking high and low to wrangle the Fabled (eg: Fable) fun out of it, to the point that my ‘hours played’ was in no way representative of actual enjoyment. (*cough*destiny*cough*)
Also, I’m in Neg-zero’s camp on the combat. MUCH better than Batman.
Either way, no matter what happens, I can’t wait to see a game blatantly steal the Nemesis system and do something truly crazy with it. I’m picturing some kind of Dragon Age type game.
Yo dawg, I heard Kojima-san wants to have a word with you about boss fights that are cutscenes.
He’s the exception that proves the rule.Yeah but he’s a genius so he gets a free pass.
Wasteland 2 log:
There is a man in Hollywood selling $9,280 worth of condoms.
*Only used once, slight wear and tear.
So I suppose apart from writing down completely random things that happens to me in game, I haven’t really explained anything about the game or why I like it.
Here’s a sample of an observation (made with text) in-game:
A grimy security door with a peep hole in the middle of it, and a hand painted sign above. It reads “Hollywood Star Casting”. No, actually it reads “Hollywood Star Catsing. Maybe spelling doesn’t count in the star making business.”
The writing. I like it.
I just want everyone in TAY to remember that you are fucking awesome and I love you all! That is all!
I’m fucking okay at best. #ShaneJoke
SHUT UP AND LET ME LOVE YOU!
I’m… just not good with commitment, okay?
You can’t prove that!
Moved out of home on Friday. Feels weird.
Chose a bit of a dodgy day to do it, heat-wise. A bit disappointed to find that the cooling in my new place wasn’t aircon, just evaporative, and it doesn’t seem to work very well. Also for some reason the previous tenants removed all the fly screens from the windows so I have to figure out where they all go so I can crack open some windows and get a breeze going to offset the crap cooling. Also going to ask for someone to come and service the cooler because I feel like it should be working way better than it was.
Spent most of Friday moving remaining stuff. Still heaps of things in my storage locker to figure out what to do with, mainly my huge figures collection. Went over to IKEA and did the whole rat maze and everything with my sister, came away with a dining table and chairs plus a couple of floor lamps. Ruined my hands constructing everything (rubbed up a blister with my screwdriver) and then discovered one of the lamps was defective, so had to go back on Sunday.
Replaced the lamp and also grabbed a DIODER for my figure cabinets because lighting is rad. Had meatballs. Regretted it later. Looked at bookshelves (I need bookshelves) but I was on my own and after two days at it, my body was too shot to be able to lift one of them by myself – not sure I could have even if I was fresh, though.
Have a problem with my (ridiculously small king single) bed as well. New place is all timber floors, and my bed’s on casters that don’t have locks to stop them spinning. Every morning I’ve woken up and found my bed’s rolled about 1-2m toward the door. The lightning last night was probably waking me up and making it worse. Have to figure out a short-term cheap solution for this (longer-term solution is to get a bigger bed that doesn’t have casters)
Still have no internet. Still have no permission to get a Telstra cable run for it either. 🙁 I’m also not really sure what to do regarding that whole situation. At my Mum’s place I was paying for the internet and the phone. I need to transfer just the internet, move the phone over to her account, and have her set up a new internet connection for herself, but do that in such a way that she’s not cut off from everyone during the transition. Guess I’ll have to call and try and explain this to someone. 🙁
Ran cables for my speakers (finally back out of storage yay!) and found that in the current spot my furthest speaker is just a bit too far away for the cable I have to reach, so will have to replace that (right now the cable’s kind of dangling).
Set up lighting in my cabinets and also got out two of my scale figures, both of which I’ve had sitting in boxes for about two years waiting for this moment. Decided that this time I won’t overload my cabinets. 1-2 scale figures per shelf (unless designed to be a set, eg the K-On band), not as many as I can fit, and alternate between shelves with Nendoroids (where I can get in 10+) and shelves with scale figures.
Getting a rug to put the bed on might work. As might those little saucers that you put under piano casters.
If you’re trying to use an evaporative cooler with all the windows shut that’s your problem. They work best with windows open.
Yep, that was what I read too – and therein lies the problem, which is that I need the fly screens back in to open the windows. Also it was humid and that wasn’t helping, plus the thing’s thermostat is clearly fucked (reckoned it was 27 degrees inside this morning, and it definitely wasn’t)
Are the fly screens there or do you need some made up? Also I was at Ikea in Springvale saturday haha
I was at Ikea Saturday and Sunday. And just after moving. So that’s my stress quota for the month exhausted already. Hate the shopping experience there so much. Products are good though.
I think the fly screens are stashed in the storage room under the unit. Along with a couple of internal doors they seem to have taken down (but I’m okay with that – it opens the place out a bit, makes it feel bigger – plus I can use the runner for one sliding door in the lounge to run speaker cables!)
Yeah its pretty annoying and irritating when people stop suddenly. We brought a full length mirror and an entertainment unit, no room for a dining table.
Get some chocks for the wheels.
And dress up the bed as an aeroplane while you’re at it.
I was thinking about getting an anime hug pillow.
I was not actually thinking about getting one, this is a joke. Besides they’re expensiveLittle squares of off-cut carpet help stop the rolling. Or make some chocks from cardboard. 🙂
Tried cardboard, they roll right over. Will have to find some carpet offcuts.
Out the back of bunnings… 😉
Anyone else here into Virtual Pinball? I’m halfway through a cabinet build, finally found a place with cheap industrial 46″ 1080P monitors with a tiny bezel, am fitting it to the cab tonight!
sweet, I really want a pinball machine but they’re so expensive, what are the costs like for a virtual one? I’m assuming you can change the table as well.
I thought virtual pinball was stupid and pointless.
Tried out a cabinet at PAX last year cos why the hell not. So tempting.
Don’t have a cabinet or the room for it but I have bought most of the DLC for pinball fx 2 since I tried that game in the cabinet
I want to add extra information. So for karaoke meat we have 2 tvs. I’ll be bringing both the 360 and the PS3 as they both have karaoke capabilities. I have 4 lips games on 360, beatles rockband and 3 microphones. On PS3 I have a few PS2 singstars and 6 microphones. This is why I asked about songs, so I can look for them on the marketplace
Adding, no numbers are locked in until I pay which will probably be at 6pm on Friday. My email is scree(at)y7mail(dot)com. Menu is sorted as well. (no prawns, fish or pesto)
One more thing! Somesone has paid $100 with the reference Karaoke from the commonwealth bank. I don’t know who sent it. And another sent $48 from Westpac choice. I don’t know who sent this one either.
I’m not going to this, but I’m sure I speak for everyone else (except Blaghman because he’s a jerk) when I say thanks for being organised and planning this. Techy, and whoever else helped you along the way too.
You guys are real pals.
I am not organised. Far from it. I am meant to be working on my petticoat, but figured that doing this was a little more important
No commitments (it will depend on whether I can find the game itself) and depends on how much of a pain it’d be to get the stuff there, but I have Rock Band 3 w/Guitar, Drums & Keytar for 360. Might not be enough room for it though. Also it’s all in my storage unit.
Also in the end, how many extras did I pay for and did they get accounted for? I think I was going to cover for @f4ction?
You paid $150. F4ction is covered and Pixel as well.
\o/
Mine was from westpac, but it should have my handle in the reference.
It didn’t have a handle on it. And none of them have your handle.
I transferred my payment on 8th Oct, and I put CookingMamaPAxMeat as the reference.
Ref: PAXBowlingMeat
And it was $48, sent on the 8th
That’s probably mine then. Westpac have just changed all of their online banking interfaces so I probably derped.
It’s alright. It happens
*nods*
I love getting deliveries at work. Just got some new books 😀
I hate getting deliveries at work. Everybody always wants me to open everything so they can see what I bought!
I thought they delivered sexy stuff in plain brown packaging to avoid suspicious co-workers?
All you need to do is send yourself something that is in some way completely horrifying when opened so then they’ll never ask you again.
http://www.poopsenders.com
So we were talking about our favourite games of this year the other day and what your top games would be..
So I was wondering, we all appear to like music here of varying types, what albums/songs would you all consider your favourites that were released in 2014?
I personally love music, it’s been a big part of my life, also lead me to playing guitar & bass, especially bass. 2014 for me saw some pretty awesome releases.
For me if I was gonna go with a top number of releases I guess i’d go with a top 5 which would be;
-.5: The Gray Chapter – Slipknot
-The Pants Collective – The Pants Collective (Andy Strachan from The Living End. I highly recommend it, you can even listen to it for free on his website!)
-Magic Mountain – Black Stone Cherry
-World On Fire – Slash Featuring Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators
-Demoliscious – Green Day (it’s technically just demo’s of songs off their previous 3 albums Uno, Dos & Tre, but still good.)
So what about everyone else?
There was music released after 1989!???
Nope. Just white noise, of which they tried to pass off as music.
I’ll just leave this here:
Released… in … 2014?
I think I have 1 album that’s been released this year. “The Valiant & The Brave” by Starboard Cannons. Actually, 2. The Audreys released “Til My Tears Roll Away” this year as well.
Oooh ooh ooh, the Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack was released this year. That counts, right?
I have Austrian Death Machine’s Triple Brutal and that’s as far as I have for this year.
Why I’m telling @beeawwb this instead of @virus__ I’m not entirely certain.
Was wondering the same thing but I figured it’s because we’re such good buddies.
Cause you hat me? 😛
Redeemer of Souls is the only thing I have bought/listened to that was released this year.
Default!
So I started out intending to do a top five, but can only think of three.
I Killed The Prom Queen – Beloved
Architects – Lost Forever // Lost Together
The Amity Affliction – Let The Ocean Take Me
There are two still to come that I’ll add though, based on the songs I’ve heard.
Foo Fighters – Sonic Highways
The Ghost Inside – Dear Youth
Is the new Foo Fighters album coming out this year? I was under the impression it wasn’t coming until next year.
November 10! I assumed it was coming at the end of the series, when all the songs would be out, but no, iTunes says November 10.
The new tv on the radio album isn’t out yet, but that.
Just in terms of albums and the few I have listened to this year…
Greetings from California – The Madden Brothers debut album. It’s great.
Also, Ed Sheeran’s ‘X’, to be fair, is pretty good.
Let the ocean take me- Amity affliction
Interpol- El pintor (not great but some dope singles)
LP1-FKA twigs
But thats it
Slim pickings this year for albums, few decent singles getting dropped recently though.
-Exit Wounds – The Haunted
-La Gargola – Chevelle
-The Gray Chapter – Slipknot (First time they’ve legitimately blown me away since Iowa)
-Sun Eater – Job for a Cowboy (Not even out yet, but the single is just.. holy shit. I’m well excited – http://youtu.be/zDo-VEam_JA )
-Yoshu Fukushu – Maximum the Hormone
EDIT: Yoshu Fukushu was 2013. Oh well. It can stay.
*rushes off as I realise The (new) Haunted have a new album out*
HOLY CRAPBALLS, ADRIAN IS BACK DRUMMING? I’m so out of the loop 🙁
It’s actually pretty decent. Marco’s back, and they’ve tried to go back to earlier thrash roots. It’s almost something in between One Kill Wonder and The Haunted Made Me Do It. I liked Dolving as well, but didn’t really dig the new direction he was taking the band in. Especially Unseen – what the fuck was that album, anyway?
Top …5? This year? I haven’t bought an album on launch since… probably 2005. Oh, wait, Spotify is a thing. Um, then that would be Nightwish’s new album, which I haven’t listened to enough to actually form an opinion on. Oh, that was last year. No, wait, that was a live album with no new music, and the album I’m thinking of was actually released in 2007. I’m apparently astoundingly bad at this. 😛
Doesn’t have to be 5, I just picked 5 cause that was easy for me 😛
More a dig that I couldn’t come up with one, let alone five. However, it appears that Sabaton released a new album this year. Let me go listen to it and then it’ll be my answer. 😛
You. I like you. 😀
Listened to the new album, was not disappointed. As awesome as ever. 😀
You seem to have good taste in music, as well; I think one of your comments lead me to seek out Lingua Mortis Orchestra. Sooo good! I don’t think I ever properly thanked you for that; so, thank you. 🙂
Okay, you’re now officially my favourite! 😛
Vanishing Point – Distant Is The Sun (Always great when an album from an Australian band more than holds its own with the heavyweights)
Twilight Force – Tales Of Ancient Prophecies (Except for their ridiculous segue tracks. Ugh.)
Freedom Call – Beyond (I love how there’s always at least one band I discover due to them being added to 70K’s lineup. This year it was Freedom Call and Haggard. Can’t wait to see who it’ll be this time!)
Sonata Arctica – Pariah’s Child (This one is one of those ones that grow on you. A couple of boring songs but the amazingness of ‘Blood’ more than makes up for them)
Epica, Sabaton, and Eluveitie’s latest are all equal fifth place.
I’ve been counting Thaurorod’s ‘Anteinferno’ as this year because it was released late last year. So my album of the year is one from last year. 😛
I’ve also discovered a bunch of great bands this year, thanks to Google’s Play Music. Chiefly ‘Pathfinder’, ‘Ancient Bards’, and ‘Opera Magna’. So, so good. 😀
I’ve listened to 2 new albums this year, Slipknot and Queen Live At The Rainbow ’74. Recommend both.
I do need to run Joe Bonamassa’s Different Shades Of Blue through my lugholes though so I’ll do that now and add it to my favourite 5 albums of the year (2 spots to be decided by the next two new albums I listen to)
Ooooooo Plagues Of Babylon by Iced Earth.
Also, (I’m well behind on metal news) Centinex have reformed apparently and have a new album out. This makes me excited
https://twitter.com/hermitdc/status/526554523490213888
Today is Day 300 of 2014. 300 photos. D:
It’s just like that nightmare I keep having!
It’s just like my dreams.
TAY300 as well. It’s a sign.
@dc achieves transcendence victory and becomes a being of pure posting energy.
Are you going to make one of those fancy collages where you use all 365 pictures to make 1 ultimate dc?
Was going to, but now I don’t think it’ll look any good. There’s a consistency problem. Framed differently for the first four months or so. :'(
I’m sure you could do a little photo shopping, don’t deny the world your handsomeness
*blushes*
Yeah, but as long as the collage process doesn’t put the photos in order, the variation will make it look pretty cool!
Make them into a single gif.
This is madness.
Hi Team TAY – Q: has anyone had any experience with JB Hi FI online orders and product returns?
In summary: I preordered a Sunset Overdrive ‘white’ Xbox console/game. I checked my order this morning and found that EB are now giving you a bonus copy of Forza 2. My issue is that I ordered a copy of the game last Friday from JB, along with a couple of other Xbox accessories. So today, the JB order hadn’t shipped yet, so I emailed asking to cancel that portion of the order. Half hour later, I got a note that the order has now shipped….great. No one, of course, had gotten back to me about the cancelled Forza 2 order….yay.
SO, after a product has been sent can I send it back for an exchange or even a refund? Their online policy explanation doesn’t discuss that aspect.
I would’ve called someone at JB but they only offer an email inquiry service. Boo.
You can ship it back to them, but it’s at your cost, I think. I am not certain, but you mayyyy be able to return the console to a store? I saw this because when you order CDs and DVDs from the online store, they’re picked and packed at the nearest stocked store. Give your local JB a call to see if they would accept a return on an online order. Not sure about a refund though.
That only applies to stuff that isn’t a new release, however. If it is, it’s shipped from their Melbourne warehouse.
Hit them up on twitter if you can to ask, they really helpful & quick to respond there! Buuuuuuut you may be able to get a refund in store with them (if you’re near a JB HiFi that is), especially if you didn’t pay via PayPal, but credit/debit card.
Well the other month I had a flight stick that I got from them online stop working after an hour or two’s use, I just took it in with me to the store to return it and they sorted it all out. Not exactly the same kind of situation, but while sorting it they had to call up the online orders place and work some things out with them. So I guess you could just go into a store with your problem/stuff and see what they have to say about it?
Good plan! I reckon I just take it into a store with my invoice docs and see if I can swap it for something else.
Thanks for the advice you guys. 🙂
I’ve had the wrong game shipped to me before, they just got me to go into the local JB and it all got sorted out there.
So I’ve watched the first three episodes of The Flash and I’m done. The CW formula for a show simply does not do it for me.
I was happy to go along with a lot of conceits that were necessary to make this happen (one guy just out of school doing all the CSI work for a major city) but there’s so much teen drama nonsense and hackneyed shenanigans that don’t feel like Flash that I can’t put up with it.
The villain of the week formula is expected. But I just don’t like Flash’s support team at all. I feel like they genuinely add nothing to it.
Throw in the end of episode stings that are very unsubtly hinting that Dr Harrison Wells is Professor Zoom just to make things worse.How is it that DC can have amazing animated shows like Young Justice (cancelled to make room for Teen Titans Go) and Justice League/Justice League Unlimited but as soon as they get into live action, they just don’t hit the mark at all?
I know people are saying that Arrow got better and I’m willing to take that on faith. It’s just hard to see potentially good material wasted.
I want Young Justice and Justice League Unlimited BACK! NOW! =[
I was kind of annoyed that they put the ‘unsubtle hint’ you referenced at the end of the very first episode. Oh goodie. No mystery ever.
Maybe it’s a red herr… oh wait, the end of the second episode makes it abundantly clear.
At least when the first season of Arrow introduced us (via flashback) to Ollie’s comrade-in-arms Slade Wilson, the significance of that name would’ve only meant something to DC fans. But they weren’t even subtle in Flash, they practically draw you a damn picture so that even non-comic-readers would know exactly what was going on.
Soaking white cotton gloves in a bowl of leather stripper solvent to try and remove the black paint logo.
There’s no other way this can end but well right?
@freezespreston @rize @tech_knight @pupp3tmast3r @sernobulus @gingerchris86
I’m thinking we might skip this week for 40K RPG and come back in two weeks after PAX. I’m aware that people are probably getting some last minute stuff planned and sorted out so I don’t want to encroach on that too much.
If you guys really want to play tomorrow night, I can still arrange it if you want.
I’m down for it either way! Just worth noting I will have to run off around 10pm sydney time 🙁
I’m good either way. I think it’ll be a bit of a hassle for at least a couple of players, though.
I’d be good to go, since I live in Melbourne anyway
@freezespreston @rize @tech_knight @pupp3tmast3r @sernobulus @gingerchris86
I’m going to call it for tomorrow night and postpone the session. We’ll reconvene in two weeks time on the 11th for more 40K RPG.
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Fiddle Dee Dee?
Don’t finish this thread, whatever you do. Village Roadshow will hunt you down in your sleep.
So my family has a new dog. My sister’s been volunteering at the RSPCA for a few months and recently met a dog she fell in love with (which I just knew was going to happen when she started working there). It’s a 6 year old female Jack Russell called Doros who used to belong to a hoarder who owned 48 dogs. Because of that she isn’t toilet trained and is very much an inside dog as she’s only used to being in enclosed spaces. She is very affectionate though.
Oh wow, that dog has a history. She sounds lovely though, congratulations 🙂
Doggies \o/
Affectionate dogs are rad… Except for when they weigh 30+ kg…
Actually no, they’re still pretty freaking rad!
Nah, big dogs are great!
Hell yeah o/
Hence the reason why I have 2 😛
Yay! What kind are yours? We have a Lab and an Irish Wolfhound.
2 year old lab x boxer
And a 1 year old mastiff x… Something :P…
https://twitter.com/PixelFerret/status/475599620966346752
Very happy and energetic pups 😛
Awwww gawd they’re beautiful little babies!
ooh – Wolfhounds are beautiful! When I was at school I had a friend with a Scottish Deerhound and she was the loveliest dog.
my 40kg shepherd is very affectionate, I end up squashed under him a lot, he’s always climbed into my lap and flops onto his back for belly scratched since he was a pup, he still does it but now he’s almost the same size as me,
Haha that’s pretty much what my mastiff does as well… He’s so lovely but he’s such a brute at the same time 😛
yeah mine is a bit goofy, doesn’t have spacial awareness and will try squeeze into tiny gaps or just barges into you accidentally, I have a big lump on my head today from him running into me last night,
Any suggestions for what to do on a Saturday afternoon in Melbourne? I know other PAX people will suggest a meet up, but this trip is a gift for my boyfriend/our annual weekend away somewhere. I was thinking maybe the zoo? I also looked at Luna Park, but it’s super expensive for what it is, and doesn’t seem so interesting.
I think Les Mis is on.
I doubt you can get tickets, but nobody ever asks me for useful advice.
Oh, please forgive me, but I would rather gouge my eyes out with a spoon. I hate musical theatre, hahaha. But thank you for your suggestion!
And with that Tay died into an angry and uncomfortable silence between Blaghs and Jane while everyone else awkwardly stares at their feet.
Blaghman’s reaction: http://i.imgur.com/u97xKAX.gif
Right.
That’s fine.
No, really, totally fine.
*Pulls out a notepad, you can hear brief scribbling, and then what appears to be the thud of multiple exclamation marks*
Totally fine.
“BUY MILK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
That was not what I expected it to say at all.
Followed by a few muffled sobs.
*makes obviously awkward attempt to change topic* =P
There’s the Aquarium, which I think is near where PAX is being held.
Yep, very close.
Normally I’d say go watch a game at the G but the AFL season is over, so I have no idea whatsoever about things to do in Melbourne.
I want to go and see so many games next year. But i know it will be alone because “AFL is stupid”
I’ll have tickets to any games Fremantle play in Melbourne, it’s just a matter of finding the time / $$ to fly down and use them.
I didn’t go to a single game last season because of the worst fixtures for Carlton in my 5 years of membership. Next season should be better as they’ve binned the sunday night and monday games. Often happy to go along to other games as a neutral. Feel free to shout at me, I can find the G and the bar…
I don’t really go for AFL as I was brought up in a land where they play Rugby. But I’d probably be up for going to a game or two with you if you were down here. Unless you’re a Collingwood supporter. 😛
Grrrrr rugby – still smarting over Melbourne’s loss to Perth on Saturday. Great game (and you can see me, my partner and a friend losing our collective shit in one of the photos from the game as Melbourne run in a try).
100% home attendance record for Melbourne Rebels over 4 years…
Yes I love sportsball.
I have a spare pair of tickets for India vs South Africa in the cricket World Cup too… anyone? anyone?
I was hoping to go to some world cup matches but I’m going to be in Japan 🙁
Nearly got into the Rebels as they’re the home team now, but I couldn’t do it. Even though they’ve been kind of shit for a while, I feel wrong supporting an Australian Super Rugby team instead of the Highlanders. Can sit and watch a good match but not that invested.
Just like how I’ll sit and watch the Wallabies play anyone except the All Blacks. When those two come together I have to go with the motherland side or I feel dirty.
I hear you. Can change your country, can’t change your team. Dad’s Welsh, Mum’s English. Supported Welsh rugby and English football all my life…
That said I know a few Kiwis, Poms and Queenslanders who come to Rebels games regularly, just to see some rugby. 🙂 Unfortunately we’re not playing Highlanders at all in 2015.
Weird, checked the fixtures and you’re right.
On the upside I guess that means I can support both teams this year unless they both make it to the finals. \o/
Cool. I don’t see there’s anything wrong with shouting for your local team even if they’ll never replace your first team growing up. Probably not much danger of Rebels making finals…
I’d go to a game with you, just wouldn’t buy anything as its stupidely overpriced
Oh, the weekend after the AFL Grand Final is when the Cricket starts. This weekend is Sheffield Shield, Victoria vs NSW. Following weekend there’s a T20 between Australia and South Africa.
I believe the Melbourne thing to do is to move to Queensland and spend all your time complaining about how much better Melbourne is.
That sounds about right. Or move to Melbourne from Brisbane and then visit and spend all your time complaining about how awful Brisbane is. My friends are twats.
To be fair, I really like it there, too.
And the way the weather is shaping up, I really think I might like Tasmania a whole lot. I should really take the entire Summer off and spend it down south.
What are you, some kind of mallard?
Drake Mallard by day… by night? DARKWING DUCK
I am the terror that faps in the night.
Wait.
…I want to typo “I am the gum that sticks to your hair!” but I also do not want to.
Ahhh, I see. He’s a duck and you’re a chicken. Bawk bawk bawk bawk bawk. 😛
Don’t forget, you’ve got to bitch about the coffee.
And then it’s all “Oh, I’m sorry, Stefan, the usual Barista is off in Nicaragua sourcing free trade coffee beans himself, so we have the back-up, and it’s really not comparable” if you ever go to their “favourite back-street-milk-crate-and-skinny-jeans-cafe”.
Coffee isn’t coffee if it isn’t being served by an emaciated and heavily-pierced waif in black clothing that is inexplicably still too tight.
Sure, if you’re having coffee in 2012. Get with the times, man. Baristas are all about the immaculately oiled moustaches now.
Could take a tour of all the awesome lane ways and check out their epic art? Their is the Skydeck, but that’s like 25 bucks to get in D= awesome views though!
Melbourne Zoo is tiiiiiiiiiight.
Go there, for sure.
Luna Park is rubbish. Melbourne Aquarium and Melbourne Zoo are both ace choices.
Otherwise, just a general suburban adventure somewhere that has nice cafes, food, etc. Maybe around St Kilda, or Prahran/Chapel Street? Both are inner city ‘burbs, easy to get to by tram and whatnot.
Melbourne’s greatest charm to me is just soaking up different suburbs and areas, finding odd shops, cafes, or just mixings of different cultures that combine with interesting results. Even a day in the CBD exploring is a great day out. Check those alleys and side streets, there’s all kinds of stuff hidden there.
The Zoo is great especially if you’re an animal lover (which I’m gathering you are! ), you can actually stay at the zoo and make a day out of it and seriously watch some of the animals get around in their enclosures. Watching the Meerkats get fed is pretty cute.
Other than that I’d recommend having a drink at a rooftop bar, which in Melbourne is culture du jour at the moment. A couple I have really liked have been ‘Naked For Satan’ in Fitzroy and the Rooftop Bar & CInema would be cool if you have a movie you’d like to see in December. Speaking of culture Shakespeare Under The Stars is very funny and close enough to the city for a meal as well: http://shakespeareaustralia.com.au/book-tickets/
I take my dating seriously!
Why yes, I am available some evenings
tbh Luna Park is a bit of a waste of money. dont waste your money.
Some suggestions? obviously a lot of this is a matter of personal taste… not sure what you guys are into… as you can tell im a bit of a history buff.
Queen Victoria Market
Old Melbourne Gaol has a fascinating history…
ACMI (Australian Centre for the Moving Image) Is pretty Awesome
Museum of Victoria
Puffing Billy Railway has some great views, but may be a bit far.
Colonial Tramcar Restaurant for dining out in style (check availability)
Scienceworks (its for the big kids too!)
and if you have a day to spend, check out Funfields. It may be a bit far but its good fun if the weather behaves itself!
Tramcar FTW, totally forgot about that. Really good night, you eat and drink as much (if not more) as you pay for lol.
The zoo is excellent. It’s also super-easy to get to on tram or train. (Myki ticketing is NOT super easy, but you’ll be fine). As others have said, aquarium, or the Melbourne Museum is actually quite good (new dinosaurs, stuffed Phar Lap, stuff like that).
Or there’s sit by the river and drink. 🙂
Bowling and karaoke at Kingpin Crown is what I would do.
Zoo is good, crown is good too
High Tea in a five star hotel? Cocktails in a fancy bar? Cake and coffee in St Kilda? Tour of the MCG? The Prahran market is open until 5pm on a Saturday, and the Queen Vic markets are open until 3 (better early in the day)
I just remembered – the Jean Paul Gaultier exhibition has just started at the National Gallery of Victoria.
Afternoon fellow peeps!!!
Apologies for my recent absense, have had a fair bit on. so i just came back from a week off in Tassie, was great but had VERY rocky start.
So our flight was scheduled for 7am from melb-hobart, check in closing at 6:15am flying Tiger Airways. We got to the airport at 5:15am. So we spent about half an hour looking for the Tiger Airlines terminal and couldnt find it ANYWHERE, Nobody was around the airport to direct us or anything.
We followed the crappy signage which led us around the entire airport, eventually pointing us to the right hand side with no terminal in sight… after a further 15 minutes, we found someone.
so apparently theres a seperate terminal building for Tiger Airways. you have to walk outside the Airport, proceed 250m to the right, past two construction sites, then you get to the terminal.
so at that point we had 15mins left before close off. Their equipment wasnt scanning our tickets. we walked to the front of a massive queue trying to get someones attention, getting completely ignore for 10 mins. Someone eventually pays attention to us and proceeds to inform us the close off begun to minutes ago. it was 6:17am…
so basically they refused to let us on the flight. We were advised they could get us on the next flight – the following day, at a fee of $120 per person.
To wrap up a long story, what started off as a pretty broke month ended up about $480 broke-r having to book new flights on the fly with jetstar.
so yeah, basically its noodles and rice for the next two weeks…..
Tiger Air.
Not even once.
Jesus. I went Tiger once and vowed never to do it again. Plane was late/delayed both ways, the flight attendant was the rudest I’ve encountered on any airline bar none, and in Melbourne, Tiger doesn’t even go to the regular domestic terminal. It lands on the runway, then you have to walk half a kilometre to what almost amounts to an outdoor cowshed, open air surrounded by cyclone fence. Then you have to shuttle back to the main terminal. (At least it was several years ago, not sure if that’s changed)
see i think its just the staff in melbourne… on the way back, Tiger where unbelievably friendly and helpful. to the point that even though we had middle an isle seats, the flight attendant in charge of seating overheard the missus and i saying we wish we had window seats, and told us to sit there and shuffled a couple of other seats around so we can have them. she also gave us 2 x barrista iced coffees at no charge, the return flight was the best flying experience ive had!
Yeah, Tiger are the absolute worst.
I’m flying with them on Saturday D:
Cross your fingers, toes, eyes, legs, arms, throw salt over your shoulder, spin around three times, prayer to god, allah, buddha, cthulu, insert-deity-here that it all works out 😛
dont rub the belly of the closest person… they may find it…. weird…
But it is the only way to be sure your flight is on time
fine at least make sure its the belly you’re rubbing…. if the guy winks at you, you probably should try rubbing higher…
Get there 3-4 hours to spare. Check the times on their site repeatedly.
If it helps, I’ve flown with them a dozen times or so and never had any problems, but by the sounds of it, if there IS a problem, they’re ready and willing to be dicks about it.
I’m not too worried, really, since it’s the trip down there, and we’re getting in a day before the even we’re there for. But still, I already don’t care for flying.
So their machines refused to scan your tickets then their poor customer service prevented you from resolving the issue before it was too late AND they charged you five hundred bucks for the privilege of being allowed to finally board a plane?
pretty much the 500 bucks was the result of me booking 2 x flights with jetstar who was leaving 3 hours after my original flight.
There’s a reason travel agents refuse to even touch Tiger. Its just too much of a shit fight. Sorry to hear what happened 🙁
Wow. I fly Tiger almost every time I go anywhere domestic now, vastly prefer it to the other cattle-class ‘bus’ services like Jetstar or… hm. Well, I’ve only flown Jetstar and Tiger domestic. Maybe Virgin is OK?
Maybe it’s like playing a kind of Russian roulette with my bank balance or something…
Jetstar are a pack of shits but they don’t pull the stuff that Tiger does, like randomly rescheduling flights with barely a couple of hours’ notice.
Yeah when my cousin was working at the resort at Ayers Rock, she would fly back to Sydney semi regularly with Tiger and not once had an issue. She must have been one of the lucky few
I’d rather pay a bit more to go with Virgin and be secure knowing that if there is an issue, they will be a lot more accommodating about helping you out. Whereas Tiger and to a slightly lesser extent Jetstar will just say “Nope sorry, not our problem”
virgin are terrible…. im pretty sure i wasnt dreaming it, but virgin seats are TINY…. (virgins). Im a large bloke so it may not apply foryou stick figures!
I don’t think I can last a week without a @dc favourite or upvote. I feel like I’ve done something wrong!
I know. There’s so many sad looking zeroes all over TAY 🙁
It’s time to fly on your own. *pushes Shane off ledge* FLYYYYYY!
D: Shane may be a monster but he doesn’t have wings!
Handy skin-flaps used for gliding, however…
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Damn! I set up the circus net on the other side of the building! Ah, live and learn, I guess.
If I didn’t need to do some in-depth research into death for Undad, I’d be really mad at you right now.
Edited out because I’m not sure if this stuff is illegal or not. Sorry I left it so long and people had replied. :/
Seriously though. Love your partners, people, make your major life decisions together instead of unilaterally overriding them.
So that’s fucking terrifying.
And people wonder why I elect to remain single.
Because all women.
#BabyGate
START THE REVOLUTION!! #StopBabyGate !!!
In fact, given that I’m not even sure it’s legal, I’m gonna edit that out.
Pretty sure that manipulation is entirely within the usual bounds of marriage, and therefore legal. Perhaps even sanctioned!
I’m sure most guys will step up and find that this is a good thing and their lives are enriched. It’s just a decision that should be made together.
Yes, of course. Unfortunately, this would serve only to legitimise the practice of cutting men out of the decision-making process, because clearly they don’t know what’s good for them.
I feel sorry for their partner. It’ll only end badly especially since they aren’t wanting kids at this particular moment in time.
I sometimes wonder if Mrs Shane would have eventually turned into one of these people if I hadn’t said yes to her re: kids. She definitely wouldn’t have given up…
That’s a little sad depriving the guy of a say. If he doesn’t want kids and they do, find a new partner… don’t trick him. 🙁 Guys have plans and things they want to do, as well. Stuff that’s no longer achievable once you have kids. Saying not right now isn’t procrastinating.
It’s that “he doesn’t think he’s ready, but he’ll learn” bit that made me sad. It belies an incredible lack of consideration and respect for the partner, and pretty much an exact parallel of the attitude that men were vilified for having for their wives in previous generations.
I feel this gross feeling like this could easily veer into Men’s Rights Activist territory and that would be awful. Haha! Just to reiterate women good. DC likes women. DC hates MRA guys. DC is for couples talking things out together. 😀
Hahaha, oops. Not my intention at all. I’m not about to make unreasonable generalisations. Just the attitude of these particular women is disgraceful and someone should encourage them to have greater respect for their partners.
Oh, no. It wasn’t your post. Just the general tone of where these conversations could go.
VIGILANCE IS KEY. 😀
aww man, I missed it, judging by people’s reactions sounds crazy whatever it was.
……… I… what… OMGWTF…. This is the scariest thing I’ve ever heard…. 0,0 Like ever….
I feel like maybe I’m glad I missed all this!
I don’t ever want kids personally, and I openly admit it, if she has to resort to those kinds of tactics then I’d be dumping them right off the bat. If there’s a girl I like and either they tell me they want to have kids one day or I hear about it in passing, then I abort immediately as that’s going to come up one day and it’ll only get worse the longer I hold off on telling them “I’m not going to have kids and you’re never going to change my mind”.
Abort. Hehehe. Now I feel evil.
You’re right though. There’s reasons I might not want kids. Mainly to do with genetic stuff I’m not sure I want to pass on. (History of crazy.) I feel these reasons are valid.
Believe me when I say there’s no risk of me accidentally knocking someone up though.
It’s out of respect for the girl’s life goals and choices more than anything else, who am I to stop another for doing what they want to do with their life because of my own personal choices? I mean having kids is a big thing for a lot of people, I’m not going to intentionally stand in the way of one person’s goal of making that a reality.
Yeah, making these things clear at the start can only be a good thing.
I intend to get the snip when I’m sure we’re done having kids. If you never intend to have them, maybe consider it now so you never find yourself in this kind of situation…?
So number 4 is in the works?
No. I just have to convince Mrs Shane of this. I’ll probably convince her that four is a bad idea when we’ve got six or seven :\
She likes the idea of a big family? 🙂
Yes, but I think it’s starting to dawn on her that an idea and reality don’t necessarily have strong correlation to each other.
I can appreciate how tough it probably is with just the three. You seriously have my respect, Shane. I look at you folks with awe. 🙂
@dc, it’s not that big a deal. Kids are full-on and requires heaps of attention (and some measure of patience), but most of the time they’re not actually that difficult.
Edit: That’s gonna come back to bite me when they’re teenagers, isn’t it?
But even just on a money front. That can’t be easy. I can barely support myself let alone three other humans. 😛
Mrs Freeze wanted six before drawing the line at two.
13’s the right number shane…. A BAKERS DOZEN!!!!
A friend of mines sister in law has had 14 kids in 12 years. Then again she was 9 when her father shot and killed her mother and sister, shot her then shot himself so she probably has a few familial issues she’s trying to work out.
what the serious fuck is wrong with people?!?!??!?
“Do you even know how many are in a bakers dozen?”
“By my count… 48”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Not. Funny.
IM SORRY!!! /o\
If it helps, medical emergencies are a great way to curb population growth!
My sister was six weeks prem, and I was ten weeks. After me, my parents decided that it wasn’t worth the health risks of trying to have more children (hell, even my grandparents agreed to that)!
As someone with two siblings, I’d say that a fourth wouldn’t have been a terrible idea. Ask any psychologist about group dynamics and what happens in groups of three and they’ll observe that it tends to be two against one. Or at least two will pair up and the third feel left out. And my youngest brother got left out a lot. We were kids, what did we know? He turned out fine, but… it would’ve been nice, I think, for him to not feel like he was a third wheel when my middle brother and I would pair up for things.
Plus three player video games are always awkward. Always designed for two or four.
Three plus dad makes a good sized group for games >:(
Play with Dad? Ugh. Lame.
I’ll be holding the keys to all the consoles. If they want to play, they do it on my terms, lame or not.
DAMN YOU DESTINY!!!
I think we’re going to offset that a little, because we’ve gone girl, boy, girl. There’ll probably be plenty of instances where one of them is left out, but I think it’s going to alternate pretty regularly which one has to play by themselves.
Oh man, now I feel bad. I had a brief chat about you to my mother (she was like “I find it weird that you have friends with children, Sean”), and I completely forgot about girl number 2. Worst at this.
It’s probably for the best. Wouldn’t want things to seem any weirder.
Sorry if this made things awkward.
Hahahaha, do you know what it takes to make things awkward around me?
Anything. Anything at all.
My best mate had a little baby girl a little while ago and the last time we were chatting, I completely forgot about her existence, and was only referencing the little fella they already had.
Worst. Friend. Ever.
Of course the issue with more than 3 is you need to upsize the car
We did that already! 😛
I wanted zero kids and now look at me. What did I do to deserve this?! 😛
I always miss the fun stuff.
So Joe Hockey said “The only friends of this budget are the Coalition.”
That’s because this budget is the friend nobody likes, you asshats.
🙁
*pokes head around corner upon mention of Hockey*
…. I should watch more Hockey.
*Goes back around corner to watch Hockey*
What “Hockey”? Oh saturday you make up the funniest things!
Shh, Hockey is on.*
*It actually is
Yeah, it seems like there’s a substantial clue there that he hasn’t managed to catch.
My Nendoroid Link just came in stock \o/
However I was going through my records and it seems like neither of the games I ordered from Play-Asia, one that shipped on the 8th and one on the 17th have arrived yet. I had them sent to work. The one sent on the 17th is fine but the one from the 8th is uncharacteristically late, normally standard airmail from them is about 2 weeks.
maybe someone at the office is enjoying some new games??
Considering both are for PS3, maybe they were intercepted by someone and I’m under investigation by the company. 😛
The microsoft customs ninjas!!!! hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiyyyyyyyyyyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!
Public holiday for the G20 summit cut off area is 3 doors down from us, we are literally 50 meters from getting a public holiday :(.
This is the kind of thing that creates extremists! D:
We have a contractor from NSW who works out of my office in ACT. He doesn’t get ACT public holidays.
I’m glad I moved out of the G20 restricted zone. I get stopped enough by the cops as it is, I don’t need that to be stepped up at all.
Why do they stop you? Cause they get lost in your eyes?
It’s easy to do. I do it all the time. Mirrors are my kryptonite.
Seriously though, it’s a little weird. One of those faces/postures, I guess? Every few months, seems like. Had it multiple times in one day, before.
Nothing too harsh, just asking me where I’m going, what I’m doing. A couple times asking to see ID. Never had my bag checked, though I’ve guessed they wanted to. Maybe checking to see if I look nervous, give them lip, see if they can spot certain tattoos or see bloodshot eyes, weird or inconsistent excuse… I dunno?
They obviously have a profile for investigating, and I fit it. I try not to take it personally.
Ah, say no more. They just want an excuse to talk to you and are abusing their power to do it! POLICE CORRUPTION!
Every time I go through an airport, I will be stopped for a ‘random’ test for explosives residue or drugs or whatever. Extra screening. My Dad gets grabbed for that a lot as well. He asked why that was once, and was told that basically they have to pick someone at random so they tend to pick people that don’t look like they’ll kick up a stink and will just get it done with a minimum of fuss. Because airport security is useless as shit anyway, it’s all for show.
It’s funny because I was expecting that at Airports, but usually just get waved through with minimum fuss.
I was especially expecting it when I first grew my beard and it looked very… bushy and unkempt, not neatly trimmed. It was quite thick at the base, like certain stereotypes. Was definitely expecting to get x-rayed/prodded on my internationals, but nope… waved on through.
Only time I’ve been pulled out of line is when I got back from London. I hadn’t shaved in months. My hair was long. I looked shabby. Yeah, I probably fit the profile. Now whenever I fly I’m as clean shaven as possible and never bothered. 😀
Yet change your name to Hussein and they’d be all over you with the cavity searches. 🙁
Yeah, I don’t think they’ve put the Scottish names on any kind of watch-list.
Quite thick at the base
tee hee
Your work area counts too.
Hi All,
First log in in over a month. Time flies when you’re having fun. What a day to come back on. I see clickbait gamergate articles are still flowing around. I’m sure there’ll be an argument in that thread.
Couple of things I’ve learned over the past month. Cloud backup is great, but OneDrive is a hideous beast. However, after I lost a months worth of work when THREE of my HDD’s went out at once. (smart controller and raid crash) has convinced me of their benefit.
Also was lurking whilst waiting for a flight a couple of weeks ago, and saw someone suggest brave frontier. It has to be one of the best mobile games I’ve played, so thanks to whoever that was.
Was also in a JB the other day and I see that all the hype for destiny, titanfall et al has died down and looks like some decent games coming soon. All the same I was really disappointed with the console genre mix. Whenever I get a new console I generally try and cover one game from each of the major genres to tide me over for when friends who prefer more casual games come around. With that in mind I don’t have a good car racing game and saw that driveclub had come out. I nearly just grabbed it but having been burnt in past console generations, with early release duds. I thought I’d read some quick reviews while I was in store. Imagine my surprise when I had to read through 4 separate major games websites reviews before finding out there was no “under the hood” car customization at all. 4 reviews and no comment on a pretty standard feature in a car games. Seems like to much hype for me so I’ve steered clear of that one.
Any other games out in the last month which are worthy of a bash?
I understand Shadow of Mordor has been well-received.
Saw that, and I ummed and arred over it but don’t know enough about the storyline. I like my tolkien universe limited to hobbit, lord of the rings trilogy, and silmarillion. Even the “expanded universe” trilogy of hobbit movies have no attraction for me. Some things need to just stay “Canon.”:)
It incorporates material from the Appendices. The ghost dude you’re hanging out with is
Celebrimbor, the smith who forged the rings of power, Gollum turns up a few times and his look is very much inspired by the movies, as is the general visual style, but that’s about how much it’s actually tied into the movie stuff. There’s a reason why they branded it ‘Middle Earth’ and not ‘Lord of the Rings’.But yeah, I can appreciate that opinion. IMO none of the expanded stuff takes away from the canon of the books. Though I’d argue that Tolkein Junior has been doing a good job shitting on the setting as far as books go recently anyway.
Cheers for that, IMO Christopher Tolkien has done about as much as Frank Herberts son has for the Dune trilogy. You can see a masterpiece below what they’ve done, but they’ve never taken the vision forward. I guess I may grab it on steam sale sometime in the future but it’s just not striking any chords for me.
I’m not convinced that Brian Herbert is entirely to blame, given that Kevin J Anderson was his co-author for all that crap. That guy’s an authorial wrecking ball, also managed to fuck up the Star Wars expanded universe significantly enough that they had to spend ages undoing the damage he left behind.
hahaha I must admit after reading the conclusion to Dune I was never tempted to go out and buy any of Andersons other work. By the same token Sanderson managed to fix the wheel of time mess that Jordan left behind, so it can be done.
Obviously hoping for the best but If anything untoward were to happen with GRRM I would hope they draft him in.
The thing that hurts most is that I don’t think anyone could have stepped into Douglas Adams shoes. The Dirk Gently series was a masterpiece and IMHO much better than Hitchhikers.
It’s pretty hard to tell how much of the Wheel of Time stuff was Sanderson and how much was Jordan though – he apparently left heaps of notes detailing all the major remaining plot points , and before he died he apparently recorded several sessions where he recounted in detail how he had intended everything to end.
That said, Sanderson clearly added a lot of extra details. The action bits in particular – he’s just better at writing those. Also he cut the extraneous waffle out so the books are a lot more to the point.
Either way you’re right though. That series had gotten away from Jordan completely, and having someone else come in and tie it all back together was great. Amazingly satisfying ending too, probably the only thing I’ve ever followed for an extended period like that, got to the end of and left completely satisfied.
I absolutely loved Alien Isolation.
Ahh I should have clarified that I’m terrible at horror games. I freak out way too easily on jump scares. 🙂 I watched an intro and lasted about a whole 5 seconds befor closing browser window and going for a walk to do something else. I hate jump scares, spooky music, and games that are just poorly lit in general. The wolves in the last Tomb Raider were too much for me 🙂
Oh, say no more. This game ain’t for you, friend.
I should have known this game wasn’t for me, I was noping hard when you get into the elevator for the first time to cross the bridge to get away from the Alien.
NOPETY NOPE NOPE
The Alien is just a metaphor. It can’t actually hurt you.
*shifty eyes*
Lol if anyone ever finishes the F.E.A.R series can they let me know what that was all about 🙂 Also found I can only watch the House on Haunted Hill with sound off and fast forward x60…
Can’t count how many random corridors I have lobbed thousands of grenades down for lighting just because I hate jump scares. (hint: never works as enemies never spawn until you’re right on top of them. hence grand hatred of horror games.) 🙂
I’ll say Diablo 3. But that may just be the 80 odd hours I’ve been playing recently talking.
wasn’t there some problem with the crafting system in that? I recall whining from the vox populi…
So, does anyone else ever get blood-sugar-related shakes and jitters?
Well. Anyone who doesn’t have diabetes, that is? (I don’t have it – or at least, my last blood test indicated I don’t. But given my diet, I wouldn’t be terribly surprised if it was around the corner.)
I get shakes and light headedness if I haven’t eaten for a while. I don’t have diabetes but I do have intolerances to some foods like dairy and yeast which makes it worse if I’ve been eating a lot of those recently.
If I stay completely off those (I struggle because bread and cheese are my favourite foods. 🙁 ) I find my overall health, energy levels ,hayfever symptoms, hand and wrist pains and headaches are a million times better, if not altogether gone. Same for the reaction my body has when I haven’t eaten for a while.
I get that from my occasional coffee-milk, but that might just be because I don’t have caffeine that often (I’ve been bad the past month or so, averaging three or four times a week).
Or it could be the fact that I probably have diabeetus. Who can really say?
Aieee, diabeetus… Blood tests! Blood tests are you friend! That’ll tellya if you got the diabeetus or not! I get ’em for anything and everything.
Seriously though, my Dad has a condition which means his blood produces too much iron, and I’m a carrier but it’s not active… yet. Could do at some point. My iron levels are kinda high, the impact of which is probably mitigated by metabolism and high physical activity rates, but that can’t keep up as I age, so it’s something I get checked out every now and then to see if the condition has ‘activated’, or if I just need to let more blood out.
Hahaha, that would require seeing a Doctor, or someone to refer me, or whatever. That ain’t happening.
I had a big redbull once and got the shakes.
It scared me lots.
I drink at least two of them a day. Usually 3-4.
I may have a caffeine problem.
Me too, except I couldn’t make it through the entire can 😛 It was my first and last energy drink.
Red Bull gives me headaches every time. Never had problems with other drinks though I don’t like how they make you feel. Red Bull just made me feel like shit.
You’re lucky. I tried it once, and it gave me a nose-bleed. Scared the shit out of me when, in the middle of a lecture, the dude sitting next to me said “Um… you appear to be bleeding…”
Never again.
Yeah, every so often if I (surprise surprise) forget to eat then I’ll get the shakes. Don’t really see it as a “thing” because it’s usually totally my fault.
Yeah I get the shakes sometimes, especially if I haven’t eaten all that much, so I’m guessing that means my sugars are low.
A lot of my family have/had diabetes, both Type 1 and Type 2, so I always joke that I’ll end up with both and call it Type 3
There’s a growing body of evidence that Type-3 Diabetes is Alzheimers. You don’t want that.
Oh…. 🙁
There is a type 3, gestational diabetes! 😛 (sic, some phsyiologists are calling it this).
You could have all three and have type 4 diabetes, now that would be some kind of super diabetes,
If I’m really starving and haven’t eaten for ages I start feeling weak and shaky. On the other end if I’ve eaten a lot of sugar my heart goes nuts. I never thought caffeine did that to me until I made iced coffee which has like 4x the amount of coffee that a normal coffee has in it, then that does the same thing.
I don’t have diabetes, so i dunno 😛 I just try and avoid too much sugar after like 6pm or else it’s too hard to get to sleep.
I wake up in the middle of the night sometimes with a feeling of dread and feel like I need to eat something. I’m sweating and have a cloudy feeling in my head, no headache though.
When do you get your shakes and jitters? A while without food or immediately after, 30 mins after? I’d be interested to hear what it is that you’re eating that makes you feel like that.
It’s not common. Today, maybe three hours after a couple sandwiches? Nothing special, ham, cheese, salad.
…Oh, and a coffee and a litre of Mother, throughout the day.
It depends on how big the sandwiches are, I’m assuming white bread as well? You’re going a long time without protein as well, that can help the hunger cravings.
As for the litre of Mother? May god have mercy on your soul, the recommended dosage (yes, I will say dosage for energy drinks 😛 ) is 350ml max per day. You’ve doubled this and some! I’d imagine your jitters would be down to this! Do you get a sore chest after drinking it sometimes?
Nope, none of those symptoms ever. Rarely shakes either. I have had shakes from caffeine pills when excessively tired and trying to beat it. 1L of any soda let alone energy drink is highly unusual though. And yeah, I really feel the urge for a big slab of meat to bite into, but the pickings have been slim around here today.
Wow, you’ve conditioned yourself to handling a litre of soda. Hats off to you, I would feel as a crook as a dog if I tried that!
If you’re trying to save, chicken and tuna are two options you could chuck on your sandwich to help you get your protein hit!
I was an IT student. A litre is nothing.
Nah, I always splash out on food. I’d say it’s pretty close to 80% of my disposable income. Restaurant meals, gourmet stuff in the supermarket, take-out, whatever. I eat and eat and eat like crazy, when I have time. It’s only when shit gets hectic that I forget to eat and sometimes that doesn’t work out.
Reminds me of a funny story.
When I was at uni, doing a double degree of business and IT, I was up front with a bunch of fellow IT students in a Business lecture. The introductory Marketing subject had the lecturer trying to show off the significance of marketing over product. To prove this theory, he had a half-dozen types of cola out front. He poured out a series of cups and dragged the closest students up front to demonstrate that the majority of people couldn’t pick the difference in a blind taste test.
Oops.
As starving students with a taste for take-out, occasional shortages of money forcing us to home brands or D-list brands, and a preference for Coke, he was horrified to discover that all of us got all the brands right.
He shouldn’t have been. There are people who can taste some wine and tell you which fucking vinyard it came from and which year. Cola to some IT student caffeine-addicts is nothin’. His mistake was not checking if we were connoiseurs or not.
I don’t get the shakes, I’m usually happy with just the fries!
…sorry.
No you’re not.
Is it because you’re afraid of bringing all the boys to the yard?
When I eat sweet things my face tingles weirdly especially just under my eyes, it’s like pins and needles but more of a crawling feeling like there are bugs on my face, pretty sure it’s not a good thing. I have the shakes pretty much constantly but I also drink liters of coffee every day.
Wow. We all sound really unhealthy when it’s all stacked together like that.
Sound?
I don’t unless I’m really low blood sugar, but I do get a bit cranky. My Dad (who is diabetic) gets what my sister calls ‘hangry’ where he’s an absolute asshole with a hair trigger when his blood sugar is too low. 🙁 I have had times where I’ve gotten hand twitching and shaking, but it’s caused by muscle fatigue rather than blood sugar levels.
I’m attempting (badly) to lose weight so I don’t also get Diabetes. Fairly sure I don’t have it (last blood test was negative but it was about 18-24 months ago) but probably have a bit of insulin resistance. I’m fairly confident I’m currently okay because I can absolutely exhaust myself physically but will recover if I stop and rest, without having to eat.
As far as diabetes tests go though, some people who are pretty fit and active can pass the standard fasting blood tests but still actually have problems. If you’re worried that you might have missed the diagnosis there’s other tests they can do.
Finding it difficult to justify spending money on new release games when I can get this (nearly ten metres of fabric) delivered for the price of about one and a half games.
This thinking will change when I’ve finally finished my Pineapple of Shame, though. 😛
Then you will have a fabric pineapple of shame!
It’s called a stash. And I go through it faster than I go through games. 😀
Stash? NOW IT OCCURS TO ME ALL THIS FABRIC TALK WAS JUST DRUG SLANG!
TAY Quilt is already on it!
I’m up to the harder and more fiddly bits of this costume and it’s killing me. Mostly because I have no idea what I’m doing and everytime something goes even slightly wrong I crack the shits and give up for a while.
Only have gloves, boot and cape to go.
Worst case you can go to PAX in character as the guy who didn’t finish his cosplay in time. All you need to make it work is a single tear running down your cheek.
I think @mrtaco’s got dibs on that. 😛
It can be a team cosplay! Takes a lot of effort to coordinate one of those! People will slow clap!
*sniff*
Get that tear tattooed, in case you ever need to show people how tough you are.
To cosplay or not to cosplay? That is my PAX question.
Cosplay.
Cosplay! 1) Halloween 2) It makes standing in a queue waiting for things lightly less tedious.
I’m gonna go lazy option, and wear my Blue Sun shirt and my orange beanie.
Though I am starting to question the decision, given how big a know Baldwin is being that thing that is totally about ethics in video games journalism.
Fuck it, Jayne Cobb it is.
I got my turtleneck today, simple cosplay complete!
The Sunset Overdrive Xbone bundle is coming out this Thursday, so it looks like I won’t have much dollars to spend at PAX D: I will at least get a couple of shirts I guess.
Is it a Tactleneck, are you going to PAX as Sterling Archer?
Or just trying to piss him off?
Is it black, or a slightly darker shade of black?
haha, I haven’t seen Archer! I should get around to it though.
(I’m going as the guy in the Persona 5 trailer)
Never mind. God I hate links.
Shall I call you Ganondorf?
😛
Oh god… stomach eating itself… D:
Meanwhile… Caffeine craaaaaaaaaaaaaaash!
By our powers combined, we are physically uncomfortable!
*head-desk*
Zzzzzzzzz
He’s probably got the wind and water component, but not sure about the fire and heart! 😉
Does heart-burn count?
I guess it would, but he didn’t say anything about burning.
It’s cool, I’ve got it covered here. 🙂
So what non-PAX fun is happeninggggggg in Melbourneeeeee?
I was thinking of catching a tram down to St Kilda to eat cake at some point on the Sunday.
I do like cake…
http://www.stkildamelbourne.com.au/things-to-do/st-kilda-food-a-indulgence/cake-shops
Cocktails at the croft institute on thursday night
I’m sad because I can’t Terra Battle in Australia 🙁
No Terra poop for you 🙁
Just played some RE Revelapoop
I am also sad about this. Their ‘worldwide’ release is a joke. And their whole OMG DOWNLOAD IT AND HELP US UNLOCK GOALS AND SHIT thing gets on my nerves when I actually want to do that but I can’t. 🙁
Exactly
Huh. Just looking at flights, and I don’t remember Syd-Mel being a 1.5 hour flight. I thought that was just the Adelaide run that was that long, and the Melbourne and Brisbane ones were shorter. Did someone move Melbourne further away?
That seems crazy short. Weirdly I’ve barely ever flown domestic, so all my experience with flights are nightmarish 16+ hour ones. I feel for @mythamphetamine who’s twiddling their thumbs at LAX right now.
It’s like half an hour to get to Sydney from Brisbane ;D
WHY ISN’T EVERYONE COMING TO PAX NORTH THEN? D:
*smells arm pits* Oh.
Because it’s not a thing!
Neither is your cosplay!
…
THAT WAS TOO MEAN. I’m sure you’ll finish it! 🙂
Next year. Maybe for Supanova or something, with the goal of actually having a shot at the competition for once. If I feel like it’s turned out good enough for it 😛
How much do you have left? Just superficial nitpicky stuff?
@dc Far too much. I mean on paper it was just a matter of getting the main pieces together then doing the accessories. But in practise it’s turned out to be far more work – lining things up and pinning them together alone ends up taking a good couple of hours, then things start going wrong with the sewing and suddenly all the time I thought I had is gone.
pls tell me
But it’s 2 and a half to get from Brisbane to Sydney. ;P
I fly domestic all the time. The Canberra-Sydney is the best flight, because it’s about 40-50 minutes, usually, which is 90% ascent/descent, and if it’s catered, 10% of the flight attendants running down the aisle throwing bikkies at everyone.
Oooh, when I have some disposible cash some day I’ll make a point to travel some. 😀
Fly to Perth, it’s fun!
Nah! There’s nothing in Perth!
There’s an Afghan Treasure exhibit at the museum!
Really? I wouldn’t know.
This is true.
It’s not worth it, man. Flying is boring as sin. At least, for me it is.
A380s are nice though.
You mustn’t be sinning right.
Based on my bible knowledge, my eyeglasses are sinful, so yeah, just trying to see things is about the most sinful thing I’ve done in recent times.
But my experience is with long haul. An hour and a half is craaaaazy short. 😀
Man, flying to Egypt (which was via Heathrow) was like 34 hours total in airports or on planes or something stupid. Would have been happy to never see a plane again after that.
Mel-Can is much the same. 🙂
I think it depends a lot on the weather – it can certainly be less than an hour and a half if the wind is going the right way.
It’s about 2-2.5 hours from Gold Coast – Melb.
So 1.5 in total to Melb from Sydney would be right, i’d say.
PAX is officially sold out.
There are a bunch of passes going on the PAX Australia Cosplay facebook group if you’re still looking for a pass.
Gooky has my three day pass! I hope.. 😀
FLAAAAAAAANDEEEEERS!!!!!
Stupid, sexy?
Backstory: Due to various circumstances, I have cut contact with my father.
My graduation ceremony is in a few weeks, and my father didn’t have a ticket.
Despite the circumstances, this is not something that he should be left out of. I went to the school, purchased a graduation ticket with my own money, and then took the bus to his house, and put the ticket in his mailbox.
I put the graduation in an envelope with an enclosed message telling him that despite the circumstances, I will always be his son.
I have not told my mother, and she will not find out until she spots him in the crowd. I made sure to give him a seat as far away as possible from my mother, to avoid them finding some way to start fighting.
I feel I have made the right decision here.
You definitely have made the right decision there.
Missed this yesterday, but wanted to say that is a super classy thing to do. Way better than I’d do (I’m a “bad” son) and you’ve got mad respect from me. A+++
Well that secret lasted about a day.
I cut contact with my dad when I was around 15 however he actually found out when I was graduating and made it to the ceremony without telling anyone. I’m not ashamed to say I cried when I saw him, everything said and done your dad’s always going to be your dad y’know?
Loved the Boardwalk Empire finale. So, so good. That last season was exceptional. That ending? Perfect.
Makes me ashamed that I have only seen season 1 and 2 and still have season 3 wrapped in plastic.
as you should be 😛
I should watch season 4 at some point…
It really was pretty damn fantastic, I’m really going to miss it.
Boardwalk Empire Season 5 finale spoilers
Tommy? Didn’t see that coming at all, sort of a shame because I always imagined he went on to a better life. I loved how they simultaneously showed Nucky handing Gillian over, kinda softened the blow a little seeing Nucky as a monster. I really liked the talk Capone and his kid had, he always had a complete different personality around him. Narcisse finally got come uppins :D. Out of everyone I think Margaret got the “happiest” ending, she learned to stand on her own two feet and made a tidy profit doing it. Lastly …… LUCIANO!!!! *shakes fist*The Tommy thing was perfectly done. The audience was feeling the exact confusion that Nucky was… who is this kid? Then it hit us at the exact moment it hit Nucky. Was really well done. I thought the way the show was framed around Gillian/Jimmy/Tommy all the way until the end was amazing. So good. Loved the television thing in the tent as well. Kind of got the impression that Nucky’s world was over and something new was coming. Beautifully done finale!I read up on the history afterwards, the guy Nucky is based on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enoch_L._Johnson seems that he made it out alive. Great writing though, It was an amazing journey, I think I felt just about every emotion at some point. I really feel like there is a void that needs filling now though. I’m gonna miss it.Liked that scene with Capone when he was in the car. He knew what awaited him. Then he put on a show afterwards. Started to read up on what happened to him last night.THIS IS YOUR MONDAY EVENING REMINDER THAT BAYONETTA 2 IS THE HYPEST THING ON THE PLANET RIGHT NOW
It’s alright.
Don’t do this to me Pow Wow. Chapter IV. COME ONNNN
Chapter IX! I don’t want it to enddd
But really, I’m liking 2 a lot more than 1 for some reason that I can’t place.
And I already really liked 1!
I WAS GONNA POST ABOUT HOW AWESOME BAYONETTA 2 IS TOO!
Nah still having fun in shadow of mordor.
A screw you. I couldn’t get a copy have to wait.
I hope you’re wrong and that the bald-headed prize game Hitman: Absolution is even hyper. Because I got it at last, and am going to play it.
Didya ever play the original Bayonetta? I don’t know why but earlier I was playing Bayonetta 2 and thought “Shane would like this”
It’s all the crotch shots isn’t it?
I did. I was confused as hell by the controls and combat, and couldn’t progress beyond first boss. Same with MG:Revenenenenenenenenenenenejinx actually. I don’t think I’m cut out for Platinum Games. I just don’t get them.
Weak.
I kinda liked a lot of aspects of Absolution. And it’s unquestionably prettier. It’s just a bit disappointing that they seemed to be shoe-horning some competitive multiplayer point-scoring system into it. And adding a handful of really unwelcome ‘arcade shooter’ type aspects. Useful if you need ’em, but if you’re a true silent assassin you shouldn’t need ’em.
I LOVED Hitman. But I am biased and love all of that terrible series. 😛
Hey!
Good series of puzzle games, not terrible.
Started playing Bayo 1 tonight. Is very fun.
Finished chapter 2 of apparently 16. This is going to take a while…
So, do we need any more proof that Lords Of The Fallen is a Dark Souls clone.
http://www.playstationtrophies.org/game/lords-of-the-fallen/trophy/97405-Myself-again.html
Yeah that sounds pretty Dark Souls-y
If they pull it off fairly competently then I can’t see how having more Dark Souls-style games is a bad thing.
Never said it was a bad thing. I’m actually pretty interested in it.
Completed a Civ game where no-one declared war.
God it was boring. And long, even on quick speed.
Gonna have to go Genghis Khan style next, get the taste of civility out of my mouth.
Your mistake was accidentally leaving all those victory condition boxes ticked. I thought they would’ve patched to fix that by now.
I might actually do that: 8 player, domination only with aggressive aliens.
What could go wrong?
Also, couldn’t you have like 12 player games in Civ V? BE seems like a step down in many ways.
Ahh well.
There needs to be more bloodshed in those games. Half the game is building armies and keeping them well upgraded and supported with gold surplus, what’s the point if you never use them to blow shit up?! 😛
I rarely maintain a large army, usually just a few units for barbarian defence.
But when another Civ gets antsy and makes me build one then I don’t stop until they are ground to dust.
But then that makes other Civs antsy…
So I rarely have idle units.
I’m one that loves to flex army muscle with sentries at my borders just in case anyone gets any ideas, if I have room to build that army, I’ll build them. I enjoy having strong air and naval power more than ground power.
I’m a fan of carriers if the map suits them.
Nothing like a fleet of bomber platforms to wreck face anywhere, anytime.
I was just playing a game of BE where a domination victory was the only one left for me (I got wonder sniped multiple times, and was on completely wrong paths for a whole bunch of stuff). My response was to rage quit because I hate fighting people (My only domination victory is because I caused a coup >.>)
I’ve been going all Genghis Khan on Warlock – Master of the Arcane (Yes I’ve finally gotten down to playing it). It’s not bad but it does feel a little hollow like there’s not enough unit variety compared to something like Fall From Heaven II which was a mod of Civ IV, but it has got its own cool stuff like tactical use of tiles for buildings/improvements per city, like having a purely ground military city with the buildings required to build your armies and also other buildings that will give your units upgrade potential and different terrain can have different uses, like mana collection for spell use, etc. I’m enjoying the fighting and also the throwing of lightning bolts at cities and armies currently. Also be careful with army use, don’t empty your lands when attacking other nations cause 10 ogre camps can suddenly appear near (and IN) your territory and attack your nation.
I should really play that sometime, since I bought it a couple years ago.
Yes and you gifted me it years ago, only started playing it during my leave lol
By Ghengis Khan you mean Ghandi, right?
This is mostly for Masha as a long-winded response to his twitter question (@masha2932 ?? I am pretty sure there are supposed to be some numbers, and I am pretty sure I just got them wrong, but LIFE’S TOO SHORT FOR EDITS), but I guess if someone else happens to read it, I can’t really stop you.
Firstly, what great providence: I wrote up some thoughts on Bad Juju earlier today! Here are those thoughts: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/10/talk-amongst-yourselves-300/comment-page-2/#comment-3006149
Secondly, I think that it’s probably not worth completing an Exotic Bounty for a weapon-type that you are not comfortable using. I’ve completed all the current Exotic Bounties at least once, and none of those weapons are in my usual rotation (possibly Invective could make the cut if I level it up). They also don’t break down into any more or less parts than you’d get from a Legendary item anyway, so it’s not even worth cruising through the faster quests for “easy” Energy.
FWIW, Exotic Bounties from easiest to hardest by Weapon name:
Super Good Advice (Machine Gun)
Invective (Shotgun)
Bad Juju (Pulse Rifle)
Pocket Infinity (Fusion Rifle) == Thorn (Hand Canon)
In conclusion: Thorn is probably the hardest bounty and Bad Juju isn’t exactly a walk in the park, currently, both weapons are slated to be buffed since they are considered to underperform as Exotics. So it’s very likely going to be a lot of effort for something you don’t use. Those quest chains probably aren’t going to change very much, and as long as you keep handing in bounties you’ll end up with a chance to do them sooner or later if you change your mind.
Pocket Infinity is definitely easier than Thorn, the only “difficult” part is being a level where you can get reliable kills in nightfall. Thorn is just crazy hard, even at 28+ it’s tricky.
I do agree they are mostly useless, invective is a decent pvp shotgun but suros or truth is a much better pvp exotic choice. Pocket Infinity was really really good, post nerf it’s a hard sell except for fire element burn missions.
Further to that exotic weapons are for the most part crap. Suros, Hawkmoon, last word, plan C, thunderlord and the launchers seem like the only ones that have any sort of reliable use.
Forgot Ice Breaker. So damn good.
Also The Last Word is fun but I wouldn’t call it effective.
Oh yeah ice Breaker is handy. The Last Word is good but it’s just hard to use, but definitely more pvp oriented
It kinda lacks range for pvp. It’s ideal use is close to mid range bullet spam but a good auto rifle is better at that and a normal hand cannon better at mid to long.
Each to their own tho.
Yeah, I’ve seen it mostly used effectively on small skirmish maps and smaller control maps for point rushing. If you can start to get reliable with your head shots with it it’s deadlier than an auto rifle but it’s situational for sure
The unique version of Summoning Pits is hard, I agree. Frustrating on top of that, since you can’t queue for it to find other people willing to see it through, and will likely need to convince friends to help you for no reward. But the rest of the quest is fairly straight forward.
Now imagine doing the first step of Pocket Infinity without a guide. Perhaps “tedious” is a better way to describe the PI quest. Have you stocked up on Fusion Rifles? Does the nightfall have a reasonably soloable section – since you know you’re not getting 200 kills if you’re in a group?
Yeah I can agree with tedious, but it’s definitely not difficult, and it is time consuming, but thorn still trumps it for our stated reasons
HOW ARE YOU GETTING ALL OF THOSE BOUNTIES?
Never had one drop for me, is there a trick to it?
I think there’s like a 2% chance of getting an exotic bounty missive every time you hand in a normal bounty? I’ve completed Thorn, Bad Juju, Super Good Advice and Invective with no plans to do the fusion rifle one. My wife has done all of those (including the fusion rifle – she was grinding the Nightfall strike kills and wound up freaking SOLOING it) and Super Good Advice twice.
I might repeat Super Good Advice if I get it since the work/reward ratio is the best (it’s really not very hard or time consuming and the gun is quite good – compared to Thorn/Bad Juju and Invective which are quite tough to get and kind of suck ass). Since I have the guns now if I really want, say, Thorn on my Hunter, I can just trade it over to him.
Urban legend states that you have an increased chance when handing in multiple bounties in a row. But this is likely to be the result of confirmation bias coupled with most people not really understanding how probability works.
I repeated SGA since I wanted to find out what Exotics break down into – got 2 Energies and some weapon parts/glimmer, but nothing above or beyond what you would get from a Legendary. IMO, The Swarm (Legendary) or Thunderlord (Exotic) would be better picks if you want a good Machine Gun.
I got The Swarm out of a blue engram \o/
I switch between it and SGA depending on whether the thing I’m fighting is weak against solar or arc. I’ll probably move SGA over to an alt since most my alts are running around with blue rocket launchers and no exotic weapons and I’m keeping Invective even though I’m extremely disapponited with it so far (needs to either reload super fast or have twice the ammo capacity).
Bad Juju will probably be better once I’ve upgraded it enough to unlock the instant-reload ability.
Yeah its just do lots of bounties, as above there is no proof that handing in multiples works, but it’s probably worth doing for the possibility and for the motivation (it always seems easier to do all 5 pve at once than jump back and forth)
I’ve personally gotten the exotic bounty trigger 7 times and have all the possible weapons. You’re not missing much yet.
So, Adventure World meat. I guess it isn’t a thing anymore? I got very few responses, except for platinum urchin. Except I’d feel guilty making him come when he admitted it would stretch his finances.
Don’t feel guilty it is all good.
When does your coupon expire?
Hopefully my luck changes soon and I find myself with a job shortly.
We should try and plan a perth meet after your graduation.
Go somewhere and do something then have a beer or two.
Little Phlanisbro can’t drink till…
*checks calendar*
…sometime in March.
Buuuuuut we should still have a post graduation meat 😀
Oh!
Sorry little phlanisbuddy, I must’ve missed that post! :3
What’s this about an Adventure World meat?
I’m keen, but only for any time after the 18th of November (gotta study for exams).
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/10/talk-amongst-yourselves-298/comment-page-12/#comment-2991366
Sorry, I missed that post :S
Well I’m keen, but again, after the 18th of November.
Any time after that should be good (with sufficient planning / warning).
Exams take priority for me little Phlani 😛
I’ll need to work out big time if I’m going to be intentionally shirtless around other TAYbies though! :O
Just a quick aside what happened to that gaming bar that was meant to be opening in Sydney? Is it open yet?
This one? http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/05/heres-what-sydneys-first-gaming-bar-will-look-like/
Clicking through to their facebook link, it seems like they’re getting close to announcing an opening date.
I will have to check it out when I am in Sydney next after it opens of course.
All Brawl characters unlocked! \o/
Geez, it took you this many years? 😛
Only 3 months. 😀
So I have finished all the story missions in shadow of mordor.
Now all I have to do is finish the challange missions and then I can continue my own mission to brand every captain and warchief.
I think I have one or two captains left to brand in the second map.
Then it will be level them up to max level to kill them and try for some more epic runes.
And then it’s fun playing Bayonetta time?
Maybe if I had it.
Might be far cry 4 or play through metro redux.
How’s everyone going with PAX planning and accommodation finding? I just realized that we have a spare bed that’s become available, so if any taybie needs a bed for a night, feel free to give me a shout out… I live a convenient 5 minutes from the airport so we can even be a taxi service to and from :P… I realize this is leaving it a bit late but just thought I’d give the option
You and @dc can have a rye drinking party!
This may be the weirdest story you read today.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/27/fake-clown-attacks-france-vigilante-violence
The article has the word ‘clown’ in it 20 times. I found it really hard to read.
Crazy story though…what a bunch of clowns.
You’d think the youths of today have more pressing matters than just clowning around.
#everypageispagesix
Wait… this isn’t a parody article. Wha?
Yep actually happening.
Tuesday morning question: how much time do you typically usually give a game before you decide it’s not for you? Are there any notable exceptions? Are there any factors which tend to affect this metric? Do you approach TV and movies and books similarly?
I’m pretty harsh with this sort of thing; I don’t usually give a game longer than about 45 minutes to reel me in. Last night, I decided I was done with two games: NBA2K13 and Hitman Absolution, both within that time limit.
The most notable exception to this is the Souls series, which took almost a dozen hours before I ‘got’ it and fell in love. Another exception is Final Fantasy XIII which, while I quite enjoyed the combat system, didn’t even get that much right until 20 hours in, and contained a story that never measured up to its potential.
The main factor that determines how much of a chance I give a game is how much I paid for it. If I hadn’t paid full price for GTA V, I don’t think I would have bothered finishing it.
TV: usually one episode. If the pilot doesn’t get me, you’ll probably lose me.
Movies: half an hour, usually. If I’m in the cinema, I’ll watch the whole thing. Otherwise, you’ve got 30 minutes, or until the first ad break, to convince me to keep watching.
Books: 50 pages. Firm.
15-20 minutes usually. Last time that happened for me was with VVVVVV, but that was gifted to me cuz apparently they wanted me to suffer. Another game that did that to me was Galactic Civ, that just didn’t do it for me, despite it’s my kind of game, I was just so lost the entire way.
It depends on the type of game, but usually a couple of hours at least. Also I’ll give it another go months later just to confirm if I actually didn’t like it or I was just being stupid. Sometimes it works (Kid Icarus Uprising), other times it doesn’t (Assassins Creed 2). And other games I’ll wish SO hard to like that I keep playing “just in case it suddenly gets better” even though I’m having absolutely no fun at all (Paper Mario: Sticker Star)
It’s essential to watch a TV show for at least 3 episodes though! The pilots can sometimes be completely different to the direction the show ends up going!
I usually don’t invest in games unless I know it’s something I want to invest time in… I tend to research every game I play so I know what I’m getting into… Even still I damn yep pretty quickly if a game doesn’t feel right for me and usually only give 15 – 30 minutes before realizing that I could be playing something else that’s a lot more fun for me… TV shows, one episode max 😛
In the case of Assassin’s Creed III and Final Fantasy XIII, I’d say eight hours. But those two are extreme cases; I’m still actually playing FFXIII, thirteen hours in.
I played Fantasy Life for about half an hour total, decided it wasn’t for me and traded it.
It’s hard to think of any games that I’ve bought but later decided aren’t for me. The only one that comes to mind is Bioshock, I think I played that for maybe an hour and a half before deciding nup, this sucks.
Actually I think I might have only spent like 15-30min with REmake, but it was too scary and I had too little idea of what I was doing and it was too different to RE4 to be able to keep playing 😛 Might give it another go someday though.
You really, really should. It’s pretty much my gold standard in terms of the old style of RE games.
Actually, as a Nintendo person, did you ever get around to playing the two Wii light-gun games, Umbrella and Darkside Chronicles?
I avoided them because to me they aren’t light gun games. They’re just cursor clickers.
If they had the option to turn off the cursor and calibrate for 1:1 aiming like you could do with Sega’s Wii light gun games, then I would’ve been all over it. But I just can’t play when you have the cursor there (even beyond the whole elitism of “waa it makes it so easy”), for me it’s just way too distracting and I find I play worse when they’re on.
Also I never really saw them cheap enough to grab as a curiosity buy. One friend who is also a light gun fan recommended Dead Space Extraction despite its cursorness, so when I saw it for $15 or $5 or something ridiculous I figured eh why not. Still yet to give it a try though 😛
You should play that too. If you have even a passing interest in the Dead Space series, Extraction a really neat way to tell a story.
My only interest in it was as a light gun game 😛 Need something more than just HotD Overkill and 2&3 Returns to use my handcannons on.
I have seven hours played in Aliens: Colonial Marines, and in the back of my mind I still intend to finish it (I won’t, but that’s a different matter).
Game: I generally give games a few hours for the gameplay or story to grab me, unless they’re so much of a chore to play that I simply can’t bear to continue (e.g.: Duke Nukem Forever, Too Human). There are a number of small indie games games I picked up in Humble Bundles or cheap in Steam Sales that I tried for less than an hour and, once I realised I’d pretty much seen all there was to it, saw no real reason to continue. Like, I guess the game is functional and could be fun to continue playing for the sake of playing, but I have more interesting things to get to. I have a lot of unfinished games but few of them are unfinished because I wasn’t enjoying them – more that they just got superseded and I haven’t gone back to them yet. A few years ago I went and finished the FEAR series in a weekend because for some reason I’d bought them all despite only ever getting halfway through the first one. Had a great time despite the gameplay in the first two being a bit clunky and dated.
Movies: I don’t watch a lot of movies that are new to me (i.e.: I tend to rewatch old favourites) but a movie has to seriously bore or offend me for me to turn it off once I’ve started. Any movie I’ve given up on it’s usually been about ten minutes in. It’s more offensive to me when a movie promises a big reveal or twist later and it turns out to be something glaringly obvious you picked up on twenty minutes in and then took way too long to get to the point (e.g.: The Happening, Moon).
TV shows: This is a tricky one because I tend to keep watching well after a show sucks because I’m invested in the characters and want to see where they wind up. I guess if the core concept of the show doesn’t grab me after one season, I won’t stick with it. I’m really surprised I didn’t really engage with Fringe, it seems right up my alley as a sci-fi nerd, but it just didn’t click with me despite my wife ploughing through all five seasons. It’s a shame because the later seasons seemed kind of interesting, but it was too late for me to care. On the other hand I’ve stopped watching The Walking Dead because I no longer care what happens to the characters on that show. I guess it helps that my wife is going to watch it and tell me what happens anyway.
Books: I’ve never not finished a book, and I’ve read some pretty crappy books. I guess again I at least need to know how the story ends. That said, there are series I’ve stopped reading because I’m not invested enough to see what happens or I simply outgrew it (such as Simon R. Green’s Nightside books, or the Star Wars expanded universe around the time Del Rey got the publishing license back). There are also books my friends have loaned me that I never bothered reading, like D&D or Warcraft tie-ins. I don’t know why they keep bringing these books to me, honestly. It’s like they leave them at my place just to see what happens.
As a loose rule, if I stop out of boredom/annoyance on the first attempt at a show/book/game etc then that’s generally it.
If I give up after a few goes then it’s something I might give another try some other time.
Sometimes as long as an hour.
Even then I’ve been wrong. I gave up on Mass Effect after an hour or so. Told a friend this and they convinced me to go back.
400+hours across the trilogy later, yes I like Mass Effect.
Took a break from Destiny last night as my wife wanted to play Isolation – she quit after about an hour as she was too tired and it was too stressful so she watched the latest episodes of Homeland and American Horror Story.
Meanwhile, I started The Wolf Among Us and, despite numerous interruptions, managed to complete episode 1.
It was excellent.
I don’t want to say that it’s better than Walking Dead, but so far, it’s better than Walking Dead.
I really enjoyed Wolf Among Us. It’s a lot more subtle than TWD and the decisions are much more interesting and less binary.
PLEASE DO NOT READ THE BELOW POST IF YOU HAVEN’T PLAYED THE WOLF AMONG US CHAPTER ONE #helping
While I love TWD for it’s difficult choices and interesting characters, the world is fairly bland apart from the imminent threat of walkers finding a way to ruin your day. TWAU’s world was really well formed and I was engaged in the actual story from the outset.
For the record:
I was trying to play Bigby as more of a mediator than a lawkeeper so I found myself choosing silence a lot more than in TWD because the bulk of the dialogue options were quite aggressive. I was very forgiving and understanding of Toad, but I really laid into him when investigating his covering up of the Tweedle’s attack in his apartment.
As to the choices the game was tracking in the endgame:
1) I gave Faith my money (which I guess shot me in the foot when I tried to pay for my drink later)
2) I promised Beauty I wouldn’t tell Beast I’d seen her, and kept that promise
3) I went to Toad’s place first instead of Lawrence’s, which resulted in him dying (I guess saving him was a possibility?)
4) I chose “Faith’s pimp” as the most likely suspect for her, only because that person is an unknown and I doubted it was any of the other revealed options (especially Bluebeard which seemed to be a personal obsession of Bigby’s that I didn’t plan to share with anyone because I expected to hear the typical cop-movie “you’re too involved/have a personal interest, leave Bluebeard alone rah rah rah”)
5) I arrested Dee and let the Woodsman get away – I believed him when he said he didn’t have anything to do with Faith’s death but I figured Dee had more information.
Damn it, I fucked up the spoiler tag and I can’t edit posts here at work because of the outdated ass version of internet explorer we use.
PLEASE DO NOT READ THE ABOVE POST IF YOU HAVEN’T PLAYED THE WOLF AMONG US EPISODE 1
You might want to spoiler tag that, just in case.
I tried playing Bigby as a mediator too. I love how valid an option silence is. I must have chosen that for at least 60% of the conversations. I assumed he has feelings for Snow, and decided to roleplay him to back Snow up no matter what (hard as it was sometimes). I stayed well out of Beauty and Beast’s thing, as much as possible.Have you read any of the Fables stuff? They really dialled Bigby down for the game.
Which is nothing compared to Snow. Fables Snow is a complete and utter bitch.
Nope, going in completely cold which is probably part of what makes it so engaging.
This game might convince me to check them out though. My wife was talking about picking up some Walking Dead graphic novels too, the only time she’s expressed any interest in comics of any kind. I guess since she loves the Telltale games and the show, she wants to consume all forms of it.
I did as well and the game prompted me to look into the graphic novels. They’re really good as someone who doesn’t generally read graphic novels.
I’ve got the first hardcover, and have read a few issues. It’s pretty good. Although the characters feel different in the ways Freeze outlines, somehow Telltale managed to capture the feel of the comic in the game.
So OzComicCon have announced the price for artist alley tables in 2015.
$320 +GST. This is a 60% bump from their price in 2014, which I could barely afford. Safe to say I’ve been priced right out of these events now.
I’m still doing Supanova Gold Coast, Melbourne, Sydney next year. But now it looks like that’s gonna be all.
I’ve been a fan of Oz Comic-Con for a long time. I’ve had some great experiences at their events. And now I’m feeling sad about this.
Whoa, that’s a massive bump 🙁
I still need to buy all your stuff btw. CAN I THROW MONEY AT YOU?
YES. If you can wait three more days, this might be your best bet: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shanewsmith/369065105?token=293edbde
I’ll wait. Like a peasant.
3 more days? You’re launching on Friday? When most of us are going to be at PAX? How can I throw money at you if I’m not near my computer! /o\
I know. It’s terrible timing – who the hell thought scheduling PAX for Halloween was a good idea?
I might secretly launch the night before for the true believers. Would that be okay?
Or folks could use their smrtfones perhaps. I’m hoping for a big PAX event group pledge, with everyone goading each other to higher and higher bids. *fingers crossed*
That would be ok by me.
That’s right, everything is falling in to place. First Shane listens to you on this, next he’ll be making you lunch and dispatching your enemies. Slowly… slowly…patience, B-ob.
And now I’ve been pulled into a Twitter discussion about it. I’ve long since stopped contributing, but now it’s all a big ad for Supanova.
Which is fine. Supanova run a good event. But so do OCC. I’m not angry about being priced out – that’s my problem, and my inflexible business model. I’m just disappointed/sad.
It’s hard to be flexible when you don’t have the money to throw at stupid problems. :/
Yes, but what I’m trying to say is that I can’t blame OCC. I don’t know whether they were forced by rising costs to raise their prices – I don’t know any of the circumstances. I’m sad to be left behind, but I don’t blame anyone for it.
I just had a thought. When is Supernova Gold Coast again? Early April right?
April 17-19 to be exact.
Oh good. I’ll be back in time. Offer of somewhere to stay remains open.
Okie dokes! Just let me know if it’s a hassle or something else comes up. It’s cool! Thanks again
Shouldn’t be a problem. I just remembered it was on my birthday last year and I’ll be in Japan still that time next year but I’ll have been back for a week by then so no dramas.
That really sucks about the price increase.
No perth supernova?
If I could get a flight that cost less than $250 each way, I’d love to see Perth!
ARE YOU GUYS READY TO PAX?
Looks I better PAX my bags. #comedy
Better PAX my bags? Brilliant. I love it.
Ugh… *upvote*
Who’s this guy? ^^
Some jerk
you’re not a lolcat are you??? y iz you hidingz dis!
General vague motivational update:
Quit Facebook several years ago, and kept Twitter for TAYbies. Other than that, the only internet interactions I have is the occasional Kotaku/TAY comment and general online gaming. Recently even Twitter became a source of frustration and irritation (not the people, mind – shit like gamergate, generally negativity and unavoidable frustrating internet trends) so I decided to quit Twitter for a break as well. Since then, the only thing I’ve partaken in is the occasional TAY comment. Avoid anything else with comments/feedback at all cost.
I can’t even begin to describe how liberating it’s been. Seriously. Not for some hipster ‘I’m-too-good-for-social-media’ aspect, it’s just amazing how much general internet fuckery and negativity can get you down. You don’t realise how much until you unplug for a bit. Not even sure if it’s permanent, but it’s such a load off I don’t even know if I want to go back. Probably will though. Cos TAYbies and all.
Also been instigating some other lifestyle changes as well, mostly diet and exercise, in an effort to lose some weight. I knew I was overweight, and have been for a few years, but kind of put the blinkers on and chucked it in the too hard basket. I used to be a pretty slim dude, around 70-80kg until I was in my early 20’s. Losing my dad at 20, (I’m 33 now) along with an already well established penchant for drugs, booze and general debauchery probably didn’t help much. By the time I quit said lifestyle and managed to integrate the grief and loss from dad into my life (probably around 23yo), I’d already stacked it on.
Had multiple attempts in the past to fix it, usually with small diet changes and exercise, but I somehow knew deep down I don’t actually want to do it, and eventually fail after a couple of weeks at the most.
So this time, after just changing what and how I eat, and simply walking around the block 2 or 3 times a day, as well as some situps and what not, I’ve managed to lose around 7.5 kilos in 3 weeks. Started off at 135kg (seems shameful to say it out loud, but whatthehell, let’s take ownership), so it’s a great start. Hoping to have lost 10 kilos by the end of week 4. Planning to do this until it plateaus and by then I should have lost enough weight to feel a little more comfortable about going to the gym. Not planning to turn into Arnie or anything, just want to lose weight and be fit enough to just… do life, I guess.
Hasn’t made a huge difference when I look in the mirror yet, but I can definitely feel it. T shirts are a little less tight, and my pants are already looser around the waist. Plus my walk used to almost ruin me doing it once a day, now I’m finding myself walking 3 times a day, most days.
I’ve found some sources of motivation and end goals that seem to be powering me successfully, and haven’t run out of steam yet. Long way ahead of me, but I’m determined to get it done.
TLDR: Wall of text crits for over 9000 dmg. You die.
PS: Honestly not fishing or anything here either, just feeling good about my general state of being at the moment, and felt the need to share.
Yay for positive life changes! They’re hard to stick to, mang. A++++
Feeling good is good \o/
Well done!
Nice work man.
I’m fairly aware of just how much time I waste “socialising” on the net (and that’s without facebook or twitter :/), and I like the idea of just being able to cut it all off and free myself like that… but then the other side of me that absolutely must keep track of all the goings-on and be sure not to let anything slip past screams NO! Also I imagine it would suddenly get terribly lonely, since I’d basically end up with only my immediate family and work colleagues to talk to. And I don’t really talk to any of them about anything. Would probably go insane within a week or two.
I have never regretted not getting on the social media bandwagon. So much pointless spam and attention seeking.
But I’m an antisocial loner, so grain of salt.
It’s a sad fact that social media is the main method of maintaining contact for most, and forgoing social media is pretty much volunteering to be a social pariah. I have people I keep in contact with through other methods (work, gaming, phone, SMS, etc) so I’m going to focus on those to maintain. I’ll just have to make the extra effort on those fronts to compensate. Which I’m more than happy to do because the alternative can just be so frustrating and dreary I’m not willing to compromise.
EDIT: Being an introvert with a very small circle of close friends makes this admittedly easier for me to commit to, though.
EDIT EDIT: The time wasting part isn’t really a factor for me though. It’s more the mental drain and fuckery.
Yeah, I’m the “ugh someone needs to tell [name]” guy of all my groups, endlessly grumbling that they need to specifically tell me about things that would otherwise just be thrown up on facebook 😛
My poison other than TAY is mostly just Skype. Got a couple of ongoing large group convos on there that are constantly stealing my attention, though some have quietened down a lot recently with a bunch of people going off and getting a life.
Great stuff mate, we all go through a lot of crap before we find ourselves and each person has their own time frame for doing so. Keep it up mate, I see good things ahead for you 🙂
I have basically not had any proper internet access since last Thursday and it’s a surprisingly liberating experience.
But I’m going to go nuts without it pretty soon. 🙁
EDIT: Also super congrats on the weight loss. 2.5kg a week is really solid effort without being unhealthy.
Are you coming to PAX / PAX-related meats?
No internet access full stop would suck arse. Especially since so many games need it these days.
And it’s nice to have some access to the internet for general purposes.
Thanks for the compliment too! It’s slow and steady. I’m not exactly running marathons or anything, but just regulating my food/drink intake and walking probably 10,000-12,000 steps a day.
No plans to attend PAX related stuff, I actually hadn’t even thought about it because I’m not attending the main event, to be honest. What’s on?
@scree was arranging some kind of Karaoke slash Bowling thing on… Saturday? I guess I should find out the details too 😛
Saturday, 7pm, kingpin bowling at Crowncasino
Who wants to write this essay for me? Your reward? RICHES LIKE YOU’VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE!**
**A picture of a cat I drew
What’s the essay on? I’ll write it.**
**May not actually be any good or relevant to your subject.
This Rise and Fall of the Holy Roman Empire by Beeawwb
Once upon a time there was a man and he had these like REALLY comfy shoes and liked to walk. And he walked and walked until one day he fell over and an elf stole his shoes and he was like WTF GIVE ME MY SHOES by the elf didn’t give them back and the man died because he couldn’t walk without the shoes.
The elf then lived happily ever after because the shoes were really that amazing. The end.
What happened to just slagging off Cicero for several thousand words?
Me write shit good! I take pride in being able to turn everything I wrote into sounding really awkward and creepy… You get to fail your subject and get a restraining order filed against you if you employ me!
*thumbs up*
Just got a call from the friendly Craig at EB Games to say my Xbone TB XO One Headset has arrived in store. Weeks earlier than expected. YES.
Just in time for the weekly Destiny reset tonight. Today is a good day!
Today is a good day, but now I’m sad because I can’t talk now completely unchecked 🙁
Haha I’m still happy for you to ramble on unchecked. 😛
Is there an unfriendly Craig there too?
There’s only one Craig, but he has split personality disorder. You wouldn’t like him when he’s angry.
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2014/10/27/rumor-x-wing-and-other-lucasarts-games-arriving-on-gog-com-as-early-as-tomorrow.aspx
Intriguing! Fate of Atlantis! I will finish you one day. (Probably.)
I saw that! It’s pretty cool news indeed. I can’t tell you how many hundreds and thousands of hours I sank into the X-Wing game trilogy. A staggeringly high number to be sure.
Edit: oh yeah, Freeze is right. You have to finish all three paths of Fate of Atlantis to be a real gamer.
I’ve never played the X-Wing games! (Not a huge fan of those types of games. Navigating in a three dimensional space sort of makes me sick. :D)
Edit: Well that three path thing ain’t ever going to happen. I’m the kind of guy who likes a definitive version of a story and one that feels like my own. I always replay Heavy Rain with the same choices and Mass Effect with the same choices. There will be one path I’ll follow in Indy. (Team!)
Nooooo! You can’t do that with Indy! You literally miss half the game. Whole locations you’ll never see!
Yeah, but that’s okay. That’s what I like about it, that things could play out differently and my decisions matter. 😀
Well, they don’t, since all three paths converge eventually and the rest of the game plays out the same regardless.
Yeah, Quantic Dream-style rubber banding but even so. 😀
Xwing is the sheesh! Still got the collectors cdrom laying around somewhere! So damn good! Alliance was pretty great too though!
X-Wing vs Tie Fighter was my true obsession. Even though I never played MP, I loved the community, and the ability to make, share and play custom-built missions. That blew my mind.
I discovered Tie Fighter after that, and got obsessed with progressing the Hand of the Emperor storyline.
Alliance came along just as the obsession was dying down, so I didn’t get a lot of time with it, sadly. It seemed solid, though.
Main thing with alliance for me was prettier graphics… Everything else played like ask the other games :P.. The custom missions from vs. Could almost be recreated in the multiplayer section… I never played enough multi in xwing vs tiefighter so I didn’t get to experience the community… I do remember that my discs was miss printed, so the the disc that had multiplayer written on it was actually the single player and vise versa 😛
Haha, mine too! 😀
Wait, you never finished Fate of Atlantis?
You just lost all Adventure Game credit buddy.
I know. Somewhere my Indy is still trying to figure out the cartography machine in the desert. 😛
OMG! I’ll be all over this like a particularly nasty pustule’d filled rash! X-Wing for life!
Haha, I bought Staff of Kings pretty much just because it had Fate of Atlantis on it. Still yet to even open it 😛
Staff of Kings could have been far, far worse. It’s a 7/10 kind of game, but no where near as bad as it could have been. (Also unfinished. *shakes fist at impossibly hard section towards end*)
You just hate Indy don’t you 🙁
I didn’t finish The Last Crusade adventure game either. Got all the way to the grail temple at the end. Haha. I have finished Emperor’s Tomb and Infernal Machine.
I’d be all over Sam & Max: Hit the Road if I didn’t already have it on CD. :\
Everyone else, get on it!
Fantastic game.
Recommend running it through ScummVM.
I have an original copy of Sam and Max Hit the Road as well. =)
I’m looking to re-buy Day of the Tentacle in particular. My disc is so scratched.
My eyes widened so hard I hurt myself.
TIE Fighter was GoG’s white whale, amazing to think they’ll finally have it.
But there’s a big question still unanswered: iMUSE music or digital audio? The original DOS version of TIE Fighter has an utterly amazing dynamic score that is basically a bunch of different MIDI loops that weave together reacting to what you’re doing in the game, so like you’ll start out and it’ll be all low and stuff, and then rebels will jump into the system and the Rebel fanfare plays and then the music increases in tension and then explodes into full action once you close into dogfighting range and then once you complete the level a special rendition of the Imperial March plays and stuff. Hardly any other games have done dynamic music like that, Red Dead Redemption did it and it was awesome there too, but it’s the only other one I know of.
Subsequently, Lucasfarts released a Win95-compatible version of TIE Fighter based off the X-Wing vs TIE Fighter engine, and swapped out the iMUSE music for redbook CD audio and it’s just not the same.
I re-played TIE Fighter a few years ago and it’s dated amazingly. Obviously the graphics are a bit dated, since it was 3D polygons without textures, just with Phong shading, but the way it plays is still fresh and there’s pretty much nothing you could change in it to improve it significantly other than a graphical and audio overhaul.
Magic drafting at PAX is definitely going to be a thing, right?
Just wondering because there are a lot of sealed deck events and whatnot going on but they’re all pretty involved. Some are taking 5+ hours (and I assume that’s if you don’t top 8. Admittedly, getting into top 8 isn’t a concern here but I digress).
If we draft, are we just going to do a couple of random games throughout the rest of the weekend? Magic takes a lot of time and that’s time we could spend playing board games or sitting in queues for panels.
If we draft, I propose we draft conspiracy. One draft, two 4 player free for all matches, and we’re done.
If that’s an option, that’s definitely the best option.
I’m still interested in drafting as I haven’t ever done it before. Don’t want to do any of the official draft stuff, happy to just play with you guys.
All the panels this year are crap except the Bioware one so not even worried if I miss any.
Binding of Isaac Rebirth next week. The hype, it is fucking real.
YOU GUYS READY FOR PAX?! HERE’S MY PLAN FOR PAX
1) Cry about how I’m not going to PAX with you guys
WELL WHADDYA KNOW I CAN MOVE UP MY PLANS A LITTLE
I got a spare bed? So all you need to organise now is… Everything else… In 2 days… WE CAN DO THIS!
NO PROBLEM, LET’S LOOK AT WHAT I NEED TO GET TO AUSTRALIA
1) 1,577$ Ticket to Melbourne*
DON’T WORRY, I GOT LIKE 15$ CASH ON ME, WE’RE ONLY 1562$ AWAY
*as found on google via China Eastern airlines and assuming I’d leave on my wednesday
Oh man, China Eastern Airway.
Nice planes. New. Shiny. White.
But the problem is, and this is mad racist regardless of whatever race I am, but, Asians. Ugh, Chinese people. The worst.
DON’T WORRY SATURDAY, I’LL POUR ONE OUT IN MEMORY OF YOU.
AND BY THAT I MEAN I’LL POUR A DRINK INTO MY MOUTH, I AIN’T WASTING ALCOHOL!
Tell you what, I’ll cosplay as you and tell everyone I am you. It’s like you’ll really be there except you won’t.
THE TRICK TO BEING ME IS TO SHOUT EVERYTHING
Reminds me of Shiggy.
AND SCREAM IN A GIRLY VOICE OCCASIONALLY- would that differentiate me from Shiggy? dunno.
Ah, the sound of someone getting kicked in the jewels. That’s our Saturday!
You’d think the two facts are related, but no, I’ve always screamed like a little girl.
It’s true, you should hear him on Destiny!
Reposting because new page:
Magic drafting at PAX is definitely going to be a thing, right?
Just wondering because there are a lot of sealed deck events and whatnot going on but they’re all pretty involved. Some are taking 5+ hours (and I assume that’s if you don’t top 8. Admittedly, getting into top 8 isn’t a concern here but I digress).
If we draft, are we just going to do a couple of random games throughout the rest of the weekend? Magic takes a lot of time and that’s time we could spend playing board games or sitting in queues for panels.
Red mentioned it on the last page but it looks like drafting Conspiracy might be an option. I like the sound of that option very much.
Last night I had the pleasure of watching my Aunties dog be trained by a Dog Therapist. According to the therapist ‘Scrappy’ (a 3 year old Staffy Bull Terrier) has an anxiety complex, which explains why he tries to maul me everytime I play basketball or table tennis with my cousin. Most other times Scrappy comes and sits on my lap and begs me to play tug of war with him.
I really like dogs and generally they like me when I go to a friends house or pass them in the street. I sat down with my girlfriend later and thought out aloud to myself ‘If I knew what to do, I think I would really love to be a dog trainer’. Getting to hang out with one of the coolest animals on the planet would be an amazing job, and getting paid for it would be pretty awesome as well. I wouldn’t be able to as I feel I’m too far into my current choice of career and enjoying it enough to stay. But this doesn’t stop me from wondering what a day in the life of a dog trainer would be like!
So my question to you all on this very boring Tuesday morning at the gym for me, is if you could have the skills to master any job: Would you swap from what you are doing now, and if so what would your new job be?
TV showrunner. And yes, I’d change to that in less than a heartbeat.
I’d be a vet without question, because I love animals and would always want to help them.
The catch to that is that vets are also the ones usually responsible for putting animals down. :/
I have no idea how someone would handle doing that so often.
Yeah.. that’s a painful part of the job, but it’s more painful because you know full well how much they’ll suffer if you don’t go through with it 🙁
There’s a reason (well, many reasons) Veterinarians have a very high suicide rate (something like four times the average).
Holy crap, that sounds like Dentist territory.
Yeah, standard figures put Dentists around the 5 times mark, but it is worth noting that due to the amount of misreporting on details, and the relatively small sample sizes, figures like that should be taken with a grain of salt (though I think they could provide a good basis for an improved allocation of resources for Mental Health Care, but nobody actually wants to talk about that sort of thing because it’s “uncomfortable”).
Yikes.
Yep, I used to want to be a vet growing up.
Wandered out the back at the local vet one day as a kid, saw a dog on an operating table, realised that it involves cutting animals open.
Didn’t want to be a vet any more.
You’d be surprised how long vets spend with their fingers inside animal anuses.
That was pretty much the take-away point brought back by a girl at the college I lived in, at uni.
She got back from vet work experience on a farm and yeah… that was a pretty significant part of her day. Elbow-deep inside animals.
Jazz pianist?
I have neither the musical skill nor rhythm, but it’d be sweet.
Jazz drummer would be one of my answers. We’re 2/3 of the way to a trio!
Can I be Rick? The cool guy that runs the bar that you guys play at. 😀
I feel this could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
And @mrtaco wants in too. Double bass?
Mr Taco and the Taquitos?
Red and his 2 Right Hands?
Ginger and the Sideburns?
Wait… Piano…drums…double bass…
We just recreated the Oscar Peterson Trio
You say it like that’s some kind of “problem”
I’m happy to do Oscar Peterson covers all day. Hymn to Freedom is my favourite jazz piece ever
Double bass? Why not 😛
Always been interested in learning to guitar actually. Also drums were fun, it’d be great to be good at those.
Ok, you can take drums and I’ll take double bass. I’d be happy learning either.
Well since this is a magical fantasy do-what-you-want thing… how about everyone plays everything, and we’re in constant rotation. Nobody does that, right? Could be a point of interest 😛
Right, and we’ll rotate through the 3 names above so nobody is taking too much of the spotlight. 😛
At the start of each performance we draw instrument names out of a hat.
@redartifice – Welcome to “Whose Jazz Is It Anyway?” Where the songs are made up and the notes don’t matter.
@beeawwb It’s jazz, the notes that matter are the ones you don’t play
Early 20’s Hotel heiress.
That’s hot.
Yeah, probably some kind of jazz musician or something. Actually any kind of musician.
Is it sad that I can’t come up with a decent answer to that? 😛
How about a non-decent answer?
Billionaire Playboy/BATMAN.
I honestly don’t understand why people want to be Batman!
Yes, cool gadgets… but you’d also have to deal with an army of utter psychopaths gunning for you all the time, non-stop moody brooding, constant injury and scarring, a sense of personal responsibility that has you shouldering the guilt for every dead body your foes rack up, and a crushing and debilitating sense of loneliness and mistrust that permanently destroys any chance you have of having a meaningful relationship with any other person on the planet. It’s also a bitter cycle that will never end until you’re dead, because you’re hamstrung by a moral code that forbids you from killing your enemies (even if it would save countless lives in the process).
Woo!
Yeah, I’d want to be alternate reality Bruce Wayne. The one who just gets to be a billionaire without being a punching bag for villains and having to lie to everyone he knows.
A billionaire without the weight of Gotham on your shoulders? Where’s the fun in that! 😛
I like to think I’d be a better Batman. Y’know. One who kills incurable mass-murdering psychopath supervillains instead of raking them like leaves into a corner of the garden, only to blow all over the metaphorical yard in the next stiff breeze.
As for the rest… I can think of worse ways to go. It would certainly scratch a martyr complex itch.
Yeah, if you want to be a Billionaire Playboy slash Superhero then why would you want to be Batman and not Iron Man / Tony Stark?
I’m not sure that’s a whole lot better, TBH. Isn’t he a hair’s breadth away from death, preserved only by some power source embedded painfully in his chest? Also, there’s the whole punching-bag-for-villains thing.
Still an improvement. None of that brooding, no weird emotional hangups, focused on actually trying to improve life for everyone with his inventions. People actually know that he’s the dude in the suit too.
Stark is undoubtedly cooler in that his armour basically makes him invincible (per, y’know, the titles of the comics), but his lack of a secret identity also makes him much more liable and responsible for his decisions.
I’d prefer billionaire playboy/inventor.
Tony > Bruce 😛
Movie action hero actor.
Rally car driver probably.
Obligatory Producers reference.
That said, I’d love to be in R&D for a major tech firm, as I really enjoyed my final year project working with AI and gesture recognition stuff.
Woke up this morning a d all my TV channels were gone. Retune day. Right.
For my troubles I seem to have been rewarded with six new channels. Every one a TV Shopping channel.
Is this the future of television?
Next season of Game Of Thrones is going to be Gregor Clegane selling us the amazing benefits of the Miracle Blades as he cuts tomatoes, cans, marble and peoples heads.
BUY NOW AND WE’LL THROW IN THIS ORNAMENTAL SERVING DISH. WE KNOW YOU WANT IT, YOU’VE BEEN ASKING FOR IT, SO HERE IT IS: THE PERFECT DISPLAY FOR YOUR SALADS OR CASSEROLES THIS HOLIDAY SEASON… CLEGANEBOWL
PERFECT FOR PUDDING!
AND… IF YOU ORDER IN THE NEXT TEN MINUTES… (um, the ad replays 4 times an hour. It’s ALWAYS the next ten minutes)
PLUS… YOU GET TWO OF EVERYTHING. (wait, you told me it was unbreakable and will last for ever. So I need a second set… to will to my great grandkids? WTF?)
Woah, six shopping channels! Lucky! We only have four down here!
I get TV EXTRA and TV EXTRA 2!
But wait, that’s all!
Those shopping channels have been around for agggggeeeesss you need to retune more often lol
Hahaha, at least you get TV reception. I don’t, stupid digital!
LAST DAY OF WORK! (…until I get back next week) This time tomorrow I’ll be leaving for my flight!
Very excited. So excited!
Unfortunately I noticed last night that the paint on my Gym Leader costume has gone blotchy after I washed it a while ago. Ah well… Not much I can do now. I doubt anyone but me will notice anyway.
I’ve got to figure out how I’m going to transport my antennae headband thingo for my costume though. It’s pretty delicate. Would a taped-shut tupperware container padded with tissues look too suspicious to take on a plane? 😛
But yes, I’ll be in Melbo from tomorrow afternoon until next Tuesday lunchtime. If anybody wants to endure a meal with me on one of the non-PAX days, I’m free!
Can you put the Tupperware into your suitcase? Might be better there…
I’d much rather take it on my carry-on if possible so I’m going to go have a look for a less suspicious looking container for it at lunch.
Whose idea was it to make the most important part of the costume also the most delicate/irreplaceable? 😛 Some dumbo!
Hey @scree, looks like you’ll be able to come along for next PAX to look after me post cosplay afterall!
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/10/pax-australia-will-remain-in-melbourne-for-the-next-five-years/
Yeeeeeessssshhhhhhhhh!
Are they going to start selling tickets for PAX Aus 2019 soon?
Sold out.
Well maybe I’ll go next year. 🙂
Yeah, looks like the info I got was wrong.
Oh cool, someone sent me a hundred bucks. Only clue behind it is “Melbros”.
Oops, I must’ve accidentally sent it to you. If you could transfer $100 back to my account that’d be great.
You know any girls in Melbourne named Ros? *grabs popcorn*
Wasn’t me! I only sent you a dollar!
That’s what I figured. And Morkai was going to pay after it all, so it’s either Freeze or my other friend. And I think the language makes me more lean towards it being him, but then he was asking me the other night if it’d be ok to pay later. Everything only makes partial sense!
Wasn’t me. I’ve been a bit slack.
No rush or anything. Just figured you were the next most likely suspect since you were asking about the details the other night.
Just sent it. So that should be there soon.
That’s an anagram for Rob’s Elm. Give me back my tree money!
REAL NAME ALERT!!!!
:O
TAY MAGIC PLAYERS
If you are interested in doing a Conspiracy draft at Pax, please a) comment below and b) ensure I know your twitter handle so I can contact you. I know @trjn and @beeawwb expressed an interest?
If we don’t get 8, that’s fine, we can round it out with friends. Aiming for the Friday afternoon if that suits people?
For those that don’t know, Conspiracy is a draft focused set of MtG and it looks super rad.
Friday afternoon sounds great to me. Maybe after the first attempt at 2 Rooms and a Boom, so we have everyone together?
Yeah, as long as we’re aware that I don’t remember / know any mechanics introduced after Worldwaker.
I haven’t played Magic since last PAX, but I’m down.
That’s more recent than me.
I think last time I played was with you at Strange’s place.
Sounds about right, and before that there was … hmm, the Mirrodin pre-release for me.
I’m in.
I might be interested but yeah I haven’t played MtG for a long time and I was never good at it :P. Also I don’t have any decks
It’s a draft. We each get a booster pack, pick a card and pass it on. Rinse and repeat until we’ve exhausted 3 boosters. From that, you make a 40 card deck and then we’ll play some 4 player shenanigan type games.
That actually sounds like a lot of fun, despite that I will have no idea 😛
It’s a draft, you don’t need decks
OK.
I don’t really have anything planned for PAX this year. I think I will be wandering around looking at things. So I will probably be interested in spending some time playing Magic. Also I can rope my brother into playing if we need extras.
Me. I haven’t played Magic since I was a teenager and never drafted before and also I’m crap at it but it sounds like fun.
Am keen and i have another mate or two who also might be interested.
I just got a email from the place i interviewed with on Friday. The congratulated me and offered me a job. The only kicker was that this email was addressed to a “Andrew”
I got a email 2 minutes later apologizing and saying that the HR manager had sent it to the wrong person. They apologized but that was a real kick in the guts.
Oh well. at least i get a funny story.
🙂
Fuuuuck. 🙁
Oh man, that’s genuinely horrible.
Fucking hell, I’d be ropeable.
Side story: when I was offered the contractor role that gave me my start at this company I’d originally applied for an assistant role before they jsut decided to give me a shot at a claims handling role (and thank goodness they did or I might still be a claims assistant to this day).
Anyway the pay rate was a few bucks higher than what I’d applied for (which Iwasn’t going to complain about!) but the paperwork they sent me was about $10/hour higher than what I’d been told. I nearly shit a brick until I gave the agency a call to confirm and they were just like “oh, no, that’s for this other job… I forgot to update it”.
I guess I always knew it was an error, and I still wound up with a job paying more than I’d expected to get, but I still got left feeling slightly deflated. That’s gotta be nothing compared to erroneously receiving a job offer. :/
I hate Andrew so much.
@rize is okay
Nah
Unbelievable 🙁
Pretty sure that smile at the end is the world’s most forced smile.
Still, if the rules of the karmic Rocket roller-coaster hold true, you should be due for some good luck soon, right?
I think i used up all my karma, i have a pretty sweet life. Gotta go donate a kidney to replenish my karma. 🙂
Sounds like there might be an opening for a HR Manager in the near future.
Aw yis, job lined up for when I come back to Aus.
Monsters.
Sounds to me like HR is pretty fucking useless. Sorry to hear, buddy.
HR being pretty fucking useless is basically their job description.
Send a reply email applying for their newly opened position of HR manager.
Yes. Do it.
You have his name.
That’s enough to track him down.
“Good luck.”
It’s not a funny story,it’s one of those ones that even people reading it feel like they’ve been punched in the gut for you. *hugasaurus*
:C
Ow.
http://www.chaosmatrix.org/library/humor/reject.html a reply along these lines should suffice
Damn, I’m loving Marvel Puzzle Quest at the moment. I’m finally getting a decent team together. Loving The Hunt event particularly.
I have a huge problem with that game. It makes me have to make terrible decisions like do I keep my current Captain America who has a full complement of skills, or get rid of him so I have space for the Steve Rogers version I won in the last event? D:
Porque no los dos?
I don’t have the space, and I only have 50-ish hero points. Can’t figure out who else to get rid of. I have The Punisher and never get any covers for him so I could get rid of him, but to be honest I like The Punisher way more than Captain America.
I’ve never had a dilemma. I may have regretted getting rid of some characters at various stages, but my team is solid at the moment. I have: Level 78 Black Widow (original), 73 Cap (Modern), 72 Daken (Dark Avengers), 70 Devil Dinosaur, 63 Hawkeye (Modern), 63 Storm (Classic), 58 Thor (Marvel Now), 50 Iron Man (Model 35), 47 Wolverine (Astonishing), 45 Doc Ock, 45 Spider-Man (Classic), 44 Moonstone (Dark Avengers), 43 Deadpool, 40 Cap (Steve Rogers), 40 Magneto (Classic), 40 She-Hulk, 33 Magneto (Marvel Now), 29 Juggernaut, 26 Storm (Modern) and 15 Captain Marvel (Ms Marvel).
Sure lady. Just leave your prosthetic leg with me. I fix them all the time
Did she hop away while you got to work? D:
You’d best fix it, she’ll be hopping mad if you don’t.
“I’m the sole person working toe-day, so it’s going to take some time. Hop along, now. Go on, leg it.”
Yeah, you’d better get a leg on.
Sounds like she put you on the back foot.
Does she want it engraved or something?… If she does, is that kinda like someone else wanting a tattoo? *ponders*
“Gimme a southern cross”
What does it smell like?
You’re a weird guy, Benny. A weird, weird guy. 😛
I don’t really want to know what it smells like. I’m just picturing the lady walking back in and Freeze sniffing her leg.
Oh god I’m sharing a room with this guy /o\
( ̄ー ̄)
Like stump.
I’m not cut out to make puns.
Man that delivery was a bit wooden
He should probably just leaf
awww, he’s just trying to branch out.
He seems a bit stumped to me
I think it’s because he’s getting a legging from everyone.
I couldn’t stand to be without my legs.
Page Six sure did begin early this week!
Everything here is accelerated, as by Friday it’s just going to be @dc and @phlanispo keeping the conversation going.
Nah. I’m done circling the wagons. Fuck that.
I’m sick of people seeing me as the designated loser who’ll be here come rain or shine. If you guys aren’t here, I’m not gonna be here. *decisive nod* I realize it’s a reputation I’ve built myself. Don’t mind me, you hit a nerve that you possibly didn’t know was exposed. 😛 Also I feel like I need a break from TAY soon, the only thing that’s stopping me is folks who post here that aren’t on twitter.
But I’m usually here reading your circling.
WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO READ IF YOU’RE NOT POSTING ANYTHING?
Hey, I don’t wish to designate you as a loser or accuse you of anything- I like you DC, and I value your insight and contribution.
I merely picked two names that I knew weren’t going to PAX.
Sorry buddy. 🙂
I’d put money on nobody here seeing you as a loser.
And I’ll be around every now and then over the weekend as usual…does this mean you think I’m a loser? 😛
It’s becoming clearer to me that it’s how I see myself over what others think of me. 🙁
Always been the case man.
You post a lot of sad posts here and we always respond the same way – you’re a rad, well liked dude.
But you don’t seem to let that stick in your head, you keep going away and getting caught back up in your own negativity.
You have to fight depression man, it won’t just go away. It doesn’t get “fixed”- it’s something you manage.
It’s about restructuring your mindset to stop it from dragging you down. Having a realistic understanding of yourself and holding onto that no matter what your feelings say.
Stop comparing yourself to others, stop just reacting to the shit in your head and stand up for yourself, to yourself.
I know how you feel man. Being alone can do strange things to your mind. I mean.. really I’m pretty shit at this whole.. life thing.. but no point stressing about how other people see me. Either they like me or they don’t. I know I’m a loser, so if people think I’m a loser, so be it.. they’d be right! Loser or not though, I still have friends! Happy to say that I consider you to be one of them! You’re a great guy! I don’t care if your life is as loser-ish as mine. I like you for who you are, not what you are (or consider yourself to be!) I hope that doesn’t sound.. harsh.. or like I’m having a dig.. Just can’t explain it any other way! 🙂 Just remember, at least one person (ME!) thinks you’re awesome no matter what! 🙂
Hooray, I’m helping!
I never saw you as a loser – being on TAY just means you’re just being a social folk!
This might help. Here. *offers pocket*
Urgh, you’re the only one calling or thinking of yourself as a loser.
NOBODY THINKS OF YOU THAT GODDAMN WAY.
And I’ve tried telling you that before, numerous times, but you just don’t seem to listen.
No one here is that judgemental, and I don’t know why you apparently think we are.
No one has ever called you a loser.
No one has ever thought of you as a loser.
(sorry, blunt, bad mood, blah blah blah)
WHO WILL UPVOTE OUR POSTS IF YOU’RE NOT HERE?
He’s not upvoting them now. >:(
@dc why have you forsaken us? 🙁
You’re not a loser. You’re my brother and I need you for the swim back.
You’re not a loser, you’re a jerk.
I like you DC, and your posts. I like your supportive upvotes and I like seeing your blog posts, when I started posting here you were one of the first people to ttake me in. Thanks for that DC, you’re an inverse of a loser (y)
If everything has accelerated then why…?
*user @redartifice has disconnected (Ping timeout)*
I’ll be here, frantically screaming “I HAVE A KICKSTARTER” into the empty echo chamber that TAY will become. Woohoo! (HOOO, OOO, ooo, ooo)
Take the free time to start early on singing Christmas Songs!
One day I’ll convince a dozen people to join me in singing stupid Christmas Songs.
One day.
Wanna sing Phantom of the Opera?
Does the Pope shit in the woods?
…all of a sudden that Aldi ad makes sense.
*sings* I’ve been looking so long for you now you won’t get away from my graaaasp… *abrupt halt* Oh, you’re probably talking about the musical. Really should see that one day… *slowly wanders off, humming Iron Maiden*
Wait, you have a kickstarter?
No, it was just a hypothetical.
I’ve been getting loads of work done recently. But I don’t feel good about any of it because mostly it’s the result of me procrastinating. I’ve mentioned before that I’m a productive procrastinator (where I do many others while avoiding something important I should be doing), and this is all the result of me avoiding organising and clearing out my sewing room so I can put my new Beast in there now I have a table for it to go on.
It’s funny how your the brain works. I know I’ll find it easier to do things once I can start sewing in my designated room again instead of on the dining room table, but I just keep wanting to make stuff and feel like any time spent tidying up what has become the dumping ground for everyone over the past few months is wasted time because I could be making stuff. But I could make better stuff, more comfortably, and faster. If I just cleaned up that damned room. 😛
I’ve banned myself from using any of that incredibly inspiring fabric that arrived yesterday, and bought a dress pattern ( http://www.victorypatterns.com/products/chloe/ ) that I’m not letting myself touch until the room is sorted. But I’m sitting here telling you guys about it, instead of sorting it. 😛
Have you seen the Sorbetto Top from Collette Designs?
Yes! I’ve been meaning to make that in a voile from Art Gallery Fabrics but they always sell out too fast.
Edit: I keep looking at this page and drooling.
Soooo lovely!
My room has been sitting as an absolute mess for a good year and a half since the great redecorating got put on hold. Similar thoughts to you, “I could get so much more done once everything is set up nicely” etc. But then I don’t actually get around to tidying it because I’m busy doing other things. Except I’m not really doing anything else at all, and don’t bother trying to do anything in particular because I’m not in the right mood for it or things aren’t set up right to do it now and they can wait til after they are, and… maybe that’s just laziness.
Speaking of procrastination, last weekend I thought to myself “better start cleaning up and packing things to move house”
I then sat down and did my tax.
Went on a date yesterday. Super intense financial advisor from a major investment bank who paid for the coffees, tried to pay for my dinner (we weren’t eating together as she had to go, I was just grabbing some takeaway), doesn’t own a tv and just studies and/or manages her investment properties and planned out our next lunch and what we’re doing on Saturday.
I actually quite like her, lol.
OoooOOOooOOoooh
OoooOooohhh
Dope, have fun dude.
This sounds like a scene from a dating montage in a comedy movie. You’ll probably have some extremely efficient sex with a promise to report back on your performance in 3-5 business days.
I promise to let you all know if it goes down like that.
Goes down.
Snigger.
Sounds awesome, I will live vicariously through you!
All of my married friends already do!
Hit level 70 with my Barbarian in Diablo 3 last night. That’s 5 classes done. Now I just have to get the stupid boring lamewad Monk up. Not looking forward to it.
And still no feckin Greed portal. How many more Treasure Goblins have to die before you’re satisfied Blizzard?
Is it worth mentioning they won’t appear in Rifts? Only get Greed ports out in the world, doing bounties and whatnot. I was rifting and waiting for one for ages, until someone told me that. Wasn’t a huge loss cos I’d be rifting anyway, but yeah.
I know. Haven’t been in the rifts all that much, just occasionally to grab some better gear. Trying to get the Batting 500 trophy while I’m at it so bounties for all.
I found smashing bounties a good way to do it – get caches, XP, etc, and find gobs on the way. Failing that, I find the Moon Clan Cave in Southern Highlands on Act I seems to have a good turnout of gobs. Two floors, and I’ve had gobs appear on both, even on the same run.
Haven’t been hunting them, just running bounties and encountering them naturally. Still been several hundred by now.
I’ve only seen one portal. Killed at least a couple of hundred too. Think I got about 30 odd million gold and a few legendary/set items. Then, given how mental it is to make top tier gems for multiple characters, that 30mil didn’t go very far.
With all this job hunting i have come to a realization.
Making plans is fine and dandy, but just because you make a plan doesnt mean that you have to keep it. I want to move to Melbourne, but my primary goal is to find stable work that i love and help the lady friend find work. I would love for that to be in Melbourne but i think i need to be a bit more flexible. So i started applying everywhere and anywhere. Lets see what happens.
Goals are dandy, just not when there’s only one, and it stops anything else from happening. Make Melbourne long term. Maybe you get a career/experience set up in the interim that gets you there eventually?
You are a wise man nef nef.
How many hugs do i have to pay you for that advice?? 🙂
Free to good people, my friend.
Come and work for me as my house boy.
I’ll even supply the uniform.
http://img.auctiva.com/imgdata/1/7/2/5/6/1/5/webimg/728159493_o.jpg
I ‘AVE COME TO CLEAN ZE POOL.
This reads in more a Arnold Schwarzenegger accent than anything else.
I dunno if that makes it sexier or anything.
I imagine a French dude with a giant moustache, curled at the ends – he wiggles it around along with his eyebrows and says ‘OUI OUI’ a lot.
your halloween tag makes me thing of Nephila (a genus of spiders), it took me a while to get off that thought trail and realize “ula” is probably of the Drac variety not arachnid. Either way good name *nods*
I wouldnt even be comfortable wearing that alone.
Good news! You wouldn’t be alone.
And you can take it home to wear if Rocketgirl would like.
Shes a weirdo so she probably would like it.
Imagine the freaky-deaky action you’d probably get if that was her cup of tea. You’re obliged to investigate, now.
I didn’t read the “if” first time I saw that. Was disappointed when I noticed it.
QLD peoples… would anyone be free to hang out on Sat Nov 15?
I’m at Sunshine Coast but I might be able to extend my stay and I should have the Sat free? Just wondering if it’s worth looking into…
I would but I’ll still be out of the country. 🙁
Sunshine Coast is a bit of a trek for me. 200km+
Oh wow :/. Yeah, I figured it would be far from everyone and opted not to stay the extra day. Looks like I’ll have to wait for another time before I get to meet the rest of the QLD gang
I’m up pretty far north Brisbane but I’m not good company 🙂
I’m about an hour drive. You should extend & train into Brisbane proper
ILY
Oh god, we’re going to hit page six at any time, aren’t we?
Well, I think it’s time to head to bed at 7 PM.
Well, by that point, it’s already been dark for 3 hours. Might as well be bed time.
I wanted to do that, but I went out to dinner with my middle brother for his birthday.
Then I got home and experimented with Steam’s family-sharing system to see if the youngest brother could play my copy of Civ: Beyond Earth while I then hopped offline and played my own.
Turns out I can. Also, that this kind of testing results in going to bed at 3:30am.
Sega just announced Valkyria Chronicles is coming to PC via twitter.
https://twitter.com/SEGA/status/526884918677471232
outta nowhere, this is. Good stuff, though.
Time to buy it, and never play it!
Oh sweet! I’ve had a friend’s unplayed borrowed copy sitting on my shelf for years 😛
Been meaning to get my own copy and start playing it so this is good news.
I’ll gladly double-dip! Hopefully it includes all of the DLC.
Whilst I’m glad it’s getting a re-release and more sales and all that, Sega, when most companies port games, it’s within a year or so. Two, if you’re Rockstar and can stretch it and know people will buy new versions regardless. Over half a decade later? Might be pushing the boundaries a little.
Just a tad.
This morning I put my three Valkyria Chronicles artbooks back into my shelves after boxing them up years ago.
I would like to therefore take credit for this happening.
I have one of the Udon ones:
http://www.udonentertainment.com/blog/udon/valkyria-chronicles-design-archive/
Picked it up in HK a few years back. It’s very pretty.
I have Udon’s release of the first two, and the Japanese release of the 3rd one because I assumed Udon wouldn’t do it (they did, the fuckers – they do all the artbooks I care about it seems). I had the Japanese release of the first one too but IIRC I gave it to @strange ages ago.
Haven’t bought any artbooks recently, actually. Last one was probably the Art of Bravely. Was eyeing off a couple recently (specifically some of Humikane Shimada’s Strike Witches stuff, and also the second volume of Poyoyon Rock / Akio Watanabe’s work as I have vol. 1) but didn’t bite because half the time right after I get them, Udon end up announcing a license.
Udon books are terrible. They’re amazingly pretty and insanely purchaseable. (That’s totally a word)
I looked at their current lineup just now and looks like they’re deep into Miku.
They have some stuff coming I want to grab: Agarest and Agarest 2 artbooks, Shining Blade & Shining Ark compilation (I have the JP releases for Shining Tears, Wind and Hearts because fuck the haters, I like Tony Taka’s work even if he forgets which side of the body his girls hands and feet belong to sometimes) and they have the artworks for Gungnir that I might give a look too.
Apparently they have some unscheduled Evangelion stuff (“Evangelion Chronicle Side A” and “Side B”) and a Devil May Cry artbook which I might give a look at if it’s for the Ninja Theory remake.
They’re re-releasing the Okami artbook too. One of my personal faves.
I did one more last bit of sewing last night, wanting to get it out of the way while I had all the stuff still out and also wanting to be able to take all the pins out, since who knows how long it will be sitting around til I get back to it. Don’t want to end up with a bunch of stretched out holes all through it, or for the ends to catch and pull threads while it gets moved around or whatever.
Took forever to psych myself up to doing it though, since I had to do it all upside-down so the chalk line was on the bottom and I only had the pins to follow on top. Managed it in the end, with only the very last bit deviating from the line I was aiming for. Still ran into thread issues though :/ Tried switching to the larger needle, but that made things worse. Switched to another thread which still had issues, then overlocker thread which mum reckoned shouldn’t have problems but it still got caught in the tensioner a few times too. Got there in the end though, despite all the stop-starting. And it was still pretty exciting to see it start coming together, even if I won’t be doing anything with it any time soon 😛
Just bought some coloured socks for my PAX get up. Cosplay is on! I’m so hype.
Was it you that was doing Cyclops? I totally can’t remember any more.
Emphasis on was. Cyclops proved to be too difficult.
I still need to buy a pair of yellow socks, and sew cuffs on a pair of pants. Then I’m all done and just have to finish packing. I’ve packed everything in zip lock bags. It looks terribly OCD but I’m paranoid about having something leak and ruin everything.
And the last bit of sewing is done! Pants for Friday :
http://instagram.com/p/uryHHTASY3/
Page not found!
Odd – I just checked the link and it should be ok.
Hey Taybies,
Do you guys remember what region we all registered under? Europe or America?
EDIT: Doh… Its a Guild Wars 2 Question… forgot to mention that… crazy bastard.
America if memory serves, I think we were in the Crystal Desert one?
sounds about right actually. crystal desert does anyway
We do have a TAY guild and I can check tonight if you like. I jump in every now and then to continue my Charr’s story whenever LoL doesn’t pull me back xD
This week is on the up and up. Yesterday I KO’d Jon Jones in 9 seconds in EA UFC, I went for a nice walk with the puppy and I had chicken Kiev for dinner. Today I went for tapas for lunch, had a caniloni for after lunch dessert and got a call back for job interview on thursday..lets keep the good times rolling
It’s funny, I was JUST loading the page to enthuse about how the week is shaping up alright. Everything’s started going smooth at work all of a sudden. No phone calls, no defects to report, no dramas or complications, just… shit going the way it’s supposed to.
It’s just… unbelievable. I feel like fucking Superman, the amount of shit I’m getting through.
I’ve got more done in the last four hours than the last four days combined. It’s amazing.
Moar days liek dis pls.
This is definitely a good week for Shit To Go The Way It’s Supposed To.
Let’s keep this run going.
Meanwhile I’m about to start some leave at work so of course everything is going to shit.
Last night I managed to remind myself why I collect Nendoroid figures.
Have been re-opening that pic multiple times today. Makes me feel happy.
hmmm… for some reason I read that as “why I collect Hemorrhoid figures”
Where is page six?! Dammit this is awfully late in the week for my usual dad joke fix.
Every page can be page six if you believe it in your heart.
Heart surgeons never bypass a good opportunity.
Well, Mum has found out that I purchased a graduation ticket from the school yesterday. The school’s office rang mum saying that I purchased a graduation ticket.
Crap.
Why aren’t you allowed to graduate?!
See previous page.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/10/talk-amongst-yourselves-300/comment-page-4/#comment-3006464
Huh? Why wold they do that?
Yeah this, doesn’t make sense to just ring her up about it
Apparently they were asking questions about school photos, and mentioned that I had come in to buy a graduation ticket.
Whilst purchasing the graduation ticket, I passed a teacher that keeps in regular contact with my mother. I told her about the situation, and to not tell mum.
The office ladies obviously heard that I was keeping this secret, so they probably called my mother.
Dibber-dobbers!
“Whatever issues we’re all having, he’s still my dad and he has a right to be there. He’s not sitting anywhere near you, you don’t have to interact with him. I didn’t do this to upset you, I did it because it’s the right thing to do.
“Anyway, these things are really long and really boring so why should he get out of it?”
The person who invented the door knock won the No-bell prize.
Every page can be page 6 if you believe.
I BELIEVE!
*bows down*
Giving blood is good. Two paid hours off work to do that. I’d rather be stabbed with a giant needle and bleed into a bag than stay at work. I think that says a lot.
I’ve always wanted to give blood, but being from UK means I have mad cow disease. 🙁
Good on ya though.
Tattoos mean hepatitis and HIV apparently so they won’t take mine either.
Oh great, now I have mad cow disease, hepatitis and HIV. What’s next?
I got my ear pierced once, maybe I have Ebola. 🙁
If you’re gay you’re not allowed to donate either. Because every gay person is living a life of unclean debauchery and can’t be trusted it seems.
Not sure entirely how they enforce that without the information being volunteered but it’s still there.
Maybe they test for the gay.
Wearing a level A hazmat suit in case they catch it?
I hope you all had your shots before I visited…
There’s a registry.
If you react the wrong way to the music playing in the lobby, you’ll be added!
The ‘conventional’ wisdom assumes that gay men are at a higher risk of HIV than straight folks. This includes any women who’ve slept with gay men. (Yep.)
Despite the latest statistics showing the HIV is far more common amongst straight folks, now. Policies set in the 70s.
HIV has the highest incidence of new infections amongst men who have sex with men. Meaning that people who don’t know they’ve got it yet may be the ones trying to donate.
Australia’s blood sources are one of the safest in the world and as someone who regularly prescribes blood, I’d prefer we are moderately over the top with our screening.
I stand corrected. Last time I looked at the issue was probably close to the point of the news.com.au article response that Red brought up, which was when my gay brother was getting antsy and activist, posting links which showed HIV as being more prevalent amongst straight folks as a demographic (which, from a statistics point of view may have been a higher number or percentage based on the fact that it was pulling from both men AND women, as opposed to separating by gender).
As an O negative blood type in the medical industry who’s been in a committed, exclusive relationship for ten years, he gets frustrated about this shit.
@transientmind I agree that men who have sex with men in long term exclusive relationships are at lower risk than heterosexuals who don’t have long term exclusive relationships. It’s a general risk reduction technique however and for heterosexuals there are questions about other types of risky sexual behaviours.
HIV probably is more prevalent amongst heterosexuals (for various reasons – one being that there are more heterosexuals) overall, but they are not at increased risk of new infections (which is really what the questionnaire aims to determine, as people who are knowingly positive are not allowed to donate). I used to be involved with activism for more flexibility with our screening tools, however, it will be one step at a time…and when the HIV new infection rate has started going up, it probably won’t be modified anytime soon.
It’s a 12 month deferral after sexual activity,, not a lifetime ban. In fact, the Red Cross petitioned to the TGA to shorten it to six months but were rejected.
As someone who donates regularly, and has a family history with blood donation and blood illnesses, I’d really like them to err on the side of caution.
So all you have to do is be celibate for a year if your gay.
If straight just tick I wore a condom and you’re good to go.
Most people I know with STIs are straight as an arrow….
You can actually read their justification on their website: http://www.donateblood.com.au/media-centre/news/national/fact-finder-our-response-to-newscomaus-gay-blood-donation-article
If you’re straight, there are other questions about your sexual activity, including activities with sex workers and unprotected sex.
Just putting it out there, but most gay guys are very cautious when it comes to STIs.
Only use protection, don’t sleep around, get regular checks, etc.
We’re probably more cautious of it then straight people.
Every time you donate you have to fill out a form which could be quite personal if you answer ‘yes’ to anything.
Sex means HIV apparently, so they won’t take mine either! 😀
Good thing too, I’m petrified of needles :3
I believe it’s only a 6 month exclusion for tattoos these days.
Ditto.
Puns about German sausages are the wurst.
Hi @Liondrive!I like sausages but I haven’t had any for a while. Being going through a bit of a sweet tooth phase. Basically just shoveling sugar into my mouth with either hand. I’m ambidextrose
http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BndMNbpCIAA_BD7.jpg
My dad suddenly walked up to the mirror. He then continued to say “Mirror, mirror on the wall. Table table over there. Sofa sofa near the lamp.”
A German man walks up to the immigration desk at Warsaw airport. The immigration officer asks: “Occupation?”
The German replies: “No, just a holiday.”
Doctors take pains to prescribe relief.
My chemistry set blew up, I guess oxidants happen.
I must have dreamt about mufflers last night, because this morning I woke up exhausted.
If you take a cigarette out of a cigarette packet, what does it become? A cigarette lighter.
I’ve been to the dentist several times so I know the drill.
A young nurse was nervous about giving vaccinations but gave it her best shot.
A psychiatrist on a hike fell into a depression.
OK, i’ll stop now 😀
Or just edit a post to include them all, if you’re self-conscious? Either way, they were all smile-makey. 🙂
Oh, I’ve got plenty more but I don’t want to overrun Page 6 with just my dad jokes 😀
Keep gooooooooooing
That’s what she said.
What kind of bees make milk?
Boobies!!!!!Heard it on Friday.
I got it off a local cafe sign on Sunday. It’s a good one.
PAX PREPERATION PAGE 6.
That’s right, I’m co-opting this page for my own nefarious ends.
Anyhow, I’m still learning 2 Rooms and a Boom but think it’ll be pretty damned rad to get as many of us playing it at PAX. I was hoping that on Friday around 1pm we could all gather in the Tabletop area and give it a go.
If anyone is interested, the print and play version that I’ll be using can be found here. Anyone who wants to look up the rules themselves is more than welcome to. Especially because it means there’s less of a burden on me to remember them all.
I’ve printed out the following cards:
President
Bomber
President’s Daughter
Matyr
Blue Team
Red Team
Grey Team
Doctor
Nurse
Engineer
Tinkerer
Fool (1 red, 1 blue)
Shy Guy (1 red, 1 blue)
Gambler
Victim
Survivor
Intern
Rival
So if you want to learn the rules for those specific cards, even better. I’ve printed out a short description of what those cards to on the cards themselves too.
More importantly: BOARD GAMES!
We should play Ticket To Ride but not sure there’s time for new players to handle training.
#everythingspagesix
Let’s just focus on 2 Rooms and a Boom for now. Trust me, it’ll be a blast.
I’ve found I’m not really a big fan of hidden-role games like Resistance etc. so I might sit out if it’s anything like that.
Why do dogs lick themselves?
Because they can’t make a fist.D:
Super important things to remember to pack for Melbourne:
-Debit card, to be able to check in at the hotel
-Myki, since there’s one kicking around from last time, hopefully with money still on it
-PAX passes, to get into PAX. Also so others can get into PAX
-Costumes, for looking good
-dedorant/antiperspirant, for smelling good
-Spare parts, for emergency repairs
What else is essential?
3DS
STREETPASSES
Phone with TWITTER
The only thing you need is a 3DS
I don’t have one. Does that mean my passes are worthless!? *tears up passes and makes confetti*
I did think about that. But the constant StreetPass checking/clearing is a gigantic pain in the arse, I’m not sure if I could be bothered.
Especially when in costume, moreso with Shredder since he doesn’t have a carry pouch for a 3DS.
Camera.
Phone charger!
To be honest, I set up my PAX bag on the floor at the start of the week, to throw things into randomly because I knew with each new day there’d be something else I’d remember to take along.
So far, there’s a camera.
A stick to keep the ladies at bay.
Good thing we’re leaving the wives at home, this time.
Emergency popcorn!
Underpants, for taking off.
hair gel, for taking care and spiking the hair.
You must be new around here…
He doesn’t have any.
oh, then how about a shaver, for shaving the hair that you no longer care…. about *escorts himself out of the building in embarrassment*
That’s ok, I can use it to spike the hair on my arms instead.
CostumeS? 🙁
We’re allowed to have more than one.
More costumes you won’t tell me about ;_;
SO MUCH HATE
I’m not Nintendo, man!
I heard that in the last big celebrity phone hack they got Forrest Gump’s account details
His password is 1Forrest1 #dadjokepagesix #hi@strangeYeah, I completely jinxed myself with the work.
That’s what I get for being enthusiastically optimistic. >.<
I’ve got less than an hour until I leave for the week. I saw two new support tickets come in a few minutes ago.
…Just going to pretend that I haven’t seen them…
…and hope that nobody asks me whether I’ve seen them before I leave…
That’s the ticket!
*head-desk*
It’s an episode of Yes, Minister in here. Even the TV show didn’t get this ludicrous. I’m now convinced it wasn’t a comedy series but the frustrated and well-concealed documentary of the lives of real public servants who wanted to protect themselves from dismissal.
Whup! I’m going home!
I was thinking similarly to you in that today seemed to be going okay.
Then I remembered I have to do an hour long presentation at 6pm for our guys in Germany to introduce them to the system I’ve been building the last 9-12 months, and that my boss decided that we should invite the Israel team in as well since they’re the same timezone so I’m probably going to be derailed repeatedly with really technical questions that are irrelevant to the actual audience I care about. 🙁
We made it to page six. Goddamnit.
*pulls out card from a hat*
Things you can say about PAX, but not your significant other.
“You can try it out over in that corner, but only for 5 minutes.”
Whoops, wrong section.
Still applicable as a joke.
There’s going to be thousands of people inside!
😛
Parking in rear.
“It’s not ready for release yet.”
$150 for a three day pass?
“Man, it smells like latex and sweat in here.”
“The chafing is incredible!”
“It’s got people coming from all around the country.”
Wow, PAX, you exist!
HA!
It exists 🙁
It only comes once a year!
I said “but NOT your significant other.”
It only costs you a whole lot of money once a year.
All these guys are waiting in line just to watch a video.
“Check out the tail on that one”
“Oh man, I don’t think I’m allowed back here without permission.”
[redacted] On second thought, doesn’t make sense.
Check out all of the stuff we can play with!
No cameras allowed.
They’re doing roleplaying here with a whole party of people!
“Look at the size of that chest!”
I queued up for hours just to see you
I’m really looking forward to my first time. A whole weekend of fun!
*walks into food court* – “I’m surrounded by sausages”
“Second year in, I think I’m finally having fun.”
“Your horns are blocking my view”
I’m happy you’re in Melbourne?
I think I’ve seen this costume before
Wow, your costume is of a ten year old character! That’s great!
But I wasn’t expecting it to be so.. shithouse. You know?
think you can squeeze in one more?
“Its really hard to get in that way”
“This passageway is so crowded.”
“Are those meant to hang that low?”
Question.
Anyone here going to any of the Beta Bar events over this weekend? I don’t have much on my plate (I’m not actually going to PAX, but I’ll be in town for socializing and shenanigans) so I was going to go to this, but I’m not sure if anyone I know will also be there (other than Bonnie, one of the organisers, I assume she’ll be there…)
http://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/beta-bar-launch-weekend-pax-after-parties-tickets-12679836733
Did not know that existed / was going to exist. I’m going to have to go there some time.
But not during PAX, it’ll be too crowded I think.
Oh, I finally figured out why everyone is talking about TAY 300.
We’ve hit 300 members.
Well yeah, the persians have like, a army of 100,000 dudes, we’re probably gonna all die holding them back.
It’s been 6 years since I last watched Space Jam. I should remedy this immediately.
A couple of friends and I are planning to cosplay as the Monstars at a Con next year. I’ll be the orange one. Space themed convention, so it works really well.
Good deed done for the day. Saw a girl drop her phone on the way to the station this afternoon, bungeeing down on headphone cables, but noticed that while she scooped it up in the wallet enclosure thing she didn’t see her Opal card had dropped out.
Doubled back to hand it to her, but still managed to just get to the station in time for the early train 😛
Urgh, the fact you’re still single makes me sad.
But also, hopeful…
*slow wink*
Have you met him!? The fact that semen doesn’t gush out the bottom of my trousers whenever he’s around is a goddamn miracle.
He’s easy on the eye is what I’m saying.
Like, he’s a good looking fellow but not intimidatingly so.
And nice.
But he doesn’t get my jokes, so it would never last.
What an arsehole.
This is getting awkward…
Sorry.
Um… I’m going to go buy some anchovies and see if they improve the risotto I’ve got waiting in the fridge.
You like anchovies too? 🙂
‘Flu always sticks around too long and makes you feel sick.
Also the illness.
…
D=
Good news everybody! I have a job interview Friday, with Vodafone.. Which is awesome, didn’t think they would even consider me honestly!
Downside (which ima spoiler)
I told 2 mates who I regard as pretty good mates, one said “hmm” the other didn’t even acknowledge me, kick in the guts there. Oh well. Then again one of them doesn’t want a job/actively look for one.. Where as the other is happy with his volunteer work and newstart allowance..Hmmm. 😛
Seriously though,good luck with the interview!
Lol..
Thanks! I;ll probably need it hahaha.
how good is it lol
Yo, @pixel_the_ferret_viking.
This is important.
Is it true that the word “bae” means “poo” in Danish?
Well technically the word is bæ, but since you guys don’t use that letter: Yes… Bae is most definitely poop!
Awesome.
Thank you.
Wield that power of knowledge with care! It has the power to completely embarrass any teenage girl you meet! (tested on my niece on several occasions)
Stealing this.
Oh come on. PS4 update? But it’s Destiny time…
Oh come on! Destiny servers unavailable? IT’S DESTINY TIME.
How else is that Nightfall gonna get done?!
Grrrr. I have Special Permission to use the lounge in primetime to join in some striking and possibly the Raid tonight! Special Permission!!! And Destiny won’t let me play!
Woohoo finally.
Unlocked all characters and stages in Brawl.
Only took me less than three months. 😀
\o/ Aww yiss, Australia World of Warcraft servers tomorrow
/o\ 24hr maintenance to bring them online, so no WoW until 9pm tomorrow night. I wanted to get my Shaman to level 60 🙁
But it’s gonna be so good to have a 20ms ping instead of a 180ms ping!
Is Titanfall still worth playing?
I’m glad that I didn’t buy it at full price, but I still feel kinda eh-ish about it…
Ugh insta-kill enemies in games
:'(
Stupid Resentment in Bayonetta 2…
Spoilers!
I’mma get so much study done today!
*5 hours later*
Why is TV so gooooooooood all of a sudden?!?!?
I was going to fix my wallet+phone pouch for my Shredder belt so that it was easier to put things back into it, but ended up deciding to just dismantle the old one and start over with different coloured material. Took a little longer than expected, but it’s done! Much better now.
Also, weirdest thing before. NCIS LA was on before, I wasn’t really paying attention but it was something like the tech guy was being interrogated over something. He was talking about being beaten in some kind of competition, by “Oliver Pinkerton… scheming Australian trickster”. Seemingly innocuous statement, but I freakin’ grew up with a guy by that name. Dunno that he was all that scheming or a trickster though.
Both Mum and I looked up and at each other like “did you just hear what I think I heard?” Haven’t seen the guy in well over a decade, so who knows what he’s gotten up to…
I remember when my dad was watching some horrible British crime show the murderer or whatever he was had the exact same name as me and had a cousin with the same name as my twin brother. Weird 😛
THEY HAVE SPIES EVERYWHERE
It doesn’t seem too implausible that they just fired up Facebook and clicked randomly on friend lists for six degrees of separation before picking a name they like off someone’s list for the appropriate nationality.
I am totally stealing that idea for my next book. Character names are difficult!
That is a really clever idea.
Here, have some feels:
http://i.imgur.com/FQnocue.jpg?1
Oh my god that dog is abducting that girl! Someone call the police!
I really, really felt like watching Space Jam. So I hopped on a bus and went to the nearest Video Ezy, despite it being sunset. Doing something as spontaneous as this fills me with confidence. Past me would be too scared to hop on a bus, especially in near-darkness. It shows I have come a really long way.
Then the Video Ezy employee told me they didn’t have Space Jam. Aww.
On my old net group’s last trip to Adelaide, we got a sudden hankering for some Space Jam. We stopped at several video shops, the first one didn’t have it and the second one the girl didn’t even know what we were talking about. I think we stopped at one more which had it, but it was currently hired out. But then we found one that did have it there!
…only it seemed to have been stolen or something because they couldn’t find it /o\
Well, I talked to mum about the graduation ticket thing. She’s okay with it!
It would be a little psychotic if she wasn’t to be honest.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/10/tiny-gosling-chicks-jump-120m-off-a-cliff-to-survive/
😐
:O
😀I just ran through MSN on my 98 machine and gathered a whole bunch of screenshots of whatever bits of data I could. Like the table showing how long it’s been since everyone has last signed in/had a chat. Because I am a massive stats whore 😛
But now I am full of nostalgia and feels and sads over all these people who have disappeared from my life.
OH WOW ADDING CONTACTS STILL WORKS
Totally having an MSN chat now with one of my friends who still uses it for god knows what reason 😛 THIS IS RAD
Aww, went through all my DPs. Back to sad now.
*changes to de Blob Sunset*
Goodnight, sweet prince.
Flights booked!
Timely as always.
There is a dead bee in my bathtub.
What does this signify?
That you shouldn’t be a beekeeper until you get the proper equipment?
That there’s not enough stuff in your house to pollinate.
I was about to comment, then I remember it’s not page 6 anymore, oh well
That shouldn’t bee a problem!
You pissed off a tiny mafia boss?
It’s true what they say. You can run, but you can’t hive.
I feel like there’s the making of a dad joke here… Anyone interested in taking shots at it?
Marvel Phase 3 sounds great. Hope they can pull off all these individual character movies.
Nice selection of sub genres within the super hero genre, IF they explore it properly.
“Eh they’ll just announce Doctor Strange, right?”
*afterwords*
“OOOHHH MYYYYY GOOOOODDDD”
There’s definitely a lot of potential which Marvel has shown they’re not afraid to gently explore.
Very keen.
Let’s just hope they don’t chicken out.
Part of the reason I enjoyed Ca Am 1 was it technically being a period piece & a war flick.
@mrtaco did your Humble Bundle expensive tshirt edition ever arrive? Pics? 😀
You mean Expensive Vinyl Edition 😛
And nah, not yet. I don’t think it was meant to ship til December or something? Can’t remember.
Was in a productive mood last night, and remember thinking that I really miss working at night and thought maybe a return to the contract gig could be in order.
This, however, I don’t miss.
http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2002-05-13
Last time I had to have red Bull was Ludum-dare, and then like not for a year before that, feeling like such a grown up (and it sucks)
Woo! Fate of Atlantis and Sam n Max Hit the Road are available on gog.com now!
No Day of The Tentacle though 🙁
Still. @dc, get downloading and get cracking on it.
2 DAYS TO PAX \o/
SO MUCH AWESOME STUFF TO SEE AND DO! AND I GET TO HANG WITH THE BEST DAMN PEOPLE EVER! (little bit excited)
Make sure you hang out with some TAYbies as well!
Wouldn’t want to kill the mood.
Who?
<3Oh man, I got ready too early. Now I’ve got three hours to kill before I leave for my flight.
I guess I could… repack my bag? Check my tickets again?
I can’t recommend repacking… Last time I did that I forgot to pack my toiletries because I pulled everything out and forgot to put it back on again -_-
Why aren’t you lining up to get on the plane hours ahead like a good little nerd?
Plan for our special fun day
Fun?
TAKE MY SHIT:
4 x copies of Risk of Rain (awesome game!)
1 x copy of Teleglitch (pretty good! but I’ve barely played it) – it’s also completely free from Humble Bundle so there’s nothing stopping you from getting your own copy ;D
I should stop buying all the bundles….
I haven’t bought one for ages. I know if’s for charity and all but there’s simply been nothing that’s interested me (except games I already have, which is most of them).
Hijacking one of my random posts to test spoiler tag coding since I can’t remember what the code is and can’t edit posts at work so I don’t want to screw up again.
TestTest
TestRisk of Rain is pretty fun, multiplayer can be sketchy at times but it does work for some people.
I definitely recommend it though, soundtrack is awesome too!
I’ll take Xenoblade, thanks.
Should’ve bought it before it went out of stock! Fool!
It’s out of stock again? Eh. I’d rather the AU copy anyway..
But so expensive 🙁
Only difference is like a 4 track soundtrack selection CD
Indy, Sam and Max and Monkey Island get. <3 GoG.
Urrggggh, it’s pretty hard to resist getting Indy and Sam&Max at those prices.
It’s a no brainer. Don’t fight it.
They run perfectly too.
After recently installing HOMM3 complete edition that I got from GoG, only after playing it again do I realise how much I missed it all. Pretty much still my favourite one of the series due to the graphics style, so elegant!
I went online and grabbed a HD mod for it that made it capable of running in windowed mode and in any resolution I choose, best decision ever
Linky link?
https://sites.google.com/site/heroes3hd/eng/description
Edit: Only one irk I had with it so far but it’s pretty minor, when picking up artifacts the notifications got moved to the bottom right pane, as if you were picking up resources. Downside to it is you can’t use right click tooltips to find out what the artifact actually does so you have to go to your hero’s inventory to find out. But yeah it doesn’t really break it at all. I go into the inventory anyway to check what I have equipped at the current time
HOMM2 has a special place in my heart (the CD had audio on it, playable on CD! Which I did. Repeatedly), but HOMM3 remains my favourite. One of the first games that I got hype for before release, following fan-sites which made use of all that funky-funky angelic building art.
HEADING TO PAX TOMORROW
EXCITED. GONNA NERD IT UP HARD
See you there, Hotel buddy!
Where are you guys staying?
little george street ibis hotel. also known as THE PARTAY ZONE
Sounds like that could have sexy consequences
Wow, its here already. My last day at my current job. Been finalising as much as I can over the past week, but there’s always issues at the last minute. Thankfully I think its all been sorted.
Definitely some mixed feelings about leaving. My team is awesome, and I’m going to miss working with such great people. But at the same time I’m really looking forward to the new job, new opportunities, and most importantly being closer to Ash.
Best thing is that I don’t really have time to think too hard about all the changes that are happening. Last day today, fly to Melbourne tomorrow morning, PAX for 3 days, fly home Monday, start new job on Tuesday. Its all so quick that I don’t have time to freak out, its just happening and I have to deal with. But all in all I’m looking forward to it.
Bring on 5:30, and I’ll see you all at PAX \o/
Don’t forget your Streetpass machine!
Not a chance, I want your badge
Has someone taken over from you there as the point of contact for the Japan TAY Extravaganza 2015? I need to update my postal address with you.
True story follows…
This happened to a friend of friends girlfriend last week:
She found a lost phone. Managed to get in to the phone and get in contact with the owner after trying various phone contacts. The owner was very happy to have received the news and promptly organised to come and pick up the phone from her house.
He arrives, his appearance is similar to that of (only example I can think of) Osama Bin Laden. The beard, the clothes and the turban. He is extremely thankful, nay, overly thankful to the girl for returning it to him. He doesn’t linger, takes the phone and hastily returns to his mode of transport. As he was leaving the property, he turned around and said something along the lines of” “Thanks, you are so kind. Please don’t be in the (Sydney) City at New Years.” He makes a speedy exit and ignores her shouts to come back.
Understandably concerned about this, she has done everything possible to report him to the police. That’s about as much as I know.
I have family coming from UK and NZ for Xmas/NY. I know where they will want to spend the 31st. 😐
EDIT: Looks like I got sucked in. Damn my gullibility.
Well… that escalated quickly O_o
Man you’re just keeping the MSN nostalgia going with some classic hotmail chain mail 😛
Is it?! Honestly, I thought the manner in which I was told it, by the person I was told, it sounded legit.
Haha, I don’t know. That’s just what it reminded me of.
I don’t live in Sydney, so I’m going to be a douchebag skeptic and focus on the ‘friend of a friend’s girlfriend’ fourth-hand nature of the story!
Yeah the skeptic in me doesn’t like the fact that I haven’t heard it from the source, or even the sources partner. Still……………………………………………………………………………
I’ve heard this story several times. It’s a common one.
Your story has been slightly reworded from the usual format but variations on this one date back to shortly after 9/11.
http://www.snopes.com/rumors/warning.asp
Well, I am sure as fuck not going to be in Sydney for New Years.
I’ll be in Melbourne! \o/Also, despite what the government would like you to believe, terrorism isn’t much of a thing over here. Last attack carried out was the 1986 bombing at the Turkish Consulate in Melbourne. So not even against Australia, they were mad at the Turks. And the only person killed was the bomber since he screwed up and prematurely detonated the car bomb while he was in it.
All the “terror plots” that have been stopped so far have been less grand plots by organisations and more one or two crazies ineptly planning something. Martin Bryant was more suceesful than these guys.
Terrorism is about making a statement and inciting fear. No one cares about us over here enough to make the pay off worth it. The withdrawal of our resources and military wouldn’t make a dent over there and US and UK citizens are hardly about to make demands on their governments about something happening a world away from them.
I’ve said before, and I maintain this as my opinion, we’re much more likely to see a Tomorrow When The War Began scenario in Australia than we are any kind of major terrorist activity.
The US is a prime example of terrorism working at its best. The ‘land of the free and the home of the brave’ is signing away its freedoms as fast as it can out of fear. The irony of this is lost on them.
Yes because we all know that every muslim or person with beard and turban knows about terror plots and that when someone is kind to them they would be so inclined to tell people about the terror plot. I helped a muslim guy with his Laser system the other day and he gave me the same advice.
@freezespreston Money received
@scree Money sent
Hooray!
*Never sees Gooky again*
Dollar received?
Oh yeah. Somehow I totally missed that 😛
Sweet. Don’t mind me, it’s just my paranoia – something I do when sending money to prevent funds going to the wrong account in the case of a typo or something.
Yeah, it seems worryingly easy accidentally send money to nowhere. Even moreso with paypal, just chucking a random e-mail address in there. And then how do you even undo it if it happens? I mean it seems like if it were that easy to do then you could just undo legitimate payments too.
Paypal: If the payment isn’t claimed, you can just ‘recall’ it and send it to the correct email address. I imagine things get a little trickier if you send it to the wrong email address and someone claims it.
Oh god, my facebook feed is full of angry people demanding that we keep the name Australia Day and not Citizen’s Day.
How does this keep coming up? At what point and why would this happen? Especially with Tony Abbott whining about Team Australia constantly being in charge.
Because its easier to get people to hate than it is for them to accept.
Wait, they’re changing the name of Australia Day? Why?
They’re not. They never will. Just trolls on facebook feeding on racism.
I, for one, am looking forward to the upcoming Celebration Day.
But not as much as Reply Fail Day.
Only 56 days until Gift Day! 😀
Edit: reposted on new page.
This end get was brought to you by the Shinra corporation: inadvertently providing you with the materia required to bring about their downfall since 1997.
So PAX is in 2 days and I have a job interview tomorrow, not gonna lie nerves are running high for both of these things. I try to stay calm but I get nervous as when meeting people as some would know from meeting me..gahhh I hate nerves!
God dammit why’d this of all things have to be a page get and not my talk yesterday about how amazing things are!
You’re fantastic for the job. We’d like you to start tomorrow!
I got put in the preferred catagory so thats a good thing right
Good luck!
I need it!
Take some red-eye, that’d calm you down
Mmmm im definitely gonna bring that out at PAX
How about on the plane over?
Giovanni already lives in melbourne australia! Giovannis stache likes the wild weather..keeps it on its hair toes
Giovanni should take a plane to Melbourne anyway!
Errbody knows Giovanni aint getting on no plane! Giovanni hates planes! Giovanni gets sea sick on planes!
Best of luck sire! I’m going through the whole interview thing atm, so I feel your pain!
Thank you good sir! Ill try my best
Good luck Cam
If it helps at all you come across as much less nervous than it sounds like you feel. So even if you are feeling some nerves they are not necessarily showing
I go by the old addage of fake it till you make it so if I fake that im not nervous ill be less nervous in the end
How’s the midweek, TAYbies?
Slooooooooow! Wanna go home! Got so much crap to take care of :P… How’s yours?
Hectic.
Putting the final touches on my cosplay, and getting a replacement classic controller for my wii.
paxpaxpaxpaxpaxpaxpaxpaxpax
About to get better, shortly! Pay day tonight and then train to Melb tomorrow night! 😀
Dammit, why do I keep referring to train? I’m actually catching the bus..
Maybe it’s because I’d rather take the train.
I’m alright, instead of alleft..
Pretty successful morning, had this this show up.
So that’s now 4 physical copies of the new Slipknot album, still awaiting one more with another shirt. I’ve basically bought shirts that come with bonus copies of the album. The shirt, jumper & lithograph here would’ve cost me about what that entire bundle cost. So I got the vinyl & CD free basically.
Hyrule Warriors Victory!!! (repost cause end get)
Unlocked all 61 of the weapons and have been given the right to unlock the master sword’s ability for only 25,000 kos, once I finish that I only need to get 25,000 kos with all other 15 characters to unlock their weapon’s special ability, that’s only 400,000 kos. To quote Homer Simpson “In case you couldn’t tell I was being sarcastic” 😛
For some reason I can’t stop playing it. Oh also hit level 99 with 2 characters and everyone else is on about 60.
I’ve started smashing back into it recently but it sounds like I’m a ways behind you. I’m currently smashing through all the Hard mode Skulltulas. I do only have one weapon left to unlock though (Lana’s 3rd).
Oh nice, only Lana to go, I had Agitha to get last, I hate her so much (because her moves suck not cause I dislike the character) the requirements to start unlocking the special skills is crazy, 61 weapons just to be able to unlock it, jeez. I’m aiming to get all the Skulltulas next, Finished off 1 picture and am only 1 or 2 off another couple.
Ugh. Agitha has the worst move-set. Lana’s Deku stick is close behind…
The rewards maps you get from the pictures it are really good for levelling and for rupees. 50k for 5 minutes!
yeah the reward maps are pretty sweet (only have 2 open). I’ve used the network links to level up and get 50k a battle too, plus you get a lvl 3 weapon or gold material for your trouble. I dislike Midna much more than Lana’s spear. Everyone else is pretty decent, I’m growing more fond of Girihim every time I use him too, so fast.
CAPTAIN MARVEL CAPTAIN MARVEL CAPTAIN MARVEL CAPTAIN MARVEL
No, no, no. There’s no market for a female superhero[ine] movie. Hollywood and Fox News told me so.
To them, I say CAPTAIN MARVEL CAPTAIN MARVEL CAPTAIN MARVEL
Captain Mar-Vell!
Thanks for saying it right bob =P Sheesh red!
Don’t be silly. Girls can’t be captains.
I thought Captain Marvel was a dude and the woman one was Mrs Marvel so was confused.
But I went to wikipedia.
From what I understand (knowing next to nothing about comics, just what I see on Wikipedia) the original Captain Mar-Vell was a Kree something or other, and in an explosion his powers were gained by Carol Danvers, who became Ms. Marvel. In honour of Captain Marvel she took up the mantle / name. She was also part of the “new” Guardians of the Galaxy, so it all ties very neatly in with the franchises being produced.
Originally there was Mar-Vell, who was captain marvel, and Carol Danvers, whose powers came from him, who was Ms Marvel.
Then he died, and she took the name, especially given she actually was a captain.
Confusing things is that DC also has a captain marvel, who predates Mar-Vell (in his original incarnation) having been published till the 50s by Fawcett comics and then discontinued. DC bought Fawcett in the late 70s and then brought Captain Marvel back. These days he’s generally referred to as Shazam as well, as that’s the magic word that transforms Billy Batson into him. DC is also releasing a Shazam film in 2018, with The Rock playing the baddie Black Adam
Shazam!
I think they finally gave in and started calling him Shazam instead of Captain Marvel. Then again, I think also changed it from just Billy Batson to a group of kids at one point. The character is weird and generally only exists for two purposes: 1) to piss off Marvel and 2) to have a good guy who is a bigger boy scout than Superman who will occasionally fight with/against him.
He was fun in Young Justice though. A 10 year old (in an adult body) member of the Justice League wanting to hang out with the teenage heroes.
Who cares about Shazam anyways…. Black Adam is way cooler.
It was a group of kids in Flashpoint
OH GOD IT’S ALSO A GROUP OF KIDS IN THE STUPID NEW 52 LAAAAAAAAAAAME
That’s the one I’m really looking forward to. Danvers rocks ass. VERY cautiously optimistic about the others.
The Inhumans I know very little about other than that they’re stroppy, freakish moon-people, so I dunno. I guess it’ll be interesting to see that fleshed out a bit better.
T’Challa… I didn’t like what I read from Civil War and his appearances in other heroes’ books, but I haven’t read Black Panther proper, and it seems like I’m missing out; the character Evan described in the Kotaku article seems a lot more nuanced and complicated than the preachy one-note Gary Stu who turned up in those Civil War cameos.
I’m gonna hope/assume the movies can pull it off, though. I thought the Guardians of the Galaxy were ‘Squirrel Girl’ absurd, but they owned it in their movie.
Black Panther’s cool man… Inhumans the new series is actually one of the most interesting arcs I’ve been following. However Blackbolt has always been an interesting character and a lot of other Inhumans have…. unique personalities =P
Sup?
Now we got that out of the way I have a question to ask, is The Evil Within worth the purchase? I am considering it on PS4.
Jimu likened it to a clunky Last of Us & Resident Evil 4, so that appeals to me somewhat, didn’t you hate TLOU?
I loved TLOU, was such an awesome game. Last Resident Evil game I ever played was Nemesis on the PS1, damn that’s like 15 years ago now..
I wasn’t a fan of Beyond Two Souls, but loved Heavy Rain, maybe that’s what you’re thinking?
Loved it, hated it, I knew it was one or the other 😛
I could’ve been neutral man, I could’ve been neutral!
If you love Japanese survival horror then yes. If not, no. It’s doesn’t do anything new or revolutionary and has the same problems every other japsurhor game has. But it does have some fun to be had. Not really scary or disturbing though.
Hmm, I see.. Cheers, dude!
Well heyyyy look at all these new people
Who’s this guy?
Who are you?
Who is anybody?!
http://download.lardlad.com/framegrabs/DABF11/118.jpg
PUUUUUUUUPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!
*Crash tackle*
Awwwww yeeeeeeeeaaaaaa
Holy shit… he returns!
back from Hong Kong, charging head first into PAX 😀
Looking forward to seeing you, is the evil “Nya ha ha ha” moustache still there?
But of course 🙂
Are we still talking about going to PAX?
I’m thinking of going to PAX East in Boston in March, anyone wanna join me?
@saturday ? Anyone else hanging around this god-forsaken latitude?
Must be annoying having to be sitting upside down to be able to read all our posts from Aus 😛
Boston? ew. Why not PAX Prime in godforsaken Seattle?
You know what? Sounds interesting. I’ve some expenses to pay off at the end of the year and I’ve actually plans in March, so we’ll see when the new year clocks in.
Why Boston? I don’t know! It’s close? To me at least?
But I was looking at staying in Seattle for Prime today, and it’s actually a very similar cost.
PAX Prime might be cool.
Just figured attending a PAX might be neat while I’m still up here.
PAX east is in march, Prime in the summer.
http://mikatan.goodsmile.info/en/2014/10/28/nendoroid-batman-heros-edition/ BATMAN
I’ve mentioned before that I’m not really big on nendoroids at all, but looking at that makes me think that a Viewtiful Joe one would be pretty sweet.
So much excite for Halo MCC now. If all you wonderful TAYbies could just get Xbones please…
I’ll be boned if I get one!
I’m saving my xboner for Halo 5, most likely. That said, I’ll probably wait for reviews, before satisfying my fanboyism.
Destiny was decent, but so far from my expectations that if I knew what I know now, I probably would’ve held off on buying a PS4. I’ll need more compelling system-sellers from now on, I think.
That’s a long wait. Hopefully, you find some ways to release the tension before Halo 5.
Are you still playing Destiny? I know you mentioned a while back that you were struggling to find reasons to go back to it..
I play the raid every week with five other awesome dudes. I quite enjoy that. I’d probably enjoy it just as much if we played darts in a bar.
Oddly, I missed it last week due to being booked into familystuff, but when I came back to it last night, after two weeks of not playing, I pretty much performed better than I ever had. No deaths, on-point with the Oracle kills, catching all the sacrifices before they happened…
I got these awesome weapons from the raid over the last couple months, but they’re kinda useless because I haven’t done the boring work-grind of levelling them up. I don’t mind, because I’m not playing for anything other than the social aspect. Raiding is the only time I log in.
In the end, I guess I wanted a lot more out of Destiny than it was willing or able to give. As far as a ‘log in every day to do your daily’ game goes, it doesn’t stack up to other games that do the progress-quest emotional and mental manipulation of MMOs so much better.
I finished the story, I stuck with combat in the same areas repeatedly up to a respectable level of power, but the rest is just more of the same. I don’t PVP pretty much ever… which is I’m guessing where they decided to focus their development, having utterly written out any attempt at some kind of epic story, and a barely-cargo-cult approach to RPG aspects. All G, no RP.
If it helps to understand: when I play Mass Effect games, I consider the best parts of the game to be the conversations. I don’t consider time spent bumming around the Normandy talking to all the crewmates to be filler in between missions… I consider missions to be the next thing I have to do to unlock more awesome conversations with my crewmates.
The Destiny PR talked a good game about becoming legend and epic story, but the title itself is a high-quality shooter with some levelling gimmicks.
Thing is… I still poke about the forum/news page on Bungie.net, hoping against hope that one day I will see an update announcing that they patched in an RPG story with meaningful character-development, character-interaction, and plot events that have reactions and impact. There’s a couple years of really high expectations to let go of, there.
I did see a big call out in the comments of Destiny’s last major update on bungie.net. People weren’t happy with the focus on PvP and one suggested the addition of a horde/zombie/survival type mode. You may have seen it.
That is something that I’d personally love to see. I’ve actually started to get in to the PvP more than I thought I would, however I won’t be playing it at all once Halo: MCC comes out and I’m not convinced I’ll be playing PvE Destiny either.
Yeah, fair assessment.
Luckily for me I never bought into the hype so I’m finding it more enjoyable than I expected, mostly for the social aspect really.
Still waiting for it to fill my quota: enough exclusive games (at reasonable prices) that I want to play to outweigh the cost of the console. At the moment, that would require 4-5 more games, or a $400 price cut for me to even consider buying it. Only one that’s currently tempting me is Halo 5, and that’s not even out until next year.
Especially as I’m still internally debating the value I’ve got from my
Destiny machinePS4.I’m getting one tomorrow!
Woop woop. Assuming for Sunset Overdrive? You getting that purdy looking white one?
Sure am! I won’t be able to play it much for a few days because of PAX haha
Fair enough, enjoy pax! Do you think you’ll be picking up master chief collection? Either way, feel free to add me (jackunit13) and may see you on there. 🙂
I will definitely be picking up MCC, if I remember I’ll add ya tomorrow 🙂
FFXIV 2.4 patch is out and the Ninja class sounds really awesome.
But I currently have no internet access at home /o\
I reckon I’ll be resubscribing to it soon. But for now, I have tonnes of other games to play.
So in case you’re interested, the Rogue class appears to be pretty similar to Dragoon, in that you have some ‘combo’ abilities that give bonuses to certain other abilities when you use them first.
Ninja requires Rogue 30 and Pugilist 15 to unlock and it looks like the way its abilities work is that you have three hand seals (Ten/Heaven, Chi/Earth, Jin/Man) and you put in 2-3 of the seals in a specific order then use the Ninjutsu ability to unleash them to perform various attacks and stuff. So for example if you put in Chi/Ten or Jin/Ten the effect of Ninjutsu is Katon (AoE fire attack) and Ten/Chi or Jin/Chi is Raiton (single-target lightning attack) and so on.
Downside is that this means there are going to be way too many Naruto fans playing the class though. 🙁 Rogue actually looks to be maybe viable without running as a Ninja too. Apparently Yoshida isn’t much of a fan of the way the Class & Job system works right now, with basically everyone switching over to the more advanced job for each class – no point keeping them separate. Sounds like the first of the 3.0 classes revealed, the Dark Knight, is going just be a Dark Knight from square one.
It always made me chuckle when they tried emphasising that basic classes are fine end game. Generally speaking they can’t hold a candle to the advanced ones (due to them being specialised)
Regardless, Ninja sounds pretty great but yeah, random grouping will be impossible as one cause the game will be flooded with them soon enough.
Aaand now I’m forgetting about Ninja because Dark Knight \o/
They sounded like they were teasing some kind of Gun user class for the patch too. At the launch of 1.0 there used to be a guild of Musketeers or something in Limsa, IIRC might have been the Yellowjackets? Anyway, piratey dudes with guns and stuff. Their group used to hang out in the Marauder’s tower and they seemed to disappear in 2.0. So wouldn’t be surprised if they turn up as a class too. Maybe a pet class like the Summoner? Also ranged non-magical DPS alternative to the Archer.
Ahhh, so many permutations of Naruto character names… On the plus side, the broader scope and forgiving nature of the name system means that you do occasionally get to see characters named, “Anime Reference.”
I spent ages trying to come up with a name appropriate for my character based on the official naming conventions they use for the NPCs and shit, hunting through name dictionaries and everything. Ended up unhappy. Should have just gone with something silly like usual. Or named after a dessert, since that seems common too (also there’s a mild sense of schadenfreude when you see people trying and failing to pronounce Millefeulle). If I was playing a Lalafell I’d definitely name them after a dessert.
I always go thematic. That’s just my jam. I like the character to have their own little personality, little unwritten headcanon backstory.
I did that as well, hence why my catlady has a name appropriate for the Keepers but actually is a Seeker. I feel like they went a bit crazy on some of the naming conventions for FFXIV though. They’re very detailed and cool and everything but the end result isn’t that aesthetically or aurally pleasing. Especially since a lot of people don’t even know how to say the names, eg. Y’shtola’s name is said as Yashtola, no glottal stop like you’d expect from an apostrophe in the name like in a lot of human cultures.
The situation around the Roegadyn names is just crazy. They’re I think gaelic or welsh or something? But the result is that you have a major character named Merlwyb Bloefhiswyn which looks like someone’s cat walked over the keyboard.
It should probably be a lot simpler than it really is, if only because I can’t understand a world in which anyone has an option to play a catgirl then elects not to. Of their own free will! It makes no sense.
@transientmind: especially when the other options are normal people without cat bits, people with weirdly tiny heads and enormous necks, midgets and troll-people. Not exactly spoiled for choice or anything.
(Apparently the expansion’s adding a new playable race…)
Also while a canon-appropriate name is cool and everything, in the end your character’s supposed to be some kind of super important hero and stuff so why wouldn’t they come up with an appropriate Epic Name to call themselves? I mean, if I were going around killing crazy monsters and shit I’d want to be RAGNAR RAGEFIST or something and not John Smith.
I save the ‘fantastic’ names for when there’s two names. Either as a first-name nickname with a lore-friendly family-name, or – more often – a lore-friendly first, with an exaggerated surname. It’s funny that you say Ragefist, because ‘Scarfist’ is one of my go-to family names for suites of characters in MMOs. It’s plausibly descriptive.
@transientmind: I just tend to massively overthink it. In fact, when I have two names to fill in it makes me seize up and it’s actually caused me to not play a few MMOs. Coming up with one name is pretty hard, coming up with two is like Hardcore Mode.
I have a stable of a few names I tend to re-use but sometimes none of them really feel like they fit, you know? And also sometimes names are taken and stuff too.
The fastest way to kill an MMO for me is when they do a server merge and you get moved into a new server where your character’s name is reset and then it turns out that someone else had that name on the new server already so you have to change it. Killed SWTOR for me, and TERA, and a few others in between too.
Ohyeah, especially since you know that some fucker out there is still playing with your character’s precious identity, doing god-knows-what with their name.
Though on a couple occasions I have actually successfully petitioned GMs to reset the other person’s name to free it up for me, based purely on activity levels. Like when I got merged to a server where I couldn’t use my name, but the other person hadn’t logged in for a year or two and their character had never reached, like… level 5, whereas mine had been max across multiple years.
Always worth a shot.
@transientmind: exactly! I picked that name and spent ages leveling that character and spending time with them and watching and guiding their growth and all the things they did and everything and then their entire identity gets stolen. It sucks hard. 🙁
Cause i’m bored & TAY is slow. So I announce current song game thingy!
Custer (Live from Knotfest) – Slipknot. I love how Corey starts the song off live. He also sounded brilliant night 2, glad he got that bottom piece of his mask adjusted that seriously interfered with his vocals.
Seed – Stealing Eden
Not many people would know them but they are an awesome rock band, the vocals are just divine *takes an elegant sip from a tea cup held by two fingers*
Ben Sidran – Language of the Blues
Waveriders – James Flamestar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLBIIxplm_4
The Poet and the Pendulum – Nightwish. Pretty much been listening to Dark Passion Play on repeat since yesterday afternoon… so good. And this song sets up the album perfectly.
TeMPorsche – SoundTeMP
It’s from the Ragnarok Online soundtrack, the bgm for a dungeon I used to grind a lot (although I’m just looping the whole soundtrack on random).
EDIT: As soon as it ended, I remembered that it was from Geffen Forest, specifically the bit with lots of Orcs. The lack of grunting from a bajillion Orcs chasing me and occasional boing from a Yoyo was throwing me off.
Teminite & Panda Eyes – Highscore
Listening to the Tour of Duty soundtrack; it’s classic awesome.
Currently playing? Whiter Shade of Pale – Procol Harum.
Great great song.
Here’s Procol Harum performing it live with the Danish National Concert Orchestra and Choir.
Blue Birds – Rhythm Heaven
NFI where that one popped out of.
So I posted this in the Old TAY because I’m a scrub…..
Anyway
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?
Man that is a good question. I’m still yet to look into that myself.
I actually thought it’s probably a question that’s been asked heaps of times already. If not, glad I got people thinking…
I’m assuming that I won’t have time to properly see everything, so I don’t want to miss the good stuff.
Part of the reason is that the site’s guide is a gigantic pain in the arse to read, so I just haven’t been bothered to sit down and punch out a million tabs to read through. It’d be nice if they offered it as something more readable, or even just a pdf to skim through.
I downloaded the guidebook app and HOT DAMN is it useless… I’m not sure why it’s so hard to present things as a little calendar. Then you could see what overlaps, what doesn’t etc…. Or at least have start/stop times for everything.
Every time I added something to my schedule, it would say that my 4pm thing clashed with my 11am thing… Basically everything clashed with everything else so I gave up.
Huh, I’d heard people talk about the app like it was fairly decent. Not that it would have helped me anyway.
But yeah, I don’t know why they don’t do it in a table like you always see them doing for music festivals. Vertical columns for each area, horizontal rows for times. Run through with a highlighter for all the ones you’re interested in and see what overlaps.
I’m really not sure on teh panels, last year they were not worth it due to the time it took to get into them. If you only have a day you would lose half of that getting into 2 panels. Could be better this year but something to keep in mind.
You should have plenty of time to check out the main expo hall, just walk up to any place and have a play. Indie’s showing off new games, hardware like the rift or the pinball tables.
For boad games there is a massive area where you can just borrow games to play. Set them up and have a go. So if there is anything specific you want to try check it out and they might have it. Personally I would not consider it essential to visit any of the retailers, they didn’t seem to be that cheap or anything last year imo.
thanks tigs
Tripod are playing on the Friday night!
TAY what the hell?! WHY YOU BEING SO SLOW?!
Werrrrrrrrrk. *raises arms, shuffles zombie-like – PROPER zombies, not this fast-running bullshit*
I know, right? World War Z was just bollocks.
paranoia made me not post.
Man, Elite Beta 3’s out now. So much new cool stuff to check out, hell I still need to check out most of the stuff from Beta 2. Think I know what I gotta do on Monday afternoon… once I’ve done packing up all the mess I’ve created in my costume quest >_>
Can’t talk, new Patrick Rothfuss book hit my Kindle last night.
Hoping to grab that in dead tree in Melbourne
New Rothfuss book? *woosh as os42 sprints to local bookstore*
More novella than book. But still… Rothfuss! Kvothe! Auri!
*os42 returns, exhausted and bedraggled, from his furious expedition into the mysterious land of Eye-arrel — he is clutching a small parcel to chest…*
It’s in the Kingkiller chronicles, that’s pretty much enough to guarantee it gets my money. After trying and failing to get into Pratchett (*hides behind desk to avoid inevitable backlash*) for the past 12 months or so, I need a good fantasy book. 😛
HERE HAVE YOUR BACKLASH PHILISTINE
Much appreciated, good sir – a sixpence for your trouble. I expect I’ve just not found the right one yet, but five and a half books in doesn’t leave me much hope.
Did you start from the start?
DOn’t start from the start.
Yes… but that is why I kept going after the first few – Rincewind’s not a particularly likeable character to me. Eskarina was an interesting character, but it seems she’s secondary to Granny after Equal Rites, who I didn’t particularly like – something about ignorance masquerading as intelligence that puts me off. Mort… well, the whole Death goes on a holiday plot seemed a little cliche, if I’m honest, and Mort’s side of the story is hardly unpredictable. I got halfway though Wyrd Sisters and just couldn’t stand Granny.
I’m somewhat convinced that his style of humour is too familiar while his characters aren’t familiar enough. I grew up with the Goon Show, and the influence is plain to see in his writing – I’m undecided if Pratchett did a good job and I just can’t see it because I’m too familiar with that style to not see the end a mile off… or if I just feel he takes it too far by applying it to everyone and everything.
@os42 Try Guards, Guards if you really want ti, but if you’re not into it, you’re not into it. They get less broad and silly as time goes by.
@os42 Yeah, Discworld evolves in a really great way. The first dozen books seem to mostly be about picking movie/story genres and lampooning their tropes. The rest of the books go about lampooning the tropes of humanity. It becomes less about setting gimmicks and more about People.
Did you start/finish the Michio Kaku book? I’m really enjoying it, but getting through it super slow as I’m only reading in 15-20 minute intervals on my bus rides in the morning.
Started but didn’t make a whole heap of progress… Got distracted by Wise Man’s Fear… And now The Slow Regard of Silent Things.
TAY TECHIES HELP!
Can anyone recommend any client/server vpn software thats easy to setup?
basically i am wanting to vpn from my home to my work pc, and access content using my works external ip, rather than my home…
long story short , i have setup an authenticator with some software and my authenticator had its settings wiped and didnt restore when i wiped my phone… i can still access the content from work as my work ip is static and remembered, but with my home ip changing, i cant access it from home…
tried using the built in windows solution and forwarding port 1723 to the pc, but for some reason the router wont forward the traffic.
teamviewer or logmein are pretty easy to sign up for/setup. plenty of options out there, but those would be the easiest options to try.
need to be able to access natively from my home pc rather than through teamviewer… tried the teamviewer vpn, but apparently thats just to create a local network between the 2 pc’s
also if you think what you have setup now would work if your ip was static, you could always setup a dynamic dns.
yeah but too late for that now, need to wait for support to unlkink the authenticator first…
Depending on what you need Neo-router is pretty good
Bah, I don’t want to talk about money on second thoughts.
Always a sad subject 😛
Get another job first.
That was kinda the plan.
I have until the 18th off for exams, so am looking for jobs in that time (I’ve already applied for a few).
I haven’t technically quit my job yet, but was gonna hand in my two weeks notice during my leave.
I really don’t want to go back to my current job though.
Like, it’s the worst feeling going to my current job.
I hate it, I’m ashamed of it, and I never want to go back there.
Still, I have savings, I should get my accured leave paid out to me, and Student / Youth Allowance will cover my rent.
I just need to cut back on needless spending :3
Best of luck, but personally I wouldn’t take that risk. Heck, I have dependants that wouldn’t let me take that risk.
Isn’t there a 6 month wait before they start paying the Youth Allowance now?
Even if there hasn’t been any changes, there was always the you need to use all your savings before they will consider giving you anything.
The thing that pissed me off no end when I became unemployed. Being frugal and managing to put a little savings account together and that is all lost when I lost the job and took a while to get another. People in the same situation as me just went straight onto payments because they hadn’t saved anything at all
I’ve been on it since I started uni.
Report income fortnightly when I earn money, get a bit of money if I didn’t earn blah blah blah, but it’s never been stopped or cancelled, even when I didn’t get any money, so hopefully if I start earning nothing then it’ll just get bumped up again.
I don’t really know how these things work, but that was how they explained it to me.
All I know is that it’s linked to my parents income also (cause I’m a young student).
Don’t feel bad, from my experience with Centrelink, they don’t know how it works, either.
My $2.5k p.a. scholarship was viewed as a $30k p.a. scholarship because it got paid each February – they saw one payment in two weeks and extrapolated, despite being told about it months beforehand. Took months to resolve…I am so hype for Interstellar, and for some weird reason I get the feeling that there may be waterfalls when I go and see the film. I don’t know why. Waterfalls, as in, me crying.
So! Films that you’ve cried during, whilst out at the cinemas in public. Let’s hear it! Provide details on tactics you’ve used to hide your tears from others, if there’s a cool story to tell. 😀 Like my personal favourite; DON’T LOOK AT ME, I’M NOT CRYING GOD DAMMIT
I’ll provide my own list shortly.
Last one I got a bit watery eyed (becuse the air con was drying my eyes out and causing a reaction see?) was How To Train Your Dragon 2 where
Stoick sees Valka for the first time and starts walking towards her while she’s making all sorts of excuses and apologies then just grabs her and tells her he loves her.Yeah yeah, I know, here. *hands over man card for demerit points*
C’mon…
You’re not a man if you didn’t cry at that part.Yeah…
I cried both there and when he died, they only just got back together darn it!Don’t go chasing waterfalls, stick to the rivers and the lakes that you’re used to.
Cried unashamedly at Toy Story 3. I can’t remember what other films I’ve cried at. Like, proper cried. Not that vague misty “is it really dusty all of a sudden” pressure welling up.
Nothing.
Okay, Toy Story 3.
Up. The start.
Oooh, yes, I’d forgotten that one. Every. Fricking. Time.
1000x this.
I don’t think I’ve ever actually properly cried at the movies.
I came really close to crying about three times during Boyhood though with @greenius, but bit back the tears cause I didn’t want him to see me crying :3
Like, sheer force of will had to stop myself.
Other than that, I cried during the Life of Pi, and bit back tears at the start if Guardians of the Galaxy.
Seriously, anything sad to do with mums in movies gets me all teary eyed :'(
Interstellar! I’m on a media black-out apart from trailers that I couldn’t not-see in the cinema. So going next week. 🙂
Films I’ve cried at the cinema that I remember crying at: Awakenings. Dead Poets Society.
Can’t remember cinemas, although I feel like there may have something this year that made me well up a bit.
Along those lines though, my flight back from England on January 10th this year, was extremely emotional for a number of reasons. Leaving family, alcohol and…The Lion King. I watched that shit drunk as a skunk and was balling my eyes out. I put my beanie right down over my eyes and tilted my head back to look like I was sleeping. Little did those other people know I was an emotional wreck.
In a cinema? Can’t think of any situation where that’s happened specifically. Films that have gotten me a bit weepy or misty-eyed, sure, but I don’t think any of them I watched in a cinema.
The ending of toy story 3
Also during red dog because of all the dust that came from filming in the outback
I’m the biggest sook when it comes to movies. I’ll get teary at the drop of the hat. But chicks dig the sensitive guys so that works out alright.
None while at the cinema, though I don’t go very often.
But when at home, the last half hour of Bridge To Terebithia had me bawling like a baby. I remember that I read the book at primary school, but I couldn’t remember any of the story. Borrowed the movie to watch and it just tore me up. :'(
I’ve heard that is crazy sad, but good…
Just like the book
Since I had forgotten the story, when “IT” happened, it completely blindsided me. I had no idea it was coming.
If you can handle getting your heart shredded in the last half hour, definitely worth watching
I’ve been meaning to see that – I remember the book had me in tears in seventh grade… Good to hear they didn’t botch the movie.
Good picks, everyone. I wish I could be all manly and say none, but no. There have been heaps. The last one I believe was Toy Story 3, namely the scene where Andy gives up Woody but is hesitant at first; I totally choked.
Also I lied, my personal favourite tactic that I use is to quickly pretend yawn, then wipe away the tears. Everyone has tears after a yawn.
Given that it’s Interstellar next week, should you be using this as your avatar?
http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20131123062109/lego/images/1/11/Benny2.jpg
SPACESHIP!!!!!!!!!!
I love it.
I stole it. 😀
I don’t go to the cinema that often, even rarer to see something that’d make me tear up… Last one was probably Les Miserables, which brought tears to my eyes… but actual full-on waterfalls… There have been a couple of games that did that (Gone Home had me unashamedly crying at my desk for half an hour after the credits), but as far as I remember, the last one to truly got to me was The Fountain… which I didn’t see at the cinema.
Baywatch: Hawaiian Wedding
Hmm.. I might have to check that one out.
I think the discussion was about tears of sadness, not tears of pain or tears of shame…
I remember getting a little choked up at the end of King Kong. Think I got a little watery-eyed in Toy Story 3. Can’t think of any others though. Nor any at home, either 😛
So, latest Humble Bundle has OlliOlli. It’s pretty cool, like a Canabalt Tony Hawk.
I feel like it needs Oxen as some free DLC.
The controls are a little tricky at first but it feels rewarding when you finally figure it out.
Oh man this one’s physical version comes with a CASSETTE!
(@greenius)
I’ve actually used those!
I wanna know where they’re finding solid black cassettes. When I went searching for units to harvest for my HotDOverkill soundtrack project, maybe 99% of blank/made-for-recording ones were transparent colourless or transparent black. And even of the other random ones we had floating around, there weren’t very many opaque black. Had more luck finding white instead.
the CD player in my car died so I’m resorting to cassettes, I found some old dusty ones in my relic vault.
You guys are ancient!
On of my favourite songs the basics do it Hey rain.
It came about because they hired a car for a massive road trip tour and after they picked it up they found they had no cd player only a cassette one.
They had to stop at the nearest little country town op shop and load up on tapes so they had music at all. That once one of the tracks that really caught the attention of the whole band.
sweet, there’s some good out of a potentially boring situation, good old country towns, keeping cassettes alive.
I have one of these: http://tinyurl.com/k7r6c6c
Can listen to my ipod through my car speakers…
nice, a mate of mine has one of those, I might need to track one down, or fork out for a new CD player.
I was pretty bummed when the tape player in my old car died and I had to get a CD player instead.
I’m hoping that the black glove does make it it’s kickstarter budget but it’s not looking likely. And if it does that it stays focused on the exploration aspects of the game and not devolving into a corridor shooter.
It’s weird to see “ex-bioshock infinte” developers everywhere pushing what appears to be very atmospheric and exploration based games. Although based on how bioshock infinite was pitched I’m not sure if they are doing the same thing or if they are delivering on the potential in the trailers
I’m so over wearing pants today. I’m just going to take mine off, in a very slow, erotic fashion and then use spray paint to create an extremely good likeness of one.
Well that’s what i’ll be wearing at PAX anyway.
Just kidding, i’m not going to PAX.
awww *puts camera away*
Well was lucky yesterday and was able to work from home so got to spend some extra time with my daughter
I checked in on how she was going and she was “What the hell is this, can’t somebody save me”
http://i1218.photobucket.com/albums/dd405/WNxTigerion/IMG_3399_zpsd7a627d4.jpg
Oh yeah, happy days are here now
http://i1218.photobucket.com/albums/dd405/WNxTigerion/IMG_3396_zps873beffa.jpg
Whooo it looks awesome on the other side as well \o/
Could it get any better
http://i1218.photobucket.com/albums/dd405/WNxTigerion/IMG_3400_zpsbbd75e99.jpg
OH MY GOD, this is the life
Nudity Warning Oh myhttp://i1218.photobucket.com/albums/dd405/WNxTigerion/IMG_3402_zps117b28d8.jpg
Thank you ever so much @strange
Awwww
Sooooo cuute!
I was happy to help.
I hope the colours are good. I realised that babies grow so fast I didn’t have time to order anything in especially for you so I used what I had here already. I was scrounging around in my sewing room and rediscovered that fluffy bird polar fleece that I’d made a pair of PJ pants for my daughter with, and it all came together from there.
It was perfect timing because it gave me something to do while Mr. Strange was away in Sydney.
She looks adorable, by the way. 😀
That first photo is pure gold.
You saved her from the nasty hard floor
Quick Destiny update:
http://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGame/comments/2klc36/destiny_halloween_update_2_new_items_4_new/
Hopefully, Xur will be selling those sparrows over the weekend. If so, I will undoubtedly be throwing my strange coins at him for one.
NUMENERA
@blaghman @tech_knight @popdart5 @novacascade
Sorry guys, beena bit behind the 8 ball this week, haven’t had time to prep. Will cancel for this week and go for a fortnight’s time.
Sorry bout that
All good man!
All good. Prep is probably a good thing to have otherwise you end up with leviathans that have ADD.
*Cough* @beeawwb *cough*. 😛
HEY! You were blessed… BLESSED… with David Cattenborough’s presence!
I still chuckle every time I see that name. After the game I was giggling all night.
See, I usually have the PRD up on the screen but I was having so much fun I forgot to look for something I could exploit about them.
Although now that it’s gone down I’m very satisfied. And amused.
I don’t mind because the PRD descriptions of monsters and gods and stuff is only canon within the established Pathfinder universe. In our game I don’t have defined rules for everything so I’m totally okay with stuff being made on the fly. Heck, my prep for a session is generally about 30 minutes sit down prior to when we play so I improvise a hell of a lot (read: almost all of it).
When you think about it, leviathans with ADD is only slightly more ridiculous than velociraptors being a delicacy so we have form on this.
All good, I wouldn’t have been able to make it tonight anyway.
@popdart5: did you see the playtest stuff Paizo put up earlier today for the six new classes they’re adding in their new Occult Adventures sourcebook? I’m skimming through now and they seem kind of cool.
Kineticist basically picks an element and then gets the ability to channel it into offensive and defensive ‘blasts’ with various effects. You can also burn yourself with nonlethal damage to power stuff up by adding various metamagic effects, increasing damage and so on. Seems pretty cool.
Medium also seems interesting. It’s a bit wizardy in that you prepare ‘spells’ beforehand, but the spells are various spirits, each one with a different set of abilities and with only one active at a time, but you can change between them. Like with the kineticist you can dig deeper to gain more powerful effects, but this increases a spirit’s influence on the character and if the influence goes to 4 or higher they become possessed and turn into an NPC controlled by the GM for 24 hours. 😛 Later on you can tap multiple spirits at once as long as they’re compatible – seems there will be 54 of them, each associated with a stat (strength, constitution etc.) and an alignment (good/neutral/evil and (not in the playtest) also law/neutral/chaos as well).
Mesmerist seems like exactly the class I wish had existed for TAY Pathfinder. Enchantments and illusions and a hypnotic gaze and stuff. Seems to work roughly like a sorcerer in style (CHA-based spontaneous caster) but has some abilities that make sense more for the illusion & enchantment thing. Ability to focus on specific targets to reduce their will saves against your spells, the ability to set up ‘tricks’ on willing participants that hypnotize them into higher performance or give triggered effects in combat (eg can enchant an ally such that an illusiory version of you appears when they attack someone, conferring a flanking bonus even if that character isn’t flanking). The flipside is that you’ve got a very limited spell list that’s almost entirely illusions and enchantments and I don’t think has any true offensive spells.
Occultist is an int-based spontaneous caster with a limited spell set as well. They’re all built around the idea of having ‘implements’. You pick two types to begin with and gain more through leveling, can pick the same type repeatedly and at the start of the day you pick one of the to be your primary. Each one is an object of some kind of historical significance or whatever and you gain extra abilities from the implement, plus each is associated with a school of magic so picking that implement allows you to add spells of that school to your spellbook (and the list of spells is limited as well).
Psychic is another int-based spontaneous caster that seems otherwise largely like a sorcerer, except instead of a bloodline you pick a ‘discipline’ that confers some powers and spells as you level up. Each discipline also has an associated stat, and that stat modifier gives you extra points into a pool of points that you can use to apply different effects to spells as you cast them. The bonuses are largely things like increasing the DC to dispel it or making mind-affecting spells work on undead and stuff. Spell pool is limited but not as limited as Occultist or Mesmerist.
Last one, Spiritualist is basically a dude that’s got a fused consciousness with the spirit of a dead being. Wisdom-based spontaneous caster. The main feature is that you can manifest the spirit that’s possessing you either partially or completely. So basically you’re a spontaneous caster with a limited spell set and a ghost pet. The phantom gets an ’emotional focus’ which dictates its bonuses and skills and so on. Seems interesting enough.
I’m always hesitant about using sourcebooks for classes and stuff like that as they are generally pretty setting specific. That said though, the Occult Adventures reminds me a heck of a lot of Ravenloft and other similar spooky settings so it looks pretty cool.
All of those classes look interesting however I’m in two minds about it. I’m pretty that they’re expanding outside of the core and expanded spellcasters but, at the same time, it looks like they’re retreading ground that is already covered. I also hope that Paizo doesn’t start going into some of the more wacky magic that 3.5 did as that started to get pretty ridiculous.
From the look of it it’s not being positioned as a campaign sourcebook (it’s not setting-specific like their world guides, at least the content they’re pimping) and it’s not an adventure module either. It’s being poisitioned as an actual extra sourcebook a la Ultimate Combat etc.
It does seem like they’ve got a bit of a surfeit of character classes that are poorly differentiated, though. I think each one has enough major features that are different to not feel redundant but I wonder if some of these could have been unified into existing classes, or some of the existing classes been unified into them.
Seems like all the Pathfinder classes have a feature that’s basically one or two of:
– Prepared Caster
– Spontaneous Caster
– Lots of Bonus Feats
– Power-up mode with stuff attached
– Pool of secondary resource points that you can burn to do extra things
The Kineticist being able to damage herself to gain extra effects instead of using resources is an interesting thing, but it’s still basically the same pool of secondary points, except the pool is her own health rather than a secondary resource. Medium is the only one with a mechanic that seems unique among the released ones – that turn-your-character-over-to-the-GM thing could be a terrific (or horrific) risk-reward mechanic depending on the GM.
Kineticist seems like it stepped right out of an anime, as an aside. Or maybe a fighting game. Maybe they’ve seen all those arguments about whether Ryu from Street Fighter is a wizard or a monk and decided to answer the question…
“Sean’s Adventures in being burned by his five year old cousin”
So I went up to see some rellies on Sunday, and we got to discussing plans for Christmas. After deciding that all the adults should prepare a dish, I was relieved to be given the job of preparing the ham (the other easy job was buttering the bread, which we gave to my Grandfather), because “I am terribly lazy when it comes to cooking food.”
Mum: “Cooking food? Sean, you’re lazy about everything.”
Cousin: “Not video games!”
I swear I had another “sensible chuckle” story to tell, but I can’t remember what it was.
Shame.
Does anybody want a copy of either SpaceBase DF9 (aka. “well, looks like the community needs to actually make this the game it was supposed to be”) or Hack n Slash (aka. “Zelda, but not as good”)?
There’s decent elements to both. Free to a good home. $1.60 to a mediocre home. $1,400 to a terrible home.
I’m kinda interested in Hack n Slash. I liked the pitch, liked watching the making of process, but ultimately wasn’t a fan of the prototype 🙁
BLAKE LAKE PLS DF
Well, if nobody else wants it, you’re welcome to it.
Maybe asking at 6PM was a bad idea for responses, but pshhh.
Huh, I’m 23 for only 32 days more…. 😐
So old.
In 40 days I’ll I’ll be 32.
That’s not as interesting though. I’ll update you in 17 days.
23 reversed. FATE.
#thenumber23
In 156 days I’ll be 31.
Next year I’ll be 40!
#oldmanmonkey
You’re all young…
hey I’m 32 in like 32 days. Good time to have a birthday *nods*
Had my software design and development exam today. With any luck I’ll never have to write another line of code at uni ever again.
That is, unless info systems students get screwed over even more, which is pretty damn likely.
This data reporting tool for work closed 2 hours earlier and I’ve just been patiently waiting for it to reopen…
Pls open so I can go home? At least it’s not Survivor day. D:
Dear TAY hivemind,
I have two 3-day passes for PAX Aus that I no longer need, so I’m selling them for cost price ($150 each).
If anybody is interested or knows somebody that is interested let me know 🙂
Would love to go, but it would mean that I wouldn’t be able to afford most of the new games that are due out between now and the end of the year.
Besides, don’t have the time off work anyway.
Call in sick and come on down! we can get taquitos!
I want some Taquitos.
I only just realised in the past few months that the Rudd2000 twitter account was run by an old housemate of mine. I might have to buy their book now. 😀
That was probably my favourite Twitter account ever. I was devastated when they stopped 😛
Not as good as Gooky2000
That guy sucks.
Woo, Manny gloves from last year still seem to be ok enough to be reused! Thumb’s a little worn… but hey.
If you used Twitter you would have seen that I finally got my gloves to actually work.
I don’t like opening myself up to spoilers 😛
Cosplay spoilers are fun!
(tell me pls)
Gooky2000 have Many gloves for PAX. Frees also hab gloves!
Gooky2000 make much trouble with brother Klungo.
Latoi Gooky2000 will be Shreddar!
I can get Soundodger+ for 50% off due to owning a Dejobaan game.
Should I take up this offer?
No idea what that is but I have a 50% off adult swim games voucher if anybody wants it
So I was applying for a job with BWS last night and came across this minor fuck up in the application form. Made me wonder how you could’ve even missed that if it was proof read :S
5 or more years experience in time you can’t work sounds about right
Hey guys, which house beers do you want?
LOCAL
James Boags Premium Light
Carlton (Draught, Dry)
Victoria Bitter
Tooheys Extra Dry
Beez Neez
James Boags Premium Lager
Pure Blonde
James Squire (Golden Ale Chancer, Amber Ale Nine Tails)
Coopers Pale Ale
Crown Lager
INTERNATIONAL
Asahi Super Dry
Corona
Heineken
Peroni Nastro Azurro
Stella Artois
Budweiser
I’m more of a spirits man myself, but thanks for the offer Scree 🙂
Ghost of Christmas Past, Present or Future?
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha
*unfollows @SnrTaco on twitter*
It’ll have to do…
When it comes to ghosts, I’m probably not a big enough phantomake more jokes about them.
James Squire Nine Tails, Pure Blonde, Asahi and Budweiser.
Squire Golden, Asahi, Boags and Heineken.
What’s the arrangement?
whatever people want, pretty much
So we don’t have to all settle on a few? I mean, that’s fine, just checking out.
Also, my cash got through OK?
I’m sure I’ll be bugging you or @tech_knight for details at some point.
It got through
All fairly standard mass produced beers
My vote would go for James Squire (Golden Ale Chancer, Amber Ale Nine Tails) or Crown Lager
No cider? Glad I’m not going to this party (I’m really not glad at all)
I’ve requested cider
Any of those are fine, but I’ll nominate the Squires, Coopers and Beez Neez
Carlton Draught and Heineken please!
Annabelle is out tomorrow, so I thought I’d grab The Conjuring so I could watch it first, because apparently Annabelle is a prequel to that. Any TAYbies seen The Conjuring? Is it any good? Gonna start watching it shortly.
I saw it last Halloween when they had that marathon movie night at the cinemas. I liked it! My friend hated it though.
Mum and I are huge horror buffs and we found it okay
It’s not really a prequel to the Conjuring, just the story of the doll that is mentioned at the start of the Conjuring.
That’s as far as the connections go though.
the Conjuring is really good!
Anabelle isn’t similar to it at all though.
Annabelle has been out for a few weeks but? I saw it 2 weeks ago at the drive in’s
Conjuring was alright
I felt it tried to do too much and kind of jumped between two storylines when they should have just focused on the oneYeah, I realize that, but we’ve only got 3 screens at work, so we can’t always get everything on the date it comes out.
We weren’t even gonna get it at all until the boss heard how many people were asking about it.
Just over half-way through The Conjuring right now.
Hey, @tech_knight, started playing One Finger Death Punch last night, very simple fun game, and very addictive.
And at $4.99 I totally recommend it.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/264200/
It gets really REALLY hectic in the harder difficulties. Check out my screenshots too! The “No Luca No” survival mode is fricken hilarious! You have to play while shooing your photoshop cat off the screen cuz it blocks your view
For anyone who love space but haven’t tried or heard of this yet:
http://en.spaceengine.org/
It is freaking amazing…
Okay so there’s nothing to actually do, other then zoom around in space going “oooohhhh preeeeettyyy”…
but still… Oooooohhhh preeeeettyyy!
I <3 space. 😀 Will check out at work tomorrow, cheers!
Seriously I was just amazed how they manage to make everything look so gorgeous! Obviously going down on a planet it loses all fidelity but everything else just looks great!
I have a giant lump on my knee that looks like an elbow point is growing out of my knee.
Had one of those moments where you slip and do the splits and end up on the floor, wondering how on earth you managed to hit all those places that now hurt in the one fall. 😛
owie! at least you can do the splits though. If I did that, I’m pretty sure one of my legs would rip off!
I’m surprised mine didn’t! 😛
Oh, wow…
I actually found someone who thinks my Username is serious…
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/10/one-of-eas-best-games-is-old-but-also-free/comment-page-1/#comment-3010000
*facepalm*
You’re crazy, guy.
I’m crazy?
😛
Takes one to know one!
Oh yeah… well… you’re ooky! 😀
lol
amazing
So anyone got/getting Freedom Wars for Vita? Looks interesting enough, but without people to play it with don’t know if I would bother.
Maybe. It does look interesting.
Depends if I have the spare cash for it when it comes out.
its out now in AU I think
Ahh well then will have to wait till I have the coin to go and get it.
No idea when that will be.
Next week maybe.
I got it this morning.
Unsure with Novembers gaming releases coming if i’ll have much opportunities to dump huge amounts of time on it like I did with SS.
It was pretty cheap though.
I might pick it up if I get this new job and save some money
Goodluck ex-Rowville buddy!
Come to PAX dammit! And thanks for the luck I need it haha
Double woo, Shredder armour all fits inside the Manny helmet inside its box from last year!
Well, apart from the leg pieces. Gotta find another box for them.
Also probably gonna have to use a big suitcase to fit all these boxes in/keep them protected.
My costume fits in two ziplock sandwich bags! Yay for spandex! 😀
I didn’t actually weigh my bags this time, but last year I had the same suitcase stuffed to the brim with a vacuum and a pair of ski boots, I took 25kg of luggage with me.
Same bag, stuffed to the brim but probably less than half the weight. It’s all just empty space inside boxes.
A vacuum?
*Vacuum cleaner
Sorry.
Why not just bring a fleshlight instead?
I think that might’ve gotten me thrown out of PAX.
Or at least I would have had to throw that out.
hmm… I’m getting tempted to go to PAX more each day.
I’d be mainly in it for the social and meeting peeps thing (which is what I liked the most last year) but it seems pretty expensive just for that! All the other stuff last year was fairly disappointing to me but at least it seems like they’ve learnt from some of their mistakes (better venue!) so maybe I can give them the benefit of the doubt 😛
Still kinda feels like a waste buying a 3 day pass for 2 days thoooo
@puppylicks – if you’re desperate then maybeeeeeee I’d be interested in one. How would the exchange be made?
@scree is it too late to sign up for the meat? 😛
I can definitely pay on the day if needed. I’m like 80% sure I’ll still be in Melbourne on Saturday 😛 so I figured I might as well…
Cut off is friday I think she said, if you can’t make it to PAX you should still come to the meat man it will be fun as!
Not too late. Put you down then?
Sure! I’d pay on the day though (how much?)
It’s Sat night, right?
Yup. Saturday and $48
Do you reside in Melbourne? What’s there to even think about! PAX IT IS!
Well there was a lot to think about! Money could’ve been an issue (if I was still unemployed) and I could’ve been out of the state/country. Stupid PAX making people commit like a year in advance!
I should play another route in Katawa Shoujo. I haven’t ‘played’ it since January. I was too scared to play it again because of the feels. I was also scared of the ‘post-Katawa Shoujo necrosis,’ where I am unable to do anything but be sad for 36 hours after getting an ending.
But then again, the route I’ll be doing next is Shizune, so the chances (provided everything I’ve heard about the route is correct) of the necrosis occurring again are significantly slimmer.
https://www.humblebundle.com/s?gift=hmErsCrHhRHx6Fkk
For whom?
Anyone in particular?
EDIT: Redeemed.
For you <3
https://www.humblebundle.com/s?gift=WsccCD8uR3bR7urZ
For someone else <3
https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=ff8W7cMX2KbqmfVW
…i don’t want to click that incase i redeem something someone else really wants 😛
I really want you to click it!
Have heard of Teleglitch before but no idea what it’s about, guess I will find out, thanks!
Fun roguelike!
Are these the ones that redeem as soon as you click?
Click to find out!
But I’m pretty sure they don’t since you need to enter an email first? Maybe? I don’t remember… one is Risk of Rain (which I had 4 copies to give away – 2 more available) and the other is Teleglitch which is free to everyone from Humble Bundle.
Someone else!
Ok.
I think I’m *just* about done packing. Maybe.
Wait no, I need to pack ACTUAL clothes.
Make sure to pack protection!
I’ve got two helmets and a bunch of armour.
I think I’m set.
Wait a minute it’s supposed to rain I NEED TO TAKE PLASTIC BAGS JUST IN CASE
Thanks, Liondrive!
I’m just tryin’ ta look out for ya’ buddy 🙂
From what I’ve heard, latex works better.
I dunno. It’s biodegradable and everything, while complains about plastic bags lasting hundreds of years. I’ll place my bets on plastic.
I’m making jokes about protection here, man. Do I need to add a #popcorn tag to everything? 😛
And I’m… resisting the joke, but by going with it?
My brain hurts now.
I think I’m going PAX now so you have to tell me what you’re going as so I can say hello!
I’ve already said it several times since the weekend.
You’re lying! Prooooove it
Not my fault you haven’t been paying attention 😛
:'(
I saw Manny and Shredder… Oh I just remembered you said the new costume pro ably wouldn’t be ready in time… TELL ME PLS
see, I was paying attention <3
You weren’t paying attention to your own attention-paying!
That is correct. I am the worst!
Morning all!
PAX folks, how interested are you in pledging to the Undad Kickstarter before you’re stuck in Melbourne with only your smartphones? I don’t mind launching a little early if you like, but I’ll hold off unless there’s interest. What time would suit you best?
(cc @freezespreston @highperformance @beeawwb who have expressed interest in the low-availability tiers.)
Yeah, mine’s an ‘if the low-availability tier is available insta-pledge’ situation, and I head to Melbourne pretty much first thing in the morning. No idea when I’d be able to pledge on my phone (have never used the Kickstarter app) either.
Does kickstarter take money instantly or once it’s successful?
Only once the project has been funded.
When successful
once its successfull
It’ll take it when the project is finished (the end date of the funding period) and if it’s been fully funded. In this case, December 15 is the end date. That’s when the money would come out.
Works for me.
Ah, thanks for the reminder to add some value to my pre-paid credit card.
No worries. I did you such a huge favour!
I’ll do it whenever, just tag me here on TAY and I’ll PAY
Hey guys, Costume Quest 2 is out on the XBox store, checked PSN, but couldn’t find it there, although I did find The Unfinished Swan is out.
I ironically never finished that.
Morning fellas!
got a small bit of info that may interest many of you.
was skyping last night with a friend of mine who works for Sega’s arcade division over in Japan. Apparently whilst mingling with some other employees from other divisions at a recent corporate event, some bombshells were dropped about a 2015 re-release of Shenmue 1 & 2. Not in the way of an announcement, but a group of people were discussing some development hiccups they were running into RE: lighting…
No indication of platform specifics so remain cautiously optimistic…
Hopefully this paves the way to number 3, so we can finally wrap up this damn story…
I hope they bring Yu Suzuki back if that is the case. It also makes me wonder which consoles they’d throw these hypothetical re-releases on and how much HD-ifying they’ll do.
hoping ps4, but tbh i dont really care as long as its on a current system… i never leave the old ones hooked up
So excited. Found out this morning that the Foo Fighters are coming to Hobart in March. And who is their support act? Rise Against!!!!! Two of my favourite bands on one bill, and I don’t have to go to Melbourne to see them. I MUST HAVE TICKETS!!!!!
I didnt think there were any Tassie tayberinos…. i think i missed the opportunity for a potential meet…
Benj is as well.
Yep. 3 of us, me, Benj (as Shane had already mentioned) and QuizB. However, Benj and QuizB are in Hobart, while I’m in Launceston, so we haven’t yet had a meat. Bit hard for me when I have to rely on public transport to get to Hobart.
So I’ve been given a leave pass for Saturday night so I’ll be coming to the meat
@scree you can count me as one, if you can DM me bank details to twitter or my gmail which is just tigerion at gmail
Should be interesting, only the 2nd time I’ve been out on my own in the last 6 or so months. What time are things kicking off?
7pm. You can pay on the night
Hello TAY. You are a scary beast! I have gifts! Well, gift. I’ve got a 3-day pass to PAX but can’t go on Sunday. Anyone want it? It’s for the price of FREE!
Awesome offer!
I think @greenius was thinking about something like this! GREEEEEENIUS!
Gee thanks for thinking about me shane! Did anyone ever think I might like to come to PAX?! DID THEY?!
I can’t I’m starting a new course *cries*Nope.
I’m sorrrrrry, I’m not really paying attention to PAX stuff, it makes me too sad.
Damn, I just paid Gooky for his spare. Eh, I get all three days so no biggie.
*tents fingers*
Gooood. Goooooooooooood.
Maybe! I think I’m buying a pass from @puppylicks though but I’d also be missing out on Friday.
It’s just for the Sunday, I’m going on Friday and Saturday. I’d have to meet up out front in the morning. Let me know, you’ve got first dibs. DIBS!
I’d prefer to go for 2 days anyway so I’ll probably be buying it from Pups. So I’ll take second dibs :). Cheers though!
SO KIND
Hey dudeeee! I’m 99% sure I’ll be fine with a pass now, so no need to worry about me anymore! Thanks again 😀
See you at PAX? 😀
Yup ! See you at PAX! Are you on Twitter ? Find me @thistler
@JoelGreenius!
I’ll put it out on twitter in a few hrs 🙂
3 more hours and then I’m on my way to Melbourne \o/
Incidentally, I think a tonne of people are all arriving at the airport at the same time this arvo…
What time do you get in? I think I’m like 3:30 or something.
Now 😛
I arrived at 2, and a bunch more people are getting here at 2:30.
@piat @jocon @distantdrop @saturday @os42
Sorry for the late raid call out gents, we will be attempting hard mode this Saturday between the hours of 12pm to 3pm. Saturday I’ve already downloaded sound of silence as our theme song. I think everyone has pretty much confirmed making this run via PSN except for omega? Sorry forgot to ask you when we were grouped during the week man! Worth noting our normal mode run is going to take a little bit longer than usual because the Atheon hotfix has gone line. Chances this has probably glitched the fuck out of Atheon like the hotfix for Templar did with that fight.
@jocon @distantdrop @saturday @blaghman @dire_wolf
Alt run on normal mode will be on Sunday between the hours of 12pm to 2pm. If anyone can’t make it or would prefer a different time frame let me know please!
Sonova#!!@# I keep tagging red with his PSN name…. @distantdrop
wait, wait. Isn’t there that.. thing?
Like.. that.. thing.
I think it was called PAX?
Also, how are we with Hard mode? I think we have a full roster, but now it’s just a matter of levelling up our characters enough?
Some of us have more important things to do, like raid VoG on hard.
Thank you Piat; Saturday people gotta prioritize =P Dying countless times in a glitchy raid or attending PAX.
Dying countless times of course!
We should all be 29 by now (looks at @jocon) and should have a few maxed out weapons ready to go as well! So I say let’s give hard mode a try! We’ve got about 6 weeks to clear it and gear up before DLC hits in Dec.
Edit: I’m sure red will make hard mode so it seems we’ve got a full house for the hard mode attempt =] We might be a man down with the alt run though.. I’ll wait to hear from blaghsy and dire!
Yeah yeah, I’m 29 now :p
Sounds like the next iron banner event will have 30 light gear up for grabs so that will help with the lvl 30 getting.
No worries.
Yeah as Saturday said, what’s the go with pax: any of our team attending?
No worries, will be there
I’ll be there! 😀
If I’m about I might come stand around outside and cheer you through the door… 😉
A spot has just opened up for the 12pm Sunday raid trike! ARE YOU IN OR OUT?!
I can make it, I’ll pray to the lag gods for a reprieve.
Despite I live in Melbourne I got zero interest in attending PAX AUS, only appealing thing about conventions are the streetpasses :S but I’m not paying money for that.
I’ll be at PAX, so I’m a no go for this weekend.
Fine! Go be a cool social person! *HMPH*
@pupp3tmast3r
Despite my confirmation earlier this morning, I didn’t check my iCloud calendar :S I’ll be stuck at work and probably won’t reach home until 12:30, you might need to wait on me or reschedule =/ sorry.
we’ll five man the normal run and get up to oracle phase or something =] You’ll still get the opening gate chest when we open it in hard mode!
That’s true I guess, First loot table opportunity is when oracles is defeated so I fundamentally won’t miss anything.
I’m starting to get all sad I won’t be in Melbourne this weekend. I’d have loved to see everyone!
At least I’ll still be here to keep you company! Luxuries are not my forte!
It is a bit sad that everybody can’t make it. Having so many of us down just makes it more obvious when others are missing. I’m sure Tiglet would want to give you a thank you cuddle if she could.
Oh man, I’m still happy every time I think about those pictures from last night. 😀
I’ve begun making plans for next year, so hopefully I can meet Tiglet then!
Me too. Oh well, I have NANOWRIMO to cheer me up, and I’m going out to dinner Friday night.
Morning everyone!
If anyone is looking for a really really incredibly good book to read, then go get The Martian by Andy Weir. I finished it this morning on my way to work, and my palms were sweating. I haven’t been able to really speak since. It’s about an astronaut accidentally left behind on Mars. I’m just about completely in love with the main character. It has such amazing scientific facts but is very accessible. It’s being made into a movie by Ridley Scott, and whilst I think that’ll be great, you just know the original book is going to be better, so read it now.
You can get a pretty decent sample of it in iBooks and Kindle and stuff.
Ughhhh so good.
I’ve heard very good things about that. Might pick it up while I’m overseas, though I did just load up my tablet with Dresden Files
I have a copy of Storm Front in my desk drawer! Haha.
I bought storm front for 2 dollars from the salvos the other week and read it in about two days!
I still keep meaning to get the last book you recommended, damn you read too fast for me!!!
Was that The Goldfinch? The Martian is way better. And an easier, more enjoyable read.
The one where the guy lives in France, and goes around eating peoples souls/life? I can’t remember what it’s called, I had intended to go back through my notifications and check it out. It was a classic I remember!
Oh, Perfume?
😀
I got my white Xbone! …but I’m stuck in work for the whole day 🙁
Your Xboner got cockblocked 🙁
🙁
Don’t know why, for some reason I thought that wasn’t out till tomorrow. Hmmmm, might have to pick up a copy after work today.
It’s a bit of a weird one. I’m sure there were stores saying Australian release was on the 31st, and the US was (I think) the 28th.
Please tell me you plugged it in and started installing stuff before you went to work. Otherwise the first night can be very anti-climactic.
Nope, I’ve got it at work with me right now 🙁
I’ll just be playing Forza Horizon 2 or NBA 2K15 tonight.
I hope it doesn’t need a update once I turn it on D:
The updates aren’t so bad, but if you can plug it in, connect it to the internet and start installing the games from the disc now that’d be helpful. Installs aren’t so bad but it’s a real buzzkill to finally take it out of the box and have to wait for that before it’ll do anything.
I kind of accidentally did just four hours sleep last night again.
Think that’s actually every night since Friday :/
PAX PAX PAX! HYPE HYPE HYPE!
SPACESHIP!!!!
Hey @mrtaco
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/10/elite-dangerous-just-got-heaps-of-new-stuff/
I need me some Multiplicity action. One to go to work, one to make costumes, one to play games.
Dibs being the game player 😛
One to entertain the ladies. You really should have dibs on that one.
They can get their entertainment from game playing!
So what does everyone think of the little nugget they released for Avengers 3: Infinity War.
I can’t wait for Avengers 2: Age Of Ultron to come out, but it looks like it’s just gonna get better and better. Looks like 3 will be the Guardians Of The Galaxy crossover movie(s) they were talking about. And finally we get Thanos \O/This is gonna be epic.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/10/the-avengers-3-infinity-war-already-has-its-own-trailer/
Ah so it basically confirms that
Loki’s staff did indeed have one of the gems.2018 is a long way away but we do have a lot of films to tide us over until then.
I’m pretty impressed by the long-term planning. Hollywood is not usually known for its stamina in pursuing any kind of consistency across so many films, IPs, or years.
I imagine that’s mostly Disney coordinating things. They’re trying to solidify their acquisitions and prove to investors that buying Marvel and Lucasfilm would result in money pouring in door. So far it seems they’ve got it working well.
This is one way to get some constancy and backing:
Guardians of the Galaxy $328,650,120
Captain America: The Winter Soldier $259,766,572
Thor: The Dark World $206,362,140
Iron Man 3 $409,013,994
Marvel’s The Avengers $623,357,910
Captain America: The First Avenger $176,654,505
Thor $181,030,624
Iron Man 2 $312,433,331
The Incredible Hulk $134,806,913
Iron Man $318,412,101
Total: $2,950,488,210
Jebus.
I’m assuming your just talking US box office figures, I’m sure most, if not all those films made a lot more than that. Avengers definitely made over $1 Billion alone.
Worldwide it is
Guardians of the Galaxy $752.70
Captain America: The Winter Soldier $714.10
Iron Man 3 $1,215.40
Thor: The Dark World $644.80
Marvel’s The Avengers $1,518.60
Thor $449.30
Captain America: The First Avenger $370.60
Iron Man 2 $623.90
Iron Man $585.20
The Incredible Hulk $263.40
So @mrtaco that’s $7,133,000,000
And that is just box office takings, not merch or dvd sales
*passes out*
Goddamn, that’s a lot of money. Buying Lucasfilm for $4bn really was pocket change for Disney, wasn’t it?
I keep refreshing the PSN store but Costume Quest 2 isn’t there! D: If I don’t get to play it tonight, I won’t get another chance till next Monday 🙁
As I mentioned on the previous page, it’s up on the Xbone store, no sign of it yet on PSN. Apparently it was released yesterday on the US PSN, but no word on when the EU/AUS release will be. Wouldn’t think it’d be too far away.
http://www.playstationtrophies.org/forum/costume-quest-2-a/250164-release-date-confirmed-2.html
But… but… but… (someone in my office just asked me why I looked like I was about to cry).
Looks like we won’t be getting it for a few days at least on PSN:
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-10-29-costume-quest-2-is-out-now-on-xbox-coming-to-wii-u-tomorrow
D: D: D: I am very sad now.
I guess I could buy a US PSN card on ebay and have them email me the code, then just buy it from the US store. Aww man.
(edit – Thank you for letting me know, though!)
MASTER RAAAAAAAACCCCEEEEEE!!!
I also have a Wii U, so I could buy it on that tomorrow. Sighhhh.
All right, I’ve been waiting patiently long enough.
*circles wagons*
…
*plasters wagons with advertising*
Ah, in this circumstance, I was ‘waiting’ for DC to change his mind and circle the non-PAX wagons.
Come to think of it, I am waiting for quite a few different things 😛
8pm tonight for Undad.
You got yourself a deal, mister.
I actually had one of those “I found $10” moments. The money was in my wallet, but I had no idea it was there, so \o/
I also got $40 for my birthday from my MIL, and a refund of $2 for a morning tea I contributed to, but didn’t attend.
My PS4 fund has $52 in it!
\o/
On the plus side, have another fortnight like that and it’s only 9 fortnights away… or, 5 months. Which isn’t actually as bad as it sounds, since November/December/January are gaming/holiday/free-time clusterfucks that will zoom past before you know it. February’s the Bloodborne drop, so you’ll need to tune out a bit for that, but you can probably manage that for the month it takes to get to March, at which point you’ll be able to get your PS4! And that’s if the game isn’t delayed, which it very well could be – and I hope WOULD be if they decide it still needs some work.
It’ll be over before you know it!
I’m actually on a low simmer of hype at the moment, so even if this fund gets requisitioned by some other cause, I think I’ll be okay with it.
Ha, what a friggin’ joke! According to Playstationtrophies the estimated time to platinum Shadow Of Mordor is 20 – 30 hours. I’ve been playing for over 40 hours and I’ve still got 15 Trophies to get, I’ve been trophy hunting too, not mucking around.
http://www.playstationtrophies.org/game/middle-earth-shadow-of-mordor/guide/
I was hoping to get that one, which trophies are giving you trouble?
I just remembered I nearly had plat on watch dogs but the drinking game annoyed me so I didn’t bother, just looked online and it looks like people complaining got it patched to be easier, might have to give it another go. Stupid busy year, probably the least platinums I’ve gotten since Sony introduced trophies.
I think the drinking game wasn’t just hard, it was also basically random. There were some instances you would just fail at no matter what you did.
I really need to have another crack at Watch_Dogs. I only got an hour or two in.
I’m actually really close to beating the drinking game stuff but the last few were just frustrating and I have very little patience lately, other than that I had a total blast with the game, you should have another go at it perhaps. I think the only other trophy I was missing was one for being followed by 5 people, I hate that too because it relies on other people invading you, I spent a long time playing it so I was really surprised to find I didn’t have it.
Not that any of them are giving me trouble, it’s just taking some time. On the last Outcast rescue mission now, then I’ve got 8 more Survival Challenges, 2 more hunting challenges, 2 story missions, and then just the ones involving Captains/Warchiefs.
Really enjoyed my time with it, so I’m not complaining, it’s just their estimate is way less than it should be.
Finished The Wolf Among Us episode 2 last night, spoilers follow.
I saw someone mention that episode 2 was kind of weak compared to the rest of the season and if that’s true I’m in for a treat because I really enjoyed it. I’m glad I went and read some of the Fables entries after completing it because there’s things I’d forgotten about fable characters that I guess are important to know because it really colours the characters. Like the fact that Nerissa struggles as a dancer because as part of the bargain for having her legs is that it feels like she’s walking on hot knives, etc. I also really like the way the characters have been interpreted from the old fables to really cast those old stories in a different light – Georgie Porgie being the obvious example here (though I was always a bit suspect of the line “kiss the girls and make them cry” anyway).I enjoyed the investigation in room 207 even though it was completely straightforward. Since Freeze mentioned Bigby is really toned down in the game compared to the comics I feel like I’m doing it wrong by trying to be a peacekeeper/mediator so I’ll definitely be doing another playthrough where I’m more of an aggressor.
As to the big choices:
1) Accused Crane of not really caring about Snow
2) Persuaded Dee to talk instead of torturing him – but Snow accused me of beating him anyway despite the fact I was fighting Bluebeard when she walked in :/
3) Took Snow to Trip Trap
4) Did not beat up Georgie (I did smash his TV though)
5) Did not continue to pummel Beast
I also didn’t pocket Dee’s bankroll which meant Nerissa had to use her own money to get me into the Open Arms hotel 🙁
I was momentarily worried that the game was going to pull that “the narrator is really the murderer” thing when we found the pack of Huff n’ Puffs in room 207 and the clues that suggested a strong obsession with Snow but then like 30 seconds later you find the picture of Crane.
Really interested to see how this goes! I don’t know if I’ll get to episode 3 tonight (might be playing some Destiny) but we’ll see.
I also really enjoyed ep 2.
Hooray! I thought this was going to be another no one likes it but me situation like ACIII.
Nah, I liked it too! It was strong.
Low-spoilers, but one of the things I love about Wolf Among Us is the role-playing aspect. There are very few games I do this with.
I don’t go in for self-insertion in video games, much. I don’t ‘ride along with’ the character that often, I usually just appreciate their story and their reactions. It’s why most of my MMO characters are female, Shepard is female, so is Hawke. Women generally kick ass more as protagonists.
But I relate very strongly to Bigby as I play him – restrained and polite where possible, because that’s what aligns with his ideal, his self-image. To me, one of the few moments that shows Bigby at his best is when
he goes to the Trip Trap, looking for the woodsman. And when Woody steps out of that bathroom and everyone’s on edge, you could cut the tension with a knife… all eyes on Bigby, expecting the worst, and after a moment’s staring and deliberate consideration… he gives a tight smile in a casual attempt at reassurance. ‘All friends, here.’That scene really summed up the character for me.The aggression, the ‘easy way out’ (if not for consequences) is always there, tempting in its simplicity and its viscerally satisfying release… an undercurrent of testosterone (or in Bigby’s case, lupine animality) that subconsciously snarls at you to solve all problems with fiery rage and violence. And the knowledge and confidence of it as a very plausible option. So, going through Bigby’s process of restraint is so intense. Overriding bestial instinct with the higher ideals of humanitarian ethics, empathy, respect… The conflict, the dichotomy is powerful and drags me along with more emotionally than any other game featuring Meathead McBulletchewer, four-testicled SPAYSH MEREEN, who is driven to kill and indulges mindlessly without negative consequences.
A default state of restraint results in far more tension, and highlights the jarring impact of actual violence more for its contrast. It’s a potent and uncommon kind of power fantasy, and I dig that. Wouldn’t even want it to be too common, for its intensity and potential to grow jaded with that type of experience… But I really enjoy it and I’m very glad it exists.
That’s how I see it, it was established in the first fights with Woody and Dee that Bigby is a powerhouse when he needs to be even though his “human” persona is relatively unassuming next to people like Dee/Dum and the transformed state of Gren and Holly. Everyone in Fabletown fears Bigby so clearly the “wolf” unleashed is something to be reckoned with. It would be so easy for Bigby to solve his problems that way and the reason he’s the sheriff/enforcer, but the character is clearly overly restrained in the game so we identify that as being the less desirable option and avoid it.
I still want to give it a go though.
It pays to play the game through twice anyway. It’s the only way to unlock all the Fables entries.
It’s a really great game. If there’s any weakness in episodes, it’s because they rewrote the entire story after episode one, so some stuff can come off a bit eh, but the whole thing is still really enjoyable.
I played through as nice guy Bigby. I don’t think I could play through as an aggressive Bigby because I enjoyed nice guy Bigby too much.
I don’t want to spoil myself so I won’t google it until I’ve finished, but what do you mean about it being rewritten after episode 1? I assume that…
they originally intended to actually kill Snow but people reacted negatively so they replaced her with a glamoured troll?No. Not that.
Snow is in the comics (which I believe take place after the game), so that wouldn’t fly.I don’t actually know what was rewritten, though, as I hadn’t heard that story.
I wound up googling it anyway and I think it was speculation based on stuff from the episode 2 promo not happening in episode 2 – apparently a lot of people guessed the killer after episode 1 so they changed the ending?
I don’t know why they did the rewrite. Might be because everyone guessed who the killer was. If you keep playing you’ll see that the story sort of goes in a different direction than you’d expect given how it started. It’s still good though.
Anita Sarkeesian is going to be on the Colbert Report.
ALL THOSE MISOGYNIST TEARS, THEY ARE DELICIOUS
*begins shopping online to order popcorn*
Gaming and ethics in journalism, together at last?
I think you mean nuts and gum. http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m08i966Ekq1rp5220o1_500.jpg
I’m a white male, age 18 to 49. Everyone listens to me — no matter how dumb my suggestions are.
Some of them are pretty upset. Some think he’s going to support them. Mostly upset though.
https://8chan.co/gg/res/335890.html
Oh yeah, the guy whose whole schtick is making fun of conservatives is going to get Anita Sarkeesian on his show so he can support the people who believe women aren’t allowed to have opinions.
(My completely wild guess would be that they don’t all watch Colbert.)
In fairness neither do I – just whatever clips happen to go viral. I imagine Anita’s will. Idiots will post the clips far and wide telling everyone else to stop listening to her.
There’s a school of crazy thought that Colbert is actually making fun of how liberals think of conservatives.
That… explains a lot about humanity right there.
Those people are so dumb.
Spin gamergate in a negative light? They did that themselves.
And everyone already hates them.
The suddenly part made me laugh.
Oh man, I read that one too.
Fucking gold.
Woot! I scored a free ticket to PAX this Sunday. Anyone else coming on Sunday?
I am! \o/
o/
All thanks to this lovely community!
Actually it was from an outside source, but yes this is a lovely community 😀
Woo, my internship extension just got approved!
Wait, what have I been doing here the last two weeks 😛
Has your IT dept caught on to TAY yet?
If they have, they don’t seem to care!
Eh, I work in IT. We don’t really just sit around all day monitoring everyone’s usage. We have filters and firewalls that do most of that work for us.
We tend to only investigate when management come by suspecting fowl play amongst particular individuals and ask us to look into.
FYI
I’ll be sure to duck for cover if/when that happens.
Unintentional puns are hilarious. 😛
You’re such a quack-up
Or were they? 😛
Well Benny’s probably was.
Fun times with farm animals.
Yep, mine was unintentional. Typo, brain fart, whatever you want to call it.
Isn’t it ABC? Pretty sure they’ll be gone in 18 months anyway 😛
or there will be a slight restructure where a lot of people there lose their jobs but officially no jobs were lost. That’s what happened to my dad when he worked at the ABC in the 70’s heh. Contracts weren’t renewed but no one was actually fired/made redundant. The gov’t & head of the ABC at the time were a crafty bunch.
Hey would ya look at that…Evolve ‘Big Alpha’ code just came through.
*flails arms wildly*
😀 *checks e-mail* 😀
*cries* :'(
I…… I …….. didn’t want to play anyway.
Were you on PS4? You can have my code if you want it 🙂 I’ll be away all weekend, so I won’t get to use it.
So people kept mentioning Batman and Assassin’s Creed when talking about Shadow Of Mordor, but why did nobody mention Soul Reaver and Lost Odyssey? That would have had me playing it sooner. 😛
Wow, really? Those… do not spring to mind, for me. I mean, Soul Reaver seemed like a LOT more of a puzzle-platform game with occasional brawling, and Lost Odyssey is a played-straight JRPG, heavily character-driven.
Puzzle-platforming and character-driven don’t jump to mind when thinking about SoM, to me.
Not saying there’s no similarities, just that I can’t see them… So now I’m curious. What in SoM reminds you of them? (Apart from the fact that they are all fantastic games I really enjoyed.)
It’s not genre-driven at all just elements that are similar and possibly inspired from those games as apparently (according to everything I’ve read) the battle system is inspired by the Batman games and the open world map system is inspired by AC.
The eagle-vision-like thing gives me more of a Soul Reaver vibe than an AC-vibe, especially as there’s also the holding of ‘o’ to recharge the spirit energy. And well, both characters are kind of dead and alive at the same time in the same way.I found a “Strange Rock” which was cool enough by itself ( 😛 ), but it also had a story attached to it like the memories in Lost Odyssey.
*keeps checking watch*
Is it airport time yet?
Not until 7am, no. *paces anxiously*
I think airports run on the same time as the cities that contain them.
Yeah, but it just costs four times as much.
*throws computer in bin*
ALL DONE
Just spoke to a colleague in length about the Norse mythology… I forgot how utterly rad it is! But now I want mead!
I’m gonna tell @dc you’re cheating on his Rye. 😛
If they have mead at PAX meat I’ll buy you one.
Although speaking of Rad Norse mythology did you see that kickstarter art book story thingy for about a week ago. I was tempted by $45 shipping is just too much on top of the book. I wish they would sort that auto teleport stuff so things don’t cost so much to get here.
OMG yes I wanted that so bad, but similar story to you, bit too high an asking price unfortunately… I didn’t realize how much I actually know about the Norse mythology just by growing up in Scandinavia and all the various cartoons and comics 😛
MEAD!
I want some too.
I keep forgetting I’m basically an invalid at the moment and getting up to go do something. And almost falling over all over again when I put weight on my right knee. #oldladystrange #gonnaneedahipreplacementsoon
But hey, at least it means I get out of doing housework for a day or two. And I finally got to start Shadow Of Mordor. 😀
Hmmm… TB talks with Stephen Totilo. I was planning to ignore this whole thing cos the vitriol is usually inseparable and there’s bugger all rational discussion going on, but this could be an interesting conversation…
*crosses fingers and prays “please don’t devolve into a shouting match”*
Oh wow he got someone to respond on that, and Totilo of all people. That’ll be interesting to listen to after I get home today
So, as a PAX first-timer, what should I expect?
Some variant of influenza?
The spectre-knights will loom over you at the entrance. You are expected to offer a tribute; it will have to be miniscule in size but towering in importance- a personal heirloom is recommended- afterwards, they will allow you to drink from their bronze chalice. Partake in it, but only for the briefest of moments, or you will find yourself face to face with the plate-men.
They do not forgive easily.
Lines! I’m not certain how good the MCEC is, but last year I waited in line for an hour to use an ATM – take cash.
But also, lots of cosplay, throngs of people, cool merch, cheering and crowding around the LoL stage.
Noise. Crowds. Lines. Expense. All things I abhor. I’m so glad I’m not going. #RiverInEgypt
Ebola.
The main floor area is where all the main games are setup. Some of the big one like ubisoft will have scheduled demos of new games and there will pretty much be constant LoL matches going on on the big screen.
Around the hall a bunch of smaller studios and indies will be showing off there games, just head over and get some hands on time and chat with the developers.
Not sure how the panels and talks will work this year, last year it was at least a 60 minute wait to get into any of them, leave it longer than that and you miss out as the room is full. That was the number one complaint last year so hopefully the new venue and extra room goes a long way to helping with that.
There is also a large section for console games where you can just head in and borrow games from the library to play, The same thing for board games. A few other things like @fatshady’s trials truck and the standard food and the like stuff. Few places selling collectibles.
Last year wargaming and a full size tank in the middle of the hall so who knows what will be there this year.
If there’s a panel you really want to see and it’s likely to be popular (such as a BioWare panel) you should start lining up at least an hour early, maybe even more.
I missed out on all but one panel because of the size of the theatres last year. I’m not planning on any panels this year, but I understand they’re much bigger, so that’s something at least.
If you *really* want to see it, probably 2 hours early.
Ooh just got my copy of “Yes Please” by Amy Poehler!
Have you seen Baby Mama? I enjoyed that one.
I have! I’d kind of forgotten about it, but it was good fun.
Oh I saw her doing an AMA on reddit the other day. She had some great answers.
The Shane-hype BLOODBORNE COUNTDOWN – 100 days.
It looks so pretty! Also, yet another FROM Software mistranslation causes a crapstorm on the internet.
http://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2014/10/27/bloodborne-frame-rate-targeting-30fps-since-its-the-best-for-action-games-claims-producer/#/slide/1
Edit: I wonder if I’ll actually manage to find something new every day for the next 100 days. My Dark Souls 2 countdown was only 50 days long, and that flagged occasionally.
I saw that. Was wondering if he was actually saying 30 fps is best or was just trying to say it’s not all that necessary in a slower paced game.
I think the key phrase to understanding this is in the clarification: “considering its game designs.”
It’s not all that explicit, but seems to suggest that to raise the FPS would involve some sort of compromise elsewhere.
The Dark Souls 2 countdown was very impressive, though. Quite happy to see a return. 🙂
We’ll see. This might get pretty annoying pretty quickly 😛
Also, I disagree that 30fps is better. The game developer who is expert in these things is wrong. Take it from me, arm-chair enthusiast. I know better.
…I am actually serious, but aware of what that’s worth.
I’m operating on the permanent assumption that whenever a statement like “30 FPS” is better comes up, it’s not because it’s inherently better than 60, but because it’s the tipping point at which other compromises (graphic fidelity, or simultaneous sprites, or whatever) would have to be made.
#masterrace nuffsaid :p
Can’t play Mordor anymore.
When I finished playing earlier I put the system in “rest mode” so I could charge the controller. Then an hour or so after that it beeped and spat the disc out. And then kept regularly doing a three beeps in quick succession thing. I turned it on and now every time I try and put the disc back in it does that triple beep and spits it back out again.
Turn off PS4 at wall for a minute. Turn it back on by holding the power button until the second beep, this will take you to safe mode. Rebuild database. Happens to mine all the time.
Thanks! I was just looking it up. It seems pretty common. What a stupid thing. Apparently it happens a lot mid-play, too?! How frustrating would that be?
Why does it happen? What’s the reason? Is it just a bug in the firmware/hardware/software, or is it a deliberate design choice?
It’s the disc drive, apparently. There’s another solution that involves opening up PS4 and messing with the innards. I don’t trust myself with that. This makeshift one works for me.
I MISS YOU
Haha! I made a scene on TAY. I’ve been sheepishly embarrassed to return!
I MISS YOU TOO!
You make me wanna do PAX North, DC.
*fistbump*
That just sounds like PAX North is now a dance craze sweeping the nation! Beats twerking!
Wait… Really?
So I did that ‘rebuild database’ thing. It certainly fixed the spitting out the disc problem…because it won’t even let me put a disc in, in the first place now. 😛
That one ever happen to you?
It did once. I unplugged it from the wall again until the light on the back went off and tried again. It worked the second time. I take no responsibility from breaking your PS4. 😛
I’ve just unplugged it and will leave it now so that Mr. Strange can deal with it. Constantly getting up to deal with the thing is not really what the plan was. 😛
There might be an easier alternative, hold the power “button” for 7-8 seconds and it should reboot into a safe mode menu where you can do a full restart
I found an apparently permanent solution: the little rubber foot of the PS4 is right under the eject button. It can expand in heat, or be jostled so that it interferes with the eject button’s sensor. So I took it off and it all seems fine now. (@dc)
@strange: OOOOOH! Thanks!
This is going to sound offensively obvious but press eject. I had a friend complain his CD player didn’t work for two years, it wouldn’t even let him put a disc in it no matter how hard he pushed, and then one day I pressed eject. Out came a disc. It’s not very likely, but maybe before giving up you put a disc in to see if it happened with every game or just Mordor.
[Edit: Nevermind, looks like you got it.]
Wow. I would have panicked and been frustrated. I’ve never encountered it yet…
But I don’t change discs much and tend to leave the thing on indefinitely.
Aw what, missed my flight. It had like 50 spaces free last night. Or the night before?
Oh cool, just got put on the next one. Gotta wait for 2:30 now.
[/phone net delay]
Oh my god this game is GOTY http://voar.io/
What does it do? What do I do? It just seems to sit there and maybe occasionally the globe spins very slowly in a random direction?
Right. Click to propel. More clicks equals more FAST. The earth has gravity so the idea is to try and avoid everyone and stay alive as long as possible
But what avoid? The only thing on the screen is a planet. Am I missing something? Maybe my work computers are borking it.
When you first click one of the little ships will have a green circle around it. That is you.
Nope, don’t see any little ships. I think this game is broken on my work computer. 😛
aahhhh yes. There is 200 people’s little ships flying around the planet crashing into each other
Ha, that actually sounds kind of fun.
Ohh? I should click this li– wwwwaaaait.
*remembers distorted Sonic music link*
*curls in corner, shuddering*
Vore?
Hahaha, yay, I finally got to play it. It is pretty rad 🙂
Not Actually Italian Girl update: SHE TALKED TO ME! Like, words more than just a passing “hi” in the hallway.
Just so happened to be leaving for lunch when I did, asked about the suitcase in the lift. Avoided mentioning the specific contents when questioned on its size 😛 Overall I give my dorkward rating a 7/10. Decent but could be better. But could be much worse.
#popcorn
Like this?
This is the first step! Good work. Now you have a springboard. Keep us posted.
Just be straight with her and say that you’re flying down to Melbourne to dress up.
Halloween is the perfect time to be honest and not thought of as a weirdo.
Last night I palyed a little Isolation and when I was done and tried to quit, my Xbone froze. Couldn’t power it down, had to unlug it and plug it back in for force a reboot. Now it seems to lock up a lot on loading screens. Anyone know if this is a known/recurring Isolation issue or is my Xbone dying?
With that and the problems DC and Strange are having with their PS4s, now I begin to suspect there is some next-gen conspiracy going on, to bork our consoles!
The PS4 thing is crazy annoying, but easy to overcome for now. Having more trouble with this thing than I ever had with PS3.
*seals up $52 in envelope, buries in garden*
*MASTA RACEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE*
What troubles is this? I haven’t turned my PS4 on in a while, could it be an update doing what ever it is?
Seems like heat and hardware is affecting eject sensor.
Ah right, jeez :/
Weird, last night someone messaged me on the PSN to tell me my C3P0 I made in Modnation Racers was cool, I haven’t even played the game in like 3 years, pictures don’t do them justice but here are my Star Wars mods (Storm Trooper & Boba Fett are a little dodgy but I’m proud of my CP0 & Grievous. I made a few more that turned out crap so I won’t bother sharing, like my ridiculously happy Darth Maul :P)
Edit: The pics aren’t great, just noticed you can’t see all the little wires (that I spent hours on) in between C3P0s joints
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/jze7qimhank038m/AACHzZ21dUs8Z4FZKEk7YDdIa?dl=0
Woo, just had my final handover meeting before going on 4 weeks leave. All reports handed over, 1 last process document to type up and then I can relaaaaaaaaaaaaaax for PAX and then Thailand and then moving house.
Bring. It. On.
Saw The Lion King last night. The local production is easily just as good as the London and New York ones. It’s the first time I’ve seen it with glasses on as well, so that might have contributed. Brisbane’s skyline is looking particularly nice at the moment for g20 summit. TRICKING FOLKS INTO THINKING THE CITY LOOKS PRETTY! NICE TRY, BRISBANE!
Also I noticed all the garbage bins at Central Station have been sealed shut. (Atleast on the upper levels.) WHAT GIVES, BRISBANE? YOU MADE ME LEAVE MY MCDONALDS LEFTOVERS ON THE COUNTER! :'(
Yeah, as TAY contributions go that last post was lacking.
It definitely needed you to randomly find a specified sum of money. But what it lacked in meaningful content, it made up for it in terms of enthusiasm.
Also, sealed shut bins seems like the kind of detail that gets mentioned, but deliberately glossed over at the start of a movie, but ends up being a major clue that everyone should have picked up on, but now it’s too late.
So WHY WERE THE BINS SEALED?
No more money troubles for ‘ol DC. 😛
I’m assuming the bins are for g20 summit and excessive caution?
Nah, that answer’s too simple. It’s exactly what the protagonist would assume. As the nerdy sidekick no one listens to, I have an alternate theory. I think…
*everything goes suddenly to hell*
THIS. On the dice-roll of impending apocalypses (is that the right plural? apocalypsi? Apocalypso… tropical), I never thought it would be the BLOPS2 drone-apocalypse.
Now I’ve written apocalypse too often and it has lost all meaning.
Dice roll? *rolls* *consults chart*
Looks like we’re heading for the grey martian/UFO apocalypse.
man, I know people vandalize stuff but lack of bins always annoys me, I refuse to litter so I walk around with trash for ages sometimes, at the start of the year when I went to Sydney finding ashtrays was really difficult, they kept having them tucked away in dark alleys or disguised as decorative posts.
I usually refuse to litter too but my sister peer pressured me!
Is that a G20 thing? So bombs can’t be put in there or something?
Yeah, I think that’s the case. Lots more visible police presence too around city!
Well I hope the police peoples like picking up all the extra rubbish that’s going to be lying around if all the bins are sealed! 😛
Yep. All the bins at stations across Brisbane are apparently going to be welded shut to stop bombs. It started a few months back I think..
Aww Brisbane is kinda pretty. In a best friend’s little sister kinda way?
Alllll the bins everywhere pretty much are sealed. People are gonna revolt and start flushing garbage down the toilet and that is going to be so much worse.
Brisbane is pretty come night fall when all the detail is obscured a little. Also South Bank is pretty… uh… pretty. (I LOST MY THESAURUS, OKAY? :P)
Tell me about your day, TAY friends! Your hopes and dreams for the future too!
My day has been frustrating. I thought I’d like the excuse to sit around all day but I’m so used to being productive now that I just feel like I should be doing something. My hopes and dreams for the future involve gaming for a whole a day without feeling like I should be doing something else. 😛
I’m sorry about your old lady injury! :'(
I was to scared to upvote this until Strange upvoted it first.
The key is to have a death wish so either outcome is fine! 😛
My day was spent working and stressing about money.
My dream for the future is to not do either of those things ever again.
I think working is a good thing. Just need to be doing something you enjoy! 😀
I don’t think I’ll ever stop writing. I’m not sure I’ll ever consider that to be work. But that’s as near as I ever want to get to the W word again.
Oh yeah, we’ve talked about this work definition before. It got you into NaNoWriMo trouble! 😀
Oh yeah, that’s right. You take very detailed notes! 😛
Do they still shun you?
The forums get wiped every year, so there’s not even any record of the debate. I still get death threats several times a day, but that’s better than it used to be, and so far they’ve all exhibited the usual level of amateur-writer follow-through on their words, so I think it’ll be okay.
@shane: Amateur writers! They’re the worst! *single tear*
Haha, bored, friend? Let me ramble for you. I really, truly think you’d enjoy the book I was talking about earlier, The Martian. Tonight I am going to stop by the city and pick up some new shoes for the weekend 😀 And I got a new ring yesterday; it’s all hexagonal angles and shiny and lovely. I’m still sulking about Costume Quest 2, butttt I’ll just play it next week and pretend it’s Halloween then. I’ll eat candy at the same time.
*nods* Tell me more!
I need to make a new email address, but all iterations of my name are taken :/ I refuse to put in numbers, so now I’m stuck trying to think of a witty email name.
Like sands through the hourglass, friend.
*makes notes in file*
I woke up. Made a cutlet sandwich. Wussed out on playing Katawa Shoujo. Tried to go through the 3DS’s stupid updating process. Listened to a podcast where the hosts spent 10 minutes tried to make songs using only bom-de-bom sound effects.
You know, the usual.
I can’t relate to any thing you just said! Cutlet? Katawa? 3DS? Podcast? You’re just making these words up!
I must have missed that episode of Zeitgeist. Sounds like one of their best.
Did you hear the new one this morning, Shane? It goes 20 minutes!
Yep, heard it. And now I’m affirmed in my decision to never see John Carter.
I feel bad for Pixar guy director. It’s like when the cool kids leave high school and realise they’re no longer as cool as they once were and it grounds them and they eventually become better people!
Yeah, becoming better people sucks. I feel bad for him too.
I feel like I lost my metaphor a little whiles after the first sentence.
Sadly, it was on Cox n Crendor In the Morning. There is a new Zeitgeist, but I’m not watching it until there is an option to download it.
EDIT: But if Dan and Karl did do that, it would be awesome.
A cutlet sandwich? But doesn’t a cutlet by its nature contain a bone? How is that a comfy sandwich to eat?
I thought cutlet was just a light crumbed bit of flat chicken? Have my parents lied to me all this time? Although, they call it cutuleta, so maybe there is a difference?
Sounds like a schnitzel or a fillet to me!
That sounds like a schnitzel. And now I want a schnitzel sandwich. 😀
After some research, I found I was eating schnitzel all along! You guys were right! Curse you Mother and your incorrect knowledge of food terminology!
From Wikipedia:
Interesting.
Explains why to me cutlets have always been those lamb cutlets which are basically a one-bone slice of a lamb rack. Never heard of a schnitzel being called a cutlet as well, but it does make sense now that I think about it.
So no, your parents have not been lying to you. At least about this. 😛
My day should seriously consider taking up coprophagia as a hobby.
Dreams for the future? Dunno.
This guy! Always with his words you have to google and instantly regret!
I was going to say that your day sounds pretty crappy but then I realised I couldn’t because that would almost be a pun and I can’t ruin my reputation like that.
Totally strange attitude.
link failed so I burned it with fire.
*waits for dog to animate*
WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME, GIF?
sorry dc,
I could never stay mad at you! :’)
that’s ok I’ll do it for you.
*punches self in sternum*
Don’t forget to steal your own shoes!
Odd night – I was on edge. The other half was on edge and couldn’t sleep. The cats were on edge – the eldest kept walking round the house with his clicky feet, occasionally bringing a pompom to me and doing that muffled miaow “I’ve got a full mouth but I’m still talking to you” thing. Finally he settled down and I went to bed. About a minute later the youngest decides that soccer is the best thing ever and has a full-on game in the kitchen, lounge, hall, bedroom… ffs. Wooden floors and cats. Not necessarily recommended.
Today is a good day. Busy at work, but good. And it looks like I’ll be able to take the Long Way Home tonight and trundle all the way up the creek trail rather than dealing with roads and cars. This pleases me.
I was intrigued by your comments on the other page that everyone was so young! ANOTHER PIECE TO THE TRIKEABOUT PUZZLE!
I missed this. How old is @trikeabout?
HE’S REALLY OLD. AT LEAST THIRTY.
Only very slightly older than the oldest person who admitted their age before I commented…
That’ll keep you busy. 😉
I just want to know if @aliasalpha and I get to keep our roles as oldest people on TAY or if you out-age us. (I’m 38)
I’m 40 for just a few more weeks.
Dammit, you’re the most grown up! I hope that doesn’t mean you’re in charge now! 😛
Oldest maybe. Definitely not the most grown up. 🙂
Halloween! Just a night or two early. 😛
Tell me about yours!
I choose to answer in song!
So, was that you on the raid t’other night? (I’m still trying to match Kotaku handles to PSN ones!).
Nah! I haven’t played Destiny or any other multi in weeks! 🙂
Fair enough 🙂 No idea who I’m playing with then… that’s fine though, everyone I’ve played with so far that I’ve talked to has been cool. Funny, friendly and non-griefy. Maybe it’s the fireteam thing, maybe it’s the co-op thing, but there’s been no agro in any group I’ve done strikes with.
TAYbies tend to be good folks!
Yes they/we do. 🙂 But it’s more than that, I’ve randomly been invited to fireteams on matchmaking strikes and once when I was just farming, and had a bunch of fun chatting to randoms and shooting stuff. Destiny – Social Networking With Headshots.
I drank a lot last night and rode a fair few roller coasters, so the majority of my day today was just lazing about, reading books, playing the vidya, the internets, brief social contact through technology, etc, etc. Also eating all the leftover food which I bought yesterday from a all-night breakfast place. Good stuff.
My dream? Hmm. Seems like not too long ago I threw myself into the wind blindly looking for that answer. During more.. subdued, morose times, the times you’d only feel comfortable sharing with your reflection from the bottom of a shot glass, I’d simply answer ‘to be happy.’ Not a very lively answer, both in the emotional and engaging sense, I suppose. But recently I’ve realized that it’s not that I lack happiness, but just.. everything, really. Ah, I imagine that sounds a bit much, but I simply mean that that I feel like there’s a lot I haven’t bothered to discover about myself, many experiences that I’ve shirked away from and avoided. And, I dunno, I’m not sure if I have to work towards it or if it’s something that comes to you- a small little childhood dream that has long since passed was only brought upon me out of necessity.
Much reflection has made me think that such a answer is not so bad nowadays, however. It’ll come in time, right? It’s certainly not the best of things to dwell on, the idea of endlessly searching for purpose, but there’s a comfort in that. People say it’s about the journey and not the destination, no? Can’t see why that can’t simply apply to, ah.. life.
I’ve rambled, and I apologize, and I further apologize for what I’m going to say next, for I need to sum all of this up- and I can only think to do in a very cheesy manner. Simply put, for somebody to dream, one needs to be awake beforehand, right? I’m still working on that last part.
A rich tapestry painted right there! Or a cry for help!
I had a slight hangover this morning, so my obvious response was to drink more. I suspect that post is a product of such a so-called ‘hangover cure.’
Oh shit, and finish a Triathlon, that’s like the only goddamn thing I’ve ever thought to do in terms of lofty future goals.
Day’s been slow man. TAFE work and work tonite too. Running on low energy. Mad jelly of people in Melbourne, but staying dedicated to TAFE work. Hopes and dreams? Happy, healthly.
You’re awesome, Shiggy. One of my favourites. A good guy. Someone I look up to even though I’m older.
You’re alright mate…you’re alright.
I may have written two pages of plotting and scheming for my evil antagonist while I should have been working. #RPGs4lyf
My day has been mostly stressful and horrible and I’m on the verge of a full on panic meltdown. I had lunch with Virus though so that was nice to catch up with him.
My hope for the future is to not become a burnt out alcohol useless to everyone like my father.
*hugs*
At least we found that bit for your cosplay \o/
Last night, I psyched myself up to play a new route in Katawa Shoujo this morning. I just can’t do it. I’m too scared. What about the feels? What about traversing the hallowed halls of Yamaku? What about the commitment? This is true fear here, people.
I’d make the best boyfriend.
I’ve been having a productive week with this TAY break!
http://instagram.com/p/uuU9D0Nany/
You sound nothing like I imagined.
My singing voice isn’t really how I speak like but it’s kind of deep and off-putting.
You’ve been imagining me? I’m not sure I’m comfortable with that! 😛
I think of you all the time. WHO WOULDN’T?
<3
LORDS OF THE FALLEN (mediocre Dark Souls clone) STREET DATE BREAK! WIN!
I have never heard of this game. Will it scratch my Dark Souls itch?
Ah, it’s for next-gen only. Curses.
It might not be mediocre!
And bring on the Dark Souls clones, I say. It deserves to be its own genre.
Oh, I’ve been so cautiously semi-optimistically trying-not-to-be-excited-because-feeling-is-for-losers about this one. It’s been right up there on my list of, ‘stuff that’s actually probably quite enjoyable but will sell and review quite poorly’ games.
Until the reviews hit, Shadow of Mordor was on that last for me, as well.
Lords of the Fallen doesn’t seem to have been quite so fortunate. It’s reviewing about how I expected: Buggy, flawed, doesn’t rival its obvious inspiration, balance/pacing issues, threadbare story… but surprisingly good despite its glaringly obvious flaws and hey, why not have more Dark Souls clones?
Been tossing up whether to get that on Steam… looks aesthetically interesting, but the gameplay seems clunky as hell – the combat seems to flow like molasses… That said, as someone that enjoyed DS2 by hiding behind the biggest shield I could find, whacking stuff that bounced off it with the biggest sword I could find… it might not be so bad. 😛
Apparently it’s buggier on Steam and a 5GB patch is incoming for all platforms. Been out in the US a few days.
Probably one of the very few times it’s better to be delayed.
So I think someone’s put my mobile number on a list somewhere, or hijacked it somehow, because I keep getting calls from numbers I don’t know. I’ve never answered them yet, and the times they’ve left a message it has either been a bunch of random pocket noise like someone’s accidentally called my number, or a person answering with a hello as though I was the one who called them. I already blocked one number that had called me about 10 times, but now I’m getting calls from numbers that are different each time.
You’ve been doxxed? D:
Ohhh, I hate the questioning hello!
It’s awful. Mr. Strange does it to me all the time. I’ll answer the phone, he’ll question “Hello?” and then pause for ever like I was the one who called him. 😛
Give him a break, it’s an easy mistake to phone the wrong wife.
Well he has been “working late” a lot more recently. And he is all of a sudden having to go to Sydney a lot “for work”. Hmmm. 😛
Technically it’s true! It’s hard work to maintain a double life!
LIE HARD
Look, I’ll be honest… I didn’t follow the link, I just like the pun.
OK, now I did and I’m glad I did.
Marketing autodialers. Update your number on the Do Not Call register. (Charities can still call but you can ask them not to call again.)
All right, I’m out of here.
For those of you who are keen/interested/flush, the Undad Kickstarter begins tonight at 8pm (that’s real time, not Qld time, SA time or WA time). I’m sure you’ll hear from me again then, though.
This link will get you there. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shanewsmith/369065105?token=293edbde
Well if Shane’s leaving, I’m leaving too…
*makes dramatic exit*
Well I will just sit here by myself then.
*looks of into the distance*
Ok, so that’s 7pm for those of us on the East coast who understand that daylight savings time is a hoax.
Holy shit I never realised how much the TAY threads went off !
I’ve been meaning to post my podcast but felt like a dick hijacking some kotaku/gizmodo post…. so I feel ok about posting it here.
Nerds vs Podcast
http://nerdsvspodcast.com/
https://www.facebook.com/nerdsvspodcast
(Can find us in Itunes as well)
Basically the show is just me and two other guys meeting up every week talking tech/nerd stuff/movies/games/what’s happening in the nerd world and also answering users questions ranging from tech advice to nerd love… we’re somewhat crass and hopefully funny.
If anyone could chuck us a sub/feedback/review that would be pretty awesome 🙂
Be harsh, be critical, be whatever you want to be…. I mean I comment on Kotaku threads so I instantly qualify as being thick skinned 🙂
I (Nathan) was on holidays for episodes 22/23 so anything else is fine.
CHEERS LEGENDS !!!!
An acquaintance working in Roma St appears to be getting spied on by G20-related drones hovering outside his office window. Now, the real question is… are they the good drones, or are they enemy drones? How do we tell?
He vetoed suggestions to moon the drone (apparently that’s the first thing anyone who hears about the spying thinks of – though for me it was a slow, deliberate picking of nose while staring at the camera).
I’ve suggested that he plaster himself against the window and rub his body against it lasciviously. Less fireable, just as amusing.
…I really hope someone takes a photo, though.
Drones! It’s like we live in the exciting future of Dark Angel! We’re gonna have the greatest season! And then get retooled for second season! And then cancelled!
:C
I miss Dark Angel… When I was a kid, I wanted to be Eyes Only.
I’m glad the actor moved on to better things in NCIS.
They’ve all done pretty well. That other guy from Manticore is now on Supernatural and Jessica Alba continues to be a person!
I got an Evolve beta code! But it’s for this weekend and I’ll be out of town. Anyone want it? It’s for PS4. (I offered it to @gutsoup first, but I’m not sure if he has a PS4?)
If Guts doesn’t want it, I know I do.
Which state are you in? I’ll wait till 4pm my time (5pm with daylight savings) and if I don’t hear from Guts by then, it’s yours 🙂
We’re all Brisbane folks! Gutsoup! Transientmind! Jimu! Strange! All the other states have cooler things to do today! :'(
I’ve met all of those people 😀
Worst. Hermit. Evah.
I’ve done like 4 social things this year, I’ll get cabin fever if I do less, Is that what you want dc? I’m mad enough as it is without cabin fever! 😛
oops.
We should solve that awkwardness with another meat.
PAX North. It’s a thing.
(Which I am starting to actually consider making A Thing.)
Qld, too! I am a BrisTAYbie. 🙂
He does
aww, thanks, I’m actually out of Brisbane all weekend too, @transientmind it’s all yours.
@transientmind How do you want it? Wait, what.
Want me to email it to you? Or just throw it up here?
Email is good! It’s my username at the gmails. 🙂
Thanks for that.
Dammit I missed the innuendo, too. My mind is obviously too pure and clean today.
Just sent it 🙂
Oh yeah I got one of these on PC today. I should go activate it or something.. Swear I opted for a PS4 beta however. Thanks a lot EB D=
@greenius
Hhhnngh!
*ploop*
Ha, nah, still at the deskGross! Do it in the toilet next time.
Ha – you know all those competitions where you see that state that “Employees and their immediate families are ineligible to enter”? Well, that’s me with the competition on the front page!
I feel so… special… no… ripped off!
You’re in a world of tank?
I am an employee of Wargaming.net, yes!
I’d settle for a job anywhere atm! Even Wargaming!! 😉
As would I.
A job right now would be awesome.
Hey!
I didn’t hate the new TMNT movie
I liked the trailer. I think I’m gonna like the movie.
It wasn’t nearly as bad as the press made out.
Theresa some actual funny jokes.
Theresa huh?
Nice one autocorrect
The April O’Neil movie 😉
Sorta, I guess. Took way too long for them to show up.
I just felt like she had a lot of screentime. A lot.
Given that it’s Megan Fox, I don’t see how this is a bad thing.
…Wait. Unless she’s talking. Does she talk much?
I kid, she had a joke in the trailer which I liked. I’m sure it will be fine. I watched the TMNT movie again recently and realized it was actually… uh. Not… quite what I remember. And the 2nd/3rd movies didn’t happen, as far as I’m concerned.
Negative Zero told me about her big toe like thumbs & she’s never been quite the same again.
It was… okay. Not good, beyond stupid but entertaining enough. Some flashes of brilliance of what could’ve been.
Yeah, like that. I was expecting Transformers bad, but I guess even the first Transformers wasn’t as horrid as it became. Pretty sure I at least could tell what was supposed to be happening.
As of yet, I have not found a better image that encapsulates my life than this.
http://www.procrastoonation.com/archives/156
This one sums me up!
I’ll go with this one.
You’ve depressed me. And I’m not one easily depressed.
…
Ok, this one then.
http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2196#comic
My life: http://38.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8raspwuHn1ral24no1_500.gif
Very similar to what I occasionally feel.
On one hand I’m like, “You really need to start studying, Liondrive”, but then on the other hand I’m like, “None of these courses are important any more, go play games and watch TV”.
So.
Recommend me some TV shows? 🙂
THE LEFTOVERS. I think you’re already on top of that though, so nicely done.
Sleepy Hollow is way better than it should be, plus… TOM MISON!
Watch it! There’s something I want to say about it but I can’t until you’ve seen this week’s episode.
Just watched 2×03. PROGRESSSSSSS.
The Island with Bear Grylls
The price is right!
You’ll be studying again in no time.
The Iron Chef.
Suits. Definitely Suits.
Disclaimer: I may have a huge man crush on Gabriel Mach… Yes… I got my haircut like Harvey recently… *blushes and runs away*
Woo, finally made it on the Sky Bus! Just an hour after landing!
I guess I’m going to PAX now! Only for Saturday and Sunday though because of short notice/work. But um… I haven’t been keeping up with stuff so I have no idea who is going and who isn’t 😛
@negativezero are you still around Wantirna? Any chance I could please get a lift back home? (or anyone else). I’m fine getting to the city but it’s the coming back (especially late at night) which gets kind of annoying/inconvenient. I’m assuming Saturday will go on for a while.
Otherwise I could slumberparty it up at someone’s hotel ;D
I should really learn how to drive to the city 😛
Don’t get any public transport? It sucks, but there’s usually a train to get even me home on weekends late and I live on the outskirts of civilization! 😀 ENJOY PAX!
Yeah but the nearest (decent) station is like a 25 minute drive and finding parking there would probably be a nightmare. It’s also an end of the line to end of the line thing so it’s not that convenient 🙁
I hear that parking in the city is expensive too so that’s why I don’t wanna drive and park meself!
Makes sense! I clearly know nothing about Melbourne! 😀
Come back to VIC!
Neg is in Camberwell now, made the big move out on his own last week
And the Downvote Brigade has already hit the Colbert article. Same small handful of people that make most article’s comments painful to read. Why are they here? They complain about the site being shitty, no one wants them around yet they keep hanging around like a bad smell, being awful little stains.
It’s embarrassing that it’s getting Colbert attention now even though I’m sure the segment will be amazing. 😀
I don’t get the bit where they said shit about death threats, and then read out that tweet.. to me, there was nothing threatening about what they read out.. my understanding of the comment, was that they were saying said person made a shit game, and thus wont be missed when they’re dead..meaning. they wont leave an outsanding legacy in the same way as say.. John Carmack. In no way did it come across as them threatening to kill them? Am I missing something?
Incredibly, it looks like I’ll be able to pack all the cosplays, plus everything else for the weekend, into the carry-on luggage! \o/
Starting to panic that something will be left behind, but I think it’s going to come together. Not looking forward to the 6am flight tomorrow.
Oh hey I think I StreetPassed @docwhat, maybe at the airport or something.
Dear @shane
I wish you all the best with your approaching kickstarter campaign 🙂
I know all the TAYbies are behind you 100%, and I sincerely hope you reach your funding goal.
Having read the first issue of Undad, and with knowledge of your other published works, I know you’ve got the writing skills, prowess, and dedication to make a name for yourself 🙂
I really hope it all goes well man.
Though I’m sure you’ll reach your goals with no hassles 🙂
Just have confidence in yourself and your writing.
I look forward to reading your future instalments of Undad 🙂
Love
– Stewie
You remembered! <3
Of course I remembered 🙂
I wouldn’t be a very good friend if I forgot, now would I?
I forgot. Worst friend.
Damnit, DC.
IT’S 8:00PM.
For folks who previously flagged interest:
@freezespreston @highperformance @beeawwb
@batgirl @transientmind
WHEE!
Shit. Uhm. Hey, so… How many people have unofficial dibs on the $100 tier? Did you get more/as many expressions of interest as are slots?
(Also, as a kickstarter newbie, is it possible to get multiple tiers? Because the $40 rocks ass, too.)
There’s 2 $500 tiers available which include the likeness?
Noooo, the Japan fund’s tenuous enough as it is. I’m already scrapping games off the next few months’ release schedule! 😛
If you want, you can get the $100, pledge $140 in total and get everything. Sound okay?
What to do:
Click on the $100 tier. It’ll give you an option to enter an amount. Enter $140. Go ahead with it! \o/
PS: By the way, it’s first in, best dressed. So go for it.
PPS: There are leftover slots if everyone who registered interest gets one.
Excellent idea! Eet ees done.
Oh good. That means I can launch my new giveaway, too.
Hello everyone! I’m giving away something I make especially for the winner (you’ll give me two colours and a theme or subject).
All you have to do to enter is to back Shane’s Kickstarter.
Every TAYbie backer gets an entry. Everyone who Tweets that they backed it and tags me (@strangist) on Twitter gets an extra entry.
I shared mine on Facebook since my twitter is all Taybies that would already know.
Colour 1: Green!
Colour 2: Green!
Theme or Subject: Green!
😛
You’re AWESOME.
Edit: Seriously. This is amazing. \o/
I backed a $100 tier @shane, can’t wait to be a star!!!
… Okay, an extra :p
@strange, my colours are blue and white and the theme is Sportsball :p
Can the latest South Park episode cram any more recent events into their story?
Good EP?
Just (accidentally) finished Bayonetta 2!
So awesome 😀
Still not sure if I like it more than the first or not. It’s pretty much the same game we all love, but it’s hard for me to compare to the first since I haven’t played it since launch and forgot pretty much everything about it :D. I REALLY loved the first though and it came outta nowhere for me, this time I had expectations!
So glad they include the first game though. Now I can easily revisit it rather than playing my dirty old peasant Xbox 360 and scratched Bayonetta disc (stupid friend borrowed it and returned it all scratched :'( )
Hate “friends” like that. I sincerely hope you don’t let him borrow anything anymore.
Mind. Blown.
WolframAlpha can lookup Pokemon data…
What other magical things can it do!?
I’ve really only used it for weather, city, measurement and currency exchange info.
I believe the xkcd dude uses it a lot for his What If equations.
So, it’s Halloween tomorrow, I should probably watch something appropriately themed. Should I watch The Black Dahlia (seen it before, but a long time ago and I can’t really remember much about it), Ripper Street Season 1, or The Walking Dead Season 3?
Ooh, or Sleepy Hollow, love that movie, haven’t seen it in a while, might save that one for tomorrow night, might pick up American Horror Story tomorrow too.
Shaun of the Dead! Shaun of the Dead!
Ok, you twisted my arm.
By the way
You’ve got red on you XDMy choices are Frankenweenie or ParaNorman. The things I do for my kids. 😛
As for you, maybe go for a Japanese horror movie. One with a creepy kid in it. So if a kid comes Trick Or Treating to your door it’ll scare the bejeebus out of you. 😀
I do have The Grudge 1-3, Haven’t seen either Frankenweenie or ParaNorman, my son has though, but he’s at school, so I can’t ask him which one he thinks is better, I’d probably lean towards ParaNorman.
Crap. This room doesn’t have opening windows. We’re all gonna die.
*tents fingers*
Excellent, no escape route, my plan is coming together nicely…..
Ahem…..
I mean, how awful.
Air con at least?
@freezespreston Yeah, AC works.
@liondrive I feel sorry for me 😛
Eww, all you nerds in one room with no opening windows is going to be like one giant Dutch oven come morning.
I feel sorry for the maid.
Hey All,
Just wanted to wish everyone a safe and happy PAX. Seeing as I can’t make it, this is also an impassioned plea that you all take lots of photos and share them with those who can’t make it!
Good luck to all,
masterfie
Decided that I’ll try and watch all of Lost, and maybe look into Sleepy Hollow (maybe).
I really liked Lost, but only watched it when it was on TV, and missed a bunch and couldn’t catch up 🙁
You guys were surprisingly slack with the suggestions this time by the way 😛
You used to give numerous suggestions, each with a summary and a rating!
What happend?!
Six Feet Under. Nate Fisher has spent his whole life afraid of death. Then he unexpectedly inherits half of his father’s funeral home. Alongside his siblings, closeted brother David, and tortured artist Clare, Nate attempts to find the right path through life and come to terms with what he has spent his whole life running from. Complex, rich, deeply themed, and philosophically challenging, this is a life-changing show. Once in a lifetime viewing (though you should watch it often). 10/10
The Shield. Gritty, morally challenging cop show about a corrupt cop who gets results on the streets. Shakespearean in structure, dialogue is amazing, show is layered with themes and stuff. Great writing, great acting, great characters. One of the best TV endings ever. 9/10
M*A*S*H* Changed the face of sitcoms forever. Although host to another of TV’s best endings, this show was a little more erratic in quality, especially in the early years. When it’s on, it can’t be beaten, though, and its puns are SUBLIME all the way through. 9/10
Gilmore Girls. Rivals M*A*S*H for wit, and is genuinely compelling viewing. Not afraid to take risks with the characters or make them unlikeable. Plenty going on under the surface if you’re of a mind to analyse it, or you can coast through on the charm of the characters and dialogue. Impeccable. Last season is a little weaker, sadly. 9/10
Frontline. Ever wonder what really goes on behind the scenes in current affairs. The team at Working Dog had a pretty good idea of it 20 years ago, and I doubt much has changed since then. One of the best Aussie TV comedies that’s ever aired (rivaled, but not surpassed, by Working Dog’s other shows). 8/10
The Wire. Hailed by some as the best show ever made, The Wire takes us on a five year trip through Baltimore. While keeping a core cast of characters at the centre of the show, it manages to show us five entirely separate institutional structures, and the ways in which they affect and corrupt urban life. The Wire has a voice that’s all its own, and you’ll find it’s unlike anything you’ve ever seen. 9/10
Treme. From David Simon, creator of The Wire, comes an even more distinctive and unique show. Focusing on New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Treme features an incredibly strong ensemble of characters, and an unbelievably authentic setting. A no-brainer if you have any interest in jazz, and still well worth seeing if you have no jazz knowledge. 8.5/10
The Sopranos. Hailed by some as the genesis of the golden age of television, The Sopranos tells the existential story of a mobster suffering from panic attacks. While on the surface, the show focuses on the tension between his families and the various organised crime activities you might expect, the entire show is a deep and rich psychological analysis and a compelling character profile. 9/10
Sons of Anarchy. Hamlet on motorcycles. Final season currently airing. 8.5/10
Friends. It’ll make you laugh, make you cry, make you care. It’s a classic for a reason. 8.5/10
There’s bound to be something there that appeals.
I’ll give Six Feet Under a go 🙂
I hear you talk about it often, but have never looked into it :3
Thanks Shaney! 😀
Excellent choice. Enjoy!
The Shield is probably one of my all-time favourites and the end hit me like a brick. I still think about it sometimes.
(Usually when things in the office are getting particularly banal and I think about life ten years ago.)And man… The Shield does escalation like no-one else.
@liondrive, you should watch it.
…Also, Gilmore Girls. Just… because.
I love The Shield so much. There’s not really a great way to describe it, but it’s such an incredible show, from start to finish. The ending has stolen a hell of a lot of thunder from the rest of the show, but it also has one of the best pilot episodes I’ve ever seen, and unbelievable tension all the way through.
Mad…men? 🙁
Oh yeah, Mad Men. That’s pretty awesome too!
My recommendations from last time still apply but you’ve watched most of them. So proud. :’)
Persons Unknown
The Middleman
I don’t do summaries and all my ratings would be 10 because if I love something enough to recommend it, obviously it’s a 10. 😛
Still saying Suits.
Hands down some of the best television I’ve watched in the last few years. One of the few shows I watch as it airs and don’t binge on.
Suits:Mike Ross, a scholarship winning college drop out with a photographic memory, is trying to avoid a drug deal gone bad and stumbles into the interviews to join one of New Yorks top law firms under the mentorship of Harvey Spectre (me:*swoon*). Harvey hires Mike, despite not being a qualified lawyer, and they go on to win cases, high five, exchange movie quote banter and have generally excellent times! Episodes and greater story arcs revolve around cases they try (and settle) for the firm and hiding Mike’s secret from the rest of the firm.
Sharp witty writing, great actors and consistantly fantastic performances are put in by all of the main cast.
Also, ditto @shane on Sons of Anarchy. Also one of my favourite shows.
True Blood: is a good show for the first few seasons – loses it’s way in the middle few – but has a great final 2 seasons. Faeries, vampires, werewolves, humans and synthetic blood making vampires ‘come out of the coffin’ so to speak. What could go wrong?!
I never knew something could be both so incredibly 80’s and incredibly 90’s at the same time.
Well. My life is unquestionably enriched for having seen that, but instead of going to bed I think I need to fire up Lords of the Fallen again to wash my brain out with some excessive grimdark.
Who are we? The Wildcats!
Who are we gonna beat? The Wildcats!
holy shit, I choked on my coffee and then couldn’t restrain laughter when I took a call, the person on the other end must have thought I’m mad, I kept giggling and almost choking cause I was holding back laughter.
I actually thought it’d be a rap of the Wild Cats theme song (a cartoon from when I was young, back in the stone age)
*stares into the distance wistfully*
Ended up on the first floor. Which is great since it means just one flight of stairs to get there. But it also means the sound of karaoke doesn’t have as far to travel either.
Also Smash says I StreetPassed @alexpants some time this evening.
Probably because we’re in the same place. Fuck that karaoke.
Haha, it didn’t seem all that bad to me, not much louder than the air con. What floor are you on?
Everyone have fun at PAX and I’ll try to have fun at work 😛
Take note of all the kewl things to look at so I can go straight to them on the weekend ;D
@transientmind are you PAXing it up this year? If I recall you went there last year but didn’t see any of us (because you weren’t posting as much then?) 😮
No, I’m hanging around up here for PAX North. It’s a thing.
…
I actually mentioned to my Dad that if I was doing anything this weekend it would be PAX North, and subconsciously added, ‘It’s a thing,’ without any explanation as to what that means.
I did go, last year, but yeah, was really only posting on the main site at that time, not so much TAY.
This is why you’re one of the best!
And why you’re one of the worst! Doesn’t even attend his own personal PAX…
So I spent a number of hours with Lords of the Fallen last night/this morning and I’ve gotta say, it very much lives up to the reviews as a mediocre Dark Souls clone.
I don’t think that’s quite the indictment some people might think it is. It’d be like complaining about your latest bedroom exploits as a mediocre pornstar orgy. Fun was still had.
I like it. The lore isn’t explained as mysteriously, the characters are more straightforward than cryptic (any mystery is thanks to in media res). The scenery is a little more cluttered and cramped than expansive and majestic, apart from momentary glimpses. The combat might as well have been stolen directly for its button-presses with a handful of inventory/UI improvements, but the responsiveness and timing isn’t as great as Dark Souls. It’s a slower, more deliberate affair. And for any Souls veteran, infinitely more forgiving than your first time.
A lot of reviews are knocking points off for bugs, which I have yet to experience. I’m guessing that 5GB day one patch was just to address that shortcoming.
In fact, I’ll probably bump the game up a point over most reviews thanks to the fact that if I spent the next six months eating and lifting instead of working and gaming, I’d be able to cosplay the main character.
So far, I’d say Dark Souls was kind of a masterpiece and Lords of the Fallen falls short of it in every measurable aspect – although sometimes only subtly – but still manages to land in ‘quite playable’ territory.
It’s just made the list. Getting dangerously close to my ten-games 🙂
Gonna pick up a copy today. Were you playing on PC or PS4?
PS4 for me. By all reports the PC version is buggier and given how indie the dev is, I’m skeptical of their ability to port well to PC for this type of game. Given the pedigree it aspires to, I doubt it will have suffered much for being console/gamepad.
Actually, thinking about input methods, had an interesting discussion about that with my middle brother and his partner…
Which was a tad crude.
My brother was complaining that he was interested in Destiny, but didn’t want to pick it up because of the fact it’s a shooter that can only be controlled with gamepad.
I tried to convince him to give it a shot anyway, noting that in light of its obvious inferiority the game compensates for gamepad’s lack of precision by doing half your aiming for you. And that despite it being an inferior option, when it’s the only option available that’s not really enough excuse to not take it up. I mean… it’s like the handjob of game inputs. Everyone knows what you really want, but when it’s all that’s on offer, you’ll take it.
The idea amused him, and he asked that if the implication is that Keyboard & Mouse is intercourse, then what control method is a BJ?
I reckoned that was probably a classification reserved for using a gamepad with games that are generally designed for it. Again, Keyboard & Mouse is still better when not a shitty port, but shitty ports are more like sex-injuries than a classification of their own. (Seriously… have you ever stubbed your toe? Hurts, right? Try stubbing your junk. Extreme discomfort at all times for at least a week.)
Brother’s boyfriend then wanted to know what motion control was… I didn’t have a good one for that. The closest I could think of is that person you picked up in a bar wanted you to go to some club where they did a bunch of kinky stuff that you’re not entirely sure how you feel about which had moments of OKness, but for the most part left you uncomfortable and unable to ever respect the people involved or yourself quite as much as you used to. …Er. So would assume, anyway.
Classic case of a metaphor almost, but not quite, taken too far.
I really need to come up with something snappier for the motion control.
<3
Hmm… Apparently it’s an Nvidia GameWorks title, and we saw how well that went for Watch Dogs… Doesn’t seem too friendly to AMD cards, given PhysX was on by default, unless you disabled it in the config files. And RPS (seemingly using a similar setup to mine – recommended specs with an AMD card) says it bluescreened their PC. Thrice.
PS4 it is, then.
From what I’ve read, the preview builds were mostly OK but the review builds that the major sites got were horrible bug-ridden messes, which fucked their scores. My own experience of the 5GB day-one patch is bug-free on console, but I wouldn’t be surprised if there are some lingering issues on PC, what with that being a LOT harder to get bug-free thanks to (glorious) variable configurations.
Downloading now – went for the digital version cos apparently it’s just one 4.8GB download (1.4GB larger than the original digital download, from what I’ve read – looks like their idea of “patch” is “deploy entire new build”). Strangely small for a PS4 game, tho…
It’s reportedly quite a compact game, smaller than Dark Souls. Some of the reviewers were able to complete it in the preview & review period.
Yea, definitely not complaining – a 50GB download would wipe out half my monthly quota. :/
Have fun at PAX today everyone. Get ready though, tomorrow I roll into town. Y’all fools don’t even know how great I’m gonna make PAX tomorrow.
Time to get Shiggy with it! Bakayaro, konoyaro!
I’m very pleased to announce the official launch of the Undad Kickstarter campaign. With a range of reward tiers, and a whole bunch of exclusive swag, there’s something here for everyone.
Plus, you can earn additional rewards by participating in the Undad TRANSMISSION SCHEME and infecting the world around you with Undad! The further you spread the word, the bigger your reward.
Some of the limited edition tiers are filling up fast, so get in quick if you want the full range of options!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shanewsmith/undad-comic-miniseries-issues-1-and-2
Edit: and @strange is putting together an epic giveaway for TAYbies who contribute.
Oh man. I’m gonna back this when I get home.
You need to put my giveaway in there when you repost!
Of course! Sorry. I just copy/pasted this from Facebook, but I’ve edited accordingly. I’ll definitely remember next time.
PAX North keynote speech:
“Feelin’ fine.”
PAX North debate topic “Is it or is it not a thing?”.
“Hermits in Gaming: Why Single Player Ain’t Going Anywhere!”
“Quantic Dream is my Space Maureen and Why You’re All Monsters!”
So are we gonna do this proper and emulate a convention? Like… go to
NorthChermside and watch previously unseen (by us) trailers for upcoming flicks (where ‘upcoming’ means there are still sessions yet to show for it), wandering around game-demo booths (y’know, the two set up in EB Games) to check out the latest (new retail release) games, while surrounded by a crush of strange people (Chermside patrons)?Because even though I have a lot of Lords of the Fallen and Evolve Alpha to get through this weekend (Aha! Playing a hype new game still in development? CHECK), I could totally set aside some hours for something like that.
But you’re still terrifying and would scare the PAX North attendees! 😛
Sleepy Hollow season two has totally ripped off Nathan Drake! *writes to congressman*
It’s not unusual for Sleepy Hollow to rip off games. Crane apparently is Connor Kenway, based on all the things they each were supposed to have done. 😛
I think Drake fits pretty decently into the world and the show’s still as good as ever, but it’s so blatant. WHITE SHIRTS AREN’T SUITABLE FOR ADVENTURING!
Personally, I love it. He’s a great addition and makes for some fun moments. Are you all caught up yet, or still behind? I wanted to talk about Drake but there’s also something I wanted to say about the latest episode.
I’m up to episode five. Will catch up today. Remembered earlier this week I had a backlog last year too and caught up at Halloween. It’s a tradition! 😀
Oh, and white shirts are very suitable for adventuring. They’re the best for wearing in the sun to keep as cool as you can. Just don’t expect them to stay white for long. 😛
Doesn’t really apply to Sleepy Hollow cause it looks all cold and creepy, but Drake wears long sleeved shirts in the tropics. That’s the definition of inappropriate! 😀
Leech protection? 😛
Of course! HOW COULD I BE SO STUPID!
It’s good bushcraft! It might be hot as blazes, but in general you want as much skin coverage as possible and preferably a thick, durable material. It’s truly surprising just how much in the bush or a rainforest can scratch you badly enough to break skin, and the places can be teeming with potential infection. Plus it’s good protection against sun-burn.
The catch is that you will never be Hollywood glamorous what with being soaked in sweat all the time. After a while, you resign yourself to being a sweaty, stinking mess, since at least everyone else is, too, and as far as hygeine goes you’ve got far more to worry about in the way of decomposing flora and fauna than a little sweat.
Sssssh. This is a logic free zone! 😛
All those sexy rugged heroes in their white tees look so good from afar. Up close it’s all yellow pits and collars.
If I went on an adventure I would wear a yellow short sleeved t-shirt. *decisive nod*
Good morning spoopies! Happy Halloween. I stayed up stupidly late making a sponge cake and then icing it to look like a jack-o-lantern. I brought it in and no one said a damn thing. Damn them all. I’ll just take my cake and eat it by myself until I throw up. That’ll show ’em.
In nicer news, I found out one of my oldest friends on the internet (who I then met in person when I lived in north america) is having a baby. Awww.
Congrats to your pal! Where did you live in America? Tell me about your adventures!
Circling the wagons like a pro 😀
COYOTE! *shoots Greenius, asks questions later!*
>:[ He’s not circling anything. This is PAX North. Everyone gets to stay where they’re comfy and discuss games and white shirts and whatnot without getting ConFlu. \o/
Hundreds of years ago (eight) I moved to Canada. I lived in Toronto first and I haaaated it. Mostly because of a horrible person I involved myself with, but it was cool to be able to get up to New York so often. Then I moved to Vancouver where I have family and it was wonderful. I could walk 15 minutes from my aunt’s house and be in a forrest where you couldn’t see or hear civilisation. I saw a bear! I lived there for a good while and then travelled around the west coast for awhile – Washington (Seattle is still one of the coolest places I’ve ever seen), Oregon, California and then Texas for a bit (Austin is also crazy awesome). Then I bummed around China for a month till my money ran out and I came back to Australia.
I’m afraid you and @transientmind will have to fight it out as most interesting person on site now! Thems the rules.
Oh, no, I’m sure he’ll totally win. I’m very boring in person. I just used to do dumb things that ended up as good stories.
See, I was gonna say Jane winz, because the majority of my Adventures(*) occurred domestically, and I’ve only visited a handful of Asian nations in the south pacific.
* The Australian tradition seems to be that it’s not a proper holiday abroad unless you endure quirky and humorous hardships thanks to poor planning, poor impulse-control and too much liquor. Bonus points if you ‘nearly died’.
And don’t forget to take plenty of photos of yourself in rugged clothing, standing in front of mountains, for posting as your Facebook/dating site usericon for the next year or two.
These are good points. I travelled alone, so most of my photos were of other things, or in my room. I don’t think I almost ever died, but I did:
– Fall down 14 steps and knock out a tooth (in the back thankfully, because my travel insurance didn’t include dental).
– Fly on a plane that had to make an emergency landing because someone had a stroke.
– Get stuck on a chairlift 40 ft above the ground.
– Walk in on my then-boyfriend cheating on me.
Yeahhhhhh.
Geeeeez! I was harassed by cops in London who thought I was a drug dealer! 😛
Mr. Strange bought Jack O Lantern donuts from Krispy Kreme. And texted me about it. And now I’m in fear all day that he’ll end up eating them instead of bringing them home as planned. 😛
Maybe the text was meant for second wife!
Grr. Please don’t make this a running joke. On a bad day I might just believe it.
Okay! Can I still make weird pregnancy jokes? 😛
I don’t think I have any control over that one, now. 😛
When expecting you take what little control you can get!
*runs*
Hope everyone down at PAX is having a great time =D I’ll be here in Sydney melting. (Actually what’s the weather in Melbourne like? Folks melting there too?)
Supposed to be 31 here today
Neat, so I’ll have an approximation of the PAX experience. Minus all the video games.
PAX!!! It’s hot in the queue hall
Stop objectifying the queue hall!
Tell it to stop making me hot under the collar
Birds gotta swim. Fish gotta fly.
…
THIS IS WHY I’M NOT PUBLISHED. :'(
SPEAKING OF PUBLISHED!
REMEMBER SHANE? HE’S BACK IN KICK STARTER FORM!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shanewsmith/undad-comic-miniseries-issues-1-and-2
Are there massive lines at PAX again? Those weren’t fun! How’s the phone reception this time?
Yeah
Gah
Spuds
I bought a roast potato today and the guy serving me gave me 2 taters! Lucky me 😀
Whots taters?
You keep nasty chips.
PAX folks! Looking to kill some of that queueing time?
@beeawwb has graciously done some research, and you can pledge to Undad on your phone.
You’re welcome.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shanewsmith/undad-comic-miniseries-issues-1-and-2/
PS: TAYbies who pledge get an entry into @strange’s awesome itchy giveaway! A tweet about Undad will get you a second entry! Referring backers will also get you additional rewards from me! There’s free stuff flying all over the place here. \o/
This weeks episode of The Good Wife had a sex scene set to Call Me Maybe and it was the weirdest and most excellent thing.
In the middle of season 4 where
she just made equity partner probably massively pissing off her fellow associates who got deferredIt’s very good. Playing catch up.
Wait until you get to season five! AMAAAAZING!
It’s supposed to be raining on saturday, and showers on sunday.
Good thing I’ll be at PAX on Sunday and not Saturday. 🙂
Isn’t PAX all inside any ways?
Yeah, but I’ll be taking
pubicpublic transport. :\Spent the last 3 hours waiting for my External Hard Drive to repair itself. Fucking hell man. Could be harassing nerds at PAX instead but NOOOOOOOOOOOOO I had to be responsible and further my education didn’t I?
It’ll make the Shiggy anticipation all the more real for the PAX attendees. I predict you’ll get a slow clap when you enter. Maybe some tears and fist pumps.
Dude! That’d be so amazing. I’d love that. I expect the red carpet rolled out at least.
I’ve thought I’d get out of my comfort zone on Twitter and follow new people I don’t know. That’s what Twitter is for. So I follow new people and feel like I’m just some creepy stalker following randoms on the internet and then unfollow immediately. SOCIAL MEDIA IS HARD. So yeah, now I’m not following new people. XD
I can’t wait to finally meet you. I’m going to slowly hug you, and whisper “It’s OK. I’m here now”
That just sounds uncomfortable for everyone involved! 😛
No it doesn’t.
I think you need to re-wire your brain about how twitter works. Most people would give anything for more random followers! I know when I pick up randoms, I wonder what it was I said/did to entice them to follow me. Must have been something good!
When I pick up randoms, I think “what are they trying to sell me? Do they expect me to follow them back? Pfft, yeah right.”
I think I might be projecting.
haha yeah occasionally they’re a bit sus looking and I expect that they’ll just unfollow in a day or two, but if they share a common interest, generally they’ve followed cos they liked something I have to say.
Yeah, I’m always a little weirded out and suspect their motives, especially when I haven’t actually posted anything recently or been retweeted.
At least the corporate accounts are obvious, it’s those randoms I don’t know how to figure out.
Random followers gives me performance anxiety and I feel like I need to be more guarded with my tweets. XD And then they leave me and I’m a broken shell of the man I used to be… who lets face it was a broken shell then too…
The twitterverse is a strange beast. I get random follows/unfollows all the time. Can’t let it bother you or you’ll just make yourself feel worse. Occasionally I do wonder about some though. Like the other day, FatShady unfollowed me out of the blue. No idea why, but so be it. Nothing I can do about it. No point letting something as menial as an unfollow notification get me down.
Once @strange unfollowed me and then constructed this obvious lie that her son got her phone. 😛
I have actually accidentally unfollowed people before. went to hit favourite on one of liondrive’s tweets, and hit unfollow instead! oops!
I once blocked @blaghman… accidentally. *shifty eyes*
lol oops! 😉
You get Unfollow notifications?! I had no idea that was even a thing. Glad I don’t have it turned on though, not something I want to know or worry about!
I couldn’t handle that! D:
Yeah, I bet you’d sit there convinced it was broken when you never got any notifications. 😛
I don’t think Twitter does it, but there are other sites that you can link Twitter to that monitor followers like that.
I don’t think there are unfollow notifications but there are third party web apps that track your unfollow history. I do it occasionally, but my unfollows are usually just bots I blocked or, as I said in my other post, people who followed me expecting a followback then moved on.
yeah it’s a service from a different site. whenever someone unfollows, it sends an email showing who it was. I rarely take notice of it, and too lazy to unsubscribe!
Yesterday on Instagram a quilting legend (she has a stitch named after her and everything!) started following me so now I’m embarrassed to post any pictures of any quilting I do. 😛
I used to think that way. But the worst that can happen is they just unfollow me again. Or they could leave a rude comment and then unfollow me.
So in other words, you’re dead inside now? 😛
Getting favourites from Mark keeps me alive.
Just be glad Tim isn’t watching your every move 😛
I stalk their profile to figure out if they’re a bot, then realise even if they’re not a bot it’s probably just someone following for a followback and since I only follow people who tweet things I want to see, they unfollow me a couple of weeks later.
If I follow someone and they instantly DM saying thanks and check out their music/blog/youtube channel I immediately unfollow them for forcing that on me and never check out what they wanted me to. Whereas if they’d just left me alone after I followed them, I would have checked out their stuff eventually.
When random people start following me on Twitter, my first thought is “I don’t know you, go away”.
Yeah, it’s hard to gauge how people use their twitter accounts. If it’s just for friends or if it’s for more. I tend to look at how many followers they have and if it’s over a thousand I’m safe. 😀
I use Facebook for family and my one real life friend, and I use Twitter for you guys. Basically TAYbies are my friends, and I’ve never met any of you.
Yeah, I thought of TAYbies as friends before I met them too. You could never be sure, though. There was always this feeling that it might not translate to offline friendship. Then I met the Brisbane TAYbies and consider them my best pals. 🙂
You should ask, that’d be a good question I think!
Follow a bunch of pornstars, that’s what I did. My feed now looks great.
Then people will judge my preferences! 😛
I wouldn’t worry too much. I don’t.
Now I’m going to have to go through your following list to judge you. 😛
You can judge me! But I’m all out of shame.
I could never judge you!
I keep that to tumblr.
I feel your feels.
I still get creeped out when a complete random’s follow me… I want to yell at them “I-don’t-know-how-this-works-and-what-do-you-expect-me-to-do-now-why-did-you-follow-me-surely-i-add-no-value-to-your-feed!”
Then you feel like sending a message explaining why you’re following or asking why they’re following you and that would just make things weirder! D:
I have a bunch of indie authors following me. I like to tell myself it’s so they can use me as a character in their books. I never purchase any of their books so I never have to know I’m wrong. \o/
@shane! *shake fist*
Indie authors are the worst.
Happy Halloween everybody!
I kind of love Halloween, but I don’t like this limbo Halloween is currently in here in Australia. All or nothing. 😀
It’d be better if Costume Quest 2 had come out for PS4 like it was supposed to.
I’m not sulking, you’re sulking, shut up.
It’s worth the wait as long as you’re a fan of the first!
. o O (How… how did she know?)
*close browser & walk away quickly before breaking into a run, never looking back*
Yay!
One more day and I’ll be Crazyguy1990 again!
@dc I want to hear about your gang-banging London days!
That story is no where near as bad ass as it sounds. I totally went home and cried. Hahaha!
That is the appropriate reaction. And quite English, too.
I lived there for a whiles though to answer your question and went to Paris while I was there. *decisive nod*
Travelling is fuuuun!
So who is the designated Taybie at PAX that the rest of us who couldn’t go will live vicariously through?
Freeze is the Brisbane representative for me atleast!
http://www.youtube.com/neighbours
Any one watching Neighbours Vs. Zombies? So much fan service!
If they honestly think that zombifying that sad excuse for a show will make it watchable they’re sadly mistaken.
Unless of course they go over to Home And Away and eat everyones brains, then all the zombies get nuked and that’s the end of both shows forever. I’d probably watch that.
I was waiting for them to release all parts to watch in one sitting
Last ep was released this afternoon!
Right. I’m not referring to it as the Xbone anymore. No no NO.
XB1 moving forwards. On’n’up.
Enjoy PAX. Happy Halloween and have a great weekend guys.
I realised the other day, no matter what is written I read it as XBone. It’s stuck.
This.
Although I do write ecksbocks sometimes.
Whyyyy, xbone 4 lyfe
XBone for lyf!
I’m keeping a tight grip on the xbone moniker at least until I own one and am able to run around excitedly and proudly talking about how much I’m enjoying playing with my xboner.
Because – as is proven on an almost hourly basis by the amount effort I need to expend to avoid making ‘your mum’ jokes in the workplace – I am internally twelve years old.
During universitiy it became a running joke with my friends to respond to ANY THING with So’s Your Face. Made some great comedy moments.
‘So’s Your Face’ always makes sense.
That’s what she said.
Just pledged $750 for @Shane ‘s new Murder mystery comic Undad in a leather bound edition.
Get in quick before they sell out!
wow! you go gurl!
Where’s my sehhn fitty! >:(
Uh oh!
Happy PAX day guys and hope you all enjoy your time in Melbourne!
LAST PLAYED SONG GAME:
Intervention – Arcade Fire
Great song choice, DC. You’re so great!
Somebody Told Me – The Killers
Still love / hate his voice >:3
Listen to Smile Like You Mean It! Best song from Hot Fuss! (Controversial, but I think Sam’s Town is the better album!)
I only have their Direct Hits album, but Smile Like You Mean It is pretty good.
I like all their stuff so far 🙂
Close Your Eyes – Evermore
Disco//very – Warpaint
Hard to describe, a little bit of psychadelic with some M.I.A sort of female vocalist influence?
Flight Facilities – Sunshine (Feat. Reggie Watts)
I think I’ve found my song for summer 2014.
Edit: F*ck I love this song. It brings all the disco funk.
There’s no beating Ugly Heart by G.R.L. 😛
Sahara – Nightwish Still listening to Dark Passion Play on repeat, still loving it.
Iowa – Slipknot
Deranger – Hallucinogen
It’s all a bit goa trance today.
Primus – The Candy Man
The candy man can ’cause he mixes it with love and makes the world taste goo’ood.
*eats handfulls of candy*
😀
I don’t remember the last song I played but last night in line at the supermarket I whistled Ievan Polkka (aka the Leekspin song) for about five minutes.
Graceland – Paul Simon.
http://www.theskyfullofdust.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/18649.jpg
Alright, this is the second time you’ve done this, and I still don’t get it! What’s the deaaaaal?
It’s a reply flail.
When you don’t reply to the right chain, out comes the flail.
Also, it’s a joke.
Riiiiiiiight. Well, now I understand! I will try harder next time 😉
Also, I thought you just hated my music.
Reply fail-flail.
It means you reply failed 😛
Hahaha, awesome. My local Best Friend’s Pet Centre sent me a $5 voucher for Chilli’s birthday (which was 2 days ago lol).
Hour & a half until my job interview for Vodafone (Allphones) meep..
Good luck! Stress your ability for conflict resolution!
Thanks!
I’m just a bit on the “oh shit it’s kinda soon” side of things lol.
Lords of the Fallen had a 5GB update, which left me with a lot of time to kill (I assumed it was vital game-breaking bug-fixing, not DLC/online capability fluff).
Turns out the PS4’s now supporting Youtube pretty damn well. I spent a while watching dev diary/gameplay walkthroughs of various new stuff. Quantum Break, AC: Unity, Order 1886, The Division…
IDLE GAME THOUGHT RAMBLES BEFORE I DUCK OUT FOR A BIT
There were a couple surprises there. One being that The Order looks like it’s going to be a cross between Resident Evil and Gears of War, leaning toward the linearity of the latter. I don’t know what I expected, really, not having read much (if anything) about it, but it wasn’t really ‘Victorian-era Gears’. Expectations re-calibrated, might be surprisingly good.
Quantum Break looks interesting… Like TimeShift for the next gen and a tad more adventurous. I’m incredibly skeptical about the TV show tie-in aspect. I think that’ll fall flat on its face as people discover they don’t have the patience for episodic shooting.
The Division looks incredibly pretty, with incredible potential, and incredibly fake and scripted, in everything they’ve shown. Doesn’t inspire much confidence. The Evolve guys have been happy to go, “Hey, play with this shit and look what it does, isn’t that neat!” These guys? Nooop. It’ll all fall apart if we let players see that. I can’t believe one of the clips was actually featuring a poor guy standing on a massive stage in front of a massive screen looking massively uncomfortable as he pretended to play a pre-recorded demo with scripted conversations between people who weren’t him. Why… why would they do that? In that moment right there, I’m betting he thought he had the worst job in the world. Either way, I’m setting expectations very low for this one, in the light of Destiny’s disappointment. I’m expecting that they’ll discover how difficult, expensive, and time-consuming actual content is, and will rely on the whole ’emergent gameplay’ fad to claim that other players are the best content. By which they’ll mean PVP focus. Yawwwwwwn. Being so cynical makes me tired. I don’t want to be right on this one.
AC: Unity surprised me.
It looks really good, mechanically, and Revolution-era Paris looks phenomenal, but the biggest surprise was how much the English accents bugged me. On the plus side, Mr Banderdash advised me that it will be possible to play the game in French with English subtitles. Doing that with Remember Me was incredibly awkward at first, but after switching between both modes, I quickly decided it was the only way to play. Knowing that has made me much more excited about playing Unity than I was.
Interesting, an adult store started following me on Instagram.. Only connection I can make of how they came to be following me is from a friend in Adelaide who runs her own adult store since she follows me on Instagram..
If you build it they will come!
You said come *snicker*
Oh god… #pagesix has taken hold of @dc
Sounds like a great tagline for a sex toy company.
This deserves more upvotes!
oh i’ll “upvote” all right… *bow chicka wow chicka wow wow*
About to play Battlecry at PAX looks freaking sweet
So that was awesome… Also my team won and we got free t-shirts \o/
Derp, now that I have my NSW RCG i’ve forgotten to tack it onto my resume, that would be ideal some how if I go for jobs that require it..
*crickets*
*basketballs*
*hockeypucks*
*fiddlesticks*
Now all the other TAYbies are gone we can talk about them behind their backs!
I think @coldcamv is a delightful young man!
Sometimes I think @pixel_the_ferret_viking is just too nice and a credit to his family.
What a jerk.
@freezespreston is just about the most responsible person I ever met. WAY TO MAKE ME LOOK BAD.
@cookingmama! Always being so kind to me and helpful! The monster!
It’s a terrible compulsion!
I’ve been awake since 4am. More coffee plz.
@powalen? More like Always-in-a-good-moodalen! Ugh!
@alexpants makes us all look monstrous in comparison! Not very considerate of the handsome jerk!
@scree? I’m sorry, but she totally hogged all the heavy lifting with this PAX prep. Others might have wanted to suffer too!
I’m sorry. I just wanted people to have a good timeD=
This is a compliment. I wasn’t even there and I appreciate all you’ve done. Thank you, scree. Genuinely.
I don’t take compliments well /o\ sorry
@bdkiaf’s voice is sometimes too powerful, you know? How are we suppose to compete with that?
Nice guy @beavwa who I was too scared to talk to at the bar that one time on Boxing Day 2012. Ugh.
@rocketman, always making me want better for him cause he’s so awesome. BASTARD!
@redartifice lies. There’s no Soviet Archology. No Soviet Arcology at all.
MAKE UP YOUR MIND ON THE SPELLING, MISTER
You can’t trust a guy with side burns. *suspiciously looks at @beeawwb*
I endorse this comment and/or service, 3 days late. Just like a guy with sideburns would.
Ugh. @mythamphetamine always with their generosity and insight.
You know that @Saturday?
I’d bang him.
No lie.
HEY, REPLY TO MY PAX QUESTION, YA JERKFACE
Sometimes when @benny ‘gets’ me as a person I think less of him because he ‘gets’ me as a person.
I don’t get it.
@cakesmith reminds me of all those cakes I never dared to bake. It’s a constant reminder of my inadequacies as a man.
@sernobulus didn’t like The Last of Us and I haven’t quite thought of him the same ever since. What else is he hiding behind that good natured facade of his?
@blaghman always with his upbeat attitude and gentle spirit. Idiot.
I hope you know that I really appreciate this comment, D.C..
I’ve bookmarked it, so whenever I feel like a terrible person, I can come here, and know that at least someone thinks I’m alright.
More than alright! <3
I have no idea why I was so emotional, but I was legit tearing up as I wrote that last thing.
I don’t know what you’ve done to me, ya jerk.
Haha! If it helps we can talk about the local sporting teams? I hear they’re doing well this season!
By the way, D.C., I hope you know how much you mean to me, and everyone on TAY.
I know you dismiss your position, as so many of us have, but you really are an integral part of this community, and I want you to know that you really are valued.
No homo. 😛
Thanks buddy. 🙂
@trjn and @freya making me believe in love again. I was better off without it.
Bloody people, with their stupid love and stuff.
@tigerion with his love of adventure games he doesn’t flaunt making me look like an attention whore in comparison. You’ll pay. Don’t think you won’t pay. Jerk.
@thecracks is a credit to Perth and now makes it harder to write off an entire city. Blergh.
@doc_what lies about his medical qualifications. I won’t rest until TAY knows the truth.
You say lie, I say “Exaggerates”.
@jacksonwryan bringing handsome and science together. That combination is against the laws of nature.
@tech_knight’s inability to see how awesome he is brings me down. Don’t you bring me down todaaaay!
I’ll keep quiet then
That was my attempt at a compliment. If any thing, talk more. You’re awesome. 🙂
It’s going to sound really emo from here so spoilering the text.
I haven’t been feeling much better after that big depressing post I did. It’s been impacting a lot of things in my day to day life, including my effort in helping with PAX preparations and possible cosplay for next year (And for that I’m really sorry @scree).Also while I was on leave, I had a GP telling me there might not be anything that can be done about my leg injury that I’ve had since year 8 thanks to bullying, so another kick in the gut. Thanks to that injury, I had to give up all the sports I took part in. I tried taking up indoor soccer years back but I couldn’t even stay on my feet while moving cuz of how much pain I was in. Coupling that up with everything else that I already spoke of, I’m finding it more and more difficult to find a reason to keep going, I mean, I pretty much have nothing to look forward to. Moving out would be great, but I’m already going to suffer a shortened lifespan due to over a decade of the parents smoking indoors in the same house I live in. Plus that great plan I had to get my now-ex here so we could finally live happily ever after, after 7 years of a long distance relationship gone, most likely for good. Every morning I look in the mirror and just think “Why the fuck am I still here, alive? What’s the point?”
Aw man, I’m so sorry to hear that. I know when any one feels those feels there’s not much that can really be said. The reason to go on for me when I don’t feel like I can myself is for the others around you. The people that love you. Believe me, there are people that love you. More than you know. You matter and your existence matters. You’re a great guy. My post was trying to poke fun that you’re awesome even though you don’t know it. If that’s not enough to keep going then the potential of the future should be. You won’t always be in this moment or feeling the way you’re feeling. Sometimes the small victories are just in getting through the day and taking pride that you keep going no matter what.
I speak from experience about depression, man. I know how it feels to not feel any thing at all. I know how the bad can overshadow any sense of good. You’re not alone in this. Please keep fighting man and keep looking for that reason to get up in the morning. Even if it’s just to play games with your friends. (Which you have plenty.) Even if it’s just to post funny comments on the internet. You’re a great guy already and have the potential to do great things. This seems like a cliche but all cliches are there for good reason, cause there’s truth in it. Do it for the future Tech Knight who’s gonna be happy and don’t listen to defeated Tech Knight. Please tell me if there’s any thing at all I can do for you. Even if it’s just listening. If not me, then find someone. *hugs*
Hey mate, I know what you mean. I have battled with depression for 16 years or so and there were so many times that I went through were I thought I was worthless, that life was worthless, and that no-one cares about me. The last few years, I feel like iIve finally got a hold of it, through contact with 2 counselors at regular intervals. One focusing on CBT (Cognitive Behaviour Therapy) which combats your negative thoughts with thoughts that are less negative. This eventually becomes habit and helps enormously. The other one I see to learn more about myself, why I feel the way I do, what triggers it, what happened in the past to make me feel/think/react to things the way I do. This is very hard to do as it forces you to take a good hard look at yourself, your inner workings and habits but you really have to want to get out of depression.
Trust me mate, there is nothing worse then finally waking up to yourself 15 years down the track and realize how much time has been wasted being in that state of mind. I never used to care about life or those around me and now I love it and I am once again able to connect with people and actually care about them where I used to feel nothing, an empty shell.
Like @dc said, there is always people who care and love you, and you have the support of all of us here. Don’t give up and the best advice I can give is to go and see a counselor/phychologist. There is no shame in it, I know it’s hard to even think about doing let alone pickup the phone and ring but it will be the start of a journey that is well worth it.
The point is that you need to be an awesome ezreal! I hope you had fun tonight at least
Okay, that’s all I’ve got for now. If I’ve forgotten you don’t worry, it only means I probably don’t care about you enough as a person. So relax. (I JOKE. I JOKE.)
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Hooray for being delightful!
Can’t wait to go home for the weekend, got a 4 day weekend to go visit my folks who I only see once a year now :'( since they moved. Taking our pups for the 10ish hour drive again, let’s see if I can convince them that waves in the sea are fun and not terrifying, be a good test of my car too. Gonna relax soooo much and spend a lot of time with my dogs :D.
They are pretty terrifying though! The sea is a harsh mistress and it’d be best to respect that!
Finding all 16 QR codes is going to annoy the hell out of me
There’s one on my butt. You should come and scan it.
Dragon Age 3!
Pokemon!
Persona Q!
Man, I don’t get it. Why release in the buildup to Christmas holiday? Too much competition.
Why not the barren plains of August? The people crawl across the ground, weak from starvation and dehydratation. “G… gaaaammmessss…” they moan, and feebly reach out to the skies. But the other publishers will stand there scorning the ground filth that see and say “No” in a raspy Batman voice, and the people will give up their last ounce of hope and roll on their backs and await for the sweet release of death.
And then I will sweep in. I will walk amongst the dying people with picnic baskets of entertainment, sandwiches with strategy fillings, soup made from RPG statistics, nerf guns loaded with action games, water bottles full of liquid bokeh and DirectX 11 tessellation. Every patch of dusty, dry land I step on will instantly grow grass and be rejuvenated, and the people will slowly get up with tears in their eyes, gazing upon their savior. They will come to me, and I will give them the warm, familiar embrace of gaming goodness.
“Game of the month!” they’ll shout, beaming at me with wide grins plastered across their faces. A few months down the road, they’ll have forgotten about me, when they are assaulted with GOTY contenders. But as I wistfully stare out the window, I always remember, it’s not about having their love all the time. It’s about showing them I still care about them during their darkest days. That I’ll be there for them during the lows so that they can reach those highs.
tl;dr release games in August, make mad stacks of money
Also still totally excited about the second half of November.
We got Megaten IV today too.
& can’t possibly afford them all & so because I had to wait so long SCREW YOU ATLUS
It’s pretty good though.
Would recommend.
Oh, I’m getting it. They can wait though
I went to the bank to get some $2 coins for the washing machine, as I was running low and hadn’t managed to scrounge some change during the week. As I was leaving, one of the floor-staff (is that applicable in banks? No idea…) pointedly looked at the roll of coins in my hand and brightly wished me a happy weekend. Slightly unnerved and confused, I responded in kind. What’s so fun about washing clothes? Why else would you got a roll of $2 coins on a Friday afternoon than to pay tithe to an extortionate washing machine over the weekend? People are weird.
Arcade machines!
Peepshows!
Toy surprise machines!
Extra large frozen cokes at HJs!
a) In this weather, buying a frozen Coke is just a roundabout way to buy a flat coke. 😛
b) Toy surprise machines are never a surprise – every one is guaranteed to contain a little plastic piece of buyer’s remorse.
c) All of the above would require me to go outside on a weekend, when I do my shopping on Fridays to specifically avoid needing to do that.
d) $2 peepshows? I’m imagining a seedier version of Millhouse at the arcade, only with $2 coins instead of quarters…
d) thats pretty much spot on
I imagine he/she assumed it was for pokies.
Darn it, I was hoping for elaborate outlandish hypotheses. How dare you bring logical thought into this. 😛
“Is that a roll of coins in your pocket?” is a line that can only lead to fun.
“I’m planning on putting it in my pocket at an awkward angle and have some conversations, hoping people will think I’m happy to see them. I just love spreading joy.”
WORDS CAN’T BRING ME DOOOOOWN.
Is it because you’re beautiful?
No matter what they say!
Now I’m gonna stress for the rest of the day that people will misinterpret those posts on previous page. D:
Hmm, you think? Thought my accolades were fairly straightforward.
I was waiting for that. You should just forget PAX and the people who are there ever existed. 😛
PAX? It’s not a thing. What on earth are you talking about?
PAX North? Oh yeah, that’s a thing.
Cold blooded! 😛
It’s not my fault, it’s the MONSTER GENE! 😛
Friday is the start of the weekend and the start of fun times galore. Ain’t nothing going to keep you from complimenting people.
Also Halloween is the perfect excuse for being a little eccentric. 😛
How dare you insinuate I’m responsible!
*flails arms*
It’s everyone’s fault but mine. 😛
I am so tempted to respond to this as if it were a challenge. Just for funsies.
But I won’t.Oh you!
I was suddenly reminded of…
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2011/02/21/a-campaign-of-perpetual-psychic-warfare
Have a pork shoulder to roast tonight and was looking up recipes to brush up on cooking times and temperatures. This one recipe I looked at was going well…180 for half hour until the rind starts to crackle, cover with foil and cook for two hours…bla bla bla…throw rind away…THROW RIND AWAY?!! What’s the point of pork without crackling?
They’ve made a powerful enemy today?
Throw rind away into my mouth… I’m sure they forgot to add that bit on the end.
Controversial opinion:
Crackling is the worst part of pork.
It’s just fat, and the only ones I’ve had tasted like pure salt.
Give me the meat part of pork any day.
Yeeeeeah, this guy speaks the truth! I thought I was alone!
There is nothing I like more then chewing the fat with mates.
I always assume anyone who thinks this just hasn’t had it cooked properly. 😛 I don’t even like pork very much, I just eat it for the chance at a good crackling. Oh and I pack it with flavour so the crackling tastes more than just salty.
And crackling is not just fat, it’s mostly skin. The good ones have rendered most of the fat away.
Whenever I get food from the cafe downstairs, it doesn’t matter WHAT I’ve ordered or how tangentially it is related to pork… I always ask for some crackling, if they have it.
I then eat it noisily in the office and make the people on diets put more pins in dolls that bear an eerie semblance to me.
(Joke’s on them when I die young from hardened arteries and leave a gorgeous corpse.)
Fat and SKIN…. Mmmmmmmchewycrunchyskin.
And yes, if it’s not done right it’s horrible.
Well, you’ll have to invite me around to dinner some time so I can try some of this famous crackling I’ve heard so much about, now won’t you? 😉
You’re welcome anytime. But don’t expect me to waste any of my precious crackling on you. I always eat some before I portion it up for the family so it looks like I’m being fair and giving everyone equal amounts, but I’m really not. 😛
I’m going to take you up on that offer one of these days, Strangy 😉
I’ll just try a small amount of crackling so it doesn’t go to waste 😛
I’m very polite dinner company, don’t worry! 😀
#monster
BOOOO!!!!
The porklord (STOP LAUGHING) shall smite thee.
I use pepper and chilli salt on mine.
Agreed, not a fan. But y’know each to their own and all.
It’s not just fat. it’s also skin! you can scrape the fat off the underside to make it a little more healthy!
I don’t have anything tasty to eat in the house, so I didn’t have any lunch and the smell of this roast is driving me insane. And it has hours upon hours to go.
So what time’s dinner? 😉
I like to deep fry my crackling.
That’s next level crackling.
You’re my hero.
EAT RIND RIGHT NOW should be the instruction
Is it @redartiface that is casplaying as Manny? Or am I mistaken?
That’s Gooky. Red is Raz from Psychonauts.
Ah cool I just saw him from a distance
Fuck… 33 degrees…
*pants*
I’ve got aircon on. Probably too low. 16 degrees is appropriate Queensland weather, right?
Air con!! mmm I can only dream of being so lucky! Can I move in?! 😉
I paid for an airconditioner that can go down to 16 degrees, so it’d be a waste of money not to set it that low.
solution – take pants off.
here’s me thinking.. 33 degrees, and you’re talking about pants? ARE YOU FUCKING STUPID?! Then I realized you meant the cooling down your insides in a dog like fashion!
Hi! My name’s welbot. What’s your disability? 😉
ADD and Aspergers.
(Not that it matters.) 🙂
lol I am also afflicted by ADD. But I have conquered it with the help of my doctor!
I think we’ve posted more today than some of the non-PAX days. Well done, team!
We.
The neighbours probably think I’ve gone mad with all the laughing. Or at least enacted the next step on my mad plan for world domination.
Phew!
So I finish up doing last minute tax on the government’s shiny new myTax thingey (which I was initially reluctant about because YOU DON’T KNOW ME, ATO, MY NEEDS ARE COMPLEX AND DIFFERENT), and getting really depressed about how little refund I’m getting, when I spot the superannuation link on the same site…
…And then I found twenty thousand dollars.
You’re alright, ATO.
Have I ever told you how pretty your eyes are, Transient 🙂
No, but if you keep it up for another forty years and I become a dramatically different person and the laws change, you might just be in with a chance at a slice of that!
Oh, you’re so funny!
I’ve always admired your sense of humour 🙂
*bats eye lashes*
Holy… I get a letter every 6 months saying they’re hanging onto $240 for me.
I wanted to use the myTax thingy… but then saw “You can’t use if you need to claim a, b, c, d, e or f.”
I claim a, b, c and e…….. Y u do dis to me ATO!? ლ(´∀`ლ)
Yeah, apparently I’m not as complicated as I thought I was.
Shattered.
Ever since I started my business, I get ITP to do mine. Not worth the hassle I have to go through otherwise. Only costs me $120, and I can claim that back on next years return too!
HOT DAMN! That’s a nice find indeed sire!
So when was the planned PAX magic draft?
Lords Of The Fallen Update 1.46GB/4.72GB downloaded, Sunset Overdrive 12% installed, man this is painful.
In other news, I bought Season 1 of American Horror Story today, looking forward to watching it.
Sunset Overdrive! SO JEALOUS!
My Lords of the Fallen experience thus far: watching my download quota being eaten away by the 4.8GB remote download. 3GB… 4GB… 5GB… 6GB… wait, what? Oh. 7GB… 8GB… 9GB… Bloody patch.
Half an hour to hoommmmeee tiimmmeeee!!
Mark Serrels is at PAX this year? 😮
Did everyone meet him?
Hurrah, back from my job interview (just got in from walking the dog really) it seemed to go really well. One of the best job interviews I have ever had, apart from the one for EB Games. So I shall know either Monday or Tuesday if I have a job \o/
I also dropped in to the new music store here, to locate a copy of a certain free music mag (Mixdown) but they don’t stock it.
But I left my resume cause I had a copy on me and why not. The bloke said they aren’t looking yet until they know their customer base will be like which is a good idea. I also like the lot who took over this music store are local (they have a store over Freezes’ way & another up the coast) so it is locally owned by a family kinda deal, they’ve been present in the area for almost 65 years I think! I bought my first bass from their other store.
Since it’s quiet, I’ll regale you all with a really weird dream I had the other night!
It was really weird, I don’t even know if it counts as a dream.
Basically, I dreamt that I was was asleep.
It’s weird.
Like, everything was still just black, like when you close your eyes, but it was a dream.
Though, in the dream, I could tell I was being hugged, and that my head was resting on someone, and that we were sleeping.
I don’t know who it was, cause we were both sleeping, and I never opened my eyes, but there was someone else there.
It felt so real though!
Like, I swear I could smell whoever I was hugging, and I swear I could feel their heartbeat :\
It was scary how real it felt, but it was one of the most relaxing dreams I remember having.
Writing it down though I kind of sound crazy :S
S
Snuggling is just the best, even if it’s fictitious dream snuggling!
I haven’t snuggled in so long…
I miss it :'(
A deranged psychopath definitely snuck into your bed and you dismissed it as a dream.
Not opening your eyes probably saved your life.
@dc favourite!
@dc favourite!
@dc favourite!
I’ve been favouriting for hours. KEEP UP! 😛
Finally!
It felt all cold and heartless without you favouriting and upvoting.
It felt…
wrong.
I had a dream where something pretty specific happened and THAT ACTUAL THING HAPPENED TODAY. I CAN PREDICT THE FUTURE.
I once had a dream where I thought it had actually happened, I started talking about the events of the dream the next day at school and got very strange looks followed by ridiculing laughter
Sometimes I have dreams where I get out of bed and get ready (eat, brush teeth, get dressed etc.) only to actually wake up and have to do it all again :(. WORST
@redartifice are you still organising a magic draft at PAX tonight?
Maybe try him or @trjn on Twitter.
Aw, man, super sorry- we drafted conspiracy yesterday arvo following two rooms with a boom!
http://www.buzzfeed.com/stephanieanderson/sciencejayz-problems
I don’t get it…
TAY’s own @jacksonwryan!
I still don’t get it, but don’t let me take away from your enjoyment of it.
Also, never heard of him 😛
He likes Billy Talent and Xenoblade.
So we’re best friends.
He’s pretty. Why have you not heard of him?!
He’s fairly old school in terms of TAYbies, but he tweets mostly these days
I don’t know why I’ve never heard of him, haha!
I’ve just never seen him on TAY before, or never really paid attention enough to notice if he pops up :3
The name ScienceJayZ rings a bell, but only from maybe seeing it in passing, never actually interacting with him.
I am still relatively new to TAY when compared to most of you guys, remember 😛
I’m only a year old TAYbie 😛
(even younger if you consider my TAYbie status started sometime after first posting)
What I meant was, you usually know the pretty ones. 😉
Hold on, I’ll go Twitter / Facebook stalk him for a bit.
Not bad…
Not bad indeed…
Not really my type though 😛Hermes and Thoth!
EDIT: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/05/help-me-kotaku-youre-my-only-hope/#comments
and he also wrote that “Guide to Avoiding Diseases at PAX” article posted recently
You’re saying these things to me, but I don’t understand what they mean…
I don’t know who / what Hermes and Thor are, the video doesn’t work AND is before my regular commenting days, and I didn’t read that article cause I’m not going to PAX, sooooooo…
Like I said, relatively new TAYbie here.
– That was his old Kotaku handle!
– I was going to say *swoon* but he made the video private now
– I didn’t fully read it either but you can still recognise author names 😛
I don’t even know his current handle, so why would I know his old handle?
And how am I supposed to recognise the name of a person, who I don’t know?!?!
It was more of a reference to the fact that the name rang a bell. Surely you see names and then recognise them later.
But the point is: HE’S A COOL DUDE (actually I can’t confirm that since I’ve never met him in person…)
http://www.reactiongifs.com/r/2012/11/standing-ovation.gif
Well done, @jacksonwryan!
Anyone free on Monday/Tues? Assuming there’s no post-PAX plans (or if people are up for whatever) can we totes watch a movie?
I still haven’t seen Gone Girl but I’m sure there’s a bunch of stuff we could see. Pity Interstellar doesn’t come out until Thursday though 🙁
This whole day has kinda just felt like blergh.
Feels like a filler episode, where nothing important happens :\
I had crazy hayfever today. It sucked 🙁
I literally did nothing all day.
Like, I lay down, for a bit, I guess.
I bought some cologne (I don’t know where I’m gonna wear it, but it smells nice).
Oh, I picked up Samurai Warriors 4, so if you pick that up too we can play online coop 🙂
Ugh! I’m skipping that one and waiting for the updated release.
I did get Warriors Orochi 3 Ultimate (PS4) though… 😛
Cologne-get! *high-five* Every day that you expect you will encounter people! And just to treat yourself.
TAY,
I come bearing a treat. No tricks.
Legend of Korra for $12.83 on G2A!
https://www.g2a.com/the-legend-of-korra-steam-cd-key-global.html
If you follow me on social media you may have seen me post a picture of my son dressed as a sorcerer tonight.
I played a game with his sorcerer’s hat and kept chanting “Magic Hat, Magic Hat, what’s inside the Magic Hat?” while hiding cards, coins and even his music player in there before putting it on my or his head and then getting him to see what was inside. One time when he took it off his head a card even fell on his face. I truly thought he’d see that I was putting the stuff in there but no, he really thinks it’s a magic hat and took it to bed with him. I had to tell him it might only work on Halloween. I have now lied to my son. D:
While I do feel bad, I also feel awesome because I haven’t seen him laugh like that for a while, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen him amazed like that.
BURN THE WITCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :p
seriously though, that’s awesome!!! 🙂
If he believes in Santa, he’ll roll with it without knowing.
If he knows the truth, he’ll let his anger build up inside.
Ah, the perils of parenting….
@strange: Up to date with Sleepy Hollow now.
Though I hated that last episode. So boring. Loved the one before with the water lady though. And every other episode this season.
I just wanted to say it was funny that even though I love old timey outfits, I’ve never been attracted to Crane at all…until that yoga scene. Holy smokes he looked pretty with his hair all mussed up and in regular clothes! That is all. Nothing interesting. 😛
I’m getting slightly annoyed at there always being a reason for the wife to be separated from Crane. Just kill her off already! 😛
Yeah, I see no point for her. She’s not even pretty. 😛
I love you guys, so much. The best people.
Urgh, I’m going to bed.
Night!
But it’s evening in Perth!
Perth >:|
Oh god…
I bought Legend of Korra and WARP…
😐
Crazybuy \o/
@dc
Nah.That’s fair.
Too…excited…for…. PAX Aus…
😀
Retail therapy: Galaxy Quest and Robocop director’s cut in 2 for $20 bluray sale at JB…
Also autocorrect keeps wanting to change bluray to ‘blurry’ which is odd. blurays are anything but!
Anyone else in Brisbane just get woken up by the Osprey flying over low? I sure hope this is the norm every night at 1am every day for the G20 run up…
…really thought it was a plane flying in low and about to crash
I heard nothing, but I live about 15mins from the CBD. I did have a low altitude flyover earlier this week though, but it was about 7 or 8pm
Well if anyone hasn’t met me or forgot what I look like, I’ll be wearing green shirt 😛
It would be upsetting to everyone involved if you did not have some sort of green coloured clothing that everyone could see.
Grove Street 4 Life.
“greenish” apparently 🙁
So PlayAsia has a pretty awesome White PS Vita TV bundle going for $89.99 USD ($101.96 AUD)
It’s got 8gb memory card, white DS3 controller, HDMI cable & the white vita TV..
It’s on sale here.
A tempting buy quite honestly..
Started watching Sonic Highways by the Foo Fighters last night. I expected to like it, for only a couple of reasons, the music history behind each city & studio they were recording in & the production/engineering side. I didn’t expect to really get into the songs they were recording, but they’re actually really good in my opinion.
I’ve never been a Foo Fighters/Dave Grohl fan. But I liked his Sound City documentary that was pretty awesome, so I thought Sonic Highways would be equally as good, and it’s much better.. I think I might even buy their new album too.
Anyone picking up Collar Doody. Thinking of getting it to play through the campaign and then return it within 7 days, and put the credit on Ass Creed: Unity.
Huh. I’ve never thought of doing that. If only because you can’t return PC games.
Maaaaster rrrrraaah… d’oh.
You could probably return it within 7 hours if you’re just playing the campaign
That includes the travel time to and from the shop…
Thanks @transientmind for gifting me The Room, you’re a legend.
Welcome. Though don’t give me too much credit… it was like a buck twenty.
I just happened to see it on some peoples’ wish lists when I was gifting a copy to my Mum. I heard it’s supposed to be good.
Actually, thinking about that… Back to the store!
Magnificent game, great gift!
If you know a builder that’s that cheap, we can always use another room for when my brother’s lot come down for a visit…
Anyone here got a laptop with an Elan touchpad? My new lappy arrived yesterday and whilst it’s very nice, the touchpad seems to only support 2 finger scrolling which is dumb as a box of rocks and slow as all hell to use. After I finally got used to using a scroll area on a touchpad, I developed a nice alternating finger technique (yes, I’m sniggering too) that let me scroll really rapidly but I can’t do it if I have to use 2 fingers all the time.
There’s registry hacks to expose the settings that will allow one finger scrolling but for some reason, as soon as I close the control panel applet, the registry settings are overwritten and the one finger scrolling is never implemented.
Has anyone here conquered this issue?
Awwww SERIOUSLY?? PS4 sleep mode doesn’t continue downloads? I thought that was half the point of the thing! I left the evolve alpha downloading (or so I thought) overnight and it’s at 800mb of 12gb…
Oh, is it supposed to continue downloads but the update reset that setting and I have to reset it to the setting it was set to before it was reset? Shit, I bet that’s it.
Yes. The update turns off automatic updates in rest mode. Turn it back on and you;re gold. 🙂
Thought as much, shall do then. I should have thought to look at that since it’s technically a new option
I feel uncomfortable watching the Future of PC Gaming PAX Stream.
Those small moments of master race circle jerking… no thanks.
All those advantages the PC has had for decades that people routinely disreguard when choosing a platform are totally going to matter this year!
Waiting in line for 3 hours to see the RT guys may have driven me slightly mad.
http://instagram.com/p/u19cnFEQFi/
https://twitter.com/Pierreth/status/528397432892059648
…
@sernobulus?
Someone’s angling for a Good Game job. 😛
Feels so weird!
Looks amazing, though. @scree and @f4ction have done awesome!
That outfit is so badass.
Haha, that’s awesome.
Edit: Is that Scree in the background in the purply/pink jumper? lol
She looks like Nob’s publicist! Like on the Oscars red carpet you always see a minder off to the side a little. 😀
hahaha, oh man totally.
Awesome.
My last quilting needle broke…and it’s a week until payday. D:
Guess I’m gonna have to organise my sewing room instead of quilting this week. 😛
And as I was typing this Mr. Strange reminded me he’ll be in Sydney all week. I can’t sleep well when he’s gone so I usually quilt. Double D:
BUT… THE WALKING DEAD!
And Sleepy Hollow! Now you‘ll be ahead of me.
That’s not likely. I procrastinate with that show. 😀
I can send a few bucks for a new needle if you want!
Aww, thanks but then what will I have to complain about?! 😛
Seriously though, it’s okay. I still have ballpoint and universal needles so I can still do piecing and it may even be a sign it’s time to sew some clothes instead of quilts for a while. Thank you so much for the offer though, I really appreciate it. 🙂
Boo.. There’s no rips of Sonic Highways part 3 up yet 🙁 I would’ve watched it on free to air this afternoon but I don’t get a watchable version of GO! 🙁
So how bout them Giants winning the world series?!
In San Francisco they were having big parties and parades, men were dancing in the streets ripping their clothes off… and then they found out they won the world series!
Explains why Metallica were part of the parade then.
Oh, good… I’m back to normal!
😀
Normalguy1990!
Me too once Gravatar catches up! ugh.. reply fail to @crazyguy1990
http://www.theskyfullofdust.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/18649.jpg
😛
Five Night’s at Freddy’s is $2.50 on Steam!
If anyone sees a tall, lanky Link walking around PAX, that’ll be me. 😀
I think you’d be better off finding the table of us! It seems like at some point there will be like 30 people all standing around a table in the board game area 😛
DREAM CHASER: The Phlanispo Dream Collection
Do you ever have two dreams with the same premise in the same night? Except one of them was completely freaking boring. I dreamt what I imagined the graduation after-party would be like. (Even though there’s no way I would ever go to one of those)
In the original dream , I went to the party with a bunch of random classmates and my friend. It was in some old house filled with old technology. There was obnoxious music playing. I pulled out my DS and levelled up my Flygon in Pokemon Sapphire. There was some Japanese TV show about identifying random anime characters. I couldn’t identify a single one. I made fun of how stupid parties were with my friend. He fangirled over Dark Souls and Les Miserables like he always does. It wasn’t a fun party, (fun party is typically an oxymoron, though) but it was bearable.
Then I experienced the same party in the same house with the same people again. Instead of obnoxious teenagers dancing to obnoxious music with their obnoxious friends, everyone was sitting on a couch texting in the dark. Nobody could be arsed turning on the lights, so the entire house was bathed in the grey glow of mobile phones lights, like suddenly I’d walked into the set of Casablanca. My friend, a beacon of light in my previous dream, has succumbed to texting in the dark like everyone else. The Japanese trivia show had stopped trying to be difficult, and instead asked you to identify Mario and Jesus, all of which pleaded for death for some reason. You know what the worst part was? I had taken my 3Ds instead of my DS, which meant I couldn’t play Pokemon Sapphire.
I realised the TV had an Atari connected to it, along with an Atari copy of Mario Golf: World Tour. I told everyone about the Atari, in a bid to create some sort of atmosphere that wasn’t reminiscent of a noir film. We could all take turns playing the Atari and making comments about how far gaming has come. But everyone shot down the idea. Well shit. My attempt to make this dream more fun than the average colonoscopy failed.
Then I woke up. Yay, I guess. This is what I imagine all parties are like. Either dumb and annoying, or numb and boring, with Jesus pleading for death. That almost rhymed but then it didn’t.
I dreamt list night that I was the pope, and that I lived in the Vatican.
I, the pope, was asleep, and while I was sleeping it snowed really heavily, surrounding the Vatican in around 2 metre high snow.
While I, the pope, was still asleep, @powalen came and cleared the Vatican’s driveway with his shovel for me.
I, the pope, got out of bed and thanked him when I saw.
Powalen said that it was $10.
I told him that he shouldn’t have assumed I wanted the Vatican’s driveway cleared because I was asleep, so refused to pay him.
Powalen said he’d worked really hard though.
Then I ex-communicated him.
TLDR; the pope is a dick.
Uncaring bastards? Sounds like the Catholic Church to me! 😛
That’s what I took the dream to mean too, haha! 😀
Damn pope, wouldn’t even give a man $10 😛
Haha!
I don’t recall dreaming last night, but for the first time in many months, I slept for 8 hours straight without waking up!! Was like some kind of miracle!
I can tell Call of Duty is coming out soon because all the Doritos I bought today have CoD promotion codes.
Things I’m going to focus on when uni finishes for the year:
– Practising drawing
– Practising photoshop
– Learning how to touch-type
– Catching up on missed games
Also, I really need to get me a proper computer one of these days, and may even look into one of those electronic sketch tablets when I get more confident with drawing and photoshopping.
Good plans! 😀
(Though I don’t know how you got all this way without learning touch typing! :P)
Believe it or not, but I rarely use actual computers :3
I only use my laptop for doing assignments really, which isn’t super often.
I want to get my typing speed up to at least 50 words a minute, touch typing or not.
(it’s currently around 35 :S).
Didn’t you have classes in high school, though? Any ways, it’ll be a skill that comes in super handy. Make assignments faster to do! 😀 Reduces the time of translating stream of consciousness from thoughts to incoherent internet ramblings! 😛
Nope, no courses in highschool :3
I’m from a country town.
Things like computers weren’t the biggest of deals from where I was from :3
It seems like a skill that would be handy, so thought it probably a good idea 🙂
If you’re trying to learn to touch type on a laptop that’s probably not the best idea. Get yourself a decent USB keyboard and some software if you can. It’ll suck when you go back to the laptop keyboard and can’t type as fast, but it’s harder to learn the basics (like not looking at the keyboard) on a laptop keyboard because all the keys are scrunched up tight.
The software seems a bit dumb but learning to touch type is all about hammering the key locations relative to each other and the home keys* into your brain.
*F and J, the home keys, have a little _ you can feel with your fingertips. It’s how you calibrate your hands without looking at the keyboard.
We’ll play this!
http://play.typeracer.com/
@masha2932 @freya @trjn
You just like winning.
I ain’t playin, that till I know I can beat you 😛
So never? 🙁
Just got 135wpm in a game and 154wpm on their “test” apparently (not sure how accurate it is though)
Yeah, looks like never 😛
I don’t need to type, or particularly care about typing that fast.
I just want to be a touch faster than I am currently, and maybe not have to look at the keyboard.
Playing against people in that game would only be de-motivational for me, to be honest.
Not necessarily, just give it a go. There’s a wide spectrum of speeds and most people are around 60wpm?
@masha2932 likes it and he types sloooooooooooooooooooooow
Heading home. PAX is over at least for me. I don’t want it to be. *sobs loudly making a spectacle of myself on the bus*
At least you had a fun trip! At least, that’s the impression I got from your tweets!
Very much so.
I went on an adventure* today \o/
*definition of adventure varies from person to person.
Oh god, PAX was so intense…
In a fun way. 😀
Got to play Smash Bros for Wii U, got some manga, got a Link statue, got The Severing Crime Edge on dvd.
So much fun.
Did you end up meeting up with any other TAYbies? I didn’t see you today! :O
I was in the Link costume.
You would’ve seen me around the Smash Brothers area in the Nintendo booth, or at the Madman/Hanabee booths.
I sat at a table for like 5 hours today :P. Good to hear you had fun though 😀
Going for the full 3 Days next year?
Don’t know just yet.
I will be cosplaying again, though! 😀
So i’m playing around with this TV show recommendation website.. I find it amusing a lot of the shows it recommends when I search shows I really like are ones I also already watch haha.
Saying that i’ve found some new shows to watch \o/
I am a superklutz. I have a neon bruise as large as my knee still from my fall the other day,and now I’ve gone and stubbed my toe (my stupid second toe that sticks out past my big toe) on a basket and shredded it so bad it’s constantly throbbing and suddenly feels like it’s the size of a cricket ball.
Thankfully, even though the basket was full of fabric I didn’t get any blood on them. \o/
Feel better, Straaaaaaangey. My toe was bleeding like crazy before too. PERHAPS IN SOLIDARITY?
Aww, what’d you do to your toe?
Nail cutting mishap I don’t want to talk about! *looks into distance all haunted like*
It was my own fault. 😛
When babies are little you have to trim all their nails so they don’t cut themselves and I freaked out every time I had to use that tiny little nail trimmer. The big ones are so scary I’ve only ever used them to cut thread on planes.
PAX was amazing. So exhausted now though. It was great to meet/hang out with so many awesome people!
Thanks for another kewl PAX experience!
All the other PAX-y stuff is alright but it’s you lot that make it awesome :D. It was nice seeing you all (again)
Til next yearish I guess!
PAX North was spectacular. That fire works show too was amazing. I made out with so many people. Thanks guys.
I’ll be there one day!
No tongue.
😛
(except that one?)
Recreated my Dragon Age characters in the Keep today as best as I could, but some of the minor details I couldn’t even remember. WHO WAS THIS CHARACTER? WHY WERE THEY HERE? WHAT GIVES?
Is the Keep out now?
It’s in beta!
http://dragonagekeep.com
It’s pretty amazing just in its ability to recap the story.
My internet is super slow so I am staring at the hypnotising Summoning Dark type symbol instead.
Super Smash Bros for Wii U is out November 29th*….
Literally less than four weeks to go…
Can’t…contain…the…hype!!!
*This date was explicitly stated at the Super Smash Bros. for Wii U area today at PAX Aus.
Did you ever get a Wii U? I don’t think we’re buds! Add me and we can battle on Smash 😀
I’m afraid I still don’t have a Wii U yet… 🙁
Xenoblade (X) machine!
Get on it before the Smash hype hits and ALL THE WII Us SELL OUT EVERYWHERE (this won’t happen :P)
Oh and if anyone is free tomorrow… Pow and I are doing stuff, so feel free to join!
Just Tweet/message me etc.
I’ll also be free on Tuesday but I kinda cbf headding into the city again 😛
Blergh, over the internet again for the night.
Just gonna head to bed again me thinks.
Night.
What’s got you down, buddy?
My amazing typing skills!
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Is “newfags can’t triforce” really still a thing?
EDIT: Reply fail. This seems appropriate.
Oh god…
Sonic Highways, How to Train Your Dragon 2 Blu-ray, my birthday…
But now I shall call it Smash-vember.
You been watching the doco on the album? It’d damn good.
Hey TAYbies. Just wondering if anyone had any spare league of legend codes from PAX. End of uni semester here so I couldn’t go, too much study 🙁