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Morning all! Hope your weekends were PAX-filled and pox-free.
My Undad Kickstarter campaign has reached the 40% funded milestone, and in just three days. It took All The King’s Men its entire 30-day funding period to achieve that milestone.
I’ve spoken to my artists, and they are going to be contributing some content to the campaign updates, as well as some original art that can be sold off as a reward. I’m excited about this; stay tuned for news as it develops.
UNDAD ISSUES 1 AND 2 KICKSTARTER
It’s not too late for you to get involved (although it is too late to get your likeness into Issue 2, unless you have a spare $500).
Want to help? Here are some ways you can do so, including a number of free options:
1. Pledge to the campaign.
This is obviously the most directly helpful. Even $1 makes a difference. Every pledge, no matter how small, boosts the project’s popularity in Kickstarter and brings Undad closer to its funding goal.
2. Post a comment on the Kickstarter page
The Kickstarter popularity and magic algorithms are weird and mysterious beasts. There seems to be a general consensus that the number of pledges, comments, and shares are all key factors in determining a project’s popularity.
3. Post about it on Facebook or Twitter or Google+ or [insert social media].
Again, this is a key factor in the Kickstarter algorithms. The more posts that exist, the better the ranking. So post early, post often (or, you know, just once is okay and will be appreciated)!
4. Tell friends, family, acquaintances.
If you know anyone who might be interested in Undad, please tell them about it. If you refer other people to Undad, you can earn additional rewards for yourself. Here are the details of the scheme.
5. Moral support
Keep being your awesome selves.
I leave you now to your regularly scheduled Monday. Sorry about that. MONDAAAAAAAAAAAAY *shakes fist*
And don’t forget I’m hosting a giveaway in conjunction with Shane’s Kickstarter.
Entry is open to all TAY peoples. To enter, just make a pledge to back Undad. To get a bonus entry, post about it on Twitter and tag me (@strangist).
The prize is one sewn/quilted item made by me with your chosen two colours and theme.
You can’t tell me what to do, I’m not share that on twitter
Mostly because they are all taybies following me on twitter. Shared it on facebook where the none taybie people areDone.
http://imgur.com/AkqFGAe
had a brilliant time at pax, as an enforcer/volunteer, definitely going to apply to volunteer next year and get a room near the convention so i can attend those late panels 🙂
@tech_knight ‘s been lifting, broskis
Must be well placed fat, either that or carrying my really heavy backpack with my work gear is done more for me than I realise
mad stronk
Yay, hiding behind taller people was mostly a success!
I fucking see you mate. You can’t hide from me.
Hey look, it’s one of those can you name all the characters games
CHOOSE YOUR FIGHTER.
Shotgun Superman.
ok. You be Superman, I’ll be Wonder Woman
Ooo, we all know where that leads to.. 😛
CHOOSE YOUR ARENA:
Showgrounds PAX
Royal Exhibition Center PAX
Federation Square
Karaoke Bar
Mana Bar
Arcade
Park… that rains $10 bills
Blagh’s house
Canadia (with Bish and Saturday in the background)
Regret (Basically in front of a KFC)
5 Regrets please!
PAX North?
It’s a thing! 😛
Was that photo PAX north, was it, DC? 😛
I’m sure there’d be a PAX north edition, but can you meet that many choices of fighters?
You were all there in my dreams! 😛
Remember how we all almost fell off the couch when the photo was taken!? Good times!
Man, I always remember the time when I almost snapped my neck. haha good times!
Dammit I missed the photo! Turned out awesome though
Are these all Kotaku guys? I’m pretty bummed I couldn’t make it if so!
Indeedily.
What a phenomenal group of people.
As handsome as they are gifted in the ways of TAYbie-ing!
Aren’t we just?
Amazing shot! 😀
Best time.
I don’t wanna go home.
There’s no place like home!
In the middle of our street
Everyone take a card
But I’m at TAFE, you take my card.
Now what? https://twitter.com/Tigerion/status/529032689211293699
Seriously, there’s like 200 roles with individual rules like this.
That’s fantastic
Magic trick?
“Draws theoretical card”
Play it like @markserrels and show everyone in the room your card
lol.
*yelling* IM THE BOMBER GUYS!
*shows everyone the card*
Dude. I can totally win this.
On the weekend I:
– got a photo taken with Chris Roberts (life complete!)
– got a hug from Freeze! (never showering again!)
– awkwardly introduced myself to a number of taybies well after I first saw them \o/
– met Mark Serrels and swooned
– got free games!
Overall a top weekend!
On the subject of free games, Gearbox was handing out free season passes to Tales of the Borderlands during their conference, and me as the terrible person I am “accidentally” grabbed 1 too many free keys… Sooooooo, who wants it? Free to good home
*glances around*
How… has this not been taken yet? Uhm. I would like one?
I would have been all over this, but I had sleeping in to take care of! I regret nothing! 😀
Stand by for when I get home
What? No! Transient got it fair and square. I was planning on buying it any way to support my beloved adventure game genre! <3
(I may have another laying around XD)
But that’s yours! YOURS! 😀
Thank you, though. Totally not necessary. 🙂
Oh, well that saves me the trouble of passing in favour of DC who loves the genre more! 🙂
Too nice! WHAT A GUY! 😛
Do I have you on steam? I think I do… I’ll chat you the deets when I get home
Sweet, thanks. …But for safety’s sake, we’ll make sure DC gets his first. 🙂
No! I insist Transientmind gets it! This could escalate to fisticuffs, otherwise! (Or a polite stand-off where no one accepts any thing. :P)
Don’t worry, there’s enough that everyone gets a key 😛
Thanks buddy! But make sure you still have one for yourself!
Ahh, classic police stand-off… Definitely in my top 20 ways to go out.
I’m now mentally picturing a Polite-Off, where both parties practically shoulder-check each other to get to the door first, in order to be the one to hold it open for the other, and disaster is only narrowly-averted when there turns out to be a nearby second set of doors to the destination, where the party who had the door held for them can race to reach first in order to hold open for the first door-holder.
There’s a blockbuster action sequence in here somewhere!
Wifey called me while I was at PAX telling me the display in our TV had died. Figured if be home in half a day and I’ll have a look then.
Good news it was just a software error and only needed to manually reset it.
Bad news wife had in a panic already rushed out and got a new one.
Consequently I now have a 46″, 55″ and a 60″ with nowhere to put the 55″……
Man…. talk about first world problems….
Time to build the man cave! Also how much was the tv? I need to get a new one I have a 42″ and it looks tiny in our entertainment unit
About $1500. It’s the featured one on JB’s front page. Alarm bells went off in my head about the price but it seems it was just me confused about TV pricing these days. I got the 55 years and years ago and it was $4000 so I just sort of assumed they would still be that price.
Thats a good price, ill have to save up and hopefully boxing day sales will be kind to me
That makes me feel unsure about my 40′ that I got for about $450. It was from ALDI though so I’m surprised it’s still functioning.
What are those Aldi TV’s like? On paper the specs sound rather impressive for the price..
Not bad honestly. I got mine last year and haven’t had an issue with it yet. I do get a bad signal on a few channels but that’s mostly the shoddy antenna on my roof.
I don’t game on my TV so I can’t say how it’d go in that regard but it seems like it would do alright.
Good to hear at least one product with an electrical cord from Aldi works well lol.
So.. Looking to sell that? 😛
Any chance to get it refunded? Has she already opened it all up?
Worth a try if you can
I only have one TV and it’s 32″ 🙁
Yay, PAX was fun. A bit sad I didn’t get to meet up with anyone from TAY, I walked past Mark a few times and I think I saw Shiggy and people I assumed to be taybies at McDonalds, but I couldn’t really abandon my group to say hi D:
Only a couple of people recognised my cosplay, I guess not many people have seen the Persona 5 trailer 😛
Which Maccas?
One at Crown upstairs on Saturday.
Yep, that was me. Should have said hello!
I should of! Oh well, maybe next time!
Me neither. 😛 Saw Serrels and quickly said hi and shook his hand. Also managed to grab @redartifice because I recognised the cosplay! Perhaps the only other TAY person I met is @f4ction. Unfortunately didn’t have time for the karaoke meat.
I think I saw a Persona-ish cosplay at one point. Nice!
Morning errbody hows every little thing?
My weekend was flat out! PAX for Friday meeting a bunch of awesome people and checking out a bunch of the stands only to have to leave early due to a family issue, but by leaving early we had time after to take Moni to the beach for a swim.
Saturday more PAX including meeting even more people, giving the rift a shot (its pretty awesome) and lounging in bean bags watching TAYbies fill their MtG cocaine addictions. After that was the Saturday night event (thanks @scree and @tech_knight for organizing it) which had bowling and karaoke and beer and disney songs! It was really amazing. Then I walked to the station with @f4ction and had to wait 40 minutes for our train..didnt get home till after midnight!
Sunday was spent recouperating from the first two days and spending time with Moni as shes been sad while we were gone. I played some Watch Dogs then Cathryns friends came over and stayed the night. We drank and played guitar hero and just dance before they put a movie on and I fell asleep right away. Turns out while I was sleeping I missed 2 movies and they baked a cake.
A Monday question with PAX now over we reflect on the fun we had and the memories we made. Do you feel Anything at PAX could of been handled differently to make the experience better?
Yes. They could have held it in Canberra so I could attend.
I actually thought everything was handled fairly well… Maybe the only thing is don’t allow Razer to have speakers near their booth? 😛 those things were freaking loud!
Yeah I tried to avoid Razer simply because of that. I felt the Promenade section where the trials truck was was abit out of the way which is the only thing I’d change
… I must have missed that entirely, I don’t remember seeing that 😛
Well you had to walk past a half dozen bars plus the Munich beer hall so it isn’t surprising that you don’t remember
Was great to get the chance to catchup with you and the missus, had been far too long.
As for what could be done differently, hmmmm maybe a child minding service so I could checkout more of the main expo hall.
Not that it is a PAX specific thing but doubling the size of the rift area would still have been flat out all day.
It has! And tiglet was so cute in her lion costume!
The rift line was stupidely long thats why I went to the indie section and played on one there
I tried the Shane Warne cricket game. If they get the motion tracking better once the stem gets released it could work really well.
I hadn’t really thought of sports games with the rift but after that it could work really well. For something like cricket or baseball where you can just stand still and swing. But if people can deal with the disorientation of movement without moving having a full motion games. Being on the pitch and looking around at where the ball is and where the opponents are.
FPS (first person sportsball) is the new genre
The queue’s were pretty lame. I skipped a ton of stuff due to it. Couple have used the PAX app to do virtual queing with TV screens showing the batch number of people coming in… you show your app with confirmation, you’re let in. Especially useful for panels.
Otherwise, everything else was pretty rad.
Public service announcement: @fled is totally a rad dude. And that was before I learned how generous the guy is. Seriously dude. Dude. Seriously. Dude.
Sorry it took me so long to say hi to you… Again… 😛
At least I got a hug this time so I can always treasure that memory!
Also @fled seemed pretty damn cool! I didn’t get to chat alot with him but he seemed damned nice
Worth the wait.
Confirmed, @fled is a boss.
It was super awesome to finally meet some more TAYbies!
Melbourne in general was cool, I had a great week over there.
Back home west now …with my Krispy Kremes.
Someone from Reddit put up 60 or so pics of people in Cosplay from PAX on Imgur, dunno if anyone from TAY is there (I only knew Freeze & Nobs get ups looked like)
The hobby horse wielding Alice was pretty cool. As was the full Mass effect group.
No taybies as far as I could see
I had to double take on the Wrex cuz that was REALLY done well
Star Lord should have gone as Yondu. Looks more like Michael Rooker.
Aw what, I missed Zoidberg.
How did I miss some of those?!
Yeah how could you?!
I assume you were there 😛
Sad to be home but two days off to recover and play Bayonetta 2 is a bit of a plus.
I’m throwing my voice into the chorus of ‘PAX was amazing’ posts. Highlights were obviously the big meat on Saturday and all the games of 2 Rooms 1 Boom (or however that name went). So, the big social things. Lots of fun and I miss everyone already.
I thought I’d throw a shout out around for all of the South East Queensland based TAYbies who might be interested. A friend of mine is launching an online shop for tabletop and board games called Vault Games and to celebrate they’re having a grand opening at the Bridge Club at Woolloongabba this coming weekend. They’re having a few special events going on as well, including a Magic draft and a Star Wars Miniatures competition. More details can be found below.
https://www.facebook.com/vaultgamesoz
Apparently that Bridge Club is home of a pretty rad board gaming group. I wish I had found that out when I was living in Brisbane.
I’m actually surprised how many board gaming enthusiasts are in Brisbane. My friend has managed to rustle up three different independent board game developers who are going to showcase their products on the day.
I didn’t even realise Brisbane had board game developers before this.
Australia has board game developers?
Apparently so. I didn’t know either but apparently they go on Kickstarter and everything.
There was even a guy in the tabletop area at PAX demoing one of his that he’s in the process of developing. Monstrous, I think it was called? It was pretty decent.
I’d go but I’ll be out of the country. 🙁
I love Australian place names
Like; Woolloomooloo. Reminds me of a video when Alice Cooper toured here last, him attempting to pronounce city names. He got to Woolloomooloo & just couldn’t get it.
Sometimes if we’re lazy we just call it the Gabba or the G although that’s generally only for the stadium.
Another place in a similar vein is Indooroopilly. Wrap your head around that one. 😛
The Gabba is never the G. The G is the MCG not the BCG.
What’s wrong with Indo?
Oh my bad for the stadium. Shows how much I pay attention to sports.
Indo is but one short version of it. There’s Indo, the Pilly, In Da Pilly. Also the way most people pronounce it is Indrapilly. So it tends to confuse people a bit.
I was being sarcastic. Indooroopilly works as a bit of a shibboleth. Brisbane suburbs have a lot of shibboleths.
Man, everyone I know calls it Indro.
Can’t believe I forgot Indro. Yeah, Indro seems to be the most common shorthand by far.
I went to school in indooroopilly. We called it ‘indro’. I miss hilarious brissy suburb names.
Orange, Mitchell, Nimbin. Me too.
Goooooooooooooooood morning everybody!
I’m in a great mood because it’s the first “proper” day of my holidays. Waking up at 9:30 with no alarm, on a work day. Just feels fantastic.
PAX was great, had a really fun time catching up with lots of people though I’m disappointed I didn’t get more time to catch up with TAYbies (at the TAYble) over the course of the weekend. It’s something I plan on remedying next year (am I already planning for next year!?) and I’ll for sure go to whatever meat is planned. I got my fix of Star Citizen, got my autographs and photos (as did @pixel_the_ferret_viking and @rize – seriously very happy with how that came out) so next year my schedule will be clear.
What’s on this week: Packing for Thailand. Already! Hooray!
I gloated about this during PAX to some TAYbies and I’m going to gloat here just for some “street cred”. A friend of mine and I managed to play from start to finish TMNT Arcade on the NES. A full 2 and a half hours we played using skill,
stubbornnesspersistence and timing and we managed to beat the entire game. It basically fulfilled my friend’s childhood dream of actually beating that game cuz he never could as a kid.That is fucking rad.
@cookingmama @batguy @tigerion Are you okay with me uploading a few pictures to Flickr/Instagram of your child?
I plan to separately make a dropbox for you to get more high res ones of them as well (as I took a lot because I’m mad), but I’m not comfortable publicly sharing a lot of pictures without permission.
Permission granted. Let the adorableness flow
Go for it 🙂 I can make a google drive folder and share it with you for our pics. I’ll send a DM.
Hhgggggn I think I feel a giveaway coming on. Stay tuned.
Hopefully it’s a giveaway I can pay money for. Those are the best kind. 🙂
Nah
But if you feel guilty, you can always send money here.You’re not supposed to be giving anything away, you’re supposed to be selling them for Bloodborne! >:|
I’d rather do nice things for my friends and take a gamble on Christmas coming through for me! 🙂
Being nice is not healthy. 😛
Interstellar is opening this week! *flails arms*
I’m gonna watch it and there’s not a thing you can do to stop me! >:|
I could try.
That’s all I ask.
Requested leave and looking for cheap flights.
I can just buy tools when I get up there.
Flu meat!
Glad you’re excited.
SPACESHIP!!!!!!!!
So excited.
I’m going to see it Thursday night with 3 friends. We’re having a Japanese banquet first. (Glad Thursday’s pay day, or I wouldn’t be able to go).
It’s all unseasonably rainy and windy in Brisbane today! It’s the best damn weather!
I wish it would rain down this way, SO DRY Q_Q
I agree, It’s awesome. Bonus is it’s not so damn hot like it has been!
I love that kind of weather. When there’s a grey ceiling on the sky, a chill in the air, and it’s moving and alive and has the tiniest hint of fresh water in it. The smell of potential rain brings out one’s inner thunder god, wishing that the sky would just give in to its rage and lash the world with righteous fury.
@beardymcmuttonchops @beeawwb @cufcfan616 @dc @dkzeitgeist @freezespreston @gutsoup @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @sernobulus @strange @sughly @transientmind @welbot @virus__
My wife would like to invite all you guys to her 30th birthday at our place on Nov 22nd. Food and drink supplied.
There will also be a sumo suit ring from what I’m being told.
Fuck yes!
Oh yeah I got a text from her about that yesterday. I haven’t responded yet. But yes, I will come!
Do I have to dress up as per the text though?
dress up? the text i got from freeze made no mention of dressing up?! Did I miss something?
Gangster 1930’s or sommat along those lines.
I seem to be missing something as well.
I got ’30s Gangster thing from Mrs. Freeze too! 🙂
The day after DAI!!!???
You demons!!!
Yeah man, keen.
22nd I will be on Stradbroke Island at the NaNoWriMo Writer’s Retreat, sorry man.
oh! sorry I forgot to get back to you with the rush in getting ready for my trip… but I cant do that weekend T_T friend’s wedding is on in port macquarie, so I’ll be goig down for that 🙁
I didn’t see this but I think this is my favourite cosplay I heard of from PAX
The camera should really be circling around slow, Arkham City-style. XD
How is every one?
I haven’t been on TAY to post for a while. Pax looked awesome, so jealous of you guys n girls that got to go. I had my father-in-law visiting on the weekend, which was alright, nice to go out for picnic and dinner and have a roast for lunch on Sunday with him and my better half. Unfortunately that meant very little gaming on the weekend, oh well. We played a bit of Wii Sports and that was good fun. I just finished Alan Wake last weekend, enjoyed it quite a lot. Found the ending kinda of dumb and ambiguous, but i get that was intentional. I’m so keen for Pokemon Omega Ruby in a few weeks and then Smash Bros on Wii U!! Not much for me to play til then other than backlog and Destiny.
I Street passed someone whose last played game was Omega Ruby. It’s still a few weeks away?
Yeah it comes out on the 21st.
Probably just the demo.
Dammit, I really should have replayed DA:O and 2 earlier this year. Filling in the tapestry for DA:I shows so many things I didn’t see on my playthroughs… So many cards that got auto-set to “did not encounter X.”
That Keep is pretty great. Loved the interactive story thing where you could make decisions like a choose your own adventure! 😀
I’m looking at the “Paragon of her Kind” set. Apparently I went in and defeated Branka, and left without talking to anyone or touching anything. That can’t be right… I think I must have picked one of my incomplete playthroughs. This may take a while… On the plus side, fresh slate! \o/
Argh, I still have to do that!
I didn’t go to PAX, I feel like I have nothing to talk about…
I did get my new laptop on Friday though, an MSi CX61. It’s a pretty nifty little machine so far, not exactly a high spec gaming machine but that’s not what I bought it for, it can run xcom at a reasonable level of quality which puts it vastly ahead of my old piece of crap asus but then I was once kicked in the bollocks by a cow and I’d rank that as slightly less painful than trying to game on that asus.
The only negatives of it so far is that it doesn’t have an mSATA port which means I’ll have to use an optical drive bay adapter to put a second SSD in it when I do my upgrades and the touchpad is kinda crappy. It’s an Elantech smartpad and whilst it’s fairly responsive and the drivers mercifully provide easy options to turn off the stupid windows 8 gestures and the abomination that is tap to click, there’s no scroll area! You have to use a mad 2 finger scroll gesture thing which is really inefficient, when rapidly trying to scroll I’m used to doing a rapid alternating 2 finger action (stop sniggering) to get down the page as fast as possible but with this I have to use both fingers comparatively slowly. The worst part of it is there’s registry options to expose settings for one finger scrolling and video examples in the install directory showing how to do one finger scrolling which implies it can do it but any time I change the registry settings, it’s overwritten again the second I close the control panel applet and nothing ever changes. It’s quite maddening.
You could always set the permissions of said registry keys to read only once you’ve changed them, thus not allowing it to revert back once you close it.
The only problem with that is that I’m not sure who is technically changing it, if it’s the system entity, the administrator or my user account and if I lock it for all of them, I can’t change it again.
Also it’s never actually worked but I don’t know if that’s because the settings are being overwritten immediately or if it simply doesn’t have a scroll area on this model of touchpad and the settings are hidden for that very reason (but the drivers are universal and some of theirs do have it) but that seems like a mental thing to exclude
So Child of Light, finally got the chance to play that on the Vita, I’m in love with the visuals and soundtrack, so good. The poem style of dialogue isn’t the best though 😛
I’ve played it on the PS4 a fair bit, but reckon it’ll be better as a portable game.
I love the verse dialogue! It’s a bit forced in places, but it’s charming.
Yeah some of it I cringe at but yeah all of it is charming. Only irk with the Vita version is when transitioning into battle the sound crackles. But you can use the touch screen to move Ignatius which is a huge boon for battles and those plants to replenish your life.
So I was totally gonna have a post where I’d be all like “WELL IT WAS FUN GOING TO PAX WITH YOU GUYS” and then I’d a post a picture of the group shot shiggy had up top, but with me as a crudely-drawn stick figure pasted unto the upper right, maybe holding a canadian flag, maybe I’d just extend the entire photograph to the right so there’d be white space. Then I’d post “WE HAD GOOD TIMES, DIDN’T WE? DIDN’T WE?!” or something creepy like that, maybe type in some crying, I dunno. Then I realized that it would’ve required me to open up paint, and I’m just too damn lazy for that.
So uh, there you go. Would’a been hilarious if I went through with it, I guess.
I would’ve got a good chuckle if you added both yourself and bish at the background of that picture
The moral is to never try.
I’m totally down for PAX Prime too, if you were going.
Then we could rub it in all these PAX Aus chumps’ faces.
Bonus points if the crudely-drawn stick-figure was South Park style papercraft with their take on Canadian heads. Pop culture references are ALWAYS good!
Hooray, confirmed for flight!
Guys, I feel like I am legit dying. Lack of sleep and a hectic few weeks and I think my body is just shutting down. Don’t cry for me.
Ok
Too late.
Dibs on your stuff.
Shotgun.
DAMMIT.
GET SOME SLEEP
What are you? A doctor?
I’ve seen her medical degree. It looks a bit dodgy to me.
Maybe it’s a tumour.
It’s not a tumour.
IT’S NOT A TUMA!
Argentina?
the truth is I never left you
All through my wild days
My mad existence
I kept my promise!
Don’t keep your distance
Megaten IV is quite good, well worth the $25 on the eShop.
Ok 😀
I plopped this on here after you said you didn’t know the price.
It’s finally out?
Yeah, came out the 30th
…there is a car in the gate lounge. It just drove in. From out where planes are. And now I’ve looked up and it’s gone.
It obviously had a plane to catch.
“Final boarding call for Mr Ford…”
Hola Tay
I am sitting in a coffee shop in the bottom of Dymocks, regarding silent things slowly with Auri.
Pax was fucking epic. Will revisit this topic once I am home and perhaps better read or better slept. To all you TAYbies whom I met, deceived, drafted, waved to, drank with, sung with (@freezespreston and my version of “where the wild roses grow” was so much fun) and otherwise spent time with, you’re good people.
Good people.
In my social awkwardness I never really introduced myself but I did see you! So HI RED! 😛
HI PIXEL
We did chat though. I had to do some deduction work on a bunch of people to infer who was whom
Haha true I just didn’t want you to think I was snobbing you or anything 😛
I’ll learn to be more confident one day I swear
I thought ferrets were supposed to be very outgoing.
Vikings too for that matter. 😛
Only when we’re drunk… And I wasn’t nearly drunk enough 😛
I don’t even know what the alcohol tolerance level of a Viking is. It’s probably far beyond the grasp of mere mortals.
I feel bad for them. Must cost them a fortune to get drunk. No wonder they have to pillage 🙁
*rubs eyes* I need more sleep, I subconsciously blended ‘waved to’ and ‘drank with’ and did a double-take.
To be far they are fairly interchangable
I ended up with a, uh… portmanteau.
I wavedranked so many taybies at PAX
Edit: That is an awesome word
My sister currently is on a shopping expedition to Costco. I asked for a bucket of pretzels.
DO I DARE TO DREAM AGAIN? *waits*
Edit: No pretzels but she got 72 strawberry Freddos. XD
I went to Costco yesterday. The place gave off very strong vibes of evil, and I anxietied until we left. Dislike intensely.
Reminded me of a news footage of hurricane panic in the US. Overloaded trolleys and stockpiling of goods.
There was this weird kind of tension in the air, a sort of desperation. I got the impression that we were a hair’s breadth away from seeing humanity at its worst. It might have just been me though, I suppose.
Could be a Canberra thing! 😛
Hahaha, yep, could be that!
You’re right, though. I sensed that too, but figured it was just the weekend crowds.
You two are odd. And possibly even separated at birth. 😛
Your face is odd! 😛
Thankyou! 😀
Oh no, that’s definitely the case.
I saw recently a few people commenting on a Costco related thing and apparently over in the US they are awesome employers. Only big retail company that specifcally do not want their employees to work Thanksgiving, pay well comparatively and health insurance.
I’ve never actually been in one myself though.
From what I’ve seen, the staff are nice, and it’s good that the company treats them well.
Just an air of impending doom in the place…
Exactly!
It was a vibe I got from the customers more than the staff, but it was palpable.
For some reason I read palpable as palpatine and got the image of the Emperor doing his shopping at Costco.
That’ll make a nice fruit salad.
We weren’t allowed inside. 🙁 Members only apparently?! No signs anywhere, wtf!
Yeah, $60 membership and member is allowed two guests, I think.
Apparently if you pay the membership then decide there’s nothing you want to buy they will refund it, no hassle.
Time to get off my arse and make a pledge to Undad tonight. Also think I might make a pledge for the Night Witches RPG as well.
My bank account is preparing cushions to muffle its sobbing as we speak.
Aw man, I feel bad for your bank account.
I was going to encourage you to give until it hurts so bad you can’t even lift your hand, but I don’t think I can do that anymore. Instead, I’ll just remind you about @strange’s awesome giveaway, and that you can double your chances of winning by tweeting afterwards!
Also, I’m not actually looking to bankrupt anybody, so don’t pledge unless you can afford to. My guilt chip couldn’t handle it.
The money thing was mostly in jest so i won’t go overboard. Although that $500 tier did look tempting…
Kidding! Only kidding. Well, mostly. 😛
Are you saying it isn’t tempting. Poor Shane 🙁
Hello.
My first PAX was lovely and exciting, much stuff to do! My gf liked it as well. Our trip to Great Ocean Rd, Kingslake Nat Park etc was awesome as well – a very good trip overall! I’ll can expand more on what we did if people are interested. 🙂
I took my Go Pro with me and I video’d pretty much anything that was exciting (apart from nights out, unfortunately). I’m planning on making a ‘montage video’ out of it. I have tons of footage, and probably enough to make a cosplay compilation from PAX too. I’ll upload vids and photos later.
All the Nintendo 3DS’s at PAX was pretty overwhelming, and the ‘New’ 3DS was pretty underwhelming… so on a whim I purchased an XL yesterday! Got Pokemon White v2, Zelda Link between Words, and planning on getting Pokemon X/Y and Sapphire Omega. Hopefully I don’t regret the purchase with the blurryness of the screeens! 🙁 Are there any other highly-rated games that are a must-buy? Where to get for cheap? I’d even buy off you guys!
BUY ANIMAL CROSSING. OBSESS OVER FURNITURE.
BUY RUNE FACTORY. OBSESS OVER FURNITURE.
BUY FANTASY LIFE. OBSESS OVER- wait, there’s a pattern going on here isn’t there
Animal Crossing is on my list. I don’t know much about the other two, I’ll check em out!
My favourites:
* Ace Attorney series (1-4 are DS, but compatible, 5 is 3DS digital only). All are amazing. Genuinely hilarious, often shocking and surprising, and occasionally really emotionally poignant. I think there’s a 3DS remake of 1-3 on the cards soon.
* Ghost Trick (also a DS title). If you liked Ace Attorney, you’ll like this for sure.
* Theatrhythm Final Fantasy is insanely addictive. Playing that at the moment. I believe Curtain Call is a much bigger game with more songs, though, so probably choose that one.
* Zelda OoT is a great remake of a true classic.
I’m not going to sell any of these, sorry.
Pheonix Wright, Ace Attorney? One of those is definitely on my list as it’s exclusive I believe.
Yep, it’s a must-play. One of my fave series ever on any platform. Start at the start. You have to play the first one first.
@stickman: going to both second and un-second one of Shane’s mentions. Ghost Trick is a fantastic game but don’t get the DS version if you have a tablet at all. The iOS version is better.
Is it on Android? Don’t have iPad unless I can somehow convince work that I need one.
I don’t own an Android device so don’t know. Maybe? Don’t see why they wouldn’t port it.
Fire Emblem for baby-making simulator. Project X Zone for crazy Capcom crossovers. Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D if you haven’t already played it on Wii. Attack of the Friday Monsters from the eShop is also a good one as well as the eShop having a stack of old Gameboy titles on there.
Oh, also get Super Smash Bros if you aren’t planning to grab that on WiiU because it’s seriously good.
Not interested in that one, but funny observation: I saw a demo New 3DS with broken circlepad and Smash at the Ninty booth.
People are being too hardcore about it. I’ve been playing mine a heck of a lot and there’s no sign of wear.
BUY FIRE EMBLEM AWAKENING. OBSESS OVER PAIRING CHARACTERS UP.
BUY RUNE FACTORY. OBSESS OVER PAIRING YOUR CHARACTER UP.
BUY HARVEST MOON. OBSESS OVER- wait.
Fire Emblem Awakening AKA babby making simulator!
Okay hold on, let me try this again.
BUY FIRE EMBLEM AWAKENING. OBSESS OVER EFFICIENTLY MAXIMISING STATISTICAL GROWTH RATES.
BUY HARVEST MOON. OBSESS OVER EFFICIENTLY MAXIMISING CROP GROWTH RATES.
BUY RUNE FACTORY. OBSESS OVER- ah, god dammit.
Kinglake National Park, or at least the road through it from St Andrews to Kinglake, is one of my favourite places in the world.
Glad you had a good trip!
Yeah it was some awesome roads. Shame it was spotty rainy most of the time so I didn’t have gopro mounted.. but I did take a couple minutes of footage of the most awesome parts. 🙂
I definitely vote for fantasy life -it is RPG sidequest: the game, and awesome.
Also monster hunter 3 ultimate, though you do need to have the circle pad pro for that as well.
Cool, I’ll check it out. It’s on special at Target/BigW I think. I may have Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate on Wii U ..?
You can transfer back and forth with your wii u character and play multi criss platform too. Soo awesome.
That’s pretty rad!
So we just made the final payment for 70000 Tons Of Metal, and we’ll be booking our flights after Mr. Strange’s next payday. Except we’ve only had half the time we’ll be away confirmed for babysitting. This can only end well, right? 😛
Let them free into the woods!
Yeah, pretty sure this is standard practice. Dunno what my childhood would’ve been like without that vital life-threatening learning experience.
(Edit: I am joking. I had good parents who were responsible and caring.)
I had super strict parents, and they still let us hang out by ourselves in the bushland at the top of our street, or the little trickle of a creek at the bottom of my Nan’s street. It was part of growing up, back then. Gradual independence, and plenty of time to just explore and figure out the world by yourself.
These days I freak out any time I let my kids go to the park by themselves because we’ve now been conditioned to believe that helicopter parenting is the only good kind of parenting, and if people find out I let my kids do that they’ll think I’m a bad parent. :S
Different times, I think. We just had to be back before dark. Small town, developing neighbourhood, loads of bush, construction sites, dirt/clay mounds and other places to get up to youthful hijinx. Some of which admittedly meant getting stitches, but y’know… we were better for it, I think.
Oh god, I changed the email address for my Kotaku AU account and now everything has gone wrong. I’ve made a terrible mistake!
Still being moderated?
Yes
For everyone that enjoyed 2 Rooms and a Boom at PAX, you can download your own copy over at Tuesday Knight Games.
All I did to put things together was put the printouts on top of some old Magic cards in some card sleeves (available from your friendly local game store for a couple of bucks). The rules explanations on the cards were my own work and I’m happy to send the spreadsheet I used to print it out along to anyone that wants it.
Trust me, we only scratched the surface of what’s in that game.
Wait, there’s more?!
That game was some serious fun.
We have a pretty eclectic bunch of names of students who use the gym here, our University tends to get students from just about every continent.
We have this one student named ‘Bich’.
You can see where I am going with this.I’m working underneath a piece of equipment doing some maintenance, when she comes over to say hello. ‘Oh hi, Bich!’ I reply without looking up recognizing her voice. Standing next to her is my boss. who decided she’d make an impromptu visit to my work today. Performance review tomorrow and reapplying for my job in December, perfect timing.
Oh, Rocketman.
Reply fail? 😛
Nah, just a very Rocketman-ish story.
Vomiting on your boss would have made it much more so.
Wait… Really? This real or a parody thing I’m oblivious to?
https://twitter.com/Spacekatgal/status/529086279741636608
Be interesting to see how that plays out. Not a small amount of money.
Yikes. People are just chipping in $1000 sums to this total. Amazing.
I don’t know what US laws are like but I was unaware you could be sent to gaol for sending a death threat. Maybe they can prove it as sufficient intent to murder but they would have a really hard time proving that.
Assault laws cover threats. You can go to prison just for saying you’ll bash someone and the person just needs to have the belief that it may happen and be scared for their life. Intent or not has to be argued on the issuers side and it’s really hard for them to convince anyone it wasn’t intended.
The fact that they included her home address and taken photos of her parents means that it’s going to be nigh impossible for them to argue it wasn’t a serious threat.
Add to that the fact they have moved out of the house and are living in a hotel or moving between different ones then they are clearly taking the threat seriously.
I’m so down after PAX…
All that’s left is to wait for Smash on Wii U.
Surely you mean Call of Duty, Dragon Age, Warlords of Draenor?
Or…Call of the Dragon Warlords. I’d buy that.
WHERE CAN I BUY THIS!
Right here.
It’s almost exactly the same.MARIO KART DLC! 😀
I am so keen for this! My consoles haven’t been getting much love lately. Not since I finished X-COM.
MASTER HORSE!
Wait a minute, that doesn’t sound right but who cares because MASTER HORSE!
I don’t know what this means! *scratches head*
Link’s bike. I know it’s called the Master Cycle but it’s basically a horse bike.
Also having a bit of a laugh at the whole PC MASTER RACE thing.
*tilts head side ways*
*tilts own head other side ways*
Sounds like you’re about to have a pash.
Sooo…Melbourne cup tomorrow TAY-diddly-renos. Anyone doing anything interesting? More importantly, WHO IS GOING TO WIN?
Having the
piss-headfantastic bosses that I do, the 6 of us plus our admin girl and a resourcer/admin guy are leaving the office at 12pm to go for a set menu lunch in Darling Harbour. 3 hours of unlimited booze and tasty sounding italian food.I have no idea about racing, but have been lucky the past two years mainly due to the fact that I’ve based my bets off of Shane Warne’s tips on twitter! The man knows his stuff apparently. Waiting to see what he’ll say tomorrow, but I’m all ears if anyone has suggestions?!
My tip: don’t throw up on the admin girl.
Got it. I hope you didn’t have to find this out the hard way?
I learn from rocketman’s mistakes.
My tip: put your life savings, house car and children on number 8.
This guy seems confident. He must know something we don’t! *puts $20 life savings onto no. #8*
If your tips are anything like your Desert Golfing, I’M DOING IT.
Go for the horse with the funniest name.
Yep I usually will place a small bet on the one with the funniest name or with a name somewhat connected to mine/my interests.
I vote Epona.
Not a bad shout if I can get someone to sneak on to the course with an ocarina.
I’m the IT guy so I’ve been tasked with finding a stream again. Anyone got anything?
SKY sports
I’ve used wiziwig.tv for racing before. It sufficed!
Channel 7. Or do they not show it in the rest of the country? Anyway, these are your legal options…
http://www.melbournecup.com/racing/free-to-air-and-cable-tv/
If you have issues with those options, justin.tv or similar might be able to assist.
I’ve given up on TV, since last year the one channel that broadcast it was the one that didn’t work. The antenna cable has also been cut now…. so streaming is best option I guess. Thanks for links.
Hahah! Lifehacker to the rescue…
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2014/11/how-to-stream-the-2015-melbourne-cup-online/
Greeeeeaaaat apparently large dogs close to where I live have been abducted by a dog fighting ring and fought to half death… I’m insanely paranoid for my pups now! /o\
People are monsters. :'(
Pretty much… Kinda lucky that Mrs. Pixel is home alot of the time! One of ours is pretty much the perfect fit because he’s big, heavy and all muscle :/
There have been a bunch of viral warning things like that going around and they have all been fake. Not sure if this one is so check it out, but most likely it isn’t true
Pretty much this. Domestic house dogs tend to make very poor fighters and since the point of dog fighting is gambling it’s not much of a gamble using untrained dogs.
People are still monsters and don’t you forget it!
Certainly are.
Don’t know how reliable it is but it was in the news paper with some pretty gruesome photos of a dog that allegedly got abducted on Friday… The fact that it’s practically happened in the suburb over is all that has caught my attention 😛
Man, people fucking suck.
Sorry for the coarse language, but this shit makes me mad.
To end the day, I choose not to engage in blatant, blatant self-promotion, but instead to share some news I found about Clerks 3.
http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Clerks-III-Coming-Here-What-We-Know-67978.html
Jeff Anderson (Randal) is confirmed. Anderson has always been the big wildcard with this series. He always comes back (for the TV show, a JSB cameo, Clerks II) but every time he makes a big thing about how he might not come back again. Well, he is. And it’s all good news.
I ate a whole packet of Coles Caramel And Pretzel Cookies today.
It sounds terrible when I say it like that. It was really just six cookies, and two at a time spread out over the course of the day. I think I ate that many because I forgot to have lunch. I really should start remembering to have lunch! 😛
Like the Cookie Monster sometimes says… cookies are a some times food!
This breaks my heart. What happened to Cookie Monster…
Diabetes will change a man. DON’T WORRY STRANGE, I GOT COSTCO COOKIES IN MY COOKIE JAR!
“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.” – H2G2; DNA.
This is why it’s so easy to forget meals while snacking. Also, my attempts to persuade the Other Half that Beer Is Food have as yet been futile, but I am optimistic.
God, it FEELS like food the way it sits in my gut… I really need to look into getting the surgery to fix that.
Just wash it down with a beer…
I love those biscuits. (I refuse to call them cookies)
Americans have a whole new definition for what a biscuit is. :'(
Yeah, I know. What they call biscuits are more like scones. From what I’ve read anyway.
That’s how I define biscuits. I assumed it was an Australian thing to call the doughy stuff biscuits and the round stuff cookies.
I call them cookies because they’re a particular subspecies of a biscuit called a cookie. I call anzacs and others biscuits, but these particular chewy biscuits with tasty bits in them are definitely cookies.
And yes, to Americans biscuits are scone-like things. I even had a “biscuit” breakfast burger thing at Carl’s Jr. So weird.
Those things are very moreish. Now I want a packet.
Japan has changed Sughly!
…
I assume.
I miss Sughly. :'(
When does he get back?
Dunno. One and a half weeks, I think? Maybe?
It’s so hot in QLD compared to Melb. D: 15 degrees difference is a lot …
Actually really cool in Brisbane today. It’s nice. Not quite 15, but nicer than face melting weather of last week.
Was 29C 70% humidity at 9-10am here. Used to like 18C max in Melb heh.
29? Barely more than warm.
Though I spose the humidity would suck.
has been much better today for sure. I didn’t almost die when I went out in the car today! Still too warm for my liking though, but I could live with it like this!
hehehe right now it’s 22 in Melbourne and 22.6 in Brisbane.
Was very chilly in Melbourne on the weekend, we actually turned the fire on. Brrrr.
Friday was weird, it was like 5-10C warmer than any other day of the week! The air was actually warm!
That’s the fun of Melbourne. Can easily vary by 20 or more degrees from day to day, and even more from a warm day to a cool night.
Must be humid as hell, because I just did a quick stroll around the block and it felt fantastic when I was in the stiff breeze, but in the sheltered parts of stale, listless air, it was heavy and hot. I’m sweating much more than is reasonable for my level of fitness.
Yeah! It’s been terrible today! Even though the heat isn’t here so much, I’ve still been sweating way more than I like! BLEH!
That’s odd. It’s almost cold here on the northside!
Woohoo. Looking forward to my ride home. 🙂
Anyone want to buy a 3 year old Samsung 55″ series 7 for cheap? I quite literally have nowhere to put it.
I’ll give you a buck fifty! 😛
Fark man! Mr Moneybags!!!
It’s an investment in the future! 😛
You totally outbid me by a mile. the 70c in my wallet can’t compete with that!
Define cheap. 😛
Also this is probably limited to the Bris area for pickups haha.
Was thinking maybe $300? I think I’ve already revealed my lack of knowledge in TV value.
I suppose I could courier it if you were desperate enough 😛
How much we talkin’ cause I was thinking of replacing the loungeroom telly.
$300.
If stickman don’t want it, i’ll go for it. Otherwise you could flog it on Gumtree for a much better price 😛
You can have it, will be a big hassle with courier.
I dunno, pretty sure you could get Fastway to courier for a reasonable price.
Too risky, even in manufacturer boxes delivered to JB Hifi they get smashed screens. Plus…. I don’t exactly have anywhere to put it… 😛
Haha, fair enough 😛
I haven’t measured but I am pretty sure it’d fit where I want to put it 😛 I should probably investigate that before I fully commit LOL.
@virus__ I was just gonna find somewhere in my room to prop it up, maybe hook a console up to it lol.
Haha, that’s the spirit. Same here kinda.. Media Server/PS3/PS4 😛
You couldn’t get a refund?
I probably could have but the new one is bigger with more fancy stuff so decided to keep it.
I spent a lot of my time playing Halo tournaments.
Tomb stone epitaph?
No, there was quite a turn out because everybody still loves Halo.
We just hate Halo 4.
I loved Halo 4! It had a very satisfying campaign!
Too bad the Halo 4 tournament had to be cancelled because the LAN network doesn’t work for the game 😛
Er… who plays Halo multiplayer? That’s not what it’s there for. It’s there to simultaneously confound and fuel my rabid Mastah Cheef + Cortana fanfic.
You’re only saying that because my review of Halo focuses on just the campaign!
*finger-guns-wink-ka-chick*
There is so much internet to catch up on after four days.
A friend linked me this while I was away: Vicious Attack – Abattoir
It has a very F-Zero vibe going on. May have to investigate further.
@Cakesmith was asking about starting a board game collection and I figured it would just be easier to post here to cover the basics.
First of all, that collection you just posted on Twitter is probably a good starting point for some time. You really don’t need to go out and get dozens upon dozens of games. Get a few, play them then start adding more into the collection. Otherwise you’re going to end up with a bunch of games that you haven’t played and don’t play because you have other favourites that always come to the table.
Alright, so there are a whole bunch of ways to classify games. There are social games (Resistance, 2 Rooms and a Boom), there are worker placement games (more hardcore titles like Agricola and Tzol’kin), abstracts (Hive, Qwirkle), drafting (7 Wonders, Sushi Go), deckbuilding (Dominion, Trains), co-operative (Pandemic, Shadows Over Camelot, Betrayal on the House on the Hill) and just so many more.
There’s also a huge amount of overlap with some games and there’s also a big divide between Eurogames and Ameritrash (not a negative term btw). Eurogames tend to lean more towards elegance and fairness, Ameritrash towards miniatures and dice.
None of that particularly matters but it’s all information to keep in mind because once you start knowing what you like you can use that to kind of steer towards other things you like.
Okay, the starting point;
I think Ticket to Ride (preferably the Europe board or American board with 1910 expansion) is probably the quintessential starting board game these days. Really sums up the idea of a Euro game, is fairly light but allows for good competition. It’s been covered several times on Tabletop and you can get a very solid digital version on Steam, iOS and Android if you want to check it out.
Qwirkle is an abstract that’s like Scrabble and Dominos. Instead of forming words, you’re joining tiles that match in either shape or colour and score based on how many tiles are in the rows you’ve added to. Also, it’s an excuse to say the word “Qwirkle” in a terrible German accent, which is just fun.
King of Tokyo is a push your luck competitive game. Roll dice to beat the crap out of the other monsters trying to gain fame in Tokyo. There is a new game called King of New York which is out now and may suddenly usurp KoT’s place in this sort of niche (Zombie dice is the only other notable push your luck game I can think of right now aside from Yahtzee). If you get this, the Power Up expansion is a must buy. It adds another element to the game that allows for a bit more depth and makes the game a bit longer. Not mandatory to use because sometimes you just want a quick game but definitely a huge improvement.
Pandemic is a cooperative game where you’re working to cure the world of four diseases. It has a genuinely clever mechanic to seed the board with disease and keep you on your toes. Simpler, more family friendly games based around the same mechanic (Forbidden Island and Forbidden Desert) also exist and are worth checking out. Worry about expansions for this game after you’ve gotten comfortable playing it a lot. Like, after you’re winning more than 25% of the time on the hardest difficulty.
Carcassonne is a tile laying game where you are building a medieval countryside area thing. It’s got some nice little competitive elements where you can try to strong arm other people out of areas and is the origin of meeples. There are a lot of expansions for this game and the Inns and Cathedrals + Traders and Builders ones are considered mandatory by a lot of people. Fun, simple, quick and allows for dickishness if you want it.
Dominion is the go to deck building game. You are building a deck of cards by buying more cards from a market in front of you. It really appeals to the combo orientated Magic player in my because trying to find synergies with the cards in your deck is vital to success. The kicker is that getting the points that you need to win will clog your deck and make it easier for others to catch up. There are also some dominant strategies (Big Money, Chapel) that you kind of need to learn but overall it’s just a really clever idea.
7 Wonders is my absolute favourite game, so I have to spruik it. You draft cards to build a wonder, focusing on things like science, military or whathaveyou to try and get points. All interaction is only with your direct neighbours and it doesn’t matter how many players you have, it will take the same amount of time.
Hanabi is a microgame all about communication. You’re working together with the other players to work out who is holding what cards (you can see everyone’s hands but your own) so that you can play them in the correct order, solitaire style.
Most importantly, there are a ridiculous amount of resources out there to get more of an idea about games. Check out Wil Wheaton’s Tabletop on Youtube or Shutup and Sit Down’s reviews over on their site (not posting links because otherwise I’ll post a bajillion of them). If you’re familiar with Reddit, /r/boardgames has a pretty good FAQ for beginners looking to start a collection.
You twit, you should have waited until the next page to post this.
Home now. Don’t care if you’re sick of PAX posts, have another one.
Just want to say that TAYbies are the most awesome people there are. I feel like I’ve ‘known’ many of you for a while now, but being able to put names to faces and experience the awesomeness up close was something else. I am genuinely already missing you guys.
As for PAX itself, I enjoyed what it had to offer. Games displays, interesting panels, board games galore, cool cosplays… And yet, it pales in comparison to the companionship extended by people I’d never met.
Don’t ever stop being awesome.
Oh great,now we have to stop being awesome. We can’t get a reputation for doing what we’re told, now can we? 😛
I’m awesome at rebelling! Shit, that’s not what we want, is it.
Another PAX regret: I didn’t really have a chat with you.
I am full of PAX regrets.
You’re a rad dude too.
It’s so weird meeting TAYbies for the first time and instantly having that shared history. 😀
Man, it was so great to finally meet you. You’re everything I imagined, and more.
No homo.
You were an evil mastermind in two rooms and a boom man! Pleasure meeting you!
Blue team 4 lyfe.
Just had a little visit from the local Labor candidate who turned out to be a very personable young man. He’s going door to door to introduce himself and find out what people want which is a nice idea, especially in this area where they mostly just vote Liberal because they always have. I even opened my screen door and shook his hand. And that’s where he failed. How can you be a politician with such a limp handshake?! 😛
On the plus side, it probably means he hasn’t spent his days wanking off at the tax payers expense! 😉
Eww.
Our local Labor candidate was doing the same thing the other week, also had a piss poor handshake, must be a new Labor wide policy.
Edit: the visiting voters, not the piss poor handshake…well maybe?
It’s not new, it’s pretty common for new candidates from major parties to do it. It’s just that electorates are so large that the real reason they do it is not to meet the individuals but to have the individuals say they met the candidate to their friends.
Politics.
So, @strange, remember their name? I know a few people that fit the description.
I don’t need to remember his name, he left his card. And I wouldn’t even have mentioned I met him if he hadn’t have been such a bad handshaker so maybe that is the policy. 😛
His name is Adam Obeid.
I don’t know him but that is a very unfortunate surname these days. Also a quick Google shows that his Myspace profile picture looks like @rocketman.
Oh I realise it’s not something completely new, but it is pretty rare these days and not usually so widely spread, I have maybe seen it 3 times in 10 or so years in this town.
I don’t know how anyone can be anything with a limp handshake.
Soooo… It seems that both sets of our house and car keys are in our hotel in Melbourne. And we are in Sydney. AND tomorrow is a fucking public holiday in Melbourne. Does anybody know ANYONE who is still in Melbourne and heading back to Sydney?
This is looking like it could actually work out. If so, tay people are definitely the best people.
Wishing you all the luck sire! That’s a major blow to discover so late in the game!
They’re on their way back tomorrow. @powalen is a fucking champ.
Good guy Pow!
Reasonable guy.
(Step down for Rubber recommendations)
Smiley Cyrus!
Still have your 3DS?
I feel bad for chuckling 😛
Screw you guys. I’m going home. And I’m there already.
But is your 3DS there too?
All my fault – I put them in a “safe place” and then promptly forgot. In my defence, I’ve been sick all weekend and taking all the sinus tablets.
Thanks for saving us @powalen!
Made a post at the end of the last page about board games. Figured it was too much effort to lose on the bottom of the page. Spoilered for length.
@cakesmith was asking about starting a board game collection and I figured it would just be easier to post here to cover the basics.First of all, that collection you just posted on Twitter is probably a good starting point for some time. You really don’t need to go out and get dozens upon dozens of games. Get a few, play them then start adding more into the collection. Otherwise you’re going to end up with a bunch of games that you haven’t played and don’t play because you have other favourites that always come to the table.
Alright, so there are a whole bunch of ways to classify games. There are social games (Resistance, 2 Rooms and a Boom), there are worker placement games (more hardcore titles like Agricola and Tzol’kin), abstracts (Hive, Qwirkle), drafting (7 Wonders, Sushi Go), deckbuilding (Dominion, Trains), co-operative (Pandemic, Shadows Over Camelot, Betrayal on the House on the Hill) and just so many more.There’s also a huge amount of overlap with some games and there’s also a big divide between Eurogames and Ameritrash (not a negative term btw). Eurogames tend to lean more towards elegance and fairness, Ameritrash towards miniatures and dice.None of that particularly matters but it’s all information to keep in mind because once you start knowing what you like you can use that to kind of steer towards other things you like.Okay, the starting point;
I think Ticket to Ride (preferably the Europe board or American board with 1910 expansion) is probably the quintessential starting board game these days. Really sums up the idea of a Euro game, is fairly light but allows for good competition. It’s been covered several times on Tabletop and you can get a very solid digital version on Steam, iOS and Android if you want to check it out.Qwirkle is an abstract that’s like Scrabble and Dominos. Instead of forming words, you’re joining tiles that match in either shape or colour and score based on how many tiles are in the rows you’ve added to. Also, it’s an excuse to say the word “Qwirkle” in a terrible German accent, which is just fun.King of Tokyo is a push your luck competitive game. Roll dice to beat the crap out of the other monsters trying to gain fame in Tokyo. There is a new game called King of New York which is out now and may suddenly usurp KoT’s place in this sort of niche (Zombie dice is the only other notable push your luck game I can think of right now aside from Yahtzee). If you get this, the Power Up expansion is a must buy. It adds another element to the game that allows for a bit more depth and makes the game a bit longer. Not mandatory to use because sometimes you just want a quick game but definitely a huge improvement.Pandemic is a cooperative game where you’re working to cure the world of four diseases. It has a genuinely clever mechanic to seed the board with disease and keep you on your toes. Simpler, more family friendly games based around the same mechanic (Forbidden Island and Forbidden Desert) also exist and are worth checking out. Worry about expansions for this game after you’ve gotten comfortable playing it a lot. Like, after you’re winning more than 25% of the time on the hardest difficulty.Carcassonne is a tile laying game where you are building a medieval countryside area thing. It’s got some nice little competitive elements where you can try to strong arm other people out of areas and is the origin of meeples. There are a lot of expansions for this game and the Inns and Cathedrals + Traders and Builders ones are considered mandatory by a lot of people. Fun, simple, quick and allows for dickishness if you want it.Dominion is the go to deck building game. You are building a deck of cards by buying more cards from a market in front of you. It really appeals to the combo orientated Magic player in my because trying to find synergies with the cards in your deck is vital to success. The kicker is that getting the points that you need to win will clog your deck and make it easier for others to catch up. There are also some dominant strategies (Big Money, Chapel) that you kind of need to learn but overall it’s just a really clever idea.7 Wonders is my absolute favourite game, so I have to spruik it. You draft cards to build a wonder, focusing on things like science, military or whathaveyou to try and get points. All interaction is only with your direct neighbours and it doesn’t matter how many players you have, it will take the same amount of time.Hanabi is a microgame all about communication. You’re working together with the other players to work out who is holding what cards (you can see everyone’s hands but your own) so that you can play them in the correct order, solitaire style.Most importantly, there are a ridiculous amount of resources out there to get more of an idea about games. Check out Wil Wheaton’s Tabletop on Youtube or Shutup and Sit Down’s reviews over on their site (not posting links because otherwise I’ll post a bajillion of them). If you’re familiar with Reddit, /r/boardgames has a pretty good FAQ for beginners looking to start a collection.
All good recommendations, but I’d also suggest seeing if there’s a local board game meet-up and actually play some of these games before you buy (and you will be doing a LOT of buying). It’s the obscure ones you play that speak to you that make it a proper collection.
Also, get Love Letter. Because Love Letter.
Coup and Love Letter are both great and I simply got sick of typing before I got up to them.
And yes, there are plenty of ways to go check stuff out before buying. I know that Good Games does board game afternoons.
This. No point buying stuff and hoping it’s good. There are lots of critically-acclaimed board games out there which I just don’t like and wouldn’t want to buy.
Mostly responding here because board games but I really regret not buying Smash Up and Betrayal on the House on the Hill while down there.
Oh look! Free Shipping! Value!!!!!
http://www.fishpond.com.au/Toys/Betrayal-At-House-On-Hill-Game-Wizards-of-Coast/0005032170097
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Smash Up is widely available, you won’t have issues getting that. Betrayal used to be hard to find but I think that they did a fairly recent print run that’s pretty easy to find.
More it’s easy to impulse buy when I have a bunch of disposable cash at hand and game is in front of me compared to a longer consideration looking at an online page from home.
If you played them and you liked them, I don’t see how you’re going to avoid buying them…eventually.
Betrayal was an old 80s game they freshened up recently right?
First edition was 2004, second (current) edition was 2010.
The game draws heavily from 80s horror movie tropes and it is an Avalon Hill title, so I can see why you’d think that.
What am I thinking of then? There was a game like that which was around years ago then went away and was resurrected recently.
There are quite a few of those floating around. Some via Kickstarter and others through major publishers.
Thats..a typo right? Its not really that much is it?
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 🙁
If you happen to have one, in addition to my gratitude I could amply repay you with a crappy paint drawing of a subject of your choice.
I was thinking of grabbing a handful to give to people who wanted them but assumed someone who cared about LoL would do it instead.
All good, looks like UnfinishedCosplay has me covered 😀
I have some. I also accidentally picked up someone else’s bag and have 2 extra skins. I feel terrible about it, but it was an accident =(
Oh unlucky for them. If you’re into karma hopefully something good happens to them to make up for it!
If you could send a skin code to my hotmail I’d be very appreciative. I’m mrridey@hotmail.com
Don’t judge, made the account when I was 12 based on a PS1 ad 😛
What would you like your paint pic to feature?
No need, I’m not a fan of LOL so I don’t want it. =P
Codes received. Thanks heaps man, you made my day 😀
No problem
I think they’re all the same skins? What did you get from Scree? Remind me (message back) this afternoon, and I’ll check what I have and send you if it’s different.
Pixel is awesome. <3
SO AWESOME.
He’s alright.
He’s pretty damn great.He was all: “HEY YOU CAN GET FREE T-SHIRTS AT [PLACE]”
And me and @benny were all: “OKAY!”
And we got free t-shirts.
WHATTA GUY! 😀
Which ones? I ended up with Trials Fusion and World of Tanks ones. I think they were the only ones I would’ve wanted anyway.
WAIT, THERE WERE MORE FREE SHIRTS!?
It was the Sennheiser one.
I walked past a tshirt cannon at one point and was like “Wow. This is what a gaming con is about”
I WAITED IN A LINE FOR AN HOUR OR 2 AND GOT A FREE SHIRT!
BEST DAY OF MY LIFE!
Admittedly I did get to play a game that hasn’t allowed the public anywhere in the world to play but … FREE SHIRT!
Time to make TAY shirts for next year
I’LL TAKE 8!
GREEN* PLEASE
*to everyone’s standard
I MAY OR MAY NOT BE WEARING A VERY SIMILAR SHIRT RIGHT NOW \o/
On a side note that game was pretty damn radI hate all your secretiveness
TELL ME PLS
Naaaw thanks, you’re pretty great yourself you now… Just enjoy it… once it finally comes out 😛
Pax stuff.
First of all I want to thank everyone who managed to come to the PAX meat and once again for being well behaved. For those who arrived late and did not get to bowl, I’m sorry, that was a massive oversight on my part, but also because of Rooster teeth booking the entire venue except the M9 Bar, we had to get out just before 8pm. This meant that we had to have smaller teams and also couldn’t allow latecomers to bowl as there wasn’t enough time.I also need to apologise over the food and drinks. The first drink was meant to be included in the combo but for some reason everyone was charged. The food was meant to be brought up to the M9 bar but they seemed to forget that until I told them.
Special apologies to @Mythamphetamine. Apparently there was some confusion between the rooster teeth event and ours. Rooster teeth had wristbands. They saw people wearing the 18+ wristbands from PAX and assumed that they were the rooster teeth ones. Sorry about the spirits as well. I asked a few times but nobody said anything about anyone wanting spirits. My bad.
Hopefully next year I won’t stretch myself thin and will be able to organise things much better. The issues with the playstation won’t happen again now that we know how it works.
Some of the things I am looking at improving is adding name badges to make life easier for everyone (you may have read something about it on twitter). I am also thinking of adding more time to the next pax due to the fact that some people didn’t want the meat to end. @tech_knight and I decided that due to the large costs of the room hire that we would be fine with 3 hours. With it being at crown casino, we were paying a premium. This is also why we decided to bring the playstation as karaoke hire was at least $300. It may have also been a playstation anyway. Unfortunately, I was so busy with getting cosplays finished that I wasn’t able to check what songs I did and didn’t have and what I needed to download.
Next year, we would probably book it for 5 hours if we do indeed go with the same venue.
@sernobulus I am sorry your costume was too hot and not completely finished. I’m sorry that it kind of kept falling apart as well, especially the Worblas. I keep trying to think of ways that I could’ve made it better and there is a few different things but in end, I believe that it would’ve ended up hot no matter what I did. I’m also sorry that I had to keep working on it and you barely had a complete costume on any one day. =(
@gorzilla Sorry I didn’t finish yours and mine. I have learnt my lesson. No more than 3 cosplays a year. Same goes for @nova_cascade and his girlfriend, Ash. Sorry Elsa wasn’t finished but at least I can resource better stuff online.
I’m sorry I didn’t get to meet a lot of people at pax or at pax meat. I kept disappearing because @lucifer9783 had said he would buy Jack and Ray from Rooster Teeth as drink for getting us upgraded to the M9 bar. Luckily, I knew one of the organisers of the Rooster teeth event and was able to get him the opportunity to do so. I tried to be a good host but to be honest, I had no idea who half the people were or was too scared to talk.
I want to send a special thank you to @freezespreston, @nova_cascade, @sernobulus, @powalen and @redartifice for pitching in and getting me The Evil Within, apprently as a thank you for helping them with their cosplays by giving them advice. I’m incredibly flabbergasted and not really understanding why, especially because most cosplayers are happy to help other people.
Anyway, I hope everyone enjoyed themselves. To me, that’s all that matters.
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Too many apologies there, Scree. Pipe down while we all thank you instead in 3… 2… 1…
THANK YOU!
Also Nobs costume was a hit. Good Game producers and hosts even tweeted it!
http://instagram.com/p/u19cnFEQFi/
https://twitter.com/Pierreth/status/528397432892059648
Also it’s not a failing on your part that TAYbies want to do something after an ‘official’ meat. It’s just one of those things that happens. Nothing can be fully planned for and people are having so much fun that they just want that fun to continue. Don’t feel compelled to plan every aspect because unplanned shenanigans is all part of the fun of meats. From what I’ve heard everyone had an amazing night. So stop stressing. 😀
I will never stop stressing!
I know what it is to stress and be anxious, but sometimes you got to acknowledge you’ve done good!
But it’s so hard =(
Sorry.
Sorry.
Sorry has lost all meaning now. Like a virus that has gained immunity. I must instigate the Super Sorry policy, any thing else won’t do!
Super ultra mega mega family fun sorry collection uber turbo dx part deux day one edition.
+1
I would have a lot of trouble remembering that.
Rerelease it a year later as the the definitive edition.
Sorry.
Sorry.
Sorry.
Bad job.
Talkin’ bout me eh @DC?!
😛Hooray for @scree! o/
Also, if @SerNobulus has learnt anything from his experience it should be if he wants to stay cool is Solaire cosplay should conist of a white bikini thong with the sun on the front.
But I didn’t do anything
I just wont wear anything at all, that way my entire body can praise the sun! \o/
Just go round making demands of everybody.
“PRAISE THE SUN!”
“Uh….. Noooo.”
I like the last line and second-last para best. 😀
Forgot to mention, @markserrels, thank you for taking the time to come
You can’t be thanked enough for bringing everyone together. It was awesome.
It was the least I could do
@scree it was an amazing night of fun and awesomeness the likes of which have not been seen very often.
It was so awesome that it has convinced me to return to the TAY scene.
All thanks to you and @tech_knight.
Three cheers of organizational genius!
Time to assemble a team of the finest
TAYvengers assemble!
I’m sorry I didn’t end up coming, I’m very grateful for being invited and from what I’m reading it sounds like an awesome night. Here’s hoping that I can make it along next year if you would have me!
No. That was your one and only chance (of course you’re welcome!)
@mrtaco I hope you don’t mind me casually tweeting your Manny cosplay to a certain someone…
and @redartifice ! 😛
But I swear I’ve seen you guys tweet at Mr. Schafer before. Did he respond? 😀
No response, but go your hardest
Ugh, that slack-jawed Manny 😛
I’m trying to abuse my powers!
D.C. PAX 2015 Kickstarter?
😀
I would hope that I’d have a job by then. The prospect of not having one would make me too sad. Haha!
@benny you know you wanna Smash Bros! 😛
more like Lag Bros!
Benny and I played a few games in the handheld area and it was silky smooth!
I was serious Bennnnnny, you keen any time soon? (tonight, tomorrow? :P)
Oh shit, sorry. I thought that was just a generic invite. Tomorrow sounds good. Give me until after 8pm.
8pm your time? Do you still check Twitter fairly regularly? It might be better for me to holler at you from there.
Waiting for Mr. Strange’s old phone to charge so I can give it to my daughter I briefly checked facebook only to discover she’d been using facebook today even though she’s banned. Guess who’s not getting a phone and their facebook ban lifted? Kids are doofusheads. 😛
Flex those mum muscles!! I’ve felt their wrath before, and it’s not something you wanna forget!
Make her sleep in the garage with the spiders again! DO IT! Parenting is fun! 😛
Honestly, what is with kids and Facebook? I had to create a Facebook profile for my traineeship thing and it was a painful experience.
So whilst I was waiting for Aus Post to deliver me MORE band merchandise (I really need to slow down with the buying of stuff) I was throwing the ball for Chilli and she was having the best of times, so I decided to take some pics I was impressed at how well they turned out since I was just using my iPhone 4.
That is a very happy dog.
She is! She gets that from her mum, like the licking, like the you must always pay me attention personality & the always has to be around people thing 😛
You should have called her Robin as she looks like she’s wearing an eye mask D=
Haha. She does at the moment xD.. She gets it when she gets all dirty. After a bath she’ll look all fluffy and more red again & it’ll vanish 😛
I wish I went to PAX *shoves hands in pockets and kicks a rock*
It was really fucking great; better than sex, even (just to rub salt into the wounds.)
Think you might be over selling it a little? Ha
Just a bit. I will have a post about my own PAX experiences shortly.
I think he’s doing it wrong!
Now I know what people mean when they say you can live out your fantasies in Video Games.
EDIT: Warning! Potential minor side mission spoilers for Borderlands Pre-Sequel
Hehe… Hehehehehehehehe that’s amazing
In case anyone wants to see them, here’s my album of (woefully uninspired and frequently slightly out of focus) PAX cosplay.
Edit:
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How have I managed to forget to link things twice tonight? http://imgur.com/a/UFSBa
I saw album and my heart dared to dream you had cut your debut album. :'(
Amazing pictures! You’ve done good!
Thanks D.C.. When I take photos normally I usually tweak as much as I can to get the most out of them, but all I did for this was drop their res so I could upload them in less than seventeen years. It’s a bit weird for me, I look at a lot of them, and want to start changing things, but if I do it to one I’ll have to do it to all of them, and OH GOD IT NEVER ENDS. Which is why being lazy as sin is great.
Haha Meepo, that’s inspired cosplay right there
Dat buff MIsty.
They are great photos – there were so many cool cosplays.
King DeDeDem that’s amazing lol. There were some real lookers there!!
Oh god. I just ran into this and noticed the Rimmer cosplay. I’m both happy it was there and sad I missed it.
Woo, house to myself again this weekend. It’s like holiday after holiday!
OH WAIT I CAN TOTALLY RUN ELITE THROUGH THE STEREO AGAIN YESSSSSSSSSSSS
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When did I get a copy of Evolve?
… Seriously, I’ve no idea where it came from, and I’m pretty sure I never bought it…
Free weekend apparently
If you have xcom you got the evolve alpha apparently, because reasons
Ah.
Sweet. 😀
Undad is now almost 52% funded, in large part due to the largesse of TAYfolk. I don’t care what anyone says; this is the best place on the internet bar none. <3
Proud of you, buddy! 🙂
More PAX! Less bloat!
Okay so, I want to thank roomies @gooky @freezespreston @morkai as well as every other TAYbie that I met with – each and everyone of you. Thank you, it was a blast.
Briefly, in addition to the things done with TAYbies; my weekend consisted of awesome game/hardware demoing, freebies, great cosplay meet and greets + photos, impulse gift purchasing for self, great food AND minimal time spent wasted in lines.
There the full three days and yet I still attended no panels but that was because I didn’t wish to wait in lines, this time around. There is just so much to do at PAX and there’s always next year.
I hope my Superman attire was enjoyed. Night! *puts on Batman pyjamas and goes to bed*
Oops. Looks like @mrtaco wants a special mention.
Catching up on OLDTAY
@batto Did you come say hi? I totally can’t remember if we met.
@crazyguy1990 Wait was that you with the orange chinstrap beard?
No… I was in the crappy Link costume.
Dammit man, you’re gonna have to be way less vague than lanky + crappy + Link 😛
Hey Crazyguy, can you message me on steam sometime later today?
Sure. 🙂
Wait, were you with Zelda? Did I have a photo with you?
I was never with Zelda.
(assuming this should be @crazyguy1990)
Sorry, reply fail.
No I didn’t even though we passed by each other many times. I was super bummed I didn’t meet any taybies. Also your cosplay still looks just as rad one year on 🙂
It’s actually five years old now 😛
Actually, it was pretty much exactly five years old that day! Sorta. I made it for Halloween 2009, pretty sure.
Ahaha seriously? Wow
Yeah, I’m pretty surprised by it too. It’s all just cardboard and double-sided tape, with a few velcro dots thrown in for good measure. I’ve had a few other things made in from similar stuff that has fallen apart in the meantime, no idea how this one’s still going. Must just be some good workmanship behind it 😛
Hammering away at Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword on the Wii…
The more I play it, the more I fall in love with it.
I still haven’t played any of the wii zelda games yet 🙁 One day perhaps!
I can’t handle motion controls at all. Even gave up on my beloved Metroid Prime 🙁
That game has a special place in my heart. AND the graphics! That beautiful brush style! 😀
I’m trying so very, very hard to read and properly analyze the case study we got for my business analysis exam, but all I care about is how they came up with the story and the story itself because it’s so good! It’s possibly the funniest story I’ve ever read and I can’t focus on the point of it 🙁
@shane I pledged $30. I would’ve pledged more but I probably can’t afford it ^^;; I hope it helps!
I even had to log in with facebook for you, you monster. =P
Thanks scree! You’re awesome. Though if it’s too much, I want you to feel free to cancel or reduce the pledge.
But I want signed copies D=
Me too, along with his ccard details pl0x.
Morning!
Megaten IV update. Things progressing slowly. Interesting concepts. Enjoying the ride.
Gimme the run down on how it plays please!
Classic megaten.
3rd person dungeon exploration, sweet looking dungeons with differences.
1st person turn based combat, real old school with sprites like DS Pokemon.
Visual novel style narrative, no animation but changing pics. Looks great, not as boring as some others.
Demons fusion & customisation like every other Megami game. Meant to have the largest amount if demons yet & I feel like I’m fusing more often, which is fun.
I’m really keen on the visuals & music too.
Simple effective character designs , detailed levels .
Music seems to swap between silent hill spooky & classic JRPG cock rock, really good.
You can customize your hair & clothes too.
Is anybody having trouble with updating games in steam? Starting to struggle a lot with mine, thinking I might have a HDD on the way out
Mine has been fine.
No problems here. Actually did a big raft of the F2P ones.
So now Pax is over, I will start looking at making my new computer. I want something that will easily run photoshop and illustrator as well as most games easily. I ask the Taybies for their extensive knowledge and help
I’m happy to help if you want. Do you have a particular budget or anything? Also, do you plan to use any of your current hardware in the new system?
Only my key board and mouse. I also want to make it a little more environmentally friendly if I can. (which is why I’m considering replacing my monitor)
ok. at a guess, you’re probably looking at something around the $1000+ mark if you need pretty much all components and monitor. If you have an idea of the max you would like to spend, I can throw something together that fits your requirement, My guess is your best option will probably come in the form of a 4th gen i5 cpu and maybe 8gb of ram to start. Do you want a decent graphics card, or satisfied with something mid-low end?
Decent, especially if I’m going to use photoshop and stuff. The monitor will be one of the last things though. Also, I’m on an i7 atm, but an old one. Maximum over time I would probably spend about $2000?
right! for 2k I could do something reasonably top end. several weeks ago I build a system for a customer using a 4th gen i7 and 16gb ram, and a gtx970, and it was around 1700 fully installed. (SSD included, but no hdd as they had their own already)
I have a 1TB HDD that I can reuse
cool! well that should give you an idea of the kind of thing you’re looking at! 🙂 very similar upgrade to what I did for my customer, which would leave a little bit left over for buying a monitor! 🙂
If you already have an i7, it might not be a bad option to upgrade the current machine, rather than build a new one from scratch. Or at least, it sounds like you’ll be able to cannibalise some decent parts from your existing machine.
if she’s on a 1st gen i7 like me, upgrading would be very beneficial, as she likely doesn’t have sata 3 on the current motherboard
Fair enough! I knew as I was posting that I probably shouldn’t get involved, because I know almost nothing about computers 😛
Buy the things with the higher numbers! That means they’re better, right?
@shane your thinking is very inline with my regular train of thought, so you’re not really wrong to suggest it, as usually it is a great way to save money! The new cpu’s/mobo’s do have many performance benefits over the old ones though, especially in the area of power consumption (which by the sounds of it, is important to her too 🙂
I have a first Gen i7. I didn’t say that so you weren’t to know. I can re-use the ram too perhaps.
How much have you got currently? Do you know if it’s running in triple channel or double?
@welbot DDR3 and I think I have 8gigs
mm ok. 8gig is likely running in dual channel. you probably can get away with using it. Just add another 8gig!
@welbot anyway I can get the specs for you? Also I can re-use the CD drive
not really necessary to have the specs. If it’s DDR3 then it should be fine. If your current system ran triple channel, you may have needed to ditch a chip possibly, but normally if you run triple channel, you’ll have ram totals of 3, 6 or 12gb. (comprised of 3x1gb chips, or 3x2gb and so on) The new motherboards only have dual channel unless you go to the x99 chipset, then it jumps to quad channel!
Speaking of Laptops, I bought an Alienware laptop after listening to your advice. I never got back to you on it! Please tell me I did a good thing? lol
Weeeeeeeeell…
you didn’t do bad. Hardware wise they are well spec’d machines. I just hope you didn’t mortgage your house to get it 😉
I did 🙁 Haha no, I had a lot of birthday money left over and got 15% off on a flash sale 😛
haha nice! The alienware laptops are pretty solid, and since they’re looked after by Dell these days, warranty on them is handled really well, they just tend to be way overpriced for my liking.
At least you didn’t go for a Republic of Gamers model though! I would have had to give you a good hard kick in the arse if you had! 😉
I was scared, I knew if I tried to build my own lappy (even just picking the parts with the website you showed me) I would balls it up 🙁 lol
You can’t really build your own laptops. If I wanted a laptop, I’d have to go buy one from one of the many manufacturers too! Given you got a good discount and had the money for it, Alienware was a good choice! Only reason I wouldn’t buy one is $$$. One day perhaps when I have all my debt paid off I would start to consider things like that again, but that’s a long way away for me! And getting longer by the day given I currently have no job! 😉
Couldn’t reply below, but here’s hoping you break the funk soon. I’m sorry if it seemed like I was rubbing it in, I’m lucky to have a pretty generous family who qualify their love for me by buying mine lol.
Nah man. Didn’t think that at all! All good dood! 🙂
I can help out too, if you want. Some things from skimming this thread:
– Which i7, in particular? I have i7 920, overclocked it, and there’s no need to upgrade until DDR4 and <20nm enthusiast 6-core+ chips are at $400. I wouldn’t be so against keeping what you have… but need to know specifics.
– Yes, you have SATA2 only. SATA3 is a nice boost indeed, if you get SSD’s.
– If you were looking for something new: i5, 8GB RAM (with room for another two sticks), 1-2 SSD’s, and GPU to suit. Perhaps go with a Dell U-series monitor for the colour accuracy? They are decent out of the box.
The brute force of the 920 still holds its own in today’s world (I’m also running a 920). I don’t find myself yearning for more gaming power, but I would give anything for a faster bus though. My ssd on sata 2 only runs about the same speed as a raptor drive. Windows 8 fresh install on the ssd takes almost as long to boot and do other things as my win7 setup when I had it on a HDD. Also getting a new mobo will give access to other nice goodies like sata express etc.
For me, I’m gonna wait to go to a quad channel setup, but only cos I’m povvo, and by the time I get enough to do it, the prices will have come down to more reasonable levels! Unless you’re doing some serious rendering, going to an x99 system is just overkill. Better to boost the guts a bit and get a kickass gpu. Given she’s working in Photoshop, the GPU will do most of the work anyway.
Photoshop and illustrator. Sometimes at the same time
Yeah the whole Adobe Creative Suite can run on GPU. Should have no problems if you get yourself a 970/980!
I would like to start with the motherboard and case or something
Well, case is kind of tricky. Looks and such play a part in that, so hard to recommend something in particular. The more you pay, the better the quality, and less likely you are to cut your hands on bits of it, but generally speaking, one case is as good as another. Perhaps since you’re in Melbourne, have a look at pccasegear and see if there’s a case you like the look of on their site.
As for the motherboard, my recommendation would be the ASRock Z97-EXTREME6. It’s a mid range board running the z97 chipset, but it’s JAM PACKED with features and lots of Sata ports etc. Has an m.2 port as well as sata express to future-proof yourself too. It currently sells for around the $220-$240 range. Slap an i7 4970 in there and you’ll be laughing!
Sounds like a plan. I grabbed a whole bunch of brochures at Pax so I’ll be checking them all out! I might get Pixel to help with the case because he said the case I have now is quite small.
Yeah you’ll likely need to get a new one to fix a decent graphics card in if your case is old/small. So long as you get one that’s got around 27 or so cm clearance for PCI-E cards, you should be good. I need to get a new case when I upgrade too. Currently running a gtx580 in an old antec case, and it only just fits with about 3mm clearance! Sucks when I have to pull it out! So difficult!
Most cases these days will fit the new gpu’s, but I’d recommend spending $80 or so at a minimum. Some of the cheaper $50-$60 cases would be tight fits like my system, and it’s a nightmare! The slightly more expensive cases tend to have a bit more breathing room!
Annual Cup Day pub crawl is go. See you on the other side, motherfuckers.
Final Fantasy Xenoblade looks so good!
@powalen !
XV? Ima start calling it Elder Fantasy the Final Scrolls
Watch the vid when you get the chance! It’s basically Xenoblade 😀 (even the music sounds familiar)
Looks sweeeeeeeeeeeet, their random chatter is hilarious too 😀
So the music sounds like Chrono Cross?
Are you trying to put me off XV?
I’m trying to get you to realise your Platinum-esque mistakes and show Xeno some loving again.
Wait what’s wrong with Platinum?
The game or the developer?
I like the game more than Soul Silver
Oh, I was just thinking the dev.
@mrtaco
Not a fan of the developer either ( don’t hate em or nothin, just not interested)
Nothing, but me and Jimsy always talk about what’s better between Pokemon SoulSilver/HeartGold or Pokemon Platinum :D. It’s more of a weird thing we do though…(because we’re weird)
But he totally doesn’t like Platinum Games and is a monster 🙁
Had Xenoblafder combat that interested me, I would have persisted
Well if you’re going to steal the gameplay from another JRPG, it might as well be a good one.
So good!!
Did you ever play Xenoblade? I think you were one of the ones that didn’t?
Perfect game to help make the wait for FFXV more bearable 😀
No!
No I haven’t played it yet D:
I’ll most likely get it on the New 3DS though, sounds like something I would like 😀
I’ll buy my 3rd copy!
It was taking so long to come out that most of my hype had disappeared.
It’s back now.
EDIT: They called that area “part of 1/10th of the total map”. If that’s the case, their map would be bigger than most MMOs by a considerable degree.
It’s nice to actually see something about it for once 😛
The Last Guardian…
So my friend broke up with his gf last night. He comes over with a couple other friends at 9.30. Got him ko’d by 12 and we stayed up drinking until 3am. I somehow woke up in time for work and I feel fine. I’m thinking it will all hit me around 3pm but due to Melbourne cup it will be a short day today anyway.
You’re a good pal. Sucks about friend. 🙁
SCREW game freak for not including character customisation in OR&AS
Customising Pikachu does not make up for it!
Yeah, I’m annoyed that they removed that
The reason is the worst.
Makes it sound like they’ll never do it again 🙁
I miss it when Poke-friends follow your character around too :(.
Basically impossible that it’ll ever happen again though now that it’s 3D and the sizes are all different.
What was the reason? I really liked the customisation =(
Something about it being specific to Kalos theme or some such.
Hopefully just an excuse & we’ll see it next gen.
That sounds like a copout to me
@jackunit13 Hey did you try the Evolve Alpha? any good?
Na man I messed up I think.
I got the code sent to my email address on Friday. In my excitement, I added the code to my profile on the Xbox website on my work computer. What followed was a painful struggle to try and actually locate the game/download history/purchase history on my Xbox as it didn’t automatically download.
Ended up giving up, will not make the same mistake again! Any codes will be getting entered on my XB1 from now on.
Aww gutted, I just got The Crew beta key today but gave it to a mate as I won’t get on, its for this weekend only. I like the look of Evolve I just can’t see it being more than a weekend thrash though, no campaign could end up like Titanfall, dead in a month, I think you can add bots, but who wants bots.
That’s my thoughts too. A really interesting concept, but could get old real, real quick.
Same here. All I know is that it’s 4 humans vs 1 monster. So after roaming the jungle and killing a couple random things, they meet up and go at it until someone dies. FIN. Rinse and repeat. Will be interesting to see final product.
I played some PC alpha on the weekend, splash screen was a bit upsetting “press a to start” had troubles finding a server/having people stay. I picked to be assault the game put me as the monster which was kinda crap I thought. Can’t skip any of the intro or “tutorial” videos which I hope isn;t like that in final release. Over all seems alright, I also hope there’s a SP option, cause i’m not a massive fan of the whole random match maker MP thing. Overall seems like it has good potential to be a fun game.q
w00t! Just received an email from one of the recruitment guys I had an interview with last week, and it looks like I’ve been shortlisted for a job at department of education! This means I will now likely have to have an interview with them directly, which is a bit meh… but progress!!
Public sector \o/
@scree This should suit your needs nicely.
http://au.pcpartpicker.com/p/GJ9svK
You just picked the most expensive things you could find, didn’t you?
MASTER RACE!
It’s Freeze. It was either gonna be the most expensive or the most antiquated. XD
You guys get me.
Money wise, you could maybe just get away with going the route of the new x99 chipset and using ddr4, but since photoshop is mostly what you’re going to be using, it’s a bit excessive. You’d be better to utilize the bits you can re-use, and re-invest the money you save in to better parts to put inside it. Seeing a 4th gen i7 running win8 on an ssd side by side with a 1st gen i7 will blow you away!
I opened in a new tab and saw in the header “Intel Xe” …. 😛
Windows 7 🙁
@scree when you build your computer please put Windows 8.1 on it, not Windows 7. Or ideally put Windows 10 on there because it’s even better.
O ly picked it as it was most expensive
I like Windows 8.
I like it too. And I like 10 a lot too from what I’ve used of it. I didn’t get to contribute any code to 10 though. 🙁
I think 8 didn’t deserve the bad rap it got
It didn’t, but the start screen stuff was indicative of Sinovsky’s authoritarian style – it basically trickled down to the way they engaged with people on it.
The big issue with 8 is it cut business users off. No enterprise would touch it because they’d need to re-train staff to use it. They’ve been through that before with the ribbon in Office.
Got hassled by some GGers last night/this morning. Apparently I’m “not a real gamer” and a shill for gaming journalism sites because apparently I don’t see their examples of “things gamergate has achieved” as proof of any kind of corruption.
Apparently because Polygon and Escapist now post disclaimers about their involvement with publishers that’s a victory for gamergate, even though there’s no evidence of any kind of wrongdoing before or since? Apparently Polygon writers aren’t allowed to have any personal involvement with anyone else in the industry (such as supporting a Patreon) because later if they write about a project they support that’s proof that whatever they write will be biased? That’s like saying because I drive a Holden I can’t say nice things about it because other people might drive Holdens too, I guess?? Also apparently convincing intel to pull advertising from Leigh Alexander’s site by falsely accusing her of harassment over her “death of gamers” article (and the ongoing campaign to spam advertisers to have them pull support from anyone they disagree with) is both a win for gamergate but also an unsubstantiated allegation of gamergate’s misdeeds… what?
The scope of their lack of comprehension ability is pretty broad, as they demonstrate a complete failure to understand the basic principles of:
– corruption
– evidence
– ethics
– journalism
I don’t know why I engaged with these idiots on twitter to begin with but I’m glad I scratched that itch, if only to prove it was a complete waste of time.
Truth is, I don’t give a flying fuck if someone sees me as a real gamer. I’m just gonna play games and treat people with respect. You’re awesome, Kermi!
You would if you were a real gamer.
*fisticuffs*
I would fisticuff you right in the face, but my hands are currently filled with my non-gamer Wii controllers!
Not finishing Indy I assume.
Too hard. *runs off crying*
I thought you were gonna say he’s too handsome to hit and he’d say the same thing to you and then nothing would happen and everyone becomes friends and watches Survivor!
😀
Everytime I’ve seen Gooky he’s been wearing a Shredder mask or Manny face. Only way I can judge his handsomeness is by his porn doppelganger. 😛
So is his porno version handsome enough for you? 😛
Needs more hair! *flees*
😛
…in which location?
*flees*
More hair?
*fleas*
Lies! There’s been plenty of non-masked pictures of me on here!
Like that one in the boxer shorts 😛
That’s my plan. I guess it just bothers me that good people are being harassed out of the industry but that’s their decision and a few angry tweets (really the only time and resource I can realistically offer) isn’t going to change that.
I don’t know if you saw what I wrote on Serrels article but it was something along the lines of get over it.
As I said on Twitter last night, it’s unethical corruption when reviewers are given a game that is rivaled only by those times that they buy them themselves.
It’s pretty amazing: given a game for free? Corruption! A positive review only means you were paid off! Buy a game? You financially supported the dev/publisher and have a bias!
Sure, there was an issue a few years ago when there was controversy over a bad review of Kane & Lynch 2 because the publisher had paid Gamespot to slather their site in K&L2 advertising but that shit was out in the open from day one and we’re all onto it. We didn’t need gamergate then and we sure as shit don’t need it now.
Hmm… reminds me of that saying/cliche: “Don’t argue with idiots. They’ll only bring you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”
In this case maybe replace “experience” with “dogmatic-frothing-persistance”.
The thing that I keep shaking my head at though, is it really seems to be a quite minor yet very vocal group of keyboard warriors that is giving the whole thing momentum. Unfortunately while they keep whinging and getting people to pay attention it gives it oxygen to burn… and I’ll be damned if there is an easy way to deprive the whole thing of oxygen and get it to sputter and fail like it should have months ago.
Do you by any chance read Sara Douglass? going by your username.
Yep – was my introduction to the genre… Loved the Icarii and the magic of that world… so hijacked the name. 🙂
Haha awesome, I’ve almost finished Serpent Bride been reading her books for the last 6 months or so, You read them all?
*walks in and grabs microphone*
Fuck gamer gate
*mic drop*
Don’t drop mics man, that shit is expensive!
I was in that conversation but decided it wasn’t worth my time or energy to participate. They weren’t particularly coherent anyway.
Also, the accusations of being called “not a real gamer” often hit a bit too close to home for me to be okay with participating in discussions with these people.
He was trying to riff on my “gam3r boi” description in my twitter profile, which I put there ironically to begin with so his sad attempt at a zinger was top lulz for me.
Me saying “just ignore him” over and over again definitely wasn’t a factor. I particularly enjoyed the “oh god, he’s still at it” from this morning.
And yes, the “not a real gamer” card is super dumb.
What? Why?
Presumably because as a girl she gets to hear it aaaaall the fuuuucking tiiiiiime.
Well, yes, and I like the Sims a lot. And RPGs. And whatever else is associated with being not hardcore.
I thought RPGs was the definition of hard core! 😀
Don’t worry, you’re also not a real gamer if you play predominantly mobile games, sports games, Halo, Call of Duty or MMOs. There hasn’t been a real gamer since 1989.
Except for all the GG guys. Because they speak for all gamers*.
*All gamers is a group of people that agree with the principles of GG, voice no dissent when GG does something stupid and are the arbiters of gaming.
Have you seen “hardcore” gamers? I’d rather not be them.
Yes but “you’re not a gamer” unless you’re hardcore, whatever that means according to the shifting goalposts of the day. Never mind that throughout my life I’ve been told repeatedly “this isn’t for girls” in reference to CS, Magic, Warhammer and many other areas I didn’t end up going into, so I play things that are okay for girls but then aren’t good enough to be a gamer either!
Freya, play what you enjoy and enjoy what you play. You’re one of the most fantastic people I know and if someone wants to dismiss you outright over something that ridiculous and shallow it’s their loss.
You Freezey said!
I can’t imagine what that’s like, having dickheads actively trying to exclude you, and for dumb reasons like gender or taste. It’s easy to say “ignore them” but I know (from other experience) that advice is way easier to give than to put into practice. So I guess the best I can offer is the affirmation that not all circles of gaming are exclusive, and that here in TAY at least, you and I and all of us will always be welcome and fit in properly.
This confuses me. Like, I would have thought that guys would be excited to find a girl who is interested in those kinds of things, why would you actively try and drive them away from that?
@shane @freezespreston @dc @mrtaco Thanks for your supportiveness. Sorry, I don’t usually get ranty publicly but occasionally the dickheads get to me. TAY is lovely and supportive and quite a great community overall, as exemplified by your posts.
Wait, is this over 140 character tweets? They run out of characters before they finish their expletive-filled rant. 😛
Well I ended up with a code for beta access to the crew somehow
Considering I don’t have a console it’s kinda worthless to me. It’s a uplay code that give guaranteed access to the closed beta. If anybody is interested give a shout.
So uh, cheap Halloween candy. The other purchases aside, there was these packs of oreos that has steadily been dropping in price for a while at my local target. Today, it hit a dollar a pack each.
But alas I had already spent like $30 bucks on other discounted packs of candy so I couldn’t-
JK I BOUGHT THAT SHIT UP I GOT 15 PACKAGES OF OREOS FOR 15 BUCKS I’VE NO REGRETS.
Saturday gets diabeetus in three … two … one…
Do they have Reeses as well??
Here’s my Melb Cup outfit for work. 😛
http://imgur.com/Mh8ClCX
Where’s the hat with feathers?!
I’ve been told I’m fascinating enough.
My mum told me that too, but here’s the thing… THEY LIE! 😛
#Milhouse
But my mom says I’m cool…
Rocking that suit. Is that the usual work attire?
I’m wearing the same clothes as I wore when I filmed my Kickstarter vid, figuring that if anyone asked, I could say “I’M DRESSED UP LIKE THE GUY IN THE VIDEO.”
Ha thanks. Business pants and button-up shirt is usual attire, yeah. Some ladies at work kept saying I should wear a tie sometime, so I said maybe for Melb Cup. 😛
I didn’t watch the vid, share pic!
I wore a suit today because I was off yesterday and thought I might have a last minute invite to a lunch/drinks function with one of our panel law firms waiting in my inbox.
I did not, and now I’m sad. 🙁
You should make your own function, and then not invite anyone. That’ll show them. Of course, you’d have to be okay with drinking alone…
Buy drinks with my own money? I’d rather be working!
No, no. It’s a legit work function, and should come out of petty cash!
This cannot possibly end badly.
I’d post a picture of the day’s attire for mke but it’s pretty much just my underpants.
I’m carefully dressed in my torn up Ghostbusters shirt with food stains down the front. It’s on trend this season!
Best attire.
Why is that a reason not to post?
Damn. All I got is a plain black button up dickies work shirt & a pair of camo pants goin’ on.. Saying that I feel a little too dressed up for working on product labels at home 😛
@shane: Season three of The Newsroom! Next Monday! Compare notes? (Unless you’re going to wait for them all to air first. Won’t take long. Very short season.)
I DON’T KNOW. Next Monday is so soon and we have so many things to watch! We haven’t even watched season 6 of Mad Men yet, or Season 7 of Sons of Anarchy, or Generation Kill, or I’m sure a whole bunch of other things we’ve been meaning to try *cries*
Sorkin, Shane. Sorkin. Enough said. 😀 Though I could never stay mad at you for watching Mad Men instead.
Yeah, that’s true. Sorkin is the guy. Mrs Shane also wants to rewatch The West Wing, so maybe I can offer up The Newsroom as a compromise suggestion until we work through the legitimate backlog a little 😛
I could get behind a West Wing rewatch, as well! Or The Leftovers! (Cause Donna? Totally in that show!) Josh is in Transparent!
STOP. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD PLEASE STOP
Isaac day tomorrow!
The EU Playstation Blog can’t seem to get their shit together and there hasn’t been an official November PS+ announcement yet (despite them saying it would happen on the last Wednesday of every month), so it seems unlikely the PS+ version of Isaac will come out by tomorrow.
Guess I’m buying it on PC and ignoring the Vita version! I wouldn’t mind playing both but I’m pretty sure there’s no way the data will transfer between the versions 🙁
ISAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAC!
We still don’t have out Oct Driveclub haha. I might get the vita version, seems like a sure-fit.
For everyone playing marvel puzzle quest.
Come and join the KotakuAU alliance.
Is there one for iPhone, or just for Steam?
The Alliance is multiplatform.
I just grabbed it, how do I join?
Press the button that looks like a group of people. After you’ve chosen your username you can search for alliances. You’ll have to tick the box that says “search for private alliances” and do a search for “KotakuAU”.
Ta!
Thanks for that. I have joined, just waiting for approval.
Done. 🙂
Thanks very much. Marvel Puzzle Quest is quickly becoming my most played game.
It’s pretty much the only game I’m playing at the moment. I was getting a bit tired of it but then I joined the alliance and it makes all the difference. More rewards as well as more fun when you’re working to get your alliance higher in an event.
I’m definitely looking forward to playing in an alliance. I’m trying to finish the Gauntlet at the moment. I only have two of the Captain Marvel things left to do in the Alpine section, then I can throw myself into the third section.
I’ve just started playing on Steam as well as my phone. With 20 slots in the Alliance now, maybe I should join again with my Steam one?
If you can do it.
With the daily item you get more ISO-8 for every person in the alliance.
I just approved myself. That was weird. 😛
How’s the new COD?
Really good. I’m having a blast with it. The far future setting has let them go nuts with all the tech and weapons. Freaking jet packs that let you boost dodge.
Sounds like Titanfall vs Cod (minus the Titans) ? Sounds fun.
Is it trout already? I guess not being a member of its fan bass, I wouldn’t know. Don’t write me off as an anemone of the franchise though; I’ve got no chips on my shoulder.
Nice.
Don’t know. Not a fish person. 😛
All I know is that the PC version isn’t balls like Ghost’s port was. That fact surprised me.
Good morning Taybes! What a lovely weekend! Still enjoying the high from PAX and everything else, and now we’re having a Melby Cup bbq in the office 😀
Barbecued horse?
HEY JANE! HOPE PAX TREATED YOU WELL!
HEY YOU. I would probably not eat horse, but I would definitely try my hand at cooking it. PAX was super fun. We got to meet Rex Crowle from Media Molecule, and I’ll admit, I got a little bit close to crying because he’s my boyfriend’s idol and it was so lovely to see them talking. The Media Molecule/Tearaway stand was the best and they were so wonderful and I’m still so happy because of it 😀
How was *your* weekend?
My weekend has been redacted. I’d tell you if I could, Jane. Believe me!
That’s awesome about Media Molecule. Can’t wait for PS4 version of Tearaway!
Oh, now he likes handheld games, I see how it is!
*dies*
We’re having morning tea bring-a-plate. So I come in with 8 choc-chip muffins and a bunch of white choc macadamia cookies. 😀
White choc macadamia cookies are my favourite! Good work you!
I GOT SOME IN MY BISCUIT BARREL RIGHT NOW AFTER YESTERDAY’S COSTCO TRIP!
*runs to kitchen*
This might be a weird question, but do you happen to know what the dog food situation is like at Costco? I kinda want to join just so I could buy bulk dog food, but I can’t find any details anywhere.
At the same time, I don’t want to join, because I know I’ll see cheap candy and that’ll be the end of me.
Also, is your biscuit barrel themed in any way?
I know there’s an entire aisle of pet food, but my eyes were mainly searching for the cat food. (Don’t have a dog.) Got proper name brand in bulk so I imagine it’s the same for dog food. Also the candy section is evil I tells ya. EVIL. My biscuit barrel is more a Tupperware container. XD
It’s brand name (including a bunch of the expensive), the smallest bag available is 18kg and costs around $40-45.
Aldi is way cheaper for their brand, but for these brands, Costco is cheaper than a pet store.
Thanks, Shane. I actually will not go to Aldi (long story) and I only buy certain brands for my dogs (they eat better than a lot of people, I think), so that’s good to know!
Aw, you went to PAX and we didn’t get to meet? 🙁
Sorry! 🙁
Free two weeks of FF XIV coming soon
http://www.siliconera.com/2014/11/03/final-fantasy-xiv-realm-reborn-free-trial-coming-ps3-ps4-soon/
I have much fondness for FF14. I just wish I had more leisure hours in a day to play it; as it is, FF14 just doesn’t get the attention it deserves, crowded out by others.
Yep, I can’t justify a subscription. Wish it was pay by the hour
Pay by the hour is way worse really. It would be better if the cost of the subscription was lower.
Like, for example, if they didn’t insist on billing Australians in euros. :\
If I payed for an hour and only played for an hour, that would be a better deal than paying for a month and playing for an hour
So no, not worse, really.
Except if you look at the way they do it with by-the-hour MMOs in places like China and Korea, you have to buy multiple hours at once and basically operate it like a prepaid service.
Also playing an MMO for just one hour? I played at least a week’s worth of hours of FFXIV and didn’t hit level cap.
Which would be perfect for me. I think Ragnarok was like that?
Obliviously, Id get more than an hour in during a month, but nowhere near as much as a single non-parent with time on their hands.
I feel like I’d be paying a month and getting a week, for example (I havent done the exact math, this is a very loose guesstimate)
So really, a free to play would be a way better investment then. There’s some really good F2P MMOs out there as well. SWTOR for example.
@negativezero Ha ha! Of course.
I have PCitus though.
I nearly tried out that DC one on PS3 but the download was so shockingly slow I gave up.
Melbourne Cup day! aka the one day I get the office to myself for two hours. Peace and quiet! \o/
Might actually get some work done today.YOUR WORK ETHIC SICKENS ME!
Superior Spider-Man 99c each on Comixology today.
Great price for best Spidey series in years.
just over $30 for the lot
(Twitter echoes)
Bah! I think the power supply on my PC just randomly died last night, well that or the power ports in my motherboard are dead.
Here’s a good replacement
http://au.pcpartpicker.com/p/GJ9svK
I was hoping to actually spend a little bit more …
LOL.
doh! that blows man!
Not sure if pun…
Huzzah for backup powersupply!
Office Melbourne Cup sweeps! What’d you all get?
I got – #5 Protectionist: He caught the eye when he produced a mighty debut run in this country with 59 kilograms at group 2 level at Caulfield. A German horse, he is trained by Andreas Wohler, who has travelled horses around the world with great success. Only lightly raced and already up to 56.5 kilograms but the spacious Flemington will hold no fears for him. A good one to draw in the sweep.
http://www.theage.com.au/sport/horseracing/melbourne-cup-2014-horsebyhorse-guide-to-the-melbourne-cup-field-20141030-11el2b.html
Winner!!!!
If you’ve got console Diablo 3 now is the time to play. 100% gold and XP boost that stacks multiplictively with the boosts you already have. I’m sitting on a 550% XP boost and went from 59 to 61 in under 10 mins.
Dammit, now I’m even more mad at myself for spending my Diablo moneys on fabric! 😛
Well, crashed out at 20 to 8 last night, woke up about the same time this morning.
I have not slept that long in a very long time. It’s not always the greatest feeling.
@freezespreston http://www.milsims.com.au/node/116579 Betrayal for a much more reasonable price. Milsims were pretty good when I used them
Oh I found heaps around that price. Was just more shock that someone wanted 4 times the price for no reason at all.
It was out of print for a bit. WotC don’t do that many board games any more.
Don’t worry, you’ll soon cross the threshold where you start paying attention to print runs.
All this PC talk has made me look at a new PC again.. Damn it..
/o\
Sorry
Super sorry, super ultra mega mega family fun sorry collection uber turbo dx part deux day one edition or just the regular kind? This is important! 😛
Depends how virus feels =P
Why? I was gonna blame Freeze & Nob 😛
Yeah, how dare you create excitement and hype? TAY should just be bland beige banal chatter about nothing interesting all the time.
I know, right? I’m such a monster
@redartifice @trjn So the people behind Fiasco are making a new game called Night Witches that’s more of a traditional RPG based on the Apocalypse World rules. The interesting thing about it is that it’s based around the story of Soviet airwomen in the Second World War and you basically play as female bomber and fighter pilots.
They’ve got a Kickstarter going and I know you guys are seriously into Fiasco so I thought I’d share the word.
I saw that, and in a 3 week period that didn’t include PAX and a trip O/S I’d be there with bells on.
Still need to pledge to UnDad as well
Undad runs for 40 more days if that helps.
I figured that I’d pledge when I get back
That’s okay… provided that you tell everyone you come across on your trip about Undad.
Some village in rural cambodia…
“…and so that’s why you should back UnDad”
“Sir, I need money for shoes”
“Undad first.”
I’m talking riches of the soul here, not riches of the s…
Well, you can see where I’m going with this #pagesixhistrange
Kickstarters aren’t my thing and I tend to wait for things to be on shelf, but I’ll probably check it out eventually.
Wasteland 2 log:
Good to know that there’s still good music post apocalypse.
Last song played:
Do you really want to hurt me? – Culture Club
http://www.npr.org/2014/11/03/361069820/new-clock-may-end-time-as-we-know-it
This hurts my brain.
This is pretty cool stuff, but I’d like to argue a point with whoever wrote it.
A Caesium based atomic clock made 300 million years ago wouldn’t be accurate down to the second. Or more accurately, an atomic clock made that long ago would tell seconds completely accurately, but would be off by a matter of days (weeks? months? Rough estimate says that if my single point of data were accurate, it would be a bit under 3 months, I think). In the, what, 40 odd years we’ve had the World Atomic Clocks, the rate that the Earth spins around the Sun has slowed (cumulatively) by about a second (that is phrased terribly). They’re fantastic pieces of technology, but inherently flawed because other bits of the universe aren’t perfect.
Well, sure.
If you want to be a nerd about it.
I love when people are nerds about things. 🙂
“You are technically correct. The best kind of correct.”
Delved into the comments section…They destroyed what understanding I had of ‘time’ with well reasoned and constructed arguments…bastards.
Jeez thanks a lot for deleting all my battle.net friends, Blizzard. Not like I wanted them or anything…
Blizzard are the only friends you need now.
/o\ noooooooooo
I’ve gotten into a rut where all I do all day is refresh the internet, make something to eat, listen to music, pace around my house and do nothing at all. Argh! Need to start living! I don’t know how, though! XD
Edit: This isn’t a sad, woe is me post btw. Just a brutal look into the mirror. 🙂
Get a hobby out of doors. Go for a walk to the park. Take up gardening, which can be done without leaving the house (once the supplies are acquired). Read a book.
Got enough hobbies. I need a job, that’s what I need. I need to break this cycle. I need to actually do something instead of whining about it! 😀
Well, that too, but I know you know this.
Sign up with a temp agency. They run you through some tests, which you’ll ace, and can then place you. Gives you a chance to sharpen up your skills in a workplace and put stuff on your CV.
Hobbies can lead to jobs. Anything that gets you out of the house can also help break a cycle of houseboundedness.
I assume you’re actively searching for work? What kind of jobs do you look for/want?
Nope! That’s the thing! I’m not at all and haven’t in a while! It’s 100% my own fault I’m unemployed and I find myself crippled to do any thing about it. (For reasons, that’s probably a combination of fear, crazy, lazy and sad.)
If you want some help, just gimme a holler man. I’m happy to help you put together a resume and stuff if you want/need. If you have an idea of some type of work you might be keen to do, I can help you find some openings too. No pressure obviously.. if you don’t feel up to it, then so be it, but just know that if you want some help/pointers, I’m always here for you man!
Thanks man! Got some plans a-brewing, but I’ll keep that in mind! Thanks so much for the offer. Very kind of you. 🙂
If you need me to help with anything, like go with you somewhere so you don’t chicken out or something, just say the word. 🙂
I recommend taking up Strange’s offer. Having people around makes things less scary and more fun in general.
Like Red says, I recommend a temp agency. Multiple. It can be a bit hit-and-miss until you find one that actually thinks your skillset is useful and wants to use you, but temp agencies have got me very comfortably through some hard times.
That’s what I’m like whenever I’m not at work.
Hey D.C., wanna write a TV show with me? I’ll sit here and pitch shitty ideas, and you can sit there refusing to do anything with my shitty ideas!
That sounds awful.
Man, this job is easy! You should get in on this, DC!
Play piano again!
Of course you can!
Well I couldn’t before.
Here’s
theathe plan:* Get crappy burger flipping job
* Move out of home
* Try to live on burger flipping wage, realise that’s not going to cut it
* Start applying for jobs out of necessity
* Land better job
* Get better house
* Rinse and repeat the last four steps
*kills self*
Hold on, let me check that list again… I don’t think that was one of the steps >:(
This is the boring part of the plan. What you do to make money or out of necessity shouldn’t define you. Not to yourself or anyone else.
I’m a housewife and mother. I clean (sometimes :P), cook, plan, make sure everybody’s clean and fed and feels loved and in return I get food, shelter and sometimes money. But this isn’t who I am. If I didn’t make sure I did things outside of my “job” I’d be terrible at it. It’s when I was letting that define me to myself that I started to feel like I wasn’t worth anything. But when no matter how far beyond exhausted I was I made sure to take time to do the things that make me me, then I found I had new bursts of energy, and then my “job” didn’t seem so dead end all of a sudden.
So yes, that is essentially people’s life plans. But it’s only the bones. It’s what you add to that that counts the most.
Sure, but sometimes you just gotta take steps to light that fire. Back before I got married and trapped in full-time work, I was writing a reasonable amount, but it was intermittent and lazy. When I began to disappear into the fluorescent haze of office work, things finally clicked for me, and I began writing like a maniac, every chance I got. And the rest is, as they will one day say, history.
The point is: I had to start doing something I hated before I could commit properly to the ‘true’ path.
Sometimes I wonder if I write in a different language because people quite often misunderstand me. Argh, how do I word right?!
You basically just agreed with me, but put a “Sure, but…” before it. I’m unsure what I wrote that made it seem like I was saying don’t get a job. I was talking about taking steps. And I was talking about what you do when you’re not at your job being more important than your job. So even a job you hate can be made to feel better by the things you do when you’re not there.
Sure, but you’re right.
LIFE IS ACTUALLY THE SIMS
Well no wonder I have no idea how life really works, I’ve never play The Sims. 😛
The daughter of one of the managers at work here has decided she’s not going to university or looking for full time work after finishing high school: she’s going to work part time in a coffee shop and live in a combi van at the beach. Said manager has decided to let her daughter try to live out this fantasy. After a single week at her part time barista job she started complaining about how little she gets paid, so I suspect her beachlife fantasy will be a short-lived one.
Another more personal point…
You know how I’ve got all those stories you say makes it sound like I’ve ‘lived’?
Like about the time I worked for an island resort, running around playing impromptu-concierge (with tasks like trying to find storage space in the kitchens for a VIP’s fishing yield), sleeping with backpackers, and getting sand in… everything. Or when I spent a few weeks as a carer for the disabled, for a woman who woke up crying because consciousness equaled pain. Or when I trekked around the harvest trail, picking fruit, fights, and bar-tending in dodgy motel restaurants and pubs? Or working for a telemarketer who told me not to come back in after taking a day off for my grandmother’s funeral? Or doing sales for Cutco, where part of the sales pitch is going into peoples’ homes to demo the products by cooking them a meal, where I noticed a direct correlation between how fancy and tasty the meal, and how much I sold? (Man, did that sharpen up my cooking skills.) Labouring, sailing, learning MYOB for a small business, data entry for a recruitment company and part-time ‘coffee-bitch’, working for Telstra, getting an offer for (and passing on – I got a better offer) a gay phone-sex gig (I’d have done it, though) which I found in the newspaper, offering myself up for medical drugs testing, being temporarily homeless thanks to not finding a place before my new job started, and sneakily sleeping in college common rooms, rotating between their facilities…
I got one of the most lucrative jobs of my life from simply having nowhere to be, and taking the time to TALK to one of those international aid charity buskers who seemed desperate for a little human contact in a stream of humans refusing to make eye contact or acknowledge her existence.
On a walk home from work, I startled a group of older women when I walked into a closed church unannounced and watched their expressions change from apprehension to relief when I told them that someone had left their car running outside. They were setting up an event and offered free food and drink and conversation in exchange for that basic, tiny kindness in doing something I would not have done if I’d ridden past on the bus or driven past in the car.
Rescuing a kitten, delivering it to the RSPCA for adoption and hearing of her successful move to a loving family. Falling in love with a woman I asked to help steer my car as I pushed it off the road. Plucking an apple off the back of a slow-moving truck passing by and winking roguishly at a shocked-looking lady who burst into laughter as I bit into it and kept walking. Learning the different calls of my nemesis the brooding magpie so that we could come to a wary agreement about the perimeter I could walk around her nesting-tree… I can rattle around in this old skull and find any number of unusual or weird moments that left a lasting impression, which I only experienced because I did something unusual and just reached out. This awkward, geeky kid who somewhere along the way turned into me.
My GOD, DC. You want stories? You can accumulate so many unusual little vignettes of things the world has to offer TODAY if you just… start! Do something impulsive and out of character! Talk to people without pretense or agenda or fear! You don’t need to have any magical powers or special qualities other than the brilliant sense of human decency you show us every damn day and an inquisitiveness about the world and its people… and people will show you things, for your efforts. They will show you SO MUCH if you let them.
Good post that my reply can’t do justice at the moment. 🙂
TL;DR: The longer you wait for the future, the shorter it will be.
tl;dr become IRL ‘Yes Man’
Aroo? Is this a movie? Google says a Jim Carrey one?
Yeah it is. He decides to change his life and say yes to every opportunity that arises. Tbh this is great shit to follow if you’re stuck in a rut and want to change things, because obviously doing the same thing isn’t getting you anywhere.
The book is about ten bazillion times better than the movie, which was okay.
Would have been better if they toned down Zooey Deschanel’s manic pixie dream girl character from 180% to her regular 110% but otherwise I enjoyed it.
I find this somehow both uplifting and depressing at the same time 😛
Awh… why depressing?
I guess it’s kind of “that sounds awesome!” followed by “…man, how could I ever do that?” Or like it’s too late to do that. Or something. Idealism vs achievability.
I think the grass is always greener, Gooky. You’re freaking out but I’d kill for what you’re doing at the moment job wise. Going to PAX. All that good stuff.
Then take it. TAKE IT AAAAAAAAAAAALL 😛
All I’m saying is enjoy that content feeling of having a job and being okay. It’s a good feeling. You can quit any time you want but you have options right now because you keep on getting up and doing what you’re doing every day.
@dc I don’t have that feeling at all 😛
Pretty much the only reason I keep on getting up and doing what I’m doing is a feeling of obligation, that I can’t let my friend down by buggering off, nor my boss. Or that if I did stop then Mum would probably kill me. Also the longer I stick it out for, the more the money stockpile will grow and the longer I should be able to last on the other side of it all.
I figure… every day, we get a little inquisitive about something. Anything we see that’s a little unusual, anything we see and wonder about for the first time.
“I wonder what kind of shop is up those steps.”
“I wonder if that guy is a tourist, he looks kinda lost.”
“People keep coming out of that alley, what’s in there exactly?”
“Hm. Is the sign supposed to be doing that? I wonder if the owner knows.”
“I could swear I recognize that girl’s tattoo/jewellery from something, but WHAT? TV show?”
“Man, that old lady’s been carrying those bags a while, I wonder how far she has to go.”
“I wonder if that guy will be able to follow those directions I gave. Should I walk there with him?”
“Huh. I walk past it every day, but I’ve never been inside a methodone dispensary/radio station/mosque/prop store/gem-collecting society clubhouse… I wonder what it’s like inside?”
And then, you just… find out. Ask. Explore. Deviate from the rut for five minutes.
Sometimes boredom, sometimes adventure. But as long as you’ve got two legs and five minutes, ALWAYS achievable.
You’ve got a healthy confidence to you! I like it! Most interesting man in TAY!
I think he might be trying to say that you could be interesting in that way if you stopped listening to fear and start listening to that annoying voice in your head that always wonders stuff. 😛
Yes. What @Strange said.
I like this advice, by the way @transientmind.
This year I’ve taken that sentence I wrote before (the longer you wait for the future, the shorter it will be) to heart and kind of used it as a mantra. I think my next step to conquering all my ridiculously illogical fears is to follow up on those little questions my brain is always wondering about as I’m out and about. Thankyou. 🙂
I think that’s kind of been a problem for me, actually. On nearly every school report, the teachers would say “needs to participate more”, or that I don’t ask enough questions, or something similar. Which… I dunno, it feels wrong to say I’m not inquisitive. But it also feels wrong to say that I am. “For every statement about me that is true, the opposite is also true” strikes again 😛
I guess it’s just a different kind of inquisitive, I might look at something and wonder if I can do this or how you would go about doing it/making it. With all my costumes and various projects, people look at them and say they have no idea how they’d do any of that, and it confuses me how they just so readily shy away from even trying. Because I don’t actually have any idea either. I just have a vision of what I’m trying to do, then think of what seems like it needs to be done to make it happen. It’ll start out with trying to find existing materials that fill the need, and if I can’t find something in the shops like what I need? Oh well, try and make it. That involves some kind of skill I’ve never tried before, like soldering/metalwork/sewing? Hey, I’ll give it a shot. How hard could it be.
But for some reason this doesn’t seem to translate at all to people and social stuff. I think I’m plenty observant, but I don’t really seem to wonder about people (which I guess is why conversation rarely happens/works). I just accept it all as it is. Or if some kind of need arises, the untested suddenly becomes “too hard” and I’ll just sit back and let it pass on by :/
I am inquisitive in the same way you are. I’m also not inquisitive enough to be good at participating in things or conversing. I hardly ever think of questions to ask people when we’re talking. I’ll often wonder things afterwards, though. 😛 I think it can often wrongly be translated as a lack of interest, but it’s more an acceptance of people and what they’ve offered up to me than not wanting to know anything about them.
I tend to have a lot of empathy for people. (I know that might sound like boasting or talking myself up, but that’s not my intention.) I already spend way too long thinking about others. I think opening the flood gates Cam style might kill me. Haha!
Cause all that is good in theory but not everyone has the kinda life that accommodates that or the personality to make it work.
I can barely find things to say to my best, oldest friends. Strike up an engaging conversation with a stranger? Ha.
Go out and do something random!? I can barely find the energy to do the things I know I enjoy.
And even if I do? I can barely remember what I was doing last tuesday. Honest to god I would have to go search through my work notes to find out where I even was. Anything anecdote worthy I’d probably have to put down in a notebook to remember, existing as empty words devoid of meaning.
Everyone and their lives are so very different. There is no truth or way that can apply to everyone. All the well meaning words in the world just slightly the wrong shape to fit the perspective of the listener.
Fair enough. I’ll take your word for it. After all, I know I have extroverted friends who assume that introverts like myself just need to get out more.
That said? I don’t know how else someone can overcome a rut in their life without making a change, even (/especially) an uncomfortable one. And habits usually don’t come ready-made to slot where they belong; they’re a sequence of uncomfortable steps taken until they become… habit.
The unusual impulses of curiosity may be different, but I suspect the things that hold us back from acting on our impulses (comfort, fear, energy, pessimism) are similar, and there may yet be benefit (with different results?) in making an effort, now and then, to overcome those hindrances.
I guess it comes down to how satisfied or dissatisfied you are with your routine, and how badly you want change…
I don’t do half of that stuff anymore because I am very, very comfortable. Perhaps more than I should be.
True enough: you have to change something for something to change right?
I just believe that feasible possibilities are not unlimited and the options are different for everyone for many different reasons, internal and external.
But you’re right. There’s always more to learn and for that you have to go outside your comfort zone. And I’m as guilty as anyone for not doing that.
I think you just elevator pitched the movie of your life. (Also, I am so so sorry about the Evolve beta not working on PS4. I got the email and felt so bad!)
The movie of my life would be pretty frustrating viewing. With giant gaps around the sections I will take to the grave with me.
Awh, no, don’t worry! Ha! I think it’s working TODAY! 🙂 I don’t know if Kotaku covered it, but one of the other sites I read said something about PS4 being back on track and extended.
you sir, and I, must have a beer someday!
All I know is that I hope you write your autobiography some day.
Have a fap to mix it up a little.
As Green Day once said:
“When masturbation’s lost its fun, you’re fucking lonely.”
Damn it, now I have to put on Longview cause I have it stuck in my head. You’re awesome @DC 😛
Dude. DUUUUUUDE! Same.
It sucks.
Let me be your cautionary tale, Dan. Don’t let weeks turn to years. This is really depressing and downer talk, but you’re still all youthful and employable. 😛
Yo duder, if you really do need a job, or your plans don’t work out, just let me know. My gig is hiring allllll the time, and if I give my endorsement, you’d be well in. But then… we might have to work together. And you’d realise I’m the phantom of the tayopera.
I like you, Jane. You’re one of the good ones. 🙂
<3 (no really, my face is half messed up, I’m warning you)
MOST INTERESTING WOMAN ON TAY!
*looks at job offer*
*looks at DC*
*looks at job offer*
*looks at DC – jerks head in general direction of offer*
What are you waiting for? Carpe Diem and all that jazz…
PS: You’re one awesome guy. One of the first to welcome me, and I’ve not met any TAYbies in the flesh yet, but you’re #1 on my list to meet.
So when are we going to have a Sunsoar and @janexo meet? There’s at least one other Brisbane person we haven’t met yet as well, but I can’t for the life of me think of their handle right now.
Sometime soon I hope… After my new job calms the hell down, after I’ve got back from Japan (fly out next Thursday!!) and once I’ve done my exam in first week of December.
Taking a quarter off from studying so all of a sudden I’ll have a life on the weekend again. \o/
Social interaction scarrrrres me. But maybe? One day mayyyyyybe? (there is no wide eyes emoticon to properly express what I am trying to convey)
(I’m not a freak or anything. Like, half my face isn’t really missing. And I’m not like, mouth-breather awkward, just kinda shy. Just putting that out there.)
@janexo Social interaction scares us too! That’s why we just all sit around being awkward together. \o/
Smaller gatherings can be arranged before you’re eased into big ones. @strange and I had Mos Burger when I was new to all this. 😀
I’m still pondering coming up to Brisbane in February. Would definitely want to try and get a hold of a bunch of you then, especially @dc, @transientmind and @janexo. Was already hoping to be able to see everyone at PAX, but now I have to figure something else out 😛
I would like to meet the peepls.
@mrtaco: We’re not Pokemon! YOU CAN’T CATCH US ALL! 😛
@dc CAN AND WILL
@mrtaco “Especially DC, Transient Mind, and JaneXO”? Oh, I see how it is. Hmmph! 😛
Yeah you’re old news now, it’s on to the new and shiny 😛
(but really though, you disappeared from Blaghs’ far too quickly last year)
It’s funny cause she’s so old. 😛
😀
DOES THIS GO FOR ME TOO??? 😛
Dooooo eeeeeet
I’ve fallen into this rut the last couple of days. Get up, eat breakfast, rewatch an old podcast whilst playing Battlefield or Minecraft, check reddit, repeat, eat lunch at 4pm, forcing me to eat less at dinner but get hungrier earlier, making me fall asleep later than I should.
I don’t even have time for other video games I want to play. I don’t even like Battlefield! Why am I playing it? Worst of all, I’ve barely read TAY. :'(
Who’s been playing around with Dragon Age Keep?
I’m trying to sync my Origins and 2 save files and it gets to 13/253 before it gives up and asks me to choose a Warden from Origins.
Normal limited beta behaviour or should my save files fill up most of the 253?
Mine filled up to about 63, I think. I’d think it would be higher than 13… The Career section might give some clues – does it line up with what you remember doing? Eg. My DA:O says I completed the Dalish Elf and Magi origins, but that I haven’t done City Elf, Dwarf Commoner or Dwarf Noble starts, which is consistent with my playthroughs.
It’s been so bloody long since I played Dragon Age that I can’t remember half of this stuff. Wish there was a better way.
Oh, maybe that’s it. Pre-Origin, when Bioware wasn’t EA and just had an online thing I don’t think I ever enabled communication with Bioware’s servers.
The Tapestry story recap it showed me seemed about 97% right, but not sure if that’s just some optimal generic story they’ve spun for me, or if it actually did read my save file.
Because I’m pretty sure I executed Anders for blowing up the damn church.Hm.
Whelp, I suppose I can dabble with it closer to release.
2 more weeks, yay!
Mine gets to about 80. I think it’s based on the achievements.
I don’t even know which computer my Dragon Age save files are on.
Horses & Stuff!
Protectionist won the Melbourne Cup.Horse and Cart!
I won the office sweeps. 😀 Yay Protectionist!
Must be the
shoestie.That’s what someone did say, actually.
Yep, was me.
Oh you.
Now you can retire and live the high life! 😀
I’m having a complete freak out this week. I’m basically just shutting down because I’m scared. And what am I scared of? Something that’s stupid to be scared of. Something I should be excited about. A lady in New Zealand is sending me one or two quilt tops to quilt for her. This is awesome. Why am I shutting down and sitting around freaking out instead of practicing my quilting so I can do a great job? Fear sucks.
Punch it right in the ugly face.
This isn’t your first time, is it? If it is, that’s understandable but you’ve done quilts for others already, yes?
I’ve given people quilts I’ve quilted myself, but that was different. They were mine to mess up in the first place.
The only time I’ve quilted a quilt using a top that has already had loads of hard work and love put into it by someone else when they pieced it together was for my Nan and I haven’t finished it because I think the work I did on it was not good enough and the stitches need to be ripped out. 😛
Working to someone else’s vision is always difficult, because you can never be sure if the visions you each see in your head are matching up.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself!
And giant man-eating spiders. I’d fear them, too.
I’d welcome them!
I have a pin/button/badge on my backpack’s shoulder-strap of an evil’ish smiley face… but for a while there, I also had a button which said pretty much that: “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. …And spiders.” With a cute little spider on it.
One day I ‘lost’ my bag in a restaurant – I left it on a seat when I went to the toilet and when I came back, it was gone. But in the lost property when I asked after it.
…Minus the spider button.
I asked about the button, but they swore they hadn’t seen it. Just the bag. So naturally I assume they loved it as much as I did, and stole it.
The button was a gift from a very close friend who unfortunately had to go incommunicado for a while, which she said she’d bought from a street vendor in a market. I really had to hunt down where it came from. I eventually found out and asked for another copy of it, but they’d run out – limited edition. However, the girl there pulled some strings and got me one that someone had stashed away privately, and gave me a free t-shirt as well.
I was overjoyed to get the button back.
Ironically, fear of having it get lost or stolen again means I never re-attached it to the bag. And, of course, I now don’t know where it is.
Don’t be scared, be awesome! You don’t even have to do anything to be awesome because you are!
She wants your skills on her quilt and so she’s specifically sending you stuff so you can do your own awesome thing on them.
Don’t worry, everyone! I’m home now!
PHEW.
Are Batguy’s keys home too?
@cookingmama and CookingSon met me at the airport.
(I checked I had those keys about 20 times because it would’ve been super awkward if I’d forgotten them as well :P)
Once again – THANK YOU!!
Oh don’t worry, I know. >=D
Not to turn this page into the downer page and feel free to ignore, but it’s got me thinking about the perceptions of ourselves. Before I went to my first meat I had this idea in my head that I was kind of monstrous. For real. Horrible looking. Anti-social. Bad teeth. A voice that no one can understand. All these things that had built up from years of listening to that little voice. I avoided going to a meat for so long because I figured that would be the end of that. Once you saw the real me you wouldn’t want to know me any more. Then we became friends. Looking back at that is kind of mind blowing and I wonder how I will feel about myself now when I take whatever the next leap of faith will be. *ponders*
Oooh I remember when you shared that “hello I’m D.C.” video and you were totally NOT a monster and everyone called you handsome 😀 (especially Strange ;D)
Monster? Dude, shut up. Just shut up. You had me at Gattaca.
A few short years ago i was so scared that i wasn’t good enough. I was so fucking judgemental and just a all around douche. Becoming friends with internet people was so out of character, I started to be more out of character with each passing year. Now i have a mob of friends who would do anything for me, I like to think i enrich their lives as much as they enrich mine. Everyday you all inspire me to be better or to think differently than i did 4 years ago.
Not really a reply as such just wanted to share my similar experience.
I’ve liked seeing your increase in confidence and happiness! 🙂 It’s been noticeable.
Having met you, I can’t imagine a mean you.
Yes, DC, when Bun and I picked you up from that train station, we picked you out by you being the horrible antisocial looking one with bad teeth.
Nah, you looked cool and too hip to hang out with us and then were friendly and accepting of @trjn’s terrible car.
<3 I closed the door and the speaker fell off and I felt like I broke his car and the shame spiral began. 😛
That speaker never sat in the door properly. Was easier to just sell the car and move states than try to fix it.
I really look forward to the day that you’re ready to come to PAX with us.
lunch at jimu’s
UNPLANNED!
No VIP invite for me this time? 🙁
You have an unlimited invite
I’m both the opposite and the same. I consider myself a piece of shit, but I don’t let it bother me. It’s like a passive acceptance thing. I acknowledge it, but I couldn’t give a stuff about it.
I think I’m ugly. Yet I don’t give a shit about my appearance.
“I have no interest in dating – I’m not trying to impress anybody, so how is it an issue?”
Rather than tackle the fact that I think I’m a lousy human being, I just accept it as fact, and consider it a issue of little importance.
I don’t fret about whether I’m good enough, I know I am not. But I do it anyway. Or I don’t do it. This style of thought leads me down two different tracks with no identifiable catalyst leading up to which track I chose.
It’s an odd style of thought, I’ve come to realise. It’s one that renders the principle problems with my psyche moot, yet creates its own set of problems.
So the favourite horse, the Japanese Admire Rakti died following the race. 😮
https://au.sports.yahoo.com/racing/news/article/-/25424499/admire-rakti-dies-following-melbourne-cup/
Horse racing (any kind of animal exploited sport, really) is fucked up.
I remember HBO had a show a year or so ago about horse racing. So many horses died shooting the thing. Enough to get it cancelled. I wonder if this reflects what real racing is like.
Thousands of horses die each year due to racing. Whether from injury or being killed because they were just not fast enough. So yeah, I’d say it kind of does reflect what real racing is like.
🙁 🙁 🙁
Apologies for the downer. I don’t usually volunteer this kind of information because people like the tradition of Cup Day and have fun dressing up and I’m always one to encourage dressing up and don’t really like to spoil everyone’s fun. We all need a little fun in our lives.
But I won’t watch the race. Or bet on it.
I think I set the tone with downer posts, so don’t even worry about that! 😛
Agreed.
Lady at work (the one who made my Jayne beanie) helps with greyhound rescue, so I hear stories from that side as well. Humans are appalling.
Also to top it off the owners can be rather horrible nasty people.. I’ve had the displeasure of meeting some of the team owners that race horses here on the Gold Coast.. Plus it’s a sport that is there basically just for gambling on like dog racing.
This puts some of the news reporting I’ve seen on the subject in a pretty sinister light.
Racing Victoria’s ‘chief veterinarian’ spent a fair while explaining the science behind what happens in a heart attack, and he framed everything in terms of how it relates to athletes (and horses), and emphasizing how very rare it is in athletes (and horses), and how it’s a real risk that comes with being an athlete (or racing horse, I guess).
Pretty much anything to avoid saying that racing gave the horse a heart attack and killed it. Spin, spin, spin…
Terrible, horrible joke made by a friend, do not read:
“I like the way the Japanese horse knelt over and died of shame after the race”I am a terrible, horrible person so I couldn’t help but laugh 😛Casting suggestion for the Transientmind movie!
Peter Sarsgaard from The Killing!
Edit:
Last picture. The guy in the prison cell.
http://collider.com/the-killing-season-3-featurette/
It can only be Paul Verhoeven : http://www.hoohaamelbourne.com.au/images/celebs/paul.jpg?1401171621
PS: Your link is weird. Despite what it says it is, it just kept redirecting to the Collider homepage.
Maybe Sarsgaard can play him in the stage adaptation, then.
Thanks Strangey! Fixed link!
We should cast the entire TAY motion picture now that everyone knows what everyone looks like.
I hear Ryan Gosling is angling for the DC role!
I’m picturing some sort of Woody Allen-esque tone as we all assemble for a meat. That or Can’t Hardly Wait anthology thing.
I got dibs on having Jack Black star as me then.
I’m Asian, I’m lanky, I’ve got a gaunt face..
So obviously I’d be played by Brad Pitt.
I’ve also been compared to a Asian Steve Buscemi, and I don’t know how to feel about that.
But does Austin Wilde have the acting chops to pull it off?
Seth Rogen can play me.
God that was a good show.
Anyone ever get a DOA gadget? This is the likely cause…
http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/investigation-underway-as-shocking-video-emerges-of-freight-handlers-tossing-parcels/story-fnizu68q-1227112130491
I get stuff in bad shape all the time. I know why, poor handling from Aus Post and rather shit loose packaging from the sender :/
Hm. Disaster preparedness and business continuity plans going around to refresh us on what to do in the event of ‘civil unrest’. G20-related.
I’m kind of interested to know what sort of credible threat the organizers are anticipating. For my money, the odds of a London or Toronto-style riot are pretty low.
*grumble snip*
Future sight: Everyone responsible will call G20 an enormous success that the opposition couldn’t have pulled off. The opposition will find something to complain about. Life goes on.
Godzilla attack?
I can’t believe Queensland gets a holiday.
It barely outweighs the enormous inconvenience of the thing. 😛
BARELY. (We do love a good public holiday.)
I’m going to celebrate political togetherness by not wearing trousers.
Yes. Yes, that will make this public holiday different from any other day that I am not legally obliged to wear pants…
c.c
It’s political in that you need to be debriefed.
Page six, now having such an impact that it’s rippling backwards through time…
Through the trouser-legs of time?
Not all of Queensland
Heh. Yeah, sadly…. just the parts which get public transport stopped to cater to
rich wankers‘VIP’s, told to evacuate or stay in their houses during event hours, re-directed out of the city but also begged to not avoid the area altogether, but go to specific parts of the city designated safe for civilians, so it doesn’t feel like a ghost town when thefuckers with so much money you wouldn’t believe, seriously they make more than your annual wage in about ten minutesVIPs glance outside of the cordon, because suddenly my city is like a psychotic mum anxiously wrangling her kids in anticipation of someone posh visiting SMILE EVERYBODY WE HAVE COMPANY HAHAHA.(Edit: In all seriousness, I haven’t been greatly affected yet. Public transport was shitty for the first time today, but that was more likely people expecting to get written-off halfway through the day and not drive home.)
I only found out about the public holiday today myself! I was very surprised!
Man I wish it was as simple as re-reading the BCP… I’ve been chasing shit up for months now!!
Actually just a bit bored of it now… either it’s going to be smooth sailing with a protest here and there or shit’ll go down faster than a drunk chick falling into the grass at Flemington today.
So I was ordered by @sernobulus to relax.
I’m sitting here punching holes in Elsa’s sequins and also helping Pixel plan his cosplay for next year!
You’re an advisor, remember that! XD
It’s on me to get it done!…
NO STRESSING FOR YOU!
And teacher, if I have to be.
maybe one day we can do a pre-pax cosplay making day because I would like to make something but effort.
edit: as in we can both make our stuff- not as in I come to your house and yell at you or anything
Mum was so fed up with the week up to pax because there was cosplay stuff everywhere. But I’m seriously happy to help anyone I can. My house is small, but I do have 2 sewing machines and an overlocker. My suggestion is start planning now.
…that reminds me I should probably pack my stuff up now.
That doesn’t sound like relaxing!
It totally is!
I Am Duckeye – Punching Dicks
Oh man I Am Duckeye, interesting band to say the least, I kinda forgot they existed, one of my mates is in a video of theirs I am pretty sure. I also once met Sam & Sean when their other band Sydonia opened for Slipknot in ’08 and they’re really cool guys & were telling me how Jim Root of Slipknot & (at the time) Stone Sour bought the band all new instruments when they supported Stone Sour on a US tour back in 07 or something.
My dog is all sort of fun.. Today I was filling up her pool (one of them shell kids pools you can buy at Bunnings) and she was having all sorts of fun attacking the hose whilst I was filling it up. So I just had to take some video of it all.
Megaten IV seems to be really well set out.
Just as I feel Im getting too deep I find sanctuary or learn a new skill.
Well done, WELL DONE.
@greenius @bish
fuck you shit head fuck face fuck head
Her is such an amazing movie :’)
Although it was really hard to take the ending as seriously since watching that forehead video… :/
(In case people want to ruin it for themselves too)
Hello, TAY! I haven’t been on here in a while. A lot of stuff has happened since I last was on here. Mum got rid of the chickens, I got a bike, I drove a lot, Mozilla Firefox deleted my Pokemon backdrop, I saw John Wick.
Can I talk about John Wick? I can? Thanks.
IT’S GRRREAT.
Who’s this guy?
I don’t know. Did someone pick up a stray at PAX?
Wasn’t me.
It was him. He’s lying.
QUIT FOLLOWING ME I’M NOT YOUR MOTHER
How awesome was John Wick though! :O
I love how legitimately afraid the gang leader was when he was told John Wick was coming for him.The movie didn’t know what to do after Theon Greyjoy go shot, though.
I like how the move shows the slow progression of very sad keanu to very angry keanu… also my favourite part is when the cop rocks up at his house, just the whole scene there was hilarious.
That was definitely one of the better scenes in the movie.
Starting to feel a bit crappy. Running nose, itchy throat and nasty taste in my mouth.
*makes warding signs against PAX pox*
Subject Zero! SUBJECT ZERO!
Beats him being patient zero I guess…
I’m fine, surprisingly. Normally I catch everything.
Not enough mask on your costume.
I felt sick on Thursday, and sort of just sat mildly ill for the whole thing.
Getting better now.
I may have made other people sick.
Proper monster.
It was the hug we shared… I wasn’t wearing protection
Probably my fault. I felt like Typhoid Mary.
Never admitting your illness and giving it to kids?
@greenius shall we have a few games of Smash? Afterwards I want to watch the latest episode of Sons of Anarchy before bed.
Check Steam!
Finally home, yay PAX write-up coming tomorrow!
Normally, I’d be too embarrassed to put these up… but this is what I was wearing at PAX on Sunday:
http://imgur.com/ZPxFhU3,J2s4cGL#0
See, that’s why no one remembered seeing you. You said it was a crappy looking costume.
Where’s pics of yours?! I demands pictures!
Please *bats eyelids*In @blaghman’s cosplay gallery there’s two of mine.
Sweet. Cheers 😛
Your costume looks awesome man, good job on it! I still don’t know who you are though from the Dragon Ball universe though 😛
Gohan as the Great Saiyaman.
http://www.geocities.ws/dbzrpg20042003/GohanRunningInGreatSaiyamanOutfit.jpg
Dude, that’s awesome
Ohhhh, you were THAT guy!
That looks awesome! 😀
You must have crazyyyyy high standards if you consider that crappy! :O
So good! 😀
Dude, I totally wished I had seen you.
It was a great for a first time cosplay. And the fact a lot of it was made by you is super amazing. =D
I can’t believe I’m only just seeing this now! Nice work sire!! You totally have the right kind of face for an elf style character! Suits the image really well!! 🙂
Is it bad that I’m a day home from PAX and I’m already thinking about my next cosplay?
I’m thinking how on earth am I going to drum up the motivation to finish off the one I was working on.
Ready to reveal what that one is?
Someday.
Someday…
:'(
I’m D.C., remember… it’s okay to tell me!
You should do it! I believe in you! It’ll be rad!
I might try a Jett Black (Cowboy Bebop) one.
Make someone be Spike.
Should ask @rocketman, he’s lanky enough
FUCKING SWEET I’ll be Faye.
Shotgun Ein!
Didn’t tickets go on sale for this years in December or something last year? Doesn’t give much time to reflect. 😀
They did indeed. I only started my Raz costume in about August though.
Nope. Need to start planning the next one for Supanova.
I will be wearing the “Dude who is super invisible and quiet” costume to that as I will be in Cambodia
Half considering a Stupid Sexy Flanders cosplay.
Now more then half.
“Like nothing at all!”
Oh god, I have to do this.
Freeze is an exhibitionist? 😛
Man i’m with you there i didnt cosplay the last two years and regretted it both times.
No, it’s completely normal =P
Went to the shops today to buy a coouple of groceries. Cashier asked me “Do you want this milk in a bag or should I just leave it in the carton?”
#dadjokepagesix #hi@strangeThat’s the worst one I’ve ever seen.
The awesome just keeps on coming!
Anti-joke chicken: apparently canadians have bagged milk? CC @saturday
This just occurred to me, and I am incredibly disappointed with myself for not realising this over the weekend.
I could have said ‘ice to meet you’ to @freezespreston. DAMMIT. Wasted opportunity.
PAX was awesome. Everyone is lovely. I love you all.
Is this your ploy to get us to buy you things?
See below
Apologies if it seemed like I was ignoring you, I am quite shy at times.
I just hope you enjoyed yourself at karaoke
I want to buy a Mac desktop. I know useless becoz of syk gaming. BUT IT’S SO PRETTY AND THE VIDEO EDITING AND DID I MENTION IT’S PRETTY?
Also they’re like super thin! Cause that is important according to Apple.
I like my computers to be svelte.
Well you’re set then!
I’ve got a 2011 model sitting in my cupboard that I’ve been meaning to sell if you don’t want to pay full price for a new one.
Video editing is only okay if you use Final Cut Pro. Apple’s own softwware makes the hardware sing. If you use any other program then you’re wasting money because you can get better for half price.
The current iMacs are actually not too bad for gaming, and a Mac Pro would be a really good games machine.
So since there’s been a bit of talk about new computers today on TAY.. I’ve been looking over a new desktop for myself, so far I have this.
Not entirely sure about everything, there, not sure if I want to re-use my GTX560, which is feeling a bit on the dated side now. I have another 8gb of DDR3 here in my current machine that I would use, also I have a 2nd ssd I would like to use as a secondary drive.
Other than that, not sure if I should go for an i5 or an i7, I don’t do a lot of heavy rendering work, most difficult I get is photoshop these days..
Thoughts?
– i5 is plenty for you.
– Get the K unlocked CPU, since you have Z mobo. Allows overclocking later.
– I’m not familiar with that particular CPU cooler. Tbh it looks sketchy, and I’d perhaps invest in a closed-loop liquid cooler around the $80-100 mark instead. When overclocking it’ll help a lot.
– Yes, your old GPU is dated. Get a new one… or just use old one for now until it no longer satisfies you.
– Ensure your old RAM is compatible with the new mobo RAM voltage. DDR3 RAM comes in different voltages and timings (will use the lower of two sets’ timings)
Never been interested in overclocking, to be quite honest, hence the non k CPU. I would’ve gone with a H97 motherboard but there wasn’t one I could see that I felt had what I was after for the $$ also saying that I greatly considered going ITX cause I like the idea of such a small form factor & i’m sick of full size ATX cases ugh.
Not sure if there is the room for a closed loop liquid cooler, i’ll have to look into it. But that cooler comes highly recommended & cools very well for its size.
If anything I think i’d hold out for a GTX960 I love my GTX560 it runs stuff even like FC3 at max settings which surprised me. But it doesn’t have the ram there if I wanted to up my screen resolution at any point and then the actual GPU would struggle more so yeah, for the mean time it does alright.
Ram should be compatible, it’s the same speed, same brand & series, and it’s only 2.5 years old. Given it’s paired with a 1155 socket i5 & board.
Overclocking these days -> change a number -> free boost from 3.4GHz or whatever to 4.0GHz. Significant boost. I hihgly recommend getting the K CPU so it lasts longer for the future.
Yeah, with GPU, no harm in waiting since it’s an easy swap. Aim for 3GB+ VRAM on your next card if running 1920×1080.
It’s something to think about I guess. I remember my mate was getting something stupid 4.2ghz out of his i5 2500k a few years back..
Yeah I was looking at a 970 with 4gb of vram but didn’t want to spend 600 bucks on a GPU 😛
@virus: price to performance, closed-loop liquid coolers are noisier and less efficient than a good heat sink. Look into a decent Noctua cooler instead.
Yeah I know, but perhaps it’d be better to get that heat out of a small confined case, in this case (pun not intended). I have Noctua’s and they are great.
Wow.. Smooth Few Films just posted a teaser of a new season of The Leet World. Holy shit, that is like awesome news! Dunno if anyone here ever watched it, I think @tech_knight said he watched it back in the day?
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?! :O
The band’s getting back together?!
I know right? Awesome news hey 😀
Looked at one of their previous vids, Eddy’s lost a lot of weight, good on him!
Awesome. I should catch up with what they’ve done since Web Zeroes too, i’m sure they’ve done some good stuff, just had no idea they were working together again since last I heard one of them went to Cali and the others sort of disbanded around Texas I thought.
I think Eddy and Nick (The guy that did Chet’s voice) have mainly just been doing their own form of American-Potaku called Gamersushi. Where they do stories on games and also podcasts. What confuses me is I thought Daniel was gone for good with his new career interstate, so what changed I wonder…
Yeah, that’s right it was Daniel who moved for his writing & film stuff. I should really check out Gamersushi, is it any good?
Maybe his career has taken him back there, or something.. Be interesting to know what is going on there.
I haven’t gone to their site in a while but it’s mainly due to time constraints more than anything else, keep in mind as well it’s all NA people so there might be stuff they talk about that we won’t get at all. It’s not bad though, pretty cool reads every now and then.
That Grumpy Cat Christmas movie looks freaking AWFUL.
I dunno why they’re even doing such a thing.. I haven’t even watched the trailer, but I expect it to be horrible.
It’s a Lifetime movie. That goes with the territory. I’m surprised Aubrey Plaza signed on!
I could see April from Parks & Rec owning a grumpy cat for some reason..
She’s the voice of Grumpy Cat! It kind of works in a terrible abomination of nature sort of way!
Oh wow.. I love Aubrey Plaza, but jeez I dunno if her voicing a grumpy cat would be that great lol.
What. I thought it was a shoe-in for an Academy Award or five. Damn.
It’ll sweep accolades at Cannes and the festival circuit, though.
I knew it would be bad but watching the trailer still managed to surprise me.
It could still be fun to watch on mute to see cat! And fast forward through non-cat scenes.
They’re making one of those? Next thing you’ll bew telling me they made an Annoying Orange TV show.
Just watched Horrible Bosses, wasn’t too bad. Now finally gonna watch Machete Kills.
Atari 2600 resurrected!
Turns out since it was an off the back of a truck / overseas trip special my parents got years ago, it didn’t actually have an Australian power plug… It was two straight parallel pins that had been bent on an angle at some point to jam into an AU socket.
I found a travel adapter, bent the pins back, and presto! TV tuned straight into its fuzzy glory.
So fuzzy. But it works!
All hail!!!
I wish I still had my Atari 2600 Junior..
Would you be interested in a bunch of games, joysticks and paddles. Along with a potentially working console?
I need to clear some space and need to get rid of it. Rather it went to a taybie rather than a random. Almost got rid of it a while ago but @zetrox2k convinced me to hold on to it by refusing to come and get it.
That’s actually very tempting…
What’s in the stash of games?
I haven’t looked in a long time so this is going from memory. I can give yo a full list when I’m at home
Solaris, qbert, missile command, pitfall, the double ended castle and mountain climbing one, demon attack, think a couple of 5 in one kinda deals, river raid, ms pacman, raiders of the lost ark, fishing derby.
A bunch more. Probably between 1 and 2 dozen games
Phwoar…
I have:
– Space Invaders
– Pac Man
– Asteroids
– Berzerk
– Bermuda
– Picnic
– Combat
– Chopper Command
– 4 in 1 (Enduro, Ice Hockey, Fishing Derby, Dragster)
– 5 in 1 (Frogger, Stampede, Seaquest, Boxing, Skiing)
– 4 in 1 (Pitfall, Grand Prix, Laser Blast, Barnstorming)
We’ve got a fair spread between us.
So, what do you want for them?
Realistically, them out of my house
If the console is working it’s probably only worth 100 bucks or so, flick me an invite if you are having an atari gaming meat and consider them yours
EDIT: Oh and looking I think I also had air sea battle. That is a cool game
The Minecraft server doesn’t have other people on it anymore. 🙁
On one hand, I get to sleep whenever I want! On the other, no-one will be able to see the Isle of Phlan when it has completed its construction project.
Also, my crops don’t grow when I’m not logged in. :'(
There’s always a drop-off around the times that games release… It’s just hit the bad season now.
Still, the Minecraft bug comes back at random times…
Now’s your chance to create giant golden penises everywhere!
I created Public Access boat ports? That’s kind of similar, right?
No. Better get to work on those penises, son. Give the public what they want.
I may hop back in at some point
I’ll be back during summer holidays!
Who was the last person over 58kg to ride a Melbourne cup winner?
Chris Munce’s cellmate.Also, was downloading the Evolve Alpha, and my computer froze. :\
What do you call a lesbian with long fingernails?
Single!HOO BOY JOKE PAGE SIX. LET’S REACH INTO MY HAT OF JOKES. OH GREAT HAT, WHAT JOKE WILL I GO ON ABOUT FOR THIS PAGE SIX?
*reaches in*
“Saturday’s love life”
WELL FUCK YOU TOO, HAT.
My wife is a sex object–every time I ask for sex, she objects.
Ooh, joke page.
Y’know what’s a joke – our bank.
They were meant to take the first mortgage payment last week. And they did.
And then they put it back the next day along with a fee for not making the payment. Now I have to go yell at them.
Wait until they take it, take it again, then take it several more times charging a dishonour fee each time because they long ago emptied the account. Then they return the money once you dispute it but keep the dishonour fees.
Fun times.
Shouldn’t there be an ombudsman who can get that back?
Yes. Still time, effort and stress that is unneeded and unwanted.
!
Got in early so I can go climbing tonight. Just before the lift appeared, Not Actually Italian Girl appeared and caught it up with me. I survived a human conversation!
Better than last time too, I think.
…
*grabs popcorn*
I read that as “I survived human contact!” and thought there was much more of a popcorn story
Do you have any websites that you just keep on visiting because of muscle memory alone. News.com.au, I honestly can’t stand it. I vow to never return after every visit and yet I always end up there again. :'(
i read askreddit , even though all the questions are dumb and i hate it. Better than boredom though
Mouse over the top left image thingy there for a giggle.
I had a whole lot at one point but slowly tore myself away from them, nowadays it’s Kotaku, I accidentally bring it up all the time like a reflex when I open a browser :P.
I hear that. When I was taking a TAY break briefly last week (Remember that? It lasted 36 hours!), I always ended back on the main page all confused-like.
Oh man.
I’ve been visiting this one games site since like 2008, and regularly since 2010, and so every time I pop open the browser… “kotaku.c- thanks autofill!”
You get that far? I just do “ko”+enter.
Actually that’s a lie. These days the site stays forever open in a tab.
It’s usually just “k” for me whenever I turn on the computer, but I never let the truth get in the way of a mediocre joke.
I’m still mostly in the habit of ctrl+t, first two letters of a site, Down, Enter. From the win98 days, when I didn’t have the auto-fill thing.
Though it’s still useful for some things since I want a particular page and not the top-level page for that site, which usually gets precedence in the auto-fill.
Kotaku. I just type k and press enter and there I am.
Good Morning everybody
Sounds like you all had an awesome time at PAX, I’ll have to go to one of them one day in full cosplay (will have to think of something that I could pull off though).
Got back from a trip down to NSW last night, it was great, saw my folks, saw some whales, took my dogs to the beach & had a really relaxing time. Coming to work is always hard after a nice break. Been at work more than half an hour and haven’t even been acknowledged, what jerks, good thing you lovely people are a constant reminder that good people still exist. Also super hyped for all the games coming over the next couple of months, the floodgates are opening :D.
Hey gutsoup! *acknowledges existence*
Thanks DC :D, you’re the best, don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
You are! *rolls up sleeves* You. Me. Parking lot. Now. Time to resolve this like
cavemen.Hi man, glad you had fun on your holiday.
cheers,
Rocketcorpse is hilarious, I have visions of some sort of Saint’s Row esque professor Genki truck firing rocket propelled dead people at things 😀
I wrote out a really well written email to the guy who offered me a job and then took the offer back, i explained how he had handled the matter terribly and i was disappointed with the outcome.
Then i deleted it, what’s the point in sending it. He isn’t gonna change his mind, he might just get mean and snappy. So i just thanked him for his time. Its really hard to not get angry but me being angry wont change anything. Its easier on my emotions just to let it go.
Probably the best course of action. Never know, they may get another position soon and offer it to you rather than spend time and money advertising and sorting through applicants again. Sending that first email would have precluded that.
My thinking too, burning bridges isnt a good idea, even if a place is horrible, they might be on good terms with some other contact. Its always easiest to get frustrated and mad and annoyed but it is rarely benificial.
The place might not even be horrible, just that one guy’s a bit of a dick or even just careless and secretly mortified. Arcing up would just reassure him that, “Oh, it wasn’t that bad of a mistake because it turns out the guy is a jerk anyway.”
You did not only the right thing, but the hard thing. Props.
Anyone know what’s going on with TAY this week? There hasn’t been the daily repost on the news feed =O
@markserrels complained about having too much porridge so we think he is gravely ill
Mark worked all weekend on PAX, he might be taking some time off.
Some thoughts on PAX:
– It was a good event if you had your kids with you. Plenty of space to walk around, and even have a run outside; plenty of quiet corners for downtime (we loved the beanbags); a good range of games that even the littlest gamers could play (Captain Toad was our favourite)
– There was a refreshing lack of disney princesses in the cosplay! The cosplay was amazing, and I never felt that choosing to dress in costume was a mistake. I got smiles from people the whole weekend, even when I wasn’t accompanied by BatBoy. Also, I’m glad I didn’t make a Moxxi costume in the end – there were some incredible Moxxi’s there! Next year? Who knows!?
– It was lovely meeting lots of TAYbies 🙂
– Melbourne was a disappointing place to find breakfast. We ended up having a hotel breakfast on Sunday morning because nothing was open. Then on Monday a place we went to on a recommendation only did small coffees. They lost points for that.
No breakfast places in Melbourne? What madness is this! I would’ve assumed that was its thing! 😀
I got breakfast at pie face, and then went to 7/11 for a ice coffee. HEALTHY
You got to treat yourself right! *eats Skittles*
Also there are pie faces and 7/11’s everywhere. FUCKING EVERYWHERE
At least 25 7-Elevens in the CBD alone if memory serves
One morning (Sunday?) my brother and I ate some leftovers from previous night for breakfast.
Those leftover may have been Krispy Kreme,
Okay, they were definitely Krispy Kreme.
@f4ction and I just had potato cake sandwiches for breakfast/lunch and I’m about to wash it down with some rum. All part of a balanced diet.
Where did you go Monday morning?
Was nice to meat you and BatBoy even if we didn’t get much of a chance to talk.
We went to Thousand Pound Bend on Lt Lonsdale St. It’s very hipster and in an old theatre. The food was good, but I really wanted a bucket of coffee.
It was nice meeting the Family Tig – baby Tiglet was soooo cute in her little lion suit 🙂
…
Are you sure you were in Melbourne? It’s hard to throw a rock in the morning without hitting a few baristas on their way to man some coffee bar or other that does breakfasts.
I don’t know if we were just in the wrong corner of the city or if it was too early, but nothing was open 🙁
http://i.imgur.com/fF7p4He.png
Destiny Raid loot and how it is distributed.
Not sure how accurate that is as Praetorian Foil is a hard mode drop… Also pretty sure that the chest piece only drops from Gatekeeper and Atheon. Never seen it drop from Oracles or Templar.
Interstellar? INTERSTELLAR! *flails arms*
…
*calms down a little*
Is it out this week, i might go alone. I havent been to the cinema for a while alone and its pretty great.
It opens tomorrow. Exciting times, Rocketpal!
Well at least i can do something on the weekend that isnt pokemon 😛
I love my friends, but this is now my preferred way of seeing movies.
When i was in sydney this year i had some time to kill before i could go to the hotel and decided to go and see a movie and it was so good, i usually distract myself by trying to be funny to the people i watch the movie with. Which is annoying for them and i always miss stuff. Alone i can give it my full attention 🙂
Yeah, I find myself distracted when with friends. I want to be talking to my friends and not sitting next to them in silence for hours.
I think the real value in going to see a movie with friends is the food/hangout that you do before/after. My preference is movie then food, rather than the other way, since that way you can talk about the movie and your anticipation of things you saw trailers for.
I figure it’s just a matter of convenience for everyone to see the movie at the same time and place so that the memory of it is fresh, and the convenience of being out already anyway.
Only real exception to that is K and I are terrible to watch a movie anywhere near due to the commentary, chattering, quips, snide/snarky observations, in-jokes and plot-guesses. Best not done in a cinema really, since there is a special hell for people who do that in earshot of other patrons.
Depends on the movie. I find great value in the whole shared experience of going to the cinema to watch a movie (versus staying at home and watching it alone), being able to laugh and cheer along with everyone else when it comes to things like comedy and over-the-top action. I’m totally looking forward to seeing Fast & Furious 7 with the same group I’ve seen the the last few with.
Oh yeah, nothing beats a shared group laugh (unless it’s… not intentional. That’s just sad) or cheer or gasp.
I meant… nattering.
I love going to horror movies with full audience. So great seeing everyone jump and laugh.
If anyone is interested in Saturday night’s bowling scores, please see attached. 😀
Way to go @alexpants ya jerk
*bows*
I still chuckle about “Iveg” xD.
Also moral of the story, cosplaying as the Shredder does not in fact make you good at everything as I first thought… @mrtaco
Htu 😛
Iveg makes me giggle also.
You know what that was meant to be yeah? xD
Yup. Was confused for a bit (Who the hell is Iveg?) then saw Neg in the lane haha.
Second lowest score of the night \o/
Wait… That’s not a good thing…
@cookingmama @batguy Your little Mario made it to the Vooks’ PAX photos page! Well done!
http://www.vooks.net/pax-aus-2014-nintendo-cosplay-report-and-photos/
He does look especially happy! <3
I was wondering when that was going up 🙂
BatBoy wore his mario hat all the way home on the plane, and is wearing it again today. ^_^
I would be wearing the Mario hat 24/7 too, so he’s done well!
I had to pry it off him at bedtime 🙂
Cuuuute!
I wore my Tearaway headband all the way home too, and people smiled at me, either out of PAX respect, or because they thought I was touched, probably.
Or both! 😛
Morning, TAY.
Finally back at
workTAY today.The past week has been so much fun.
PAX itself was fantastic, even if I didn’t actually see that much of it. I got to have a walk around and hang out playing board games and things with TAYbies for a bit though, so that was pretty great. Good to meet some new faces as well! Though I think I missed the introductions on the first day so I had no idea who some people were (ie. @benny 😛 Just thought he was someones friend that tagged along until someone said his name on Sunday!)
The PAX Pokemon League thing I did was some of the best fun I’ve had with the Pokemon games in years. I think I ended up handing out about 80 or so badges, so I’d say it was a huge success. Got a lot of compliments on my team/costume and generally about the League itself. All of the other Leaders and the challengers were really friendly too. There was a nice range of super competitive people and casual players (some little kids too). The people that lost were gracious in defeat (and came back stronger for a rematch) and those that won weren’t cocky. I ended up sitting on the same beanbag in the Handheld Lounge for 5 straight hours on Saturday, then seven hours on Sunday. I couldn’t leave! Both because I had a huge line of people wanting to battle and from enjoying myself so much. It was overall just a hugely positive experience that I’d love to do again next year.
Thanks again to @scree and @tech_knight for organising the bowling/karaoke. It was super fun. My favourite part of the night was getting @rocketman to jokingly blow on my fingers for luck, then getting two strikes in a row. Kid’s got the power! Second best was getting everybody to chant/clap “Blaghs! Blaghs! Blaghs!” when @blaghman was the last person bowling. Then doing the same for Scree and @negativezero. I hope we didn’t put too much pressure on you! haha
And, of course, everybody singing Bohemian Rhapsody at the end of the night. It’s the TAY staple! Hopefully somebody uploads the video one day.
Then I went with @greenius on Monday to the museum and the cinema to see Gone Girl. Worst tour guide ever, but still a fun day. Points for finally taking me to a noodle place though!
I can’t wait for next year already!
Rockets breath is strike gold.
@Jordi is going to make name badges for everybody next year
Or Freeze. They’re meant to duke it out over it.
Thanks for showing me how to use trams!
Attention errbody!
Does anyone have a PS3 they are selling/getting rid of that works? If so let me know as a family friends one has broken and she needs to get a replacement because her son who has aspergers loves it and they use it constantly, also she’s already brought him a few ps3 games for christmas and now they don’t have a system to play them on.
So if you or someone you know is selling one please let me know
I could possibly be persuaded to give up one of mine for the right price. What’s the going rate for second hand ps3’s these days?
Depends on the model/size but I’ve seen them starting at like, $150 at EB. That’s crazy good!
The one I’d let go is a fat ps3. Can’t remember what size drive was in it though. 60 or 80 I think?
I have no idea how much that would cost, how much you want for it?
I’ll have to double check what specs it is. It may still be at my dad’s house, so I’ll let ya know soon. Normally for a TAYbie I’d offer a really decent price, but given I’m out of work atm, I’d be looking for probably a minimum of $100. Guess it depends on what they’re selling for atm. Will find out more details tomorrow!
I hope they’re getting him Little Big Planet 3 🙂 A former co-worker’s son has high level autism and is very uncommunicative, but creates the most beautiful things in those games.
Me too I’m pretty sure they have the first two
Actually, yes. But I can’t guarantee how long it’ll last, because its fan is extraordinarily loud. May not be ideal.
Hey if it works it works how much you want for it?
It’s an old phatty (and it’s NTSC, which might be an issue for your friend if they also play PS1 games), so it might cost a bit to ship. What’s reasonable, do you think?
I don’t think they play PS1 games its really just for their kids to use. Whatever you reckon man I dont have a clue how much shipping is or how much you want to part with it
Random pib so not idea but might be worth considering
http://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/southbank/consoles/ps-3-for-sale/1061143606
Jacket time.
I hate air conditioning.
I hate it on the train. It’s all muggy and hot out, and then you get on the train and the aircon blast dries the sweat, ughhh.
My favourite part is being down one end of the carriage and having to get my beanie out because it’s so freakin cold I’m going to get a headache if I don’t put it on.
Then I walk up to the other end and instantly start sweating and have to take it off because it is meltingly hot there. HOW DOES THAT EVEN HAPPEN.
QR, man, I just don’t even know.
ALSO, have you noticed how goddamn chatty some of the conductors are? Like, just constantly talking! And they have NO MIC CONTROL ughhhhhh.
Well it’s CityRail for me 😛 Actually wait no. It’s that other one. Sydney Trains? Or something. Who knows. It’s still City*Rail (*shitty).
AND YES THOSE STUPID GUARDS. They changed the script some time within the last year or two so now they have to tell you every. Single. Little. Thing. Constantly. Actually they seem to have gotten a little better, in that last year they were announcing the next station when you left one station, then about 30 seconds after that, then 30 seconds before getting to the next station, then again when you arrived at the station. I think that’s kind of stopped now. But instead they tell you every kind of train that is available at every platform and the volume is turned up and I don’t like having someone constantly yell in my ear all throughout a trip but there isn’t even anyone there I can punch to make it stop.
I… I actually like that. I think it’s friendly to include a little bit here and there in between station announcements. I may or may not have complimented the service on that particular touch, encouraging it.
That said, I don’t take trains regularly, I’m more of a bus person.
I like it too!
Ooh I forgot to tell you guys I saw John Wick while we were in Melbs! It was pretty silly, but super fun and holy moly Keanu Reeves, man. Like, he still acts like Keanu Reeves (he has an unusual speech pattern/delivery), but he did like 90% of his own stunts and is a badass! The fight choreography was sharp.
Allllllso, I got the best new kicks on Monday, and I am so in love with them and think they make me look cool. I realise that because I said that, I am not cool. At all.
I didnt see you at PAX MISS JANE
WHAT THE HELL 😛
She thinks we’re all creepy weirdoes….
….
……..
The fact that she’s probably right doesn’t excuse it….
Haha, you wouldn’t know who to look for! But I *will* come to a meetup next year!
*goes through all the PAX photos and see mysterious woman lurking by in every shot*
D:
Did she have a tearaway headband on. We have narrowed down the search parameters
I did! And I was only there Sunday – game on!
Ever since I learnt she trains on the same train line as me I’ve been looking for people I need to hide from because awkwardness. Promise me you’ll wear headband on train from now on, Jane! 😛
Hahah but four days of the week I wear my corporate stooge disguise. I do not stand out from the crowd – you’d never notice me! But I am actually very tempted to make a little Tearaway headband I could wear for real, because I liked it so much 😀
Did this mysterious woman have mustard pants? 😛
Green and I saw Gone Girl while I was in Melbo. Was pretty great!
Also the cinema in the Crown casino was super fancy. Not a sticky floor or stained seat to be found! 😛
Unlike kingpin which was sticky as fudge. 😛
Gone Girl was soooooo good!
Mmm… Keanu…
Ive been meaning to see that ever since John Wick was added to Payday 2 as a playable character. It sounds so good!
So PAX has been and gone and was a very interesting experience this time round. Having the little one made things much different to last year. Also having a dress up doll is fun.
Friday I took the day off work and headed in after the crowds had cleared. Stopped by the enforcers who told us that prams are not allowed in the hall. Would have been nice to have had some sort of warning before we arrived. Luckily that was just the expo hall so we made our way down to the table top area.
We actually spent most of our time in that area, I think I only made 3 or so forays in to the expo hall. Was fun just hanging out with taybies, trying out some new games and playing some old ones. On Sunday I ended up buying acquire which I have been planning on getting for ages.
Nothing much really jumped out at me as a must buy of the games we tried, betrayal at the house on the hill looked like fun but I didn’t get a chance to play myself.
Thanks to everybody who joined a game with us
Tiglet did really well. We had a different outfit for her each day and she was happy most of the time. Kind of annoying that the nursing room was at the opposite end of the centre to table top but at least they had one.
Haven’t had a chance to sort out my photos yet but
Friday was supergirl day: https://twitter.com/Tigerion/status/528330055617769473
Saturday was little lion day: https://twitter.com/Tigerion/status/528824997175754752
Sunday was froggy day: froggy
Was great to introduce her to so many taybies as well as the future taybies.
So keen for a group cosplay with the little ones next year.
We almost didn’t turn up on Sunday because of how overstimulated she was getting and not feeding great but we let her sleep in and she did a full feed so came in late with her.
Of the expo hall it’s self I didn’t really see much this year that wasn’t already on my radar. Had the chance to play assassin’s creed which had sold me on buying IV. The Indie section was cool but many of them were already on my radar. Really have to get around to buying screencheat though. Wanted a chance to play a few more but severely limited in time.
Was interested in trying out the division but wasn’t sure if it was actually playable or not. Wasn’t going to line up just to watch a gameplay video.
Missed out on trying the new rift at occulus but tried out the dodgy cricket game which had made me very interested in how FPS (first person sportsball) games could be created. Using the wiimote and camera stuff makes me very interested in the stem.
Saturday night was great, always amazing to get a large group of taybies together. Got to meat serrels which was awesome and had a photo taken with @mrtaco. I sent it to my nephew who is currently turtles mad and he was very concerned about my well being.
I also liked the bit where to kids came into the room and were looking really lost and uncertain and potentially the most intimidating taybie there went up and told them where to go in a POWERFUL VOICE.
It was all over too quick and I was on the way to the 2nd venue when Mrs Tigs called and my little princess was a totally little monster based on what I was hearing in the background. So I had to leave so I moved to the front of the group so I could say good bye. Got a piphug then a rockethug and then the whole group of 20 or taybies gave a massive group hug. Seriously guys, seriously. I was so happy after that, like stupidly so.
Absolutely keen for next year.
A couple of special mentions and to start just adding to the chorus of thanks for @scree and @tech_knight.
@freya for taking some lovely photos and @trjn for running 2 rooms and a boom. Also for founding the Imperial hotel empire.
@SteveoTheDeveo for the cosplay ideas and making my little one feel welcome
@jordi and @batgirl for keeping my company on sunday while Mrs Tigs was tournamenting
As for ways to improve PAX well
https://twitter.com/wilw/status/500353653585108992/photo/1
Hahaha… I just realised I have bought 7 copies of .5: The Gray Chapter by Slipknot..
4x Deluxe 2 CD version.
1x iTunes Bonus Edition.
1x Standard Edition on CD.
1x Standard Edition on Vinyl.
But to be fair all those copies but the iTunes copy & 1 deluxe version came with either a limited edition t-shirts, posters, stickers, patches, lithograph or hoodie.. So I basically bought merch and got bonus copies of the CD..
I have a problem 😛
When my boyfriend and I moved in together six years ago, we found we had like, eight copies of The Big Lebowski between us, as well as many double/triple ups of music (mostly Tom Waits), movies and games. That’s how I knew it was true love.
When I moved in with my girlfriend (now wife), we had 14 copies of Serenity between us. But they were all mine, so perhaps that doesn’t count.
Memento from your shop lifting days!
I wish. Think of all the money I could have saved. I could have bought a freaking PS4 with the money I spent on Serenity.
Still completely worth it, especially if it is also backed up by multiple copies of firefly.
And now I have like, six of them.
:/
I saved you from having seven of them.
You’re welcome.
Actually it was probably @strange that did it. Pretty sure she was the one that made me take them while I was just pondering doing so :p
Sounds like monster behavior! That’s our Strange!
I’m going to resist the temptation to ask what the hell.
hes a moron 😛
Tom Waits and The Big Lebowski? You don’t have a friend or sister with the same interests that’s single?
Im not single. but i enjoy those things
Afraid not, pal!
Haha, that’s awesome.
I like my work. 🙂 I was 30-40 mins late due to doing work stuffs in another office, and I walk in to relieved people wondering where I was and if I’m okay! Even got an SMS. :3
I picture lots of crying people you have to comfort. Group hugs. People telling you how much you mean to them because they were scared they would never get the chance.
A candle lit shrine with a picture of him framed by roses in the centre of a room with a crowd keeping vigil.
I called in sick once and got a message from a coworker that said
“stop wanking and come and do your fucking job asshole”
ahh memories
How did you not tell them to go fuck themselves?
i was 20 and wanted to keep my job.
I would have told them to go fuck themselves. I guess this is why I’m so damn unemployed. 😛
To be fair, you probably should have stopped wanking…
😛
But yeah, like deecee said, how did you not explode into expletives?
#pray4stickman
I was away for 2 days, took 45 minutes after I arrived to be acknowledged and that was only to give me a pile of work, since then I’ve had the occasional grunt greeting, people here are not friendly and I’m pretty sure I’m pretty unliked. I miss getting along with colleagues.
🙁 Sad panda.
eh, I gotta pull myself outta this slump and find a new job, I feel like Dante from Clerks, always complaining but never doing anything to improve the situation.
I gotta pull myself outta my slump too. Hopefully things will be fixed for me soon and I can start the process. Good luck to us both!
Did you ever end up drinking yourself into a coma? I didn’t. 🙁 I’ll try to get drunk this saturday before going out for dinner/drinks/clubs though …
I did get very wasted indeed, unfortunately didn’t go comatose. I’ll have to try harder next time.
Yes, yes you will.
Where do you live dude? You seem like the kinda guy who I’d like to buy a drink for one day, and perhaps continue that well into double digits.
Brisbane, Petrie. We totally should one day, drink all the troubles away.
@gutsoup depending on how things go soon I was thinking of either flying or driving down to Bris (closest capital) for no reason at all. If it happens, I’ll let you know!
@stickman
Sweet, if that happens let me know for sure, I need to get out more,
Auditions for the new Sughly.
Who likes adventure games?
They’re okay.
No, you can’t audition otherwise we’ll need a new Shane too!
That’s okay. I’m getting pretty tired of the old one. 🙂
I’ve played like, three of them, and I thought they were okay.
So, close enough?
My favourite movie is that one which is just a 4 hour long shot of a snowflake on a black background while a stuttering midget sings the complete works Bjork in reverse at half tempo.
You’ve probably never heard of it.
You’re hired! Now to audition a new Freeze!
I am a loving father and a shit beard.
I’m Batman!
We would be closer if that was true.
I dont approve of this!
Too late! You’re not Sughly any more!
Must also regularly recommend me sad Asian movies to watch.
That is unusually specific.
But not an uncommon occurrence!
I’m going to have to start recruiting new people into the Sad Asian Film Club now that @sughly is gone.
Like Rush Hour and Memoirs of a Geisha? *runs*
Joy Luck Club!
Ryan Gosling is so dreamy.
Wait, what happened to @sughly? D=
He’s in Japan! 😀
Like forever, or just like a bit short of forever?
Haha! Only a couple of weeks! I just miss him is all! *sniff* 😛
Oh good. We need @sughly Japan isn’t allowed to keep him.
12 Hole Ocarina Ceramic Alto C Legend of Zelda Zelda Ocarina Flute – US$9.99
Kicking myself for not getting one off of eBay. 🙁
I saw that last night, the code was only good for 200 uses though?
Edit: Hmm, comments seem to say it’s going again. Pondering whether to get one. Or two (birthday present).
Wondering how the sound quality is though, since that video posted in there is pretty unconvincing in terms of authenticity.
I just bought one, code seemed to work prior to paying, but unless Paypal dropped some stupid extra payment on me at the end, I don’t think it actually changed the amount I paid.
Not sure, it wouldn’t accept my credit card for some reason. Probably because I’m an idiot.
Confession: I have never finished Ocarina Of Time.
…Because you were too busy playing and completing the superior Majora’s Mask, right?
Nah he was replaying Phantom Hourglass
Lol, you’re both wrong, the only two Zelda games I’ve actually finished are the original, and Link To The Past.
Well at least you are still a classy gentleman.
Hired that when it first came out, played it for a few hours then had to return it the next day. All I can remember is something about a giant moon, and a mask (obviously).
Neither, heh. I’m most of the way though.
Urrrrggggh, tempting!
So wrote a whole chunk of stuff about PAX but now it is in moderation. I wonder if people get notifications if there is a moderated post mentioning them
Anyway MFQT
B, K, C, N, S
C for Colobus.
N for not Colobus.
And yeah, moderation is fun.
You’ll pay. Don’t think you won’t pay!
S
Oh and notifications don’t happen until after the post comes out of moderation. I’ve noticed it when a guest replies to me.
B
B
C because its me..also because I feel like chicken
Well equal for C and B but since Cam added extra info that was correct it looks like I’m having chicken satay for lunch.
Which just pipped out the boxed lunch from my draw
Woo! I’m having KFC which is like satay because they can both give you red ring of fire for completely different reasons
Okay you guys. Especially any of you that are horrible people that didn’t buy Valkyria Chronicles.
You’re going to go to GMG here:
http://www.greenmangaming.com/s/au/en/pc/games/rpgs/valkyria-chronicles/#item-s1
And you’re going to buy a steam key for it. And you’ll enter the code BWG00E-QJP45O-INFGR1 to get 30% off their already low price and get it for $13.86.
And then on November 11 you will experience one of the best games on the PlayStation 3, but this time in 1080p, 60fps, and with all the extra DLC included in the pack.
I dunno. That doesn’t sound like something I’d do.
Holy cow that’s a good deal.
(Also, Valkyria Chronicles would very easily make my top 10 PS3 games list. It seems like a crime that more people haven’t played it.)
Like those two mean horrible people that posted above you? >:(
There are none so blind as those who will not see…
I’d give it a go if it were on a platform that I use, but until then 😛
Get behind Steam and embrace the divine light shining out of the great and mighty gaben.
Gaben is a false idol.
Praise Braben!
I’ll let you away with it this time. But never again. >:(
Not going to until it’s been confirmed that the port delivers
Sega’s PC ports are usually pretty solid.
Be that as it may, I don’t pre-order, too many times I’ve been burnt on that.
I heartily endorse this event or product.
But seriously, if you liked XCOM/Fire Emblem you will probably like this! Such a great game and really unique gameplay. The DLC was really fun too so I’m glad it’s included!
I’ll definitely be double dipping. It’s going to look amazing with that art style in Full HD!
It’s very much a continuation of a lot of the gameplay ideas from Sakura Wars / Sakura Taisen as well. A lot of the same team worked on both – Valkyria was basically what happened when the Sakura Taisen and Skies of Arcadia guys were thrown in a room together.
Those games were similarly good, and got stuck in Japan too. 🙁 One of my goals for TAY Japan is to scour Akihabara for Dreamcast copies of Sakura Taisen 1-4. Maybe one day I’ll be able to understand them well enough to play without a guide.
Im meant to be saving money so I have to give this a skip for the moment even though I Love Valkyria Chronicles and played the shit out of the PSP one
I got Valkyria for me and a mate and managed to convince another 2 people to buy it, It does deserve more praise. I really need to get a decent PC (shakes fist at ever decreasing bank account), I never played the DLC either.
It’s weird seeing a realistic CGI Kevin Spacey voiced by Kevin Spacey.
I can’t remember the character’s name. I just call him Kevin Spacey.
His eyes are a bit shark-like, though.
@highperformance’s gravatar. *swoon* 😛
@highperformance *swoon* 😛
I think I’m going to regret putting it up! 😛 I figured my Simpsons gravatar which was a very niche part of pop culture may be strange, so I thought I’d chuck up a photo of myself which is a little more representative of me lol.
Nah, no regrets. We’re just busting chops. 😀
You mean regret that you have so much clothing on
At least we have an idea on who to look out for at the next melb meat
Lol I’m flattered DC!
Remember remember
The fifth of November
The Gunpowder Treason and Plot
I see of no reason
The Gunpowder Treason
Should ever be forgot.
Penny for the Guy, anyone? *sets off fireworks*
It’s really not the same when it’s not freezing cold and dark. Bonfires are not a good idea in Australia in November…
I went to Guy Fawkes Night (Was going to call it Anonymous Night to rile people up. :P) when I was in London. Crazy bon fire. Crazy atmosphere. Fun times.
Good times. We climbed onto the roof of our building and watched fireworks going off all over the place.
We’re alike in some ways, I think that’s what makes us such fierce enemies! JERK!
Really is a crazy night. I used to go to Battersea Park, that was always a good display.
A penny loaf to feed ol’ Pope,
A farthing cheese to choke him.
A pint of beer to rinse it down,
A faggot of sticks to burn him.
Burn him in a tub of tar,
Burn him like a blazing star.
Burn his body from his head,
Then we’ll say ol’ Pope is dead.
I know, I know, I skipped a verse, but I don’t have the middle one memorised.
Wow, hardly anyone knows that these days. It’s amazing how thoroughly subversive and unpleasant so many nursery rhymes are, isn’t it…
One of the guilty parties was Thomas Percy, related to the Percy family of Northumberland.
I can imagine Tim McInnerny bumbling around trying to blow up the King and failing spectacularly.
New Blackadder concept, anyone?
Does NZ still celebrate Guy Fawke’s ?
They did when I lived there but there was increasing crackdowns on fireworks being sold. When I was a kid it was open slather, but my the time I was about 12-13 they’d banned any rockets and then it was getting tighter and tighter after that.
Sucked because my Birthday’s in December so we used to buy a ton of fireworks and stockpile half of them for that. One of my best memories was going down to the beach in Auckland (lived about 5 mins walk from one of the nicest beaches there) with friends and setting off like $80 worth, mainly a bunch of rockets, and then having the police show up to keep an eye on it. 😛
I miss Guy Fawkes day, every year they had bigger and better explodey things. The town I grew up in would light up on that night. I remember when we got our hands on Sony brand fireworks, they were meant for professional displays but 13 year old me had a blast with them.
Never change, Google.
“Hey guys, we’ve got this amazing new Gmail app that can be used for just about any email account you can think of, even corporate Exchange accounts/domains!” Yay, I can finally move to a single email client on my phone! *sets up work email in new gmail app, happily deletes old email app*
“Hey guys, we’ve got this new Inbox app that will completely change the way you interact with email, but it only works with Gmail.” God dammit, Google. *prepares to go back to two email clients*
Boss sent around a team email saying “Btw, welcome back Powalen! We missed you!”
As a bit of a joke I replied to everyone with a GIF of a guy waving from the back of a car during a ticker tape parade.
Half an hour later, Boss replies “Who is that?” …Don’t make me explain these things D:
So… who was it?
Totally zoning out and not getting anything done.
*solidarity fistbump*
*lazily looks over at fist and takes far too long to process what it means*
Soooo, good work day?
New CHVRCHES SONG OUT
Seriously the MockinJay Soundtrack is filled with dope bands
http://time.com/3556321/chvrches-dead-air-mockingjay-soundtrack/
Hype for new Hunger Games!
Im not as hype for the movie as i am for the soundtrack 😛
For lunch today I have yoghurt with rose petal sprinkles, (I ate my Chilli Bean wrap for breakfast). I laughed when I accidentally brought the yoghurt to the health food store counter, “How can somebody put rose petals in yoghurt? These crazy hipsters will do anything to make their food different”. Bought it anyway and just whipped it out for lunch.
I am now hype for the flavour, well played Aunt Maggies.
Which brings me to my question, what food are you hype about that other people may find weird?
No one else seems to order the BLT with Avocado sandwich I always buy. Monsters, the lot of them!
They’ll pay DC.
They’ll all pay.
He said people find weird not boring 😛
Everything I like you think is boring. My musics boring. My BLT with Avocado sandwich is boring. MAYBE IT’S YOUR ATTITUDE THAT’S BORING! *runs off crying* 😛
It’s because avocado is slimy and gross.
Or maybe it’s just that nobody’s comfortable with ordering something called a BLAT. 😛
Your face is slimy and gross.
…
I feel like this joke is more wrong than usual. 😛
WHAT HAVE I DONE!
FORGIVE ME STRAAAAANGE!
Your face is like a flower in the spring time!
As unique as a snow flake in the winter!
As pretty as the leaves in autumn!
Something something summer time something?!
As radiant as the sun during Summer time!
Eww. I preferred the slimy face. 😀
So’s your avocado!
Avocado is the best. How could you talk down upon such an awesome thing?!
Sounds delicious.
I f*cking love a good BLAT… with extra bacon and avo.
No one else seems to understand my craving for human flesh. It’s odd, it really is. So delicious, so misunderstood.
Those damn villagers with their pitchforks and torches, so close minded.
Brett understands.
Two things with me: Pineapple or Tuna on a pizza
Tuna on Pizza, now I’ve never heard of that. Mozzarella cheese and pizza base?
Yeah. When I was in Portugal it was apparently a thing, I tried it and OMG it was amazing! It was more or less Ham, Cheese and Tuna if memory serves.
It does sound like a pretty unreal pizza, I’ll have to give it a burl next time I make one!
Oh wait it wasn’t ham it was bacon actually!
So, here’s my thing with pineapple on pizza – I like the flavour, but I hate the texture. So, I order Hawaiian and then take off the pineapple and throw it away. If I could get the pizza place to just apply a fine mist of pineapple juice to the pizza before baking, I’d do that.
So instead of lemon juice you’d put pineapple juice sprinkled on the pizza? That sounds delicious actually.
I would be very surprised if Pizza Hut didn’t have Pineapple mist 😛
I have a Pizza most Saturday nights before playing soccer on Sunday morning, and I don’t know how much better I feel by being able to see what ingredients they have… like there’s 4-5 different cans of different sprays sitting next to where they roll the base. You’re handy with food, you should make your Pineapple mist a thing!!
Gotta used crushed pineapple works best on pizza imo. Pineapple chunks are pretty meh.
I’ve always loved broccoli and brussels sprouts and all sorts of stuff that kids are supposed to hate. Which also reminds me that we have not had squash in the longest time.
I also miss having this home-made salami that my grandparents used to get from a family friend. It smelt like the most horrible foot, but was so awesomely soft and delicious and I may have started salivating at the thought of it.
Wow, I can’t remember the last time I ate a Squash either… or a Kumquat which I always confuse lol. That’s definitely weird, I came into this thread not to judge but… it’s… happen-hnnngghhh.
I once dated a girl who’s Mum made this delicious broccoli and garlic butter, I can see why Broccoli but I wish I could say the same for Brussel Sprouts!
The brussels sprouts were just done in the microwave with a bit of water, then had butter put over them. Then I’d add a bunch of salt 😛 Delicious. Also somewhat recently, they were being fried up in the pan a bit. Also good.
Broccoli I most liked done baked with a bunch of different kinds of cheese, but for some reason we don’t do that any more.
I hear rumours of Donuts. That are frozen. What a weirdo
I guess the one that would probably be the weirdest is a pasta bake sauce that we make. It is mostly mushed up carrot and some other veggies to make a kinda sauce. Cover the pasta, add some cheese and fresh tomatoes and chuck it in the oven
A delivery arrived at my desk. “I’m not expecting anything” I think to myself.
That nice Mr Cooper has sent me some Beats headphones in Coopers Green. I had completely forgotten I’d won a competition. 🙂 Oh what a nice surprise. Yes, they’re terribly overpriced and overhyped… but free is good.
Got bored sitting at home by myself so decided to go watch John Wick in a cinema by myself.
Taking yourself on a movie date is one of life’s greatest pleasures. Enjoy!
So I’ve always kept ex’s contacts in my phone with the prefix ‘X’ to lump them all together. My reasoning has always been if I get weird hookup messages or whatever, I’d like to know who they came from. (They don’t always introduce themselves.) Pretty much all the splits were amicable, and for a while it was useful; tidying up old business, keeping in touch every 6-12 months or – more likely – to ask a favour from someone they knew/I knew in any particular industry.
But that was a policy implemented many years ago, when I actually maintained the virtual ‘little black book’ and acquiesced to booty calls, etc. Life has been very different in a committed relationship, the last few years.
I never really thought about it when I upgraded my phone to various iphone models and simply transferred over the entire phone’s image… but I pocket-dialled one of those numbers the other day and got a puzzled call-back from someone wanting to know who it was. I SHOULD have said, “Oh, wrong number,” and deleted the number, but instead I said who it was and she sounded pretty amazed at first (‘oh wow, I haven’t thought about that person in forever, blast from the past!’ style), with a follow-up sounding a little puzzled and amused, “You still have this number, huh?” Like this was a weird thing.
It had not occurred to me that this was a weird thing. So I opened up my contact list to delet the entire ‘x’ category – my number’s the same if they ever need to get in touch, but the convenience of a call out of the blue being recognized isn’t worth the risk of weird pocket-dial.
That’s when I realized, looking down the list, that with one notable exception of an ex who made it clear we weren’t going to be on speaking terms, I have never deleted a contact number. I’ve LOST them before, sure, but I’ve never intentionally deleted a contact. Even trainers, clients, people met on the street who were looking for assistance in something and offered their number to stay in touch, then never met ever again, coworkers from ten years ago…
I am a phone-contact hoarder.
And as soon as I went to start deleting those randoms who I will likely never have anything to do with again in my life, I had to FIGHT – desperately – against the excuse, “But what if…?”
Oh god. Really?
There are people still in here who I rented car spaces to a few years ago.
Purge time.
I can understand that. Someone I know just deleted all the photos from their past relationship. I feel like this isn’t good. This was still part of their life. These photos are a memento from who they were then. It doesn’t mean you’re pining for someone to keep little things like this. I can understand why you would keep the number. It’s better to have them then to not have them. *shrugs*
And here’s a slightly depressing story. A few years ago I felt like all my friends had moved on and didn’t care about me any more. It was a dark time for me. I deleted every phone number and e-mail address. I regret this. I have no way to contact these people again.
HEEEY, i did that too, when i was at my worst, i deleted all my contacts with TAY people. Fortunately i am too much of a drama queen to stop talking to everyone. 😛
I haven’t heard from some of these people again. They have moved on, but now I don’t have means to reconnect. :'(
dude facebook stalking is real, if you know there name its pretty easy to find them. Trust me i am amazing at facebook stalking
Awh. That IS sad. But Rocket is right!
After uni, I deleted my facebook account entirely. It was already pretty lean. I eventually (almost a year later) got a job back in university town and I made a new profile and added maybe half the people I originally had.
When I was younger I did this all the time, the purge felt good because you didn’t have to look at photos and remember the regret (or as much regret as a 18 year old me could have! XD) or upset of the relationship breaking down. I agree with your sentiment, I wish I had that mindset for ex-photos though!
Most of it’s academic for me. My dating experience is limited. 😛 I had a falling out with one of my uni pals after we lived together in London. It’s a little painful to see photos from before that, but I ain’t about to delete the photos of when I lived in London. XD
When I broke up with my ex, I deleted about four photos of her. Two intimate, two that I just didn’t want having on my phone.
Oh yeah, don’t keep intimidate photos. That’s just weird. 😀
Yeah, that was my reasoning. Also, even though we’d broken up, I still respected her too much to retain them.
Plus I know how some of these breakups go with these sorts of things, and while I don’t think I’d have ever done anything I didn’t want my phone being fiddled with with a friend or being hacked and them getting out.
Haha, I’m guilty there 😛
Though it’s not that I’m specifically keeping intimate photos, rather that it’s just falling under my general policy of never deleting anything. It’s not like they’re being kept there to ogle or anything either, it’s just… there because it happened, same as all the rest of everything.
Also they happened before a photo-storing phone was a thing for me, so they’re all “safe and secure” on my now barely-used computer at home rather than my phone or anything.
Intimidate! \o/
Hahaha! Freudian slip! 😛
Oh… Owch.
Grandma & Grandad.
R.I.P.
Ooooooh. 🙁
Hahahaha jeeeeeesus dude. Are you at all sentimental about other things in life? I love the virtual lightness of having like… 14 phone numbers in my phone. I regularly clean out my inboxes and messages on forums and junk. Ugh, virtual baggage, no thanks.
I did, however, thoroughly enjoy the line, “with the prefix ‘X’ to lump them all together“. I want to know how many there were!
Thousands…
I don’t think it’s sentimental as much as… practical and preparedness. If it can be useful, I’ve probably kept it.
As an example of one of the minor ways this influences me:
I have a handful of odd hyper-vigilant habits from I don’t-know-what, PTSD or something. Slim first aid kit, umbrella, minor-tool/sewing kits, tape-measure, painkillers, phone charger, space blanket in my shoulder bag.
I tossed out the ‘lockpicking’ bobby pins out after it turns out I can’t pick a lock to save my life. Booo, now I’ll never make it into Spy School.
No solar charger, either. If I ever get stranded in a one-way portal back in time, I’m fucked. I really need to get one of those.
I think the contacts thing has always been a, “Do you know someone who might be able to…” Why yes. Yes I do! Only ever actually had to use that half a dozen times in as many years, though.
Although I admit on the sentimentality front: deleting the grandparents’ number has straight-up killed my enthusiasm and I am doing other things now. I’ll fix that shit later.
Oh. I missed the second part… hm. Well.
*shuffles papers* *clears throat* *adjusts podium microphone*
I have a prepared statement: I have always been a very ardent believer in and pursuer of love, and have greeted setbacks in that pursuit with resilience and optimism. I will not be taking any further questions at this time. Thank you.
(Edit: Strange, the things people pay attention to!)
Or you could do what i do and have like 7 contacts.
I may not be a popular man but i am a man….probably.
Also god you just had a story about phone contacts and it was gripping. You have a skill, co-write novels with me, we could be bigger than Tolkien.
I’ve never deleted a number either. Hell, even when people used to get a new number, I’d just put it in under a new entry. Actually I had a bit of a system with that, it was just their name if it was their number. Then I’d put a space and a dot if it was their home number. Space and w if it was their work number. And then space and an incrementing digit if it was a new number.
That was moreso an artefact of my old phone and storing all the numbers on the SIM. Once I got the 6100 and the SIM got full, I started just adding multiple numbers under the one name. It let me label them and set one as the default number, so that helped keep track of the current one. When transferring to the new phone though, it doesn’t do that any more. Took a while to dig through the old phone and find all the current numbers so I could reorganise the new one 😛
But yeah I know I’m a terrible data hoarder. That ain’t gonna change any time soon.
Most random number that is in there: “Phone girl”. Someone who I asked to borrow their phone to message Mum one day after college when my battery had run flat and for some reason nobody came to get me from the station even though I was there at the exact same time as every other night after going to college. I messaged her back to thank them for their help 😛
Also, more phone quirks. I only put people in by their first name. Unless I call them by a nickname or their surname, in which case I use that. And if it’s an internet person, then they’re in there by their online handle. Initials are only used when there’s an existing contact with that name, which surprisingly has hardly happened at all. There’s a few exceptions to this, but generally the rules hold true.
Also I don’t even know why it’s like this but it just is.
I call TAYbies by their handles except for Nobs. Cause I can’t have that in my phone. WHAT WILL PEOPLE THINK?
I have him as [First Name] “Nobfrond” [Surname] so that I can bring him up in my phone’s search thingy for contacts by searching for Nob.
Some are in as [First Name] [Handle] and then there’s Blaghs who is down as Blaghsicle.
Speaking of just having handles in you phone.
I have an “Aioli” in my phone.
You know, just for whenever I need to ring up some garlic mayonnaise.
THe crazy ones are always the handsomest.
I usually leave SMS’s without a name attached, since my gen likes to text more than chat. It usually takes a number of months and them going “dude wtf why am I not saved?!” for people to make it into my contacts hah.
Eh it’s not that weird.. I don’t have any of my ex’s numbers because well they kinda vanished with previous sims or phones well before I owned an iPhone heh.
But saying that I have plenty of people in my contacts that I lost touch with for various reasons, mostly me cutting ties with them, a few I have blocked from calling me cause I know they would.
I still think I even have the number of dad’s mate who sadly passed away last year…
The dead are the hardest to get rid of.
Oh yeah, not wrong. He was a good mate of dads & the family, it’s just like “nope can’t do it”
serious question time, what phone should I get.
…………….
Chris Evans!
Firm man butts!
I believe they’re called juicy doubles.
Double Jug!
Thats the unimportant part, the important part is making let it go your ringtone.
Dude, no one will set their ringtone to that. I know it’s hard to come to terms with but you just need to Let it Go.
Sony Xperia Z-whatever it’s up to is a neat bit of silicon.
that’s the one I’m looking at, it seems to meet my needs. I just want to assure I am not making a bad choice.
Well I have a Z1 and completely love it, so I guess the Z3 or whatever the latest is even better than that?
cool beans. my galaxy note just hate everything I do now
An iPhone would probably suit your tastes
I just got an iphone 6+, it’s pretty great but I use my phone mostly for surfing / watching videos / etc…
http://images.sodahead.com/profiles/0/0/2/2/3/5/5/9/5/surfer-41341829550.jpeg
??
I love that we both had the same idea yet somehow managed to find two different images for the same joke.
Cowabunga!
THAT JOKE HAS ALREADY BEEN USED POW! GOSH!
*slams door*
*realise I am still inside the room*
*slowly open door*
*exit room*
*slowly close door*
If Android – Samsung S5 is probably best over-all, plus dust/water-resist.
there was a hole here. it’s gone now
Hole filled!
Man, I have the PAX blues, it’ll be way too long before I get to hang with all you awesome people… That makes me all the sad :'(
Edit – well that was a page get… Erhm…. Errrrrrhhhhhm…. I LOVE YOU GUYS!!!
Post meat blues are the worst. :'( I used to get them bad! Feel better, buddy! You’re awesome!
At least it’s better than getting meat blues cos you can’t go!
“better to have loved and lost blah blah blah”
but I still
Got the blues
For yoooouuuuu
*guitar riff*
As do I, human, as do I
Another meat?
Keen
COMMANDER
Did anyone else see the exititus display at pax?
The escape room thingy? Yep, looked intimidating 😛
even with 8 of us?
@scree oh I’d be up for giving it a go, but something about time pressure always scares me 😛
Exitius \o/
Tentatively interested. Think I have a couple of the discount vouchers as well
You can use 3 to a group. The vouchers run out at the end of November, so we’ll have to organise it quick
Right? Fortunately I was able to bring this fantastic cold back with me so the weekend can live on in my sinuses!
PAX pox! Instigate quarantine procedures
my voice is still hoarse. sobbing
So much karaoke.
TURBO LOVERRRR
Wait, you were there?
I totally don’t remember who I got to meet.
Let’s focus on work!
*bonks self on the head to make the pain stop*
“We’re spending too much on things! Cut off all of the things!”
“Don’t you want some wiggle-room, a little redundancy for when things change?”
“No! No more paying for things we don’t use!”
“OK… but you guys do tend to unexpectedly need things you weren’t using. Like, every couple months.”
“GONE-TOWN! All of the unused things!”
LATER:
“OMG WE NEED TEH THINGS. How much to have the things?”
“The things we got rid of? Well, per thing, it will cost you as much to re-install a new thing as 3 months rental of the old thing. And getting a tech to move it where you need it is another 6 months of the thing. Unless you need it urgently, in which case it’s 12 months of the thing.”
“Wow, that’s a lot.”
“Yes. It would have been much cheaper if you had kept a spare thing around to adapt to any changes. Do you think you will make any similar changes in the next 12-16 months?”
“Undoubtedly. But you don’t understand. It’s a directive to cut down on the things.”
“So you have to be seen to be making changes that appear to save money, even if that turns out to be more expensive?”
“Ah, so you do understand!”
*bonks self on head some more*
AAAARGH
Heh heh heh. Heh. *bonks head*
Yes. This.
You have also summed up 3-year terms in Federal and State government…
You wouldn’t believe the problems we’re having with a particular American vendor who doesn’t understand why government departments refuse to sign 5yr contracts.
Oh, I would believe. I very much would…
Yup, there’s Big Business 101 right there.
Also Democratic Government.
Computer literate fronds, I’m looking to upgrade my graphics card. At the moment I’ve got a ATI Radeon HD 5700 series and while it’s lastest me well the past few years I figure it’s time I replaced it. So I’m looking for something that’s better than what I’ve got and in the $200 – $300 price range. Any suggestions?
Also, my power supply is 550 watts, so I can’t have any card that’s too power intensive. I could possibly upgrade my power supply as well, but it would depend on the cost of the card and how worth it it would be as I don’t want to be spending too much all at once.
NVIDIA is generally cooler and more power efficient. AMD is more bang for buck, usually. So you’re probably looking at a R9 270X or GTX760 or higher.
You run 1920×1080? The problem with the cheaper models is 2GB VRAM. You want at least 3GB.
Seconded.
GTX 760, the 4Gb models go for a smidge over $300 (MSY has a Gainward at $305 or a Gigabyte at $325 for the 4Gb 760).
Plenty of grunt for 1920×1200 gaming.
Greetings sire! I can’t offer an option from the AMD side of things as I’m not familiar enough with their models, but from the nvidia camp, you can get yourself a 760-770 for around $250-$350. If memory serves me correctly, the 5000 series of AMD cards were competing with the 500 series from nvidia, so it should be a couple of generations ahead of where you are at present. the 760 and 770 require around a 450w psu minimum I believe. Depending how much other gear you have in your pc, you might get away without upgrading.
Thank you @stickman @trikeabout and @welbot for your advice. You’ve given me a good idea of where I should start looking.
I’m slumming it with an almost adequate Mars cookie from Woolworths instead of my usual caramel and pretzel cookies of awesomeness from Coles. If my day turns out to be bad, I will know it is this cookie’s fault.
At PAX I bought a cookie from a person collecting for charity, promptly forgot to eat it and found it crumbled in the bottom of my bag when I got home.
SCORE. ‘Free’ cookie crumbs!
We like the fruit and muesli ones from coles, but they aren’t as good as the oatmeal and raisin ones they have replaced.
You have sublime taste. Although the rumour mill says that they might still have oat and raisin in fancy packaging
I actually feel really sick now. Damn you,cookie! 😛
Feel sorry for my sister. About 2 weeks ago, one of her kids broke their tv. Then last week, they were broken in to and had her mac air and all her jewellery stolen. Yesterday, one of her kids broke the replacement tv 😐
Geeeez. When it rains it pours!
:C
…Now that I think about it, is there any home/contents insurance which covers damage-by-children?
The most destructive force of all!
What about damage-by-drunk?
Is this about the cookie again?
Yes there is, the problem generally is whether paying the excess for the claim is more than replacing the thing.
We get around it by not having an ipad. My samsung chromebook has hit the deck about 4 times now and just has some dents in the case.
My sis actually works for Allianz. She had accidental damage cover on her policy til about 3 months ago. Was gonna cost her an extra $30 a month, so they dropped it.. great timing! NOT!
That’s… like the definition of irony. c.c
ouch, that sucks, hopefully that’s the end of the bad run, they say things happen in threes.
Freeze is getting rid of a tv – he has too many!
Can you ever really have too many TVs?
The real question is can you really have too big a TV? 😀
I remember when I got my current TV I thought this was too big and powerful for just one man! I got over it! 😀
Can’t be that big if you can climb over it
No one likes delightful word play, Tigs. >:|
Speak for yourself sire! I giggled!! 😉
Downvoted because SO wrong.
Yes, when the pixel is the size of your fist lol
You just need a bigger lounge room. 😛
mm good point! I should ask how much he wants for it, and see if my sis is interested! @freezespreston
Teatime conversation starter: Idly looking through my PSN profile. Wondered what games I’d gone a long way to complete…
Here are my top 21 games by trophy progress (got to 20 but felt like listing the first Vita game in my chart…).
1 – PS3 – 95% – Assassin’s Creed II
2 – PS4 – 69% – inFAMOUS Second Son
3 – PS4 – 68% – Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag
4 – PS3 – 68% – Tomb Raider (2013)
5 – PS4 – 67% – Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition
6 – PS3 – 66% – Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
7 – PS3 – 64% – inFAMOUS
8 – PS3 – 60% – Assassin’s Creed III
9 – PS3 – 55% – inFAMOUS 2
10 – PS3 – 52% – Gran Turismo 5
11 – PS3 – 47% – Flower
12 – PS4 – 43% – Destiny
13 – PS3 – 42% – Journey
14 – PS3 – 42% – Assassin’s Creed Revelations
15 – PS3 – 42% – Burnout Paradise
16 – PS3 – 37% – Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune
17 – PS3 – 34% – Grand Theft Auto V
18 – PS3 – 33% – Gran Turismo 6
19 – PS3 – 33% – The Unfinished Swan
20 – PS3 – 32% – DiRT 2
21 – Vita – 31% – LEGO The Lord Of The Rings
Conclusion: I play 3rd Person games and driving games on the console…
Conclusion: I played a lot of Assassin’s Creed
Conclusion: I like Tomb Raider so much I played it the same amount on both PS3 and PS4…
Further research hypothesis: My Steam chart would be very different… will take a look at that tomorrow. 🙂
Top 10 completions
1. 100% – Dark Souls
2. 100% – Infamous Second Son
3. 100% – Borderlands
4. 100% – Dante’s Inferno
5. 100% – Back To The Future Pt 1
6. 100% – Wonderboy in Monster World
7. 94% – Diablo 3
8. 94% – Assassins Creed 2
9. 92% – Infamous
10. 85% – Mass Effect 2
I dread to think how hard it was 100%ing Dark Souls.
I should go back and finish the EEEEEEEVVILLL!!! MUAAAHAHAHAHA path on Second Son, it doesn’t actually look too hard to pick off the trophies.
That’s pretty much all I’ve gotta do in SS for the platinum, then on to First Light, but there’s too many games coming out now, don’t know when I’ll get back to it.
infamous pact! let’s both promise to do it then come up with increasingly lame excuses why we haven’t… 😉
For some reason my dogs are ridiculously great travelers, we’ve had to do a lot of training for pretty much everything else but as soon as we put them in a car they are angels. This ( https://www.dropbox.com/s/kwyttavpjgon2iz/Sleepy%20Pups.jpg?dl=0 ) is how they spent most of their 17 hours in the car over the weekend. Done the same trip before and they were the same, this time I taught the girl dog how to ask for a drink, now she paws me and whimpers and stares at the water bowl when she’s thirsty, clever thing.
Edit: Funny I told my parents to look out for the girl dog cause she’s too smart for her own good, took her about 10 minutes to work out my parent’s sliding screen door and their laundry door, so she let herself in twice.
German shepards?
Best breed.
yep, long haired girl, short haired boy, both from crazy good breeders, all their dogs compete in shows and win a lot or are in the army/ air force or police force. Our girl dog Moon’s sister got crowned autralian champion, they have phenomenal hip and elbow scores. https://www.dogzonline.com.au/breeds/profile.asp?dog=74540 .
Random question time! Throw a question as a reply, and try and answer other questions!
Wut?
Yes.
Why is purple?
Because watermelon, of course!
Single-word answers for why you think Australia is great place to live?
Eyecandy.
I am decidedly pretty.
Danger!
Me.
Medicare.
Home
When will my hangover end?
Usually 12hrs after stopping drinking, if you drank 500mL+ and a substantial meal afterwards. (and slept). So when’s that? 😛
That was at about 10am this morning. T_T
When will my hangover?
Many pains. Ughhhh
What am the sky?
Space pirates.
You’re not. Sorry.
Sky is an optical illusion.
Geez, don’t tell everyone. If the birds and bats found out, they’d all fall down!
What is purpose GLONASS stand for?
THat’s a form of GPS positioning/satellites I believe, and I’m not sure on the exact wording. GLObal NAvigation… Something Something.
Global Navigation Satellite System, Google tells me.
To give the ladies somewhere to kick @saturday
Would explain their machine-like precision.
Holy shit you guys. John Wick is so. Freaking. Amazing.
Exactly what I needed to hear. 😀
See it! Do it naow!
Right?! So silly and fun and badass.
The fight scenes were just brutal and not a shot of shaky cam or split second shots.
THIS IS MY 1000th KOTAKU COMMENT.
I nearly wasted it responding to a comment on aioli.
THAT WOULD NEVER BE A WASTE!
No, it’s true, I love it.
I am not a fan of aioli. There’s just something odd about it.
I’m sure you guys invent all these words. WHAT THE FUCK IS AIOLI?
Like mayonnaise only better. And comes in garlic (or chipotle) aioli for increased awesome.
I see. I’m not very cultured. 😛
But we’ve already had this discussion on aioli!! #oldladydeecee 😛
All of this has happened before and will happen again!
Garlic is the best kind.
In fact, garlic makes most things better.
The best dip for hot chips!
Gravy does the job! 😀
My Nonno used to go out and get all us grandkids a big box of chips each from the local charcoal chicken place I think, all completely smothered in gravy. Cherished childhood memory 😛
That it also does!
Chips and gravy from a local chinese takeaway (yeah…) were the go-to weekend lunch for a young Powalen and his school chums.
Agree. Gravy is the best.
I find too many aioli recipes are too creamy.
Platypus milk.
I had no idea what it was until Perth.
So much aioli in Perth…
TAYbies that hit 1,000 comments are required to upload images of their PAX cosplay for all to see. It’s in the official rulebook.
Just kidding, no pressure. However I do like that idea about wearing name badges next year so that introductions are less awkward. Or more so.
God, I’m already talking about next year’s PAX, like I’m going or something.
Well you better figure out if you’re going soon, tickets will probably go on sale any day now…
Noooooo, no more purchasing fun things* until Japan balance gets back where it needs to beeeee.
*except Warlords of Draenor, Dragon Age: Inquisition, AC: Unity, Valkyria Chronicles, Far Cry 4
You know you will be!
“Mummy, you need to be Princess Peach and I need to be Toad”. *nods*
So there you go. I’d better start sewing…
Sounds like that game made an impression
More that he’s just obsessed with all things Mario at the moment. In 12 months he’ll probably have discovered Minecraft and/or Pokemon.
Mario love is eternal.
Enh. My Mario love peaked with Mario 3, and petered out with Super Mario.
But that nostalgia you feel for Mario 3 stays to this day, I’d wager. Same deal with me.
…Fair point!
I’ll do all I can to push him towards Pokemon 😛
Toad is the best. And that hat will look great on him.
Haha I didn’t cosplay! Otherwise I probably would share photos.
You better be. Or not, I’m not your real dad I can’t tell you what to do
I concur for nametags.
First day back at work today, I come in to discover the casual kid who was using my desk somehow brought the apocalypse down on it. My post-it notes were on the floor (one on the underside of my chair), my mousepad was wedged between the corner of the desk and the wall and replaced with another, shittier one, half my photos had been torn down from the wall, and my little Pokemon figures were scattered all over the place including behind my computer screen and half crushed underneath my scanner.
Fortunately he left his coffee cup there so I am going to take it hostage in quite possibly the lamest revenge ever.
Damn kids!
line the mug with laxatives or ricin (depending on how severe you think the punishment should be), that’ll learn him.
You’re a scary person.
I was just gonna, you know…hide it…
I’d rub my wiener on the rim.
But you know, keeping it is also fine.
That’s a pretty shitty way to treat other people’s work space.
I say murder the coffee cup.
LAST PLAYED SONG GAME:
Where Are We Now? – David Bowie
Subterranean Kamikaze (Turtles In Time) – Sixto Sounds, zircon
Yellow Flicker Beat – Lorde
Fashion – David Bowie
Bowie Buddies 😀
I listened to a lot of Bowie on our trip, it was one of the few surviving cassettes in my relic vault.
BOWIE BUDDIES!
Encore un fois – Sash!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zN5MXP4aRc
LOL Mediterranean holiday flashbacks…
I Heard It On The Grapevine – CCR
I likes me some CCR.
Night Moves – Bob
SagatSegerNice.
El Cargo – Amon Tobin
Nero – Crush on You (Knife Party remix)
Warning: dubstep
That should be a mandatory warning label on anything that contains dubstep. “See the latest Assassin’s Creed E3 trailer! [WARNING: Dubstep]”
Last of the Wilds – Nightwish.
This Suffering – Billy Talent
Playing Spec Ops. That bit they talked about just happened. Jeez.
Eh.
Felt railroaded to me.That’s the point.
But it really takes the sting out of the rest of the game where they berate you for being a terrible person. I never felt like a terrible person for my actions. I felt like I was doing what the game required of me. There was a massive disconnect for me that robbed the game of any emotional weight.It’s a commentary on violent video games. You’re playing a game in which you’re forced to do those terrible things. You don’t have to play games like that, but you choose to engage with it and complete it.The writers made a similar comment, saying that the correct option was to turn the game off. I completely disagree with that sentiment. I was there to see how it played out. I felt entirely like a passive observer and not an active participant because I never once felt like any in-game decision mattered. The commentary that it was trying to make simply did not work for me. Especially when the reason I chose to engage was to see what the fuss was about.I’m happy to admit that this isn’t going to be true for everyone. Subjective experiences and opinions and whatnot. The ideas the game had could have worked but the execution of all of them were clunky and no media should present “if you don’t like it, give up” as an option.I haven’t played through Spec Ops yet, but I’d probably find myself in your position.
I tend to treat many of my in-game actions as those of my character, rather than those of myself, so I would probably have a disconnect there. Sure, I can be horrified by what the game might ‘force’ me to do, but it would be the character’s actions, and the character’s supposed lack of choice, that would have impact, not my own.
Even in RPGs with no characterisation overtly placed in the game for the player character (Elder Scrolls, etc), I tend to create a character for the PC, rather than treat the PC as myself. Of course, those characters I create will align to some extent with my own personality, but I still see them as separate.
Very deliberately, it reminds me of every other turret/drone section in any other modern shooterYou like it? I’m scared to read spoilers!
After seeing everyone’s effort at PAX I kind of want to cosplay next year too. But I have no idea what to do.
Ivy from Soul Calibre?
well I was planning on going as Voldo, just have to work on my contortion skills
I’d love to try and do a “proper” cosplay next year.
Oh man, someone cosplay with me as the Brains and Brawn trainer class for next years PAX Pokemon League.
(I would’ve wanted to go as the ‘Honeymooners’ trainer class, but I’m missing a vital element for that one…)
Were there any other Pokemon trainers that cosplayed? I don’t recall seeing anyone else do it aside from yourself.
Most of the other Leaders were in some sort of cosplay (as their invented leader rather than as a known character). One of the guys had altered some boxing gloves so that he could play his 3DS while wearing them. It was pretty cool.
ALL the cosplays.
If I get a job soonish I’m going to genuinely attempt to bulk up because it’s something I want to do any ways and cosplay as Joel from The Last of Us. He gets me! Post apocalyptic urban decay! Scruffy beard! Broken spirit! Lumberjack shirt!
You can bulk up without a job, I’ve done it. I used to do ten or twenty chin ups and push ups per day and it didn’t take long to notice a difference! A couple of weeks or so?
Nowadays my bulking up involves pushing food into my face, as clearly evident in all my Superman PAX photos.
Yeah, but I can’t buy the food I’d want to buy to eat better for bulking up purposes. Couldn’t buy PAX ticket. Couldn’t buy ‘props’. Couldn’t get to Melbourne. Can’t cosplay proper without money to fund it. 😀 It’s all part of a larger plan, though. *strokes beard* Lots of that sounds like excuses, huh? Haha!
Right? Also watching that video about Bioware-game cosplayers and seeing just how into it they were…
Before I came up with another idea that I’m going to do next, I did spend about an hour looking at how to build N7 armour…
I have a truly embarrassing number of images saved in a cosplay ideas/reference material folder.
I’m keen to do it, I just don’t think I have the technical skill at this point.
Will work up to it I think
Anyone or anything you want – that’s the best part! I was probably more suited to a Comic Con but ah well, I wasn’t the only superhero/heroine at PAX.
Nope
https://www.flickr.com/photos/105876796@N07/15528686119/in/set-72157649143301645
My Dream projects all require a LOT of work, though. Either on costume or on my body. …Or both.
Max Payne(3), Joel (TLoU), Dark Souls 2 armour, Commander Shepard/Zaeed, Hawke, Harkyn (Lords of the Fallen), Malgus (SWTOR), Booker Dewitt, Handsome Jack, Axton, any number of Warframes (most likely Excalibur), Adam Jensen, Rex Power Colt, Marked Ninja (Mark of the Ninja), Garrett, Geralt, Francis (L4D), Edward Kenway, Agent 47, Master Chief… And that’s just games I can think of, not movies/anime.
Heh. Probably the easiest ones I can think of are Trevor (GTA5), Kane (Kane & Lynch). Maybe Max Payne… fair bit more weight to add though.
I really wish they’d go back to hosting PAX in Melbourne when it’s cold, though.
I was planning an Axton cosplay, went a far as to make a few purchases towards it but that was as far as I got. Might look into doing that next year, hopefully I’ll have a bit more time
The sorts of things I’ve considered all require insane work so one of my things if I do decide to go with it is that it needs to be something I can comfortably wear and still sit down, pee, drink and enjoy my time at PAX and not just be stuck in a suit.
So my Danbo or Rensouhou-kun super elaborate costumes would be right out as especially Danbo would be hard to even walk in.
Current things going through my head are putting together an accurate uniform for one of the Gallia troops from Valkyria Chronicles (may be able to get a fair bit of that off-the-shelf and customize it and 3D print most of the parts) or put together the clothes for the Tactician (or Grandmaster but the issue with that is the armored boots) which would require a fair bit of sewing and a few custom parts but is mainly about the rad cloak.
The only truly necessary one there is sitting down. Maybe. And straws are a thing!
I don’t think I had to use the bathroom at all while at PAX itself, always managed to last til I got back to the hotel 😛
I want to play bored games at PAX though. 🙁
I’d love to do Max Payne or Kratos for my first cosplay, coz I shave my head, and have a chin beard, but like @dc I’d have to bulk up, which given my current physical state would probably take at least 12 months, possibly closer to 24 months.
Max Payne from 3 would be easy-ish. Hawaiian shirt, bald head, beard. Done.
Yup. Just need to gain like… another fifteen kilos of pure muscle. 😛
Everyone else has been posting pics from PAX but basically everything I’ve put up on twitter the last few days has been photos of my figures as I slowly pull them out of storage.
I came to a terrible realization though. Currently have around 70 Nendoroids in my cabinet and at best I can maybe fit another 45. Which means that half of them stay in boxes 🙁
Blaghs put a gallery up on Imgur of cosplay stuff.. http://imgur.com/a/UFSBa
Indeed. That among other things was what I was referring to.
Ah righto 😛
Buy another cabinet?
I have four. I don’t think I really have room for a 5th.
I’m thinking maybe I’ll just dot them around the place a bit. Bookshelves and stuff. There’s also the top of the cabinet area (though I have a couple of extra-large ones there).
I’m also seriously considering going to Ikea and getting three more of their DIODER lighting kits. I put one in the top of all four cabinets and the top shelves look rad now, but the light doesn’t really make it all the way down.
@pupp3tmast3r
Hey man, you still interested in some Civ:BE multiplayer sometime?
I am but it’ll have to be next weekend bro! I’ll log on to Destiny at some point today or tomorrow and explain why =P
No wukkas.
I’ll be on Friday but probs not tonight.
Hi.
PAX Aus photodump here.
If you want high res shots or other shots (believe me, I have many of @markserrels and also of babies!), then contact me!
*waves*
Amazing. I love the lighting in the Karaoke shots. Everyone looks amazing there. New profile pictures all round! 😀
I love the way Serrels looks while singing Disney songs. So, so serious.
I keep hoping for some video to appear online. 😀
I know someone took some footage of something
I messed up my filming of the Disney song with Serrels. @blaghman and @rocketman however…
@Doc_what shot a fair bit of footage
Yessss. He’s probably editing it riiiiiight now. (No rush, man! :D)
He’s still in Melbourne. I’d give it a week or two.
I’m totally editing it.
*picks nose*
Totally.
Do you have any me-as-Raz ones? Sent a link to Blaghs’ snap to my mum
I don’t and I feel terrible about it because I felt sure I’d taken one. But there definitely isn’t one that I can find…
Jeebus @alexpants could you look any more creepy
https://www.flickr.com/photos/105876796@N07/15094809754/in/set-72157649143301645
@CAKESMITH BEHIND YOU GET OUT OF THERE https://flic.kr/p/oZVMuX
In that moment if someone pushed him just the wrong way… I don’t even want to think about it! D:
All hail the bowling king.
Man there are some great shots in there.
You are rad at this.
The one of @rocketman with his arm around @markserrels should be the new TAY image haha.
Amazing shots.
Blumenkranz is love
Blumenkranz is life
When you think you’re safe
Blumenkranz unleashes its strife
You go about your day
No deviations in your course
Then the song begins to play
Wieso siehst du so traurig aus?
You are overtaken by the beat
You get into the swing
Although you are in public
You begin to sing
You blurt out slipshod German
In a very public place
People are staring at you
Something must be wrong with your braincase
How did this happen?
You haven’t listened to that song in weeks
All you did was watch an anime
And now you belong with the freaks
Blumenkranz is forever
It will be in your head for all of time
You talk about it on TAY
And begin to rhyme.
….
Is the answer 7?
No. 9.
Man, January’s Playstation Plus line-up looks amazing!
It’s alright but Binding of Isaac is no Spelunky.
Frozen Synapses is supposed to be pretty great.
MaccyG loves it!
McG’s the worst guy on the site though! 😛
I am so far beyond caring about Drive club it’s not even a joke any more.
Pretty happy with Injustice Ultimate though. Could never convince myself to upgrade from PS3 but free will help.
And free might make it a good multiplayer game for TAYbies!
True story, I was only excited for Driver Club until I realized it wasn’t The Crew. XD
So keen for Injustice multi.
I played it to death on PS3.
Oooh, there’s an add-on I don’t already own for a game I thought was okay in January! Shame about September, October, November and December’s lineups. 🙁
It all looks pretty good including this month’s. I’m not sure where this idea that PS+ would include huge retail releases constantly and even if it did enough people would bitch and whinge that they already paid for them
Probably the fact that there was roughly one retail game every month for the first couple of years they ran PS+ gave people that impression.
Isn’t Binding Of Isaac out this week? Not gonna wait till January to get it for free, I’ll just buy it.
That list is for Nov/Dec/Jan. Binding is Nov.
Ah sweet!
Isaac is tomorrow!
New member of the family, a pair of Yamaha hph-mt220 headphones 😀 http://i.imgur.com/5PEgF9D.jpg
They sound so flat and boring and it’s pretty great
PS they’re as enormous as they look
Flat you say… How much are a pair of these?
Somehow Catch of the day were selling them for $70 + shipping last week so I got a pair then. Other than that they’re like $250 on Amazon. I’ve looked at them before but they were a bit out of my price range so I jumped on the COTD sale.
Damn it. I wish I had known that last week, would’ve bought a pair. Especially since I just replaced my headset last week heh.
Dem some nice cans
I h8 links.
What did @crazyguy1990 ever do to you?
He’s saved the world countless times and still doesn’t get a game named after him! LINK ALREADY GETS ALL THE HAT!
The sad thing is there’s people who genuinely believe that spending insane amounts of money on HDMI cables is necessary because the nice salesman said so.
Those ones just take it to a new level though. Anyone who buys one of those deserves to have all their money taken away from them.
Stuck in Megaten IV
Boss in the pond apparently…
@cookingmama So, the Cold Brew coffee was very pleasant. Going to try another batch, as it could use tweaking, but very smooth, lovely flavour, and didn’t go bitter as it went cold.
Sportsball!
Australia are playing South Africa in the T20 in Adelaide.
Cricket!
I can smell something that smells exactly like this: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Hh7S4iRlzWY/TIYP0rU1foI/AAAAAAAAACs/bAJI99FJ8TY/s320/IMG_0306.JPG
I think my housemate’s eating one. I want to vomit. *gags*
As always, here’s some more average shots of attractive people at PAX: http://imgur.com/a/YnGps
Neat.
Pseudo Echo and Mental As Anything on one bill. Seriously thinking about going to this.
http://lakesidetwilights.com.au/
Sounds awesome!
I got my Nendoroid Link today.
It’s okay but yeah, I guess figurines and all that stuff aren’t really my thing 😛
Oh and I feel like crafting the Isaac: Rebirth Steam badge so if y’all got cards you want to trade/don’t want, send’m my way! I’ve already got two sets of doubles 🙁
Just started playing this today, let me know which ones you need, and if I get them they’re yours.
Thanks! So far I need EVERYTHING (:P) but XXI – The World (I have two so I can trade one), XII – The Hanged Man (I have two so I can trade one) and XIX – The Sun
ALL THE FIGURINES.
I keep thinking I have heaps (I have a few), but then I remember how many Neg has. Mine are mostly from Collector’s Editions of games, though I do have a few Play Arts Kai and Figma figures.
Same, I’ve got Edward Kenway, Aidan Pierce and Sam Fisher statues, Vaas and Marcus Kincaid bobbleheads from Collector’s Editions of the respective games, all the regular edition Skylanders and Disney Infinity figures so far and statues of Gollum, and Minas Tirith from Collector’s Editions of LotR DVD’s.
Bought my first Pop Vinyl figure a month or so ago (Heisenberg), I want to start collecting them, but I have too much other stuff to spend my money on right now.
Have 9 of the original Disney Infinity ones,
Figma ones of Link (Skyward) and Eren and Mikasa from Attack on Titan,
Play Arts Kai ones of Raiden (Metal Gear Rising white CE version), Master Chief (Halo 4 version), Lara Croft (recent Tomb Raider), Snow Villiers (FFXIII),
Halo Reach Legendary diorama thingy,
Darksiders 2 mask,
Halo 3 Legendary cat helmet,
Ghost from Destiny CE,
Aliens Colonial Marines powerloader/xenomorph figure,
Sam Fisher statue (Blacklist)
Batman (both Arkham City and Arkham Origins)
Molag Bal (Elder Scrolls Online),
Marcus bobblehead (Borderlands 2),
Ezio (AC2 black edition),
Connor (AC3 CE),
Edward Kenway (AC4 CE),
Aiden Pierce (Watch_Dogs CE),
a Monster Hunter figure,
Agnes figure (Bravely Default CE),
Duke Nukem bust (Duke Nukem CE),
Joel & Ellie statue (Last of Us),
Jim Raynor statue (Starcraft 2),
Max Payne statue (leaning over due to heat damage) (MP3),
Doc Brown Pop Vinyl (BttF),
and I think a few others.
Yeah but I’m a nutbar with way too much money and not enough sense.
The bulk of my collection is Nendoroids. I have a handful of Figma (Shimakaze & Akagi, all five Madoka Magica girls plus a couple of LE ones, Black Rock Shooter, BRS 2032, White Rock Shooter, Black Gold Saw), maybe 40-50 Nendoroid Petits (sounds like a lot until you remember that they’re mainly sold in blind boxes in sets of 7-12), a bunch of trading figures in a box somewhere that I should get rid of, and then maybe 70-80 scale figures of which I actually care about maybe ten to fifteen at the most. Haven’t bothered to put most of them back on display, I used to have them cramming up my cabinets but this time I’m trying to keep it to one larger one per shelf, and with the smaller ones max of 3-4.
Haven’t bothered with LE pack-ins because usually the subject material isn’t interesting to me, but also often they’re not that well made (though Ubisoft’s stuff is quite good now). Even when everything aligned well, eg the Milla figure packed in with the Tales of Xillia LE, I had a much better one already.
I personally like my figures to have a dynamic pose or whatever such that they seem to be telling some kind of story or caught in some specific action or whatever. That’s another thing that often puts me off pack-in stuff, the sculpt often lacks that feeling of movement. But honestly, you’d expect the scale figures from companies like GSC or Alter or similar to be better than game pack-ins. They can cost up to $150+.
Haven’t purchased a scale figure in ages though. Last major one was probably one of the Bakemonogatari figures. I have this ordered for next year though:
http://www.goodsmile.info/en/product/4562/Yamato+Kai+Heavy+Armament+Ver.html
Before I got into anime figures I used to collect Gundam, and before that it was model aircraft and a few model ships and before that it was Lego. If I was less of a hack with an airbrush I’d totally build big scale model ships again but you need heaps of space and lots of skill to do that.
You’re a monster.
Tell me something I don’t know!
It’s a really good Nendo. Not the best I own (I think the Strawberry Snow Miku is the best so far) but it’s up there.
But you should probably feel happy that the addiction hasn’t gotten its teeth into you.
You say that but it’s a slippery slope! 😛
Most of my figure collection are from Persona, a whole mix of nendoroids, figmas and scales so I can kinda limit myself to that plus I have no space to buy more 🙁
Organising concert stuff with friends.
Foo Fighters, supported by Rise Against.
Fucking epic.
I can’t believe they’re coming to Hobart. I’m waiting for the presale next Tuesday so I can (hopefully) buy tickets.
w00t! tassie getting some love!
Dave did write a song about the Beaconsfield miners. But the Foo Fighters are probably the biggest band to come to Tassie in a while, apart from Queens of the Stone Age.
I was sitting on like 80+ for this unit and because the lecturer is a stupidly hard maker for essays that’s gonna go way down. THERE IS NO JUSTICE IN THIS WORLD.
Still doing archaeology stuffs?
Did you ever end up changing uni? (I forget stuff, okay!)
Hey, @freezespreston, what difficulty are you playing CoD on? Noticed you’re pretty close to the end already, I’m playing on Veteran straight up to try and get the platinum AQAP. I’m only on the 3rd mission, but I did spend a little bit of time in the shooting and grenade ranges to get the respective trophies.
Regular. I like to just play through without too much stress and just enjoy the spectacle. Think I’ll go a veteran playthrough eventually since I’m really enjoying it. Miles better than Ghosts.
Sttaaaannnnnnn!
SSSSSSTTTTTAAAANNNNNNNN!
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/nov/05/australias-new-streaming-tv-service-stan-netflix-competitor
I like the idea of the service, but I don’t want a hundred fragmented things with nothing having everything you want. People can’t be expected to subscribe to all of them. *shakes fist*
Yeah, this is the problem with digital distribution in general. I’d rather subscribe to one place and get everything. I don’t want to have to remember what is where. Worst case I’m okay with having two services if one of them is specialized toward something (eg have Crunchyroll for anime) but two or three general purpose streamers? Nope.
Same reason I don’t want to engage with Origin or uPlay or anyone else’s daft storefronts. Steam does the trick.
Maybe one will prove more popular than others, though. If that happens everyone might migrate to that one? Too many mights and maybes in that sentence! XD
Yeah, that already happened though. It’s called Netflix.
*shakes fist at Australia not learning from recent history*
While I’m shaking my fist I should shake my fist at local distribution deals as well. *shakes fist*
The problem is that netflix australia cant get the same deals they have in america due to the current licensing agreements in australia. Hence why others are trying to make it work in the current climate. Also – with Netflix Australia saying they are likely to charge $30 a month that might dissuade some customers.
Well since this has been in moderation all day repost time
So PAX has been and gone and was a very interesting experience this time round. Having the little one made things much different to last year. Also having a dress up doll is fun.
Friday I took the day off work and headed in after the crowds had cleared. Stopped by the enforcers who told us that prams are not allowed in the hall. Would have been nice to have had some sort of warning before we arrived. Luckily that was just the expo hall so we made our way down to the table top area.
We actually spent most of our time in that area, I think I only made 3 or so forays in to the expo hall. Was fun just hanging out with taybies, trying out some new games and playing some old ones. On Sunday I ended up buying acquire which I have been planning on getting for ages.
Nothing much really jumped out at me as a must buy of the games we tried, betrayal at the house on the hill looked like fun but I didn’t get a chance to play myself.
Thanks to everybody who joined a game with us
Tiglet did really well. We had a different outfit for her each day and she was happy most of the time. Kind of annoying that the nursing room was at the opposite end of the centre to table top but at least they had one.
Haven’t had a chance to sort out my photos yet but photos of each of her outfits below
Was great to introduce her to so many taybies as well as the future taybies.
So keen for a group cosplay with the little ones next year.
We almost didn’t turn up on Sunday because of how overstimulated she was getting and not feeding great but we let her sleep in and she did a full feed so came in late with her.
Of the expo hall it’s self I didn’t really see much this year that wasn’t already on my radar. Had the chance to play assassin’s creed which had sold me on buying IV. The Indie section was cool but many of them were already on my radar. Really have to get around to buying screencheat though. Wanted a chance to play a few more but severely limited in time.
Was interested in trying out the division but wasn’t sure if it was actually playable or not. Wasn’t going to line up just to watch a gameplay video.
Missed out on trying the new rift at occulus but tried out the dodgy cricket game which had made me very interested in how FPS (first person sportsball) games could be created. Using the wiimote and camera stuff makes me very interested in the stem.
Saturday night was great, always amazing to get a large group of taybies together. Got to meat serrels which was awesome and had a photo taken with @mrtaco. I sent it to my nephew who is currently turtles mad and he was very concerned about my well being.
I also liked the bit where to kids came into the room and were looking really lost and uncertain and potentially the most intimidating taybie there went up and told them where to go in a POWERFUL VOICE.
It was all over too quick and I was on the way to the 2nd venue when Mrs Tigs called and my little princess was a totally little monster based on what I was hearing in the background. So I had to leave so I moved to the front of the group so I could say good bye. Got a piphug then a rockethug and then the whole group of 20 or taybies gave a massive group hug. Seriously guys, seriously. I was so happy after that, like stupidly so.
Absolutely keen for next year.
A couple of special mentions and to start just adding to the chorus of thanks for @scree and @tech_knight.
@freya for taking some lovely photos and @trjn for running 2 rooms and a boom. Also for founding the Imperial hotel empire.
@SteveoTheDeveo for the cosplay ideas and making my little one feel welcome
@jordi and @batgirl for keeping my company on sunday while Mrs Tigs was tournamenting
Friday was supergirl day: https://twitter.com/Tigerion/status/528330055617769473
Saturday was little lion day: https://twitter.com/Tigerion/status/528824997175754752
Sunday was froggy day: froggy
Super cute 🙂
What a lil cutie!
Ah, she’s adorable, but you already knew I thought that!
The Division thing was a ten minute long prerecorded gameplay demo at roughly the same area as the E3 demo. Was a good presentation, had me hyped for the game. But we got lucky and were front of the queue first thing on Saturday morning, only waiting about 10 mins. Longer than that wouldn’t have been worth it.
A friend lining up for that fb-msged me saying the line was super short, and by the time I got over there we pretty much walked straight in. It looked cool, but one of those things that’s so much more fun with a group/squad of friends (e.g. like borderlands or l4d).
Ahhh glad I didn’t wait. Would have only been 15 minutes but had already seen the e3 one and was keen to try the game, not see it again.
I an kind of understand the no prams in the expo area, but at the same time, I don’t understand it. If wheelchairs are allowed in, why aren’t prams?
Well it can get pretty loud in the expo hall with speakers all over the place and usually at a very high volume.
It’s pretty simple, wheelchairs have to be allowed in by law. Prams are not. Prams that are parked in walkways or near doors can become a hazard in an emergency, so I understand why they were banned in the expo hall. They did mention it on the FAQ on the PAX website, but I’m not sure if it was a requirement of the convention centre or PAX itself (for example, I remember seeing strollers in Supanova).
Maybe if they’d had pram parking?
The well know effect of pram jam.
It is amazing how just a few prams can totally block the flow of people through an area. While this would just be annoying during most of PAX if there was an emergency it becomes a huge issue.
Speaking of figures further up the page, @scree did you know someone that wanted the bravely default CE figure? I don’t want it. Still in box and it’s taking up space I could use for other things.
I know @gorzilla wanted the limited edition. So did @blaghman. Ask them.
FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT
Night, TAY.
http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2014/11/05/weeks-ps-store-discounts-games-e20-tomb-raider-definitive-edition/
Not bad!
Stuff I’m interested in are:
– Atelier Rorona/Meruru Plus
– Disgaea 4 for only $20! (this is what reminded me of Disgaea 3 @negativezero :P)
– Danganronpa 2 for $25 (@sernobulus did you ever play your copy of the first? :D)
Neg – since I’ve never played Atelier are those two games worthwhile? $30 still seems a bit pricey but it looks like they barely ever go on sale and the “Plus” versions seem to be the ones to get. Google tells me I’d be missing Totori though which looks like the second game in that trilogy? 🙁
Oh boooo! Those 3 Atelier games were on sale in August for even cheaper, guess I’d hold out on them then 😛
I doubt Rorona Plus was, it would have only just released then. Rorona Plus is actually ‘New Atelier Rorona’, it’s a remake of the original PS3 game built on IIRC the Meruru/Ayesha engine. Miles better in every way.
Both games are good. Go with Rorona as your starter though. Meruru is chronologically the last game in the Arland trilogy. Don’t bother with the rest until you’ve tried one. P.S. Totori is generally considered the best of that trilogy, primarily because the story has more feels (Rorona is trying to save her alchemy shop, Meruru is trying to improve her country via alchemy, but Totori is trying to find her missing mother by rediscovering her mother’s craft)
Danganronpa is rad. It’s like 999 or Virtue’s Last Reward crossed with Ace Attorney. Haven’t played the second one yet but the first one’s great and you should get it.
http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2014/08/27/new-discounts-go-live-today-playstation-store/
Rorona Plus was (oddly enough like a month after launch?) for lower the price than it is now + 3 DLCs :/
I bought Danganronpa on launch but haven’t played it yet :(.
Weird. I guess you missed out then.
Oh also, Disgaea 4 is way better than 3. IMO it’s the best since Disgaea 1, thought Disgaea D2 (not Disgaea 2) was also pretty good.
But I have a thing for Flonne and she’s not in 2 & 3 so maybe that’s why.
I played it for about 5 minutes then never went back. Not sure it’s my kind of game.
EDIT: I am interested in Disgaea 4 though!
It’s that time of the week again gents! Where you sign up to spend a few hours over the weekend bonding with fellow gamers over the repeated unjust deaths of your virtual alter ego’s!
@jocon @distantdrop @saturday @piat @os42
Hard mode! Saturday! 12pm! Be there or play some other more fun game that doesn’t have a bunch of retard devs fucking with mechanics! Let me know! =P
@blaghman @dire_wolf Sunday! 12pm! Normal mode alt run! Be there or you know… be social and stuff, which is y’know cool, whatever… I’m not jealous. Shut up. SEE IF I CARE ABOUT PAX!!
*ahem* anyways hard mode-rs let us endeavour to get our secondaries maxed out; and everyone please bring a 300 legendary rocket launcher or higher and at least 10 heavy weapon cartridges. One of the strats I’ve been looking at has us using a rocket launcher for every minotaur to ever spawn in this stupid raid =P
Um, PAX was last weekend dude.
I’ve got the weekend off, so I could probably join in on your Destiny shenanigans on Saturday night, but I’m probably not a high enough level for you guys.
Hey how’re you doing that 2 avatar thing again? D=
And I know it was last weekend but everyone’s still going on about it =P
I have no idea what’s going on, I haven’t contacted Gravatar yet (slack), I even deleted the original one from my account and it’s still happening.
Maybe try re-uploading the one you want – it looks like the two resized versions being used here aren’t synced properly, but gravatar (or their cache, at least) seems to think they are. Removing and re-uploading might trigger the resized versions to be re-created.
Rockets could work… I’ve got Hezen Vengeance and Gjallarhorn at 267, and I’m pretty sure I can one shot them (or near to it) if it hits – not sure I can get either to 300 by Saturday, but I’ll try. Problem is they have a habit of teleporting past rockets… As they’re more aggressive in hard mode, they’ll be porting more, so it may require a couple of people to pin each minotaur down – more rockets equals more chance to land a shot.
… The fact there’s a weapon called Gjallarhorn makes me way too happy 😛
The trick with it will be getting the timing of the teleports right and aiming at the ground, there is a moment during their teleport where they still take damage even though projectiles pass through them
*sigh* only rocket launcher I got is The Cure. Which, admittingly, is pretty nice, but it ain’t no Truth or Gjallarhorn. Here’s hoping Xur gets one in stock this time.
Let me know if you got room for me! Also would like help with final step of Thorn bounty pleaaaaaase.
I can make it this week, however with WOD coming the following Thursday I’ll be off destiny indefinitely for future raids. sorry :S make this one count I guess? 😀
@piat and red if everyone’s thinking about jumping back on WoW for WoD shall we move the Destiny raid members across? I know @dire_wolf is a wow fan as well! =]
I’d like to make progression raiding in WoD but I just don’t want to try getting into a group all by myself D=
God that’s a slippery slope, what server? I’m re-rolling in the next week so will do it on the right server
I agree, logistically difficult to set up I’m on Barthilas-Horde, only place I’d be willing to swap to is probably Frostmourne-Alliance I’m sure were all scattered around different servers.
I’m not ad versed to the idea @pupp3tmast3r just sounds extremely tricky.
We could be a CRZ/Battle.net friends guild (As in not in the same guild but grouped via friendslist/CRZ) but that automatically disallows us to ever do mythic. but trying to get 5+ other randoms along with that idea might be impossible.
I would server switch, as I am re-rolling anyway so if we can get a few people interested we might be able to co-ordinate it
At the very least we should add each other I’m down to doing dungeons, CM or Arenas with you guys, chances are we will be doing that for 3 weeks waiting for the raids to open :S
@piat @distantdrop @dire_wolf
I’m on Barthilas Horde with a few mains, I can probably fund people who come across with bags and some basic mats, think I have a few thousand gold still lying around in my toons. Dire and me were levelling toons on Barthilas a few months prior to Destiny release as well =] So piat come over to Barthilas? ^^
We could get a guild up and running and grab a few other people off the game itself or anyone on TAY who’s interested. Same raid times as Destiny once we get to that point and make some solid inroads into normal mode at the very least!
Well I’ve got my lvl 90 boost too, so sure, horde you say?
FOR THE HORDE! =p
Still can’t shake that digital crack addiction huh?
I got a monkey on my back!
Sure. Have some random launcher at 300.
Was also thinking of switching someone else to sniper duty as I have a 300 void fusion rifle that would be handy up front.
Hey @pixel_the_ferret_viking and @beardymcmuttonchops, new Disney Infinity 2.0 figures out today, you guys gonna grab any?
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/11/the-disney-proper-infinity-20-figures-are-here-and-theyre-lovely/#comment-3019997
Probably at some point! Not straight away though due to the usual issue I have 😛
Holy shit! they only went on sale today, and it already looks like EB are sold out of Maleficent, Merida, Stitch, Aladdin, Donald Duck and Baymax figures.
Bloody Ebay scalpers!
https://www.ebgames.com.au/any/any?q=Disney%20Infinity%202.0
Haha wow some people are way too keen
Yes. I had them all pre orderd and will pick them up this arvo.
I really didn’t enjoy Disney Infinity 2.0 as much as I thought I would 🙁
So I entered my first photography competition last night and now I’m absolutely freaking out about it.
Good luck, buddy!
Chillax broshovno, what’s the worst that can happen? You don’t win, and get the opportunity to compare your work to others’. It’s a win/win, really.
(But good luck)
You can do it put your back into it!
Jokes aside good luck man! You have a talent for photography =]
Is there an exhibition somewhere that your work is being shown?
Maybe! That’s if it gets in. Right now though it’s just an entry. That’s the dream though!
Exciting! 😀
I’ll be there on opening night wearing my best art-viewing pants.
What is the worst thing that could happen? They don’t like your photo and you don’t win? That’s it, right?
They’re not going to set all copies of your photos on fire or anything. They’re just going to be all snooty and be like “sorry this does not fit our ~aesthetic standards~”. STRESS LESS.
Also, this is how you learn how to make yourself better.
Belated good luck! 😀
Man, I just realized november marks the beginning of many, many sales. Steam Sales, Black Friday and it’s offspring aside, Target is going to hold a buy 2 get one free for all consoles in north america soon. Considering just buying two 3ds games and picking up the evil within for free. Anybody else thinking of diving into the oncoming sales? Online retailers of all specialties have mad sales, I’ll probably pad up my wardrobe as well..
Also, hey, Majora’s mask for 3DS. Neat.
So angry.
Edit: Great now you’ve changed your post to not just be about Majora, mine makes less sense 😛
Why so angry? Please elaborate.
Waitwaitwaitwaitwaitwaitwaitwait…. WHAT!?
Majora’s Mask for 3DS?
WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN!?
*flails arms in excitement and passes out*
You guys get a damn fine collectors edition, too. Which NA doesn’t get. 🙁
PREORDER!
Europe gets a collector’s edition, too.
No idea if we get it yet.
You’ve a much better chance of getting it than us, I think.
Well, if we import, it at least works on our consoles.
This is Australia. Sales don’t exist.
In Australia, Sale = Matching with global price
Colleague trying to stream music on her computer:
“Did you give me an icon for the music?”
“No.”
“iTunes?”
“No.”
“iTunes?”
“No, it’s a website. Live365.”
“iTunes is the website?”
“No.”
Etc.
Is it jackal?
ITunes?
No. I’m fairly certain he meant iTunes.
I think you actually mean iTunes.
Wait what? iTunes?
It’s okay @effluvium-boy we figured it out. It’s iTunes.
This issue I just fixed at work… do you ever get the feeling when you fix a problem in support where everyone else was struggling to find the solution for and just feel like you’re the smartest being ever created? That’s kinda me right now 😛
Best robot on Tay, that’s for sure. =D
Nah, that would require me to be good at my job…
Good for you though! \o/
figuring this out, I have a lot of power at my fingertips now, I have to use it wisely (As in using it poorly could land me in court)
…I think I just heard the air conditioning turn off?
*victory dance*
Complaining about the heat now in 3… 2… 1…
Not me, I live for the heat.
It just turned back on though 🙁
Gooky. Here’s what we’re gonna do. I’m gonna go to Sydney and take your cushy ABC job and you can move to humid QLD and take care of hermit business!
I said heat, not humidity 😛
Move to WA lots of heat little humidity
It’s also WA though.
Yeah that is true.
There is nothing to do but play video games.
Anyone want The Crew closed beta codes? I have two. Not sure if for PS4 – they may work on xbone too ?
ooh, I’d be interested if no other takers.
Send me email adr1k000@gmail.com
sent. Thanks guy.
No prob. Replied. 🙂
Binding of Isaac Rebirth Vita get. Back at work after 5 days off. Motivation failure well and truly underway. Ate and drank poorly for the past 3 days and feel like dirty arse after a month of eating well and exercising. Back on the health wagon again today. Urgh.
Weekend imminent though. Next week is short too though – Thursday, Friday, Monday and Tuesday off.
EDIT: Also, Call of Duty AW is actually a really cool guy. Fuck the haters, I’m having fun.
Question time…
I’m really keen to hear your guys answers on this! If you could become the unequivocal master of any academic subject, what would it be?
I’m struggling to choose, I think it would be between Physics, Maths and Music Theory. I’m leaning towards Physics.
Astro physics… So god damn interesting! If only… You know… I was good at math 😛
Plus space as in amazing place
V similar to me I think Mr. Viking. I was tempted to just say Cosmology, but I feel that the Physics route would just be the foundation for being able to understand at least broadly all the different branches.
I’m finally getting around to downloading Space Engine. Just doing it now on work PC :p. Will play around with it at lunch.
Honestly so much fun for a game where you’re not doing anything 😛
Great Question! I would be an unequivocal master of Sociology. Just the thought of understanding people and how they work really appeals to me, I read my weight in books about Sociology so I would probably say that.
Or European History. I feel a sense of achievement reading about the rise and falls of particular countries to sort of see why the world is how it is to us, and how things may be different today if they hadn’t of happened as they did.
Porque no los dos?
Sociology is pretty fascinating. I don’t know nearly as much about it as I do Psychology, but it would definitely be quite empowering to have that knowledge.
Although History is of no interest to me, I fully agree that the more you know about the past, the better prepared you are for the future! So a wise decision as well.
Economics or something with finance, so I can be a rich motherfucker.
Well I can’t argue with that. 😛
Kinda general, there… but I’d probably go for Maths. Always wanted to get my head around complex analysis, tbh. My most memorable lecture at Uni was one where we learnt how complex numbers could be applied to the design of AC electronics – I’d been learning how these numbers worked for 3-4 years by that time, and was somewhat ecstatic to actually find a use for them! 😛
Absolutely, it’d be fascinating the day it all comes together and you can apply all this ridiculous maths/algebra to everyday tasks.
Well I imagine it wouldn’t all happen in one day, but still…
There’s also something appealing about following logic as far as possible, with a complete disregard for practical applications. There’s beauty to be found there.
It greatly saddens me that so many people think maths is just arithmetic… The elegance of Euler’s formula, the beauty of the Cauchy-Riemann equations or the complex logarithm, the brain-bending that occurs when you start thinking about complex functions as four-dimensional graphs, and what calculus in that space means… So sad that so many people don’t bother beyond linear equations of one or two variables, or basic calculus at best.
To borrow a metaphor, it’s like spending twelve years of schooling learning what individual musical notes sound like, how they’re written down, and how they fit together in harmonies and chords, but never being allowed to listen to an actual composition or touch an instrument.
That’s a fantastic way to describe
itsomething. The metaphor could well lend itself to a number of subject areas no doubt, however there is a certain beauty to maths and how it is all around us that makes me wish I knew a lot more about it.Adam Spencer has released a new book called The Big Book of Numbers that I’m really looking forward to reading.
As I said, not mine, unfortunately. 😛 Borrowed from Paul Lockhart’s A Mathematician’s Lament, where he discusses one of the major problems with how maths is taught, comparing it to the teaching of music and art. A great read and, as you said, applicable to so many areas beyond just math.
Ooo cheers. Is that the complete lament?
It’s the original 2002 essay. There was an “expanded version” that was published in 2009, but I’ve not read it (yet).
You just want to be a mini golf playing god don’t you
…? Not sure I follow…
The first and most practical use of trigonometry
Just reminded me of that when you were talking about finding an actual use for random maths stuff
Ah, cool. I don’t actually remember the first practical use I found for trig; I kinda wish our math teacher took us to play mini-golf, now.
At first thought I would think I’d hit up a computer-oriented science, but I’m looking at a wikipedia page and damn, there are a lot of specific disciplines. But since we’re doing academic subjects and not specific fields of study, learning about everything about engineering- mechanical, electrical, chemical- would be crazy useful in general.
Basically whatever branch of knowledge sets me up for A) Piloting giant robots or B) Preparing me for the dystopian future where we live alongside robots.
You know what’s up, and yes I guess engineering would be the best route to go down for when that day undoubtedly arrives. Robotics itself I suppose would be quite useful to give you the programming/AI skills that could be used to make sure you remain on their good side.
Robotics would be a good mix of computer sciences and mechanical engineering. Not sure if AI would be it’s main focus, though. Seems like it would be it’s own thing.
I imagine Batman didn’t have this problem, he was all like “Fuck it I’ll learn everything.”
Tough question
I like the idea of something that would have a lasting impact so maybe something like genetics or microbiology.
Wow yeah never thought of that, but you could effectively have a lot of power with that info.
Music, so I can be unemployed and have a useless degree & talent in the real world 😛
Well we’re gonna need some Musicians by the looks of it so far. Great work.
I’ve always had this dream of wanting to be a producer, someone with the talents to work across the board with all different genres of music like Rick Rubin can & does.
Ohh I remember you saying now in your AMA I think. Completely agree though, it would be an absolutely amazing job/life.
Any aspect of physics that lets me successfully travel faster than the speed of light! I just want to see other planets dammit! *cries in silence*
Me too. I was literally on the bus this morning drifting away and imagining myself in a spaceship hovering above Jupiter just staring at it. I’d imagine if I was ever in that situation it would bring tears to my eyes.
Mathematics. Being the supreme master of mathematics automatically makes you the supreme master of physics (which is really just applied mathematics anyway).
Ooo you may have just upset every physicist in the world with that statement. 😛
And chemistry is just applied physics. Biology is applied chemistry. Etc.
As an applied maths / chem double major, taking the piss out of physicists is my life goal.
*insert XCKD strip here*
I have that one posted on the tea room door at work 😛
Ugh, I just watched the Majora 3D video. IT JUST LOOKS SO… BLEH. SCREW YOU, NINTENDO.
I thought you liked all things Nintendo? WHAT GIVES?
You thought wrong!
I don’t even know who you are any more! :'(
Same guy I always was!
All the things I like tend to be Nintendo things. That doesn’t mean I like all Nintendo things, they still do plenty of dumb stuff and I hate them for it 😛
How pretty was Wind Waker on the Wii U, though. So pretty.
WHEN THE MUSIC KICKED IN WHILE BOATING! AMAAAAZING!
Dunno, I thought it looked yuck compared to the original so I didn’t get it.
Atleast you said nice things about Pikmin 3. We don’t have to fight now!
@dc except we do, because Wonderful 101 is better 😛
@mrtaco: I hated 101, so whatever. It’s okay. We don’t have to like the same things. You’re a nice guy even with your sucky tastes. 😛 (I kid, I kid.)
@dc Yes, I know you really mean that I am a sucky guy despite my awesome tastes 😛
@evilmonkey To repost what I said to Scree in the article’s comments, on why MM3D makes me angry:
They’re not updating the music again this time? Damn.
I don’t know yet, but I assume they wouldn’t.
Nintendo already had all the resources ready for Majora’s Mask when they made OoT. It would be incredibly stupid for them to dump them all and move the game to WiiU.
Got a link? LOL GET IT A LINK
Also this is Nintendo, they’re fucking retarded. It’s perfectly normal for them to ignore their flagship console for a remake of a universally acclaimed game.
Sorry the retarded act would be to put it on the WiiU no matter how much better it might look, Nintendo are pissing money out the window by not putting the SNES VC on 3DS would be dumb to take the same route with MM3D
Tell us a story, @transientmind! Please! PLEEEEASE!
Just not one that involves a delicious meal. I’m already ever so hungry.
Just have some frozen doughnuts 😛
Once upon a time there was an Ugly Barnacle. It was so ugly that everyone died.
The end.
Hm? A story, DC? I’d ask for direction, but I’m a teensy bit busy, so let me just rifle through the mental filing cabinet for something that’s not a repeat.
OK… Let me tell you about one of the most brilliant minds of our generation, likely languishing in undeserved obscurity. Let’s call him Fred.
When I was at high school, late in year 8 we had a new kid join the school who had just moved to Oz from Taiwan. Not mincing words, Fred was fat, unfit, shy, and nervous. Any other school, this combination might have been hell, but ours was tiny, new, private, with a graduating year of 40 students with pretty much all schoolyard resentments or rivalries smoothed out by ex-military teachers’ gruelling ‘trial by fire’ school camps that kept us pretty damn tight as a group. Respectful, when not best of friends. He slotted pretty easily into the group of kids who had assigned themselves as the ‘walking/talking rearguard’ of the frequent cross-country/athletics events.
Nonetheless, he wasn’t happy with his assigned(/assumed) role and clique. After the multi-month school holiday entering into the next year, Fred disappeared, and was replaced with some strange, svelte, amiably serene Asian kid who nobody recognized.
Except it WAS actually Fred. I kid you not, this guy probably halved his weight in three months, such that he was nearly as rangy and gangly as I was at the time. No tricks, no ‘fat camp’, no surgery, just raw determination… and raw fish. (Sushi was still considered somewhat exotic in the mid/late 90s for school lunches.) Such was our first introduction to the power of his discipline and will.
With his reinvention, Fred swiftly slotted into the role of aloof prodigy. The rivalry between myself and my female counter-part as sassy, precocious know-it-alls at the top of the academic pack was utterly overtaken and eclipsed by his ruthless and unassuming genius. I felt sorry for her for a while – she was the better, and in any other year group she’d have made waves with her intellect. (She obviously felt cheated too, which is why she eventually moved to another major public school to claim her ‘rightful’ place as Academic Dux. There’s probably a lesson in that. If you can’t compete where you are, find somewhere you can.)
To help understand the level of prodigy we’re talking about: Without even being especially passionate about them, out of academic interest, the guy mastered at least four instruments, reaching top-grade AMEB levels in all of them. Anything he touched he excelled at. He walked around in break periods with a pamphlet of all the available government arts grants and competitions, trying to decide which ones he would enter, based on their perceived challenge and prize money. Painting, sculpture, short-stories, script-writing… He won almost everything he attempted.
Fred and I became I guess the closest he came at the time to calling friends. He would seek out my opinion for critique of his work, counter-point analysis, or simply a different perspective. Completely without shame or tact he noted it was because I was the only person around who could even come fumblingly close to understanding the things he was exploring/creating, without judging. Anything occult, new-age, experimental, experiential, he’d ask for advice as a sounding board. If there were new ways of thinking, he wanted to experiment with them, examine for merit. His dream was to be a psychiatrist or psychologist and determine what made humanity tick. Then… I’m not sure. Perhaps ‘fix’ us.
There was a darkness, there, too… His sense of humour was a touch on the morbid side, seemingly detached from empathy. And at one point I was asked by staff to investigate his monitored web research on the subjects of suicide and homosexuality, as a duty of care to see if he was at risk or troubled. I decided… probably not, but even if he was, what was anyone going to do against such determination and unrivalled intellect? With a force of will to subvert the fumbling efforts of any manipulation, he would only ever be dissuaded from any course of action by logical argument, and if staff or myself couldn’t outmatch him, his course would be set. He confessed to thoughts of suicide, but I suspect he talked himself out of it. I did ask, at one point, if he had anything else he was curious about or wanted to learn, know, or understand… because if he did, suicide should probably be saved until AFTER those other avenues, given that it is literally the last thing anyone can do, closing all other doors. In his typical fashion he rubbed his chin thoughtfully, looked into space and took it under advisement.
It later turned out that his intellect was a handicap in some areas. Debating, for example. When a mind can expand to consider ALL points of view valid, it has too much to grasp at. And logic is only half of a debate – charisma and flair make up the other. He didn’t stick with our debate team for long, that I remember. (Fine by me. More limelight for my rapacious ego!)
Four years was a short time to marvel at the power of this creative monster. For all that he kept to himself, evidence of his efforts turned up on any mention of school involvement in competitions, art installations in the school gardens, and his unfailing presence any time special programs were run for ‘gifted students’. (Such as one we went to where students were introduced to the wonders of this new thing called Photoshop, discovered recently by the arts community for graphic and photographic manipulation.)
One of the competitions Fred won was a play-writing competition, which had as its prize some sessions with noted playwright Michael Gow and sureties to bring his production to the stage. I can only imagine how many other budding playwrights in the artist community were incensed at the grant/competition monopolization by some upstart 16yr old.
He went on to write more, and the last involvement I had with Fred was starring in a two-person act of introspective drama featuring a tortured young poet/musician/artist and his challenges in finding and expressing love. Fond memories of that one… he actually composed and played the amazing piano background music, and very generously wrote me my second on-stage kiss with a stunning model. I caught up with her later, at uni, where she advised that she had stayed in touch with Fred. Who had awkwardly attempted to date her in the name of a social experiment. He was unsuccessful. (And embarrassingly, I didn’t do a hell of a lot better, either.)
Some things defy genius. Women are one of them.
I have wondered, at times, in what ways Fred may have been quietly changing the world (or plotting to destroy it). The last I heard of him he was living in a one-bedroom apartment with three other dudes over the top of a Chinese restaurant, surviving on a scholarship to UNSW, where he was reportedly breaking all their records for test results. I had to grin, at that. Same old Fred.
No moral or lesson here. I hope Fred’s happy, whatever he’s doing… or, if such a thing isn’t entirely possible for that caliber of (quite possibly autistic) genius, I hope he is engaged and productive.
Bravo…Bravo.
<3 <3 <3
Oh, since you guys thumbs-upped DC’s request for a story and I was a page too late to respond, heads-up: the story is now told.
@highperformance
@mrtaco
@tech_knight
@os42
@negativezero
@virus__
Magnificent, you have a penchant for story telling!
Bravo. Doubly so for reminding me of a friend/rival of mine who arrived on the scene in 9th grade… Spent his senior years dreaming up these amazing schemes, ideas for startup companies, half-joking plots for world domination… the usual. 😛 Last I heard from him, he was a product manager for Google.
Duck Hunt on Virtual Console confirmed!
now they just need to add a port for my old light gun.
It’s always weird to me that some people give the finger in online dating profiles. It’s like telling everyone to fuck off. :\
But it shows how cool they are.
It’s a signal of intent.
Confucius says, lady who go camping must beware of evil in tent.
Duck faces annoy me more. I always end up breaking it to them that I don’t date ducks
Haha! I wonder who decided that the duck face was sexy. How did such a thing become so prolific? It’s so weird! Pouting too!
The pout is the French women’s greatest weapon. It’s provocative.
It hides fat cheeks, which so many girls who duckface
havethink they have. Simple as that.Wait that is the reason. It makes sense. Basic and simple logic, Huh who knew
I’m guessing it rose in popularity around the same time as ‘MySpace Angles’.
It means they’re edgy and have attitude. As in they should be avoided because seriously.
It’s like pushing a girl you like in the dirt in primary school I suppose.*
*I didn’t do this. I don’t know if anyone does this. Maybe I just watch too much TV.
Yeah, everybody knows if you really want to show you like them you pull their hair
D:
It a warning that they’re most likely trashy, disgusting and not worth your time!
Some people are also very enthusiastic about marijuana. Often the same people.
Bought some spicey chicken stuff from Costco and it tastes exactly like KFC. <3
THE SECRET SPICES HAVE FINALLY BEEN DISCOVERED
HI GUYS. Here’s some video of some really cool people doing things at PAX. Almost entirely just walking around… but still. SO MUCH WALKING!
http://youtu.be/kWVJE1wC5hQ
Yessss! First video I’ve seen from PAX! Awesome stuff, Faction!
And in my quest to make every TAYbie feel uncomfortable one-by-one, I think @beavwa rivals @alexpants as handsomest TAYbie! *flees*
Tis a great vid indeed! Also, @rocketman… don’t ever change! lol!
Aw /o\
…
Actually no, fair enough, I don’t hold a candle to any of those guys XD
There’s plenty of handsome to go around with TAYbies, though. We’re a fine looking bunch. Except for… me. *runs off crying*
I have a beard to cover a good part of the ugly. It helps.
Fun memories.
I like how one of the only things I do in the video is rest my head on my hand and do a double fist pump.
There is video of 2R1B I’m just lazy and have other stuff to do right now, but eventually… it includes you standing on a chair shouting instructions 😛 I want to bring a better camera and do a proper video next year
F4ction media to the rescue
My few seconds in this video perfectly summed up my PAX experience. Sat on my arse, 3DS in hand 😛
Good video!
I almost feel like I was there!
(And there was way too much me in the first half of the video. STOP BEING SO FAT AND DRINKING WATER, ME. GO HIDE IN THE CORNER, THE ONLY PLACE YOU’RE APPRECIATED!)
Holy crap, you with short hair is like seeing Vin Diesel with hair.
ALL THE WALKING
*falsetto voice*
hey saturday why is your halloween name still around even after it’s over
BECAUSE EVERY DAY IS FREEDOM DAY IN AMERICA.
there, now that that I’ve done that bad joke I can change my name back to normal.
A what name?
It’s this.. thing. It involves candy and outfits designed to look very promiscuous even if the actual thing the costume is based on isn’t meant to be seen in a sexual light at all. Don’t worry about it.
Binding of Isaac is vastly better to control on PS4 then PC. Always kind of struggled with the keyboard but easily playing through with controller.
False! It is miles better with keyboard and mouse! Also, I clocked up 12 hours in the first 18 hours of the game being released. That’s a reasonable amount, I think.
I hat keyboard and mouse. Pure keyboard though is the best!
Yeah, I use just KB. The only exception was in BoI Original using Epic Fetus. Then it was just silly NOT to use the mouse
I finally stopped being lazy and did my blog post about @tigerion’s Tiglet’s little quilt. So if you’re interested at all in my thought processes when designing and making something, or you just want to see some pictures of it, stop by my blog for a while. I promise it won’t make you itchy! 😛
http://strangestitches.blogspot.com.au/2014/11/using-what-you-have.html
SKILLS!
All the <3
Pictures! Cuddly quilt! Now I want to roll up in bed and sleep…. dammit >.
Oh and don’t forget you can win something made by me just for you by pledging to back @shane’s Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shanewsmith/undad-comic-miniseries-issues-1-and-2
Any pledge, even $1 helps, so make your pledge and then tweet about it (and tag me, @strangist on Twitter) to get an extra entry.
That is really cool to see develop from a pile of fabric into a useable thing! Plus all the “whelp I don’t know what to do here SO I WILL DO THIS” is awesome.
http://prefundia.com/projects/view/clannad-full-voice-translation/2524/
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So… while going through my stuff I found a pillow / cushion cover that is 33cm wide and 53cm long. Does anyone (maybe @strange?) happen to know how pillows / cushions are sized? If I can get something off the shelf that will fit into this thing I might grab one but I don’t know how easy it is to get something that will fit. It seems smaller than a normal pillow.
I just measured a cushion insert I got from Ikea and it was about 34cm by 58 so you could possibly fit one of those into your cover Usually you want your cushion to be slightly larger than your cover to get the cushion nice and plump when it’s inside.
I imagine you could probably find one that would work at Spotlight or Lincraft, as well. Maybe take the cover and see if you can try it on, even.
There’s also a place online that’s been recommended to me but I haven’t used it yet: https://www.innergreen.com.au/shop/index.php?route=product/category&path=36_25_40 They make cushion inserts to whatever size you want, as well.
Yeah, I measured the cover sitting flat and I assume that with pillow measures they also measure the dimensions it would be if it had no stuffing. That’s what I’m iffy about.
Probably would be embarrassed to go into Lincraft or the like and attempt attaching this particular cover as well. Might just take a punt on that innergreen place, since they happen to have 35×55 exactly…
Measure it on the diagonal i.e. from bottom left to top right. Usually they sell inserts in two inch increments get a size about 2 inches greater than your cushion cover size.
Thanks! Will do this.
Guys! Guys! Be sure to read Transientmind’s masterpiece on the last page!
Concise.
10/10, would watch movie adaptation.
I think I’ve read some of your steam reviews =P
Nono, THINK they have. Editing woes!
#TransientsImpossibleBeautyStandards
;_;
@pupp3tmast3r Sunday at 12 is good for me for raiding Destiny. See you there.
As for WoW. Yeah, sure, I’m up for whatever. My main’s an Alliance on Frostmourne but I can easily boost a Horde on Barthilas if that’s where people are playing.
Sold!
I think we should call our guild “We Couldn’t cut it in Destiny so we came to WoW instead”….. I’m open to other suggestions =P
Destiny’s Rejects
I like it. Or some permutation of that which fits within WoW’s guildname character limits. Like… ‘We Couldn’t Raid Destiny on Hard’.
Failed Guardians
I actually got a online friend I’ve known for 7 years or more, he’s a pretty hardcore raider and has ambitions of being a mythic raider(without us of coarse) but his american and usually plays all weekend I could probably rope him since he’ll probably have alts and be willing to raid out of boredom in his own downtime.
I can definitely convince him to help us out if you don’t mind a CRZ raider, if you want to keep it in house that’s fine.
More the merrier! We just need 5 more now =P
Maaan erybody gonna be bailing on Destiny for WoW aren’t they.
Probably fair, Destiny really does not have that staying power.
But the lack of co-ops shall make me a sad panda.
Tho probably a more productive one.
True, Destiny is really starting to bore me I couldn’t even bring myself to do nightfall on Tuesday due to COD, Kevin Spacey!
Were all just bored, burnt out and perhaps even defeated by Destiny.
I wouldn’t say defeated, it’s just too buggy and too random, when passing content pretty much relies on getting lucky enough for something to not spaz out it’s not really fulfilling progression.
You’re welcome to join us =P
@saturday @os42 as well =P
Heeeeeeeeeeell no.
I mean it does sound kinda fun, don’t get me wrong. And more co-op shenanigans with you lot would be cool. And I did enjoy the shit out of WoW back in vanilla days.
But I have not played since vanilla and my toons have probably been deleted and I probably can’t/don’t want to commit the amount of time required.
If you preorder the new xpac you get a free “character boost” that will instantly level up a character to lvl 90 (the pre-xpac level cap) so it is probably the best time to get into WoW again if you want to skip all the leveling for 4 xpacs
Mmm.
I’ll have a think.
Realistically if we look at this as a casual raiding guild we can probably make do with the same amount of time we were putting into Destiny? Run the raids on Saturdays or until we’re raid ready we’ll do guild dungeons or something.. And getting from 90 to 100 should (going off older expacs) take about 10 days of casual play? i.e. 2-3 hours a day? I mean with WoW you always have that initial time sink of getting your character to max level, doing dailies and maxing your profs but usually that can be done within the first few weeks of starting a new expac. After that it should just be a case of logging on to do mat farms for flasks/cooking and then logging on for the raid.
Dailies are only really necessary if you’re looking to boost your gold reserves or if WoD brings out a system where the raids require everyone to have rep with a new faction for the raid. So I imagine after the initial timesink you could get away with playing WoW as much as we play Destiny at the moment?
Yeah but keep in mind I will be starting with nothing. No gold, no faction rep, no items, no crafting levels. Nada.
I don’t even know how the game even really works anymore.
No, I don’t really want to put that kinda time and effort in. Besides, I don’t really even enjoy the core gameplay of wow and the genre it spawned. I just like co-op.
I haven’t looked into but I am hoping to god they have sped up professions for this xpac, gonna be so many people doing boosts from 1 to 90 with no professions leveled.
Edit: apparently they have, thank god
Faction rep isn’t needed unless your mount hunting. In regards to the newer factions you’ll be starting on the same footing as the rest of us! With the level 90 boost the game gives you gold, first aid and a few other professions leveled to the WoD level so you only have to do the current expansion’s leveling. You also start with 16 slot bags I think?
So yeah this expac is the perfect re-entry point really… All you’ll have to do is level from 90-100, get raid ready with the guild which will be co-op and then jump on over weekends?
Edit: Your call dude! Sorry if I sound like I’m pressuring you =P I just think compared to previous wow expacs where the entry level barrier increases each time, Blizz have basically said you can now re-enter on the same playing field as everyone else.
Thanks for the offer, but no thanks – it took me a long time after I stopped in ’07 to realise that I didn’t actually enjoy my year playing WoW.
I will still do the nightfall each week probably, especially since it will be maintenance night in WoW, I’d like the GOD DAMN HAWKMOON and I will probably want to try and hit the raid for the xpac when that hits next month.
What’s this about WoW? I have my own Alliance guild on Khaz’Goroth & I have 2 90 horde on Aman’Thul.. If that helps 😛
If someone tells me what server & faction we’re rolling i’ll go level a rogue there 😛 also my bnet tag is Marc#1325
Looks like we will be doing Horde on Barthilas. You can level an alt or there is free transfers to oceanic realms until the 13th of this month (free in that you pay for it then get a refund, dumb, but I guess its to route guild farmers)
CC: @DistantDrop @pupp3tmast3r
Well i’m on Oceanic realms only sadly so no “free” xfers for me =(
and I used my free 90 already on a Horde Shaman 😛 But i’ll happily go level another Rogue, they’re fun!
the free transfer is to any oceanic realm, even if its from an oceanic realm lol (except you cant xfer to frostmourne for free apparently)
Oh neat.. I might xfer something then, but I doubt it’d be Horde since i’m in my mates raiding guild on Aman. That’s lame, just cause it’s such a high pop server probably.
Yeah, its because its in the “full” catagory
Wife booked the sumo suits and ring for her birthday.
Also a mechanical bull while she was at it.
So that’s happening.
This is gonna be interesting/fun.
hey, if I’m welcome (I was tagged in the original post, so sorry if intruding) can I bring my lady friend?
Definitely bring her along. More the merrier!
And sounds like you’ll be the one to beat 😛
sweet, should be a lot of fun.
Also I wouldn’t have tagged you if we didn’t want you along.
My boss turns 40 next year, so he’s hiring a jumping castle and giving us all the day off*.
*his birthday is January 26th
Sigh. I watched a bunch of ShiroBako in a row, and now I really kind of long for that kind of work environment.
I honestly didn’t mind a few of my jobs where your work IS your life, and you work stupid hours as long as it gets the job done, with achievable goals and eccentric but enthusiastic coworkers, with admirable prodigies. Working with the truly talented who surpass you in every way is so damn inspiring.
There’s just something really amazing about being on-call, about fulfilling a vital purpose, about improvising successfully, and problem-solving.
Think I’m going to redouble my efforts where I am, now, to be more notably exceptional and impressive. If you want that kind of role, you gotta earn it, be able to justify it without reservation or trepidation.
I’ve had no broadband at home for over two weeks now so I’m behind in a bunch of stuff and I’m really worried about catching up to current on things I like because I’ll be left wanting more and can’t have it maybe for another week or more. 🙁
Haven’t watched Shirobako past ep 1 yet. Only thing I did catch up on was Sword Art Online II since I had everything up to the end of that main story arc. So that was okay.
I reckon if a band shirt is slim fit, then it should be mentioned on the website so you damn well know it is. I don’t like it when stuff turns up and I find out that it won’t fit me ever, first & last time I ever order from Maniacs :/ So i’m gonna get creative and attach the print to another shirt. Plus I can then I can put to use some patches I have about and such!
I’ve got lots of strengths, just none I can put on a resume! *closes Seek, wipes away tear*
And someone has comfort eaten those 72 strawberry Freddos already. XD
Oh, DC…
Doesn’t hurt to try anyway!
Unless you are trying out for stuntman, you will probably get hurt then!
List them as skills in one section like mine I have;
Skills:
• Cash Handling
• Eftpos
• POS
• Stock replenishment
• Customer phone support
• Face to face customer support and service
• Strong computer literacy
and then I have an attributes section which I have;
Attributes:
• Friendly
• Communication skills
• Willingness to learn
• Team Skills
• Customer Service
• Adaptability
Which i’ve been told by all sorts is a good variety apparently for the work I am looking for.. I dunno where I am going with really, just trying to help you I guess. I know the difficulties of it all though.
So much this. I’ve found that even what I consider rudimentary and basic skills can generate interest from people when shown in an application.
Also, I’m sorry for bringing up this stuff on TAY. I know it’s a downer thing. I know it’s not the makings of fun conversation. Sometimes I just feel like I need to get stuff off my chest and then it inevitably ends up here. Would be nice to find an outlet for this stuff without annoying you guys. XD
Eh, that’s what we are here for.
Still better than working.
Don’t be sorry! Be proud of yourself for getting in there and caring enough to do it.
We all support you, we know you have great skills to bring to a job. We’re here to help.
(Now I am starting to sound very banal, but you get the gist I hope).
Part of the problem is every job description is trying to make it sound as fancy as possible. When i don’t qualify as a florist assistant, you know there’s problems. XD
Every job I’ve had I found out about from someone I know.
So make sure everyone you know knows that you are looking.
That’s true for me as well. Every job I’ve had including Big Brother I heard about from someone I knew.
Every job I’ve had has been handed to me on a platter thanks to people I know. >.>
I can also add my voice to that. I have found jobs on my own, but it is so much easier if you have a contact on the inside. They can then speak for you.
With that in mind? I recommend taking up Jane’s offer.
…I don’t even know what she does or who for. :/
Who cares! Pays money and you know Jane is on the level.
She is indeed an excellent addition to TAY.
Xenoblade Chronicles X looks pretty amazing. Not as colourful as the Wii game, but still spiffy. It reminds me of early PS3/360 games where the colour of the previous generation was stripped away for realism. (Only to make its triumphant return later in the generation… and now we’ve got stuff like Sunset Overdrive.) I like the sound of exploring the planet with New Los Angeles as the home base. Cool mix of science fiction and fantasy by the looks of it.
I’m secretly really sad at the lack of colour despite my hype. Haven’t seen the new trailer yet though. I just really hope they haven’t done away with the varied, fantastic environments from the first game! I’m still holding out hope that it isn’t going full greys&browns just because we saw that the Nopon are back in a previous trailer.
I’ll be turning the saturation on my TV right up for this game 😛
If this one is anything like Xenoblade though, it’ll be a terrific game for exploring! You get heavily rewarded for discovering new areas in lots of ways which was really great.
The environments look just as creative and beautiful… just through a layer of duller colours.
Wow.. I guess Phil Rudd isn’t gonna be part of AC/DC anymore after his latest run in the the law..
Work has been pretty slow so I’ve been reading a lot of different stuff online, including a piece where someone has rather comprehensively written an alternate universe situation of the 40K Horus Heresy.
Alternate history or speculative fiction has always been really interesting to me so I thought, for a Thursday question, what alternate histories you are all interested in, historical or otherwise?
I’m still reading the original Horus Heresy story myself
I think I need to get back to writing on my blog. That’ll chase the blues away.
Verified.
http://yearofthehermit.tumblr.com/post/101903023096/06-november-2014
I’m assuming you’ve covered your house in scratchings that read “no beer and no tv make dc go crazy”
Why would you lie to us via blog post, DC? Whyeee?
So on Tuesday I went back to my Mum’s place and spent all day cleaning out my old wardrobe of all the shit that had been hurled in there after I moved house last. Accumulated crap from years of being able to accumulate crap.
Found some empty boxes for laptops. Also my PS Vita box with the shitty Vodafail data sim pack still in there waiting for me to claim my free Wipeout 2048 by activiating it (lol). Random fantasy paperbacks. A whole stack of anime posters shucked from within the protective folds of their corresponding Nyantype/Megami issues (I also found the March and April 2013 issues of both as well). All the pack-in crap I got with the Idolm@ster Bluray CEs I imported (some of the pack-ins were cool, actually, eg. the vol 1 + box set has a piece of film strip from a print of the first episode). Random pillowcases. A boobie mousepad (where the fuck did this even come from? It must have been a pack-in because I’d never buy one normally).
I also sorted through about eight spindles of anime burned to DVD-R (back when it was efficient to do that and not just whack it all on a hard drive) and threw away about 90% of it which was a very liberating experience.
I also found the first volume & workbook of Japanese for Busy People which I bought years ago because it purported to teach basic, useful language and generally useful conversation stuff, but that turned out to mean the same thing most textbooks do: teaching you canned phrases. Though at least it doesn’t also assume you’re eight and don’t understand language concepts, it’s still equally kind of useless for me since it’s teaching ‘business Japanese’ so it starts off with shit like how to read the phone number off a business card or how to ask for someone at a company’s reception. Apparently the ‘lessons’ are supposed to take 2 hours but I’ve burned through the first two in an hour easily. Might try and zoom through it a bit further, see if they ever introduce any Kanji or anything (if not it’s useless to me). Reinforces the fact I really need proper lessons though I think.
Hi Eeerebody
Been an awesome/oddly stressful couple of weeks. Had primary care over my little one. Very scared about next year now and my capabilities as a parent.
Sounds like you all had awesome times as PAX. I’m so jealous of you all that I’m already planning to go next year.
I’ve decided that my 2015 aim is to 100% achievement my Steam games. Obviously this is tough with things like CiV and Skyrim, but I sat down and planned it all out.
Then @tigerion went and gifted me Dark Souls. The son of a…n awesome woman. Your generosity hit me hard man. Thank you. In answer to your question, I’ll have to keep it above 60 or she’ll blow! (man I loved that movie…if I’m getting the right movie).
New job is super busy and stressful. So I just wanted to say I miss you all, love you all and will go back to lurking now.
*lurk lurk lurk*
How old is your little one? Having care on your own is hard, nobody to bring that little thing you need while you have your hands full. If you want to chat or just hear from somebody just a stressed out let me know.
Not sure why you are so upset/happy. There is only 41 achievements in dark souls.
Little one is just over two, so yes he’s a handful. I will indeedy do get in contact, thank you for the offer.
As for the achievements in Dark Souls – it’s not the number, it’s the fact that the game is apparently so damn hard that I will break my coping mechanisms trying to clock it.
…I am so looking forward to the challenge. 🙂
NEEDLESSLY LONG PAX RECAP LET’S HOPE I DON’T HAVE TO EDIT ANYTHING BECAUSE LOL MODERATION
Edit: And then it happened anyway. *snip*
Poop. Wrote stuff about PAX, but too many links put it in moderation. CBF trying to split it up for reposting.
Mine took over a day to get approved so I just ended up reposting
Pestering people on Twitter has always been my way to get around that.
Just tweet at Mark.
Nice try, @dc! But this is obviously just a mask!
*tugs at Freya’s face*
pastie.org then paste the URL here
PAX is over, hype engine has cooled down. Time to shift back into first and start revving it for the Magical Tay Japan Invasion.
134 days!
It’s going to be a while before we get to go to Japan again *sobs*
I will eagerly wait for photos.
All roads lead to Japan it seems. @Sughly is there now and @sunsoar77 is going next week! (I think?)
I’m leaving on a jet plane (a Dreamliner no less) a week from today!
EXCITE!
@shiggyninty leaves Japan the day we get there.
I’m goin there to start shit, you gotta continue the domination.
Cripes that’s soon…
It really didn’t seem that long ago I was saying 400 something days. So much money left to pull together :'(
On the plus side, it’s not like there’s a shit-tonne of good games coming out before the trip.
You made me check how many days until 70k. There’s 77. And we’re leaving here a week before the cruise leaves so we’re leaving in about 70 days. Eek!
70 days to 70k’s! (kind of!) w00000000000000t!
Ooh, soo jealous! If it weren’t for building a house and paying for a wedding I would so make @beavwa take me to Japan.
Hmm… maybe I am a little demanding…
It’s the wifely thing to do.
I found something more ridiculous than the Wildcat rap.
Dammit, P, that Wildcat rap thing still pops into my head every now and then.
With the new Mario Kart DLC out next week, we should resume TAY Kart. Might be good time to reevaluate what night works best for everyone!
Apparently it was revealed today that if somebody in the ‘room’ doesn’t own the DLC tracks, then nobody can race on them.
Just something to keep in mind 😛
Maybe TAY Kart Wednesdays for DLC people, the others can play on Mondays! 😛
that’s DLC-ist!
But the whole point is to play these new tracks with friends. Haha! Also no one else is even playing Mario Kart any more. 😛
I plan to get it too
I don’t know if anyone else saw this but Tracey Lien, who used to write for Kotaku before Polygon poached her, is now working for the LA Times.
Holy crap.
It’s really great to see someone you respect get rewarded for their work and talent.
Wow! That’s incredible! 😀
Damn well deserved.
Ok I got unlazy. Or at least needed a distraction from attempting to work.
NEEDLESSLY LONG PAX RECAP VERSION 2: NOW IN EPISODIC FORMAT
PAX started for me on Thursday, flying down early to catch up with some friends before it all happened. Met up with them at… Good Games or something? I forget, some kind of board game playing place. Half of them were in the middle of Boss Monster when I got there, the others were playing Smash. I mostly just sat there running through StreetPasses for a while, before playing my first Smash games against other humans. And got my arse handed to me, of course.
After that we headed over to some dumpling place for dinner. It was a huge whirlwind of I don’t even know what’s going on, and before I had even made it through the menu they were all being collected and apparently food had been ordered? Ok then. The dumpling I picked up first, while apparently cool enough to eat on the outside, was actually filled with liquid hot magma which squirted out the top and scalded my lip, giving me pretty much an instant blister. Nice. Fortunately, after that we made our way to some Argentinian ice cream place. They had some interesting flavours there, I went with pavlova (can never turn down pavlova) and “lightly salted with olive oil”. That one was really good.
Getting back to the hotel, the others were all getting ready for bed so I collected all my modeling balloons and stuff and made my way up to the kitchen area and got to work on preparing Robert Frost for the next day. Good thing I’d stockpiled so many orange balloons, I ended up wasting at least two of them. These ones are a little too long for what I need, the original ones I used were a much better size. And while I thought I might be the weird one up there, I was outdone by this old guy sitting there watching TV surrounded by a whole load of empty food and drink packaging. And then started taking pictures of it all on his phone, including multiple different-angled shots of the two coke cans he had there.
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Friday was Manny day, because Halloween. We got in around 10:30ish I think, and went straight in. Pretty much went for the n3DS line first, and stood around there running through StreetPasses for a while. Once we got in though I realised that there wasn’t much point because I was all gloved up, so couldn’t really get a proper feel for how the nXL handles. The eye-tracking 3D seems to work pretty well though, I guess.
After a bit of a wander around, I ran into one of my college friends in the indie section, apparently now working at… one of the companies whose name I forget now. They were the one with the Minecraft-looking FPS. Blowfish studios or something maybe? But yeah, had a good catch-up with him, but while there I noticed someone familiar-looking talking to one of the other devs next to them. I made mention of it to my friend, who said that he’d been talking to them earlier and said his name was Cam. I was right, it was Cam Shea! I got super excited and went over to talk to him when he was done. I used to post on a website that he and Kosta Andreadis made for an article in Hyper way back in 2004 or something, so it was a bit of a nostalgia trip to actually get to meet him 😛 I’d also written in to Hyper about it in 09, and the editor forwarded it on to Cam at IGN who then wrote to me about it, so that was cool.
Can’t remember much else specific about the day. I ran into one of my highschool friends who I haven’t seen in a while. Eventually came across the TAY group in the middle of 2 Rooms And A Boom, got to say hi to Mark and got brought into the game with zero idea of what was going on. Also got that Double Fine photo with @redartifice. Can’t think of much else that went on that day though. Even though I was fairly lazy with it, I managed to get the 100 StreetPasses In A Day thing. There were lots of photo requests, which was cool. And six people called out Robert Frost, so I was happy 😛 Couldn’t believe he survived the entire day though. Last year the first person who asked me for a photo managed to bust one of the sections on it, and not long after the wind outside carried it away. Oh, and I spotted a Jack Skellington. Had to get a picture with him, if only because someone asked me if that’s who I was earlier in the day 😛
Once the day was finished, I went over to the Crown food court with my friends for dinner. They went to play a game but I was about ready to pass out, so left them to go home. Got a fair few looks on the walk back to the hotel, but as I was passing one last group of people just down the road from it, I got about five steps past them when I hear from behind “…Gooky??” Perfect timing, a family friend was just heading out for some dinner with her friends. Recognised my costume from my sister’s 21st all those years ago, I guess 😛 I knew I’d run into her at one point or another, we always seem to manage to do it at these things.
Got home but realised I couldn’t hit the hay yet, I still needed to prep Shredder for the next day. A few things had come unstuck in-transit, and there were a couple of other repairs that had to be made too. Back up to the kitchen again. Oh, and Weird Old Guy was there again too. Less photo taking this time though.
Saturday morning was chilly. And very windy. I had to hold my hat most of the way there, the gusts were pretty much just making it flip right off my head. Spandex Bros @freezespreston and @benny were suffering in their outfits a bit, Benny moreso 😛 We got there around 9:40 this time I think, early enough to get in line but too late to really jump on anything straight away by the time we got in. I was thinking of going to the Comic Strip panel that morning, but kinda felt too lazy to do so by the time we got there.
I got to have a go of Screencheat that day, that was pretty fun. Hard though, it takes a good while to wrap your head around it. I went over to the AIE booth to try and find a friend, but he wasn’t there. Ended up playing this dragon game, kind of a Metroidy type platformer. It was kinda cool, actually. Needs a bunch of polish, but I had fun with it.
Not a whole lot more to mention from that day. The revamped pouch on my Shredder belt worked much better, although I still had some troubles with it. Also there was another Shredder! His armour was all made from worbla, though he kinda looked a little more like the (original) movie Shredder than cartoon. He had a solid face mask too, which totally made it hard to hear what he was saying, I’m pretty happy with my fabric one 😛 Got a few pictures with him too, but I have no idea what the guy handling the camera did because they call came out with this weird halo effect going on. Bleh. Also ogawd at those terribly white upper arms 😛
Still didn’t really see that many other costumes that I wanted to take a picture of, though. Mainly because I didn’t recognise most of them, they were all from games I don’t play or know at all. But there was one guy, I’d seen him around a couple of times and was trying to think why he looked familiar. Then it clicked, and I spun around to try and catch up with him. The crowd was being painfully slow and in the way but I managed to get to him, and practically yelled “ARE YOU KEVIN SORBO’S HERCULES??” Instant favourite of the whole thing 😛 Especially later on, noticing the raised Hercules lettering on the sword and the speaker for sound effects. Nice.
While I was still a bit iffy on the whole 3DS thing, since it would mean an extra thing to carry and I like to travel light when in costume, I ended up taking it along so I could challenge @powalen. I knew I’d lose though. And I lost hard. I didn’t even know how to battle him, had to get him to show me how to set it up 😛 Also saw something in the settings about items being on, I don’t think I even have any items let alone know how to use them. I call cheating!
That night was the big TAY meatup. I couldn’t be bothered to take the ~hour’s round trip to the hotel and back to change, so just stuck it out as Shredder. It was kind of hectic there, with the mad rush to get everything done before Rooster Teeth kicked us out, and I couldn’t really find a ball to fit my stupid big thumbs without also being too heavy. The bowling went pretty terribly though, I think it’s been years since I last played. In our game it ended up being a fierce battle between me and @markserrels for last place. And fierce it got! After trailing at the start, I got ahead with a Spare. Then crept back to equal with some crappy bowling. But jumped ahead again with another spare! To which he responded with a Strike. I scored myself another Spare, and we were now on the final frame. Mark followed up his Strike with a Spare and an extra shot. I totally choked, squandering my Spare by knocking down one single pin, and failed to redeem things by missing out on that extra shot. The only person in our group not to make it into triple digits, how shameful 😛
There was some trouble in setting up the consoles for karaoke, but they got there eventually. I had a look through the games available, but there weren’t really any songs that jumped out at me so I mostly just sat back and watched the others do their thing, and had a chat with other others. Before long though, it was time to clear out. Me and Benny kind of got separated from Freeze when I was getting directions from @scree on how to get out of there and back to the tram stop, so we just kinda made our way back and hoped he’d be able to find his way too. We were a right sight on the tram 😛 Once we got back though, we got a message saying that the others had gone on to do more karaoke at another place, which was fairly near our hotel. I was pretty tired but with it being so conveniently close by, figured why the hell not. Got changed and headed down there, and it was even closer than I thought – just on the other side of the block across from the hotel door. Sweet.
The room was far more full than I was expecting when we got up there. Felt like maybe at least half of everyone that was at Kingpin? And they seemed to be having much more to drink too. I sat down with the book and started looking through songs. Then found that they had the best selection of Judas Priest I’ve ever seen at a karaoke place. Not that that’s hard to do, since I think the previous “best” only had Painkiller. So I was excited! I punched in Metal Meltdown and waited for it to come up. Only… our room broke. Something went funny with the speakers, and we got moved to another room. But that was ok, because this one was bigger and had more space for everyone. And I got my song back on, only to find it was broken and being all stuttery. Stupid thing. Had to skip it (and my warm-up) and go for the main event. Which I introduced as The Gooky Theme Song 😛 It went down pretty well, with @rocketman being unable to stop singing it for the next few days and @mythamphetamine being totally perplexed by it all. Later had a shot at Night Crawler but it too was broken and stuttery. Not quite as bad as the other one, so I pushed on anyway. Went through the rest of the book to see what else was there, and there were a couple of Blues Brothers tracks listed so I threw on Everybody Needs Somebody To Love. Which, surprisingly, had all the fast spoken parts by Elwood in there as part of it. Ok then. Somehow managed not to stumble over my tongue on most of that, and survived it alright. That was it for me though, no songs left to choose. Not that I think we had all that much time left afterwards anyway. We made our way out and back to the hotel, singing the DK Rap with @rize. Or at least, trying to. I totally forgot a bunch of the lyrics ;_;
Sunday was Doing Stuff day. No costumes or anything, just regular me. And maybe actually play some games. I got in fairly early, and was up near the front of the second portion of line. It was pretty cool to see they’d taken note of people’s natural need last year to try and hit the beach balls over the hanging signs, and this time put up ones made specifically for that. One guy near me made a pretty awesome score into the one next to us. At one point one was coming right down at my head, so I jumped up to headbutt it… and managed to headbutt a guy behind me who had gone forward to try and do the same thing. But it was ok because he was being stupid earlier, so I was happy it happened. Some others found it quite amusing too 😛
I’d hoped that by getting in early I’d be able to grab the Biggest Blackest Box for CAH and get it signed, so I’d be sorted for a friend’s birthday present in another month or two. But it turned out that while they’d allocated stock separately for Friday and Saturday, they hadn’t done so for Sunday and only had the expansions available. Well poo. With that I jumped back in on the n3DS to give it a proper go. Aaaand kinda broke it. While poking around and noticing that the demo wouldn’t let you activate the Home menu, I kinda popped out the cartridge to see what would happen instead. Jumped into the Activity Log out of curiosity, it hadn’t been activated yet but there were a bunch of other games on there that had been played for a minute or two. Interestingly, in here there wasn’t any face tracking 3D. I don’t know if it was because it just hadn’t been implemented in this version of the system software or what, but thought it interesting to note. When I tried to jump back into the MH4 demo I was met with a screen of options instead. Thought that was kinda cool, but when I tried to get it to start I got an error and it stayed on the black screen. Tried resetting it and doing it again, but got another error. So I just kind of left it and ran to another unit. Oops 😛 I stopped by the Amiibos before leaving to check them out. They seemed a little better than in the comparison pictures that went up the other day, and I took a whole bunch of photos of them to check out and compare later.
I went back to the AIE booth again to find my friend, and this time actually got someone who knew him. Turns out in the time since I’d last spoken to him he’d left there though. Damn. Got roped into playing their game, some kind of Angry Birds-like dealie thought it was actually pretty decent. Had some weird looking character art, but it was fun.
There wasn’t really anything that grabbed my interest at any of the major booths at all, save for maybe Oculus but I wasn’t all that keen to hang around that long to play a random game when I was mostly just interested in Superhot. Plus it was only (“only”) DK2, I want to try out Crescent Bay dammit 😛 Otherwise I only found stuff of interest in the indie section. I jumped on Duet for a while, it seemed to have seen a whole bunch of changes since last year. From what I could remember, anyway. The falling blocks now had these glowing trails following them, and they pulsed along in time to the music. They’d also eliminated one type of block from last time, and I saw some new ones. Plus there were these cool geometric patterns going on in the background, which I think was just plain black last time. Oh yeah, and I don’t think there was even any music last time. So I spent way too long sitting there playing that. Actually that’s one thing that I don’t like about sitting there with headphones on. While you are able to listen to the music, it kind of isolates you from the guy showing it and you can’t really talk to them any more. I don’t know if the guy manning the booth had anything to do with the game, he seemed to be wandering around aimlessly just being bored.
I tried waiting around for a go of Crawl, but the guys on there were taking forever to jump off so after a half hour or so I gave up. Saw a friend looking at this candy muncher game, so I jumped on there after her to crush her score. Too easy 😛
Then I tried out Wave Wave. That was surprisingly hard. It’s like… when watching the game, it looks like you get to choose between going left or going right. But it’s actually more like turn or don’t turn. So rather than it being a ternary state deal (turn left, turn right or go straight) it’s actually binary, you have to hold down on the screen to travel in one direction and release to travel in the other. So because of this, you don’t really have a rest state at all, you’re constantly doing something. It’s an idea I’d never really thought of before, and found it interesting how hard it was to wrap my brain around this different behaviour. So yeah, that was pretty cool.
I’d heard that Swordy was good, so I went to have a go of that. Spent most of my time bashing people with the shield, it was pretty good fun. The last one I jumped on was Expand. Had a bit of a wait for it, but I stuck around since everyone was talking about it so much. Had a pretty good chat with the composer guy too. He got talking about how the music is done in layers so it builds up as you go through, and I asked him if he’d played de Blob. Then told him he had to, hopefully he remembers 😛 Once I got to play the game though, I nearly fell asleep. Sitting down, headphones on with relaxing piano music, and also being in a spot that was attracting a jet of icy A/C air, all while exhausted and sleep deprived, it was a long hard battle to remain conscious. Managed it though. Just.
Lunch was… an ordeal. The first cafe I went to didn’t have any iced tea left, so I went to the next one. None. I went and checked out the other two and they had nothing either, so I made my way back up to the first one to just get some food. On the way though, I noticed one of the vending machines had iced tea. Ok then I’ll get one there. I put the money in, but it just went straight through. Dammit. I went back to the machines near the first cafe, but they didn’t have any in there either. Arse. I made my way back to one of the OTHER ones, and this one did take my coins. Only, it didn’t give me a drink. Nor would it give me them back. FFS. I asked one of the staff nearby about it and she told me someone else had just asked her the same thing, and that she’d sent them to the front desk to find someone who could help them. So off I went. And they sent me to the security desk out the (frontier) front. Who then told me there was nothing anyone there could do, and that I had to ring up Coke and tell them the machine number so they could deal with it. Uuuuuugh. I made my way back to the machine and noted the number, then called them up while I walked to the last set of machines left to see if I could buy any of this god damn drink from them. Eventually got the drink and the phonecall sorted, except the only reimbursement I’d get would be a card that had $5 of credit on it. To use at another vending machine. Like fuck I want to use one of those again now. Not that I even use them anyway, both because I have no use for them and they’re a needless expense anyway. So yeah, was in a bit of a foul mood by this point, both because the whole situation was stupid and Coke are dicks and mainly because I’d just wasted about an hour for no good reason at all.
Last thing I did that day was go to the What Now For Australian Game Development panel. Figured I should at least check out something while I was there 😛 It was interesting, although I couldn’t quite make it through the whole thing. Ended up having to nap, the old lecture theatre habit just can’t die. Was still mostly listening to it though. There wasn’t much of the expo left after that, I think I just sat down in the handheld lounge and rested more while clearing some final StreetPasses.
I’d ended up back with TAYbies again, so followed them on to dinner after PAX had ended. By the time we found a place we’d almost walked back across the entire city to my hotel again 😛 It was another dumpling place, what the hell is it with you Melbournians and your obsession with dumplings? It was good though. Probably didn’t need those bbq pork buns, I was pretty well stuffed after eating everything.
I got home fairly early, around 8 or so I think, so I shot a message off to my highschool friend to see if he still wanted to do something. Got all my packing out of the way then so the next morning would be easy, he said he was just about to get some food with his friends and play some CAH so I could come around too if I wanted. Their place was just down near Southern Cross station which didn’t seem too far off, so I figured I’d just walk the thing to give them some time to sort food and also just see how long it takes. Turned out to only be a 20min walk, which was good to know for getting back to the SkyBus the next day. Just in case. So I message him to let him know I’m there, he calls up to let me know he’s on his way down with one of the others, they still need to get their food. And then he shows up and… wait what the fuck is @mawt doing here?? Apparently the two of them were staying together. It’s a god damn microscopic world. Also I think the girl they were staying with was the Little Sister in @blaghman’s cosplay album. But yeah, just went up and played CAH. Had an interesting round right near the end, can’t remember if I’m misordering events and making this up but we ended up needing a tie-breaker round to determine the winner. And this happened. That’s a new one for me.
After the game one of the other guys was offloading a bunch of his Magic cards he picked up (whole huge bag full). I remembered a friend last year asked me to keep an eye out for them, so I grabbed a couple for him again. Then said goodbyes and went to jump a tram back to my hotel… only I’d made it all the way back there on foot before I even saw one going along that way. Oh well.
Not much to say about Monday. Slept in suuuuuuuuper late (8:40!) and got checked out by about quarter past 9. Freeze and Benny were already gone and had been replaced by a couple of strangers, and the other two guys had gotten up at like 6 or something to go. I messaged one of them about these shoes and bag that were still up their end of the room, but apparently they were already there when they got in. Had a look through and there was a casino chip for some Singaporean golf course or something, a couple of golf tees, a shirt and a pair of shorts. The guy’d also left behind two pairs of shoes, one in their box. Weird. I handed them in when checking out, then me and @morkai parted ways as I headed off to meet my friend for the SkyBus. Almost went into the airport with him when I realised I was an idiot and had to go to the other terminal instead, so we parted ways too 😛 I thought I was going to get bumped for my flight again with the huge gigantic lines waiting for the security check, but this time I was confirmed for the flight straight away instead of going on standby. Awesome. Got one more little bit of StreetPass in from that walk up to the gate right at the end, then just waited around for the flight to be ready. During which time that car came through the wall, like I mentioned. Weird.
FINAL STATS: So so much StreetPass. I think I was only on ~300/400 for my plaza population/hits. Now it’s ~800/900. I cleared the last 13 puzzle panels (all of which pretty much only had the pink pieces done when I started), earning around 500 odd pieces in all. I also broke 2000 hits for MK7, and my Smash battles went from around a dozen or two battles with a hundred and something KOs to around 60 or 70 battles with maybe upwards of 350 KOs. Which really weirded me out, because I think I’m pretty crap at the game but when browsing through everyone else’s stats before a battle most seemed to not even be in triple digits. And those that were would either have around the same number of battles as me and half the KOs, or similar KOs and way more battles. Up to a point, anyway. Highest other person I saw had 256 KOs and I think one person had 79 battles. Also averaged 12200 steps a day (wild variance, from 5k up to 15k), and pretty consistently recorded three hours of game time on each one.
And that was my PAX.
I’m sorry D= I asked! I asked! I would’ve grabbed some judas priest ones if I knew you liked them.
Haha, I think I had a look but there were only three of theirs on one copy of the game and they weren’t that great picks anyway so I didn’t bother mentioning 😛 It’s fine!
I’ll try to do better next year D=
Relax! I’m am outlier and I know it, I don’t need to be catered to 😛
You did perfectly fine. Above and beyond, in fact. I had a hard enough time trying to organise half a dozen people, I don’t know how you managed to cope with what you got going.
I try to cater for everyone. I don’t want anyone to feel left out. Sorry.
I was only left out last year when I didn’t come along. And that was my own doing 😛
Hahaha dammit, I thought the link limit was 5. Still got caught up in moderation.
Oh well 😛
nah 1 link per post sire, or you’ll bring on the wrath of the mod hammer!
I am certain I have gotten away with multiple before. At least three!
YOUR PICTURES ARE DOWN
NOTHING WORKS
NOT EVEN ME
DOUBLE FINE! http://instagram.com/p/uzSoSGibxY/?modal=true
Hey by the way way, did you make your Manny suit (jacket) or just buy a white one?
Neither.
That’s from one of Dad’s old suits. Genuine 80s wear! Pretty sure it was worn to a wedding with like a burnt orange shirt or something. Can only vaguely remember the photo.
Not the first time I’ve used it either, I first took it for a spin for a friend’s 80s party. But photobucket is being a shit right now so you’ll have to check back later for that or something.
Hair!
And lots of it!
R.I.P.
:'(
Photobucket’s telling me I can buy a canvas print of that….
You mean you haven’t already bought 5?
Gaming Heads has a plush mudcrab from Elder Scrolls Online.
It comes with a DLC code to have a pet mudcrab follow you around in game.
!
I’m almost ready to play a scary MMO just so I can have a pet mudcrab. 😛
If you played WoW you could have this adorable little guy plus in game companion 😀
Eh. It’s no mudcrab. 😛
They also have Murlocs 😛
TESO is scary, or just MMOs in general?
People are scary. So MMOs in general. 😛
Not everyone is a monster like you, Strange!
You’re meant to interact with people in MMO’s? So that’s what i’ve been doing wrong all this time lol..
ESO was somewhat boring. Nothing particularly wrong with it, just nothing to keep me paying subscription fees.
Anyone off to the UFC on Saturday? Going with my bosses. He bought 6 ringside tickets and I’m lucky enough to be a recipient of one. 😀 😀 😀
Not sure who the Kotakuans are who like MMA, I know there’s a few, but I wonder if @markserrels is going.
@ruffleberg perhaps.
John Wick, Interstellar, or Fury? I’m probably going to go see a movie tonight.
I’ve heard only good things about the first two and nothing about the third.
I’ve heard it’s a good war movie. It’s apparently up there with Saving Private Ryan and Enemy at the Gates in terms of quality.
Seedy McBeef second billing makes me not want to see it.
I’m keen as mustard for Interstellar, saw the first five minutes of it earlier at work, I didn’t know John Lithgow was in it. Seriously thinking about going to watch it tonight. I’d like to watch John Wick too, but I asked the boss today, and he said we’re not getting it, so I guess I’ll be waiting for DVD for that one.
John Wick may be the best movie I’ve seen this year so far.
That said I’m pretty keen for Interstellar.
Quick synopsis? And do you know when they both came out, because I dont want packed cinema haha
John Wick has much respect for his dog.
Others do not.
This upsets John Wick.
Not since Marley and Me has dog angst been this high!
Interstellar was released today. 😛
Ahhhh damn… well, maybe 9pm session will be okay ….
Retired hit man wife dies and leaves him a dog. Mob bosses son kills said dog. Hit man decides to kill everyone.
It sounds stupid but it is amazingly well done. They’ve made it so there’s so much sequel and franchise potential but without the characters needed except a few side ones.
I’m so excited for Interstellar!
Fury has Shia LeBeouf in it so that should help you narrow down your choices.
/shudder
A meeting discussing G20-related courier arrangements for the next week starting tomorrow has left me with a twitch in my eye I can’t get rid of, and the need to replace a now-broken water bottle I was holding at the time of being delivered monumentally stupid breaking news.
I was saying something earlier about wanting to work harder and achieve more, right? >.< Calm blue ocean, calm blue ocean, calm blue ocean…
“Add a dab of lavender to milk. Leave town with an orange, and pretend you’re laughing at it.”
Now just swallow the little book of calm and stop dogs barking and car alarms.
It will be magical.
Skinheads! Brilliant!
Had my last exam today so I’m finally done for the year!
It was definitely the most interesting exam (business analysis) but my god was that a lot of work for 2 hours. One of the questions was come up with a solution to the problem and develop a business case and justify our decision. We had 20 minutes to do that. Business cases don’t get written in 20 minutes. It wasn’t much of a business case :S
But oh well, went to KFC afterwards and had a zinger hash brown double and just as the gods foretold it was amazing.
Now wait for the KFC regret… it will happen.
Grats on the exams though. I remember that awesome feeling.
People said the world would end in 2012.
Congrats. 🙂
Good to hear a KFC endorsement. I’m so getting a hash brown double tomorrow. Well. Maybe not ‘a’ double. I’ll probably get a couple. Zinger and original to compare. Looks soooo good.
I did back to back Doubles when they first came out. Wasn’t too proud of myself that day.
EDIT: But they were goddamn delicious.
They’re soooo good. 2 is a good idea, I’ll keep that in mind for next time 😛
KFC double times are happy times
I had a hash brown zing one yesterday. Was good while eating. Didn’t take too long things to get upset.
3000kj in one hit while barely filling you will do that though.
Nonsense! Why, I’ve just had one and a half of the 5-star boxes and I feel…
oh god
how much is in one of those again…
*internets*
oh dear
Jebus Christmas I just looked that up.
Right?
Oh well. I had a good run.
*thud*
At least if cremated you’d smell like fried chicken..
Always look on the bright side of life
You should definitely try a double double, or if you’re with a friend and not feeling so adventurous, a triple, it’s the only way to live (and by live I mean die of early heart failure). The double is God.
I don’t get all the double love. I tried one when it came out and found it to be pretty meh. The chicken-to-sauce (or whatever it was that was crammed between them) ratio was way too skewed in favour of the chicken, and the whole thing just ended up dry and pretty average tasting. I’d rather have one of their regular burgers.
See, I think it comes down to how shit your KFC franchise is. Like, read any LH/Giz article on KFC stuff and you’ll without fail see any number of complaints about how the chicken wasn’t cooked all the way through and stuff, which I have NEVER experienced. And like your example… when I’ve ordered from the Valley KFC, I’ve found the sauce/chicken ratio to be so dramatically skewed in favour of sauce that one of the reasons I’m waiting til tomorrow to grab one is so that I don’t have to work with the paranoia of wondering whether I’ve soaked my beard in sauce or not!
(MMM FLAVOUR SAVEURRRGHGROSS noway)
Yeah, but you like capsicum so who can trust you.
Hmm… *test*
Edit: Guess not.
So I went to the doctors today and I have borderline low blood pressure. I’ve been stressed, so you’d think it’d be high. So, an iron check is on the cards
Iron helps us play!
Hope everything is okay, Scree!
I’m okay. Just very tired. I eat a lot of meat and stuff but apparently I don’t absorb it well
Shame we can’t swap. I have elevated levels of iron and may eventually develop haemochromatosis like Dad, requiring regular blood-letting to avoid having my own blood kill me as the iron corrodes my liver. Hooray!
Yours is certainly worse. A lot worse.
Don’t worry! If he keeps eating those 5 Star Boxes he’ll die of a heart attack long before he gets to that stage.
Well, not really… as long as it doesn’t get to those crazy extreme levels, it’s kinda beneficial! And blood-letting isn’t a huge deal. Folks donate blood all the time.
I’m the complete opposite. I can’t donate =(
…
MOST INTERESTING MAN ON TAY.
Does this mean we can start calling you Rusty?
Just as long as you call. *hip-wiggle*
… You stole my joke.
Whadajerk
*invests immediately in leech farms*
But you’re less susceptible to bubonic plague, so there’s your silver lining.
It’s what happens when you don’t relax!
And say sorry too much!
Actually, relaxing lowers blood pressure. Relaxing would kill me!
You’re not relaxing hard enough!
Nob wants me dead! D=
Filthy casual thinking they know how to relax 😛
In all seriousness though I hope things get better soon and it’s nothing too serious
I’ll be fine. Probably back on iron tablets though =P
Thats not so bad, I had calcium tablets once..not the best THEY SO DAMN BIG
They can cause complications, but I haven’t had any in the past which is good.
Vegimite-only diet!
I hate vegimite. =/
Survivor Episode 7!
lolKeith…Julie… ugh!
Go team Jeremy! Although I don’t mind that it’s kind of like him vs. Josh because I like Josh too, gonna be interesting 😀
@powalen @f4ction @strange @phoenix @sughly
PS. Pow, remember when you said you’d re-watch S2 (Australia) if I did? Well you and F4ction can totally do that now! DO ITTTTTTTTT
No.
brekn mai hart 3
He couldn’t if he tried.
Not much to discuss this week!
Jeremy be mad
Late reply is late.
Julie… she just couldn’t handle Survivor. Oh well, no big loss. Lucky save for Jeremy though. I kinda missed where he suddenly ended up on the bottom. I’m hoping Keith/Wes and Josh/Reed get far. Not a fan of Missy/Baylor and Jaclyn/John though. Who else is there again…?Other singles like Alec (meh) and Natalie
Naww
So many feels right now…Made pizza tonight, gotta say substituting half the water in a dough recipe for milk makes for a much nicer dough all round. Ended up putting; mushroom, pineapple, bacon, chorizo & caramelised onion on it, along with a semi home made sauce. Tastes pretty damn awesome.
I had a bowl of chips.
/o\
I actually had proper food tonight.
Unlike the past couple of dinners consisting of shapes and cider.
That sounds like something @dc would have!
Also found that a little honey instead of sugar to feed the yeast makes a very nommable pizza.
@jocon did that stuff ever arrive?
Ah, yes! Thankyou.
Let me know how to send funds forthwith.
Eh. All good. Buy me a beer in Japan.
While going through the pile of shit I’ve moved with, I found some Ghibli DVDs! Free to a good home.
– Princess Mononoke (US version, US Region-coded)
– Pom Poko (AU version from Madman)
– Porco Rosso (AU version from Madman)
– The Cat Returns (AU version from Madman)
I’ve also got Spirited Away but as it’s the LE I might hang onto it. Even though I own a better copy.
I’ve always been interested in Porco Rosso but never seen it so I would be interested in that one
So goooooood
@beavwa would probably be very interested in that…
If no one else puts their hand up I’d be interested in the Cat Returns (I own the rest :D).
I’d take Pom Poko. Would be good for the summer holidays!
I haven’t seen princess mononoke so if that hasn’t gone ill take it
Looks like you’ve got a taker for everything.
If anyone changes their mind on any AU ones I’d be interested.
Since you actually live in the same city, don’t forget there’s an open invitation to borrow one of my Bluray copies of anything too. 🙂
@tigerion @gutsoup @silverrat23 @coldcamv send me a DM on twitter (atomstrawberry) or email atomicstrawberry at gmail dot com (well, except for @tigerion because I know where you live) and I’ll send them by. Can also just pass them over at some point easy enough.
thanks man, I sent you a gmails.
Whatever is easier for you. Send it through or I can probably just meet you if you want to grab a lunchtime coffee or after work drink
I can probably drop it by your house even, you’re about 5 mins drive away. 🙂
I feel like marathoning the Total Drama series. Yeah. Yeah, that sounds like a good idea.
Holy crap, I forgot how cliche the characters are.
Oh, I totally forgot about Justin. He’s so dreamy…
– Cliche Sassy Black Chick
My apologies if this turns into a spam page.
REGRET NOTHING
You know I regret a lot.
From what I remember @dire_wolf said he liked the show.
First season is great. Best reality show that has ever existed. Following seasons are also pretty good.
I can never decide whether I liked the first or third season (World Tour) more. The third season had so, so many problems, but at its height it was better than the first. Some of the songs were hilarious, some were just a waste of time.
I never realised until now, but this show manipulates you into rooting for Gwen. Just like a real reality show would. Genius.
I forgot how many adult jokes and sexual references there were. The fact that episode 13’s plotline was even approved by management stuns me.
Am I imagining it or is @liondrive missing from TAY?
Everything okay, Lion?
He didn’t even reply to our zingers on Twitter on Tuesday 🙁
He’s been busy drawing me pitchas.
I wanna seee
What saddens me the most is that reality will probably never live up to what I’m imagining.
Picture it here: Two, tiny little rat dicks.
Okay, that’s it, that’s the extent of the art.
You wouldn’t believe the amount of times I’ve pitched this or a variation.
So you’re saying that for it to happen it has to be guest art?
My creepy stalking tells me that he hasn’t posted since Sunday.
Is it exam time for him? He may have decided to focus on those boring ol’ things.
Or he’s been abducted by a space-cartel, intent on using his unique skills to help them crack into the greatest space-bank in the universe, as part of the greatest space-heist ever.
I heard from him yesterday, he wasn’t very talkative but said he was alright.
I’m alrighty.
So, is TAYKart back on for Monday nights after the DLC drops next Thursday?
Don’t know about anyone else, but I’m keen.
I’m keen!
I’ll be up for it too 😀
I’M SO HYPE. (and keen, I suppose)
Oh man, I totally need to buy one of these.
https://www.mightyape.com.au/product/Das-Horn-Viking-Drinking-Horn/22611928
@pixel_the_ferret_viking
I need that in my life!
Interstellar broke my brain, but it was sooooooooo good. Definitely worth spending three hours of your life on.
Cool, might see it tonight or weekend. I skipped yesterday.. went to dinner instead.
I went to dinner, then watched Interstellar. 7.10 screening, so not too late a finish.
I just played a 99-stock, 60-minute game of Super Smash Bros. Melee, all because I was bored…
I won by 8 stocks.
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The CPUs were set at Level 9 right? Right?
Level 5.
I’m not that good. 🙂
Another day I’ve completely wasted. I’m meant to be playing games, dammit!
Morning all 🙂
I know it’s really late notice, but in only just feel well enough to commit.
Would anyone be interested in board games tomorrow night?
Holy carp I just realized that we take off to Denmark in 4 weeks… SO MUCH STUFF TO DO BEFORE THAT! on the plus side it’ll be my first time back since 2008… Should be pretty awesome!
First time back as an Aussie citizen too. Abuse the dual passports at customs all you can 😀 (assuming you have elected for dual citizenship)
Finally it’s Friday. Amongst my cat being sick and currently having his second overnight stay of the week at the vet and my girlfriend having memory loss episodes all week culminating in a multi hour stay (as usual), at the hospital resulting in it being attributed to stress rather than head trauma from a minor car accident she was in, I can finally get to work and do something productive and try to work back some of the sick and holiday leave that I no longer have.
This is one mentally exhausted bunny right here
*hugs* , I hope it gets better for you soon 🙂
For some reason part of Hugh Laurie’s Wild Honey has popped into my head. But it also keeps morphing into that slow jam version of the Darkwing Duck theme.
Also I jumped back into Elite: (let’s get) Dangerous last night. Hoooly crap that game is so pretty. And just keeps getting better and better! There’s so many new mechanics in there since the last time I played though, and loads of changes to the ones I was familiar with. Got much learning to do. And much more dying to do too, apparently.
My greatest pleasure in that game remains tearing into stations at breakneck speeds and trying to land as quickly and dangerously as possible.
Especially when approaching the letterbox from a sharp angle, and doing a high-speed flip-and-dodge around the Rails Of Death to duck in beneath someone else taking their time.
Also just blasting off at full speed and with boost to get out of there as fast as possible, just missing a human player entering from the other side 😛
The station nazis are a little strict, that’s my excuse for flying out of the airlock at max speed and missing another player by a foot.
Yeah, they seem to be much better at scanning now… earnt myself a few fines thanks to some missions that expired too quickly >_>
Had the worst one last night, actually. Only had four minutes left to deliver some copper. Nearly made it to the station, but my crappy internet was being crappy and dropped out, leaving me with just one minute to fly the trip from the star to the station again. Nope.
What are you flying at the moment? I’ve got a soft spot for the Sidewinder, and kinda want to just push on with it and beef it up as much as possible. Although I guess there’s less need for that now we can own multiple ships…
I really need to save up and back that game… Between that and Star Citizen there’s a bright future ahead for space sims…
I have a box of liquorice allsorts in my desk at work… This makes me happy!
I have a box of 3.5″ floppy disks on my desk, some torn up Chinese newspaper and a bottle of Loctite 358 UV activated adhesive.
Think I’ll make a salad.
My mum makes licorice allsort slice which is awesome. No baking required, just got to melt chocolate.
Holy shit, Friday. It feels like it’s been a week since I saw you last. Let’s never be apart again.
EDIT: So then I was all like TAY ATE MY INFINITE WISDOM WHERE’S MY COMMEN….. Oh, pageget.
\o/
I like fridays, but you know what’s a better day?
….
Sunday. I like sundays.
Unforeseen plot twists are the best kind.
10/10, would be fooled again.
Directed by M. Night Shalmandadada…help me I don’t know how to finish his name.
Shamalamadingdong.
Pretty sure it’s Shamalamadingdong.
*puts fingers close together*
Missed it by that much.
By all of two seconds!
…
Would you believe twenty?
…How about fifty?
Sunday is best day
Mybad. Skewed the newpage/post count with my moderated post 😛
“The Force Awakens”
Really.
Really?
Sigh.
Really?
Hope diminishing…
I actually kind of like it. Simple.
Me too!
Reaaaaally sounds like innuendo to me…
The Force Awakens In-Your-Endo XD
There has never been a truly great Star Wars title. They’re all pretty banal when you take them without any context. This one fits the bill perfectly.
Come to think of it, you’re right.
“The Empire Strikes Back” is possible the only good no context title.
…I feel better now.
My reaction was a lot like yours to start with. But then I tried to rank the new titles against the others, and realised that it came out pretty much on top 😛
Hey at least it’s not Star Wars: Reckoning
Perfect title for the In My Pants game.
This is worse than A NEW HOPE or THE PHANTOM MENACE?
Does anyone want to buy a pair of Ray-Ban sunglasses off me? Worn about 5 times, perfect condition. Bought for something silly like $300 a couple of years ago when I was really hungover and trying to hide from the world.
They look something like this.
Or this.
More the first one though I think.
Mentally exhausted after a long week? Judgement impaired? Now might be the perfect time to check out Undad.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shanewsmith/undad-comic-miniseries-issues-1-and-2/
…
I mean, morning all! How th’ heck are ya.
But I already pledged D=
I may have gone on a slight Kickstarter binge following on from Undad. No regrets though as I will hopefully be the owner of a delightful game called No Country for Old Kobolds. 😀
This Friday feels wrong. It feels more like Wednesday.
This weekend should be interesting.
It does feel a little off, but I’m very glad it is Friday. Next Friday is G20! Day off 😀
Good morning Taybies.
My new sneaks continue to be badass, I got a cute haircut last night and new makeup, and my sunny yellow Tearaway t-shirt is making me very happy. All of this is trying to counter-act the awful painful little scratching in the back of my throat. Go away illness! I have no time for you.
Feel better, Jane. PAX Pox or Ebola?
Paxola.
That actually sounds like one of the bullshit health food cereals my coworkers eat.
Pics of happiness pl0x, maybe it’ll rub off.
This always makes me happy – http://media3.giphy.com/media/f8s3dJugoJZZK/giphy.gif
Golden retriever puppies are the best puppies. It is known.
And this – http://c2.thejournal.ie/media/2013/06/lab.gif
Labrador puppies are one of the cutest things ever.
Thanks, that was nice. 🙂 Cute pups.
Happy Friday Everyone,
This weekend should be a good one, no plans and plenty of games to play through. With any luck I’ll check out The Crew’s beta (@stickman have they sent you your download code yet?). Might have to pry myself away from Hyrule Warriors and try to finish off Alien: Isolation. Anyone doing anything super interesting this weekend?
Probably will see Interstellar and watch Alien movies! ALIEN BROS!
Whoo, yeah Isolation inspired a rewatch of the movies for me too, only watched the first two so far, I think Aliens is possibly my most watched movie ever, I was pretty obsessed with it as a kid, me and my mate would sleep over at each others houses nearly every weekend and watch Aliens and play Battletoads, good times.
Happy Friday! I have another The Crew code but I didn’t redeem it myself. Maybe someone else wants it?
Gf has bday ‘dinner’ and drinks on Saturday, that’s about the extent of my plans. I should probably edit some videos too …
I’m still waiting for an e-mail with the code now :(, I registered the one you gave me, thanks so much.
I got the Alien boxset yesterday. I love these movie so much but I have a confession to make. I’ve only seen the first movie once when I was sixteen. I loved it, but compared to the hundreds of rewatches of Aliens it’s a bit of an anomaly. Watched it again last night and it’s so amazing. The transfer looks brilliant. Easily one of the best blu ray’s I’ve ever watched. It was cool to watch in the shadow of Alien: Isolation, too. (Seeing all the aesthetic details and references and all that.) Can’t wait to watch the sequels. I forget, which print of Alien 3 should I be watching?
The extended (director’s?) version makes more sense to me, but I’m most attached to the theatrical version because I’ve seen it the most times. The extended/director version of A3 is quite long too. Really fleshes it out.
EDIT: I’m one of the odd people who really liked Alien 3, and honestly feel it got a bum rap.
Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley is fantastic in A3. So desensitised, detached, determined. Plus leading ladies with a shaved head, back then? So fucking badass.
Cool! Thanks buddy! I think I’ve only ever watched the theatrical version too.
Yeah, I remember liking Alien 3 and I appreciated the change of tone and ‘darkness’ of it.
My only problem with Alien^3 is the way Newt and Hicks were casually thrown away, and after reading Mark Verheiden’s brilliant comic series that also carried on straight from Aliens but was largely about Newt, it’s a shame that’s not the story they made…
I do like Alien^3 though, it’s got better with age and the cast is great.
My wife and I recently rewatched the Alien series after she finished Isolation since we’d only ever seen Alien and Aliens and that was years ago. Man DVD jsut doesn’t hold up on modern TVs, I think a blu-ray box set might be in our near future.
Apparently “the Assembly Cut” is the definitive version of the movie (and closest to what was originally intended in pre-production before large chunks of the movie were rewritten) but there seems to be some debate over the quality. Some people think it adds/changes too much and makes the movie too bloated whereas while the original theatrical cut wasn’t great, it was still serviceable.
*shrug*
I think the only one people really hate (other than the AVP movies) is Resurrection, but I didn’t think it was that bad.
I’m preparing for backlash, but I actually love Resurrection. It’s flawed, but I still like it all the same. The whole Ripley/Call dynamic. The music. The Auriga. The Betty. It ain’t perfect, sure, but it’s far from terrible. Also that flooded deck set piece is one of the most tense scenes ever. (I’m not a strong swimmer, okay? :P)
I think the biggest change in A3 versions was what incubated the Alien. (Won’t say in case spoilers) Which throws in some questions – the explanation for the different appearance of the A3 Alien – sleeker, faster, more agile – was what it was birthed from. The Assembly Cut changed what incubated it, and pretty much nulls and voids the idea.
Don’t agree or disagree, but changes the Alien 3 Alien’s origins quite substantially.
The incubating thing was what bugged me about that movie. Sounds like assembly cut will lead to less fist shaking from me! 😀
I know a lot of people hate Prometheus and Alien Resurrection, but:
The idea that there’s different kind of Aliens, hybrids and genetic experiments/weapons is intriguing to me!Now the notion that Alien 3’s incubation wasn’t a continuity error makes me want to rewatch both versions.
I liked the idea as well. As a die hard fan of the series, it’s very intriguing.
Prometheus was a broken mess of a story – not sure who came up with it. Although I will say Prometheus is one of the most stunningly well shot films in recent memory. It’s absolutely gorgeous.
I like the idea that the xenomorph takes on some characteristics of its host. It’s lead to some great tweaks on the alien body plan in some of the comics. 🙂
I hated Resurrection. Interestingly, not so much as a movie by itself – more specifically as an Alien movie. It was so out of place with the rest. So far fetched, colourful, off beat – just not in fitting with the series at all. It had it’s redeeming points, but it’s a real blight on the landscape for me.
Jeunet was just not the person to do that film. At all. And I love Jeunet – City of Lost Children and Micmacs are two of my favourite arthouse films of all time.
That being said I know many people who enjoy A:R, and hold it in much higher regard than A3 – which is tantamount to brain melting insanity in my books, but hey – each to their own, and all that.
I guess I found the A3 premise a bit ridiculous – the statis pods jsut happen to get blown out, Ripley lands unscathed on a planet, etc. It was all very Deus Ex Machina. they might as well have had an opening expository crawl commencing “once upon a time”.
Other than that it was fine. Apparently the story of Colonial Marines (and the prequel DLC) kind of ties in with it and sort of explains how that happened, which has made me interested in checking it out despite the shitacular reviews.
Here’s my own confession – I’ve only seen the first one a handful of times, and the second and third ones I haven’t seen at all.
Think I saw Resurrection years ago when it came to video and had no idea what was going on for pretty much the whole movie.
Beavwa! Watch Aliens! For me! 😀
Here’s my confession: I’ve only seen Aliens once, and Alien 3 about 3 times. Never seen the original and only seen about 3/4 of Resurrection.
The 70s actually produced a bunch of really awesome sci-fi movies. Alien was one of the best, but it was far from the only one: http://www.imdb.com/list/ls051517990/
I’m glad I’ve rediscovered this whole “magical four hours” thing. Once I’ve missed the ideal bedtime by an hour or so, it’s better to just stay up for another two or three so it gives me an excuse to keep doing whatever I’m doing and stay up longer 😛
Someone described it to me as sleep windows coming in ‘waves’. Miss your wave, and you’re best off not laying in bed getting frustrated because you can’t sleep. Just keep doing what you’re doing and wait for the next wave.
I’m fortunate in that I can fall asleep very easily and seldom sleep badly. There have been times in the past where I’ve thought “oh, I didn’t get to bed by midnight so I might as well stay up til 2” but in reality I toss and turn for a amaximum of 20 minutes.
I tend to operate best on 6 hours but I can get by on a week of four hours, though it means I will crash pretty hard when I reach the weekend.
I’m pretty terrible. I can sleep anywhere at any time.
I used to be able to in uni, but I think I’ve kind of lost the skill a bit. Can’t quite do it as often as I used to.
I’ve seen mention of KFC somewhere here. I know it. I had 2 McDonalds hash browns for breakfast and was planning on Crust pizza for dinner. I can’t have KFC for lunch. Can’t have KFC for lunch. Have KFC for lunch. :'(
Aww man! Now you got me thinking about KFC. Reckon I might have to have one or two of those Double’s for lunch.
Think I’ma have to check it out eh.
I can’t remember the last time I had KFC. It was probably terrible but so tempting. Oporto is my jam, even if I can’t have chips anymore.
That last sentence is one of the saddest ones ever typed by a human being in the history of typing. Well, the second half anyway.
The chips thing? I know. I feel haunted by it! I swear everywhere I go, it’s a potato party, and I’m standing outside in the rain looking in longingly.
I haven’t had Oporto in ages. Maybe I should go for a triple bondi burger instead! I like their sauces you can buy.
Oporto is the ducks nuts. Rather have that than KFC, Maccas etc any day, but unfortunately the nearest one to this stupid town is apparently 3 to 3 and a half hours drive away in Melbourne :'(
Everytime the cricket comes back on, I watch the saturation advertising for KFC and think – ooh, I haven’t had a zinger burger for ages. Then I have one and remember why. So much dissapoint.
I have to admit, I’m a sucker for a Zinger burger (with supercharged sauce.) I don’t have them that often (maybe once a month, if that), but I actually still really enjoy them.
I don’t get the instant regret post KFC that I do from Maccas and HJ’s.
I bought Pokemon Y yesterday! Damn son, that is a mighty step-up from the Pokemon White v2 (DS) that I’ve been playing! Got about an hour in, have a level 10-ish water dude. Also claimed my two bonus codes so I have a level 50 fairy/rock thing and a level 25 shiny Gengar haha. Both with mega evolution items for transfer to Pokemon Sapphire Omega. :3
But yeah, the game looks really neat and is playing quite well too! I’m impressed! People should add me!
So I’m guessing the fairy/rock thing is Diancie – I thought the code distribution for that wasn’t starting until the 10th.
EB?
Yes that’s the one. I threw out the code but pretty sure it started from October sometime. I actually got a whole stash of them for myself and friends who were with me from Target. “Purchase not required” to get the code, they should hand em out for free.
Question of the Day!
If you could work anywhere, or do anything for a job, what would it be? (Qualifications be damned!)
I would work at Media Molecule or Pixar as a writer/storyboard artist. OR I would work at Jurassic Park (but you know, get it right).
Show runner for TV series!
MY answer. >:(
Been my answer since I was 13. 😛
I even had a ‘show bible’ for something called Triumvirate! TAKE THAT, SHANE! 😉
*takes sledgehammer to computer*
I don’t know, I’m too young to settle for a single career. Therefore I choose:
– Multiple places. Canada is probably at the top of my list to try atm.
– Career I have more of an idea. Solutions Architect, pretty much, but applied to a wide topic area.
Canada is pretty nice – Vancouver is one of the best places I’ve ever been.
Ew, Vancouver? Who’d live there?
The joke is I do
I LOVE THIS BEING DARK AT 4:30 BEFORE I EVEN LEAVE WORK STUFF
SO GOOD
10/10 JOB WITH DAYLIGHT SAVINGS, CANADA
It’s dark when I leave for work and dark when I come back from work. I’m pretty sure most of NA suffers from Daylight savings.
I haven’t researched it much at all, but yes Vancouver actually looks like a good fit for me.
It’s just super lovely. Like, when you think of the (nice) cliche of Canadians being super friendly, and there being snow and bears and moose. Well, that’s Vancouver. I’d like to go back again.
Nice. 🙂 I like mountain biking, cool (cold) weather, snow, skiing, hiking, woods. Size is of Brisbane. Honestly seems like a great place to live.
God, the more you two talk about it, the more I feel like disproving those claims. 😛
Don’t ruin the illusion! 😛 Or, actually, do. Since brochures and actually living there are completely different.
Probably work on the ISS as an astronaut. I think I’m too tall though. T_T
I’m full of self-pity today, don’t mind me.
Tall people of the world, unite!
Just, not as astronauts. Or pilots. Or, believe it or not, down the mines.
It’s a cruel world.
Whoa, you’re over 6’4″?
I’m 6’5. Quiz_B like 6’7 though I think!
6’7.5 THANK YOU VERY MUCH
(hint: I’m still not the tallest on here, but my brain isn’t well at the moment and I can’t remember who is and whether or not he still posts)
Holy jebus!
I’m sorry, that was rude. Wow, though. That must be difficult at the best of times.
Sorry, I couldn’t hear you from up here. What did you say again?
Nah, is all good. I even drive a small hatchback. People laugh when I climb out of it.
I’ve learnt from a young age the myriad of ways I can fold my body. 🙂
http://jassieinjerusalem.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/very_tall_man.jpg
I’m even more sorry now, but http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwwig5xQW21qj4b9to1_500.gif
@liondrive is pretty tall too. So weird as a 6’2 guy to have to look up at someone speaking for the first time. XD
Yes, that is the usual female reaction to @quiz_b …. AMIRITE?! 😛
Well, that was my much needed ego boost for the day. Why thank you @stickman. I’m assuming most females faint out of (good) sensory overload around you.
So…It is quite a tall order to remember?
*runs away*
Is 6’4” the cut off? I’d just scrape in if I shaved my head.
4’10.5″ to 6’4″ for all astronauts as of 2003.
But you know, Pyschonauts can be any height, so you got that.
Graphic Design/ Visual Arts.
That or Music Production (Audio Engineer).
I’d like to work either pre-production or as director on games.
Which seems like I’m shirking off all the hard work (that being actual writing, art, programming, whatever) to make lofty claims and to have wild ambitions, and that’s exactly correct (I want to be Peter Molyneux, but well, not).
Edit: Or somehow a job that involved sitting around around singing all day, without the necessity of actually being a good singer.
Your edit is basically my job.You should become a quilter/housewife too so you can make stuff and clean stuff while singing loudly. \o/
I’m not a very ambitious person. I’m fine where I am 😛
Author.
If you exclude ‘working’ (being published) by the big guns (Penguin, Randomhouse etc.) then I’d work in video games, probably at BioWare – simply because I love how they do their branching story lines.
Or anywhere that Rhianna Pratchett works because a) she’s awesome in her own right and I’d love to work with her and b) She’s genetically related to God Himself.
I want to be Anthony Bourdain, being paid to travel the world trying all the food while meeting some truly interesting people.
Now I’m depressed. Thanks Jane.
Sorry, Scruffy.
Will Wheaton’s job on Tabletop. That would be a dream job.
Or just work with people who make RPGs all the time. I read an article about a porn actor who actually wrote a supplement book for D&D a few years ago which was super interesting. You can literally be anyone and work on a RPG.
On a similar line, I’d love to be something like a producer at a major company like Days of Wonder or Fantasy Flight. Not so much creating games but overseeing their design and pushing them in the right direction.
It would be super interesting to see how things play out and how simple ideas are fleshed into the overall structure of a game. Considering how complex some things are and how they would have to think of things like balance, especially in the LCGs, I imagine it would be a hard but fulfilling job.
If money wasn’t a concern either I’d do conservation work with animals, probably in Africa, go join one of those crazy poacher hunting teams and get them some decent equipment. Either that or pyrotechnician, I used to have a lot of fun mixing up my own gun powder with different elements to alter the color/ burn speed.
My momma went to Africa last year (on her own, at 65 years old) for a safari through like, 12 countries, and she said one of the best parts was her group tracking down poachers and reporting them and seeing them arrested. So proud of her.
wow, that’s amazing, she is a credit to the world. I have a soft spot for Africa because I was born there. 😀
Oh really? Which country?
South Africa, been in Aus more than half my life now though.
I’ve met and worked with a lot of Safs (I love that term, it’s so cute – better than ‘Aussies’) and they’ve either been salt-of-the-Earth loveliest people, or outright assholes. No middle ground. You’re one of the former 🙂
Yep, you’ll either leave there with an open mind or full of hate I think. Also the term Saf or Safa is a little too close sounding to a derogatory term people use in SA for my liking :P, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaffir_(racial_term) I always warn people to not use it or pronounce it very clearly lol.
Have to agree with you there, my best (only) friends missus is originally from South Africa and she’s a total bitch.
Get paid to do a documentary about travelling the world. It’d be a mixture of me cooking and eating the local cuisine, telling people about random tidbits of info/relevant historical information, and giant segments where I completely rip off top gear and drive fancy motorbikes and cars around the place while continuously talking how I should avoid ripping off top gear.
Have you watched Long Way Round?
Hell yeah, increased my respect for Ewan McGregor a thousandfold. Also made me look at BMW bikes a little more closely.
I wanna be the bass player for Slipknot.. Seems like a job I could do & enjoy. Plus no one would know who I am so I wouldn’t be famous, cause of the whole the band hasn’t announced who the new drummer & bass player are & that they wear masks.. Which I like the idea of.
Mythbusters. Just building things and satisfying curiosity all day every day.
Travel writer would be a pretty sweet gig.
I used to think my dream job would be working at Bungie or Bioware as a developer but having seen their recent output and stuff I’m less into that idea.
NASA I guess? Or maybe a planetarium / observatory. Always found space stuff fascinating.
Quick question for board-gamers:
Wife mentioned that she loved playing a board game from a couple years back called Pandemic.
I’ve got it on order, but the guy behind the counter kept pushing the expansion pack on me.
Is the game itself fine without the expansion, or is this a Killer Bunnies scenario where the expansion pack makes the base game so much more fun and gives it more playtime before it’s inevitably put on the shelf?
Does anybody know?
Aleph and I played that.
It seemed neat.
I hope this informative and detailed account of my experience helps your predicament in ways you couldn’t even imagine.
You have literally changed my life @bish.
Literally.
I have played a lot of Pandemic. When Freya and I first moved in together, we played the absolute shit out of that game.
The expansions are fantastic but Pandemic is one of those games where the expansions exist for people who have exhausted the base game. You will reach a point where you’ll decide that there isn’t enough there anymore and suddenly you’re looking up On The Brink on Board Game Geek.
There are some games where expansions are necessary (Ticket to Ride: 1910, King of Tokyo: Power Up) and I would tell you to get them right off the bat. This is definitely not the case. But I really do love the expansions.
Thank you! Will ignore his upselling and instead pick up something else. 🙂
Forbidden Island/Desert uses the same core mechanic but have shifting tiles to represent the maps. Developed by the same dude too. Admittedly, they’re a little simpler but still fun things if you want more of the same.
If you want something else, just tell me what sort of something else you’re after and I can probably think of a few games. Otherwise get Qwirkle.
Do you want another co-op game? A two-player game for playing with/against the wife? Or just something general. I’m sure that TAY can provide some good suggestions.
Thinking about it, she loves the co-op games.
…suggestions, TAY? (thanks @negativezero)
How big and how much time / money investment is okay? Also how simple / complex can they get? There’s some great co-op stuff out there but a lot of it needs 3+ players to be optimal, are those also okay or do you really want stuff that’s best with 2 players only?
Mostly 2 people, but we have board gaming nights with mates which brings us up to 4.
She’s ok with complex (and so am I). We have munchkin and Killer Bunnies (not strictly a board game, but still) and can play them quickly and well – I think the most complicated one we have is Alhambra (sp?).
It’s not co-op by any means but do you have Carcassonne? If you even remotely like the tile laying aspect of Alhambra then Carcassonne is way better.
Do you like Lovecraftian horror? It’s not a great game by any stretch, has a lot of flaws, but Arkham Horror is heaps of fun with a group of 3-4 people. Eldrich Horror is a streamlined version of it which I think works better with 2 players (and you can always play extra characters each as well). You’re basically exploring a town and all its strange goings-on, fighting abominable monsters that want to make you go insane and trying to prevent the advent of some ancient evil. Heaps of expansions that add lots of stuff.
Similarly for 3+ players there’s some great co-op-but-one-player-might-be-a-traitor games. Shadows Over Camelot and Battlestar Galactica are both great. BSG I recommend playing with the extra cards of the Pegasus expansion, if not the extra board and mechanics, just because it adds a lot of extra things you can do. Camelot is fine as the base game, the expansion adds a 7th player and the possibility of two traitors plus makes it a bit harder to win. In BSG’s case there’s always someone who’s a traitor, but in Shadows there’s a chance that everyone is loyal which is interesting.
If the idea of battling miniatures appeals to you you might want to look into Super Dungeon Explore, but I’d hold off on that until their new base set, Forgotten King, comes out. It was a Kickstarter project a while back and it’s running a bit behind schedule. The reason I say to wait is that the basic game as it stands right now requires one player to be the ‘consul’ who controls all the enemy minions. The new version adds rules for allowing all that to be controlled by the game itself so it’s a pure co-op experience.
Another minis option if Fantasy is your thing is the D&D board games: Wrath of Ashardalon, Castle Ravenloft, Legend of Drizzt. They’re interesting but I think their biggest disadvantage is the lack of feeling like you’re really leveling up and getting stronger since you can only go up one level.
Continuing the RPG vein, If card games are more your thing, you could also look into the Pathfinder card game. Only big issue there is that it’s very much a one-shot thing, you’re going to play through the campaign maybe once with everything and be done with it unless you want to start over with new characters. It’s pretty fun but maybe a bit on the easy side. Also can get pretty complicated. Captures the RPG feel quite well though.
The other excellent co-op card game you should look into is Sentinels of the Multiverse. It’s just excellent, aside from the ugly art on the cards.
Co-op? Hanabi, Forbidden Island/Desert, the new Bauza game (Samurai Spirit)
*scribbles notes down* you are all so fantastic.
@quiz_b: especially Hanabi. It’s a nice simple game and it’s a great icebreaker and filler game between bigger ones too.
To throw my hat in: I’ve played the base game, never played the expansions. It’s a great game without them.
Totally unsolicated recommendation since you are looking at getting something else.
Have a look at castle panic, it’s basically a co-op tower defence game. There is a sequel dead panic” but I haven’t played it so don’t know if it is better or not.
Been getting the feeling lately that I’m just not enjoying games anywhere near as much as I used to, but I just can’t stop buying more.
Realized the other night that out of the last 3 and a half years I’ve been in my current job I should have been able to save about 50 grand by now, instead I’ve got like a dollar in my account, an XBone, a Wii U, a PS4 a heap of games and collectible stuff and that’s about it.
HELP ME!
Don’t know if I should just sell it all and find another hobby, or what. It’s becoming more of a grind than enjoyment.
Jesus, 50 grand? What do you do? If you don’t like gaming, take a break. Take up reading or running or writing or cooking for awhile. What games do you love most? What was the last game that you got really excited about?
I really don’t earn all that much. We’re just lucky enough to own our house outright, it just needs a lot of work. I mostly tend to spend my money on games and various other crap that I don’t really need.
Also, you’re working to fund your life. There’s no point saving money with no intention of ever spending. I’d rather have modest savings and live happily than huge savings and be a crazy shut in. *cough*
I have no savings, and I’m still a crazy shut in.
Hermits unite.
Don’t get rid of it. Just unplug it and put it all into storage for a few weeks. See how you feel after that.
Also, I have some suggestions for where to send moneys, if you want to hear them!
As someone who’s been gifted games from you more than once. (I appreciate it so much, buddy. Thank you.) YOU SHOULD PROBABLY STOP DOING THAT! 😛
Do you frequently buy PCs such as this: http://au.pcpartpicker.com/p/GJ9svK ?
Wow! That’s a monster!
I get a similar thing, but just with 80% of all new releases. I need to stop buying everything. I buy say, 10 of the latest greatest releases, and play 8 of them for 30 minutes and never touch again. The other 2, I’ll be lucky to finish one. I’m happy with gaming still, just need to adjust it’s place in my life.
I often get the temptation to just up and get rid of everything to cut the cord, basically, but I like Shane’s idea better. Put it away for a while. Try and change up your routine and do something different, see if it takes.
Dang, I thought I was alright putting away a few thousand every year. I have no idea how you’d work on saving $50,000 over three years.
Sounds like gaming hiatus time… I think everyone goes through that gaming fatigue from time to time… Take a few weeks off, read books and other stuff, then see how you feel… Worked wonders for me
Ill take some stuff off your hands if you really dont want it 😛
Nice try man, I ain’t gonna just give it away.
You gave alien isolation away 😛 haha
Not yet I haven’t.
Sorry @benny, I’ve been really slack, I’ll get it off to you soon.
Still, what you do with your money is upto you dude, take a break and come back a few weeks later or play a game you loved to get that flame back
Tbh you just need to get off the new-release bandwagon. Wait a couple months and the purchase price is half-price. Gives you time to enjoy games fully, and play whatever you want – at your own pace. Read reviews, but just save them in your favourites for when the game is on special.
That’s the thing, it’s so hard to keep up now, if you wait sure you’ll get it cheaper, but there’ll be even more games to try and cram in.
Which is why you can pick and choose the good ones that you wanna play. Instead of playing something for a little bit, realising it’s utter shit, and losing a ton of money on. We’re working men, man, we can’t play every single game that’s released! So pick the good ones!
Give yourself a set period of time where you strictly do not buy any new games. Not even old, new to you games that go on special somewhere.
For me, a lot of weariness with gaming as a hobby comes from the unspoken sense of obligation my huge pile of shame gives me. I’ve started enjoying games a great deal more since I stopped buying games on release, only when I need a new one of a specific type to play.
I came to the same realization recently. I buy way too much crap and I should have tons saved but I don’t. 🙁
One of the tricks I started about a year ago was putting aside a set amount into a separate savings account automatically every month just after I get paid. Live off the rest. Deliberately have no way to dig into it without manually transferring the cash back out of that account into my main one. If it’s not there in my main account I can’t spend it!
You might be onto something there, thanks man.
It was good enough to get me to ~$25k saved in a year, though I was living at home on the cheap and I’ve subsequently had to dig into it a bit to buy shit after I moved out. Also a big chunk of that was because I used my bonus from last year to start it. And some of it is interest too.
ING is good for operating a separate savings account. No extra fees and good interest for the first year or so.
I’m in a great mood for no reason, people keep throwing problems at me and I’m solving them instantly and with a smile. Hopefully you’re all doing well too.
Here is a song that encapsulates my mood
Sunshine & Happiness for All
Needs more Kermit.
i’ll raise you their 75 minute set at Wacken this year…
I approve 😀
Been to a bunch of his concerts SYL & Devy, saw him again last year and it was fantastic, dude has a voice to rival any opera singer (especially in the new version of Kingdom). Also puts on the most entertaining shows and is a genuinely nice guy, the couple of times I met him he was more than happy to have a chat and get photos with us.
Check out the hook while your DJ revolves it?
Preorders are live. Oh god…. Must resist. Resolve wavering…. Too many figures already…. What’s one more…. No oooOOOoooOOOooo….
http://www.gamingheads.com/index.php?option=com_myphp&Itemid=3&product=188
Can I call you Scruffy?
Only if he’s on break.
That’s a pretty sweet statue. It’s not Garrus though.
Oooooh she looks good. But that price, oh man.
Gah, why did I go to that site
Just as well shipping is expensive or I would have already click buy on other things. Still tempted as I don’t have anything for Mrs Tigs birthday. Just not 100% sure she would want them
Woo, freed from moderation lock!
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TOY STORY 4!!!!!
http://insidemovies.ew.com/2014/11/06/john-lasseter-will-direct-toy-story-4-breaking/
*flails arms*
After seeing Toy Story of Terror I’m glad we’re getting more Toy Story. So good. (There’s a Christmas short coming soon too!)
I love Toy Story but I don’t like the idea of any more.
Andy is a huge part of the series and the ending to TS3 was a perfect way to end things.
I don’t have anything constructive to add other then I completely agree with this
Not wholly unexpected, but still very disappointing. Three was just… a good end to it all.
Eh, all I can see is a fourth movie as a detraction from the series. More shorts and specials are great but is another full feature needed?
I’m interested to see what they do with this! It probably would have been better if they went with a subtitle instead of just naming it “Toy Story 4”.
It’s being written/produced/directed by the main guys behind TS1, so that gives me a lot of hope. I trust Lasseter, but I agree. They could give me more shorts forever and I’d be thrilled. I watched TS3 again recently and bawled my eyes out.
They could do a movie about the toys getting jealous when the new little girl character discovers Skylanders 😛
Disney Infinity you mean. Gotta get the tie in and advertising done.
They could show Disney Infinity ads in the previews!
And give away free demo packs with a large family popcorn!
And feature real-world locations in the film localised to wherever the place closest to the cinema is that sells Disney Infinity!
Just had a call from Optus regarding the interview I had, and sounds like they were happy with everything so far, and will be progressing with calling my referees! Still not a guaranteed job, but getting closer!
Nice, that’s usually the last step! Actually, that is the last step. Keep that in mind in the slim chance that you don’t get an official offer …
exactly.. I never expect anything to go my way. Looks promising, but bad shit always happens to me, so I expect the worst, and I’m never disappointed! 😉
30 degrees already…
Someone tell the sun that Summer isn’t for another three weeks. :\
Most of the last month has had days over 30 degrees for us in Brisbane :\ super sucks!
It snowed in Toronto 7 weeks before the start of ‘Winter’.
*sobs*
Set to be 39 here today!
Gah… so tired… one last attempt in the raid last night was a bad idea – it turned into an extra half hour because we actually succeeded…
“Things will go right at the most inopportune time.”
– [Murphy’s Optimistic Brother]’s Law
Completed hard mode?
Got past the Oracles on Hard mode. We’d developed a pretty sound strategy which took a few tries to iron out, and a little before midnight we’d decided to go for one last attempt before we called it a night.
We got past the oracles, and opted to cheese the Templar (we were all pretty tired by that point – we’ll try it properly in the future, but when some of us had to go to work in 6-7 hours, we all welcomed the path of least resistance). Took the path past the spirit bloom chest to the hidden chest (cheese meant templar never teleported, so that chest was there – some energy and shards, nothing exciting), got the chest at the end of that path (more energy), and grabbed the other chest to the right of the oracles (more shards), then called it a night. Total haul thus far: 14 Energy and 10 shards (inflated cos my character hadn’t done the normal version that week, so got both drops). No raid gear… 🙁
We’re giving it another go tonight to continue from the start of the Gorgons Labyrinth…
THERE’S A DOG IN THE VENTS!
GREASE ME UP, WOMAN!
Scruffy hears ya, Scruffy don’t care.
I don’t even know who this guy is!
Three days until Sonic Highways drops!
\m/-_-\m/
Was reminded that At the Gates’ new album came out recently, and subsequently felt like the worst fan ever, because I forgot. Too taken with The Haunted’s new album, Job for a Cowboy’s imminent release and others of late. Their first album in 16 (?) years and they were responsible for a large stage of evolution in my metal tastes as a 17-18 year old. (The introduction to Scandinavian metal as a whole!) Turns out it’s pretty much exactly what I was hoping for. High school being relived again. Great success!
Will be a suitable soundtrack for my weekend.
http://youtu.be/hzjshF0TFm8
I love that feeling when you see a Remember This? screenshot and get it instantly. It doesn’t happen often. XD
I think I’ve seen a Remember This? that I’ve known once, and I was out, and saw it hours later when it was already answered.
I am really bad at old games.
I’ve gotten it a couple of times. Once I got Dreamfall in about a minute and then Tracey complained on Kotaku’s Facebook. I was proud. XD
Tracey Lien?
LA Times’ Tracey Lien! 😛
NAME DROPPER :p
REFLECTED GLORY! 😛
@pupp3tmast3r @distantdrop
I’m looking at taking advantage of the refunded character xfer to get some heirlooms and gold to Barth, so just wanted to see what roles you guys are keen on? I can move a tank or a healer and looks like @virus__ is going to be DPS so have at ye for roles.
I’ll either be playing my Paladin or Monk when xpac hits most likely the Monk, so I can play any role however I’d rather be a vital role like healer so i don’t have panic attacks relying on others to be decent at it.
Grand our other prospect will definitely be a DPS, he finds tanks and healers boring.
I just remembered my pally, so I will transfer her over, so I too can take on any tole
My stomach is screaming for something with bacon in it for lunch… 😐
BLT with Avocado? Haters gonna hate!
Just shake it off.
Bacon and Ice Cream Sundaes!
Ewww…e…ew….
Now that I think about that I really want to try it.
Okay, hear me out. Use the Bacon Method to crisp up your bacon reeeeeal good, then let it cool. Then take a small piece and crumble it finely. Sprinkle a little of that onto a chocolate or salted-caramel Sunday. BAM.
Sometimes I like to use maple syrup as an ice cream topping.
I think it would be appropriate here.
Man, I’ve spent years trying to convert people to the idea of hot pancakes with maple syrup, bacon and ice cream. Everyone looks at me weird, and the few who’ve tried hailed me as their new god.
Hot bacon and ice cream is just amazing.
That sounds amazing!
Easiest way is to just go the Pancake Parlor, order a short stack with ice cream and an extra serving of bacon. Assemble pancakes with ice cream and maple syrup as per normal, but just cut a bit of bacon off to chuck in with each mouthful.
*flails*
Pancake Parlour is SO good. Pancake Manor in Brisbane needs to get in line with that shit. I don’t even know how it all works.
A friend took me to Pancake Manor. It’s an old church. I didn’t want to cross the threshold. WEEEEIRD. I convinced him to leave.
Nah, it’s fine. I’ve been there tonnes of times and never caught fire (and I’m an atheist non-practicing Jew).
Haven’t been there in such a long time, but The Pancake Kitchen in Adelaide is pretty damn good.
Ok, Kitchen then. Thanks 😛
I totally can’t remember if I had pancakes at… actually it’s Pancake House in Adelaide, I think? And Pancake Parlour in Melbourne. Fairly sure I didn’t have the pancakes at Parlour, I had their potato pancake or something instead. Their swiss shakes were awesome though.
But either way. Pancakes At The Rocks’ pancakes are horrible and I hate them. I just go there for the iced tea and the pizzas/crepes.
How about a KFC Double.
hmmmm no idea how I ended up on Jezabel but the authors replies in the comments are gold. My favourite so far.
I want a many-vaginead hydra in my Witcher 3 DLC.
It even fits the tone of the game.
My Giger counter is going off, so it will only work if it’s a many vaginaed hydra that is also covered in phalluses.
Hahaha I saw that too. It’s brilliant. I can also work out how you got there. Same way I did I’d guess.
I’ve got way too much time to play games at the moment. So much time that I don’t even play any. I think if I was working I’d appreciate my games more if I had less time to play them. #DCMusings #hashtagsforharli
I thought I’d be like that, but whenever I’m working full time I become too tired for games, so I just stare listlessly at my screen, desperately hoping for a wave of enthusiasm to crash upon me.
Ayup.
You got the whole wife and family stuff to take care of though! You’re a lost cause!
NO VIDEO GAMES FOR FREEZE BECAUSE HIS LIFE IS FILLED WITH JOY. 😛
I also get distracted by YouTube and everything else. My free time is scarce enough as it is and gaming just has to muscle out the competition whenever it can.
I pretty much have to force myself to play games after work. Watching TV is just so much easier…
I’m at the point where I need to force myself to even watch TV. I still haven’t gotten around to watching the second episode of the latest round of Dr Who.
Sitting there and reading Internet is so much easier.
working or not, I go through stages of playing and stages of staring at the screen wondering if it’s worth the effort to double click the icon to start the game! :0
I thought I was gonna knuckle down and get some serious gaming done this week, as my bestie I always play online with has gone on holidays in Cairns, but I’ve barely played a thing since he left!
I haven’t played a proper video game since I moved out of home despite having all the time to do so. I also have barely watched any anime. \o/
Which reminds me Ive got Aldnoah Zero loaded on my computer to watch tonight
On the bus I sat behind an older couple, looked to be in about their 70s. At one point, completely out of the blue, the woman turns to the man and blows bubbles in his face. Like, soap bubbles. With the little bottle of fluid and loop and everything. She then proceeded to blow bubbles up and down the bus, before giving the guy a firm kiss and getting off at Roma St.
Nice thing to see, but hasn’t shaken the gut-punched feeling I got this morning.
I found out this morning that someone I looked up to a long time ago died a while ago and I didn’t find out until this morning.
I don’t have the skill to convey the complexity or impact of it with any justice. So I’ll just say…
I went to look up a role-model from my uni days to thank him for the impact he had. Only a few years older than me, he was cuttingly insightful about any and all aspects of humanity, but always affectionate and kind with his universal insight. It was an ideal of generosity of spirit that I always admired. Everything he said or did was even-handed and fair; even if you didn’t like something he had to say (usually because it challenged your biases), you could respect it. I admired that so much and it influenced me heavily.
It turns out he died a couple years ago. And tragically, he… changed in the years prior. I don’t know what terrible thing happened to him, but it seems he started viewing the world through a one-note lens. He burned a lot of bridges, said and did some really unfortunate things in his about-face. And it affected how people remember him. I couldn’t believe they were talking about the same person I knew.
The tainting of that memory really hurts, like a gut punch. Really rattled me and can’t really understand how things could go so wrong. Especially since what I really wanted to do was reach out and thank him for the lessons learned, for… I dunno. Who he was a long time ago. Something to aspire to.
I know that… how things turned out doesn’t change that he WAS that person, at that time. That lesson’s still there, that you can love a flawed humanity and be generous with it. I just wish grim reality hadn’t crept in to brand an ugly caveat on that: It will drive you insane, or can’t be sustained, it won’t do any good or change people for the better, or the world will find another way to beat you. That context is a serious blow to idealism.
tl;dr: I lost a lesser hero in more ways than one and am now sad.
Still, there are good things…
The cafe downstairs is serving calamari for lunch and it’s pretty much always the best I’ve ever tasted.
A really good friend just finished the application process for military officer service and is now locked in and ready to go and I’m so proud and happy for him.
We get a public holiday next week.
My parents are still alive and well and I may visit one of them soon to catch up.
Uhm. Uhm. *flails*
I know a good thing.
No, you know what, it’s a great thing.
You know me, and, quite frankly, I’m utterly swell. That’ll cheer ya.
In all seriousness, I can sort of relate, and it really sucks. Humanity is the greatest thing in the world at destroying itself.Good things include:
You can see and/or feel sunshine
You are breathing, and will continue to do so
There are aspects of you that you still don’t understand and you need years of living to slowly begin to look at, at which point you will feel happier with yourself and your journey as a whole.
To completely ruin the mood:
I so need to get a side-job writing Hallmark cards. I meant what I said above, but I can be the most saccharine softy twerp the world has known.That’s enough to make anyone turn.. One Note is fucking AWFUL! 😉
The bubbles story was uplifting atleast. You’re awesome, Transientmind!
I’m very sorry to hear of your loss, but I’m kind of glad you didn’t have to see him during his hard period? I know that wasn’t the guy you knew, but it might have had a negative impact on your view of him, so you were spared that. You get to remember him for the solid person you knew him to be.
Celebrate life, rather than mourn loss. It’s good to focus on those lovely things, and the woman on the bus sounded wonderful.
Yeah. If I’d had my head together I like to think I might’ve leaned over and told the guy, “You’re a lucky man.”
Man, woman, young, old… you find someone willing to blow bubbles at you on the bus, you got yourself a keeper.
As long as they’re not spit bubbles!
Not sure which is worse. The death of a friend/mentor, or the tainting of your memories.
You write good. I like how you see the world. 🙂
Had the inverse experience – someone I used to despise (because they were a giant tool and a nasty bully) came back into my life recently, and bloody hell they’ve changed, Actually socially aware, and doing Good Things. So there’s some cosmic balance for you.
Hey guys, Jane’s comment above made me think: Odd food combinations that actually work.
Here’s mine:
Apple, mustard, cheese sandwich.
Cut the apple up really fine, smack mustard on the bread, lay down thin slices of cheese then apples, close sandwich, eat.
Can be any mustard but works well with wholegrain. I never thought of putting apples in sandwiches before then.
What’s yours?
An old fav of mine was Peanut butter and apple. No so weird.. but one that I often find people questioning my mental health over, is Beetroot and Banana. I know it sounds weird, but damn it’s good!
Unadulterated beetroot or pickled beetroot?
Strawberry and Jalapeno.
I don’t think it’s odd, but everywhere I’ve asked for some honey mustard to be added to a croissant with ham & cheese on it, people say it’s weird.
It’s ham, cheese and mustard. How can anyone think that’s weird?
Growing up, my old man used to use the leftover potato from a roast to make a sandwich the next day – cold roast potato, squashed into a sandwich with fucking vegemite. It’s the goods. Trust me.
Dried apricots and mint toothpaste. WUT.
not mine but an old house mate used to love pineapple and vegemite sandwiches, I was never game to try it.
Doughnuts and the freezer.
Where’s @liondrive when you need him 😛
He’s learnt not to take the bait anymore unfortunately 😛
Frozen Snickers and Mars bars are a lovely thing.
Frozen is the only way I can tolerate them – I find them way too sweet otherwise.
Sounds similar to something I used to have a lot as a kid – a sandwich with cream cheese on it, then thinly sliced apple sprinkled with cinnamon sugar. Loved it.
And now I totally have to try pretty much everything mentioned here. Less so the “but that sounds normal” ones. Oh and the toothpaste one. You don’t eat toothpaste.
I know, right? The only person I know who eats toothpaste is my two year old, who occasionally shits in the shower so he’s not a good yardstick to measure yourself against.
(Sorry Jane if you actually DO eat toothpaste).
My main problem with eating toothpaste I guess is just a memory of that weird scratchy feeling it gives you at the back of your throat. Makes me feel all gross just thinking about it.
But not sorry if she poops in the shower?
Haaaaaahahahahahahahhaa.
My son loves pieces of Apple sprinkled with Cinnamon Sugar.
A not so weird one that’s quite nice is buttered toast with cinnamon sugar. Yum.
Haha, I know it’s weird. It only happened after I ate some dried apricots directly after brushing my teeth. It tasted so good! So now, very occasionally, and only when I am alone, I brush my teeth real good and then eat apricots. Once or twice I tried putting a little bit of toothpaste on the apricots, but that was too fussy.
Oh Jane… don’t ever let anyone tell you that you’re not really weird.
🙂
This post has brightened my day. I can’t seem to stop smiling like an idiot.
Well, it was worth out then. Let’s celebrate! *looks for toothbrush*
Haven’t had them in ages, but peanut butter and S+V flavoured crisps (chips) sandwiches.
The best snack.
Edit: Spelling.
I loved cream cheese and relish sandwiches as a kid (still do). Gherkin relish, corn relish. Really didn’t matter what sort.
What movie would you like to see remastered and in the cinema? Doesn’t matter how old!
Aliens, Predator and Akira.
Back to back, please.
If they just zazzed up akiras animation sure.
ANYTHING ELSE THEY NEED TO LEAVE ALONE
Oh, entirely. Just a tidy up and sound overhaul, which I know they’ve already done. I just want it at the cinemas. Still not sure which dub I’d want though. I grew up with the original, but also adopted the later dub without much trouble.
No, they need to make it live action with Zac Efron starring.
I can’t even pretend to laugh at this. Whitewash live action Akira would be an even bigger insult than the DBZ live action film. Yes. It’s possible.
Old? Well then. Flight of the Navigator, Short Circuit, The Black Cauldron, The Dark Crystal.
You sir, have good taste.
I got the Dark Crystal on bluray a while back for the kids but they didn’t take to it as well as I had hoped. They dug Short Circuit though.
Hm. It is a bit rambly… should replace The Dark Crystal with Batteries Not Included.
I freakin loved Batteries Not Included when I was little.
I think I only saw it on TV and we didn’t tape it though, so I probably only saw it the once. But it stuck in there.
I loved that movie so much as a kid. On a forum I was frequenting a few years ago, we ran a competition called ‘scene-it’. You post a still from a movie, and people guess the movie. I got suspicious, disbelieving reaction to guessing a still from the beginning of the movie of the building which was being condemned, but man, if they only knew how much of an impression that movie left…
I cried like a little girl during the Black Cauldron at the cinema when Gurgi threw himself in to the cauldron!
I was only about 7 or 8 when I saw it though, so you know.. :0
DUDE SPOILERS
(j/k)
Flight of the Navigator was my first thought.
Willow should be on this list as well
@freezespreston I don’t think that the dark crystal has aged all that well. We did a movie night a few years ago and they made me turn it off. Besides the fact they are monsters, I can see how people new to it would enjoy it less than we did/do.
I kinda thought about Willow, but I saw it recently and didn’t really feel like it stood up as well as I remembered.
But on reflection, I think The Dark Crystal probably doesn’t even hold up as well. Oh, nostalgia goggles…
0.O
Have some soap, I’ll wait while you wash your mouth out.
I think stuff like Indiana Jones, Alien/s, Blade Runner would be amazing. I wouldn’t mind seeing the Disney movies I missed in cinema on the big screen like Pocahontas and Mulan.
Terminator 2.
Ohwait they’re already doing that soon.
Never mind.
I notice most of the movies I’ve mentioned have had recent cinema releases and I’ve missed them all because I’m a horrible person. :'(
This Sunday is Shawshank Redemption.
I’m very tempted.
Wait, what? Huh? When? Why? What?
Event Cinemas do Flashback Sunday where they play an old movie for the day.
Not the ACT one. I just checked 🙁
I’d like to see Star Wars un-remastered on the big screen! 😛
This.
Super Mario Bros!
Weekend At Bernie’s.
Oliver!
THE PRINCESS BRIDE
I got to see it on a big-ish screen at the Valhalla years ago. It was splendid.
I still need to see this in general!
:O
If I tried, I could probably recite it start to finish.
It somehow came up when my sister was home for her birthday the other night. She was super confused about why I was talking about some movie called The Princess Bride, why I was going on about it like it was the greatest thing ever, my amazement at her not even having heard of it… and her boyfriend right there beside me doing the exact same thing 😛
Needless to say, I’ve noted it down as part of my (super late) birthday present for her.
I still haven’t seen it.
For the longest time, I thought everyone was talking about The Princess Diaries.
…Which I have seen.
And enjoyed. DON’T JUDGE MEHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA!
I can send you my copy on DVD. It’s such a fun movie 🙂
I’ll get around to it. In time. Thank you, though. 🙂
I guess I should do a housewarming meat at some point…
Yes you should
If you need to get rid of old furniture, or require an excuse to get new stuff – I know a guy…
My problem is actually the opposite. I don’t have enough furniture. Need to get a second couch. Also still don’t have a washing machine & dryer so have to go to my Mum’s place every few days to do washing which sucks.
You should do that. You should also just play a shitload of board games there.
Yes.
But first I must find shelves and upon doing so, recover the other box of games from storage. And while I’m at it, find a way to get the missing pieces for my copy of Tigris & Euphrates so I can actually try it out (my copy shipped without any of the green pieces 🙁 )
We use a linen closet. Before that, the Expedit shelves (now replaced by something similar) were a godsend.
I was thinking of getting a couple of Billys as I need one for my extra books and stuff for my study / spare bedroom anyway. In the mean time I’d have to stack them in the wardrobe. 🙁
Billy bookcases aren’t deep enough to use for board games. Trust me, we have a lot of Billys in this house.
Billy is the less wide, shallower one isn’t it? I got some other ones that were similar but wider and also deeper, totally can’t remember the name of them. They house all my games though (or at least try to… kinda gone over the limits with things now spilling out the front a bit. Not quite enough space to go three DVD cases deep >_>).
They all come in a range of widths, but Billy is the shallow one, Expedit is the one made up of cubes. I think you can go 2 DVDs deep in a Billy.
IKEA is a bit odd.
Often if you email the manufacturer they’ll help you with missing pieces.
Yeah, I got the game years ago and asked the retailer to do that for me and they said they did, but I never got the parts and just forgot about it. Should follow that up.
Thanks for driving me down, Neg! 😀
wow it’s all happening today! Just had a call from the guy who interviewed me for the dept of education job, and he’s confirmed that out of 75 applicants, I’ve been chosen for a direct interview! He apparently put forward 5 potential candidates, and I was the only one selected out of those 5, so I must be doing something right!
Hells yes! Fingers crossed for you, buddy! You deserve this!
Wheeeeee! \o/
Good luck man, hope you get it.
Aww yeah! Good work man.
Everything’s coming up Welbot!
gonna be interesting. Never had 2 jobs come up so close to one another before. It might come down to me actually seeing which job offers the best package and having to pick between them!
Still, got an interview to get through for this one yet. Interview is done for Optus, so kind of just waiting on an offer I suppose! I am excite!
Just came across this, how ironic considering my post on the previous page.
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2014/11/treat-shopping-like-an-addiction-to-quit-the-impulse-spending-habit/
There’s only one difference between an Alcoholic/Drug Addict and a shopping addict. A shopping addict doesn’t have to go anywhere to get their fix, all they need is the internet and a bank account. It’s so easy to just go online and buy stuff. When you think about it like that, I think the shopping addict has the toughest job of trying to kick their addiction, because it’s just so accessible.
Mmm, stuff like games or shopping or even gambling are psychological addictions – ultimately it’s all in the person’s head, getting into a deep mental rut.
Drug and alcohol addiction is physiological – actually have foreign chemicals in your body messing things up and making the person physically dependent on them
Its really two very different things, and it kinda annoys me that the same word is used for both. Tis misleading and inaccurate.
Same with feeling depressed and actually having Depression.
There is far more to the latter than just feeling a bit sad like the former.
Well said.
Exactly. As someone who has suffered at the hands of an alcoholic (which, in my own opinion and experience, is not a disease but a weakness), it’s an entirely different ballgame than being addicted to shopping. There’s a damn good chance you’re not going to run down someone in your car when you’ve been shopping too much.
It isn’t as cut and dried as that. Certain activities like gambling do release chemicals into the brain and people who are addicted can suffer withdrawl symptoms if they don’t gamble.
When it transfers over from a habit to having physical symptoms I would consider it an addiction. If you are losing life savings, lying and hiding your activities, can’t stop even if you try and it is having a huge negative impact on your life I would consider it an addiction.
That said the term addiction is used too freely.
http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_1144_the-21-most-ridiculously-frustrating-video-game-moments_p21/
Some yes. Some I’m not sure about.
Goddamn owl stopping you in Ocarina should have been number 1.
Jesus christ. Number 4. So damn much.
I saw a guy with beard and glasses picking up a KFC from the Myer food court in Sydney CBD. He had a PAX AUS t-shirt on and looked familiar. Reveal yourself!
Edit: Just fyi, I actually went with a Subway. It was gross.
Has a beard and likes to eat KFC? That doesn’t sound like anybody on TAY at all!
I have a beard and glasses and ate KFC for lunch.
Not in Sydney though.
Maybe I’m in Brisbane and confused.
Poor Freeze. Gets thought of as a Canberra native 😛
I know I’m terrible but didn’t think I was that terrible.
Woooooops.
*stands* I’M SPARTACUS!
GUARDS. Arrest that man. Quick, before anyone else claims to be Spartacus. I’ve seen this film before.
Whereas I had a mental image of Ms Hoover (from The Simpsons) saying impatiently, “Sit down, Spartacus.”
Wasn’t me \o/
should narrow it down by at least 1 person!
#helping
TAY helpy? Anyone remember a game from the 90s-00s in a similar vein to wolf3d/doom/duke3d/rott/strife/heretic/hexen that had a funny name for one of its difficulty settings? There’s one in particular I’m thinking of. You know how they used to give non-standard names to the difficulty levels?
Eg: Wolf 3D:
“Can I play, Daddy?”
“Don’t hurt me.”
“Bring ’em on!”
“I am Death incarnate!”
Duke 3D:
“Piece of Cake”
“Let’s Rock”
“Come Get Some”
“Damn I’m Good”
I could swear I played one of these that had the difficulty level, ‘I get these headaches’. Anyone remember which that might’ve been?
Doesn’t ring any bells but it sounds like something from postal
There’s a good chance that the game you’re looking for is listed here (Warning: TV Tropes, hope your browser can handle a tab explosion).
Nothing listed for headaches though.
Thanks, I’ll take a peek at– ARGH NOOO I’ve already lost too many hours to TV Tropes this week! Oooh. Interesting…
Heh. OK, I haven’t heard of that one before. I wonder what the examples are. Hm. Compare… brb.
The Fortress Of Dr Radiaki is sticking in my head when you say that but googling it isn’t confirming anything so I’m probably wrong.
I have a suspicion that that might be text that comes up for the highest difficulty in Painkiller?
Looking at the manual for that it says Trauma (Daydream, Insomnia, Nightmare, Trauma)
Yeah but I think the description text might have had that. May be wrong though.
Painkiller was my first thought too, but having not played it in so long, I couldn’t be sure.
Likely to be something old like Ken’s Labyrinth or Blake Stone? Again, so long since I played em I don’t remember what their difficulty settings were, but worth a shot!
Nitemare 3d even? Played so many of them back in the day, but never really took too much notice of what they had as difficulty settings.
Not Blood or Blood II? Later end of that era.
Genocide, Homicide and Suicide.
Thanks guys. @trjn’s link to TV Tropes seems like a really frickin’ comprehensive list, and I couldn’t find it on there, so it’s obviously something that was just in my imagination/fever dreams.
Or as Neg says above it was part of the description text, not the actual difficulty title
Or alzheimers, it could be alzheimers
Long shot, but it wouldn’t be something like Realms of the Haunting would it?
Dear TAY
I have finally figured out why curiosity killed the cat.
It saw geo-engineering written on the footpath and decided to look at what that was.
The stupid then exploded it’s brain
Yours in despair
Tigs
I just realised that it’s Friday and not Thursday.
Even though I’m pretty sure I knew that this morning.
So I’m having issues with the playstation store. Mine does the forever loading thingy. I wanted to claim the stuff that @redartifice, @freezespreston, @sernobulus, @powalen and a few other contributors got me. I feel terrible that I’m unable to get it. D=
I had weird issues with the store either being “under maintenance” or “not available” it was an issue with my clock settings (I may have adjusted the date to get around cinavia). Only suggestion I have sorry.
Clock is fine. Tried deleting and reinstalling. None worked. Perpetually loading D=
Inspired by @transientmind above, years ago I played a demo for a game that was a first person game built on Quake or similar, but it was an adventure game or RPG and from memory it had character art and stuff that were anime-esque. Not sure if it was Japanese made and then localized, or just people aping that style. Would love to know what it was. PC-based, I think DOS-based even. Would have most likely been on a PC Gamer magazine CD and I think 1995-1998 era.
EDIT: It was I think Strife. Mystery Solved.
Based on Quake, not Doom? Because the first thing that springs to mind in an RPG’ish vein is Strife. But I know there were a bunch of ambitious knock-offs with sci-fi bents.
Man that was a great age for gaming, though.
Turns out if was Strife.
Ah, nice. Strife would be very high on my list of games worthy of a reboot. That was some quality shit in what it tried to do, and I really loved the enemies, weapons, and many of the mechanics. It was pretty buggy, but so ambitious.
I wish Bungie would give Pathways into Darkness a do-over too. Would make for an amazing modern-style game I think.
Not before they get their asses into gear on the Oni remake!
I wish, but they don’t own Oni any more. The reason that game was so compromised when it came out (multiplayer cut, mechs cut, uninspired level design) is that they sold it along with Myth to other publishers in order to stay solvent while they worked on Halo before Microsoft rescued them.
The IP is now owned by Take-Two by way of Rockstar, who developed the PS2 port too. It was a Gathering of Developers game originally. So basically if it were rebooted, Rockstar would probably be the ones to do it. And I would be completely okay with that because an open world RDR-style game in a dystopian Cyberpunk world inspired by manga like Ghost in the Shell and Bubblegum Crisis and by Blade Runner sounds like one of my ultimate games.
@negativezero
Right? That’d be so amazing. It’s sad, because while it’s definitely clunky, there’s a whole lot of great stuff in Oni’s combat system, and there’s really not much else like it.
And I’d say that there’s little chance of there ever being work done on an underperforming game from the early PS2 era, but there was a sequel to Red Dead Revolver, so who can say?
Strife was a top notch game! I even went back and played it like a year ago just to relive the experience. I regret nothing!
Was it Shogo : Mobile Armored Division?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shogo:_Mobile_Armor_Division
Might be way off, but I played the shit out of that as a teenager and completely forgot about it’s existence until like 6 months ago. Just the Quake engine mention made me think of it. Plus Anime style games/shooters were relatively uncommon in the West back then.
EDIT: Lithtech engine, I know – but always had a distinct Quake 2 feel to it for me.
Shogo was great! Only other kind of anime-ish kind of game I can think of from that era was Oni, but that was rubbish, and also not fps!
ONI WAS AWESOME
One of my most played games on PS2, iirc.
No it was RUBBISH purely for the fact it didn’t have an invert mouse option!!! GRRRR!
This is some good shit. I’m gonna have to get me some of this soon.
http://www.reddit.com/r/howtonotgiveafuck/comments/11mbsp/eat_a_fucking_apple/
I’m not entirely sure why, maybe it’s because Mr. Strange has been away all week again so I feel a bit alone, but I’ve kind of been in a slump this week. On all fronts.
And then today I signed up to do another Instagram based mini quilt swap. It’s a pretty popular one, so popular they have to limit spots to 1000. So yeah, that’ll be fun and scary, but not the reason I’m making this comment.
You see, in the sign up form you have to put lots of info so your partner can make something you love and one of the boxes had the question “Which Instagram user inspires you the most? (I put “ALL OF THEM!” because I’m terrible at choosing), and I just checked Instagram then and found someone had tagged me in a comment, saying they’d put my name in that box! Someone who’d never heard of me a month or two ago, and now they’re inspired by me. I’m completely gobsmacked.
Just the kick in the pants I needed for this week.
All teh loves! You are a winner!
Yay! Keep on being yourself – that’s what inspired them!
See? You are awesome!
So full of 🙁 right now.
Not sadness, more a lack of enthusiasm.
Aww lethargy, boo. Maybe go a walk or a run to clear your head a little bit, and then do your favourite comfort thing – watching an old favourite movie, or reading your favourite book, or eating your favourite food. Orrrrr look up puppies or kitties or read about the ISS or look at pictures taken on Mars. Find something to inspire you 🙂
Awww dood. *brohug* I would love to help, but I’m not sure what would inspire you to be enthusiastic. Guess it depends on what you’re not enthusiastic about..
If you feel committed to cheering yourself up, alcohol is a nice lubricant to get the ball rolling.
E.g. I used to blast some awesome tunes and get tipsy, and just chill on beanbag or dance around to the music. Felt great and I always woke up with a fuck yeahhh attitude.
Edit: to be clear – not wasted. Just tipsy.
Tipsy is fun. I don’t like getting drunk, but just a nice little buzz is good fun.
Just putting it out there, since you never know if you never ask, does anyone have enough money to give me so I never have to work again but still live comfortably with all the creature comforts?
Please?
I do but I’m too selfish to give it.
Ah crap, how come I didn’t think of this? I’ll take one of these two, if anyone has a spare after fixing Freeze up.
Well since there’s already a queue forming, I’ll make things easier – I’m happy to take a sugar mama instead.
Awww, yeah, Friday. Everyone in my office is clearing out early.
*unplugs headphones, performs happy dance*
So much more peaceful when you don’t have to deal with anyone 😀
Edit: I’m definitely suited to autonomous roles
Spin in your chair! Do it now!
I yelled “SEE YA LATER, SUCKERS!” and ran out of the office early today.
…there was nobody else in the office at the time, but still.
My office does 4pm finishes on summer Fridays. It is officially awesome.
That’s amazing!
It is. It’s putatively to allow people to spend more time with their families or go see their children play cricket or some such.
For us childless types it just means we can get a table at the pub and a quiet pint before it gets rammed as all the other offices knock off (and play spot all the people whose “working lunch” has turned into “massive friday session”…).
I LIKE HAPPY GUTSOUP! KEEP IT UP!
Heyyyyyoooooooo I have a strong urge to buy a couple 1L beers from Dan’s on my way home and do fun stuffs.
do eeeeeeeet!
That’s what I’ll be doing. Dunno whether to also stop and have a cider at the pub on the way. Maybe if I’m feeling especially crazy when I arrive back in my hood.
See comment above yours. 😀
Apparently you can update your Twitter profile. Kind of forgot that, had the same pointless sentence for a few years. Decided to put something slightly more specific in there.
Someone in my team just sent an inter-office memo and mispelled Rubik’s Cube and Rubix Cube and I had to really restrain myself from correcting him. But it was hard, and I wanted to, and that makes me an asshole, ahaha.
Roobicks cube?
Hruubicks.
Sounds like somebody didn’t get the memo!
Man, I don’t get this. Why aren’t people glad or appreciative when they’re corrected? It means that you cared enough to point out their flaws to them so that they can fix them for presenting to others! I think people should be corrected at every available opportunity. Any right thinking individual will be grateful for your efforts and obvious care. Spelling, grammar, pronunciation, there are so many ways in which so many people out there don’t realize they’re wrong. You HAVE to correct them or when they DO find out, they’ll wonder why you didn’t help them sooner!
Or you could just bite your tongue and be socially well-adjusted. I GUESS. Hmph.Thank you.
Just gonna paste this bit about Majora’s Mask and the Deku Butler’s Son here because it’s still blowing my mind:
It totally makes sense and I can’t believe I never joined the dots before. I always just figured the tree must be some previous person who got turned into a scrub but didn’t get out in time, and just kind of slowly kept turning into a tree until they were stuck there. But still acknowledged the end scene with the butler there and how it must be his son. But… his son was human first? That doesn’t make any sense. Stupid kid Gooky.
I’ve never played Majora’s Mask and it always seemed interesting. Looking forward to buying a copy and then putting it on my shelf and never playing it since that’s apparently what I do with games now. :\
You can buy me and put me on your shelf.
Apparently I’m only interested if you have an enormous head.
Yo! o/
Well ………………………..
If you know what I mean
Zelda games <3
I remember those!
Put Nendoroid Link beside my second monitor at work. With the shifty O_o face. Looks like he’s going “what the fuck is this shit” to the content of it, which happens to be a bunch of bug reports so accurate.
I thought about bringing Nendoroid Luigi and/or Link to work but I dunnnno. No one else seems to play games or have stuff like that 🙁
(and they’re also hella expensive so I’d rather keep em safe in my “collect dust and never to be looked at again” shelf)
Comes down to whether you trust your co-workers I guess. I have a ton of crap on my desk. 6 transformers (MP Starscream, Soundwave, Wheeljack, third party Brawl, Swindle, Blastoff), a 1/60 Macross DYRL VF-1A Valkyrie, Nendoroid Cirno and now Nendoroid Link.
Yeah, I trust my co-workers, they’re cool!
But those cleaners! *shakes fist*
Nah, no issues with the cleaners (yet) but you have talked about yours moving your Soundwave :P. No one has touched my BMO yet but probably because it’s one of those crappy POP! figures and even I despise it.
You take that back, you take that back right now
<3 my pop! vinyl figures
I wish I could take it back for a refund!
😛
Oh god, Figma Sakura!? (warning: lots of pink).
Preordering the crap out of that. Probably not going to put on my desk at work though!
You know what I like about you Neg?
You do not give a flying fuck what anybody thinks of you collecting cute pink anime girl figurines or playing games about anthropomorphic battleships or what have you.
I may not always share your tastes, but I respect the crap out of you for being proud of yours.
Also can’t wait to go to Japan with you – I imagine you will be a fun traveling companion in that country.
I actually do. A lot. It’s just that TAY is a nice place filled with awesome people that isn’t going to jump on it.
EDIT: Looking forward to going to Japan with you guys too. I think I might be a bit more boring there in reality though. 😛
Yeah, TAY is rad. And not TAY people can suck.
But still, fistbump of respect.
Maybe, but you probably know more about Japanese culture than I and can point out interesting stuff.
C’mon man. You engaged me for a fair bit talking about World of Wacraft which I’ve never played.
You’re underselling yourself a bit there.
Hey, Cardcaptors!
I vaguely remember that show.
It was that show on before Dragon Ball Z that no boy in school ever admitted to watching but totally did.
…right? D:Wasn’t that Sailor Moon? Not that I watched that of course.
My sister did and I just happened to usually be in the room. Also I will neither confirm nor deny that I have subsequently re-watched the first four seasons.Cardcaptors followed in Sailor Moon’s footsteps! Both such a wildly unpopular shows! Nobody watched them at all. Certainly not me. Nope.
I’m totally not halfway though re-watching it for the first time since childhood no-siree, not at all.
Cardcaptor Sakura is awesome and rad and I won’t hear anyone say otherwise. It’s actually a really clever deconstruction of a lot of magical girl tropes, plus it’s well-done and has a lot of interesting and progressive elements.
Almost as much pink as my unikitty cosplay 🙂
I read that as Sakurai.
I was disappointed.
That would actually be amazing. They’ve made other random figmas, why not Sakurai? (And Iwata and Miyamoto while they’re at it)
Reggie.
Phil Fish.
…Anita?
Gaben on a cloud with a halo.
A) I thought for a second it was Street Fighter Sakura and it is not, and,
B) I can sing the opening song almost off by heart
I know the tune and bits of the lyrics. Assuming we’re talking Catch You, Catch Me, not Platinum (which I was never much of a fan of).
It’s one of the best anime openings ever so fine thing to have memorized.
Alright, quittin’ time! Have a good weekend taybes! Me and my sweet kicks are out!
God damn, why is RAM so expensive these days, it has literally doubled in price since I last bought some in 2012…
Maybe everyone else bought it then too and now there is nearly none left.
Bastards!
There was a tsunami or flood or something that wiped out a couple of SE Asian storehouses, making RAM really rare for a while. Although I think supply has restored itself, prices somehow never quite came back down again…
Oh yeah, that’s right, it also affected hard drives pretty badly, but they’ve come back down to a realistic price.. I just find it outrageous that 16gb of ram is 180 bucks for 2x8gb modules o.o
To be fair, for many years there RAM was so cheap I’m pretty sure you’d get a few sticks of it in every box of cereal. It didn’t seem sustainable.
The answer to ANY PC problem was, “Have you fucktupled your RAM?”
Damn it, I was buying cereal at the wrong times!
I run non-ecc 2800 MHz ram and it’s the same price as it was 2 years ago. the factories producing crap ram dont have the tech to produce better quality. This and specialist demand are impacting the investment into the development market. Combine this with the drying up of capital for hardware tech in asia, and it makes sense.
Blah. I don’t like this at all. I don’t feel that the cheap 1600mhz/1866mhz 16gb (2x8gb) RAM should be almost as much as a Samsung 850 Pro 256gb SSD..
lol don’t get me started on SSD’s after the month I just had. If you want to bore yourself silly you can read up on lithography and its effects on RAM and SSD development. I guarantee youy’ll be feeling blah by the end of it.
Just had a KFC Double Bypass (now with added Hashbrown!) and it was alright. Extremely messy though :/
SO GOOD
BOW DOWN TO KFC GODS
Everything burns!
What should I play?
I don’t know what to play… 🙁
The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth!
Want to play Supreme Commander multiplayer?
I been playing a bit of that with my friend recently. Hard to get your head around how the economy works to start with, especially with the lack of tutorials, but once you figure it out, it’s not a bad game!
Do you have Civ V?Nevermind, it doesn’t want to go to the main menu…
Want to play some Skullgirls?
Ha, the duty free luxury liquor shop at Gold Coast airport is looking for someone, I just have to apply for that shit..
Well I do enjoy drinking, so I feel I would fit in fine here!
For some unknown reason I decided to get lords of the fallen.
I kinda want to plat that…
But I really need to finish dark souls, demons souls, dark souks 2 first…
Plus all the other games i have started and not finished…
I got stuck on the first boss in dark souls and gave up.
I have a feeling this may go the same way.
Lords of the Fallen is a lot more forgiving, in many ways.
Will have to give it another try.
Might try something other then brawler.
I went cleric and it seems not as good as brawler or stealth. I think stealth is probably the winner.
I will have to try them all.
What ever I kill the first warden with is the winner for me.
Just tried the stealth set up.
Could not get to the first warden.
God I suck at this game.
Will have to try again later.
:/ Maybe change up your weapon combo? Weapon seems to be a big factor… I used a heavy-hitting one-hander (not anything with ‘great’ in front of it – those’re two-handers, even if you can swing ‘e one-handed, it’s just way too slow) and a sturdy shield for most of the game.
I will keep trying.
Will try out diff wepon load outs and all the classes. Till I get past the first warden.
I was thinking the same thing. Saw the good game review and they gave it a good rap.
Then I remembered I haven’t preceded past Andor Londo so I really should get back into dark souls first.
Although by the sounds of things Lords of the fallen could be a better choice to get afterwards rather than DS2
I am most of the way through dark souls. I just need to have time to get in and remember my skills.
Picked it up, installed it on the PS4, haven’t played it yet.
If you enjoy dark souls you will enjoy lords of the fallen.
I am a little surprised that I have not seen Mark Serrels raving about it.
Due to his love of dark souls style games.
And this one is a dark souls style game.
Just played a few hours worth. Up to the Worshipper. Very enjoyable so far. Controls aren’t as tight as I’m used to in Dark Souls, but still serviceable. The style is amazing though. The game looks great. Gonna have to give the bundled soundtrack a listen, too.
I will have to keep trying.
Have not been past the first warden :\
He was a massive pain in the ass. The tracking of enemy attacks is ridiculous.
Had to laugh today, when I was walking Chilli. I went past the local primary school and there was a bunch of kids out the front waiting for their bus home, instantly when they saw her they were all “IT’S RED DOG!” ah kids.. She gets that a lot, I kind of wished we had called her Koko or Red Dog now 😛
Chilli is a beautiful dog. I bet she just wanted to round up all the kids.
That or jump on them LOL.
I read a reddit thread on music and I don’t know a single band or song that anyone is talking about. Am I old already?
Can you link it? That sounds like it could be some weird unknown stuff maybe 😛
http://www.reddit.com/r/AFL/comments/2ljc4e/offseason_off_topic_music/
I don’t think it’s got anything to do with obscure music, more to do with me not knowing a damn thing.
I’ve heard of some of these recent acts, cause I happened to see them at Big Day Out in recent years.. But the rest, nope never heard of them.. Apart from the ones mentioned like Dire Straits, Eagles, AC/DC, GNR, RUSH etc..
Edit: there’s a few others i’ve heard of only cause I have friends who listen to them and talk about them from time to time, but other than that i’m pretty out of touch with it all 😛
Reading through that it’s less you’re old and more you’re too young. I know a lot of those and I’m not even much of a music fan.
HI SCRUFFY!
Nope, you clearly just don’t listen to Triple J. I have at least heard of lots of the bands mentioned in that thread. I actually like what I’ve heard from Childish Gambino. I’m generally terrible at remembering bands/song names though, so voting at hottest 100 time is hard!
And I saw a lot of mention of Childish Gambino – I haven’t got his album but I’ve heard quite a few songs that I like, and bits of his set from Splendour sound amazing.
If you don’t want to feel too out of touch. I looked at the aria chart for some reason the other day. Neil Diamond and Bon Jovi have been in the top 50 for almost a year.
I went and listened to Meghan Trainor’s All About That Bass. The song is pretty stock-standard pop, but the clip was cute, I can see the appeal there.
Hmm might talk the other half into some Indian or Chinese for dinner.
http://www.chilloutpoint.com/images/2010/09/two-headed-snakes/two-headed-snakes-01.jpg
You are right.
I should get both.
Dammit I totally can’t remember what settings I used when I hooked up the PC to the stereo last time and also now there’s some weird buzzing noise coming through over the top of everything when I start the game. Also no sound coming out of the subwoofer.
How have you got it hooked up? Like what kind of cable/s running from where to what?
It turned out the sub had just been turned down so low that even when I turned it up it was still too low to be heard. What I thought was the little notch was just a piece of dirt or something 😛 And the stereo mystery sounds have just… disappeared?
I don’t know where our usual RCA/3.5mm cables have all disappeared to, but I found another set. And plugged them into some F/F RCA adapters so I could use an M/M cable to make the rest of the distance to the back of the stereo. ‘Sall good now. Except for the part where it seemed like the upgrade from beta 3.03 to 3.04 corrupted a couple of the strings in my bind file which took a while to find. But *now* it’s ok. For now.
MPQ Talk \o/
@welbot
Your roster is in a bit of an odd, twilight zone between tiers – this is mostly due to the way the game makes it easy for your to get “rarer” covers before you have the capacity to buy slots of them, prompting you to spend $$ for hero coins.
With that in mind, you want to start cementing your 2* team so that you can earn those coins and ISO.
Based on what you have in your roster, you should focus on 2* Storm, Thor and Wolverine.
Your current build on Storm is probably her optimal build (4/5/4), so I would just add ISO to her for now until she gets to max level.
Next is the RGY trio of Thor, Wolverine and Ares. In short, Ares is probably the best character in 2* tier right now. But you don’t have any covers, so with what you have, I’d recommend levelling Thor. His optimal build is probably still 3/5/5.
Magneto works as very good support for Storm, fuelling her Blue, so he’s probably worth levelling next, although I’d probably recommend that you grab 2* Black Widow at some stage. OBW + Storm can easily support a mid levelled 3* character when you start to transition.
2* characters that you can probably afford to ignore/sell if needed are Bullseye, Hawkeye, Moonstone. Maybe Ms. Marvel.
If you can, jump in on Lightning Rounds just as they start. They’re populated with AI seed teams that can be beaten easily so that players can start earning points. 4 or 5 matches should be enough to reach 100 points, which gets you a bunch of ISO + a silver token.
Doom is currently “vaulted”. They might get put back into rotation after Season 7, but if not you could probably stand to sell that cover and not really be any worse off. I’d also suggest that Beast and (as mentioned) Mohawk Storm can be considered for sale if you really need the space.
Why would you need space? Characters worth making room for (that you don’t already have) would probably be: Blade or Black Panther. Other good characters to hold on to are: Hood, Hulk, Sentry, Thor, Punisher and Cap. Rogers.
The issue I’m having is not getting covers. I can’t upgrade most of my characters atm due to them being maxed for their current power level. I’m going ok with Storm classic and Thor, but most of the characters I want to level up, I don’t ever get covers for, so they’re stuck at their current level until I get some :\ It’s rare that I get a cover that’s above a 1 star these days, and 9 times out of 10, when I do, it’s for a character who’s already maxed in that colour! SO ANNOYING!!!
At the moment, my go-to combo is pretty much Thor or Wolverine, and Storm and Magneto. I have been levelling up storm and thor as much as I can, but the levels need tons of iso now, so it’s becoming a crawl.
I actually have one spare slot at the moment (currently there’s a 1 star character in there cos it auto populates empty slots when you get covers, so I’m waiting for a decent character.
Also, when you say earn coins, how do you mean? I’ve got every reward from the story mode now, and I’ve never seen coins come up as a reward in pvp. Only way I seem to get coins now is by daily rewards..
Also, just to clarify, when I say “the characters I want to level up” I mean any of my characters! like my ton of lvl 40’s. I’ve only ‘won’ 1 cover in recent times (apart from She-Hulk) that wasn’t for a 1 star starter character :\ I had heaps of 1 stars fully decked a while ago, but then the single player became too tough for them, so they fell in to disuse, hence why I no longer have them.
The only way to really speed up ISO gain is to be able to finish more matches. So it’s a slow process.
In most PvP, you’ll have to use a particular character, so Storm + MN Mags or Storm + Thor are both decent combos to use. For now, just focus on Storm – when you get enough ISO to get another level, use it on her. Once you get a character to max level, you’ll find that it becomes a little bit easier. Storm then supports the other 2* characters that you’re leveling up, and so you repeat the process.
1* and 2* covers are available as random drops after PvP matches – one of the reason why fighting seed teams in Lightning rounds is so good. And once you’ve got Storm maxed, yhou’ll find that you can last a bit longer against real players. More maxed characters, the longer you can last, which means more matches, which means more ISO and more chances at random covers.
Your 2* Human Torch is cover capped, so you could level him. Black abilities are still somewhat rare in 2* tier, and his Red is quite powerful. He is a little squishy, and since Storm is probably going to be your first 2*, I’d probably suggest getting someone beefier finished first.
As for 1* characters, they really only remain useful for Heroic events, or Balance of Power PvP. If you’re going to keep only a single 1*, make it Storm. She’s been featured in half the Heroics. If you were going to keep two, take Juggernaut next. In Balance of Power, his HP scales up ridiculously high and his headbutts just decimate other teams.
All in all, remember that it’s a marathon, not a sprint. Set small incremental goals which are easily achievable, rather than planning for the endgame right now.
haha yeah certainly is a marathon. I don’t really have much trouble with matches these days, except for the ones in some single player events. the pvp stuff I rarely lose a match. Working on levelling up storm, thor, wolverine and human torch for the most part atm.
I posted a msg in game today (dunno if you saw).. I got 2x 2 star covers this morning! Both were green powers for Human Torch, which is already maxed 😐 That’s the shit I hate… everytime I get a decent cover, it’s always something I can’t use anymore!!! So annoying!!
I really don’t have many issues with getting ISO either. PVP events leave me with tons usually, but how to get coins?! Do PVP events reward coins ever?
On the plus side, I also got a Colossus cover this morning, for finishing in top 100 of the pvp event with colossus yesterday! that was rather nice!
They vault characters? Sneaky!
Ah, they only just started – after the Anniversary.
Since most tokens were already at less than 1% chance to get any particular 3* hero and they hadn’t yet added Deadpool, She-Hulk, Beast, Colossus, Storm or Doctor Octopus to be available in tokens.
So at the start of Season 7, they added those 6 and removed Patch, Punisher, Ragnarok, Loki, Doctor Doom and Human Torch. They also implied that while vaulted, characters could be “tweaked”. Essentially, this is perceived to be in regard to the fact that Ragnarok, Loki and Doom only have 2 powers.
The whole vaulting process is still ambiguous. They haven’t said how long characters will stay vaulted before being swapped back in. Patch, Punisher and Human Torch are all fairly well balanced, so I wouldn’t be surprised if they rejoin at the start of Season 8 and a few other older characters are vaulted out. Iron Man, Spider-Man and Black Widow could all be contenders.
Ao I’ve had quite a feew drnks and Ive got to say taht theere is no better cure for hayfeevr than vodka and if anyoneelse tries to tell oyu othewise, you can tell the to FUCK OFF.
Gah, okay, I’m sorry. I had some drinks and I tried to do a drunk post, but I’m just not feeling it.
Still, I think I’ve probbaly had a few too many to administer to the Kickstarter tonight.
You’re far too coherent. You need at least two words that I can’t translate for it to be a proper drunk post. Preferably a “ennahngemeet” (engagement) or “prffanalal trtrrmwwbt” (preferential treatment, or something, I really don’t know).
gggggggrggrghhjjkjkkkkkkkkkkkkkk and take that
Pfft, that’s just more zombie promotional material.
I have pretty bad hayfever!
I have a massive business conference in the Sunshine Coast next week!
I have been told that they will make me do vodka shots!
This new hayfever cure better work!
If you can’t trust a drunk man, who can you trust!
I dunno if you’re drunk or not, you’re far too coherent!
It’s kinda funny.
Usually I’d be stressing about exams right now, but since these courses literally have no impact whatsoever for my new degree, I really just don’t care.
I already have more than enough extra credits that my new course requires.
It requires you to pass 8 additional units, but I’ve already passed 12, excluding the 3 units from this semester.
Still going to give them a half-arsed try, but I just can’t be bothered.
Pass or fail, it literally has no impact whatsoever.
I also realized that since the jobs I now want are more broadly distributed, I don’t have to limit myself to just moving to Melbourne if I wanted (though I still want to end up in Melbourne eventually).
Though the idea of just drawing / designing anything for a living makes me a little happy.
My new / old dream is to progress from graphic design artist to concept artist (designing creatures and characters for games, movies, shows, etc).
I just hope I’m good at it :S
I really want to see what you’ve done for Zeitgeist…! #peripherallyrelated
Funny story, but I hate people seeing what I’ve drawn.
I’m never happy with what I’ve drawn.
I’m only around 70% happy with what I drew for Dan and Karl, but it was about as good as I can get it.
It’s weird, I love drawing, but it makes me sad cause I’m not as good as I want to be at it.
I know, I know, practice makes perfect, so practice practice practice, blah blah blah.
That’s the plan.
Time to join us for… shit, what was that game the Greenius likes to play, and that I cheated with Bish on? That thing.
That thing’s fun.
iSketch!
Thanks Pow! I remembered the name just after I pressed submit, but was too lazy to correct myself. Thankfully your friendly face can come to the rescue and make me look stupid. Jerk.
YES! We really need to do that again. Poorly drawn paint abstractions are the best.
I think setting fire to what I’ve drawn at the end is the best!
“HOW DO I DRAW A BALLERINA?
WHOOPS.”
Gah! 😛
I’ve never understood uni, and its credits, and passing requirements. All the same I’ll be after some logos and basic graphic work in the next few weeks. If you want the work it’ll save me from going to 99 designs and I’m happy to act as a local reference point. Reach out if you’re interested.
Oh!
It might be a bit soon for me to offer anything professional, but it sounds interesting!
I’m still unskilled in photoshop, and only consider myself a slightly above average drawer, but it might be good practice for me at least 🙂
What kind of stuff are you after?
Easy logos and basic stuff for templates for powerpoint slides for corporate presentations. I have a broad colour scheme already but if you have palette advice it could be taken on board. mostly it’ll be simple transitions etc but I lack the patience for that kind of thing so willing to outsource. If you know how to do some basic animation that would be an advantage. i.e. logo swirling in etc.
Batto’s first MQFT!!!
Your options are: F, P, G, M, H…. GO!
G cos it’s the first letter of my name :0
Gwelbot?
it’s a silent G! 😉 lol
Hi Garth 😛
F.
For FPS running at 60fps on the master race platform.
P FOR POOP
Piles of money to Undad…?
Mountains of money to Undad…?
Heaps of money to Undad…?
Glut of money to Undad…?
F…uckload of money to Undad…?
I’ll choose H, thanks. No sense being greedy.
I choose “GO!”
F.
@novacascade How many members of Joe Public ended up signing onto the Japan trip?
It ended up being 14 altogether. Including me
Huh? There are 14 TAYbies on this Japan trip?
No just 5. Me Freeze Jo Neg0 and Transientmind. But with various plus 1’s, my parents and other people that booked, its a group of 14 all together
Oooh I thought it was a TAY only trip. Have fun 😀
MQFT results for how i will style my facial hair this Movember!
F – Full beard – 2 points
P – Seedy pencil Mo – 1 point
G – Goatee – 1 point
M – Moustache – 0 points
H – Handlebar Mo – 1 point
Welp looks like i dont have to shave at all. Although i am sort of tempted to try out handlebar my dad.
Went to the UTAS grad show for art students today. I got a free drink token and all they had was beer and wine, and if there’s one thing I hate more than beer it’s wine… so! I manned up and got some wine. Something tells me that the correct way to order wine is not to say “can I get the bay of fires whatever that says?” (“Sauvignon Blanc”, apparently). I’m pretty classy.
But omg I’ve never seen more wank in one place than I did there. I’m gonna put it out there. I don’t ‘get’ art, unless it’s like a painting or video or something. I struggle to see the artistic value in a pile of clothes thrown on the ground and what it’s trying to represent. I don’t understand how a concept is the ‘art’.
PS I drank about a third of the wine and threw it out. So gross.
OMG!
I love ordering wine!
Cabernet Sauvignon
Chardonnay
Merlot
Pinot Noir
Pinot Gris
Riesling
Sauvignon Blanc
It’s so fun to say! 😀
(have I mentioned I love French words?!)
And that’s called “modern”, “art”.
Some of it can be good.
Most of it is just shit.
I’d add Shiraz to your list, because it’s great wine, but it’s not a French word
Somebody made a Miley Cyrus shrine that was pretty great, I must admit 😛
And my alcohol ordering usually never strays too far from ” thanks”! I’m the adventurous type.
I don’t mind a nice red every now and then.
Also had some champange on the night of my engagement party.
When I was working at Telstra, a mate I worked with’s wife was studying art at Griffith. She was a little bummed that it seemed the majority of the course was about learning to wank over what your piece meant, more than whether it was actually any good or bore any resemblance to what you said it did.
She painted pretty pictures. I liked them.
Always amazing & interesting stories with you!
@dc would be proud.
http://www.polygon.com/2014/11/7/7174609/too-many-cooks
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Hahaha I watched this before bed last night, nightmare material, and me without any LSD
Oh god, I don’t even!
Why are you so burny, sun?
Can’t you be more awesome like snow? 🙁
So white & blinding? 😛
So thoughts on the new blizzard game? I see a lot of “inspiration” there, just the trailer showed Destiny, Dishonoured, Brink, TF2 (obvious)
Not hyped for it but I will give it a go when I can.
An online PVP class-based shooter, eh?
The only way I could be less excited is if they were doing a MOBA. But they already played that card.
The stanger thing is the Smite vibes i’m getting, which Smite is already a first person MOBA, why would blizz release two variations on the same genre, it’s all very puzzling. Your comment on the actual article about it being the Project Titan scraps could be true.
Well, that was something they reported on in the article itself – it’s at the bottom. A lot of details are matching up to what leakers had told them about Titan. Seems they even kept some class names.
Ah so it was, I missed that. Well it’s a pity but also a relief, if the cinematic parts were taken from Project Titan, that looked really cool, if this was the game play, maybe we’re lucky it never came to pass.
HELP!
What’s “cocktail attire” (no tie)!?
I’m guessing a suit should be good enough but does it have to be a black suit or something (is grey/dark blue acceptable? :P)
@liondrive ? 😛
Tie or no tie by the looks of Google images.. #helping #nothelping
Edit: Go all James Bond and wear a tux!
Giant chicken suit.
And be the giant cock of the party!
Yissssssssssss old suit fits reasonably well.
Just save myself a few hundy! 😀
A suit and tie is too formal for cocktails.
Aim for smart casual.
You want some nice dark jeans and a long sleeve button up shirt (you can roll the sleeves up) that compliments the pants.
Formal footwear (match your socks to your pants, or if you want to stand out more, to your shirt).
Style your hair also (wax for short hair like yours).
Use cologne rather than deodorant (but put a little bit of roll-on on).
And if you think you’re going to get lucky, you should do my trick of matching your underwear to your shirt 😉
So, don’t go too formal for cocktails, but don’t go casual either.
No demin! 😛 (sorry I should’ve mentioned it before). “Smart casual” has been set as the dress code for other things but “cocktail attire (no demin/no tie)” was set for an award ceremony thingy.
Oh, I thought you meant a more casual, “cocktails with co-workers”, kinda thing.
Formal cocktail attire would be long pants (grey / black / dark in colour), with a long sleeve button up shirt, and optional jacket or vest (matched to your pants).
Personally, I don’t like jackets.
Vests are okay.
If you go the vest route, make it an ash grey colour.
Formal shoes.
Rest of the advice still applies.
Edit:
Oh, and cocktail attire means you can be more colourful when it comes to choice of clothing, so don’t limit yourself to white / blue shirts and black pants.
A pink shirt with a light grey vest and pant would look cool!
And with matching pink socks! 🙂
And a pink pocket square!!! 😀
With a white watch!!!!! 😀 😀 😀
CAN I COME TOO?!?!?!?!
No mention of green. You’ve failed the test.
You can not come to my work conference.
(and that whole not being employed by them thing too)
But green is just such an, ugly, colour.
I kid, I kid.
Match the green in your avatar with a charcoal black and you’re set 😉
Dress pants, collared shirt however can be interesting colours. Does not have to include a tie, does not have to be black.
So slightly smarter than smart casual but slightly more lax than…other things
*Adds 8 games to Steam cart*
*Goes to checkout*
I shouldn’t do this.
*Backs out of checkout*
*Goes back to checkout*
I really shouldn’t do this.
*Backs out of checkout*
*Goes back to checkout*
…
…
…
*Deletes everything from cart*
Man this is hard.
Even worse when there is a sale.
Was The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth one of the items?! 😀
Nah, I bought that a few days before release. They were all Lego games.
There’s already unboxing vids of Super Smash Bros. for Wii U showing up on Youtube….
…
Stop taunting me, fuckers!
🙁
The 3DS version definitely made the wait bearable 😀
I never got unboxing videos for video games. Seems silly.
I always saw them as some form of elitism.
That’s why I don’t like them.
I can understand unboxing vids for board/card games but video games =/
Yeah.. Like hardware I can sort of understand, especially with computer stuff gives you an idea what it’s like in size & what you get with it, but a game? Come on man, it’s a case, glossy paper cover, disc & if you’re lucky a manual and probably redeemable in game items on a code thingy..
Yeah, same with board games. Gives the viewer a good idea of what the board is like, how the cards/tokens look, etc…
Yeah, products that contain items other than a disc make perfect sense really 😛
Was gonna finally build my cardboard R2-D2, but I need craft glue and a knife of exact 0.
Looks like I’m heading out to find a craft shop.
Bunnings/Masters will also have those things. 🙂
Are there any TAYbies that live near The Rock which is near Wagga? If so there’s gonna be a launch event for the new AC/DC album “Rock or Bust” there on November 23rd. Apparently the band isn’t meant to be there which kinda sucks, I would’ve thought an event being advertised like so would bring the band out for at least a chat about it and all and maybe perform a few classics and their new single Play Ball, but oh well. Still pretty awesome!
My dad was in wagga just last week!
Er, with Malcolm Young return and Phil Rudd unable to leave New Zealand would make it a touch hard.
Well Malcolm & Angus’ nephew Stevie Young has taken over the role of rhythm guitar, he once filled in for Malcolm back on the Blow Up Your Video tour. As for Phil Rudd, word is Rob Richards may be his replacement since he sat in as drummer when the band filmed their new video for Rock or Bust last month & the fact Phil Rudd was also absent from the new band photo’s that are making the rounds.
It’s not really ACDC at this point though is it…
More a franchised brand.
Well given the only original member now is Angus. Yeah, it’s not AC/DC, but still Cliff & Brian have been in the band for decades, so it’s still AC/DC, it’s not say Guns N’ Roses where the entire band but Axl can change at any given point. The drummer role has always been a bit of a revolving door position, saying that.. Also I wouldn’t be surprised if this is the last AC/DC album and they decided to call it a day after this album, they should really go out on top whilst they can though, Given Malcolm will only go down hill fast with alzheimers at his age it’s usually only a year or two before death sadly.
I really hope the new album’s good. I didn’t mind Black Ice but it sold mainly on the power of the AC/DC brand more than the music itself. Would be nice to see them go out with a bang and not just fade out.
Agreed. I liked 2 or 3 songs from Black Ice but overall it wasn’t any thing memorable.
Thanks eBay daily deals, just what I need, a curling iron! I’ve always wanted lush curly locks of hair!
I think I played too much space captain… *bleeds from eyes*
But on the plus side, I managed to score a Class A power distributor! That was lucky. Need to try and find a new FSD though, my ship’s getting a little too heavy with all the stuff I’ve chucked in there now.
Mad keen for that to come to full release, don’t do early access.
I found Fury3 and got my Logitech F310 Gamepad working with it!
\o/
Well I tweeted it before, but I’ll put it up here too. I have 3 copies of Metro 2033 to give away for steam. Let me know if you want one!
I’m sure it will only end up on my pile of shame but I’m interested if you have any left
It is an awesome game. Get it and play it.
It is the only game I have played and finished on both pc and 360 although I am now playing the redux version on ps4
I do indeed have some left. No takers as yet. Do you have me on steam? or what’s your email and I’ll send it through there
all good.. found you on steam. sent link through steam chat!
It’s totally free for everyone too! (if more than 3 people want your copies)
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/168808
yeah humble’s giving it away. I already had it on steam, but I got sent 4 copies for some reason?! Gave one to my mate that I always play games with, but dunno what to do with the rest!
managed to give away all 4 copies now! None left from me, but if you want it, can get it from greenius’ link, or via humble store
XCOM MORDHEIM. ALL SINS EVERYWHERE ARE NOW FORGIVEN.
The Warhammer game? Yeah, looks rad.
Shulk.
X Not feeling it.
✓ Feeling it.
The Xenoblade stage in Smash is quite possibly the worst stage.
Thought you should know.
Oh god it is so bad. So incredibly bad.
But have you heard the Xenoblade Medley? the Wii U version is out on youtube. It is glorious. Plus, Wii U version will have Metal Face. That’s something, at least.
Man, Smash Bros. has such a killer soundtrack. So many amazing songs there.
Omega stageeeeeeee
ha. One of the tech channels I sub to on YouTube just posted a pic of this 10320×1440 monitor set up on their Instagram..
Started playing Marvel Puzzle Quest.
The AI is a cheating buttmunch in the versus rounds. Nearly as bad as Cheatalen.
Boy doesn’t it ever! Last week, I had a match against 3 lvl 40 or 50 character, while my chars were lvl 70-90… I started the match, made 1 move, and never got another turn. Computer just wiped me out completely using a sequence of extra turn matches, and about 20 powers 😐 Makes me so mad when they do it… but then if you try the match again straight away after that, generally you’ll kick their arse pretty severely!
Also, they’ve opened alliances up to 20 slots, so join up with us! (Search for KotakuAU)
Managed to fix the colour glitch in The Neverhood, although I had to disable Windows Aero, and run with a windows classic colour scheme. :\
Worth it.
When I finally got the full game I was gutted that the music from the demo wasn’t in it.
Still fantastic, though.
I wanna go to next PAX, but if it’s on the same dates, then I’ll have exams the next week :'(
*pouts*
I might still buy a ticket, then see what happens.
Worst comes to worst I’ll just sell them for a profit >:)
PAX is okay.
That kind of sound like you’re trying to talk me out of going :\
That’s me being kind and not talking it up too much since you’ve missed out on two years! 😛
I don’t care that I couldn’t go to PAX.
*grits teeth*
It doesn’t bother me.
*nose bleeds*
In all honesty, PAX itself doesn’t sound too much like my kind of thing.
Not a fan of board games, not usually a fan of panels, and I don’t really buy gaming memorabilia.
I’d go for the crowds, and to visit Melbourne and friends, and to see what it is like 🙂
And maybe to dress up 😛
depends, you want a break in the industry some of those panellists could give you work. curse my keyboard lately I’m adding dipthongs and umlauts everywhere
Yeah, all the gamey stuff was kinda meh for me but the social stuff is awesome. Panels are really good too if you manage to find a good one with short lines.
So Epic Meal Time (you know those crazy Canadian blokes who have a YouTube cooking show that basically centres around bacon) now have a god damn actual TV show.. It looks interesting & worthwhile, time will tell.
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-11-08/sailor-moon-crystal-anime-2nd-season-to-feature-chibiusa/.80812
2 links fine in initial post, not fine in editing. :\
your top link goes nowhere????
You’re upset that the link doesn’t exist?
She is part of the normal canon isn’t she? So it’s not all that surprising? I don’t know only watching sailor moon for the first time with crystal
@greenius, got a trading card for Binding Of Isaac the other day (XI – Strength), not sure how to gift it to you though, I can only see an option to sell.
if you mean steam trading card, you have to go to your inventory screen, and then click the blue trade offers button at the top right
Saw TMNT today. Screw the haters, it was rad! Only part that really bothered me was the “how they became ninjas” bit, that one stretched it a little too far. Also the whole super chunky Shredder bit. But other than that, I think they did a pretty good job with it.
Also saw John Wick. That was such a weird movie. Like, the kind of thing that on paper must just sound so stupid, but you watch it and suddenly wow this is awesome.
Oh yeah and a guy in the line before it all offered me a $10 movie ticket. He had extras that expired today that he couldn’t use, same as what I did a couple of years ago. Karma or something? Sweet.
http://i.imgur.com/62VO9bh.jpg
…. *heavy breathing intensifies*….
If this is real, I will sell body parts for it!
EDIT: Apparently it’s fake…But if Ninty did something like this, they’d fly off the fucking shelves.
Even if that pic is fake, there’s a pretty good chance they’d do it anyway I rekon 😛
Just need somewhere to vent…
Gah! I’m fucking pissed off.My goddamn ear seems to have gotten infected again and right before I’m supposed to go interstate on Thursday :(. Painful as fuck, but the most annoying aspect is that I’ve had surgery to prevent it from happening… TWICE in less than a year anf it’s happened on multiple occasions since.
Ears are all butchered up and I’ve got permanent scars. Must be a dodgy shitty surgeon… Far out!
I do not want to get surgery again 🙁
So, I sit down to do report writing this morning (which is already like ‘yuck’) and I an feeling okay and proud cause I know I brought home everything I need.
Lies!
I realize I left half my assessment info at work. (Now I am at double yuck and just plain don’t want to do it…)
Sorry bout the whinge…
sounds yuck
It’s really not the bad. It’s just hard to get started. I’m mostly done now. Thank goodness
How are the wagons?
Still being circled?
Righto, then.
Also, @phlanispo, I won’t be able to continue our game of Civ V until tonight.
Actually we’re currently painting them red with the help of Lee Marvin’s ghost.
Better use an oil-based paint, because the wood is pine!
Woooooow thanks Outlook calendar for reminding me that it’s an ex friends birthday tomorrow.. Why I still have her email in my address book boggles the mind… Well time to clean out that I guess..
I found one of my old keyboards laying around, so I decided to pack it away.
Just an old Logitech Media Keyboard that I superseded with my G510s earlier this year.
TIL there’s an r/pooping thread on reddit…
…
I’m still stuck between laughing and throwing up…
So apparently Bravely Default music is going to be coming to Theatrhythm Curtain Call. Excite.
I’ve spent the whole day on my phone on the internet, not even doing anything, cause I don’t feel like doing anything.
I’m in a rut.
A really boring rut.
It’s ok, I dragged my lazy arse to the shops.
Now I feel worse :S
I don’t wanna be here :’O
Buy yourself something nice! Like a puppy! 😀
Sorry to hear about the rut, my friend. Hope it breaks soon!
Two puppies!
This has been like a 2 year rut.
It ain’t breaking any time soon.
I know them feels, but it will break! I know it! Even if you have to intervene yourself!
LOOK AT ME, GIVING PEOPLE ADVICE I CAN’T SEEM TO TAKE MYSELF! 😛
4 puppies?
How about rescuing an entire puppy farm?
A roomful of puppies would cure any ill.
More seriously, you’ve made it pretty plain you’re not happy where you are and what you’re doing. That’s going to very much keep you down.
What’s holding you back from changing it?
Yeah, this life your living now is happening. There’s no point biding time or waiting for things to be how you want them cause it doesn’t happen on its own. Got to make the changes.
I’m trying to change it.
I changed my degree, that’s something, though now comes the doubt that I’m not good enough at drawing or designing to make it work, and all anyone ever says when I mention I want to do graphic design is how hard it is to get into, and how bad the industry is, and how competitive it is, etc.
Moving interstate while at uni seems like an impossible task.
Also, what’s stopping you from moving to Melbourne now? That will change your rut just by making every aspect of your life different! 🙂
How am I supposed to just move to Melbourne?
I need to change unis, find somewhere to live, and find somewhere to wok from literally the opposite side of Australia.
It’s daunting thinking about how one would transfer their entire life interstate.
Even starting to put the plan into motion will give you something to look forward too. Not saying you need to move tomorrow, but making the steps for it to happen will get you out of that rut! 🙂
*cough*
URRRRRRRR DELETE DELETE DELETE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I DON’T WANT PEOPLE KNOWING WHERE I WORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Whoops. Sorry, didn’t realise it wasn’t common knowledge.
Thanks.
And unfortunately not.
The most common advice was to find a new job first, which is taking a stupid amount of time.
It’s looking like I’ll actually have to go back to work, but I’d still rather just quit than go back.
Moved countries twice.
The first time, I packed my little car with a suitcase, a couple of boxes of personal stuff, my bicycle, and a rucksack. Drove out of London before dawn, got on a ferry to France, drove to Italy across the Alps, and wound up in Cyprus, having serendipitously seen a lunar eclipse on one of the ferries…
Lived and worked there doing various things before eventually coming to Oz for a year of travel to fulfil some promises I’d made to myself. Now I live here…
Being in ruts is horrible. Both of my international moves were climbing out of ruts, because I couldn’t see a future doing what I was doing – what works at one time in your life may not work a few years later.
I was going through some old boxes today to find some paperwork. I found some uni photos that I’ve not seen in years. If I could tell then-me some of the things I’d be seeing and doing over the next couple of decades… I couldn’t have imagined then that I’d be where I am now.
So whatever you need to do, do it. Yes it’s scary. You don’t know where it’ll go. But it sounds like you’ve mentally begun, so enjoy the ride!
I’m sure some of the Melbourne TAYbies would be happy to try and assist if they can.
Is there a hobby or something that you really enjoy?
Drawing, but that makes me sad cause I’m not good at it.
I like it, but it makes me sad.
Ha. How depressing.
I know dem feels really well. The only way to get better is to practise. Draw crap, don’t do it for any reason other than to just enjoy it. Or, look up tutorials and learn something new.
@negativezero heya
How much would shipping Disgaea 3 cost? I mean, I’m not in a rush to play it or anything but I just bought Disgaea 4 (since it’s on sale) and I’m one of those suckers that plays Disgaea for the story :P. I’m assuming they’re not related and just have little references/cameos but I’d prefer to finish 3 before I dive into 4. My pile of shame is growing D:
Alternatively we could organise another board game/movie meat? 😀 (Interstellar anyone? :P)
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Potato.
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Po-ta-to.
I’d totally be up for Interstellar. I’m also thinking of doing some kind of housewarming in a few weeks, just got to get a few things cleaned up and straightened out first before the place is really ready for visitors.
It’d probably be about $5 to post it I’d expect. The Disgaea stories are all self-contained though and don’t reference each other at all (except for D2 being a direct sequel to the original) so you can play 4 before 3. The only issue usually is they add more systems as they go so you’re going back to a game with some gameplay features (usually high-level stuff) removed. I think D4 added the pirate ship stuff to the item world and a few other things.
Jolene. Jolene. Jolene. Joleeeeeeeeene.
I’m beggin you, please don’t take mah man.
Danielle. Danielle. Danielle. Daniellllllllllle.
😛
Doctor Who Finale:
One of the lamest things I have ever seen. Nothing had any impact because it was all so ridiculous and everyone was acting so idiotic that I thought they must have been pretending to be idiots and a really smart thing like a long con was going to turn everything around. Like, there was no way in hell that geek girl would go up to the villain when told she has to whisper something. And that was the least of the stupidity. Some really good moments in the episode but hard to remember due to the overwhelming utter stupidity and lameness of the rest. Urk.Atleast Brisbane got a mention. I like the idea of Clara and the Doctor parting ways but it’s losing power every time they lack follow through. Overall I liked the season, but agreed this last ep was pretty weak.Isn’t that just Dr Who in general? *ducks boos and tomatoes*
Yeah, I did not like it as a whole. It was just bad. That said, it did serve as a good reminder of how much better Capaldi’s hair looks when it’s flat compared to when it’s sticking up a bit.Night time TAY is best time TAY!
Night time TAY on a Sunday is the bomb diggity!
Except when notifications aren’t working for some reason :S
Fo sho’ yo!
@crazyguy1990 Uh, so when do you want to continue with Civ 5 multiplayer?
It’ll have to be tomorrow night.
Can you message me on Steam around 5:30PM your time?
I guess so. I get the feeling that this game will never be finished.
EDIT: When we do play, research boats and stuff so we can finally interact in game.
Civ 5 is great; you have excellent taste.
I plan to marathon Nekomonogatari Black and White after I’ve watched Nisemonogatari.
And then I’ll have to pick up Kabukimonogatari in the future…
I’ll need a whole day to re-watch everything from Bakemonogatari onwards…
It’ll be totally worth it, though.
I do not understand what you just typed.
An awesome anime series, marathoning the second and third seasons.
Going to eventually watch it all again from the first episode of season one.
Nekomonogatari White is IMO the weakest arc of the whole thing so far, just so you’re aware.
Also they did something weird with the production of the second season. Hanamonogatari’s novel slots in after Kabukimonogatari but for some reason they skipped it and went on to Otorimonogatari and then did Hanamonogatari as a web release just a month or two ago, I still haven’t seen it to see if there were spoilers to it.
Apparently we can expect a final season from Shaft some time next year starting with Tsukimonogatari on Dec 31.
Also I really should buy it all. While it did kind of lose me a bit later on, it’s still pretty excellent all around. I only didn’t get it because the deluxe Aniplex USA releases were TRSI-only and they wouldn’t ship them to Australia for some reason. Also expensive.
Wonder what happened to the Kizumonogatari film? They announced it years ago and since then have released several Madoka Magica films instead. Must be in production hell. Kizu is the backstory, explaining how Koyomi became a vampire.
Unrelatedly, if you’re in the mood for some other Nisioisn stuff which is pretty decent and has a lot of that same snappy dialogue and stuff, Katanagatari is worth a look. It’s not Shaft so the animation is different and it’s not quite as good (also don’t let the title trick you – it’s unrelated to -monogatari) I found it really decent.
Hey! This hasn’t been autographed by Lou Gehrig. It’s by some guy named “Ron Gilbert”.
OMG
MSN LIVES
Where?
In our hearts :’)
And our Windows 98.
YouTube have gone too far with regards to the autoplay function on playlists.
To begin with, it was a completely optional feature on playlists. Back then, auto-resolution actually worked, so you could let a playlist play without being at the computer if you so desired
Then it was turned on by default when you opened a new playlist, forcing you to manually turn it off. Annoying, but it was a one time thing.
Now autoplay becomes active again whenever you click on another video in the playlist, forcing you to disable it every damn video.
I know autoplay is good for YouTube’s profit margins – people accidentally watch a video they didn’t want to – but it competes with its own systems. YouTube analytics promote videos that are watched all the way through. With autoplay forced upon you, you pause the video three or so seconds before it ends.
This would be okay if it wasn’t turned on by default. It also would help if auto-resolution wasn’t absolute shit right now. (It sets itself to 480p in the first few seconds, thenautomatically sets itself to 144p)
Hey @greenius, sent you all the Binding Of Isaac trading cards I’ve got so far.
Thanks man! I’m not really sure how Steam trading works but I tried to put my doubles up and it wouldn’t let me. I’ll just do another trade to you with stuff I can give away 😛
This is old TAY btw in case you didn’t know 😛
AH CRAP!