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Morning all!
Here is your weekly reminder (not to be confused with daily reminders) that I am running a Kickstarter campaign to fund Issues 1 and 2 of my comic Undad.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shanewsmith/undad-comic-miniseries-issues-1-and-2/
The campaign has had some interesting developments in the last few days.
Firstly, Bleeding Cool printed an article I put together regarding one potential way to read Undad. If what I write reflects my life at the time, it’s certainly valid to see it as a book about depression.
There’s also a seven-day window in which you can get the $40 tier for just $32. It’s a huge discount on an already discounted reward. That’s 1500 pages of comics for just $32. Get on that, immediately. Folks who have already contributed to the $30 tier can get all these comics for just an additional $20. Get on that, too!
Secondly, the Sidekick tool gives Undad a 95% chance of being successfully funded. I like those odds, but not as much as I’d like 100%. That final 5% still worries me.
I’ll be at OtakuFest here in Canberra this coming weekend, and will be offering incentives (such as free books) to people who contribute to Undad on the spot.
What else? What else?
Oh yeah.
FUCK. HAYFEVER.
Enjoy your week!
You keep forgetting to put the giveaway on there!
Everyone, don’t forget you can win something made by me just for you if you back Shane’s Kickstarter. Even a $1 pledge helps, and it will get you an entry. And promoting helps immensely so if you tweet about the Kickstarter and tag me (I’m @strangist on Twitter), you get a bonus entry.
Think of the possibilities! I can make you a cushion or a quilt or something with any theme you like, for instance your favourite game, anime, or movie, or even put @dkzeitgeist’s face on it!
I’LL PUT MY FACE ANYWHERE!!!
hi.
hey.
O_o Hey been a long time, where the hell have you been?!
P.S welcome back 🙂
Obligatory “who’sthisguy.”
HI! \o/
…
Bokeh?
YEAH!
Hello!
http://cdn0.dailydot.com/uploaded/images/original/2013/7/15/idriswink.gif
Bwahahahaa!
I saw Interstellar last night and all it proved to me was how handsome Matthew McConaughey is.
ALSO MONDAY
I’m hoping to see that movie this week. I know very little about it, and am currently functioning almost entirely because of my semi-restrained low-frequency buzzing hype for it.
I didn’t know a lot and I think that helped. I really enjoyed it.
Interstellar V Gravity..go
Gravity’s the better roller coaster, Interstellar is the better drama. Both amazing films.
Gravity. Less melodrama, more interesting science and storyline make the tension feel better.
Better? When does tension ever feel good? 😛 Don’t answer that.
Apollo 13.
Gravity was great in the cinema, but boring as batshit at home, even with a 3m wide screen in 3D.
I think it *required* the cinema experience to work, Interstellar I think will hold up better on repeated viewings.
Oh good. Glad I’m not the only one with a crush on him.
That Garfield cat was onto something with his hating of Mondays.
And loving lasagne. God damn I love lasagne.
It’s Monday and I’m having lasagne for dinner, which I also had last night for dinner.
Newsroom! Newsrooom! NEWSROOOOM! Season three! Today! Aaron Sorkin! That is all!
This weekend I had Mos Burger, saw g20 light show thingy again and Interstellar. Was pretty great.
I have still yet to try Mos Burger… One day for sure!
It’s nothing special, but probably a step up from Mickey Ds. The food tastes fresher!
Me like Interstellar. It made me cry. The end.
I had tears well in the eye and a lip quiver! 😛
Lip quiver? Who even does that? 😛
Also the middle.
I’ve been really getting into Star Fox 64 on my 2DS. I don’t know, I was originally afraid about buying it since I thought I would only be able to play it through once or twice. But while waiting in line for Jack and Ray at PAX I put a lot of time into it and now I’ve been replaying it over and over trying to get medals on all missions.
I wonder how people making videos on Youtube do it considering whenever I try to organise something with someone they’re always busy. I guess most of them are just unemployed?
Also there’s some leaked Halo 5 gameplay videos and apparently it’s now gone full Call of Duty.
Sprint and sights on guns. That’s.. something. Apparently there’s no movement penalty to using sights as well. I’m not sure how to feel about this.
No movement penalty makes no sense. That was always the set back for ADS. You’re more accurate but because you’re slower you’re more likely to get hit yourself.
…although, ever since CoD4 the ADS system has had heavy aim-assist that makes the choice of not using it redundant, but that’s not the point.
Woo, Star Fox!
It was a really great remake. Though some of the slight dialogue changes bug me 😛 Also it makes it kind of evident that the circle pad isn’t as good as a control stick, crosshairs constantly wavering where they’d normally be nice and steady. Oh and the download-only multiplayer is stupid, and having it region-locked is EVEN MORE stupid… but I swear, I still love it >.>
Falco using the term “Eistein” doesn’t make sense in the context of the world.
and I had no problem with the circle pad. I mainly had problems with accidently doing maneuvers when trying to boost.
Well you could argue that the original game’s English dialogue wasn’t their actual speech but rather a translation from their native Lylatian, so “Einstein” could be seen as an indicator of a similar colloquialism rather than a direct reference to the scientist 😛
There were a few other bits and pieces though. Like I’m pretty sure the alt boss for the first level didn’t have his “DEPLOY ALL UNITS!” line for some reason, and just went straight to “CHAAAAAARGE!”. And a few other bits and pieces like that. This is what happens when you start to change things up in the Most Quotable Game Of All Time™!
Oh yeah, I forgot about that part. I had the reverse problem though – I’d want to do a somersault, but instead I’d end up just doing a boost and flying upwards.
If you want to be accurate, he should have said Andross considering he has made technical leaps Einstein could never dream of.
He poluted the entire planet of Zoness. Just because he felt like it.
Hell, have a look at Solar, Scientists for decades said nothing could live on that planet. So he went out of his way to create wildlife that could live there. Just to give them the middle finger.
When you put it like that, Andross is pretty badass.
and you destroy all his work. Like with Bolse. One of the XYZ sectors is a hazardous area because a Bolse like satellite exploded there and contaminated the area. So when/if you do the Bolse mission and blow it up, you’re actually contaminating a large portion of space right outside Venom.
But really isn’t that just like pooping on the doorstep of a garbage dump?
Re: Halo 5, it looks quite good though. I prefer relating the ADS (Aim down sights) to Battlefield. It looks faster paced which is right up my alley.
If they’ve taken away the Ordnance drops, it ain’t CoD. +1
You can increase the movement speed and weapon damage to make the previous game more “fast paced” (though thats not what I consider fast pace).
Just seen clips. Still looks like Halo to me. Can’t wait.
I’ll be getting the Master Chief Collection (revisiting Halo 3 FTW) which I think gives Halo 5 beta access later? If Halo 5 is even more CoDified than Halo 4 was then I’m out. I’ll read how the story ends on a wiki or something.
Yeah all owners of MCC will get the beta key for Guardians which is out in December (the beta, that is.)
I’m still not that interested in the MCC. I still own all Halo games. But yes, it does come with the beta.
All thats been seen is that sprint still remains, you can aim down the sights of your weapons, and the weapon they did that with had a CoDesque hologram sight.
Yeah, the biggest criticism I had of Halo 4 was that it felt too much like CoD, and if I wanted that I could just go play CoD. The point was that Halo wasn’t CoD.
If they’ve gone further that direction I’m probably out. Which also probably means no Xbox One for me.
Halo 4 was already too CoD like for me (heck, even Reach was too CoD like for me), so it’s disappointing they’re making 5 even more like that. I mean, I don’t really have a problem with CoD or similar games (like Battlefield), but it’s just not Halo. I play Halo for Halo.
I didn’t find Reach to be like CoD at all.
For a lot of the people on YouTube, it is their job.
Disclaimer: Whinge.
GTA V is still not up on the X1 store.
Yikes, how big is the file going to be?
I didn’t check the psn pre-order to find out but I assume similar to that.
Morning, TAY.
My weekend was uneventful. After PAX I just wanted to sit, eat lollies and play Bayonetta 2. So that’s exactly what I did. Finished it, really good game! I’m trying to go back through with the goal of getting at least a Gold rank on all of the chapters. It’s proving… difficult.
Also I taught myself how to make Cold Sesame Noodles on Saturday and I had leftovers for the next three meals. So delicious! And super easy to make.
Finally I went on the final PAX Pokemon League podcast. Talking about experiences and things. Should be out soon if you’re interested in listening!
Hello taybies. I’m still sick, boourns. But I did go to the movies last night, so the weekend wasn’t a total loss. I’m glad other folk have seen Interstellar so I can have a little whinge… Also, unpopular opinion time: I do not like Space Odyssey, so there’s that.
SO. Matt Damon as that effing coward Mann – that’s fine, he played the part well. My big problem is that Matt Damon has been cast to play the lead in the film remake of the novel The Martian – the one I’ve been banging on about on here lately and loved. The lead of the Martian, Mark Watney, is a good guy and a hero, and now I’ve got this tainted view of Matt Damon in space because of Interstellar. Not good. Anyway. Interstellar was okay – I enjoyed it at the time, but now I keep thinking of plotholes and such. I liked the minecrafty robot buddies.MATT. DAMON.He looks old and heavy and balding 🙁Actually, having now seen the film, the thing I keep thinking about is how I feel about one scene after viewing it twice.The first time I saw the part where Murph is trying to keep Coop from leaving and she shows him the book with the words STAY; my thoughts were very much, desperation, that’s cute.
However when we return to that scene and discover that the words STAY weren’t Murph’s words at all, it really fell together as one of those twist moments for me. And I cried. The film has so many of those twisty moments, it’s quite a trip.
I agree there were some good moments like that, absolutely, and the girl playing the young Murph was an excellent actor. And man, I bawled when Cooper was watching all the vids from his son over those 23 years. I just feel like the film was a bit too ambitious and then didn’t back itself up enough.TOO MANY COOKS!
It takes a lot to make a stew
A pinch of salt and laughter too
When it comes to me and yooou
That was a amazing Skit, was the most creative sketch i have seen in a long time.
I wanted to try and TAY get with this but slept in 🙁
Am I the only one who didn’t like it? Like, the first five minutes was funny and then I just couldn’t take it anymore, haha 🙁
I’ve watched it seventeen times. Savoring it before it becomes uncool. 😛
I love it. XD
See i thought it was amazing then the murdery stuff happened and i was like ohh thats not great, maybe it will come back around being funny. Then it did.
I think I just tire of stuff like that quickly these days. I’m no fun anymore. I’m glad everyone else is enjoying it, but if I hear my boyfriend singing the theme song again, I might strangle him.
I just have a weird love of excessively long sitcom openings. STEP BY STEP’S CREDITS ARE LONGER THAN GAME OF THRONES!
Oh man, I love the murders.
And how he’s in the background as it leads up to them.
And his name making the tape glitch.
Good stuff.
Agreed, the guys that wrote that sketch must be smoking some serious shit.
I thought you might like it!
But then I thought you might also not like it!
I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO THINK ANYMORE
…I misread the title.
Hey TAY peeps. How were your weekends? I didn’t do a hell of a lot, Saturday I attempted to start building my carboard R2-D2, read the instructions and found that I needed a couple of things (craft glue, and a knife of exact 0), so I went out to the shops to grab them. Had to look for a birthday present for my Dad as well, so I looked around the shops a bit. Ended up buying a couple of Dr. Karl’s books (House Of Karls, and A Game Of Knowns), and a cardboard Darth Vader kit, also went out for tea with my wife and son, which was nice, and watched the first episode of The Walking Dead S3.
Sunday went to a car show a couple of hours drive away, also got pretty drunk (I wasn’t driving), ended up having a reasonably early night.
Did absolutely zero gaming the entire weekend, which is a rarity for me, usually I game every single day, I needed the break though it was starting to really feel like a grind. Getting back into it a little bit today, playing a little bit of Mario Kart 8 in anticipation of the release of the DLC on Thursday.
Also, how about those Amiibo’s. HYYYYYPPPPPEEEE!!!!!!!!
MARIO KART DLC! YESSSSS!
1 week left.
I dont know if i can survive.
You can do it!
Believe in yourself.
Failing that, believe in me who believes in you. Don’t make me wrong!
Welp, my recall starts today for this week 🙁
However, I finally installed Skyrim on my PC, so single player is no issue for me for a long time 🙂
I decided to play through Skyrim again on my PS3 because I wanted to play through it vanilla again and my god the framerate drops are horrible. How did I put up with this for so long?
Because it’s Skyrim? <3
Hit the nail on the head you have 😀
My PC version auto’d my settings to “Medium” graphics, runs really smoothly so far. But that was for the first startup, NOW TO START MODDING! 😀
I tried modding it with my old 7750. It was not a happy experience. My mate donated me his 7970 though and now I’m (to quote Maccas) lovin it. Now I realise it’s my cpu and harddrive bottlenecking my system 🙁
Given that it set it to medium based on detection, I’m staying away from the HD stuff, I’m getting mods like UI fixer, immersive armour/weapons, better hair and weather effects.
I think the Lite HD pack (whatever it’s called) should work ok. At the least get the official HD DLC from the Steam page
As in, in the steam workshop or…?
http://store.steampowered.com/app/202485/
It’s not as detailed as the HD mod packs, but if you’re not going to run those it doesn’t really effect performance too much from what I remember. Chances are you might already have it without realising
Remember: Skyrim without mods is like pasta without sauce.
🙂
Played that all weekend. Dear god it suckered me in again
Yeah it’s bloody gorgeous just the atmosphere. I went High Elf, kinda doing a magic swordsman build, what about you?
Imperial sneaky bastard with a bow
Archery is really fun at the beginning, but believe me, it is a nightmare once you reach around about level 30. Stealth is no longer possible due to gigantic enemy health bars. It made my Orsimer archer very sad.
Went to the city Saturday Night to meet up with Jack from Achievement Hunter and meet some people from the Australian Rooster Teeth community. Jack drew a much bigger crowd this year than when he last visited in April last year. Apparently @fatshady was there too but I guess I missed him in the 70 or so people crammed into the PJ Gallagher’s bar area under the Criterion.
Also it’s a testament to how little I go out these days that I didn’t know that bar had been completely refurbished. When I last went there it was just called “The Underground” and it was a total dive. I kind of miss it.
Other than that I played Destiny and tried a little of the Binding of Isaac: Rebirth.
Gotta say… kind of disappointed. Rebirth doesn’t feel like it controls as smoothly, the new graphics seem kind of messy and overdesigned compared to the clean simplicity of the old. I like the new enemies but for some reason the creator decided to make the game more pixel-y and… yeah, it’s going to take some getting used to.
Also after having neglected this season of Doctor Who my wife and I watched from episodes 3-7 last night and I don’t really know why people have been saying this is a weak season. Some of the episodes have been some of the most Doctor Who fun we’ve seen for some time and Capaldi is doing an excellent job.
Granted, all the side drama between Clara and Danny is really annoying. I could do with less of that. Danny is actually kind of an asshole to the point I hope there’s some paranoral cause for it that will get explained later on.
On the upside, Clara has grown on me as a companion this season but that might just be because I never really liked Matt Smith so I couldn’t stand how much Clara had to fawn over him because it was in the script.
Anyway, we’ll probably marathon the rest of it tonight so I’ll be able to give my fully formed impressions then.
Not sure how much was down to the writing and how much down to her, but this season left me with the impression that Jenna Coleman’s a one dimensional actor that has ruined a lot of scenes by lack of timing or being able to protray emotions properly (other than the ‘I’m shocked that the Doctor’s lecturing me again, I know, I’ll be a bossy know-it-all right back at him’)
I think it’s the writing, she did a pretty good job of bringing some real emotion to her angry rant at the Doctor at the end of the Kill the Moon episode. I didn’t really agree with her but then again that was supposed to be a “big decider” moment for humanity and two thirds of the people present wouldn’t have been there but for the Doctor’s interference so his refusal to participate just makes him a big fat hypocrite. I wonder if that’s a weakness in the writing or part of the “point” this season is making. It’s hard to tell sometimes.
I didn’t like that she gets all high and mighty with the Doctor, even when he’s put her in her place. We had Donna or Amy who would reign in the Doctor when he was about to go too far, but Clara just seems to pick arguments just because. It reminds me of a petulant teenager arguing with her dad. Given the writing has declined massively in quality over the last couple of seasons I’ll put it down to that (for now :P). It has striked me that Moffat now likes to save all the good stuff for his own eps and in particular the season finale. There are good episodes though. Interestingly the ones you just watched, 3-7, only Time Heist really grabbed me as a decent Who story. Listen had promise but I felt wasn’t executed well enough. The Robin Hood one was too fantastical and not in a good way (especially for what’s supposed to be a darker Doctor, but we have to pander to the younger viewers now as well). The Caretaker, if like me you can’t find anything interesting to watch between Danny and Clara (there’s no believable chemistry there) then the episode was a dud with a throwaway ‘alien enemy’ just there to show the Doctor what soldiers can do. Kill The Moon, I wasn’t paying too much attention to that either tbh. It’s a bit metaphorical for the whole season really, it’s Clara’s episode rather than the Doctor much like it’s really Clara’s season rather than the Doctor’s. That’s my gripe with the season, if you’re not a Clara fan, you’re not going to enjoy this season.
That said, the next two episodes in line for you to watch are in my opinion the best two eps of the season. A new writer came in for those two eps and it shows that they’re not stagnating like the writing has been. I won’t say anything else about the other episodes though until you’ve watched them so you can go in with no preconceptions (apart from that I really like those two episodes :P)
I really dislike Danny, and the season has soured me on Clara as well. The relationship between Danny and Clara is also pretty poor. The two just have no chemistry together.
And we can’t even hope for them to not actually work out since we’ve already been introduced to Orson Pink. It’s almost like Clara is forcing herself to stay with Danny because she knows it’s destined!
But you know, other than the bits that suck the season so far has had some pretty fun episodes.
Orson… that makes more sense. No matter how many times I heard it, I always heard Awesome Pink, and had to stifle a giggle… I actually rationalised it to a natural extension of, and subtle satire of, the multitude of stupid names people give their kids nowadays.
Started watching Gotham, only the first ep so far. I likey.
I should really start watching that. It seems like Batman without actually having Batman himself. It’s perfect!
The first ep is good watching. Gritty like Nolan’s films and the darkness of Burton’s. A really good mix (although I have only watched one episode :P)
Soon you wont.
I mean im watching it too but it reminds me of smallville without the catchy theme.
Ryan from the OC is broody and awesome though.
Now he’s played Batman and Gordon!
I find the show pretty cheesy, but it’s fun enough. Benjamin McKenzie is bringing it, and fella playing Penguin is pretty good and messed up.
My girlfriend thinks the penguin actor is cute. Shudder
He looks like Bajo from Good Game 😀
Now that you say that he really does.
I would actually watch Good Game if The Penguin was hosting
Gotham’s worth watching just for Penguin. He’s great.
I just realised that Clara’s last name is Oswald, as is The Penguin’s first name. It never clicked before but now I’m determined to photoshop The Penguin’s nose onto Clara 😀
I spent a pretty staggering amount of time with the Dragon Age wikia and Dragon Age Keep side-by-side on the weekend.
That import system and Tapestry is pretty damn great. I’m sure there’s probably a thousand different flags for conversations that won’t be recorded from my precious save, but there are so many decisions recorded that I don’t really feel it will matter. And it’s not like I’ll be playing either of the first two games’ protagonists either, so it’s all second-hand anyway.
I was able to import my ‘one-of-a-kind’ shaved-head/thick-stubbled/strong-cheekboned/jawed warden from Origins (hush, it’s a difficult look to get right for Bioware apparently), even though it was on the x360, and my DA2 character from same. Now I can import the ‘true’ (1st playthrough) worlds of DA into PS4 and play on the couch, then buy it AGAIN on the PC later for ultra-absurd graphics and full-DLC with the same world imported for an ‘ideal world’ run. Because for some reason I always buy Bioware games multiple times.
(I differentiate between the True way things happen as the first one, based on acting on the imagined character’s instincts, the ‘ideal world’ run is a later one with character decisions influenced by out-of-character fore-sight.)
Either way, I had a total blast revisiting the games with the wiki in hand to revisit all my decisions and get the full story and context around those decisions. I twas like speed-playing the games all over again. …Then I installed DA2 because god dammit, I LOVED the DA2 art direction and the voicing and character model of default facepainted femHawke, and the ‘story over multiple years’ staging of the narrative. Outside of the utterly fucking ridiculous monster-cupboard waves of enemy spawns to make combat more pulpy, and the literally unforgivable copypasta dungeon design, it was head-and-shoulders the entry with the better story, better art direction, and better morality decisions (unintended consequences, unclear virtue, moral ambiguity ftw!).
I loved seeing the interplay of characters (REAL characters, not just a blank, voiceless text box to be as inconsistent as I want in) so much that I just had to go roll up a ‘good enough’ DA:O save and import it to start DA2 again.
So hype for that. But this week… Warlords of Draenor! I’ve basically got two shots at the heirloom, I figure, but that’s not especially high on my bucket list. I’m looking forward to the joy of questing again, exploring new story, then hitting max level and squeezing the last possible drops of rep/daily-based solo/small group advancement before hitting the inevitable raid-or-die growth-blocking wall, and quitting.
Gonna try not to rush it. There’s plenty else to binge on during the slow burn of a new WoW expansion. Dragon Age, AC: Unity, Far Cry 4, Dying Light, Bloodborne, Witcher 3, GTA5 remastered… There’s a lot going on the next few months.
I downloaded 20GBs of Dragon Age today (Origins and 2, through Steam and Origin) just to check my saves were in proper order for Keep, and Keep still isn’t recognizing my Warden.
/o\
From what I can see, the only thing it appears to be affecting is your appearance. The DA Keep has a big notice slathered over the top of the screen letting you know that DA:I does NOT import savegames from previous games. Your character gets logged with the Bioware/EA servers if you chose to go online and allow uploads when you played DA1-2, but I think the information it stored was mostly down to appearance, class, DLC and achievements.
You get to pick all the decisions after that, as part of the ‘Tapestry’.
I’m pretty sure there’s a character-creator module either online or downloadable stand-alone to upload your preferred Grey Warden to their servers. …Which probably would’ve been good to know 20GB ago.
Replay it!
Yeah Da:2 had miles better characters and story, thought DA:O to be really clechied and trope heavy.
But I hope someone got fired for that DA:2 gameplay tho.
Have a week off when DA:I comes out, getting hype.
Puppet and co have created a guild for WoW and somehow roped a few peeps into resubbing.
So come join us if you like for co-op shenanigans.
YES COME JOIN US! =p
Awh, but my guild, 90s, brothers and friends are all on Khaz’Goroth.
Just want this new week over already.
PEP TALK MODE ENGAGE
Same buddy, but try and look for the things that make each day worth getting up for. Sing a 80’s song in the shower, pet a dog, go for a walk and smile at a pretty girl. Life is sad and horrible and depressing but its also pretty great, you just gotta go looking for the good stuff 🙂
Thanks 🙂
Last 2 weeks have been living hell as 2 weeks ago we were told that our unborn baby has a 1 in 10 chance of having edwards syndrome.
Have been trying to stay positive for my 18month old daugter and to spend lots of time with her.
When the little one goes to bed is the hard part as thats when you are left with your thoughts.
Have tried to keep distracted with books dvds and games but all seem Meh.
Countdown is now on for next Monday when they will take a sample of the babies DNA and then about 4 days after to get the results back.
Dude, That sucks, a lot. Nothing i can say other than hugs
Lots of hugs.
Really appreciated.
Suprised that actually typing it out and getting it off my chest actually helped a bit.
🙂
That sucks, man.
Hope everything turns out okay.
Thanks Bud.
Was only just thinking how funny it is how the mind works.
I say this as they have said that their is a 1 in 10 chance of the baby having a chromosomal issue that then means there is a 9 in 10 chance all is ok.
If someone offered me a bet with the chance of winning 9 times out of 10 you would think what great odds.
Yet flip them around to 1 in 10 chance of being the worst thing in your life and it seems worse despite it being the exact same odds.
Sometimes the weekend goes by so fast you feel like you never really get a break. I’m really looking forward to Christmas when it’s quiet and there’s no one else in the office. My colleague who’ll be sharing “skeleton” duties with me will happily co-conspire for us to take turns coming in late/leaving early.
Hey everyone, Kingpin refunded some money back to me because we didn’t get our drink cards. It was refunded to my credit card though because that’s how I ended up paying for it, so I’m not quite sure how it will work out.
Also, did anyone have any complaints about the venue? I need to know in case we use it again.
The crawl space in the ceiling wasn’t nearly large enough to spy on you guys!
We need to sing together more.
BRISBANE TRIP FOR NEW YEARS 😛
I was actually considering something like that 😛 Haven’t been to the theme parks in a long time. I should see if any of the Sydney people want to go.
Dude sounds like a plan 🙂
Just don’t plan it for between the 16th and 27th of January or I won’t be there! Or, if you want to avoid me, I guess plan it for then. 😛
It’s my birthday on the 15th. A fairly big and scary one too. D: D: D:
Though if I do any thing it’ll probably be the weekend before.
Any birthday you have, I’ve been there before you and survived. So there’s no birthday that’s scary. 😀
Where is the best place to look into staying if I wanted to be close to any Meats? Might look into some prices and things before I start recruiting people to come with me 😛
Most times we meet at either South Bank or West End. But anywhere in the City is pretty close to stuffs and just a short busride away from other potential Meat locations.
Good to know!
Registering my interest.
Uh oh. Shut it down, people!
Registering my interest too!
@mrtaco
I would totally be there, but for the fact that @hindenlagen is back in Perth at that time.
Have you seen this: http://brisbanepowerhouse.org/events/2014/12/31/new-years-geek/
They didn’t clean the carpets like we asked initially, sorry about the sticky floor near the bar everyone 🙁
Honestly didn’t even notice, however the way they handled it all was a bit nuisensesy especially when the tv was playing up and didn’t offer to help and were pretty vague on what drinks they had
Yes! I went down and asked the security guard outside, he said “I’ll call them up to request for one but you’d have a better chance getting someone quickly if you go to the counter”, so I did, the supergirl I asked picked up the phone and asked for them to come over to help us, she told me someone was on the way, but I don’t think they ever showed up.
Luckily, because we’ve been there before, it shouldn’t be an issue with we go back again. What does concern me is that Rooster teeth booked Kingpin last year too, so it seems the event happens there every year.
Don’t bars and sticky floors kind of go hand in hand? Can you ever really have one without the other in a public space? Not in my experience! 😉
I TELL HUMANS TO CLEAN SOMETHING I EXPECT THEM TO CLEAN IT DAMMIT!
😛
Just keep the refunded money. Call it an ‘organisers fee’ 😛
Not really any complaints other than being ushered out quickly when we were done, but that’s understandable because of the bookings they had.
Yeah.. keep in mind as well the fact that we got moved up there for free they probably ended up hosting that for less profit than they would’ve had to run the staff and equipment for that upstairs room if we booked it normally. We paid for the budget room, we got upgraded to first class for compensation over the Roosterteeth booking kicking us out.
The venue itself was fine. The fact they kind of lost the food and stuff was a bit annoying but I think the only major issue we had is that we possibly wanted to be there a bit longer.
So is everyone happy to have it there next year?
I’m certainly happy to go there again. We should find out if Rooster Teeth intend to hire out Kingpin again beforehand though. I wonder if maybe the alternative would be to just go straight up to that room if that’s possible and do a round of laser tag instead of bowling if we want to do some physical activity.
It’s most likely possible, however, we would have to pay extra ro use the M9 bar again and I’m not sure if people would be happy with the price of hire
I don’t think the venue was worth the money paid for it, considering that wedding hire is often $50-70/pp and for that you tend to get a three course meal and sometimes alcohol, with longer venue hire.
I understand that Crown has a premium but so does the word “wedding”.
This particular venue also handled multiple things poorly, not just the drinks, but also provided no assistance when we were struggling with their equipment, did not bring the food to the right place, harassed a few people about their lack of wristbands (indicating that their staff were completely unaware that there were multiple events going on). Because of that, I would be pretty unwilling to give them that much money again, but obviously I didn’t organise it.
This is meant purely as a criticism of the venue that we were at. Also I disliked their lighting for personal photographic reasons, but that’s an artistic choice.
Apart from the fact that only half the group got to bowl, we didn’t get our drinks, and the staff seemed permanently confused as to why we were there?
I won’t go back there.
Yeah, unfortunately they thought we were part of rooster teeth which is why I’m not really considering kingpin again.
So the weekend is over. That’s bad.
But it’s a short week because of G20. That’s good.
Public transport is on the fritz though. That’s bad.
I don’t know where I was going with this but happy Monday everyone.
Oh man, Brisbane sure has a lot of cops walking about with guns. It’s strange and off-putting.
HEY POPDART! HOPE YOU’RE WELL? HOW GOES ROLE PLAYING GAMES?
GOOD! I helped out at the Vault Games launch on Sunday and I ran a brief D&D 5th edition and a The Strange game. I was told that I do a creepy persona really well (not sure if compliment or not) and half of the D&D players ended up dying when they fought over the loot. So yeah, twas a good day.
Except for one guy who derided the quality of my Pathfinder book because it was beginning to fall apart. Screw you old man. Just because you have preserved your AD&D books from the 80s in near pristine condition does not give you the right the judge me for the state of my books.
I also thought when we met you did the creepy persona well!
…
JOKES! 😛
Sounds like a good weekend, pal!
That would smart but I drank in the delicious uneasiness and fear of my players so it’s all good. 😛
Hope you had a good weekend too DC.
The frogurt is also cursed. That’s bad.
But you get your choice of toppings. That’s good.
The toppings contain potassium benzoate. […] That’s bad.
Can I go now?
I heard there’s road closures in the CBD for the whole week. Is there any info on what’s closed? I have a feeling my interview will be in the CBD, and I wanna make sure I can get where I need to be!
I took a bus into work today that went straight down Anne Street from the northside without any issues. All I’ve heard is that there will be sporadic timetable changes and maybe a few road closures from Wednesday onwards but nothing too concrete.
Train seems to be the best way to get into the city this week.
There’ll be no buses into the city later on in the week I think. There’s going to be a transport hub thingo at Upper Edward St in Spring Hill I think it was so a ten minute walk to Central.
https://www.g20.org/community_information/brisbane_locals/traffic_and_transport/brisbane_cbd for full info on the CBD @welbot
cheers dood!
Looks like the streets I need to go down and park in are not closed! w00t!
Eyyyyy. Hope you all had a good weekend. I played a bit of Destiny, got a new exotic helm for my Hunter and ‘Truth’ off Xur. Enjoyment factor is quick fading though, conveniently enough with Halo due to be delivered soon (and subsequently GTA.)
Four more sleeps until me and the missus are off to Port Douglas for 3 nights. Very excited and extremely ready for it. Aside from getting a trip to the reef squeezed in, I think we’ll be happy to just beach, pool and bar it for the rest of our time there.
Have a good week, team.
One more day mate, one more day! That Halo Hype is going to keep you going for a while, every campaign AND multiplayer… ridiculous! I fear though that I may never get to play it however, at a 800kb/s download speed and the fact it would take my Xbone 54 hours (estimated) to download the day one patch I don’t think I can quite justify buying it at the moment.
I intend to live vicariously through you until I can get an internet connection that will satisfy my
gaming addictionentertainment needs.Such a shame, but undertsandable for sure. I’m not looking forward to seeeing how long that takes for me either. If it’s a good day, it may be about 10 hours, but we shall see. At least we can look forward to some GTA destruction perhaps?
I got the first chest in the raid last night, 2 shards \o/. May try hop back on tomorrow night before 9pm reset if you keen (gf b’day today, so I think that means no gaming?)
If it were my gf, you would be correct in your assertion 😛
Hey man, what is a good internet company in Melbourne, mrs moved over yesterday but wouldn’t have a clue who to sign up with, she wanted me to sort it when I get there end of December but dunno if she can wait that long.
@jackunit13 would a good man to ask!
I currently use Telstra and if you want anything approaching the speeds what you have had in NZ it may cost a pretty penny. I have used Telstra and find them great for customer service and rarely get drop outs, it only occurs to me when I have more than 1 person using the net in the house (I have a 800kbps connection 🙁 )
I’ve used Spintel since I landed in Australia 3.5 years ago. I think they’ve got quite a decent cost structure going on.
I’m now on 200GB a month download limit and home phone with calls to NZ landlines capped at something like $1 for up to half an hour. It costs $81 a month. Speeds are good, not great. Heavily dependant on where you live though. I think all the ISP’s here go off the back of either Optus/Telstra (Spintel is Optus.) So if you are close to their exchange you will get a better service.
I’ve also heard good things about TPG.
Is there any that provide internet with no phone? though $1 per 30min sounds awesome, They call it Naked here. Living in Prahran, dunno if that helps, I did this little test thing. Previous tennant was on Internode? I will look into Spintel.
Line of Sight: 579m
Nearest 3G Towers
Telstra:0.2KM | 0.5KM | 0.5KM | 0.5KM | 0.6KM
Optus:0.2KM | 0.5KM | 0.7KM | 0.8KM | 0.8KM
Three:0.2KM | 0.7KM | 0.8KM | 1KM | 1.1KM
Vodafone:0.2KM | 0.2KM | 0.5KM | 0.5KM | 0.7KM
What defines a ‘good’ speed over there haha, I’m at my parents at the moment getting 6-14mpbs and hating it.
Yeah there are naked plans over here as well.
I’m afraid you’re starting to lose me with all this technical speak. What I can tell you is that when downloading a torrent, I’ve gotten up to around 800kb/s at home, usually more like 600 and I know a lot people who would consider mine above average.
I downloaded the 15gb Halo patch in about 5 hours last night I think.
Ok that sounds alright I guess, I get up to about 3mb on torrents I think Titanfall 20gb took me around 5-10minutes. “its a better lifestyle over there” she says 😉
Jeez man that is insane! I had my own internet over there only for about 6 months it was a naked Vodafone plan, but was nowhere near that fast.
@jackunit13 Yea they have stepped up the cable plans here now, I’m on 130mbs unlimited for $115 no phone, I got a mate who just got fibre who is on 200mbs down and 200mbs up for $115 no phone.
Weekend! Parents were away from Friday til… I dunno, some time nowish I guess. So with the house to myself, the plan was to plant myself in front of the TV with my PC, crank up the stereo and not surface from Elite for the entire weekend if I could help it.
The plan was… mostly successful. By the end of it I managed to build up my Sidewinder to be just about as good as it can be, scoring a bunch of A-grade parts and currently only needing to upgrade my B-rated shield generator. Some other stuff is rated lower, but I’m not sure anything better is available for the class 2 mounts on the ship. Totally managed to take down some huge ships with it too, relying on its small size and heightened manoeuvrability to get in close and stay just out of their sights. Well, mostly. Towards the end there I screwed up a fair bit and now have some debt to pay. But I’m wondering if I’ll just leave it and not play for a while now, after all that binge. The beta is no longer for sale on the 22nd and I think that’s when they bring the gamma in before release (16 December, announced just the other day!). There’s gonna be a full wipe when that happens, so I’ll probably just leave it til then to try and make any more progression. Plus it gives me a reason to play other games 😛
Went out for a bit on Saturday. There were still some final screenings of TMNT at Liverpool, so I went down there to watch it. A guy in line when I got there had a bunch of $10 tickets, expiring that day and more than he could use with him and his kids so he offered me one. And straight after that I saw John Wick with Wingman, who also got us $10 tickets somehow or other. Score! Both movies were really good. John Wick was just… wow. I mean I went into it not knowing anything other than a bunch of you guys said it was awesome. And it was. But it was so weird though, in a kind of this-shouldn’t-work-but-it-totally-does way. It kind of reminded me of a more serious Shoot ‘Em Up, actually. But yeah, it was cool. What was really cool though was TMNT! I don’t know why people hated it, I loved it! Really, pretty much the only thing that bothered me at all was the whole “we learnt to be ninjas because we found a book” part. That and the Shredder was kinda chunky. Otherwise though, no problems with it at all, very enjoyable.
To top off the weekend, I fired up the old computer to check on some e-mails and decided to try and see what happened if I signed in to MSN, since they had that whole “proper shutdown” thing on the 31st. And… it worked! MSN lives on! It’s a Halloween Miracle!
John Wick! So many headshots!
He must have killed like what? 200 guys! They all deserved it though; especially that Theon Greyjoy fellow.Hey, TAY.
Last day of my Cert 3 in Technical Production today. \o/
Morning errbody hows every little thing?
My weekend was topsy-turvy..On Friday Cathryn’s brother was meant to come down and stay with us for the weekend however their dad refused to drive him down and then when I said I could get him on the way through as I was doing work at my parents he apparently had a friend over staying the night. So because of that we took Moni to the beach and she went for a swim which was adorable.
Saturday it was hot so Cathryn and I went to the beach during the day and then Cathryns friend came over and stayed for dinner, they got maicures, I got a thickshake its all good.
Sunday we went to my mums 53rd Birthday party, it was a small family affair with a BBQ and cake and we played cards against humanity and mum won.
Monday morning question after playing cards against humanity if you could make your own card game what would it be about?
It seems like the answer I give for everything, but I really would love to see a card or board game made about The Lesser Evil’s universe.
Not going to lie, a card game based around manipulation of the Senate would be pretty great.
I really wish I knew something about making games, because I suddenly want to see this exist.
I imagine it would be like a game of Diplomacy or something like that. I don’t know too many games that really fit that ideal of political manipulation.
If you really want to research it, I think Penny Arcade’s Gabe put up some documentation of what he was doing with building a game from scratch, for Thornwatch. Admittedly he has immediate and local access to a bunch of industry giants.
Before anything else, I think I need to play more games, figure out mechanics, what’s been done, what hasn’t, what works and what doesn’t, what upsets balance, what’s an effective counter system, etc. Once I’ve got some ideas to bounce around, I can start involving other people! But thanks, I’ve filed away that info for later research
Extra Credits?
Good morning
JIMU! How’s things?
Yeah, you?
Also yeah! 😀
WHATRE U GUAIS DUN HARE?
@jimu
Hi.
HELLO!
GOOD MORNINGS COMRADE!
I spent a large portion of my weekend playing Mass Effect 3. The section with the Quarian/Geth was really interesting. Reminds me a lot about the Matrix, right down to interfacing with a virtual reality. I suppose I won’t say much more because spoilers, maybe.
First time through?
Yep, pretty late to the party. I played a bit of ME2, then realised I should go back to ME1, so I’ve gone through both of those. I play as Paragon as I can get, but I did perform a Renegade action at one point. It was interesting because it felt like the right thing to do for me, and a similar action in ME2 was considered to be the Paragon action.
Hey @DC how are YOU?
Scrawny and awkward, mostly! 😀 THANKS FOR ASKING!
Scrawny? Pfft. 😛
ARE YOU CALLING ME FAT! *runs off to eat 72 Freddos that’ll sooth my spirit*
So I may have misinterpreted what scrawny actually meant and thought it meant being short. Me do English good.
Me fail english? That unpossible!
NOW YOU’VE JUST REMINDED ME THAT I’M LANKY TOO! YOU MONSTER!
SKELETOR
Ladies and gentleman, I call you here today to discuss with you a great danger that threatens our very quality of life. Yes, that’s everyone.
We live in an age where knowledge is power, and only by cooperating do we stand any chance against the vile, putrid foe that is long term memory loss of obscure facts from 20 years ago.
I call on you, as some of Gamings Greatest Minds to help me recover a salve of information, a glimmer of hope that I can remember the games that I first played as a child. A time for all of us when we didn’t care about FPS, DRM and backwards compatibility.
There are three games I am attempting to remember, and I hope with the combined power of all of our intellectual might that we may discover the names of these games. Please note these games around 15-20 years old and may have been played on a DOS system.
Game 1: You are a police officer, with a top down view of a town. You use your car to drive to different houses to make arrests, there may have been top down car chases as well…
Game 2: You are a little space ship, again with a top down sort of view but you are jumping across what looks like really long tetris blocks.. getting increasingly faster until you finish the level. I think you may have used the space bar to jump to a new block.
Game 3: You are walking around in a point and click adventure (@janexo you may know this one!) where you are in a castle, you are looking for keys to open doors and collecting treasure from chests. NB: may not actually be a point and click adventure 😛
1. Police Quest? Sounds like the driving parts of that classic.
2. For some reason, Q Blox popped into my head. I don’t know what it is, or if it exists…
3. No idea.
POLICE QUEST!! Best $100 kickstarter backing I’ve ever made.
I don’t think QBlox is it, but thanks for trying on the other two!!!
“Drop towel!”
I liked near the end of the game when the mayor or something was doing a press conference and you type: “TAKE OFF CLOTHES.”
Hmm, could it be Shadowgate? Do you remember what the graphics were like at all?
The art style is a little different, it’s probably closer to King’s Quest in terms of graphics. It’s a 2d game I’m certain of it, like a side scroller. The only character I remember was a monk with a friars hair cut. I remember there being potions for spells as well if that helps you!
Game 3: King’s Quest?
That’s the closest I’ve seen to it so far! The only character I remember was a monk with a friars hair cut. I remember there being potions for spells as well?
That does sound a lot like Kings Quest 3. I could never finish it because *ahem* I didn’t have the book that came with it, so I couldn’t make any spells. It started off with you in a wizard’s house and you had to collect items and then escape without him catching you.
The art style is very similar, but alas I this wasn’t it. I wish I remembered more from the game so I could explain it more thoroughly, I think it will be doomed to the annals of my memory until the end of time 🙁
2. Skyroads?
That is the game.
This is the game that turned me into a gamer, I swear of it. It wasn’t Mario, it wasn’t Duck Hunt, It was Skyroads. God damn I loved this game. Thank you for reconnecting me with which that I loved. I will upvote you until the ends of time for this.
It was pretty great. You should check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SkyRoads_(video_game) – there’s links on the page to the full version of the game, made available by the creator.
And if you’re looking for a very, very reminiscent modern take on it, you should give Audiosurf a try.
I’ll definitely do that!!
Haha holy crap I think that was one of my firsts as well xD
OH MY GOD ALL THIS SICK SMASH BROS MUSIC I CANT HANDLE IT ALL.
Hey Shiggy! Question! Why are you so awesome?
GOOD QUESTION! Answer: I dunno man.
Born with it.
He’s on the right track, baby. He was born this waaaay!
Maybe its Maybelline
Happy New Week.
Spent a fun couple of hours last night running about Destiny. Little bit of farming and Daily Heroic for my Titan, and a few Weekly Nightfall fusion kills towards Exotic Bounty, then decided to level my alt Warlock for a while. Saw @grim-one kicking around the Cosmodrome on Patrol so jumped into fireteam and had a lot of fun being largely useless and chasing a high-20s around with an L4, who got to L8 by running around, dying a lot, ineffectually shooting at things during Public Events and only actually being useful by running off to pick off scout locations while the big kids waited for public events to start… Still, some good levelling done, which made it easy to run through the story missions and open stuff up.
Hey! Sorry I didn’t have my headset around while I was patrolling and holding my infant daughter 😉
I figured you just wanted to tag along with the patrols for some easy XP. I was just trying to burn through my bounties as fast as possible. You were useful though, rezzing me when I got a bit gung-ho. The mobs still hurt even when you’re 20 levels above them 😀
No worries, I figured you probably had the little one nearby. And yes, you guessed right, easy xp from bounties and events.
The only time I worried at all was when I’d gone rocketing off to pick off that scout mission wayyyyyy over the other side of the map while you were waiting for the Extraction Crews event – thought you might cancel the mission just before I got there! But I made it back in time for the event. Funny. They so need to add sparrow races… 🙂
Where do I hand this man card? I’ve been on a Miley Cyrus kick lately!
You still have some? I lost my cards years ago.
Got some new ones that last time I bought a Bruce Springsteen song on iTunes.
Human cards. I’ll take them now.
Why do I find this offensive somehow? 😛
Are you trying to make me mad, DC?! You know the mere mention of mancards makes me want to hit things. 😛
Strange, I got gender stereotyping to do! 😛
Wanting to hit things? You’ve just earned yourself a man card!
😛
I just confiscate all the man cards and eat them. I’m like 95% man by now.
You can’t say she’s not good at what she does, though!
AMAZING!
NSFW?
Monday, Monday! Hey guys, I won’t bore you with my weekend stories because I know you don’t give a shit and I cbf telling them – nothing exciting happened anyway. I bought a Nexus 7.
Want to be entertained? Of course you do! Okay, so this is the funniest piece I have read all week; a Should You See It guide to Interstellar. Please take note that I have seen the film, and yes, there are mild spoilers in the article so it would be best to revisit this after your cinematic viewing. Don’t say I didn’t warn you! 😀
But do come back! It’s a great read.
Your face is a great read! YOU SEEM PENSIVE!
I had to Google that, but yes, I am pensive! How have you been, DC? Did you see my awesome Superman outfit whilst hiding out in the Kingpin airducts?
I did! I thought you and the Shredder were going to engage in fisticuffs at one point!
I’ve gained a great deal of Instagram followers this past week or so. Like close to thirty. I gained three just last night. So I just put a picture and description of @shane’s Kickstarter up on there. 181 followers, prepare thyselves for zombies and puns! 😛
Good guy Strange! 🙂
I followed someone I respect last week and they instantly followed back and then the revelation struck that I posted a video of me singing Party in the USA. Then I contemplated starting a new life else where. XD
Thank you! You are awesome \o/
Puns? From you? That’ll be the day. 😛
Speaking of puns, the sign at the baptist church near my school now reads “Is your prayer well done, or rare?”. Ugh. 😛
This is why people are abandoning religion!
Hola tasty burritos (phone corrected to that, too good to change)
Had a busy weekend. Friday caught up with a friend of mine who had dropped out of socialising for a bit, she’s just got married so it was good to catch up. Saturday went to lunch with my parents who were on the way to pick up a new puppy (golden Labrador, will post pics on wed), then hung out with the friend in going to Cambodia with (NEXT TUESDAY!). Then played a lot of skyrim.
A Monday morning question: favourite dog breed?
German Shepards are the best.
Aroooouuuuunnnd.
Nothing’s ever gonna keep them down.
My favorite too, grew up around them and now I have 2 of my own 😀
I have one too, It sheds like mad but he is adorable and loves hugs. 🙂
yeah the shedding is crazy but they make up for it by being adorable, mine loves hugs too, he tries to climb in my lap which is funny cause he’s almost as big as me. Always love coming home, they’re always so happy to see me I feel welcome :D. He’s also very talkative and tries to talk back when I talk to him.
Mines the same, he loves my sister so much, whenever he sees her, his face lights up and they speak in their little weird dog-human language. It makes my heart melt.
ours were playing with a 2 year old yesterday, they just seem to know that they’re fragile, so cute they drop their posture and just gently nuzzle and lick the kid. Such great dogs.
Huskies, they’re always so big, fluffy and cuddly I always squee when I see one or a husky cross 🙂
So much Argreements
I like Beagles! SO. DAMN. CUTE.
My mate has a beagle called Cheddar. His wife wouldn’t then let him name the cat crackers.
WHERE’S MY BURRITO!
I want some Tacitos
My family’s only ever had Golden Retrievers (three of them in my lifetime) but that’s okay because they are the best. A lot of work though, especially in the case of the last one who was so smart he could pick up on words relating to the act of walking in peoples conversations and he knew exactly how much mischief he could get up and exactly how to manipulate you into letting him away with it.
Although I love Snoopy, I’m going to have to vote for King Charles Cavalier Spaniels.
My parents have one. He’s a really great dog.
Probably German Shepherd. I’d love to have one and I’d call it either Commander or Book. I have many breeds of dog that I like a lot, and I can’t think of any that I don’t.
Golden Retrievers, Border Collies, Labradors and Newfoundlands. Just to list a few. I love dogs.
Alaskan Husky / German Shepard / Australian Cattle Dog.
And even then, highly personality dependent.
The only dog I’d be happy living with is a mature working dog who gets worked, and is satisfied with that level of attention and reward.
None of these goofy, excitable, needy fuckers who demand your attention all the time and are overly physically affectionate.
Damn man, who ate your heart? 😛
He’s a cat person! We’re conditioned to not need love because we won’t get it! 😛
My grandmother has owned 3 cats since i have known her and all were loving and affectionate all the time. Whenever i used to sit in my chair the cat always sat on my lap and watched tv with me.
My cat glares at me from the corner of the room in quiet contemplation and then flees and/or bites me when I try to pet her.
My friend’s cat insists on remaining aloof and acting emotionally distant when there’s everyone around, but when I crash on their couch he changes. All of a sudden he’s sitting on me, and purring a whole lot, and curling up while snuggling into my hand, and trying to get himself buried in the blanket I use as a pillow.
Which is normally adorable, except that the last time I was there he had fleas. :/
Scratchy cats are adorable!
Hey, I appreciate the feels! Just quiet, mutual respect is the best kind. A deeper, more reserved thing. The unspoken bond is the most meaningful.
I am generally uncomfortable with most overt displays of affection. Excitability, bouncing, noise, excessive movement, slobber? Ew.
…This is very similar to my preference in dealing with humans, too.
I dont know if we would get on in person, i am what the kids call a “hugger”
I appreciate that a lot of people dont like their personal space invaded, I just think hugs are rad.
Ah, I don’t mind receiving the occasional one. Occasional. It’s not a problem, as long as people are OK with being greeted with very amiable aloofness by default; certainly no unsolicited hugs. People who NEED hugs (like dogs)? They might mistake lack of physical affection for dislike. It’s happened. People are weird.
I tend to hug only when I’m quite drunk.
Slobber ONCE and he totally writes you off! :'(
My folks have whatever silly mongrels have turned up at their house over the last 20 years. All crazy, all amazing. We used to have a couple of awesome Labradors.
I’m fairly convinced that my cat Max is one of my old Labradors reincarnated. I’ve never known a cat that is so food-obsessed and such a gannet…
ALL OF THEM.
Well, no, like 90% of them. Labradors are still probably my favourite, because my boy Henry is just about the best dog ever. I love big dogs and little dogs (but not tiny yappy dogs).
Some other favourites: Irish Wolfhounds, Dalmatians, Staffys, Schnauzers, Border Collies, and Silky Terriers (mostly just because I had two as a little kid and they were my best friends).
Dogs man 😀
They are pretty damn good.
I wish I had a dog, but living in a first floor unit with no backyard precludes that.
OH NO EVERYONE. I just googled “Irish Terrier” and now I’m dead and typing from dog heaven. http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/236x/32/4d/99/324d992f22591ab583ec87e14b94aae2.jpg
LOOK! IT’S TILTING ITS HEAD AND TRYING TO UNDERSTAND PEOPLE! D:
Now I’m so dead I’m just googling puppies forever.
Terriers are the best.
Beagles are cool. Also huskies.
Pomski..its a god damn minature huski!
Old English Sheepdog.
It’s the breed we’ve always had, and the breed I always will have. Beautiful natures.
Not Dachshund.
I’m pretty sure mine’s racist.
Howdy All!
How was everyones weekend?
I played Cards against humanity, and I swear, the random cards are filthier than I am sometimes!
Played alot of board games yesterday. (Among the stars, Coup and Love Letter and 7 wonders)
Also discovered Singstar on PS4 -With my phone as a Microphone HOLY CRAPSICLES! AMAZEBALLS! and with music I like!!!
I bought a set of Cards against Humanity last week!
Now when it gets here I can totally take credit for discovering it when I show it to my non-TAY friends 😛
I tried to buy it online but the order kept being rejected and I was sad.
Hi guys!
Finally had time to play with the Xbone. Next-gen is pretty cool, been playing Forza Horizon 2, all these cars look better than real life!
I also preordered the Kingdom Hearts 2.5 collectors edition from the SquenixUS store, comes with some pretty neat stuff including the 1.5 game.
How much extra do the usual SE editions cost to get forwarded here?
I use Shipito. I have to pay 2 sets of postage, $15 to get it to my US address then around $30 – $45 via DHL to Australia which takes about 2 – 3 days to get here.
Oh man, so like double the price? They have some nice stuff though!
I’m a sucker for collectors editions 😛
It isn’t too bad, 2 games plus extra stuff for $100US + $50 postage, that’s probably how much it would cost if they sold it here.
Thanks so much for this! I’ve been trying to figure out how to order it from the US/EU store.
Have signed up for Shipito under your recommendation. Ordered 2x copies of the CE. You are a life-saver!
(also yay kingdom hearts~)
I just walked into EB to get a Dancie Pokemon code. Walked out with a PSVita. Anyone have any non-Indie recommendations?
P4G
Persona 4 Golden!
P4G is the best game on the system IMO
I don’t think you needed to buy a Vita just to get a Pokemon code! They’re free!
Apparently I’m the sucker who makes putting the time and effort into setting up free giveaway promotions worth while. =S
So… you can read Undad Issue 1 for free right now…
It’s just a coincidence that I’m running a Kickstarter to get it into print…
😛
Great to see more people buying the Persona 4 Golden machine.
and spelunky and minecraft and trigger happy havoc.
But mainly P4G
So I hear Persona is decent. =P
It has its faults. Personally, I find the dialogue annoying – bland and boring kid talk – but there’s no denying the content. You could easily spend tens of hours or more playing it.
Not that it’s getting repetitive or anything, but I put 90 hours into Persona 4 Golden in about 3 weeks. Such a great game,
Tearaway! Little Big Planet Vita! Also Assassin’s Creed Liberation and Gravity Rush are quite good.
Is Hotline Miami an indie? If not, then that.
Hotline Miami was included in the bundled “PS Vita Indie Games Mega Pack” but Persona 4 takes up the entire 4GB memory card. I think it unlocked the PS3 version though so I might still be able to play it.
Also, good thing I Googled the max SD card compatibility. I noticed it was notched when I put it in but I didn’t stop to think that that means it can’t use a standard micro SD card.
POKEMONS
i started making a new team for competitive battling and stuff, it was fun until i started dealing with egg moves. I had such a hard time getting wish on my Evee last time.So i set about trying to figure out how to get stealth rocks on my Hippodowdan. After 10 unsuccessful attempts i realized it was a 4th gen egg move.
DAMN STUPID HIPPO
so now i need a new stealth rocker, thinking about going with mamoswine, instead.the team isnt really balanced i just picked a bunch of pokes that i liked and bred them with natures i wanted.
it looks like this
Typlosion
Dragonite
Hitmontop
Swanna
Shit hippo
Amphoros
I have a suspicion my team of evees is probably better balanced. 😛
Not bad!
EDIT: You should definitely revisit it after ORAS comes out though. With any luck it’ll have all new Move Tutors and give Stealth Rock to a bunch of new things.
I feel like its okay, but a lot of them are outclassed by others. I was thinking of doing a dance party team with ludicolo and hitmontop 😛
Stupid Hippo
I have other suggestions!
Team consisting of: Scizor, Scizor, Scizor, Scizor, Scizor and Scizor.
Alternatively: Rotom (Wash), Rotom (Wash), Rotom (Wash), Rotom (Wash), Rotom (Wash) and then Rotom (Wash).
Those rotoms better all run volt switch. Bunch of washing machines just switching out would be confusing as fuck.
6 magikarps
Is this a doubles team? Eruption on Typhlosion wrecks in doubles. Slap a choice scarf/specs on it and wreck everything in sight. If you use Ninetales or Mega Charizard Y, you get a free 1.5x boost and can still scarf! Yay!
So I’ll add my voice to the “Interstellar was fantastic” crowd. I went in hoping for a gripping, overwhelming, immersive movie experience, and that’s exactly what I got. Left it with much the same feeling I got from Inception – that I wish it didn’t have to end.
I don’t care that there are plot holes and clunky dialogue and heavy handed themes and so on, or whether it will hold up to repeated home viewing. That initial viewing last night will sit in my memory banks as one hell of a movie experience. And that is something that happens all too rarely.
So yeah. I hate hyping stuff, but movie good. Look forward to bonus emotions if you’re a dad.
Weekend Trip Report:
Friday night ended with a bang. Literally. Something in my evaporative cooler in the place I’ve only been in for two weeks or so exploded and dumped about 30-40L of water into my kitchen through the ceiling and fan vent. 🙁 I warned them a week or so prior that I thought it wasn’t running efficiently and needed some maintenance (because god knows when the last time it was serviced was). Turns out I was right to be worried. Also turns out that once the water stops flowing it’s not an ‘urgent’ repair. Haven’t heard anything from the real estate agents yet about getting it fixed but hoping there’s some calls etc. going on at the moment to arrange some stuff. Right now I can’t use the fan or the lights in the place (the light fitting got water into it, I can’t trust it) and I’m hoping the cooling gets fixed before Thursday when we’re due for another 30+ degree day.
So that kind of put a damper (ha ha) on my enthusiasm for living there.
Went and got a haircut / beard trim then spent some time at my Mum’s place Saturday afternoon, which was nice. We went down toward the beach but the change was coming through so it was way too windy to enjoy, plus Mum had a cold. So went home and had dinner. Then I went back to my place and confirmed no more leakage.
Sunday I went out with Mum again and visited a Telstra shop. I rang them Saturday to try and figure out what to do with the internet situation and there was talk about transferring the phone to my Mum and stuff which needed forms signed in-store. When we got there it turned out that there was a better way to arrange everything to reduce my costs and stuff so internet is all arranged now, don’t have to worry about my Mum getting disconnected and will hopefully be getting access at my place when the self-install modem arrives later this week. Barring any hiccups should be back online soon. That’s going to make a massive difference.
Played a fair bit more of Shadow of Mordor, picking up where I left off about 2 weeks ago before I moved out. Got into the second area and I’m still enjoying it but finding that there’s a bit too many of the annoying shield guys that you have to counter with a completely abnormal button and stuff so generally not liking it as much as I was. Still collecting shit and stuff though. I think I’m still a good 10-12 hours away from knocking it out completely.
Also played an hour or so of Fairy Fencer F which I’d been eyeing for a while. It’s… well, you can tell it’s Compile Heart. It looks fantastic and sounds okay but the plot so far has been very much like something out of a mediocre late-night anime and there’s a level of polish really missing from it. Mainly around the difficulty curve. It takes way too long to level up so grinding some extra levels is a chore, doesn’t give you enough opportunities to save and will happily allow you to challenge enemies that are far too strong for you to have a hope of beating, but doesn’t give you any warning that you’re about to do that. Also the main character’s an utter jerk and I’m not sure I’ll continue with it. Going to try Ar nosurge instead I think, I’m far more likely to enjoy that. A bit disappointed though since the actual concept of the game is cool, the visuals are great (Neptunia’s character designer and the in-game models made from her concept art are excellent) and the music is what you’d expect from Uematsu / Earthbound Papas.
Finally also got around to watching the Madoka Magica movie trilogy. First two are just movie edits of the material from the TV series so that was a nice refresher. Final film though is an all-new sequel and holy shit. I think that’s what being high on LSD must feel like. It’s utterly surreal. Some great action sequences and stuff. Also I have no fucking clue what happened at the end. Not sure if I’d recommend it or not. For most of it I assumed that it was the final act of Faust, since Madoka Magica as a series draws heavily from it, and I guess you could actually still interpret it that way since it ends up cleaving closer to Goethe’s original story rather than subsequent versions I think but I’m still not entirely sure what happened so who knows. The TV series felt complete, though a bit bittersweet, but this ended up feeling incomplete. Maybe that’s more interesting. I dunno.
Tell them you want to pay less rent until it’s fixed.
that’ll get them to fix it toot sweet..
That’s actually illegal under the Victorian tenancy act. You have to keep paying. However if they continue to stuff around for more than 2 weeks you can ask VCAT to send them sternly worded correspondence and then if that doesn’t work can take it to a tribunal and ask the rent to be paid to the tribunal instead of the agent until the matter’s resolved in said tribunal.
Real estate agent has apparently arranged a tradesman to contact me to arrange repairs though. Waiting for them to call.
Mordor: Nice thing about the upgrades is you can get one which stuns opponents who you jump over, which allows you to dodge the shield-guy attacks while still keeping your combo streak up. But yeah. Berserkers and Shield-bearers are the primary recipients of my combo-streak combat finishers because fuck those guys, seriously.
And y’know, what Red said about the rent… seems pretty cool, though I’m not sure how you go about that. A letter/email, sure, but maybe the RTA would know how to make it more official and/or actually happen?
When I moved into my place in the Valley, the air-con was busted and leaking through the walls into the carpet. I told them that it looked like it was going to damage the walls and carpet and that got them moving on a replacement pretty quick.
Yeah but I find that the finishers tend to not actually hit the dude I want them to hit. So I’ve been often swapping to the shadow strike thing in battle to instagib them. But I can’t hold enough charges to keep doing it and the game has an insanely aggressive respawn rate in some areas. You’ll finish off a patrol entering an area sometimes and right as the last guy dies the same group will re-enter again and again. It’s a bit annoying.
I’ve had the jump stun thing for ages and yeah, it’s useful, but I tend to get rid of the shield and berserker guys ASAP anyway. I just unlocked the top tier thing that gives you two combo attacks per so that might make a difference, but I find that the target selection on it is frustratingly unpredictable. Especially annoying in things where eg you need to grab one guy and ‘make him squeal’ to summon a warchief, and you keep accidentally killing the fucker because you have to fight all the dudes around him in order to get him alone to hold for long enough to summon the chief.
Yeah, getting rid of them before then is ideal, that’s more… when you’re in a stronghold and the alarm’s been sounded against your now-fucked plan. Ideally, you have a heavily-buffed bow (long duration slowdown, large number of arrows) and headshot (preferably keep a rune that guarantees focus back when you headshot, to keep the chain long) the troublemakers before the melee starts.
Okay, so inform them of the carpet damage resulting from the water leakage and also inform them that if it doesn’t (including the carpet) get fixed soon, there’s a pretty good chance that it will get moldy, which can be a health hazard.
No carpets, all wooden floors and I got onto it straight away and mopped it all up \o/
Just ceiling damage. Including a small hole where water punched through or something.
Hi all! Hope you all had a good weekend!
We continued with the raid on Friday night, and got to the portals/conflux after the gatekeeper… and died horribly. I think we’re in the same spot we were in for the oracles – generally sound strategy, that needs to be ironed out through practice. Giving it one last hurrah tonight, hopefully we’ll make it to/past Atheon. Also, note to self: buy more heavy ammo synths.
Saturday, I ran the raid with @pupp3tmast3r’s crew, likely for the last time. Sad day, which we decided not to sour further by attempting hard mode. That said, cool loot was had that run – second piece of raid armour (finally!), Hard Light, and another Epilogue.
Sunday was spent in Anno, mostly, doing the second mission of the monthly event – which was hard. I normally play Eco, so a) I had no idea how the Tychoon supply chain operated, so had to kinda wing it, and b) diminished taxes meant almost constantly operating at a loss. Also, as I’m used to Eco, I didn’t realise that Coal was a limited resource (duh!), so I had a period of about five minutes scrambling to find Uranium for a power plant. Managed to get one up literally ten seconds before my coal reserves ran out… Damn that was close. At which point I began haemorrhaging money at an insane rate, and rushed the final objective before I went irreparably bankrupt. So many close calls that game… and I’m kinda dreading the last one.
This morning, I may or may not have been listening to the Swedish release of Sabaton’s Carolus Rex album, and may or may not have got some odd looks as I softly sung to myself in broken Swedish. There are a couple of songs that sound so much better in Swedish for some reason…
I find that alot of anime themes only sound good in Japanese. The words just sound better.
Same here, but I thought Sabaton wrote their songs in English, considering I’ve only ever heard of that one album being released in Swedish (granted that might just be the only one that was released outside Sweden)… But in any case I’d expect writing songs in your first language would be much easier than in your second, so it’s not surprising that they sound so good in Swedish.
It’s amazingly hard to translate song lyrics while preserving the meaning and also making them still fit the music.
The only really good example of someone pulling it off is, weirdly, Andrew WK. He did an album a while back that’s basically English-translated covers of Gundam songs. One of them, ‘Soldiers of Sorrow’ is a cover of the ending theme of one of the movies and the lyrics are depressing as fuck, but he nails it. Tone, sound and everything. In fact the whole album basically nails it. Even works in stupid Engrish bits where the original song had them.
Truth. I also like a handful of songs where a Japanese artist has really nailed a foreign language for their anime track.
Most of the handful that have pulled that off have an unfair advantage because they’ve grown up in an English-speaking country like the US though.
Just for reference, here’s the Andrew WK thing I was talking about.
Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnEowbJfZ4E
Cover: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsHYVUDMVdA
Fucking nails it. Down to the Engrish in the chorus. Amazingly hard to do.
Still not completed a Vault run. 🙁
Should play more Anno, I really liked it but got distracted by… ooh, shiny.
I love Anno, but it takes so much time for a full game… My problem is pretty much the exact opposite – I see five shiny new games sitting in my list, spend twenty minutes ruminating over which to play, give up and play Anno… and usually lose the rest of the weekend to it. 😛
As for the raid, I’m sure you’ll get there. I’d be happy to help you out if you ever need a sixth. 🙂
\o/ Here’s to lost weekends!
Cool! I like the Raid Guides who enjoy taking n00bs through. It’s amazing. Funny moment just before the jump down to the Templar’s battle, with 5 of us standing there getting the briefing from the 6th. Felt oddly like scout camp… 🙂
I reckon my next attempt will be the one to crack it, got so close the other night and I’m starting to understand the Atheon battle now, plus I have better weapons. I’m on most nights, feel free to say hi if you’re lurking.
\o/ Hear hear!
I’m on most nights for the daily story on each of my warlocks, and Tuesdays for @mawt’s raid group – “need dem shards,” as they say. The hardest part is getting a group together… that said, I was still learning mechanics right up until a week ago :P. That final arena, from the gatekeeper to the end of the Atheon fight is so intricate, so many triggers to be mindful of… it’s amazing fun. 😀
So what’s happened to the saturday Raid group? Burn out, moved on to other games, taking Destiny break ’til the Dark Below mission drop in December?
Take it you’re PS4? PSN name is same as here if we’ve not already added each other.
I think we’ve added each other, already – I’m omega_stealth on PSN. And yup, on PS4.
The Saturday group is moving to WoW, following burnout on Destiny (and Blizzard’s siren song :P). I can’t really fault them for doing so; our Saturday raids have been especially glitchy compared to my Tuesday runs, so they’re understandably frustrated by patches that just fix exploits (and generally result in new exploits being developed) instead of the more pressing playability issues. I honestly couldn’t imagine trying to run hard mode on the weekend, given I’ve seen every part of the raid (except the jumping puzzle) glitch on our Saturday runs.
Not sure if they’re coming back for the xpack in December – those that picked up the Season Pass with the LE will probably give it a shot.
I don’t really have much interest in WoW, so I’ll probably be using our hard-mode group (an off-shoot of our Tuesday group) run as my alt-run from here on.
Ah, gotcha. I’ll jump in if I see you short a member.
NUMENERA: TALES OF THE NINTH WORLD
@tech_knight @popdart5 @blaghman @novacascade
Really sorry guys, Wednesday is not going to work for me (going to the ancestral home to puppy sit), I can do tonight or Friday? I’d really like to squeeze in a session before I go
Almost anything works for me!
@redartifice
Okay, I just made plans to do stuff, which may stretch into the evening tonight, but I’m not really sure.
Tonight would work for me. I can’t do Friday night unfortunately.
I’m on recall anyway so either day will work for me, however if i get called for a fault from work I’d have to go afk.
Y’all need to go play A Bird Story. Best six bucks I spent in the last… three days.
Even if Kan Gao was clearly not thinking, and had bread in the fridge. Everybody knows that it should go in the microwave, even if the abode doesn’t have one.
Ugh, god, I have got to learn not to read the comments. Not on here, though. IMDB is getting as bad as YouTube. Actually, it might be worse – they have signatures.
But the comment section is where friendship lives!
On HERE it is. On there it’s just pretentiousness and abuse and sarcasm and awful. WITH SIGNATURES.
OPEN YOUR HEART TO FRIENDSHIP, JANE!
An internet troll is just a friend you haven’t met!
Otherwise you end up like DC’s cat.
Youtube comments are amazing
i was watching a video of this chick doing a cover of Crazy by Gnarls barkly and a commenter said
“This is awesome”
a reply to this comment was basically a 4 paragraph explanation on why the first commenter was wrong.
So stupid.
I used to think that it was anonymity that is responsible for that. Then I saw that people post shit on their facebook profiles too. 😐
I used to think that too, but I’ve amended my conclusion: as long as they feel they are surrounded by like minds (or at the very least, by people who can’t/won’t shut them down) people have much greater odds of being judgemental and prejudiced douchebags in all aspects of their life (online or off).
I’ve been playing a fair bit of Skyward Sword, and holy balls, is it engrossing.
These Deku Babas are really giving me the shits, though. :/
The blue ones aren’t so bad but I ended up always just running around the yellow ones because they were annoying 😛
I LOVE THE FINAL DUNGEON! 😀
This game had some pretty awesome dungeons (Sand Ship, Ancient Cistern are among the best dungeons of any Zelda game imo).
I started that one, was running around catching butterflies and stuff, then I got Skyrim and got distracted catching butterflies and stuff :/ and never went back to it. I really should finish that and ALBW.
Would be an absolutely fantastic game if it didn’t feel so padded out with boring stuff. Those long flights are soothing the first couple of times, but eventually you dread having to go between locations. I found myself actively avoiding item pickups because every time you switch it on, it feels the need to tell you what every. single. item. is. There’s probably more that I’ve wiped from my memory banks.
It really is a shame it’s not a bit snappier and more respectful of your time, because some of the swordplay is amazing, and it looks gorgeous – even more so in high-res in a emulator, which I tried for a dungeon but had to give up due to unresponsive controls. A retooled Wii U port would be sweet.
I have bought two brand new copies of that game and neither of them work in either the Wii or the WiiU. So frustrating.
TALK AMONGST YOURSELVES ON KOTAKU AUSTRALIA
it’s just pretentiousness and abuse and sarcasm and awful.
But enough about Blaghman, there’s also everybody else.
And self-promotion.
#FeelingLeftOut
#WaitYouSaidPretentious
#NeverMind
Awfuls got you covered too, you jerk. 😛
OUT OF CONTEXT. OUTTTTT OFFFFF CONTEXXXXT.
The best kind of context! Internet drama! Be a marked avatar on the run, fighting off deadly character-assassins.
Ok WTF. The only way for me to see Rise against is to go see Foo Fighters? or possibly Soundwave? Don’t get me wrong, I like some foo fighters, but not enough to go see them live…
MAKE IT STOP CHRIS
also go and see foo fighters.
THEY ARE AWESOME
See I havent listened to Foo Fighters since high school, so I’d feel so out of the loop its not funny
Mate nobody listens to the foo fighters on purpose, they are just there, they are that band that everybody goes to when people start hating on their music taste.
“My taste isnt shit, i like foo fighters”
having said that i have watched some live stuff on youtube and they look fantastic live.
I actively listen to their albums. There have been a couple of samey ones with amazing singles in recent years, but “Wasted Light” was kick-ass. I think I’ve seen them 3 times live now? Maybe 4? Consistently amazing. I even took my Mum to one of them and she loved it.
Wasting Light was rad as shit. The new album came out today and it’s pretty damn cool too.
Dammit! Wasted, Wasting… I’ll leave the typo there.
I’ve been checking regularly to see when Sonic Highways gets a full release on Google Play. Keen as.
I was just talking in bad simile.I actively listen to most of their work. Go to band when i want some recent rock music.
WHAT HE SAID!
Foo Fighters are fantastic live, presumably even if you haven’t listened to them for years. Unfortunately most of their recent shows have been at massive outdoor stadiums. Although even then they manage to keep a great vibe going.
If your concern about going is that you’re not going to enjoy FF, just go! If your other concern is that this means the tickets are also far more expensive, well, I dunno.
Yeah that price is pretty expenesive… I’ll think about it first. I am hearing rumours about another show. but what you say is also right 🙂
Foo Fighters are hands down the best live performers I’ve ever seen.
AHEM
I sang westlife with you and we rocked that shit. We are the best performers you have ever seen live.
Fooies are pretty damn great. I must admit, though not my favourite band of all time; they put on a really fucking spectacular live performance. My mum is thinking about buying me tickets for my Christmas present and I’m thinking about letting her. I wouldn’t mind seeing them again.
Also, if I’m twisting your arm, here’s their 2011 show at Adelaide Oval that I went to.
https://www.dropbox.com/home/Foo%20Fighters%20Adelaide%202011
Foo Fighters are one of the most amazing live acts I’ve seen. Hyped as fuck to go see them. The fact that Rise Against are supporting just makes it even better for me.
Saints Row IV coming to PS4? Why not just give us number 5, seems like an odd choice.
https://selfsolve.apple.com/deregister-imessage
Ooooooh!
cc. @freezespreston!
Nice find! Though I entered my number and “Your phone number is not registered with iMessage”. So yay, I guess?
Oh maaaan.
Can only catch Latios & Latias through street pass. Hope the ones I already have can learn the new fly thingy.
Latinos and Latinas?
Hopefully fly ones.
Passed on the street.
People still say fly?
People stopped?
You know, all the girls say I’m pretty fly for a white guy!
I do know.
You should say something back ;D
POT, KETTLE.
You’re probably unaware so, Yes! Pokemon names have meaning. One is male one is female.
Ah, ah, ah!
The Streetpass Eon Ticket is only to catch the opposite version Lati. You can still catch a Latios/Latias depending on your version!
Well fuck you IGN.
you can’t spell ignorant without IGN! \o/
Pfft, StreetPass. I’ve got a REAL Eon ticket!
Oh god, what’s happening?! I think I might be… actually hyped. Like kid-before-christmas, squealing with glee in anticipation hype. Dragon Age! Warlords! Far Cry! Bloodborne! DA:I in particular is making me squee so hard.
I think I may be allergic to genuine, joyous enthusiasm, because it’s making me anxious and nauseous. …Or maybe that’s because I haven’t eaten in 16hrs. I should probably fix that.
Mario Kart DLC vents some of the uncontainable hype this week. Otherwise, dangerous levels!
We gonna TAYKart again? I’m keen!
Not on the day of release though cause I’d be in QLD, but soonish!
An upvote is not an answer @dc ! 😛
Not sure if hype… or brain tumour.
I’m trying to not get hype. Cause every time I get hype I get disappointed.
But it is hard.
Disconnecting emotion sensors usually helps the whole-.. oh yeah you’re a human, my bad! 😛
Personally I don’t get hyped on any new games these days. Content coming to new games that I’ve seen demos for (i.e LoL skins)… that’s a different story
It has been a long while since I was genuinely excited for a game. For me this summer release season is a break in a gaming drought that has lasted since… Dark Souls 1 possibly.
I mean I’ve played and mostly enjoyed a number of games and there has been a couple of false hopes such as Dark Souls 2.
But this is the first time in a long time I have truly been all “Fuck Yeah!” about gaming.
DRUGUNAJE!!!
DRAGGINAYGESOHYPEOMGOMGOMG
HAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIPE
Inkuzishunnnnnnn
The last thing I got unreasonably hyped for was Dark Souls 2. ='(
:/
I went in without much expectations and enjoyed it 😀
I try not to do it because it’s so rare for something to actually live up to the excitement. So many disappointments. Made the mistake of getting hyped for Destiny for example. 🙁
I… but… *jams fingers in ears* Lalalala I’m not listening.
Man, now everyone are starting to give good reasons to not be hype. Noooooo my innocent sense of enthusiasm and joyyeeee.
I wasn’t even interested in DA:I but hearing Bioware talk about it at PAX actually made me interested. Will depend how soon I get broadband at home though. Also Tales of Hearts comes out right before it.
Did you like Skyrim? Because http://www.gamecritics.com/brad-gallaway/dragon-age-inquisition-preview-an-errand-girl-for-the-kingdom
That’s an anti DAI preview from a writer I love but mostly disagree with btw
No, I have found TES utterly bland, lifeless, repetitive and boring since their inception, though I did spend a fair amount of time with Daggerfall despite that. I generally hate open-world games. Skyrim is the exact opposite of what I want in an RPG.
Well, the. Inq may not be for you. Though, I presume there is far more going on than Brad was able to try.
I don’t know really. I’m willing to give it the benefit of the doubt because it’s Bioware. And I’m super excited for The Witcher 3 which also apparently will be open world.
The trick will be whether I can have an impact on the world, and whether the characters and dialogue make me care enough to stay in that world. Bioware at their best are some of the best character writers out there so I’m willing to give them the benefit of the doubt even though the lineup looks kind of uninteresting to me (it looks like it was designed by a bunch of suits that were trying to make a group of people that were deliberately as diverse as possible and avoid any and every fantasy archetype as much as possible). That’s a lot of why I wasn’t paying attention to the game, actually.
However the way the Bioware guys were talking about the characters in PAX sounded a lot more positive.
EDIT: Also voiced protagonist again. I hope they have acting on par with DA2, because my sassy FemHawke was a lot of what kept me playing.
I’m starting to realise more & more that the world can be a factor in keeping my interest. There’s games like P4G where it’s all about characterisation (Inaba being a character itself but not particularly large) & games like Skyrim that are huge & interesting & all about exploration (Oblivion was too samey, too much cut & paste).
So apart from a lot of fun conversation, which imo are Bioware’s strength, I’m really looking forward to just getting in there & exploring every nook & cranny of this immense world they’ve built.
fingers crossed FFXV manages to fill their world with interesting & varied locations too.
@negativezero
@jimu: It’s so weird to see you saying that and yet you don’t like Xenoblade which has an amazing world and characters.
@negativezero
It was the combat, I hated it.
I don’t much like Tales combat either, remember?
I have no interest in Skyrim’s combat but you can slide it down to ridiculously easy & just glide through enjoying everything else.
I used to spend hours playing Duke Nukem with God mode on because I’m such a terrible shot.
I’m not often playing games for a challenge, unless I really enjoy the systems.
@negativezero
Thinking about it, there are certain balances though. If I really enjoy some other part if a game I’llpush through whatever it is I don’t like.
Sometimes it’s a story or the world or maybe the music excited or immerses me more. There’s no magic formula, Sometimes a game just clicks, or doesn’t.
Understandable. One of my favourite JRPGs ever is Ar Tonelico II and that game is ridiculously broken in a lot of ways.
The Xenoblade thing prevents us from becoming best friends 🙁
Speaking of latinas… I’d only just gotten to the kitchen and put my lunchbox on the bench, when she appeared. And now seems to be on the lunch smell commenting bandwagon. Even though it was just cold pizza that hadn’t even been put in the microwave yet. Also asked if I cook, and ha ha haaaaaaa- dodge.
Wait. I think. I’ve been… noticed?
Not sure if \o/ or /o\
And yes @shane – takes one to know one 😛
\o\
Like you just don’t care! /o/
Not sure if I should grab popcorn or not …
Don’t worry – you’re just the lunch she smelled.
I would have questions about a man who smelled of pizza.
Somethingsomething meatlovers innuendo…
Well, obviously. You’ve gotta just come out and ask, otherwise you risk associating with someone who gets theirs from Domino’s.
DOMINOS IS
FANTASTIC GREAT PRETTY GOODPERFECTLY SERVICEABLE!acceptablebearablesomewhat akin to chewing cardboarda war crime waiting for charges to be filedFunny, that’s more or less the phrase I’ve used in the past to describe some of their atrocities against pizza 😛
“Let’s save my cooking for the third date.”
Until then,
POPCORN FOR ALLSpoiler: That is what he’s cooking for the third date.
Edited accordingly.
Oh god, now I’ve gotten that stupid Too Many Cooks jingle rolling through my head. Make it stop.
You’ve been noticed by Senpai Not-Italian girl. Now what will you do?
Hide.
Duh.
Such a Taco-chan thing to do. 😛
TAY RPG 40K Rogue Trader tomorrow night at 7:30 pm AEST, 8:30 pm AEDT. Starring:
@freezespreston @rize @tech_knight @pupp3tmast3r @sernobulus @gingerchris86
Vaethril has slipped into a toxin-induced coma and the Rhino is severely damaged and leaking fluid. But at least some of the Dark Eldar are dead.
Not that it really matters if I show or not but I should be there. =P
Healing those wounds will only require an overnight stay in the med-centre. I’m not going to take you out of the game too much considering you had to burn a fate point just to survive.
Nob is now in the lead for hospital visits 😀
I’m basically the Krillin of the party. Do basically nothing but end up in hospital after every fight!
You better yell “Destructo Disc!” next time you attack with that chainsword 😛
We need a “Vaethril gets owned” counter.
You know… I might do that in my write ups once I get my act together on them, being on recall I could make a start!
I can’t remember which book it’s in but there are rules for a chain chakram (basically a Xena throwing disc with a chainsaw blade around the edge).
It’s just a flesh wound!
Jarallius’ to-do list:
1. Find communication equipment in the Rhino.
2. Cry because he didn’t take down Alexoi’s vox frequency before we left, so blindly hope it’s hard coded into the Rhino’s comm equipment to warn Hive Nayda.
3. Try to either drive the Rhino back with only one track left or try to fix it.
So I won’t be missing this, cuz it’s my time to shine! *rubs hands*
Well this should be fun! So do we all hide in the tank away from the acidic air while some poor sucker gets more ill?
The Rhino hasn’t taken any critical damage so the tank should still be sealable so at least we won’t have the toxic atmosphere to deal with after we bring everybody in, that’s not the worst problem mind you 😛
\o/ ^o^ o< /o\
It’s fun to stay at the…^o^
/^
Sort of kind of karate kid?Nice crane position… 🙂\o\
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We’re not worthy!
@Shane
Sorry, that is my dyslexic, alchoholic friend. Ignore him & he will go away.
Can do! Thanks for all the retweets by the way!
Warm Bodies is pretty fun! (Though nothing like Shane’s pitch. XD)
So I haven’t inadvertently ripped anything off. That’s a bit of a relief. Thank you for retweets too!
Don’t worry, you’ll never have a wholly original idea, everything is a copy of a copy of a copy.
😀
Where’s the Jimu copy that likes Xeno? :'(
Xenogears is pretty alright.
I needs to play that and Saga. What happened to the HD rumours?
@greenius last I read, the petition couldn’t even get enough signatures.
So not good.
Are you a pizza, or are you a man?
These are the questions that plague my existence.
If I’m a pizza, well I’m a very manly pizza.
If I’m a man, then I’m just a piece of a man.
This gives meatlovers pizza a whole new meaning… *shudder*
A miserable pile of secrets and cheese?
The Supremes are definitely not men.
I’m a Muppet.
Is that why you have no pants? As you end in a hand and a couple of sticks controlling the arms?
Oh god, I completely forgot – I finally saw What About Dick (stage-performed radio play by Eric Idle) yesterday. Sooo funny! If you’ve got $6 to spare and aren’t averse to a solid 90 minutes of innuendo, I wholeheartedly recommend it!
All these TAYbies suddenly adding me on Facebook. This is all your fault @alexpants!
The few people who are still active on my feed must be thinking I’ve somehow become popular.
I didn’t.
Helping!
I’m not reaching enough people with my Undad marketing on Facebook, so I needed more friends.
…
\o/
aw, you didn’t add me. D=
I barely even use it anymore. Only reason I’ve been checking it recently is because I keep getting emails telling me TAYbies have been sending me friend requests 😛
I only use it for taybies and a few others
I added the daily puppy into my facebook feed so I get daily puppy pics
This, I’m not sorry for.
I don’t think I have anyone from TAY on mine. Only family and people I’ve known since I was in school. Because I add someone once in a blue moon and almost never log in.
I randomly found you on the “You might know these people” section, and I do know you 😛
I get a lot of TAYbies recommended to me in LinkedIn of all places (where I think I have about 3 contacts). How do they know that I know them!?
Social media stalking, man.
After I linked my skype to FB somehow it dug up people from my past who I haven’t talked to since the old days of MSN messenger
I only have Twitter and it’s for TAYbies.
Wahahahaha! *smokebomb*
Dinoshirt!
The only reason I still have Facebook is cause the other half says I can’t get rid of it.
Due to it saying about our relationship.
So every so often I tell her I will change my name to nobody.
It work well at stiring her up
Man, I had to be put on ‘a list’ to get the watch I want to buy, and I won’t be able to get one until ‘some time’ next year 🙁
Apple iWatch!
No. :/
Edit: This watch http://www.prometheuswatch.com/v2/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/P4151163.jpeg
Spiffy and very elegant!I bought a Shiels catalogue special Citizen the other week. $149. Big spender, I know. The band is a bit more gun-metal grey in real life and as such is a little cooler than the image shows.
It’s okay, my current watch is a $120 Citizen one 😛
I was considering getting this one http://www.amazon.com/Omega-Aqua-Terra-Watch-231-10-42-21-01-002/dp/B00J6WAQMA/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&qid=1415597056&sr=8-10&keywords=omega+aqua+terra but found the other one and I like it a lot more and it’s also considerably cheaper so it works out well!
Seamaster. I like it. My favourite is the Rolex Daytona but there’s no chance in hell I’m ever spending that sort of cash on a timepiece so kudos to you, my friend!
Does it even have an alarm?
Hope not 😛
Then what good is it!
It… looks pretty and quickly lets me see the time 😛
http://www.goodsmile.info/ja/product/4685/figma+%E8%80%83%E3%81%88%E3%82%8B%E4%BA%BA.html because the world needed a posable version of The Thinker apparently.
Wondering what will be next. David?
Venus de Milo.
That was a painting and not a sculpture though wasn’t it?
That was Birth of Venus, according to the goggles.
Oblig: Ain’t you never seen a naked chick riding a clam before?
David! with detachable/upside-down penis, a la the Goonies film.
If something interesting doesn’t happen in the next 45 minutes, I’ll go fucking postal…
Um, I can’t really help you there, but I wanted to ask, are you happy with the beanbag?
[redacted due to restricted content. AO. Adults only]
My fingers are starting to look old.
Time to get out of the bath!
(they are old)
(that was fast)
MOISTURIZER IF YOU CARE! NOTHING IF YOU DON’T!
Holy smokes, out of curiosity I took a look at my own hands. Damn. They… they do look older than I remember. More prominent veins, more lines on the palm-side. THE HELL, MAN.
Holy smokes is a pretty good expression. I approve.
Moisturise. My fingers still look like those of a teenager, despite my use of my hands (although I’m not a labourer.)
(@dc) I do! Sorta infrequently. After I’ve showered after climbing. Which is also the hardest work they get each week, otherwise all that happens is a bunch of typing 😛
Er… the climbing, that is. Not the showering.
😉
Pre-emptively asking for advice on coping mechanisms after a stressful life event.
So far I have: drink heavily all day erry day; try illegal substances for the first time; perhaps exercise to get the endorphins or whatever the fuck going; pick a fight with some G’s at Kings Cross.
Anyone else have something to add?
Do something new, like take up a new hobby. Or go walkabout in the bush. Listen to music that makes your heart soar. Go on a holiday.
Edit: Dye your hair a weird colour or shave it all off. Try a new type of food each day.
There’s lots of things you could do to help cope with something awful that don’t involve harming yourself or others.
Yeah. Option 5: De-stress on TAY! Care to share your troubles?
Cry in a heap!
What, got me through my grandma’s death.
Hope you’re okay.
Obtain an old washing machine or something and an axe.
Goggles people.Number 2. Of the hallucinogenic kind.
Or deep breaths.
Come round for a beer if you want?
So I tend to whinge to Bun and then curl up in a ball. Eating decent food, and getting some sleep (I tend to be constantly exhausted especially when I get stressful life events) are definitely very helpful, but it can sometimes be hard to sleep if you’ve got things running through your mind.
Mostly, depend on your support systems to be around you, and do something light and fun to distract you. I play Pikmin and similar things.
Dig a hole and burn things in it, fire cleanses the soul
Oh god I haven’t played or really checked up on Kantai Collection in 3 weeks and suddenly Fusou got an upgraded form and Ushio is getting one and there’s a new event starting Friday and they’re adding a foreign cruiser which everyone is saying will probably be Prinz Eugen and also the first Akizuki-class is being added and she has a derpy Resouhou-chan to match with Amatsukaze and Shimakaze and I must obtain but I haven’t been able to do any preparation and everyone’s saying it will be a Destroyer-heavy event but all my destroyers are weak except Shigure and Yuudachi and I have no buckets.
Hoping Telstra will ship my Modem in time such that I can connect it up and have everything working before Friday.
@blaghman @tech_knight @popdart5 @novacascade tonight then?
Sounds good if everyone can make it.
Sure I’m good for it, though Blaghs said he might have plans tonight?
On a whim, I bought a beef bimbibap meal kit.
It says to marinate the beef for 10 minutes. Sod that, I’m marinating for at least 3 hours.
Marinating for 10 minutes isn’t really a marinade, It’s just a mixture full of lies. And some meat, I guess.
Exactly. Might as well call it a stir-in sauce and be done with it.
Well now I’m just hungry.
If you drive north a few hours, I’ll have some beef bimbibap that’ll just be done marinating by the time you get here.
PS The Bimbibap is delicious
I misread this as a reply to Bun
He leaves it marinating for 10 hours, 9 hours in you come and cook and eat it then message him this
Oh poo!
Does anyone have a spare Diancie code???
Saw @freezespreston today & harassed him, he then stole* my watch and said he’d give it back in a few weeks, The jerk!
*
He actually sent it away to have the glass front replaced 😛I know, he’s such a jerk. He pitched in to buy me a game simply because I gave him dye advice. He’s also making me a custom dog tag.
He’s a jerk because he makes us all look like crap in comparison!
Right? Isn’t he dreamy?
What a jerk!
In all seriousness he’s one of the nicest and most generous people i’ve known!
Seconded, i love freeze. He is a amazing person. 🙂
Ok, tentatively planning things.
Just gonna write it down to see how it sounds all put together…
Step o1:
Hand in my two weeks notice tomorrow, definitively.
I’d rather be unemployed (hopefully) briefly than have to go back to the scumhole where I work.
Step o2:
Apply for jobs like crazy.
I’ll even start applying for wait staff jobs again, since I have a heap of good experience being a waiter, so am more than likely to get a job in this field.
If I can’t find a job come end of December…
Step o3A:
Look for places to live in Melbourne
Doesn’t have to be anything grand, just something affordable.
Step o4A:
Transfer university to Melbourne, and finish off my degree there.
Pack my bags and don’t look back
Else if I do find a job…
Step o3B:
Stay in WA for foreseeable future (until degree is finished, or sooner).
Move out from living with sister, however (already also tentatively planned).
These are the only two acceptable outcomes.
Your plans make perfect sense and i wish you the best of luck friend 🙂
You forgot:
Step oShouldHaveAlreadyHappenedWhileIWasInPerth:
Buy Xenoblade and achieve pure enlightenment.
Good to see you’ve got a plan though (albeit missing the most IMPORTANT step). Good luck!
Now is a crazy time to look for work. Christmas casual stuff is a thing that probably started a week or two ago. But hospitality is probably a real winner for that. Think outside the box. Consider applying at island and coastal resorts in the middle of nowhere. The more remote ones usually have cheap staff accommodation, which is a blast. See if you can get bartending work. Better respected and better paid than waiting, with the bonus of being easier. Best to have your RSA, and I strongly advise grabbing an RSG as well, which will open you up to places that have pokies. (Such as any RSL or surf club.)
I have an RSA already (not sure if so in date though:\), and 4+ years in hospitality experience. That’s why I think hospitality would be easier for me to get another job in, but I’ve been avoiding applying at them because I wanted a retail job :3
I don’t plan on applying anywhere remote, because I, you know, already live in a house :\
And I don’t really want to be remote :3
I only apply at jobs that are so listed as active, and currently have around 6 job applications pending already (applied last week).
There is a job application I noticed that seems quite desperate for bar / wait staff that I’m going to apply for tomorrow.
Worst comes to worst though and I figured I just move to Melbourne 😛
I figured it should probably only cost about $1,000 or so in fuel to drive over from WA, so come end of December, if I don’t have a job, that’s what I plan on doing 🙂
$1000? That sounds like a lot. I remember the return drive to Melbourne and back only costing me around $250 in petrol.
I tend to over prepare rather than under prepare :3
Don’t wanna get caught with not enough money to make it all the way! 😀
Fair point, always nice to end up with some left over. Also it just occurred to me that petrol was probably a bit cheaper what… four years ago now? 😛
To be fair, he is talking about going from WA to Melbourne, which is a fucking long drive we’re talking 3,500 km.. Which is a long ass way.
Syd/Mel/Syd is like 900 each way though, so about half that.
Also your RSA may not be permitted in Vic, I know QLD, SA, NT & WA all go under the same guide lines or somethin’ so your RSA would cover you there, but Vic & NSW as far as I know you need separate ones for each of those states it’s a god damn pain.
Hells yeah! Good plan!
Went to Hogs Breath for tea. Omg so full. But the steak was pretty good.
Then I bought a bottle of Bacardi. So, yeah. Is it just my imagination or have bottles of spirits gotten even so slightly cheaper than they were a few years ago (aka when I turned 18)? I don’t remember Bacardi ever being $33 a bottle, more like $40.
Is that a litre of bacardi? Cause it’s on special every where (meaning coles & woolworths chain liquor stores) currently for 33 bucks, usually 40 or there abouts.
@crazyguy1990 you said to send you a Steam message at 5:30 my time, but you were offline. So I am also sending you a reminder for Civ through TAY.
Hey, mate.
Just logging into Steam now. 🙂
Leave for Japan in 3 days!
@negativezero (and anyone else who is into fig’s and has been to Tokyo) any suggestions on good places to pick up some fig’s? Thinking of starting on a small collection, and figure a trip to Japan is a good opportunity to kick it off.
PS: Monday’s are the pits.
Say hi to Sughly for me! Say it’s okay to come home, we’re not mad… just concerned!
Stay away from Akihabara. It will eat you and your wallet.
Booked in. Ta!
Dunno if it’s the cheapest (definitely cheaper than here) but Akihabara has this crazy store that has levels full of figures. ALL THE GUNDAMS.
ALL.
Hmmm… Whilst Mecha isn’t really my cup of tea I’d be interested in seeing that!
It wasn’t mine either …but I couldn’t resist 😛
Have a fun trip, Sunny! 🙂
I expect to see lots of pictures on Twitter, ok!!!
Done.
Will probably cross post a bit via Instagram. My wife is the better shooter so will hijack her shots!
I don’t know any actual stores for figures, but I imagine you’ll have no trouble finding them at any of the big chains in Akihabara. There’s also Kotobukiya’s big anime store (which I presume mainly stocks their own figures), Animate, Toranoana (though their specialty is doujinshi) and a ton of smaller places. Also Mandarake which can be cheaper apparently because it’s mainly second hand goods (but often unopened).
I last visited Akihabara ages ago, when my Dad was working on a contract there and had an apartment in Ueno which is about 10 mins walk away. That was before it really took off commercially and all the maid cafes and everything sprang up, and it was just a bunch of nerd shops.
Hmmm… Wife will need to be patient! Time to schedule a little more time for Akihabara!
Yeah, depending how much you want to check out you could need a lot of time. Pretty sure I made something like eight trips there over the course of our two week trip last year – though often I’d need to come back the next day or something since I’d make note of items of interest then wait after going back to the hotel to check on the net whether the prices were decent or not. Explored through soooooooooooooo many stores. And then every time someone spotted a Book-Off in any of the other places we visited too, or any other similar kinds of stores.
Although there was separate time for checking out the arcades there too, since they are also huge, plentiful and amazing.
Smiley Cyrus!
Hahahahaha, YOU ARE SO ORIGINAL!
And so funny!
How do you come up with this stuff!?
It’s actually what Greenius and I call Pow behind his back because he always smiles. 😛
(It’s also a term of endearment, not meanness. Pow is awesome and we like that he’s always happy.)
I also coined it, so direct sarcasm my way, not Wizz’s. (THAT’S WHAT I CALL GREENIUS! XD)
He calls me Udo. We have fun. 🙂
*moseys off*
It wasn’t meant to be offensive / rude sarcasm, I just hear “Smiley Cyrus” all the time was all 😛
Liondrive and I call him Poe-allen!
Actually that’s just him.
What a weirdo.
I wonder if all TAYbies have secret nicknames! 😀
That’s how you pronounce his handle, and I stand by it 😛
(and it’s more like Poe-walen :P)
I say Pow-Allen. IT JUST MAKES SENSE.
I’m pretty sure it’s pronounced Pow. The “alen” is silent.
Yeah, I can get behind this! Pow! POW! POOOOW! *Batman music plays for some reason*
Actually it’s French and pronounced:
Ugh
htu
I pronounce everyone by their full handles, or their real name.
Only occasionally with an ‘y’ on the end.
No nicknames or shortenings for.
It’s more formal.
(you guys can call me whatever though)
I still don’t feel close enough yet for nicknames / shortenings, but someday hopefully!
@greenius
Okay… that one got me haha Well done.
@liondrive umm the nicknames DC and I have are just random typos we like to repeat to each other 😛
Umm, cool?
What?
I don’t remember asking how / why, haha!?
More about you thinking you need to be close to everyone to make nicknames when they’re just stupid ones we randomly had 😛
@phlanispo
Thanks for Civ V multi again.
😀
MultiTAYer Tales
I found some ruins. Crazyguy found them at the same time. I wanted to explore the ruins first. I paid him to not explore the ruins. He explored the ruins anyway. I asked for my gold back. He instead offered a deal where I could buy gems from him. I refused, and presented a counter-offer. Too late, I realised my counter-offer gave him more money rather than less. He accepted my offer.
It was at this point that I realised I had no use for gems whatsoever.
I might try to be more active on here and on Twitter.
I kinda toned back my commenting a lot cause I didn’t want to bring others down, but that was silly cause you guys are part of what makes me happy.
Also I was admittedly trying to distance myself in part again.
You guys probably don’t understand it, but I don’t really have many friends.
You guys are all my friends, but it’s that distance, man.
I’m the kind of guy who likes and wants to hangout with his friends!
Literally, I have one person I would count as my friend who actually wants to hangout with me and who I want to hangout.
I guess what I’m saying is, I’m lonely.
Really lonely.
But I don’t want to be a Debbie-downer anymore.
It only pushes you guys away and makes me feel worse.
Gotta break my rut, and I enjoy talking to / with you guys, and know I’ll see you guys (again) someday 🙂
Always look on the bright side of life my friend.
You can’t bring others down.
What happens is everyone brings someone who is down up.
Aside from my partner I have no one else that would or want to hang out (not counting any of the awesome people from here)
If this makes no sense ignore it. It is no often I makes sense that is why I don’t talk much or ever.
I think there should be a perth meet due to ehh why not?
Dude, stay active on here. The worst thing you can do is to isolate yourself from people more and inevitably end up in an even bigger rut. It just creates a nasty vicious circle.
Talk to us, be yourself, it’s all good.
New Doctor Who (caught up last night)
EhhhhhhhhhhProbably my least favourite season after season 2.I really don’t like season 2. Wanted to stop watching all together during that season.Actual point about the season:
Not a fan of season 8 Clara, not written very well at all.Could have been a different companion for how differently the role was written in seasons 7 and 8
YES! So wrong and weird. Caused such a disconnect for me that even episodes I enjoyed (there was only one or maybe two :P) just didn’t feel…real.
grumble grumble
Episodes that I enjoyed from this season don’t even make up the digits on one hand. Time Heist, Mummy On The Orient Express and Flatline. The other eps didn’t strike me as very Who-ish and just served to lengthen out the Danny-Clara ‘relationship’ and the ‘will she, won’t she leave’ bs around Clara that played out in every single episode. I got bored by her having a rant at the Doctor and trying to be all self-righteous and then saying she wants to leave but then lying to Danny and then jumping back in the TARDIS for the next week.I was also a bit disappointed at being promised a darker Doctor, but for me I never really saw that other than the Doctor telling Clara to grow up every now and then. When Moffat said Capaldi would be darker I was expecting an Eccleston style Doctor who has no time for humans crossed with Tennant’s Doctor at the end of the Family double episode.I guess I was just disappointed at the whole series focusing on Clara & Danny rather than the Doctor actually doing stuff. Considering I have no time for either supporting character due to the fact that they couldn’t portray a couple falling in love properly, there was little for me in this season.Oh, and kids in Doctor Who shouldn’t make a re-appearanceAlright, so, I’ve spoken to a few people and would people like to do something other then karaoke for Pax meat next year? I have found another venue that was similar to the one we were at this year, it’s another bowling place. I just want to add, Melbourne central Strike has bowling, laser tag and karaoke. QV (across the road) has bowling, escapism and karaoke.
http://www.strikebowling.com.au/
So let me know please!
Fine by me! It’s more about the people than the activity for me so I don’t mind what we book.
Escapism! I’m stuck at work and could do with that right about now! 😀
Is escapism slang for getting drunk and forgetting your troubles?
I thought it was when you got knocked out and woke up in a random place.
All Truman show like.
It’s where you go into a room with 6 people and you have 50 minutes to solve puzzles to find a way out
That sounds fun. BAGS BEING ON @dc’S TEAM!
Or actually wait, maybe it would be more fun to not be on his team so then other people can have a chance at solving it.
Nah, sounds adventure game-esque BUT probably in the Myst logic puzzle way which I suck at. Give me a rubber chicken with a pulley though and then we’d be talking.
ALSO PROBABLY WON’T BE GOING TO PAX NEXT YEAR EITHER. 😛
Yeah you will.
Nah!
I guess it is time for me to start saving up for pax next year.
And then try and talk the misses into letting me go >.
I think it’s good that we do, we were struggling so much to find karaoke places that could house all of us as it was, so any alternatives that TAYbies want to do would be amazing too for next year!
Every dedicated karaoke place in Melbourne only holds up to 30 people. Both Strike venues hold up to 380 people. And I figured if people wanted to just chill out somewhere they could.
I’m happy to check out both sometime in the future, you in?
Sounds like a plan
I vote for a steel cage death match in 2015.
That way, you can return to karaoke in 2016 and fit into one of those 30 people places.
Only if you come!
Is that your subtle way of saying you want me dead?
Because that really hurts 🙁
😛It’s my subtle way of saying you should come to Pax =P
I might actually just be worth seeing if be can book a private room at one of the pubs down in south melbourne. A bit of a walk or tram ride from PAX and give people a chacne to just kick back and mingle.
Karaoke is great and gives us something to focus on but as you say it makes it hard when there is so many of us. Given the size of the group this year most places probably wouldn’t even charge us for the room.
I think this is a tops idea. Plenty of pubs even have free room hire if you have a minimum spend on food and drinks. Add a jukebox for singalongs and dancing and that’s a good night. Pints and pub food are just the thing after a long day of walking around at PAX.
Any suggestions? I don’t go to pubs much so I don’t know of any.
Once we know when it is I’m happy to help find a place
First thought would be Bells hotel, they have recently done the whole place up and it is really well done. Lots of different and isolated areas so could get a nice area to ourselves. Otherwise the railway is good but a bit more out of the way.
Thanks. Techie and I will need to check the place out.
So Skyrim with mods, got it working and it’s already looking better, my High elf has a pretty awesome hairstyle that doesn’t look terrible and the weather is making the game even more gorgeous. While I was redoing the first area it was sunny as we got wheeled in, and as I was going to my first town it got darker and a thunderstorm brewed, really added to the atmosphere :). Gotta now try with the HD packs see if I can get it to look better without melting my PC.
There are just so many ways to improve Skyrim and such limited resources with which to do it
I have contracted a serious case of hype for the new Assasins Creed: Unity. I unfortunately didn’t enjoy the second last assassins creed and didn’t play black flag at all as I read it was a pirate ship simulator which didn’t necessarily appeal to me.
Am I setting myself up for disappointment I was to purchase it?!
By most accounts, it’s ‘reinventing’ the game and it’s meant to be pretty good. But as always, keep your expectations low and you can’t get disappointed. 🙂
MIKEY T!
Yo! Yo! Yo!
Ahh yes, I’ll try my best to keep a kid on the hype!
Make sure you strap them down so they don’t fall off
Maybe!
But Black Flag was a legit good game, so they might have recovered from the ACIII slump. Fingers crossed, anyway.
No, that’s actually good timing. I find that the yearly cycle they’re on means you get Assassin’s Creed Fatigue after a few on the trot so taking a break and waiting until you’re excited is actually the best policy.
You missed out on Black Flag though, it’s really good.
I’ll try come back to it one day, sitting there and thinking about it actually made me interested in trying it out. As a supposed self confessed history buff I should be loving it.
Black Flag has plenty of historical nods if you want them, but it tends to play pretty fast and loose with some of the accuracy. Especially re: timing. Mostly because PIRATE YAAR!
Rogue and Unity got posted yesterday!
I may or may not dive straight in, I normally have my AC fest over the xmas break.
I was going to get into Unity, but I’ve decided against it now that I know it’s only released at the end of the week instead of yesterday/today. My shit is going to get HECTIC starting Thursday afternoon. Warlords of Draenor, y’all.
It looks good, though.
And as for Tuesday/Wednesday nights, I’m sure I’ll be able to occupy myself with Dragon Age 2, the DA:I prelude browser game, and watching True Detective. (An old friend/ex has insisted that I finally get around to watching it because she claims there is a little ‘Rust’ in her memories of young-Transient from back in the day. From what I’ve seen that doesn’t seem like a compliment, but a surefire way to get me to watch something is to compare me to one of the characters. Narcissism+curiosity combo punch!)
I’m cautiously optimistic for Unity. I still think AC:IV as a bit “meh,” mostly cos I found the sailing the weakest part of AC3, and not much new to regain my interest in AC:IV. I’m more excited for Unity apparently revamping the sidequests to be more fluid, objectives changing as the situation changes, rather than having to restart. (Well, that, and revolutionary Paris is a much more interesting setting than the American civil war or “arrr, pirates”, imo.)
From the little I played at PAX it seems like it is similar to black flag. I was doing ship battles and fighting off boarders. Probably missing the piratey flavour and could be different later
Oh yeah that^ reminds me – stopped by EB on the weekend and found they had AC Pirates for Wii U for $28. Also asked about Metal Gear Rising since I couldn’t see it on the shelf, turned out to be $18. Though that was preowned, the boxes all said $48 on them.
Woo, impulse buying.
Metal Gear Rising, so good!
Huh, I just checked up on the games Platinum have made. It looks like with this, the only one I don’t have now is Legend of Korra. Not sure I’ll end up picking that one though, given the reviews and such. Maybe if I see it for ten bucks or something, cheap enough to get it for the sake of having it 😛
Do you have any of the Clover studios games? If not, you should definitely dip into them as it certainly feels like pure Platinum joy.
I’ve got the two Viewtiful Joe games on Cube, was never really sure about picking up Red Hot Rumble but kinda want to now. Also I keep forgetting Double Trouble exists, but I’ve got that. Got Okami on Wii, that was great.
I would dearly love to play God Hand, but ugh Ps2.
Sometimes I feel like the only person in the world who couldn’t get into that game. I gave it two hours, and just could not get the hang of the controls and combat.
And I usually love me a good Metal Gear game.
Well for me, the Cyborg of doom with a kickass sword that can slice even giant mechs in two kinda sold it for me on that alone 🙂
After beating the first boss of that game I felt like a flipping god!
That kinda sounds like how Platinum games go. Most of them it takes a fair while for it it to click for me, I generally kinda suck at those kinds of combo brawlers. But once it does though… so good.
What can I cook with fresh spinach leaves?
Why cook?
Bulbous forearms!
Well now! They make excellent additions to burgers and salads, obviously, but also are really nice sauteed with garlic, to have as a side, baked into quiches, added in the last few minutes when cooking creamy mushrooms over medium heat (and then served with linguini and wine), and on a white-cheese pizza.
Oh man, so many things. They go amazing in eggs for example. If it was me, though, I’d probably grate some carrot and cheese over it, dump some ranch dressing on it, and call it a meal.
Ooh only a drizzle of ranch dressing! Don’t drown out the flavour 🙂
Ranch dressing is all the flavour you need! 😛
Step 1. Upend bottle. Minimum pour: three seconds.
Step 2. Whatever happens, happens.
I put my creamy dressings like that into a squeeze bottle with a fine tip (like this http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21xHuiMtzAL._SY300_.jpg) to be able to control exactly how much I get. Plus, it makes plating and dressing dishes much nicer.
Fancy!
http://www.eatlove.com.au/recipes/gozleme-of-lamb-mint-feta-and-spinach-with-lemon/7893/
Also, I have a fool-proof crustless quiche recipe if you want it, too.
Crust-less could be good. If it’s no trouble to provide it yes please
Now this is my go-to quiche recipe (my momma’s favourite), and I’ve just included the ingredients I use as a filling as normal, with the addition of spinach. You can change the fillings out for anything you like. It’s actually a pretty great recipe for leftovers, too.
2/3 cup plain flour
1/2 cup milk
1 cup freshly grated cheese
1/2 onion, finely diced
1 rasher bacon, finely chopped
1 cup spinach, roughly chopped
1 cup frozen peas and corn
1/4 cup chopped red capsicum
Salt, and pepper to taste
Preheat oven to 200 degrees Celsius. Stir the milk, flour and cheese together, and then add in your fillings. Combine until everything is coated in flour/milk mixture and looks lumpy and not super appealing. If it doesn’t look like there’s enough of the mixture, add a little more milk, then flour, then cheese, as needed. Pour into a lightly greased pan and shake pan to ensure mixture is evenly distributed. I like to add a little extra cheese on top with the salt and pepper. Cook for about 40 minutes, or until the top starts to become golden brown and an inserted skewer comes out semi-clean. I like to turn off the oven and leave the quiche in for another 15 minutes or so, and then remove and let cool before eating.
Thank you
Not much.
You’ll need either a frypan or an oven. 😛
But in all seriousness, combine it with feta, and put them on a mini pizza.
Lots of things. Eggs Florentine, saag anything, spinach and feta triangles
My ‘go to’ with steamed spinach as a side is marinated steaks with potato, garlic, oregano mash (or sweet potato with a stupidly thick, rich red wine jus and caramelized onion), and caramelized carrots.
However, as the BASE of a dish, I have no idea… I’d probably be looking at some kind of thin rice-noodle with the spinach stir-fried with some diced vegies. Baby corn, baby carrots, brocoli, challots, diced onion, maybe some uncooked sprouts sprinkled in last
minutesecond to scoop up some of the juices but stay mostly crisp… but honestly, that’d be me winging it. Add some sauces or chicken if you’re not going for the vegetarian outlook. But yeah, you can stuff a stir fry with as much spinach as you like and it’ll probably turn out fine.Generally you want your bok choi, crisp veg in stir fry, otherwise it becomes “vaguely Asian flavoured mush.” spinach probably wilts to much to be a centrepiece of the dish
Yeah, I was kind of thinking of the spinach as an almost-noodle-replacement.
Hmm, think it’d be too mushy. In a curry though, spinach is aces. Saag paneer or saag gosht are the bomb
Hm. Probably. Clearly I need to experiment with things more. I never even consider curries because I never cook them and don’t like them. This is a by-product of everyone I know who DOES like curries insists on making them inedible. By which I mean, spicy.
If I’m cooking for myself they’ll be spicy, but every curry certainly doesn’t need to be
I used to think I didn’t like curries, partly because when I was little it seemed like they always affected the taste of other things in a bad way (particularly whatever I was drinking), kind of like how toothpaste does after brushing your teeth. But then I think I came to realise that it seemed more like Indian curries that I wasn’t a fan of. Thai curries though? Awesome!
Massaman curry is the best. Try it, it isn’t even spicy! I don’t think. Maybe. Pretty sure it isn’t, or at least it’s so incredibly mild that even my sister will eat it.
(also – *obligatory laugh at can’t-take-the-spice girlyman*)
Yeah, I have ended up being pretty cool with ultra-mild Aussie whiteboy special no-spice versions of massaman, butter chicken, korma, that sort of thing.
I’m still sick 🙁 My face hurts and I sound like I’m talking through a cardboard tube. Fun for phone calls.
Feel better, Jane!
…
Or else. D:
Oh you. I’m trying to feel better by eating Skittles (to kill the taste in my mouth) and doodling pictures of Manny from Grim Fandango.
What are your plans for this sunny day, eh?
I will refresh the internet and feel emo feelings and watch Alien Resurrection.
Impulse buying on ebay with 20% off toys (games) ending today. Surely buying a 3DS game for a system I don’t own is perfectly fine, right?
I buy Steam games all the time, and I’m on a Mac, so yeah, of course it’s okay.
Just don’t impulse buy a 3DS, the new one comes out soon!
Cheers, I’ll hold off buying one, how much better are the new ones?
Should be pretty good. Better 3D effect, faster, etc.
Comes out next week (same day as Pokemon) so you may as well wait if you’re looking to buy!
Any awesome deals?
Depends on what you can find, I picked up bravely default for $47 bucks (shipping included). Have to have a look through the sellers for a decent deal.
*cough*
https://www.ebgames.com.au/3ds-162272-Bravely-Default-Flying-Fairy-Nintendo-3DS
Damn it… I suppose it’s not a loss if its the same price!
Quiiiiiche.
http://ebay.jamiethompson.co.uk/images/quiche_screenshot.jpg
Haha what is that from?
It’s Rimmer from Red Dwarf!
Ah hologram man. Should have noticed that! Looks different though tbf and never saw that episode. 😛
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sekaiproject/clannad-official-english-release kickstarter for the official English-Language release of the original Clannad visual novel started. I think this may be of interest to a few people here.
Their KS for the Grisaia trilogy (translated by a different team so no issues with timing) is looking like it’ll be in December some time and the funding periods will overlap.
I don’t usually back kickstarters but I might bite with this one, but so many good tiers to choose from uguuu
I really hope they post the finished shikishi commissions on social media, be very interesting what a bonus gift of $6000 looks like.
The artist for World End Economica has been doing that recently and they’re pretty good.
If you want an interesting one then you’d be better off looking at their other active Kickstarter which is to help a team in Japan actually get a visual novel made:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sekaiproject/bring-was-the-hourglass-of-lepidoptera-to-the-west
They’re $3k away from being able to afford to get the game voiced for the english version and if that happens they’ll also offer add-on shikishi with autographs from the three Seiyuu. Rina Satou being the highest-profile of the three but if I had the spare cash I’d probably get Sayaka Ohara’s.
Instead I’m saving it though because Sekai are also going to be trying to get funding for the Grisaia games. Assuming they offer the tiers they have on their prefundia I actually seriously considered plonking down the $3500 it would cost to grab a personalized Shikishi from Akio Watanabe. He’s one of my absolute favourite artists. If it was $2500 I’d probably swing for it, but at $3500 it’s probably just outside what I can justify.
Speaking of Platinum Games… did anyone else play Infinite Space?
It’s such a huge departure from their other stuff, but it’s so good. And ridiculously huge! A friend of mine managed to complete it somehow, I can’t even remember how many hours I sunk into it but still felt like I’d barely scratched the surface. No idea how he must have managed that.
That’s what it was called 😀 !!!!!
I loved that game, I completed it and was tempted to do a second run because of all the alternate paths you could take, really enjoyed it, building up the ultimate fleet and decking them out was great.
Question is FTL similar? Never played it but got that vibe from it.
Actually, I think it kinda is. Maybe. Sort of. I don’t know, it’s been a while since I’ve played IS.
FTL is awesome in its own right though, you should totally get it.
I thought FTL was a roguelike & Infinite Space an RPG?
It’s a ring-toss game.
They are, though. But at the same time, they’re kind of similar.
I haven’t seen much of FTLs gameplay so not sure, thought they looked similar with the way you choose which rooms to place into your ships. Did you play infinite space? You might like it, it’s all anime characters.
I didn’t, no.
The ship bit didn’t sound so interesting to me.
Have you bought Shin Megami Tensei IV from eshop yet??
nope, I know nothing about it.
Ah!
Like Persona without the social links & less overall dialogue. Bigger world to explore, more demons to fuse, I’m in love.
SMT is the series Persona was born from. Only $26!
@jimu
I know SMT started persona 😛 I got stuck on Devil Survivor back in the day. Sounds good, I’ve been hankering for a decent RPG lately, I’ll have to get some Nintendo credit and get that + MK8 DLC pack.
Well you tricked me by saying you knew nothing.
After I’m done with SMTIV I will restart Survivor on easy, I think.
too much grind on hard.
I bought the 3DS version with an extra chapter & voice acting etc.
Oh man that was a great game. And it did a whole Tengan Toppa Gurren Lagann with part 2.
And then the story went in some weird wacky direction and then the ending, but that gameplay. Felt like the SOS Club’s battle against the Computer Club.
FOUNDATION TV series announced!
http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/jonathan-nolan-to-write-produce-isaac-asimovs-sci-fi-foundation-trilogy-as-series-for-hbo-wbtv-20141110?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
Woah.
The first three Foundation books are among my favourite novels ever! I’m kind of lukewarm on the others (actually, I’m reading Forward the Foundation right now). I’m not sure how good a TV series it would make, but I’ll definitely check it out!
Jelly, my dumb library seems to have the 4th book constantly unavailable. I booked it over a month ago.
But yeah, interesting to see if they’ll do a new cast each season or pepper it with heavy Hari Seldom flashbacks ( perhaps strip mine the prequels?)
Or if they’ll rework it so there’s a constant protagonist in some way.
It’s going to be tricky, because the series ended up being so unbalanced. For the fourth and fifth books (mild spoilers)
there’s only one main character. For almost 1000 pages. Compare this with the first three books, which had a new protagonist every fifty or so pages. Edit: actually read the article, and they’re only doing the first three books. Wise nod.I can send up the fourth book to you if you want. Picked it up at a bookfair for just a couple of bucks.
I’d say that was because it started serialized in a magazine & then the last four books were writtenyears later as novels.
Can I give you something in return?
If you have the others I could at least pay postage or swap something or something
I’ve got all the Foundation books – do you want 4 and 5 and the two prequels? Happy to send them up (if you want Forward The Foundation, you’ll have to wait until I’m done with it – prob about a fortnight).
And there is definitely something you can do… though it’s not a requirement!
Just shoot me the emailz with your postal address.
I do want to read them yes. And yes so can undad.
Happy to wait too.
You want so send them back or pass them into the collective?
I’ll probably get them back off you at some point, but perhaps can do that in person next April when I come up for Supanova?
@Shane cool, will do
Jim Carrey as Magnifico
Hi Everybody
Dad stayed with me down here over the weekend, as his best mate died last week. The funeral was nice, as far as a funeral can be nice.
Didn’t get to play much vidja games, but picked up Lego Marvel Superheroes because…uhm…because. It seems fun, but fiddly on a keyboard – so combined with my recent gift of Dark Souls (yet again, thank you Tig) I’ll finally pick up that controller shortly.
Aside from that, not much to report. Tried to introduce the kid to the Wii, but realised he might be a little too young when he got more enjoyment out of bashing the controllers together than playing anything.
Running a massive eff off quiz tonight and scared to buggery about it, especially as it’s helping out a friend. Probably about 50 people in this one, but it’s paid and big and scary and I don’t want to.
But I will, I’ve even put on my brocade vest and nice silk shirt and orange socks and my STAN JACKET.
I think I need @dc to punch me in the sternum to buck up on this one.
I thought you’d never ask! :’)
You can do it, Stan! Just flail your arms and sell ALL the boats!
Lego Marvel is lots of fun, don’t know about a mouse and keyboard though, I use an XBone controller and it works a treat.
Thanks for the gift mate, the missus and I put 3 and a half hours into it already
We’ll never be besties @greenius
Rivals, alalways Rivals
Well done autocorrect, you put the correct word but left my initial letters in place.
Alalways besties
ForForever-ever-everrrrr
Holy crap, non-Japanese copies of Infinite Space are expensive on eBay!
I think I got mine for either $10 or $15 from Toys R Us. When it was brand new, as in pretty much just released.
Did I fart on Twitter?
Nobody’s answering questions.
Not feeling very sociable today, Jimjim. Sorry ’bout that. 🙂
TAY poop
I HATE YOU RON BURGUNDY! I HATE YOU!
As you all know, I’ve been having a bit of a personal struggle of late, today I’ve been sitting here looking at all my Skylanders (over 120) and Disney Infinity (about 30) figures (not including the ones from the latest games), and I’m seriously thinking about selling them all. I did a rough calculation and if I traded them all in I should be able to get about a grand (with my bonus 50% birthday voucher). We could really use that money to buy a new oven for instance, but I think my son would be devastated. I would still be keeping the figures from the current games (about another 50).
I’ve also been thinking about selling my Xbone lately, been having a lot of problems with the Blu-Ray drive, pretty much every time I put a disc in I have to spend 5-10 minutes stuffing around with it ejecting the disc/putting it back in etc, just to get the damn thing to read.
In a bit of a quandary here. Thoughts?
Sadly, if you need the money, you need the money. And if you’re seriously thinking about getting rid of something, it’s often a good idea to clear the space, reduce the clutter, etc.
Perhaps, though, give your son a chance to save, say, ten of them.
That’s why I was gonna keep all the figures I’ve got from the current games (would still be left with about 50 figures). I think I know what I’m gonna do now, tell him he can have one last play with all the old figures tonight and get rid of them tomorrow.
It’s only stuff. You need to eat.
Lol, we do eat, we’ve got an electric frypan we cook on, and a microwave, we just can’t make anything that requires an oven.
You are right though, it’s only stuff, I really need to break the hold that it has on me.
Your XBOX should still be under warranty, so make sure you get it repaired/replaced before you sell it.
As for thoughts on the Skylanders, I’d probably keep them but make a mental note not to settle down on how you decide to buy new ones (if you haven’t already). I know personally I get roped into the collector mindset with that sort of stuff. I end up buying the set of something rather than the one or two I’d actually use. GTS makes owning both versions of a Pokemon game pointless, but I’ll still buy both Alpha and Omega.
Ring Microsoft about the Xbone. It should be covered by warranty still and I’d expect they’ll offer to replace the system for you, because that sounds broken.
Thanks for the advice guys, I appreciate it, but I think if I’m gonna trade it in I won’t worry about sending it in to be fixed, it’s a launch console so there’s only 11 days warranty left on it, and I’m pretty sure EB have 12 months warranty on all their pre-owned consoles anyway, so the next person that gets it will be covered.
You should be able to get the xbone fixed as that sounds dodgy as hell
In regards to the skylanders I guess the big thing is if you actually need a new oven or if it is more of a Suzy down the street just got one that has this shiny feature so I want a new oven too or if it is seriously broken.
Getting rid of something you like and sounds like you bond with your son over isn’t worth it if it is just an upgrade of upgrades sake IMO.
We really do need a new oven, we haven’t had one at all for about 3 or 4 years.
Are you thinking of trading them in at EB? I wasn’t aware they let you have cash, I thought they just gave you store credit.
Yeah, they can give you cash, or put it straight into your bank account using your card, but they give you 20% less than if you got store credit.
Interesting.
Good to know. Thanks!
Valkyria Chronicles is out on PC now, people! Anybody who hasn’t played it really should, especially if you like strategy games (or even third-person shooters). It’s fantastic! Apparently it’s a really good port as well.
I’ll be re-playing it as soon as all these new releases stop coming out.
I still haven’t gotten very far in it /o\
Are you stuck or have you just not had time?
When it comes to being stuck…
One of the things I was a bit disappointed by was when I was trying desperately to get the top rating in a certain map and completely unable to do it, not really sure why, I went and looked up a guide… I was kinda shattered to realize that there is actually a guaranteed ‘best way’ to do things. Obliterated a lot of the illusion of randomness/improvisation for me, and the point to choosing my unit upgrades. But if someone’s stuck, that would seem like a decent recommendation… it just almost feels like spoilers.That’s what I really like about the game though. It’s a puzzle and there are efficient ways to do things (often there are multiple ways to get top rank btw).
The disheartening thing really is the fact that getting top rank often involves kind of exploiting the game a bit. Stuff like knowing you can drive the tank right up beside an enemy tank and hit its engine at point blank from the side, or that when they’re upgraded a machine gunner or a scout can actually take out a tank if you have a good shot.
Or knowing that you can often rush a lot of maps with scouts. Especially Alicia who is crazily OP.
As it turns out,
for good reason.In the end I think my most powerful units ended up being Alicia, Maria, Rosie, and Jann. And I guess the Edelweiss.
My top ones are usually Alicia and one of the other scouts (Cherry? I think?), the gay lancer with the amazing hair who’s name I forget (was that Jann?), and the lone wolf sniper chick that can’t focus if she’s not on her own.
Alicia’s not just amazing because of plot though, she’s amazing because of her ability combinations.
That was Jann and Maria. 🙂
If you’re using Alicia (which everyone would surely be), then you have to use Dallas the Engineer! Her support conversations with Alicia are hilarious!
One of my favourites is Audrey the Lancer as well. Nobody seems to use her though because she’s a fairly late-game unlock.
I like it but other games keep catching my attention.
Right? These new releases are seriously getting in the way of my inescapable black hole (‘pile’ doesn’t do it justice – I will not complete it even if I do not work for the rest of my life) of shame.
My console backlog has suddenly become a lot lighter with the death of my PS3. Funny how that works!
(Though now I’m praying that Catherine gets a re-release on PC or current gen – it’s that ONE game in my pile of shame that I really wanted to play but now can’t :P)
No Catherine? Ouch!
Dammit I still gotta grab Catherine too.
😉
Focus on the women in front of you first, man.
#Popcorn #FlogThatDeadHorse
Catherine is a cool game. I really enjoyed it!
You’re right, once the pile achieves a certain size it feels like it becomes a singularity from which nothing can escape and which you want to simply avoid going near. 🙁
I cut my pile down to a short list and was playing stuff off it with the understanding that no new games would be purchased until all games that I wanted to play on the pile more than that new game were dealt with. But I stopped following that policy after a bit as I am weak. Thinking I might get onto it again though.
i know, right. There’s just so much stuff coming out these days that it really is impossible to keep up.
Kind of glad that VC isn’t in my pile of shame. It’s one of the rare games I’ve actually finished twice. \o/
Got my Steam key for it from GMG but haven’t redeemed yet, will do when I get broadband. It is easily one of the top five games on the PS3 so getting it on PC where I can see those stunning 1940s picture book visuals in high res and high framerate and everything is going to be magical.
But it will have to wait until I’m clear of a few other things.
Why is lunch taking so long to get here today.
Look, just go talk to the woman, all right? Stop waiting for her to declare that you smell good.
Should’ve ordered it earlier.
So, fresh from Sunday night’s quick look at Fairy Fencer F (which I thought was kind of mediocre and lacking polish) I had a pass at Ar nosurge last night. I was kind of worried about it because I was really excited about the game but I hadn’t played any because I was expecting to be let down.
It’s basically a spiritual successor to the Ar Tonelico games, and that’s why I was both excited and nervous. I’ve mentioned before that Ar Tonelico II is a personal favourite despite being a clunky as fuck game. However Ar Tonelico III (localized as Ar Tonelico Qoga) was bad. It took the dumb innuendo angle of the previous games and went way too far with it, one of the two major girls is nearly impossible to like, and the actual combat was terrible and the animation wasn’t fantastic either (it was Gust’s second PS3 game and second ever game with 3D models after Atelier Rorona). The only stand-out part of AT3 is the soundtrack which was the best of the trilogy.
Luckily Ar nosurge immediately feels like Ar Tonelico II. Right off the bat you’re hearing that classic Akiko Shikata vocal sound with all the chants and everything. The combat system is straight out of Ar Tonelico II with a bit of cleanup. 3D models are really nice and have a good style and shading to them – Gust’s come a long way from Rorona and AT3, they’ve figured out how to do this stuff well, and I think being able to use T-K’s internal engines have improved everything too. I played for probably 2 hours. Did some combat, got the initial plot setup and some hints about something more. Apparently the setup is that the characters are on a giant colony ship that was sent out from a dying planet after things went horribly wrong. The main characters so far, Delta and Casty, seem like they were some of the original generation of colonists that were put in stasis and have subsequently been woken up? Also apparently Delta did something a while back that made everyone distrust him but he seems to maybe not remember what it was. This might be stuff from Ciel nosurge, which was a weird little game for the Vita that Gust put out a while back and apparently has plot elements that lead into this game, but it hasn’t been localized. Might need to hunt down some info.
All the systems from Ar Tonelico II appear to be present. You’ve got a synthesis system to make new items from recipes. The Cosmosphere, where you ‘dive’ into the minds of the female characters and go through various Visual Novel sequences in order to grow closer to them, help them work through their fears and anxieties and other issues and craft stronger magic from those emotions – it’s all there almost exactly the same as AT2, except it’s called Genometrics instead. Combat’s back to the same system, character at the back singing up some magic while the front line characters alternate between attacking enemies and protecting her.
I haven’t really gotten that far in yet so I don’t know for sure how the characters will work out. I was initially kind of surprised upon hearing Casty’s voice, as it wasn’t quite what I was expecting from her character design (younger sounding and higher pitch) but I’m liking her as a character so far. I’m expecting to like Ion (the other major lead) a fair bit as well, which is going to be a nice change from AT3 and might even make me re-play the game with the other route assuming they’ve kept that structure.
I don’t expect this to hit the same highs as AT2, though. Delta’s no Lyner but he’s still a bit of a moron, where AT2’s Croix was a great character. No Cocona and I don’t think there will be a tertiary arc on par with Jakuri’s again. But still, feeling extremely positive about it. Can’t wait to play more, which is a great sign.
This probably means I’ll be putting DA2 and Tales of Hearts R aside once I grab them and continuing with this through to the end first. And it also means that Xillia 2 will be on the pile for a lot longer.
I watched all three EVA movies over the last 3 days and i have a question
What do you think it is about?
Evangelion has a reputation for not making a whole lot of sense and just being batshit crazy stupid at times. So i wanna know what you get out of it. Personally i find the interactions between the characters why i keep going back to it. I mean it is gorgeously animated and the music is perfect but honestly the characters are so life like, they arent perfect they are just trying to do their best.
I dont really understand what it is about though, is it some big metaphor about the humans and their relationships with others. The eva’s are the outer shell that we put out to the world but inside the pilots all feel incredibly lonely but in different ways?
ANYWAY WHAT DO YOU GUYS THINK?
It’s a mashup of psychology (particularly Freud), philosophy (particularly Sartre), and religion (particularly Old Testament stuff)
Huh, that makes a lot of sense actually. When did you become so wise.
What I think happened:
Bunch of Japanese guys in a room. Each congratulating themselves over their university homework. Stroking egos gives way to stroking each other. All the pages get stuck together. They look upon the mess they have created and decide to make a cartoon.
That’s probably how they created End of Evangelion.
The psychology element is actually drawn from Jung, not Freud. Jung was one of Freud’s pupils so there’s a fair bit of Freud in the mix. I also think that Jung is where a lot of the so-called old testament elements come from as well. He was into mysticism and spirituality and stuff. He was really deep into Alchemy and I suspect that’s where some of the stuff like the Sephiroth, the tree of life and the ‘angels’ comes from. One of the central bits of Alchemy is Hermeticism and that pulls from all sorts of weird magic stuff, and it’s very common for traditional ‘magic’ to involve invoking the Judaic/Christian angels or demons to do things. Stuff like the Ars Goetia / Lesser Key of Solomon and so on, filtered through Hermeticism via Jung is where Anno pulled a lot of inspiration for the seemingly Christian elements of the story.
Yeah, I was thinking that collective consciousness stuff might be Jung but wasn’t sure. Freud came to mind because of the Asuka/Shinji/Rei:Id/Ego/Superego parallel, Shinji’s Oedipus complex and whatnot.
Interesting.
The idea of a ‘complex’ is also Jungian. 🙂
I don’t take it as a metaphor but at face value.
Humanity encountered/sought out powers beyond their ken, but arrogantly tried to control them anyway. As we do. Failed at it, kept trying, because the hubris of those who seek to control the world (or remake it in their image) knows no limits. Innocents got caught up in the process, taking the facts they had in front of them at face value, all according to the plans of the puppetmasters(/puppetmaster). Things only get complicated when the new world order doesn’t count on Ikari being messed up in the head, who in turn doesn’t count on how fucked up his family is.
Unknown power ends up kinda probably getting what it was likely close to being after in the first place. Allegorical only insofar as it’s a story of humans doing what humans do.
I mustn’t run away. I mustn’t run away.
Evangelion is the best, I love it all; the character interactions, Misato’s kookiness, the awesome EVAs and their epic battles, the history of Nerv and all the Impacts, the post-apocalypse, the mystery of the Angels, the secrets of Kaoru and Kaji.
Just about the only things I dislike are Shinji’s whining and the ending.
This is worth watching.
(NSFW)
Speaking of Neon Genesis, I ABSOLUTELY LOVE this trailer for the series.
I think it is about some guy named Shinji and something to do with touching himself while watching girls sleep.
At least this is what I have gathered via osmosis.
I remember a mate at school read the script for that and we laughed and said no way, it’s fake, then we watched it and sure enough Shinji touches himself :/
Guess which mate that was
couldn’t remember if it was you or Grundy, I really didn’t believe it was the real script at the time.
Yeah same. Didn’t see anyone get it on in the show. Was all implied. Big jump.
I watched it in Japanese with friends and none of us spoke Japanese, and were like… is he? I think… I think he is…
But yeah watching eoe for the first time in a language you dont understand is not recommended
What is Evangelion about? That’s tricky because I think that it depends which part you’re talking about.
The TV series was primarily about Anno’s struggle with clinical depression. Abandonment issues, a desire to please his father who never approved of his work, loneliness, crippling self-doubt and so on. A central theme around the idea that getting close to someone also requires accepting that they can hurt you more. I actually have no idea if that mirrors with his background or not but I would assume that it did. The fact he was clinically depressed is a well-known fact, apparently it started after he finished with Nadia. Through that lens, the TV ending will make a lot more sense as well. All the references to Jung and existentialism and everything is stuff that he’d been looking into to try and work through his issues. Jung is where the whole collective consciousness stuff comes from, for example.
End of Evangelion is about how fucking angry he was about the way that the TV series ending was received and about the way his artistic vision was challenged toward the end by anti-violence groups that forced them to self-censor. The film is insanely violent, everyone dies (“wouldn’t it be nice if everyone would just die” was even a tag line for the film) and the world is destroyed. The final part of the film has the subtitle “yours sincerely” and in those rapid-fire cuts they do when everything is all going off the walls with rage and so on there are multiple photos of complaint letters they received about the series. Shinji rejects the things he accepted in the TV series and ends up in a desolate, broken world and an ambiguous final line that basically reflects exactly how he felt about the film’s production by the end.
(Incidentally this is why I actively dislike EoE as a film but also think it’s an excellent piece of art)
The Rebuild films are literally him looking back at his work without it being viewed through the lens of depression or anger, and wondering how he would do it now with the benefit of hindsight, maturity and distance from the original work. He’s a different person now, no longer depressed and happily married. He was basically thrust into the limelight with Evangelion and didn’t really know how to cope, I think. Apparently got a lot of mentoring from Hayao Miyazaki after that. Still, I think there’s probably something really important in the hints that the whole thing is a repeating cycle. It’s also a sequel to EoE rather than a replacement for the series, if you look at it carefully enough.
God you know your anime. Teach me your ways sempai
Dude, I was fucking obsessed with Evangelion when I was younger. I spent years hanging out with people and discussing stuff like this.
People tend to fixate on the details of the show. Where the ideas came from or what a particular line might mean or how the hell does this stuff even line up properly (hint: if you dig too deep, it doesn’t – they never intended people to nitpick that deeply and were making details up as they went) but they often don’t think about why the people writing the show were doing it, what they were trying to say or what their motivations were. You need to look beyond the material for that IMO.
This is why you’ll see an endless debate about Asuka’s final line in EoE (“kimochi warui”, lit. “I feel sick”) and what that means, and whether it should be the shitty fansub translation of “what a disgusting feeling” instead and shit. I’ve seen crazy theories up to and including that meaning she’s suddenly pregnant. But it’s pretty rare for people to take a step back and say “what is the director trying to convey through the choice of this line to end the film”?
Wow. That’s fascinating. Good summary.
I’ve read/ heard similar.
It is about depression. I would get so angry at friends who had experienced the loss of will due to depression & then would ask stupid shit like ” Why doesn’t Shinji just kick their ass?!”
I don’t think what is happening in the outside world can change the way you truly feel & I love that Eva shows that.
Get so tired of hearing people complain about Shinji. I like you jimjim!
I <3 ineffectual Shinji
This, pretty much all this. Though I’m not a huge fan of the Rebuild, Eva was such a huge part of my life as a teen I just don;t like it being messed with.
@sughly is gonna be so mad you brought this up while he’s away
Was a good read just now though!
For those who used to/do play Kingdom of Loathing: sad news – Mr Skullhead, the main writer, is leaving the company. He was the one who has written (as in the writing, not the code) the game for the last few years. The company just can’t afford to keep him on. 🙁
For those who haven’t played Kingdom of Loathing, maybe you should try it. It’s a pisstake of MMOs before MMOs were even really that popular…in fact it’s a pisstake of everything video gamey under the sun.
Give it a shot – it’s not for everyone, but it honestly made me laugh out loud so often.
http://www.kingdomofloathing.com/
I love the intro more than anything else. Y’know, the bot-filtering questions asked by The Ghost of the English Language.
Does anyone here build arcades or have knowledge and expertise on such? (@freezespreston?)
Because it turns out that to my surprise, the woman who runs the cafe downstairs is a fellow gamer. Kinda different tastes to mine, but I kinda love that discussion that occurs whenever people discover other gaming enthusiasts.
You know the conversation… Figuring out what each other is into, what experience they have, what they’ve been playing, what they’re playing, what they’re looking forward to, what they thought was good, bad, which platforms they have, which genres they prefer… Man, we chopped it up for ages. (Which is the second day talking to strangers about games, but yesterday was kind of expected, since it was talking to the EB dudes who hadn’t realized they could use Dragon Age Keep to get their DA:O/DA2 decisions cross-platform to their next-gen machines. C’mon, guys! This is something an EB person should know, to sell those next-gen titles!)
The cafe-owner is into last-gen console gaming at the moment, 360 and PS3. Is holding off on next-gen for a bit yet. Getting big into Dante’s Inferno at the moment, and just finished (and loved) all the entries in the God of War series. But her big addiction is arcade games and she’s been looking into making cabinet-building her new hobby.
I only know one person who even owns an arcade machine, let alone anyone who’s built any. Wish I could help.
Did someone say electronics. No okay ill go away.
Seriously though i bought some supplies a little while ago and its fairly simple. Just need a emulator to run on a pc and hook the controls up through a little little controller which outputs to a old school mouse keyboard input or USB.
I used this website to buy parts and you honestly dont need any electronics know how simply strip wire and screw into the port provided.
http://in2amusements.com.au/
If you need any actual electronics help though just ask @bish or me. Bish is a electronics engineer and knows his shit better than myself though 🙂
http://in2amusements.com.au/keyboard-encoders/ipac-mame-bundle/
this comes with All the buttons joysticks and controllers which i used. 🙂
Would it be at all cheaper to just buy a USB arcade stick and use that? I got one for 360 bundled with MvC3, I think it only cost around $50 for it. Hori Fighting Stick Ex 2 I think it was, pretty solid little unit. If you’re only using an emulator on a PC then it’d make things a whole lot easier I guess, if only as a starting point.
Probably would,yep probably would.
Hah! Naw, I’m pretty sure your practical experience outweighs any of the theoretical stuff I (used to) know. I can help with very basic stuff, but I think you’re the man in the know.
No you.
I hate that discussion. Mainly because I don’t know what I like and don’t have a prepped answer for when I’m hit with it 😛 My answer’s more like “pretty much anything”, but that sounds kinda wishy-washy. And I can of course never think of any specifics at the time to try and build an answer off. Closest I can come is to talk about what I don’t like, and just say pretty much anything that isn’t an RPG or racing sim. Or MMO.
I don’t think I know anyone whose built their own cabinet, closest would be a friend who built himself a few arcade sticks for his 360. Haven’t spoken to him in a while, actually. He went off to Canada a… uh. A year or two ago? Maybe? Never got around to messaging him or anything since he left. I’m a pretty terrible friend.
‘Pretty much anything?’ Says the heathen who refuses to worship at the altar of gaben and who keeps talking about these games no-one’s played (ie: Nintendo games). All you need to do is overcome your (justified) shame and admit to your deviant preferences! And what you’ve been playing most recently. That helps.
Most recently is even harder still! That usually consists of “uhhhhhhhhhhhhh…” then a long pause trying to remember all the way back to the last time I played something 😛
:C
This is the saddest thing. 🙁
“I don’t play games. I just buy ’em.” Was a bit of a running joke/catch-phrase for a while.
Not strictly true, but a decent summary of the situation. Although when posting in response to one of DC’s lists of games he’s completed this year, the sparseness of my list was indeed rather sad.
I currently have plenty of time on my hands. Not a fair comparison. 🙂
I have plenty of time on my hands too.
I just waste most of it sitting at the computer reading internets 😛
Gamedude in Logan used to sell arcade parts.
Mostly though, I hear people just put together a MAME PC, shove it in a homemade cabinet and attach an arcade stick. Never done it myself but the process seems pretty simple.
I used to work for a company making/maintaining/distributing arcade games! As Trjn said, Gamedude do indeed sell stuff for arcade cabinets, or even whole cabinets with games if that’s your thing. All depends what you’re after though.
Halo: MCC just arrived in the post from Dick Smiths. \o/
The disc actually feels heavy.
I’ve been reading great things about it – enough to make me curious about getting it. Not enough to get my xboner yet, that’s probably Halo 5.
Come on Transient. Come on over to the Xboner club and revel in remastered Halo nostalgia!!
I’ll probably do it after the Japan trip and after Halo 5 launches. Master Chief Collection and Sunset Overdrive aren’t enough to do it for me. Not Ryse, either. Gears of War is a slight incentive, D4 ‘interesting’, Crackdown ‘something to do if I have it’, Halo 5 definite, maybe some of the Japanese visual novel games, Quantum Break ‘we’ll see’, State of Decay possible… but that’s a lot of stuff that’s not out yet and not that big a pull.
Halo 5 will probably be the decider and I’m not convinced it’ll be day one. I’m going to get an xboner, it’s just a matter of when they make it worth my while.
(Edit: And it’ll have to come down to xbone exclusives. PS4 is pretty much always going to be the clear cross-platform winner.)
I’m in exactly the same boat. I need one more major thing to entice me over and it’s not going to be a shooter.
I hadn’t realized how almost all of those titles were shooters. 😛
@pupp3tmast3r
Will you be available for 40K tonight or are you a bit too busy at the moment?
Page get. \o/
Page 5 question for this week: Favourite class or type of playable character in any roleplaying game (tabletop, video game, or otherwise) ever?
Surprising no-one, rogue.
?
Pretty shite rogue if you never surprise anybody.
Then again, I once played a loud-mouthed, flamboyant knife wielding halfling rogue in DnD (that never sneaked or hid in anyway).
The surprise?
They never realised I duel wielded daggers. The second one was always hidden with sleight of hand and it was disguised as flap on my piece of clothing.
So was the third, and fourth, and so on daggers.
I once finally surprised an enemy with my tenth dagger.
Never had to use the eleventh. 🙂
The one where I don’t have to think too much and can just charge in guns-a-blazing and smash things.
Gunzerker was pretty good fun when Borderlandsing with my friend.
Scout, always the scout!
Really, anything that is relatively weak but is super fast.
You must be a hit with the ladies.
They never even see me coming.
Lights-off guy?
Stealth sniper/archer
I tend to go with Tank classes a lot, but have more fun with Ranger types (single handed weapon / bow combo), not much of a magic user I couldn’t be bothered with mana most of the time.
Spellsword (Or magic swordsman), infusing my own magic into weapons/shield to make them extremely heavy hitters
Pretty much exclusively video games, but my tastes tend towards Rogues, Mages, or Warlocks…
I’ve stopped going for rogues in recent years cos it turns out I’m still shit at stealth. Which leaves my preferences for pyromancy and demonology. Any brute can hit a thing with another thing, but I like the finality of sending said thing to hell, figuratively or literally, or, failing that, bringing hell’s denizens forth to meet/consume said thing. 😛
I used to like rogues but now I go for hard hitting types so I can go brain dead.
I tend to create very strong characters with high defence & healing spells because I don’t like to spend money on potions.
Sneaky, charismatic characters. Although not to assassinate or steal things, more because I like having options other than just a murder spree for getting through the game.
Malkavian.
Mage. Love the variety and versatility of a good magic user.
Sorry pop still at work! At the moment not too sure if I can make it for tonight, if Vaethril dies/enters a coma/steps on a pin/gets hit by a meteor/falls asleep/pretty much anything that requires a dice roll I’d like to give him temporary control of my character =P
@sernobulus
Interview done! Interviewers said at the end they felt I did pretty well, and had extra positives in that I already have the cert I need to work on their systems, so don’t have to do 3 week training to start! Really all there is to do now is wait for results from both Optus and Dept of Education, and compare the two! Fingers are well and truly crossed for positive result from at least one of them!
That’s a really good sign that they don’t need to spend money on some of the training. Hope you get it, you deserve a big break.
Awesome, man. I’ll be thinking good thoughts for you. Any idea how long it’ll be before you hear?
Sometime next week for the dept of ed one. The optus one could be this week or next. I’d guess the latter though with there being a public holiday at the end of this week.
Nice man, Hi5
Teleglitch is free on the Humble Store!
I feel kind of bad that what is supposed to be Remebrance Day is now for me just remembering the first time I discovered the world of drunkenness. But it’s my friends’ fault for having their wedding then 😛
Kinda scary that it’s been three years already though. Someone tell time to slow down already.
hey I went to a wedding on 11/11/11, the bastards had it in Sydney so I walked around staring at all the Skyrim marketing with a tear in my eye, picturing my copy back in Brisbane all lonely without me.
Today was weird, didn’t realize the time, answered the phone as normal then got death stares from everyone because it was the one minute silence :/
…don’t tell me it was for Jane and Tim.
I know it won’t be, but given my luck and how small a world it is it totally would be.
nah, dude’s name is Keagan, would have been crazy though.
@gutsoup pls respond
I’m on the edge of my seat here…
sorry to disapoint 😛
They’re wonderful people though, the dude plays in a band around Sydney called “The Gypsy Bangles” they’re pretty good, go see ’em if you ever get the chance
Yeah, we actually got a couple brief phone calls during The Last Post being played over the building announcement system.
I say brief, because they got rejected from the handset, and phones taken off the hook/put in DND mode.
wish I’d noticed, felt like a dick.
Certainly would’ve been a decent use of the CitySafe speaker system that got installed, for sure.
Last night I had a very successful cooking spree. Long story short, I made swedish meatballs (from scratch, not ikea) for 5 adults and 6 children (all under 8), served in two sittings, and it was both cheap and delicious!
Basically, it was easier for three families to have one big dinner together than for everyone to have a stressful evening. Sometimes you need to make your own village.
Also, it’s a good recipe if it can be tripled:
http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/19103/swedish+meatballs
IKEA. Eat your heart out!
Hello, what is happen now, dash?
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/11/the-tech-behind-sydneys-newest-escape-room/
I never even knew real life escape rooms existed but now that I know, I need to visit one!
I’ve been looking into organising one for a while now. There’s actually quite a few around Sydney.
Next time I’m in Sydney, we’re totally all doing an escape room Meat.
Although it’s kind of scary, like real life multiplayer adventure games, with no internet to consult if you get stuck on a puzzle. 😛
Plus you can’t put ladders in your pocket like in real adventures! My inventory is already full with just my phone and wallet! D:
There’s one in the CBD that’s got really good reviews. About $40 per person from memory.
It’s max 5 people per room though which isn’t great considering TAY’s tendency to pack out places 😛 (thought they let you book two rooms simultaneously so the teams can race)
Standard non-internet adventure gaming, then!
1. Investigate area.
2. Consider solution.
3. Experiment.
4. On failure, repeat 1-3 until panic sets in.
5. Panic.
6. Poke, pull, combine all available not-nailed-down items with anything and everything.
7. Panic more. (Screams of exasperation optional; rage at creator.)
8. Attempt to hulk smash through problem.
9. Curl into ball in nearby corner, nursing collision-bruises.
10. Tearfully beg for forgiveness for all sins.
11. Pull self together when hearing rescue team.
12. Bribe heavily to procure surveillance footage.
13. Suddenly remember about hidden away stash of chocolates and snacks you put in your pocket in preparation earlier.
14. Enjoy said chocolates and snacks.
15. Relax. They have to let you out sometime anyway.
😀
ALTERNATE:
16. Attempt to stave off the feeling of unease as ‘let you out sometime’ fails to occur.
17. Succumb to claustrophobia, freeing your mind to the madness.
18. In desperation and starvation, embrace the dark and forbidden delights of ‘long pig’, subduing those in the party who do not concur with your decision.
19. Entertain paranoid thoughts of persecution for your dark, grim deeds.
20. Tear, claw, hammer at the walls past blooding, in pursuit of hollow places, til temporary escape presents itself.
21. Lurk in the dark spaces between habitation, safe from the searing judgement of the humans, embodying both urban legend and ancient, primal fear.
An evening well-spent in anyone’s book, I’m sure!
The book hasn’t ended just yet. Go to page 200.
22. In true Interstellar style, 200 years have now also passed and no one has let you out. You are are a beast of a man. Picking off the people that distance themselves from the others via mad fits of panic, you corner and consume them as they shriek. The screams are piercing as they traverse the corridors sending chills down the surviving preys’ spines but there will be no escape for them.
They will be next. Lambs to the slaughter. Escape is but a myth.
Is this Escape Room or Alien Isolation?XD
DROP. TOWEL.
We got discount vouchers to one in melbourne at PAX so were considering trying to organise a meat at one. Vouchers end this month so not much time
Yeah I saw that… it’s also 5 minutes from work. I’m totally going go soon though they are a bit expensive.
Wow, that’s cool!
You are! AND INTERESTING! >:|
So I watched that ign video where they spend 5 minutes explaining the assassins creed story so far.
I got about 2 minutes in where I realised two things
1. The story is utterly ridiculous
2. I clearly haven’t been paying any attention at all. Admittedly I’ve only played 2 of them but I figured I’d have the general gist. Nope. Not even close.
1) Yes.
2) Yes.
I think it’s suffering from jj abrams/chris carter syndrome where they never really plotted out an overall arc, tried to have a go with the sequels, realised they’d dug themselves a massive hole and were left buried in the debris of their ever-more complex continuity and then just gave up, killed off the original story arc and went on to tell different stories within the universe.
Anyway, my copies of Rogue and Unity are on the way, and I am hyped.
Bah, replyfail.
Yeah, the story would leave a bit to be desired in terms of plot holes.
That hype, though!
Baffled.
PS3 and xBox 360 are consistently referred to as last gen.
PS4 and xBone are consistently referred to as next-gen.
So what’s current gen??? The WiiU?
almost-there-gen?
I only really see Xbone and PS4 referred to as next gen when from the perspective of last gen, e.g.: GTA V gets a “next gen” port since it was a 360/PS3 game.
3DS.
PC is always current gen.
Transcends gen.
Transgen?
Derr.
I see PS4, Xbone and Wii-U as current gen.
PC is next gen. It will always be next gen. Also, my second serious answer is that next gen will be the (theoretical) PS5, Xbox One 2 and the Wii U2.
Personally, ‘next gen’ can only be referred to when discussing upcoming devices (hence the ‘next’ part of the name.) As once they are here, they are then current gen.
Actually, seeing as though PC has no direct ‘sequel’, I guess you could argue that it is all three; previous gen, current gen and next gen.
Okay, that’s enough from me.
PC. PC is always current gen.
Therefore Xbone and PS4 are better than PC?
YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST, FOLKS!
Ye– n– I… dammit MAAASTER RRAAAAACE.
Don’t confuse me, you and @jimu, I’m too busy to properly
propagandizeproselytizeadvertiseexplainmythe world’s best platform! Meetings and shit!Best platform? SNES, DS or PSX!
PC is “End gen”, no matter how far “Next-gen” goes, PC is always at the end of this line of “gens”. MASTA RAYCE! \o/
Even my 8 year old craptop?
It was current at one point!
So was my PSX
I always thought it was “endgen” cuz you know, it was always ahead of everything else.
MASTER RACE! HOLY GABEN etc etc…
Majority of stuff I’ve seen over the last year has referred to PS4 and Xbone as new-gen, so as to clearly differentiate them from what is now last-gen, and I think it’s particularly relevant since there’s still some countries that don’t have the PS4 officially yet, and that until September there were huge areas that the Xbone was missing (I can’t be bothered sitting down to work out how many countries it hasn’t had an official release in yet).
That was a very serious and considered response.
It’s teatime! What’s wrong with you?!? 😉
What’s wrong with me? Uhh, more things than I could possibly put in a comment, methinks.
Anyone referring to PS3 and Xbox 360 as Last Gen will also be referring to PS4 and XB1 as Current Gen.
Anyone referring to PS3 and Xbox 360 as Current Gen will also be referring to PS4 and XB1 as Next Gen.
People have more aggressively adopted the Last & Current thing this time because the last generation it took 3 or so years before ‘Next Gen’ dropped out of use. Also this time the old platforms are going to continue to be around for a lot longer due to their huge install bases and the fact that new original games still are coming out for PS3 at least.
Dear slow day…. Hurry up and end already!
Dear Inquisitorsz
See that minute hand on the clock.
I’ll move it soon
Keep watching, almost there.
Any moment now
Don’t blink or you will miss it
With love and a desire to stay with you forever
Slow Day
HOW GOOD IS ISAAC: REBIRTH!?
Amazing! I’m still getting used to the new art style and slightly different controls but overall I’m enjoying it.
Minor improvements like a small description of each item, better maps etc are greatly appreciated.
I need to try out some timed runs and maybe look into some competitions using the “Seed” options.
I’m disappointed that the co-op mode isn’t a proper multiplayer though
So I’ve made up a poll for Pax Meat 2015. Vote for what you prefer and whatever wins is what we’ll do.
http://strawpoll.me/2969608 Sorry, I left out the either option, so I re-did it
By “Pub” are you talking about a private room sort of deal or just finding a public place we can all fit in?
Private room
Dumpster behind Maccas
I see no PAX North! IT’S A THING!
But I can’t get there.
😛
Nobody can!
That’s what makes it so great! None of you are there! 😛
I’ve got ya’ covered
This is why you’re in the top ten TAYbies. (People in the top ten can’t be ranked.)
You forgot “upvote everything”
You guys know me. You really know me. :’)
File that under “circle the wagons” 😛
Some folks reckon that circling the wagons isn’t a full time job. There’s so many little things, though.
I’m genuinely surprised that circling the wagons is not winning!
I put down for the ‘doing some shit’ one because I was assuming ‘pub’ meant ‘meat in some bar somewhere’ but if that means ‘private room in pub’ then you can move one ‘do some stuff’ into the ‘either’ category.
If that makes sense.
Because it might not, I worded it very confusingly.
The pub one is for a private room. But I’m very confused.
Stoo-reeet Fai-turr
II Turbo High Definition Remix?
Hey, who on here was Manny from Grim Fandango at PAX?
A freelance Journo who was on a number of panels (including the ethics and religion one with Mark) just gave you his ‘award’ for best PAX cosplay.
That wasn’t a costume D’:
Whoops, punched out costume without thinking (should be cosplay).
Sorry.
Begin awkward social anxiety noise in 3, 2…1…
Eeeeeeek.
Costume, costume play. Same thing.
I think Pow was referring to Manny being real or something.
I prefer costume over cosplay actually 😛
Not that it even matters.
@mrtaco!
OH MAN the one TAYBIE not on Twitter.
Ok, I’ll link it (if he can see it without having to log in)
https://twitter.com/jasonimms/status/532048039351812096
Hope you see it @mrtaco
Mr. Taco sees all. Except for common sense. Flirting women. Modern video games. Colobus Monkeys.
Well I’m not on Twitter… *cries and runs away*
Aren’t you our resident TAYbot?
I read the whole conversation and they were so effusive in their praise. I really hope @mrtaco sees!
It took me a while to figure out (/see) who this guy was and remember, then I awshucks’d.
You totally need to make your profile picture you as Manny, and then Follow them on Twitter. Oh, and start tweeting, and following all of us, too! 😛
Except I don’t. I’ve got all you guys to keep an eye on the twitters for me!
On a related note, I was chatting with a friend who’d been at PAX, and I mentioned that @mrtaco was Manny, and he started talking about how great it was, and how the mouth could move up and down and stuff.
Oh wow. Yeah, I just read that part on the tweets. Damn, @mrtaco, that’s above and beyond impressive.
https://twitter.com/jasonimms/status/532048158994354176
Oh hey, I know that DarthHomer guy there. He used to post on a forum I was on.
He posts on Kotaku too!
I tried to use my… influence to get Mr. Schafer to notice but no response :'(
@mrtaco
http://strawpoll.me/2969701
I should’ve rephrased to “Do you want to go steady?” XD
Shall I go in dry?*friend zones Crazyguy*
I see you more as a kid sister! 😛
Can you repeat the question?
Someone voted no. D: It wasn’t me.
That one “no” is going to haunt you forever!
I’m going to level with you, Strange. It was me. 😛
Monster! I want my vote back! 😛
Makes perfect sense.
You are pretty much the only person I know who doesn’t like you. 😛Explain the other votes then, Strange! EXPLAIN THE OTHER VOTES! 😛
@blaghman and his evil clone. Obviously. 😛
I take offense at that. I was very happy with my position as the third person to vote Yes. And now you cast aspersions on my decency? Insulting.
Wait a minute…I thought I was the first person to vote Yes! Maybe I accidentally pressed No? 😛
‘Accidentally’
:'(
@strange
“third”
I don’t go for records here. I’m not known for my quickness.
I actually meant third but my old lady brain typed first. Stupid old lady brain. 😛
But yes, after I voted and saw the results there were three yeses and one no. So we can’t both have been third. Which maybe means one of us voted no. Stupid typo making me have to explain my attempt at a joke! 😛
@strange
Or, more likely, we voted at a very similar time, and by the time our browser’s loaded in the results, it appeared to both of us as if we were third.
But that’s terribly boring, isn’t it?
I should have just left your joke to sit there awkwardly, much simpler. 😛
No….. I love you.Straw poll: “Should @dc come to PAX 2015?”
[ ] Yes
[ ] Absolutely
It’s not even a thing! >:|
You could visit the Melbourne Zoo while you’re here too. They have Colobus Monkeys.
I’m going to PAX next year, by the way. Well, to be honest, I’ll be going to Melbourne to participate in a giant Kotaku PAX Meat but haven’t yet decided if I’ll do the actual PAX.
That’s the thing, if I was in a position where I could afford to go to Melbourne I totally would, but PAX ain’t my thing at all. I would prefer to explore the city to be honest. 🙂
PAX Meat could be a good timeline to get you to put yourself in a position where you can afford to go….
Got to overcome this fear and sadness one-two punch! 🙂
I’ll join you and @strange in the touristy things! Y’all probably know Melbourne better than me 😛
@dc can be your baby sitter while you’re away!!!
Pipe down, don’t make us get Freeze’s kids to attack you again!
DC: “work his kidneys!”
*Freezlings jump on Liondrives kidneys”
DC: “I’m a monster…”
…
DC: “Sit on his head!”
*Freezlings sit on Liondrives head*
DC: “Haaaaaaaa!”
I must have some deep seated anger issues I need to resolve. 😛
Nah, I was making jokes to the adult friends unaware that the kids were going to do it! D:
@dc
Hahaha, relax, the Freezlings didn’t do that much physical damage.
And it was funny 😛
Need more I Don’t Know & Can You Repeat The Question.
@dc My son is engrossed in the Pikmin 3 demo on WiiU.
Just wait until he gets to play as Julia Gillard in Pikmin-form! (@greenius)
What has been seen.
Cannot be unseen.
Yessss! All Pikmin 3, all of the time! 🙂 If he finds it a bit difficult and is using the gamepad, it’s much easier with Wii motes.
Is it bad that I have Pikmin 2 on the Wii and have barely played it?
Yes, but in your favour it’s probably the least solid of the series. (Though still worth playing!)
Holy crapsticles!
https://festivalofvoices.com/news/2015-cappella-workshop-announced
And July is my birthday month….
Bit cold in Tassie around then from what I recall, though!
For people who can’t be bothered clicking links, it’s a vocal workshop in Tasmania in July with (metal a cappella band) Van Canto, at the end of the workshop you sing in their concert.
Not in that link is the fact that there’ll be a Van Canto tour surrounding this for the rest of Australia. This is awesome. 😀
I didn’t click, but I like to think you’re auditioning for the next Pitch Perfect movie!
Oh wow, I didn’t click (uh, figuratively) that that’s what it was. That’s really cool!
I just youtubed them. Now I want to hear them do the Doom first level theme.
Haha this is so weird!
Yeah that was the one I listened to 😛
“solidsnake2390:
runnitydunnitydunnitydunnitydunnity DAH”
😀
Ooooh, just listened to their stuff. That would probably be amazing!
Neat.
Why Tassie though, seems a little out of the way for fans? I can only presume they have more fans on mainland than Tassie. But still awesome thing. Plus Tassie is a lovely place, I don’t really see much of a downside here 😛
It’s because the Festival Of Voices is a Tasmanian thing. It’s a regular thing, and the workshops even are accredited with the Uni there.
Ooh that makes more sense, thanks 😀
But there’s apparently also a tour planned with dates to be announced. So with any luck, they’ll make it up here.
I am so ridiculously excited that you may be coming down!
Let me know if you are and I will be happy to provide lifts and company during the quiet bits of your trip!
Oh don’t worry, if I get to go I’ll be yelling in excitement to anyone and everyone and you”ll hear me saying I’m going from all the way down there. 😀
It’s not page 6 yet? Damn, oh well. Have one early.
Two old ladies were discussing the merits of pantyhose.
“I don’t like them,” said the first. “Every time I fart, I blow my slippers off.”
Eight notifications since I left work? Wtf’s going on here.
We’re having a frank and honest discussion about your position here on TAY.
I’ll go where I’m needed.
You’ve been transferred to our Twitter operation. I know you’ll thrive in this new role.
That’s not a position here on TAY!
DON’T MAKE A SCENE!
Shit.
Well, I’ve gotten this stuck in my head:
I’ve taken 11 pills today
D:
D:
You druggie.
I joke… Or do I?Ear thing still?
8 antibiotics, 2 painkillers, 1 hayfever tablet 😛
Well I guess that’s 8 pills and 3 tablets then if we want to be specific 😀
But I’m guessing it’s mainly for the ear thing though, righ?
Just gonna point it out that all that flying you’ve been doing probably wasn’t good for it.
Change in air pressure and what not.
Might be worth asking your doctor about.
I blame the KFC Hashbrown Zinger Double Down I had the day before it started getting bad 😛
Here I am tryin’ to be fo’ serials, and you’re just jokin’ around 😛
Well another time it got infected I ate Hungry Jacks just before it too…
Maybe it’s a sign that I should stop pigging out on fast food?
I thought your waistline would have been a good indicator to stop pigging out on fast food.
*badum-tish*
But for real real, if it was anything to do with excessive flying, you might be able to claim compensation if you do need another surgery or anything was all I was getting at.
Hope you’re better soon!
You mean these sick abs? *flex*
I had a shower at work today and looked in the mirror and thought… “hey, I ain’t too bad ;D” then I remembered I had my glasses off and put them back on and 🙁
Oh, I do that all the time.
If I poke myself in the eye, squint really hard, and look in the foggy mirror after a shower, I give myself a 6/10 😀
Oh and I might as well answer seriously:
I don’t think the flying had to do with it. My ears (left and right during different weeks) kind of felt tingly as if they were about to get infected but they ended up going away while in Perth. Maybe the flying helped? It’s not an internal ear thing but external.
I’m already getting random work compensation for messing up my knee during a soccer match at work 😛
You have an ear thing?
I’ve had an ear thing most of this year, mostly caused by air conditioning. Got as far as a specialist that wants to cut my face open but doesn’t know if it’ll actually help.
I’m going to have fun flying back to QLD at Christmas. Air travel when I’m unable to repressurise my ears may be a little painful. Possibly dangerous.
I was born with preauricular sinuses (I was born with these holes in my ears and it looked like I had pierced ears). It’s rareish and some people have problems with them, some don’t. They weren’t really an issue for me until my right ear’s sinus got infected in 2012 or so. Got infected again around PAX in 2013 and then had surgery (for both ears) to get them removed in December.
Whatever was left must’ve remained and my right ear got infected again so I had to get surgery for it back in June. Now my left ear got infected again too so I’m guessing more surgery…
Probably different from your thing though but ear things aren’t fun 🙁
Have you tried those Ear Plane earplug things?
The problem I’m having is difficulty getting air through the sinuses to the inside of the eardrum to be able to correctly pressurise. Suggested temporary solution is to actually have small holes cut through a day before the flight that will heal within a few days.
Not sure how much I trust this specialist though.
Earplugs may make it worse, but I’ll look into them and see. Thanks for the suggestion!
I see – that sounds terribly unpleasant. I had the earplanes recommended to me by my GP before PAX because I had nasty sinusitis an lots of fluid in my ears. http://www.chemistwarehouse.com.au/product.asp?id=49462
Did you find them on the floor?
https://twitter.com/manfightdragon/status/532076831541710848
…I totally had no idea that that’s who I was talking to!
Tim Schafer never responded to the Double Fine one if that helps
Maybe he’ll respond to these guys. He has to give in eventually!
Had a KFC hash brown zinger double today. All I can say is what the hell is with that horrible supercharged sauce, it just tastes horrible. To me all it had was this sour taste with a blast of what tasted like black pepper than real spice.
Better than mayonnaise.
Eh, a good mayonnaise would be great on that quite honestly.
Oh god that looks like a heart attack in a wrapper!
I watched the entire first season of Epic Meal Empire on the weekend. It was actually pretty awesome. It was a more expanded version of Epic Meal Time, where they make stupid insane things from food. But was cool, I shouldn’t have been watching it when hungry though 😛
Any Perth people’s going to http://www.mandurah.wa.gov.au/rahcon.htm
I am thinking of going.
I relise that it might be a little far for a few people.
This is a callout for @fled @grandmasterb-funk @hindenlagen @liondrive @phlanispo @phoenix @platinum-urchin @thecracks
Considering that this is the first I’ve heard of it, probably not.
Shame, it looks interesting, and I’d like to contribute to a new local conference (help it gain traction), but it’s a bit late notice, and not the best timing for me :\
We’ll see though.
I only know of it cause I saw a flyer in cosmic comics down near where I live.
I have to try and talk the misses into letting me go >.<.
Never heard of it before. I don’t think I’m going to be in Perth at the time.
It is the first year I think.
Ahh well you have fun away from perth good sir.
Late reply is late again.
I have my work christmas party the night before. I may not be functioning that day at all. If anyone else is interested though I’d consider it.
Late is better then never 😛
All good, you enjoy your work Christmas party.
I still have no idea if I can make it myself yet.
Let me know if you can. It might need to be a ‘morning of’ decision, depending on how I’m feeling ;-p
Did you hear that the police have a warrant out on a midget psychic ripping people off? It reads “Small medium at large.”
#everypageispagesixifyoubelive
Why do Kiwis fuck their sheep on the edge of a precipice?
So they’ll back up harder.
Dude, you’re being really gross today.
FTFY.
Apologies.
I tend to not know where a good line is for jokes on page 6.
Dad jokes. So A hard PG.
Which page is for uncle jokes?
And which one for grandad jokes? 😛
Australia has more sheep per head than New Zealand.
Also, at least one Taybie is from New Zealand #funfact
Poor Neg 😛
Australia also is the biggest consumer of New Zealand lamb products so they’re obviously not that worried about the sheep shagging.
Makes it taste better I guess?
TAY RPG 40K Rogue Trader completed for another night. Starring:
@freezespreston @tech_knight @rize @sernobulus @pupp3tmast3r @gingerchris86
Watch it here.
GM Summary: Kharaga got to eat someone, Jarallius is on his first step to Doctor Octopus, and the Eldar are one step closer to some answers. Plot progression woo!
Video documenting everywhere we go with my servoskull saved our asses in that session, glad that idea has greatly helped us out 🙂
Apparently Matt Damon is going to be Bourne again. If the movie is still good I don’t care about his religion
#dadjokepagesix #hi@strangeWhy do our cans and bottles say “XXXX”?
Because we can’t spell beer.A man was caught stealing in a supermarket today while balanced on the shoulders of a couple of vampires. He was charged with shoplifting on two counts.
#dadjokepagesix #hi@strange
What does a cannibal do after dumping his girlfriend?
Wipes his bum!The French couple asked their ten year old son what he wanted for Christmas.
“I wanna watch”, he replied.
So they let him.
The neighbour’s been looking into get some new grass in his backyard, but because of access issues has had to negotiate with the guy on the other side. They got into an argument which then turned violent, so the police had to get called.
They say it was a turf war.Not me though. It was just lawn order.Why do crabs never give to charity? Because they’re shellfish.
http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/cc/f1/ae/ccf1ae59b0df59664265cbc984c79ae5.jpg
They’re shellfish, coral
I never get enough of that meme, I still chuckle every time with him just inching closer and closer xD
A friend wanted to learn more about BDSM so she looked for, of all things, some kind of class on it to take. She managed to find one, but was disappointed to find they only took doms.
They accept no subs to tuition.@shane
FUCK HAYFEVER club represent.
Amen to that, buddy.
Damn you @dc, now I’ve got that Too Many Cooks tune stuck in my head.
It takes a lot to make a stew
It’s a piece of cake to bake a pretty cake!
The shape of the dots on the five side of a die is called a quincunx.
Starfish are an example of radial symmetry.
#pagesixfacts
Shared bathroom in a 2 star hotel. NEVER AGAIN, NOT EVEN ONCE!!
I think I may have just nope’d my way right outta that place.
I’m in Brisbane currently and with the G20 up here there’s almost nowhere else to go lol.
Airbnb is your friend.
That looks seriously awesome, the fan, fridge and t.v didn’t work and there were holes in the wall lol.
You use and recommend airbnb?
Worst timing for a Brisbane trip unless you’re in one of the delegations! 😀
Yep, I left it until 6.30pm on Monday night to book 😛
Edit: Also I’m not in a delegation 🙁
Halo: MCC. I’m absolutely loving the UI of it all. They’ve nailed that. The ability to switch between the old and new textures simply by the press of a button is also great. I’ve only done the first Halo mission so far and quickly had a look at the original Blood Gulch for the memories, but I think it’s going to be a great experience.
Dunno how long I can hold myself away from multiplayer though. Probably just until I’m really comfortable with the controls again.
Also, last night I answered one of Spawn Point Bar’s trivia questions on Facebook correctly to win a double pass to their ‘Beta Night’ on Friday. I’m usually pretty rubbish with game trivia, but it was a Killer Instinct question and the answer just sprang to mind luckily, despite playing Killer Instinct for all of 5 minutes (tutorial mode.)
HOWEVER, I can’t go on Friday because I’ll be in Nth Qld. They put up a bonus question and some other lucky sod got to have my pass. Gutted.
:'( , but barrier reef scuba diving so :D.
:'(So the review embargo for AC: Unity has lifted and re results aren’t pretty. I wonder if I’ll like it anyway since I liked the other one everyone says sucks. I wasn’t picking it up at launch anyway but maybe the bugs will get patched out by the time I get around to it.
Suddenly a bunch more interested in Rogue since it’s probably going to be more aligned with the spirit of the “old” AC games.
My Twitter feed before the embargo lifted was pretty amazing. A whole bunch of games journalists very unsubtly complaining about the embargo and saying “just wait for reviews, dammit. Wait, you greedy pigdogs!”
*Looks at credit card statement for the $200 edition*
Oh well. It’s only money.
*Weeps*
(I’ll like it anyway, I really liked AC3, as flawed as it was. I can look past the mountains of crap to get the occasional nugget of gold)
That’s my thinking as well, but I have so much going on gamewise at the moment that it’s just not important. I’ll get it when I’m ready to play it and/or it’s super cheap. I’ve bought too many games at launch prives over the years only to have them sit there long past the time I could have picked up at half price or better.
Proper monster.
Hmm… PC version rumblings: “completely unoptimised, looks terrible for what it delivers, unjustifiable frame drops abound.” Crap… maybe I’ll go PS4, then… “poor performance across the board, huge (200-300ms) frame drops for no apparent reason” D:
Looks like my weekend will instead be going back and replaying Halo 1-3 campaigns with the advantage of youtube MCC cinematics, instead of the planned trip to France.Nef’s point form well being update:
-6 day weekend for video games impending. Will be smashing Warlords of Draenor wholesale. Workplace motivation failure is currently in full effect.
-New At the Gates, Job For a Cowboy and believe it or not, Knife Party are currently successfully powering me through all things in life. Music man, is there anything it can’t do?
-Extended general internet disconnect is going amazingly well. Feel happier than I have in a long time. Amazing how much clearer your headspace becomes without dickheads, drama and fuckery. Also the the fact I’ve lost 12 kilos in 5 weeks is helping. Motivation on that front is still stronger than ever.
-Nef does miss you guys, in his own sweary, Neffy fashion.
Grabbing the first 2 albums now, I’d forgotten about them 🙂
Which band?
the new At the Gates & Job For a Cowboy you mentioned
Oh yeah. Any At the Gates is a win, and JFAC’s new album, Sun Eater is amazing. Earlier JFAC is a bit rough, but Ruination/Demonocracy onwards is tops.
Agree. Feel free to recommend some other bands too
What else is getting loads of playtime lately…
The Haunted’s Exit Wounds is still on regular rotation, they’ve been a staple since the original demise of ATG – definitely check that out. Any The Haunted is a winner, except for the later Dolving stuff like Unseen, which is a bit average.
October Tide is another one of late – any of their albums is great, Tunnel of No Light is incredible.
Much obliged 🙂
Holy crap! 12 kg is amazing, way to go!
Thank you sir!
Wait, we can do #dadjokepagesix and #pagesixfacts?
OH BABY I’M COMING HOME WARM UP THE PUNS AND FACTOIDS FOR ME.
I’ll go with a fact for my first return to page six:
Did you know that “Green Eggs and Ham” by Dr Suess was written on a bet? Dr Suess’ publisher bet him that he couldn’t write a childrens book with only 50 unique words.
The fifty words are: a, am, and, anywhere, are, be, boat, box, car, could, dark, do, eat, eggs, fox, goat, good, green, ham, here, house, I, if, in, let, like, may, me, mouse, not, on, or, rain, Sam, say, see, so, thank, that, the, them, there, they, train, tree, try, will, with, would, you.
#pagesixfacts
I love learning new stuff like this!
Well, I am a quiz master (edit: as in I host them!). I have been debating putting a round or two up here once I conclude my monthly quiz. Might do a once a month Quiz Page Six dump. 🙂
Ooooh! Now I know and knowing is half the battle.
What’s the origin of Stan? @dc
I love Dr Seuss. They are just so nice for reading out loud.
Why yes, I did know that
Man, DA:I’s still 8 days out and there’s already spoilers being posted everywhere.
You can have sex with this person and that person and that person and this person and that… well, they’re not a person but you can still boink them.
Yeah, Twitter is a perilous place at the moment. Wouldn’t people prefer to learn about the game themselves in game?
Why bother spending money and time on a game when I can have all the relevant info spoon-fed for free?
Worst for games that haven’t been released yet, or a TV show that aired an hour before – not many people have had a chance to play/watch it yet. Like some sort of HOLY SHIT LOOK AT ME I PLAYED/WATCHED THIS AND YOU PROBABLY HAVEN’T.
‘I got game X early/unlocked on Steam via VPN. Let me regale you with screenshots and a blow by blow commentary of the first 30 minutes of the game, and maybe spoilers if you’re lucky.’
No. Shut up, play your game, watch your TV show and don’t ruin the experience for everyone else.
Sometimes I really love you. 😀
I aim to please!
=D
NOOOOOO I refuse to read all and any spoilers =@
(Separate note logging on to WoW today?)
Logging onto WoW? Probably. Maybe. When does the expansion go live? I might wait a few days to play it because last time the lag caused by all the players being in the one area was ridiculous.
Hey, Sydney TAY! Anybody want to come for dinner and/or drinks in the city on Friday or Saturday night? I’ve got some serious post-PAX blues!
@35 @alexpants @anonymous_pessimist @batgirl @batguy @cakesmith @cj @cookingmama @doc_what @effluvium-boy @fatshadylive @gingerchris86 @gorzilla @harli @hugo_the_hungarian_barbarian @mawt @morkai @markserrels @mrtaco @novacascade @powalen @pupp3tmast3r @ruffleberg @shiggyninty @vonsack
With that many people, you could definitely get some 2 Rooms and a Boom going.
2 Restaurants and a Boom…staurant!
Totally viable.
Personal preference for Saturday!! Cause Friday is last night my dads in town but I’ll probably find a way to come anyway cause bad son or something.
I’m a maybe. I’m not sure what’s going on. I might be busy with TAFE stuff.
This weekend is pretty not great for me, but I would be up for sydney meats soon! Also thinking of doing board games at mine next saturday 🙂
I think I’m supposed to be somewhere down south this weekend. Possibly. Haven’t really been given much in the way of details.
Eyyyyyyyyyyyyyy 😉
Not that south.
I will chat with @batguy and we will work out if Saturday night is do-able.
Perhaps cheap Thai and gelato in Newtown? Happy Hour at Kuleto’s?
It doesn’t look like that many people are interested so we might put it off for another weekend.
That bar looks pretty cool though. I can’t remember the last time I went to a cocktail bar! 😛
Kuleto’s has been around forever – I haven’t been there for a few years now, but it’s very popular with university folk. Their happy hour is two-for-one cocktails. You order one and they make you two, so it’s good if you’re in a group and want to share.
Plus after you go to Kuleto’s you can head on down to Buzz cafe for delicious cakes!
Throw a post up on Monday for next weekend might work better.
Okay.
Oh, you!
Given we’re inching closer to WoD launch thought I’d put a post out and round up the remaining people who interested in jumping back in WoW. Off the top of my head I think the outstanding peeps who expressed interest are @os42 @saturday @virus ? @transientmind (DO IT, join us on barth! =P)
For those of you who are interested in casual raiding in WoD we’ll be on the oceanic server Barthilas – Horde faction so register your interest now! =P
After this weekend we’ll do a class roll call to see what we’re missing for a 10man raid group and see how we can fill in the blanks!
@piat @jocon @distantdrop @dire_wolf (could you reply or PM me on Bnet with your classes and specs of choice if I get them wrong?) Red you’re a monk heals, piat pally, jo hunter and dire you wanted to heal shammy right?
Pally, going prot main
I don’t even know what I want to be anymore. I’ll let you know when I make up my mind.
I’ll be Monk heals, but I might be willing to go brewmaster if you want a tank who has experience MTing.
I definitely don’t want to be melee DPS again, so preferably heals.
Yeah bm/survival hunter and I transferred over my brothers old druid to barth.
Only 63 but if peeps give me some levelling assistance I’ll have some more options.
I think you recall a different version of events than I. I was the guy that was trying his best to ignore it, because I really don’t have the time to put into it, and the last time I played I was bored out of my mind for nigh on 12 months. I appreciate the offer, and I’d love to keep playing with you guys, but not in WoW. 🙂
Persistence defeats resistance! =P Fine fine don’t come along! =P
Noooo, all my family and guildies are on Khaz!
I can feel your willpower waning…. You know you want to come to Barthilas.. Join us transient. joiiiinnnnn uuuuuuussssss! =p
Just use your boost on barth 😛
I already used it on Khaz. 😛
Oh ew, Barthilas is also PVP… who would do that to themselves?
Who wouldn’t? PvP servers 4 lyf
Carebears represent!
You haven’t played wow until you’ve had an hour long low level questing pvp session until one of you decides to get on your main
Khaz \o/
Same here 😛
My friends and brothers are in ‘The Elven Raid Alliance’ guild, btw. My main’s the GM, Aiun.
Aw you’re horde there, i’ve only got alliance on Khaz /o\
My mains the GM of the guild Sons of Anarchy on there.
EB finally has the PDP Smash Bros controllers in stock.
Wow. Unity is…well, not getting hammered in the reviews – it’s more getting a large “meh” across a lot of websites.
I think that may be more insulting than saying a game is bad.
Plus, microtransactions and cross platform/app bonuses?
No.
Black Flag was borderline that way but I was able to ignore it. This sounds like they try to shove it down your throat at every opportunity.
I think Shadow of Mordor has out Assassins Creed Assassins Creed. :/
Is any of that stuff required to play the game as-is? (honest question, I don’t actually know)
From what I’ve gathered, you’ll need to access two different services if you want to open all the chests, and you can purchase (upgrade?) gear using a bought currency, but you can also get that stuff through in-game, err, stuff.
It’s not required, but there are two things required (as @blaghman said below) to get “everything”:
1. You need to be signed into Uplay (obv.) but also Initiates, which is through Facebook mainly, and have a companion app on your phone to open most of the chests in the game.
2. You can pay to win – if a mission is too hard, you can fork over moneys to level up and buy awesome gear.
But a lot of reviews are saying that whilst this is optional, they remind you about it via the HUD all the damn time.
I personally don’t like this as I always aim to 100% sync my creeds (except III, eff that chase at the end) and it has literally become impossible unless I jump through three/four hoops OUTSIDE of the game.
From what little I’ve read, it sounds like they’ve gone down the Dead Space 3 route of micro-transactions. Hopefully that means that you don’t need them to finish the game.
I’m interested to see what they think of Rogue, was always more interested in that one. Shame it’s not on PS4 or XBone.
Mario Kart DLC tomorrow. This has all my hype at the moment, just because I will explode if I think about Dragon Age too much. Who’s bought it? ARE YOU AS EXCITED AS ME? What time does Nintendo usually update their eShop?
I haven’t actually bought it yet but was planning too!
I bought it! I don’t know how much I’ll actually play though 😛
And I think the eShop usually updates at midnight for game releases, so I’m assuming its the same for DLC?
But… you’re all about the Mario Kart! WHAT GIVES?
Thanks for the info, Pow. 🙂
Multiplayer is too much pressure 😛 I’ll play it single player though.
I hope us hyping up how good you are hasn’t taken your enthusiasm away. Most of it’s just a running joke. Ugh, Pow kind of stuff. Plus most of us who sucked have improved so the playing field is more level. No one seriously wants you to let us win. 😛 Everyone needs a nemesis to inspire us to better ourselves! You just happened to be that guy! 😉 I know we exaggerated your skills, too. You’re just a normal guy who got good at the game early.
It was a bit. I’m not a very competitive person so the (good-natured, I’m sure) hype got to me. The expectation to be good in a game that can be very random wasn’t good for me so I stopped.All good! Don’t feel bad 😛
I know that feeling. There was a time when I was the new Pow in this game and that pressure to live up to the reputation was tough. Play, man. Even if you lose it’ll be fun and we’ll lay off the sledging. 🙂
…sorry 😛
@dc is the new Pow though
Boo
Got it the other day, not sure on the time, but TAYKart Monday night, yes? Or even tomorrow night if people are available.
TAY Kart will be on like Donkey Kong. Not Diddy, though. Still missing in action! 🙁
Nintendo better be giving us Diddy Kong Racing U.
*Shakes fist*
I have not/am not.
Here’s hoping it’s all released on disc for you eventually, Gooky. 🙂
Hey maybe I should actually crack the game out and start playing it, if people are going to be getting back into it again 😛
Oh my god! Miraclessss
*plays Elite instead*
I knew miracles weren’t real.
I… might buy it? I need to find out how much I have in my account.
Apparently I have a blistering $7 owed to me thanks to the Deluxe WiiU thingy, so that’s certainly something.
I’m looking forward to this so much!
I’M EXCITED. I really need something to distract me from the anxious obsession of running a Kickstarter. Fast-paced unpredictable competitive multiplayer racing is relaxing, right?
I’m pretty keen, and I have a small boy at my house who is super-duper-excited… well, he was for a few weeks, asking me several times each day if the new people were in Mario Kart yet. He seems to have forgotten about it now, so I’m not going to mention it again until it’s downloaded.
Went through a speed camera in Forza Horizon 2 and checked out the leaderboard. Saw the top of the list and thought my eyes were deceiving me, had a second look, nope, they guy’s level 242. Damn, must be the only game he/she plays. I kind of envy that level of dedication.
I have a group of mates that are all unemployed and play games pretty much all day every day they always astound me with how quickly they progress through everything, half of them had platinumed the new cod in less than 48 hours. I kind of envy their spare time.
Sometimes I envy people like that, but then I remember how wretched it is being unemployed and promptly stop envying them. All the time in the world for video games gets really old for me pretty quick if I’m not working. I go crazy.
This guy gets it
So Valkyria Chronicles is installed and ready to go.
And I’m stuck at work. D:
Have you ever played it before? You’re in for a treat if not!
I haven’t! So yeah, I’m looking forward to it a lot.
Oh man, one of the greatest titles on the PS3, imo. So glad it’s getting the attention it deserves of late too. VC2 on PSP was also pretty great.
I just installed it and launched it then found out my controller wasn’t charged!
Anybody interested in a free version of insurgency on steam (3 to give away so don’t hold back)
https://www.humblebundle.com/?gift=unWkmtdEqm2BHm8c
Thank you, good sire!
Well, if we’re doing that, somebody else should grab one from me too: https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=s34xzmMRdDyp4HUZ
The whole thing is that by getting someone to redeem it on steam, the sharer gets a free game!
Thankyou kindly sire! Happy to oblige!
Much obliged! \o/
I’m disappointed but not surprised by the way Assassin’s Creed Unity has turned out. French Revolution is a period that I’ve been itching for since AC2, and I wish they’d made it back then before it got tied up in UbiWank. Regretting less and less my decision to abandon ship after AC3.
Also, said this on Twitter, but asking for $20-$100 a pop, you can’t really call them “microtransactions” can you. That’s a full on transaction.
I think Assassin’s Creed needs a good dissing, Dragon Age 2 style so it can recover with a Dragon Age 3.
It’s a cash cow franchise. It’ll sell squillions.
I hope Dragon Age slaughters it, and from what I’ve heard it deserves to. I’m still in an odd limbo though- DA on PS3, PC, or wait till I have a PS4?
If your PC is powerful enough I’d go with that, no question. It’s what I’ve played all the Dragon Age’s on. 🙂 I understand the appeal of sitting on a couch with a controller, though. And the effortlessness of getting console games to run properly over PC. Sounds like something that’ll be at its best on next gen.
I’m thinking of the co-op. Might be something that I can talk my regular co-op buddies into , though it’s a difficult sell.
EDIT: Wait, we’re talking about DA. Nevermind. Got mixed up with Jo’s AC talk below.
Interestingly, read a Polygon article about how Ubisoft’s stock price tanked after launch. Selling quillions is cool and all, but if it wipes shitloads off your stock price, you’d have to imagine someone’s getting asked some really hard, uncomfortable questions.
That’s the thing though, AC3 got a good ol’ dissing, and they followed it up with Black Flag, which was great.
And now they’ve followed that up with Unity. :/
I suspect Black Flag was a coincidence. Made by different team making different decisions in development at the same time. No conscious choice to fix the game.
Yeah apparently Black Flag had a lot of the Far Cry 3 team on it.
Yeah, totally over Ubisoft and their games.
Bit of a shame, they had some good stuff once upon a time.
Worst part is, they have good stuff, it’s just buried under piles of shitty online integration and attempts to make us rebuy the friggin game.
If they give this treatment to Splinter Cell I’ll be inconsolable.
Or Beyond Good & Evil 2! D:
Pay $50 to unlock Pey’j
MONSTER!
I feel the same way. Been wanting a French Revolution set AC for years, and really disappointed its been wasted on a microtransaction heavy, social media co-op focused AC.
Hopefully they don’t give up on France entirely and we get Assassin’s Creed: Les Miserables someday.
God… now I’m imagining Javert’s Soliloquy actually ended with him leaping off the bridge… into a haystack. You’ve ruined Les Mis for me.
😛Well, it wouldn’t have been any goofier than his death in the movie adaptation. :/
Well, Les mis was a later revolution, so there’s hope
I liked AC3 in spite of the negative reviews, so maybe ubisoft is making games just for me. This probably isn’t a viable business model long term.
I posted on Twitter, but sometimes that’s a busy place, and I’m sure there are still some of you who I don’t clog up your feed with my bad ideas, sooooooo:
MQFT? MQFT!
N?
Y?
Mu.
Idk.
The answer is always, always Y.
I know what the question is so I’m going to be evil and say
Y
Ugh Ser Knowsulus
N!!! Don’t succumb to the dark side!!! You can resist!!!
Even though I said to myself I’ll probably hold off Elite until after the 22nd since there’s going to be one more final wipe then, so not much point making any more progress… I couldn’t help myself last night.
Totally borked it up, getting myself killed twice and racking up more debt. The war zones are so freakin’ hard now, filled with Vipers and Cobras instead of Sidewinders and Federal Fighters. Takes ages to take them down in my Sidey, and so easy to get killed by them. Right when I was about to finish up though, I did a check at two stations and managed to find the ultra high-paying War Essense mission at both of them! A kind of highish-paying mission for me right now is around 20k, but these ones are from like 150-180k. And even though the missions are timed, these ones have huge times on them – 30 hours from acceptance to complete, meaning they’ll be waiting for me when I get home tonight. And better still, I just need to beat the guy once to be able to clear both of them. Incoming payday!
I so need to start playing again, but I’m just not feeling like sitting at my PC. 🙁 My PC pile of shame is horrific.
Move the PC to the TV! ‘Swhat I did last weekend.
Subwoofer shaking the room totally makes things a million times cooler.
At work the service manager has given me no work, so i have cleaned everything, now there has been nothing to do for the week. Which isnt great because i was hoping for some job to distract me from boredom and loneliness.
CAN POKEMON JUST COME OUT ALREADY TO DISTRACT ME???
I SHOULD WHINGE MORE BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY THATS BOTH A ATTRACTIVE AND HELPFUL QUALITY.
Im honestly not that bad, its just anxiety for the future, which honestly cant go that badly, im a white male with no criminal record and a education. As long as i dont do anything illegal i really cant fuck up that much.
I dunno, worse comes to worst, you end up like me.
And no man deserves that fate.
I end up a kind, funny and smart human who would do anything for his friends.
Yeah why would i want that.
Shut up.
Ya jerk.
You shut up
you good person.
*Shakes fist angrily at you*
Anything?
*zipppp*
*puts on a show juggling novelty fruit and marital aids for Rocketmusement*
Novelty fruit can be marital aids.
One time a girl in my class asked our history teacher to crituque her webpage where she had posted a profile I think she was going to start putting some of her design work or something. She had intended to list her karate training under hobbies but wrote “marital arts” instead of martial arts, a point our teacher decided to, rather inappropriately in my opinion, address in front of everyone.
KITCHEN ENCOUNTER
WORDS SPOKEN
CONVERSATION HAD
POSSIBLE PORTRAYAL AS AN ACTUAL HUMAN BEING
I don’t what even is going on.
Im not the smoothest motherclucker around man but you seem to pussyfoot around so much. YOU ARE A HANDSOME TALENTED MAN. ASK ONE OF THESE BROADS OUT.
Accidentally throws popcorn on your crotch or something
So so much. I am the cattenhoof.
But hey I am on my way to trying. I actively engaged in conversation instead of merely responding to greetings. This is a huge step 😛
Oh man I hate kitchen encounters with people I barely speak too! They say hi and errythin
I don’t even really like dubstep much, but man Knife Party’s ‘Abandon Ship’ is pushing some good buttons. Yes, I primarily listen to many varieties of metal – thrash, death, black, etc, some industrial/EBM/aggrotek – but I still enjoy me some quality rap and electronic music too. Weird.
Probably helps this is the least ‘dubsteppy’ dubstep thing I’ve heard, though.
I love knife party and pendulum, Actually i love duBstep music.
SKRILLEX 5 LYF
I forgot this was out, hell yeah
Titty-shitting christ, I’m bored.
Geelong sucks, period.
Do you kiss your mother with that mouth?
Also have you tried games, i like games.
Hawthorn is a much better team. 😛
http://www.polygon.com/2014/11/11/7193415/assassins-creed-unity-review-embargo
This was pretty interesting reading!
I think publishers and reviewers don’t trust one another unless money is a middle man, theirs also nothing stopping a journalist from over criticizing a game and bombing it for no good reason its a opinion piece after all so publishers can’t seek damages.
Two sides of a coin, naturally you going to use a confidentiality agreement for your own home team. both sides are at fault
I was never really sure on the reason for an embargo but this actually makes sense. I don’t want my game reviewers acting like those twitter/facebook people who need to post spoilers the moment they occur
Yeah, same here. I like the standardized release thing too, but not fond of publishers using it for deceptive reasons. 🙂
Ah, Windows Update. My arch-nemesis, we meet again. “Configuring Windows updates. 30% complete. Don’t turn off your computer.” Given you’ve been saying that for the last 45 minutes, I’m starting to doubt the sincerity of your spinner icon… Especially stark as I can see exactly what updates my Linux machine is downloading, applying, and cleaning up as you sit there blank-faced, the gormless idiot, calmly responding to my inquisitive glances with “still at 30%.” *sigh*
Aaand… it’s completely frozen after an hour and 45 minutes. Still saying 30%, but spinner has now stopped moving altogether. You win again, Windows Update. 🙁
That sounds like you’ve got something more fundamental going wrong than windows update to me.
Yea, I know… *sigh* I should do a full reinstall at some point. At least this update didn’t nuke the MBR like the last one did… although KB2975719 (which was responsible for said nuking, as far as I can tell) has re-enabled itself… again. I swear, if I could play most of my steam library on Linux, I’d wipe Windows in a heartbeat.
Foo Fighters new album. Thoughts, comments, feedback anyone?
I’ve listened once through and came out the otherside thinking the first track (and single) ‘Something from nothing’ was the best. However, that isn’t uncommon for me to do so with an album. Often takes me a few listens to realise I actually really like a song.
Listened to it twice through.
Good, but not great.
I’ve heard 4 of the tracks thus far, cause i’ve been watching Sonic Highways, Feast & The Famine along with Something From Nothing seem the better of the 4 to me..
It’s good and will only get better the more I listen. I like it.
I like it. Nothing that jumps out as a sing-along single, but I do like the overall feel.
@os42 @blaghman
Assassin’s Creed: Les Miserables
Holy carp, the end is so close. Undad is more than 80% funded.
Edit: Why TAY swallow my comment. Self-promotion was never frowned on before… >:(
?
!
*hides in cardboard box*
Unholy sturgeon
Damn your edit, Shane. With the added context, my comment doesn’t look nearly as good.
Sorry, man. You have my upvote anyway.
3k!
Oh yeah that thing. I keep forgetting about it by the time I’m at home.
Want me to tag you after-hours?
I’m also happy to remind you about Undad later tonight.Probably best to be safe, yeah 😛
So proud of you, Shane. (Even though I haven’t contributed… cause I’m poor. So, so poor. XD)
I feel like I’ve contributed by not actively sabotaging you, though! YAY ME!
Are you about to ask me for money? 😛
Moral support is where it’s at. And it’s appreciated.
You can contribute by tweeting about it. I’m pretty sure you’ve already done that, so tag me in a reply to your promo tweet so I can give you your competition entry. 🙂
That’s cheating! I’m okay with no entry! Thanks though! 🙂
It’s not cheating. It’s my bonus entry clause. I didn’t bend any rules for you, I’ve always said people get an entry for tweeting about it and tagging me.
Because tweeting about the project is potentially even more beneficial to @shane.
@strange, at campaign’s end, would it help for your giveaway if I compiled a list of all the TAYbies who contributed?
And the ones who didn’t… for reprisal reasons.
Yes please, but send it to me in an email, instead of posting it on here so people who couldn’t contribute don’t feel bad.
Will do!
There you go. May increase it after I get back from os
Thanks, man. Much appreciated!
Good work mate! I would get something too but I’m also poor 🙁
Perhaps I will be able to before the end of the campaign 🙂
No worries, and thanks!
stupid question about kickstarter time.
I’ve never backed anything on kickstarter, do I need to have the cash up front or is it just a pledge with money due when the campaign closes?The money won’t come out until December 15, when the campaign ends. And even then, it’ll only come out if the project is fully funded.And if it might mean ka-ching! payday, there are no stupid questions 😛
Hey. I’m really proud of you man. It’s really great to see a good person pursue their goals with such determination and persistence and FINALLY start to see some reward.
I really hope this turns out better than expected for you. You deserve good things.
Very kind of you to say, man. Thank you!
The heavens aligned yesterday and I got broadband at home. \o/ Back in the saddle with Telstra cable. Ran off to Officeworks and got myself some ethernet cables, wired everything up and then blew a ton of my transfer allowance catching up on 3 weeks of anime I’d missed. And also Valkyria Chronicles.
Great timing too, since Dragon Age is next week and today both Tales of Hearts R and Senran Kagura: Bon Appetit released on Vita. Was also finally able to update my PS4 to latest firmware.
Monday night I started Ar nosurge. Didn’t get to it last night due to all this other awesome stuff happening but K-T announced this morning that they’re issuing a patch that fixes some translation issues in the game and I might hold off playing more until that’s out.
Not sure I understand all the YA film adaptations of late. Just have such a hard time relating to the ‘only children can save the world’ idea. Probably because whatever book it was inevitably adapted from was written for children/teenagers, but it all just seems so…. hard to believe.
CHILDREN ARE THE FUTURE.
TEACH THEM WELL AND LET THEM LEAD THE WAY!
TODAY BELONGS TO ME
Because you can portray teenagers as underdogs with very little effort, and teens are the future, man, and you old people set in your ways don’t get it, and have screwed it up for the rest of us.
Given the state of American and European politics, the fact that this generation will actually earn less than the parents, and the environment is fucked, no wonder the idea that young people can change the world for the better captures the imagination.
THE FUCK OFF MY LAWN.
I DON’T GO ON LAWNS NEF I HAVE ALLERGIES
Well we adults sure as fuck can’t save the world by the looks of things. 🙁
Also teenagers are better mech pilots.
See, I love me some YA fiction (reading them is just so… carefree? I guess) but I don’t get these film adaptations. They’re just so bad.
If you’re gonna adapt what is (let’s be honest) relatively mediocre source material, put some effort in, guys.
I watched the second Percy Jackson movie a while back, and I spent the whole movie wondering if they’d added some twist to explain its mediocrity. Nope, they’d just changed a whole lot of stuff from the book (mostly for the worse), and thrown like $7 and a pack of gum to get it made.
It’s just about looking for the next Harry Potter/Twilight/Hunger Games. Paying writers to come up with original scripts is risky and expensive compared to adapting an existing series that has an established fanbase.
It’s the reason why I’m so incredibly impressed with The Lego Movie. So much love and effort got put into that, it deserves every bit of its success. It could so easily have been turned into something atrocious like the Barbie Movies. shudder
Ant let’s not mention the Bratz movie(s)…
Yeah, I’ve never understood this trope. I mean, it’s obviously wish-fulfilment power-fantasy for the target demographic, because nothing else makes any kind of sense.
If you pitted me against teenage-transient, I would stomp all over his ass six ways from Sunday. I am harder, meaner, smarter, and stronger than I ever was, and only improving. The me of my mid-thirties will probably be my peak and my most terrifying opponent of all the various ‘mes’. Future cybernetics notwithstanding. Teenage me doesn’t even get a fucking look in.
Teenage me didn’t know his arse from a hole in the ground.
http://mikatan.goodsmile.info/en/2014/11/12/mamma-mia-its-me-nendoroid-mario/
…he comes with a Boo.
And folded arms for Luigi.
Dammit I got Luigi so now I *have* to get this don’t I.
That’s how they get you, man. They release one thing and you’re like “that’s a cool thing” and then they release one that matches it and you’re like “I should get a set” and then suddenly you’ve got two hundred of the things 🙁
They were super sly with this one in that they released that Mario figure first (I forget the company or whatever), but the Luigi nendoroid first. If they’d done Mario first I probably wouldn’t have got it. And now the Luigi version of that other figure is due to be out at some point and I’ve looking at two Mario Bros sets now.
At least these ones have the Boo and Bullet Bill, so it’s kind of worth it.
I’m wondering what will be next Nintendo-wise from their Nendo range. They’ve done Mario and Luigi and Link. Peach, maybe? Or Samus, since there’s already a Figma for her…
A Yoshi one would be good. Just looking over the Smash roster for thoughts. Wario? 😛 A WW Zelda/Tetra to go with Link would be nice. Or even Ganondorf. I could see them doing a Zero Suit Samus, there’s been a few chibi versions of her in comics or whatever that worked pretty well.
Wii Fit Trainer!
WALUIGI
Might be a while though because in that update she was teasing their monthly broadcast thing they do where they preview stuff on niconico and it looks like they’re going to show off one or more of their upcoming Nendoroids from Frozen, which I predict are going to sell like crazy.
Not for me!
We’ll see how your self control is going when they make Xenoblade X Nendoroids. >:(
But they might be all ugly player made ones and no kewl characters like the crew from Xeno :'(
The boss here just e-mailed around a promo video that my friend here got roped into. Naturally gave him shit about it, but that reminded me of the TV spot I ended up on at college the other year so I dug it up for him. Fairness and all that. Then I realised it probably would have been before my time at TAY, if I’m remembering right. So why not keep the love going 😛
Save Point came in to do a thing on our college, and me and my friend were always the go-to guys that got volunteered whenever there were photos to be taken or whatever. So again, we were thrown under the bus for this one. It just so happened to be in the later stages of November though, so my appearance was… different.
The whole thing was terrible, take after take was ruined by uncontrollable laughter from all three of us and none of the little I said (and totally derped up) made it to air, so all you see is me sitting there with a death grip on my arm trying to force myself not to burst out laughing yet again.
http://blip.tv/savepoint/season-4-episode-5-6475550
Starts at ~12:00.
At one point, we got a new boss at a company I worked for a while back and it was pretty amusing times when we discovered he’d been a member of an obscure 80s hair metal band. The music video for their first single did the rounds several times.
Hilarity. Which band?
Can’t remember. Also can’t remember his name. They were obscure.
Guy I used to deal with professionally was actually a member of a seminal Australian punk band. Works in state government now
Was it Peter Garret. You deal with political type over there don’t you
No, not that high in govt
*swoon* Looks like you’re aggressively covering your crotch! 😛
Gotta watch out for people throwing popcorn at it.
Aw man, your decline into porn seems especially sad after that.
We still haven’t conclusively proven that Gooky and Mooky aren’t the same person!
Hahahahaha. Oh man, that’s wonderful.
NO IT’S NOT YOU TAKE THAT BACK
What happened to Mr. Game Programmer Taco? 🙁
He graduated?
And got a job?
Making games?
Whoa really? 😛
I thought you were in and out of different schools/courses and then unemployed and then at ABC doing… something?
In the one course from 2012-13 then graduated. Then did nothing for the first half of this year before landing the ABC thing. Where I’m making games 😛
(…and friends?)
Oh kewl kewl
What types of games?
Is this ABC, ABC or another ABC?
That’s the one.
Brain training games, for old people 😛
It’s mainly just scripting, I haven’t done any “real” programming since December. But hey, money.
For you Rogue-Lite lovers Rogue Legacy is on Steam for $2.99 on sale until November 14th!
So Durante (the guy who fixed Dark Souls among other things) says that Valkyria Chronicles got a really good PC port. Sounds like it’s nicely optimized, will run okay even on integrated graphics.
The screenshots he took there are pretty nice. Rendered at 4k then downsampled to 1080p. Such a pretty game.
I’d love it if VC2 gets a PC release in the future. Maybe, just maybe, a localisation of VC3 for PC/Vita too? This release seems to be pretty popular, so… please SEGA 😛
I’d also really like to see more games use the Canvas engine now that it’s on PC. It looks fantastic!
I finally gave it a go today on PC. It certainly does look pretty. The game’s not half bad too!
It’s so good.
My favourite level is the one in the desert town with the train cannon over it. Not the first go through but subsequent ones, you can clear it in like 3 turns once you nail the strategy and you feel ultra badass doing it.
Today has been a super interesting day:
– had a nightmare that the stitching on my teddy bear started to come undone (it was traumatising)
– woke up with 20 minutes to get to my exam
– Got caught screaming along to “For Reasons Unknown” by the person standing basically next to my car
– Got a callback for a job I literally applied for last night, who’s interview is on my exact last day with my current work
– Formally accepted my new degree
I’ve been so all over the place that I literally only just remembered / found time to brush my teeth :3
WOOOO! Hope the interview treats you well!
Nice to see things are looking up, are you going to ditch your last day to go to the interview? If so good luck!
I hope your teddy is ok, nightmares suck, I’ve been having them a lot lately and I don’t know why (one was actually almost like reliving a bad experience from my past that I hadn’t thought about for years, weird).
Thanks!
Hahaha, I freaked out and desperately searched my teddy for tears and loose threads right after that nightmare!
Nightmares are the worst!
It seems like a stupid one, but my teddy means a lot to me :3
And I don’t think I’m working on my last formal day at my current job, it’s just the exact date from the two weeks notice I gave 🙂
If I was working, of course I would ditch, haha! 😀
excellent, best of luck with the interview, I hope it’s something you want to do 🙂
It’s in fashion!
I’m sure that’s all I need to say ;D
Just turn up, they’ll take one look at you and go “Fuck yes, when can you start? No. Screw that. You start now. We’ll find you a desk.”
He’s on trend this season!
Hey, TAY!
Are we going to
bedo Secret SanTAY again this year?EDIT: Do, not be. How can you even BE a Secret SanTAY?
Yes, that’s a good idea!
I need to work out how to top my last two entries…
Edit: Entries? It’s not a competition, Blaghs, even if you would(n’t) be winning.
Gifts. Gifts is the word I was looking for.
Sure!
Not sure on how I would top last years gift but oh well
Thanks for offering to organise it Pow
I don’t mind organising it if nobody else wants to.
I’d be up for it again but not organizing.
EDIT: Last year I also basically bombed everyone on my Steam friends list with gifts on their wishlist during the sale. May do that again.
Sure. Alas the postal gremlins ate my present last year, but my recipient got Theirs so I was happy
Yeah, I didn’t receive anything last year either 😛 Hopefully everyone’s luck is better this year!
That sounds fun.
Seems I’ve gotta think of something more secure than a lock box after @Thistler managed to pick his way in early last year.
I’m keen.
I’m happy to organise it again if people don’t think I screwed up too badly last time.
Or if @Powalen wants to that’s good too.
If you really want to, you can! I just put my name up in case nobody else wanted to!
Yeah, I don’t mind doing it. Gives me something to do besides mopeyly refreshing the same three websites.
Fine by me!
Keen. And I’m not even getting my family Christmas presents this year.
YES!
Yup!
So my new Telstra broadband bundles a home phone because for some reason it was cheaper to have a phone bundled than not to. Tossing up whether to connect a handset or not. Leaning toward not.
We went with not. There really is no point.
Yeah, thinking the same thing.
My mobile’s been off contract and with Droptus for ages. My recent customer service experience with Telstra has been so much more positive (I know, seems very odd) that I’m actually considering seeing if I can recontract, grab a new phone and get a discount from them.
Yeah, I bundled a phone line here as well and never plugged one in since it was cheaper.
You also get cheap movie tickets now with your account too!
Yeah, that’s sweet. Don’t use it as much as I should
I bought a ten dollar one solely for when the line fucks up and needs troubleshooting
But there’s so many options!
Ed: derp
And more!
@negativezero So have I got this right – there’s no collector’s edition for Tales of Hearts R, but the Day One edition comes with an entry into a draw to win the Japanese Collector’s Edition?!?
Well, I guess it’s a fan service of sorts rather than just milking more money from the market, but still. That’s a new one to me.
Getting Hearts R at launch? I decided to wait because it’s been such a TALES OVERLOAD recently 🙁
Xillia 2 is so badddd 🙁
I have yet to play the first xillia. I’m well behind.
I guess they know most people are just buying digital?
@blaghman
D:
😀
D:
Yeah, that’s what you get, nearly-as-much-of-a-jerk-as-Blaghs-ius.
I’m the worst, but you DaMann
I’m off to a TAFE Information Session now. This will be the first time I have travelled long distance by public transport alone in a very long time. Wish me luck.
Good luck little Phlanisbro! 🙂
That is a fantastic nickname and I want to steal it for occasional use.
The dude on the phone sounded so out of it when I booked my cab, now I’m worried it won’t turn up or something :/
“Hmnnghhgngfhgmfnhmhrrr.. I’m…. Chhris….”
Cab dispatchers have to poop too!
He was probably fighting a zombie
Woah! @cookingmama was just on ABC’s 7:30 in her Unikitty costume.
Aw I was too busy looking for me that I didn’t notice.
/ego
😛
I was! 😀
OMG god you’re famous now
🙁
Does that mean you are too good for us now and never going to post just like super famous @Harli
#obligatoryhashtag
~____~
The PAX footage is all in the last 10 minutes, as part of a GG report.
http://iview.abc.net.au/programs/7-30/NC1405H185S00
So cool, unfortunate that it had to be shown in the context of GG. :'(
Yeah 😛
OH THAT ONE
I saw but had no idea that’s what I was looking at 😛
It’s at 28:16-28:21 if you specifically want to see the UniKitty cosplay!
So cool!!
Powalen sucks at Mario Kart! He’s not good! HE WAS NEVER GOOD!
Awkward… I didn’t know he was on this page already 😛
I’m on every page
Everywhere you go, you always take Powalen with you!
How did I miss half the word?
Senran Kagura: Bon Appetit is… uh… something, I guess.
You play a cooking rhythm battle to compete against another ninja girl and if your cuisine reigns supreme the taster does a crazy reaction straight out of Yakitate Japan and the power of your amazing cooking will literally blow the other girl’s clothes off. Perfect victory causes them to be additionally slathered in chocolate and whipped cream.
I’m not sure how I feel about this. The music’s actually pretty good but the service might be a bit much for me.
Is that the one that looks like iron chef, right down to the same intro?
With the platforming collect the food sections?
No. I don’t think so.
The opening is one of the best animated opening sequences ever but that’s not what the game is. It’s very iron chef inspired, but the gameplay is a rhythm game, a fair bit like the Miku Hatsune games except the buttons come in on lines rather than all over the place so it’s a bit easier. Also the music is often way better than the Miku stuff for the purpose of being in a rhythm game, I had less issues of ‘I can’t tell what part of the tune I’m hitting these buttons on’.
Is QLD more hot or humid?
I hope I don’t melt ;_;
Both!
Sent out emails for Secret SanTAY to everyone that participated last year. If you didn’t last year but want to this year, are new and would like to, or have changed your email, send me an email to (binoter at hotmail).
If you haven’t got one harass me until you do.
Send your address in it to save me chasing them up last minute again.
Any suggestions for rules or whatnot welcome.
Anyone who spends over the limit must receive some extravagant and embarrassing super-present in return.
Good guy Freezey. You’re awesome! I MISSED YOU!
Is there still a spending limit? It was $20 last year I think.
I WOULD LIKE TO DO THIS.
Then email me!
NO YOU EMAIL ME!
Sweet! More penis hats!
I’d do it but I have no idea what I’d buy for whoever I get
I’m just gonna leave this here.
@gooky, it’s time for your tagging. Make yourself comfortable, we’re going to be here a while.
For my moral support who wouldn’t be getting notifications via email, here are all the updates I’ve posted: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shanewsmith/undad-comic-miniseries-issues-1-and-2/posts (cc @dc)
I keep posting it on facebook but I don’t think many of them have actually ever read a book.
It still helps! Kickstarter has a metric for determining popularity that includes the number of shares, likes and comments on Facebook as one of its facets.
So, thank you for that! 🙂
On the plus side, it does have lots of pictures so there is hope
Oh, great. I just got two more backers, and now the image is out of date. GEEZ >:(
Those inconsiderate jerks!
I’ve been reading the updates and refreshing every day! Watching that tally makes me happy! 🙂
@mrtaco
Oh, right. Thanks. *embarrassed!*
@redartifice (because it’s too long to tweet)
Today I took the rather bold step of messaging a select group of around 50 Facebook friends and asked them to contribute to the campaign. I got the idea when one of the We-Promote-Your-Campaign-For-Insane-Fees spam emails said that probably only around 4% of my Facebook friends even knew I had a Kickstarter running.
(Yes, it was a form letter making that ‘guestimate’, but I’ve had some experience with the limited reach of FB posts in the past, so at least that much of it smacked of authenticity)
There’s actually a We-Promote-Your-Campaign-For-Insane-Fees whose entire approach is just to PM your friends list (Facebook) and followers list (Twitter) using a simple mail merge technique. Their prices were quite reasonable, but in the end I decided to do it myself. It would take a little longer, but I could personalise the messages a little, which is never a bad idea.
It’s a lot bolder than I normally am, and I was very (very, very) anxious about approaching people like that, basically with my hand out (to the point where I could only handle sending out a half dozen at a time), but the response, as you can see, was very positive, and I think I’ve even reconnected with a couple of old friends in the process.
Glad it’s paying off man, hope you romp it home
Although this plan was something I’d intended for some time to put into action today, a friend linked me to this video this morning, and it helped a lot with the mindset.
Ooooh, good Ted talk. 🙂
Wasn’t it? And the timing… impeccable. It was exactly what I needed to hear, right when I needed to hear it.
Hah, I was actually just thinking about Amanda Palmer’s “The Art of Asking” while reading the above post, She’s either recently released or plans to soon release a book on the matter. I assumed it was already out but I follow Neil Gaiman on tumblr and he’s been reblogging her various “alternate” covers (mostly nude pictures of her with the title painted on her body) so I don’t know if that means it’s in print yet or what. Maybe I should actually check.
A friend of mine I’ve known for about 15 years recently had a Kickstarter for a book and I only saw mention of it because two other mutual friends backed it and reposted it. Her posts about it went completely under my radar!
It’s really not easy to promote my social media without basically spamming people but unless you’re spamming so much shit that people block you I think we’ve come to accept it as part and parcel of the social media experience.
Just a question but are you making standard wall posts trackign progress and the like?
So basically what you post in TAY, things like the 50% milestone.
While it will not count towards the popularity if you don’t link it it could get people to notice that you are doing one
I’m posting pretty regularly on my social medias. Several times per day on Twitter, and at least once on Facebook. It’s just the lousy “Suggested Posts” that Facebook prefers that’s doing me out of eyeballs :\
Haha I totally remembered earlier and then I forgot. And now it’s bedtime.
I’ll write myself a note here so I see it tomorrow night 😛
@mrtaco, this is here waiting for you. \o/
ok can anyone explain how I tag other users in comments? I seem to be failing.
use the @ part next to their name. I’m a terrible exmaple, so, see Gooky, in the post above? If you tag @gooky it won’t work because it’s his display name and not his user name. His username is next to it and it says @mrtaco
Does that explain it?
Hi Gooky!
Good morning!
Also of note, if you edit in a tag and it’s not part of the original comment, that person won’t get a notification.
Edit: case in point, @mrtaco will have one notification from @scree – but neither of them will have a notification for this comment
A fact many people forget!
Useful if you want to appear to invite someone but now have them turn up!
I wonder why I don’t get any notifications…
ahhh ok one pointed jibe on GG and now my comments must be moderated forever…
I don’t think it’s ‘forever’ – maybe it’s just ‘the next x comments’ or a number of days…
Not that I know anything about how the system actually looks under the hood. Just unsubstantiated guesses here.
I think if you cop a lot of downvotes in a short period you get to moderation hell (@trjn experimented with it awhile back and I recall he was disappointed with the results) but it should sort itself out after awhile.
I don’t think it’s a permanent effect or some of us would be practically immune to moderation from all the upvotes we give each other.
I didn’t experiment. Two comments of my got some downvotes and suddenly I was in comment limbo.
It’s a weird system but my assumption is that users have to be approved to get their comments posted immediately. Too many downvotes on a comment and you lose that, meaning that you have to go through the audition process again. Not sure what the audition process is (manual approval by staff, enough comments/upvotes across the sites) so that’s where it gets tricky.
Oh, I thought there was slightly more to it than that.
I also pestered Junglist, who was covering for Mark at the time.
Oh boy… I’m tired.
I’m off to bed.
The TAFE Information Session went well. The coursework outlined for next year fed my ego when I realised I already had knowledge of a third of the course content. During the Q*A section, I asked the important questions and got some very useful information out of it.
Too bad I’ve already forgotten. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
AAAARRRRRRGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!
http://www.vooks.net/super-smash-bros-for-wii-u-smashing-pre-order-numbers-outpacing-mario-kart-8/
I best get on that, lest I miss out.
Also, Amiibo support in third party games, hmmmm, the plot thickens.
http://www.vooks.net/amiibo-support-for-third-party-3ds-title-ace-combat-assault-horizon-legacy-plus/
Weren’t you trying to cut back on your game spending?
Yeah, I was, but man it’s hard. Also there were a few games that were must haves for me, Ass Creed, Far Cry 4, Dragon Age: Inquisition and Smash Bros.
Wanted to get Halo: MCC, Lego Batman 3, Little Big Planet 3, The Crew, all the new Skylanders and Disney Infinity figures, and I’m sure there’s more that I’ve crossed off my list to try and save some money
Mario Kart 8 DLC not live yet :'(
Saw an article on Vooks that mario kart is going down for maintenance and won’t be up until 8pm tonight, when presumably the DLC will also be available.
Last night as I was driving home from work, I saw a fox. But this fox was my spirit animal. Why? It was just eating huge slices of pizza. I stopped and looked. And then our eyes connected. And in that moment, I realised that we were So Raven.
So most of my Skyrim playthrough at the moment has been Shield and Sparks, zapping people while bashing them with my shield, I’m barely using my weapon cuz they’re near death by the time they reach me. Then there’s the killcam where I’m muttering to myself “unlimited power!” 😛
I’m trying to be a jack of all trades so randomly switching between weapons. Maybe I should just focus on two handed or destruction for now until it’s fully leveled and then start on another skill tree
I just use whatever weapon does the most damage at the moment and it’s my icy axe I got from my first dungeon quest. The bloody spider was a bigger challenge than the undead boss that shouted at me a lot. But yeah I start whittling them down with magic first then go in for choppy choppy. My guy is a high elf so I get increased magicka regen right off the bat
Edit: In terms of perks I’m focusing on Shield and Destruction/Restoration magic btw, so my spells cost less and my shield blocks more damage
I’ve just picked up a dwarven battleaxe and will enchant it when I have a decent enough enchanting level. I need to stop casting my flame atronarch though. It uses up all my magica D:
That’s what mana pots are for
No, they’re not for using, they’re meant to be an alternate form of currency!
I was playing path of exile and think the way they do it is pretty cool.
You just have the flasks and they refill as you kill. So you only ever have the 5 flasks that you enchant and upgrade. You never have to worry about filling your inventory with pots
2-hand/heavy armor + enchanting is really powerful and fun.
Might do that for my “badguy” run 😛
Particularly good as an Orc.
The answer to everything becomes: “Gronuk Smash!”
And if the situation/quest does not call for smashing? Well it does now.
Yep, gotta do that for my Imperial sided run xD
For some reason I’m running around with light armour. I’m gonna build my smithing up until I can do glass armour as the thought of running around a frozen subcontinent while covered in glass amuses me
http://blogs.sega.com/2014/11/12/valkyria-chronicles-smashes-all-expectations-to-reach-number-one-on-steam/
“blew all forecasts and predictions out of the water.”
“forced its way to the top of the Steam download charts, beating a host of brand new games to reach number one.”
Wow, how about that? Turns out people actually do want your non-shitty games, Sega.
More Yakooza pls
HotD Overkill Director’s Cut HD for Wii U!
THIS.
Would be rad if they ported the newer ones to PC.
It’s out on steam now? I gotta get in on that.
It’s a pretty darn smooth port. Plus there’s the whole cel-shaded art style that is just gorgeous to look at.
Yeah, it’s one of those games that’s going to age incredibly well because of the art, like Wind Waker or Okami.
I found an upside to the G20. With tomorrow being the public holiday it seems everyone’s taken today off as well. I get a seat on the train to work 😀
Still annoyed I’m about 50 meters out of the public holiday zone. *cries*
We’re literally the next street up from the exclusion zone on coro drive but we’re getting it off 😛
Yeah, we’re in this perfect wedge that doesn’t get it, people in every direction around us are getting it. Pretty sure my bosses greased a few palms to keep us open, jerks.
If you hate your job, just go in and do it really half assed…oh wait, that’s the American way. I’m pretty sure it can be applied here too 😀
I did like my job but then I got a new boss that is the worst co worker I’ve ever had, so I’ve slowly come to hate it here, I fully intend on half assing it tomorrow,
Yeah! I got a primo seat this morning, was well pleased.
I love your language.
Haha, aww shucks 🙂
The other upside to G20 is that there’s been a lot of sexy police people out and about to look at. 😛
#OhStrange
Oh man that reminds me of a friend who had an absolutely *ridiculous* thing for policemen. Like, if we were hanging out and we walked past a couple then I’d suddenly end up with this death grip on my arm. Every single time.
Why did I never meet any of them when I was in the police?
Did you ever see that episode of How I Met Your Mother with Will Forte as the ex-cop?
No. But Life had an episode called “Badge Bunnies” which was fantastic.
Not the ones that have been checking my train home this week 😛
Everybody’s objectifying the popo!
I even saw some camo police! *swoon* 😛
Then they are doing it wrong!
Edit: Whoo!!! just in front!
Their camouflage couldn’t have been that good then 😛
dammit @gorzilla
Yeah, was walking behind a couple plain-clothes detectives talking to their uniform buddies on their way to some Gabba-centric thing and… yeah. Thank god attempting-to-casually-admire-but-not-get-seen-doing-it isn’t illegal yet.
I’ve rocked up to where I work and my floor usually has about 20-30 people on it. Today there’s just me and one other guy.
Time to whip out the 3DS. 😀
So last night on the news there was something about a “well dressed thief”, saying how he was wearing a blue suit jacket and balaclava, and spoke with a deep voice and English accent. I looked over to the TV and saw the tiniest sliver of CCTV footage and thought “wait a second, isn’t that…” and jumped on the googles to find this article with more screens: http://www.nbnnews.com.au/index.php/2014/11/12/police-on-the-hunt-for-well-dressed-thief/
…he’s dressed as the TF2 spy isn’t he?
The knife isn’t quite right and I don’t see a cigarette
0/10
Holy shit, he is. Has to be.
He needs a photocopy of a face of someone who works there and then tape it to his mask. Would’ve got away unnoticed if he’d done that
Just looks like a well-dressed thief to me!
He does look rather dapper. Maybe he had a date right before, or after, the crime.
But the Blue Spy is French…
Some people are really bad at accents.
Oh pokemon…
I walked up to random girl in Poke center
“I can’t share my love with you, but I can share this TM. Here!”
Gorzilla obtained TM32 Double team!
O_o’
Swimmer on the beach in XY: “If I’m wearing a bikini, where do I keep my pokeballs? Women’s secret!”
What about the Ferris wheel bit with the kindergarden teacher? I was freaked out when I first saw that bit.
EDIT: Trainer beats Kindergarden teacher in Pokemon battle.
They both ride ferris wheel together
Girl starts saying things like “oh it’s so hot here” “I’m getting all sweaty”.
Children’s game, indeed!
I’ve always wondered if these sort of things are in the Japanese text or if it’s just the localisation team having fun 😛
That couple with the Onyx (Steelix?) and Cloyster…
http://i.imgur.com/FcM5OzE.jpg
That fight would be worse if Onix only used harden and water gun whilst Cloyster used splash
All I got out of that was “girl, poke, sharing your love, and double-team”
#in-your-endo
The man in a trench coat, behind a dumpster, that gives you the Flash TM in B2/W2 (?)
that pun doesn’t work in Japanese, the words for Flash (of Light) and Flash (to expose oneself) are completely different.
I wonder if he is still behind the dumpster in the Japanese version and they put him there just for the english pun. Or maybe they made a different pun on the Japanese version.
Good morning petals,
Out sick yesterday – did I miss anything good? I also really, really wanted to watch a particular blu-ray, but since we moved, they’ve just been haphazardly placed on a shelf in the library room, and I was so exhausted and weak and tired that I nearly cried because I couldn’t find it, and then I feel asleep for awhile on top of a pile of movies, hahaha.
But then I found the movie and tonight I am going to watch Air Force One.
Don’t you judge me.
Secret SanTAY!
Get off my plane!
Wait, the movie or you’re going to the airport to see if you can see Obama landing and catching the airtrain?
Edit, dunno if he’s already landed or not 😛
Hahah, I think even the President would balk at the price of the AirTrain!
Doesn’t have to. He’s landing at Amberley and gets to drive in from there. So at least Obama gets to see the heartland that is Darra and Ipswich.
“For a security guard, he had an awful lot of information, don’t you think?”
You win a LOT of points for that one.
Best reference material ever.
Hahah, I was hoping someone would recognise it.
Watching that movie is one of my favourite memories of the 90s. Used to get fall-over drunk at a mate’s place and watch it until rage came on.
I like Jerry Goldsmith’s score for that movie. Very West Wing.
Haven’t done one of these for a while, any requests?
It’s Raining Men
NEW TAYLOR SWIFT <3
(Or, Graceland by Paul Simon)
Graceland, Graceland; Memphis, Tennessee; I’m goin’ to Graceland
God i love that song and film clip.
No TAYlist today, due to major computer failure (like 90% of all of the music is unavailable), Apologies to all for the radio being a butt munch
EDIT: Shit fuck balls, reply fail.
Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car.
Heaven is a place on Earth.
Nice choice
Beethoven’s 9th
Jolene – Dolly Parton
Super Mario Land – The Ambassadors Of Funk Feat. MC Mario
Money – pink Floyd
One night in heaven – M People
Smile Like You Mean It – the Killers
SCRATCH AIRFORCE ONE – NEW PLANS!
Costume Quest 2 is finally out for PS4!!!! Yayyyyy! HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
Bash all the garbage cans and eat the candy that falls out
So, can anyone confirm if the Zelda Mario Kart pack is coming today?
After maintenance tonight at 8pm.
Sweet! Hanging out for that Blue Falcon Kart.
YEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!
@markserrels @vook
So my friend (Bigsy for those who remember him from PAX) came over last night and we started talking about names for people. The best names and the worst ones. I settled on Anna for my favourite name.
So whats your favourite name/what would you name your kid?
Not telling in the off chance I have kids and you folks steal the name. *glares suspiciously at everyone, especially @freya*
You can’t call your kid Grim Fandango man, Tim is fine though. 😛
Call them Tim Tim, and it can be double fine
*dives out window*
That was actually better than the whole of this week’s Page Six put together….
You made me spit out my Twix in a snort, you sonovabitch.
Glottis?
I hate the name Tim. Always have. Was the alternate name my parents were gonna call me. Glad they went with Dan.
My alternate name was Walter…
Walter Wheeler…
My parents must have been on crack.
Walt is cool. In a way. Better than Tim, atleast. (SORRY TO ALL THE TAYBIES NAMED TIM! I DON’T HATE YOU AS A PERSON, JUST YOUR HORRIBLE NAME. :P) Except in some parallel universe there’s two TAYbies called Tim and Walt bitching about Dans and Stewarts.
I’m not even a big fan of the name Stewart, haha!
It’s a weird name :\
Stewie is a cool abbreviation. I like it.
Then whenever someone asked his name he could say, “there are some who call me… Tim” 😛
I’d name my kid Rockets.
I was thinking of Martin, or Marty if we had a boy after a footy mate who passed away. Didn’t even pick up how terrible of a name it was when used with my last name (Bryant) until the missus pointed it out.
That’d put you on someone’s watch list.
Piper or Lilah.
If we had a Boy we were going with Link (Lincoln shortened if anyone asked) but alas, not to be.
Lincoln is a cool name. I insist you have another kid!
I had a friend who had convinced his wife to do the Link thing. He ended up having a girl though, totally can’t remember what name they gave her.
Come to think of it he was also from up your way, Gold Coast iirc…
Best friend. 😛
He was. Let me crash at his place for the night so I could get my flight the next day (he was right around the corner from the airport), gave me a bit of a tour around the place, and gave me a ride in his pride-and-joy Datsun too. That was fun.
I have a mate who names one kid Cody Vincent , Cody from Street Fighter, Vincent from FF7 and named the second one Auron (from FFX), he also got married with the FFX/2 OST playing. He’s a funny guy.
Her maiden name is Lockheart
Also, when I was pregnant with my daughter I wanted to call her Irvine if she was a boy. Everyone hated it and were very visibly relieved when she turned out to be a girl. 😛
If I remember correctly your son has the best damn middle name.
Is it Magnus? Otherwise it might be the 2nd best middle name.
Frank “Grimey” Grimes
If I had a daughter, I would totally go the Disney naming route. Isabel(le), decent, if a little boring name, gives me a good chance to shorten it to Belle and make Beauty and the Beast references.
Aurora, wanky name, sounds a little new-ageish, and suffers from being damn hard to practically shorten, also only works for someone if they’re either really pretty, or with their head in the clouds 24/7, yet even with all that I’d still consider it.
Anna also works, though it’d probably end up with the English pronunciation rather than Ah-na.
Most Disney Princess names after that aren’t really my style though, or seem a little too referential/specific (imagine if I had a child and called them Mulan, that would just be disastrous).
Boys names? Harder. Probably something boring. End up with an Apostle name, because Peter, Matthew, Simon, Andrew, James, John, Philip and so forth are really safe. But not Judas, obviously.
If I have a daughter, her name will be Ellie. If I have a son, his name will be Henry* or Hunter.
(*Kinda awkward cause Henry is my dog’s name, but I don’t care. I love that name. And Henry is the best dog.)
I also really like Haddie as a girl’s name.
Henry the 2nd! The best people are named after the dog! INDIANA JONES!
That’s my backup plan if people ask! Haha. Plus the names Henry and Ellie both have strong fictional ties for me, so it’s perfect.
I chose a nice unisex name so I don’t have to worry if it’s a boy or a girl. My kid would most likely be named “Oh-shit-what-do-I-do-with-this-thing-someone-help-me”
They would spend a lot of their life filling out the name section on paperwork.
Totally not something I’ve really thought about ever. And I don’t think I really have any names that I particularly like at all or anything. Closest I can think of would be whether to name my son after my grandfather, though I think my cousin has been thinking about doing that too. So I guess it’s a race to see who gets it first? 😛 But even then it’s whether to go with Sam, which he went by, or his actual name of Salvatore.
Are you a wog gooky?
i have 4 cousins named salvatore.
You couldn’t tell?
Soooooooooo wog (don’t let the “gook” part fool you).
My brother’s best friends growing up were Spiro and Thimio, and for the longest time I thought Dimitri was the coolest name.
I am just Lucas. Totally unwog in name 😛
Come to think of it my parents didn’t even have any wog names on the cards at all when trying to pick one for me. The closest would have been Sebastian.
Tyler
All boys names are stupid. All of them.
That said if we had I boy I really wanted them to have the middle name of Magnus. I think it is the perfect middle name. You can really put the emphasis on it and considering the middle name is only used for when they are in trouble that is the most important part.
For a girl I really like Tali or Natalia. Names are hard
Tali vas Normandy!
I actually thought the other day it’s actually a nice sounding name loll
Bun and I really like the name Klaus but it doesn’t really work with either of our surnames. So we gave it to Bun’s sister because she has a better surname now.
So I started playing Valkyria Chronicles last night. Good game although I’m yet to get anything higher than a B rank because I’m playing a bit recklessly and copping a few too many hits.
Also my first thought when I started playing: “Go go Belgian rangers.” 😛
I wouldn’t worry too much about getting high ranks on your first playthrough! Just enjoy it the way you want to play.
(The mission ranking is heavily influenced by number of turns used, so it kinda saps some of the fun away when you find out how to exploit it :P)
I played it on Plyastation and I thought getting high score required recklessness?
Form memory it was all about doing the level as quick as possible. Or are you loosing people? You have to keep your people alive!
From memory the key was having people that like each other fight next to each other so they give supporting fire.
Yeah two people went down in the last mission I played but thankfully I was able to get a medic to them in time. I’m still trying to figure out the whole liking people mechanic but it seems to be going alright so far. I’m only up to the first major engagement after the tutorial so I should be able to get a firmer grasp on things soonish.
Yeah, don’t worry about the liking people mechanic too much, especially if you are only a few levels in as you won’t have a roster to choose from yet anyway. Just enjoy the story and try to keep your people alive as much as possible as it lets you go back and play the levels again for score attack whenever you want.
Getting max score is not something easy your first go on a level as you pretty much have to take the optimum route and without knowing where everything is it’s generally impossible.
The first level I got an A \o/
Every other level I have got a B or C
I got a D rank on the “escape from tank” mission in the prologue. Turns out being cautious and trying not to get shot at by the tank gets you less points. :S
B rank is really good for first time through. A ranks often mean clearing the map in 1-2 turns which means multiple playthroughs if you want to figure out the way to do it yourself. And it often will involve a fair bit of save scumming too. Usually it involves moving scouts in and taking over the enemy HQ quickly.
Scouts are fucking deadly by the mid game. Remember enemies can’t see you if you’re not in their line of sight. Point blank headshots from behind work wonders. Also the scout’s grenade is usually able to kill most dudes first go unless they’re crouched in cover, and if they are in cover then the explosion will often break them out of cover so you can finish them quickly.
I was just thinking (scary, I know) Do controllers feel weird to use for left handers? I know (being a righty) if it was the other way round (buttons on the left) it would feel wrong, and I don’t know if I’d be able to play.
So, are there any lefties here? Would you prefer it if the buttons on a controller were on the left side? Did you find it hard getting used to a controller when you first started playing games?
Ask sinister @gutsoup
I guess because they’ve always catered to right handers I’ve always just adapted, I play like a right hand player, my sister though often messes with button configuration and complains that they should have more lefty options.
Interesting, both you and your sister are lefties, only one in my family. Do you think you’d be able to play games just as easily with a lefty controller?
Would be interesting to see how many lefties in the world would actually want a left-handed controller.
I think I’d probably find it weird because I’m so used to right hand controls, I dunno I’d have to try.
P.S. Me, my sister, Mum & dad are all lefties and a lot of our other relatives are too.
Sinister
I’ve been forced into practised ambidexterity by decades of gaming with only right handed (well, lets be honest, freak) peripherals available so it’s basically normal to me now.
Madcatz made a controller where the sticks & dpad were on removable modules you could place anywhere you wanted which looked pretty sweet but it didn’t include the buttons, if it did you could have actually made a truly reversed controller for the experiment.
As a left-hander, I haven’t noticed.
But I’m probably not the best barometer of left-handedness feeling, given that I only really write with my left. I prefer to do sports-related things with my right.
Why Transientmind, why!?!
You were supposed to be the perfect man!!! :’O
I don’t want to believe that you’re a… you’re a…
LEFTIE!
Actually, I can do either. I just have preferences.
Also: http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2014/11/what-are-the-benefits-of-being-left-handed/comment-page-1/#comment-1875775
Lefties are superior beings.
I’m a eighties but use knife & fork in the other hands
Yes, I was born in the 80s, thanks , autocorrect. But I was talking about my hands, not my age.
Ditto.
I find it incredibly strange that even though I am right-handed it feels more natural to control a stick with my left thumb. And utterly strange and uncomfortable to do so with the right.
I mean SURELY it should be the other way around.
Repost reminder, going to spam everyone until Monday night when I do the match draw.
Sent out emails for Secret SanTAY to everyone that participated last year. If you didn’t last year but want to this year, are new and would like to, or have changed your email, send me an email to (binoter at hotmail).
If you haven’t got one harass me until you do.
Send your address in it to save me chasing them up last minute again.
Any suggestions for rules or whatnot welcome. ($20 limit seems to be the rule, although I don’t think anyone is going to shoot you if you go a little over)
Guess I’ll hop on.
My secret strategy is to go well over budget in the name of making a bad joke, but make it looks like I went well under. >.>
Nah, I’m too lazy for that, I haven’t even sent @benny Alien: Isolation yet (sorry man), or my Dad his birthday present (which was last week), or even his Father’s Day present for that matter (it’s still sitting here).
If I do anything I’ll just gift a bunch of games to TAYbies on Steam during the sale.
I never got one 3
But you have my number & I presume email hit me up where ever you feel is fair.
As I’ll be os, might bow out for this year. Enjoy though
mememememe I think you have my e-mail from the 40k threads? Let me know if you dont i’ll send you an e-mail!
Send me one anyway. Different email accounts and I’m using the emails to create a group.
@Virus__ means you’ll have to send me one.
I don’t have your email for some odd reason all I remember is it might be binoter at hotmail?
Yes.
Done!
I am a big bucket of bored
I wish I had time to be bored.
Outside of work I’m super busy.
inside, not so much.
Wish I could use this time for something productive.
I should write, looks like I’m working.
That’s what I do! Plus, I downloaded Unity with the vague notion of teaching myself how to program :/
I can’t download anything. 🙁
Government computer is locked down.
Ohhh yeah. I used to work for local government, right when MySpace started to pick up, so I could get to it before they cottoned on to me, hahah. Boo. Round of Solitaire, then?
I think I can access social websites, because we have people doing marketing etc. But downloads have to come through Citrix I think.
Bloody Government!
*shakes fist*
Talk to your buddies on TAY!
What a good idea…
Hi Jim-Jam!
Jimmy-Jammies?
Jimpster?
The artist formerly known as Jim?
How you’ doin’?
Not bad, you?
I’m alright Jimu.
I’m alright.
🙂
Good to hear, good to hear.
Oh crap I still gotta write that 21st speech. Only 9 or 10 days left!
…should double check on that.
What were the first 20?
Utter garbage.
Okay. 1 more assignment and 1 exam to get through. I can do this. Then it’s the end of my semester. Just over a week to go.
I just noticed Final Fantasy XIII-2 is coming to steam. I was surprised to see it was a few dollars more then XIII which took me off guard as from what I’d seen XIII was reviewed harshly for being an exceedingly lazy port with out so much as resolution options.
Then I noticed this bit in the blurb:
“Now Enhanced for Windows PC
Including a range of the downloadable content from the original console, plus the choice for either English or Japanese voiceovers, 60 frames-per-second graphics and customizeable rendering resolution (720p, 1080p, and more).”
Did they ever add options to XIII? or is that how they are justifying the slightly higher price?
They’re adding those options to XIII in a patch at some point, supposedly.
Nope, 2 was a fair bit better than 13
They’re going to patch the options in, but in the mean time you can use Durante’s tools to unlock all sorts of stuff. Like rendering at 4k and downsampling to 1080p.
EDIT: Also I think the higher price is that it’s a newer game and it wasn’t shit.
I never got around to finishing 2 as I heard you had to buy the ending via DLC. When people got to buy the ending I then heard you had to buy the ending in the next game. Does this version come with an ending?
AFAIK (I never played 2 as I don’t want to move to it without finishing XIII and every time I go at that I get bored) it wasn’t that the ending was DLC, it was that the game had a DLC episode focused on Lightning that sort of went into what she’d been doing between the games and stuff I think? People said it was worth it but it didn’t add anything the basic game was explicitly missing.
Wouldn’t be surprised if the DLC is included. But equally wouldn’t be surprised if they’re charging for it. Wait and see?
EDIT: Or if you wanted to drop $20 on Steam on a JRPG you could grab Trails in the Sky instead as it shits all over the FF XIII games in quality.
Noooooooooooooooo.
Costume Quest 2 is only out for PS3 right now! It’s still in effing certification for PS4. WTFFFFFFFFF. I swear Sony has it out for me. I just tweeted at them asking if I’ll get the PS4 copy for free if I buy the PS3 version now, since it’s their fault. God damn it 🙁
(I’m sorry to keep whinging).
So good.
Ahhh the look on the face when you use the ultimate of the first character you unlock, so good
And the bad guy, genius!
Plus all the little throw backs to costume quest 1, all hey I remember you.
You really should play it
I’M TRYING! (I will probably just buy it on PS3).
I’m almost certain it will look identical on PS3. 🙂
Yeah, I know… I know. (*sighs and realises how obnoxious and spoilt I am*)
Thanks buddy 🙂
BUT WILL IT HAVE AS MANY P’S? I DON’T THINK SO! OBEY YOUR P MASTER!
http://youtu.be/tlWeUyc7YjI
Brisbane people (and anyone else:-P ) watch the video of our great
townsmall city they’ll be showing the World leaders as they arrive 😀They really captured the majesty of the city. 😉
I’m watching without sound, (scrubbing the start) and just burst out laughing at the Brisbane timeline, “Declared a city… Expo 88” ahahahaha.
That is brilliant. Brisbane in a nutshell 😛
Morning all!!!
so i just got a phone call about going in to pickup my Ass Creed Unity & GTAV PS4 pre orders.
arent they out on the 18th?
Pick up your Ass, lol
Seriously though, yeah Ass Creed is out today, but GTA V isn’t out till the 18th (5 days). Let us know if they end up giving you GTA V and breaking street date.
hell yes!!! been meaning to blow some shit up!!!
still on topic, WHO THE HELL RELEASES GAMES ON A TUESDAY???? ALL GAMES should be released on a thursday!, that way, no time is wasted, you have time to pick it up on thursday as shopping centres usually close at 9pm, and when you get home the next day from work, you can jump straight into it!
Some release on a Tuesday, others on a Thursday, Nintendo pretty much always releases everything on a Saturday.
America generally gets games on a Tuesday, Europe on Fridays (iirc) and we get them on Thursdays. Unless it’s a Nintendo game, as @evilmonkey pointed out – they release globally on Saturdays, from my limited experience with them.
Street date got broken? I think the US has had Unity for a couple of days now.
Whut. Yeah GTA V ain’t out until next week. But Ass Creed is defs out, EB had their midnight launch last night at which you could also pick up the new WoW expansion if you wanted to. Plus I saw a bunch of people wandering about with giant Assassin’s Creed Unity boxes at my local shopping centre this morning lol.
Showing my age in today’s Tell Us Dammit
Dude you cant show that, kids browse this site.
*wiggles hips*
gog.com giving away Mount and Blade for free til the 14th!
EVERYONE GET THIS!!
Question time: Has there ever been a video game that literally no-one could ever beat you at? If so, what was it?
Mine was Bust A Groove (the dancing game on the PS1), people got sick of playing me, coz they coiuld never win. Sadly that was my one and only, I’m pretty easy to beat at most everything else.
Life.
I am pretty rubbish at nearly all games,
Except Checkers, i used to be fucking dreadful and lose to my grandfathers all the time. I am now confident i could beat 80% of people at checkers. Those old bastards Know checkers. They also have their random house rules that i would have to deal with too. But yeah now im known as somewhat of a checkers wizz in my family.
SEE HOW BORING NORTH QLD CHILDHOODS ARE EVERYBODY
I had a great childhood – hitching rides on cane trains, smashing bush-bashers through farm headlands, riding makeshift rafts down the flooding river….but man, the thing that gets me, that I miss the most is the checkers – If only I could revisit my childhood for those glorious black and red pieces.
Tetris two-player, and Dance Central. But maybe that was who I was playing with; I wouldn’t go into a tournament or anything.
I have a theory
you mention Tetris to anyone and i will say that with 70% confidence, that person will say that their mum is godly at Tetris. I have heard this like 400 times. Even my mum seemed good at tetris when i was younger. BUT THATS BECAUSE I WAS 10 AND SHIT AT TETRIS
My mum was pretty good at Dr. Mario. I’ve always been shit at Tetris though, even now.
I think the only version of Tetris my mother played was this one. When my parents showed it to me they laughed at my ineptitude, since I really didn’t understand what the rules were.
My ma was okay at Tetris, but she was REALLY GOOD at Coolboarders. Like, really good.
Nope. My mum kicked arse at Tron. The original one on the Intellivision console.
Like, got to level 100and something good.
And this was before pausing and save games.
I was really good at Tetris and my mum is shit at it. My Dad was okay but I got to the point that I beat him pretty consistently.
One of my friends I ran into at PAX was godly at Tetris. On the… second day? Maybe third. He came in dressed up in top hat and T Piece-topped cane with a cloak covered in Tetris pieces, bonking people and challenging them to a match.
Actually I videoed him during the Tetris DS tournament last year for the final, that match was insane.
Oh god, Tetris.
In year 12 I became obsessed with beating a friend at the various versions available on Facebook. I ended up with a case of Tetris Syndrome for a couple of weeks. Good times, good times.
Is that where you see the tetris pieces in ordinary life. I had that but with pokemon puzzle quest.
Yeah, that’s the one. You also start dreaming of Tetris, and wake up in the middle of a supermarket to find you’ve spent the last ten minutes attempting to optimally re-stack their shelves.
Ya know, normal stuff like that.
Not always but I mostly always win at Bust-A-Move 2 Arcade Edition on PSX.
That’s Puzzle Bubble 2 in arcades.
man, you and your crazy bridge building, looks like your losing them BAM!! like a bastard you send them over to me.
Nicole’s been playing that a shitload on her DS lately I keep loudly signing along “Boom cha Boom Boom Cha waow waow waow Boom cha Boom Boom Cha do do do do… GO!!!” then it somehow usually morphs into a song from Yoshi’s story 64 and things deteriorate from there 😛
Edit: Have you heard Primus’ new album?
Ha!
I haven’t liked any as much as 2. Played a bunch always go back to 2.
Nah, I discover all my new music on YouTube by accident or link.
I’ll check it out (unless it’s poo like NIN’s last effort)
it’s all covers of Charlie and the Chocolate factory, like all of them. It’s a little plainer cause Les didn’t write the songs but it isn’t without its charms. They ran a promotion, their Vinyls/ CDs are chocolate colored but they sent out 5 golden Vinyls and the prize for finding one is Primus tickets for life, we got the cd and vinyl, no golden ones though. They played some of them when I saw them in January I thought it was just silly but nope they dedicated an album to it, They’ve been having crazy concerts all Charlie and the Chocolate factory themed with oompa loompa dancers and stuuf and Les dons the giant wonka hat, they look like crazy fun, they’ve also started selling candy bars at concerts that are all named after songs.
There you go.
You listened to the one before that though right “Green Naugahyde” that was decent too.
Nope
@jimu D:
Go listen to Primus you bastard, you’re probably the reason I got into them.
Edit: Did Snow give you a Diancie code? He rang me just to give me one,
Yeah, he was collecting them because I asked Where’s Wally to grab me one.
Guitar Hero… until I got shredded online (in GH: World Tour, I think). That game (series) kept me sane through most of uni…
None of my friends would play Tekken 3, DOA2, DOA3 or Soul Calibur against me because I spent too much time with it and would usually win. 🙁 I wasn’t even that good.
Rubik’s cube.
I can solve one in about 5 minutes. Yes I’ve seen those select few on Youtube that can solve the cube in like 5 seconds but no one I know in person can even solve the damn thing.
Video games? No idea, I’ve never been that good; for competition anyway.
Same here. I can get a basic 3×3 done around 40 seconds (I hit a block at 30-something seconds, where in order to speed up I’d need to learn something like 10 complex single-case algorithms, so I was content to stick to my two-look solutions). Upside is, I do have a pretty good collection of puzzles from when I was really into them. Still can’t solve some of the harder ones…
For a really long time it was Counter-Strike. But this was only because I was only playing on the same Aussie servers. Broadened my horizons at some point, and got smacked down for it.
R.I.P. my ego…
…which underwent resurrection in some necromantic ritual that has left it as an unkillable monstrosity.
Never. I am pretty average at most things.
That or I just never really played against other people so it never got tested.
Crash Team Racing/Crash Nitro Kart
I was extremely good with free running projectiles like the bombs and also really great with the power slide, so much that I almost always lapped last place.
Last 2 days of work.
Still not entirely sure what to do after but im a smart kid and thinking about the possibilities without consulting all the parties involved is pretty silly so ill just wait and relax a bit.
IN OTHER GAMING NEWS
OSU is really fun, @blaghman and I play fairly regularly and we are becoming less shitty. We did a few Hard maps last night and actually managed to pass them so thats cool. If people want to join us for some Anime themes and mouse clicking on circles we should have a multiplayer night.
One day there will be someone I can beat at that game!
Just need to find some songs you really like and it becomes easier.
What is this OSU you speak of
I think this is what they’re talking about.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osu!
Did you guys all see the new Taylor Swift video, for Blank Space? God, it’s so good.
Yes i have watched it 15 times.
Also she is so pretty and funny and i want her to be my friend.
Rocketman and Taylor, sitting in a tree…
Shaking it off.
That escalated Swiftly.
YOU SHUT YOUR GOB. THEY’RE BOTH MINE, DAMMIT!
I have to many BAE’s
It really loses all meaning if i have like 6 people who are Before anyone else.
Pretty sure bae means poop! (cc. @effluvium-boy, @pixel_the_ferret_viking…)
It’s Danish for poop, you are indeed correct @dc!
That’s what it stands for! It was driving me nuts trying to figure it out.
I’d always just assumed it was a bad contraction of babe.
It’s the first time I felt like I’m not down with the cool kid lingo. I only discovered what throwing shade was last week, though. SO OLD. 😛
I’d never heard it before now.
So thanks for ruining that.
@mrtaco
IT’S AN OLD EXPRESSION!!!
IT’S FROM THE GODDAMN 80s!!!
@liondrive NOT MY 80S
@liondrive
Technically, its origins are from the 20s.
ME TOO.
Here’s what I’ve been listening to: m.youtube.com/watch?v=_AU6vg3k4Xc
@gutsoup
Is that a broken link? Why do my links often break in TAY?
I took a mobile link so it didn’t have a www. at the start so the regular expression doesn’t parse it as a link
Right, but Twitter is prepared for that, yeah?
Anyone up for a run through the Vault Of Glass on Saturday night? 2 mates and I are hoping to finally have a crack at it and probably won’t be able to 3 man it since we have no idea what we’re doing (also we’ve never done the raid before) so it might be an idea to have other people around.
@transientmind, were you still interested in running through with us?
Always happy to help out if someone needs it. There’s not a hell of a lot I still need from there, and I’ve already got my loots for this week, but if you need numbers, I can help pad a roster. Got a rough time?
Can I wear boots?
As long as you wear other clothes as well, sure…
Small change of plans, looks like it’ll have to be Friday night, probably starting about half 8 to 9
I had a discussion with a mate earlier this week about favourite music videos of all time. Of course, as I’ve probably mentioned here before, mine is the uncut version of Duran Duran’s Girls on Film; his is Boogie Pimps’ remix of Somebody to Love.
Your turn. What is your single favourite music video of all time? Post a link if you like.
I absolutely love the Arcade Fire – Afterlife video they filmed live.
..and I thought Girls on Film was weird.
I know it’s not objectively the best video, but the energy of it always makes me dance along and the reveal of the stage and audience at the end is amazing. 🙂
Man thats a dope video, I like that the suburbs clip was taken from that short film by Spike Jonze. Thats probably my fave arcade fire one. Still havent seen the full movie.
Don’t watch many music video but have always liked the one for Slipknot’s Duality.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMy0KPz8Vvo
Daft Punk’s entire Interstellar 5555
Aphex Twin – Come to Daddy
The Prodigy – Smack my Bitch Up
The Devil Went Down to Georgia(?) – Primus
many of Bjork’s clips.
Closer – Nine Inch Nails
Do the Evolution – Pearl Jam
Paranoid Android – Radiohead
Nice single favourite. But yes, some great ones there, particularly Bjork’s All is Full of Love.
Depends on my mood.
And this one is fantastic because seriously what? Are they even trying. Imagine it being filmed with no noise playing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOibIxl3dLo
Not sure if serious or not, with either of your two choices.
I don’t think I even know any music videos.
Uh… Thriller? Probably by default.
There are so many, but Tenacious D’s Tribute is burned into my soul from watching it repeatedly with my then infant son, who found it most hilarious.
I wish I could upvote this more than once because Tenacious D.
I know it is setup to be liked by I can’t help but enjoy all the stuff by OK Go
Also hard to go past Weapon of choice
The film clip where they are in the car driving past all of the instruments was crazy.
Always thought that the clip for one of Moby’s pieces, might have been Star Guitar? It’s the view out a train window but they’ve modified it so that the telephone poles, other train tracks, tunnels etc that you see all pass in sync to different instruments in the music.
I’m a big fan of the animated clip for the Miku Hatsune/Supercell piece ‘Seikiranun Graffiti’:
Those are all that are immediately coming to mind. I don’t usually pay attention to the videos for most stuff.
Wait, I thought that train clip was Chemical Bros?
Either way, very good.
Yeah, you’re right. Chemical Bros, not Moby. Why did I think it was Moby? Weird.
Hmm, good question there’s so many great music videos out there.. Like Girls, Girls, Girls by Motley Crue, Whiskey In The Jar by Metallica, Before I Forget by Slipknot, Life Is Beautiful by Sixx: A.M, November Rain by Guns N’ Roses.. It’s kinda hard to just pick a favourite, especially if the band picks a good director.
Some of my favourite videos in recently were directed by P.R. Brown, he’s worked with Slipknot, Motley Cur e& Sixx: A.M. My favourite of the work he has done would have to be either Psychosocial or Snuff by Slipknot, but they were also co-directed with band member Shawn Crahan.
But as @jocon mentioned Duality, that’s one of the coolest videos because the band let a bunch of fans destroy a house. A house they had only rented for the film clip and didn’t have the permission to destroy haha.
Crazy Town – Butterfly
Sledgehammer – Peter Gabriel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g93mz_eZ5N4
So, first of all, mega super apologies for my absence. I thought I’d be super smrt and put my TAY password in with my banking stuff and whatnot in a password manager which I stored on a thumb drive.
I didn’t bother to think about the fact that there’s compatibility issues with that and handheld devices. ANYHOW, I’m back. Kindasorta. I’ve stolen dad away from his PC so I can use it for the time being.
So. How are we all? Canada was amazing. PAX was AMAZING (seriously, the highlight of the trip, hands down). Thanks to all that made it such a memorable experience. Special shoutouts to @scree for the huge amount of work she put into it, along with @beavwa and @princesspip (did I get that right?) for being gracious enough to put me up (and up with me) for the week surrounding PAX itself. I’m indebted to you.
ALSO: I know it’s short notice, but is anyone interested in doing a Canberra Meat in say, the next 2-3 weeks or so? Dad’s going on his honeymoon, so I’ve got the place to myself and would love to host a meat for once, instead of mooching off others. I don’t have bedding as such, though there is a TON of space, so really all that’d be needed on your part is a sleeping bag or something.
Probably do it over a weekend to accommodate as many folks as possible, though feel free to stay longer than that if you like of course. Parking shouldn’t be an issue for those with vehicles either. All are welcome, let’s make it a thing!
Love you long time (even if I ignore you long time),
Aleph <3
….. OHHHH FUUUUCKKK I FORGOT YOU WERE IN CANADA
AHHHH SHIIIIITTTTTT
Oh Saturday
Roll credits
Too many cooks, too MANY COOKS
Might want to consider tagging people. Like the Canberrans, @bdkiaf @blaghman @rize (I’M KEEPING YOU HERE OUT OF SPITE!) @shane, the Sydneysiders @35 @alexpants @anonymous_pessimist @batgirl @batguy @cakesmith @cj @cookingmama @doc_what @effluvium-boy @fatshadylive @gingerchris86 @gorzilla @harli @hugo_the_hungarian_barbarian @mawt @morkai @markserrels @mrtaco @novacascade @powalen @pupp3tmast3r @ruffleberg @shiggyninty @vonsack, or maybe even random people that you like to annoy @freezespreston.
Then you mention them repeatedly and annoy them day after day.
I like to think you just really hope that I’ll turn up.
I really, really, really do.
I saw that someone had mentioned my name and was like “uh oh, what did I do?”
TEEN DOG TIME! AGAIN!
I was going to get copies for Wingman as a birthday present but they only had one copy of #1 left, and none of #2. Then they only had three copies of #3 which just came out yesterday, but I wanted to grab four. Which is good I guess, that it’s actually selling. So woo, Jake. But boo for me 😛
One time I bought a copy of “The Sleepers Almanac” thinking it would be a book about helping me get a good night’s sleep…
Turns out it’s a book containing short stories by Australian writers. :\
Not what I expected, but still worth it somewhat.
No TAYlist today, due to major computer failure (like 90% of all of the music is unavailable), Apologies to all for the radio being a butt munch
Oh well, you tried!
Jolene – Dolly Parton
*dances*
Nevermind, I have this stuck in my head today. Mainly because one of the companies we use is called Safeman so everytime I get an invoice I start singing this
http://youtu.be/XCbAEkfXSDE
haha, I make these things my mum called “Spaceman Sandwiches” (it’s just french toast with cheese melted in the middle) every time I make them I start singing that, I also get their song “Caffeine” in my head a lot ’cause I drink a stupid amount of coffee 😀
So I’m waving off some sweets offered by coworkers this morning, explaining that my pants felt a little tighter than usual when I did them up this morning, so I need to spend the next couple weeks reining the waistline in, moderating what I eat and exercise more.
And they look puzzled, saying almost in unison, “Just buy bigger pants!”
I rolled my eyes and laughed, saying, “Very funny guys.”
Which resulted in that awkward moment where people look at each other and realize that something someone thought was a joke wasn’t a joke.
They were serious. Apparently this is something that people do.
Is this just the public service, or is this a common thing?
Edit: Which, on reflection, sounds a lot more judgemental than I’m happy with.
But… It’s just that a pants size change is the point where I panic and freak out and make immediate course-adjustment to my dietary intake/exercise routine to get back within my comfort zone.
I was more curious (and a little worried) about what kind of wawrning signs other people would use if not their clothes not fitting anymore.
I did until the doc told me I have high cholesterol. I cut all the craps & lost 20kgs.
I dunno, seems like a mixed bunch in the government. There’s the fattys & the gym addicted.
“cut all the craps”
I either stopped gambling or pooping, you decide!
well you lost weight so I’m going with gambling.
20kgs is pretty impressive, if I lost that much I’d float away.
I got close to 100, down to 74 now
Less of a Bilbo, more of a Frodo.
Huh. Yeah, see, my pants getting tight is cause for self-esteem meltdown and panicked extreme response, due to incredible superficiality on my part. I was surprised to hear this may not be a normal response.
I dunno, I put on weight after marriage & a child so my priorities shifted.
It’d never been something I’ve encountered til the other month when I had that moment of realisation that things were a little different. I dunno if my reaction was superficial, I mean I am pretty happy with where I’ve ended up looks-wise. But the primary response was just practical, in that climbing was getting harder than it used to be. And it feels like it would be too easy to keep letting things continue to slip once they’ve started and then end up at the point of having actual health problems, so it’s better to nip it in the bud, right?
And that’s just how people get fat.
Holy crap, Microsoft are open sourcing the core .NET framework and porting it to Linux and OSX.
I need to hand in a geek card. What’s the significance of this? More games will be more easily ported to those platforms?
.NET is the foundation for a ton of stuff. ASP, C#, any of those ‘modern’ windows apps, basically everything on the phones… Previously the only way to write C# code for other platforms was to hook it into Mono, which was an open-source reverse-engineered implementation of the stack.
What this likely means is that you’ll be able to write an app in C# targeting .NET and run it in OSX and Linux pretty much seamlessly.
That sounds significant.
Holy crap indeed! They’ve been keeping that little behemoth close to the chest for over a decade. Now if only they’d do the same for DirectX…
guys, quick question, ass creed unity, is the coop mode campaign coop? or is it just a few seperate missions?
TBH thats the only reason i have it preordered….
It’s separate missions. Does just have the option to faff about the map with friends though, I believe.
Does this or does this not have anything to do with chickens?
So some jerk-face gifted me a game
Way to go jerk-face, now I’m going to shove my gratitude in your face
OMG! It’s Tigs! I met this guy once. He totally just saw a tiger. An island of them. TRUE STORY!
Best island
Who was it? Ill back you by doing the classic back up move of holding you back while yelling “its not worth it, its not worth it” over and over
You’ve reminded me, I never did link you to the images of MiniTigs that I meant to put in my PAX gallery. So here’s a one and a two.
Soooo cute. I guess I have no choice but to shove my gratitude in your face again
THANKS!!!!!
We’re calling that part of the body a gratitude now?
Can’t keep up with the kids’ lingo.
I think it would be amazing if one day in a Bioware dating sim that there’s an option to role play as a completely dense or socially awkward character. And someone you can romance is equally as dense or awkward.
You two spend the whole game together in close proximity and your banter turns out to be obvious flirting to everyone else, but you two are just too incredibly dumb to pick up on it.
And when comes the tender moment before you and your companions seek out the final boss; the part where you normally bang, you two end up doing exactly the same thing you’ve been doing the entire game, just chatting and completely missing the point.
Sounds a bit like my failed romance with Aveline from Dragon Age 2. WHY DID I HELP HER PICK UP OTHER MEN!
I romanced the elf in my evil game, treated her like crap & she fell for me anyway.
it was kinda scary & one of the highlights of that playthrough
In my evil run of Origins I romanced Leliana
felt a bit bad because I did everything she was against but manipulated her so she either didn’t know or forgave me, even tainted the ashes and kept her around.The good thing about 2 was the friend/rival system, so they would still love you but it was a bit off & reflected in the dialogue.
one of the big improvements in 2 that I think people overlook
Speaking of which, I thought the male Hawke relationship with Aveline was awesome. Like, Bioware cops a lot of flak with “AND THEN YOU JUST BANG” criticisms, so it was nice having a companion you had no chance of romancing, and then seeing them off with their own romance. Aveline wasn’t some rejected love interest, she was actually just a good friend.
Yeah, I loved that too and pursuing it like a relationship option only to see it wasn’t really one at all. I thought it was true to life and enjoyed seeing a party member pursue romance independently of protagonist.2 was handled really well in that regard. Pirate lady starts the relationship with a fuck but the others did it at different points depending on their type.
You just described my entire love life.
Sounds like me irl
There’s a desert! SMTIV
AKA another place to get lost!
There’s nothing there though. Does it get confusing after Pluto’s cocoon?
I was really proud of myself for remembering the way back to the only place I hadn’t been in the city & then realised it was the wrong place.
luckily, the place I had to be was just a little north!
So you want to play as Gooky?
Popcorn Grabbing Simulator 2014
More like popcorn IS the controller of this title, when you eat, it progresses onward
EDIT: ARGH Steve-O beat me too it.
Oh yeah, two mornings ago I got a StreetPass from @mawt (who apparently I somehow didn’t get during all of PAX). And I think he might have been my 1000th too, either that or just missed out because the guy after him had a double high-five and my ten hits only produced 9 Miis.
I’m just gonna pretend that it was and the dude is cursed with some kind of crazy coincidental type of luck.
I was just clearing Street Passes this afternoon and you were there!
@evilmonkey not left handed, but I have a friend who has limited mobility in her hands. Exploring the world of alternate controllers there was interesting, unfortunately not cheap.
She would like to game more, she just gets to a point in many games where she is physically incapable of proceeding
I really need to stop being so kind to the boss here.
My holidays I’d booked for PAX finished on Monday. However I was called and stupidly agreed to cover a shift on Friday that they couldn’t cover even though I was still on holidays.
I was restored on 12 hour shifts Mon, Tue and Wed two days off and then a block of four 12 hour shifts from Sat through to Tues.
Yesterday someone calls in sick (they are legitimately sick) and They needed me to work today and tomorrow. I wasn’t stupid enough to agree to working 9 12hr shifts in a row so instead I ended up trading one 12 hour Sunday shift (double time) for two 12 hour day shifts.
Now I’m just Sitting here thinking I should be at home seeing how Valkyria Chronicles feels on PC.
Why?
Just lie, tell them you’ll be out of town
Your boss will never remember the goods things you do.
He’ll only remember when you fuck up.
It depends which boss. The one directly above me is pretty fair guy so he tends to remember both. The one above him probably doesn’t remember I exist.
There are three reasons I agree to these thins.
1) I’m weak.
2) I like money
3) If no one can cover a shift it’s the other staff that really suffer, not the boss. And I’m weak.
Point 2 being the important one there, right?
Sounds like my ex-wife!
*adjusts tie*
@Dan!
@dkzeitgeist
Is Warlords live yet??? @jocon @distantdrop @someonewhohasaccesstoacomputer tell me if Warlords is up and running yet?! =p Also red you mentioned you had a friend interested in joining us? Still in the books?
@transientmind come join us dammit! Don’t make me beg D=
FINE I’ll BEG! PLLEEEAASSSSEEE TRANSIENT COME KILL VIRTUAL ORCS WITH US! D=7pm AEST Warlords servers go live, which will be midnight in Blizzard land. Where ever they’re based in Cali 😛
So it goes live at 7pm tonight? Are you joining us on Barthilas virus? =P
I tagged you without your underscore yesterday >.
I am! I have toons there and all! I even started levelling a Goblin rogue 😛 But i’m gonna level my human rogue to 100 first just to get a feel for everything.
Nooooooo! Come to Horde now! =P we’re missing a full raid team so I’d like to fill the spots with TAYbies before running around the streets of Orgrimmar spamming chat pointlessly for recruits =P
Well I also have a 90 goblin rogue & shaman on Aman’Thul 😛
I’m going to lose track of all the cross realm raiders at this rate =P Come boost a toon on Barthilas Horde! No pressure of course, unless you’re looking to have a fun time with TAYbies in which case there’s lot of pressure!! =P
I’ve no free boosts left, plus i’d be levelling whatever it is to 60 first because I would want boosted professions to go with xD
Irvine.
Blizzard are in Irvine, California. It’s one of those little tech hub towns in the US where there’s a big whack of tech companies in one place. Also in Irvine are Obsidian, Broadcom, Red 5, Ready At Dawn and Western Digital, and Atlus.
portal opens 7pm
http://www.mmo-champion.com
I’m sure being a wow veteran you’d know about this site.
Also about the friend, i said he’d be willing to help on alt across a different server (CRZ) so if you want to keep it in guild recruit on barthilas.
Ta! =p I hate the UI at MMO Champion so I don’ go there often =p
A wha?
You’re the wrong red =p
There is another red?
His refering to my PSN/Battle.net name.
Don’t worry it confuses @pupp3tmast3r aswell.
Well, more of a burgundy really
On a separate note @os42 @jocon @distantdrop @saturday @piat You guys up for a quick Destiny VoG run on Saturday usual time? Just for a bit of social gaming? =D I know I know go level up stuff in WoD but you can’t deny VoG is a lot more fun when you run it and don’t give a shit =P
I won’t be around until Saturday afternoon, I could do Sunday at 12 though.
No thanks, I might consider it when Crotas End releases.
Awww ;(
Sure, sounds like fun. I’ll probably be on anyway, farming in all likelihood, so a raid would be a great change of pace.
Sunday would be alright.
*ahem* Warlords of Draenor? Yes? =P
(God I feel like I’m trying to sell some dodgy snake oil to people)
Nah, snake oil is probably healthier.
Ehhhh.
However, @aliasalpha was looking for a couple of more peeps to fill out a run.
Think they have yet to clear so you could show them the ropes!
If you do, and they need a 6th, I may join in.
Turns out Saturday isn’t good for us after all, it’d have to be tomorrow night instead
Apparently Warlords is 7 or 8pm Qld time tonight?
Also, no-can-do.
1) Not big on raiding.
2) Gonna take WoD pretty slow. Soak up flavour, read everything.
3) PVP server? Ewwwww.
4) I am very deeply entrenched on Khaz. If I were to move, I’d have to convince half a dozen other people to move with me, including our incredibly expensive guildbank etc.
5) I could roll a new toon and buy a 90 boost, but I’m really going to be fixated on my main, who is staying with the friends/family.
Sorry Muppets. :}
This made me giggle, simply because I know “muppet” as an insult (not too mean a one) and you did that little wiggly smile.
OFFENSE TAKEN!
6pm your time 😛 7pm NSW time. I totally meant AEDT in my post up there, not AEST 😛
I was kind of tempted too, but 3 puts me way off it as well. PVE for lief.
Aww there isn’t any real PvP in a PvP server! Heck I never engage in PvP, only came to Barthilas since I used to have friends here =p Come join us! I need 3 more TAYBIES!
That’s what everyone always says, but it’s never what I find the actual experience lives up to. You’re just used to open PVP. I don’t like the stress and feeling I have to be suspicious of everyone.
I’ve also always found a lot more dickheads on PVP servers in MMOs in general.
My main is on Frostmourne, and I’ve never really raided before. I do have a free 90 boost though from buying WoD (which was a bit silly seeing as uni isn’t finished yet…)
Still looking for someone? 🙂
Yes! =P Come to barthilas Horde
Bnet Tag is –
Chyrone # one one zero zerowith no spacesSent a friend request, under the name of Rhynn
Nah, I’ve been running around alone for the last few days and have not been ganked ever. And I’m an idiot scrub nowadays.
Helps that Barth is a Horde dominated server so all the blues cower in fear of the possible 50 man Horde gank roam that may be around the corner so don’t stop to harass people.
Or so it seems.
I’d have to start a toon from scratch though and I’m not sure I could force myself through the BC/WotLK content again for the eighth or so time.
Buy now (maybe, better hurry) and get a free boost to level 90. No grind required.
That’s what I did.
one free upgrade right?
Also I don’t have MoP.
Neither do I, get all past expansion with the new apparently.
Also there is refunds for US to Au realms\ transfers on offer until WoD goes live.
If you buy WoD you get a free 90 boost with the game so you’d be skipping all the BC/WotLK content and starting with the rest of us on WoD =]
Shut up shut up shut up
My backlog is already huge and the years of WoW are a lot of the reason why.
Awww please come join us =[ I’d rather not recruit randoms for raiding 🙁 Besides your only commitment to the guild would be showing up for raids from 12-3 on a Saturday D=
@pupp3tmast3r: I’ve been in progression raiding guilds before, and I know for sure that there’s more to it than just raiding 12-3 on a Saturday. A lot more. Can’t just show up.
Have to admit I’m really tempted regardless.
@pupp3tmast3r
I also got the 10 runestones and finished the cape with less than 24 hours before they abolished the quest, greed pays off I guess.
What cape? Who cares about capes when there’s a guild to get up and running! =P
Grats you greedy bastard =PNice. Was that the Siege of Orgrimmar you were doing?
Jelly.
http://tinyurl.com/warlordscountdown
Do gotta question tho: if there were taybies already on Khaz, why did we create/transfer characters on Barth?
Or one that is not full, so you know, no queues.
New pages means more new spam of old content. Gotta catch them all.
Sent out emails for Secret SanTAY to everyone that participated last year. If you didn’t last year but want to this year, are new and would like to, or have changed your email, send me an email to (binoter at hotmail).
If you haven’t got one harass me until you do.
Send your address in it to save me chasing them up last minute again.
Any suggestions for rules or whatnot welcome. ($20 limit seems to be the rule, although I don’t think anyone is going to shoot you if you go a little over)
Guys, addresses. I need them. I can tell people just to write your handle on the packet and stuff it in the mail but not sure it works that way exactly.
This year is already bigger than last. This should be pretty great.
Well that is interesting. Was scrolling through my facebook profile, heading down and remembering how tiny my daughter was. Only 3 months but she is so much bigger.
But as I kept going I saw something I backed on indigogo. Haven’t had an update from them in around 6 months. Wondered if it was lost money so check the site and they linked me here http://store.steampowered.com/app/317940
Looks like things are coming together well.
\o/
It’s nearly 2pm on a Friday and I’m the only one here. The only other guy has gone home “sick”.
I must say that this is a most unusual experience.
Friday?
Brisbane has tomorrow off! 🙂
*sobs* NOT ALL OF IT!!
I only just realised I posted Friday. That’s what public holidays do to my brain.
I got the Thursday feels, but it’s really a “friday” so it’s the best!
This week has just been weird. Everything is less busy in the city and so many people have taken time off that it does feel eerily quiet.
Future!
It’s Friday???!
Oh man. I just got an email from a doctor – a friggin’ cardiothoracic surgeon, no less – who wrote (verbatim) “So, is this a problem on your end or.”
This well educated bloody doctor ended a WRITTEN SENTENCE like this. It’s bad enough to hear people say that (major pet peeve), but to write it? Ughhhh. I guess those 12 years of extra school did not include any English.
he was too busy studying for his “How to write illegibly ” exams.
I don’t like any doctor telling me there’s a problem on my end.
Hahaha. I am honestly horrified by the lack of social grace and basic computer literacy in about 90% of the doctors I encounter.
Typos happen.
So, are your Ewoks ok?
Their moon has seen better days.
Whoa, too much info.
He’s just trying to ascertain if you need to see him or a proctologist by the sounds of it.
I’ve gone back and read my notes and realised I have finished mid sentence and gone on to the next thought. It’s a little difficult to understand what I was thinking…
Oh God! The Christmas carols. They just started.
…
…….
Six…. Goddamn… Weeks…..
I’ve been listening to them for two weeks already!
But I still want to knock over all the Christmas displays I see in stores.
I am a strange, strange man. (Hi @strange)
Time to bring a bottle of scotch to work.
Today my office went mental and started decorating. Like, hardcore. Each pod seems to have a very decorative theme and there’s bloody tinsel everywhere!
This morning in the tunnel from the station the accordion guy was playing Deck The Halls. It feels like it’s still ages away but when you put it like that, where has the time gone?
…
It just occurred to me that you work in a shopping centre. I am so sorry.
What would be the carols he means. 8 hours of carols 5 to 6 days a week
https://soundcloud.com/blaghman/all-i-want-for-christmas-is-kotaku
https://soundcloud.com/blaghman/blaghsmas-2013-1
https://soundcloud.com/blaghman/blaghsmas-2013-2
Ooooh Fatshaaaady!
No, we can’t look at previous year’s efforts! In the immortal words of Edna Mode, “I never look back, darling! It distracts from the now.”
I never stopped listening!
Siiiiiiileeent niiiiiiiiight
Hoooooooooooooly niiiiiiiiiight
Allllllllllllllllllllllll is caaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalm,
allllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll is briiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight
…… but it’s time to don your gay apparel.
Don it!!
Waaaaaaayyyyyy ahead of you.
?
I was expecting a PAX picture from Saturday but instead I am just confused.
I don’t know what you’re talking about.
>.>
<.<
Oh Rocketblaghs.
It’s only my words I don’t mince.
Just visiting the shopping centers when they put the carols on is horrible enough, I can’t imagine spending 6+ weeks working in an environment where you can’t escape from them 🙁
It’s not even the fact that it’s carols, it’s the fact it’s the same one or two albums over and over. Mariah Carey has a special circle of hell prepared just for her for releasing that damned Christmas album. It’s not like it’d be impossible to put together a collection of Christmasy music that’s actually listenable, but they don’t even bother.
Right, then…
http://youtu.be/q51O5AdjuE8?t=7s
We’re doing Secret Santa in the office, but everyone knows who everyone else has, which I thought defeated the purpose?
So it’s just Santa?
….doing Santa in the office sounds like something else entirely.
Haha, I suppose it is! I don’t know who got me though. I just hope it’s not that one freak.
We did a secret Santa at a place I worked at and it got a little strange, the person who got me apparently has the hots for me (I was told by co workers) which was a little disturbing because I was about 21 and she was almost 60, our limit was $10 and she got me a fancy toasted sandwich maker, a giant box of chocolates and a bottle of bourbon and immediately told me they were from her, needless to say our work relationship got weird after that.
Pfft, as if that ever happens. 😛
It only ever happens with undesirables if that helps 😛
Hahahah, ohh lord, that’s too good. Hahahahah, I’m sorry.
We did Secret Santa four rears running and every year one or two people would throw their names and but then not get a present for anyone else. Every year I was (on of the) the person/s that that person/s was supposed to buy a present for.
I have all the luck.
The last time it got to the point that the boss just brought a few extra presents to give out to whoever didn’t get one though so I get a remote control helicopter that year!
PlayStation is 20 years old next month.
I suddenly feel so old 🙁
Whoa! I’m gonna have to have a little PlayStation party.
3rd of December, 1994 was the Japanese launch of the PlayStation.
They’re going to be having some events and stuff.
Haha! I remember looking through the catalog and saying to my mum IF YOU DON’T WANT TO BUY US A NINTENDO, YOU CAN GET US A PLAYSTATION. IT’S THE NEXT BEST THING. XD
Note: the only thing I had seen of the Playstation was this exact picture in the catalog five minutes ago.
3rd of December is my birthday, someone should have gotten me one for my birthday.
…that means some of my all-time fav games are up there as being close to that age then.
…I can still tell people how to get through the snowfield in FF7 off the top of my head.
wow, that is a long time ago, I remember staring at them longingly when I was younger but the economy in South Africa was fucked so anything imported was ridiculously priced & there was no way I’d ever get one, even things like CDs were around 100 of our currency back then (several months worth of pocket money). Yay migrating, now I can have nice things.
My girlfriend asked me why I carry a gun around the house. I looked her dead in the eye and said, “the motherfucking decepticons”. She laughed, I laughed, the toaster laughed, I shot the toaster, it was a good time.
Just saw this joke and keep cracking up each time I read it. Thought I’d share. ^_^
I have that “That’s my Bowz!” song stuck in my head!
I have the theme song to Timmy Time in mine.
If you ever become a parent, you will find yourself humming kids’ tv show themes ALL DAY LONG
Tim-my! BAAA It’s Tim-my! He’s a little lamb with lot to learn.Shoot me. Please.
*sings* He’s a hand full of trouble at every tuuurrrnn…..
You had to do it didn’t you.
Also the Dinosaur Train song. Although that show is pretty rad. They don’t hold back with all the scientific terms.
I think I just found something else Tiglet is going to need
It’s the dinosaur TRaaaaaain
Dinosaur Train.
Dinosaur TRRAAAAAAAAAIN
Dinosaur train.
Great. Now I have bluegrass in my head.
We’re a bit mad here at the moment for Lah-Lah’s Big Live Band. I also like the cute ukelele in Peg+Cat *Problem solved! The problem is solved! We solved the problem, Problem Solved!*
I’m just grateful that BatBoy is more obsessed with They Might Be Giants than he is the Wiggles.
Won’t say anything yet.
Also won’t say anything yet.
I saw it O_o
I wanna push it over the limit, I was hoping to get all his other stuff too (physical copies ’cause I’m old). Seems like the only tier with physical copies is the $250 tier which is a little rich for me atm, might just have to get Brent’s diary and get his older stuff later onPretty sure the 30 or 40 dives you physical copies of Undad. EDIT: $30 does.I’m assuming this is about me! I can customise if you like. What exactly do you want? I’ll make it so.
Edit: if you’re looking for physical books, you can pledge to the $30 tier, but enter whatever amount you want (you can always edit it later). I’ll investigate costs based on what you want, and we can sort out appropriate moneys!
I got a notification! Apparently editing doesn’t remove it.
Just talking about you while you weren’t here.
I just discovered someone was cosplaying as Rimmer from Red Dwarf at PAX.
I’m so upset I missed him. I would have given the the ridiculous salute.
Ol’ goal post head.
Cat: There’s an old cat saying: “If you’re going to eat tuna, expect bones”
Rimmer: There’s an old human saying: “If you’re going to talk garbage, expect pain.”
I missed him too, but saw him in @blaghman’s photos. It was a good one! It was nice to see plenty of pop culture cosplays to balance out all the LoL ones.
Part of me would like to try crazy Rimmer with the holo virus.
I already have Mr Flibbles.
Hahaha. That was one of the best episodes.
If you do plan on doing that cosplay don’t forget to take the magic carpet to go and see the king of the potato people and ask for permission first.
Quarantine is one of the best episodes ever.
He was like literally one table away for the entire day.
What is the world coming to when shameless
selftaybie promotion ends up in moderationI haven’t been able to log into TAY all day! Did you miss
memy self-promotion?HI! \o/
What are you promoting again? I forgot.
His shapely calves. Everyone should check them out.
HEY SHANE! I MISSED YOU!
$99 TO GO \o/
$99 TO GO$79 now.
Eh? Your number may be a little outdated.
Indeed, another twenny just appeared.
where’d you guys learn to maths?
😛 CongratulationsQuick, one off $99 tier of a day of life with Shane W Smith.
$99 will get you a no-holds-barred hour and a half.
Oh yeah, I finally saw Gone Girl last night and it was completely farked up. And that’s an understatement.
OMG who has that much energy to go to those lengths like she did? So tiring just thinking about it and the whole afterward scenario of lies. Ugh.Was good. And yes.
This spoiler alert is not a joke.
Rosamund Pike does scary very well. Also Neil Patrick Harris will not be able to let his kids watch this film for many many years.Seeing Neil Patrick Harris in the movie was strange
Spoilered for major plot line in movie:
After he had hist throat slit, I was half expecting the cut back to Barney Stinson in the bar talking about how he survived a murder attempt.. It never came 🙁I just realised the crazy hours I’m pulling this fortnight I won’t actually get paid overtime because they work that out over 4 weeks and I was on holidays for the first two weeks. So 57 extra hours for nothing!
Well I still get the base pay, but I would value the time off more.Sorry. The power of whining is the only thing keeping me going at this point.
Wow, that’s shit. Most places count paid leave as time worked.
They should count it as time worked.
The way my overtime is worked out is only if I work over 12 hours a day. 84 hours a week wouldn’t attract any penalty rates.
I got too used to anything over 38 hours a week being overtime as a tradesman.
Too many dodgy loopholes to screw us basically.
Ooh I just thought one of you Brisbane kids had seen through my corporate stooge disguise at Roma Street. Duder in a Zelda t-shirt came up to me, smiling nervously.
But then he just asked if the next train stopped at Petrie, hahah.
Poor guy. Petrie is the worst. 😛
*cries*
Edit: on second thought maybe that’s part of the reason I rarely venture outside.
Maybe he wanted to know so he could avoid it?
Ah, she’s already imagining every stranger to be a Taybie. Not far off meat ready then.
Sounds like you’re planning a cannibalistic meal.. Which made me think of Terminus from The Walking Dead…
On the walk home just then, a guy pulled over in the car and signaled for me to come over. I figured he was lost and asking for directions, it’s happened a couple of times before. But no, he asked me if I wanted to get in, saying he was going this way. Um what. I thanked him and told him it was fine, I was just going to the other side of the park there.
Not sure if weirdly nice, or looking for another victim.
Did you get his licence plate? For the manhunt?
Come on, man. You know I’m not forward-thinking enough to get people’s numbers.
Could have taken a picture and tweeted it. OH WAIT
Could have taken a picture and kept it to myself.
But, same thing 😛
@shane Done!
Here I was thinking I’d need to reset my password or something but it had me logged in the whole time 😛
Mario Kart 8 DLC is online and downloading.
You mean Senran Kagura Bon Appetit right?
I don’t know those words. 😉
Typical come expansion day a 20 minute queue to get on any server I level 90’s on, at least i’m not on Frostmourne i’d be waiting hours!
2 hour queue time now LOL.
Was working late last night so I only had about 30-40min of solid game time when I got home…. I log on to WoW and there’s the stupid queue time estimated at 30-40min =,= Needless to say I’ll only be logging on tonight =P
Heh, did not miss much.
Once we got out of the tutorial area it was impossible to progress due to the hundreds of people camping the quest objectives and generally breaking it.
Could barely even explore since half the other zones would not even spawn mobs due to server lag.
Mario Kart DLC is online! 689mb!
I had 1 go of the first 4 new levels as Link, fun was had,. Still weird seeing additional content in a Mario Kart.
What? Another new page? *grumble grumble* slow down you damn kids, I can’t keep up.
*sigh* Secret SanTAY. Get your email into binoter at hotmail to join in the shenanigans. Don’t want to? What? What kind of jerk wouldn’t want to? What? Oh, I’m sorry to hear that. That is terrible news. You’re excused. Not you though. Email. Do it. Or Santa will leave something you wish was coal (not a threat to personally poop in your letterbox….yet).
@crazyguy1990
CIIIIIIIIIVVVVV?
At least now I can Civ and TAY simultaneously… 😀
Hey @shane where are you?
Sheesh such a lightweight, 2 glasses of champagne and he has passed out already.
Oh well, congratulations anyway
Thanks, my friend! I’m currently writing up a big update for the Kickstarter page, emailing the artists to let them know they can start work, planning for OtakuFest this weekend, and making sure I have my mathematical ducks in a row for the stretch goals!
I’m not even playing Mario Kart! 😛
What did I miss? Did your Kickstarter reach it’s goal, if so congrats man, I had the feeling it’d work this time.
I think I was slightly too late to actually have done so but I’m gonna take credit for nudging it over the line anyway.
it was me :P. I saw there was only $50 bucks to go so I swiped my sister’s credit card, was awesome to see it keep going upFuuuuuuuuuuuuuuull credit.
*single tear rolls down cheek *
Ow, fuck…
My neck is killing me… D:
Kill it first!
Mario Kart 8 DLC thoughts so far
Pretty cool so far, can’t believe they gave us Mute City, they better be giving us F-Zero U now. You’re such a tease Nintendo.My favourite is Ice Ice Outpost. They’re all pretty amazing. Rainbow Road is probably weakest but the colours… So good. Great DLC.Just finished that one for the first time, was pretty good, but my favourite it still Mute City. It’s a great package of DLC and definitely worth the price of admission. Be interesting to see what tracks they give us in the next pack.I liked the
Hyrule one, gotta say. The others were okay, but nothing blew my mind. Hyrule was the highlight for me!Yeah, just finished Hyrule Circuit, was pretty awesome.Such a pretty and detailed track! So much short cut potential too!
I really want a Pikmin one!
Loved the subtle touches like rupees in Zelda level. Can see my favourite changing constantly. Gonna be fun to TAY Kart.The little things like that, and giving you coins when you drove over the shield generator thingamabobs on Mute City really made it shine.Slightly disappointed that they’ve added Amiibo functionality already, but we can’t even buy the damn things for another 2 weeks yet.
Beats having to download TWO updates 😛
I s’pose, when you look at it like that it’s kind of a good thing.
for a second I got really excited when I looked in the amiibo thing, I saw Fox & Samus and my eyes lit up, I thought they might be new characters in future DLC, then I realized it’s only suites for your Mii so I cried.
Ah Blizzard you always make me laugh.
YouTubers Brutalmoose and Yungtown (you’ve probably never heard of them) try to create a ceepypasta on the spot. This is the hilarious result.
A transcript of the video:
It was a stormy June night, and I was approaching my local game store, which was not a GameStop, which makes it creepier.The store’s name was “Gaming Senter” I noticed how it was misspelled, which disturbed me, I opened the door, and behind the counter stood a thin man.
His name was Ian, and he was VERY thin, and, uh, he welcomed me when I walked in the store by saying “MWAHAHAHAHAHA Welcome to Gaaaame Ssssssenter”.
I was perturbed, disturbed, and very uncomfortable by how I was welcomed, I looked up at Ian the game clerk and said “Is this not Halloween?”
“Yes” Ian replied, “In fact it’s June, if I remember correctly!” You look like you are in need of a special type of game.
My heart was racing a little fast, I looked up to Ian and said once more “A special kind of game? What kind of game do you have in mind? Is it for the Xbox3 60?”
“Why yes, it is!” Ian said. “The Xbox 360 is the most demonic console ever spawned in America.”
“Impossible! I own a 360 already, Mr. Ian sir, and my 360 is not in the slightest demonic. So tell me, what of this special game?” I said to Ian again.
Ian laughed once more, and produced a blank disc from his back pocket, I guess….and handed it to me, saying “THIS is free of charge after you pay me 60 dollars!”
I pulled out by my wallet, and gave Ian 60 dollars. Reluctantly, I looked at the disc, thinking I was getting ripped off, but hey, I was a part of a story, a story written by two sources I had not known of, and still don’t know of but am somehow talking about it.
After paying the mysterious game store clerk, I walked home, in the rain, without an umbrella, because who the fuck carries an umbrella, really?!
In the distance, I spotted a dark alley covered in shadow, from it emerged a dog. It stared at me with a very blank stare.
“Woof” The dog said. “woof, woof, woof bark woof,” he continued. The dog bolted back down the alley and I followed in close pursuit.
The dog had a family. Little demonic puppies from the trash can from which the puppies had emerged. They started to float, and started floating slowly toward me I was afraid, I raised my hands in defense, and decided to run from the puppies with my disc in my back pocket.
“woof woof” the puppies cried. But in my mind I heard voices saying “THE DISC THE DISC”. But my ears just kept hearing “yip yip”, as they were puppies.
All throughout my jog home, the rain poured down on me like bullets from gun firing very fast, but on my head, wet bullets, a lot of wet, wet, bullets, I made it home with the blank disc in my pocket, still hearing “THE DISC, THE DISC”. As frightened as I was, I wanted the voices to go away from my head. I approached the Xbox.
The voices still ringing in my head, I got a text from my neighbor which read “Shut ur dawgs up”. Even though I only heard “THE DISC, THE DISC”. My neighbor was an asshole, so I ignored it, and then placed the disc inside the Xbox 360.
I placed the game in the Xbox 360, and booted up. I turned on the Xbox 360, and suddenly static. My TV was going frantic, I couldn’t make out the visuals, until suddenly, I started seeing spotted image of my neighbor, Jeremy, who just sent me that text message, popping up, saying “Shut ur dawgs up” It scared me.
“What a douchebag,” I thought aloud, and turned off the Xbox because fuck that guy! “THE DISC” I heard once again, “THE DISC”. It sounded like it was coming from the front door.
I was eager to escape the voices. I would do anything to make them stop. I sprinted toward the front door as quickly as I possibly could, tripping over a chair on the way, I scraped my elbow, but it wasn’t time for a band-aid. “No, not yet” I said to myself, as I looked at the scraped elbow I stood up and opened the door. There I saw, an army of puppies, all barking “THE DISC, THE DISC”
The barking continued. In the distance, I heard a scream ‘SHUT YOUR DOGS UP” My neighbor yelled from inside his living room. I ignored him once again, lifting the disc up towards the puppies, assuming that I took it with me from the Xbox, I think that happened.
Yeah.
I offered it to the puppies. “Bark, bark, bark, bark, bark” the puppy nearest to me said, and in my head I heard some more kinda barking, I think it was a regular dog. But the one behind it, “BARK, BARK, BARK, BAAARK” “GIVE IT TO MEEEE” I heard. I trembled, and extended my hand towards the second dog, and the first dog kinda ran in my house, because it was a regular dog, and now I’ve got a dog in my house.
I named my new puppy, Sparkles, because of how it sparkled when it came through the door. I would give it a tag later, considering I would survive the army of demonic puppies. I really hoped I could live out my life with Sparkles, my new dog, but now wasn’t the time for that. Upon the handing the disc, I placed my hands up, and the disc slowly floated out of my palms into the air, and then all of a sudden, the image starting to appear on the disc, it was fuzzy at first, but then it became clear to me what this game was intended to be.
Slowly, the blurry image began to focus. It was forming a face, a face that I recognized. It was IAN from Game Senter, which I go to all the time, and would never forget the name of. He began to emerge from the disc, as all the puppies go “Bark, bark, bark, bark, bark, bark!” Ian, now emerged from the disc, says “You’ve freed me from Game Sity, I already forgot what it was, Game Senter, I never worked at a Game Sity! Now I can continue to chase my dreams of being a dog groomer. These are my dogs.” “Bark, bark, bark, bark” All the dogs barked in unison. “This is a very long sentence” Ian concluded.
“You’re reward for freeing me,” Ian continued. “Is this puppy you named Sparkles. Take care of Sparkles, and don’t ever let him leave your side. If he does run away, or die at your side, you will die along with him. For you have played the contents of the disc on your TV screen, and are now bound by a ridiculously strict contract you did not realize you have signed.”
In a flash, the mysterious Game Sentral worker, Sentral?! Game Senter. The mysterious Game Senter employee vanished, along with all of his puppies. I returned inside, not sure if I was scared, or just kind of annoyed with everything that had happened. After taking 2 steps into my house, I heard a knock at the door. Slowly, I turned around and opened it. Standing outside was a police officer, and he said “Yeah, we had a noise complaint about some dogs,” THE END
Conducting research.
It’s humbling to suck at Mario Kart again. I need to master these tracks. XD
Here’s my ranking of Mario Kart DLC maps, I’m sure they’ll change!
(Favourite to least favourite, even though I likes them all.)
1. Ice Ice Outpost: I love the intertwining nature of the tracks and the short cuts available on both sides. I love switching between routes and working out the best way to go. Also visually stunning, so much going on in the background. Ice walls falling, ships, helicopters. So beautiful.
2. Hyrule Circuit: Just visually stunning. Satisfying track, too. Lots of short cut potential in the fields and varied scenery too. I love how Mario Kart staples have been Zeldified with the rupees, piranha plants and all that. Decent length too and easily up there with the prettiest of the bunch.
3. Excitebike Arena: This one’s deceptive. It’s simple in layout and simple in colour scheme but so fun to jump. I love how it’s slightly different from time-to-time too and elements of the track are moved about. It’s also amazing when the crowd cheers as you make the jumps.
4. Mute City: The speed, man. The speed. This is chaotic and fun in multiplayer. So easy to get distracted with slack jaw gawking at the scenery too. So much detail in the background.
5. Yoshi Circuit. Decent legnth with so much going on. Can see this being a lot of fun in TAY Kart with all the corners and potential for upsets.
6. Dragon Driftway. So fun, like a roller coaster. This track made me dizzy though and is fairly unforgiving with the lack of rails and all that. Great fun. Love the murals on the walls inside the buildings and how tough it is to orientate yourself with the surrounds. The three jumps near the end? Amazing!
7. Wario’s Gold Mine. One of my favourites from the Wii Mario Kart. Fairly simple in colour and design, though. Easy to hit barriers and fall off cliffs.
8. Rainbow Road: So pretty. Love the neon colours and view of the Mushroom Kingdom below. Totally going to be hardest with multiplayer. So many tight angles and cliff falls.
Unpopular Opinion: I absolutely hated Wario’s Gold Mine from Mario Kart Wii.
It seems the unpopular opinion is to like Mario Kart Wii at all. (Which I did. :P)
Yeah, I’ll admit that I didn’t like that game in general, and a big part of that was the track design.
I think my love of Crash Team Racing gets in the way of me enjoying Mario Kart games.
Crash Team Racing I enjoy the power sliding in that a lot more
Crash Team Racing is great. The power-sliding doubly so. The only thing that holds it back is some underdeveloped multiplayer options.
Possibly unpopular opinion: I thought Nitro Kart was crap. The track design was terrible, the physics were pretty crap, especially on the hovercraft things. and the boss fights were a pretty big letdown.
I agree with you completely, Nitro Kart wasn’t very good IMO. Also another issue they had overall in the franchise, only 50cc
Oh god, the same random pokamon girl that wanted to TM double team me just gave me a TM substitute instead.
I don’t know what any of that means, but it sounds naughty.
Man I hate Rics in the Valley (Brisbane people). I really didn’t need a reminder of how old I am. Playing Appetite For Destruction in there, half the people in there were still 7 years away from being born when that came out
Now Sabotage Social, this is my kind of place. Bonus that it’s nice and quiet too tonight
So Assassin’s Creed Unity appears to be a massive pile of crap and Ubisoft placed an incredibly unfair embargo on reviewers that lifted 12 hours after the game launched. This industry…
EDIT: Contrary to popular opinion, ‘lifeted’ is not a word.
There was a youtube video I watched last night showing all the glitches they found so far… really looks unfinished along with the optimisation issues :/
Apparently running the game in offline mode adds a couple more frames per second. The game must have some form of clandestine always-on DRM.
Guh.
I’m eyeing off a couple of PDP Fightpad Controllers for 4-player Smash Bros, but to get them and the Wiimotes will be $100+.
D:
Slamball may the greatest sport in the history of mankind. Does rugby have trampolines? I didn’t think so.
Every time I’m channel hopping and land on that I end up transfixed, every sport needs trampolines.
And Ken Carter is coaching one of the teams for some reason!
(seriously, what the hell is he doing there?)
Can’t sleep…
Too hot…
Dog laying on bed…
He wanted some company…
Is your dog crazy? Sid kept moving because he was so hot and didn’t know what to do
“Human! Why are you making everything hot? Cool the world down again!”
Spoilers for people on a blackout for Pokemon ORAS news (I don’t think there are any but just in case)
What! We are actually going into outer space this time!? Using Rayquaza as a rocketship? Amazing! Going into space was always one of those schoolyard rumours because of the completely unused Space Station in Mossdeep city. Now it is actually going to have a purpose! The trailer makes it sound like it’s a post-game thing as well. I can’t wait!Haha what the fuck!
(only appropriate response)
Just had a near car crash on the Nepean Hwy. Heading to Mornington for Cathryn’s job interview massive traffic we had to merge so indicate and start coming across behind the car in front, suddenly the car behind us fangs it up behind us nearly hitting us and starts high beaming, honking the horn and Flippin the bird at us, we just keep driving and next minute hes crossed the double unbroken line into on coming traffic and speeds past Then cuts infront of us so close we had to hit the brakes to avoid them hitting us then they slammed the brakes to try and make us hit them before she sped off
Some people
Humans…
I always have to watch out on this certain intersection every time I drive home from the train station where 70% of the drivers forget that it’s a “Give way” line while I’m turning right onto Nepean Highway. Since I’m turning left into the next major road just after, I have to turn right into the far left lane and lots of the time I have to avoid getting hit hard on my left.
They are terrible, its every time we drive to Mornington we have a near accident and see 2 actual accidents
God I hate people, what a dick!
Also, kind of ironic, because we were actually involved in an accident last night, other guy ran a stop sign, looked like he was pretty well off his tree. We went to the hospital and got checked out, just a few scratches and bruises and a bit sore, but I think we’ll be ok. The car doesn’t look so good though, be surprised if they don’t declare it a write-off.
Glad to hear you guys avoided a crash, honestly amazes me how some people passed their licence test.
Im glad you guys made it out with only a few scratches thats terrible that you were actually in an accident. Now lets just hope the other guy has insurance
Apparently he does, it was wifeys car he hit.
Ugh, having a CT scan today, and have a litre of clear liquid that tastes like dishwashing liquid to drink. What on earth is in this stuff?
They have given me an hour, I thought that was an insanely long period of time, but man this stuff is nearly impossible to drink. It doesn’t taste that bad, but after a couple of glasses my body just refuses to swallow it.
I feel like Dumbledore in the cave, drinking the water to get to the amulet thingo. It should have come with a shell to drink it out of.
Please… Harry… no…
I went through that a couple months back, not pleasant, they added some lemon flavor to the stuff I had but it made it worse, tasted like watered down soapy cordial with a metallic after taste. Are they going to pump you full of dye while going through the scan? That was the weirdest bit, they hook you up to a little robot that sends pulses of dye into you continuously, felt really weird. Good luck, I hope they find what they’re looking for or not depending on the problem.
Yeah, the contrast dye is always so weird, makes you completely sure you have wet yourself.
I could have sworn I had something running down my face and neck, weird stuff, I hope it all went well.
GODDAMN MARIO KART!
Come 1st in the first 3 races, pretty much in 1st the for the whole last race until the last corner, Blue Shell, Red Shell…. 5th. GODDAMMIT!!!!
Nobody’s home, but I’m still playing on the gamepad screen without the TV on. Whyfor I do dis?
*turns TV on*
It’s a portable non portable handheld device!
@dire_wolf and @phoenix Could I get your classes and specs of choice for WoW guys? i.e if you’re still up for casual raiding on saturday’s =]
I’ve only ever played a hunter to max level. I’d be interested in playing something else, maybe a melee DPS like a warrior or rogue… Any suggestions?
A good raid rogue is exceedingly difficult to play; I’d go as far as to say they’d be the hardest class in WoW to play well. We are a bit lacking on the mdps so pick anything you’re comfortable with! At this point in time we’re also sorely in need of 2 more healers, I can step up to be one but I have raid healed since…. Cata.
I’ve always wanted a two-handed dual-wielding warrior. Might role one 🙂
Once you lock it in spam me on bnet and I’ll lock your class in as MDPS =]
I should be logging on in about 4 hours.
I’m stuck at uni for the next 3 hours, then work for another 6. I’ll spam you when I get home.
Surprise!!!…you bastard 😛
😛
ily
So after that post earlier in the week about those Zelda shirts, I’ve been poking around and considering grabbing a bunch. Which is super weird for me because not only have I never bought myself clothes before (outside of getting parts for a costume. And climbing shoes and those gloves I got for Japan don’t count, they more fall under the banner of equipment), but the idea of buying clothes online without having tried them on first seems weird and makes me uneasy.
Also I threw a bunch in the cart to check out how the shipping calculations worked out and I seem to have broke it. There’s some point at around the 15 mark where adding one more makes it throw an error, then another one fixes it, then any more break it again. Also around that point it wasn’t broken at first, and jumped from $34/$110 for tracked/untracked, and went to only one option of like $207.
I buy clothes online all the time. Its super risky but I try to buy the cheaper stuff on sale so I can cut my losses if it doesn’t really fit right 😛
Did you get HB Shirt edition yet? And wait… have you never bought your own clothes?… D:
It took a while to figure out what HB meant 😛 If you mean Vinyl Edition, it hasn’t arrived yet and iirc wasn’t due til December. And if you meant Cassette Edition, I got it on the last day of sale but didn’t get the cassette one.
And yeah, never.
I figured you’d be confused since you refer to it at Vinyl Edition but I was too lazy to change it 😛
Seriously guys. Are we not talking to each other any more? What’s with the constant new pages? I’m starting to feel like @shane with all the spamming.
Secret SanTAY: Go Back To Where You Came From Not In My Country This Is Australia Speak My Language All Muslims Are Terrorists Why Won’t Anyone Pay Attention To Me Edition
Send email to binoter at hotmail to enter into a fantastic world of fantasy and wonder where you fantasise about amazing gifts and wonder just what the hell you were sent is.
LISTEN I ALREADY DID STOP HOUNDING ME
http://www.geek.com/games/nintendos-amiibo-setup-process-is-far-from-effortless-1609295/
Well that’s kinda sucky. I s’pose that’s one way to guarantee that no-one will ever buy your figures off you, unless you sell them your account as well that is. You either keep them forever, or throw them in the bin.
Well that’s kinda lame. With my aversion to all the account-locked stuff I’m wondering if I even want to bother now.
Yeah, they already looked pretty bad with those awful supports. Fast losing interest.
I still want the Samus and Link ones. Dunno if I’ll ever bother to configure them, though.
Same with Diddy. It’ll be a statue. 😛
Prettiness is the only statue’ll take into consideration now.
Also, having read that it’s now even more mind-blowing to me that they didn’t end up region-locked.
Wow 10am and there is still a queue for WoW.
Any TAYbies looking to play tonight you’re best logging in long before you want to play if you can.
Lame. Had forgotten about this aspect of wow. Wonder if people are still trying to click those flags.
We totes should have moved to a lower population server while free realm transfers were on offer.
From what people are saying all oceanic realms are bad at the moment, just how it is during a launch, it will be gone soon enough.
On the flip side, now might be the perfect time to hunt for rare pets while everyone else is dogpiling Draenor :p
It would be advisable
Did you really just say “totes”?
Totes did!
I say many things 🙂
It’s ridiculous but I actually miss that. That and being able to get ahead of everyone by using /target with interact bound to the mouse in order to talk to quest NPCs that were so over crowded they were impossible to click on.
They fixed that issue a couple of xpacs ago, you can click through players to NPCs, although nobody remembers it or just choose to whinge anyway
Heh, odds are I was still playing and just didn’t realise. Probably too busy looking for achievement changes to read that part of the patch notes. =P
So I was just reminded of the QLD public holiday, that explains it
Latency is fucked as well, keep lagging out every half an hour or so..
What’s you bnet name btw?
Marc#1325 !
Sif reply to @freezespreston when I can start a whole new comment. 😛
Hey Dave, love your new album. Bought tickets to your 2015 gig as well. Can’t wait.
Shit, that reminds me. I should do the same if they’re still available.
I’m doing timetabling for so many areas at the only University in Tasmania.
I’ve just been handed timetabling for a campus located over 200km away, that I have never set foot on, in a subject area that I have no idea about. And I have to have it all in, without clashes, by Monday afternoon.
Everything is going fine.
Ahh the joys of the Tertiary education sector. I know these feels!
…Shadow of Mordor is 25% off on Steam for the next 42 hours.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/241930/
Hmmmm tempting but don’t think I’ll have time for it just now
Might as well wait for a bigger discount as that is sure to happen before I get around to playing it
Yup, same for me!
It’s an awesome game, but yeah, will probably end up with a bigger discount in the Christmas sale.
It’s $38.99 for a Steam key from Ozgameshop, non-sale.
http://www.ozgameshop.com/pc-games/middle-earth-shadow-of-mordor-with-the-dark-ranger-dlc-cd-key-download-for-steam
cc @powalen
$5 or bust!
So free gifts aren’t an option? Phew!
It’s pretty much permanently $40 on GMG, accounting for their regular 20% off codes.
Help a brother out far cry 4 or gta new gen
FC4 would be my personal preference
Since most of Brisbane has today off I’ll join in in spirit by doing as little work as possible whilst TAYing, googling game related things & listening to music.
So THAT’S why it’s so quiet around here…
That’s my normal day at work.
So it looks like Ubisoft have officially responded to the recent issues with Assassin’s Creed: Unity stating why it’s happened: http://imgur.com/Cus4rCG
No matter how many times I play the Arkham games I never get sick of them.
Can’t wait for Arkham Knight.
I haven’t played origins or blackgate yet
Got about halfway through Origins, then stopped, have no idea why, probably got new games or something. Got the trilogy on Steam in the last sale, so I’m starting again from the first one. Also had Blackgate downloaded on my 360 for a fair while now, no idea when I’ll get around to starting it.
Mechanically it’s just so satisfying to play. The way you lure thugs into traps in the stealth play, the way every punch connects in combat, it’s just magic.
Bored… sitting around, waiting for the cricket.
Crickets chirping while waiting for the cricket?
But cricket will make the boredom even worse!
*flees*
You ‘avin a go at cricket, mate?
I’ll bash your fookin ‘ead in.*
(*Not really)
I love ya. Always have. 😀
<3
Get a room you two.
Maybe we will…
*sax music*
😛
At least once the cricket starts you can cheer for when your local sports team gets a home run right into a slam dunk
GOOOOO SPORTS TEAM!!!!
Cricket! \o/
@negativezero
Sorry thought I’d start a new thread as opposed to doing the tagging thing each time we reply =p
Agreed there’s definitely more to it than just 12-3 but at the moment there’s two sets of people in the guild, those that are looking to restart WoW and get into it as an MMO you know doing dailies, getting mats for bufffs, etc. or those who just want to come back for a few hours a week.
I’m hoping to balance both those groups against each other? With people with time contraints helping the guild out when they can and those who play more intensively carry a heavier load, me personally I’ll probably be taking care of alchemy and cooking for the guild =] so if piat, jo and red are happy to help it should be more than enough to do one session a week with the others logging over the weekend for the raid runs =]
Your call though dude, sorry if I’m pressuring you or pushing you; not my intention at all and if I am just tell me to bugger off =p I do tend to get over-zealous with recruiting and shit xD *snake oil peddler coming through!*
Just caught up on this sales pitch, chances are we won’t be progression raiding for the first raid, not until we have a solid guild base going and confirm roles and numbers so I wouldn’t worry too much about it becoming a full time sink just yet
I am not sure which category I’ll fall into at this point. I’ll probably be on most nights if other peeps are and have nothing else occupying me, but dunno if I’m enthused enough for matt farming and crafting and such. Especially since I’ll have to start from the ground up – that’s a fuckton of grinding.
If you @piat and @distantdrop are on we’ll have a discussion while questing to 100 to see how we structure the guild. Like I mentioned in destiny I’m happy to raid lead and organize (if anyone else wants to I’m happy to rotate in/out as well!) but I do need help from officers in the running of the guild, etc.
Edit: Discussion to cover what might need to be done for the guild, mat farming and stuff isn’t as grindy as it used to be in Wotlk as well, usually a few hours a week will give you a surplus of mats. Let me put it to you like this; farming mats in Destiny is harder than farming mats in wow =P
Yeah cool.
You be on tonight?
Yep hopefully should be leaving the office in 30-40min!
you dont have to start professions from the ground up, you can start at dreanic level luckily
How so? I did find a scroll of Draenic mining last night, but after using it I still only have 4 mining skill and only find trash.
I havent fully looked into it yet but they said there would be catch up mechanisms for all proffesions
I’m wavering severely. Dammit. I thought I was free of its horrible grip on my life. 🙁
Do you have enough tanks / healers that just extra DPS / warm bodies that aren’t idiots is all you need to fill out a group at this point, or do you have gaps there as well?
At the moment everything is open, we are probably lacking one healer but everyone is happy to roll multi-spec’d classes at the moment. Piat is locked in as MT, I have 2 possible candidates for OT but I would like a dedicated OT to be safe. I could also use one more person willing to heal.
But at the end of the day play what you’re most comfortable with and what you enjoy; that matters the most, we can fill out the roles around that!
My mains were always Paladin and DK so used to DPS and tanking. Never really got into healing, maintaining 3 gear sets was too expensive and time consuming, but I did off tank a bit of ICC and a few others in our 25-man group. That was ages ago though and I think the class plays way different, and I haven’t done any group content since WotLK.
I’d probably roll a Paladin again though. I wouldn’t server transfer either of my old ones. No point as they’re Alliance.
At the moment both my possible OT’s would prefer to play other specs in their class, so if you’re comfortable tanking as a pally happy to lock you in as the OT. However fair warning…. Piat is MT’ing as a pally as well which basically means both of you are going to be in direct competition for gear!
Do you want me to level my druid and off spec tank or heals with Balance primary?
I’ve no real experience at either but I like druids and being useful in teams.
Level a druid?? From level 1?…. I think you’re underestimating the time sink that is without legacy gear =P
We need solid RDPS and MDPS ideally 2 of each. I’ve locked you in as one of my RDPS guys with your hunter, you looking to switch?
And in regards to being useful to the team, a good dps is as useful as any healer or tank out there! Heck I’ve honestly had more trouble finding good dps than I have healers or tanks….. Your call though but let me know so I can scratch one of the raid requirements off my list! =p
Also when I’m on WoW tonight I’ll run you through the essential add-ons, I got to update mine as well so we’ll do em at the same time =]
I think I saw him logged on it the other day i think its around 60 or so.
Nah, 63. I transferred an old toon to barth.
@Distantdrop
Honestly it was 50/50 what I rolled. I liked both classes back in the day but don’t really know how they play now or have experience in large groups with either.
I like versatility in theory but regretted the jack of all trades shaman I mained.
But I have a hunter ready, so if that fits that’s what I’ll stick with.
Heirloom gear is going into the account-wide toychest thingie they’re adding along with all your vanity stuff apparently so he wouldn’t be without the bonus.
I hope this isn’t stemming from you possibly feeling bad about playing a DPS role, play whatever class gives you enjoyment, if you start playing for someone else’s benefit you will find yourself quitting really quickly.
If you like the play style of your druid more than your hunter, do it.
This. 100x. Trust us dude! =P
And yeah if you prefer your druid then play your druid!
I’m not sure I can commit as OT since I’m not even sure I’ll start playing again, let alone if I’ll stick with it. Maybe should go with plan B and roll a DK instead if I pick it back up? DK was my main in WotLK where Paladin was my alt, but that was primarily because I swapped server to play with friends and by starting a DK I got to go skip the Vanilla content and go straight to Outland so I was able to start raiding earlier.
Actually how does the Monk play? I dropped the game just after Cataclysm came out so never got a chance to try it.
I played monk a fair bit in MOP and i’m maining it for WoD.
Mistweaver – RNG and situational healer, you either love it or hate it.
Wind Walker – As far as I know this was the worst dps class in game in MoP, all other melee dps classes out performed it, was very rare to see someone raid as one can’t say how it’ll be perform in WoD.
Brew Master – Solid tank, IMO the best AOE tank in game, defensive cooldowns were also pretty unique aswell, I can’t fault it at all.
How is it complexity-wise? Are we talking faceroll easy like WotLK Ret Paladin, or are we talking spinning multiple plates while walking a tightrope like TBC cat druid?
Thats tough to answer, it does have a combo point management so it can be a little hard to get use to, however WoD pruned down alot of the fluff abilities of every class had so all classes feel more straight forward/streamlined, so every class is easier this time around.
Definitely not face roll however.
Need food. Need nap. Need… home.
Y U NO HAVE HOME?
B COS WERK
Oh, you have a home but you’re just away from it. I can relate. :'(
Same. I forgot to bring lunch and for some reason I’m completely exhausted. I can’t decide if I want to sneak in a nap or sneak across the road to the petrol station and get something that almost qualifies as food. So much sneaking to be done…
Him card read good.
Mario Kart DLC! *flails arms* Spent the morning looking for and mastering short cuts. So fun.
noted, follow dc in new tracks, saving a red shell for the home stretch.
http://i.qkme.me/3t0oib.jpg
Linky no work.
Damnit!
Ohh I give up, I want to link to html like you guys! 🙁
You mean like this.
No. Like this
@tigerion, you sir have won the internet for today.
Oh, like this?
How much does this DLC cost?
From memory I think it’s ten bucks for the single pack, or $16 for both packs (second one is due out in May I think).
you are correct sir.
So Senran Kagura Bon Appetit is a…. Um… Something. Thinking maybe I jumped in the deep end with these games. The whole thing is hilariously daffy except when it’s diving into uncomfortable perversion. Like when you hit a heart note and your nearly naked opponent takes a break from cooking to give you a lap dance or you get a perfect victory and your actually naked opponent is covered in cream and chocolate and humping a giant banana while telling you to eat her however you want.
On the flipside the judge is amazing. His judgements involve being wrapped into a giant sushi roll and flying through space screaming about being unable to handle the vastness of the taste experience. Or the character I’ve chosen demanding everyone surrender their boobs to her so she can take them to her boob paradise where everything is boobs and starts shouting the word boobs over and over again.
I’ve never played a game that makes me giggle so much while feeling like I shouldn’t even be touching it.
I wonder if non-Japanese could get away with creating games like that? Hmm..
I’ve never heard of the game then Google searched it.
NSFW
I … hrmm … I don’t even …
Also, wat? ALSO NSFW
Oh jesus it keeps getting worse. CLOSE THE GOOGLE WINDOW! OH DEAR GOD CLOSE IT!
EDIT: I sure hope no one looks at my search history because oh boy are they in for a shock.
Okey dokey.
You can talk, Mr the only person in my Steam Friends list who owns a game called “mount your friends”
What, @freezespreston and @coldcamv (I think) aren’t on your friends list.
Also, in my defense I haven’t even played it yet.
What, aren’t they?
Bugger. Will have to rectify that tonight at home.
Also WHY DO YOU OWN A GAME CALLED MOUNT YOUR FRIENDS???!?
Hyperactive dangling schlong physics.
Sorry, that was actually a question, not a statement.
That’s basically what I was saying and I’ve played several of the other games. The chocolate & cream thing is a bit too far for me and it feels a bit tonally off compared to the rest of the franchise which is a lot less overt in its perversions. I mean, they’re all pervy stupid fanservice games but the original and Shinovi Versus feel a bit more good-natured. It’s a light-hearted and incredibly silly franchise about ninja girls with huge boobs (except Mirai but that’s kind of the joke) fighting each other and it’s incredibly self-aware of how dumb it is, it just runs with it. Most of that comes out in Bon Appetit but I feel like it goes a bit too far sometimes.
Hanzo’s reactions are indeed amazing. They’re basically a homage to Yakitate Japan, which was a manga from a while back about competitive bread baking. Basically took the usual battle / sports manga formula and applied it to something really weird and then ran with it. In that, there’s one judge who has these incredibly long and convoluted and over the top reaction sequences. Like this:
You picked Katsuragi as your starting point from the sound of things. Her shtick is basically going around groping people. It’s funny at first but I find her a bit grating. The only one of the characters I actively dislike is Hibari who seems like she’s constantly tripping on LSD or something. So far I’ve completed the story with Homura and Mirai – taking a break from the Hanzo characters because I’m working on clearing their story in Shinovi Versus still and Homura’s group are a late-game unlock in that where you have to clear the other three schools first.
That animated opening when you start the game is amazing though.
The scoring is absolutely brutal on Normal. Couldn’t get more than an E rank and failure even with a 90% great or better.
I’ve just been playing on easy. A quick glance through the trophy list suggests that you can possibly platinum it on easy. Not sure though, I think there’s one that requires you to get to Ninja Art Level 15 which probably needs more notes. The highest I’ve gotten it is 6 and that was by turning it on immediately and hitting every note perfect.
EDIT: But I’m also not quite sure how the ninja art thing even works.
Oh and for scoring, the percentage that it shows down the bottom is actually the position you are on the scoring rank thing at the top, where is’a red bar on your side and a blue one on the other girl’s side. When you’re doing well it pushes it completely to red and you get 100% (‘superior’) for each dish, but if you fail then it pushes the opposite direction. So basically if you’re missing lots of stuff and not building up decent chains then the dial won’t move as far from the center and you’ll get lower percentage. That will also affect the size and taste of your final dish as well – size is based on the longest combo you got and taste is percentage hit perfectly I think.
Dunno why Blizzard is giving out such low level armour from quests in Warlords.. I’m still fully clad in my season 15 PVP gear and it’s stats are just so much better than what is on offer from the quests, oh well free gold!
:O thanks @rize
…?
Oooh, right!
No worries 😛
Good job!
The AC: Unity reviews I’ve skimmed make it sound more like the original AC. So I now have a glimmer of interest for it. 😛
Think I’ll check it out when it gets to be a super-low price.
The thing that has me less than enthused is that everybody is saying that Arno is Blandy McBlanderson.
Don’t they get that we want a main character with depth that we can follow, to have it as a story not just an excuse to stab people.
Pay $9.99 for 10 personality tokens.
Ooh, where can I get some of those?
I’ve heard the opposite, that he cleaves closer to Ezio than anyone else.
And let’s be honest, Connor was bland. Kenway was bland. Altair was bland until they un-blanded him briefly in another game. Ezio was the only one with something approaching a personality.
ok, that is interesting. Considering I’m still playing AC:Rev I haven’t followed the reviews to much
The AC: Unity reviews I’ve skimmed make it sound like AC3 without the naval combat. :\
The AC: Unity reviews I’ve seen make it look like a broken piece of shit that runs at 20fps. :/
I seem to have gone on a massive Star Wars binge recently. I’m playing X-Wing miniatures once a week, watching The Clone Wars, and playing SWTOR and reviving Battlefront II.
…we should Battlefront again some time.
@f4ction @cakesmith @pixel_the_ferret_viking @sernobulus @blaghman not sure who else played last time/would be interested in trying this time.
Ugh, Star Wars is for NERDS
*goes back to playing SWTOR*
I played some with @crazyguy1990 or that may have been the original I can’t remember. Anyway I’ll be interested
I’d totally be up for it. 🙂
Also according to my steam page @transientmind, @bish, @lamboman and @chuloopa have played previously
I would love to play X-Wing but everyone says the costs end up being Warhammer levels. Which makes me a sad, broke panda.
It’s not that bad, but it does go pretty high if you want everything or more.
It certainly rips you off like Warhammer does.
It’s no where near that price – at all.
Especially if your rebels – a full100 point tournament army would be like 4-5 ships, which would be $150 at the most.. Often much less.
This is the most boring lunch ever. It’s like the whole internet’s gone to sleep.
Chicken tandoori wrap for lunch that was best before yesterday. Wish me luck.
Damn… So popped past DS yesterday, tried to pick up my GTAV for PS4 Preorder, but NOPE.
In other news, im thinking about grabbing master chief collection… any peeps interested in coop’ing the entire series? theres room for a total of 4?
I’m tossing up between purchasing Shadows of Mordor on PC or on Xbone, does anyone have a positive experience with either of these systems?
I have gone to buy it three times from JB and it wasn’t in stock, but a full price $99 version was at EB… No dice.
PC version looks fantastic and runs really well on my system (current-gen i5, 16gb RAM, 670 OC), and that’s without installing the high-res textures which require a lot of video memory that I don’t have.
However the game is pretty large, around 35gb download, so be aware of that if you want to get it on Steam.
Well one is a PC and the other isn’t. Should tell you all you need to know
Also I haven’t played it
MASTER RACE
According to @rize further up the page, it’s only 39.95 at Ozgamesshop for a Steam key.
That’s what peaked my interest! I was deciding whether I should actively go and purchase it or download it on Steam/Ozgames.
why not price match?
I feel bad for doing it, I did it once at EB games and it was like I was ripping the heart right out of the man. I swore never to do that again lol
oh wow… good to finally meet you man, I’m your evil twin!
would have probably stomped on his heart after ripping it out,.
a few things to consider:
1. Employees get NO COMMISION.
2. The Regional Managers/State Managers and Directors GET MASSIVE COMMISIONS
3. EB PAY LESS for games as they have better buying power, being a specialised retailer.
4. EB upper level employees will never go hungry… They rip out peoples hearts, souls, left & right lungs, and then perform a ritual dance as they feast on peoples wallets.
That does make me feel better, then I saw JB are charging $89 for Shadows of Mordor online 🙁
I think it might be a reasonable price for a good game, but I was hoping for $79 😛
Dick smith has XBO/PS4 versions for $69
http://www.dicksmith.com.au/playstation-4/shadow-of-mordor-ps4-dsau-yg10590
You sir, are not my evil my twin. You’re my evil soulmate.
Although I just noticed that it’s an online offer only for DS. will that be a problem if I marched in with a printed copy of the screen grab? 😛
failing that:
JB Hifi’s price is actually $79
https://www.jbhifi.com.au/games-consoles/platforms/ps4/middle-earth-shadow-of-mordor/638683/
and if you have a video ezy or blockbuster near you, They are selling it for $63
Um.. how are these people even employed?
I’ve been reading this all too often. Blah blah some pop culture reference or ‘here’s our proposal for changes/overhaul of our current technology/systems,’ then bombshell ‘I don’t know how to use a computer’ or ‘I don’t use emails.’ What the hell, politics?
Ahh the Chewbacca defence, water tight
CHEWBACCA DOESN’T EVEN LIVE ON ENDOR HE’S JUST THERE TO BLOW UP THE DEATH STAR SHIELD GENERATOR.
John “Let’s ban all R18+ games” Rau doesn’t know how technology works? Who would have thought?!
Have you ever had a dream that was so awesome, the main character retells the entire story to another character just to reinforce how awesome the story was, only to wake up and not remember a thing? It’s a fun experience, you should it sometime.
SATURDAY GOES TO THE DENTIST
Saturday: There’s this black spot here, see? Think it’s a cavity.
Dentist: That’s your filling, Mister Saturday.
Saturday: Well then.
TOTAL COST: SIX WHOLE DOLLARS
One dollar per word of advice. PLUS RETAINER! HA!
Six dollars? Did you go to some kind of back alley clinic or is dentistry not insanely expensive in Canadia?
I don’t think I’ve ever been to the dentist in Australia and not walked away having paid him $60-80+ even for a simple checkup where nothing else was done.
Dental care in New Zealand when I was a kid was free but the dental nurses were all sadistic horrible bitches who enjoyed inflicting pain and terror on children.
I have a dental plan, covers about half my costs. Wish it was covered by medicare.
lisa needs braces
DENTAL PLAN
LISA NEEDS BRACES
YouTube ads are now advertising to advertisers.
Woah.
Do you think that all the youtube ad people know about this option? You may well make a neat bundle of cash if you made some adverts telling them they can advertise to advertisers.
“If you act now, your advertisement could be appearing in “your advertisement could be appearing here” spaces across the internet!“
@strange
How do I enter your super awesome giveaway? I’m fine with one entry ’cause twitter scares me.
I aready put you on the list when I noticed you saying on here that you contributed. 🙂
But regardless, Shane will send me a list of TAYbies at the end to make sure I have a complete list of entrants.
but aren’t we supposed to pick a theme and 2 colors or something?
If you win, you then choose. Otherwise I’ll be overwhelmed with ideas. 🙂
PS: If you won, I hope you’d choose Berserk as your theme, that could be quite fun! 😀
haha, that’s exactly what I was thinking, not sure on colors, obviously red but not sure on black or white, black and red always look good together but might be hard to get any detail in there. I’unno *shrugs*
Another page? Already? New respect for @shanes Spamdurance. Only doing this until Monday at least, not another month.
#SecretSanTAYgate: It’s Actually About Ethics In Anonymous Gift Giving
Send an email to binoter at hotmail to join in and spend days finding a perfect gift for your person that’s tasteful, funny, clever and exactly what they needed only to receive a sex aid with @dkzeitgeist’s face on it sent to you.
i emailed you yesterday freeze.
i thought id get a reply…
maaybe a picture of a kitten…
…something.
Instead, i…. i….. i got nothing…..
(curls into a corner and cries)
Fixed!
I’ve come to believe that @shane is a master coder who has somehow managed to get a spam bot working in TAY.
So… after learning AC: Unity would wipe out 40% of my monthly download quota, I decided I’d download the behemoth at work and transfer the files across. Did so, followed a guide on how to get Uplay to recognise the files, but nothing seemed to work. So, I now have roughly 120GB of AC:Unity sitting on my Games drive – 10x 4GB tarballs (used to copy the files over efficiently), 40GB in Uplay’s download cache that it refuses to acknowledge exists, and 40GB in the game’s install directory that Uplay also refuses to acknowledge exists.
Anyone had any luck getting Uplay to recognise files? I’m thinking of leaving it until next month, when I’ll be able to download it without worrying too much about my quota (also, bugfixes would be nice :P).
Have you tried turning it off and turning it on again?
. . . I’ve tried restarting Uplay, but didn’t think rebooting would do much more. Worth a shot, tho. I’ve got a couple of other ideas I want to try, but not really optimistic.
http://forums.ubi.com/showthread.php/810550-Transfer-Assassin-s-Creed-4-game-files-onto-another-PC-Forums
There’s a method listed down the thread there for AC4, chances are the same should apply since it’s more of a uplay thing than a game specific thing. I mean the worst that can happen is that the game will run but be a glitch unoptimised mess and then you’ll know the process succeeded flawlessly!
Yep, was following that thread, among others, last night. Hmm… crap. Looks like I missed a state file in Ubisoft’s launcher directory (derp :P). Removing that might fix it. Thanks! 🙂
Edit: I should really learn to read those threads backwards… the last posts tend to be the most relevant.
have had this happen before… off the top of my head, once you move the files accross, all you need to do is start the download… at that point it will relaise theres files there, and skip each file that already exists…
Yep, except it wasn’t doing that. It was downloading and overwriting the files in the download directory. I’m pretty sure it’s doing that because of a state file in the launcher directory (ignoring the fact there’s also a state file in the download directory, for whatever reason) that I didn’t know existed, which kept track of whether the launcher was downloading/installing/whatever, and was stuck on “download”.
Pretty sure it all went wrong when I started following the guides telling me to let uPlay create the directories by starting the download before transferring the files…
ah ok, just remembered how i did it in the past… this is the guide i followed:
Thanks, I’ll see how I go tonight.
not sure how comfortable you are with reg keys, but if you install it on your work machine, export the registry key, copy the files to the same directory on your home pc and apply that reg key, that will also work.
I’ve got no problem with manipulating the registry. I removed AC:U from my laptop today, as it can’t run it anyway, but I remember looking in the registry and only finding the AC:U install entry (Ubisoft/Launcher/Installs/720, iirc, pointed to the install directory) and an entry for Rocksmith (Wow6432Node/Ubisoft/Rocksmith) – ie. no entry for AC:U itself, which would make me believe that it’s not actually installed yet, despite getting as far as the game’s title screen (albeit at 1-2fps).
Thanks, tho. I’m sure I’ll figure something out. 🙂
I say god damn, this looks good for 2011.
Late to the party.
I have spent almost 6 hours playing the demo of Smash Bros. on my 3DS. I can’t really justify buying the full game right now, but I’m totally gonna get out my copy of Brawl tonight instead.
may as well buy the Wii U version when that comes out later this month (assuming you own a Wii U). But if you don’t, great excuse to buy one!
Bleh, my stupid brain is going all insular and “fuck off universe, I’m going to hide here in my dark hole where it’s safe and just play xcom because it loves me (even when Long War is kicking the shit out of me)” again.
It usually takes me a few days to get over the malaise that induces so that whole vault of glass attempt I was trying to organise will have to wait for next week. It might be for the best since I stuffed up communication a bit with the 2 people I already had anyway and got their availability days messed up, there’s the maintenance day that’s either today or tomorrow for an unspecified length of time (and even if bungie did specify the length I’d just assume they got it from a random number generator) and when you add me being a grumpy, depressing prick on top of that (moreso than normal)… yeah best make it next week.
I’ll make a new recruitment post on Monday @transientmind & @jimu (not sure if you were saying you actually wanted in or were just making a joke about running on glass but I’ve tagged you now and it’s too late to reverse it because I just got this laptop and damnit I’m not wearing out my new backspace key!)
Hope you feel better, buddy.
It’s a 4 hour lockout from 8am-12pmish Pacific time.
No idea what time that is here, but here’s hoping you shake that feeling soon.
Yes I was
Dunno about Jimu, but I was serious. Anyway, I’m happy to save it for another day. It would’ve been really awkard, as I got called on to house-sit unexpectedly. There’s a PS4 and Destiny, but no headset.
Computer components bought, paid for, and delivered today! They are now sitting in one half of my shed while I finish renovating the other half of the shed into what will be my gaming room/office. I can feel them just sitting there as I plaster, sand and paint. They are calling to me “build us, buuuild uuus.” Just two more weeks little components then I’m coming for you, and I will build you. I will build the fuck out of you.
Is anyone playing the Master Chief Collection?
@jackunit13 would be up to his eyeballs in Master Chief Collection potentially at this very second
I sure would be, @zetrox2k if I wasn’t holidaying in Port Douglas. I’ve played a few campaign missions so far. I love what they’ve done with it. It needs a fair bit of though.
need to tee up some campaign coop at some point if interested!
For sure. I’ve just added you on XBL.
Campaign sounds good seeing as I haven’t been able to find a multiplayer game since it came was released. -_-
i managed to get an MP game of Halo 1 at some point by chance in one of the non remastered levels…… man it has not aged well…
really hope once all the playlists are unlock theres specific ones for each of the halo games.
Impossible to get a H2:AE game ….
I hate being clean shaven. It’s the worst. Yet I feel compelled to do it every so often. *shakes fist at 12 year old looking face*
Do Movember like me! XD
Mo’s are gross. There’s got to be a better way to contribute to charity. 😛
Ice bucket challenge? 😛
Every time I’ve Movembered I’ve gotten rather attached and been sad to see it go at the end.
Wouldn’t be surprised if one day it stuck.
I doubt it, surely Movember is the laziest and therefore best way to raise money for charity.
Is there anything that technically demands that a moustache has to be on your face? Do a great big handlebar moustache with your pubes, then when someone says you’re not doing anything for movember, you can drop your pants to reveal one that is in fact bigger than theirs, as is the moustache
You shaved?
monsterI did last weekend.
I made a mistake.
If I want to cosplay as the character I’m looking into for PAX next year I’m going to have to attempt to… *gulp* grow a beard D:
I’m thinking Jurassic Park guy! Dennis Nedry!
Hah. If I were to cosplay Nedry I’d need a whole lot more than a beard.
(ps. Nedry didn’t have a beard :P)
He did in Toy Story!
http://showbizgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Screen-Shot-2013-04-21-at-16.48.13.png
That must mean you are going a John Hammond!
Wow, you’re right! In my mind he has a beard! 🙂
Is it because all the jerks you know have beards?
Chins should not be confused with beards!
I think I merged him with Toy Story character like Freezey said. 😀
Or do you?
If I end up going as Stan from Monkey Island, I’ll need to shave.
So you can have my whiskers.
…wait no that’s a terrible idea.
I’ll take them anyway.
Trick is to not fully shave but try something different like a goatee or Mo.
Could try a soul patch but everyone will hate you.
They already do! 😛
Muttonchops?
Got one third of the yard done before the whipper snipper died on me. At least it’s looking slightly better than before.
@pupp3tmast3r
I’ll either be boosting that orc shaman or maybe rolling a priest. Either way I can heal for us, though keep in mind I’ve never raid healed before.
Thank god!! =D I was seriously feeling some healer drought there….
Don’t worry about healing dude we’ll get your experience up doing dungeons and stuff, back in my healing days I used to use an add-on call Healbot, made the hotkey use for heals and hp bar tracking so much easier, if its still going I can walk you through its use =]
http://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/g20-brisbane-2014-this-is-what-a-ghost-town-looks-like/story-e6frflo9-1227122713748
Brisbane’s looking amazing deserted! So cool! 😀
Looks like people finally realised!
Brisbane’s not so bad. All the best TAYbies live there. 😛
I don’t think I’ve ever actually been! Always went straight for the Gold Coast 😛
It’s excellent for meats because it’s so damn small that you can walk everywhere for places to go. 😀
Yeah their smoked bratwurst is particularly good, and so close to the braised goose deli.
That’s what you want in a city! 😛
I just double checked the sign out front and it definitely says “Sydney” on it. Dunno what’s going on there.
Post-apocalyptic urban pre-decay?
It’s beautiful! :’)
Almost resembles Atlanta skyline from Walking Dead pilot with Rick moseying in on horse back.
G20 Brisbane 2014: Brothels expect to do roaring trade
Because world leaders need some lovin’ too.
So after the realisation that the New 3DSXL doesn’t get the face plates I’m actually not going to get one any time soon. The smaller one physically looks better, has nicer buttons, and face plates, but I prefer the size of the XL, which looks a bit crappier, ugly buttons, and no face plate.
I don’t really know who was in charge of the design decisions on the N-XL but I’m clearly missing the benefits of making it shit in comparison.
I cancelled my preorder to hold out in vain hope for a Majora’s Mask limited edition New XL.
Well, that I’d buy, but then you’re talking to someone who literally just whistled every extended Majora’s mask song from memory to his daughter to keep her entertained while making her lunch.
Yeah. I was going to go for a N-3DSXL at first but after actually seeing and trying them both at PAX AUS I definitely want a N-3DS (non XL). Also the fact that apparently Majora’s Mask will make use of the new “C stick” thing means I HAVE to get one now.
Wait how the hell did you get to try the n3DS?
They had some set up I’m pretty sure. Or did I just imagine it?
Nah, they had a bunch in the Nintendo section. You could walk through and see everything but the New 3DS’s. You had to line up to play just to see them.
I am fairly sure you imagined it. I know there were some white units on display in the same section but they were regular 3DS, the only n3DS there was in the display cabinet up the end opposite that little viewing theatre you had to sit through.
Ah well, my mistake.
A couple of the staff members had their personal N3DS’ that they were showing people occasionally. He might’ve grabbed one of those.
Oh they were personal N-3DS’s I assumed they were free …
Didn’t you notice the staff members yelling at you to please stop!
(From what I saw they were passing them around a lot so it was probably fine :P)
!
Dammit that was the one thing I was hoping to be able to try down there.
They were in the Nintendo area. I was trying to get his attention while he was using one but he ignored me.
I cancelled my XL order earlier this week, holding out for now to see if there’s monster hunter bundles at all.
Still going to pick up the non-XL on release, but that’s not for me. I will wait for games and less ugly XLs.
How else are they going to sell a new model to you next year when they make the New 3DS XL++ Turbo Alpha Championship Edition?
Man, I’ve gained a temporary obsession with Supreme Commander now that I actually figured out how to play it.
As in the first Supreme Commander? Can you teach me good ways of managing resource use? I always seem to go overboard while trying to keep up with the AI 🙁
I keep thinking of picking that game up again
-Build a mass extractor
-Build an air factory two blocks below, just enough room to fit a a row of power generators
-Build two engineers
-Build more mass extractors, cover the top of the air factory in power generators
-Build land factory to create units
-Upgrade to T2 air factory
-Build a bunch of T2 engineers
The game is more about resource management than it is about fighting. Remember, you use a shit-ton more resources when you are actually building something. Take a bit of a break between building things to let your power and mass regenerate. Try not to neglect building war units.
Getting the balance right requires a lot of practice. I think I’ve finally nailed a good balance that lets me dominate. Just play a lot of skirmishes. Avoid the campaign.
Gotta say, Toybox Turbos looks so damn tempting…
Basically a reboot of Micro Machines, made by the original team. 🙂
I’m be more tempted if it were actually called Micro Machines, even though the game is not fundamentally any different due to the name.
I’m a stupidhead, I know.
I just got an email from @Shane asking me to send him a full body shot and a close up photo… Not sure if Undad kickstarter email or finally somebody found my mail order husband profile.
Just a @shane thing. You’ll get used to it.
What a deviant! Wait until the unsolicited nudes begin!
And to think he wouldn’t even let me put my hand in his pocket. Creeper.
Ok just two and a half more hours to endure. Just.
The last one already feels like it took about three.
The last one usually is three in my office.
I’m not getting email notifications from here at the moment. Weird. Not even in the Spam folder. I thought I’d had no mentions or replies this morning, but when I read through everything to catch up I found a couple of questions people had asked me and tagged me on. Lucky it was a day when I had a chance to read everything!
I did get regular mail today,though. The quilt I’m quilting for a lady in New Zealand arrived. Eek! Guess I’d better do loads of practice before touching it so I don’t mess it up.
Relax, if you mess it up you can always just burn it and say it never arrived.
Or if you do a really good job and want to keep it just say you never got it 🙂
Nobody is! Haven’t for a while now.
I know, I’ve somehow not got email notifications either.
I think it’s a ploy to get us to hang around here more often, driving up page views.
I ain’t even mad. It’s what I do anyway.
#thuglyfe
I haven’t had any emails about notifications in ages.
But then, a glitch in the system wouldn’t make a difference to that. *Slowly starts crying*
Battlefront 2 has finished downloading.
If anyone’s up for it over the weekend, let me know. 🙂
I didn’t think multiplayer worked for that anymore?
It’ll work via GameMaster.
http://gameshare.co/gamemaster
Had some friends over and played board games last night. Got to try two games that were new to me. \o/
Played two rounds of Boss Monster which was pretty fun. You’re basically a boss monster in a dungeon that has to lure in and murder more adventurers than the other players by building a dungeon of traps and monster rooms that they have to pass through to fight you. 8-bit aesthetic. Quite enjoyable and pretty quick.
Also finally had a chance to break out the copy I had of Shipwrights of the North Sea which was a kickstarter project from a guy in NZ a while back. It was a bit complex at first but we quickly got the hang of it and ended up really enjoying it. There’s a lot of strategy to it and I like that the action cards for each round are drafted, card drafting is a cool mechanic. I ended up fucking up and had a ship in construction blocking up one of my workshops for most of the game that I ended up never wanting to build as it would have given me negative points. We also kind of stalemated the game toward the end, in fairly funny ways. Took probably 30 mins longer than it should have as a result. A couple of cards seem a bit unbalanced (some of the buildings are too expensive we found, and the ‘raider’ card seems way too strong) but overall came away very positive and would like to play again. Game’s also really pretty and the wooden components and everything feel really good.
@nomad – hey man is your address the same as the one on the PAX letter? i got some PAX related stuffs to send you on monday 🙂
Farrar St Gilgandra?
What pax stuffs!?
nothing too exciting! just a bunch of swag I collected and packed together for you 🙂
some cool stuff in there, a few T-shirts, some Zombie drugs (think Zombrex) and some useless Junk… \o/
Yay junk!
Seriously though thanks man!
dude you are in no position to be thanking me after what you did.
Haha I think we’ll have to agree to disagree on that fact!
So I’m enjoying AC Unity so far. But you can’t really take my opinion too seriously because, fanboy and all that. Definitely has a bit of stuttering in some of those large crowd scenes, and the load times are atrocious, but I can live with that.
I dunno, I just love this crap. I’m a bad person.
I figure so long as it has faffing about, it will please me. Ubisoft sure know how to make a game about faffing.
That’s basically the reason I am getting AC Rogue. To faff about in a boat.
I set the audio language to French while keeping English subtitles.
‘Really boosts the immersion’.
Seriously, though, it’s cool to have all the French characters speaking in French.
Ooh, that sounds like a good idea.
Tried out the English audio for one mission – turned it back to French about 15 seconds into the cutscene. Those English accents felt so out of place.
Hm. Just got an email from EB Games.
The new Lara Croft is due out 9th December.
Not sure if want, but that is the first I’ve heard about it.
EDIT: Also, the more interesting point that I forgot to mention: not ONE mention of Tomb Raider. Not one. Those words don’t appear on the promo materials at all. I wonder why.
The Lara Croft games are completely separate to Tomb Raider! They’re probably not allowed to mention ‘Tomb Raider’ 😛
Second spin off game, deliberate omission to clearly mark them as spin offs and not pillar franchise games.
At least that’s what Wikipedia says.
How long since she last raided a tomb, anyway?
For those of you who are interested in Battlefronting over the weekend, here are the files you’ll need, as well as info on how to get everything running:
http://gameshare.co/forum/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=76
I was on the phone to Virgin customer Service and when the person wasn’t talking I could hear someone woofing like a dog in the background (it was definitely a human) for most of the call which was 27 minutes. I was getting really angry and frustrated with work crap before, now I can’t keep a straight face.
People, this is gaming in 2014.
I ended up having to watch TV while I was waiting!
last night I went to get the DLC, was met with “update required”, booted up my PS3 to play something in the mean time, the game I chose had an update, switched to my PS4 “Update required” put on TV and fell asleep. I totally feel your pain.
Are you okay?
The delightful Jennifer Lawrence was on Letterman. I survived.
She’s so adorable & innocent looking.. Well was until those pictures D=
Just a system update? Oh shit! Please tell me that this was downloading a full game, that’s almost half my download limit! :’O
They were both title / DLC updates. In this case, AC IV and Mario Kart 8. You’ll be fine!
Though you should probably do something about that 5GB download limit!!
LOL, what I fool I am (I read it as a 23gb download :P)!
Secret SanTAY: So Secret And Exclusive You May As Well Not Bother Since It’s Better Than You
Seriously. Don’t even think of sending an email to binoter at hotmail. You won’t be able to get in because it’s so exclusive. Only the elite upper crust of Tay can even see it. If you are by all means email away. But not you. Super limited numbers. You probably wouldn’t get in.
But!… okay =|
You should send an email and see if you can get in. It’s pretty hard because of how exclusive it is but worth a shot, you never know.
I don’t know. I’m a pretty terrible person. I probably don’t deserve to get in.
Then what have you got to lose! Send away!
What’s the maximum amount? That’s concerns me a little
$20. Keeping it simple.
Then you meet the qualifier! \o/
It’s what the T in TAY stands for, after all.
Terrible As You.
For those coming to Freezewife’s birthday.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dzIycVJG0o
I really need to get to a FreezeMeat one of these days.
DRINK!
ASS!
TUXEDO!
Woo, got my WW Link! Also a Luigi’s Mansion thing I threw in there since it was cheap and timing more or less matched up.
Nendoroid?
EDIT: pics of Luigi Mansion thing? 😀
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y260/Gooky/Purchase141114.jpg
Club Ninty Luigi is better!
Yeah… disappeared before I could get him 🙁
We’ll be booking our flights to the US in a few days but we still haven’t figured out where the best place to go for the weekend before 70K is.
Anyone know a great US city that’s easy and cheap to hop over to before we end up in Florida (Fort Lauderdale)? We were thinking maybe Atlanta. And what is the best way to book US interstate flights?
Go to Seattle!
It’s not the complete opposite side of America, Strange, hahaha!
YOU CRAZY!
New York is pretty damn sweet. I also enjoyed my time in Boston. Both are on the East coast, but basically as far North as you can go before you hit Canada, so maybe they won’t be the most practical.
Or just go to Canada and visit @bish.
For 70,000 tons in January?
Definitely do not do that. Whilst you know I love seeing you @strange , you’re in for a bad, bad time here in the north in the middle of January. The air is so cold it hurts your face.
No one should have to suffer that torture.
Atlanta, or maybe New Orleans?
Maybe a chat to a travel agent might be helpful, esp with the domestic flights.
Or just stay in Florida and visit all the beaches around Miami
That’s the thing, we’ve been to Miami three times before and we’re not beach loving people so we thought somewhere else might be nice. Plus all the Americans on 70K keep telling us Miami isn’t like “real” America. 😀
I second New Orleans. It’s great.
Edit: I feel like I should say more about it… but I won’t 🙂
Topeka, Kansas, I hear the chruch there is very uh,… different.
Seriously though, I third N’awlins, always wanted to go there, also Chicago (the start of route 66), I’ll get to do it one day.
Crazy suggestion time, How about Cuba? No idea if it is plausible or not
Otherwise I would say Houston has good things said about it, worth stopping in at the nasa centre. Otherwise New Orleans could be a good place to try.
Just looking at my New 3DS pre-order confirmation now… They’ve increased the price of some of the cover plates! When I pre-ordered the wooden cover plate it was $17, but now the EB website lists it as $40! Ouch.
Man am I glad I pre-ordered when I did… (and am even more glad I have a print-out of the original price I pre-ordered it at as proof :P)
Are they going to stick to the original price for the preorders or tell you that you owe $23 when you pick it up?
I ain’t paying $40 for a single cover!
Surely they’ll honour the price I pre-ordered at. EB are reasonable people, right? …right?
Damn! That’s a pretty steep increase. It’s interesting because that’s the only one at that price, all the rest are still listed at $17.95
https://www.ebgames.com.au/featured/new-nintendo-3ds-3ds-xl
Even Play-Asia has it at US37
http://www.play-asia.com/new-nintendo-3ds-cover-plates-no-024-wood-paOS-13-49-en-70-86ot.html
I think it might be because it’s made of actual wood, not plastic? (or at least, the top surface is wood?) From what I’ve heard anyway. Haven’t heard any concrete evidence.
I just got a Yoshi fightpad for Smash on Wii U, a copy of How to Train Your Dragon 2, an extra Wiimote, and a charger. \o/
Those cube ones look awesome but they’re only Classic Controller Pros :(. Would’ve liked it more if it was a Wii U Pro Controller instead!
ARGH, another day without TAY. If my work computers have blocked access to the Kotaku login, I’m just going to have to go ahead and quit.
I saw Interstellar today.
I thought it was okay. The family moments were amazing and powerful and got me weepy, but the sci-fi action stuff didn’t grab me at all and went for waaaay too long. Also, I ruined the film for myself by predicting right at the start that (SUPER SPOILERS)he was the ghost all alongso I wasn’t able to agree with the consensus that you need to see the film more than once. Solid 8/10 film.Getta not dumb phone! I’ve seen some pretty cheapo Nokia ones for $40!
I’ve got one, but I can’t use that at work!
Dammit. Kantai Collection event started today. Needs heaps of destroyers but because no internet for 3 weeks I haven’t done the necessary prep and I don’t have enough spare ships to fill out two separate combined fleets to push through. 🙁 And the final map rewards Prinz Eugen and her artwork’s even better than Bismarck 🙁 The other three new ships for the event are all destroyers (Nowaki, Asagumo and Akizuki – Akizuki is the first of her class to be introduced in the game, the Akizuki class were the best destroyers in the IJN)
I don’t know if I’ll be able to get any of them. Maybe Akizuki if I’m lucky. I just don’t think I’ve got enough high-level destroyers to clear through to the fourth map for Prinz Eugen.
CAMBODIA
3 SLEEPS
EXCITE
*insert Dead Kennedys reference of your choice here*
Red Kennedys!
It’s a holiday in cambodia
It’s tough kid but it’s life
Like that?
It’s a holiday in Cambodia
Don’t forget to pack a wife.
Well, the charger doesn’t appear to support the battery that came with it. :\
I fucking love this job :’)
*imagines Greenius covered in marshmallow*
*…also he’s black now*
See that everyone! Taco’s idea of an ideal job involves a black man covered in marshmallows!
#PornDopple
Basically, we had a good year so like 300 people from all across Australia and New Zealand were flown to Twin Waters Resort in Sunshine Coast and it was pretty much just a 2 day party with ALL the free alcohol.
I’m not a big drinker so I only had a few here and there but it was really good to see and catch up with everyone :D. I also had some insights into how I was doing when I talked to my drunk manager 😛 (she seems happy with my performance :D).
I wish I stayed until Sunday though. This would have been the day I’d have asked all the Brisbane TAYbies to meet me (presumably in Brisbane). But I guess it worked out in the end since I had no idea G20 was on and Brisbane is probably madness. Is stuff even open?
Wooo! Basically 2 long weekends in a row 😀
Not to mention the expensive lunches!
;D
D’oh! Not like that, I’m not youuuuu
;D
So, we’ve got other things we should probably be spending our money on but, the evil monkey family is coming up to Brisbane for a few days.
My Grandma’s getting pretty old, it’s been about 7 years since we saw her last, and my son has never met her, so I thought we should go up and see her before it’s too late. Don’t know if anyone is keen for a meat, or how keen my wife would be on the idea… thoughts.Think we’re gonna do the theme park thing one of the days, and maybe go into the city one of the other days.
We are coming, you have been warned.
@beardymcmuttonchops @beeawwb @cufcfan616 @dc @dkzeitgeist @freezespreston @gutsoup @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @sernobulus @strange @sughly @transientmind @welbot @weresmurf @virus__
Also @benny XD
I’d love to meet you! All depends on when you’re gonna be here though I guess. I have $2 to my name atm.
10th-14th of December.ok cool. If I have a job and all is well, I’m surely up for it. Just have to wait and see how things pan out
Also, Melbourne TAYbies, we’ll be in Melbourne the night of the 14th of December, before heading back the next night.
@beavwa @chuloopa @coldcamv @crazyguy1990 @f4ction @greenius @negativezero @pixel_the_ferret_viking @scree @tech_knight @tigerion @tofu @zetrox2k
You want to meat up for dinner?
I’ll check with the wife, but sounds good, would be pretty much going straight to the hotel from the airport, dropping our bags off and heading out.
Sorry, I thought that’s what you were implying. whatever is easiest for you
Don’t be sorry, we’re gonna have to eat when we get there, might as well be with some friendly faces.
Sounds good, we should figure something out closer to the time. Where are you going to be staying?
Flemington Road, ParkvilleIs heading into the city an issue?
I have a wedding thingy lunch picnic dealio on that day so not sure
Depending on what happens with that I might be able to make dinner
sorry man, would have been awesome but 14th is no good.
hits 12 months since my mum passed on and we’re having a family get together.
Hopefully next time cisrcumstances are better. enjoy your trip dude.
That’s cool, I completely understand, we’ll probably get to meet at some point in the future anyway, Supanova 2015 maybe.
its a date!
* looks away awkwardly…*
missus wanted to go next year anyway.
Aw yeah, that sounds pretty good.
If you do a City thing, I’ll be up for it. Always ni’ve to meat.
I’d really love to meet you. Hopefully we can arrange something!
2 weeks till Smash Bros. WOOO HYYYYPPPPEEEE!!!!
2 long!
*Lone tumbleweed rolls by*
🙁 I have a name…
Tumbleweedius
*Crickets*
🙁 I have a name…
And henceforth @quiz_b will be called “Crickets”
*Punches @quiz_b in the sternum*
Not til Sunday arvo. 😛
oh no oh no oh no loud radio lady in my office just popped in a CD since we’re all here working overtime. “For the special occasion”.
I’m now listening to James Blunt.
Bluuuuruurururrrrrrgh *inserts headphone, puts on Bloody Beetroots as antidote*
*kicks self* shoulda brought the DS along. Shoulda shoulda shoulda.
Blunt as in the sort of instrument you’ll need to employ to bash your own brain out after listening
Sweet nectar of the morning gods
I got a post park run coffee today. It was a nice reward for a terrible run 🙂
Beer?
Coff-ee.
B-eer.
C-O
B-E
No. But there was a reason I specified morning gods
Mead.
Orange juice?
With champagne!
/o\ JB is having 20% off Blu-Rays & DVD’s again.. There’s a bunch of stuff I want but I know I shouldn’t spend any money cause I need to save what little I have 😛
But $128 for the Bond 50 boxset is so tempting..
Hmmmm, maybe I should visit JB today …
You should or at least visit their online store and check it all out there and buy online!
I just walked out JB with a full bag and a crying wallet. YOU MONSTER!
I’m the bestest!
What? Wife paid $280 for it from JB. That’s an awesome price.
Yeah, I know right, it’s RRP is only 160 now too. I’ve been eyeing it off for aaaaaaaaaages. It’s actually cheaper than the Harry Potter blu-ray boxset too LOL.
Sooo I got an invite to that new social networking site Ello, turns out I get invite codes, so does anyone fancy an invite?
U2 must feel a little embarrassed after sending Slash a case of Guinness as a welcome gift for when he touched down in Dublin. But he’s completely sober these days because of his alcoholism & heart issues. Nice gesture on U2’s behalf though lol.
@pupp3tmast3r I now have an active WoW subscription again and it’s all your fault.
Haven’t created a character on Barthilas yet because holy fuck those queues. I might get in around 3pm if I leave this long enough. These are Vanilla-level queues, even Cataclysm wasn’t that overloaded. 🙁
Anyway, I don’t think we have done the battlenet secret handshake. NegativeZero#1131. Would you like to add me as a friend?
One of us! One of us! One of us!
Man you’re going to be glad you came back… They’ve done wonders on this new expansion! Which explains the number of people jumping back on I guess!
Myself, Jo, piat and distantdrop were up at 6 or 7 every morning to start the queue so we could play by the time we were properly awake xD
I just realized now that you’ve decided to come back… You’re going to be the last person we need for the raid group =] WE HAVE 10 PEOPLE!
At this point in time we could really use an experienced healer? If you haven’t healed before then I’ll settle for an RDPS =p
Tales From The Borderlands
Available: November 2014
Pre-Purchase Tales from the Borderlands
SPECIAL PROMOTION! Offer ends 25 November
Hey, I have a hunch when Tales From The Borderlands might be coming out…
December right?
I can’t wait for November 29…
Seriously…
Hurry up and be November 29th already so I can get the voting out of the way and pick up Smash for Wii U! :\
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA THERE’S A KRISPY KREME OPENING IN PERTH!!!
It’s like, half an hours drive from my house, but KRISPY KREME!!!! 😀
Your gym schedule is about to be royally, yet very tastily, shafted.
WHERE IS IT?!
It’s up at Whitfords! 😀
Opens on the 26th, and is 24/7, and has a drive-thru!!! 😀
One day you will die.…so you better play Xenoblade!@powalen @welbot @mrtaco @freezespreston @liondrive
Sorry! It was impossible not to write that in a ‘view spoiler’ section. 😛
……………………………I only just “got” it now.
I hate me.
We’ll see.
I thought I was dead already.. you mean to tell me it’s this hot, and I’m not in hell?! fark me!
I don’t take kindly to your online harassment. SOMEONE CALL THE TWITTER POLICE
Not if Aubrey de Grey and his stupendous beard can help it.
Don’t remind me :\
I’ve been freaking out about that lately :\
Wow I’m dumb :3
So dumb!
Ugh. Had a night out for the first time since like March last night. I don’t understand how every time I go out I somehow manage to spend just as much money on food as I do on alcohol :S
I do that. The more I drink the more I start eating everything.
“Ooh, Mario Kart 8 DLC! Look at all these wonderful new characters I can now play as!”
…*picks Toad*
Yellow Yoshi 4 lyf!
BLACK FRIDAY: THE PROLOGUE
Friend 1: Ok, so we’re gonna have to leave the day before in the afternoon.
Friend 2: Which stores we gonna hit up? I think [INSERT RETAILER NAME OF I DON’T GIVE A FUCK] is having 50 inch tvs for..
Friend 3: Wait, are we going to the mall, or straight to Seattle? Because that’ll take longer..
Friend 4: Where’d all the black friday flyers go-
Saturday: YO, SHUT THE FUCK UP. CHECK IT.
Saturday: NINE DOLLAR WAFFLE IRONS.
Saturday: IS THAT NOT THE MOST RADICAL SHIT.
Seattle?
Take lots of pictures for meeeeee pleeeaaase!!!
I love Seattle! :’D
So I joined the WoW queue at 10am at just under 3000 in queue, go out Christmas shopping, get home and I’m still 500 in queue at 5pm, epic
Joined just before 11 and was just over 3000. Currently at 1143. So I’m going to go several days of my 30 days subscription without actually being able to log in. Tempted to contact their customer service and ask for extra days.
I mean fuck, even Vanilla didn’t have queues this bad. WotLK and Cataclysm launches had some queues but not half a day or longer. It’s not like they didn’t know the launch was happening.
They used to be really good with giving bonus sub time, back at launch I ended up with almost a whole month of free time, hopefully they do the right thing and give some days.
They’ve actually had to lower the server populations because of DDOS attacks and to make it less laggy for everyone apparently.
Yeah but they shouldn’t have needed to do that.
Why not wait a few weeks when the majority are sick of it and everything is back to normal?
Don’t be logical. It doesn’t work.
It’s WoW man, cmon. Plus what zero said above, I’m paying for the time I can’t play and I had to buy the xpac before launch to get the pre-order bonus. If I didn’t have to get the xpac before launch and didn’t have an active sub I would have waited
Because time is money friend!
Hahaha, wow. That’s worse than me. I joined at 10am, 4000 in front of me, went to bunnings, did grocery shopping came home, made lunch, washed the dog, by then I was 70 in the queue.. Only 6 hours later did I get in though lol..
SURVIVOR EPISODE 8:
WOO! Glad Josh went home but only because I like Jeremy and his alliance more. I liked Josh too but his alliance are full of idiots (Keith, Alec and Wes). Alec annoys me so much, bloody hell what an ass. GO TEAM JOHN AND TEAM JEREMY! #tacooverload@powalen @sughly @f4ction @strange @phoenix
Mr Taco, Masha :'(
So many hashtags! I dont care if he is an idiot though, I have a love for Keith that I cant deny. I cant imagine how he could win, but I dont care! So dumb that they threw away their chance at becoming the dominant alliance just because they wanted to act like jerks, urg. I do like Jeremy though, hes the only one with a clear head, I think if I wanted to pick a legitimate winner it would be him. I dont think John and Jacklyn (is that her name?) will get too far, I think they might be targets a little way in since they were so openly flippant about their alliances. Then again, everyones pretty dumb@greenius @powalen @f4ction @strange @phoenix
Haha so dumb! Keith is funny though so I like I’m more. I don’t mind Wes too but their rudeness was kind of annoying.Alec has been consistently giving me the shits though so he and his brother can just go away 😛
HI SUGHLY
I can’t even remember what happened! 😀
People were dumb.
I remembered that part!
Everyone just seems so STUPID. That’s what I get from each episode. I still don’t know who I want to win. But I know a few people i want gone!
@powalen @sughly @strange @phoenix @greenius
Sometimes there are smart people!
😮
Found the Ju On Wii game in EB games with a friend for $8, so I ignored reviews and bought it, I love the Ju-On series, is it really that terrible? Anyone played it?
Also finally got my hands on the 1985 Fright Night, so that’s a good movie for the collection 🙂
Not very exciting news I guess, but whatever 🙂
All this talk of Ju On made me remember Siren on the PS2…
That game was fucked up…
I have gone from enjoying the Evil within to just being incredibly frustrated with it. Checkpoints are not really put in the right place sometimes, often meaning entire levels have to be re-done, multiple times. There is an enemy that randomly shows up at times and you can’t fight him, so if you’re fighting enemies and he shows up, you’re dead either way.
Run! Halfway through I realized that running is more useful than fighting sometimes. You’re right about the checkpoints – a few times they were too far apart and you have to repeat a few sections if you’re not careful.
I wouldn’t mind, but once he runs out of stamina, he’s a sitting duck.
I am so stuck on the mansion level. Stupid 5 minute appearances.
Drinking those two glasses of wine was a bad idea… 🙁
Also, I’m going to EB tomorrow to take my charger back, get another Energizer Wii charger, and upgrade my Smash Wii U pre-order to the one with the gamecube controller adapter. 😀
Also, how fucked will the Victorian Liberals be in two weeks?
Balls deepLogged into Minecraft for the first time in a bit.
@zapz I don’t believe you.
Now that I have made you doubt it I will just go ahead and make it happen >:)
I might be okay with the KanColle event after all. Cleared E1 already.
E2 will be harder and then E3 it turns out I’ve got a pretty good secondary fleet for and should be able to storm it. I previously had been told that I needed to clear E4 for Prinz Eugen but she actually drops from E3 – as with the previous event, the ‘bonus’ map at the end of the event is super hard and drops a desirable but not that special (aside from having Yui Horie voicing her) Destroyer. Last event it was Isokaze, this time it’s Asagumo.
So two weeks to get through it. Not much of a bucket stockpile but that’s surmountable, just slows me down a bit. Still, I think the hardest thing about E2 is going to be that I have to run a very low-level destroyer in the fleet as I didn’t have time to properly prepare. Got a pair of high-level destroyers, then another 4 which I used in the last event, but I need the top three for E3 🙁 I’d conscripted Ushio who is my next highest level destroyer but only at 21. If it doesn’t work out I’ll have to take Shimakaze (my #3) and then hope I can clear E3 with Asashio (at level 20) in the fleet. Or I’ll have to pause for a few days and level one of the DDs with a recent Kai-2 remodel (Hatsuharu or Ayanami, since I’ve already locked Ushio to E1-E2 and can’t use her in E3). In retrospect it probably would have been safer to go with that plan.
Managed to get to E2’s boss twice, sank her once and damaged her below 50% the second two times. Feel like I’m a bit low on firepower – issue is that I’m getting 1-2 destroyers damaged on the way through and so I’m not quite clearing out all the enemies during the day battle and when I go to night battle my two cruisers don’t focus on the boss. One good clean hit will knock her out but I’m doing scratch only. 🙁
Going to try running some support expeditions at the same time.
Easy clears each time with support fleets. \o/ Got my Akizuki! Also Uzuki, one of the regular drops which I hadn’t managed to get yet also dropped from the E2 boss on the final clear. So far nothing else of interest though. E3 drops new ship Asagumo that I’d really like to have, plus also has a chance at Akashi and Taigei and I really want both of them too. So fingers crossed.
E3 unlocked, beat it once out of two sorties. For some reason my battleships aren’t doing much damage, going to try fiddling a few things (thinking maybe they went through with the change they threatened and gimped the accuracy of 46cm guns on fast battleships)
Wait. All of a sudden GamerGate has shifted it’s focus to yell about Net Neutrality being evil?
What?
wait. people still give a shit about this crap? /edit Just to clarify, this is not me having a go at you.. just honestly surprised people haven’t moved on yet.. I totally expected they would have all been like “ooo look! that dog has a puffy tail!” already
I think that was their problem. Everyone stopped caring and the whole thing was attention whoring to start with so they’re trying to find some way to become relevant again.
Can we Mario Kart tonight? That should give me enough time to practice ;D
@dc are you keen?
Nah, don’t really feel like it.
I kinda agree with your track rankings on page 11 though :D. I think I’d only swap around Mute City and Excite Track on my list.
I love how Mute and Hyrule mix things up a bit by still being Mario Kart-y but sticking to the themes of their respective games (coin energy track thing, rupees etc.)
Overall the tracks are okay but aren’t as good as the base game stuff, but it’s a good start. Bring on more Jungles and Diddy :D!
YOUR GAME(S) OF THE YEAR SO FAR?
So far I don’t really have a “omgthisgameisamazingimustplayitthisisthebestthingever” type of game that stands out above the pack, but I really enjoyed those two (…and I can’t really remember anything else :P)
– Shovel Knight
– Dark Souls II
Shovel Knight came out of nowhere for me and I’m really glad for all the success it’s received. More polished awesomeness like this please! The gameplay, the music, the design and ooooooOooooOOo YES!
Dark Souls II was more or less a Souls game (so instant goodness) and for some reason I wasn’t hyped for it at all. Because of that I didn’t really have much expectations of it going in so I didn’t dislike it as much as others and still had a good time playing it. I’m keen to play the DLC when it goes on sale 😀
Special mention to Mario Kart 8! I don’t know if I’ll consider it GAME OF THE YEAR material for myself but I really enjoyed all the TAYKart sessions we had. DAMN FUN!
I can’t think of much coming out soon that I’d be really interested in that could top Shovel Knight (probably my weiner so far) but I’m sure there’s cool stuff I’m forgetting 😀 (help me remember!)
Dark Souls 2 is my biggest disappointment of the year! =P
EDIT: GOTY’s:
Shovel Knight: The guys of at Yacht Club games perfectly blended both a classic NES style game with modern day features. Everything about it reminded me of the ol’ NES games didn’t get me as frustrated as I would get playing old school games. Probably my biggest problem with the game is that it was too short.
Shadowrun Returns: Dragonfall: Very fun RPG. Loved the settings and the story. Improved on everything from the first Shadowrun Returns game. Biggest problem I did have with the game was that the characters in your crew were kinda boring. I did like one of them but the rest were kinda meh.
Transistor: I don’t care what people say, I loved this game. I liked it better then Bastion. Such a beautiful game with amazing music (humming mechanic = best) and pretty decent combat.
EDIT2:
I’m still holding out for DA:I. So that may be added to the list when I’ve been able to play it a bit.
Diablo 3 Reaper of Souls, South Park Stick of Truth and Infamous Second Son.
Looking through the releases this year it hasn’t been a great year. All remakes, re-releases and disappointing AAA.
As you say though, DA:I could very well storm in and take everything.
Looks like I got confused and thought you were @greenius for a bit there.
Don’t really want to get hyped for games again because … Dark Souls 2 but they have said everything right about DA:I
I’d love to try Shovel Knight someday. For me so far, Risen 3 and Grimrock 2 for sure! Both great games, even though I’ve yet to finish Grimrock. In terms of how much I’ve played, Marvel Puzzle Quest would probably win hands down at this stage, but I can’t remember when it was released!
Oh shizz!
I forgot Bayonetta 2!
Thanks for the reminder about Transistor too, Nob! I really like how they handled the battle system and it was really open for experimentation (but once you found an OP combo you didn’t want to change ;D)
Binding of Isaac: Rebirth is fun too but it’s the pretty much the same 😛
Bayonetta 2.
And Transistor for downloadable titles.
Honestly no contest there.
Stick of Truth, Wolfenstein: New Order, Valiant Hearts.
Warlords of Draenor, despite how awful the release has been for server times & lag, it’s soo good content wise so far and i’m only level 95!
The Last of Us: Remastered was just brilliant, loved that game.
Infamous: Second Son, a little short, but a great game loved it.
South Park: The Stick of Truth, that was awesome, a well made game, wish it was on PS4 though.
Potential GTA V on PS4, ah who am I kidding it’ll be just as good the 4th time around re-playing it and with all the new features Rockstar have done in this over haul/re-build i’ll love it.
Honestly, I don’t have one.
There hasn’t been many, if any, games I’ve felt strongly about this year, and I haven’t had much time to actually play many games :'(
I guess South Park has been pretty fun, but
even then…
Maybe even Mario Kart 8…
I’d probably say the Last of Us, if it counts.
I need to get back into gaming :'(
XENOBLADE IS A GOOD PLACE TO START
Nah.
DKCTF. Duh.
Although there’s Bayo 2 which I haven’t played yet but assume is excellent.
To stray outside the realm of Nintendo though, it’ll probably be Elite: Dangerous.
Shadow of Modor.
South Park.
…nah not much else. It’s weird, there’s been massive AAA titles out this year (Titanfall, anybody? Destiny?) that just seem to have been like a 5 year old doing a cannonball in a wave pool.
The parents yell lots and hype it up, then it makes a splash and you look, but then nothing happens and somebody has to go rescue them because their swimmers have fallen off and nobody is talking about it 5 minutes later.
That’s an interesting way to put it! 😀
Mario Kart, Dark Souls II. I don’t think anything else is gonna topple them.
I checked the WoW queue when I got up for work this morning at 5am. >4000. Stupid WA time.
My queue was currently zero.
Ouch. My queue was only 700 this morning, but then BNET & the launcher just died in the arse for me and won’t reconnect and i’m too lazy to get my authenticator out to log in manually 😛
I am really digging Warlords of Draenor already despite the server problems, I am finding it way more fun & interesting than Mists of Pandaria at the start, I really only liked Mists in the final patch cause PVP felt good again and I had mates playing again.
But these garrisons are AWESOME. I love I can have my own little city with everything I need and it is all mine!
I totally agree Greenman..
Um… I can see a moth in my M&M’s dispenser…
😐
It’s crawled out of the dispenser at the front…
Little bugger.
So, since my copy of AssCreed Unity didn’t turn up, I figured I’d give Liberation HD a crack. It seems like a pretty cool guy, except that the first time I quit out of it it lost progress from like 2 missions, which was annoying. But I bitched about it a bit to CJ, and went back to playing it. Finished the first Sequence, grabbed all the viewpoints and chests in Nawlins, and assumed that it would have saved at some point relatively recently.
Nope. Last save point is from one mission after the previous save, and all my progress in the city is lost. Guess what game is getting chucked right back onto the pile?
Is it Assassin’s Creed Unity?
Yes!
Is it Xenoblade again?
:'(
Yes!
i cry evrytim
The game you keep playing with my heart?
Yes!
I finally played what one might consider as coop in Destiny!
Only briefly, and caught by surprise, but still!
It only took a couple of months!
To think I bought a headset for this game…
:'(
I asked you to play Destiny with me and you never did!
I tried to so many times, but the times never worked out!
I really wanted to 🙁
Stupid three hour time difference :'(
Dammit, I might have to run Natural Selection 2 at 720p to get it to stay at 60 fps. Dammit.
No wait, I can get it to run at 900p! NEXT GEN!
Mum brought home this “brownie brittle” stuff, from Costco I think. It’s basically like if you got some brownies, took out the soft bit in the middle and just left yourself with the crunchy crispy outside bits.
It’s pretty much the worst. Can’t stop going back for more.
Soo…broken biscuits?
Some are broken. But they’re all delicious.
I brung ya a big bag of irregular Oreos.
*picks one*
I don’t see what’s wrong with this one.
*eats it*
Oh.
So I gave lords of the fallen another crack.
Went with Solace Magic class. Due to having first spell unlocked.
Picked the war hammer gear set up.
First attempt got through first two bosses. Had a couple of close calls on the second boss.
Next I will farm some exp before I take on the third boss.
But starting to really enjoy it now that I am getting the hang of it.
I’m interested in the game but it feels more suited to a budget buy rather than full price.
I would go as far to say that anyone that has enjoyed any of the souls games would enjoy lords of the fallen.
It has me wanting to try the souls games again.
Oh, I just realised that now I totally know what it feels like on Survivor when your team wins the reward challenge and everyone else stays back 😛
Not everyone at work got to go on this conference (just the division I’m in) and even some people had to remain at work and kept on working through 🙁
As long as I try to not talk about how amazing it was back at camp, I should be fine… 😀
Survivor. Teaching me life lessons for 29 Seasons.
Now there are churros.
Where!
IN MAH BELLY
DAMMIT
SPEECH
I keep getting distracted.
I’ve noticed a pattern with my internet disconnecting, it only happens when I have Steam, the Battle.net launcher & WoW running. I don’t think it’s my modem, since my mate has the same model, Netgear N300 and he has no issues, this has been happening last few months so I wonder what the go is.. My net never had issues like this before & the line is fine, likewise the speeds.
I didn’t have any issues the 10 or so days I didn’t use steam or the bnet launcher.. So anyone got any ideas how I could trouble shoot this properly?
Turn it off and on again.
That does sometimes work 😛
The future of gaming.
http://www.gameoftheyear420blazeit.com/
11/10 would play until my eyes exploded.
mine just did thank god i can touch type.
Ugh, EB are having a midnight launch for GTA V on PS4.. I feel I should go just cause..
Here you go!
Ha! Jokes on you I don’t own an Xbox 360!
New refresh material please!
How was everyone’s weekend? Did you do stuff?
I find myself doing more stuff now that I’m working. LOOK AT ME BEING MR NON-HERMIT NOW.
Saturday I was in Sunshine Coast and our plane got delayed by 2 hours :(. Spent most of it just derping around the airport and didn’t get home until 6pm. For Sunday I was going to do this with a bunch of work people but we supposedly couldn’t get enough numbers so didn’t end up doing it. So my Sunday was just bumming around at home doing pretty much nothing! (except rage quitting after some bad Isaac: Rebirth runs :'( )
Shh, it’s not Monday yet.
Liar!
Woo! Can’t wait for tomorrow!
Weekend TAY drives me crazy with how slow it is!
I mean, I don’t depend in TAY, haha, haha, haaaaaaaa…
Never leave me.
See you all in new TAY! o/
Hey @strange! This is time travelling DC! I just wanted to apologize for inadvertently leaving you out of the HighPerformance meat on Tuesday. I felt terrible afterwards when we realized you didn’t know. Also noticed you haven’t been on TAY much this week and wondered if you were mad at us. I hope this isn’t the case, but if it is I’m really sorry and no harm was meant. 🙁
Hey DeeCee! Don’t worry, I still love you!
I’ve just been feeling increasingly irrelevant and old on TAY and at Meats. Compounded by not being told about the High Performance meet-up. I’ve been around on TAY this but haven’t really felt like interacting. Add this to the fact that I’m extremely stressed out by a bunch of quilting deadlines and the sheer mountain of things I need to do, and I don’t really even have time to hang out on TAY.
So yeah, not mad at any of you, but definitely a little hurt. I’ll get over it. 🙂 *hugasaurus*
*hugasaurus* I, for one, feel like TAY and meats are way better with you being here. <3
I understand how you’re feeling, though.
Feel better, Strange. Sorry for the hurt. 🙁