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Morning Tay! 🙂
I choose to believe this is your new ‘Merry Christmas to all’ name
It’s as festive as it is Horrifying! 😀
Didn’t do much on the weekend. Saw the local Christmas parade (from a cafe in a comfortable armchair) and had my final NaNoWriMo write in. Still pretty decent though.
Did you win?
Nope, but I got started, which is just as important.
Morning all, what did you fill your weekend with?
I played Far Cry 4, and helped prob more “helped” plan my wedding 🙂
Got right into Dragon Age Inquisition. I want to play Far Cry but it will have to wait. Since I’ve waited 2(?) long years for this I’m going to take my sweet ass time completing every last mission and discovering very last elfroot!
Morning all! Hope your weekends were good. Mine was a mixed bag, but I won’t get into that.
I finished XCOM Declassified: The Bureau, which was quite a bit of fun. The plot twists were cool, and I liked the way it all came together in the end. Solid game with a disappointing lack of polish in a few areas. Worth the $6 I paid for it.
Yesterday was the one-month anniversary of the Undad campaign launch. We’re now in the final two weeks. Whee!
Did you know that if you rename a unit in XCOM EU William Carter he’s actually a colonel level hero unit? Comes with a fedora, alloy cannon, plasma pistol, heavy armour, 20+hp and heaps of perks. Like all the other hero units (mostly named after the devs) you get a warning that using him will disable achievements because he’s effectively a cheat but it’s kind of cool
Oh, that’s cool! Wasn’t EU made prior to Bureau, though?
Oh yeah, it might be an Enemy Within thing, having both it’s hard to tell which one did it
Well, Bureau was in development for over four years, so I guess it’s possible! It’s cool either way.
Morning ladies and gents… How are we all?
My weekend was pretty uneventful… I voted for the first time ever! \o/
And I took my dogs to the beach for the first time (they freaking loved it)
But aside from that did bugger all
Did you draw a penis on the ballot paper?
…No*…
*yes*wipes tear from eye* Like a true ‘Strayan! Welcome home, pal! *hugs*
Thinking it might be necessary to clone myself, send the doppelgänger off to fulfil all my fatherly/husbandry duties and go play Dragon Age in a cave out bush…
http://www.hwdyk.com/q/images/mothersimpson_02.jpg
Yes!
*runs off to fashion a decoy*
Right, @freezespreston, time to wage some war.
Totally, my seven year old screen peeked the other day and said “What game is this dad” and I said “It’s past your bedtime now sweetheart, I have clocked off as your dad 20 mins ago, go to bed”
Lol. Yep. Mine’s a toddler, but the affect is much the same #fatheroftheyear
Morning all!
So how about them Smash Bros. I really like the new one so far, good to be using cube controllers again.
I had some people over on Saturday night for a Smash-in. Was heaps of fun. Most of us hadn’t played smash since the 64 so there was lots to learn. Plus it helped level up my amiibo quite a bit!
I was particularly proud that my son decided the Wavebird was the best one to use. He won’t share it now!
I’m a pretty competitive Smash player but when my friend came over on saturday with his Wii U, we were just mucking about with 8 player Smash and Special Smash and just having a good time =)
Also after watching the game in crappy Youtube/Twitch.tv quality, seeing it in person was amazing.
How does it handle with the Wii U Pro Controller?
Good question! I’ve only used the cube controller, since I’m a cranky old man that doesn’t like change.
I bought it this weekend as well, such a good game but I feel a little hollow not having a subspace emissary or equivalent 🙁
Morning TAYbies, how were your weekends? On Friday I traded in my XBone and games, and all my Skylanders, Saturday I picked up Smash Bros, 3 Gamecube controllers and a set of Amiibos, played a few matches, then voted and went to work. Sunday was Smash in the morning, then work, then more Smash at night. Pretty much been spending all my time in Smash levelling up my Amiibos, just put a bunch of them in 8 player Smash and let them go at it. So far I’ve got 7 at level 50 (Link, Peach, Villager, Marth, Yoshi, Fox and Donkey Kong), finishing off levelling up the rest now (Pikachu, Wii Fit Trainer, Kirby, Samus and Mario).
How are you all going with Smash, and your Amiibos?
Also, We’re leaving for Brisbane early next week, and I haven’t mentioned anything to the missus about meats yet, I kinda don’t know how to bring it up. I’m thinking about telling her that I’ll just go and meet you guys by myself, you guys got any advice.
On the subject of meats, who’ll be up for one? We’re getting to Brisbane next Wednesday and we’re staying till Sunday. Think we’re going to Dreamworld or Movieworld one day, into the city one of the other days, and I’m not sure what else. Let me know what days are best for you guys and we’ll see what we can work out.
@beardymcmuttonchops @beeawwb @cufcfan616 @dc @dkzeitgeist @freezespreston @gutsoup @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @sernobulus @strange @sughly @transientmind @welbot @weresmurf @virus__
Also, a reminder for Melbourne TAYbies, we’ll be there for a meat the night of the 14th, suggestions for where would be great, anywhere in the CBD should be fine.
@beavwa @budgieishere @chuloopa @coldcamv @crazyguy1990 @f4ction @greenius @jordi @negativezero @pixel_the_ferret_viking @scree @smurfydog @tech_knight @tigerion @tofu @zetrox2k
Oh, and I almost forgot, I picked up my first Pokemon game ever yesterday (Omega Ruby), haven’t really had a chance to get into it yet.
One last thing, is there gonna be any TAYSmash tonight, because I won’t be able to get on until about 9:30pm.
Edit: Sorry for wall of text.
I’ll try to make it but having work on the Monday might make it difficult for me, we’ll see!
Our normal meeting spot is a cafe at Federation Square so it’s pretty easy to find
Sounds good. Everyone else ok with that?
Yeah, fed square would be fine to meet up.
That was fast.
I know, when you put 8 of them in 8 player smash, it doesn’t seem to take long at all, even at the higher levels they’ll go up at least one level every round.
Next Wednesday being the 10th? As it now happens I have the 10th through 12th off for moving house. Removalists on 10th, cleaners on 11th and 12th. So depending on what workmen are doing what when I should be free for a meat.
Cool. And yeah the 10th.
Weekdays the next few weeks are out of bounds during work hours for me. Weekends are groovy.
That’s cool, we’ll be there Saturday the 13th as well.
Thursday lunch is the handiest for me, because school holidays start on the Friday. It’s possible I could make a weekend thing but there’ll be a lot more obstacles to overcome. Let me know what everyone decides. 🙂
Should be doable at this point. Depends on mrs’ work schedule, might have to bring the boy, which is also doable.
Keep me updated!
That’s cool, Our son will be there too (if I can convince the missus to come). So it should work out well.
My boy’s 4, how old’s yours?
6 and a half.
Kiddy battles!
Is it like Pokemon… but better?
You know it!
Melbourne MEAT yay! That’s December right? I’m heading to Adelaide on a road trip for cricket 🙁
So I played through the story of Persona Ultimax and was thinking about making a review for it. Mostly to try and get more Australian players to buy the game because there’s no one online!
I bought a copy but haven’t played it, not sure I’ll get to it at all. Really finding it hard to justify turning the PS3 on now that I’ve got a PS4.
This releasing stuff on PS3 but not on PS4 really grinds my gears. (Borderlands, P4A Ultimax, etc) Then my inner cynic is saying just wait, they’ll release a PS4 or ‘HD’ version just so they can double dip.
I only turn mine on to play rocksmith
I couldn’t stand the first one 🙁
Never played it.
Same deal, less characters.
I was super hyped after playing P4G, was shocked.
Well I think the game is good and easy to get into.
Fair enough. It’s not hated by many, just kinda niche. For fans who like Persona & like blazblue controls
I was just disappointed. 🙁
I don’t know anything about Persona and I enjoy playing it.
Personally, that would help me. I loved P4G so much that it felt like a massive step down.
You like BlazBlue? I’m guessing I wouldn’t. Diehard Street Fighter & Tekken fan.
Is anyone here from Adelaide? I would love to meet some more local gamers.
These guys are, not sure who else is. Also, Red’s away at the moment.
@ash @banderdash @benny @jacksonwryan @jocon @lucifer9783 @redartifice @wilbur
Auzziegamer.
I’m in the north – how about you?
West. Henley/Grange. But unlike hanging out in the city.
I was in Grange yesterday for dad’s 60th. We had it at Grange hotel. Why IDK b/c I live in the barossa and sister live in Adelaide Hills – thanks for making the party as far away as possible mum!
Heyyy.
I am ‘local’ and also a ‘gamer’, so I guess that counts. I am also heaps busy all my life but anything CBD/central is pretty good for me. Also night times. Also, I have consoles if you want to be friends on there or add me on twitter – @sciencejayz – to suss fun things
I’m in Henley but I enjoy being in the city. I’ve got free time at the moment and my gamertag is: Shadow Artiste (send me a message as well as a FRIEND so I know it’s you).
What systems do you game on?
Primarily Xbox. But I hearthstone on iPad too
Sup.
We are a fairly socially lazy group down here I’m afraid, not like them eastern state socialites.
But my tag is Jocon89 on all the things; feel free to hit me up for whatevs.
Also welcome to TAY.
Welcome to TAY! I’m in Melbourne lol
Soooo much traffic this morning. Trip took twice as long as usual. Bleh.
Hey you humans chose to multiply that much! 😛
I did no such thing!
Are you sure?
…mostly.
I played WoD so much over the weekend I’m actually surprised I’m not dead.
Morbidity aside time to pick up Smash Bros today 😮
Hahaha man I’m surprised you got any sleep! Both your toons must be raid ready by now; i’m taking a little break myself this week, did way too many dungeons on Fri/Sat.
Got my 4th toon from 90 to 100 over the weekend. That’s all of them though, so nice to have the levelling finished. Not much content at the moment, so the best time to get it done really.
EDIT: Although only playing two currently. Undead spriest for PvE, Worgen arms warrior for PvP. Nice, simple balance. One Horde, one Alliance. Avoiding playing too many toons this xpac. Gets far too time consuming.
Reposting from last week!
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Hey, Sydney TAY!
Smash Bros
is coming out thiscame out last weekend, don’t ya know. I’ve been meaning to have another get-together at my place for a while, so…POWALEN’S 8-MAN MEAT SMASH
Who: You guys!
What: A Scottish Doctor
When: Saturday, 6th of December (next weekend). Starting at 12 noon and ending whenever you want to go home …within reason.
Where: My place. (if you don’t know my address, I can email/Twitter DM you)
Why: We won’t have many opportunities to play 8-person multiplayer due to it not being an online mode! Plus it’ll be fun. And there might be food.
Please let me know if you are coming so I have an idea of how much food, etc to get. If people are staying until dinner time we will likely get some variety of takeaway (pizza is the easiest in my area but there are other options).
You are also free to stay overnight if you wish, but let me know ahead of time. I have two inflatable beds and one small lounge, so you may need to bring some sleeping equipment if you want to stay.
Also it would be appreciated if you bring a controller! I only have a Gamepad, one pro controller and one wiimote (do people even use these for Smash? :P). I also have one Gamecube controller but will not have one of those adaptors, so if you have one – bring it!
Tagging the Sydney TAYers:
@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 also @blaghman
EDIT: Confirmed so far are Pants, CJ, Ginger Chris, Cake and possibly Gooky.
Only page one and every state’s been tagged (except Perth and Tassie).
I know ACT isn’t a state, but I still feel left out 🙁
Sorry dude, can’t believe I forgot you guys.
Monster!
You know it.
I can.
😛Damn. That’s the same day as my sister’s 30th birthday so I won’t be there 🙁
Aw!
I’m in.
Excellenté
Also I can bring the GC adaptor. But I’m working that night, so I’ll be leaving about 430 at the latest.
Hey, I might be able to drop by this! DM me your address please? 😀
Done and done.
So many pokemons.
I think i have a problem. I see a pokemon i like and catch it. Then i decide i want to breed it to get a good nature and good IV’s. Which honestly doesn’t take that long any more. Then once that is done i EV train it which can be done mindlessly while watching tv. Then i put movesets on them which i like or are good and then i put that poke straight back into the box. I mean i am having fun with it but my girlfriend thinks im nuts. 😛 Part of my reason for enjoying it is because i usually have to be doing something in my hands while watching tv. I spin pens, rip paper, draw and now i make perfect pokemon for no reason :P.
You are doing God’s work.
Coming from @ash, that’s high praise indeed.
Battle ready mons like that are also valuable for trade.
On Sunday i made like 3 sylveon’s with the ability pixelate with hypervoice and put them out for wondertrade.
I dont know why im doing these things 😛
Some kid probably got one, not knowing the effort that got put into making it and then boxed it forever.
I wonder traded so many 4IV Timid Caterpies that people probably saw and immediately went “Ugh, people trading useless starting bugs again!” and traded it on 😛
Yeah i really love getting peoples breed rejects because you can make decent pokemon with them really quickly.
Right now I’m using the Masuda method to get a shiny Heracross . Its got 5IV’s and a adamant nature so I’m going to wondertrade the rejects already got one box full hopefully this doesnt take too long. I WANT A PINK MEGA HERACROSS
I really need to work this IV/breeding stuff out. I’ve read articles – most notably from @mawt, but it makes my fucking head hurt. Think I need someone to just sit me down and show me how one day. I just have rubbish geek friends that don’t play Pokemon. And you shitbirds all live in NSW or QLD.
Fuckers.
No, but seriously, I love you guys.
In short: it’s hella easy now.
Also, I’m basically out of Pokémon for the foreseeable future. Ask @powalen or @beavwa for the low down, imo.
Yeah all good man, I’ve tried a couple of times and failed. Wouldn’t ask you to explain again.
Bought Redshirt on steam for $2.50 and played that over the weekend. Actually more fun than the reviews would have you believe. I don’t know how you explain this kind of game – it’s a life management sim on the same level as something like Long Live the Queen but much more flexible with events being randomised rather than following a set schedule. Basically you’re a lowly redshirt assigned to a space station. Something will happen in 160 days and you have to use that time to advance as far as possible, basically by using Space-Facebook to make social connections which will enable you to advance your career and/or meet people who can potentially help you.
I think the ending I got was the pretty conventional one but apparently there’s several others which I’ll be more than happy to investigate. One playthrough took a surprisingly long 4 hours apparently, I expect that can be shorted when you know all the tricks etc.
Other than that I played The Stick of Truth. I’m currently in the abortion clinic (I quit out after getting beaten by Chloe Kardashian’s giant Nazi zombie abortion if that’s any indication of how far through the story I am). From watching my wife play I know there’s still a good chunk of the game left since I haven’t even been to Canada yet. Hopefully I’ll make more progress tonight.
I got older today apparently. 🙁
Happy birthday!
Happy birthday, Negs! Hope the year treats you good and proper!
Happy Birthday man, hope you have a good one.
happy birthday.
Wiser! \o/
Happy Birthday!
Not 🙁 but 😀 Happy Birthday!
Birthday spooning commences.
It’s super effective!
HBNZ! Which coincidently, is the initials of an area I used to live in – Hawkes Bay, New Zealand, but HEY, this isn’t about me, it’s your special day so enjoy man. Have all the fun!
Napier or Hastings or one of the smaller towns like Wairoa?
Havelock North for 5 years (family emigrated there from UK when I was 15), also did a year in Wellington. 🙂
I was born in Dunedin, 8 years in Christchurch, 2 in Auckland and 3 in Wellington. 🙂
Sweet as. 😛 Do you still go back much or are your family all over here now? Think I’m gonna head back in Feb. Has been about a year since went back and missing the family dogs a lot.
Some family here but most are back in NZ. Try and get over there periodically but it’s insanely expensive to get to Dunedin. 🙁
True, it’s quite out of the way. I need to go and explore more of the south island. All I did was Hamner Springs and Christchurch on a volleyball trip for school in 2006. Really want to spend a week with a camper van seeing the sites down there. My dad did that recently and he (a very, very well travelled man) said parts of it were the most stunning places he’s seen in his life. Then he went to Queenstown and asked me not to be American or grow a beard as there were far too many of both there lol.
All through Central Otago (Queenstown etc) is where we used to holiday a lot. Both in the summer and in the winter.
One of the weirdest things was going back there recently and going to an area that used to be all arid, unusable land near Cromwell where we used to go shooting rabbits when I was a kid, and now because they built the dam and flooded an area to create a lake, the climate’s changed in the area and right up into the hills is vineyards, apparently one of the real up-and-coming wine areas in NZ.
HAPPY BABY CANNON DAY MY FRIEND!
“Anniversary of being launched from the baby cannon”… I feel like I should start using this
Happy birthday!
Happy day of birth to you good sir!
Happy B’day NegativeZero! Party on!!
Technically, you get older everyday! Yay helping!
Happy Birthday, man!
Happy birthday for Monday!
Telltale’s Game of Thrones is out this week. Pretty sure it’ll be the last game I play this year. Feel a pressing need to take a gaming break after Dragon Age’s 100 hours in nine days. XD
Damn, that’s a mammoth effort man, taking a break sounds wise, after putting in that much time you don’t want to get burnt out, because Captain Toad is out early January.
I liked those levels in Super Mario 3D World but have a confession to make… look away, @powalen… I HATE TOAD. XD
Haha, I felt the same. Used to hate toad but I think in one game (and a couple of side levels in another game) they changed my opinion of them being completely useless.
I liked the music that played whenever Toad was around in Galaxy. So that’s something, maybe?
Haven’t got 3D World, DKC: Tropical Freeze or Hyrule Warriors yet. Must get on that soon.
Amiibos give you presents in Hyrule (I may have bought some amiibos)
Sweet!
Just when I thought we were getting along D’:
I said look away. I was trying to protect this fragile friendship of ours. It’s not my fault you read even though I tagged you. It’s everyone’s fault but mine! 😛
Wow, really? That’s awesome news. They’re really churning the games out now! Still looking forward to Borderlands Tales dropping onto the 360!
Tales from the Borderlands was just so fun. Instantly warmed to all those characters and the cool ‘he said, she said’ hook. I always thought Borderlands world was amazing and was disappointed it was never used to its full potential story wise. Tales uses it to its full potential. 😀
That’s, been out since Thursday. I recorded my full 2 hours of it.
I thought it didn’t come out until 3rd Dec for the 360?
That’s what I thought too. But then it was suddenly up there.
Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooohhh
This week? Ermagherd.
My DA:I game says 100hrs after the close of the first act, but it’s wrong, because I’ve left it on while sleeping and at work. I really need to stop doing that to get more accurate reads on these things.
My enjoyment of Dragon Age really picked up after I’d scoured every available side-quest and mission before no longer being able to avoid the main quest.
I’d been thinking it was ‘pretty good but not amazing’ with too much gathering crap getting in the way of meaty story, until I got to meeting the Big Bad and the events leading up Skyhold.
I don’t care how heavily-directed and ‘railroaded’ it might be considered, THAT was some heroic shit.
I had the feels something powerful, and really felt like the character was coming into her own.
Also, I have had to source that song, the Dawn Will Come.
Yeah, I found my enjoyment of Dragon Age was dependent on making steady progress with the story and balancing the side stuff. When I did two minor regions back-to-back my enjoyment plummeted, but when I did one story mission and then one minor mission it was all good.
They need an option to increase the frequency of companion banter. I don’t mind running out, it just means I change up my party to get fresh combos. 😛
It’s always the best incentive to take new combos.
They need an option for me to shout “YES SOLAS! VARRIC HAS FOUGHT HIM BEFORE, YOU’VE ASKED HIM THIS 4 TIMES IN THE LAST BLOODY HOUR!!!”
The soundtrack is on iTunes, plus those “other” sites, the dawn will come only runs for a couple of minutes, but there are plenty of other epic sounding tracks.
Also I just did the section you’re talking about last night. Everything from Redcliffe castle on has been glorious!
Damn man, that’s actually more than I’ve done! I’m only up to 70 hours so far. Then again I’m swapping between it & XCOM Long War so I guess that’s taking some of my time away too
Wait, didn’t Tales of Borderlands just come out? Are they releasing both at the same time?
…Oh dear. That is not good. Remember how Wolf Among Us had five months between episodes because they were too busy with The Walking Dead Season 2?
I finally finished Mass Effect 3 on the weekend! Yay! I actually enjoyed the ending but of course I had the extended cut installed. I was reading through the changes between original and extended afterwards and I was like “huh? But that’s almost everything!”
So I apologise to anyone who played this game and finished it before the extended cut was released. Waiting 2 years to play a game wins again!
Also Smaaaaaaaaaaaaaash Bros!
Apology accepted.
I finished it before extended ending and had zero problems with it. Still haven’t seen the extended ending and don’t feel I need to. Far as I’m concerned it’s fan fiction.
Edit: That sounded far more hostile than I intended.
Fan fic hey. So all the characters have sex with each other. Wait no that is canon. How does fan fic of a bioware game go?
Abstinence.
Hanar and Krogan get involved.
Oh, that Blasto…
I understand people’s issue with the original ending – nothing I did mattered! My choices were rendered invalid! I didn’t have a bajillion endings to choose from!
But I argue that that was the point. You ran around and did what you could, but the enemy was so massive, so all encompassing and so utterly overwhelming that what you did didn’t shape the ending – it shaped you. It shaped you to a point where you faced off against this giant, unbeatable Lovecraftian Terror* and you knew that you had one chance to actually “defeat” them, but the system was so rigged and they were so invasive in our culture that you could not win. Not outright. You could screw with the rules of this multi-generational attack, and the multi-millenial cycle, to make next time easier (or do other things next time, I’m keeping this somewhat spoiler free).
No. You weren’t able to win. Not clearly. Nothing you did led you to a point where you could win. You just lost in the best possible way for how your philosophy had shaped you – so that maybe, some time, somewhere else, somebody could get a little closer to winning. That’s called evolution. That, from a grand and huge scale (which the Reapers were thinking in) is the powerplay to get to a point where you win – on that scale, what you chose could/would make adjustments to the rules of the cycle. One human, able to make lasting changes across millenia, across the galaxy. What a mind blowing achievement.
Lovecraftian Terror/Horror is not blood and gore and stabbing eyeballs. Lovecraftian Horror is what Mass Effect is, what the Cthulu Mythos is – that you, a lowly human, cannot win against these giant monstrosities. It is simply not possible. There is no magic combination of events that will lead you to winning.
As a piece of fiction, as sci-fi, the endings were fine.
But someone out there decided that the message wasn’t good enough, that you had to clearly an unambiguously win because it’s a video game and you’re meant to be able to win.
I dislike that person, and empathise with the Bioware people on this one. They did good. We screwed it up.
I’m sure there’s a meta comment about the philosophy of organic nature in there somewhere. But I’ve only had one coffee so I’m not getting into it.
I played with and without extended ending, and to this day think the ME3 ending debacle was the most overblown thing in the history of things.
I actually had NO interest in Mass Effect until the ME3 ending shit started. Inspired me to play the series through, out of curiosity – and to this day I’m insanely glad I did. Such amazing games.
I definitely think it was overblown. I was late to the Mass Effect party so I just noted “yes people are upset about this for some reason”, and continued to play Mass Effect 2 while that was happening. For the record Mass Effect 2 is probably my favourite Mass Effect game.
ME2 was such an amazing improvement over ME1. ME1 was kind of janky and clunky in places, but ME2 just tightened the whole formula up. Amazing game.
YES! THIS GUY GETS IT!
Yeah gotta say I agree with that assessment. People don’t want to be told that “hey, you tried your best but the universe is still screwed” because they’ve been so conditioned that if you try your hardest in a video game then you will always win. ME3 was a small victory and, like you said, small victories in the time-scale of the ME universe can mean a hell of a lot against the gigantic terrors from beyond that are the Reapers.
I actually can’t think of a single game that’s just like “yeah. You tried but it wasn’t enough. The villains win.” ME3 is probably the closest that developers will ever get to that kind of glass half-empty struggle because people are petty and want it all.
Thank you finally I’m able to understand why it’s not so bad after reading this! I admit I was one that personally personally caught up in the whole “All that preparation for the same outcome picking between A, B, C and D endings”. Not as rabid as those online ones attacking Bioware mind you, but it did bug me to an extent.
When you put it like that, it makes total sense, it reminds me of Zion (The matrix), where “We have become very efficient at it since we’ve done it so many times before already”. So yeah they’ve slaughtered entire galactic civilisations that were even more legendary than this shaky alliance you’re fighting to protect and you thought it was going to be easy if you, a single puny human with great influence is enough to stop this without extremely heavy casualties?To be fair, a lot of people hated the Architect in the Matrix and considered him a cheap cop-out that made no sense.
Since that was exactly the role of the Star Child in ME3, I’m quite sure those same people hated it just as much.I personally didn’t mind him, but that sort of thing does make sense, it’s not like they haven’t done this before and times before could’ve been way more challenging than this “Generation” is. They were fighting for their very survival as well, look where that got them against this exact same enemy?
D’uh a doy, I wanted to save teh galaxie and blow up the f’ing Reapers!. All of them. With my pistol. AND NOW I CAN’T DO THAT WHAT THE HELL BIOWARE C’SUCKERS.
Intelligent themes. Who cares? They have no place in my gamez!!!!!
And who the hell is Lovecraft. Is that the jurnalist, because I punched her b*tchface in.
0/10 wouldn’t rent
and games like Last of Us, Bioshock: Infinite and Walking Dead are highly praised because of those same reasons. Some people man…
Yeah, the reaction to the ending made me so livid I had to edit this post to take out 90% of the swears.
I argued it at the time, and I argue it still:
Three different scenarios.
1) Reapers controlled and used as instruments of human/organic supremacy, with a long road to repair, as the entire central government and military makes its efforts to reconnect with the lost reaches of its once-galaxy-spanning civilization, a hard road of hope.
2) Organics and synthetics merged in an unprecedented union of evolution, intra-galactic travel is swiftly restored and the combine ushers in a new age of cooperative enlightenment.
3) Galactic devourers annihilated, along with all synthetics, leaving an inter-dependant galactic civilization fractured and isolated without any hope of restoration, doomed to millennia of relative stone-age dark ages and strife, with many outposts simply unsustainable without inter-systems logistics and no central government.
And people have the nerve to consider these things IDENTICAL? You’d have to be an idiot to consider those endings identical. Their impacts on galactic civilization couldn’t be more different.
And these were semi-intelligent people making these complaints, so the idiot part can’t be right… so maybe it’s the core question which is wrong. ie: It’s not that the game’s ending wasn’t different… it’s that Shepard’s ending wasn’t different. Because Shep didn’t get to run off into the sunset and have fucking Turian or Quarian babies and live happily ever fucking after.
People objected to something that the developers indicated was always going to happen. “Shepard’s story is definitively over,” they said.
So many complainers whined that no, this isn’t what they were objecting to… they were objecting to [imagined] broken promises.
Of all the ‘promises’ fans imagined were broken, they conveniently forgot to fit that main promise that Bioware very publicly announced, warned about, and kept.
Because they didn’t want to reconcile what that actually meant. What the hell do you THINK that means, when you say someone’s story is definitively unquestionably no-take-backsies OVER? It means the Krogan don’t bake you a fucking cake.
Lol good job on keeping out the swears but don’t you think that the main problem was that after 3 episodes all you had left was three choices from a quite distinct ending? No quarian built super suit which would match the collectors? No Turian firepower which couldn’t destroy them? just you and some VR kid who keeps summoning the reapers at the apex of each evolutionary cycle???
What’s more your hero was never built up to be a tragic hero. He’d died once already in a non player engaged incident. If your going to rob players of that kind of agency why bother building up the rest? I’ve said it before and will say it again MGS showed a much better way to kill off a character.
Have you considered anger management therapy, @freezespreston?
The main things that the extended cut changed:
– Normandy swoops down to rescue your teammates, explaining why there’s no sign of them when Shepherd advances into the beam alone (though doesn’t really explain how Anderson got there).– You have the choice of walking away/doing nothing when talking to the Star Child which results in the reapers winning and the cycle continuing (non-standard gameover).
– Better representation of the damage to (not destruction of) the mass relays, as reaassurance we aren’t all completely screwed (i.e.: we can recover)
– Added cutscene where they place Shepherd’s name on the war memorial (or if you chose the destroy ending and your galactic readiness score was high enough your love interest hesitates/refuses to do it – you also get the cutscene hinting Shep could possibly still be alive somewhere).
There’s a few other tweaks but yeah, I think people would have nitpicked the ending a lot less if they did the extended cut originally, but for some people who hated the original ending it felt like too little too late. I personally always liked it, so the EC was just a bonus.
Might be worth spoiler tagging this stuff. Just in case.
Shit, it didn’t occur to me and I can’t edit posts at work due to outdated IE. Let me see if I can get to it on my phone.
All good, I know you’re not a spoiler-monster!
Hello taybies! Had a fair enough weekend for being sick (still; I seriously blame public transport, and getting caught out AGAIN in the storm on Thursday). Saw Nightcrawler (very good), played Far Cry 4 (very very good), watched the new Star Wars trailer (surprisingly good), and got primo tickets for Walking With Dinosaurs next year (great!).
AND. Remember how I said we were thinking about buying another PS4 and TV? Well, we went through all our old games and made a big pile of games we either now have digitally, never play anymore, have multiples of, hate, etc – all up, we have about $600 worth for trade in! So we’ll put that towards the TV we liked, and then go halves in the PS4 – about $250 each. Yay! AND we’re going to Ikea next weekend to look at new furniture, which will be Christmas gifts from our parents.
Everything’s coming up Janehouse.
HEY JANE!
HELLO!
That was some solid social interaction, right there. I have made my quota.
I applaud your efforts. Well done, you.
Oh. I’ll just turn around and head home then.
Don’t be that way, Freezey. We’re gonna mosey! Moseying is one of my favourite things!
But @freezespreston, you’ve come so far!
DINOSAURS!!!!!! \o/
Yeah! I saw it when it came to Brisbane last time, like 10 years ago or so. Maybe even longer ago. Very excited. This time I *will* buy myself a silly dinosaur tail or slippers.
I saw one really early when they first started doing them. eekkk hate to think how long ago that was. Probably 15 – 20 years ago. Haven’t been back since but think it would be cool. Can’t wait until my Tiglet is old enough to take
Heh, I watched Walking With The Dinosaurs during its original run over seven years ago. It was pretty good, but some of the effects were clearly designed for people in the midde row.
Upvote for Janehouse 😛
Good morning everyone. Feeling kinda burnt out after a mega-weekend at Supanova. Ran four separate RPGs during that time which I think turned out well. I used the random adventure generator that you guys helped chip into which worked pretty well. Here were the adventures that happened:
1. The party had to go and rescue the mayor of a town on the edge of a great desert. Turned out the mayor was kidnapped by cultists and was about to be sacrificed to summon a demon.2. A serial killer was on the loose in a Dwarven thane and the party had to track the killer down. Eventually they found the murderer but discovered that he was being heavily influenced by a Cthulhu-esque creature which they promptly murdered.
3. A tiny little hamlet in a dark and spooky forest required aid against a band of goblins who were harassing them. The party carved through their camp and the goblins resorted to summoning an ancient spirit which screwed over the adventurers and the goblins equally.
4. The adventurers were hired to escort a merchant caravan across a wasteland that had been destroyed by a volcanic eruption. They gave water to a thirsty troll, fought off ashbats, and had a chase sequence on their caravan as salamanders tried to run them down.
In other news, Alphabet Nuzlocking OR is harder than I thought. I’ve only got a Poochyena, Zigzagoon, and a Shroomish however I’ve managed to lock myself out of so many other Pokemon so far. I’ve only just beaten the first gym though so hopefully I can get a fuller party soon.
Now do it all again tonight! DANCE FOR OUR AMUSEMENT MONKEY!
Unless you’re not up for it that is.Nah I should be right for tonight. Hopefully most people can make it.
I will definitely be late tonight. Not sure how much by though.
Stupid Christmas
Bah! Humbug
Well, alright.
*does a jig*
I don’t see any mention of butts. 0/10.
The butt roll didn’t come up. Sorry Saturday.
Here’s hoping my ideas helped in a little way, even if it was for avoiding stereotypes! 😛 Thinking back it was kinda like and episode of Scooby Doo lol.
So I’ve figured out why I haven’t been enjoying the characters in DA:I as much… I have the fucking audio bug.
I remember Blackwall and Cassandra having some banter very early on in my playthrough but now my whole party is as silent as they get. I turned off ambient noise for an hour or two yesterday while playing and I kid you not there was literally no banter or music in any of the regions I went to.
Leave it to BioWare and EA to release a screwed up game. Really ticked off about that; might be the last BioWare game I let myself indulge in to be honest. Now that the founders have left EA’s philosophy of releasing half finished games seems to have well and truly sunk into the company.
That’s unfortunate but my experience with DA:I couldn’t be more different. I thought it was the most polished and ambitious BioWare game since ME2.
Only issues I’ve had in 40 hours is the occasional awkward silence glitch and it freezes for a second in the same spot everytime I run into Haven.
I have the same problem in Haven. Nothing game breaking but just that one second of being frozen is odd.
Oh that awkward silence is killing the flow when it happens. Bad enough in regular conversations but when it’s in a build up to a confrontation with a bad guy… The worst part is if you try and use the skip dialogue option to get beyond the gap, you often miss a line so things stop making sense
I think it’s more the Frostbite engine’s fault than it is BioWare’s. Apparantly a lot of the issues people have had with the game are also present in Battlefield 4.
I got by that bug… well, from the very beginning. It comes and goes, really, as does a bevy of other audio-related shenanigans. All very distracting at times.
Explain this audio bug? I played maybe 8 hours and I think that my party talked to each other twice? Is that normal rate or low or what? Because I also was finding the characters boring and uninspired.
Yeah that’s the bug basically, they’re meant to have banter every 10-20min. Also apparently Val Royeaux is meant to have music playing while you’re there but if you have the audio bug no music plays.
I think a lot of people have the bug but just aren’t aware they have it and assume its part of the game’s design that the characters don’t engage in banter.
Edit: Happy Birthday Neg!
Is the bug really an audio bug in that you just can’t hear the banter? ie: If you have all the subtitles turned on you’d see the words but not hear them?
Or do they just not banter at all?
I think they just don’t banter at all.
I have subs on and I’ve only heard half a dozen banters in the 36 hours I’ve clocked.
Which is a shame as I built my party around the possibility of entertaining banter :/
Might have to shelve it a while till a patch comes out.
Also never buy games on release again. :I
Nah there’s no subtitles whatsoever. Also another thing I’ve just found out that’s affected by the bug is that the people in your party are supposed to have witty one liners during combat that refer to enemies you’re currently fighting. I’ve had 0 of that since the start of the game…. It’s really quite annoying; makes me wish I’d pirated this game instead (might actually do that and hope my PC version doesn’t have the bug).
Nah, I PC and I’m pretty sure I have the bug.
Bugger, then I probably have it too since that place was pretty quiet. 🙁
Yep like I said, its one of those bugs that you won’t even realize you have until someone makes you aware of it. I managed to try one of workarounds yesterday which is to mount/unmount, rest in your camp and then teleport (basically anything that causes your party to respawn) and managed to get a few minutes of banter after like 4 tries but it cut out again like 10minutes later…. @strange and @jocon Easy way to tell if you have the bug is to try turning the ambience/sound effects in options to 0 and play the game for about 30min and see how much noise you hear (i.e. keep dialog and music at max). Apparently music is meant to play during combat for one, party members are meant to speak to each other once every 20min, and have combat related comments.
I had a good morning. Yep.
not sure if real or sarcasm…?
Real 😛
awesome! care to elaborate on why it’s been so good? If not, doesn’t matter! Always nice to hear good times are at hand!
I realise it does sound sarcastic, my bad hahaha. Sleep deprived woo!
Friend in England surprised me last night wanting to FaceTime this morning so spent about 3 hours just chatting, was great since it had been months since we had properly caught up!
Niiiice! Always good to catch up with pals! 🙂 Especially when it’s been a while!
Yeah it really is! We agreed to make it something that we will do often. I hope so cause it was a great way to kill a few hours 😀
Starting to get everything ready for Christmas. At the same time I’m also trying to get everything ready for the new fridge. Busy, busy, busy.
I logged into Origin and apparently you sent me friend requests and I probably haven’t logged into Origin for like 6 months so I don’t know how long those have been there and I’m sorry!
Also which scree is you???
Punctuation!!!?!
both because I am an idiot and accidentally made two accounts. They were merged into one.
Happened to me too, There’s a Tech_Knight_Zero and Tech_Knight_Blue, one is for BF Bad Company 2 and the other was the Mass Effect 3 😛
Up and B still helps catching Pokemon right?
Up your B still helps to poke a man, right?
I find that mashing B is more effective.
Aaaaaand done. All 12 launch Amiibos levelled to 50.
I went to target to get 3 but they had 1 mario left. I was like I really don;t mind paying the extra $3 anyway
Rocksmith 2014 is on sale at the moment. I figured I’d check if the DLC is on sale as well.
The answer is… sort of.
It seems to be most of the more recently released songs aren’t (which makes sense) though apparently randomly selected old ones are not. Possibly something to do with the original rights holders?
But the weird part is, most of them have been at 25% off for the whole sale (which was the cheapest they ever got on the last one) but whilst it’s on the daily a bunch of them have gone up to 50% off. Though it seems in most cases the ones that are 50% off are only 50% off individually and if you buy the pack that has all that bands rocksmith songs it’s only 25% off so you are actually paying more then just buying them one at a time. I’ve no idea if that’s intentional or not.
Works for me though as usually I only want two or three out of the list anyway.
Since Red is too busy with his Holiday in Cambodia, a Monday morning question.
What holdover habits from older games have you got?
For example, the holding up and B when throwing a Pokeball. Probably does nothing but I can’t help it.
Also, after stupid amounts of hours in FFVIII which was my first real JRPG (late to the party also primarily PC in my youth) I still to this day hit R1 when the character lands an attack in turn based RPGs.
Pressing the “B” button when I get told to “Press X”, cuz switching from PS2/3 to Xbox was annoying 😛
Or pressing triangle when you want to go back on later PlayStations, when it is actually circle.
Doing every side mission in every game as soon as I can because they may disappear without warning when doing story/main missions
I do this too. It’s the main reason it’s taking me so long to advance in DA:I’s story at all, even though I know you can keep playing after finishing the main story (or that’s what I’ve heard anyway).
I find I have the best intentions of finishing up all the little sidequesty things after the main story in games, but then when I’ve finished the game and try to do it, it all just seems a bit pointless so I give up.
This is also why I dislike DLC which is set mid-game, but not made available until long enough after launch that I’ve already finished the game and have to go revisit.
I didn’t experience the very excellent Shadow Broker DLC for ME2 until ME3 was right around the corner, for this very reason.
Not pressing start during cutscenes, just in case it skips them rather than pauses them. This probably doesn’t count, because half the games I play will still skip rather than pause.
(Speaking in terms of Nintendo configuration) Using B for Ok and Y for Back/Cancel.
Most games these days seems to use A and B instead. It’s weird.
I will try my hand at quickscoping with a sniper in any FPS game.
I also tend to the think that the back/select/not-start button should usually bring up on-the-fly stats.
Both of these are due to MW2. 😛
I played a crazy amount of Crash Team Racing as a kid, so now it’s been drilled into me that you never slow down in a racing game, and that the only brake you need is the hand brake.
It’s why I’m really good at arcade racers, but despise racing sims.
I hate intentionally slowing down while racing >:(
Yep I keep accidentally firing my weapon thanks to Crash Team Racing with R1 for power slide slide, L1 for boost when the smoke from your kart turns black xD. I’m also using the old Mario Kart mechanics where you’re meant to keep going left and right for charging up your power slide boost
Moving the controller up in the air when jumping during a mario game
It totally helped make jumps on the NES
Dpad in menus
This so much.
Death to all touchscreen-only control schemes.
Hoarding items in RPGs, though The Stick of Truth is breaking me of this habit because honestly I’m getting my ass kicked if I don’t use health/power/speed potions and they give you heaps to pick up as well so if you don’t use ’em you lose ’em.
Also, hoarding money. It’s pretty funny that because I’m carrying so much crap and selling it off to vendors like some post-apocalyptic trash collector in games like Fallout 3/New Vegas that after a few hours I have a ludicrous pile of caps and I’m paying people to repair my weapons and armour just so I can sell them more stuff, while I have 50 weapon repair kits stuffed in my footlocker at home because carrying them is an encumberance.
Ha ha! Same.
Look/aim vertical inversion. Many FPS titles (on PC anyway) used to be vertical inverted by default.
Then again, I learnt to use a mouse on my Amiga 500 at age 6 upside down (yes, you are reading that correctly) and didn’t learn to use a mouse the right way up until I was 15 or 16.
Also, anything on my 3DS I want to go quicker, I hold the R button. Stupid Mii Plaza taught me that one. Hard to break.
Did you use your palms to mouse click or did you hardly touch the mouse at all?
Heel of my palm rested on the desk – pretty much just moved the mouse with my fingers. One of these bad boys :
http://tinyurl.com/mmqay7e
Freaking duck jumps (Space + CTRL)… Damn you Half-life!
Don’t know if you ever played Red Steel, but there was one jump were you have to duck jump, the only one in the game I might add, and doing it on a Wii? Next to impossible.
Jeebus…. Falling down a flight of stairs sounds like it’d be more entertaining then that :/
Falling down a flight of stairs would be more fun than playing Red Steel. I promise you that.
I spent so much time playing Halo and the like on a controller that I actually struggle with Mouse & Keyboard because of the lack of a trigger to pull and the vibration feedback. It’s more precise but doesn’t feel as good.
I hardly ever play Nintendo systems and I grew up largely with Sega, Sony and Microsoft. This means that the fact that X and Y and A and B are flipped around on Nintendo’s controllers absolutely breaks my brain. I can’t handle it. Always hit the wrong button.
Weirdly I don’t have the problem going from PS3 to PS4. I’ve got a JP PS3 so the function of O and X are swapped in the dashboard and in most games but my brain somehow automatically swaps over fine. The only ones I have issues with are games where they’ve hard-coded X to confirm and O to cancel, because whenever you save it drops you out to the dashboard where O is confirm and X is cancel and you have to think carefully about it.
The JP PlayStation O and X flip still catches me out sometimes. Stuff like MGS on PSP is still JP flipped, even on US/PAL versions
Relevant. @redartifice
http://youtu.be/-KTsXHXMkJA
I sometimes press (out of habit) triangle to cancel in PlayStation things instead of circle, bleh..
I furiously mash the confirm/main button like a madman during Final Fantasy battles.
Yep, B up from Pokemon Red to Pokemon Ruby (y)
Had a big weekend. Got up at the crack of dawn on Saturday to try and get to Target the moment they opened, for Smash. Scored the last copy of the bundle they had, and all but two Amiibos. Managed to get another bundle and the last two from the nearby Big W, then a GCN controller from another store on the way to Pow’s to give him the second game.
All that took so long though, I pretty much only had time to grab some food when I got home then run out for supplies for later that night. Got all that sorted, luckily Costco wasn’t too far up the road from where my school reunion was being held. Managed to get there at 1, an hour after it had started. Or so I thought. Talked to the girl at the counter, apparently the booking wasn’t until 2 and I had some time to spare. Dammit 😛
Ended up going to a friend’s place nearby and hung out there for a bit. He’s got a ~1990 Nissan 350z that I’ve mentioned on here once a while back, but he’s got to sell it because it’s got some mechanical problems that’ll just cost too much to get fixed. Since this was probably the last time it’d be there, he “convinced” me to go along with him in that and leave my car at his place. Against my better judgement, I complied 😛
The reunion was good, catching up with a bunch of old faces. Some looking a little older than others. Shame there weren’t more of the guys I used to hang out with, at least not while I was there. Really wish the dates didn’t clash and I could have stuck around for the whole thing, but I had to leave around 4. And ended up running late because saying goodbye took forever of course.
So I was having a bunch of guys over to play some Smash that afternoon, and a couple of them needed a lift from the station. Another who was driving called me up to let me know what was going on, and that there was one at the station already with another getting there soon. But he only had one space in his car, so I’d have to get the other. Really wishing now that I had just driven myself to the pub and didn’t have to backtrack with my friend to get my car. But… it had an upside.
The traffic heading towards a set of lights was banked up pretty bad, so he spun off to a side street and started going on an alternative route. But then he pulls over. And says since it’s the last time and all, I should probably hop on over into the driver’s seat. What. WHAT. He never lets anyone drive any of his cars, not even his regular ride which is kind of falling apart. But sure enough, it was happening.
I tell you, I totally get how a car like that can make you drive like an idiot. I mean, you can’t not. It demands it of you. It’s just too much fun. Way way way too dangerous having a toy like that 😛 I think that’s half the reason he’s getting rid of it actually.
The idiocy kind of carried over once I got back to my own car >_> I mean it was partly down to the stress of running late, and then getting back to Parramatta Road to find it completely PACKED and what was a 10-15 minute trip was now looking to take maybe three times that, calling for a huge detour. But not entirely.
Really glad I’ve got a phone that can bluetooth through the stereo now, had to make so many calls on that trip to coordinate stuff. Had to check if Mum was home to let people in, then let the others know they should stay outside and not ring the doorbell, then constantly check if Dad was done sleeping yet and get him to let everyone in. Eventually got home about an hour after I’d planned to, but couldn’t let up yet. Had to start setting up TVs and stuff.
So much stress. So much sweat. Went off and had yet another shower after already having had one that morning after the initial shopping trip, missed out on all the eight player Smash once I was done. But that’s ok. Man it looks great up on the big screen…
The night was pretty great. Two of my school friends had come around from the reunion, and with another late arrival there were a dozen of us (plus one’s girlfriend, who did not partake in the Smashery) which evened numbers out nicely for a tournament. The whole thing came about because one of the guys registered for Nintendo’s Smash Club thing, so we needed to get something like ten people together for a competition and provide evidence of it so we could get a copy of the game and an amiibo as a prize. But it’s been ages since we had a meetup anyway, so it was a good excuse to get us off our arses and doing something. Loads of Smash, 3DSes everywhere, three TVs set up with a Wii U each. Awesome fun. And now I’m stuck with nearly a kilo and a half of chips, a dozen cans of drink and a box of Malteasers that I don’t know what to do with.
Nothing to report from Sunday. That was just sleep and cleanup and playing more Smash. And being tired 😛
Send the food to @saturday
Hello hello, Tay. The first snow of the season touched upon my part of Canada today; it’s a balmy -5 degrees celsius. Finally feels like winter’s kicked in.
(On the horizon, the deep rumble of Bish’s grumbling echoes.)
Anyway. I’ve a topic to talk about to ya’ll. Maybe I’ve talked about it before?
Snack Exchange.
How’d you feel if I were to chuck some american/canadian sweets your way in exchange of some of your sweets? Think it’d be complicated? Shipping would kill us? Even if we set it up tomorrow, I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t be able to organize stuff to you guys by christmas. I’m just looking for thoughts here, this has wandering in and out of my mind for a while, you know? namely, in the middle in the night where I wake up in a cold sweat after dreaming of shapes.
Don’t fall for his tricks!
They have nothing. Nothing that compares to the magnificence of Shapes.
Or Bundaberg Ginger beer.
Or Picnics.
Or Arnott’s Mint Slices.
They only just got the Cadbury Marvellous Creations!
All that’ll happen is that you’ll send off a box of infinite joy, whilst all you get in return is sad, small box of loathing.
*sob*
Uh, I mean, that’s a really swell idea and I guess if you’re a candy sort of person (I’m more savoury snacks m’self), they’ve got a pretty decent variety of stuff.
Think about it.
Well, ah, It’d be no problem for me to pop over to the states; their box of loathing is, at least, palatable.
The list you just rattled off makes me want to go through this more, really.
(Also, Marvellous Creations are unsatisfactory.)
Nah, I exaggerate.
If I got a box of Snyders of Hanover pretzel bits and Crispers I would be so happy.
What are these Crispers you speak of, and how much do I need them?!
They’re crackers made of of potato flour, so they’ve got the same texture (IIRC) as potato In-A-Biscuit crackers. That kind of thin, dense, but incredibly, uh, crisp (for a lack of a better term) texture. Really satisfying to munch on.
A mixture of allegedly 9 standard/gross flavours. Barbeque (best), all dressed (average), dill pickle (no thanks) are a few of them.
I don’t eat these obsessively like I would with Shapes, but they’re still pretty good.
On a scale of 1-10, where 0 is a “I wouldn;t recommend this to someone I hate.”, 5 is a “I would recommend trying it once” and 10 is some sort of addictive narcotic, maybe a 7.5-8? Good, but not addictively great.
Great job, genius.
I can facilitate this, I have a Reeses addiction I can’t seem to shake. What do you want to trade, shapes?
Reeses. Yes, the crack cocaine of the masses. I will indulge you in this vice. Hell, I’ll hook you up with peanut butter confections you never even knew existed. It’s the holidays over here, too; lots of seasonal-only goodies out and about. I’m sure there’s much variety to be found in your poison of choice.
Shapes are preferable, but there is much I miss from the land down under. I suppose I’ll need to write up a list, hammer out details. Package size, costs, the time it will take to gather these cursed goods.
Sounds good, put the list together and tag me when you know.
I feel like Tom Cruise in Minority Report when he’s out jogging and meets the drug dealer.
And I like it. (⌐■_■)Hello!
Hey Jimjim!
Hey
Hai! 😀
Hai
Hoy hoy.
Hoy
Hi there.
Hi
You well?
Not bad, you?
Aye, can’t complain.
Urgh.
Blergh
You’re a man after my own heart, Jimmy 🙂
Nah
Nah?
Nah
nahnahnahnahnah BATMAN!Catches bad guys just like flies?
Whazzzzaaaaaap
Smash impressions:
I hate this game. I fucking suck at it.
I love it and it is very pretty and super rad and so much better than Brawl already.I want to buy a Wii U with this game so I can challenge you all to this after all this chat about it now… with amiibos at my side :'(
For some reason I’m enjoying the 3DS version moreso than the WiiU. I think I’ve gotten a bit too familiar with the 3DS as the control scheme because holding a Gamecube controller feels weird now.
S’ completely whack, I’ve gotten so used to the 3ds version that I use my 3ds as a controller exclusively when I play with mates. I think I’ve completely forgotten how to play using a gamecube controller (of which there were plenty available!)
Yeah the Cube controllers felt weird for me too. But then I don’t think I’ve even handled a controller of any sort in months, so that probably factors into it 😛
I’m not a fan of the implementation though. Mainly because the shoulder buttons are weird. In Melee, you’d use the analogue portion for shielding and landing, and if you wanted to do an air dodge you had to use the digital click. Then in Brawl they screwed things around by making the analogue portion do nothing, you had to use the click for everything. I could never get landings right in that one, the timing from the extra button travel seemed to just throw me off completely. And now they use the analogue part for *everything*… except the analogue feels like it doesn’t trigger until you’ve pressed maybe a third or half of the way in. I still instinctively press in to pre-empt an air dodge.
In general though I seem to just suck at shielding. Noticed it the most during the battle against the hands, in the 3DS version I was doing ok, I could block and dodge the majority of attacks against me especially against the crawlbeast thing. But on Wii U… nooooope. Getting many much rage thanks to this game.
Oh and also I (still/once again) want to find whoever it was that was responsible for making L and R the upper buttons on the gamepad and pro controller, instead of having them as the triggers. Also whoever decided (in this game) that the top buttons should both be shield and the triggers should both be grab. And then punch each of them in the face.
Tonight I’m gonna bury that horse in the ground!
Suddenly I don’t want to get off this train…
Shake it out, Freezey!
Did he just pee?
Hola Tay
I am in Ho Chi Minh. Vietnamese coffee is the fucking best. Yesterday I went to the war remnants museum, which is interesting but very slanted.
A Monday morning question: what is your all time favourite object for its sheer utility?
Edit: was looking at question wrong.
Duct tape. This is the only answer really. It can fix plane wings and we all know how much a pain it is when that happens.
House key.
It allows entrance into my domicile, scrapes gum off my shoe, can dig wedged objects out of other objects, and is the ultimate symbol of both financial independence and a progressing romantic relationship. It can also be used in self-defence, or could be used to clean my ears in an emergency. VERSATILE.
This would have been the perfect opportunity to mention this INANIMATE CARBON ROD.
If I recall, Vietnamese Coffee differs from the rest by way of being… really sweet? I forget.
I’d say my Swiss Army Knife, but that’s cheating, innit? I’ve used my Ipod Touch as a makeshift tool many times, although it’s application normally boils down to being used as a blunt object (Because using an Ipod as a high-tech equivalent to a hammer makes sense, right?) I’ve also found my lighter to be handy, but to be honest lighting things on fire is useful for… well, ok, only maybe 3 or 4 things.
….
Let’s go with my Swiss Army Knife.
Thumbs.
Try spending a day with those suckers taped down.
My Pen.
Never go into work without it!
CABLE TIES. You can fix anything with cable ties and/or duct tape.
A hammer is surprisingly useful. From the handle just to knock in things with out damaging to the obvious bash bash when needed. The claw can open a variety of things and while not as useful as a crowbar at breaking things open it can do the trick.
And besides if it upsets you enough everything can look like a nail.
The utili-key. Best most useful thing.
Except I friggen went and lost it at PAX last year, haven’t gotten around to replacing it. Pretty sure I was using it as a bottle opener when we were drinking and playing CAH in our room, but then left it on the bedframe. No sign of it in lost property though, and my friend who was there another night couldn’t see it anywhere either.
Smartphone? Makes calls, texts, emails, pays bills, web surfs, takes photos. Emergency flashlight, music player and Know-It-All when quizzed at discussions. Only needs a few hours rest to get back up and perform all day – I need at least eight. In 10 seconds flat it can pick out the names of songs currently playing waaay better than I can.
Those two extra screws that come with furniture and appliances that you don’t want to throw out but you have no actual use for. Those are awesome.
So I’m at the elite four in OR
Still too easy, I’ve been avoiding trainers since badge 4, fun though.The battle with Wally with the roses behind & the cock rock, Dynasty Warriors style guitar was awesome. Don’t remember that guy stepping up in Emerald.
Also, Square Enix should take some notes because even Pokemon has an airship now. So much more fun being able to explore a world map instead of picking off a list.
Yeah! I met Wally and was like “…The last time I met you you had a Kirlia??? When did this good Pokemon team of 5 happen????? You can Mega Evolve????????????”It was cool, you remember if he did that in Gen III ?
Don’t remember!
Nobody remember poor Wally! D:
Yep. He had a level 16 Ralts I think the last time you met him, then you suddenly meet him at the end of Victory Road and he is the strongest non-Elite Four trainer in the game.
I know that, but did he do it in Gen III
Dragon Age peoples:
I completely missed Leliana in my first/main playthrough of Origins(I never noticed you can go into that pub :P). So now I’m paranoid I’ll miss a companion in Inquisition. Am I worrying for nothing?
She appears just fine. The way she’s handled by Bioware, she might actually register in Inquisition as having travelled with the Hero of Ferelden regardless of whether or not you meet her.
I’m not worried about Leliana at all, I’m worried I’ll completely miss out on a potential companion in Inquisition by not going into their area or whatever, like I missed Leliana in Origins by not going into the pub. I was just wondering how easy it is to miss out on companions in Inquisition.
Oh, misread. Sorry.
All companions get their own little quest to find them & glaring notification of said quest, so you can’t miss out at all. I believe half of them are encountered via main plot anyway.
Thanks!
Most are through the main campaign, there’s a ffewthrough side missions that have really obvious names like Recruit Warden or something for Blackwall
I’d imagine those missions would be available forever too
As far as I can tell you can’t miss out on them because you’re forced to encounter them and then asked to make a choice on whether you wish to recruit them or not.
If you went out of your way to avoid the quests relating to them I imagine you could miss them however it’s impossible to not get notifications of those quests. So basically you won’t miss out on any =p
For what it’s worth I missed Wynn (or whatever the old lady mage is called) on my first playthrough =P
I think you could potentially miss Sera, because from memory it’s not immediately clear the side quest you receive relates to recruiting her. For all the others though, I think you’d have to purposefully go out of your way no to encounter the characters.
Completely missed Leliana club has two members! \o/ I thought I was alone in utterly missing the pub door.
I am also in this club. Though I restarted when I found out.
She’s so worth it, just for the reaction when you give her the nug (which is oddly not a euphemism)
There’s a reference to that nug in DA:I. I smiled when I saw it.
There’s a total of 9 companions and really you MIGHT manage to miss 2 of them if you’re not very attentive, only one of whom surprised me by being a companion rather than an agent as I expected. As a small tip, let the weird boy in the odd hat stay.
Rogues
Cole
Sera
Varric
Warriors
Iron Bull
Blackwall
Cassandra
Mages
Vivienne
Dorian
Solas
Just enough for you to field a whole team of whatever class you are if you want
You start the game with three (Solas, Varric and Cassandra).
Four more are unlocked after part of the main quest but you have to go and get them (which requires travelling to their destinations), and the game pretty much prompts you to go find them. You can miss them though.
Spoilers for who and at what point you can unlock them.
The four that should be available at that point are Sera, Vivienne, Blackwall and Iron Bull. They are all available after you go to Val Royeaux for the Chantry related quest.
The last two come as main quest progress (although you can turn them down).
Cole and Dorian. I have only played through one method of getting them both but they come along as part of the plot advancement, so if you haven’t had the opportunity to recruit them yet, don’t worry! It’s probably that the plot isn’t at the right point yet.
Thanks!
I knew nothing going into the game, so I didn’t even know how many companions to look out for.
I got Blackwall yesterday, he’s my first new recruit. So far I have no idea who my character will romance, though. Nobody really seems her type yet.
Oh, right.
It’s summer.
Crap. 🙁
Also, eating Fonda’s may do things to your bowels.
Smelly things.
Tasty, but smelly things.
Well, she is pretty old.
No, that’d do things to your mouth.
So I have my new 3DS and a Pikachu Amiibo. Now I wait patiently for Amiibo functionality on 3DS.
*twiddles thumbs*
Far Cry 4 adventures.
So, my next objective is like 3k’s away, so I decide to fast travel to Khilana Bazaar to get a Buzzer. Fly all the way there and it just keeps climbing higher all by itself, Ok, I’ll press circle to descend and land, start descending, then it goes “nope, I don’t want to land, I’m taking you up again”. Try again and again and the damn thing just refuses to land, so I jump out of it and the game won’t let me use my wingsuit, so I fall to my death.
Stupid game.
I’ve noticed if you fly over a friendly town (ones that make you holster your weapons) it makes you put your gun away and won’t let you use the wingsuit, I’ve died about 4 times because of it, maybe it had something to do with that. I’ve even had it cut a parachute as I was coming in for a nice soft landing and wouldn’t let me winsuit either SPLAT!!
Edit: Especially the town with the arena cause it’s a weird shape and bigger than it looks, I keep approaching it from the north and think “I’ll just jump down there, it’ll be quick” keep going splat cause it won’t open a ‘chute.
That… sounds annoying!
Yeah, it really brings down an otherwise awesome game.
That said, I am getting a bit sick of the stealth parts (probably because I suck at it and keep getting caught). Usually I just bust out the big guns and tear shit up, but the mission I’m on now is stealth only. Been caught a few times already, getting a bit frustrated with it. Might be time to give it a rest.
On to Dragon Age: Inquisition.
Stealth is a hard thing for games to get right… and so few do.
Case in point: in XCOM The Bureau, you approach setpieces loaded with enemies. They appear to be set up so that you can slide into cover and get the first shot in, pretty much always. But for some reason, if you hesitate for more than a second or two after getting into cover, the battle starts anyway. So, you can’t send your teammates into flanking positions, or anything like that, which means it’s not really the strategic advantage it could be. Very odd stealth mechanic.
Best stealth: Deus Ex HR. Nothing else even comes close (note: have not played Mark of the Ninja).
Noticed that ‘stealth mechanics problem’ in Dragon Age. Open a door, all the enemies are facing the other way, one character whispers that you should take advantage of the situation to get the drop on them, and a ladder practically leaps out at you with a nudge and a wink.
First time, I missed that, because as the character was whispering, I was already screaming, “HEY LOOK, ENEMIES! YAAAARRRR!” to bowl them over like skittles before either enemies OR my party had a chance to react. But in the next room to receive that warning/advice, when I tried to follow the suggestion, as soon as I climbed the ladder, it somehow drew the entire room’s attention and I got shot off it.
Determined to see what the advantage was, I had someone else distract the archers to let me climb, and as I followed the path, realized that there was no handy hook and chain for chandeliers or other destructive environment props, just a shortcut to the miniboss of the area, past the stairs full of wet-tissue-paper guards who actually grant me combat bonuses to shred.
My clumsy ‘death from above’ charge petered out before I landed, and the boss rewarded my innovative assault with a bop on the head that laid me out flat.
In my head-canon, I rather imagine that after the dust had settled and the enemies messily dispatched, the scenario was rounded out by the Inquisitor wiping blood off her face, and staring narrow-eyed at the party, snarling, “Alright. Whose idea was the ladder, then? We do things MY way from now on. Screaming, charge with an axe NEVER goes wrong.”
when the stealth bits annoy me I just call in back up, it’s ridiculous that you can send dudes into a base who run around screaming and blowing shit up but it still counts as undetected.
not too bad, the bits I’m talking about take up like 0.05% of the map,
Hmmmm maybe I’ve been connected to the new NBN or something
My steam downloads just peaked at 3,425,487,360.0 GB/S, now if I can just work out how to get that consistently
I haven’t really had much interest in the sales this time around.
I’m waiting for Don Bradman Cricket 14 to go on sale.
*crosses fingers*
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think they’ve been having daily deals or 8 hour flash sales like they did in the last big sale. So, I’ve got the feeling that this is the sale before the sale, the big one’s still coming.
At a guess this is value testing out the recommendation queue sale stuff before the big christmas sale. I hope they make it a big event again this year with achievements to hunt down and different games having different things to try. Hell don’t even bother with having prizes and free games that make people create multiple accounts and just spam the f2p games.
Without all the voting and such I feel like I don’t even care about the sales now 😛 Also the fact that the sale doesn’t show up on the apps means I can’t really check it during the day anyway.
This was mostly just updates, first time I’ve open steam at work for months
I grabbed a little something for Mrs Tigs and Santa @thecracks kindly gifted me Batman origins but that’s all I’ve bought. My pineapple is way to big to justify spending lots of new games
Oh yeah, watched the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie yesterday… It was just as brain dead as I expected and wanted it to be… I enjoyed myself
Rad/10, looking forward to the sequel.
Best Ninja Turtles movie.
“Too derivative.”
God help me, I do love that movie.
Well I can’t fault you on your taste good sir! I have all 3 of them sitting on my shelf at home 😛
Fight choreography sure has come a long way 😛
I totally need to watch those movies again, now that I’m old enough to understand half of what’s going on.
I hope what you meant to say was that 1990 was the absolute pinnacle of fight choreography.
Ha 😛
It is pretty amazing what they can still manage to do in those suits. But yeah… modern fighting has spoilt me, the old stuff seems so stilted and sluggish now. Even if it might be totally realistic.
KIDS THESE DAYS *throws hands up, flips table*
Geddorf ma lorrrrrrn etc
Vader vs Obi Wan is the clumsiest, most disappointing piece of nostalgia-gone-bad, with fight choreography which was easily eclipsed by the amateur works between my 6-8yr old brothers and I with lengths of construction-site rebar.
You’re right. Vader vs Obi-Wan in 2005 was just AWFUL. “I have the higher ground. I WIN”
The 1977 version was way better than that.
*eye-narrows* The original was the worst.
NO. That was two geezers past their prime, doing their best. There was no excuse for the 2005 effort. Plus, the dialogue was awful. It made “Only a master of EVIL, Darth!” look like fucking Shakespeare.
I will not budge on this point.
Question about Dragon Age: Inquisition
I probably sound like an idiot, but at the start after you accept the EULA it asks for your Origin ID, I entered it, and it says “Origin ID already exists”. Well no shit it does, I created it. Am I supposed to create a new Origin account just to play this game or what?
Ok, so it seems that I hadn’t linked my PSN ID to my Origin account. I download Origin, log in and try and link my PSN account, and it says that it’s already linked to a different Origin account. I don’t remember ever making a second Origin account. Not sure what to do now. Might have to contact EA.
Why do we have to jump through hoops like this? Why can’t they make things easy? Why do we have to make an account for every little goddamn thing? Because they hate us that’s why.
you know what, I’m just gonna play it without linking my Origin account.
FUCK YOU EA!
TAY RPG Pathfinder tonight at 7:30pm AEST, 8:30 pm AEDT, and 8pm ACDT. Starring:
@redartifice @tech_knight @freezespreston @sernobulus @negativezero @beeawwb @rize
Brutish thieves have absconded with the Orb of Darklight and the Elven amulet from the riches of Duke Darlington. What will the party do?
I know Red is currently holidaying and Nob will be late but I’m unaware of any other issues. Please let me know if you guys are unavailable for tonight.
good to go for tonight! There is much research to be done… *rubs hands together*
I picked up the Unnatual Lust spell by the way. Just saying.
One side of me will be tempted to tempt you into using that xD.
But after this mission I’ve got lots of things to look into so my spare time will be quite small now. One of them is finding out about that Staff and where do I get one >:)
I took that spell because it has the highest comedy potential.
I saw that as British thieves. It was them that took the Orb, ‘innit?
I thought that was just Abelas 😛
Right. British thief. :p
Oi, guvnor , wots up.
Fun fact: the girl I’m travelling with in Asia atm? The notorious Kray twins used to work for her grandfather
Oi, get back to travelin’ you git.
Ow, ow… Fonda’s is making my bum-hole wince…
D:
So I went and had a browse in the shops during my lunch break.
Checked three shops, all of which had absolutely zero Amiibos. None! Either they’re dreadfully understocked or dreadfully popular. Or both. I would’ve thought the stores would make sure they had stock at all times for the Christmas crowd! Ah well. Glad they aren’t essential.
Smash Bros is pretty fun though. Ran through and unlocked all of the characters on the weekend. Trying the Challenges though… wow, either these are incredibly hard or I’m really not very good 😛 I think I’ve got to stop swapping characters so much and just focus on getting decent with one.
ps. Make sure you have a look at all of the Palutena’s Guidance conversations! They’re pretty fun. Do a match on Palutena’s Temple playing as Pit and do a very quick down-taunt to activate (the shortest tap as you can so you don’t activate the normal down-taunt). There’s a conversation for every character! My personal favourite is Robin’s.
The conversations are a lot more natural than Snake’s Codecs, but I thought the Codecs were slightly funnier; a bit more off-kilter, which is perfect in Smash’s mashup world.
You’ll taste the bitterness of defeat!…. right after robin gets the smash ball.Re: Amiibos – weird – my local JB and at least two EBs have had a crapton of stock.
I got my Pikachu, so I’m happy.
I could understand the Target/Kmart not knowing what’s going on but the JB I checked didn’t have a trace of them. I’ll just go straight to EB for one next time 😛
What ones are you after?
Just Link to start with (for Hyrule Warriors too). Not going to bother collecting the whole set (I say that now…). I’ll also get the Pit and Palutena ones when they come out eventually.
Don’t think I need the whole set either. Pikachu was obvious, will probably go Fox McCloud next. Also, Bowser and Mega Man when they’re released.
I keep telling myself I’m not going to collect them. I was only going to get one, I got 3 and am already eyeing up the next ones. Dammit Nintendo I have no restraint why you do this to me?
Now you guys know what I’ve been going through with Skylanders and Disney Infinity. The urge to collect them all is so strong, it’s so hard to resist. I’ve finally broken the hold Skylanders had on me, but I’ve just replaced it with Amiibos, so I’ve pretty much still got the addiction, just swapped one thing for another.
I started out thinking “ok, I guess I need Samus. And Fox looks pretty good. Oh wow, gotta get Captain Falcon when he comes out. There’s no Falcon anything. And Little Mac! And I guess following that line of thought I should grab the Villager too… what, they’re doing Mega Man?”
Then I just skipped to the end and said fuck it, may as well just grab them all now. Especially since they’re on special 😛
that’s sort of how I’m going, I thought, maybe just this one, but oh he’s cool maybe him too but oh look…. etc. I can see this getting out of hand 😛
wow, the Target I went to on Saturday hadn’t even unboxed their amiibos, they had boxes and boxes of them, I accidentally asked him for Zelda (who is not released yet, oops) and watched him unpack dozens upon dozens of them. Sometimes you wonder who is in charge of their stock ordering, they ordered 4 Gamecube adapters all of them were sold within 2 minutes of the store opening.
You asked for Zelda when you meant Link, ey?
I was at a KMart and a Big W on the weekend and both had stacks of them on display. Very odd.
I went to two Targets and two Big Ws and none of them would have had enough for “stacks” on display. I think they came in boxes of four or possibly six, and each store had maybe six to eight boxes. All of them had most of their stock cleared out by the initial wave of get-there-at-opening shoppers.
Has anyone been having trouble installing and downloading games for xbox one? I cannot get anything to install and continually queues or stop installation. I have heard rumours that Sydney Microsoft servers may be to blame. Anyone got any other info?
I had that problem with one game, so I just gave up on installing it, then it happened again with the next game, so I just gave it a hard reset (power it down, the pull the power cable out of the back of the console for about 10 seconds), booted it up again, and BAM it was all good.
Yeah I thought that might do it but unfortunately not. Let the power brick completely drain the lot and still nothing. Hopefully support gets back to me soon.
So, after spending a butt-tonne of time in DA:I last weekend, I think I spent a total of 2 hours this weekend playing it… Spent more time playing Pokemon, which I’d intended to save for my fortnight off over Christmas, but got hyped into playing it early after finally investigating how EVs and IVs worked. Four badges in… might slow down so I’ve got something to do over Christmas :P.
Also got hyped into spending hours in Rocksmith after learning this week’s DLC will probably be Bon Jovi… and summarily realising a) it’s summer (so slippery, sweaty hands), and b) I’d not played anything beyond rhythm sections (ie. mostly chords, no complicated fretting) for the past month or so (ie. my callouses were almost gone). My fingertips are still sore from choosing to start playing lead again (damn Crimson and their awesome, simple-but-painful riff). I’m still shite at guitar, but it’s nice to see my scores are an improvement on what I was getting, even a few months ago.
Feels something like summertime
Top down, ain’t nothing but time
Radio’s on and you’re by my side
Feels something like summertime
Wha… Oh, crap. I’m apparently really bad at keeping up with music… Had no idea they released anything between Have a Nice Day and The Circle. Should I read too much into Greatest Hits having no recent songs aside from one from HaND and 2 from The Circle? 😛
That said, I mainly listen to them out of nostalgia – much prefer metal these days. In high school, though, Cross Road and Keep the Faith were the bee’s knees.
I’m a fan of their 1990-2000 period, me. I really dig Keep The Faith, These Days and Crush.
Don’t know if you want to know this, but they’ve released an album since The Circle, as well 😛
I never really liked Crush – it was too close to pop for me. Bounce took a very long time to get used to (especially the odd censoring in the title track :P), but after a while the distorted guitars of Hook Me Up and Bounce ended up being my gateway to metal, at which point Bon Jovi kinda fell off my radar. I only knew HaND, The Circle and Greatest Hits came out cos my parents were still fans, and what I heard from those was alright, I guess.
I might have to check it out – What About Now sounds like it might be a nice return to hard rock.
The closest person I have to a second actual friend is visiting today 🙂
Haven’t seen him in ages either 🙂
I dont normally get into sports… But I’ve found one I want to play.
I’ve decided I’m going to spend the next few months learning how to skate, as I’m keen on getting into Mens Roller Derby. Each time I go watch the Ladies games I want to go learn to skate.
So that brings me to a question, was there a sport you decided you had to play after watching it live or on TV?
Skating’s cool, used to rollerblade a lot when I was younger, now I’m too unfit to be bothered with it. Really should start up again.
Also, lately, since buying Far Cry 4 I’ve been thinking about buying a compound bow and joining the local archery club. Maybe next year.
Team handball. Always looks great at the Olympics.
Slamball.
Holy shit just searched it to see what was happening in the Slamball world at present and apparently it has arrived in Sydney. The website seems to be down though, but I will be following this closely!
Also, used to rollerblade a lot (more aggressive skating though), but a roller derby could be a lot fun. I’ve never actually watched one though!
Holy shit do I want to try Slamball.
Right? I tried make shift slam ball back in the school days with some mini tramps and crash mats, but I need to get on the pro level!
The Skeleton from the Olympics. I want to boogie-board down a mountain and be considered a star athlete.
Football, took it up two years ago after watching the English Premier League for the last 7 years and love it!
Edit: Elitist changing of ‘Soccer’ to ‘Football’ edit
Wow, just watched that comparison video on the star wars trailer. Do they actually just have a template that is “insert relevant scene here”
It is the same trailer, I wonder if it flows through all of them. Was this the same template as a new hope
“The Phantom Awakens” is a fake fan-made trailer, I believe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyK_TaUuLng
Creator says: “I tried to match the shots as much as possible.”
So, no, there’s no conspiracy here. Someone made a spoof of the Force Awakens trailer, and then made a second video directly comparing them.
Ahhhh right, I thought that was clips from the phantom menace trailer, not just random scenes frrm the movie.
Nothing to see here, move along
My sister has been single for little over a month now and already has three guys fawning over her, while I’ve been single for forever, and the closest I’ve had someone being interested in me is those charity people at shopping centres who compliment you to get you to stop and donate -___-
I know the feeling. Having an attractive sibling who everyone loves is just the worst.
One of my uglier stupider friends dated way more than the rest of us. I think in part it was due to his ignorant positivity & also, he got a car young. I never thought of women being capable of such shallowness, but I once saw a girl stick her tongue down his throat seconds after mentioning his car.
@gutsoup will back me up.
*folds arms, stands behind jimu nodding*
*nods in unison*
Was it @gutsoup?
Ha ha! Nope, were about as equally mediocre with the ladies as humanly possible
hey hey, I did more mediocre than everyone. Didn’t date anyone in high school at all.
Megan counts.
ahahahahahahaha, no no no no, hahaha. thanks freeze I needed a laugh.
Edit: Upon reading jimu’s comment not sure if I should take offense.
Jimu: “One of my stupider uglier friends…”
Freeze: was it Gutsoup?
Gutsoup: *cries*
I love you at least.
I hardly ever dated.
Part due to being oblivious, part disinterest.
If you’re not out meeting people in the right context, it doesn’t happen.
Single straight men are often super desperate.
I imagine you’d have your own problems with an ‘is he or isn’t he’ thing going on.
Ditto me here in the oblivious stakes. Apparently I am completely blind to the signals.
Wish I could hire @saturday so he could wave his flags around. 😛
“I REQUIRE A TUG”
Being married will yield the same results.
*Badum Tish*
*sympathy pats*
Dating is really hard. I could imagine it would be harder in perth. *big hugs buddy* at least you’re looking eh? 🙂
I guess the silver lining of moving and Oliver leaving is that now I live just down the road from my second best friend/old neighbour from Christ (college) last year. Going out with him tonight. Trying to make the best of things.
I still just want a hug though 🙁
Start slow. Just pat him on the butt tonight, and see how it goes.
Shite man, that’s the first I’ve heard about you guys.
Commiserations and I swear that sometime in 2015 we’ll have a Tassie meat (and I’ll even drive to Launceston for it!)
Haha I’m in Hobart still 😛 I like to avoid Launceston!
And yeah, he’s been my best friend since the start of last year when I met him at Christ (dunno how familiar you are with UTAS accommodation). Things happened and we got pretty close (probably wayyyyy too close at times), and we ended up living together this year. He’s married and all. I knew he wouldn’t be around forever. But still. 🙁
Booo. Launceston is a nice place!
I wanna playa gaym nowe
Umm, ok, I’m thinking of a video game character.
You have 5 questions you can ask to guess who it is.
GO!
Bruce Willis from Die Hard: The Arcade Game.
Squall Leonheart
It’s Sonic isn’t it? Is it? It’s Sonic.
Guys it’s Sonic.
@Jimu @saturday
Way to F***ING ask QUESTIONS!
You guys SUCK!
And it was gonna be Captain Quark >:(
Is Quark mail or femail? Also, I never would have guessed. Who is that?
How do you not know Captain Quark?!
He’s from Ratchet and Clank!
Big green super hero?
Incredibly stupid?
The BEST character of the franchise?
I never played much. Remember, I’m an old man & had my fill of that sort of thing a decade before.
I was probably playing Onimusha.
I never understood why people got so rabid about that franchise. It just seemed like some platformer. And platformers are the epitome of meh.
It has just been a franchise that I’ve played since I was young 🙂
Remember, I’m a fair bit younger than most else here 😛
I associate this as one of my childhood games 🙂
I’ve played Ratchet and Clank 2, and it was a pretty good third-person shooter for the time. Glitched to buggery, though.
I could add a question mark to the end of my answer to make it a question if you want.
I kinda asked two questions. Kinda.
Let’s play Hungry Hungry Hippos now!
Nomnomnom
M/f?
Okay, it’s not Captain Quark any more, so female.
Which console?
Umm, she’s pretty much been on all of them, but her first appearance would be on the first PlayStation.
As a bonus hint, her next game will be on the Nintendo 3ds.
What genre?
I feel this is going to give it away, but Survival Horror.
@liondrive Is it Claire Redfield?
@evilmonkey
Ooooh, close, but no cigar 😛
@liondrive Jill Valentine?
Now I feel dirty, there’s a new SH game on 3DS or are we talking about Jill Valentine?
Ding ding ding! 😀
Congratulations, you’re a winner!
You’ve won a date with Liondrive!
I like to be wined and dined before I put out, FYI.
Tongue is fine.
cc @evilmonkey
@liondrive YES!!!
Shouldn’t ‘female’ be in bold. It’s messing with my OCD. 🙁
Fixed 🙂
😐
Fixed :)
@liondrive
*wincing* TIL that @liondrive is sadistic.
Useful information for that date.
Fixed for realsies this time 😛
I just decided to start bolding after I posted that first clue, so skipped it by accident 🙂
I can sleep easy. Thank you. :p
Snake?
Snaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaake!
Fission Mailed
Been sitting on the Character Creation screen of Dragon Age: Inquisition for at least the last half an hour trying to decide which race to pick, kinda wanted to go human to start with, then I thought about choosing dwarf, now I’m thinking about going Qunari. Definitely not going elf, I don’t know why, but everytime I have to pick a race elf is always immediately off the table, just doesn’t appeal to me.
Qunari is rad, everybody’s intimidated by you and you hit your head on ceiling lamps.
Qunari it is.
What class were you planning on playing?
So I have to pick a class too. *rolls eyes* Great, this is gonna take forever.
*snickers*
I can’t wait til he gets to customize his appearance…
RACIST
But… that’s coming from someone who almost always picks the whitest human male avatar available.Tsk. Commander Shepard is always Female.
I’ve only played about 10 hours of Dragon Age Origins, but I played a city elf.
His story was so terrible, I’ve turned him into a racist against humans. I will kill all humans, given the chance.
Because they deserve it.
Pricks.
Yep, this happened to my city elf as well, cuz holy crap that prologue…
Well with what @quiz_b and you are saying, now I have to check that out.
I remember waking up to some terrified knife-ear servant and wondering what was up with that, then I remembered… ohyeah! Racism.
Yeah I really gotta go back to actually playing that character out from start to finish
I’m am elf…
Then I’m sorry, but Monkey law dictates that I hate your elf ass.
not rly ilyThe animals have more decency than you, meatbag! 😛
I ended up choosing things based on who I wanted to romance. Yep, I am that shallow.
Because @jimu is bored.
My name is @Shane. AMA.
Ok, so it was explained to me a number of years ago how you dad.
How do you Undad?
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shanewsmith/undad-comic-miniseries-issues-1-and-2 if you go here and make an offering he will sell you a manual
Ask @negativezero Anything (about Shane)
ANAS
Does the greater good excuse moral shortcomings, or is it more important that a moral highground is maintained even if it leads to many more suffering than need be?
As a corollary to this, is the belief that we should always follow Aristotle’s Golden Mean (that either extreme position in a philosophical spectrum, e.g. both cowardice or bravery leads to suffering and as such we should be pragmatic and be willing to be philosophically, morally and ethically flexible dependent on the situation) is, in itself, an extreme position on the spectrum of following the Golden Mean all the time vs. not following the Golden Mean at all therefore invalidating the philosophical underpinnings of such a position?
Source: Did an arts Degree. Can bullshit in exams with the best of them.
Further edit: @transientmind get in here and prove me wrong/blow my mind damnit.
The value of philosophical discussion is that it allows us to expand our minds and think of things in ways we haven’t done before. So while in practice any moral quandary should be addressed on a case by case basis rather than having a broad rule that applies to all, not taking a stance on a philosophical question and instead advocating flexibility defeats the purpose of asking and discussing the philosophocal question in the first place.
@quiz_b I’ll help you pick your mind up off the floor now =P
That said philosophy is a lot like throwing paper balls into a bin; feels great while you’re at it but you never really accomplish anything.
Edit: That said I think everyone should engage in philosophy at some point in their lives; it unlocks a multitude of perspectives that you would be ignorant to otherwise. Cogito Ergo Sum.
I have that tattooed on my body. Cogito, ergo sum that is.
Well, if we consider all the philosophical arguments that can be mounted against such a beautifully put counter-argument, I believe the appropriate conclusion is: Your mum.
I wrote a few hundred words, but it was not mind safe. I don’t want any suicides on my conscience.
Black and white moral high grounds are just as dangerous as endless compromise. Every situation will have its own ideal solution. #BiowareLesson
Further to this: the ideal solution will either be coloured red or blue. #Biowarephilosophy
I feel like giving money away. Do you know of any worthy projects in which I could make it rain?
Nope. Sorry.
Oh well. Guess I’ll just convert it all in to pennies and make a big swimming pool or something.
AMA?
Arouse My Ass??? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I feel obligated to say something here.
#page18inyourheart?
#Page18InYourSomewhere #SlowWink
Remind me to bring The Tickler when we meat.
Okay, here’s the shot out of the cannon: Oprah, Barbara Walters, your wife. You gotta fuck one, marry one, kill one, go!
What’s BW do/look like?
http://a.abcnews.com/images/Entertainment/abc_barbara_walters_130512_wblog.jpg
ITS A TARP
US TV host. Actually a bit like Betty White
Well, seeing as how I’m already married to my wife, that would be a waste to get remarried. So I’d make love to her. Then I’d marry Oprah so I could divorce her and take half her estate. Sorry, Barbara *shotgun*
But don’t forget you have to consummate the marriage.
For half of Oprah’s money, believe you me, I’m not afraid to sell out.
But I should point out that this revised version of the question involves having sex with two women and killing one, which is a little unbalanced.
Writers have a pretty badass reputation (eg. the fictional Hank Moody, Hunter S. Thompson, Ernest Hemingway.) Tell us, what is the most badass thing you’ve done in the past month (I’ll limit it to a month to make it easier for you.)
Edit: spelling, grrrrr.
I’ve started drinking at home, alone.
Oh, and the other day, I possessed some doctor with a weird Brit/Aussie accent, and used him to overthrow an alien invasion of Earth in 1961.
You are practically Ernest Hemingway reborn
@liondrive why have you not subjected him to your question regarding what he names his junk? Be fair, ask all!
His junk is called “Stupid Boy”.
I’ll ask questions, I just need the time to right them out 😛
Do you…
Do…
Do you like, keep a list of this shit for some future reason?
I never forgot a dong, Yardstick.
Never 😉
… You’re a cool guy @liondrive and then every now and then you just freak me out a little.
I’m going to start taking pot shots at what you call yours.
– Sunny D
– Sergeant Sunshine
– Just the tip
– Vitamin D
– Little Mr. Winky.
You can make this less awkward by just telling me 😉
<3
You mentioned you’re an artist, what are your other books about and how many have you written?
As an author are you driven to read other books and draw inspiration or do you focus on your own creative direction?
Best book you have read and would you recommend it?
Question 1. Here’s all my published work:
The Lesser Evil (2011-2013 – Zetabella Publishing): A galaxy at war. This sci-fi epic tells the story of three men drawn against their will into civil war. As the conflict escalates and rages around them, it exacts a heavy toll, and causes them to question everything they ever believed. The Lesser Evil is a book that examines what it means to have a dream… and what that dream can end up costing, regardless of whether it comes true.
Peaceful Tomorrows (2013 – Zetabella Publishing): The epic two-volume sequel to The Lesser Evil. After centuries of oppression, things finally seem to be getting better. The enemy has been routed, and democracy is just around the corner. Only the demons of human nature remain to be dealt with… Volume Two of Peaceful Tomorrows was a finalist in the 2013 Aurealis Awards.
The Game (2014 – Deeper Meanings Publishing): The Game is the huge missing chapter in between The Lesser Evil and Peaceful Tomorrows. The devastating war between the Senate and Padakan House is over. Under Frank Tomhines’ new government, power will at last be returned to the citizens of the galaxy. But not everyone is prepared to accept such a system…Remnants of Padakan House continue to wage war, using the small children of their enemies as shields, and the conflict tears at the delicate new-found stability of the entire galaxy. It’s all part of the Game… and this game is played hard. The stakes are high, the participants ruthless. Winner takes all.
Academaesthetics (2007 – TEXT Journal): Twentieth century perceptions have been unfavourable to both the essay and the comic book. There has been a steady decline in the popularity of the essay as reading material, because it is seen as lacking the emotional and aesthetic appeals of fiction. And despite persistent support for comics as an art form with limitless potential, comics are still generally regarded as one-dimensional juvenile sensationalism. Academaesthetics is an essay/comic book hybrid that analyses a number of common general perceptions and misunderstandings surrounding both the essay and the comic, and uses the contrast and similarities between the forms to suggest some new ways of understanding them.
James Flamestar (2014 – Deeper Meanings Publishing): Imagine, if you will, a world in which music is outlawed, and musicians are hunted and executed. A world in which the innocents living in the Five Capitals are held hostage by the tyranny of the Silver Empire. The Empire is too powerful – no one dares stand against them, and there’s no passion left anywhere to inspire better things… until now.
In terms of what they really mean, subtextually: http://shanewsmith.com/blog/2014/02/03/accidental-autobiography-a-thematic-reading-of-my-writing-career-to-date/
I’ve done some unpublished stuff, which you can see under the WIPS header on my website.
QUESTION 2. I love reading. It’s one of my favourite things to do. I like to draw inspiration from other works, but it’s a bit more subtle than lifting plot points and character traits. I like seeing the way authors weave themes into their narrative, the way they build tension, humour, and manipulate a reader’s emotions. That’s the stuff I like to try to tap into.
QUESTION 3. I said a while ago that the best book I’d ever read was East of Eden by John Steinbeck. I stand by that, but it’s definitely a commitment to pick it up and read it, so any recommendation is going to come with a big “but” caveat attached. In terms of a book I don’t hesitate to recommend to anybody, Y: The Last Man by Brian K Vaughan.
James Flamestar sounds like a really, really interesting concept. Like taking the beauty out of life for a totalitarian regime to rule with an iron hand would be an interesting them to explore. I might have to buy a couple off of you at the next Meat!
If you want to add a bit to your Kickstarter pledge, that’d be an option. Does that interest you? Let me know which book or books you want, and we can sort it out! 🙂
That does sound good actually, I’d buy James Flamestar to start 😛
MY WEEKEND
By NegativeZero age 31
On Saturday I was tired and I woke up and there was someone making the loud noises outside and It was loud and then the radio started playing because I pressed the buttons to make the radio come on in the morning and Michael Clarke was being all sad because Phil died and it was really unfair and sad and I was sad. Then I remembered that I pressed the buttons to make the radio come on because they wanted me to go to the school and put some numbers by peoples names and I thought it was only until 12 and so I got up but then it was actually until 6 so it was ok. So I got into my car and I went west and my sister was there and we had lunch and I had a steak sandwich and it had tomato kasundi in it and I’d never thought of doing that and it was really nice and then we had coffee and went to a different school and at the school I told the man I wasn’t from this part of the city and they made me fill in a form and also write numbers by peoples names and then Dennis got thrown out because they wanted to build a tunnel and no one wants them to build a tunnel except the people that do. Then I went home and played World of Warcraft and watched anime and more WoW and ate microwaved steamed pork buns for dinner and then I watched the Star Wars trailer and it was awesome and I watched all of Star Wars Rebels and it was awesome and Chris Isaacs is nearly as good at bad man voices as Tim Curry maybe even better but I don’t want to hurt Tims feelings.
Then I went to bed and I woke up and it was Sunday and I went to my Mums house and we had lunch and then went to Ikea and there was lots of people and there was a maze and the people kept getting in the way and making me hate them because they were in my way and stopped suddenly or wandered or were just annoying and I bought some bookcases that were called Billy but they’re not made of goats so maybe the designer was a William and we put the parts in my place and then we went to the Good Guys and I got a washing machine and a dryer and now I won’t go to Mums to do my washing any more. Then I went home and it was really hot and if I open my windows there are beetles that come in and I don’t like them because they fly around and look like waspies so I have to keep the windows open and the cooling man isn’t very cool because he went away two weeks ago to find the broken part for my cooling and didn’t come back yet and so I was hot. But I built billy twice anyway and then I put him in my study and put books in him and need to get my mangas out of storage and put them in billy too since theres space. And then I played World of Warcraft and I made my number get bigger to 605 because there was enough steels to build some purple pants because purple is
redderradder than blue and the numbers went up when I put on the purple pants.And then I went to bed and woke up and the man came with the washing machine and the washing machine pipes screwed into the taps and he turned the taps on and water came out of the taps but not out of the bit that the water is meant to come out of and the water went onto the floor and he had to turn the tap off and I can’t do my washing after all because the water comes out of the tap but the wrong part of the tap and goes on the floor and the floor isn’t where the water should go so I sent a message to the real estate lady saying that the tap makes water go on the floor and can she send a water tap man out to make it so that the water doesn’t go onto the floor any more and goes into the washing machine so I can make the washing happen and I wont have to go to mums place.
I skimmed
Isn’t that bad for your health?
No, good.
OOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!!!!
Are microwaved steamed pork buns any good. I always steam them when I have them but if a quick and easy option exists that is tasty….
That was one hell of a stream of consciousness
Not as bad as you might think, not as good as the real thing.
@tigerion basically this. It also depends on the pork bun obviously. I was hungry and it was 8pm and I’d spent two hours building fucking bookcases in the heat.
Why don’t you have a pork bun in your hand?
Dyu need help getting to 610 dude? Also have you got the legendary ring quest?
Finally what are your lowest ilvl items? Might be able to run some dungeons with you this week (heals queue) and get you to 610 =]
I wouldn’t mind running some dungeons in a more supportive environment than a PUG, yeah. I haven’t done the ring quest yet at all. In fact I haven’t run a dungeon since WotLK, I burned out in Cataclysm because I got performance anxiety and didn’t want to queue and then fuck up since they made the dungeon experience kind of hard in there.
Lowest iLvl items were my pants (588, now 640!) and one of my rings which is at 570. I think as long as I get the ring to something in the 610+ mark it’d put me over the 610 average, actually. Everything else I have is 600+ I think.
I’m not sure if I can run some tonight; however if you see me on just PM me and we’ll run skyreach for the legendary ring! (Make sure to get the quest chain from Khadgar though)
Heeerrrroooiiiicsssss!
Come online! Everyone else (aka @Piat) is being antisocial and just queuing by themselves.
heeeey im doing paid work here, no literally im getting paid to tank heroics
Really?
Nice.
Damn that hurt my eyes and brain. Good job!
I’m especially proud of the third paragraph.
Got called about a Job in Sydney.
Gonna have a interview sometime this week, i just dont know if i want it if i get it. I am already familiar with the company because of my old work but it would mean alot of travel around Sydney and it would also mean i have to get my manual license before i start which frightens me. That and the fact that i would be leaving my ladyfriend at home for maybe days at a time seems like it would be a bad idea. BUT i dont think im in a place to say no to jobs. we will see how it goes, no point in making plans for stuff that hasnt happened yet. 🙂
THE WURLD IS YOR OYSTER, MATE
GOOD LUCK!
Counter argument: I’m in Sydney.
Shiny new Man Card awaits! \o/(hi @strange :P)
Wait. There is a separate license for manual cars now? Really?
Is that some eastern states thing or a general intensifying of wrapping subsequent generations in bubble wrap thing.
Far as I recall there’s been separate licenses for decades. To make sure people don’t get an auto license then kill someone trying to drive a manual. As far as I know, getting a manual license also qualifies you for an automatic.
I learned on a manual and was mildly horrified to learn there were people who didn’t want to, thus wasting a perfect opportunity to expand the utility of their qualifications.
Odd, got my license in an auto originally just 11 years ago and it covers everything.
Must be an eastern states thing.
In the ACT they segregate it, but after X number of years driving (or something) they expand it. So when we moved down to Canberra my Mum was suddenly legally allowed to drive Manuals, despite the fact that she hadn’t tried for over twenty years.
I’ve been led to believe this is the case in NSW too, after like 5 years or something you’re somehow “qualified”. I know of a few people who cause me to beg to differ, but hey.
There’s separate licenses in WA, too.
I think I may have infected half of Melbourne with Eon Ticket walking around today. My feet are killing me. Anyone know if you can distribute the ticket online to people on your friends list?
Nice work. I got it from EB and have then sat at work the rest of the day.
Weekend summary:
Friday night: Xenoblade
Saturday: the kid’s swimming class – moustaches everywhere! The kid’s daycare Xmas picnic – fun, met some new people. Xenoblade, then washed car, lazy afternoon, then Xenoblade till late.
Sunday: chores, study, in laws, tacos and Sons of Anarchy.
And the aircon at work is busted… Stupid hot in the office day. Boo.
Tacos and SoA, winning combination right there.
Xenoblade \o/
\o/
@liondrive, ok, my turn. I’m thinking of a character from a TV show, 5 questions, go.
Edit: So we have, Male in a US TV show, and he’s british. 3 questions left, I won’t count @jimu’s because it’s not really a question.
British / US / Australian / Other production
Ah shit, this is almost gonna give it away. The show is US, but the person who plays the character is British.
House?
Nope. Is he British?
No, but I think Hugh Laurie is.
That’s what I meant, didn’t know he was.
Such a mind fuck when you hear him with an English accent…Hugh Laurie on Joining House: http://youtu.be/90sTPYNz4Oc
Not if you grew up watching Black Adder
Hugh Laurie? HELL YES! =P
The Fonze
Male or female?
Male.
Genre of TV show?
Wikipedia describes it as drama/horror.
Profession?
Crap, you guys are asking good questions, he has no profession currently, but he used to be a sheriff.
Walking Dead?
by which I mean Rick Grimes
I think you might have it!
Bingo!
You win, er um….. this Krusty doll, but beware it carries a terrible curse.
That’s bad!
But it comes with a free Frogurt.
That’s good!
@beeawwb
The Frogurt is also cursed.
That’s bad! (Error! Duplicate Comment! Also bad!)
@beeawwb
But you get your choice of toppings.
That’s good! \o/
@beeawwb
The toppings contain Potassium Benzoate…
…
That’s bad.
Can I go now?
All the way to the finish… you guys are a class act.
C’mon guys, you’ve got one last question.
The character is male, in a US TV show, the actor is British, he used to be a Sheriff and the show is classed as a drama/horror.
Dear Die Hard…
Today was a good day. And to the k I started it by wanting to hide in my bedroom and pretend the world didn’t exist
@dc is good people.
To the k. To the k, indeed.
Also you’re both monsters for eating @ Buffalo Bar without me. I hate you! You’re not my real dad!
We had to test it out to make sure it wasn’t terrible.
The sacrifices we make you you folks.
Oh and the next Brisbane meat is definitely at the Buffalo Bar.
Although the bartender was awful. He was helpful and friendly and super nice and had a general Adonis look to him. I hated him so much.
Is there non heart attack inducing choices?
I really am on a strict diet atm.
Can’t ask a serious question.
Is there poop clowns?
There’s a menu on the website, my friend. 🙂
http://buffalobar.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Food-Menu-for-website.pdf
I objectified him so much.
I wanna hang with you guys again :'(
Glad you guys had a good day though 🙂
Freeze is the best. Also Buffalo Bar has been vetted and has meat approval.
http://instagram.com/p/wDQ7aWNaiT/
Ooh man, that does look good.
Ok, @evilmonkey – That was to easy. You’ve got 20 questions for this next one.
Name that TV character.
1) It’s Live Action
2) It’s got greatly varied settings & locations.
3) It’s aSketch Comedy
4) It’s Male
5) It’s a British production
6) It’s not from Little Britain
7) It’s debut was in the 60s but would most commonly be associated with the 70s.
8) It’s a Monty Python character
9) It’s not Bruce.
IT’S….!
Is not Ned Flanders, Jack O’Neill, Dr Who, Poida, John Cleese, Daffyd, Arthur Nudge or Bruce
Okie Dokie
Animated or Live action TV series?
1) Live action
Ned Flanders.
Find live action Ned Flanders and have him brought to me. I have… things… to do. Stupid sexy Flanders.
Setting/location?
Edit: US/AU/UK would be fine if don’t wanna be too specific!
2) Greatly varied settings & locations.
What sort of genre?
3) Sketch Comedy
Jack O’Neill
If not then Male or Female?
4) Male
Dr Who
Nope
YEP
Poida
If not British / US / Australian / Other production
5) British production
John Cleese?
Is a person, not a character.
Eh close enough 😛
Is it someone from Little Brittain?
6) It is not.
Daffyd
Otherwise Which decade is it from?
7) Debut in the 60s but would most commonly be associated with the 70s.
Arthur Nudge
If not, is it a Monty Python character?
8) It is a Monty Python character
Well I’ve got it that far but I don’t know a lot of character names
Last guess, Is it Bruce?
It’s not Bruce.
That’s going to cause a little confusion.
Mind if we call him ‘Bruce’ to keep it clear?
The lumberjack / insane murderous barber?
Debuted in Flying Circus in 1969 but better known from Now For Something Completely Different in the early 70s.
He’s ok…
The only character name I know from Monty Python is Brian (from the life of Brian) and he may not even be a character in the TV series, I dunno. But is it him? If not, surely we can get it in 10 guesses!
It’s Man
IT’S….!
No shit?
Seriously.
Woooooop!
I want to say Conrad Poohs and His Dancing Teeth. Even though he’s animated. I just wanted to say it.
Worth it.
@evilmonkey When you get home, watch some Blackadder series 3 or 4
I am home.
Well…
Happy Monday TAYbies. 🙂
Interesting weekend – Friday night out, voted for the first time in a State election on Saturday (got citizenship just after the last one…), saw Interstellar, had a bbq, had a bike ride, played Destiny. Top banana.
I LOVED Interstellar. It was exactly the film I hoped it would be. Wish I’d gone to the IMAX now instead of Hoyts Northland where they turn the lights on FULL the second the credits roll. No gentle fade up, just BLAM. This meant my missus got to see the teary streaming mess that was my face. She laughed at me. Then she gave me tissues.
That’s just cruel. No man should be subjected to people witnessing his tears. I think it’s against the Geneva convention. Or some other convention with a more manly-sounding name.
The Thumb-Hammer Convention
I never cry in movies. Come close, tearing up, but never a full cry.
Got a mate who cries every movie.
First time in ages. It wasn’t just the story, it was the music, how it looked, the awesomeness of it all. It pushed all my buttons, especially the last 10 minutes. Christopher Nolan made the movie I wanted to see and I’ve been waiting a while to see after that incredible teaser trailer this time last year (especially after Sunshine, probably the last Big Serious Spacey Science Fiction movie I had high hopes for was a bit of a disappointment). Bastard.
Dead Poets Society gets me every bloody time too. So did the very last episode of The West Wing.
Millennium Actress
Oooh. Will look at that.
HEY ISAAC FRIENDS!
Wanna all play some random seed at (relatively) the same time? I think it’ll be kewl to see how all our games will differ on the same seed 😀
R-r-r-r-rejected!
Except Masha and I already played a game of Isaac :P…
Hahaha, good! 🙂
I’m glad someone played with you 🙂
I was thinking this would be a fun thing to do with people
:D! I did it earlier with @masha2932 but he doesn’t play the game enough and didn’t get very far :(. I ended up killing ??? on that same run though!
It’ll be cool to get a few of us playing the same (random) seed where we don’t know what’s on it, but so far we’ve just been sharing interesting seeds on TAY/Twitter after our runs have finished.
Had Mostro’s Lung + IPECAC the other day though :D. INSANITY
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/11/talk-amongst-yourselves-304/comment-page-14/#comment-3055912
SO FRUSTRATED RIGHT NOW, FUCK FUCK FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You alright, buddy?
Just relationship issues, and general shit. had enough.
Hmm, without knowing much about the situation, all I can really say is breathe, Monkey.
Take a minute to just relax and collect yourself.
I’m sure whatever is getting to you will pass 🙂
If you ever need to talk, I can be a pretty good listener, and am more than happy to listen to 🙂
Thanks for your concern man, I really appreciate it. You guys are good people.
Calmed down a bit now, still unsure if the situation will resolve itself.
Been thinking about our holiday next week (not even sure if we’ll get there the way things have been going lately), and I feel like I just want to spend the whole time going to meats. I feel like you guys “get me”. You guys are the closest thing I have to friends. I haven’t even met any of you and I feel like I’d rather spend my holiday time with you guys than my wife. Is that wrong?If she knew I said any of this she’d kill me (not literally).Hahaha, it mightn’t be the best thing to say to her 😉
Honesty, I’d put priority on spending time with your wife though.
Go on holiday with her, go do things with her, have fun with her.
She’s your wife, after all 🙂
If there is time for a meat, then that’s great too!
Invite her along even though!
Let her meet your friends too! 🙂
My advice is this.
If she doesn’t already know about TAY, slowly let her know about it, and explain that we are friends that you would like the opportunity to meet at some stage, hopefully on this trip.
It is better to talk about it and plan for it in advance, rather than leave it for last minute.
There will be plenty of opportunities to meet TAYbies even if you do miss this opportunity though.
At the end of the day, we’ll always be here, and I don’t think any of us would drop a friendship that quickly or easily 🙂
And I know exactly how you feel, man.
I consider TAYbies to be my closest friends, and it gets to me every now and then when I think about how I won’t be able to meet most of you, or see some of you again, for more than likely years.
I get pretty lonely over here (not that WA TAYbies aren’t cool, you’re just a quiet bunch :P)
But I will meet you all, and I will see the ones I’ve met again.
I’m determined to.
Someday 🙂
She knows I “talk to people on the internet”, and if you recall a few of them sent me some things, and boy did that go over like a lead balloon.
I feel like I can’t say anything about a meat, because I feel like she would be against the whole thing, and she wouldn’t understand (much like your sister was before you went on your trip iirc), and I’d just end up going by myself anyway.Yeah, I fully understand that issue, all too well, haha!
And I fully understand the issue too.
Obviously saying, “I want to meet these people I met over the internet, who I’ve never met before”, to someone who doesn’t know who we are can seem a little strange, for good reason too.
Maybe slowly try and introduce her to the idea of meeting us, if you’re set on wanting to meet TAYbies this trip.
Show her (my pretty face) twitter profiles even. It’s more relatable than TAY profiles, and might reassure her that we are normal people 🙂
Worst comes to worst, just explain that you’d like to meet up with your friends, and that she is welcome to join, and that you really want her to join so that she can meet your friends too, and if she doesn’t want to go, see if there is a time that suits both of you to go do things separately 🙂
I think we need an organised online Smash Bros thing.
Wednesday Night Smashdown?
I wouldn’t be opposed to giving it a go 🙂
Might be more fun to play with others as opposed to playing against the AI.
Aw, but that’s when I’m going to watch Interstellar!
Sure, I’d love to watch everybody smash (no pun intended) me into the ground.
Wednesday is indoor soccer night, so not sure I can make it, what with time differences etc. Will try though.
I’d play!
@shane, I want physical copies of Undad. Make this happen and tell me what to do.
Very simple. Just click on “manage my pledge” on the Undad page, and add $20 to your pledge. That should cover printing and postage. Does that sound okay? Thanks, man!
Done.
Many thanks!
@fled @grandmasterb-funk @hindenlagen @liondrive @phoenix @platinum-urchin @thecracks
Back in October-ish, I pitched a meat in Adventure World. I didn’t get much in the way of responses, and Liondrive told me to postpone it until after exams. Then I kind of forgot about the whole thing. Liondrive mentioned he still wanted to go, so the offer has been renewed.
Anyone in Perth want to go to Adventure World? I’ve got a coupon that will make it cheaper for everyone if I can get 3 other people to come, but it is totally fine if I can’t get that many.
Post times that are convenient to you, (Mondays and Wednesdays are bad for me, and I think Liondrive said he can come weekdays) as long as it is not between the 10th and the 18th.
Use them tags, little Phlanisbro 🙂
Any day is currently available for me 🙂
Well atm I am working Monday to Friday at one job and working weekends doing maitinance work where the other half works. So I don’t have a lot of free time atm.
Sorry
But you’ll clear up your schedule for MH4U? 😀
I will have to wait and see what I can do*
*will have to wait and see what I can doAlso
*wiggle wiggle*Bug amour all the way
*woof*
You found a job? Good for you!
Yep.
I am now working at schweppes.
Thank you.
I may be able to get a day over a weekend.
When you pick a date let us know and I will see what I can do.
I’m still at work until week before Xmas, and then will probably be busy late Dec early Jan, and then in Japan mid-late Japan. Might be available some time early January. Will have to wait and see, though, sorry.
Considering that I’ve already delayed this trip since October, I don’t think I’m really willy to delay this until January. Sorry, man. :/
Looks like it’s just you and me and this stage, little Phlanisbuddy 😛
You’re a little young for me, so it’ll just be a friend-date.
I don’t want you to have the wrong impression or anything and think that it’s an actual date.
Maybe when you’re older.
😉
Sounds awesome, but I will be back in Perth for only three weeks over Chrissy and early January. My time will probably be monopolised by family so I can’t commit to anything.
Now that uni is over for me it’s just work. I usually get my roster every Thursday for the week ahead, and it can change a lot. Let me know when you want to go and I’ll check 🙂
Basically before the 10th. Kind of a shitty deadline, but it can’t be helped. I don’t think I can come on the 7th or the 9th. Every other time is fine provided Liondrive can fit in. (And PlatinumUrchin, but I’m not sure whether he can come)
Ok, I think I’m done with Dragon Age (for now at least), I’m just not feeling it.
*adds to pile of shame*
*Xenoblade magically pops out of pile into Evil Monkey’s hand*
Wow how did that happen!
I don’t think it counts as a shame-pile title if you try it and don’t enjoy it. Though @trjn, and not I, is the resident expert in the minutiae of pineapple rules.
Yeah, there’s no shame in not liking something others do. Don’t force it if you’re not feeling it.
*unless it’s Xenoblade!
Finished or finished with.
But, as usual, I’m just making it up as I go along.
The Walking Dead mid-season finale spoilers:
HOLY FUCK! D:Also, heads up! There’s a post credits scene!
Thanks DC! I missed it.
I’m actually really sad that Beth died. She was becoming such a great character too. Although, I don’y understand why she said “I get it now” to DawnWhich wasn’t in one I watched boo.
*Walking Dead spoilers Season 5 Episode 8*
I don’t understand, she basically committed suicide and put the entire group in danger, made her entire story arc almost pointless aside from introducing Noah. I think I missed something cause that just pissed me off.Also PSA: Do not look at amc or walking dead on Facebook, massive spoilers plastered all over
I have no idea what this up-B thing is for Pokemon but now I’ve seen it independently referenced twice today. Stop being weird, world.
Are you talking about pressing up-B when throwing Pokeballs and it’ll magically increase your chances of catching Pokefriend?
That seems to be the gist of it.
If it’s a schoolyard rumour, it seems to have skipped any schoolyards I was ever a part of.
Down-B, Up-B, both, ALL the schoolyard rumours!
Down-B in my schoolyard. None of that pointless up-B nonsense.
I thought you were meant to mash B…
I think I’m done with Destiny. Playing strikes and daily heroic missions are just a fucking drag because they’re not balanced right anymore, since Bungie insist on patching the game every time someone starts enjoying themselves to make sure everything is as needlessly tedious and annoying as possible.
Shame, because I was really into seeing how the story developed over time.
I’m glad I stopped when WoD released, hoping to go back when the xpac releases a little less jaded
That sucks man, hopefully you end up getting to a point where you can come back. I’ve played a few games now and always come back to Destiny after a few days. Check out the DLC and see what you think of it then, I think it’ll give us a better direction of how the game is heading.
The recent patch made me feel better about all the work I put into getting those exotic weapons, but I think the frustrations I have at the difficulty balancing of the strikes and the brokenness of the raid still have me turned off.
Since we already have the season pass (well, my wife does on “her” Xbox) I can at least see how it goes, but for now I’m turned off because they’ve sucked all the fun out of the core elements of the game. They need to unfuck that before I see myself playing again.
There was a story?
Bored. Don’t know what to play, just sitting here hitting F5 periodically.
The refresh game sucks!
Let’s play Hungry Hungry Hippos.
Desktop Dungeons is my goto mindless-ish clickfest.
Also runs in a smallish windows so you can TAY too.
The Binding of Isaac is a good “derp” game for me 😀
@pupp3tmast3r @jocon and you thought we had bugs in VoG http://youtu.be/wDub6FEBzUk
I love how they’ve released a new update and still completely ignored the shit thats broken. And upgrading exotics with a new crafting material is just absolute bs. Why the hell should I have to farm strange coins and ascendant materials??
Yeah I’m not going back to Destiny. Time to retire the game for good =,=
I probably will go back and have a look at the new content, I already own the xpacs now so might as well. Though I might wait until they are both released
I’m pretty much done with raiding for now, but I’m probably going to load up the xpacs if only for the story.
Gotta try not to get my hopes up. They can’t be unaware that story has been heavily panned, but I don’t think it’s something they’ll have been able to fix in time for the expansions.
Fingers crossed for a stronger single-player/story focus in Destiny 2, at this rate. But if they can pull out something compelling in the expansions, I’ll be pleasantly surprised.
*sigh*
I wonder what my life would be like if I robbed the Kwik-E-Mart.
All you need is a gun
So I’m trying to find some board shorts, because I like to wear them in the summer. I can’t seem to find anything cheaper then $25 and most places sell denim. Denim is the last material I want to wear in hot weather. Ick.
I like shorts! They’re comfy and easy to wear!
I like shorts! They look funny when you wear them as a hat!
Who likes short shorts?
Kmart sell board shorts. Try there!
Yeah, they have like 2. Mens section, they have heaps.
Just grab a “mens” pair. They tend to have nicer patterns on them, anyway.
Yeah, mine has skulls on it.
Mine have billabong promo shit all over them so when I practise air boxing people think im an mma fighter training
This! and they’re super comfy! I have a few pairs, they all look like pants you’d wear golfing 😛
Really? I didn’t think we could wear mens shorts. I might try this
They’re the only kind of shorts girls wear in summer but, a few girls i know who like wearing shorts either modify mens board shorts so they arent as long or wear exercise shorts
I don’t really want to wear exercise shorts as that would give the impression that I exercise
Not true, now if you wear 3 quarter lycra leggings they might
I used them when I was doing yoga because it was good for my anxiety. I stopped because I had too much to do. I didn’t start again because naps.
I do wii fit yoga does that count as yoga?
That’s the one I was doing so yes.
Yoga buddies \o/
Got a really good pair of quick dry boardies in Aldi once for a tenner.
So Sony’s doing the 12 Deals Of Christmas thing again. The first one is The Last Of Us: Remastered. If you’re interested it’s going for $34.16 for PS+ peeps, or $37.95 for everyone else. This is a game that still sells retail at EB for 80 bucks. I’ve only played the original PS3 version (still got the PS4 remaster sitting here), but I would totally recommend it at this price.
Got an EB gift card and a box of favourites for my birthday, along with some cash.
Just trying to figure out what I should use the EB gift card on…
vidya games?
Something from EB!
#helping
Coaster!
Bookmark!
Table leveller!
Is there anything you’ve been eyeing off for a while?
or
Seeing as how you just got a Wii U, maybe some Amiibos, or Gamecube controllers for Smash (if you can find any), Mario Kart 8, Hyrule Warriors, Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, Super Mario 3D World.
or
You could put a pre-order on for this.
I am waiting for Legend of Zelda Wii U…
Xenoblade!
Wait, no. That’s not right… What was it again?
…Oh yeah!
POKEMON MYSTERY DUNGEON: EXPLORERS OF DARKNESS AND TIME!
As an ISP, I have nothing against TPG. They’ve done well for me over the years. Very minimal issues, and always fixed in a timely manner. I wish I could say the same for their billing department though. Every damn month, my direct debit comes out on a different day (and not just due to weekends etc.) It’s just seemingly a random date between the 1st and 15th of the month. Which for someone in my current position, sucks donkey balls. Thanks to them, I now have -$16 in my bank thanks to a $10 dishonor fee! 😐 Grrrr
Why the hell can’t they send you some kind of notice the day before, or a couple of days before, just to remind you they’ll be taking it, so you can make sure there’s enough in the account! It could be completely automated, so hardly going to be time consuming for them.
Bill them for $10!
heh bloody tempted i tell ya
Might take Dragon Age back today, and get Little Big Planet 3 instead.
Can’t believe I spent $230 on the Inquisitor’s Edition only to put it down after beating the first boss.
sell it on the ebays for 1 million currencies.
I was just gonna take the game back and keep the collector’s stuff. Can’t be bothered putting a listing on EBay, buying packaging, packing it and sending it, too much work.
What system is it on?
Pee Ess Phwoar.
Temptation, how much you asking
Well, JB are selling the game by itself for $74, but I’ve already used the code, so I think 50 bucks is pretty reasonable. Or you can have the whole lot for $200 (including postage).
It’s all mint, disc used once.
or if you don’t want all the bibs and bobs @os42 can have everything (minus the game) for $150 (including postage).
I dunno what all the bibs and bobs are haha. Its tempting but i think I should play the first two first haha
@coldcamv
This is what’s in the Inquisitor’s Edition. I paid $230 for it, but I think the cheapest now is about $300 on ebay.
http://dragonage.wikia.com/wiki/Dragon_Age:_Inquisition_Inquisitor%27s_Edition
@coldcamv, it’s your choice. If you don’t want the paraphernalia, I’d be fine with sending @evilmonkey $150 for it. 🙂
@os42 you can have the swag
Just to confirm, @coldcamv, you want the game for $50 and @os42 you want the rest of the Inquisitor’s Edition, correct?
How you wanna do this? You’re in Melbourne aren’t you Coldcam? I can either post it on Friday, or we can do a face to face swap over next Tuesday night (the 9th) when we get there.
DM me on Twitter any deets. Not sure if you’re following me @os42 (if not, I am ev1lmunky).
but you could make monies, people are selling the limited stuff (without the game) for about $300 already, saw some up to almost $600 (they were sealed though).
Yeah, I’ve already used the code, so that would bring the value down.
Not to sound mercenary, or anything, but if you ever feel like getting rid of that notebook cover, I know a good home it could go to… 😛
What’s your location man, so I can get an idea of what I’d be up for for postage.
[Redacted], Sydney.
Cool, DM me your deets over Twitter.
Followed, but looks like I can only DM people who follow me, not vice versa. omegastealth on the twits, if you want to follow back, else you can DM me to start the convo, I think. I don’t use twitter much 😛
@os42, I’ll get that sorted.
@os42, I clicked the button to follow you and it says “pending”. I have to go to work now, so just leave me a DM and I’ll respond when I get home tonight.
Accepted, DM sent.
Don’t buy collector’s editions of games.
Don’t perorder games if you aren’t absolutely sure it’s your cup of tea.
Lessons to live by.
So, steam sale. I have bought mum 8 or 10 hidden object games. I have bought myself 1 game for 99 cents.
Thrifty \o/
I haven’t bought any games!
\o/
#helping
That’s unusual for you
Mmm… Steam’s Ale.
Don’t know what that would taste like, but it sounds like the kind of drink you would order ten of at the pub, drink one, order another 10 and drink one etc etc.
It would taste like regret and bad decisions.
So it would taste like tequila?
oh, man you hit that one on the head, I’ve done terrible things on tequila, nothing too bad mostly just ended with me throwing up on something/ someone/ someone’s comic book collection.
Not mine thankfully
Yeah, it always ends badly with tequila I swear Q_Q
There are two types of people in this world: Those that can drink tequila, and those that cannot hear that word without descending into PT(equila)SD.
Whenever I am offered tequila i’m all “ooh tequila sounds fun!” then I regret that decision a bottle later 😛
Just thought I’d tell you guys that YOU’RE ALL FREAKIN’ AWESOME!
If I couldn’t come on here and talk to all of you I reckon I’d go insane. You guys are the greatest peeps a guy (or girl) could ever hope to have as friends. I can’t wait to meet you all (so nervous though).
ily all <3Aw shucks… That was directly aimed at me right? Because I am pretty fantastic*
haha HAHAHAHA noYou’re not to shabby yourself my friend! Never change!
Of course it was.
*slow wink*
Got a few hours before work, don’t know what to play.
Far Cry 4
Disney Infinity 2.0
Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition
Shadow Of Mordor
Murdered: Soul Suspect
The Last Of Us: Remastered
InFamous: Second Son (evil playthrough) or
Diablo 3
Help me choose.
One Finger Death Punch!
That is a fun fun fun addictive game, but I just sold my Xbone and don’t have the controller anymore. I’ll have to go and grab another controller soon.
Throw them all out and play Dark Souls.
That’s our @shane ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
*canned laughter*
*toilet flush*
*wild applause*
I love Married With Children
3 Far Shadows Of Infinity: Second Definitive Soul Remastered
Okely Dokely!
Smash Bros.
Bust-A-Move 2 Arcade Edition
Whichever one you’re closest to finishing. Just go through them and finish them one by one (I realise there are some you can’t “finish” there)
So, you know how I hoisted the Jolly Roger a few days ago to test out whether Pokemon was for me? After years of being turned off because I didn’t like Generation 1 way back in the day?
Yeah, turns out I like Pokemon enough to warrant this.
I so suck at being a pirate. The only other game I obtained illegally was Fallout 3 and I bought the Game of the Year edition before I’d even got out of the damn vault, I loved it so much.
Excellent, excellent. Everything is falling into place…
Nice colour.
Give @strange your man card.
Well, I did have my wife tell me other night “Wait, you mean I’m now married to somebody who plays Pokemon? WTF?”
So essentially I’ve already handed in the man card.
Ooooooo you mean the DS.
Well, I originally bought it for the wife. It’s a reconditioned one, from two that got broken by young’uns, so the bottom is pink and the top is white.
It’s unique! One of a kind! It’s like a collectors edition! It’s…yeah ok @strange here’s the man card.
Jeebus.
Don’t worry, man cards don’t exist. Freeze is trying to make me angry. 😛
Is it working?
Grr. 😛
😀
Yes, good choice, it’s all down hill from there :-p
On the Seven Seas front, yeah, I end up buying a lot of what I take by cannon fire & cutlass.
I’ve found that it’s cost me more money, especially when I hunt down collector editions of old PSX JRPGS
Question time: Is there a game that you really like, but it has a mode you really hate? For me it’s NBA 2K15 and the My Team mode. It’s a game where you collect cards and then play proper games with the players you have. I can’t seem to keep a decent team together as my players are always injured. So frustrating.
I never really liked VR training in any MGS game.
WoWoh! I love it. Beat like 98% of the VR missions on PSX.
I’m not as keen on it in 2 because the controls aren’t simple enough. I have to wrestle the controller just to strangle a guy when all I did on PSX was hold down square.
I play those games for the story. Except for the original PSX game (and to some extent MGS2) I’ve always struggled with the gameplay of MGS games.
The odd thing is, I do to. I don’t like stealth at all. But those missions are just the right length & the problem to solve makes it feel more like a puzzle game.
Smash Tour in Smash Bros for Wii U.
Felt like an unnecessary addition, to me.
^^^^^^ This, it’s confusing and I don’t feel well explained.
Online Multiplayer in everything except Souls and Diablo.
I loved 4p multi on N64, it’s just not the same online.
Not even close. Shame it’s a bygone thing. I mean they still have it but it’s mostly designed meant for 8 to 16 people, not 4.
I do pop round to @gutsoup s occasionally & we do 2p. Still decent, not quite the same.
It’s good to be in a room with friends that understand trash talk is just that. Hard to gauge that behaviour online.
wanna pop round for some Smash some time? You can check out the Mario dlc stuff too,
Do you know when you’re camping?
Friday, if all goes well I’ll be there Saturday evening.
soccer Sunday morning though.
oh, do you mean you’ll be at mine on Saturday? I should maybe invite other people if that’s the case.
That’s the plan, but I’m gonna be tired & have to get up early the next day…
F-Zero GX, Story Mode. Everyone hates it. It’ll make you cry blood.
Kind of a lie though, I don’t hate it so much because I totally beat it *flex*Mario Kart DS, it’s my fave MK by far, but I can’t stand the extra challenge mode.
You are a madman. Mission mode was awesome and the subsequent MK games were worse off for not having it.
Although some of the MKWii DLC things were basically those kinds of missions, so that was cool.
It’s all been downhill since DS. That was the last one I really loved.
For sure.
Not that MK7 or 8 were particular slouches at all, but they still don’t quite compare.
Nah, I lost interest within weeks whereas all the others I played on & off til the next one dropped.
I been playing Sonic Transformed to scratch that itch. Nobody belives me, but it’s fucking great.
Also, really love it’s mission mode.
I don’t know why but I cannot get better at Sonic, I suck get frustrated and turn it off a lot.
I don’t understand, is a Mario kart clone, what’s to learn?
I started off with the missions on easy & worked my way up.
Sadly, battle Mode in Mario Kart 8 SUCKS.
It’s been ruined 🙁
Shooting gallery challenge type things in FPS. Most recently the addition missions in Metro last light. I don’t enjoy them but feel the need to force my way through them for completions sake.
The My Team mode is similar to Fifa’s Ultimate Team mode (which is really good!) I just don’t think it can work in an NBA game though because there aren’t enough players in the league basically.
Jackbox Party Pack is on my wishlist, I’ve said I won’t get anything from the Steam “Sale” unless it’s on my wishlist… but it’s $22.49… but the games look really good…
I haven’t played that part of the game yet. Is it anything like Smash Run on the 3DS? I was hoping it’d be like Adventure Mode: The Subspace Emissary in Brawl.
Edit: Dammit Crazyguy, now you’ve edited your comment I look like a fool.
*shakes fist*
I never got all the hate for Subspace Emissary in Brawl. I thought it was fun 😛
Me too.
Is that the Wii one? I played that story mode. It was my fave part of the game 😛
Sure is.
The biggest problem is that it had a Kojima-level plot with no dialogue. They had to put a 20-page synopsis on the website to explain the plot.
No, it’s like Smash meets Mario Party.
You collect characters to use as stocks, and after all of the turns have completed, face off against one another with all of the characters you’ve gained, sort of like “All-Star Versus” in Project M.
You could always buy a Steam wallet with your EB gift card and buy it that way.
So, hello all. How are we?
Dragon Age: I keep thinking I’m almost done, then I find another interesting nook or cranny hidden away with a new set of quests.
@DC I found an acactual use for shards, they’re not just collectables
Pokemon: Under levelled myself as much as possible so actually had a decent fight with The Champion after elite four, who blew over in a mild wind (yes, I darted on them).
Doing Episode Delta now, lots of dialogue that isn’t so great, not really feeling it yet. Hope by the end it’s more interesting.
Finished that shard quest. Imagine it’s a lot more useful during campaign than after. 🙂
How are you people only finding the shard thing now? One of the first things I found.
I found it pretty early. Still not entirely sure it justifies collecting if you’re not feeling it. 🙂
You find it through the War Table mission right? At least that’s how I did.
Unsure if we mean the same thing now.
I found a hidden temple in the oasis level that lets you use shards to unlock doors with decent reward
Yeah, same thing. You have to unlock that region first in War Room to access it.
I was confused because you have to unlock all the region’s & sometimes there were unlocks for just a mission then they disappeared
Yeah, pretty early on too. I figure most get stuck on Hinterlands for a long long time and forget. 😀
I only did what was needed in the hinterlands because early on I encountered a demon that was hard & so I never came back til I needed a horse or something.
Great how different games can play out.
Same! Although I literally did every sidequest I could in the game before it forced me to continue the story.
The temple in the oasis? Because I was busy doing levels that weren’t the oasis.
I hated the Oasis so I can understand why people would not find the quest straight away.
It wasn’t that I didn’t like it, there’s so much to do that I only just got around to it last night.
Only 10 days till wave 2 Amiibos are out (Luigi, Zelda, Captain Falcon, Pit, Little Mac and Diddy Kong).
Who’s grabbing what?
I’m waiting for 3rd wave. Grabbing Toon Link
Must resist urges…..
I will probably get Zelda and Diddy,Diddy!
Hmmm, maybe I should get Zelda then I can have the entire Legend of Zelda set once Toon Link comes out.
Does Zelda give a bonus in hyperule warriors?
I’m going to guess yes, Link got a new weapon from his amiibo and all the others give you items.
Just note that I don’t think they’ve actually confirmed anything yet 😛 But it seems likely! Ganondorf too (surprised he doesn’t already have a second weapon, to be honest)
When is Ganon on sale?
Dunno! /helping
Not sure when he goes on sale, he hasn’t been announced for wave 2 or 3. My guess would be some time next year.
Apparently she unlocks a weapon.
http://www.siliconera.com/2014/11/05/zelda-amiibo-unlocks-hyrule-warriors-weapon/
*starts camping out in front of store*
EDIT: I wonder if she also unlocks Zelda as a playable character in Mario Kart! I think I read somewhere that Toon Link unlocks as a playable character in Mario Kart!
Here’s the compatibility charts as to what Amiibos are compatible with what games for wave 2 and 3. Not sure about unlocks though.
http://www.scooptendo.com/nintendo-amiibo-compatibility-chart-wave-2/
http://www.scooptendo.com/nintendo-amiibo-compatibility-chart-wave-3/
That would be cool, hopefully you’re right and it’s not just an outfit for your Mii, although I could see my Mii getting around in a lovely pink dress, I’d feel sexy.
Blobs & balls. Mostly my own.
PitPitPitPitPitPitPitPitPitPitPitPitPitPitPitPitPitPit
I need more Captain Falcon in my life. A friend of mine gave me my first amiibo (villager) yesterday. I don’t even have a Wii U.
Getting Zelda.
Pre-ordered along with Link.
Oh, that’s sooner than I was expecting.
Falcon is priority 1. Then Mac. Then Luigi.
Then the rest.Tickets for PAX North goes on sale today! $799! It’s a thing!
I’ll take five thousand tickets!
Done. Verbal contract and all that. 😛
Witness!
Cool!
I’ll take twelve.
Can I pay you in hugs? My hugs are worth at least $1800 a pop.
Does that include airfares and accommodation
No, that just gives you access to the PAX North early bird waiting list where the real tickets will go on sale later! XD
Early bird waiting list! Done deal!
$799!?!!?! That’s insane!!! I assume that’s a 3 day pass? Even with a decently paid job I sure as hell wont be paying that much for tickets!
Haha! PAX North is my fictitious Brisbane parody! Real tickets for real PAX are $150 for 3 days! 😛
ahhh was gonna say.. i would much rather spend $799 on a new graphics card! $150 is much more reasonable. Still expensive, but I could be tempted.
It’s becoming too real, man!
We’ll imagine this into existence!
Don’t make me draw up an Event plan.
Are you saying that PAX North is a thing?
“PAX North: It’s a Thing(tm).”
Whelp, 3 day PAX Aus 2015 badge has been purchased. Bit annoying they’re going on sale so soon after last PAX/so far before next PAX, but I figured I may as well grab a pass now while they’re readily available and slightly cheaper.
I want to buy PAX passes, I need to buy a textbook, and Christmas presents, and there’s a Steam sale coming up, but we’re also looking at a late interstate trip in December over Christmas so the plane flights will be expensive…
I want to buy don’t think I will be. Too much needed around Christmas and Japan in a few months means I really don’t have the funds. I’ll just buy a day or two closer to the date or there’s always a whole heap of people selling 3 day passes since selling a year in advance is literally retarded.
Anyone know how quickly 3day passes sold out for PAX last year? Kinda nervous they’ll sell out in no time but I won’t be able to pick one up until next month :/
yeah I’m worried as well, apparently they go sold out within hours
3day passes go pretty fast. I imagine they’ll be gone by next month, but you should be able to get 3 1 day passes fine.
Fair enough, thanks, that might be a plan
Only pain with that is to ensure you pack the right day when you go, so you have to be slightly aware of your surroundings 😛
Haha true, plus an additional $15, but it’s better then not at all XD
I’m not worried. Even if they sell out there’ll be people that have to back out at the last minute because things have come up and have to sell them. Hell, I recall some of the TAYbies that couldn’t go even gave theirs away.
24 hours, but then there were more released as they sorted out enforcers / media a month or two out.
Hey, got the inside goss as well. The reason there’s a glut of passes closer to the date – and it’s 100% promised that this will happen – is because a) people get sick/cancel etc. but also b) all the gaming press/dev’s/indie dev’s etc. buy the 3 day passes now, just to make sure they get in, THEN they can get a refund when they qualify for a press/dev pass closer to the date.
In short: if you can’t get the 3 day now, or 3 x1 day passes shortly, then there WILL be more passes coming closer to the date – you just have to be ready to get them quick.
Was so good seeing Freezey yesterday. I really needed that, I think. Hooray for socializing!
#BestHermitEver
We had adventures*.
*ate sandwiches and went shopping for a man purse.
And had juice, because we’re conscious about our figures for the approaching summer! 😛
SWIMSUIT SEASON IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER! D:
Oh god!
*spray tans self to the shade of an Oompa Loompa*
Next, on MTV, it’s Freezey Shore.
I’d pop my collar if I were wearing a shirt.
Freezey, whay aw yoo so hawt?
Sometimes the girls come into the office and it’s clear they’ve had a Spray Tan Accident.
Always unfortunate, but I lack perhaps the appropriate levels of sympathy purely because I consider it a particularly idiotic fashion fad.
…Not that I’m one to talk.
time to break out the mankini.
*shudders*
around the corner? What cold heaven are you living in? It’s been swimsuit weather for 2 months already!!
2 months? I swear it started at the end of August D=
Ahh shredding for Stereo, it’s that time of year!
Those sandwiches looked ridiculous. I’ve been on a super strict diet and those pictures were torture.
Texan hoagies with smoked brisket. I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT A BRISKET IS BUT IT WAS TASTY!
That was the less fancy lunch menu too. Dinner menu looked insane!
IT’S DELICIOUS MEAT, DC! I WOULD KILL FOR SOME BRISKET!
I didn’t even look , the cholesterol started boiling my blood at mere mention.
You two went shopping?!
So proud :’)
@pupp3tmast3r @jocon @distantdrop heres a handy bug, take the group apexis daily, go complete one of the solo areas (todays group is shat city, I had the bonus mission of darktide roost) complete the solo area, get credit for group daily
I’m starting to really question the Apexis rates.. I haven’t even gotten enough for a 2nd tier item and the 3rd tier unlocks at 3am… what was the point of locking it in the first place… I cant see how it would be conceivably possible to get 35k+ before tonight.
because people were putting together farming groups to farm the drops from the elite areas, they even ended up nerfing that because people were maxing out. Super shitty for normal players
How do you find the bonus areas? They posted somewhere?
The bonus missions are the ones you pick up in your garrison which tell you to goto a solo apexis area and quest, other than that it’s just the places you normally go for the solo apexis dailies
So all the solo places are always available to do, you can just cycle through them each day without the quest for 800 each?
Yeah they are always there, but no point doing them without the dailies unless you’re rare hunting
Why not? If you still get 800 at each spot, regardless of the quest, that’s a couple thousand a day at least instead of just 800.
Nah you only get the apexis if you have a quest. So only one will count for a day.
Ok.
A couple of times I have picked up the quest, then gone off to a different area on unrelated business and the zone/ tracker has popped up for that area. So did that, got 800 on the spot, then went to the area I had the quest for, did that, got another 800.
That’s what I thought you were talking about, that it might be a regular thing.
Did you have the secondary quest those times? There’s 2 quests that get you apexis, the daily (solo or group) then there is the missions every couple of days that have a bonus objective that gives 800.
Ah that might have been it. I was on a random quest obtained from the garrison those times but I did not realise they were apexis related.
@gutsoup I plan to be there Saturday but not 100%
Pokemon ORAS
I thought extra mons were meant to appear after that certain event.
I’ve only seen trainers with non Hoen mons, what’s the deal? I want an electric type that isn’t from Hoen, I already did the dog in Gen III
*snickers*
He likes it ruff!
Really satisfies. ©
Don’t know about in the main region, but new places unlock after you can Soar with new pokes. I caught a Tynamo in a cave you can only access through Soaring! I haven’t even got the 8th badge yet 😛
Ah, Ok, cool thanks.
I was under the impression we get a pokeradar or similar at some point too…
You got the national dex? I think every route gets more mons after that.
It’s cool that you can get the National Dex before the 8th gym now.
I did, that’s what I thought but haven’t seen any. I’m zipping all over doing Episode Delta too 🙁
I love The Newsroom, but a lot of season three feels like Sorkin shaking his fists at clouds.
Totally, man, totally…
*looks into distance*
That’s disappointing to hear.
I haven’t watched it yet.
It’s still good. It’s still Sorkin. It’s just a rare instance where I’m not in sync with Sorkin’s politics.
It’s an Earth, Wind & Fire (screw you, water and heart!) kind of day.
Baaa de ya, say do you remember? Ba de ya, dancing in September?!
What? No. I’m not dancing at my desk. These are shoulder exercises to prevent injury.
GOOO PLANET!
HEEEEAAARRRT!
I may not have a new game to play for Xmas holidays D:
Telltale’s Game of Thrones is out tomorrow! 😀
Episodically?
& if yes, will it be done by then?
1 of 6 is out this month. So no, you’ll have to wait ages. XD
Give reminded me of WD season 2 & Wulf Umung Uss
Shadow of Mordor?
I’ll lend you things.
Yes, will borrow.
Re-play an old one! \o/
I do that nearly everyday, gotta make use of late nights & being home!
I can bring some up with me next week if you want and you can just post them back when you’re finished.
I’ve got (all on PS4)
Far Cry 4
DriveClub
Diablo 3
The Evil Within
Disney Infinity 2.0
Lords Of The Fallen
Destiny
Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition
Collar Doody: Advanced Warfare
Shadow Warrior
Trials: Fusion
Shadow Of Mordor
Murdered: Soul Suspect
The Last Of Us: Remastered
Infamous: Second Son and
Infamous: First Light
Let me know which ones you want to borrow by next Monday.
Oh, that reminds me: did you ever end up sending Watch Dogs? I never received it, if you did.
Nah, I’m a bit of a slack motherfucker. I’ll send it with your copy of Deus Ex when I go to the PO on Friday to post @coldcamv’s and @os42’s stuff.
@benny, I’ll send you Alien: Isolation while I’m there. Sorry it’s taken so long man.
No worries, no worries. I appreciate the loan/offer of loan regardless! So… thanks! No hurry for Deus Ex, either. If you think you might play it, hold onto it. 🙂
Thanks, but no thanks.
Don’t wanna borrow & forget.
World of Warcraft? There’s a good 5 expansions now, 6 with the original vanilla game! That should keep you entertained for a while 😛
Lend me your PC?
At your own risk 😛
“No matter how deeply it offends you, don’t clear my browser history. I use that.”
Yeah don’t wanna lose all those sites that i’m too ashamed to sync as bookmarks with Firefox 😛
My Christmas mainstay has always been Assassin’s Creed but Unity looks to be everything that’s shit about AC in one game so maybe not.
Nah, not my bag 🙁
Secret Santa gift purchased. Hopefully it arrives before Christmas for one lucky TAYbie. Also hopefully you actually like it… >_>
Oh crap. BRB, going shopping.
Note to self: Actually remember to include the words “Secret Santa” somewhere in the box this year… Last year my poor Santee just received a suspicious unmarked box of stuff with no indication of where it came from or why they got it 😛
I need to get onto that. 🙁
Ugh. Shroomish carrying my Pokemon team on its back. Soldiered on through the first two gyms because my other two Pokemon were completely ineffective against them (Poochyena and Zigzagoon).
This nuzlocke is proving trickier than X.
Your starter died?
I don’t keep my starter for nuzlocke runs. Immediately boxed it when my first catch reached level 5.
I’ve also made this run trickier for myself because I’m doing an alphabet run (no Pokemon or its evolutionary chain can share the same starting letter for any other Pokemon in the party). I’ve had to forgo so many Pokemon so far. I’m currently locked out of Z, L, P, M, S, and B.
This would be the perfect nuzlocke run game. It’s too easy.
Just the start seems to be trickier than it was in X. I’m at Slateport and the opportunities to catch stuff (using the restrictions I’ve been running under) means I only have half a team at the moment.
I avoided trainers because it was too much.
Made the elite four a touch more challenging at least.
Now I need to backtrack XD
I’m running blind for this (never played the original R/S/E) so I think I’m at the right level of difficulty.
I just hope like hell I get a flying Pokemon. I didn’t get a single flying-type in X and it massively sucked.
Ouch!
They retconned Zubat/Golbat so they can learn Fly now so you should be fine! There’s a tonne of caves later on that only have Zubat/Golbat 😛
I’m locked out of Zubat/Golbat for OR due to Zigzagoon. And I couldn’t grab Zubat when I played X because I was doing a purity run (single-typed Pokemon only).
Let’s just say that the bike will be getting a workout.
Oh, I forgot that that applied to catching a Golbat as well. Hold out hope you see a Tropius/Xatu then 😛
EDIT Actually, even if you don’t you can still Fly without using ‘Fly’ in this game after a certain point anyway.
@powalen How do the rules apply for a story forced acquisition like
lazy-ass or your Japanese namesake?Edit: spoiler tags just in case
They’re his rules, he can do whatever he wants! 😛 I do like to use the gift Pokemon but not the legendaries.
He can’t use anything starting with L already though so probably not.
@beavwa
@beavwa @powalen Generally I don’t go for using legendaries or other given Pokemon for nuzlockes. Hence why I tend to box my starter at the earliest opportunity.
Cause you know I love the players and you. love. the. gaaaaaame.
You’re getting all obsessive over that song, DC!
Just Shake It Off.
Shake It Off.
Are we out of the woods yet, Bish?
I just lost the game 🙁
Now I just lost the game.
Best (legitimate) Beer name you’ve ever seen (Provide a picture of the label) :
Old Fart
Ginger Beard was pretty good name but the actual beer left a bit to be desired.
http://www.beerreviews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/wychwood-ginger-beard.jpg
Yeah, I can only make it about 3/4 of the way through the bottle.
Too beer-like for me to be able to stomach 😛
You take that back. Actually no don’t, give it to me.
Love me some wychwood. Their whole range is pretty well named.
I got a real kick out of the beer named ‘Piss’. Mostly because the light version was called ‘Piss weak’.
Don’t have a label and Old Fart is probably the best actual name, however Bierbitzch have the most terrible slogan (“get me another bierbitzch”)
My Wife’s Bitter. Took some to my in-laws Christmas lunch a few years back… They didn’t really appreciate the humorous side of it.
http://askfindbuy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Wifes-Bitter-Ask-Find-Buy.jpg
I prefer the ex-wife bitter
Nothing is as bitter as an ex
How about Vergina beer?
Here’s a link to the website: http://www.verginabeer.com/node/4
One with good potential is the trashy blonde
http://www.portstreetbeerhouse.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/brewdog-trashy.jpg
Kids these days, honestly! The game design school class next door to my work have been playing Smash Bros on a big projector for the last two days. No respect, these kids! Forcing me to walk past them having a good time as I go into my office building!
How dare they enjoy themselves while I have to work. Someone should really steal their ice-cream.
Challenge them!
Show them the destroyer that is Captain Falcon. Knee to the face!
Yeah, but do they have a job, responsibilities and bills?
Wave your electric bill in their face and say “Nyah Nyah my rent is due”.
Punch douchey teenagers in the face and steal their ice cream?
Friend, do I have exactly the petition for you.
http://www.activism.com/563-Allow-us-to-punch-douchey-teenagers-in-the-face
If the teenagers still have their ice-cream after all these years I’m afraid we’ll have to ramp up our efforts.
Context.
Honestly don’t know why it redirects there and why it’s signed by a bunch of Italians though.
You should practice for the inevitable showdown!
Well, WD season 2 still doesn’t seem to be out for Vita, wanna bring across my save.
Might grab Wolfy Amonsgst Ourselves for PS4.
Hi all,
Just reposting this from last week in case there are any more takers. Can send books along to @powalen’s meat on Saturday.
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Sydney TAYbies: @35 @alexpants @anonymous_pessimist @batgirl @cakesmith @cj @doc_what @effluvium-boy @fatshadylive @gingerchris86 @gorzilla @harli @hugo_the_hungarian_barbarian @mawt @morkai @markserrels @mrtaco @novacascade @powalen @pupp3tmast3r @ruffleberg @shiggyninty @vonsack
I know some of you are avid readers of the fantasy genre. I have a collection of Sara Douglass books, and I have decided that they are taking up too much precious storage and need to go. *sob*!
If anyone is interested in taking some or all of these, please PM me on twitter (CookingmamaAUS) and we can sort something out. Otherwise they are getting donated to the library. I can also send photos.
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Thanks to @trikeabout who has nabbed the Darkglass Mountain trilogy for his missus.
Spoilered for the wall of text
The Axis Trilogy1: Battle Axe (small paperback)
2: Enchanter (small paperback)
3: Star Man (small paperback)
The Crucible Trilogy
1: The Nameless Day (hardcover)
2: The Wounded Hawk (hardcover)
3: The Crippled Angle (large paperback)
Also;
Troy Game 1: Hades’ Daughter (large paperback)
Troy Game 3: Darkwitch Rising (hardcover)
Beyond the Hanging Wall (small paperback)
And by Isobelle Carmody:
Dark Song and Dark Fall (books 1 and 2 of The Legend Song series, both in large paperback)
I’ve already read/own those, so I’ll pass.
Axis and Crucible were both quite good, so people should get on this.
I’ve got signed copies of the Axis trilogy. They’re worth reading. Very cool high fantasy/romance with some detailed world-building, IIRC. I remember really enjoying the follow-up trilogy, too.
The books I lifted my alias from! Such a great series!
Heh. Wall of text.
Because they’re books. And when you fill a book shelf with books, it’s like a whole wall of texts.
…I think my coffee has well and truly worn off for today.
Oh Club Nintendo.
You think this is amateur hour? I’ve been playing Pokemon games for 15 years and you dare insult me with the insinuation that I’d ever want to click the “None of the above, this is my first Pokémon game ” option?
Shame on you.
Meticulously breeding hundreds and hundreds of Eevees so that they can sit in the cold, dark PC never to see the light of day.Obviously.
The second thing can be trying to bypass Nintendo’s filter and call your rival some kind of childish name.
Do they have a filter now?
I’m hoping that by this point Club Nintendo has automatically assumed that I’ve bought the new Pokemon game and have filled out the survey for me.
BOARD GAMES
There’s an international event this weekend to raise money for Doctors without Borders. The idea is simple: get people to play Pandemic together, throw in some money and potentially have a good time.
More info over at Pandemic Parties.
I know a few of you have copies of Pandemic (and the rest of you should, it’s a good game). Maybe consider getting some friends over and busting it out.
What’s a friend?
People you insult and abuse relentlessly who don’t seem to go away.
Pretty much the same as a bully, but they sit next to you in class and sometimes you talk. #TimeMachine
Hey, the first words my best mate ever said to me was: “Does this hurt?”
I read about it somewhere once, didn’t quite understand it.
Champions wot sell you their Bravely Default collector editions & ask nothing in return
#FoReal
DAMN YOU SECRET SANTAY RECIPIENT!
While I was idly browsing, I came across the Ultimate Evil edition of Diablo III for $36.
Oh well, guess I’ve got seven days to decide whether I like it or not.
I just saw a bunch of cheap games in big w searching for LEGO.
I quickly left.
Has anyone watched the trailer to Telltale’s GoT series yet?
http://www.maxi-geek.com/2014/12/game-of-thrones-telltale-games-series.html
Me, I’m disappointed by its aesthetic. I really dig the art styles in their other recent games, partly because it works with their animation style. This semi-realistic look that they’ve taken with GoT already looks hopelessly dated, and highlights that their animations are very jerky. SADFACE.Also, if I wasn’t already a GoT fan, I would have absolutely no idea WTH happened in that trailer. As advertising goes, this one didn’t work very well for me.
Can’t say I like that art style at all. I know Game of Thrones isn’t really associated with comics, but they really should have gone with the same look they used in The Walking Dead and Wolf Among Us.
Agreed!
The comics look worse. Much worse
I dunno. It is their style. Just doesn’t have the black lines around the edges. Still simple and exaggerated features that over do the expressions. Willing to bet exact models with different textures.
But the flat textures are part of the cartoony-charm. Without the black lines and flat textures, all you’re left with are jerky models 😛
I dislike how PAX tickets are already on sale, and how it will be held at the same time.
I wanted to go to the 2015 PAX, but again, it will be right at exam time for me.
I could potentially squish going to PAX in, since it’s held the week before exams, but I wouldn’t want to so close to exams anyway.
That means, if it’s held at the same time, the next PAX I’d be able to comfortably go to is in three years… 🙁
Yes. It is a stupid time of year. They should be holding it during Winter, for the lovely weather.
I would love it if they held it in Winter. A warehouse full of cold nerds is way better than a warehouse full of sweaty nerds.
Think of the poor cosplayers in impressive heavy suits. Well. That does kinda screw over the cosplayers in skimpy outfits, but prudes are always complaining about that shit anyway.
Let’s be honest, when did cold weather ever stop skimpy wearers?
While we’re being honest… prudes will never be happy, either. WAY too many people out there enjoying their own bodies and others’.
Still. There were skimpy-cosplay folks pretty visibly suffering in the cold for the first PAX. I did feel very sorry for them. Suffering for your art, indeed.
Stupid prudes *shakes booty*
@benny still managed his fair share of suffering at this time of year too.
I can’t tell if this is being snide or not, but I’ll assume you’re being serious, since you’re a nice guy 🙂
(and because I love winter weather also)
I just wish they’d hold it even a week earlier.
It’s lame watching all these things happen that you really wish you could go to, knowing that you can’t go :'(
Deadly serious. Winter is the best. Winter is when it should be held. Less sweaty BO and suffocation and energy-sapping heat. You can always add more clothes til you’re comfortable without being arrested, but the reverse is provably and unfortunately untrue.
I’m more irked that they’ve started sales in the middle of the day so I can’t get it while I’m at work and by the time I’m home the 3 days might be sold out 🙁
Loading up on clothes before heading into the convention hall isn’t exactly the best idea.
I lost my favourite jacket on the last day of PAX this year. Found it five minutes later but I still lost it :p
Spring is a good time to have it. Not too hot, unless there’s a heat wave. Not too cold, unless Melbourne feels like being cold. Actually, nevermind. We’re talking about Melbourne here. Any time of year you pick, the weather isn’t going to play nicely.
You can only add more clothes so long as you thought ahead to bring them with you.
I’m not a fan of removing clothes anyway. All I need is movement of air, it’s stagnant air that kills you in the heat. Even going for a walk can be cooler than sitting still and sweltering.
(and obligatory downvote withheld :P)
*weather rivalry scowl* WINTER!
SUMMER!
Every time it comes around I really like the idea of going to the beach. But I also hate the beach. Sand is annoying and having to figure out what to do with your stuff while you’re away from it and not having your usual equipment handy and.
Also you kinda need someone to go to the beach with.
Your going to love Perth then, not a breeze for a dozen leagues.
*never Perths. Ever*
I will never have the spare cash to go, ever.
As someone who goes to the Blues Fest occasionally (ie. when I can score free tickets :P), I’m not entirely surprised by PAX selling tickets as soon as they possibly can. I’m a bit surprised at the lack of significant discount, however – Blues Fest tickets get sold on day one for the following year, but are like a third of the price you’d otherwise pay. I guess PAX is a bit less hit or miss.
Blergh
Alpha Dental Gel is weird shite,
Can’t wait to hang out with you Saturday
it’ll be gone by then 😐
Did you buy Alien Isolation?
Yes,
I played a couple of hours got up to a bit where you’re stuck in a very small space and the Alien won’t F$%# off and constantly kills me so I gave up for a while before I developed a hatred of it.
Sweet, I will borrow that too.
Gonna turn up Saturday, fill my Xmas sack with your PS4 games & wander out. :p
It’ll be just like when Where’s Sally would borrow your phone
>:|
It’s got to the point where today I saw my first-ever Amiibos in a shop despite looking every day since launch, got overexicted, ran around and bought two figures that I probably wouldn’t have if stock was ample.
But I suppose when else am I going to be able to see a Wii Fit Trainer and a Marth figurine outside of Amiibo? That’s how I’m justifying this to myself and I’m sticking with it.
Ssssssssssssuckerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
My local EB has quite a few. They definitely had Mario and one or two others. Did you want me to grab any for you?
Nooooooooooo. No.
You do not have permission to feed this possible addiction.
No.
Thanks, but no that’s okay. I’m exaggerating how much I actually want these things 😛 If I was that worried I’d just order them all online!#Helping
Amiibos are weird. I really don’t get them.
With Skylanders and Infinity, you can see exactly where the value in the figurines is. They work for the specific title and all future titles. You know what you’re getting with them and how they’ll be used. Amiibos are a lot more fragmented. They all work with Smash. Some work with Mario Kart (but I don’t know in what capacity) and some work with random other games. With the other figurines, they’re the core part of the gameplay. With Amiibos, they’re peripheral. A bonus thing to muck about with.
It feels like Nintendo has taken an idea and tried to weld it into their own system instead of using the idea as the core of something greater.
Oh, Nintendooo *canned laughter*
Nintendo could get Miyamoto to take a dump in a plastic bag and sell it and people would be screaming for it.
This could be said for any number of other fanbases as well.
Apple could do it with a wee beige jobbie
Ninty & Apple are the kings of cult behaviour in the tech scene though.
I think they have a lot more potential since they aren’t limited to a particular game or series of games like Skylanders are. If they’ll use them to that potential is another matter entirely.
The last couple of generations have proven that only Nintendo bothers to do anything with the potential their consoles have. Admittedly, not a problem with Amiibos, seeing as they’re all for Nintendo franchises.
I just don’t see how they’d ever be more than a little bonus thing. Especially when quite a few of them are from series that don’t get regular releases.
Personally I’m against anything that gates off content behind the condition I waste money on things I don’t need.
If I bought Majoras Mask 3D next year & was forced to buy a figurine I have no use for after I unlock the content, what do I do with the petrol-chemical waste? Why should I have to bother when I just want to play my game?
So far, so good. Nothing I’m interested in.
The fact that they are in limited availability, possibly meaning I’ll never see a part of a game I already paid infuriates me.
I’m so furious Il keep replying to myself & sit here quietly, pretending to be busy
*crosses arms virtually*
I’d like to raise an objection on skylanders, I’ve been told by a friend who kept going into trap team (we stopped at swap force) power creep is really setting in, and older figures are fairly useless when compared against buying the new ones.
I don’t see the amiibo becoming less functional going forward than skylanders / infinity have ended up after 2-4 iterations.
Edit: me grammar good, and blame autocorrect
Edit edit: I’m tagging real good today too
That’s a different problem to do with the way these things are sold. Could be less of a problem for Amiibos or could still be a problem. It’s too soon to tell, although I doubt there’s going to be a power creep issue if Amiibos have different functions in different games.
Bloody hell, I’m not doing well on the typing comments thing today.
I’ll agree that it makes for interesting perception issues when not every figure in the set range / wave will necessarily have the same functionality in future things.
I might actually just get an amiibo despite that I don’t have a Wii U and just bring it along to other peoples places to play. It’s like I’m bringing an AI pet with me to fight alongside me
yeah, I like how you can customize them and feed them things to improve their stats, everyone will end up with a slightly different one.
One thing we really should do is 2v2 TAYtourneys someday, one TAYbie w/ one Amiibo each entry so it’s really 1v1 with your AI ally.
That’s a great idea, I can see people spending a long time tweaking their specials and stats.
Making my Megaman the best Amiibo on TAY? “A machine of death, trained by TAY’s resident robot.” Sounds like motivation to me! 😛
That’s how they got me too.
I was kinda hoping that my Marth amiibo was one of the defect ones. Just because it looks so damn hilarious.
Put it in the microwave for a while.
I was totally hoping for double cannon Samus 😛
Yeah you were. Apparently one just sold on eBay for $2,500!
Wow.
Spent the last few hours wandering around the Oasis in DA:Inquisition.
I love it, it’s full of secret nooks and crannies and hardly any enemies so I can just wander around exploring. Haven’t even been in that temple yet, too busy collecting Shards and finding all the areas. They perfected my favourite parts of Assassin’s Creed games and put them in a game that wasn’t frustrating and stupid. \o/I’m also glad I found the place before seeing the discussion on it here earlier. What happened to using spoiler tags, people?!
Apologies
I’m sorry, Strangey.
So pretty. Loved scouting new areas and looking at that waterfall in awe.yesI remember when DA:I was announced they said they took inspiration from Skyrim and the Elder Scrolls games. This didn’t hype me up cause I’ve always preferred BioWare’s way of RPGing to Bethesdas, but playing DI I see the best of BioWare with story and characters and such an amazing world to explore. The entire time I also felt incredibly excited with what this might mean for Mass Effect 4 and the return of the Mako. 😀
Mako love.
Now you can maybe, nearly, almost understand why I like a good meander in Skyrim. Weakish plot & dialogue, but good cranny excavation.
I’ll concede Bethesda makes good worlds. It’s the writing I find bland. 😀
Hey! Some of the in-game books were good! A Hypothetical Treachery is one of the best short stories I have ever read.
It should be a lot better, since Mass Effect has got combat that’s actually fun rather than being a chore.
Take your time with that region, that’s lots of little nooks and crannies that are easy to miss (I think I spent like 3 hours there and still haven’t collected everything >.< )
That area is the single most frustrating zone in the entire game so far because of that one FUCKING WANDERING NPC who I can’t find again and is never where I look AND I NEED HER TO FINISH THE QUEST DAMMIT.
Ahem.
Like I said, I spent the last few hours exploring. And then the time between then and now. 🙂
It’s well worth setting foot inside that temple as soon as you have enough (semi spoiler on how the temple works)
shards to enter. I highly recommend following one door path through to its conclusion instead of opening the first of each of the doors.I went in when I was almost done with the Oasis. Just got to find that stupid lady, and that stupid key. But yeah, there was no way I was leaving the Oasis without entering the temple. 🙂I’m in the office by myself, and my music is blaring – playlist set to random.
ABBA Take a Chance on Me has come on.
I am jiving in my office chair. #screwyourgendernormsABBAisprettycool
What’s your go-to happy song TAY?
They got my resume!
I upvoted you because I’m jiving out to ABBA but I have no idea what you’re talking about
Oh, I once joked that my resume from now on is holding a boom box above my head and playing this song. 😛
It’s all part of the DC lore!
I might have said it on twitter which makes it the non-canon expanded universe. 😛
I guess my graphic fanfiction doesn’t count either, then.
It was the thought that counts, Pow. It counts.
@dc Not these thoughts…
Home – Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
Nice. Niiiice.
Depends on my mood.
sometimes when I’m angry some angry metal puts me straight.
Other times I fall back on the Mischief Makers & Turtles in Time OSTs.
Life’s a Happy Song, right @dc?
I have a mental association with posting that when things aren’t happy. It now reminds me of angst. 😛
Always good for that sorta thing.
Niiiiiiice
Crazy Little Thing Called Love – Queen
“Don’t Stop Me Now” is also amazing for happy.
I used to love Light and Day – Polyphonic Spree but the University of Queensland used it on their ads a few years ago way too excessively and killed it for me. 😛
It may not sound like it, but this song always cheers me up.
Colin Hay – Beautiful World always makes me smile.
I’ll leave the party early at least with no regrets.
Where a man can still be free (or a woman, if you are one)
And how can you not bop along to Gotye – Learnalilgivinanlovin?
And John Mayer – Shadow Days got me through a lot, and makes me feel good when I hear it these days.
Sunshine & Happiness
But I do tend to go for metal, angry music makes me happy for reasons.
City or Roots are my go to albums in these circumstances
fine choices.
Now go listen to Devi’s new double album
One disc just normal Devy, 2nd disc is Ziltoid 2.
Is it out already?
Fucker goes on & on about how it’s coming soo n on Twitter but doesn’t bother to mention the release
Yeah I completely missed it too, only picked it up on Saturday, wiki tells me it was out on the 27th of October.
Anything that makes me smile.
At the moment it’s Sexy Back by Justin Timberlake.
A sexy back does bring a smile to the face.
Katawa Shoujo – Stride
All the other pieces of the soundtrack have too many feels to reliably cheer me up, but this one is just upbeat and fun.
Hmm… New Rocksmith DLC is indeed Bon Jovi. Livin’ on a Prayer, Wanted Dead or Alive, You Give Love a Bad Name, It’s My Life, and Blaze of Glory. Welp, four out of five ain’t bad. Very surprising to see Blaze of Glory on there, given it was one of his solo songs… but, it was on their Greatest Hits album, and it’ll be amazing fun. 😛 *hands Steam yet another $12*
Would have been nice to have Always, Bed of Roses, or Dry County, tho.
Holy shit, the instrumental in Dry County would be enough for me to buy Rock Band, instruments, and DLC immediately (and the relevant console too, I guess).
One of Richie’s best solos, hands down. I doubt I’d have been able to keep up with it, but it would have been amazing to try! 😛
Rocksmith, Jimu. As in plug in your real life guitar or bass. Not Rockband 😛
Shane, Virus. As in not Jimu. 😛
Fuck, I don’t even know how I managed that. I blame the fact i’ve been writing up plant descriptions for labels all afternoon & dealing with the RAM hungry program that is PhotoShop 😛
You never know, he may have been talking about Rock Band 3 and its Squier Strat… but that “pro” interface was damn near unreadable. White fret numbers on a light blue background moving at high speed? Who thought that was a good idea…
I had the ‘pro’ RB3 guitar, not the actual guitar + midi converter setup but the one that had strings to pluck and then a button on each fret for each string.
I found that for me the problem wasn’t figuring out what to play – that’s just practice, learning the chords and notes – the problem was the tactile sensation of playing it was all over the place. I was constantly hitting the wrong string because not having the string all the way up meant my hands were basically disconnected from each other. On a real guitar you can feel the string all the way and it’s easier to pluck the right ones as a result.
I learned to play actual guitar for a year or two but was never that good, had been hoping RB3 would be able to act as a sort of virtual tutor. I think maybe Rocksmith is better at that though?
I had (technically, “have”, somewhere :P) that one too. It was freaking weird. The sensation of every strummed string feeling like the same dull, muted *thump*, having no relation to the fretting hand whatsoever… it felt… off. I started with Rocksmith 2014 last November, and the freedom of being able to bend and slide, pull off harmonics(!), the distinct feel of each individual string, the way both hands work in tandem rather than the disjointed manner of the RB3 pro controller… it’s bliss, by comparison.
Maybe I’m just so used to the Rocksmith interface nowadays, which uses proper 3D chord shapes front-on, rather than side on… it makes RB3’s interface so hard to read.
As for the value of RS… *puts on Deckard Cain voice* “Stay a while, and listen.” Or skip, I don’t mind – I know I tend to ramble sometimes. 😛
I tried to teach myself acoustic several times over the course of my uni days, as I was suffering musical withdrawals after leaving my saxophone at home when I went to uni. Guitar Hero kinda acted as a placebo for about five or six years… I tried RB3 with the pro controller, thinking the gamification combined with music I actually listen to, as well as something forcing me to keep going if I made a mistake, would be what I needed to keep learning; the controller was a horrible simulacrum, and the interface didn’t help. I saw RS (the original), and thought it might be promising, but was very cautious about shelling out $250+ for something that might not work. Rightly so – the original had quite a few problems, so I decided against it. Then, RS 2014 was announced, with the promise of learning from past mistakes. Reviews were good, so I jumped on. Scoured shops to find a copy for PC with the cable, and jumped online and picked up a Les Paul Jr from Harvey Norman. It was my first time trying to play an electric guitar, and the first time I truly enjoyed learning to play – it felt like what I had hoped RB3’s pro mode would. Been hooked ever since.Can it teach guitar? Subjective. It can teach you to play guitar *badly* just as easily as it can teach you to play guitar well – the only difference is if you can recognise when you do something wrong, and what you need to do to do it right (otherwise, there are plenty of youtube videos that will point you in the right direction). If you can already play, it can serve as a great training tool – I’m having a great time just learning new songs, and playing through; my learning nowadays is coming purely from that.
The lessons are pretty comprehensive. The difficulty can be scaled to whatever level/speed you’re comfortable with in the riff-repeater/learn-a-song modes, which makes it a great way to enjoy learning – you’re actually playing along to good music, even if you’re just playing one note every two bars to start with. If you just stick to the “learn a song” modes, you’ll probably pick up technique, and combined with its riff repeater, you can slow down anything you can’t follow to start with until you get the hang of it, and speed up at your own pace; if you head to session mode, it’ll teach you the various scales and let you fiddle around by yourself or with a backing band, find out what sounds good, and teach you basic/common chord progressions; Score Attack will test how well you know the songs (I basically ignore it, but I can see the value – it’s basically the GH mode); the games… are hit and miss. They’re great to reinforce some lessons (bends, slides, basic fretting, chords, etc), but I find it easier to learn in the context of actual music.TL/DR: I picked up RS2014 and an electric guitar for the first time last November, having had some basic understanding of music theory, and having tried multiple times to teach myself acoustic guitar (unsuccessfully). I have been playing it for an average of 5 hours a week since last November, and I know I’m still terrible, but I can keep up with most Rhythm parts, and most lead chord progressions. I have a long way to go, but I’m miles ahead of where I was 12 months ago, and the fact I’m actually starting to feel the limitations of choosing such a cheap guitar to learn on, combined with the simple fact that I’m still loving it, is enough for me to recommend it, whether you know how to play or not.
I’ll stop rambling now. 😛
Oh sick. *pops over to PSN*
Won’t come out until tomorrow, unfortunately – they normally release on Wednesday mornings. My giving Steam money today was more a symbolic gesture. Until tomorrow, at least, when it will have real (albeit minor) financial ramifications.
Ah right, I wanna play them nooooooooooooooow though haha.
Rocksmith needs some AC/DC, Motley Crue, Metallica & Slipknot I reckon..
Also the DLC from the original game should just work with 2014 without me needing to fork over more money, I wanna play all that DLC in 2014 cause it’s a far superior game than the original ever was!
Haha, yea, me too. But, they have their schedule. Plus, two weeks until Hendrix 12 pack around the 16th, which should be fun.
I just love watching the wild and optimistic speculation following the hints on Friday. The internet has only got them wrong once in the twelve months since release 😛
Can’t seem to find it on the PSN store lame 🙁
I just remembered this dream I had where I watched a movie in which a young Nicole Kidman was shagging an old Bruce Willis in a conservative small town & the shit hit the fan in some way.
Not a literal way I hope…
Nah, was more like a romantic drama, not Flying High
DID SOMEONE OUTLAW DANCING? D:
Maybe?
send in the Bacon!
I think…I can die happy now. I have a comment on reddit which is fast approaching a 1000 likes and someone just gave me gold.
LINK LINK LINK LINK
Although I do quite like my anonymity over there…for the Quizmaster, the link.
I’m so sorry.Edit: I can only say this much. It was a reply to Joseph Gordon Levitt on one of his replies to an AMA’er. 😀
Jokes on you, I like that song and contemplated seeing him live last week when he was playing a show in my town 😛
Did you praise him on his handsomeness? I would upvote that!
I did not, but I would also upvote that! He is such a suave chap.
Did I just get RIckrolled or are you really famous on Reddit lol????
Bruh I’m famous!! Don’t know what to do with these new powers. I’ve just been chilling in the lounge (a subreddit that can only be accessed if a gold member) on reddit observing all the poor folk on normal reddit.
This is you m9
Serious question, where do you look to find a job? There’s pretty much nothing on job search sites like Seek and that apart from commissioned marketing jobs and insurance jobs and defense force jobs. What’s a good place to look?
Inside your heart!
Depends what you’re looking for. The company I work for (in IT) does everything either through a recruiter for specifically skilled (senior) people or through Seek/online job boards for everything else.
Just have to be patient sometimes, as much as it sucks.
Network.
Token ring?
If you are experienced in a certain discipline, try and find a good recruiter in your industry who can look for you. Otherwise, Seek, LinkedIn, networking or a new one I heard about recently “ureferjobs”.
Seek, Indeed, Career One, Spot Jobs. There’s also Gov’t job search sites which names escape me at the moment.
Recruitment agencies.
More than one.
Some times they’ll act like they’re ‘your recruiter’, like a Hollywood ‘agent’, promising you a great working relationship, taking stock of your skills and working to find a temporary position that fits you best (temporary so they can take a cut of the cost of loaning you out, and a giant payout if the client asks to take you on permanently, as if they ‘own’ you, like a finder’s fee).
Other times they’ll sniff haughtily, unimpressed, and toss your resume on ‘the pile’. Because who knows… maybe you’ll get picked from the same pool of talentless mediocrity by lucky dip.
Which type you get depends on the individual recruiter and the agency they work for.
The thing about a lot of employers is that they may have positions available, but they choose not to post them on Seek. There’s no requirement for them to do so. It’s almost considered an amateur move, in some circles.
Many employers cultivate relationships with preferred recruitment agencies to get the people they need on contract, on demand. Many of them will ONLY advertise on their own website’s ‘jobs’ pages, like the airlines and sometimes banks. This is especially true of State Government positions, which are usually only advertised on their HR sites like smartjobs.qld.gov.au, jobs.nsw.gov.au, careers.vic.gov.au, etc, etc.
Centrelink Jobnetwork providers are not interested in finding you long-term work. They are interested in getting a government payout for getting you off the ‘long-term unemployed’ list, even if only temporarily, then seeing you back in the recruitment pool. It is VERY much a numbers game for them. Throw the jobseekers against the wall, see what sticks. All the same? Doesn’t hurt to have your name in that pool. Especially if it keeps centrelink happy. You never know, you might get lucky.
Be wary of probations, trials, orientations, or anything else that gets you to do some temporary work to ‘see if you fit’ by way of interview, without getting your bank and tax details and sign off on paying you for your time. There are NUMEROUS scams running in that sector. They frequently go unreported due to lack of education. Most common in hospitality or retail.
This has depressed me. 🙁
Whysat? It just means cast a wide net – there are loads of options out there you may not have been applying for! Hardly any of them actually cost you anything, just your time for going in and interviewing, submitting a resume, etc.
When I was out of work, ‘Finding work’ was my full-time 9-5pm job. A lot of pavement pounding, a lot of dressing up in suits, a lot of meeting with new agencies til I found any who actually gave a damn. Then I had offers.
Eww suits 😛
I love ’em. They’re very empowering. You feel smooth and in control, powerful, even.
Freeze and I were talking suits yesterday. We both agreed that we’d look sharp as hell in tailored suits and must get some to wear once. Dapper!
You can get cheap ones tailored overseas – a few hundred where normally you’d pay a few thousand here. But often even getting an off-the-rack suit fitted can be pretty slick.
I guess you could say you would be a, Sharp Dressed Man.
I’m more a fluro work shirt or similar kinda guy 😛
Black slacks, dress shoes, a plain shirt (preferably a nice slate-blue), with a dark-coloured tie. Sleeves rolled up should still be fine, tie can be loosened/stripped entirely if that’s too formal for the environment.
Ooh, putting motivational hat on: To put it another way… imagine you’re stuck in an adventure game. You’ve combined fucking every it em in your inventory in every combination you can think of on every interactive item and you’re losing hope, then staring at at the screen blankly, despondent, you seen an idle animation in the background of an NPC walking into an elevator which you assumed was background. Face frozen and eyes wide, you slowly, disbelievingly move your mouse over the elevator you’d missed and discover that it goes to an entirely new area you haven’t seen yet, full of crap to mess about with and undoubtedly the solution to your puzzle.
How do you feel?
Sometimes becoming aware of the areas you haven’t explored is exactly what you need.
You’re speaking my language now! 😀
Thanks (and thanks everyone else) for the info 🙂 I’ll keep looking and see what I can do. I’m not exactly in a dire need to get a job right now, I just want something to do during the day :S
Unfortunately you’ve got to start at Seek; it should point you in the right direction for HR agencies that deal in your industry. From there make sure to make solid contacts in each agency and start using them as job searches (i.e call once a week) and you’ll find it to be more effective than Seek =]
There are some ‘recruitment agencies’ which are basically just vehicles for a company to provide training and claim that most of their graduates get jobs. Eg: Sarina Russo. Because they’ve maintained recruitment contracts with various employers in those industries. Bartending, security, nursing, whatever. If you already have qualifications, those recruitment agencies who have their own training front-and-centre are probably not your best bet. You will not be prioritized as highly with their contacts as someone who has undertaken their own in-house training. If you don’t have that training yet, however, those a great places to get some and count on some decent introductions.
I’ve seen some advertisements that actually go so far as to guarantee a job.
Friends!
Really. People I know have been my only avenue to employment ever. Despite trying everything else.
Most (all?) of my friends are unemployed and are in the same position as I am, unfortunately 😛
I want to play Everlasting Summer, but the download keeps screwing itself for some unknown reason…
I wish I knew why…
It’s like it’s timing out, but only with this particular download.
Everything else I’ve tried (Analogue: A Hate Story, Terraria) works like a charm.
This, however, seems to just peter put after a few seconds and stops.
Just saw Karl Stefanovics interview with Abbott this morning.
Abbott is losing support fast isn’t he?
I’m still surprised enough people didn’t see that this would happen for him to be voted pm in the first place.
That’s because when they’re pissed off enough, Australians don’t vote FOR politicans. They vote OUT politicians. He just happened to fill the vacuum for a party that pissed a lot of people off.
Yeah well given the choices we are presented with, I’m not surprised. I don’t like a single one of any of the party leaders. 😐
People need to stop voting for or against parties altogether. You’re voting for your local representative and people should be voting for who will represent their area the best, not for whoever happens to be a certain party member.
Oh god, if only it worked that way… y’know. The way I was taught at school how Democracy works. Someone has beliefs. They stand up and say, “I believe this. If you do, too… vote for me.” And if most people believe the same thing, that person represents those beliefs, and the people are represented.
Not fucking workshopping their beliefs with focus groups and market research to change their beliefs to whatever will get them into power, with POWER being the goal…
This is not colourful hyperbole. I have sat in those focus groups.
It makes me sick. Physically, literally, my gut hurts to think of it. Good men and women fought, bled, DIED for the right to vote and THIS FUCKING FARCE is what we have to show for it?
Except that isn’t an option. For most candidates, if 90% of their constituents were against a policy they still wouldn’t cross the floor.
I sometime flirt with the idea of trying to create a viable voting system for the modern age. At the extreme end you have something like the system in Palace, where people vote (or are polled) on every issue ‘online’. Too complex and costly for the moment.
My current concept that I’m toying with is that rather than vote for a current representative (which means nothing in this day and age) people vote for candidates for the different government portfolio. So rather than randomly assigning somebody who was elected to serve an electorate and saying well you are now managing health, parties elect a health minister candidate. This hopefully leads to people with some semblance of understanding running a portfolio, not just because they are a loyal supporter of the party leader.
This is the problem. Party policy often overrules what individuals want, and that sucks. They can’t be seen to supports something which is against the grain of the norm for the party, so often gets nowhere, or meets a shit load of road blocks on the way. Really, the Libs and Labor are no different to Woolies and Coles. They have market share, and they’ll do their best to fuck anyone who doesn’t agree with them.
yeah. I don’t take those things (leaders etc) in to account when I vote local, but federal is a bit different. We really need more prominent independent people. Most of the indies don’t get their face out there enough to become known. Ask most people, and I bet they can only name one!
If only things actually worked that way. I’ve lived in multiple electorates where the local member is a great person that does a fantastic job for their electorate, but on bigger policy issues has to follow party lines. So in the end multiple times I’ve ended up voting against a candidate I know will do a better job locally because I know that at a higher level, another candidate’s party will be a better choice for the state/country. And that sucks.
This has depressed me. 🙁
That last election was a car wreck in slow motion. You could see it happening and there was nothing you could do to stop it. 🙁
It’s a tough day at the office when you get ripped on The Today Show, of all things.
*glee*
Just mentioned “Brisbane” on Twitter and next thing I know I get a notification from someone called @Isaura Zangari claiming to be from Prize Patrol (Publishers Clearing House) saying that I was todays winner.
The whole thing stinks like yesterdays diapers.
heh i got a very similar reply the other day when warning of the on coming storm. I took one look at it and replied “Hmmmmmmm”
Blocked and reported.
I got one of those a while ago. Their five minute old account had only tweeted that at multiple people.
At this point, I’m fairly confident that my block list is longer than the list of people I follow.
Yeah, I got an SMS the other day from a contact listed as ‘Westpac’:
“Dear User,
We have detected some unusual activity on your account We urgently aks you to follow the account review link: [PHISHING SCAM URL]
Thank you”
It certainly is very alarming. I didn’t even know I HAD a Westpac account, and now it has unusual activity on it?! But my imaginary monies! MUST. CLICK. VIRUS.
If we’re going down that path, here’s a 419 scam from my spam folder:
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)Counter-terrorism Division and Cyber Crime Division
J. Edgar. Hoover Building Washington DC
Dear Beneficiary,
Series of meetings have been held over the past 7 months with the secretary general of the United Nations Organization. This ended 3 days ago. It is obvious that you have not received your fund which is to the tune of Eight Million and Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars ($8,500,000.00) due to past corrupt Governmental Officials who almost held the fund to themselves for their selfish reason and some individuals who have taken advantage of your fund all in an attempt to swindle your fund which has led to so many losses from your end and unnecessary delay in the receipt of your fund.
The National Central Bureau of Interpol enhanced by the United Nations and Federal Bureau of Investigation have successfully passed a mandate to the current president of South African his Excellency President Jacob Zuma to boost the exercise of clearing all foreign debts owed to you and other individuals and organizations who have been found not to have receive their Contract Sum, Lottery/Gambling, Inheritance and the likes. Now how would you like to receive your payment? Because we have two method of payment which is by Check or by ATM card?
ATM Card: We will be issuing you a custom pin based ATM card which you will use to withdraw up to $3,000 per day from any ATM machine that has the Master Card Logo on it and the card have to be renewed in 4 years time which is 2018. Also with the ATM card you will be able to transfer your funds to your local bank account. The ATM card comes with a handbook or manual to enlighten you about how to use it. Even if you do not have a bank account.
Check: To be deposited in your bank for it to be cleared within three working days. Your payment would be sent to you via any of your preferred option and would be mailed to you via DHL. Because we have signed a contract with DHL which should expire in next three weeks you will only need to pay $240 instead of $450 saving you $210 So if you pay before the three weeks you save $210 Take note that anyone asking you for some kind of money above the usual fee is definitely a fraudsters and you will have to stop communication with every other person if you have been in contact with any.
Also remember that all you will ever have to spend is $240.00 nothing more! Nothing less! And we guarantee the receipt of your fund to be successfully delivered to you within the next 48hrs after the receipt of payment has been confirmed.
Note: Everything has been taken care of by the Federal Government, The United Nation and also the FBI and including taxes, custom paper and clearance duty so all you will ever need to pay is $240.
DO NOT SEND MONEY TO ANYONE UNTIL YOU READ THIS: The actual fees for shipping your ATM card is $450 but because Diamond Express have temporarily discontinued the C.O.D which gives you the chance to pay when package is delivered for international shipping We had to sign contract with them for bulk shipping which makes the fees reduce from the actual fee of $450 to $240 nothing more and no hidden fees of any sort!
To effect the release of your fund valued at 8,500,000,000.00 you are advised to contact our correspondent, the delivery officer Agent Jeffery Martins with the information below,
Name: Agent Jeffery Martins
Email: jefferymartins41@yahoo.it
You are advised to contact him with the information’s as stated below:
Your full Name..
Your Address:…………..
Home/Cell Phone:…………..
Preferred Payment Method (ATM / Cashier Check)
Upon receipt of payment the delivery officer will ensure that your package is sent within 48 working hours. Because we are so sure of everything we are giving you a 100% money back guarantee if you do not receive payment/package within the next 48hours after you have made the payment for shipping.
Yours sincerely,
Harley Davis
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20535
TELEPHONE: (218) 646-2533 FAX: (202) 666-5283
Note: Do disregard any email you get from any impostors or offices claiming to be in possession of your ATM CARD, you are hereby advice only to be in contact with Agent Jeffery Martins of the ATM CARD CENTRE who is the rightful person to deal with in regards to your ATM CARD PAYMENT and forward any emails you get from impostors to this office so we could act upon and commence investigation.
Damn, you beat me. Just went looking out of morbid curiosity, and the FBI are only offering me $2.4mil… Although, apparently Nigeria’s Anti-Fraud Unit is desperate to give me $5,000,000… How quaint.
I get a lot of Russian women asking me for a relationship and begging me not to ask for nudes because it would be disrespectful although they will be my sex slave when they get here.
The accounts guy at Pay Pal is obsessed with me! (And not spelling pay pal correctly!)
Brisbane peeps, we’re starting to plan out what we’re gonna do on our trip, so if I’m gonna convince the wife to come to a meat I’ll need to know your availabilities AQAP.
please specify if you’d be interested in a CBD/Theme Park/ whatever meat.
As many deets as possible would be great.
@strange you said you would be available thursday next week yeah?
@beardymcmuttonchops @beeawwb @cufcfan616 @dc @dkzeitgeist @freezespreston @gutsoup @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @sernobulus @strange @sughly @transientmind @welbot @weresmurf @virus__
Beardy, I’ll bring my copy of Metro 7 in case I meet you so I can ask you to sign it for me.
Also, I’ll be bringing my 3DS for Streetpass hits.
Money will be non existent next week. I can tag along for a CBD meat though next week at some point after work on any day other than Thursday as I have football at 5.50
mm next week is out for me. I only start my job next monday, so I wont have any money for at least a couple of weeks after that, and even then, most of it will go on bills. Next time for sure though!!
@dc & @freezespreston suggest that we go to Buffalo Bar. I also suggest this. Everybody suggests this.
I wholeheartedly approve. When?
Thursday the 11th @ 6:30pm
Pulling dates and times out of a hat.
I’ll discuss it with the missus and let you know.
Cool.
I work Thursday nights.
Ok, what about Friday
cc @beeawwb, @dc etc.
Or Thursday lunch so @strange can come.
I’ve got the days off so any time should work for me.
In theory. Because I’ve got work people doing stuff during the day on Thursday / Friday, but I don’t need to actually be there for it. Just to pay them when they’re done.
If nobody else can do Thursday lunch, it’s possible I can still do a weekend time. Friday night/Saturday lunch/Saturday night are all within the realms of possibility for me. 🙂
I picked it for exactly that reason. Wednesday night?
I said I was free Thursday lunchtime.
If everyone else finds the weekend more handy, I can try and be free for that. 🙂
Think we might have to do a few separate meats. If you can only do lunch I’ll talk to the missus and see what we can work out.
Thursday CBD meat cool for you @jimu?
Probably.
I work there, so unless someone gets sick or something
CBD
I’m keen, just keep me updated on what the plan is.
I’ll do anything.
Anything.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/12/what-the-hell-did-i-just-watch/
It’s pretty great.
True fact: The last thing John C Riley did with Tim and Eric he didn’t look like he was dying. This promptly fixes that error 😛
Krispy Kreme.
So Good.
Food Baby.
No Regrets.
*passes out in a pile of glaze*
The glazed ones are the only ones I really like. Maybe some of the filled or caramel-topped. Their chocolate topping is not great.
See this scar? *points to scar* This is what happened last time I criticized Krispy Kreme to Stewie!
Think of it as a souvenir from my visit! 😀
And a reminder.
If you can’t see the scar it’s because it’s on my psyche! Psychological scars are the deepest!
I wouldn’t be surprised about scaring you.
I did basically force you to eat those Krispy Kremes with me 😀
You liked’em though 😉
*twitches*
Twitching is a normal sign of Krispy Kreme withdrawal.
Quick, eat some more donuts! 😀
I expect you to show me where Krispy Kreme is when we meet @dc.
All roads lead there!
Where we’re going, we don’t need roads.
I assumed it was something he gave you as part of the make-over. Scars are apparently alluring fashion accessories when done right.
(Not like my dodgy, can’t-even-tell-it’s-there lamesauce ones. Clearly I need to piss off more people. FOR FASHION.)
Chicks dig scars! Now my chick problems are over! *cough*
Is it weird that I actually like scars?
Only when there is a story behind them though 🙂
Like, I have scars on my left knuckles which I tell people I got from getting in a fight, but I really fell off my scooter 🙂
Hey everyone. Just wanted to apologise for my posts a while back. I was duped by they-who-must-not-be-named and their true intentions. I did not participate in their hate mob, but now that I’ve looked into it further I’d like to apologise to anyone I may have unintentionally offended with my uninformed posts. I don’t support harassment campaigns, and I was foolish to give this group the benefit of the doubt.I have no clue what this is in reference to, but good on you for having the balls to say something! It’s not often I read what I determine to be a genuine heartfelt apology on the internet, and even without knowing the context, I have to say I was moved by your words. Perhaps it stems from a deep love and respect I have for the members of the TAY community, but I know in my heart they are good people, and to see someone showing respect to those people is plus points in my book!
I almost missed this due to my fear of spoilers and not knowing what you were putting in spoilertags, but I’m glad my curiosity got the better of me and I read your post.
You have my utmost respect. 🙂
Off-topic: This just goes to show that spoiler tags are not 100% effective. The only TRUE prevention is abstinence… I’m not sure where I was going with this, hang on, there’s some topical humour to be salvaged here somewhere.
I mean, this is why I usually try to give subtle contextual hints (or giant flashing signs) about what I’m spoilering and why.
I used to have everyone trained to do that. 😛
I always spoiler tag everything usually. Just lapsed this week, following other people’s lead. I’M A MONSTER! XD
@dc
http://store.bethsoft.com/brands/fallout/brotherhood-of-steel-messenger-bag.html
Yessss. That’s the one. That’s the one.
Haha! We went to an excessive amount of bag stores yesterday. Maybe we should’ve stayed at Buffalo with beers and google search. 😛
omg… i just realized.. the place i will be working will be walking distance to ribs n burgers in the valley………. ooooooh dear… maybe i should quit before i start!
have to say though, I’m pretty stoked about where I’ll be working. Just to the left of the entrance to the building I’ll be in, is a cafe! SCORE!
All these are perks, my friend! HOORAY FOR JOBS! 😀
hahah perks! I see what you did there! 😉 (yes I’m aware that coffee percolator is spelled with a c not a k)
You’re reading too much into the comment. I don’t pun. 😛
@dc
There’s a page six I could link here….
Oh my. Stylin‘.
You men have a weird sense of fashion 😛
The colour is nice admittedly.
I bet you would’ve loved all the ones we scoffed at yesterday. 😛
I don’t even like bags 😛
I’d be scoffing with you.
…
Unless they were pretty :3
I’m not massively into Fallout, but I must admit that’s a pretty cool lookin’ manbag.
It’s the Brotherhood of Steel! Fashion has nothing to do with it!
@os42, money has gone through, I’ll try and get it posted for you tomorrow.
Oh man! Espionage a-foot?
How did you-?*cough* Nothing of the sort. *shifty eyes*Ok, so thanks to my trade mark brilliant planning and general laziness I’ve got two extra copies of Pokemon Omega Ruby I don’t need. Also thanks to eParcel having a minimum postage requirement per booking and two urgent shipments over two days leaving me well under that mark tomorrow I can ship two small packages pretty much anywhere for free as long as I know before 1PM tomorrow (well, for the same price as not sending anything at all).
Anyone want one? Just get me your postal address (PO boxes are fine) somehow. I dunno, tag me in an old comment with your address and I’ll reply once I’ve written it down so you can edit/delete it.
Also I’m not sure exactly how it works, but I think if I open them up and create a save file I can StreetPass the Eon Ticket event item over to them. If you want me to try that just let me know what you want to call your character and which starter you want.
Hmm, that fancy red casing…
*shakes head, snaps out of it*
Crap! I just bought that on Sunday.
Wait, two extra? 😛 How’d that happen?
Are they going for free? Good guy DogMan :’)!*
*note I have Alpha Sapphire so I’m not entirely interested but I am attracted to freebies (:P) and it would be cool to have the accompanying game to do a Nuzlocke run sometime or something…
Yeah it’s free. I don’t mind if you’ve already got Sapphire but if someone comes along who doesn’t have either version I’d rather it went to them.
Yeah exactly! I’m sure there’ll be many interested parties 🙂
And I’d feel bad anyway, but I’d be willing to buy it for cheapish ($20?) anyway if you’re having trouble finding people.
You are too generous, dog. Wanna sell instead? You deserve something in return for your generosity!
Nah, it’s sort of cheaper if I don’t sell them. The postage is more or less paid for tomorrow regardless of whether they ship or not, so screwing around with PayPal or whatever won’t be worth it if it causes them to miss that window.
Plus the whole mix-up spiraled into another thing so all up it cost me almost nine grand. I don’t think selling them is going to get that back so I might as well let someone else benefit from my screw up. =P
Oh you poor bugger! Maybe I can send you something in return? Maybe Super Mario 3D Land, or Virtues Last Reward (both on 3DS)?
O_O
Jeez, man!
Over 9,000!!!!!!
No, bad over 9000! 😛
I was going to buy this after Christmas and it was Ruby as well, what a coincidink.
Sorry if it sounds condescending, I just found it amusing.
Works out nicely. Just let me know where to send it.
Can i send you an email? or send me one? Mine is scree(at)y7mail(dot)com
Done.
Holy shit what. How even?
I was gonna put my hand up for it but someone like Scree is totally more deserving.
I was wondering the same, but figured that maybe it wasn’t polite to ask.
The short version is that in the process of sorting everything out I didn’t see a message I recieved on Friday morning until it was too late to jump on the opportunity. So yeah, the games may be cursed. Probably should have mentioned that.
Do they come with a free froghurt?
Wowser. I’ve never played a Pokeymans game before, so I’m not your best candidate, but I can at least recognise how generous an offer this is! \o/
“Sniffer dogs outside music festivals are dangerous because they encourage people to take their entire stash at once before going in leading to overdose and death!”
Uh…. Isn’t that just natural selection at work?
I really need to clean out my Facebook account.
I’d love to know how they reacted to that. 🙂
I find most people who are against sniffer dogs at anything are the ones smuggling drugs in, in the first place.
Personally I’m sick of encountering dickheads who are pinging off their heads at getting all aggro because they looked at you. Less deadshits the better I say.
Nah man. I know a whole load of people who are pretty much phobic of dogs. As in will-break-down-in-tears terrified if they were approached by a sniffer dog, and start to get in a panic even if they see one (any dog that is, not just sniffer) in the distance. Makes international trips through the airport pretty hazardous.
Yeah, but the people really against sniffer dogs are usually the ones the sniffer dogs are targeting 😉
I know one or two like that all stems from their parents drilling into their minds that every dog will attack them or hurt them in some way. Great parenting I must say..
Yes, sniffer dogs are dangerous. I’d probably never get into the music festival because I’d wanna pat the doggies.
Littering and…
Literally the best movie.
Listen meow.
@greenius Humble Vinyl update! There was a delay on the vinyl, so they’re splitting the shipment and sending all the stuff but the record and the zine first, and those will come later.
T-shirt \o/
I can’t remember if you bought the Cassette Edition or not
Didn’t. Vinyl is cooler/there was more stuff of interest in that bundle (both games and junk) than in the halloween one.
I’m in Vietnam. I’ve spent the last 4 days handling my dong in public
#dadjokepagesix #borderlinegrotty #hi@strangeI just bought PAX tickets *shrug*
I wasn’t keen on buying tickets last year (for this year’s PAX) since I don’t like the idea of buying for things almost a year in advance since I have no idea what I’ll be doing then. I thought I might be travelling or working full time around PAX this year, which did end up happening but I thankfully managed to find some last minute tickets and see you beautiful people (…and the ugly people too :P).
I’ve never been into PAX for the “PAX” stuff, so y’all better be going so I can catch up and sit on my ass all day and just play board/card games!
A perfectly valid option.
Safe to assume you and Frey are going and I can play all the board games? 😀
Got my tickets nearly 8 hours ago and yes, many a board game shall be played.
I need to win more 2 Rooms and a Boom.
I neeeeeed to.
Somehow I don’t see that being a problem. Especially seeing as you’ll have your own copy next year.
You know, if there aren’t more delays.
Yup. Three days.
More potential board game buddies!
Just bought myself a three day pass.
See you there, I guess.
We can talk this time! 😛
(and MH4U?)
Yesssssssssssssss
Ooooh! Game of Thrones reviews are coming out, they’ve all been great!
So, apparently my mum can’t keep her trap shut.
My friend who’s visiting said, “Oh yeah, your mum really isn’t discreet”, followed by giving me that look.
Not that I actually care, I just think it was funny how she said she wasn’t going to tell anyone when I told her.
Apparently though my dad is “Disappointed of me”, which kind of hurt at first, but has solidified that I don’t need him in my life, or particularly want him there.
Well for what it’s worth I’m proud of you, Liondrive!
Also, don’t write your dad off entirely yet. You’ve had years to get right with who you are, some people might need time to get right with the idea in turn. He might be okay eventually, but either way you’ll be fine and don’t require any one else for your sense of self-worth. How he feels is not your problem.Thanks, DC.
Your opinion of me means far more to me than his ever will.
Don’t dismiss your dad. He might just need some time to adjust.
Far From The Tree is an inspiring book about families dealing with children whose lives have taken a very different path to their parents. Might be a good conversation starter, or at least an interesting read for yourself.
It’s not writing him off, I just don’t want him around, or particularly care at all about him.
There’s more things than just this, this is just the last thing, kind of thing.
He left my mum when I was young, in the most cowardice of ways (literally just walked out one day while she was out), leaving g her to raise four children alone. He hurt my mum and my family, who I love the most in the world, and he has never apologised, as far as I’m aware.We all know he regrets it though.
Despite that, I gave him a second chance when he did finally decide that he wanted to be a part of my life, and to now hear that he is “dissappointed” in me?
He should be thankful that I let him talk to me in the first place.
Dissappointed in me.
The nerve.
I don’t want anything to do with that man.
That sucks. I’m sorry.*have a hug*
(but I do recommend the book!)
Oh, I’m over caring about it, to be honest.
I have no resent for him, no anger directed towards him, I have no feelings towards him.
He’s not worth my time of day.
If he tries to talk to me, I’ll listen, I’m not a rude jerk after all, but I do not care what he thinks of me, and I’ll be perfectly fine never hearing from him again.
His loss. I’d be pretty proud of you if you were my son.
I’m not the best for advice about fathers though. Far as I’m concerned I lost my father a long time ago and he may as well be dead.
That’s really sweet of you to say 🙂
Careful Freezy, you’re getting me all teary eyed :’)
I don’t know about that Freeze, you are a pretty awesome father from what I’ve seen
Everyone here is proud of you, I’m sure.
From what I’ve learnt, people who put you down aren’t worth bothering with. This includes family. You need to surround yourself with people who like you for who you are and that make you feel good. If someone has an issue with your preference, then it’s their issue and if they can’t accept it, it’s their loss. They’ll lose a good person from their lives.So what, you’re a Dockers supporter?
;pOne of us. One of us.
Technically, I am. Not that I pay attention to sports ball.
Well, I think you’re pretty great, so there.
Well, I’m proud of you *hugs*
Thing on The Project, talking about different people’s perception of temperatures. And a part about how people who are more lonely or depressed or less socially active tend to feel the cold more.
Hmm.
I’M ALL OF THOSE THINGS. SO COLD.
Why are you watching The Project is the main question.
Because otherwise it’s like… Home And Away or something.
So it’s like the lesser of two (or more) evils?
Well Nine is obviously the greater of them all. So it must be.
Wish they had the ep up so I could double check on exactly what it was they said.
*checks again* Oh hey it’s up now.
Aw, I didn’t mind the random eps I caught while I was in Perth 😛
At one point back when they started doing it it wasn’t actually that bad. Can’t imagine why you’d watch it now, but then again I haven’t even hooked up the aerial cable for my TV at my new place. If I want to sit and blob I’ve got a ton of terrible anime I could watch and a Netflix subscription to boot.
Carrie Bickmore <3
H-uh.
I don’t feel the cold at all, which makes sense given I’m constantly surrounded by friends. Right guys? *Looks at all my statues and figurines and whathaveyou*
Be like me. LOVE THE COLD.
TOO LONELY FOR COLD
Same goes for this one.
Edit: And that ladies is gentlemen is how you do (waste) a 5000th post.
*drops mic*
Change two letters, just two and that sentence becomes very dirty XD
I wish I could feel cold! I probably meet most of the criteria, but I’m always hot!
Especially from where I’m sitting.
I fail to see how they can claim that, i’m single and don’t really feel the cold. Maybe they got this conclusion from single people who all have poor circulation…
There you go, the proper bit 😛
So, really they didn’t mean single people at all, they really meant people who are not social/don’t have loving & fun friends lol.
So there’s an accuracy to being labelled cold-hearted after all?
Cold blooded might be a better phrase, but I guess so? 😛
I bought 2 amiibo even tho I don’t have a Wii U 😛
Kirby and Pikachu for $14 each from target 😀
I heard some complaints about quality, but they both look really good!
Yeah, the ones I picked up to layby looked amazing. Link, Peach, Fox and Yoshi.
Yeah the most complaints I had read online were abut Peach, but when I looked at her instore, she looked really cute!
I didn’t buy her though, because I want to stick them on my desk at work as decorations, and to try and cheer up this misserable place. I figured a little ‘doll’ like figure might raise more questions (although a pink blob might do that too 😛 ).
What do you think my chances are of someone nicking my amiibo??
also @ynefelPut things on your desk, bugger what your coworkers think. Keep it subtle, but I’ve got a small Red XIII, Tifa and Alien under my monitor. Helps my coworkers are geeks too though. Other guy has about 3 Walking Dead zombies figures around his monitor.
You wouldn’t have to worry about me nicking your Peach though. Rosalina, maybe.
Here is the top of my monitor atm:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzKsoRSGHnbkS1haS1hINFdkMW9Nbjloakx0SGtBaE5XazFZ/view?usp=sharing
That shell came from km’s below the ground and is tens of thousands of years old!
PS I’ve never shared an image via google drive before, so please let me know if it works and/ or if I’ve accidentally shared my whole drive 😛
Nice! Rukia! <3
Worked fine dude. No noods popped up or anything. Which I won’t pretend wasn’t slightly disappointing, but that looks good!
Underneath my monitor a work atm:
http://imgur.com/kQtEu8l
Home desk is a little busier, though.
It’s just like you described! Little Red XIII, Tifa, and alien! Tifa doesn’t look too fazed by the presence of the alien tho.
Thanks re Rukia – she is kinda my anime crush! Reminds me of my wife when I first met her 😛
Tifa’s pretty boss though. One of my favorite FF characters. But for some reason I don’t think the cleaners like her. Whenever the cleaners come through, she’s always knocked over when I come in the next morning. They never seem to touch Nanaki or the Alien though. *frown*
Now with amiibo!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzKsoRSGHnbkb1FiNWRURHJTeTZGYlI1ZkpGdFB1cFJyd1Zj/view?usp=sharing
\o/
My Pikachu looked really good. Workmate bought Mario, and he looks fantastic. No complaints on build quality here. Fox is coming in the mail today or tomorrow.
Sitting at work, playing Pokemans omega ruby \0/
My first pokemon experience is proving to be, um… interesting. Go into the house next door and I’m greeted by a woman who promptly tells me her daughter’s upstairs and I should go up to her bedroom and meet her =S
Giggity!
Oh yeah! I remember reading about it being your first Pokemon game earlier in the day. I’m really curious to hear thoughts on Pokemon games from newcomers :D.
Are you familiar with most of the original Pokes?
Oh I know ALL about pokeing XD
Seriously though, I know of Pikachu, Jigglypuff, Squirtle, Charizard, Bulbasaur, Psyduck, Geodude, Snorlax, Mewto and that’s about it.
I got hooked on DS after years if only watching the cartoon.
Now I’m a day 1 pokefreak
In the original game you used to be able to lay under the covers on his/her bed too 😛
Alllllrrriiiiiggghhhhttttt
Heh Heh!
Oh god. It’s down from $500 to $199.
http://store.bethsoft.com/accessories/other/the-forgotten-son-of-phobos-snowboard.html
I wanted it badly at 500 despite having zero use for it and now I’ve put it in the cart and removed it twice.
Bad Freeze.
Bad.
……
*adds to cart again*
Some rad shirts on offer though. 2 for $25 today only.
http://store.bethsoft.com/apparel/mens/t-shirts.html
I need to get off this site. I ordered the bag and this wallet.
http://store.bethsoft.com/accessories/other/imperial-dragon-symbol-leather-bifold-wallet.html
Ooooh! Cool wallet!
I like it, but i’m not a Skyrim fan damn it. If only there was a Fallout 3 styles one!
$200 isn’t an unreasonable price for a piece of artwork that would just hang on the wall, right?
[/helping]
Glad you think so. Care to add to your pledge? 😛
It Christmas man; treat yourself 🙂
Very rad.
If I lived anywhere near the snow I might go for it.
Dammit freeze! I didnt need this! Its not even winter anymore!
*adds vault 101 snowboard to cart*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiuK1QP3kxc Can’t stop giggling.
*chuckle*
*serious*
*chuckle chuckle*
*serio…* nope can’t do it… *laughs*
You are a bad man, I need to be quiet now
Got a phone call this arvo asking me if I wanted to play basketball tonight as they needed a fill in team to play. We had 5 players but a random bloke joined the team and he was good. We played really well though, and I think if we play that well in our normal division, we’d win more games than we lose. I got 10 points, my first double figure game. Final score was 86-44, but it doesn’t matter.
Nice work sire! Hopefully luck will remain on your side and you can be the champs!
Probably not. Our team is named the Winners, rather an ironic name. I think we’ve won maybe 3 or 4 times since I started playing. We mostly play for fun in a mixed social comp. My own basketball skills are improving though, and that’s what matters.
as long as you’re enjoying it, that’s all that really matters! Nice bonus if you can increase your skill level noticeably by simply doing something you like! 🙂
Well, shit.
Over our download quota until next Thursday. 🙁
heh my friend is capped atm too. He’s on high speed cable, so normally downloads super quick, but now he’s capped at 64k. :0
Ouch.. Even Telstra don’t cap at that archaic speed anymore, they moved up to 2004 speeds of 256k!
that is telstra. and he’s staff 😉
Hahaha, ouch. Saying that 256k is really no better than 64k speed in this day and age of high bandwidth everything >.
That’s one thing I loooooove about tpg. IF I get capped, it’s at 1mbps! Barely notice it when just browsing. My mate is having to wait 5 mins for some pages to load, due to most places being so graphically intense these days
Yeah, it’s stupid. Can’t even load a news site when capped, it’s like why bother?
It’s been four days since we went over our download quota. In about five minutes, it’ll reset.
Warning: Binding of Isaac jargon incoming.
I am on the most messed up run as azazel (so brimstone), orbital tears (beam was looping around me), gnawed leaf and just picked up Ludovico, so now I control a giant ring of blood. Pity moving the ring cause the statue effect to leave me
Original vs Rebirth… I somehow have both in my Steam library. Which do I play?
100% Rebirth.
More content, more polished, doesn’t slow down randomly either 😛
Rebirth for sure, I prefer the original art style but it’s just so much better in rebirth
Gotta share the seed with these things.
I know, I should of but I finished it before I even decided to post it, also it relied on getting the boss rush. It ended at mom’s heart, which was a tad annoying.
Would you believe it’s difficult to find white tinsel? I couldn’t find it anywhere. I’m trying to go with a white, gold, red and green themed tree this year. Anyone else do themed trees?
I let my wife do all that tree and decorating stuff, not really my bag.
On the other hand if we celebrated Festivus I would gladly pull the Aluminium pole out of the crawl space.
For… Maypole dancing… or stripping?
Why not both?
PS4 has gone into a Safe mode loop and from what I can tell with some research it’s a 50/50 chance of me salvaging anything.
When did gaming get so hard?
Damn dude, that really sucks. Found this, don’t know if you’ve come across it yet or not. Hope it helps.
http://www.gamepur.com/guide/15972-how-fix-ps4-safe-mode-boot-loop.html
Managed to save it. Updated system from safe mode and it rebooted itself a million times and eventually worked.
Huzzah!
When you turned from the true gods and sullied yourself with consoles
That sucks, hope you can save it. Should all be under warranty?WHY DID NO ONE WARN ME THAT DIABLO III WAS ADDICTIVE 🙁
Hold A to win!
It’s a faceroll until you hit Torment than it gets hard and you need to start thinking a bit.
The faceroll is great fun though.
That’s like saying nobody warned you about crack being addictive. Society is your warning.
I’ve played the others. I knew what I was getting into.
You guys are pretty great guys.
Why hello interesting plot in Dragon Age. Where have you been hiding the past 40 hours?
So I started a new season in AFL Live 2 a while back. I transferred to a new team, but my old team remained, stronger than ever, having just taking them to a grand final victory.. I transferred to the struggling club of the Melbourne Demons.
I, premiership coach Mike Ditka II, would transform this struggling team from a pile of cellar dwellers to a premiership team, and I would do it all on a higher difficulty setting.
I conducted a bunch of high profile trades to strengthen my list. I then discovered that my trades had made the team objectively worse, as my team rating went down. However, I managed to trade for the #1 draft pick. This would make everything better. I would draft the next Nick Riewoldt, the next Luke Hodge, or the next Jack Watts. 😛
I selected young full forward Adam Oxley. The draft told he had the highest potential, but his true stats would be hidden until I selected him. Feeling good about this, he became a new member of the Demons.
…Turns out he is freaking horrible. Like, really, really bad. He can’t kick, he can’t mark, he can barely kick goals, and he’s as slow as a koala on stilts. I persisted, and made him my key forward. I may as well put him to as much use as possible.
It soon learned that hard mode is hard. I started out the season horribly, and it didn’t get much better. I faced off against my old team, and they beat me by 100 points. There was a brief moment when I was in 12th place, but that became short-lived when I lost the next game by 48 points.
In the end, I finished 16th with a win-loss record of 9 to 13. Well that was a poor season. At least I can make amends with the next season. I managed to adapt better to the higher difficulty in the later games, so I think I can improve. The real kicker is that my old team won a premiership again. Suddenly:
What.
The fucking VFL? I was a premiership coach, and then I have one bad season (with a team that was already bad) and I get sacked from the AFL entirely?
There’s only one thing to do. Spend hours on a season with a team I don’t like to win the favour of other clubs back. I’d even work for Collingwood at this point. (I’m sorry mum!)
The reign of Mike Ditka II shall come again!
Haha man, that smackdown message takes me back. So many attempts trying to beat the career mode (in Rugby League Live 2 though), only to get owned pretty much every time.
9 – 13 for the season
Any Demons fan would take that in a heart beat right now
It’s the highest amount of wins they’ve had since 2006.
Holy Jeebus! I just realized I take off in a week and a half! That crept up on me fast… I should probably, you know, organise stuff
Godammit! that means you’re gonna miss the Evil meat in Melbourne on the 14th.
ily PixelSorry bud bud… I promise weird man cuddles in front of your missus next time!
I can just see the look on her face now XD
Have an awesome trip man.
Just realised Persona Q is out tomorrow for 3DS. Oddly excited. Etrian Odyssey meets Persona? Sold.
Cautiously optimistic because love Persona, meh on EA.
Did you grab Megaten IV from eshop or you already bought it on a US 3DS.
Either way, I live it!
I’ve got a CE of the US version, but haven’t got around to it yet.
Rebought it for $26 digitally on my AU XL last week – will be definitely getting onto it eventually.
I wanna buy that edition now, I loved it so much.
the music is amazing too.
Gon go eBay ing.
I’m hoping my copy will arrive from the US soon.
I may be getting a work-from-home allowance that will enable me to replace my desktop computer. If it comes through, my budget will be approx. $1000.
Here’s what I’ve currently got:
6-core CPU
14 GB RAM
2GB graphic card
1TB HDD
128GB SSD
Here’s what I know I want:
Minimum RAM 16GB (32GB would be preferable)
CPU equivalent or better
Graphic card equivalent or better
Inbuilt wireless card
+ Win7 OS
A lot of you, such as @welbot, are much better versed in computers than me. I seek your assistance. Is this build possible given my budget? Where’s the best place to get parts? I’ve had some experience putting computers together, but this was a long, long time ago (about 15 years) – is it better to get someone else to build it for me?
Cheers!
In terms of where to get parts, perhaps ask @blaghman. I found him a hdd to buy down there ages ago, but I can’t for the life of me remember where it was.
As for the “Is it possible?”… Not sure. $1000 is pretty limited. I’m guessing you have an AMD CPU atm? What kind of GPU are you currently running?
It certainly IS possible to get a machine going for that much, but it might require salvaging some parts from your current machine if you want it to be better than what you’ve got. What kind of ram you running atm? DDR3? What kind of configuration?
Also, Win7 is more expensive than win 8 now, and unlikely to change soon. Might want to consider moving up.
Possible for that budget? Maybe.. provide some more info if you can! 🙂
I can live with Win 8. I think I’ll be able to strip some components out of my current machine. The SSD for sure, and probably the graphics card.
The RAM is DDR3. It’s 3x4GB and 1x2GB.
The CPU is AMD Phenom II X6 1090T.
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 (2GB)
I’m not sure what qualifies as better than these, so any advice you can give would be great. For example, is there a quad-core processor better than this, or is it simply “more cores, better performance”?
More cores doesn’t always mean better performance – it really boils down to what you use your mahcine for. What do you want the machine to do for you? Daily office duties (ie. excel/word/web), gaming, image editing, video work, media centre, jack-of-all-trades? Alot of one and some of another?
If you’re honing in on gaming – quad-core and 16GB is becoming the new benchmark now. It took several years for PC gaming to jump from 4gb to 8gb. I’m a little out of the loop on high end gaming on PC but IIRC this year was the start of 16gb showing up in recommended specs.
Also, Win 8.1 is a breeze to use. Been using it this year with my laptop (non-touch) and it’s been great. I’m scratching my head at why it still cops so much bad press. My desktop is running Win7 and I find the differences between 7 and 8.1 minor once you wrap your head around the Start screen and it’s basic functions. Laptop is set to boot to desktop so I barely notice the difference now.
Well.. the core thing is difficult to determine. Depending on what kind of stuff you’re doing, you may find better performance from more cores. The hardest part is going from AMD – Intel. I’m not all that familiar with 1:1 conversions, as 99% of my customers always use Intel.
Having a quick search leads me to believe that most people seem to compare your current cpu with my current cpu (i7 920), which is pretty old. Most of the i5’s and up that have been released since my cpu came out, flog the pants off my cpu, so I’d say making a switch to intel wouldn’t be a bad thing. You could likely go with something like an i7 4690, which is reasonably priced, has hyperthreading, and quad core, so essentially 8 threads (2 more than you have now).
Not only would the single core speed beat what you have now, but doing anything like rendering or stuff that can really use more cores will be downright dreamy.
You might be ok with the ram you’ve got, but perhaps swap out the 1 2gb stick for another 4. 32gb will cost a lot to implement, and unless you go up to something like an x99 chipset, you’ll have to replace all your chips to make it happen (The x99 supports 8 dimms running in quad channel, where as anything lesser only support 4 dimms running dual channel) Downside to going that far, is that the x99 also uses ddr4, so it’s gonna be even MORE expensive 😉
If it was me doing it, I’d probably go for an intel mobo/cpu upgrade, add a bit of ram, and leave the gpu for now. 630 might not be fantastic, but it’ll still do the job for a while. The bottlenecks in your system currently would likely stem mostly from HDD bandwidth and PCI-e bandwidth. Both of which would be improved with new mobo. Then once you’ve got them going, look at how much you’ve got left, and see if you can get a better GPU, or save a little extra and get a better one in a month or two?
Thanks for the advice! I’m writing it all down. I think the allowance from work is going to require a whole new computer, but that’s all good advice, and if I have to top-up with some Christmas money, it’ll still end up being a pretty good deal for me. Cheers.
Also, if you have put together your own in the past, and had no issues, not much has changed in terms of how they are actually assembled, so it’s more a personal choice there. If you don’t want to spend an afternoon mucking about with it, pay someone else to do it, but if you have the time and the know-how, save some $ and enjoy it yourself 😉
PCs are easier to put together now than they were 15 years ago. Much less peripherals to attach, more stuff works out of the box without futzing with drivers and less needing to worry about RAM compatibility and stuff.
$1000 is doable. You’re going to want to start with an Intel i5 4690 I think. Just the standard rather than the Z-series since you’re on a budget (Z allows overclocking but you also need a Z-series motherboard to allow that and those tend to cost more too), they’re about $240. Decent H97 motherboard will set you back maybe $100-120 depending on brand & features. So say $350 spent on that, $650 left.
Memory isn’t cheap as it was any more, but there’s not really much of a price premium from moving from 2x4gb to 1x8gb stick, i.e. to get to 16gb, 4x4gb and 2x8gb will cost you about the same. Better to go for 2x8gb from a decent brand (I like Corsair personally) which will give you 16gb with the option of another set for 32gb later. That’ll set you back about $200.
The remaining $450 you’re going to want to look at a mid-range GPU. I think your best bet is going to be AMD actually. The R9 270X series will run you about $220 and the 280 about $250, probably the best bet, and that’d give you enough left over for various other bits and bobs you might need.
EDIT: This is assuming you’re going to re-use Power Supply, Case and Drives from your current machine.
Noooooo. Promise me you won’t reuse the power supply. Considering it powers your entire system, most people overlook the importance of buying a good power supply, and also getting a new one regularly. They do degrade, and if it does fail, it can do so spectacularly and potentially bake your entire system. Don’t chance it.
New rig is the best time to buy a new PSU.
I promise *scout fingers*
=D
You don’t have to go bonkers on a PSU either. Just don’t buy a $50 special – pick a decent brand name, and $100-$150 should be a starting point. The rest depends on your wattage requirement.
I disagree. I always buy really good high-efficiency power supplies because I know they’ll last me 2-3 systems. If you’re getting good ones they should last 4-5 years or more.
4-5 years is one system for me 😛
For the sake of an extra couple of hundred dollars on a new build, I won’t chance it. I get 3 years out of a regular build, and won’t give a PSU any more time than that, regardless of what it cost me. Then again, a new build for me starts at about $2k these days.
Worked on PCs for most of my life and seen too many examples of people getting burnt by taking shortcuts on PSUs – both purchasing cheap shit and/or recycling components. Even seen top end power supplies fail catastrophically (Even seen Seasonic and Silverstone go down explosively) and ruin thousands of dollars of hardware.
But each to their own.
@coldcamv, did you still want Dragon Age?
Im gonna have to give it a pass dude my bank account is tapped for the next month 🙁 sorry dude
That’s cool.
So after three or four ‘training’ matches, my Amiibo is already better than me at the game. I give up! You can take it from here, Marth 😛
I tried a FFA with two Amiibos and myself (levels twenty-something and thirty-ish).
Between them they had died once by the time I’d lost my stock of five lives.
They’re really growing up fast, either that or you’re doing something wrong 😛
I think we can safely assume it’s the second option 😛
I’d be in the same boat, it’s one kind of game I love to death but I really doubt I’m great at it, like RTS games
Yeah, I don’t think I’m much good at all, that’s why I put mine in 8 player battles and let them “train” by fighting each other.
I forgot the other day that when I was at Costco I noticed they had a whole bunch of the curved TVs there. Never had a chance to check them out before, so I went over and had a look, and… now I understand even less how they are at all supposed to be a good thing. I thought the whole big deal about a flat screen was that they’re better for reflections than the traditional convex screens we used to have. And from what I saw there, a concave screen is even worse, there’s a million more reflection and on top of that it moves the opposite direction to how you do so it’s highly disorientating to look at.
In conclusion they are the stupidest most pointless idea ever.
I thought the point was that more of the screen is equidistant from your eyes, and it takes up more of a rectangular shape in your field of view?
But ehh, they’re not something I’d bother with, anyway. Could see it working for ultra-wide setups similar to multi-monitor stuff though, but it’d be pricey as gilded balls.
If you are the only one watching and sitting g in a very specific spot probably.
Everyone else is screwed however
A TV built for someone with no loved ones nor friends.
SOUNDS LIKE MY KIND OF TV!
Yep, spent half an hour in front of one trying to figure it out. As fat as I can tell they exist because they could.
Only time I can see a curved screen being of any use, is in an imax or vr type situation, where you actually want to surround your peripheral vision to maintain the illusion of submersion within an environment. Sitting in your lounge room, watching a 40-60″ curved set is just gonna be weird and possibly even a little annoying!
Yeah, it makes sense in a cinema where the screen is so huge and far away that any movement you make will hardly displace you from your original viewing angle. Not so much on such a small scale :/
Yeah, kind of a “shit, 3D didn’t really go anywhere how do we trick people into thinking they need n upgrade now?” move.
I think there’d definitely be applications for curved screens, as in the idea of a screen no longer having to be restricted to a flat surface. I have no idea what that could be, but am pretty sure this isn’t one of them.
“Buy from our store, we have curved televisions. Curved… televisions…!”
Well I suppose I am a fan of curves…
Who isn’t? 😛
@ynefel, apparently 😛
ICWUTUDIDTHAR
Fuck off my lawn.
=D
Play the first chapter of the tell-tale GoT game on release, or wait for it to be fully released before playing
Depends on how good your patience is between episodes really. For example if you were one of those frothing at the mouth waiting for the next episode of Wolf Among Us… I’d probably
insistadvise you to go for the latter 😛Yes
I like to wait until episode 3 has been released for telltale games, because then they usually put the whole season on sale and I can snap it up cheap AND binge on three episodes at once :p Has worked so far for WD1&2 and TWAU!
Wait it out; I find I have a better experience when I can play all the episodes back to back.
Edit: Mainly because you disconnect from your characters during those breaks between episodes.
Gon spend some $$$$ on the US PSN store & buy the Megaten & play on the xmas
You win at english jimu!
Dam strayt
How are you btw? Long time, no type.
Oh man, between work (which is crazy) and kids/ wife/ family (who keep getting sick), I feel like I’m just on autopilot with no time to think, and even less itme to game!
/sound of violin playing melencholy tune.
How about u?
Went through a rough winter of family sickness. I ended with pneumonia which was kinda good cos time off.
We’re all better now, looking forward to Xmas holidays
*Ray of light beams in*
Poor bugger – I get that though; I feel like there is always at least one person sick in our house atm. I use up all my sick leave looking after everyone else, then have to soldier on at work when I’m crook – whatever happened to my youth when the bright side of a sickness was staying home playing games? I still remember my cousin and I playing through Castle of Illusion on the mega drive when we both were off shcool for a week with the same virus.
I usually need @greenius to translate
Green green green $$$$ gr een US PSN green & green the Supergreen & green green the ultragreen.
I do have a PhD in @jimu nese
Xenoblade?
XeYESblade
Greeniuslish
Awwwwwwwwwwwwww yeah.
I really need to get around to playing that sometime. I’ve gotten as far as installing it
I can’t wait to get my CE!
Cloth map! So soft, so sensual, so post apocalyptic!
Cloth map or “cloth” map?
Been burned on that way too many times.
Are you about a size 14? >:)
Huh, did not even know that was a thing.
If you’re talking about Silence of the Lambs, for shame.
If you’re talking about Silence! The Musical, neither did I. And I think it’s pretty stupid.
Silence the musical. Never heard of it.
So I know this isn’t really the time nor the place but sometimes I think sports are incredibly overrated in Australia. While the Phillip Hughes incident was dreadfully tragic, the media keeps banging on that he’s a “national hero”, “the nation mourns his passing”, etc etc.
It’s sad that the death of a sportsman receives more coverage than the death of a soldier serving his country.
Trust me, you’re not the only one thinking this
Mate. Those brave sportsmen are serving their country, heroes going face-to-face with death every day. All for our entertainment.
*wipes away tear*
I agree. Yes it’s a tragedy that it happened, and I feel terrible for his family and friends to lose him in such a way, but prior to hearing about it, I’d never even heard his name before. Sure I’m not one to follow cricket, so it’s not surprising, but I know some cricketers cos they’re always in the media. Never heard of this guy before, and suddenly he’s a national hero?
Not to detract from the severity of the situation, but really? National Hero? Most people I know had never heard of him before this…
They are playing it up for all it is worth, that is what modern media does.
However his death did strike a chord with a lot of people. He was a young kid playing an elite sport. Nobody expected him to die. Pretty much everybody has played cricket at some stage and a huge number watch it (live or on TV)
The suddenness and the fact it was doing something that people and kids do every weekend has really shaken some people.
Soldiers die but they are in a war zone, it is expected and sadly that is part of what they are paid to do. People are not meant to die playing sport.
Cricket has been the only sport I’ve played out of many where I fear the ball itself more than anything else when it comes to injury. That thing could easily knock out teeth and at worst, puncture your skull with enough force from either a fast bowler or a slogging batsman, it’s a wonder this hasn’t happened sooner to a fielder standing really close to the pitch.
Yep, plus there’s the bowler. It’s a double barreled tragedy.
This being you, my brain got confused trying to decipher the pun.
Who told you to be serious & bring up valid points, huh?
When Sean Abbott heard Hughes had died it must have knocked him for six.
*sigh of relief*
All is right with the world…
I don’t think it’s just sport. It’s all entertainment. But yeah.
The whole cult of celebrity thing annoys the bejeebus out of me.
Nothing more so than people who are reported on because they are ‘famous’ and they are famous because they are famous.
They are the winners of modern society.
Where would we be without them?
Oh yeah, smarter.
It was a tragic accident. The dude was what 22? Playing a sport professionally. But that’s about all I have to say on it, i’d really hate to be whatshisname who was the bowler who stuck him though :/
Also this week Mark Webber had a serious crash in South America during a race that he was damn lucky not to be killed or severely injured in. Yet the media seemed to not overly care cause he didn’t die or end up in a critical position. They reported it initially but any follow up? Nope, cause he’s stable.
Again the main reason this is being reported so heavily is how unexpected it was. Crashes are a part of racing and are expected. Yes it was a serious crash and they reported it but once you say, big crash, he’s ok there is not much else to say.
Not really, since he’s made a statement about his accident in the last few days since he is now ok, but I haven’t seen anything reported in our media. Plenty of foreign media picked him up though :/
I mean I guess at least they reported on Webber initially, when Jules Bianchi had a serious crash in the Japan F1 race a few months back nothing was mentioned in the media, despite it being shown live on TV here at the time it happened. Motorsport gets shunned enough by sport side of media enough in this country as it is, that they only ever seem to report on it, if ever affects an Australian, but then sometimes you’re pushing it. Even homegrown stuff doesn’t get the coverage you would expect.
Well I heard about the crash from the age so it was reported at least there. If you think the motorsport doesn’t get reported on or coverage then you should try being a cycling fan when the TDF isn’t on.
To be honest I had no idea who Jules Bianchi was, and really I expect serious crashes to be part of racing. Hell the is the entire point of nascar, so to speak. Add to the Webber crash that it was part of WEC, something lots of people have never heard of, let alone care about, there isn’t going to be a lot of coverage
If you ask me every sport apart from football (not soccer) & cricket isn’t covered very well here. If it’s football or cricket it’s covered to the point where we know what the players had for breakfast and their day to day schedule 😛
On a similar-ish note, the story earlier in the year about the rugby league player who ended up a quadriplegic because he broke his neck in a tackle. That was not a unique occurrence but it was unexpected for a lot of people. As Tigs has been saying, death is a bigger story so the “lesser” stories of severe injury or terrifying incidents are not given as much showtime despite being as important to hear about.
Even big stories like Michael Schumacher’s accident are forgotten about within a few days. No one seems to have really bothered to look into that since his initial hospitalisation because it’s not “newsworthy”. That sort of thing annoys me because the media assumes that people only want to hear about certain stuff rather than things which we might actually be interested in.
You say that, but I a lot more about Schumacher in the media over the last year since it happened, but a lot of it was rehashed because the family was not releasing any information about him. Because that’s how they want it to be, at best guess is he’s at home now for rehabilitation. Also a high profile name like Michael Schumacher, sure lets milk it for those website page hits 😛
25 years old.
I think I know what you mean. The death of just about anyone is a tragic deal, particularly for those closest to them. But any celebrity death these days seem to invoke what almost amounts to an internet/social media grief competition, to see who can mourn a complete stranger the hardest.
Again, I’m not being cold here – Phillip Hughes’ death was tragic – in the worst possible way. And again for the guy who bowled the ball that killed him – it was an accident, but he’s going to have to live with that for the rest of his life. Poor guy.
But yeah – celebrity death syndrome, combined with the Aussie love of all things sport related – particularly AFL, Rugby and Cricket, eqauls a massive public response.
Aren’t you pretty much taking issue with how all news works these days? As long as it’s sensationalist and headline grabbing it doesn’t matter if it’s important or not?
Honestly the only news show I can stomach is Last Week Tonight and it’s not even a bloody news show!!
Yeah it’s a big problem with all news but Australian media seems to place sport on some sort of pedestal compared to everything else. It’s really weird.
But as everyone has been saying, it’s basically the cult of celebrity that’s pervading our culture. Sports stars are probably some of the biggest celebrities in Australia, moreso than film or TV because actors and actresses tend to go overseas to further their career.
I really dislike the free pass sports stars get. A footy player rapes a woman and it’s passed off as she wanted it or she’s trying to get money or its just boys being boys. They have zero accountability.
Like what was essentially a two week ban for the ASADA thing when any other sport in existence carries a two year ban.
Ahmed Saad in the AFL received an eighteen-month ban when he accidentally took performance-enhancing drugs. (I think someone told him it was Powerade)
Cult of celebrity has been around for as long as there has been social hierarchy, media and social media in particular now amplify this to levels not seen before!
I go to something like BBC even when I want to look up Aussie news since the front page of SMH is always filled with sport and tabloid stuff.
I don’t necessarily disagree with you but there’s a huge difference between someone dying on a cricket pitch in front of a bunch of fans, and a soldier dying in Iraq or whatever. I feel like it’s a logical fallacy to compare them. The biggest difference is expected risk. Soldiers die in wars. It’s tragic but that’s the expectation, it’s a risk that inherently comes with the job. That’s absolutely not the case with most sports. You might say that if someone was killed resulting from a blow to the neck in a boxing match, that wouldn’t be unexpected, but a guy at the top of his game in a cricket match in his home country? That’s not meant to happen.
Additionally it’s a general Australian culture thing (and I say this as someone originally not from Australia) – our professional sportspeople are our ‘heroes’, as sad as that might be. That’s what Australia does. Sporting achievement is celebrated disproportionately, and athletes are put on a pedestal they often don’t really deserve. I think it’s partially because we don’t really have much else – most other cultures are much older and have a richer amount of historical figures to draw inspiration from. As a nation we post-date the whole era where fighting wars and conquering other countries and the glory of battle and so on was a thing. That mindset was shattered in most parts of the world by World War 1, and that was the first major conflict Australia was involved in. It’s not like we’ve had many political leaders that you could say were particularly great.
Whilst I agree with you that media outlets, sports stars and Joe Bloggs have used Phil Hughes passing as a platform to piggy back upon to further their own agenda, there’s a reason why it has resonated with so many folks. I saw a sponsored post on Facebook 3 days ago for a sports cream that was promoting it’s product whilst posting it’ condolences, disgraceful.
I have to give some reasoning though as to why a sportsman receives more coverage than a soldiers death. Australia’s sporting culture and history is deeply engrossed in our national psyche, as a colonial nation sport was and is still used today as a convener of social change and particularly as a fledgling nation Australia’s performances on the world sporting stage has allowed many Australians to find a patriotic outlet be proud of. In a multicultural society sport brings many of us together, the world is richer for it’s existence and the outpouring of grief for Hughes I feel is indicative of striking a chord within ourselves (we’ve all played at some point in our lives, the feeling of having a young man taken in unusual circumstances) and I think it’s human to express our sympathy and disbelief at such an incident. I personally don’t believe that Phil Hughes death is more important than that of a soldier or vice versa, I just feel they are on different spectrums of sad for reasons that people may not be able to articulate or understand.
I feel though @ynefel put it best though that in a world now full of hyperbole and forced outrage, it’s a race to the bottom with who can show ‘the most’ sympathy or outrage for the most likes/comments/hi-fives/etc. I would take umbrage with the fact that certain individuals take these sorts of opportunities to piggyback off of sad events like this and take advantage of the feelings of a nation who have such an ingrained sport psyche.
Oh man, Game of Thrones was pretty good. I have regrets with some of the choices I’ve made, but that seems to be more the Game of Thrones way. I won’t go back to change any thing.
You sound like you have been playing it…. Are you playing it?
When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground.
But it hasn’t come out yet… Are you sailing the Narrow Sea, DC?
It’s on Steam! STEAM!
It’s out NOW?!
GabeN, y u do dis… *looks in wallet* I can’t… take it-… anymore… I just can’t… It’s time. *Throws self out window*
*Lands outside, and I’m dragged by some mystical force back home along the pavement. I claw, I scratch, I scream but it’s to no avail*
*I am completely limp, but I am propped up onto my chair at home with my laptop booting up itself. I crane my neck hard to the left to avoid the screen, but my left hand reaches into my wallet and enters my credit card details into Steam*
GabeN please! SEVEN SAVE ME! *The world descends into darkness, each of the faces of The Seven meet mine. I try to speak to plead for their help, to stop me from descending into a gaming filled abyss… With each word I speak each of their faces fade, slowly contorting and becoming more and more familiar.. until they meet as one. They become Him. The only one. GabeN*
I am defeated once again, and I awake at my desk at work after buying another steam game at work. Hgnngh…h-hnnghh…hail.. GabeN.
So, uh, I somehow ended up with Euro Truck Simulator 2 in my library. Because I purchased it for some reason…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd5ZLJWQmss
Oh right. That’s why.
It’s an average game. It’s no Farming Simulator 2013 that’s for sure.
Quack Quack
Duke Nukem PSN, January. 8 playa.
@gutsoup
If yoo dunno wat the Megaten is, I feels soz 4 ya!
I know Megaman and Megatron, but Megaten… is that just a silly way of saying ten million?
Megami Tensei
Mehgaten.
Etrian Odyssey is a better dungeon crawler series IMO.
Noooooooooooooo! /Vader
You know what turned out to be a surprisingly reasonable dungeon crawler? Demon Gaze on the Vita. Not Etrian Odyssey level by any stretch but it’s fairly reasonable.
It’s on my radar but there’s just too much for me to keep up.
Alright, so I’ve been a little scarce over the last few months, I’d like to apologise for that. I’ve tried to keep up with people but I’ve mostly failed on that. Hopefully the beginning of the end of that is today.
I’ve been learning to administer and configure our new service desk tool. over the last 3 weeks the department have been using it, and our major launch to the rest of the company is in less than an hour.
Wish me luck, and hopefully I’ll be back keeping up on stuff later today.
*hugs*
Chris
*hugs*
*hands you a celebratory/commiseration drink*
Good luck indeed sire! Hopefully it’ll all go off without a hitch!
Aw yeah, my Team Cybergeist album pack that I backed on Kickstarter showed up this morning. I forgot about it kinda, despite the fact I am friends with the drummer and he’s been talking about the tour supporting the new album a lot at the moment on Facebook heh.
Anyone else excited for RE Revelations2?
No.
Nooooooo…
No because Capcom are jerks.
…ooooooooooo!
If it were still a 3DS game I’d be champing at the bit.
I’m actually keen it isnt
I liked the first & it was great on 3DS but this looks like a way Better game because of the move.
I’m not exactly low on 3DS games either.
I just thought the first one felt like it was tailor-made for the 3DS, and worked really well for it. Easily one of the best games on the system. Would’ve totally been keen for more, but since I have nothing to play the sequel on I haven’t even bothered to look into it at all.
No idea how the “HD” version of the first game turned out, or how it compares to the original. Will assume not as cool 😛
Not good, I read. Felt lacking on a home console apparently.
I’m keen cos they did well before & what I’ve seen & read sounds promising.
I played the PC version and I had no real gripes about it. The dodge mechanic was a bit wonky but that was it really.
Cautiously optimistic about it. I want it to be good but I have no idea how Capcom are going to do an episodic release.
I’m waiting for the disk version
http://www.siliconera.com/2014/12/02/heres-youll-get-buy-resident-evil-revelations-2/
Trailer looks good…
Yep, the gameplay vids too 🙂
I haven’t see; just the one where the cool dad is crusing through a scary location.
I was nervous for Rev2 b/c the promo art for Claire wa snot very flattering :S
I’m still nervous b/c for some reason RE6 gave me terrible motion sickness!
I owuld be keen to try this game on a next gen (or is it ‘current’ gen) system.
Think it’s next gen only.
Yeah, Claire got old!
I gave up on mainline RE after 5. Just not the same game anymore.
Huh. I know a lot of people bag PayPal but in the last month I’ve had 2 causes to dispute transactions and both were resolved in my favour. Beginner’s luck?
I had this recently too. Thought I had no chance, but it was done and refunded within 24 hours.
About a week each for mine, but they didn’t ask for any further evidence from me. Just got surprise emails saying they’d found in my favour and the money was on the way.
Yep, every time I lost money & PayPal did nothing.
Nope, i had no worries with paypal! My wife boguht Plant Tycoon from Big Fish Games and they sneakily stuck us on some sort of subscription game service. Took a few months for me to notice the extra transactions but they reversed them all!
Been using PayPal for years and never had a single issue. Disputed two transactions due to dodginess from the payee, and PayPal resolved them quickly and easily.
I pretty much use PayPal for payment on anything that will accept it.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/12/5-reasons-our-universe-might-actually-be-a-virtual-reality/
I think this just broke my brain.
Actually we’re just debugging you. Have you recompiled in an hour.
It sounds like we’re missing a fundamental understanding of a certain part of how the universe functions. Once we get that, we’ll have a Rosetta stone moment and everything else will start to fall into place.
I’m giggling at the thought that, if God exists, he’s busy attempting to rub black holes muttering “Bloody dead pixels, this universe was meant to be top quality HD”
man crap like this pisses me off…
https://www.change.org/p/target-withdraw-grand-theft-auto-5-this-sickening-game-encourages-players-to-commit-sexual-violence-and-kill-women
People are signing the petition just so they can comment on the inaccuracies of the petition organizers’ argument….
considering that violence and sexualization against men is a much more common theme in GTA* and that the game is rated R18 and aimed at an adult marketplace, her kids shouldnt be playing it…. and if their kids are you-tubeing GTA content, their internet usage should be monitored much the same as when children browse pornography and other adult oriented material.
* i base this on the fact that all sexual acts against women are made with consent, albeit a casual encounter, or as a paid service. The morality of these encounters is an entirely different ball game…
Yeah, no kids. What an idiot.
Bad parent.
It sounds like a copy pasta of what people got upset at GTA III for – most notably the line about getting health from paying hookers and killing them to get your money back.
Didn’t GTA 3 also get the flamethrower replaced with a water hose or something when it got pulled?
Actually struggling to remember. I know I got one of the original copes of GTAIII on PS2. It got pulled like a week or two into it’s release and rejigged. The details are fuzzy.
Yeah, but since when has change.org ever actually mattered? The crap I keep getting in my emails from them…
its actually been successful in making some life changing changes possible for many people, by giving their situation exposure. but stuff like this, …i dont even….
The other thing is, if her kids bought it, a parent has to give the okay for them child to buy it at the register or the adult has to buy it. That’s how it works here in NSW at least. So if she willingly bought an R18+ game for her children then she should step up and take responsibility for her poor parenting and not blame Rockstar, Target or whoever for making the game available.
I swear people still have this mindset that it’s a video game so it’s suitable for anyone despite what the OFLC has said and put a warning on the box as to who it is intended for… They wouldn’t let their child watch an R18+ movie, becuase they know that is inappropriate for them, but an R18+ video game? Nah that’s cool for little Timmy who is only 8, to exposed to gratuitous violence, nudity & sexual images, cause it’s a video game!
Alright, time to get some tags wrong.
@bdkiaf @freezespreston @beardymcmuttonchops @powalen @rocketman @scree @shiggyninty @tigerion @quiz_b @welbot
Assuming I haven’t ballsed up the link, I present for your viewing, err, whatever the opposite of pleasure is (pain? But there’s a fine line between the two!): https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B44lMzBcunsnUFdzck1BUFVjSjA&usp=sharing
If anyone else would like to join in singing “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” then I can add you to the rotation easily enough.
Is film of me singing into a mic with headphones and my eyes closed in a pained expression mandatory? Because I can do that.
I’m going to say yes, yes it is.
If anybody else would like to record themselves singing I can probably make a video out of this.
Or else just have three minutes of Freeze looking very pained.
I’m cool with 3 minutes of Freeze. That’s 2 more minutes than I’m used to.
Am I paired up with @rocketman? Aw yiss. Getting the band back together.
Can’t look at that link at work, what is it?
I hope I didn’t give you the impression that I wanted to record myself singing for this 😛 I don’t! Sorry bud.
Dammit Pow!
You’ve ruined everything forever!
*Crosses Pow off one list, adds his name to another*
Now that I actually listen to that song, my god it’s a horrible song.
“Somewhere else sucks at the moment, so how dare you enjoy what you have here?” is the main moral I’m taking from it.
Still gonna sing.
Oh yeah, it’s god-awful.
But it’s also SUPER 80s, which makes it amazing.
YOU SPIT OUT THAT CAKE AND CRY GOD DAMNIT!
Being shamed into contributing to something you’re not 100% about? Blaghs really has channelled Geldof. 😛
So I’m singing all the C parts and the 2 parts?
Yeppers.
Wait, how did I end up doing this?
I will sing, I really don’t want to, but I will sing for you blaghs.
And I quote, “I kind of want to, but I know Mum will end up in the background, probably telling me not to sing =P”
Edit: But that’s alright, I’ll take you off the list (and cry myself to sleep over it).
No, it’s too late. I said I’ll do it. I just wish it was a better song.
See, now I’ll just get angry that you’re doing it unwillingly. There is seriously no pressure to do it, Scree (And it’s an awful song on purpose! That makes it funny![that was sarcasm]).
question peeps. if i were to buy this
https://www.humblebundle.com/weekly?button&utm_source=Humble+Bundle+Newsletter&utm_campaign=536c7489f5-Humble_Weekly_Bundle_Zen_Studios_2&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_990b1b6399-536c7489f5-94452441
can i import these tables on the ps4?
Starwars pinball on PS4? *swoon*
You’d need a US account I’d say & if there’s like a base game, the US version.
US DLC doesn’t work with Pal games.
unless it’s from UK?
These are very very good. Everybody should buy them and play
Hi Tay, I’ve not posted in a little while but just wanted to say hai!
This has been a good week, I bought X-Wing Alliance my alltime favourite game and managed to get it to work on my laptop so my week cannot trend upwards anymore I truly believe. I also bough Super Smash and I think thus far he’s proving to be a pretty cool guy.
A few Smashers have popped up on TAY, I wouldn’t mind smashing with you all sometime. I don’t know what my NintendoId is though and don’t know how to add friends! Are there any cool guys or gals who know how to do this?
Just log onto Miiverse and search for everybody you want to add! http://www.taytags.com/names.html
Oooh I need to change one of my Tags! Where shall I go to do that?
http://www.tinyurl.com/taynames ! (there’s a big link right above that embedded spreadsheet :P)
Thanks m9!!
Tomorrow I am painting my back deck and acting all manly like. I will take one man card, @strange! *runs*
Hey, hey, no need to involve @strange, I haven’t yet handed in my man card to her – so let’s cut out the middle man.
After all, by handing it straight to you, I’ll make a man out of you.
{Cue Mulan music}
Boy, was I fool in school for cutting gym!
I used to just wander about as if I was going to the equipment.
once the teacher spotted it & made me do a few reps 🙁
Sure, let’s see…one of nothing, carry the nothing….here you go! 😛
No colon pee required
All this talk of Amiibos beating up their owners has made me curious: are they that quick at learning/good, or is it player skill, or a mix, or…?
Rather than ask people what they think of themselves in the game, I figured I’d ask: what’s the highest level CPU skill you can consistently beat in 1v1 and 4 player FFA?
Level 8 in 1v1, I dropped a couple of games against a Level 9 Bowser playing as Mario/Luigi 😛
My Marth (named Vader) is level 20ish and it’s at the point where I struggle to beat him 😛
My Wii Fit Trainer (named Free Hit) is around the same level but I don’t like to challenge her anymore because she just constantly runs away from me while spamming projectiles 😛
2.
So I was sitting at work today and I started thinking about animes..then I thought “Hey an anime card game would be pretty cool..thats probably already been done to death” then it hit me, a coop anime card game in the style similar to sentinels of the multiverse but with heaps of different franchises involved.
Simply put a bunch of people your playing with, lets say 6 of you, choose a deck from the franchises available in this scenario we will say they are Dragon Ball Z, Rurouni Kenshin, Attack On Titan, Gundam Wing and Black Lagoon. Now one player plays as the villain but because of the vast variety of different franchises if I chose to go with Lord Shishio’s deck from Rurouni Kenshin its only obvious that all the warrior spirit and sword magic wont effect a Gundam, so what if the one player controls 2 decks or maybe 2 friends join in and now they facing Lord shishio, Lord Aizen and lets say the Romefeller foundation.
Its a game that i know in my heart will never be made. But damn it feels good to dream
Registered ORAS and Smash U last night, realised by club Nintendo account is at 2350 stars. Those Mario kart badges look kind of snazzy, but I probably won’t get any more points for a while. If only they still gave points for New Nintendo 3DS I would have made it!
Do you want all my points? Krams refused to take any more from since he has enough to buy everything three times over now. Have a pile of unclaimed points sitting at home.
That’s a generous offer… I could probably take you up on that if you don’t want to use them – I’ve found out the hard way that the codes expire even if you don’t use them.
They’re all yours and all the future ones if you want them. I spent my formative years on PC and Sega so Nintendo holds zero nostalgia for me, happy for someone else to make better use of them.
I got some off you a while ago, and would gladly take some more if you can spare some! I didn’t have quite enough to get anything, but I’m sure I can’t be too far off getting something!
I grew up on Ninty & none of it interests Me 🙁
I’ve burned through a lot of points already because it turns out that the folders are good supplies for a primary school teacher.
They expire? Well, mine are gone…
I know the first pokeyman black and white codes don’t work any more
So im flying down to sydney on Friday Afternoon and need somewhere to crash Friday and Saturday. This place that wants to hire me is putting me up in a hotel on sunday but not for friday or Saturday. If not thats ok, i shall just book a room. 🙂
So happy to hear about this new prospect for your future man! 🙂 Really hope it all goes well for you! If it goes half as well as my recent efforts, you’ll be going places soon!
That’s not Melbourne!
I hear Pow’s got a spare parking spot out the back of his house. You could pitch a tent there!
Is it near one of Pow’s bathroom windows? Rocket really could pitch a tent there!
Is that this week or next week?
Depending on which day I might be able to put you up 🙂
Has anybody used http://www.classicdvd.com.au
Mrs Tigs is after some TV shows that we are having trouble sourcing and they seem to have it in stock
You can find a lot of the same stuff on http://www.ioffer.com and there’s a little more accountability there.
Looking for ER seasons 11 & 12 but didn’t see it there
So you’re buying 7 seas DVD s?
Why not just download & save some $$
I don’t want 7 seas DVDs and hadn’t realised that was what it was. If anybody can find me a legit seller I’ll be pleased.
If I have to break out the eye patch I will, but I’m actually after the legit dvds
TBH, looks like one of those “download and burn to DVD” dodgy sellers.
Oh, it’s certainly going to be that. At best, it’ll be a Chinese bootleg.
Yeah, so if you’re going to be doing the dodgy rather download it yourself rather than giving money to somebody and having them actually profit off of somebody else’s work.
Amazon UK have season 11 & 12 for 10 pounds each, and their region DVD’s work here, but most people have region free players now so yeah..
@tigerion Season 11
@tigerion Season 12
Hope that helps!
Thanks
I don’t have a region free player, it’s a rather old recordable dvd thingy one
Are you sure that region 2 works with a standard region 4 player?
Well, that’s a good question. I really doubt it, so if that’s the case I wouldn’t risk it at all :/
They don’t, see my reply to @virus__ below.
Um, no they don’t. They are region 2, we are region 4. That said, a few of the UK DVD’s I’ve bought do work on Aussie players, but most of them don’t, so it’s kind of pot luck as to which ones will work and which ones won’t.
Blu-Rays are a different story altogether, we are both the same region (region B), so ALL UK Blu-Rays will work in Aussie players.
Cheers
Well I meant the fact that I don’t see region locked players anymore, hell my 10 year old Panasonic is region free. I don’t recall ever owning a region locked player lol.
Haven’t had a DVD player for such a long time, been using my consoles for that ever since DVD playback was a thing. I predominantly use my PS3 for that, and while PS3 games are region free, the console itself is not, it won’t play my US PS2 copy of Manhunt.
I see where you’re coming from though, if you have a “region free” DVD player, or are able to “unlock” it, (which apparently can be done) then you’ll be fine.
That’s a bit fucken stupid, not playing a US PS2 game. Ugh. Region locking should be made a thing of past, I guess it kinda has with region A & B blu-ray rather than 12 different regions like DVD had I swear… But still!
Agreed.
I suggested something about Wednesday Night Smashdown the other day. How’s 8:30pm (AEDT) sound?
I’ll set up a lobby or something.
I’m down like a clown
is that smash bros? I could be up for that
It is indeed.
I might be down for it (if we don’t have a blackout).
That Korean MMO Character Creation just makes me pine for better character creation in games.
I want that to become the norm.
I’d spend hours on a character.
Why isn’t there a Character Creation Sim 2014?
Wasn’t enough hair choices in Inquisition.
They mentioned early on they were having trouble with the Frostbite Engine and creating hair. It’s why literally none of the main characters have long or flowing hair. Stupid EA and their stupid Frostbite engine.
There you go.
All the details on eyes & scars bubut hair, explained!
Well it’s designed around grizzled shaved headed marines. HD stubble!
I ended up making my elf bald because all the hairstyles were ugly. And five of them were just different shapes of stubbled bald anyway. 😛
Heh, I’ve played DS games with a bigger range of styles
Character Creation Simulator… it would be biggest thing since Goat Simulator.
I’m just worried that I’ll spend hours getting my character just right and they are going to look fugly in game
That happened the first time I made a character from scratch in Mass Effect 3.
Perfect front on. Forgot to turn the head sideways.
MASSIVE hook nose and overbite.
That’s what happened with my first two DA:Inquisition characters! I made them look perfect from every angle in the character creation screen, but when I got to the game they looked so damn ugly I had to restart.
Oh man. My Shep in Mass Effect looked brilliant in the character creator. He managed to look exactly like the personality I wanted for him. Then somewhere between the character creator and the actual game he seemed to catch every illness known to man. Every time I saw a close up of him in I thought he was going to die before he could finish the conversation.
I don’t usually abandon characters like that but after I unlocked all the achievements I created a new character with the default face and played through twice so I didn’t have to use that monster in ME2.
FFXIV has a really good character creation system. Sometimes stuff goes way too far IMO. DA:I for example. Terrible hair options aside, there are just too many dials and levers. If you’re going to go that nuts then make a ton of actually nice looking presets (most of DA:I’s presets are all fugly) so I have something to start from at least.
Sometimes too many options is just as bad as too few.
Att: Minecraft Peeps!
out of curiosity, is anyone still using the minecraft server? if not, cant really justify spending $20 a month anymore, and will move it to a cheaper host…
Dont worry, its not getting wiped!
I’m not using it anymore!
My relapse was broken when my internet was disconnected for two weeks. I discovered the cure for Minecraft addiction!
fair nuff! ill ask the question again tomorrow and tag the relevant peeps!
I’ve been a good boy at work lately – trying to push for a senior position so haven’t been using the server.
I use it pretty often. I’ve slowed down since I can’t think of new things to build, but I’m sure I can just rip off the stuff Achievement Hunter built once I’ve truly ran out of ideas.
Well if anyone was interested in Persona Q, I just rang my local EB and apparently they’re selling it today – it’s release isn’t until tomorrow. The guy said something about it not having a release date, so they can sell at their leisure.
Hmmmm, I’ll wait. Wanna top up my PSN wallet.
Hopefully I get Q cheaper at a later date.
You’ve been burnt by Persona 4 spinoffs before…
All of them. This one I know what’s up though.
still…
Well, we now own a Quintrex 350 Dart as of today.
*googles*
Ooh. The box could be anything!
I had to look up what that was…looks like fun!
“boat”
It’s not a boat it’s a… Yeah okay it’s a boat.
No no, call it a yacht. Makes you sound fancier.
Call it a ship. And yourself the captain.
It is a boat, not a ship.
A ship can carry a boat, but a boat cannot carry a ship.
Get a smaller boat that it can carry, so then you can call it a ship.
Also, NauticalZero – what makes a yacht a yacht?
I remember in kindergarten or whatever a yacht always had a sail on it. But then these days whenever I hear people talk about a yacht it seems to be a big expensive powered vessel instead.
Can you afford it?
Yes – It’s a boat.
No – it’s a yacht.
I don’t think the term has any meaning any more. It used to mean that it was a fast sailing boat designed for pirate hunting (wikipedia tells me that ‘yacht’ is derived from Dutch ‘jacht’ which is ‘hunt’).
Seems like any medium-sized sailboat or powerboat used for leisure purposes might be legitimately classed as a yacht?
Paint it and call it Knightboat.
There’s always a canal.
Or an inlet.
Or a fjord.
Also this makes me totally want to go waterskiing again.
Even though I’ve only done it like… once. Maybe fifteen years ago.
I wouldn’t recommend asking freeze to take you water-skiing
Why what did he do?
More that the new boat ‘might’ be able to pull you along for a bit, until you got wet.
Considering its a 6hp I’ll be surprised if it will even take a person in the boat.
False Swipe 1HP
we should go out fishing one weekend and eat the catch for lunch or dinner!
And if you don’t catch anything, draw straws and eat the loser!
Totes.
Will check with my dad to see if he still has our fishing rods and gear! Not sure if he does, or whether it might have been sold in a garage sale at some point.
I forgot Pokemon Conquest was a thing.
Did it end up being pretty good? Does it play like a turn based SRPG?
It’s not on the same level as your Fire Emblems and such but I thought it was pretty fun.
What about Advance Wars?
I’ve… never played an Advance Wars… 😛
Munster
Nah. More traditional SRPG than Advance War’s TBS.
Just a really simple SRPG.
Agree with Pow though, I thought it was pretty fun too.
Wait. What’s an SRPG then?
Strategy
But not Advance Wars strategy.
Advance Wars & Fire Emblem kinda do their own thing & I can’t for the life of me put into into words…
@Bish ?
Strategy RPG, I would class it as a subset of a the Turn Base Strategy genre.
Hardly a precise definition, but I generally consider a SRPG as being a TBS with character statistics to be levelled. Whilst RTSes and TBS also have individual unit statistics, they can’t be levelled more than a few times, and progression doesn’t usually carry over between levels. SRPGs offer characters and RTSes/TBSes offer a number of generic units.
Acronyms!
GQPHDFBI!
I thought it was more like FF tactics than FE?
@powalen
It is, apparently (haven’t played FF). I just prefer the Fremblem style.
Munster, how have you missed all these awesome SRPGs??
Yay Disgaea!
I liked it but couldn’t handle the grind of it. I went from overpowered to powered to underpowered very quickly.
Okay, I’m finally starting to get my shit together for Christmas. It just doesn’t seem real that it’s December, yet.
But today I went out and belatedly bought the things for the kids’ “Advent Calenders” which are really just giant lucky dip bags with 24 things like books, t-shirts, Hot Wheels cars, and lollies in there, all wrapped up.
I also bought a “Merry Christmas” light garland (for $3.50 from Big W,I’m a big spender! 😛 ) which will hopefully make me feel Christmassy when I put it up. Now if only I could remember which pile of junk in the garage contains the tree…. 😛
We have a tree up in the office. That totally counts
Just listen for the soft scuttling of a thousand spiders and you’ll find your Christmas tree.
D:
…
It’s still Christmas without a tree, right? 😛
The only sound they make is the screaming when you lift the tree up and they all fall on you.
I’m not kidding here, I was sitting down unpacking the tree last night and I felt something tickling in my belly button (I’m topless around the house a lot) and looked down and there was some sort of beetle in there. I didn’t wait long enough to identify it before flicking it away.
There you go @strange it might not be spiders
Every person I’ve known who has a tree usually has it half tangled in insulation batts in their roof, look there! 😛
I have one present so far, and that might be all I can get this year. Only reason I even got that, was that it was a reward for completing on line surveys. Finally did enough to get a $20 gift card for JB Hifi! Perfect gift for my bro-inlaw!
Man, Smash parties everywhere. Had people over last weekend for one, got Pow’s on Saturday. And now my friend at work here is having a bunch of people over Friday night too.
I don’t think I’ve lost humiliatingly to enough people yet. Should queue up more.
Someone’s popular!
By the way, have you decided what you’re doing with that birthday thingy? Going to go there for however long that goes then come back to my place, or…?
Not yet, it’s been hard to get a hold of Wingman. Will try and chase her down tonight for details.
Your thing started at 12 didn’t it? Likely coming to yours then jumping a train to the city later.
Sure does.
Oh I was going to ask as well if you could bring your Gamecube adaptor thingos? Maybe a couple of controllers as well? That’d be fantastic if you could!
But then I gotta take them with meeeeeeee…
You’re coming back to get your car after the birthday though, right? You don’t have to take them with you!
EDIT: You don’t have to if you don’t want to obviously 😛 Just thought it’d be easiest!
Heh, guess I should figure out how much I’m drinking/if at all 😛
Haha! You’re welcome to pass out on my lounge if you can’t make it home. Rocketman’s staying the night too.
Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
That’s not how you do that! Here, let me:
OoooOOOooOOoooOoh
…hey!
Someone out there is writing a Pow and Gooky fanfiction.
Make it tasteful please.
Man, should have asked me before I started.
hmmm…
*boots up popcorn machine*
Hmm… still feel a bit guilty for quietly singing along to LMO’s “Cleansed By Fire” as I was walking to work this morning… past all those nice people brandishing “Jesus Loves You” leaflets… :S Kinda insensitive of me.
Haha…it’s totally appropriate to “Christian” history, though. 😀
Heads up. Guardians of the Galaxy Blu Ray is $24 at Target. I’ll definitely be picking it up tomorrow.
How do you tastefully reword “squinted as his face turned beet red, grunting like an injured pig with a stutter”?
Asking for reasons.
With this
Yeah, but then how are you going to get the giant Nintendo World Championship trophy you guys won upstairs?
Easy. Try “Made a fool of himself” on for size =p
DA:I Mage class specialization spoilers & a little about dragons –
Oh my freaking god the Knight Enhancer specialization is OP as fuck! If you spec it correctly together with Spirit and Fade Step you’re invincible. I literally took on the Hinterlands Dragon by myself and took 0 damage the whole fight. I kid you not my main character didn’t have to use a single potion…. The scary part is the sword hits for ridiculous amounts of damage but still leaves you with plenty of mana to cast normal spells. All I wanted to say is though this specialization so far seems like the one that drastically changes the gameplay style of my class; I’ve gone from carefully planning my fights with my mages standing in the back to not giving a flying crap and charging in alone because I know I can’t be killed. Kind of good but also kind of sucks? Im hoping the other specs in other classes aren’t as OP.What spec have the rest of you chosen for your DA characters? And how effective are you finding them 🙂
I love the Knight Enchanter spec. Means I get to play the game like an action game; no pausing for me.
Combine it with the Fire thing that destroys half your barrier to do bonus damage on fire spell casts (which then will refill a good chunk of the barrier since you’ve done damage), and you can output some pretty good damage there, too.I don’t understand how it works obviously, I still died on a Dragon (a higher level one)
Well It looks like I’m fine! It all went well and I’m back peoples
*collapses to sleep*
Well done Sir! Congrats on making it a success! ^5!
Oh god the Christmas party’s tomorrow. TIME TO PANIC!
Make out with everyone in the supply closet! EVERYONE!
But there’s no one in-
Oh.
Happy ending?
Points of discussion: weather, work, holidays, Christmas, that dang air conditioning, more work.
Hope it helps. 🙂
Ok. Now what about for people I actually want to appear interesting to? 😛
Steal @transientmind ‘s stories.
Colobus Monkey trivia!
Worst Birthday ever!
*shoots self*
Well now it is.
Sorry to hear it’s sucking dood. 🙁 Hopefully my well wishes for a happier birthday will help to improve your day! HAPPY BIRTHDAY GUTSOUP!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, FRIEND!
Hope it gets better! Happy birthday!
Happy birthday mate!
Thanks @freezespreston @welbot @dc @powalen & @highperformance
Between you guys you just wished me happy birthday 5 times more than people at my work.
You’re awesome, man. Make sure to have good times a-plenty tonight!
You’re welcome! I think I have about one person who knows my birthday from scratch, if your boss didn’t write down your birthday it might easily get lost if nobody else in your office knows. Anyway I digress, enjoy the rest of your day and enjoy all teh gaems!
Thanks, at home now surrounded by games, feeling much better.
I always take time off for birthdays, screw those guys
they declined my leave application for no good reason other than being jerks (not kidding), first birthday I’ve ever worked.
Fuck that
You ever log in to steam? I sent you a request, but says you haven’t logged in for 92 days!
My puter is terrible, I was hoping to have upgraded by now but things aren’t going as planned.
Happy Birthday!
Happy birthday, friend 🙂
Hopefully the rest of your day goes alright 🙂
not at work anymore now so already 1000% better. Thanks.
I did it all for the nookie
Happy Birthday dude. Have a great one.
Happy birthday *hugs*
So, normally I had a problem with randoms in Diablo or Borderlands skipping all content on my first playthrough. But now that I’ve done them I’ve encountered another problem during a replay. That, is the player who beelines straight for the loot crate, wipes it clean, looks at any replacements in the menu, then sells everything not equipped. Even does this with class specific items.
I understand wanting the best items, but being selfish enough to not even let other players look at the leftovers?
Doesn’t Diablo 3 have individual loot system so no one misses out?
But yeah, in Borderlands those people suck.
That it does, to prevent the civil wars that were caused by D2’s loot drops.
And it also hides things so no one can get unnecessarily jealous.
Awww man, you got a green item and I only got 2 crappy blues. I hate you!
But at the same time, it will globally announce legendary drops to guild members and possibly also announce in game.
So, with a $20 EB Gift Card, I picked up Dungeons: Gold Edition, and a Wii U Stereo Headset.
I’ve read in a review that it’s Dungeon Keeper-inspired.
Anyone played Dungeons: Gold Edition before?
If so, is it good?
Don’t go into it expecting it to be dungeon keeper and you could be ok. Your dark lord will be killing most of the heroes, not the dungeon and minions you setup. Which seems to be the major difference between the two.
It’s inspired by DK in that you lay out a dungeon and you play the bad guy, actual game play differs a fair bit
So, I’ve decided to try and build a new computer after Christmas. However, I’m completely new to it so I have no idea what places I should be looking to buy my components from. Any suggestions?
Since you’re in Melbourne area, PC Case gear might be your cheapest option, but there is also MSY & Scorptec who can be cheaper than PC Case Gear as well. Not sure if Umart is in Victoria, but they’re also a good option for a cheap price.
http://staticice.com.au is a good place to get an idea on who is the cheapest on PC components, it’s like Google but specifically for PC parts in Australia.
http://www.pccasegear.com/
Pretty sure @powalen bought his parts from there.
Good luck with it, hope it goes well.
Indeed I did.
Umart and msy are the other side of town but generally fairly cheap.
I use CPL most of the time since it’s somewhat close to / in the city.
planning to get the parts delivered.
PCCG then. But be aware that they have a 2% surcharge on credit card payments.
Does that include paypal/debit cards?
I’m not sure but I’m sure it’s on their site somewhere.
Goals for next year that I set for myself just then and will probably forget by later tonight:
1. Get dragon on my shoulder finished because effs sake it’s been 2 years.
2. Get Solaire done somewhere on my body. Possibly forearm.
Then I’ll have to make you and @strange put your Dark Souls tattoos together and take pictures!
What if I got it on my butt?
…
I can work with that.
Ha, mooning people with a tattoo that says “Praise the Sun” seems funny to me :3
Then get Minesweeper!
Watching Monster’s University (again).
This funky hipster Cafe in Vietnam is playing the guardians of the galaxy soundtrack. It’s awesome. Flight in 6 hours
Come back to us Red!
I’ve been listening to Team Cybergeists new album all day “The Other Side of Fate” it’s an awesome album, even though i’ve never really been into the whole industrial/electro/metal style of music. But i’m glad to see they’ve sort of more settled on a more permanent recording line up. I liked their first album “How To Destroy Something Beautiful” but being a double disc with a lot of different vocalists it was hard to get a feel on what potential the band really had.
Ouch, Game of Thrones is expensive for a Telltale game.
I think I liked Borderlands a little more, too. It’s good, though. 🙂
I played Borderlands today, and man, it was great.
I did have one choice where I was in like, 18% of people or something though.
Dat licensing agreement!
Yeah, not to mention known actors from the series voicing their characters as well as the theme music. D:
Is it? Seems to be about on par with the others on the 360 XBLA store… it is 6 chapters, rather than 5, isn’t it?
Just checking some cars out on Ebay, and OMFG! surely this can’t be stock. If it is I hope the person that designed the interiors got fired.
http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTA1OVgxNjAw/z/zO0AAOSwcldUaHwn/$_12.JPG
http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTA1OVgxNjAw/z/oRgAAOSw2XFUaHxl/$_57.JPG
Now that’s a classy ride.
Reminds me of the story my Dad told me about how his first car when he was 16, he bought a whole pile of sheepskin and glued it to the dashboard and the doors and stuff wherever you’d normally have paneling.
Trouble was it wasn’t properly cured sheepskin intended for use in a car, and when he left the car out in the sun during the summer it started to rot…
Game of Thrones: Telltale Series – Ep 1:
Talking to Cersei was crazy intimidating. I kept on trying to be diplomatic. Was amazing when Tyrion called me out on it. “She has a talent for answering your questions with nothing.” Amazing.Wait what? This has been released?
If anyone’s keen for some Smash, I’ve sent out a whole bunch of friend requests and am sitting in a lobby.
Just played with Blaghs and it was laggy as fuck.
I know it’s over for today but I’ll be keen to try it out again another day.
I’ve never really had success with more than 1 person but it’s been reasonable playing 1v1 with a friend/random in for glory.
We’ll try again on Friday or something.
It was super laggy when it was Beavwa, Blaghs and I. Unplayably so. Blaghs dropped out and the next game was still painfully laggy.
I’m hoping it’s just my connection sucking but it really felt like the netcode isn’t holding up well. If this was something more serious, like Street Fighter, I’d be pretty annoyed. Luckily, it’s Smash.
That sucks, I didn’t check TAY but I’m keen to play on Friday if you guys go again.
Woaaaaaaaaaah. I just went down to JB Hifi to pick up Guardians of the Galaxy. Chatting with the sales guy about Pokemon and he mentioned they had one of the sold-out-limited-edition-no-longer-available Pokemon Heritage Collection sets out the back just sitting there.
Well, it was sitting there. It’s now mine. Gotta catch ’em all!
He probably rubbed his balls on it first.
I’m not jealous, you are.
About the Pokemon or balls, Freeze?
We’re all jealous of Freezeballs.
Bonus!
Never heard of this. Heritage Collection?
Oh wait, tv show. Cool.
Sooo apparently GTAV is being pulled from Australia shelves, despite being sold for almost a 1 and half.
I have my doubts about it, to be honest.
Or if it is true, it’ll be at places like K-Mart, Target and Big W (more family oriented places)
JB and EB will still sell it.
Again though, I have my doubts about it.
Just read a press release from Target. So stupid, but I don’t buy my games from them anyways.
Link?
http://www.target.com.au/medias/marketing/corporate/PDF/media-release/GTA-Media-Release-v2.pdf
*sigh*
Urgh, citing the reason as “violence against women”.
Urgh.
I don’t really think people discriminate about which gender the pedestrians are that they’re running down in their car.
Wait, people don’t?
I have to be careful. I can only hit women between the ages of 23 and 54, and only if they’re between a size C and F cup. Also they can’t be a redhead, have been to Paris, like knitting (even ironically as a hipster) or have a hobby related to photography.
You have to take this kind of thing very seriously.
That is the stupidest… ugh, I’m angry now.
*goes to back to play violence against only women simulator*
On a serious note.. As my dad was saying, why don’t we band everything that offends everyone, so better shut down target, hell every store because someone is gonna be offended in some way or another about something every single shop sells.
I understand the choice, to a certain degree, but disagree with the choice.
Yes, Target and such are more family centric places, but it’s not like they have demos of the game running available for any one to play, or sell the game to minors anyway.
If a minor is playing the game, that’s on the parents, not the store.
And under the new laws, they are more than within their rights to stick R rated games.
Also, saying that, if you pull one thing that is rated R, you should be pulling all things that are rated R.
Why pull one R rated game and not the rest, after all?
Ever? They do some great deals
Barring Rockstar being stupid with another Hot Coffee situation I’m not sure how they could unless a voluntary pull by specific retailers. @zetrox2k linked a petition a few pages back pressuring Target?
Huh, why?
Why is this all of a sudden an issue…? Is it somehow the PS4 and XB1 versions are worse because it’s in HD?
I wish corporate Australia would sometimes just grow a pair and ignore the ridiculously vocal minority that gets on board with stupid petitions slapped all over Facebook.
This is an appropriate and correct decision as it leaves more shelf space for cute games like Captain Toad.
Unrelated: Is Captain Toad even getting a boxed copy? I assumed it was downloadable thing?
Pretty sure it was always going to be boxed. And still is.
January 2! (iirc)
Ah! Awesome! I feel better about this game now! 😀
Batboy and I played lots of Captain Toad at PAX. It was fun! Also the only game at PAX he could play solo. (He got a round of applause at one point!)
Nawwww. 😀
I liked the Toad levels in Super Mario 3D World more than Super Mario 3D World itself, though!
Aww, looks like it’s been pushed back to Jan 10 🙁
It’s out on the 3rd, and it’s only 60 bucks to boot.
https://www.ebgames.com.au/wiiu-157940-Captain-Toad-Treasure-Tracker-Wii-U
I assumed it was a full retail release, but now that you ask the question I realise I really have no facts to support that position :S
Gooky’s got your back. You’re right. 😀
Nah, he’s a mushroom and leading kids through a gateway into drug culture.
Pulled.
Real big of Target to pull it from sale AFTER the bulk of sales have been made. Real strong stance there guys.
Stellar inter!
Wowweee
Also, I attended my first movie with colleagues. AM I PART OF THE WORK MOVIE CLUB NOW?! :’)
Bah, I still gotta see that.
Will probably end up missing it.
It’s pretty great and good for that whole spectacle thing that makes going to the cinema worth it. 😀
You’d lose A LOT from seeing it on a TV.
Yeah, Gravity is hard to watch on blu-ray for me after seeing it twice at the cinema. So small. :'(
I watched it on my craptop with family wandering around giggling, had to pause it to answer the phone, spoke to my dad for about 40 mins.
Absolutely loved it, edge of my seat. No shit. I’ve just become used to this now. 10 years ago I would of lost my shit at all the rude interruption s.
Bugger.
Yeeeeah. Kinda wanna go Imax.
Do it! Do it! Do it! If I had access to an IMAX I would go see it there again!
The BIGGEST Imax!
Is that the Darling Harbour one? WE SHOULD HAVE A MEAT THERE!
YES. WE SHOULD.
SEE YOU THERE!
Come on down.
Same.
Don’t you work at the cinema? YOU MONSTER! 😀
Though I guess that makes sense. People don’t like to hang out where they work in their free time. 🙂
Just because of where I work everyone always assumes that I watch every single movie we get. It’s simply not the case, we can’t just go in and sit down and watch a movie when we’re supposed to be working, and when we’re not on shift a lot of the time we just can’t be bothered going back.
I totally thought the same though before I got this job.
I just had a romantic vision of you being an old school projectionist sitting in the booth watching movies all day. 😛
If you’re ever down this way I’ll give you a tour (not that it’s anything special). And I’ll totally get you in for free.
You’re one of the good ones! 😀
Same
Saw Fat Pizza V Housos today.
Good movie if you want some mindless fun, just don’t go in expecting masterful film work.
3 Chainsaws out of 5.
Only thing I know about Housos is that Elle Dawe voiced a pretty brilliant character in Borderlands the Pre-Sequel 😛
So Sony are doing a VERY limited edition PS4 for the 20th anniversary of the original PlayStation and I damn well want it, in fact I would love a PS3 & PS2 in the same finish >_>
There’s also a PS1 theme for the PS3, PS4 & PS Vita which apparently include the original start up noise neat.
Still the best startup noise of any console.
Hell yes!
I want that controller.
I want that everything 😛
So… I could be in the market for a PS4 since I haven’t put down on any next-gen console. It going on sale in Australia? 😛
I hope it is.. I might even buy one and sell my current PS4 >_>
But limited to 12,300 units ugh…
Yeah, I only saw Japan, USA and Europe. Which doesn’t give me hope for our gaming backwater.
Yeah :/ We could buy a Euro one… It’d work here, but yeah..
I’d have got a control, don’t need a second console…
Just booked my tickets for the new Hobbit movie. On Boxing Day. In high frame rate 3D on the IMAX screen.
Hopefully they don’t balls it up like last time, and have the two glasses lenses out of sync by almost 5 minutes…
They did restart the movie when they found out, though.
Out of curiosity how much did they slug you for that? For 3D we charge $15 in the regular seats and $17 in the comfier ones.
Wait. Really? It’s like $30 here….
That’s what we charge, but yet some people still complain.
Edit: 2D is $3 cheaper.
Edit2: I remember going to the AMC (I think) in Stafford Shopping Centre in Brissy about 13 or 14 years ago, and iirc we paid 10 bucks each.
Yeah iirc when we saw it boxing day 2012 it was 24 bucks for the HFR Vmax 3D ones o.o
Man that’s a bargain. Bring your cinema here!
But yeah, Imax is usually around $30 for a movie each time I’ve gone there.
No! You come here!
$30 per ticket. *shudder*
I still haven’t seen the second movie. I should probably get around to watching it. Maybe I’ll watch it on Christmas Day and go see the next one on Boxing Day.
Just wanted to say thanks to you guys for being there the other day when Oliver left 🙂 These past few days have been tough but I think I’m finally starting to feel okay. I don’t feel sick anymore, at least. I’ve been keeping in touch with him when I can (he’s pretty busy atm)
I know it’s probably all pretty pathetic, but I guess we were basically partners. In some kind of way. And it hurts all the same, no matter what kind of way.
Saying that, holy shit I wish shops would stop playing sad Christmas songs about loved ones not being there and that! PLEASE just play jingle bells! It would help me sooooo much!
That last part made me think of this.
It’s not much, but maybe it’ll lift your spirits a little.
See, there’s so many better songs than I’ll be home for Christmas!
Thanks 🙂
https://www.change.org/p/target-target-australia-must-remove-all-super-mario-bros-games-from-sale
Come on folks, sign up. It’s a worthy cause.
https://www.change.org/p/target-stop-selling-fifty-shades-of-grey-in-all-target-stores
This one… probably could have been done better. But hey, an argument could be made for glorification of abusive relationships! To quote a friend who is not at all a fan of the books 😛
Does this one exist yet
https://www.change.org/p/target-stop-selling-one-direction-cds-in-all-stores
If it doesn’t it should, that shit will rot your brain.
Riiiiiggghhttt about there is when I lost it.
Collection of income without declaration of tax made me laugh pretty hard
@fled @grandmasterb-funk @hindenlagen @liondrive @phlanispo @phoenix @platinum-urchin @thecracks
It seems I should set a date for the Adventure World meat. How about Saturday? Come there if you can, don’t come if you can’t. (Of course, if no-one can come I’ll change the date)
…this Saturday?
That’s a little short notice, Phlannie 😛
Should be fine for me though 🙂
I thought it might be a tad soon, but other people want it to be on a weekend, and this will be the last weekend before I leave.
I’m going to be busy this Saturday, sorry!
Got a friend’s 30th to attend.
Hey, sorry i’ve been a bit silent, i’m super busy with uni and work experience.
and on that note, this saturday i’ve got a production shoot, so i can’t make it!
But don’t let me change anything, i wouldn’t be able to come anyway, since i’m going to japan soon i’m on a super tight budget, so i don’t think i could afford Adventure World! Sorry!
It’s okay man. Enjoy Japan.
Hey man, I’ve got some stuff going on at the moment that I need to deal with.
Also working tomorrow 7:30-3:30.
Sorry that you can’t come. Also really sorry with how short notice this was.
Damn mini quake shaking my house and waking me up at a time that’s too early to get up, but also a bit to late to go back to sleep…
WELCOME. TO THE BLAGHMAN HOURS!
I hate work. It’s turned me into my worst nightmare.
AH! BLAGHMAN UP IN THE AM!
I slept through a quake once.
well, it woke me, I presumed I was dreaming & went back to sleep
That’s not sleeping through it!
I got woken up in the middle of the night on Tues/Wed as well. Two quake alarms in a row 🙁
It was one of those moments I only vaguely recalled after someone else mentioned the quake
My mum always told me that I could sleep through an earthquake, but I’ve never experienced one, so I wouldn’t know, then again if I was asleep at the time I wouldn’t have known there was one, which means she was right.
Even if it’s just one minute before your alarm is due to go off, it’s still not too late to go back to sleep!
Delicious sleep.
I need to go back to sleep today. I’m just waiting until the kids go to school. I’m forcing the 14 year old to take the 5 year old to school so I don’t have to go anywhere today.
Oof. Ok, Destiny has announced that they’ll put in a way to upgrade current exotic weapons & armour so that they’ll be on par with their higher-level DLC gear. But, uh, the caveat is that in order to upgrade said exotics, you’ll have to spend an exotic shard- if you don’t know what that is, that involves dismantling another exotic item or spending 9 strange coins- and.. uh..
You’ll reset all upgrades on your exotic.
You’ll have to level it up from scratch.
Goddamn. Just, goddamn.
http://www.bungie.net/7_The-Dark-Below-Preview/en/News/News?aid=12442
The grind, it never ends.
What’s a @strange coin?
something made of… heavy metal? (I forget the music preferences of those on TAY even though it’s a occasional conversational topic.)
I remember now, it’s the opposite of a man card XD
@freezespreston
Wot. I just finished levelling my mythoclast last night… using an exotic shard for the last node. Now they tell me I need to (a) reset the three weeks’ experience and the shard I’ve invested already, and (b) obtain another shard to upgrade it for the expansion? Ffs.
Well, ah, it’ll have a base damage greater than your maxed-out one at the moment. Just.. the upgrades.. are completely borked.
I think the best course of action is to do nothing until the DLC hits.
Seriously.
Or give up playing destiny altogether but you know who’ll do that
Well, I’ve got a spare, so I’m not quite as annoyed as I could have been. I’ll hold off on trading in my finished one, unless Xur counts a fully upgraded exotic as “already contains the required exotic shard” and just charges the 7000 glimmer. I can dream…
But indeed, I’ll not be levelling any more exotics until this gets released. It does make me wonder if Bungie deliberately set the nightfall this week to be relatively easy, so that people would make a huge effort to upgrade their exotics and raid gear in preparation for next week… and extend the grind in the expack due to lack of backlogged ascendant materials. 😛 Touche, Bungie.
10 hours to download Injustice, won’t even be ready when I get home from work.
Not that I’m able to leave the PS4 on safely.
Ps Thanks @freezespreston The gift that keeps on giving ;D
Damn son, that must be a pretty big donwload.
I’m at the stage where I can fit about one more game on my hard drive, and then I’m gonna have to start deleting shit to fit any more on. Might have to buy a 1 TB hard drive as an early Christmas present to myself, I’d rather get a 2 TB drive, but the only ones I can find are too big (15mm).
I have to upgrade my Hard Drive, I had to clear almost 100gb to install GTA, DA:I & Far Cry. Ridiculous how big the installs are on some games these days.
I prefer to just delete the old games I don’t really play anymore. I did it with 60gb on 360, 160gb in PS3, I’m sure I’ll manage with 500gb on PS4.
Sure, there’s been a few large installs, but am I really gonna suddenly play Tomb raider again out if the blue?
Maybe.
I’m just el cheapo :p
I tend to install a lot of PS+ games with the intention of playing them, usually have a go, forget about them. But because I haven’t beaten them I’m reluctant to Delete it, I think that’s a problem with me more than hard drive space. I had a 320gb in my ps3 and it was always full.
I have a go & no pretty quickly if I’m likely to play a game or not.
fairly unforgiving these days, what with no time & all.
There’s exceptions, was really enjoying Fez then got lost & lost interest.
yeah, I need to be harsher on games, I waste a fair bit of time playing mediocre freebies then regret wasting the time.
I think it’s 5GB
I will just delete old installs as I go.
Hey guys, there’s a new game out on Steam and it’s 15% off for the next week at $8.50. It’s called… I Am Bread.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/327890/
Ooh, I gots to get me some bread on bread action 😛
Spoilers:
In the end he finds out his true home is in the microwave. 😛Why did I have to click that spoiler, WHY! There’s no point playing it now I know the ending.
Unsure if you’re responding in jest, but at the risk of ruining everything for everyone, I think @strange was making a joke at Lifehacker’s expense.
That’s made by the same people that made Goat Simulator isn’t it? I remember reading some about that…
Correction, surgeon simulator, just looked it up 😛
Anyone getting, or already got The Crew.
either gonna get that, Lego Batman 3, or Little Big Planet 3 today, at the moment I’m leaning towards LBP, those games are a lot of fun. Plus I’m worried that if too many people buy The Crew Ubisoft will want to turn it into a yearly franchise *cough* Assassin’s Creed *cough*
Shadowrun Returns : Dragonfall is out on iOS today. Cost me $9, and holy damn this is such a fantastic game. Shadowrun Returns was great, but had some wrinkles, but Dragonfall is brilliant. Promise me you’ll play it if you haven’t already.
I need to get back into my Dragonfall run.
Awesomely enjoyable game.
Looking at the Gizmodo thumbnail for google’s CAPTCHA plan is making me sad this morning, bloody racists 🙁
Organists.
But like, not the musicians.
Looking at my handhelds last night and pondering on ways to get rid of a couple and maybe make some money back. Got a Flame Red JP 3DS which I’ve never really used, with JP MH3 and MH4.
Also got a Red US 3DS XL with a bout 8 various US games. Can’t be arsed eBaying shit because it’s just so much fucking trouble. Had people do some real douchey, picky shit and I just don’t want to deal with it.
Incidentally, I like handhelds. A lot.
D.C.’s ADVENTURES IN PAINTING
Woke up early to paint deck. First coat done. Submerged paint brush into bucket of paint twice. Sweating more than I ever have in my life. Otherwise hopeful and optimistic.
Gonna paint our deck,
Gonna paint it good.
We ain’t braggin’,
We’re gonna coat that wood!
Silverchair’s Anthem for the Year 2000 popped up on the playlist this morning, starting with the line “we are the youth”
Then Maths Brain kicked in and said yeah, you may have been when this song was released in 1999 when you turned 15. Given that I’m turning 30 tomorrow, that was quite literally half my lifetime ago.
OLD.
Cranky.
Get off my lawn.
That was such a good song. I was 18 on NYE 1999. Timed quite well, methinks.
I was all of 11 years old in 1999.
I just wanted to high-five @evilmonkey for the themed name/avatar. It cracked me up.
o/
\o
Okay, very last reminder before the weekend! I promise.
—–
POWALEN’S 8-MAN MEAT SMASH (aka. Come to my place and play Smash Bros)
Who: You guys!
What: A Scottish Doctor
When: Saturday, 6th of December (next weekend). Starting at 12 noon and ending whenever you want to go home …within reason.
Where: My place. (if you don’t know my address, I can email/Twitter DM you)
Why: We won’t have many opportunities to play 8-person multiplayer due to it not being an online mode! Plus it’ll be fun. And there might be food.
Please let me know if you are coming so I have an idea of how much food, etc to get. If people are staying until dinner time we will likely get some variety of takeaway (pizza is the easiest in my area but there are other options).
You are also free to stay overnight if you wish, but let me know ahead of time. Rocketman is already staying so I have one more free air mattress if anybody wants it (otherwise floor!)
What you can bring along:
– Bring a controller! If everybody brings there own then hopefully we won’t run into an issue where one person has to leave early and takes all the controllers with them 😛 I don’t have a Gamecube adaptor, so bring one if you have one!
– If you want, bring along some snacks/drink. I’ll have plenty of soft drink/juice/chips/etc but the more the merrier.
– Whatever else you would like to do. Board games? I dunno!
– A smile.
Tagging the Sydney TAYers:
@35 @alexpants @anonymous_pessimist @batgirl @batguy @cakesmith @cj @cookingmama @doc_what @effluvium-boy @fatshadylive @gingerchris86 @gorzilla @hugo_the_hungarian_barbarian @mawt @morkai @mrtaco @ruffleberg @shiggyninty @vonsack also @blaghman and @rocketman
Confirmed so far are Pants, CJ, Ginger Chris, Cake, Shiggy. Batguy, Gooky and Rocketman. Hopefully I’m not missing anybody…
Missed it by that much…
Second time this has happened now! Ah well, it’s not like the people who aren’t tagged really need to see it anyway 😛
Way to end the page, Pow 😛
Also who is bringing equipment? Because I can but it would make things less awkward if I didn’t have to, since I have to run off early.
I have no idea! Hopefully everybody brings at least one controller for themselves (ideally non-Gamecube because I don’t know if anybody is bringing any adaptors).
EDIT: Wait… can you even play 8 Player Smash without using Gamecube controllers/adaptor?
I have an adapter and 4 or 5 gamecube controllers.
http://www.smashbros.com/us/howto/entry10.html
I wonder if my wiimote connected SNES controller works?
Unless it’s wired up to read d-pad input as control stick input, then it won’t.
Stupid jerks don’t let you use a d-pad for directional control for any scheme but sideways wii remote. Which is stupid. I WANNA (try) USE AN ARCADE STICK!
Not invited :'(
Nope.
That’s okay. I wouldn’t want to go to your lame slumber party anyway. I have so many other cool parties to attend I wouldn’t have time for yours.
Ah, going to be unable to make it to this.
Have fun and pick R.O.B.
R.O.B? Haha, good one! You’re a funny guy, Mawt.
(No worries, see you another time)
FUCK YEAH ROB! *high five*
Also trying to convince my brother to come because he loves Smash Bros and lives just down the road.
Fine by me!
@batguy ‘s bro is a cereal killer.
LOCK AWAY YOUR CORN FLAKES & WEETABIX
Batguys bro is lovely. WE all played catch one time. It was enjoyable.
Don’t pretend he didn’t finish off your box of Coco Puffs
A smile?
I’ll pass.
A painfully forced one is fine.
Is there any other kind?
But really, I’m pretty sure I have family commitments that day.
I’d totally be down but I’m living in Canadia until mid April.
I PROBABLY NEED TO KNOW YOUR ADDRESS OR SORT OUT WHERE WE SHALL MEET TOMORROW . ALTERNATIVELY ILL JUST KEEP YELLING CAKE TILL I FIND CAKESMITH. 😛
I’ll DM you my address and phone number in a sec.
Best option is to meet me on Platform 22 in Central Station before 5:45pm (that’s when my train leaves – I’m usually there by 5:35ish). There is an information window/guards room half way down the platform, I usually wait in front of that.
That okay with you? We might have to drop by the supermarket on the way home too, depends how much luggage you’re carrying.
That sounds good pow. I wont be carrying much luggage. I always try and travel light. Thank you so much again buddy. Very kind of you.
I STILL CAN’T MAKE IT! STOP RUBBING IT IN! >:(
I was holding out hope!
Me too.
Instead I have to spend the day with people…
I guess I’d affectionately call them bogans.
Scum seems a bit harsh.
YOU HAVE FUN WITH YOUR NERD FRIENDS PLAYING DUMB GAMES! I’LL BE PRETENDING TO GIVE A SHIT ABOUT SPORTSBALL OR WHATEVER THEY TALK ABOUT!
I’ll bring an adapter and one sexy orange GC controller.
My hero!
so Target is now pulling GTAV from stores…
I completely disagree with @markserrels decision to not cover this petition;
yes, in many situations i agree, theres no point in adding fuel to the fire, or giving something more exposure then it deserves. When a petition like this however builds the vast majority of its 41,000 signatures from a community that opposes the petition, but merely wanted a voice in the debate (for those who are unaware it is IMPOSSIBLE to leave a comment on a petition unless you have signed it), this is something worth pointing out.
completely ignoring this petition, left the argument one sided, with a technical 41,000 signatures. There was no constructive argument made to voice the other side of the story, or point out the flaws or inaccuracies of the argument.
I can see both sides of the argument here, and neither one is wrong. The decision on whether or not to cover gaming hysteria is a tricky one.
Do you cover it, and potentially give rise to an increase in publicity for an opinion you don’t support, and in doing so, invite a potentially ugly debate into your coverage?
Or do you ignore the movement, deny it the appearance of legitimacy, and hope it fades to nothing, acknowledging the risk that it might succeed despite not getting your publicity?
Ultimately, though, weighing in on it before it plays out does run the risk, as Mark said, of appearing like whiny gamers attempting to justify sexual violence, a move particularly likely to backfire with the recent GamerGate bullshit.
Ultimately, I think Mark was right not to say anything until now, and what he said was a well-balanced response. Kotaku AU is a well-respected and multi-award-winning games coverage site – it doesn’t need to sling mud at internet petitions, and frankly, I’d be a little disappointed if it did.
That said, I still feel a Picard facepalm coming on for the folks who decided to sign the petition and bolster the opposition, just so they could complain about it. Those fools, especially if they’re the majority (though I wouldn’t be too sure about it), helped get GTA V off Target shelves.
I replied in the article a similar thing, I think we should learn a lesson from this that change.org petitions shouldn’t be signed just so that a comment can be left that may ultimately be left unread.
I will take a balanced stance like that of the article, but I will point out the factual inaccuracies in their decision making in the hope they can take a more balanced view of the situation as well with critical habit of mind and critical reasoning.
Thursday means TAYlist, how about some requests? And don’t forget you can even listen live at http://www.5yyy.com.au
Paperback Writer – The Beatles
Defecate on My Face – TISM
Push it to the Limit – Paul Engemann
or Friends – Angelo Janotti
I’m in the mood for bad ’80s music 😛
Upvote for Scarface reference 😛
I listened to that song hundreds of times while playing through the (great) game. It’s my go to montage song.
Anything classic Silverchair
Christopher Cross – Ride Like the Wind
Something Living End.
Blame it on me – George Ezra
Everlong – Foo Fighters
Maybe this time. Crazy Little Thing Called Love – Queen.
EDIT: Didn’t think just to add something else to avoid the Duplicate Comment.
Leave your window open – One Day
What’s the Frequency, Kenneth? – REM
Very nice choice.
Requests are now closed, you can still request using the request phone line, the number will be announced on air, you can listen live at http://www.5yyy.com.au
Hey everyone, I don’t feel like doing much werk todais so can you please tweet me and talk to me on TAY? Yeah? Cool?
#Needius
Can someone organise a Smash party too? :P. Thankssss
Hey Greenius! We’re in the same boat. #SLACKBROS
We’re all in the same Quintrex 350 Dart!
“boat”
Yes! Sup S-DOG?
Dark Souls 2 whateveritscalled edition hype? Getting a PS4 for Bloodborne’s launch?
Probably not, man. We’ve just had a fridge die and two tires wear down on the car, and we’ve had to extend our mortgage just to stay afloat. PS4 plans will be on the backburner for a while. S’all good though.
When we have the funds, I’ll be all over that stuff, though.
Time to revive the Tay buys @shane a PS4 fund?
No, thank you.
I blame @greenius for starting this up again.
There’s a Smash party on Saturday. You should come.
Wasn’t invited :'(
Pow’s a jerk like that.
I have lots of work to do but don’t wanna,
How’s things Greenius? What are you playing at the moment?
The use my phone to TAY because I don’t like the idea of IT seeing my laptop usage but also trying to hide my phone usage from other people because it looks like I’m on it a lot game!
Also Isaac Rebirth, Smash and Pokemon
Whatabout you?!
I’ve got a horde of games to get through at the moment.
Alien: Isolation (still haven’t finished), Far Cry 4, GTA V (PS4) , Pokeymans Alfur Safyr, Dragon Age: Inquisition & Smash Bros. Also got Batonetta 1 & 2 & TLOU remastered for my birthday. I can’t wait for the Christmas break, I’m going to spend an ungodly amount of time gaming and playing with my dogs.
Yo.
Going anywhere over Christmas break? MH3U sometime then? 😀
I’m up for that. Early January?
I’m back to work in earlyish Jan :P. I return to work on the 5th 🙁
So do I.
.. Early early January?
I can do that! Assuming I don’t travel anywhere.
@thecracks @hindenlagen @wilbur @platinum-urchin
We’ll see.
Yoo sux, Sulsilvurrr is befdarrr
It is! I see you’ve finally seen the wrong in your ways.
Yoo sux
I would, but our internet is capped until next Thursday. 🙁
Damn Duplicate Comments. So annoying.
Damn Duplicate Comments. So annoying.
STOP BEING ANNOYING!
😛
Blam bluplicate clomments.
WHAT ARE YOU, MY MUM?
STOP BEING ANNOYING!
😛
Well played
Diablo 3 update.
I hacked, I slashed, I killed some things. I think I was in MP for thirty seconds, but that ended abruptly.
I always play Diablo as a dual-wielding barbarian (or whatever the hack n slash class of Diablo 1 was). Might have to try a new type of character next time.
I always play Barbarian in every game but having played through with every D3 character the Witch Doctor and Demon Hunter are the most fun.
Monk sucks donkey ass.
Your potty mouth is in fine form this morning
11/9 Rusty Brown’s Ring Donuts
Knowing nothing about Diablo my first character was a Demon hunter and my second (for co-opping split-screen with friends) was a Witch Doctor. Should I just go ahead and not bother with any of the other classes then?
Both of those are fine choices but none really compare to being a big burly barbarian (male or female) and just plowing through enemies. Or literally summoning mini-galaxies to hurl at your enemies as the wizard.
I always found the barbarian smashing moves to be very viscerally satisfying in whatever dormant caveman genes still reside within me. That’s one thing that Diablo has always done extremely well.
If I decide not to return the game, I’ll give them a whirl!
I have a lady paladin and I quite enjoy the smiting.
Browsed Kickstarter last night. Hnngh… must. resist. temptation.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1433901524/exclusive-numenera-boxed-set-edition
Well my spending restraint just jumped out the window.
Well, I was browsing Kickstarter, too, and…
…wait. You’ve all already pledged to Undad, haven’t you? Carry on.
Indeed I have. Glad to have helped. 🙂
Bustin’ make me feel good
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1433901624/shane-w-smith-needs-ps4-good-guy-help
“Needs”? As in to live? I kind of sort of want one, but that’s as far as it goes. I can definitely live without it.
I’m not sure how much of this is joke, but if I’ve learned anything from my time here, it’s that it’s safest to assume that the most insane outcome is the most likely. So rather than enjoying the joke, I’m responding here more seriously.
I appreciate the sentiment. I really do. It warms my heart to see TAY folk doing this sort of thing for each other. But I don’t want to take your money for a PS4.
I’m anxious about gifts. I’ve written about this at length – in fact, I think it was the last time this PS4 thing came up – and can do so again if need be.
I’m also not poor. I’m comfortable. My salary is probably higher than most of yours. I own a house, and a car, and we put decent food on the table. I haven’t had to cancel any writing-career-related events or projects due to a shortage of funds. I also have a perfectly serviceable 360 with a small stack of great games and a 3DS-XL with a similarly sized stack of great games. I also have an epic DVD collection that’s taken me the best part of 15 years to cultivate. I’m not hurting for entertainment. Charity would be tragically misplaced in my case.
So thank you. But really: no, thank you.
We are just trying to create strong emotions that you can channel into stories that we can buy.
That is where undad came from so we want to see what happens if you get overwhelmed with guilt.
Kneejerk reaction: probably a serial killer story.
I’d back it.
Here. Have a psychiatric referral.
That’s a reward for backing, right?
And only for the very… special… backers.
@shane Yay! I’m special! \o/
Tier 6: Become part of the story
eeekkkkk
Silly Shane. You’re supposed to wait until the Kickstarter is finished to give out backer rewards.
My first thought is you would follow the model of undad and do something that has been done to death. Maybe vampires instead of zombies.
Feeling like you are bleeding your friends dry, having all the nice perks of immortality but still stealing from those around you what they need to live and survive.
Serial killers was my pick of done-to-death genre. But I have to admit, the vampire idea would be a decent chance to channel the guilt…
I was thinking Werewolf.
You have this thing gnawing at the inside of you, that you are able to control but certain circumstances make you bust out and unleash the beast inside, only to hurt those around you.
Then, you are able to get yourself back under control, and the nice part of you is left having to deal with the consequences of what beast you did.
…so like a zombie. Or the Hulk.
So what do I do with this PS4 I purchased?
Silly Freeze. You’re supposed to wait until the Kickstarter is finished! 😛
You could get Mrs Freeze into gaming, I suppose. Or use it as a footstool. Or trade it in to EB – I’m sure they’ll give you a fair price. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
So.. what you’re saying is that you should buy us gifts.
Nope! I’m a jerk, through and through. I host the odd TAY games giveaway, but after that, I’m done.
I may be carrying around my DS during the day, playing Pokemon during lunch just in case certain ones come out during the day rather than at night when I normally play.
I blame all of you.
One of us, one of us.
It’s probably good that you haven’t gotten a 3DS because it encourages that sort of behaviour. Streetpassing has become a bit of an obsession of mine. Thankfully I’m not as bad as a friend of mine who has over 1000 picture pieces for the panel collection.
Yeah, some people are freaks for that.
I’m only on 987 pieces.
Haha! Only 1000?
Child’s play.
I’d totally be over 1200 if I hadn’t lost all my progress ;-;
Sadly in the Gen 5 games there’s basically no difference between day/night as far as Pokemon distributions go (I can kinda get why they got rid of it, because it could be annoying for some people, but I liked it). There are still some time-of-day-based evolutions and events though.
Seasons are the things that change distribution patterns in those games! (season changes every real-life month)
Kinda unfortunate that you’re playing during in-game Winter though. The music in some cities/routes is way better in Summer in my opinion! Hopefully it takes you until February to reach Undella Town 😛
Seasons change it?
Man, now I have to play this thing for longer than a couple of months.
Gotta Catch ’em All! 🙂
*scratches arm, start shaking*
…gotta catch ’em all…gotta catch ’em all…
change the ingame clock, much easier. =)
@quiz_b
The trick to changing the in-game clock is to set it to 1 min to midnight & let it change over naturally. Otherwise stuff doesn’t reset when it should.
Three hours to go D:
‘Til?
’til 3:11pm.
Yes, what Shane said.
Also, work Christmas party. Which is sort of kind of hopefully an opportunity to talk with Not Actually Italian Girl. And like… I dunno, it’d be nice if that did happen. And went well. And.Yeah.
Good luck mate, positive vibes coming at you!
So I’ve finished the Foundation series by Asimov (@jimu, I’ll try to send the books your way in the next couple of weeks), and have moved on. Has anyone here read the Legends of Lone Wolf novels, based on the Lone Wolf gamebooks? This was the first series of novels I ever read, and I was obsessed with them as a kid. I still really enjoy them now.
It took me nearly fifteen years to complete my collection of all 12 LoLW novels. I got my first one (#3 in the series) in an Angus and Robertson remainder bin in 1992, and finally finished off my collection at the Lifeline Bookfair in 2007, with the acquisition of #5. (Thankfully, my local Dymocks stocked books 10, 11 and 12 when they came out, and I bought them new, because they are hella rare now). I’ve found them in the unlikeliest of places, including one at David Jones in a clearance bin filled with lipstick and shoetrees.
Anyone read these books? Anyone got a long-term collection like this that they’re particularly proud of?
Of books? I, uh… there’s every single Nintendo Gamer magazine from 2001-2003 I guess. And then all the Hypers from then til some time in 2010 or so when I finally didn’t bother to resubscribe to those things I wasn’t reading 😛
I’m only a couple of titles short of completing both a Virtual Boy and 64DD collection. And could faaaairly easily do it – if I was willing to spend several hundred dollars per title. Which I’m not. But I still hold out hope of getting lucky some day…
I got really excited about FOundation when I wa soyunger, but struggled to find the whole series at the library. i wonder if I would still enjoy it now that I am old enough to buy my own?
Yay! \o/
Wheel of Time… not a hard one to collect by any measure though.
When we moved interstate and a box of my fantasy books worth around $2000 went missing I was absolutely gutted. In a great twist of events around 2 years later, my sister was moving out of the place we shared and she found 2 boxes of my books in her garage.
Was absolutely overjoyed – one box contained books 1 through 10 of WoT which triggered a re-reading of the entire series plus the purchase of books 11, 12 and 13… much to my wifes complete and utter dismay. 🙂
Sounds like your wife might be the one who disappeared the boxes to start with… 😛
By the way, the 10th book was the low point of the series, IMO. Have you read the ending yet?
Yep… timed it pretty well actually. Box turned up, ordered 11 through 13, finished book 13 a few months before Kindle edition of 14 landed. Paperback of 14 then arrived out of the blue about 7 months later.
Foundation books were awesome. I think they kind of lost sight of the original story after a while, but were still enjoyable.
Also, anything by Phillip K Dick is well worth the read.
In terms of collections, I have almost all of the Midkemia books by Feist. Though got thoroughly dissatisfied with those by the end. Have a huge chunk of Dean Koontz books, and a whole bunch of Star Wars novels. All of Matt Reilly’s books. The Belgariad and the Mallorean by Eddings.
And my battered copy of the Hobbit from 1992, when I was four. Still my most cherished book.
Right, so, I sit down on the bus behind some girl and right in front of my face is the tag for her top. (Mini-cardigan’y type thing over a tank-top.) Tag facing outward. She’s got the thing on inside-out. I’d say something, but she’s kinda trendy-looking, so I dunno, maybe this is A Thing. Also, she’s pretty cute, so she probably has guys using excuses to hit on her all the time, and may even be wondering why I was looking at the back of her neck or whatever.
All the same… enh. If it’s not intentional, she’ll probably be really embarrassed later when a coworker points it out or she finds out herself and realizes she’s been wandering around like that all day. So… whatever. If I sound like a creeper, I sound like a creeper, at least I’ll know I only meant well, that’ll have to be enough.
So I tap her on the arm to get her to take the earbuds out, have to practically talk into her ear over roadnoise/because she has hair over her ear, but let her know. She laughs, surprised, and checks. She admits that she didn’t realize, and thanks me.
Oh good. Everything worked out OK! That’s a relief. She takes the thing off, turns it about, and puts it back on.
A minute later, she turns and smiles and thanks me again. OK, that’s good. She seems pretty happy, so not even mistaken for a creep, not cripplingly embarrassed. Everybody wins. Very good.
And then she turns again, and smiles. Huh. I didn’t say anything, why is… oh. Should I be striking up a conversation? I should probably be striking up a conversation.
OK, so she’s shifting in her seat, now, turning a bit so it’s easier for her to face back. Smiling again, too… Yeah, I should definit– Oh. It’s my stop. I get up and she’s looking up, smiles and waves. I at least smile back, but yeah, that door’s closed.
Soooo I was probably supposed to ask for her number, if I’d been following the script.
I’m… just so VERY out of practice and very much not feeling like doing this whole ‘moving-on’ thing. :/
I mean, I know, I know, it’s like swimming… the pool water’s cold and you don’t really wanna get in, but once you do and get past the initial shock of it, you’ll be fine, but… I dunwanna.
Man, storyliners had been plotting that out for ages. You ruined it.
I’ve been doing that a lot lately, the writers are probably tearing their hair out.
Alright, everybody grab his arms and legs – time to throw him in the pool if he won’t jump in himself.
I had a rule that I continually yelled at one group of friends whenever we were trading stories of girl-related stuff – “don’t be a Gook!”
You totally broke that rule just there 😛
She sounds racist!
YOU ARE
Damnit man! You take that very same Bus and you make a witty joke about her tag not showing next Thursday. That’s cool though, I think life is awesome when you can share these little moments with someone you don’t know from a bar of soap. Especially if they are cute!
*Makes popcorn order for next Thursday lunchtime*
This. So much this, it hurts.
*pre-orders popcorn from Highperformance*
Yeah. Life’s better without stressing about an agenda. Spontaneity is good.
If it’s a regular bus then, no, no need to go diving into the deep end on one or two cues.
Then again I’m one of the last people anyone should ask about this sort of thing.
What if it was a bendy bus?
Nah, just a random switch-over heading between offices, not part of the routine. Not that it should matter… Nursing crushes forever before acting is bad. If you’re gonna do something you should do it early!
I had all the cues there, and academically I knew how everything was supposed to go if I was actively looking, and I probably should be looking, but I’m still hung up on the past and don’t feel like moving on. Even though the universe keeps dropping tonnes of hints on me.
I understand why you’re stuck. Got my sympathies, buddy. When you’re ready though, you’re gonna do so well. 😀
She took her shirt off for you the first time you met. You should have AT LEAST gotten her number.
Maybe she wears her jumper inside out on purpose as an icebreaker.
Now THAT is some kind of plot twist. What sort of a crazed sociopath would do something like that though?
*scribbles notes* *shifty eyes*
You’re going to wear an inside out jumper for the smash meat aren’t you?
*gets out the flags*
EDIT: Wait, no, you knew what was going on but was reluctant to follow through with it, which is perfectly fine. You’ll be ready when you’ll be ready. But either way that makes this joke invalid. 🙁
*taps nose* Admittedly even now some things only ‘click’ postmortem, when the front brain catches up to the hindbrain. I just… yeah. Not ready. Probably the overriding thought after was that missing the opportunity seems pretty damn hypocritical when what I didn’t do is exactly the thing I’d be advising our single guys to do. And what I did when utterly oblivious and single.
Man!! Epic story! Totally should have got her number! 😉 Highly likely I would have done exactly as you did though! I’m terrible with that kind of thing!
I know what you mean man, I separated from my wife in January this year and only just started to feel OK about it but don’t rush things. If you’re not ready, you’re not ready 🙂
Once you are however, the tags won’t be sticking out fast enough ;D
Has Gooky hacked your Kotaku account?
Oh man, so I take it you’re single now? Sorry to hear about that.
It was weird for me at first. I’ll be honest, I was a bit nervous that I was out of practice and didn’t have enough friends to truly put myself back out there. After a month or so I realised I was wrong, so very wrong. And it’s gotten easier and easier either due to society changing over the last few years or just me getting more experienced. Situations like that will keep popping up, eventually you’ll start picking up on them quickly enough to capitalise. Opportunities will magically just pop up to meet new people that probably wouldn’t have happened if you were still attached.
Oh, I was fully aware. I, uh… used to be pretty good at that kind of thing.
Just… held back. Not ready.
I just got sent a photo of someone standing in front of my house, telling me that they found where I live.
It’s my parents :pOnce Freeze sent me a picture of my house. I was terrified.
Once I found out that somebody had taken a picture of my house and put it on the Internet. They never told me and it’s there for ANYBODY to see.
Thanks, Google.
I was honestly pretty freaked out when I was first shown StreetView. It just felt… off. Really off.
Of course now it’s a pretty essential tool when planning travel to any unfamiliar area.
When Google finally takes over the world, nobody will care, they’ve made our lives so much better already, we’ll just be like “oh, alright”
Wrong tense.
That’d be funny if it weren’t true.
My sister’s car at one point was visible in three separate places on Google Streetview.
Once I went to Freeze’s house. I was terrified.
Luckily we were all there to comfort each other! It would have been ten times more terrifying without other TAYbies!! 😉
Great. I’m heading there in April 🙁
I’m sure you’ll be fine. It was mostly terrifying for me cos there was a bunch of people I’d never met before! I’ve also been there before when it was only Freeze, his family and some TAYbies, and it wasn’t anywhere near as terrifying 😉
OH MY GOD
Somebody just posted something to Facebook that made me stop and realise I’ve been doing life wrong for years.
The numbers on the side of a toaster are MINUTES.
NOT STRENGTH OF HEAT.
IT’S A TIMER!
…how did I get to 30 and not realise this?
Wait, really? I thought they were just random numbers to indicate heat. I feel so incredibly stupid.
Nah, they’re not.
That is to say, it’s not necessarily a standard followed by all manufacturers.
You’ll get toasters that’ll only toast for like, 30 seconds on setting one.
Source: Me and food are pals.
I’m going to side with Bish because it makes me feel better about my ignorance.
Ok, so wait, it’s might not be minutes, but it’s still a timer?
I imagine so.
I know the toaster at my work on the lowest setting toasts for 45 seconds. And most toasters don’t take into account the current state of the heating element like, say, an oven does, which is why as Trjn says below, you turn down the toastiness for subsequent toasts.
If you’re doing multiple batches of toast, this is why you turn it down a little for all subsequent toastings.
PHEW. I found out before I turned thirty. Just squeaked in. Thanks, man.
But on my toaster’s dial there is a White bread icon, then numbers 1-10, then a black bread icon.
Explain that!
I can’t and it scares me.
EDIT: Maybe I can. Some toasters have the option to turn on only one element for thing slices/easily toasted bread, or both elements for thicker bread.
Could that be it?
(I am beginning to realise I have to go home and do experiments to see if my toaster is a timer or a heat based one. I’ll toast on setting 1, then 2, then 3 and time each setting to see how long it takes)
Your toaster is racist.
Are we talking rankings or scale?
If rankings, then racist.
If scale, not racist.
The stupdity…
hehe my old toaster didn’t even have a dial. Thankfully my Hello Kitty toaster does though. I used to have to watch my toast like a hawk, but not anymore!!
Here I was thinking I was a smart ass for turning the toaster all the way up full power and then stopping it early.
What.
Are you serious?
My life is in ruins.
You know I’m not really a punk rock fan but every time I hear a song from Tony Hawk 1 or 2 I can’t help but feel really happy, I think they subconsciously remind me of some really happy “good old days”.
What music that you normally aren’t into triggers this kind of thing in you?
I’m kinda like that, but with Tony Hawk 2 and 3.
Also, Gran Turismo 1 and 2 may have gotten me interested in Garbage. 😀
ooh, Gran Turismo 1, I did really enjoy a lot of those tracks too.
Speaking of punk rock…
http://www.avclub.com/article/nofxs-fat-mike-making-his-own-punk-musical-212550
Fat Mike from NOFX is gonna make a punk musical!!! I’d watch the shit out of that!!!
You guys need to stop being 2 whole pages ahead every time I wake up.
Seriously.
We wait for the lion to sleep before we come out! This reminds me of a song…..
a weem-away a weem-away a weem-away a weem-away a weem-away a weem-away a weem-away a weem-away a weem-away a weem-away a weem-away a weem-away. Aweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee umyumum weem ma mum away hibona
Am I the only one kind of disappointed in society today? Yes I’m referring to Target and KMart; aren’t we beyond villainizing new forms of media anymore??
Today?
You’ve only started now?
I pretty much gave up on society when I was 14.
Since then, I’ve been trying to convince myself otherwise, with no success.
Yeah I realized society was retarded a long time ago but you always kind of hope you know? People are fuckwits; especially misinformed conclusion jumping attention whoring idiot kind.
I reached maximum disappointment saturation with society a long time ago, but it wasn’t a video games thing.
Nowadays, I’m not even surprised when refugees get locked up in offshore hellholes indefinitely, or rapists blame the victims, or politicians amend laws to protect their friends, or people start Facebook hate pages against autistic children. None of it surprises me anymore.
Edit: this makes me sound like I’m depressed as hell by the world. It’s not true. It’s just that the incredible good that people are capable of, as individuals and collectives, is offset by an unspeakable level of evil that is every bit as profound and pervasive. There is balance to the Force, my friends, and this is how it’s manifesting itself today.
I believe it started with me in year 7 during the days of discovering I am actually a robot, but I think it got to its saturation point when I became old enough to vote.
I just figure when Trjn takes over the world one day and starts reforming society in his (by that point) demented, crazy vision, I’ll just go along with it, because hey, nothing to lose right?
Trjn for PM? I’d go for that!
The only thing scarier than me ruling the world is me having willing supporters.
Well that will change if you decide to outlaw playing any DoTA-style game other than DOTA2 while in office 😛
I would never do that.
I’d simply lean on Riot to gradually change League so that it eventually became mechanically identical to Dota.
I’m voting for the other guy.
TM for PM!
I dunno, man… Iron fist. PC master race. Church of Gaben. Permanent Winter weather machine.
Better than boardgames.
*hopes nobody sees that*
Finished painting for the day. Feel like it’s not looking all that great. It’s kind of getting me down. Kind of been craving this little project for ages. Tough, tiring work that makes me sleep at the end of the day. Finish the day with something to show for it. It could still turn out okay.
Now you’ve got an excuse to paint again tomorrow! \o/
I’ll be painting tomorrow again any way. Still tons to do. Destroyed an entire set of clothes today. So much paint. So much.
THOSE BETTER NOT HAVE BEEN ANY OF THE CLOTHES I BOUGHT YOU I SWEAR TO DOLCE AND GABBANA DC!!! >:(
No, I got my worst clothes knowing this would happen. Generic grey bonds shirt and sleeping pants I haven’t worn to sleep in six months! 😛
Confirmed:
DC sleeps pantsless.
No. I like my layers. I just sleep in whatever I’m wearing before I go to sleep now. So lazy. 😛
You’re shooting me down left right and centre today with that harsh harsh ‘No’ :’O
I thought you were after proper PJs a while ago anyway?
Protip: undies double as super comfy PJs.
No. I was looking for sleeping stuff but my lack of moneys made it less of a priority. POOOOOOR. XD
Stop saying ‘No’ to meeeeee!!! :’O
For realises though, I don’t know what the rest of you guys sleep in, but boxers, briefs or nude are the only ways to sleep for me.
I never got sleeping in shirts.
I always wake up being suffocated when I do.
And long pants. They always end up all twisted and uncomfy 🙁
Less us best! 😀
No. If I lived by myself I’d probably sleep with less layers, but I don’t. Got to be respectful to not subjecting others to horror. 😛
No more blunt ‘No’! For realises! :'(
It’s messing with me!
And I don’t know what “horror” you could possibly be talking about.
You should try it tonight at least, then give me the verdict tomorrow! 😀
I’m loving the lion-stirring ‘No’. Keep it up. 🙂
Stop it! It’s so mean 🙁
Makes me feel like I’ve done something wrong! :’O
No.
XD
Such a bully 🙁
Awh. His pain is bizarre and illogical, but real… now I’m having flashbacks to the E.T. incident. And the children. Oh god, the children… we couldn’t stop them. DC, WE COULDN’T STOP THEM.
It’s not bizarre or illogical!
To me, anyway 🙁
I never hear DC say ‘No’, usually only ‘Nah’ or something equally friendly.
Bluntly saying ‘No’ seems like he’s unhappy with me for something 🙁
Perhaps I’ve been replaced with a replicant from beyond the moon?
Perhaps you’re just set on breaking my heart :'(
How many layers have you got down so far?
One prep layer and two actual coats now. It’s a huge area though. Got to do the stairs and hard bits beyond the railings as well.
You’ll be fine 🙂
Actually I just looked out window and it’s looking pretty good now that it’s drying some. 😀 😀 😀
I have to finish digging out this path and laying the pavers on Sunday. You could continue the Man About The House streak and do that for me.
I already killed @transientmind doing a day of it 😛
Yeah, naaaaah. 😛
I helped a guy from work once dig a ditch for his utilities on his block of land once.
NEVER HELPING WITH OUTDOORS WORK EVER AGAIN. i worked harder that day than i have ever worked when i was actually getting paid.
Manual labour outside in QLD is so many kinds of wrong.
I worked outdoors for like 5 years in remote places doing hard work getting chased by snakes, scorpions, spiders and stuff (got struck on my shin guards multiple times by deadly snakes) in stupid hot temperatures, often in dangerous situations. I think I’d still rather be doing that than what I do now.
Me and two of my friends once spent an entire week digging holes on the spare block of land next to my house.
They turned them into bike jumps, but I was just in it for the digging.
Do you know how fun digging holes is?!
Dale dug a hole.
Fuck yeah, The Castle!
First thing that springs to mind whenever hole digging is mentioned. Or when people start talking about food they’ve eaten or compliment what they’re about to eat or discuss prices.
no i dont.
😛
Oh man, let me tell you about it!
– You get to play in the dirt!
– You get to work on your muscles!
– You get to work on your tan!
– You get to pretend you’re a hot tradie!
– You get to throw dirt around!
– You get this super cool hole at the end of it!
– You get this super cool mound of dirt at the end of it!
– It’s free!
– It’s incredibly satisfying saying, “Yeah, I dug that hole”, as you admire the hole you’ve dug.
– It’s incredibly fun!
Plus, good place to put drifter!
If you’re so inclined.
I’m just in it for the digging XP
@rocketman does not have to pretend.
DAMN STRAIGHT SON
Some of us do, Freezy.
Some of us do.
*single tear*
SUNBURN FOR WEEKS. I’m game to go again, though I need to check and see what I’ve got on this weekend.
I’m sure it’ll look great once it’s finished! Make sure to take some pics to show off your awesome handy work!
My whole backyard is a f*cking disaster at the moment… No time to fix it!
I’m hoping summer and a bit more light in the evenings will help with some of it.
Actually… no uni for the next 3 months should help alot too.
But… Summer… f*ck that shit… Backyard can turn into a dustbowl…
But the kid… grr… *makes bunnings shopping list*
PS: slow day at work…
http://instagram.com/p/wK7okftaix/
I don’t get it.
Where are all the cards?
Urg. I’m arguing in a comments section on the internet.
I should know better than this. Someone slap me.
*punch*
Ow!
I do wha I wun.
I was reading a competitive pokemon forum, MAN THAT SHIT IS INSANE.
Dont diss other peoples teams unless you want death. Even worse is if you say its “viable but not optimal” people take it like you kicked their child in the groin.
Competitive pokemon people scare me. I just want to run what I want and they are all “HEY! THAT’S NOT OPTIMAL!”
EDIT: Also the fact that they lock babies in a box never to see the light of day for no other reason then their personality.
Well… they’re not wrong.
You know, if you ever found it tough going in the Battle Maison, I have a few tips for you and your team. It’s only a 38 page PDF breakdown of your team, so maybe you can read it before bed.
If you ever wanted advice, I mean. It’s here.
Just saying.
Only 38 pages? You’ve trimmed it down quite a bit.
I trade mine.
So you throw your babies at complete strangers?
… not sure if that’s better or worse.
They scare me, too.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/07/25/
DON’T DISS MY FLYGON. IT’S MY FAVOURITE SHINY.
Edit: :p
You’re getting your comments count up #SILVERLINING
I am avoiding certain articles like the plague today.
LEAVING IN FIVE MINUTES
SADFSRGSFHTYZUW^$WR
Just one question before you leave.
Should I grab the popcorn for when you come back?
Just tell her she’s very punctual. It was a line that worked for Aladdin.
Steal @redartifice’s trick and show her how much dong you have.
My amount of dong is significantly smaller now.
You’re spent?
Simple. Just say the following:
“We like similar things yeah? Wanna catch a movie sometime? I’ll buy the popcorn.”
😛
Ask her if she’s from Italy, because you think she’s one in a Milan.
Ask her if she’s from heaven, because she has nice jugs.
“Did you fall from heaven? Because the crash to earth would certainly explain that face.”
#FlirtingRight
TAYlist for the 4th of November 2014
TAYlist – the TAY Playlist, sponsored by my iPod that finally bought the farmCornershop – Brimful Of Asha
Huey Lewis & The News – I Want A New Drug
Queen – Crazy Little Thing Called Love (Requested by @ontargett)
Thirsty Merc – Mousetrap Heart
Michael Jackson – A Place With No Name
Christopher Cross – Ride Like The Wind (Requested by @beeawwb)
Third Eye Blind – Semi Charmed Life
REM – What’s The Frequency, Kenneth? (Requested by @crazyguy1990)
Beatles – Paperback Writer (Requested by @shane)
The Living End – Save The Day (Requested by @mrtaco)
The Whitlams – Thank You
Silverchair – Anthem For The Year 2000 (Requested by @beavwa)
Foo Fighters – Everlong (Requested by @bdkiaf)
One Day – Leave Your Windows Open (Requested by @highperformance, a Sydney group, huh, pretty cool sound)
Sia – Chandelier
All Mankind – Break The Spell
Cassette Kids – Spin
\o/ Thanks, man!
Dear sir or madam, will you read my book…
I would, if only you had some mechanism for me to exchange money for the ability to purchase an advance copy of said book.
Oh well. 🙁
IF ONLY THERE WAS SOME WAY TO KICKSTART MY WRITING CAREER 🙁
Nah. I’ll buy it but I’m not reading it.
Interestingly, that makes me sadder than not buying it.
Out of curiosity, would you prefer someone purchase it and not read or download it and read?
Download and read.
Edit: this probably won’t surprise you if you consider all the books I’ve given away to TAY folk already.
I won’t take any credit for it, I just am digging the sound on Triple JJJ!
Not bad. I like most of the songs on the list. I’ll give it a solid B. Maybe a B+ if I’m feeling generous.
ugh, stupid petition. This all stems from not understanding. Why have they only targeted Grand theft auto V when there are numerous games, books and movies that have the exact same themes? If it really upset them so much, then perhaps they need counselling. When I had a phobia of pregnancy, I didn’t try and get pregnant people banned from public places. I went to a psychologist and dealt with it.
Meanwhile, alcohol and various other causes for violence against women is being completely ignored. Not to mention, they always say that women can wear whatever they want, so why can’t they play whatever they want?
Sorry, were you expecting internet hysteria coupled with an internet petition to have even a passing relationship with rational or logical behaviour?
Yes, is that too much too ask?
For the internet? Yes.
Nah, the stars just haven’t aligned properly this time.
Or any other time.
But the day is coming… maybe.
Because simple, fast solutions are the best answer to complex, deeply-entrenched problems. Everyone knows this!
I think more corporations and governments should rely on consultation from think-tanks formed in University dorm rooms full of drunk/high liberal arts majors. All world problems: solved.
Edit: Ha. Post number 11111. I like this number.
It’s something I’m researching currently but my theory is that humanity is avoiding using too much logic at once because they fear too much collective logical thinking will spontaneously summon a black hole and wipe out all life on Earth.
…What? Why else does logic get avoided so much, eh?!
A very sensible and logical precaution.
*black hole*
OH NO!
Serious answer: Because people are being trained, through the media and social networking, to skip past ‘miffed’, ‘annoyed’, ‘disappointed’ and ‘angry’ to go straight to ‘absolute total outrage’.
More and more, we are being taught that our opinion counts.
No.
NO
Our opinion doesn’t automatically ‘count’. It doesn’t automatically have ‘meaning’ “because”. There is no inherent weight in our opinion. We’ve forgotten that once upon a time you had to work hard to make your opinion count – through becoming an expert, or by working hard, or by other means.
So these days when we see (and I’m using “we” to describe majority of western culture here, not all humanity and not us here on TAY specifically) something that we don’t like, we automatically want our opinion to count towards it changing, because our opinion counts and we deserve to have things changed the way we want and everybody who is against my opinion is against me as an entire human being.
This is absolute bullshit. You are entitled to hold an opinion, you are encouraged to hold an opinion, but it doesn’t automatically count – and it especially doesn’t automatically count when coupled with whatever-you-latest-fad-flash-in-the-pan-outrage you have going that you are convinced is a true, big thing you need to change.
In short: logic is gone, because a shortened fuse amongst the general populous coupled with a severe sense of entitlement has led us to this point.
Internet mob rule. Change the torches and pitchforks for clicks, shares and electronic signing of petitions – it’s still a mob. And a mob has no logic, only base emotion.
EDIT: Forgot good ol’ Pratchett beat me to it and far more succinctly: “The intelligence of that creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it.”
To be fair, democracy is just as much to blame for telling us that our opinion matters, even if it is grossly misinformed.
Amen.
This!!! PREACH!!!!!
Agree with you on the uninformed part. Personally, I find the Millennium trilogy and 50 shades works to be more controversial – both fairly easily accessible by minors.
But to be fair, those examples are not as easily consumed by children.
Because they’re books and kids don’t read?
Because little Timmy ten year old doesn’t understand sex in the way he understands violence. Add this to the extra cognitive work required to consume a book, and it’s more likely that it would go over his head in a way that games wouldn’t.
Still a hazard, for sure, and I still think any home containing 50SoG should be nuked from orbit as a matter of general principle, but not of the same magnitude.
What about the films?
It’s interesting. I’ve been thinking about this statement, but removing any online petitions or ignorant hysteria as the cause.
If I take the petition as a trigger for rational thought and planning, but not the cause of that action, I welcome this result.
I consider KMart/Target to be some of the biggest offenders as clueless retailers selling GTA to clueless parents of Timmy 10 Year Old. Cutting that down coming into Christmas is a good thing.
I agree that the retailers are clueless and so are the parents. However I think education for the retailers, employees and parents would be better then removing a particular game from the shelves.
BLOODBORNE COUNTDOWN: 110 days.
Waitaminnit… there must have been a delay. Because last time I did this (some time ago), there were 100 days to go.
Yep, looks like there’s a delay: http://blog.us.playstation.com/2014/11/12/bloodborne-update-now-launching-march-24th/
Some rumours have surfaced: there might be randomly-generated dungeons and locales.
http://www.dualshockers.com/2014/11/20/ps4-exclusive-bloodborne-could-have-randomly-generated-dungeon-feature/
Huh.
Guess we’ll find out more at TGS 2014, where Bloodborne is expected to feature heavily.
Dammit, I’ll be in Japan.
Damn, what a shame you’re having an overseas holiday and can pick up some beautiful and awesome version of the game in Japan. DAMN.
The worst.
Hey, push it back as far as you want, Sony!
If you can keep pushing it back until the PS4 Slim gets released, that’d be great. Thanks, Sony!
You there! Yes you! You seem somehow different than usual!
So at work we’re being told that if we need to do research, don’t go straight to Google. We’re that there are multiple other ways to get information including internal databases and other similar online databases. It is also suggested that we use other search engines, with the very first alternative recommended being Bing.
-_- Management is a little bit out of date.
Hahahaha, Bing.
Or management is getting a little stipend from Microsoft to promote Bing =P
Management has been watching The Amazing Spider-Man
Management walks into our IT dept and announces;
The sound on my computer isn’t working!
IT dept; Sound already works, just turn the speakers on.
Management; Oh, okay.
Goes off to watch Youtube videos of cats playing chopsticks with chopsticks on piano.
#newTMNTmoviereference
Last night I had a lucky run in Isaac: Rebirth with Maggy, made it through the Boss Ruch with a (semi-) early Ludovico, and a good amount of damage up. Got an angel room on Mom’s Heart (Cathedral and Sheol are still ‘locked’ for me) and managed to make my way through The Cathedral, and let me say Isaac is a piece of cake when you don’t have to aim.
I got a pretty lucky run last night. First devil room had Brimstone and the third floor had Tammy’s head.
Man, all this healthcare and medical stuff is pretty interesting. Is @freya the only other healthcare TAYbie? 😛
I think Jane works in medical software! Maybe! I MISS YOU, @janexo!
@greenius too!
I work in medical software or DC misses me too?
Because I don’t work in medical software!
I miss you, but I know you’re always in my heart so it’s okay.
*vomits*
BREKA MY HART
Don’t be that way, Wizz! XDE
Aw man, all over my new shoes 🙁
I hear @freya does.
I work for a company that makes and sells paging and nursecall solutions and for hospitals and nursing homes. What are we talking about?
Just kewl healthcare stuff!
I’m currently doing an online compulsory healthcare training thing that expires soon. It’s just going through the different departments of a hospital, the equipment and procedures and other things.
My fight club puts people in the emergency room. Does that count?
Don’t talk about fightclub!!!
I don’t play by the rules! I’m a bad boy type against the establishment!
Desperately holding onto your youthful angst, I see.
Aren’t you, like, 50?
I was never youthful, Stewie. I’ve been fretting about things way above my maturity level even when I was a young’n. One of my first words was traumatized. 😛
I dunno, you always come across as the “young at heart” type of guy.
Well, as young as a 50 year old can come across as.
No. Don’t do this thing you do with Ben to me, Stewie. I can’t handle it.
Hahahahahahahhaahhahaahga! 😀
But it fills me with joy!
Spiteful, spiteful joy! >:)
*sigh*
Fiiiiiiiine 😛
I won’t make old jokes.
Not until after your birthday >:)
So kind. 😀
I never said which birthday, old man! 😀
But for real, you’re not even old, relax 😛
He’s 30 in a month. Totes old.
That’s when the teasing will become relentless 🙂
I work in a medical centre!
But as admin.
@blaghman does work at a hospital, I think. More on the admin side, IIRC, but he knows things!
Edit: well… that’ll teach me to scroll down before replying.
Healthcare TAYbies are better than Government TAYbies!
Well, wandered over to EB to grab GTAV PS4 (for too much but I like shopping there) as a useless, ineffective and invisible take that to Target, as I’ve never really purchased anything from there and never was going to so uh, take that?
Talking to the staff there about it all and the manager hadn’t heard it yet and she went off about how stupid it was. As I was leaving I made a crack about price matching with Target’s $60 now they’ve pulled it,at which point she grabbed the game, refunded it and handed it back to me with $35 cash. Hooray!
BAM! TAKE THAT TARGET!
I AIN’T BUYING WHAT YOU AIN’T SELLING! HACHAAAA! *Ninja pose*
Wait, so did I read that correctly; EB paid you $35 to take GTA5?
Or was that just the difference if price matched?
Difference.
Actual IM from the wife just then:
“Ok. so don’t laugh. I may have signed us up for foxtel.”
I’m not laughing. I AM SO NOT LAUGHING.
Did she not hear the news about Netflix?
EXACTLY
…
STILL NOT LAUGHING
Haha, sorry, I’m laughing. That’s pretty funny.
http://tinyurl.com/pm6s3zw
I AM
I laughed. I’m finding a lot of things funny lately. *stares into distance*
That’d be the tumour.
IT’S NOT A TOOMA!
Generally that kind of surprise would make my blood boil, but given their new $25 a month plan, it’s actually not too bad. I think you get over 40 channels for $25 a month. Much much better than it used to be! Still wouldn’t spend my money on it for myself, but if I had a partner who wanted it, I wouldn’t object to it as much as I would have in years gone by.
But…
…it’s my PS4 fund.
notlaughing.
mm yeah.. understandable. She really should have consulted you first unless she plans to pay for it out of her own pocket.
As someone addicted to cycling coverage with a missus who is addicted to procedurals, I like Foxtel’s product. I feel dirty for paying money to Murdoch, but I justify this by being a giant hypocrite.
There is no cycling coverage on foxtel
There is no cycling coverage on foxtel
There is no cycling coverage on foxtel
There is no cycling coverage on foxtel
There is no cycling coverage on foxtel
Not until early next year. 🙁 Bring on the TDU and the Spring Classics!
But I am going to the track event at HiSense on Saturday 20th December!
Nice. World cup?
I went last year, only a single day pass though. Which events are on? No lots of ITT I hope.
That was just my mantra against considering foxtel. Do they actually have decent coverage of the spring classics? Not just P-R but things like Amstel as well?
Out of interest do you do any of the fantasy cycling league things. Also where do your loyalties lie?
No, this: http://premier.ticketek.com.au/shows/show.aspx?sh=AUSTRALW14
Eurosport has so much cycling. So much. All the Classics (although the Hell Of The North is on SBS these days) – LBL, Paris-Nice, Amstel Gold etc etc. Giro and Vuelta. Most of the shorter stage races – Poland, Dauphine, Switzerland, Britain, Turkey etc. No Le Tour as SBS have that.
I do play some fantasy cycling, when I remember. No particular loyalties – obviously shout for the Aussies and the Brits, but like seeing riders like Peter Sagan, Nibali (bloody hell he can descend), and watching the women like Vos is just brilliant too.
Ohhh that’s actually really tempting, I do love me some madison. Sadly I’ll be in Ballarat for family Christmas otherwise I might have joined you there.
Oh so foxtel has full Eurosport, ahhh I generally end up streaming eurosport for those events.
Are you and ex-pom?
Yep, grew up in England, been in Oz nearly 10 years, citizen for nearly 4!
Three words:
Cooling Off Period.
Yeah, the set top box DOES get hot.
Hhahaahhhaha. 😐
Dude now you can watch such amaizng shows like, um..
90 day fiance
Container wars
Teen mom, and
Teen mom 2.
Make sure you thank her…
To be fair, Showcase is pretty excellent for same day HBO/AMC shows. 😀
Let’s all do the 12 month contract dance! It…. it was only 12 months, right? Didn’t get… ‘upgraded’?
I hope she got the sports package?!?
So… designing a survey for feedback on a report my team produces is surprisingly difficult… I think this is going to take more than the hour I’ve set aside. *hmph*
SurveyMonkey.
Will you go out with me? Y/NDo you like our report? Y/N
Done.
Survey monkey is pretty easy!
It’s better than those damn evil ones. Stupid @evilmonkey 😛
I hear he’s pretty easy too though.
*slow wink*
You and your slow winks… I’m starting to think you have a lazy eyelid.
=POi, you shuddup, Sergeant Sunshine.
You know it.
I’m dead sexeh.
So that’s how it is. Definitely not gifting you anything in the Steam Christmas sale.
*folds arms*
Nah that’s mean, I totally will ily <3FINE. Then I’ll just have to do the same! *crosses arms*
Using SurveyMonkey… my problem is we know people like the actual report as it gives them quick line of sight on 20+ different exception and error volumes.
My problem is it’s become rather large as previous people agreed to add reporting requested by 1 or 2 users (out of 25) and I’m not confident others are using the data or see value.
Wording/structuring it to get responses but not overwhelm them is going to be… tricky… as my audience is somewhat time poor.
You sound like you’re describing my job. 😛
Yay for corporate enterprise! AMIRIGHT?!
\o/
Not really… /o\
250 page, 450+ graph report… weekly! \o/
All the /o\
On Monday’s no less right?
I think you need a hug… *awkward corporate shoulder pat to avoid getting into trouble from HR*
Draft published on Monday, full report and analysis on Tuesday.
Why not use a more adaptive tool? How big’s the dataset you’re looking at?
I hate Internet Explorer 8… FFS!
I hit ‘backspace’ to correct a typo in a text field and IE8 thinks I want to go back in my browsing history… /o\
My day so far:
Finally sorted one of the two giant networking issues at work that have been haunting me for days. \o/
Got a call from the Sydney office to say that “a very nice lady with a cute kid” had dropped off a bag of books for me – thanks @cookingmama \o/
Discovered my slightly overdue tax is all sorted, and I’m due a small refund \o/
Picked up my comic standing order, including issue 1 of Escape From New York \o/
And to top it all, last night @os42 invited me on the Vault Raid on Hard. 5 L30s and my L29 Titan. It was AWESOME fun, doing what I could (mainly desperately trying to not die and keep a Weapons Of Light bubble ready for when needed). Spent a fair amount of it dead (as at L29 it’s mostly one-shot kills – the others were incredibly patient and kept reassuring me how utterly brutal it is…), but that just gave me the opportunity for the first time to watch and listen to a really experienced team playing. Plus I got 2 Titan armour pieces and the Vision of Confluence scout rifle which makes me very happy as scout is my weapon of choice. Massive thanks and I learnt a lot, as well as seeing a part of the Vault I’d not seen before. So hyped for Dark Below now… Hopefully I’ll be able to get up to L30 and be able to hold my own soon.
\o/ \o/ \o/
You did great, mate, glad you could make it! Hard mode is definitely a shock to the system – it’s unforgiving to everyone, but doubly so for 29s because of how hard everything hits. Our first run was with 5x29s and a 30 – it, uh, wasn’t pretty. :S On the plus side, we know the first few encounters pretty well 😛
I’m relieved that you had a good time, too; I was a bit worried for a while during that templar fight. And two pieces on your first HM run! \o/ Congrats! We may call on you again!
Was a shock, for sure, but good lessons. Enjoyed the Templar – survived way longer than I though I would on a couple of the attempts. Think I’m getting the Gorgon Maze and the bloody jumping blocks now too.
Only bit that was a little irritating was getting pinged by Atheon the second he appeared – I thought I had enough time to pop an ammo pack and reload heavy, and he got me in the back as I was running across to join you all. Oops. Expensive lesson. Couldn’t believe how fast you took him down.
LOVE Vision of Confluence. It’s going to be so handy when it’s fully upgraded. DEATH TO THE ORACLES.
VoC was my go-to primary (after the AR nerf, at least) right up until I got my mythoclast levelled. The VoC is a beast. 🙂
Ah, that’s what happened; perfectly understandable – he hits harder than you’d expect, and that splash damage… ouch. As for taking him down… well, a few focused Gjallarhorns will sort him out pretty quickly – those wolfpack rounds work wonders. 😛
My pleasure – the view from level 27 is awesome 🙂
Isn’t it fab? New fit-out, we moved in there 2 years ago. Unfortunately my “office” when I’m up there is the server room… 🙂
In light of this Target & Kmart GTA V debacle, could both retailers just shoot themselves in the foot some more with gamers and stop selling video games & related products all together? That would make the upset parties happy, and EB & JB should be a whole lot happier so they don’t have to compete with their below cost prices.
I’m betting that they go the way of Myer and David Jones and bail out of video games altogether. Aside from their ridiculous prices (some of which I doubt were profitable), they weren’t doing anything good for video games.
I’m a bit annoyed because Kmart used to have a decent collection of DS and 3DS games. They used to stock the harvest moon games when other places didn’t.
They stopped doing that, so kmart is mostly dead to me in the gaming area. They still sell amiibos though.
No loss there if they do. I think the last video game I bought from Kmart was American Chopper the video game for PS2 back in I dunno 2006 maybe?
Well, according to my manager at EB, Target, Big W, Kmart & even Dick Smith were not making a profit on day 1 releases of games. Which they were more than happy to take a hit on because their sweatshop made clothing, made them more than enough profit to cover those losses.
Seconding @scree. Each store always seemed to have SOMETHING I was looking for that didn’t appear at any of the other stores. Same goes each for Big W and, formerly, Toys R Us as well.
And I do mean that they had things that weren’t at EB. It sucks to have lost most of that already, but even just the competition and the stupidly low prices are still of great benefit I think.
I am going to play so much Dragon Age when I get home.
My Inquisitor finally unlocked masterworking, some Tier 3 materials, and a vanguard heavy armour piece that makes her look so fucking badass and kewl like a Warhammer witch-hunter… or INQUISITOR. Combined with that and the giant masterwork sword, everything is now cosmetically perfect. (Or, it would be if I could make everything jet black instead of a dark brown, but what can you do.)
I just got into a second run. Evil human archer.
Am I missing something, can you change colours without changing stats?
My hat is Orange because I wanted fire resistance
Yeah, I preferred base stats to resistances, so the darker leathers suit me quite well. There aren’t any colour dyes that I know of, those I’ve seen some forum whispers about dyes potentially being a thing in an update.
That would be cool.
Also, hair styles.
So South Park is going completely nuts with the continuity. Today’s episode is a two-parter that builds on a lot of material from earlier in the season.
Oh and PewDiePie is in it. First time I’ve ever really seen any of his content (even though it was faked for the show). It’s going to be the last.
More and more YouTubers seem to be getting screen time on traditional TV. Annoying Orange seems to only be the start of it.
In this case, they’re doing the usual South Park thing and mocking him. Basically highlighting the generation gap that exists between PewDiePie’s audience and their audience. They also point out that what’s going on isn’t exactly a new phenomenon.
Oh and there’s also holographic Tupac.
This season of South Park has been really good. Even if things like the Cock Magic episode managed to get details wrong, they still nailed the idea.
Do you realise how old you just made me feel….
PS: Cock Magic may have been my favourite episode this season.
Dude, my internet gets capped every month because I watch Twitch streams all the damned time. When it comes to getting the whole thing about passively enjoying others playing games and watching for the commentary, I get it. I really get it.
PewDiePie still makes me feel ancient.
Also, because of my obsession with Dota, I keep typing PieLieDie (a pro player) and having to correct myself.
And Kenny McCormick got invited to a MtG Pro Tour because of that episode.
But, you are old.
So old.
So incredibly old.
How old are you again Freezy?
So old.
That’s how old.
Oi, as someone near Freezy’s age, I’m gonna open a can of whoop ass on you son.
…if I could open the can.
Damn arthritic fingers.
It’s like a retirement home up in this place.
There has been a lot of traffic on this site today and some very interesting debates have popped up and I thought you should all know that in Australia it is illegal to roam the streets wearing black clothes, felt shoes and black shoe polish on your face as these items are the tools of a cat burglar.
And you know this from first hand experience?
He was wearing sneakers. The kind used for sneaking!
There was something different about the way he was walking that day. Much more vertical than usual.
Not me…uh…a friend. Yes that’s it. A friend!
*sniggers*
Greninja > all others.
Fact.
Still not enjoying it a huge amount though, to be honest :\
Except for my beloved Greninja 🙂
Same, Greninja is great
If my net weren’t so crap at the moment, I’d totally take you on.
I wanna battle toooo
You need to main Pac-Man, that’s why you don’t enjoy it that much!
Greninja is pretty awesome. Still now Zero Suit Samus, but pretty awesome.
The side+B is sneaky…
The First Kotaku Australia Newsletter?
I don’t understand these words in this order!
Wait, was I the only one to get this?
Certainly nothing in my inbox that looks remotely like a newsletter from here… Unless they’re now spruiking local girls in my area?
Although… on review of my profile… my ‘Subscription’ preferences for newsletters are suspiciously ‘unticked’ so it’s entirely possible I was never going to get a newsletter …
Awwww, mine were too.
Hey, @freezespreston – Fwd it to me. Or something.
I got it
Yeah, I got that too.
Yup. Apparently it’s a thing.
Or at least so my inbox tells me.
edit: nvm, I like it, going with it 🙂
Singapore racing meat?
Eventuallllyyyyyy depending on how finances are doing 😛
That’s right, you’re also paying for @pixel_the_ferret_viking and me too! 😛
Nahhhhhhhh 😛
Boooooouuuurns!
<3Did you see my tweet about the part where I got my tickets for the 2015 Aussie GP in the mail? \o/
Yeah 😛 I was jealous
Had a good day today. Weather was wet most of the day, but you wouldn’t know it now. Bought Guardians of the Galaxy (will watch it soon). Watched The Raid 2. Had NaNoBration (Event celebrating the end of NaNoWriMo) and had pizza for tea. Had Sweet Chilli Chicken (Chicken, Sweet Chilli Sauce, Onion and Pineapple), which was pretty great. Also tried Grape Fruit Fanta, which is awesome. 10/10, would do again.
Only 320 days to go till Back To The Future day \o/
http://www.october212015.com/
Hoverboards and self drying clothes inbound!
GREAT SCOTT!
I’ve never been to a musical but wouldn’t mind seeing The Lion King (is that still considered good?)
Any TAY meats planned for that in Melbourne or elsewhere? How much do musicals usually cost and how long do they go for?
I WANT TO BE CULTURED(IUS) 😛
I saw there was a Melbourne Meat organised coming up, there might be a chance to go then!
Tickets for shows vary, I’d imagine a show would cost you somewhere in the region of $60-120 a ticket depending on the show and the quality of your seat. I went to see Wicked recently and that went for close to 2 and a half hours so I’d imagine it’d be the same for the Lion King.
You will love musicals, it would be a cultural(ius) experience that you would not regret. @dc will tell you more!
*drops the mic* (Is this a dropping the Mic type of moment?)
*Picks up mic, dusts off and puts back on stand*
I will tell you more about the Colobus Monkey. Did you know there are atleast eight subspecies?
I thought we were kindred spirits in musicals DC? Am I mistaken in thinking this? (• •) (• ,•) (. .)
Got Wicked tickets for February. Saw Lion King in October. Was my third time. 😛
Including the black or satanic (evil) colobus monkey
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_colobus
They organised a Melbourne meat without inviting me?
:'(
It was an intervention! We’re worried about you!
I don’t think it’s organised, I came to TAY late and thought and remember reading something from @evilmonkey about a Melbourne meat lol.
I think it was going to be at Federation Square on the 14th about tea time. I’m not sure if it’s actually going to happen at the moment, haven’t mentioned any meats to the missus yet (I should probably get on that).
I absolutely loved Lion King… I’m not typically a theatre goer and have been to maybe 6 shows. Seen Lion King twice without regrets.
Although if you get the chance… Taikoz is a phenomenal show with an extraordinary amount of energy.
I should be studying… but meh…
So Taikoz… this totally doesn’t do it justice but it gives you an idea… http://youtu.be/DPeDie-CTOE
It gets intense… from 5:00 through to the end… http://youtu.be/Kg64ol9s9Fo?t=4m58s
I saw it. Was pretty rad.
Ugh, Unculturedius
I saw The Lion King and thought it was great. It was also the first musical I had ever seen.
Ugh Ser Moreculturedulus 🙁
Seriously though, you should see it!
There’s a total of three musicals that I would be keen as mustard to see. They are
Wolf Creek The Musical
Evil Dead The Musical and
The Producers.
Yo.
Musicals are fucking sick.
But we all knew that I was gonna say that.
The Lion King is the bomb diggety. And I was gonna say “see Matilda when it’s in Oz” but apparently thus far it’s only announced for Sydney, maybe? I dunno, it’s a Lyric theatre one, not Capitol, so I don’t know if it’s as likely to tour.
And yeah, they’re typically somewhere in the two-and-a-half hour range, the tickets for The Lion King were like $61 a pop, though that was at the very back, and the ones for Wicked were $120ish, though that was mostly because the cheapest ones were like $100 so I didn’t see the point in sticking to the very back.
You’ve never been to the THEE-AYE-TRE!? How uncouth!
Interior crocodile alligator
I drive a Chevrolet movie thee ay tre
Decided to re-watch Mad As Hell on iView.
Still as funny as ever. 😀
I have a confession to make. I totally skipped Page 10. I bet it was full of awesome stuff but I was too busy to read it. I hope it was full of puns. 😛
It was tensational.
Caught my first ever Pokemon today \o/
I’d tell you which one it was, but I’ll be buggered if I can think of the name of it.
Was it this one? He’s pretty powerful and rare!
Just turned my 3DS on to find out the name. It was a Torchic.
Got given a Treecko to start with, but that doesn’t count because I didn’t “catch” it.
Edit: According to the DexNav, I’ve caught all the Pokemans in the first area.
There are wild Torchics? o_O
Are you sure that’s not just pokemon you’ve seen?
Ah sorry, my bad, I’ve caught Wurmple, Poochyena and Zigzagoon.
So tired, think it’s time for bed.
Trainthewurmpletrainthewurmpletrainthewurmpletrainthewurmple
I’m interested in Apathy… are you?
Eh.
RING ON THE FINGER
OVERHEARD MENTION OF FIANCEE, AND STORY OF HOW THEY MET
STILL SEEMED TO BE RECEIVING SIGNALS ANYWAY
GOD DAMMIT WHY DOES THIS ALWAYS-
I give up.
That time already? *grabs popcorn*
That sucks man, people still flirt although they have a partner sometimes. Sorry for jumping aboard the hype train yestetday.
HOLY JESUS FUCKING CHRIST WHAT HAPPENED TO SKYPE THIS THE UGLIEST MOST SINFUL ABOMINATION OF A UI I HAVE EVER *fist through screen*
Ok downgrade successful, so that’s one problem solved.
Fgvyy cerggl ohzzrq nobhg gur bgure fvqr bs guvatf. Naq pbashfrq. Naq V xabj vg fbhaqf qhzo naq juvarl be jungrire, glcvpny Tbbx naq uvf arireraqvat tvey ceboyrzf rgp. Ohg vg’f whfg… unir lbh rire gevrq gb cynl n tnzr? Rkprcg lbh qba’g ernyyl haqrefgnaq gur ehyrf ng nyy? Naq ab znggre ubj bsgra lbh gel gb cynl vg be unir vg rkcynvarq gb lbh, vg fgvyy qbrfa’g ernyyl znxr frafr, naq ab znggre jung pbzovangvba bs guvatf lbh gel naq qb, abar bs vg frrzf gb erfhyg va nalguvat, naq rira bapr lbh srry yvxr lbh *zvtug* haqrefgnaq jung’f tbvat ba, nyy bs n fhqqra gur ehyrf qba’g frrz gb nccyl nal zber? Vg trgf zrtn sehfgengvat nsgre n juvyr, naq lbh whfg qba’g jnag gb cynl nal zber.
V’z ernql gb rwrpg gur qvfp.
I’m kinda just hoping that something falls into my lap (haha euphemism) like the rest of my life: high school, uni, job all seemed to just happen. I have the Cracks Luck.
Bastard.
Fine. I’ll start taking Cocaine to see if it improves my luck (well, it couldn’t make my work ethic any worse).
Blaghs, you never fail to make me chuckle.
Ah man, chin up buddy 🙂
I’ve noticed that you / others tend to palm the girl stuff off as “typical Gooky”, but it’s clear that it must get disheartening from time to time.
For starters, I’d stop looking at it as something to worry about.
Things like this have a way of sorting themselves out. You’re young, smart, charismatic, good looking, and have your whole life ahead of you. Don’t let something as small as girl troubles get to you.
It’s confusing now, but it’ll be clear someday when you find your special someone 🙂
I’m a romantic at heart.
When you find the someone you want to be with, truly want to be with, you’ll know it, and suddenly all this girl trouble will mean nothing to you 🙂
Just take it all as an experience in the meantime.
Like I said, you’re young. No point getting hung up on something small like girl problems.
You’ll look back on this stuff one day and laugh about it 🙂
Hope you’re feeling better in the morning, friend 🙂
Lrnu. V qhaab. Yvxr, vg’f abg fb zhpu nobhg ure fcrpvsvpnyyl, sbe nyy V xabj rira vs nyy gur pneqf yvarq hc evtug vg fgvyy jbhyqa’g unir jbexrq bhg. Ohg vg’f whfg gung V arire rira frrz gb trg gur punapr gb trg gb gur cbvag bs jbexvat bhg gung vg jba’g jbex bhg, lbh xabj? Naq rirelguvat zbirf ng tynpvny cnpr, V zrrg arj crbcyr fb vaserdhragyl vg gnxrf ntrf sbe bccbeghavgvrf gb nevfr naq gura gb unir gurz xrrc whfg rkcybqvat va zl snpr bayl zbzragf orsber V’z ernql gb gnxr gur yrnc… vg *vf* qvfurnegravat. V xabj V’ir zragvbarq vg ba urer orsber ng fbzr cbvag, V trg gur jubyr “lbh’er lbhat, fzneg, punevfzngvp, tbbq ybbxvat, rgp” guvat nyy gvzr, vg srryf fb zrnavatyrff abj. Abar bs gung frrzf gb znggre be nssrpg nalguvat va nal jnl, vg’f whfg vapbafrdhragvny.
Vg’f abg whfg guvf, gubhtu. Gur tvey guvat. Zl jubyr yvsr vf ortvaavat gb srry yvxr na raqyrff eha bs snyfr-fgnegf. Abguvat rire ernyyl sbyybjf guebhtu ng nyy, vg’f whfg n ohapu bs fubeg-yvirq ovgf naq cvrprf jvgu ab frafr bs pbagvahvgl.
Ernqvat lbhe fgbevrf, V’ir abgvprq bar pbzzba gurzr. Lbh qba’g fgevxr juvyr gur veba vf ubg. Lbh arrq gb gnxr punetr, xabj jung lbh jnag, or rntre, jvyyvat, naq hanfunzrq gb rkcyber.Lbh pehfurq ba fxrgpuobbx sbe qnza arne n lrne, znlor zber nf sne nf V xabj. Lbh’ir zragvbarq cbffvoyl-Vgnyvna-tvey pnhtug lbhe rlr zbaguf ntb. V’z cerggl fher vs lbh’q nfxrq, lbh jbhyq’ir tbg Pyvzorl’f ahzore ba lbhe svefg avtug, znlor frpbaq, nsgre gnyxvat.
Naq jura lbh trg gung ahzore lbh arrq gb qb fbzrguvat zber guna punggre cbvagyrffyl sbe qnlf be jrrxf, yrneavat nobhg gurz, lbh arrq gb neenatr n qngr naq znxr lbhe vagragvbaf pyrne. Lbh pna yrnea nobhg gurz juvyr lbh’er qngvat. Ohg ng yrnfg gurl xabj jurer lbh’er pbzvat sebz naq jurer lbh jnag gb tb. Vg’f sne zber ubarfg gung jnl. Ubarfgl pna or qvfnezvat naq punezvat va vgfrys.
Rira vs lbh tbg fubg qbja rirel gvzr (naq lbh nofbyhgryl jbhyqa’g unir), lbh’q or fhecevfrq ubj fuhggvat qbja aba-fgnegre bcgvbaf bcraf lbhe rlrf gb bgure cbgragvny.
Whfg… npg snfgre. V trg gur srryvat yvxr lbh’er nfunzrq bs lbhe vagrerfg naq cerpvbhf jvgu lbhe pehfurf, yvxr gurl’er n ener pbzzbqvgl va fbzr xvaq bs qryvpngr zvarsvryq gb or anivtngrq jvgu rkgerzr pner naq pnhgvba. Naq gung’f bayl cnegyl gehr. Vg VF n zvarsvryq, ohg gur vqrn vf gb fcevag guebhtu vg fb lbh oybj hc tbbq naq rneyl naq rawbl gur ivrj juvyr lbh syl. Eryngvbafuvcf ner zrffl, fb zrgncubevpnyyl qerff hc va fbzr pybgurf lbh qba’g zvaq trggvat ehvarq naq trg fghpx va, rzoenpr gur zrff. Gur abg xabjvat jung gb qb, gur areibhfarff, gur rkpvgrzrag.
V’z abg fnlvat vg’f abg punyyratvat… V’z fnlvat vg’f rssrpgvir, naq vg’f sha jura lbh fhpprrq, naq fnirf gvzr naq vairfgzrag jura lbh qba’g.
V thrff V bsgra qba’g ernyvfr gur veba vf ubg hagvy vg ab ybatre vf :C Naq qba’g xabj jura gur orfg gvzr gb fgevxr vf, fb gnxr sberire yvavat hc gur fubg. Vg srryf yvxr n favcre’f tnzr.
Guvf… vf cebonoyl cerggl zhpu onat-ba. V qb qb gung. Naq V xabj V’ir urneq lbh (naq/be Areqybir?) fnl abg gb qb gung, gur “cerpvbhf pbzzbqvgl” guvat. Ohg vg’f uneq abg gb. Gurl *ner* cerpvbhf pbzzbqvgvrf. V zrna gurfr gjb tveyf ng jbex urer, gurl’er gur bayl (ybngur nf V nz gb hfr gur grez) “cbgragvnyf” V guvax V’ir zrg nyy lrne. Uryy znlor rira gur bayl arj crbcyr V’ir zrg nyy lrne shyy fgbc. Pyvzorl nccrnerq zvq-yngr oevrsyl ynfg lrne orsber inavfuvat. V ernyyl pbhyqa’g qb nalguvat nobhg gung gubhtu orpnhfr vg jnf whfg greevoyr gvzvat, V jnf sne gbb uhat-hc ba Fxrgpuobbx. Jub lrnu, svefg fubjrq hc onpx va 2012. Orsber ure gubhtu V qba’g guvax jnf ernyyl nalbar ohg Pbfcynl Tvey, jub jnf 2009.
Vg’f whfg ernyyl vaserdhrag gung arj snprf pbzr nybat, naq bs gubfr srj crbcyr sbe gurz gb or srznyr, naq bs gubfr srj srznyrf sbe gurz gb or barf gung pngpu zl vagrerfg… V qba’g xabj ubj V pna funxr gung zvaqfrg va n fvghngvba yvxr gung. Gur “nfunzrq bs zl vagrerfg” cneg vf cerggl fcbg-ba gbb, gubhtu cebonoyl zber n crefbanyvgl guvat guna fvghngvbany bar yvxr gur nobir.
V unir orra gelvat gb trg zlfrys va gurer zber, jvgu obgu gurfr ynfg gjb V’q cflpurq zlfrys hc gb npghnyyl nfx gurz bhg. Juvpu vf fgvyy fbzrguvat V’z lrg gb trg gb qb. Rfcrpvnyyl fvapr va obgu pnfrf V’ir pbzr fb evqvphybhfyl pybfr gb svanyyl gnxvat gur cyhatr, bayl gb trg n erq synt guebja hc va zl snpr naq univat gb nobeg ng gur ynfg zbzrag. Cebonoyl gur zbfg sehfgengvat cneg bs vg nyy. Va rvgure pnfr V qba’g guvax V jbhyq unir zvaqrq trggvat fubg qbja, nf zhpu nf vg fgvyy jbhyq unir fhpxrq. V’q ng yrnfg unir orra noyr gb fnl V qvq vg.
Unys ragregnvavat gur vqrn bs whfg tbvat sbe vg urer naljnl, naq xnzvxnmr fgenvtug vagb gung jnyy :C Zvtug or n yvggyr gbb njxjneq gubhtu, univat gb xrrc pbzvat onpx vagb jbex. Znlor ba zl ynfg qnl…
Argh. It’s that last line! Nonono, don’t wait until the last stop, the last moment, like it’s some sort of fucking Hollywood rom-com finale. That shit doesn’t work. Asking someone out is the START of the story, not the climax, before ‘happily ever after’.
But y’know. Mad props for deciding to ask out sooner. It’s a good move, and a hard one. And rejection will always suck, always sting, but at least experiencing it more often makes you realize how it’s not the end of the world. And funnily enough, the less you fear it, the less it’ll suck AND – weirdly – the less it’ll happen.
Asking people out at work is… enh. I don’t personally recommend shitting where you eat, but hey, some people manage to form solid relationships that way, so I guess don’t rule it out entirely? You shouldn’t be relying on it. Approaching people where you see them out and about is probably better.
Haha, the last stop thing is meant to be more of a “get out of jail free” card than any kind of gesture. If it all goes wrong then there’s no need to return to the smouldering mess of a pile left behind, it’s just cut-and-run 😛
Work people are slightly less intimidating than strangers since you kind of get a chance to become familiar with them. Approaching strangers you see out and about still seems like a weird idea to me. Though I had been entertaining the idea of attempting to talk to Sketchbook Clone… only I had no idea what to say. Ask if I was right in guessing it was a violin she was carrying in that case? How long she’d been playing? Then what? Uhh. Then the self-defeat sets in and I put the idea aside. She was a no-show yesterday, actually. Presumably either finished up for the year or maybe even graduated now, assuming I’m right in thinking she’s a student at some kind of college around here. So I guess I probably won’t have to worry about that any more 😛
That’s exactly the kind of conversation starter you should use. Ask about something notable, get a feel for if they’re interesting to talk to. I mean, you already know if they’re pretty, but talking helps you figure if this is someone you wanna get to know. And so often you can tell by the way they laugh, whether they brush you off haughtily or are the kind of person who wants to engage, that this IS someone worth hanging out with. Talking to strangers can be great. Scary, but useful.
@transientmind Maybe if she appears next Thursday I’ll do something. Maybe. If I can force myself to. Even though the train is full of other people. And there’s no other sound but the rattling of the carriage so any conversations can probably be easily overheard. And ok this whole psyching oneself up thing is really hard.
Owch. That’s a lot of pressure. Honestly, I gotta admit, I don’t even know if I’d have balls enough to do that without a really good ‘excuse’ as an opening, with a fucking audience of bored commuters. That’s hard mode, right there.
But y’know, if your pickings are slim…
*Gigantic Manhugs*
I’ve been through it too. I did eject the disc too. stopped looking for love and decided it wasnt for me. That isnt to say I stopped Socialising or meeting people I still met people but finding someone or playing their games wasnt on my list anymore.
*hugs man* I’m sure it will happen for you one day. possibly when you least expect it. thats how it happened for me.
Man, PewDiePie must be so happy he got to appear on South Park today.
I googled myself for the first time since 2006. Apparently I’m a Professor of Radiology. Nice.
I’m a Texan Banjo player by the name of “Banjo Ben”.
I’m an Emmy Award-winning Canadian journalist and web entrepreneur, VICE Media CEO, a famous NFL player, a low-level musician with big ambition, and an Australian graphic novelist. It’s good to keep busy.
Professor of Law in Texas.
Awww yisss, time to…actually I don’t know what I can do with that. Set shitty assignment tasks?
An actor, known for Gilmore Girls, Deep Impact and The Temp.
Haha, I’ve been meaning to bring up the Gilmore Girls connection for a while, actually. Every time I see the name in the credits.
I’m the CEO of some web based company and a rugby player that committed suicide :\
I’m a Canadian dermatology Dr / researcher.
I don’t exist.
Huh, google results have expanded from when I last checked. Interesting.
Could’ve sworn there used to be someone over in America though, don’t seem to see them any more.
I found another me. He’s a slightly racist boofhead from Perth. I don’t like him.
I’m a large, black, American millionaire bootleg-cigarette kingpin. Who is also white, Australian, and a Rocksmith enthusiast working at a university. I can only assume the latter is a cover for the former.
Holy sheet the last couple of days has been the worst ever at work… So many other departments fucking up causing me to have to pick it up and clean their mess…. Think I’m coming to a realization that I am done with IT and a change of career is in order… It’s been a long time coming me thinks.
On a positive note after I finished work yesterday I took the pups to the beach again to unwind and it was awesome!
Dogs are the best cheer up after a bad day at work. After a bad day I usually spend lots of time with mine and usually end up laughing my arse off because they’re total goof balls. I hope things improve for you, I’m with you in the hating my job department.
Ok so long story short: Wife got conn…swindle…coerced by the head of sales for the entire state of Tasmania with Foxtel. Who claimed that Netflix aren’t coming, Foxtel has reduced it’s advertising on it’s channels by 90% and that for only $25 a month she can record up to 300gb of Movies on her set top box (i.e. Wrong, False and Totally Misleading).
So we reached a compromise – I’ve given up the PS4 fund out of our joint monies and we’re going to spend it on gym memberships, as she’s pointed out I could do with getting fitter and “a bit firmer like you were when you were younger”.
So yeah, we’re cancelling Foxtel and it’s a win for all parties.
…wait.
I JUST SIGNED UP TO A GYM WHAT FRESH HORROR IS THIS
Edit: Of course this is a pageget.
🙁
Gym membership fees are just as much of a swindle as Foxtel…. 😛
Just go for a jog! Nature’s gym!
Actually, there’s a gym literally a block away called Zap – cheap as chips (literally, it’s $12.99 a week, so cheaper than buying chips everyday), $70 joining fee, but after that you can cancel anytime without any charge with two weeks notice. No contract, just pay in advance every two weeks and you’re in.
Oh, and it’s open 24/7.
Just don’t break your sternum!
Have you paid yet? Gyms often have good deals in January to capitalise on all those new year’s resolutions, including no joining fee.
Not yet – I’ll ask her to hold off until January.
Unless as salesperson has got to her already.
Just use a VPN to get NetFlix now, that’s what i do.
Quiz_B, keepin’ it tight.
I’ll never sign up to Foxtel. It’s the principle dagnabbit. Not sure why you should pay for a service that supplements their income with more adverts than what’s on free-to-air tv.
Keep motivating each other with the gym. Once you get into a routine it can be the best thing in the World. Getting into that routine in the first place however…
Once upon a time there were very few ads, the subscription was worthwhile. They snapped up all the good shows and we didn’t mind paying a premium. Then the ads came. Most people can’t be bothered giving up the extra channels and shows. I had to literally not watch TV for 6 months, having to constantly erase unwatched shows and movies from my iQ to make room for more recordings before I realised I was paying $115/month for NOTHING.
I can’t make sense of that outcome.
Oh the gym is easy, on your first day try and bet my new leg press record, it’s only 4 reps of 570kg
*wince* “Thanks, babe.”
Agreed with @beavwa’s sentiments, if there isn’t an awesome special on now you can usually get something really cheap between November and Feb.
As the resident gym manager of TAY I think you’re doing a swell thing, the gym is a great way to improve your health and quality of life even before worrying about things like weight or muscularity.
A personal favourite of mine to help you get out of bed at 6am for workouts:
I got an Eon Ticket yesterday! \o/
If any of you Sydney/@rocketman Pokemonners want it, you better bring your 3DS’ for Streetpass tomorrow!
I don’t know what that is! \o/
It’s the thing you can redeem for Latinos or Latinas! \o/
wait, so you need tickets to redeem pokemon now? Didn’t you use to throw balls at them?
Too violent.
Well… technically you use the ticket to board a ship to take you to an island in order to catch the legendary alternate to the one you can normally get in your version.
But that didn’t make for a very funny gag.
Our local store distributing tickets is Gold Coast T_T
The distribution was just a one-off. It spreads virally through Streetpass now!
Yeah, but had they done it, I dunno, within a few K of our capital, it might have perhaps worked better?
That’s racist.
THAT’S POKEMON
How do I obtain one of those?
Streetpassing somebody who already has one is the only way to get it now.
Hooray for SPECTRE!
Won’t nearly be as fun as 60’s SPECTRE but lets see what they do with it.
That cast tho.
Christoph Waltz could star in a film which is nothing but three hours of his poop face and I’d buy every special edition.
*ejaculates*
That’s a bingo!
Do-do do-do-do-do Do-do do-do-do-do DADA-DAAAH DADA-DAAAH DADADADA!!!
HYPE TRAIN!!!!
Destiny people, does anyone have any plans (and any free spots more importantly) to run the new raid next week?
This weekend will be filled with garage sales (already sold our bass guitar), birthdays (not mine) and being stingy as heck while hopefully watching some decent storms hit Brisbane. I guess it’s time to start planning Christmas as well. My cat has a new-found love for tinsel it would seem. I always knew he was flamboyant
I’d like to do the new raid to completion at least once, so if anything does get organized and there’s a free slot someone let me know.
Oh, goddamnit.
Goddamn it, this topic had to come up.
@piat, @blaghman, @pupp3tmast3r, @jocon, whoever the fuck made up the TAY regular raid team; @red-wait, didn’t pupp3t have problems with his tay name? Now I forgot it, for fucks sake- awwww sdcnkaslfjadsfksadhf I don’t want to play more raids it’s gonna be buggy and I’m gonna get no raid gear and I’m just tired of the grind man *sobs uncontrollably*
So, yeah, I guess if we get a group together I’m game.
EDIT: ugh this was meant to be a reply to cufc. I must be subconsciously sabotaging my efforts to get myself involved in Destiny again.
May just be luck, but I’ve not seen any bugs beyond a bit of lag this past week. Atheon fight always sent three through, Templar detainments never glitched… I think… I think it might be… *gasp* stable.
Not the new raid, tho. That’s gonna be buggy as hell until March, in all likelihood. 😛But then again, to be fair, your weekend runs have always seemed unreasonably buggy by comparison…
Haha, templar was the least of our worries, although I hear it’s been slightly fixed?
The Templar can no longer be cheesed off the ledge with grenades, not sure about any other glitches though. I never really noticed any. Nothing compared to Atheon glitches anyway
Well, we did our fourth successful hard mode run on Wednesday, along with getting our alts through normal these past few weeks, and the Templar’s been smooth sailing (we did cheese him the first couple of hard mode runs, tho :P) – as long as no-one was mid-air when the shield went down, it all went smoothly on normal (hard mode less so, but because hard-mode, not due to glitches). Atheon got annoying until they fixed it this week, tho – frequently sending one or two people through. This week, three people got sent, every time, on both runs.
The worst I’ve seen this week was Atheon regaining a quarter of his health due to lag in our normal run, but we were focusing four Gjallarhorns on him, so he was going down very fast anyway – it amounted to about five seconds of damage.
Spoilered for boring technobabble/academic curiosity.
Purely academic curiosity, but if we could coordinate with an extra group, I’d have been interested to see if the bugs were due to a shaky connection somewhere – swap members between parties and run the raids simultaneously, a couple of times with different party compositions. Destiny’s a peer-to-peer mesh network – there’s no reason weekends would be more buggy than weeknights, but that has consistently been my experience – the only wildcard is the connections the raid’s running over. A shaky connection in the group would explain a bunch of the bugs we saw on weekend runs… especially if I’m reading this right and Destiny’s not just an ad-hoc client/server architecture (basic peer-to-peer) as I had assumed… Looks like fireteam leader hosts the raid, and data’s sent from every player to every other player to keep everything as fast/responsive as possible, and every few seconds the leader/host enforces its state on the other players to keep everything synchronised. But if that’s the case, one flakey connection wouldn’t have that much impact… unless they didn’t just use the host’s state, but somehow merged them… Hmm… *continues reading*I will be playing the new content at some point, probably not first thing though, with the first WoW just dropping.
Ah, must be 9 or 10 raids no for me and all I have are 2 Monte Carlos, an Atheons Epilogue, the ship and a bucket full of chatterwhite. I’d love to be level 30 but what can you do when the game’s RNG doesn’t like you at all?
Yeah…. no =P I don’t envision my return to Destiny anytime soon; especially now that they’ve added an even grindier element to the game with how exotic upgrades are structured. Bungie can get fucked.
Ehh, I just don’t think I care anymore.
I’d have to buy the expansion and like $20 for one raid and some meh missions?
Ehh.
HYPE TRAIN!!!
Yes, in other words.
I’d like to do SOMETHING with other people in Destiny. I haven’t gotten far since I’ve been unable to do Weekly Strikes at high difficulty with anyone so stuck on 27 for a long-ass time :'(
Plans, yes. Free space… sorry. Going to get through the story on Tuesday to run the raid on Wednesday night… so keen. Looking forward to another 10-15 hours figuring out the raid, before it gets plastered all over the internet.
@pupp3tmast3r @piat
I’ll definately be looking to pug Highmaul this week, the guild doesn’t seem to be in shape yet to tackle it so how should i handle this? should we try to organize our 630s and pug the rest? or just raid on our own accord for now?
Yeah I’ll put a post up on TAY with a shout out; sorry I’ve been a bit slack on the WoW front works been pretty hectic. I was also going to put a shout out to anyone who isn’t 630 to come join in for guild heroic runs tomorrow afternoon around 2-3pm Syd time?
Well if we really are pugging as many people as I believe we are you might want to consider moving the raid time up an hour, because its time consuming to find people, replace under performers, dealing with quitters and sometimes rarely afkers.
It is only normal.. but I did a ton of flex in mop… even a year after SoO was released running pug flex was a painful and time consuming.
I’m ilvl 631 but I’m not sure if I’m ready to raid yet as I’m still wearing green quest reward boots because screw drop rates. Run dozens of dungeons and haven’t seen an upgrade for them yet. They sit there taunting me with their greeness among all the blue and purple.
Do the apexis dailies and buy some.
I’m game. Can get 630 as soon as I do Arch heroic for the ring.
Major Omega Ruby Episode Delta spoilers:
Just got in my heat suit, jumped on the back of Rayquaza & flew into space to the most 80s toon heroic guitar I’ve heard since…the 80s.So, so good.
Just caught DNAlien & was watching the ending when I had to jump ooff the train.
I’ll get back to you when I actually get to that point 😛 Thanks for the spoiler tags though.
I just layed it all out, you don’t wanna read.
Tales of Kyrat. (wall of text spoilerised)
I love how things in Far Cry 4 can escalate and get out of hand in dramatic & spectacular fashion mostly due to the excellent wildlife.
I stopped to help some hostages that were being guarded by 2 guys, snuck up on them stabbed one, stole his knife and threw it at the other, simple job done right, nope. Just as I go to untie the second hostage I get sent flying by a rhino horn to the back, staggered to my feet only to be greeted by a second blow, barely clinging to life I medicated myself with some plant matter I’d crammed into a syringe that I’d found somewhere, just in time to receive a third blow from the rhino. I ran for the nearest drop off hoping to wing suit to freedom, almost ploughed into a tree but managed to deploy my ‘chute which got tangled in a tree so I plummeted a fair distance. Regaining myself I turned around to make sure the rhino wasn’t chasing me, it wasn’t but the commotion had drawn in a car load of bad guys. The rhino decided it would push their car off the edge I’d lept from resulting in a fountain of corpses and flames. I thought surely the carnage is over, nope more guards were now approaching on foot and I spotted them on my radar so I readied myself anticipating a gun fight, there seemed to be 4 of them, “simple enough” I thought, pulled out a silenced assault rifle hoping to bring them down with little resistance, then I saw one of the enemies vanish from the radar followed by a loud growl, to my great amusement I then saw two of them running and screaming in fear with a bear hot on their heals, decided to help the bear out and put a round into both the guys legs slowing them down just enough for the bear to maul them. “My work here is done” I thought for the briefest of moments before the freaking rhino that started all this decided he wasn’t done with me, charged in before I knew he was still there knocked me over and gouged me to death with it’s horn. Kyrat you are as deadly as you are beautiful.Speaking of Kyrat, camping was cancelled due to bad weather, definitely see you Saturday.
Anyone automobiling there I could bum a lift off if it does rain?
Haven’t heard from Kris yet but he’d be about the only one, didn’t invite many people.
SECRET JIMU/GUTSOUP MEAT OF SECRETNESS! 😛
Spoken about freely in public!
You going?
Yeah, but not sure what time it’s supposed to be. (Ie. When people will be there and not just me sitting around being awkward. XD)
Evening? How about I send you a text when I’m on the way?
How will you get there?
Only a suburb or so away, so I reckon I could mooch a ride off my sister. Will work that out tomorrow. Worst case I take the train and walk. (Looked at a map and it’s not too far. :D)
That message thing sounds good, though! 🙂 Thanks, buddy!
@DC yeah, will do.
It’s a decent hike but doable. I ride normally but if you walk I might lock up at the station.
then we can be walk buddies!
yeah, I’m not very good at organizing things, @jimu what time are you thinking of dropping in? I heard from Dunno, he said he should make it so you might be able to hit him up for a lift. Any other TAY folk are welcome I just don’t think many would want to travel that far north of the wall.
You’ve got to talk about the north side! COSTCO’S NOT TOO FAR AWAY! 😀
Just started downloading injustice on ps4 because free, and the download size went from 21gb down to 4.5gb. Anyone know the actual download size?
Dunno, after the initial 5gb download, you can’t actually play much as it starts installing.
It’s weird, no way to check on progress.
I would also like to know this, if it’s 5gb I can just download it, if it’s 21gb I’ll need to delete some things.
If you go to it on the main screen, press options, then select information, it’ll show you the progress/total file size.
As @jimu said, I downloaded it at 4.5gb, loaded it up and then on the main screen it said some characters aren’t available as they’re still downloading. Not sure if that’s 17gb worth or not but I didn’t play beyond the tutorial so I couldn’t say
@piat @jocon @distantdrop @dire_wolf @negativezero @phoenix
Quick shout out regarding WoW. We have the raids opening this weekend and I for one am not raid ready. If anyone else in our guild isn’t raid ready (i.e. iLvl 630+) I was looking to run heroics this Saturday at 2pm Syd time till about 5 or 6. It would be nice to do them with a full group =]
Secondly I’d like for us to be looking at attempting High Maul next weekend the 13th of December. I’ve been a bit slack myself and ideally it would’ve been good to attempt the raid this week; however if everyone’s good for this timeframe let’s lock the next weekend in as our first attempt; I’ll make the appropriate announcement and info in the guild in game as well.
13th is fine with me. I’m assuming we’ll be attempting normal mode first?
Lol we would get our asses handed to us in hard mode =P So yes normal to start; should be challenging by itself. God my raid heals are going to be rusty as fuck >.
Well if we are going to organise for the 13th we might be able to get through the LFR run too. I have some friends on froatmourne looking to do Highmaul who don’t have enough either, so we should be able to organise something
Sounds good; I think straight off we’ll be a man down for the 13th (one of my irl friends is overseas). Heroics for saturday? =P Raid achs after heroics? :O
I’ll be available during the day Saturday, Saturday evening is Christmas Carols so won’t be around
For the people not raid ready you should try mainly focusing on finishing their 2nd tier rings, optimistically hoping they’ve done the apexis part…
Edit: Might be helpful also to encourage people to get reroll tokens and kill the world boss this week.
I’m still only level 94 🙁
Got some real world issues going on at the moment 🙁
Will do what I can, when I can.
All good man; hope everything’s ok!
Pst me on WoW or drop me a line in TAY when you reckon you’ll be back for raids!
I’m not even close to raid ready. I haven’t even stepped foot in an instance yet.
I do have iLvl 610 though thanks to some nice gear drops from garrison missions.
Can’t run any heroics this Saturday though, I’m out at a friend’s for his birthday board games.
Oh also, we need to be iLvl 630 for the raid? 😐
You online later tonight? I should be able to run you through some heroics between 8-10?
Out with family for my birthday 🙁
Normal/Heroic doesn’t have ilvl requirements, however its generally highly recommended to bring as much gear as you can, 630 is usually what you end up with after running a dozen or so heroics, its not asking a whole lot.
It is when you have performance anxiety when it comes to running instances with PUGs. :\
Haha, man I hate pugs. Tried one last night, both other dps dies to the first boss cause they somehow don’t know the fight, then they blame the tank who says fuck you and quits, then the healer quits and the whole thing disbanded.
Fuck pugs.
@dire_wolf @phoenix too: if I’m online, even if not on wow, hit me up if you wanna do instances or whatnot.
Running heroic pugs is all about patience tbh, and if at all possible try to bring a friend, that’s what I did, laughing and joking about how dismally bad it is makes it somewhat palpable.
Your also melee dps right? don’t worry about your performance just try your best to maintain dps up-time, its usually the tanks job to position the boss to help melee dps avoid mechanics.
Can do heroics and the 13th.
Ok, how’s this going down exactly? Highmaul is the first raid right? Wowhead says 615 for normal and that it is up already, on US anyway.
Also is how is LFR different from normal/heroic ect? Norm/heroic is premade groups? And has better loot?
Also, so we got another small guild to team up with? All the right roles and someone to lead?
And finally, will we need to bring anything except our handsome selves?
615 is for LFR Highmaul. I think LFR is lower difficulty but lower rewards.
Give me a poke on battle.net if I’m not in WoW at 2 – probably distracted with Dragon Age
$6 In the latest humble bundle will get you Car Mechanic Simulator. Experience the thrill of a minimum wage job with mind numbing repetitive work and awful co workers.
But you get to write out invoices… INVOICES!
I’m still waiting for Office Worker Simulator. That way I can pretend work in my spare time.
They already have that, it’s called
Spreadsheet simulatorEVE OnlineStock Market Analyst Simulator. 😛
I pretend to work full time.
More money than I make…
No no no, that’s the Freeze simulator.
I thought Arkham Asylum was the Freeze Simulator.
They need to make Simulator Game Simulator so you can experience the thrill of someone vicariously experiencing the thrill of doing a tedious job they’d never want to do in reality through the medium of a computer game.
Is there the option to overcharge middle class housewives and leer at them sitting in the waiting room?
Nuzlocke is a fine way to take my Pokemon cockiness down a peg. Lost Poochyena and Shroomish in the maze/trickster house to a goddamn Geodude who, despite being paralysed, used rollout five times without fail. Bleh. RIP Fenrir and Nyx.
Now it’s down to Kraken (Tentacool) and Echidna (Zigzagoon) to carry the team. I need some new Pokemon stat.
You must believe in the heart of the cards Yugi!
I’ve decided to return Diablo III to EB.
It’s fun and all, but it dawned on me just how repetitive a click-for-victory game actually is. In the past and with previous Diablo games, this hasn’t bothered me, but suddenly, I lost all my enthusiasm for it. It’s a good way to let my brain shut down and faceroll my way through a few hours, but I want more than that from gaming. And I don’t necessarily mean a higher challenge, but more variety perhaps. Strategy, planning, story, meaning, I don’t know exactly what’s missing, but it’s something important.Maybe you’ve been spoiled by Dark Souls.
I made the same observations but I like it as a go-to for unchallenging dungeoncrawling (it’s more fun on Hard but those random elite mobs are a pain in the ass so why bother) plus I can couch co-op on the rare occasions I have friends over these days.
Couch co-op, huh? I’ve got my bro coming over tomorrow. Might keep it till then. One last chance…
I played through the whole thing couch co-op, certainly added to the fun, I also found it got more challenging and interesting post game, but there’s no story there so the plot won’t keep you engaged just the will to grind for gear which you may not have.
Compared to the older games, Diablo III feels more “game-y” I suppose. A lot of information and story was happening in the background for the earlier Diablos and unless you went looking for it, it kinda brushed past you. D3 on the other hand threw story in your face and you had to engage with it, even though it was very lackluster at times. It felt forced and the universe of Sanctuary felt less like a fictional setting and more just somewhere to stomp things as the video game god you were.
I just realised that the older games were kinda analogous to the Souls series in that the story was there but only if you bothered enough to care and actually delve deeper for it.
Our office usually does an inter-team Christmas decorating competition but the claims team hasn’t had the necessary time commitment like we have in previous years due to last week’s hailstorms (which we’ve officially classified as a catastrophe).
So the decorating committee came up with the idea of announcing that due to the CAT, Christmas is cancelled. So instead of decorations, we’ve put up pictures of cats in Christmas hats and shit, including one of “grumpy cat” with the caption “HO HO NO”. I mentioned to the girl whose idea it was that there’s actually a Grumpy Cat Christmas movie out and it blew her mind.
I have to admit, as cheesy as it is, I’m actually digging this way more than I do the usual decorations.
After watching that trailer I realised I’m more than okay with a fan service entry into the Terminator franchise.
I know it’s controversial to say, but I haven’t seen a Teminator movie I haven’t liked. Loved 3. Loved Salvation. I’m a monster, sure, but a monster who can enjoy movies everyone else hates it seems! Can’t wait for this! 😀
I loved 3 as well.
Salvation was a bit terrible.
A bit terribly awesome! 😀 POST APOCALYPTIC URBAN DECAY!
Marla Singer!
I only love 2
Two’s my favourite, for sure. 🙂
I loved Salvation. Sam Worthington needs to be in more movies. And Christian Bale was not too terrible, too.
3 is an okay film but an utterly terrible follow-up thematically to T2. The central thrust of the first two films was an argument against the idea of fate or predestination. “The future is what you make it”.
T3 is like “fuck that shit, everything was inevitable and fate can’t be changed”.
That’s why I personally think it’s a piece of shit despite having some reasonably okay moments. First two were miles better though.
Fan service seems like a perfectly valid approach.
Hell, Terminator 2 came out in 1991. The more recent entries to the series seem to be trying to sell the series to people who were born after T2 came out.
Loved Sarah Connor Chronicles too. Especially that awesome second season with Shirley Manson and Brian Austin Green.
Now the time where I admit I’ve never watched it.
Same & I planned to & everything.
First season is very, very rough but second season gets real good.
I meant to watch that just for Shirley because I am legit in love with her, I should really get around to it one day.
She even recorded a song written by Bear McCreary! So good!
What’s everybody talking about? There have only been 2 Terminator movies. And certainly no TV shows. Is this some kind of mass hallucination?
There’s weird people out there man. Some of them are convinced there were prequels made to Star Wars too.
And I keep hearing about something called a 4th Indiana Jones Movie? That never happened, I’m positive of it.
They’re talking about Jurassic Park 4 as well which is sheer madness since there’s only one of those! Trying to convince me that there’s more than two Alien films as well.
You know you’ve been watching anime for too long when someone mentions ‘fan service’ in relation to a Terminator film and your mind immediately jumps to the assumption that means boobs in the new film.
Arnie Panty Shot.
Arnold in panties and a short skirt would be pretty amazing.
A random post by transient on the target article has me thinking about my attitudes towards different things. No surprise there I guess.
Specifically the interaction between Tiglet and boys. It’s a hard one and it does change the more you think about it. It certainly was the first thing I had to deal with with mothers group, the boys out number the girls 3 to 1. Then I get all over protective, gotta watch out for little rockstar Tommy with all the hair. I’ll keep my eye on him.
But then my little Tiglet has her little mohawk happening so I get convinced she is going to run away with the boy and start a rock and roll band called Fizz and the Tom Toms
But most of that is just jest, if I have my way she will grow up with some good, close male friends. At the end of the day it’s those guys who know what boys are like and you can sure as hell bet they will be looking out for her in a way that female friends couldn’t. Also just different perspectives on life and knowing how to deal with different people is important.
That said my current favourite image is this one. Considering trying to track down a high res version of it and putting it up in her room.
My eldest has a few male friends but she gets picked on by them a little bit. Wether it’s because she’s tiny or because the whole pull the hair of the girl you like thing I’m not sure but we try to teach her not to take it and stand up for herself.
My youngest though, yeeeeaaaah…. I wish the boys good luck and would like to remind them there’s no refunds.
She could blossom into a beautiful butterfly!
#mixedmetaphor
My eldest is going to a total terror, I think. She’s not even in Kindy yet, and she has boys following her around, carrying her bag for her. She just hands it off to them to be carried. :\
Aw, what gentlemen. 😀
That’s the sort of thing I’m going to struggle with if Tiglet goes that way. Maybe I’ll start a tradition of buying her a big stick for Christmas so when it become an issue I can just say it’s tradition of our family.
In preparation for my little girl growing up I’m getting a gun license, and some land.
Just make sure it isn’t somewhere where the ground is to hard. Don’t want it to be too difficult to dig
There’s actually no game I want to buy this month, weird.
Usually there’s a backlog of titles I wanna check out but somehow I lost interest in more than a few once the day 1 hype dissolved.
There’s some, like Persona Q, where I’m not 100% sure on & can’t bring myself to part with the cash.
Weird.
Was there an old game I missed? Is there cheap Beyond TTwo Souls to be had??
$19 at JB apparently.
https://www.jbhifi.com.au/games-consoles/platforms/ps3/beyond-two-souls/295670/
Yeah, just saw, might pop down at lunch.
Wow, that’s cheap. I’d personally be hanging out for a PS4 version, but I dunno if it was well-received enough to warrant one in publisher eyes.
Old My shit Dont Stink Cagey would demand to do to much rejigging in the name of ‘Art’© & they’d refuse the cost.
Really though, he seems like the type to move on. I would prefer a 4 version.
I would probably expect some sort of Heavy Rain/BTS double-pack HHD re-release, probably in the lead-up to Quantic’s next game. I’m counting on it, anyway.
At least they’re not multiplayer-heavy, so they’ll keep.
Persona Q isn’t a 100% for you even though you like dungeon crawlers like Megaten?
Have you played Etrian Odyssey before?
Yeah, played the demos, not keen.
Also, *just* finished with Megaten IV.
@negativezero I’m worried Q will sit in this middle ground at not reach the heights of either game. In both gameplay & feel.
As I understand it, it’s Etrian Odyssey with a Persona veneer. FYI EO in Japan is Seikaiju no Meikyuu, but that’s often stylized as Seikaiju no MeiQ or just SQ. Swap out the ‘Seikaiju’ (‘World Tree’) for ‘Persona’ and you have Persona MeiQ (Persona Labyrinth) and Persona Q sort of falls out the end.
I’m still waiting for my copy to arrive. Never finished an EO game. I really like them, they take me right back to my early childhood playing simple dungeon crawler games like Wizardry and their various clones but I always end up petering out on them halfway in. Should really try Untold at some point, since it actually has a plot & characters. The plot kept me interested in Demon Gaze much longer than I expected but the issue I had with that game was that the actual dungeon crawling wasn’t anywhere near as tight as EO is. Specifically the difficulty is really spiky and inconsistent, the game will just sometimes freak out and throw an insane enemy at you that ruins everything. EO doesn’t do that, it just punishes you for over-extending or being too confident and the difficulty goes up evenly.
I read PQ is easier than EO, that would help me significantly
EO IV introduced a casual difficulty setting which makes the game a lot more fun IMO. Difficulty is such that you can spend a long time in the field without needing to return, can fight stuff that’s technically too hard for you and maybe win if you’re lucky, and one mistake isn’t going to result in wiping everyone in the party out. I expect that PQ has that difficulty as standard.
Normal difficulty EO is brutal. Just like Wizardy and the other oldschool games it’s descended from.
The other problem I have, is I loved P4G too much.
every time I try related media I get really, really disappointed.
P4G was so great, it knocked other games out of my top ten if all time*. Anything related just doesn’t cut it.
Even Persona 3, which is great, was a disappointment.
*this is an imaginary ever changing list that would contain stuff like super Metroid, FFVIII & Dragon Age Origins.
One option to consider because it got lost in the shuffle somewhat is indie game ‘never alone’. That’s the one that’s like Inuit mythology or something. It’s reviewed really well – Eurogamer gave it a 10/10 and they’re usually really reliable IMO.
I don’t think you have a decent PC? Otherwise I’d suggest (re?)-playing Valkyria Chronicles. What system do you want in-case-you-missed-it recommendations for?
I’ve got VC on PS3, I’m slowly plugging through, the story nor characters have grabbed me yet. I like it.
In truth, I’m looking to spend money, I have a pile & will happily keep playing DAI indefinitely
Never alone is on my radar, plan to top up the US PSN wallet January for Resi & Duke.
May include enough for that too.
Amazon have about 4 different amounts now, instead of just $20&$50
Unexpected headline for the day.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/04/court-denies-legal-personhood-of-chimpanzees
That’s a shame 🙁
Edit: wait, now reading that I’m confused. The last story I saw on it made it sound like personhood was a good thing, this one makes it sound bad. I don’t know what to think any more.
Instinctive first guess without even reading: With great power (rights) comes great responsibility.
From memory, the deal was that this former-actor chimp is being kept by himself in an enclosure in New York and is unable to leave it at all because of strict laws there. So the idea was to get him legal personhood so that he would be free to go out and interact with people and stuff, like he’d been used to all his life. As opposed to this other group wanting to have him shipped off to a reservation with other chimps, even though he’s not accustomed to other chimps at all.
Except now this one seems to be saying that the people trying to get him to the reservation want the personhood, and the guy who has him at the enclosure is the bad guy saying he’s fine where he is. Or something.
jimu attempts Top 10 games of all time, again:
(No specific order)
Castlevania Symphony of the Night
Super Metroid
Diddy’s Kong Quest
Sonic 3 & Knuckles
Final Fantasy VIII
Resident Evil 2
Dragon Age Origins
Bust-A-Move 2 Arcade Edition
Persona 4 Golden
Dragon Quest IX
Ok, now tear it down, remind me of what I missed.
& show me yours!
Dark Souls
Dark Souls
Dark Souls
Dark Souls
Dark Souls
Dark Souls
Demon’s Souls
Dark Souls II
Dark Souls
Dark Souls
Do I need to set rules?
All right, all right
1. DARK SOULS
2. Demon’s Souls
3. Dark Souls II
4. Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations
5. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
6. Ace Attorney 2: Justice For All
7. Ace Attorney 4: Apollo Justice
8. Ace Attorney 5: Dual Destinies
9. Spec Ops: The Line
10: Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
That’ll do.
I could probably swap out one of the Ace Attorneys for TIE Fighter, for nostalgia’s sake. And I feel like the original MGS deserves a spot, too.
I vote MGS1 over the others because it was the biggest innovation & first game that was so much like a movie, which every man & his dog copied.
Where’s The Dig?
I never finished The Dig.
Finishing isn’t a rule.
my mate’s obsessed with Elder Scrolls & I don’t think he’s finished one.
I also haven’t played it since I was about 10, and don’t remember anything from it. Why do you think every game looks like The Dig to me? 😛
I’ll show you mine *unzips*
oh you meant a list. *dives out window*
1. X
2. E
3. N
4. O
5. B
6. L
7. A
8. D
9. E
10. Xenoblade
Is that you @greenius ?
After all, isn’t there a little @greenius inside all of us?
Was that gay humour?
Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers
System Shock 2
Heavy Rain
Mass Effect 2
Knights of the Old Republic
Grim Fandango
Full Throttle
The Last of Us
Pikmin 3
The Longest Journey
More elaborate list here:
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/07/this-is-my-completely-personal-top-50-video-games-of-all-time/comment-page-1/#comment-1640208
Something something Beyond Good & Evil something.
God damn it
I prefer KotOR II
Last of Us is up there
Wish I could of played System Shock in its day.
Thanks for playing properly, kudos to you!
*stares at the others*
I loved KotOR 2’s darkness, but the polish and scale of the first game was just awe inspiring when I first played it. Was my first BioWare RPG and I just fell in love. I remember freaking out about light side dark side options and that my sister had a love interest in the game that was different to mine. Blew my mind. 😀 Really wish Obsidian got a chance to polish KotOR 2. :'(
Closest you can get to System Shock 2 today is Dead Space 1 and Alien Isolation. 🙂
Yeah, I played 1&2 back to back.
Yep, know all about SS, just too late to the party. Will borrow Alien from guts
Dark Souls
Demons Souls
Final Fantasy VIII
Wonderboy in Monster World
Rocket Knight Adventures
Doom II
Heroes of Might and Magic III
Diablo II
Day of the Tentacle
Resident Evil 2
Ah, Day of the Tentacle. So amazing.
Fuck yes! Wonder Boy in Monster World!
Doom II is a classic!!
BOARD GAMES
That isn’t a top 10
Here I’ll get you started
1. Monopoly
2. Munchkin
3….
You can take it from here 😛
Operation
Twister
Hungry Hungry Hippos
BOGGLE
Mousetrap! Guess Who?!
Yes, now name the top ten…
Pow already did the:
1. B
2. O
3. A …
joke.
Ya snooze, ya lose! 😛
And here I thought you’d nodded off while @greenius took over
Still waiting for a real list Powpow, wanna see where PB&W2 sit
Shining Force
Shining Force 2
Landstalker
Day Of The Tentacle
Sam & Max (Original)
Dune 2
Final Fantasy XII
Shane Warne Cricket 99
Doom 2
Dino Crisis
Fucking love Dino Crisis 1&2.
FFXII is a classy affair, hoping for a prerelease on Vita so I can do all the post game I didn’t have time for the first time.
Dune 2, so much fun.
Did you ever play the remake of dune 2, Emperor of dune or whatever it was called. I quite enjoyed that as well.
Nah, I missed out on that one. I heard it was good though. I think I have the discs somewhere though hahaha
Ooh, Landstalker. I considered putting that in mine but it just missed out.
Yeah, epic game. Freakin’ hard in some areas though.
Psychonauts
Renegade legion: Interceptor
Indiana jones and the fate of atlantis
Total Annihilation
X-wing Vs Tie-figter
Metro 2033
Quest for glory
Batman: AA
Baldur’s Gate
Xcom
Something something Beyond Good & Evil something.
Something something LBA something.
Nice to see Asylum & not City 😀
I missed so many of these because no PC, played the first Xwing though, good stuff
I have the same feeling with your list due to the console specific nature of most of it
I think AA would make my list, city didn’t really add anything to the game and AA will always be the first game to really make me feel like I was a badass super hero.
It’s all on console. Even if it appeared on pC first, I played it on console.
In alphabetical order. Is it any wonder that most of my titles are from the mid-to-late 90s? Or at least had their origin in that time period?
Chrono Trigger
Dance Dance Revolution (Forgive me.)
Day of the Tentacle
Fallout 2
FF6
Grim Fandango
Half Life
Harvest Moon: FoMT
Mass Effect
Terranigma
Yes Chrono Trigger, no FF6!
I do like 6, it’s just one of the few mainline FFs I never finished.
I just loved 6 to death. It’s the most enjoyable FF game for me by far, with 8 and 10 holding special places as well.
I’d say FF order is… (Haven’t played all of them, so a couple subjective assessments)
6 >> 8 > 10 > 7 > 5 > 9 > 4 > 2 > 3 > 1 >>> 13
8-7-10-5-9-12-4-3-6-1-2.
13…I have issues with.
Never completed the last 13,1,2&6 :-/
Ahhhh fallout. Could very well be on my list
New Vegas came close. Loved me some New Vegas. 🙂
I nearly said 3 because the experience is more complete, but 2 came out at just the right point in my nostalgia for it to be implanted as “Best” for me.
I would go with the original. 2 might be a better game but the original was the one that set the standard, was my first taste of post apocalyptic urban decay
That’s very true. At the time I’d never played anything even remotely like it, and the freedom to do whatever I wanted, the hidden time pressures, the consequences of your actions… It did set the standard.
I approve of this.
Which?
First ten games to come to mind, probably not “actual” top ten but it’ll do:
de Blob
Little King’s Story
Donkey Kong Jungle Beat
Rhythm Heaven
Soul Bubbles
Perfect Dark
Lylat Wars
F-Zero X + Expansion Kit
Super Mario Advance 4 + e-reader cards
Metroid: Zero Mission
deBlob! <3
So amazing and best motion control game evah.
Best soundtrack evah!
Metroid Zero Mission is so good. Loses out to Fusion for me though.
Prefect Dirk!
I think Fusion was my first Metroid game. Possibly. At the very least, it was the first one I owned.
That opening cinematic floored me, it was so amazing that a game could even be like this. I played through the opening sequence that many times in the leadup to christmas when I’d discovered its hiding place while the house was empty, and proceeded to play it then erase my progress each time people left to go to my sister’s soccer games.
But Zero Mission pips it for me, it’s the single most incredible remake I’ve ever played of anything ever. Literally sent chills down my spine when first booting it up and the title screen music played. And oh my god the reimagined Norfair music! It finally made sense! And Kraid (aka Brinstar Depths I guess)! Favourite version of that song. Best of all though was that unexpected coda to it all.
Zero Missions version of Kraid is my single favourite Metroid track.
I started with the original on NES, so Super Metroid containing little throwback s to the original broke me.
Also, no other game of the 16 bit era was that atmospheric
I think I started out with Fusion, then borrowed the NES one from a friend at school, then got Prime, played the NES version more on that when I unlocked it, then came Echoes and Zero Mission, then a guy sold me someone else’s copy of Return of Samus, then at some point after highschool I finally scored a copy of Super Metroid. It blew my mind. You’re right, it’s so ridiculously atmospheric. Right from the moment you boot it up.
I really wish I could have been slightly older or maybe had an older brother during the SNES era, so that I didn’t miss out on so many of these kickarse games when they were current. LttP I only got to experience for the first time on GBA and it was amazing.
A Link to the Past
Super Mario Bros 3
Final Fantasy VIII
Skyward Sword
Metal Gear Solid 4
Final Fantasy VII
Metal Gear Solid
Donkey Kong Country 2
Toy Story 2
Mass Effect 2
I swear it changes every time.
SMB3 was a thing of beauty. My favourite ‘Mario-esque’ game was Yoshi’s Island but that game, man. That game. Was amazing.
I would sit at a 32cm television along with my sis and two cousins and we would take turns playing that one. Christmas 94, I believe – great times.
Christmas ’94 was all about Donkey Kong Country for me! IT’S SO PHOTO REALISTIC! XD
I’ve since learnt that I should stop saying something is photo realistic because it’s really not. 😛
Or maybe it was Christmas 93, I’m not sure. All I know is my sis and I had the Mario All-Stars SNES bundle.
Same, I didn’t include Mario Kart at all this time…
I could even change it again further. The only game on that list I haven’t finished is Diddy’s Kong Quest.
And SMB3.. to an extent. I think I’ve ‘warp’ finished it.
This is by no means an exhaustive list! Just ten games I really like that I thought of. No particular order.
Kid Icarus: Uprising
Metroid Prime / Metroid Fusion (tied!)
Crash Bandicoot 3
Zelda: Skyward Sword
Halo 1
Pokemon Black 2/White 2
Attack of the Friday Monsters
Valkyria Chronicles
Bioshock
Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door
Crash 3, really? None if them reached the heights of the first for me. All fun though.
Friday Monsters is so good.
I couldn’t even begin to make a top ten, I’d forget way too many things.
That’s the challenge, it’ll change in ten minutes when you remember something else. It’s fun!
I don’t really get attached to games, so this is hard.
Umm, mine would probably be (in no particular order);
– Resistance: Fall of Man
– Valkyria Chronicles
– Final Fantasy XII
– Ratchet and Clank: Up Your Arsenal
– Spyro the Dragon
– War of the Monsters
– Dark Souls
– Pokemon White / White 2
– Bust-A-Groove
– Crash Bandicoot: Warped
Oni
Journey
To the Moon
P4G
Probably some other games.
oooohhh Oni, great game
In no order
Grim Fandango
Crusader Kings 2
Age of Empires 2
Uncharted 2
GTA: Vice City
Final Fantasy VIII
Journey
Borderlands 2
Mass Effect 2
Lumines II
Yep, Vice City was the peak for GTA for me.
I’ve never made any progress in any of the stories but that was the one with the best realised feel to me.
Metal Gear Solid
Soul Blade
Tenchu: Stealth Assassin
Final Fantasy VIII
The Elder Scrolls: Morrowind
Heavy Rain
Demons’ Souls
Dark Souls
Quake
Vagrant Story
Honorable mentions: Diablo, Bushido Blade, Kurushi, Bioshock.
Plus a whole bunch more that I’ll remember in a few minutes and hit myself for forgetting. 😛 (Edit: Like Mass Effect, Journey, and the first Assassin’s Creed.)
Heavy Rain pals! 😀
Yup. I don’t give a flying whatever about “plot holes”. That game was an experience I’ll never forget, and I still find myself thinking about it to this day. That means it was successful. And it also means it’s easily brought to mind for favourites lists. 😀
Yeah, I agree. Objectively I can see the flaws, but I don’t care. Doesn’t take any thing away from my experience even in replays. 🙂
Vagrant Story, I still haven’t finished it! Must but on PSN!
Metal Gear?!
Not in order:
– Final Fantasy VII
– Grandia II
– Marathon 2
– Chrono Trigger
– TIE Fighter
– Ar Tonelico II
– Okami
– Valkyria Chronicles
– Jet Set Radio Future
– Mass Effect
(Oh hey, PS2 is the only platform with 2 games in my list!)
Grandia II I liked but finished way too quick. Not that that made it bad in anyway.
In no particular order – not even sure I can fit a top 10. 20, maybe, but over 25 years of gaming leaves me with many, many choices. I’ll look back at this ten in 5 minutes and go OHH WHAT ABOUT X
Doom II (PC)
Quake II (PC)
Secret of Monkey Island (Amiga)
Street Fighter Alpha 2 (Arcade)
Final Fantasy VII : Crisis Core (PSP)
Spec Ops : The Line (PC)
Final Fantasy IX (PSX)
Armored Core For Answer (PS3)
Mario 64 (N64)
Metal Gear Solid 4 (PS3)
Yeah, ten isn’t nearly enough.
Same problem, lot of years, a lot of games.
Crisis Core is great! & I think Alpha 2 was the best street fighter. That said, I’d buy that expanded alpha 3 in psp before 2, based on the massive amount if content.
Yeah, I own Alpha 3 on PSP – it’s enormous. So much game. I’m fondest of Alpha 2 though. Spent some time at the arcade with that one.
And Crisis Core is just amazing. Best PSP game, hands down. (Bold statement, I know) But not only was it an amazing game, the story was really well done. That ending too – even though I know how the story ends, I seriously had tears in my eyes – the Cloud/Zack scene.
Just so good to see the origins of FFVII.
All of this, yes!
Oh, Mario 64 blew my tiny little brain
I got my launch N64 home, and my brain melted when I fired that up. Even just manipulating Mario’s face on the title screen. Amazing!
Just had Zambreros for lunch… I regret nothing!
What was the game that made you fall in love with your favourite genre for the first time?
Maniac Mansion on the NES changed EVERYTHING. 😀
None. Because I don’t have a favourite genre!
Oh you! 😀
I really don’t know though. Could be rhythm games? I don’t know what one made me fall in love with them though. I think the first one I got might have been Donkey Konga, followed by either Guitar Hero III or Rhythm Heaven. Then EBA. I think Rhythm Heaven might have made me fall in love with them though. Maybe.
Same. Seems so closed and restrictive to assign that. If it’s good it’s good.
Yeah, I love games that aren’t adventures but it’s my sentimental favourite. It doesn’t mean I don’t like other stuff. Other stuff tends to be better than adventures these days. XD
For my current favourite genre: Demon’s Souls for sure. Thanks @strange. LOOK WHAT YOU’VE DONE TO ME.
Though perhaps ‘for sure’ isn’t for sure… if you include Metal Gear Solid in this kind of genre, being a third-person combat action type of game, then I guess Metal Gear Solid was the first.
Final Fantasy VII for JRPGs
Super Metroid for Metroidvania s
unsure which 2d platformer it was, Super Mario Bros might be too late.
Super Mario Kart for kart racers
I don’t have a favourite genre, but some of my favourite genres would be…
FPS = Black
Platformer = Spyro
RPG = Final Fantasy X
Arcade Racer = Crash Team Racing
Horror = Dead Space
Action / Adventure = Uncharted: Drakes Fortune
Uncharted is so good. Going to play them all again back-to-back before UC4. 🙂
Probably an unpopular opinion, but I think they should’ve left it at Uncharted 3.
I think it ended well where it did, and would rather see them push themselves for a new franchise, rather than rest on their laurels.
Still excited for it though, but I think a new Naughty Dog IP would have been good for the PS4.
Yeah, The Last of Us was so damn special because of the new world and potential of it. I think if Uncharted 4 is the last I would be happy. Give them a chance to tie up plot points and finish the series on a more crowd pleasing note. (Loved UC3, but it was weaker than the others.)
Where the story finished in UC3 was pretty great, though:
Elena and Drake reconnecting, Drake and Sully’s bond reinforced, New plane.I would like to see new IPs from them instead of The Last of Us 2 as well. (Which let’s be honest, I would still play like crazy. :D)
The Last of Us 2? No, no, no.
The Penultimate Us. *nods*
DC, you’ve just upvoted a pun.
A wizard did it!
I can deal with LoU2 if it is set somewhere else & has nothing to do with ANY of the cast.
Not even a cameo from NPC45738
I think an unrelated game set at the onset of the outbreak could be cool.
Like if the whole game was like the beginning of the first, and the subsequent immediate months after.
Watching the outbreak get worse, watching civilisation fall apart. Could be a good story.
Or on the opposite end, a game set in the further future where society has crumbled even more, and where people have to live around the outbreak, rather than fight against it.
I want them to do another cartoony game, but that’s never going to happen nowadays D:
Probably strategy and I guess the original civ would have been the game that started it all.
Halo pretty much introduced me to the idea that games could tell good stories, regardless of genre; before that, my gaming experience consisted of SMB and Mario Kart on SNES, and Pokemon Red and the Pokemon TCG on GBC. Halo changed my perception of what a game could be.
Much much later, Dead Space made me love horror games; Anno 1404 made me love non-combative/non-competitive RTS; GH3 made me love rhythm games (mainly because its controls were a bit more forgiving than GH2, which I was already playing obsessively); and it would have been DA:O or Witcher 2 that made me love real-time RPGs.
Final Fantasy VII. I had no idea what it was when I bought it super cheap second hand.
I played through the first part and loved it, but was completely blown away when we left the city and I discovered there was a humongous world to explore.
I love that feeling of discovering something completely new and being captivated. 😀
FF7 changed everything for me.
Growing up, the only console I’d had was a Master System II. Our family had had Macintoshes since I was three. I also had a reasonable Windows PC from the mid 90s onward. But the games I’d been playing were generally western-developed. I played a fair amount of CRPGs but they were all very much D&D-derived and usually involved either dungeon crawling or moving sprites around on a tile map that simulated tactical miniatures in Pen & Paper RPGs.
FF7 was utterly different. I didn’t even know games could be like that. The idea that a game could tell a (to my mind as an idiot teenager) deep and complicated story. We’d been given a PS1 by my Dad when we moved to Australia and I rented Final Fantasy 7 on a whim because someone online I knew had had a quote from it in their email signature, so I knew people had talked about it. I had literally never seen anything like it. Weird turn-based combat, all those mind-blowing cinematics everywhere (games I commonly played didn’t have ‘cinematics’ at all!) and that soundtrack and everything. Plus the unique presentation – I was pre-exposed to some anime via TV when I was a kid, but the whole anime-style presentation was something I wasn’t familiar with at all either.
Finishing the Midgar section especially was mind-expanding. I assumed at the time that since it was FF7, there must have been a sequence of events leading up to stuff. Assumed that this Sephiroth guy must have been a major character from FF6 (lol) and then when I got to the end of Midgar I assumed that I was basically halfway through the game. Turns out it was basically the tutorial and there was dozens if not hundreds of hours to go.
I think it is a deep tale but not complicated.
Just went to the local coffee place to grab a takeaway coffee.
The owner gave me a free cold drip to drink there. Five minutes later, he sat down with me and just had a chat. He’s setting up a new place in a couple of months. Much bigger and whatnot. I kind of feel like he was seeing if I wanted to work there. Shame that I’ll be gone before that’s really an option.
Or, or, or, or, or.
He was hitting on you.
I think that was obviously what was going on.
Why is it that whenever I get positive attention from another dude, everyone assumes they want to bang me?
I know that I’m devilishly handsome but there simply cannot be that many gay dudes out there.
Unless you turn men gay. Only possible explanation.
Found out I had my shirt inside out. quick rush to the bathroom fixed it without anyone noticing. Hopefully. /o\
Oh man, too bad @transientmind wasn’t there. Could’ve made a connection. :'(
This is why telling people about their inside-out clothing is the best option.
@dc or @jimu – you’ve finished DA:I… how far through am I? I’ve unlocked but not completed all the side-quest areas before the big obvious main quest objective where you
visit Orlais to try and crash the Empress’ party and prevent her assassination.I assume things will escalate fairly rapidly from there, maybe marking the 75%-85% mark.Is this about right, or do I have loads more ready to happen after?
When I was there I would say I was 60% to 70% through. It’s hard to tell with all those side quests.
The mural where Solas is in Skyhold is a good indication, though. Updates whenever you make story progress. Have you done the Crestwood one with Hawke yet?Yeah, finished up that section completely. Next up I’ll tackle the Western Approach.
I was really wondering about how much would be left after finishing the sidequest areas completely (Hissing Wastes, Exalted Plains, Western Approach, etc), then having hit up the main story part.
Oh, I’d say 75% through main quest after next one!
Halfway through the story
So I just ate $15 of King Island Triple Cream.
No regrets for now.
I approve of this decision. That cheese is amazing.
With a hot chicken and whole egg Mayo on fresh bread rolls it’s pretty decadent tasting sandwich.
#Jealous #Hungry
Oh hi, there you are.
My YouTube history today is just clips from Wicked. Can’t wait to see this in February. SUPER MANLY.
Yessss. Defying Gravity was easily my favourite part of the show.
My mum bought my friend tickets to see Wicked in Perth.
They’re second row seats.
My mum has never got me a present that cool :'(
Felt kinda strange picking out a birthday cake for tonight. Can’t remember how old I was last time I chose a birthday cake.
Did you go for the ice cream cake? That’s the dream! 😀
And a party at Maccas like all of the cool kids?
Do they even do parties there any more?
Maccas birthday with the ice cream cake and bowling birthday where you get a bowling pin signed by everyone. Essence of childhood birthdays right there.
I attended one not 2 months ago.
Interesting. I mean not that I go to them all that often but I can’t remember the last time I saw a Maccas with a party room like they used to always have.
Was just in the playground.
When I was a kid, depended on the store if they had a special room.
I went to my cousin’s Maccas party last year.
And I have no idea what that thing with the bowling pin is. I can only assume that the people you knew were weird.
What! Getting a commemorative bowling pin from a bowling party was great!
I went to a Maccas Birthday once when I was a kid. They hid the pieces of cake inside the massive freezer room and let us loose to try and find a piece. I had to get the employee to help me find one…
So yeah, “cool kids” is technically correct.
Y’know, I was never allowed ice cream cakes growing up – because December birthday in Queensland, it’d melt in minutes.
Remember when we used to say “hi @strange!” whenever we said the word ‘strange’ (hi @strange!)
I miss those days. #Nostalgiagoggles
You want a blast from the past? How about @spaghett ?
I just go with cheesecake from the cheesecake shop & my wife forgets, still gets my son’s(we are 3 days apart) & I never see it.
2 years running!
Her subtle way of telling you you’re getting fat.
Just lost 20kgs, back to what I was when we met.
& no her subtle way of telling me I was fat was “Youre fat. Eat all these fried leftovers & snacks”
Congrats on weight loss!
So sexy.
*flexes skinny arm*
Cheesecake shop! The one two blocks or so from my house! <3
A few times, yes.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XOQwsz2buzM/T3AR2ZgiXwI/AAAAAAAAAAM/ovYGwr306s4/s1600/womens+weekly+book.jpg
I grew up in South Africa and we even had that book, so cool. I got the train one once and the cowboy coral thing.
The jelly swimming pool cake.
https://twitter.com/Tigerion/status/477375770797428736
My sister had the barbie cake one from in there for one of her birthdays.
I got the Robot one for my 5th birthday.
Wait, was there a pirate treasure chest cake in that? If so I had that & a pirate themed party when I was 7 =D
Happy birthday!
…I think? I can’t really tell from this comment.
I’m thinking house warming? WHO CAN SAY!
Thank you! Yeah, birthday today, family invasion housewarming tomorrow. Should be worth a few laughs firing up J S Joust.
Happy Birthday
The last time I chose a birthday cake for me was for my 27th birthday.
I chose custard filled donut cakes. One giant ‘2’ and one giant ‘7’. Best birthday cake. 😀
Also, just realised that was more than 10 years ago. OLD!
Also, also. Think I might order Mr. Strange to somehow acquire me some giant custard filled cronut ‘3’ and ‘9’s next year…. 😀
Well, I feel slightly less old… Although as of today, we both have the same first number for our age.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MY FRIEND! I’LL BE JOINING THAT CLUB IN JANUARY!
You’re still a spring chicken. You young’uns in your 20s…
Back in MY day *snores*
If you’re smart or lucky, you’ll choose a cake that looks like this. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152767745655406&set=a.10151333828875406.527778.555875405&type=1&theater
Carmageddon TDR 2k appeared in my steam library today! w00t! Anyone who’s part of the early access should now have ALL the Carmageddon games! So damn cool!
Good to know.
Unfortunately, TDR 2K is the one Carmageddon game that even Stainless Games pretends didn’t exist.
heh yeah. it was a bit… different. But still nice that they completed the collection! Was a good surprise!
So. Headed over to JB at lunch, no copies of Beyond 2 Souls 2 Beyonder, no staff to ask. Xmas rush.
Went to another, found a copy, preowned so $15 more. No staff to ask, Xmas rush.
Walked into an EB & put $20 down of super sensational special edition Majoras Mask.
What does the Majora’s Mask thing come with? Also Price?
No price, dunno, don’t care, spending blindly because MAJMAJERA MURSK
THEY DURK ER MURSKS.
There was a time for a minute there that I was hearing that Channing Tatum was going to be playing Deadpool. Thank God that that fell through and that Ryan Reynolds is back.
Tatum is attached to Gambit
Oh shit, you’re right. My mistake. The only connection I have here is Taylor Kitsch who was alongside Ryan Reynolds in X-Men Origins.
He wasn’t too bad as Gambit, either.
He was good. I don’t hate taters, but Gambit? No.
Yeah, I can’t see it either.
Anyone keen to run a Fiasco over the weekend/next week?
Welcome back 🙂
Travel tales?
Well, a funny aside.
Walking back from a restaurant alone in Sihanoukville, which is a total backpacker beach town
Tuk Tuk Driver: “Hey man, want some weed?”
Me: “No Thanks”
“You want a lady? I get you a lady”
“No, I’m alright”
“Ok, Ok, you want a Ladyboy?”
“What?! No!”
“What the fahk, man?”
“What the fuck me? What the fuck you!”
Lesson learned: Next time, don’t say no to a ladyboy.
You never say no to a ladyboy.
I’m laughing at this too much
*raises hand*
I was sneak kissed by a lady boy in Thailand while my now wife who was sitting next to me pissing herself laughing!
Oh… And she grabbed my hand and made me grab her (his?) fake boob…
Welcome to Talk Amongst Yourselves, aka TAY!
“Ok, Ok, you want a Ladyboy?”
We should really try to get Serrels to add these as flavor text in the next week’s TAY.
Welcome back. How much dong do you have left?
About 80,000 in small bills.
So about $4
Yes.
Yes.
and @freezespreston
Excellent. I’ll ask my mate Dan too. When is good for you? Wed is Numenera night but other than that I’m free.
Theoretically any night, so long as it’s not @evilmonkey meat time.
Any night should be fine given a days notice.
If any Brisbane folk are bored/free tomorrow, I’m having a small gathering at my place for my birthday (short notice I know), there will be multiple TVs with multiple consoles going, I’ve got Smash Bros and Gamecube controller adapter so might give that a whirl at some point. There will be 1 x @jimu and all going accordingly 1 x @dc also. I live far on the North side at Petrie so it’s a little out of the way too.
Where’s taTAY names now @DC @powalen
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Night or day thing?
The north side doesn’t yet have a day/night cycle! Soon, though!
It’s a PAX North stretch-goal!
Anytime really, I’m there all day.
@jimu , when were you thinking of dropping in?
Hmm, might be a bit difficult for me to be honest. With work I wouldn’t get there until 8pm.
@gutsoup never sleeps
totally up to you, I intend on having a late one so that time is no issue for me, but you’ve got a long way to travel.
I dunno, depends on fambily
Would have loved to (Happy Birthday, by the way!) but way too short notice. Sounds like you guys will be having great fun, though. 😀
(pssst, tags don’t work if you edit them in! Has to be a new post)
thanks dude,
mmm I’m tempted, but I don’t have a lot of petrol money left. Still need to make it through a fortnight of getting to work before I get paid again :\ If it wasn’t so far I’d be there for sure!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/65164651/Welbot_Petrol_for_Attendance_of_fun_times
lol! I truly wonder if I could pull off something like that some days! 😉
maybe you could give Jimu a lift and charge him like a cab 😛
I see this comment
He needs to pick up Snow, snow is…low….on money….again
lol driving to get Jimu would be just as much petrol as to you! 😉 Charge him any more than $5 and he’d be better off getting a cab to your place I reckon 😉 I wonder if Sughly is considering going?
I’m on the waaaaaaay :p
I’ll shout some drinks and snacks if you can work out the travelling part :D. Dunno about sughly, I doubt it considering my late notice and all.
@welbot how bribeable are you?
maybe I should bribe Welbot to get both of you with fuel, food and booze or non alcoholic drinks 😛
Bribes!
lol Not sure. Probably gonna be tough for me this weekend. I don’t really even have enough money to get me through the next 2 weeks at this stage. Got my newstart payment the other day, and paid rent. Now I have like $60 to somehow put fuel in my car, and pay for parking at work for the next 2 weeks.. Obviously not going to work. Public transport wouldn’t help either. Costs me more per day to catch that both ways, than to pay for early bird parking! CRAZY!
@welbot
not kidding, I would be willing to fork out for fuel if you could grab jimu and possibly that dude “Snow” as jim calls him, it would increase turnout a lot and It’d be awesome to see you.
@beardymcmuttonchops @beeawwb @cufcfan616 @dc @dkzeitgeist @freezespreston @gutsoup @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @sernobulus @strange @sughly @transientmind @welbot @weresmurf @virus__
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@beardymcmuttonchops @beeawwb @cufcfan616 @dc @dkzeitgeist @freezespreston @gutsoup @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @sernobulus @strange (hi @strange!) @sughly @transientmind @welbot @weresmurf @virus__
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Oh… I can’t continue this one as a joke…
…can I?
No, I better not.
I only did it so I could say hi to strange (hi @strange) again!
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😉
Heh my birthday is December 7th, unfortunately, my family has planned other activities for my day of celebration that don’t involve celebrating my day of birth 🙁 Hope you at least have a great day.
Happy birthday @Gutsoup hope it’s a great one. I’ll be spending mine at the pub I guess.
No Worries. Happy Birthday for the 7th, hope it’s an awesome day for you.
@liondrive
“Well if no one else is inviting me”
I just like to feel included.
AND I WANNA GO TOO! :’O
you’re welcome to, quick book flights.
If I went back to Brisbane, I probably wouldn’t come back to WA, so it’s probably not the best choice right now 😛
4 notifications. Wow I’m popular toda…oh, it’s just @gutsoup @jimu (twice) and @shane tagging the Brisbane peeps 🙁 Now I feel less popular 😛
Erm, tomorrow, I have a garage sale in the morning and it’s the missus’ sister’s birthday so I’m fully booked up I’m afraid. Sucks as I remember there was a burger shop that put about 3 chicken schnitzels in my chicken burger near Petrie station that I wanna find again
Roundabout Chicken Time
I might have to sit this one out, I have no funds to go anywhere until Monday..
I’ll put on some drinks and snacks if you can get there 😀
I hope you’ll put some clothes on too..
#alwayspagesix
hey, it’s my house, I can walk around neked if I want 😛
Yeah, but in the company of others? Aw man 😛 I mean fair enough if they’re nudists lol..
okay, I’ll wear clothes if it improves the chances of you showing up. I’m more than willing to shout food and drinks if you can make it.
SOMEONE BROKE TAY!
http://www.kotaku.com.au/user/dkzeitgeist
You monster!
SOMEONE BROKE TAY!
Damn Duplicate Comments. So annoying.
IT WAS YOU! *points accusatory finger*
Damnit, DC.
Holy fuck so many mentions, I thought I was being attacked in the GTA V article LOL.
@virus__
Nope.
@jimu
@quiz_b
@jimu @quiz_b
@virus__
Jerk 😛
<3Right, @freezespreston, this means war.
Edit: Actually I lost interest part way through page 1. Blame a large workload so I should, y’know, do what I’m paid to.
Virus?
Buster Serge is HAWT
@LIONDRIVE
that waist line.
They say the whole cast is supposed to be sexy but the large breasted woman was really generic sexy. A lot of thought went into making the guys sexy.
Yeah the dudes are more feminine than most of the ladies. I know I was aroused.
I have no idea what was going on in that video, and I’m 99% sure that I had an epileptic fit while watching it.
@liondrive Your thoughts on LoU 2.
Yes.
I’d like a different country too.
The second Last of Us should be called the Penultimate Us. #PAGESIX4LYF #NewPageOldJoke
I WISH I UNDERSTOOD THIS GAG
Second Last of Us
second-last of us
second-last = penultimate
@DC, YOU’RE DOING IT AGAIN
HOW DID HE KNOW?
*deletes internet history*
Wait. Why is the dry explanation getting more upvotes than the joke itself. I think I fail at comedy.
penultimate
pɪˈnʌltɪmət
adjective
last but one in a series of things; second last.
“the penultimate chapter of the book”
Origin late 17th century: from Latin paenultimus, from paene ‘almost’ + ultimus ‘last’, on the pattern of ultimate .
Not to be confused with ultimate pen.
Which is what you sent me as a surprise gift some years ago. \o/
Oh yeah, I forgot about that. I shudder to think how terrible my engraving looked back then…
Nah, it was real purdy. It’s front and centre on my ‘best writing stuff’ shelf.
Or a penultimate Ultimate Penn Penn Pen
Oh, that’d be cool.
You could have like, an American in Europe or somewhere at the onset of it, so he has extra no idea what’s going on because he doesn’t speak the local language, so gets swept up in all the pandemonium.
It could be about your character trying to place together what’s going on, and about them trying to get home.
Then you could have a similar connection like in ICO where you can’t communicate with your partner, because you could find a partner in a local who doesn’t speak english.
Both could look after each other, keep each other safe, but neither can actually talk to each other.
I’m liking this idea a fair amount…
That actually sounds pretty cool. I like it.
Yes & thought of it all by myself ©
Yeah I’m pretty smart.
Let’s not go nuts.
Booooooo
Defend my honour, Jimu!
I’ll put out!
But my mum says I’m the smartest person she knows, and she’s the smartest person I know, so I’m pretty sure that means I’m smart.
I had a 290g block of Clinkers, Raspberry Chips and Marshmallows coated in Cadbury chocolate for lunch.
Unlike Mr Freeze and his lunch, I’m having some regrets.
I had a muesli bar and some old, old coffee which I made in my new vietnamese coffee thingo.
I have not gone food shopping yet.
I was ready to wholeheartedly upvote you but then you had go and ruin it with regret. 😛
Can’t help it. I don’t feel so good 😛
Oh god, he’s turning! UNDAD IS COMING TRUE. IT’S NO LONGER FICTION, PEOPLE.
New Stretch goal @ https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shanewsmith/undad-comic-miniseries-issues-1-and-2
Only you can prevent @shane from turning in to an actual zombie. Pledge now, there’s not much time left.
If we don’t hit $6000, I will film myself eating a small live animal and post the video to Youtube. I will then be assassinated by PETA and will be unable to complete Undad at all, and your money will go to waste.
HIS BLOOD WILL BE ON YOUR HANDS.
Yes, you. Right there. The one who hasn’t pledged yet. You’re the monster, now.
I think I probably should have eaten one of the other blocks I bought instead. Jelly Crunchie bits perhaps, or my favourite, the Jelly Popping Candy Beans.
The Orange one is my favourite. I dare you to regret that one! 😛
Clinkers are pretty great though.
I’m now regretting having my hokkien noodles and curry puffs for lunch. I want yours 🙁
Mine was leftover honey chilli chicken.
It may go gluggy the day after and beyond, but it’s still awesome.
Scissor me timbers, it’s cold. (NSFW)
Is it Smash time yet
I’ll need to get a lot of last-minute training in tonight.
Yeah, me too 😛
I haven’t even taken my game or adapter out of the box yet.
If I hadn’t had people over on Saturday, I’m wondering if I would have either.
Suppose it’s only fair.
TALK AMONGST YOURSELVES ON KOTAKU AUSTRALIA
“Ok, Ok, you want a Ladyboy?”
CC @BEEAWWB
Yes?
Man I am getting so lazy and/or complacent here. Inb4 fired.
You’re… hired! \o/
Ooh, Figuarts Luigi is in stock and ready to ship.
Finished Dragon Age: Inquisition.
Good game. Might even call it great, despite its myriad of flaws.
Best part was (Not a late game spoiler or anything):
The Quizquisition. Laughed so hard when the quiz guy appeared. Just stared in shock at the question he asked me for a minute before getting the answer completely wrong.Well, that was later game spoiler than where I’m up to….
I wouldn’t be surprised if you just haven’t stumbled across it. Very obscure.
Yeah, this. Sorry, I probably should have clarified that it’s not a late game spoiler, but it could pop up in all sorts of places, and that’s not a very helpful spoiler warning then is it, because maybe people will miss it completely…
What flaws other than glitches.
I love it to bits, started a second game.
Yeah, definitely in my top five BioWare games for me. (Which is high praise. :D)
Alright, this is partially what’s known as nitpicking, but that’s sort of the point of complaints:
The general awkwardness in conversations, both the stilted as balls animations, and the unnecessary pauses throughout dialogue.That the combat really isn’t very interesting (Personal opinion).
The apparent worthlessness of stats throughout the game, since earning 3 bonus willpower is useless when compared to buffing the +attack on a weapon.
The way it would sometimes have a loading screen to start a conversation in an area, only to have another loading screen during the conversation as they go to a new area (I’m looking at you, Eluvian).
The typical Bioware thing of “You chose this option, but when we wrote that, what we meant was something very different, and we’ve locked you in now. Hey wouldn’t it have been great if we had those “THIS OPTION WILL CHOOSE PRECISELY THIS” options more frequently, but we don’t.”
Also the annoying pauses and general badness when it loads in new areas, so you end up with Krem standing up in the tavern, sitting down on the top of his chair, then standing up again to sit down so that he’s actually sitting in his goddamn chair like a normal goddamn person (that may have just been me, and does count as a glitch, but shh).
How some areas are purely ancillary- it feels as though they Uncharted 3’d it. They created these great areas, were like “fuck, we need to stick a story in here” and then decided that they couldn’t be bothered with half of them so they’re like “SIDE STORY TIME!”
And I feel like they failed to create a world that’s living with A GIANT FUCKING HOLE IN THE SKY. In my opinion, Mass Effect 3 absolutely nailed the desperate feel, and the joy of your successes was amplified. Dragon Age, it’s like “ehh, some dude in Val Royeaux might be a little bit happier about this, hey, did you see the game last night? Pretty interesting stuff compared to the giant fucking hole in the sky.”
Yeah, no. Didn’t get those feels. Did get the seat glitch though 😀
Well, so long as I’m not the only one. 😛
And yeah, these things are fairly minor, and I did like the game, was definitely top five games this year, but I feel like if Bioware can get rid of the little things, their next game can hit it out of the park.
When I figure out how to edit & post a vid from PS4, I have a hilarious one of a guard walking through a wall & taking a stroll outside of Skyhold in thin air.
Also, because jump is talk, my character is Arco in a convo doing the falling animation.
I am disappointed there isn’t one mention of the waves.
THOSE.GOD.DAMN.WAVES.
THAT’S NOT HOW WAVES WORK IN REAL LIFE BIOWARE *flails arms*
It’s weird how intensely off putting that is. I actually get a headache watching it.
If I wanted to get into issues relating to the engine and stuff I’d need another 5000 words.
What flaws other than glitches?
I love it to bits, started a second game.
I was a big fan of the note from the workers left in the top floor of the tavern that is organizing the Inquisition’s choir. The ‘Sing-quisition’. Talking back at members who were bitching about the name.
Yup, loved that as well.
I’m sure there was another thing with a silly inquisitiony name, but I can’t remember.
Sigh.
Why do people make such a scene about staff at stores that are helpful, and not pushing product on you but genuinely trying to be helpful. All I can gather is they really dislike talking to people, well if that’s and issue buy all your things online and give the courier/postie permission to leave everything at your door without you needing to speak to them or sign anything.
I’m just anti-social and am not prepared for conversations at the best of times.
Often just the prospect of random banter terrifies me enough not to go into certain stores.
It’s not them. IT’S ME. 😛
Stop making scenes in public then.
I don’t make scenes. I just don’t show up. 😛
Edit: Didn’t see the part about making scene. Yeah, people who do that are jerks.
No no, I mean staff who are trained & educated on certain product that will help you & give you advice, not ones just wanting to chat or harass you, like they do in Harvey Norman or other commission based jobs >_>
I just don’t understand why that is a negative thing for a shop to have. Example if I went to say Mister Minit and the person there knew jack all about shoe repair, keys, garage remotes or any specialty product they sold it would totally deter me from shopping there. But when you have someone like @freezespreston working there who KNOWS the products they sell, to me it’s a good experience and something that would make me want to come back 😛
Yeah, I never understood getting angry at staff for them trying to sell their products.
It’s literally their job.
Getting mad at them trying to be helpful and help you out is even more silly.
I just let them help anyway, even if I know what I’m doing or looking for.
I get maybe not wanting to talk to staff, but it’s as simple as saying, “I’m just browsing, thanks” with a smile and friendly mannerism when they ask if they can help.
But then they hover and it’s terrifying. D:
That’s when you flip a shelf over and run with arms flailing!
I prefer to start dancing around the store, making some sort of vaguely musical noise with my mouth. Wards them right off.
Sometimes brings security, but those guys are very friendly if they think you’re mad.
Then start demonic chanting to yourself.
Yep! Exactly. I love shops who go the extra effort with their staff to train them in knowing their products. Makes me feel like I am spending my money in the right place even if it is a little bit more expensive than the shop down the road where the workers don’t give a stuff about the product, customer & only want their pay check. I always felt bad at Dan Murphy’s when I couldn’t be helpful about wine, since i’m more a spirits & cider person, and know very little about wine.
On a lighter note, a belated birthday gift for a friend arrived today! Totally my fault it was late showing up, since I only remember last week that I was meant to buy it and my friend who makes & sells them gave birth to a little girl this week, which was awesome news 😀
Oops.. I seemed to have upset some random on an article about the now ex-drum tech for Slipknots new drummer went and angrily named him & the new bass player by posting all this itinerary stuff on his instagram with their names from backstage etc..
All I said on the article if he signed a non disclosure agreement with the band not to disclose that info since the band had no confirmed or named them yet, then he is an idiot for doing that and I hope the band take appropriate legal action. What a stupid hot headed move.
But apparently for saying that and i’ll copy paste the what this person said.
This person also abused everyone else that commented in a similar way, hilarious.
Pot, kettle.
What an asshat.
It’s hilarious, i’m now a douchebag and should shut up cause i’m a nobody, eh says them. I could be anyone for all they know. Always hilarious when someone runs their mouth like this.
Just booked some flights to Japan.
Fucking hype.
Cc/ @hindenlagen
HYYYYYYYPPPPEEEEE!!!
105 DAYS!!!
For some of us at least.
-15 days…. 🙁
Take me back… /o\
-… uhh, 340 days? Or something?
I dunno. But Nippon was great.
I’m off on the 16th of Jan to the 28th.
TALES FROM THE BORDERLANDS
Part 1 choices: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=351343052
Oh, I wasn’t the only one to shoot Felix. I kind of felt like I wasted the bullet there and unsure of that choice but on the other hand the jerk had it coming and kind of foreshadowed it. Also, I trusted Sasha and it may have been one of my favourite scenes. Only other difference was my loader bot had the machine gun.Also
Is that you Eric?It felt narratively satisfying to me. Chekhov’s gun and all thatSo good. Loved that premiere. Makes me excited for next ep reading about all your choices. (Something I weirdly didn’t feel at all after playing Game of Thrones.) Can’t wait for ep 2!
Was easily my favourite Borderlands game, that’s fo sho.
Kind of reluctant to pick up GoT until it’s on sale, dunno if that says anything (thanks to some Pixel jerk I didn’t have to pay for Tales from the Borderlands, so it may in fact say nothing).
Maybe they’ll give out codes for GoT at the next PAX 😀
Haha! Did Pixel gift everyone on TAY Borderlands? I know Transient got one too. XD
I got a free code for attending the gearbox panel at PAX 🙂
Well, I was sitting there at a board game table during PAX, and he walked up to me, and said ‘Hurdy gurdy, gurdy Popcorn Shrimp!” and handed me a card with a code for it. I exclaimed my gratitude at him, and he said “Gurdy ferdy barn, gur hurdy wa” at me. So I think he managed to grab quite a few at the panel.
OOOOOOOH everything the same but the choice of mask! 🙂
Steve is the best mask because he’s the best non important npc in the game 😛[The lights go out. A curtain parts. It shows Phlanispo, looking to get some money to buy a pie. He is thinking of buying a curry pie, but he is willing to settle for Steak & Pepper.
We enter his thoughts:]
Scene 1: “I should go to the ATM to withdraw some money. Let’s just enter in my PIN. Rejected? Oh shit, have I forgotten my PIN? I guess I’ll replace that 3 with a 5… Nope! Okay, maybe it should be a seve-Nope! Oh crap, my card is being withheld. Better go to the bank and get this straightened out.”
…
Scene 2: “Well crap, they said to come back in two hours to get the card back. So I have to go all the way home and back again? Well this sucks.”
…
Scene 3: “Okay, I’ve got my card back. They’re telling me to think of a new PIN.
…just add a one, and… I’m done! Cool! I guess I need to check if this PIN works. There’s an ATM right outside, let’s go!”
…
Scene 4: “Okay, I’m going to enter in the new PIN. Rejected? What? Wait, it’s refusing to give my card back? Again? Why did no-one at the bank tell me not to use the ATM again? Hello bank lady, I need to get my card back. Uhh, again. What. What? Come back Monday? Damn it all, I guess I have to walk home. Hey, when did it start raining?”
[The curtain closes and the lights turn on. The theatre rings with the audience’s applause.]
I swear your card gets eaten every other week, little Phlanispo 😛
This is the fourth time this has happened. In the space of three months.
Also… euphemism?
I think you should get cash out of ATM’s that don’t take the card you simply swipe it or at supermarket checkouts 😛
I’ve never done that. I don’t like the idea of money I can’t see. I prefer to carry cash, it allows my stinginess to reach its full potential.
If you pay for something by eftpos, you can usually get cash out too. Like, that’s the term for it. “Cash out”.
Fairly sure you usually have to buy something to do it though, rather than being able to just get the money. Might depend on the store. I get it though, I was big on the whole carrying of cash thing for ages too. Frequent use of PayPal helped erode that though 😛 Also actually having an income, and keeping an eye on my bank account’s balance.
Err, I said withdrawing cash at the supermarket checkouts, which is totally acceptable without making a purchase, the woolworths self checkouts allow you to get cash out without a purchase, but sadly the coles ones don’t..
Oh cool. Sorry for misinterpreting.
Bank CommBank? Get cash out without your card via the app.
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Don’t have a smartphone. I also like to stay as far away from online banking as possible. However, my recent experiences with brick-and-mortar banking have evidently been abhorrent.
I mean this in the nicest way I possible… If you try to stay away from online banking much longer you’re going to run into all sorts of headaches in the next few years. Banking in Australia is dramatically and rapidly shifting away from full service branches.
At my work we’re seeing, across the country, a reduction of between 5% and 10% every year in over the counter transactions. It’s the same with every bank. As it is right now there is very little you can’t do online. There is already stuff you can do online in 60 seconds that would take 10 times as long to do in branch and soon I’m sure you there’ll be stuff you can do online that you can’t do in branch… Just a matter of time.
I am speechless, some female rights twitter page that’s all for no violence against women (then again what normal person isn’t?) some how found a tweet of mine about GTA V and said I was only good for fertiliser I go to their twitter profile and see a bunch of tweets condoning violence again men :/
This one was pretty bad I thought;
women: women cant go out without fear of rape MRAs: men get raped too! shia labeouf: i was raped by a woman MRAs: bet u enjoyed it, lucky 😉I wasn’t going to be throwing petrol on that tweet which was burning very well already by itself, I just reported & blocked them. But wow, that’s just disgusting. Plus I don’t need my Twitter account suspended again, this time for something I DIDN’T instigate.
That is ridiculous. Violence against any gender shouldn’t be condoned. There’s a lot more stigma against men being raped at that attitude is not helping at all.
You get in the weirdest fights.
I did NOTHING. I had never heard of them, or interacted with them EVER. They were obviously trawling people for a fight.
Edit: How is it a fight if I don’t respond? All I did was report & block them..
Cool. Then why are we talking about it? Internet gonna internet.
If I’m not mistaken, you got in a random internet fight on twitter a whiles back and talked about it here too.
Don’t be a hypocrite, little Mr. Red.
People can talk about what they want to.
I thought it was interesting, myself.
I was more commenting about how 3 out of the last six posts on this page were Virus getting into weird fights 🙂
Hahaha, fair enough point 😛
What he meant to say was he was misinterpreting things and judging others by his own standards, again.
You’re full of shit. I never got into 3 “fights”.
First; I never claimed to, I happened to voic an opinion on an article on a different website and got harassed, to which I told that person to grow up, to which they responded with more nasty & hateful things. I was one of about 10 they called childish names.
Secondly, referring to obviously a comment I made about another article on this website, no arguing of any nature has ensued from any of my comments there, in fact a few people came out and said positive things reinforcing what I said. I just assumed that notifications all of a sudden meant hatred directed at me there, because I supported an option about a unpopular retailer amongst a lot of people outside of TAY.
Thirdly i’ve no idea what else you could be referring to.. Could it be this parent comment of mine? I fail to see how because I never responded to the bait especially since it was in reply to a very old tweet.. or is it about the comment of people being scared of social interaction? No that’s just an observation i’ve made from various comments across articles here, friends of mine, the general public & from working in retail.
So stop it alright, I get it you like provoking people for whatever damn reason, I like a debate, a good one with both sides willing to talk can be good, but I get sick and tired when all people want to do is abuse & be childish instead and claim things that are not true.
You’ll be happy to know that Taylor Swift’s Blank Space has left my head.
…
Now it’s replaced by this:
*dances*
Have you heard the “bonus tracks” or whatever they are called?
They have TSwift briefly discussing the song-making process on a coupla songs, and a few rough originals. It’s really interesting.
Also, what do I need to do to be a background singer for this sort of thing? 😛
Have amazing dance moves, rock solid abs & probably other superficial things.
But the dance moves they’re using are pretty simple, really…
But to their simple minds, they’re complex!
I highly doubt that. Have you met dancers? Their ability to remember moves is scary, not to mention the fact that they are fit to a level that is beyond ludicrous.
Question, does anyone on here need help with wrapping Christmas presents? Would people like a tutorial?
Hah, I used to do it professionally.
I didn’t do it at that level, but my mother laughed at me until I could get it right, so I learned fairly quickly.
When you work in a toy store near christmas you learn through sheer repetition
Really? Any tips or tricks? I love making presents look good.
As few folds and as little tape as possible, pleat if you really have to, ribbon can hide mistakes, don’t use too much paper or it gets bulky.
I try to measure the amount of paper it’ll need. If I can, use double sided tape. Ribbon with wire sides is a must for me
Bag. Done.
This guy gets it.
Lazy -_-
Extremely.
I believe you meant to say
Lazy \o/
I like to use the term efficient & time effective.. I’ll even seal it with some lovely Christmas tape if I have to!
I’m the same, tag ’em and bag ’em.
So lazy.
The same method could applied for those said drifters @dc encounters.
I’m more a fan of the “wrap it up like you’re using a towel” technique.
Preferably in conjunction with “taped up like a poster on a telegraph pole”.
Oh, a bag in case there’s more to hand out than you can carry in your hand? I get it. Smart.
Last year for cchrissy I wrapped my young ones 2DS in 5 layers of wrapping paper and had every edge of paper covered in tape.
After she got of each layer of got funnier for me.
But then I am a shit stirrerMy aunt’s been doing that with our presents for years. I swear the damn things are completely airtight.
So, uh, news.com.au just went ahead and stated that GTAV being pulled from Target is “the latest battle in the GamerGate war”.
Will that just fuck off already?
I thought it had..
I’m still not 100% sure what all this gamergate stuff is all about, and I don’t much care.
well let me express it this way. Is there a pattern to your buying behaviour? what do you want from a game? If all you want to play is pre-rendered crap produced by ministrants keep going the way you are gping
maybe it will if mark and kotaku stop acting like hypocrits
Trust me, Mark is just as fed up with this as we are. Most of these articles are coming from the US, they’re automatically sent to the Australian page.
Trust is a big issue. Without Knowing Mark personally I judge him on actions. I’ve yet to see him take one stance to back up any worthwhile opinion. he flip flops worse than a politician. What sucks is that this place is actually a bastion for some really cool people who are into gaming. A big negative are Mark and Kotaku’s agenda.
no offence but where is he?
Probably like everyone else, ignoring gamergate.
Not really true, and you know it.
uh, I personally asked Mark at Pax meat about Gamergate and he told me that he was fed up with it. I completely agreed with him.
Look, your opinion is that he isn’t doing enough. That’s fair enough. You are entitled to your opinion, but it doesn’t mean you’re right. It’s certainly an unpopular opinion judging by the downvotes.
I’m not attacking you, I just disagree with you. Sorry if you felt that I was having a go at you personally.
Hey no dramas with you personally re: the below just couldn’t comment further due to lack of kotaku cms capabilities. tell you what if that sydney gaming bar has opened yet there is a round on me if you just want to sit around and chat over beers. Its funny I was using your tag of scree in 1985 so hard to feel hate. all the same though I think you’re being played for effect.
I live in Melbourne, and I don’t drink, so it’s not really possible. =P
To be honest, I don’t care at all about Gamergate or any of this female bull crap. I just want to play my games and enjoy them.
I just jumped to the last page so might have missed some context; why so grumpy?
No dramas, lots of issues just heading to a boiling point. You could pick any one of a hundred discrepancies and argue that there are flaws in the industry. Over the last couple of weeks I seem to have developed a bee in my bonnet over Marks behaviour and I’m keen to call he and Kotaku out on it.
What becomes atypical is their lack of response and acknowledgement. It’s cowardly and unprofessional of the journalists these writers purport to be. It’s why I’ll host at my own expense, an online phone debate, with any Aussie who wants to attend to discuss issues in Australian gaming such as banning or refusing games from sale, nepotism, funding and corruption.
Sad that our nationally represented news is the equivalent of Fox News in the US.
Actually, that’s not sad, it’s a bloody disgrace.
Please. News.com.au isn’t a nationally represented news.
That’s the ABC.
For now…
You mean the ALPBC?
fine if all you love is dogmatic left leaning diatribes forced down your throat…
Sorry, you appear to have wandered here from the herald sun comments section by mistake.
prove me wrong?
Well, how about Review after review clearing it? Ot the fact that the ABC is one of the most trusted public institutions in australia?
You can throw out “The ABC is biased” as much as you like, but it’s not backed by much, it’s another canard that keeps getting trotted out.
Oh wow, you cited reports of lateline and the 7:30 report… How marvellous, are they the only programs on the abc? also you cited purely in an election period? I’ll play your game, how many mentions did each political leader garner outside those election periods on a weekly basis? Also how many mentions did each party get on a weekly basis?
Want more? of audience participation how many abc audiences were conservative over the viewing period of the entire cabinet period? further how many of the abc’s top commentators by salary have not worked for the labor party? Another Canard?? more like a busted duck mon ami
oh by the way hows that review looking of 7:30 reports last interview with Abbot going??? Lie much you???
Oh I forgot Left leaning hippies like you never lie. Hows that UVA case going again???
@masterfie Oh, move on, this is a dull continuation of a fairly innocuous initial comment- the ABC is, despite your criticisms, still our national broadcaster, and calling me a lying left leaning hippy is 1) hilarious and 2) really, really unwarranted as an ad hominem attack.
I’ll not reply to you again on this matter, and I suggest to you that if you’re going to continue to post in TAY you may want to match the tenor of other posters.
Of course it’s the equivalent of Fox, they’re both owned by Rupert Murdoch aren’t they?
Whee! \o/
All this GTA V stuff has really done is remind me that I haven’t finished GTA V and should play GTA V
I was playing earlier & I accidentally ran over some womans toes, she called me an asshole, she was also jay walking whilst the flow of traffic I was in had a green light mind you! I’m such a monster violence against women & all that jazz.
Hrmm, really don’t think that’s the point with GTA V and women.
Whoosh..
No, just think that it’s mocking a legitimate question.
Which is what? That they’re there in the game, yep.. They have careers in the storyline, yep.. Some of them are the typical Hollywood trophy house wife & spoilt daughter, yep.. Some of them have delved into a lifestyle that society for the most part frowns upon, yep.. Hmm. If you ask me a lot the roles & presence of women are reflecting normal roles you would find in day to day life, amazing, isn’t it?
As I said to a mate yesterday, the only rape that was in the story of GTA was implied toward the biker Johnny Klebitz.. Any implied violence toward women in the story line is made sure by a main character that it doesn’t happen.
I’ve never once in the story of the game been forced to or even been able to make the decision to hurt a female in any way. All the shit that has been said in the last few days about GTA & women, can only occur in free roam and has no affect on how the game story plays out, and even then, the game does not allow you to rape women or gain health from prostitutes. You can kill them, yes. But you can also kill the men.
But you don’t hear anyone standing up for the violence against men, or the threatened & implied rape of one, or even the mission ‘By The Book’ where you violently torture a bloke of middle eastern appearance..
I don’t know what the hell you wanted, but I find this whole debacle that has blown up beyond proportion a fucking joke, especially when these same people who create a stink over this either don’t care for anything that happens to us men or go as far as applauding it whilst they cry over bullshit like a male talking to them or looking in their direction in public.
I have friends who have experienced serious violence against them, including sexual, something that completely destroyed me when they opened up to me about it, and it is fucking heart breaking it happened to them, but they stay quiet on the matter because it is very personal to them. But some of the ones I have encountered who claim they are for women who have been mistreated like that, have that as their lowest priority it seems, since all you see is how men are to blame, not social issues like education, poverty & poor family structure, no. Just men in general and it sickens me, but if I speak up about it I am shut down and called a pig.
Take what you will from this, but if you ask me Grand Theft Auto, isn’t the problem and never has been. Society is the problem and how they ignore serious situations.
OK. Perhaps in isolation, absolutely: Anything you do in GTA in free roam to a woman you can do to a man. Your player actions are totally equal in that way.
But that doesn’t mean that the way the game portrays women in the plot or in the game world is remotely equal. Look at michael’s wife and daughter, and how they’re portrayed- shrewish, and hysterical, and slutty, and nagging. Look at the way the game casually throws out references to women in the radio. In the ads on the street. These are legitimate concerns, in part because they’re not isolated- they’re part of an ongoing history of poorly portrayed women in media- all media– and deserve commentary. THAT is the legitimate discussion here.
And frankly the “Men experience violence too” argument is a crap one. Yes, men do experience violence, and get raped, and are the victims of stereotypes and other horrible, horrible things. Hell, I just went to the fucking Killing Fields, where violence was delivered upon people regardless of gender, race, age or anything else.
But that doesn’t mean that one can’t call into question a specific aspect of Grand Theft Auto, its portrayal of women, and call it problematic, and call it out as merely the current systemic and ongoing problem with the portrayal of women in media
And I like Grand Theft Auto. I like tooling around in a wide open world, and listening to music. I like riding bikes, and causing mayhem, and running planes into lakes and all the rest. I don’t like, however, the way that the game lets you do all of this and then saddles it to some nastiness about women and about violence- which is a specific artistic choice by the developers, to push the envelope.
Now, of course, one game isn’t society as a whole, and at the end of the day, “it’s just a video game.” but legitimate criticism is part of any artistic movement. The purpose of art is to hold a mirror up to society, and the reflection in GTA reflects some of the most awful parts of modern society that are perhaps worthy of satire. The problem is, satire and humour works best when you punch up, and GTA spends a lot of time punching down.
That’s why I disagreed with your statement above. You’re creating a strawman argument, and it’s a shitty technique. I’d much prefer people interrogate an issue like this properly than take a cheap shot.
As for the radical feminist thing you’re railing against, and were on the last page too: Any movement has its radicals, and I’ll gladly call anyone who trivialises violence against men an idiot. The difference is, the way these discussions- specifically, discussions about feminism- tend to go is the voices on the fringes are called out as representative of the whole group, which is far from the case.
EDIT: Also, there are anti-violence groups, and men’s groups that support legitimate action to prevent sexual assault of men etc. There are also the fringe groups there, that are misogynist and evil. I wish the fringe was quieter, as I think they hurt the moderate groups, but that’s an issue that has plagued everything from gay rights to civil rights to religious freedom for centuries
@redartifice
You are both talking about different aspects of the game though.
In the violence against women category (which the whole Target thing is supposedly about) Virus is right: there really is not any in the game aside from what you choose to go do in free roam, which can be said for any open world game.
In the equal portrayal of women category, (a separate issue) Red is mostly right: it does a poor job of it on the whole. To be fair everyone in GTA is stereotyped and shown in a bad light, male and female, but GTA does not balance that with positive female characters like it does the male. The female stereotypes are left hanging like a joke with no punchline, and so often fails to materialise as satire.
Now make up and go have ice cream.
As much as i hate what’s going on in this debacle, some of the reply petitions are hilarious.
https://www.change.org/p/target-withdraw-the-holy-bible-this-sickening-book-encourages-readers-to-commit-sexual-violence-and-kill-women
How about this; https://www.change.org/p/target-to-change-their-violent-name-and-aggressive-logo
Remember when games were about having fun?
Me neither 🙁
So, for anyone playing Sm4sh, are you using custom control schemes?
I’ve found setting ZL as shield; ZR as grab, L, R, X, and Y as jump to work really well for me.
I’m using custom.
Using Y as regular attack, X as special attack, B and A as jump, and switched guard to ZR and ZL, and R and L to grab.
Still wishing I could set movement to the d-pad though :'(
I press A a lot.
Tap jump OFFFFFFFFFF
Guard ZR/ZL and Grab R/L (just feels more natural)
I wish you could set a default scheme/name rather than having to select my name/profile each time :/
I’ve been avoiding it because cbf doing the whole choose-a-name thing every time I play. Also it means that I don’t then have to go and create a new scheme whenever I play at someone else’s place, and don’t get stuck forming habits on irregular things.
That said I’ve been pondering switching ZL and L, also X and B. I’ve been playing with the Pro controller, might possibly even like it better than the GCN for this game.
Though I find their analogue controls pretty annoying. They really need to turn down the sensitivity, it seems like you have a choice of tiptoeing or sprinting. Nothing inbetween. I can’t even pick up items half the time because I stop too far away from them and when trying to get a little closer just run straight past instead. And changing direction is really hard to do too.
Tap jump off, L and ZL to block, tap jump changed to off, R and ZR to grab, and I turn tap jump to the off position.
Hey little @phlanispo, thoughts on Adventure world tomorrow?
Yay, or Nay?
The correct answer is Yay.
Yay. Writing up the plans now. Again, sorry about how short notice this is and how shite my communication has been.
That’s alrighty 🙂
You can get added to the I-Wish-It-Was-More-Exclusive list of TAYbies who have seen me shirtless! 😀
Michelle Pfeiffer that white golddd
She so is tho…
Ok, I’m back after a long day at work, did a quick skim of TAY. So, a whole heap of peeps got tagged a lot, @shane turned into a zombie from eating too many clinkers and @redartifice still has some dong.
What else did I miss?
That summary is so accurate I’m going to go to bed, because there’s nothing left for me here.
My dong looks big but you can’t do much with it.
Not here you can’t. If you were still on holiday you could give it to a ladyboy.
Who are the resident PC gurus? I need help, for the last couple of days my taskbar wont hide when i fullscreen videos (YouTube/Twitch/etc.) My own google troubleshooting has been unsuccessful 🙁
@welbot
mm could be a number of things really. I’ve had similar issues before at times, but mostly due to me using the auto-hide feature on the task bar. it’s almost impossible to just guess at what could be causing it to happen for you though.. I’m guessing you mean you tell it to play full screen, and it goes full screen, but the task bar stays over the video? It could be a layering thing with your player (see if there’s an option to enable called “always on top” somewhere. If there isn’t, or it doesn’t work, you might be best to try re-installing your graphic drivers?
Thanks man that’s exactly what I mean, I’ll see if I can fix it tonight.
Adventure World meat last minute planning
My planning has been shit for this, but 12 hours before the meat begins, I’m going to outline some plans. There are absolutely no faults with this practice.
Who: It seems like @liondrive is the only one that can come, or at least he is the only one to respond to the stupidly tight RSVP deadline I created. My apologies to TheCracks, PlatinumUrchin, and Phoenix for not being able to find a time good for everyone.
Meeting Point: I assume that the most logical meeting point and time is the entrance at 10am. I will be wearing a dark red shirt with a tiger on it, (95% sure this is the same thing I wore to the Guardians of the Galaxy meat) so try and spot me in the crowd. You will not experience the glory of Shirtless Phlanispo, I’m afraid.
Rides I will not be going on include
– The Rampage
-The Black Widow (formerly Power Surge)
-Abyss (I could handle the late Turbo Mountain, but not this)
Please note that in order to go on the Grand Prix race track (don’t, the lines are extremely long) you need to bring enclosed shoes.
I would like to dedicate a portion of the meat to riding all the kiddie rides.
This is totally a date if it’s just you and I, little Phlanispo 😛
Fine by me 😉
Dammit, I hate organising an outfit last minute.
I’m tall, so you’ll be able to spot me easy enough 😛
I’ll be in the grey board shorts (they’re a little skimpy, but I like my legs, so enjoy the view), white converse, and an equally skimpy grey and blue striped singlet, which will more than likely come off at some stage (again, enjoy the view).
I’ll also be the one who is still confused about whether or not you wear underwear under boardies when swimming, so I’ll probably be commando too, but I have a feeling that that’s too much information.
Oh, and in case I’m running late or you’re running late…
my mobile is:Oh Four Eight One, 281, Five Three One.
Text me so I have yours 🙂
Grey Board Shorts Buddies! I must remember that converse are shoes and not shirts. I do not recommend commando as board shorts sometimes fall off when swimming.
I’ll text you my number. Let’s hope this works better than when I tried to ring Greenius’s number.
😛
I honestly don’t know what happened with your number. It worked the first time, but refused to work on the day of the meat.
Your joke backfired when I got sent the “I’m joking” text first.
Nooooooooooooooooo!!!
Forgot the Scottish doctor part…
5am…
Been waking up like this for the last two days…
:\
Getting to hyped for Christmas?
For the first time since I became unemployed, I’ve actually been waking up later than usual. Typical that it kicks in just a few days before I start my new job!
Some of you may remember my complaining at the start of the year that there really weren’t any games I was looking forward to this year and it being possible that I’m becoming old and jaded.
Looking at the list to vote for game of the year just made it hit home that there really weren’t any games I found fantastic this year.
I’m not saying there weren’t any good games. There were a few good ones. But nothing that made me truly feel joy to play or stood out as amazing. Though it is possible I just played the wrong ones.
I’m enjoying dragon age 3 at the moment but there are too many glaring issues for me to be amazed. Most of which can be summed up by saying Dragon age 1 is better.
Bayonetta 2 game close but the problem with Bayonetta 2 is it’s Bayonetta 1 again. I kind of feel that they shouldn’t get game of the year just for not stuffing up their previous formula. I think that’s the problem with most of the years offerings (the ones that aren’t simply horribly broken) is they are just more of stuff we’ve seen before.
I have hope Valiant Hearts and/or this war of mine will stand out as something special but I haven’t actually played them yet. It also seemed like a good year for Nintendo fans (pretty much every one of you I gather) but I’ve never been massively into Nintendo IPs and the two i’ve noticed people getting most excited about, Smash bro’s and Mario Kart, appear to me to be more of what they have already done.
This year seems to have been nothing but the same things again, horribly broken games or, In the case of Assassins Creed, both.
TLDR: I’m officially an old man.
I really enjoyed Risen 3 this year! Also Might and Magic X and Grimrock 2! Hard to say which would be my GOTY, as they all had their good points. I’ve actually enjoyed quite a few games this year. Every day I play Marvel Puzzle Quest still, and almost every day I have at least one round of Worms Clan Wars with my friend. I really enjoyed Castlevania Lords of Shadow 2 as well! I don’t even know if half the games I played came out this year, or earlier at this stage, but I’ve enjoyed probably more games than in previous years I reckon!
I’m no Nintendo Fan!
But yeah, pretty terrible year for games on the whole.
DA:I I really enjoy despite it’s issues, WoW:WoD is great fun and Divinity:OS was pretty darn good.
Destiny was fun but too flawed, Civ:BE bad, Diablo 3 awesome but not new so doesn’t count.
But that’s the last 3? months of games. The rest of the gaming year might as well not have existed.
I forgot about Divinty:OS. That’s another one I haven’t played yet but intend to as it sounds like it should be good.
If you like old school RPGs it’ll be right up your alley.
Well looks like Mad Monday is on again.
http://www.ebgames.com.au/
LET ME BROWSE YOUR SITE! >:|
😛
This happened the last few times as well when I was trying to look up stuff.
What sort of deals can I expect?
Had a look at the email they sent me, to be honest they all look pretty meh.
I’m looking for a good Trap Team deal; got any tips?
Was in Target today, think they have it for about 50 something dollars.
@dc, @greenius and @stickman check your Steam inboxes.
D:
Raider of Tombsius!
Thanks Giftmonkey!
Oh man, thank you so much! D:
Let’s co-op! 😀
We’ll be heading off to Melbourne the day it unlocks. Won’t be able to till about a week after.
Seriously man, blown away by your generosity. You’re awesome. 🙂
It’s all good. Hope you guys enjoy it.
Sold some stuff in my garage sale and in between the rain pulled up some well overgrown weeds. Quite a successful morning considering it’s not even 10am. Now to reward myself with a trip to the shops where there shall be bacon and hash browns.
At some point today I’ll crash after 3 hours sleep due to finding a new loot cave in Destiny late last night
Where is it?
On Mars near the start where the Vex and Cabal are fighting each other, there’s a ledge just past the round Cabal building with the patrol quest marker in. Stand on that ledge and the Vex will respawn regularly but it seems a bit slower than the original loot cave. The Cabal won’t spawn until you go towards the cave though.
Mind you, unless you really need the weapon parts/armour breakdown parts there’s not much point in loot caving anymore at high light levels unless you can use it to smash a few bounties out.
Y’all folk with tap jump off are crazy.
nah u
EDIT: And “all y’all” works better!
All y’folk.
Yolk, for short.
Ugh.. Really am not looking forward to next week, oh well..
It will be OK 🙂
Nah, well it might be, it better be actually.
But I have go see the Employment “provider” or whatever they call themselves.. and well he just about never has anything positive to say to me, it’s all negative stuff, or stuff that just stresses me out and when I ask for some info on jobs I have been met with “we don’t get retail jobs through here” sure that’s where I would prefer to work, but I can work in hospitality & IT as well or which I am sure they get jobs for. I’m only meant to apply for 3 jobs a week, currently i’m averaging between 6 & 10, with little to no outcomes, sometimes it feels like the employers meant to specify they wanted juniors and no one else :/
It was like the other week he said they’d pay for me to get my Queensland RSA cause living on the border of NSW & QLD can be a pain, so I went and enquired with the company he suggested only to have them tell me it was online only, to me I thought fine by me, I don’t have to waste an entire day in a classroom somewhere being told stuff that is 95% the same as the NSW variant… But he told me that was bullshit (his actual words) and to go find somewhere, where I can do it in person. I decided i’ll just pay the $50 myself and do it online, considering face to face courses are around 2-3 times the price of the online counter part.
Urgh sounds tough. Makes me mad when I think of some ppl at my work who take their job for granted >:(
Annoying/stressful. I wouldn’t say tough, since I sort of have it easy I guess? But it does get the better of me at times.
I’ve met a few other who have this same consultant and they all say the same he isn’t the nicest person there… He has his moments, but just feels like i’m being talked down to. He doesn’t seem to understand that I do a lot around here in my household from, shopping, cleaning, cooking, garden stuff, I walk my dog every day, and other stuff, and it doesn’t help that mum has 3 pro-lapsed discs in her back along with osteoarthritis from her nursing career & dad has hip, back & knee problems, from his labouring career & various spills on motorbikes.
So if i’m expected to pull my fair share at home i’m really only able to take a local-ish job, so I can be home at a reasonable hour to do things. Not this up to 90 minutes travel away crap that we’re meant to look for. Even though I have been doing that because there’s been a few JB HiFi’s a while away advertise.
I don’t hear my mates who are in the same position as me having to deal with this much crap from their “provider” I wish I dealt with Centrelink more than I did which is now like never :/
Been looking to pick up Cards Against Humanity for a while as well as The Walking Dead (graphic novels) might actually get around to it on our trip next week. Any Melbourne or Brisbane peeps know of any shops where I could get them, preferably in the CBD.
You know it’s $30 with free shipping from their website?
Ooh, thanks, didn’t even think that they’d have a website for some stupid reason.
*facepalm*
It appears that the site will only let me buy the Australian Edition if I put in an AU shipping address.
Well that sucks, I’ll have to order the US version from Amazon and the UK version from Ozgameshop down the track.
Any particular reason you want the US edition? The Au is the same with mostly the same cards with stuff like obscure American politicians and mannerisms removed and local cards added.
Oh, I was under the impression that each versions cards were completely different.
No, just replaced some so you’re not all sitting there wondering who David Perdue is.
Ah, cheers for the info.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/12/captain-toad-treasure-tracker-the-kotaku-review/
Hanging out for this, should be fun.
GOTY 2015.
That’d be a way for the year to peak early if the best game came out 3 days into it. 😛
Man, if freaking Captain Toad is the peak of 2015 over all the games I’m actually hyped for due I think I’d just give up and find a new hobby.
Yeah, I don’t think you need to worry. Lots of amazing stuff next year! 😀
BLOODBORNEEEEEEEEEEEEE YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
Uncharted! The Order! Other stuff!
…
Come to think of it there’s not many huge games I’m psyched for next year. Yet.
(unlikely to be 2015) but keep an eye on FFXV! I know you’re not into the series but that open world looks so pretty! Hopefully it’s good…
ALSO XENUBLADE
Nah, tried enough Final Fantasy games to know the series doesn’t interest me in the slightest no matter how pretty. I guess Zelda should be cool as well!
It’s hard to find a green tie in this shopping centre 🙁
If anyone can find a slim emerald green tie for around $20 delivered, you win!
m.ebay.com.au/itm/like/190660175043?limghlpsr=true&hlpv=2&ops=true&viphx=1&hlpht=true&lpid=107&chn=ps
You win!
Damn. Walked out the front door to pop over the shops to get bread & the Saturday papers & it started pouring down, how rude.
Hahaha. Came across this on Imgur, a bunch of things said by Military personnel. Some of them are just too funny.
Still the best version of that I have seen is http://skippyslist.com/list/
Wow, political discussion, bye.
No jimy come back! We can talk about Seoul Silver and Platforms
I’m playing Omega Ruby. SS is so last gen
… What?
What?
(In The Butt)
Not touching that
It’s a little boy singing his smash hit song, What What In My Asshole.
Even with added butter(s)?
Anyone* want to play Smash online this weekend? 1v1 no items Omega stages? Muck around with whatevs?
*who’s not already attending cool Smash parties :'(
*crickets*
Yeah, I should be up for it tonight or tomorrow. I’ll hit you up on the twitters when I’m ready.
Ah, in love with WoW all over again. Just got to feel like the biggest hero ever for sitting in a chair, clicking my mouse and pushing de buttons.
I queued for my first heroic as DPS because apparently I don’t have high enough ilevel to queue as tank (614), and would need to do silver proving grounds when I was frickin’ flat-out doing bronze… so I figure DPSing will let me get used to the level, figure out the fights, be able to lead like a tank is meant to. I don’t really have a DPS spec, I just use Blood (DK) with the presence switched from threat-generating to haste.
We get into Slag Mines – I haven’t even done that Normal mode. OK, whatever, I’ll just play it safe, don’t stand in fire, interrupt spells, grab adds off heals… y’know. Not suck. But we get up to Roltall and it’s pretty clear our heals isn’t coping, and our tank isn’t either. 50% health for the boss and the DPSers are down, the tank’s not far away, heals is struggling. Before I can battle-rez the tank, he’s down, and heals is not long after. So I figure I’ll give it a good shot, switch to blood presence, roll up sleeves and get to work. Eventually get enough of a breather to battle rez the healer, who struggles to stay up and the best he can do is top me off to full again before he goes down again.
Like… I don’t even know how long of intense fighting later, I drop the boss, I’m on somewhere around 5% health, and everyone who had been completely silent during the fight finally loses their shit. And I can finally breathe and I’m shaking with adrenaline. Big Damn Heroes indeed.
So yeah. That was pretty exhilirating. The kind of experience you don’t get from face-rolling everything. Or doing paperwork. Nice change.
Also, while I can totally take credit for being a pretty decent tank, I suspect it may also mean that Blood DKs may possibly be just a teensy bit OP.
As a rogue at the point the tank dies I vanish and bail hahahaha.
But nice work 😀
Hah. The other DPSers died first. Kept standing in fire.
GG. How can you even manage that, with DBM & all that jazz these days :/
Slag Mines is a bastard of a dungeon. I’d rather anything but that in the current crop.
Nice work on improv tanking, though I gather DK’s are indeed pretty op at the moment :p
Salad Fingers D:
Is that like vegan jazz fingers or something?
Look at my horse, my horse is amazing.
*sings Nyancat to myself*
I really should go looking through the weeblstuff archive to see what they’ve been up to. It’s been years!
http://www.buzzfeed.com/chelseamarshall/this-cat-accidentally-turned-himself-turquoise-and-its-actua
<3
New Zelda footage.
Looks like a real system seller!
I am so excited. I hope they have a screen recorded version to share.
Now i’m not sure if I should put off buying a wii-u and see if there is a special edition bundle.
Legend of the Shadow of the Colossus?
It looks very pretty. Hope the controls aren’t bullshit though, especially the aiming. Aonuma was using tilt controls and fuck that shit sideways. Dealbreaker for me.
Remember King’s Quest? It’s back! Looks like a departure, but that was inevitable!
I’m really excited for this! I was more a Quest for Glory man myself, followed by Space Quest then Police Quest, but I’ve got fond memories of all of the old Sierra text adventures (yes, even you, Larry).
Gabriel Knight was my go to Sierra series, but loved them all like crazy. (Except for Quest for Glory… which I never played. D:)
Such a shame. I’m at my parents house atm and my boxed copy of QfG2 should be here somewhere (right next to Wing Commander 1).
Talk about a simpler time; no one was going to send Roberta Williams death threats :'(
Instabuy. Even with the departure it still looks like something I’d play and enjoy playing.
But oh those memories of the original series…
That gnome like character in the trailer reminded me of rumplestilstkin..
Am I the only one getting a strong Dragons Lair vibe from that?
Looks neat though. Keeping an eye on that.
Oh look, the Kings Quest games are in gog.com…
http://www.gog.com/game/kings_quest_7_8
*buys*
I wonder if I’ll get as incredibly frustrated as I did as a kid and give up.
I haven’t when I played them. I managed to pass KQ4!
I got stuck in the whale when I was a kid.I could always figure out the Lucasarts and Zork games but the Sierra ones broke my brain for some reason.
They weren’t ashamed to kill you for no good reason. 😛
I had trouble with Wishbringer as a kid. Wishbringer. The supposed “easier” Infocom game.
Of course I was like, 8 or 9, when I was playing it.
Nah I thought the same, not a deal breaker though.
All I could think was Fable Fable Fable thanks to the voice over. Look good though.
You can see all the Game Award trailers here!
You are a gentleman and a scholar.
Kotaku posts earlier in the week to stay tuned for coverage… @dc brings the goods!
Thank you!
o/
I wish I could play new Zelda right now
…
and new Star Fox
…
and Majora’s Mask remake
…
and Captain Toad
Dinosaur Planet 2.
And Yoshi’s Woolly World
And Diddy Kong Racing 2
And F-Zero U
I know those last two haven’t been confirmed to actually be in development yet, but c’mon, they’d be mad not to make them.
+1 for Wooly World, although I’d be even more happy with a direct sequel to Epic Yarn.
Never got to play that, really should hunt down a copy.
Great game, especially in co-op. Me and mrs 100% it in 2p then she did the same again solo 😮
There is a new star fox? I have to look this up.
I’ll ask again on Monday in new TAY when there’s more TAYbies about, but who’s up for a Buffalo Bar meat at lunchtime on Thursday?
Those who can’t come because of monies, I’m sure we’ll be able to meat afterwards in the CBD and just mosey.
*note to self, must tell the wife.
@beardymcmuttonchops @beeawwb @cufcfan616 @dc @dkzeitgeist @freezespreston @gutsoup @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @sernobulus @strange @sughly @transientmind @welbot @weresmurf @virus__
Cannot for the life of me if I ever even said, but I can’t make it :/
🙁
What about weekend? We could meet for a beer or a coffee or something?
Edit: I honestly can’t remember if you did or not either, it’s just easier to tag everyone on TAYTags than to weed out the ones that have responded.
I’m actually down in Tweed Heads over the border in NSW, so it’s a little more tedious for me to come to Brisbane meat stuff, sadly. Stupid trains take forever I swear.
How long are you in Brisbane for, i’m pretty sure I missed that as well 😛
We’re leaving to come back to Melbourne next Sunday arvo (the 14th).
So are Brisbane TAYbies doing something Saturday? Cause I am trying to see if I can get to Brisbane I think it’s Saturday, because my mate has invited me to some gathering at his in Carindale, which is just south of Brisbane..
I think we’re going to Movie World on Friday, so a Saturday thing should be fine. Depends on the weather though, if it’s bad on Friday we’ll be going on Saturday.
Fair enough, Movie World is an awesome place it’s got the @dc tick of approval! The bureau of meteorology, reckons there’s a 70% chance of rain on Friday & 40% chance on Saturday, so I hope for your case it doesn’t rain either day!
The elusive Meat! Hard to get SATAY flavoured 🙁
Oh, there will most definitely be an Evil SATAY flavoured meat next year if I’ve got anything to do with it.
I should be able to make that, depending on the cleaners. 95% “Yes”
\o/
I only have half hour lunches at work and it’d take 20 mins to walk into the CBD 🙁
dunno about me. Will have to find out how things go once I get to work. Don’t even know my schedule past the first day yet!
That’s cool, I’m sure we’ll work something out.
5pm after work beer mebee.
cc@cufcfan616
I wont be able to do meats for a few more weeks yet. Still have to make it through the first fortnight of working there before I get money, and most of that will likely go to dad to pay him back for helping me through! Sooooooon though!! 🙂
Like I said before, if you don’t have monies that’s cool, if you’re in the CBD or whatever we can just mosey, I don’t mind shouting you a beer/coffee/whatever. Just because we meet up doesn’t mean you have to spend money.
Cheers for the offer. Not so much the money thing, just a combination of things. I’ll be working in Fortitude Valley, so it’s not a kind of duck out and be there in 5 mins kind of thing. Not even sure how long my lunch break is yet! 🙂 Also things like parking I need to consider. Have to check on when I have to leave etc.
I’m out. No can do Thursday.
CRAP! Saturday?
man it’s hard trying to get everyone together at the same time.
Saturday night is generally when we organise our meats. Most people seem free then.
Yeah. I reckon Saturday night sounds awesome. 🙂
Ok, you guys can arrange a saturday night meat if you want, not 100% sure if we’ll be able to make it or not at this stage.
We might be able to do Movie World during the day and then a meat in the CBD when we get back. I’ll keep you updated.
Where do you guys usually meet?
Cyber City 2002
(Not even kidding)
I’m never gonna drink with you again because my wife is working every Sunday forever now.
We had some good times though(probably, I can’t remember)
I think you should talk to wifey first before committing to any thing, buddy. Just in case. Haha! 😀
Probably.
Otherwise, wooooooo! 😀
I’ll check the menu, see if I can eat anything & get back to you 🙂
Be great if you could come, @strange too, I know she said she was free on Thursday. If you can’t I’m sure we’ll be able to arrange something else.
It’s easy for me to show Thursday as I work in the cbd, not sure about the food is all.
Ok then if the food’s a no go give me a time frame (before or after lunch) and we can meet up and mosey or something (I hear @dc loves a good mosey).
Trying to look at when would work for going up to Brisbane next year and holy shit your monthly temperature averages scare me :S
When does it become not unbearably hot?
PS I considered May to be pushing it the last time I was there 😛
There’s usually a week in July where we consider maybe wearing long sleeves.
That’s… comforting 😛
To put it into perspective it’s technically ‘summer’ and it’s currently 12 degrees with a high of 16 tomorrow…
Embrace the hotness. Go to Wet n Wild or the beach or something. 😀
I’ll try 😛 Indoors sounds less heat stroke-y though!
Saying that whenever it is I’d love to meet you Queensland guys 😛 You’d have to do the organising cos I have no idea what’s up there but I’ll let you guys know when we get something figured out (literally haven’t gotten any further than looking at weather patterns so far)
There’s water, sand, sun, warmth, theme parks and err other fun stuff I presume…
Can I come too? 😀
Of course!
(Not paying though :P)
It’s only 22 at the moment so good temp but the humidity is pretty gross.
True story: Since moving here 2 years ago I haven’t worn a single long sleeved shirt.
I got pneumonia this winter…
Not even for fancy pants suits?
I have worn a suit 4 or 5 times in the last 2 years. Most times it had a footy jumper under it, the other time I was in Sydney for a meeting and didn’t put the shirt on until I got there. Doesn’t really count.
Sup?
Today was pretty bloody wet today so I did basically nothing, apart from walk the dog & do a bit of shopping. Whilst shopping I literally ran into an old mate from my first high school which was 10 years ago now, I realise…
This roast chicken mum is doing for dinner smells amazing.. Marinated in Chinese BBQ & honey, gonna be amazing.
\o/ today is Saturday that means new episodes of Epic Meal Empire & also the last episode of Sonic Highways, that makes me sad because it’s been a brilliant series =(
I’m now caught up on Bob’s Burgers now.. Which also sucks, since that means there’s nothing mindless and amusing to just watch damn.. Might have to get caught up on Boardwalk Empire now or Homeland or Mad Men or maybe start Suits, Sleepy Hollow, Orange is The New Black, Weeds or Justified.
Also almost finished the main story of GTA V again. I didn’t know this on PS3, but I did on PS4 because the game takes use of the controllers lightbar, but I never gave it any thought as to the colours that represent the characters, Green = Franklin, Blue = Michael & Orange = Trevor. I was wondering if that had any real significance, as in Green for money, Blue for depression & Orange for rage? I mean it would fit with the main personalities you seen the characters portraying. But then again green with Franklin may also represent the original Grove Street Family gang since they wear green to identify themselves & he identifies with them.
I have so many new shows to.watch, so many shows half finished and no motivation to watch any of them. Need to finish The Strain and catch up with Gotham. Also have Constantine and Hell On Wheels ready to go but never in the mood to start something new. Shame on me. Hell On Wheels could likely get me in the mood to go through Deadwood again though.
My missus was watching Orange Is The New Black but it’s not my thing. It was good but yeah, not my thing 😛 Sleepy Hollow’s another one I keep meaning to watch though. I might line it up after Gotham. We’ve not watched the last season or two of Mad Men. The first season or two was absolutely fantastic. Then I lost interest as it became more the Don Draper life story rather than being really interesting focused on the ad firm. True Story’s another one we stopped watching. Probably should finish it off but it got a bit silly. Stupid reason considering I’m talking about a series about vampires 😀
GTA V, I never thought of the colours. Doesn’t Franklin take on Grove St when one of them tries to rip him off on a drug deal though? I need it on PS4. I’ve never wanted to explore a GTA world so much even though I’ve already played it through on PS3
Haha, so many shows, right?! I’m currently watching some movie titled ‘Tusk’ it’s weird & creepy to say the least. I tried to like Deadwood but couldn’t =( lol.
Mad Men has been amazing, there was a bit of one season where I lost a little bit of interest, but its been damn good.
Well Grove street is now Ballas territory, who wear purple, but it wasn’t always! Given Franklin affiliates with ‘The Families’ gang, which Grove Street was part of back in the original San Andreas and their distinctive colour is green I presumed that’s what green initially meant, but he is also very much motivated by money so, it could really identify with money 😛
TAY, what’s your favourite soft drink?
Mine’s a tie between Coke Zero and Agrum.
Energy drinks, cause I hate my body 😀
Seriously, I dunno. I like vanilla coke, I also liked lemon coke when it was available. I dunno, don’t really drink soft drink..
it used to be Strawberry Pepsi, but that was only on sale for a limited time in 1990 or 1991.
So now it’s Dr. Pepper (even though it’s hard to find in this stinkin’ town).
Tonic. Goes well with gin 😛
I don’t really like soft drinks all that much. They are usually far to sweet and I’m not a fan of sweet things. Unsweetened tea is pretty good if we’re classifying soft drink as non alcoholic.
Lemon Lime and Bitters, Ginger Beer and Coke in that order!
Mostly coke zero and soda water.
Cherry Coke when it was around in 2002 – 2004 in Australia.
Now… Coke Zero takes up most of my time with a smattering of Red Bull if I need to put a big night of study in.
It’s a Farmers Union Iced Coffee, or it’s nothing.
Cherry Coke. I still grab a can from American sweet shops every now and then. When I was a kid I loved Cherry 7 Up. I found a new stock of it a couple of years ago but it wasn’t the same recipe 🙁 also, Hank’s Gourmet Sodas Black Cherry is amazing.
I have a slight thing for cherry flavoured drinks if you couldn’t tell. Fun fact, the suburb of Cambridge I grew up in was called Cherry Hinton because there used to be loads of cherry orchards around. Funnily enough I didn’t like cherries back then (other than cherry 7 Up) 😀Other than that, the new sugar free flavoured mineral waters from Schweppes are amazing. Lime is my favourite atm and could be my new mixer. Raspberry and Tangerine ones aren’t too bad either though
Regular coke. The classic. The best.
Lemon lime and bitters, ginger beer, sarsaparilla, chinotto, Dr Pepper and tonic water.
I hardly ever have soft drink though. Usually just cordial.
Dr. Pepper.
Yep, I’m one of THOSE people.
Pepsi Max!
Being closer to Adventure World than @liondrive means that I can tell my version of the story first. Haha!
Adventure World Meat
I arrived at the titular theme park roughly five minutes before it opened. I then proceeded to wave at nearly every one in a sleeveless shirt in the hope that it was Liondrive. This plan eventually bore fruit, as Liondrive waved back.
We rented a locker to put our stuff in. Liondrive took the key. He decided to indulge in a little extortion, and wouldn’t let me get y stuff back unless I went on the scary rides. I held firm, and was eventually able to get my stuff back. Yay for not experiencing new things! Sadly, I could only convince Liondrive to go on a single kiddie ride. This ride was quick to be dubbed Arsehole Mountain, as half the fun of it was spraying people with hoses.
I was graceful. Whenever I would depart from a water slide, I would fly out, held aloft by pixies. I never once fell flat on my face. Ever. Liondrive was constantly congratulating me on my grace and coordination.
As the day wore on, Liondrive’s skin turned an ever darker shade of red. He eventually relented and bought suncream from the gift shop, but it was too late.
We discussed many a thing. How Liondrive hates avacado. How I hate doughnuts. How Liondrive has somehow never had a Golden Gaytime. How much we both love Monopoly. How the hell this stupid rail ride can have a line this long.
We closed the day of merriment by me almost stealing his keys.
Of course, since everyone is going to request pictures:
http://www.montecitojournal.net/img.php?id=1436&w=350
(I didn’t attempt to replicate it with ASCII art this time!)
Let us clarify.
First:
Phlanispo could not get off any of the water rides with any sense of grace.
Falling over, almost drowning, floundering around.
On every ride 😛
Second:
It’s true about extorting him.
He didn’t want to go on the roller coaster, but I wanted to go on the roller coasters!
Being the bearer of the locker key, extortion was the logical path to follow.
Though, in the two seconds that Phlanispo did have the locker key, he somehow managed to snap the rubber wristband it was attached to.
Third:
Goddamn does my sunburn hurt, but I’m holding onto hope that it’ll turn I to a beautiful mahogany tan after it peels :Do
Fourth:
The rail ride in question was like a peddle cart on tracks above the park.
I was tired of going slow, so ended up peddling to frightening speeds (literally, Phlanisbro was quite frightened), and accidentally rammed the couple in front of us who had decided to have a romantic stop above a pond.
It was a good day over all, though next time I’ll wear sunscreen :3
Cold water + towel on sunburn. One on your back, the other in the fridge. Keep swapping when the towel warms up, It’ll help take the sting out of the sunburn.
Aloe Vera gel really helps sunburn.
Who is your daddy, and what does he do?
Kindergarten Cop is on TV right now.
DOMINIIIIIIIIIIC
Just got off the phone with my Grandma up in Brisbane.
She said that she’s really looking forward to seeing us. So are we, it’s been too long.
😀 MOVE TO BRISBANE! MEATS ALL THE TIME!
I’d love to, used to live up there about 15 years ago, was a bit more free to move around back then. Now I have to think about my wife and son, and I’ve got a stable full time job here. I don’t wanna just give that up.
That said, I absolutely friggin’ love Brisbane and if everything else fell into place I’d move there again in a second. Reckon I’d love to retire there.
Thought I’d have a look through the Foxtel tv guide to see if much has changed since the start of this year and also the start of last year.
Nope. Same exact shows.
Playing catch up on Sons of Anarchy season 7…nearly caught up and fuck me… This shit is getting out of control!
Oh, and grabbed Farcry 4… It’s purty… But seriously… Eagles have mauled 3 out of the 4 walking trader guys that I’ve seen before I can even sell shit to them…
So much blood.. I love Manson in this season, he’s just so fitting, to being a white supremacist, it’s almost scary.. Also Courtney Love is not a half bad actor and especially as the role she plays.
I’d love to have seen Manson in the show in earlier seasons… He plays that part so damn well. Especially love the scene where he’s reading poetry!
Yeah, especially if he was Darby’s counterpart in Oakland or something to that effect.. I wonder what happened to Darby, I miss that weirdo..
Played Mario Kart and Smash with @jimu and @gutsoup. Good people. 😀
Haha I did the exact same with 2 of my friends!
How’d you find Smash?
As terrible as I remember. 😛
:'(
DID YOU PLAY AS SHULKIES?
DIDDY!
It was fun! Thanks for coming!
Thanks for the invite. Sorry if I was quiet/weird around your regular human friends. 😛
You weren’t either of those things. People seemed to like you even :O .
My dogs liked you too 😀
Surrounded by young people in a backpackers bar (Birdees for Brisbane people in the know) with the added bonus of Stereosonic people out in force. I feel so old. Half the songs being played came out before the majority of kids here were out of diapers (or worse, before they were born)
Yip, I’m definitely turning into a grumpy old manI hear ya man.
Goodnight TAY!
Goodnight @mrtaco!
Haven’t heard much from you, but hope you’ve cheered up some 🙂
Good morning!
I’ve been out. Just got home a little while ago 😛 I’m alright though. Exasperation still lingers within, but I vented enough to shake off most of it.
Good to hear you’re feeling a bit better, friend 🙂
Can’t sleep…stomach too full…raining heavily…
What the hell is it with leg/hip problems among women in my family of late?! Just found out my other grandmother fell and broke her hip yesterday 🙁 2 broken hips and an amputation all within 2-3 months.. Super suck
Aw man, sorry to hear that, pal.
Osteoporosis is a terrible thing. I hope your grandmother recovers.
I hope so too! Hopefully it’s all over. They say things happen in 3’s..
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2014/12/06/day-of-the-tentacle-special-edition-announced-for-playstation-4-and-vita.aspx
DAY OF THE TENTACLE! DAY OF THE TENTACLE! DAY OF THE TENTACLE!
Here’s hoping Full Throttle is next. 😀
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2014/12/06/grim-fandango-has-a-release-date-on-playstation-4-and-vita.aspx
Grim Fandango will be on PS4 and Vita on Jan 27! Late birthday present for Greenius! 😀
Haha I thought about that too 😀
BBBLLLLLLLAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*flails like a madman*
Does anyone wear T.M. Lewin shirts? I’ve got some questions about the size/fit of them!
I’m guessing no, but I won’t know unless I ask!
If his shirts don’t fit you, then maybe you should think about wearing your own XD
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/12/heres-what-uncharted-4-looks-like-on-the-ps4/
I have a sudden urge to play through all the Uncharted’s again. Wish I hadn’t traded them in.
So hype.
Really hoping they announce a PS4 collection soon. One of a handful of games I’d be happy to repurchase. 🙂
Not gonna watch this trailer. Want to know nothing going in, just like The Last of Us. 😀
Same, everything Naughty Dog does is gold.
New Jak & Daxter please.
Everything except Uncharted 3 that is. :\
I’m about to start replaying uncharted 1 🙂
Still loving how The Order is shaping up, even if it does look pretty scripted. Uncharted in alternate London? Sounds okay to me! 😀
I’m kinda worried that they aren’t showing any actual gameplay.
They have before, though. Looked okay then, but yeah, release date getting closer and closer. Seems to be the thing to do.
I’ve only seen one trailer with gameplay. It was super short and had a few QTE’s, kinda made me worried about the game. Would be nice for them to just play through it a little bit.
Yeah, for sure. Though QTE aren’t a deal breaker for me. I think I like the world of this game enough to carry it if the gameplay is simplistic, but here’s hoping we’ll see more before release.
Oh yeah, the world looks fantastic and I will probably grab it. I’m just not sold on the gameplay.
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2014/12/06/check-out-more-combat-from-the-order-1886-playstation-experience.aspx
New gameplay footage! 😀
It looks like a bland cover shooter with the camera in way too close.
EDIT: It also gives me the impression it’s going to be really short, since they never actually show any decent content for it.
I actually might try this, “media blackout” thing.
Might help get hyped for games again, since I hardly get hyped for games these days :3
Might be an odd choice, but I’m going to try it for Zelda U, since I’ve never played a Zelda before, and because it’s one of the few games I’m pretty keen for already 🙂
So hard, but so rewarding. Was amazing going into The Last of Us knowing nothing.
I don’t think there is going to really be much to know in the case of Zelda, but it looks pretty, and I want to try and maintain my first impressions of it 🙂
PS4 peeps, remember to get PvZ Garden Warfare for free! (so we can all totally play one day maybe)
Is it one of the freebies?
Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeep
http://www.ea.com/news/celebrate-psx-with-ea-games
Garden Warfare free on PS4
Mirror’s Edge free on PS3
Need for Speed: Most Wanted free on PS Vita
But it seems like the perfect TAY multiplayer game though 😀
Aww yisss. PvZ is so much fun.
Sony has announced a new God of War game..
http://au.ign.com/articles/2014/12/06/next-god-of-war-officially-confirmed-to-be-in-development?utm_campaign=fbposts&utm_source=facebook
SMASH BROS!
Just played a few 3 player games with Liondrive and Cracks and the connection was perfect. No lag at all! Looks like TAY Smash may still be a possibility in the future 😀
I needs to get me a pro controller for sure though :3
I always press the wrong directions, and the shoulder buttons are too weird to use for my fat hands! (ie, no dodging, blocking, or grabbing).
Still had fun though 🙂
Really need to learn other characters besides from Greninja, haha! 😀
Hurray! I guess the problems I had the other night were just my connection (or even just me hosting, not sure how they handle things).
Let the record show that @phlanispo is responsible for my sunburn.
He’s responsible for all my problems too! TAY scapegoat!
#Phlanisgoat 😛
Put it this way, if it wasn’t for @phlanispo they would never have discontinued Bush biscuits. #monster
Glorious. I only got the lightest of burns on the back of my neck, and I expect it to completely clear by tomorrow. 😛
(at chemists)
Chemist: “Hi, can I help you with anything?”
Me: “Yeah actually, what would you recommend for a sunburn?”
Chemist: “Oh, you have a sunburn?”
Me: “No, I naturally have the complexion of a tomato. It’s pretty obvious I have a burn, haha!”
Chemist: “I wasn’t going to say anything…”
Phlanispo’s a monster.
Everything ever is / will be all his fault!
Sass it up some more, why don’t you!
I always have a friendly demeanour!
It was clear I was making light of it and not being rude! 😛
Of course 😀
Was pretty hilarious from my point of view 😛
Hence the reason you need to sass it up more 😉
Will you take me to Mt Splashmore?
IF I TAKE YOU WILL YOU SHUT UP AND QUIT BUGGING ME!
Yeah
Of course
Well?
Will you take me to Mt Splashmore?
Off topic always meant to ask which CUFC you go for? Colchester?
Cambridge United 🙂
Nope 😛
Will you take me to Mt Splashmore??
Oh wow.. One of the tech channels I sub to on YouTube is doing a mini series of their project of water cooling an entire room, which is their 5 editing workstations on the one water cooling loop. Pretty awesome stuff…
(don’t click it D.C. :P)
I thought it was pretty good! Started off a bit slow but then it was all 😀
I hope you’ve seen this if you like live stage comedy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw8dW9Hyno0
I know what I’m watching tonight
I haven’t, but will! Bookmarked and will be watched during the week 😀
God, haven’t seen that for such a long time. the only part I can remember is the Indian restaurant sketch, starts at about 25:30 by the looks.
@beavwa @budgieishere @chuloopa @coldcamv @crazyguy1990 @f4ction @greenius @jordi @negativezero @pixel_the_ferret_viking @scree @smurfydog @tech_knight @tigerion @tofu @zetrox2k
Reminder: I will be in Melbourne from the 10th of December through to the 17th. Now that I have finished almost ruining the Adventure World meat, it’s time to plan another one.
…then I realised I don’t know anything about Melbourne, so I can’t plan shit. Considering there’s no way I can get dropped off at a random place, want to just get lunch somewhere or watch some movie or something? At this stage, I think I would be better served by letting other people plan the meat for me.
Thanks!
Sounds like the perfect opportunity for board games. In North Melbourne. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Who’s @budgieishere?
Who’s @tofu?
Who’s @jordi?
Who’s @smurfydog?
You guys should come back / hang around more!
Budgie likes Super Hexagon!
Tofu gave me DMC HD, whatta champ!
Jordi has the hots for Chris’ (Evans and Hemsworth)
Smurfy, Aleph and I once saw birds in the mountains, cuz why not!
I miss @smurfydog 🙁
He makes a mean slow cooked dealy!
I recognise the names of Smurfydog and Tofu, but that’s all.
I think I’ve seen Jordi around, but can’t remember.
No idea who Budgieishere is though 😛
This guys on Twitter or anything?
Jordi drops ’round infrequently, Budgieishere also goes by Tom on twitter, Tofu doesn’t drop by TAY very frequently, but he’s still active on the site in general, and Smurfydog is probably the most reserved with their appearances from this list.
I hear if you say Carole King’s Tapestry is an amazing album into a mirror three times, @smurfydog will appear!
Jordi is awesome ’nuff said really.
But I’m far too old for these new fandangled internet communities. Plus I’ve been super busy at work the past few months
Where in Melbourne?
No freaking idea. I’ll ask around.
No I mean, where will you be? If it’s going to be tricky for you to get places then we could try and gather somewhere close by.
I think the most logical step at this point is to meet at a shopping centre of some description.
Wait, I think we just had a miscommunication? I think? Basically, I don’t know where my cousin’s new house is, and I don’t know what locations are around this mystery house. But yeah, I’ll ask my mum where we the house is.
Reminder? I don’t think I got a first notice 😛
Isn’t @evilmonkey in Melbourne on Sunday as well? I’ll be busy with work on the weekdays (I don’t live/work near the CBD so it’s not convenient for me to pop in after) and I’m not sure about my weekends.
Maybeee though…
Yup, Sunday the 14th we’ll be getting back from Brisbane about tea time, so I think we were gonna try and do a dinner meat at Fed Square. Unfortunately it’s a one night only thing because we’re heading back the next day. Be coming back for Supanova, and hopefully PAX though.
Sounds awesome! Perhaps we could do lunch meat for Phlan and dinner meat for Monkey
Got a location narrowed down to a suburb or side of the city? Should be easier to plan something knowing how easy it’ll be for you to get to and from there.
Apparently my cousin’s house where I’ll be staying is in North Balwyn. However, it seems that I may be able to make it to Evilmonkey’s meat around the same time. It’s just going to be hard to schedule it.
Thanks @negativezero for this ==> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJAIFmOdB00
Really cool.
I don’t like open world games and I don’t like Rockstar but I would buy the shit out of a PC/Next-Gen re-release of Red Dead Redemption.
@novacascade \o/
Agreed!
Indeed 😀
So Suikoden II is out on PSN for Vita/PSP/PS3 next week (in the US).
I’ve never played Suikoden but heard they were good games. Are they?
Internet tells me yes.
Since discovering you can alter the brightness of the light bar on the PS4 controller i’ve noticed a fair bit of an increase in battery life.. So I get probably 15-20 hours now instead of about 6-10 depending if I have headphones plugged in or not.
*sigh* think I’m just gonna go home for a while. I’m not happy here. I’m really not. I moved into another student accommodation place and I can’t handle not having a kitchen or a loungeroom or just SOMEWHERE ELSE to go instead of my room. I’m going fucking nuts and it’s not healthy :S
Gonna see what I can do about getting out of the contract. If nothing else they should be able to fill the room in February at least. The lease doesn’t actually say anything about me terminating the contract though and any terms. Only that they can kick me out. I’ll have to try my best, maybe.
Edit: Even if maybe the sun would come out every once in a while and it would go above 14 degrees during the day so it’d be nice outside to go out!
Start pooping, like, everywhere.
You’ll be kicked out soon enough.
Funny story, when I was looking at UTAS accommodation for last year the only thing I could find about the place was on Whirlpool with somebody saying that there’s a guy who just shits in all the showers 😛 There’s also a room they like to call the shit room because some foreign kid would never use the toilets and just shat in a bucket in his room. Wasn’t there for that one thank god.
Why don’t you look at share housing?
That was the original plan that was much harder in practice.
Every place I went to look at was either a dump, full of people who didn’t speak English (take that for what it’s worth, but I think communication is key when you live with people), or even worse up for sale with a ‘2 weeks notice’ clause in the contract.
I also don’t have any friends who were looking at moving at the same time. If I can hold out till Feb though I might have more luck.
Does your uni do a meat of sorts fornpeople looking for shared accommodation?
My sister just came to me asking if they could borrow Smash Bros (Brawl) for her boyfriend to play. Which then turned into borrowing Melee and Soul Calibur II, maybe some other GameCube games. Which then turned to me running through my collection and coming up with a list of twenty-odd games that I was recommending.
Whittled it down to just a few, they’re borrowing SCII, RE4, Geist and Battalion Wars, she also wanted to grab Tony Hawk’s Underground 2 and SSX Tricky. And then since he lost his Metal Slug Anthology on Wii during a breakup, he’s taking that too. And I got my sister to take Zack and Wiki.
I get unreasonably enthusiastic when it comes to opening up my library to others 😛
You’re far more trusting than I when it comes to lending out games, even to family 😀
I tend to lend my games to friends. Just ask @gorzilla and @shane
I have a large collection and I know it, but part of the joy of that collection is sharing your games with other people =D
I feel the same way! Except I tend to cull my collection so often with giveaways, etc, that there’s not a whole lot left to lend out 😛
PS: Really appreciate the loans! Ace Attorney is one of the best games I’ve ever played ever.
Depends on the person, of course. And in this case it’s pretty much only because my sister is there, and I know I can trust her 😛
Though he’s a bit OCD himself, and he knows what I’m like with my stuff. So he should be ok.
I used to get that enthusiastic, which is why I have gaps in my collection now.
REMINDER If you haven’t already don’t forget to download Plants Vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare off PSN. It’s lots of fun, and best of all IT’S FREE!
Get to it.
See all you handsome sons of guns / pretty as a picture ladies in new TAY! 😀
Oh, I guess you don’t want me in the next TAY.
That’s… fair, to be honest.
Sean, you know I think you’re as pretty as a picture 😉
Hey gang. Breaking my silence to let you know that you can get a PS4 + LBP3 + LoU + Drive Club for just $399 (w coupon code CPICKUP and pick-up instore). Here for deeeeeets: https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/174160
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