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Good morning all
Do you mean to wish me a good morning or do you mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not? Or pergaps you mean to say that you feel on this particular morning. Or are you simply stating that this is a morning to be good on?
I might be a touch excited for The HobbitHello ladies, look at your man. Now back to me. Now back to your man. Now back to me. Sadly he isn’t m…where’s my horse gone?
a good TAY to you allI’ll have your horse back in 30 minutes or less. 😉
Gave your horse a thorough detailing and a scented pine tree so your horse smells like pine
Hello cowboys. Look at your horse. Now back at mine. Now back at yours. Does your horse smell like pine? No. But it could if you give it to me for 30 minutes or less.
The horse is now diamonds.
Ponderosa Pine.
Mmmmhm gotta love that new horse smell
Why am I here?
A bit too deep for a Monday morning? Totally. Weekend was chilled, spent most of yesterday on the couch playing Far Cry 3 and drinking sodastream. I mean beer.
Have you ever put beer in a sodastream? I have no so I cannot encourage nor discourage this behaviour, but in the name of science…
Why am I here?
The meaning of life.
Live Organ Transplants?
Good morning all, hope you all had a great weekend. I had a fantastic one. Ash and I got engaged!!! \o/ We are both super excited.
Thanks to everyone who has already said congratulations on facebook and twitter
I’m going to assume Ash is your significant other and that you do not have an unhealthy obsession with Pokemon?
Congrats 😀You are right on both counts, but the first doesn’t mind the second 😀
Old news. Move it along.
\o/ !!!Congratulations!
CONGRATULATIONS!
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I have long arms and am really excited. That is so awesome. When you’re ready, we’d love to hear the engagement story! (Did you get down on one knee? Did you propose as the sun was setting? Am I a hopeless romantic? Yes. Yes I am.)
EDIT: Ok it looks fine in the text box but then goes weird when I click submit, but I’m on cold and flu tablets, so stuff it I’m leaving it.
Oh no, angry seagulls of some sort are attacking Stan!
Hmm, now you’ve got me curious.
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Are you a wizard?
Newfags can’t longarm 😎
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Edit: Crap! was supposed to be a triforce.
The Chopin(because he’s a romantic composer, ah, I laugh at my own jokes) in me has to ask: How’d you pop the question?
Saw the pic on Facebook! I love that you were wearing the Eevee shirt at the time 😛
Yes, a thousand times yes!
Although next time it would be better if you propose to me in person xox
Are you sure that’s the right decision? It’s always sad to see somebody settle for good enough instead of everything they deserve
Although I’m sure Ash has her reasons for saying yes.Seriously congratulations, you two are very cute together and Mrs Tigs and I wish you all the happiness you can handle
Morning fronds, how were your weekends?
Just a couple of reminders, first off as most of you probably know already to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Playstation EA is offering Plants Vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare (PS4), Mirror’s Edge (PS3) and Need For Speed: Most Wanted (2012) (Vita) FOR FREE!!!
http://www.playstationtrophies.org/news/news-15083-Get-Plants-vs–Zombies–Garden-Warfare-on-PS4–NFS-Most-Wanted-For-Vita-and-Mirror-s-Edge-on-PS3-Free.html
If you even have the slightest interest in any of these games you best get to downloading them, because after 7am tomorrow (pretty sure that’s what it works out to) they won’t be free no more.
Second, Brisbane meat, so far @beeawwb, @strange (I think) and possibly @jimu are coming to the Buffalo Bar lunchtime meat on Thursday. Anyone else is welcome. If people don’t have monies we can mosey around after. @freezespreston and @dc I think want to do a Saturday night meat, I’m not sure if we’ll be able to make that, but we’ll try.
Third, Melbourne meat, I think we’re gonna do a Fed Square dinner meat on Sunday. I’ll keep you guys updated as to a time (most likely about 6:30pm).
Hope I get to meet you all, but I understand if some can’t make it. We’ll be going up again in the future, so there’s always next time. Looking forward to meeting you guys.
One last thing @os42, I noticed EB have got the Inquisitor’s Edition (minus the game) in their mad monday sale for $93, I thought I’d do the right thing and tell you, coz you paid me $150 for it. I haven’t posted it yet (was going to do it today), but then I saw that, so if you want me to give you the money back and buy it from there to save yourself 60 odd bucks that’s fine with me. Just let me know what you want to do.
https://www.ebgames.com.au/ps3-201600-Dragon-Age-Inquisition—Inquisitors-Edition-Case-PlayStation-3
I can make Saturday night (doo, do, DO, do, DO, do.) as well if that goes ahead.
Thanks for the heads up. I’ll get it from EB, then.
Is your username just used to lure people into a false sense of insecurity? You’re a good guy. 😀
Hahaha. Just send me your bank deets on the twitters and I’ll get the money back to you AQAP,
Which Sunday are you in Melbourne?
This Sunday, the 14th. We’ll also be there tomorrow night, but by the time we get there there won’t be enough time for a meat, and we fly out the next morning.
Probably not going to be able to make it, we have a wedding thingy that day. Although that is a picnic lunch thing so might be done in time and can scoot in.
Then again having the little one out all day might mean I have barred from leaving the house. So I’m probably a no but a slight chance to make it
That’s cool, as I said yesterday we’ll be going to Melbourne again next year.
Wasn’t 100% confirmed for Sat, just confirming that it’s an excellent day for a meat. Am keen to hang so keep me apprised of the meats and the psyching up process can begin a-new.
Will do.
Im with DC, keep me updated and I’ll turn up to something.
Thursday is sounding like a good fit for me, but don’t let my attendance sway you.
I’m kind of shit.
I can probably get to Fed Square on Sunday, will have to check how things are shaking out later in the week though.
Last week I purchased a digital radio and I’ve been indulging in the Mix 90s station since – it really takes me back. The music is more or less the same pop crap featured on today’s current FM stations however this cool little box is the closest I’ll get to my very own time machine. Bliss.
This sounds weird, but the Chemist Warehouse 90s station is actually pretty good (if you can tolerate the chemist warehouse ads).
Otherwise, Double J is also a great digital station. Triple J for oldies.
I need to buy that thing from Chemist Warehouse. Thanks for the reminder
Best digital radio station is Koffee!
Can’t talk. Have to refresh my browser every 30 minutes for the online EB sale – because, you know, it’s not everyday that EB has a sale.
Advanced Warfare PS3! It had better be good – my first COD purchase since MW3.
More like EB Lames, seriously these deals suck
I got Shadows of Mordor on Xbone for $52, that’s the cheapest I’ve seen it!
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You got a game from EB at a good price?!
Mark this day because you will never see that happen again.
Not sure if serious or joke.. I swear when I worked for them, we were never not having a “sale” lol
Def a joke. 😀 I’d love to see the day where EB say – “Look folks, this week we’re charging the recommended retail price on everything”. 😛
Good morrow, gentle folk!
How are we all?
What!
Yeah!
Yeah what!
H’OKAY!
WHAT WHAT!
NSFW!!!
@greenius
A man walks into a doctor’s office. He has custard in one ear and jelly in the other.
Doc: How can I help you today?
Man: You’ll have to speak up. I’m a trifle deaf.
Ok people, move along, nothing to see here. The Pun-Police have arrived. Lou, take this man in to custardy. You’re going to the punitentiary, son.
Police, police…
Police were called to a daycare centre where a three year old was resisting a rest.
Police were called to a pet store. Twenty dogs are missing. Police say they have no leads.
Toilets were stolen from the local cop-shop. Police have nothing to go on.
Q: What do you call an igloo without a toilet?
A: An ig
I started watching the fellowship of the ring at 10:30 last night…i feel like how they look like..dirty and exhausted
We watched The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug. The missus doesn’t like watching long movies, but as it comes on two discs we watched the first disc last night and we’re gonna go onto the second disc and finish it off tonight (did the same with An Unexpected Journey).
I don’t like watching movies like that, but it’s the only way she’ll watch them (anything longer than 2 hours she’ll instantly say no to.
Yeah cathryn wasnt paying attention by the end it was past 2am and she felt the movie was dragging
Hey team. Hope you well and had good weekends.
Just realised I missed out on making my name Jack-o’-lantern for Halloween. FML.
Hey buddy! o/
Eyyyy. So hopping on to do raid tonight? I may be keen if home early enough otherwise I may just jam some Fifa. How was the popcorn?
Yeahhhh m9! Popcorn was unreal, movie not so unreal.
Weekend report: Good! MVFC won! AFC Wimbledon won! Cuban themed party! Bike ride. Thunderstorm. Destiny. Bolognaise. Custard Tart.
Monday report: Bad! The fiancee has gastro!
Also, Monday!
Probably for the best. If she’s trapped in the bathroom, there’s less chance she’ll find out about you and the custard tart.
She brought the tart home for us to share! We took half each!
…um.
Probably a dodgy custard tart. Can’t trust ’em.
Good morning creatures of the night.
I spent all weekend restoring the original version of Star Wars from 35mm film, I’m going crosseyed and see film scratches and artoo in my sleep.
Makes me want SW battlefront to hurry up and come out. When is it due BTW?
Massive storms here last night, thunderbolts and lightning, very very frightning….
MEEEEEEEEE!
Galileo!
Galileo!
Magnifico
Ahhh… the satisfaction….
Man I’m hyped for that game, hopefully it’s soon.
Hello kittens.
Since seeing a friend of mine the other weekend, each time I see your name I can now only hear him saying “Captain Janeway”. I don’t even know how he got to calling my friend Jane that. But then this is the same guy who started calling me “Cuss”.
Hello.
Cuss is a very excellent word.
How are you, anyway? Feels like you’ve been a bit quieter than usual lately.
I’m okay, thank you. I know, I’ve been terrible on here of late! It’s not you guys, it’s me, I swear. Just trying to sort my head around some things, and then feeling overwhelmed when I get online. But, like Santa, I’ve been watching.
*closes shower door tighter*
A total clustercuss.
Hey Jane! Hope this day finds you well?
Hello DC. So far, so good. It’s quiet so I’m writing, which is nice – it looks like work, which is a plus. How are you, friend?
I am also good, Jane. Not doing any thing remotely productive, but still good.
Here’s a bird singing courtesy of @sughly!
Hey lady jane, how goes it with Far Cry? I’ve been stuck on a stealthy mission for a while.
Hope you can make the thursday lunch meat.
Ooh, is it Noore’s mission by chance, sneaking into De Pleur’s party? If so, I am also stuck on this. I’ve finished just about all the faffing about I can do, and really need to hit some missions to progress; I’ve not done Shangri-La yet, either.
That’s the one. Keep getting caught, so frustrating.
I keep using meat to lure in animals, and it works until the effing wolf or whatever spawns right next to me. Ugh!
Yay for Pseudoephadrine!
Due to study and toddlers and wife being busy then sick, I haven’t had much time to game. Except for Pokemon. I’m not racing through the story, currently bumming around the sewers in Cast. City in Black2. Trying to make sure I catch everything – GOTTA CATCH THEM ALL!
Also my cute little Tepig grew up to look like a wrestler from the Soviet Union in 1980 where it was ok to ingest a horse that had been pumped full of steroids.
*sigh* into the ugly box you go, along with my evolved Mareep. Seriously, why does a sheep lose most of it’s fleece during evolution? Makes no sense. Into the ugly box.
Nooooo. Mareep’s final evolution is great!
Toally agree with boxing Pignite though 😛 You made the right choice there.
It was this cute little thing that could electrocute stuff!
Now it looks like somebody with a my little pony fetish shaved then dyed the bastard child of a zebra and a slowpoke.
But at level 30 it turns yellow. YELLOW!
…
Ok. I’ll give it one more (until level 30) chance.
As it stands, I’m uhhhming and aahhhing about whether to throw my Purrloin into the “cute but ultimately useless” box.
Yes, I have weird boxes – Ugly box, Cute but useless box, I hate you but I care too much about catching everything to release you box…
Psuedoephadrine always makes me feel like I’m in some kind of weird dream state where everything I try and do happens slower than normal, like playing a game with 500ms lag. 🙁
Agreed! Glad I’m not the only one that has that feeling. :S
In saying that, I’m just glad I’m not swallowing tennis balls and having cerebral fluid draining out my nose constantly.
Good morning!
That was a busy weekend. A 4yo’s birthday party in gosford (so lots of driving), then had fun playing Smash at @powalen’s meat. On Sunday, I got caught in the big storm.
The really good bit – I made this: http://instagram.com/p/wUePlsASRl/ and I’m feeling just bit proud.
MISSED YOU AGAIN??
I feel like Clark Kent. He never gets to see Superman in the flesh.
Next time 🙂
That looks super tasty, did you need me to DM you my address 😉
Hhnnrrrrgggg
Why is it a Monday….? Sod off.
*crawls away from the light*
Hola Tay
Hope you are well. Played Mega carcassonne yesterday – carcassonne with most of the expansions. Super fun and complex, but took like four hours!
A Monday morning question: which game needs an expansion?
I’ve got carcassonne… but no one to play it with 🙁
Who did you play mega carcassonne with?
Also, don’t forget you promised more dong stories this week!
This one.
Monopoly.
2nd board, with a further four players, playing the corporate fraud unit. Each player has to stalk and ultimately break up the monopoly of the players on the first board.
The players on the first board then secretly carve up the board amongst themselves to ensure they don’t get done for fraud/monopoly. Then they have to try and knock each other off into bankruptcy, all the while the fraud people are breathing down their necks.
Eventually, the Monopoly guys start bribing the fraud guys under the table, or affecting legislation to limit their powers.
I call it: Monopoly: Real Life edition.
Game of Life real life edition:
Secret expansion includes an additional board which unlocks only if certain random uncontrollable privileges are received or if the player displays a sociopathic tendency to betray and lie to others. Accessing that board is the only way to win.
Scrabble™.
Expansion adds PowerCards™ that allow you to PowerUp™ your Scrabble™ tiles for MAXIMUM™ fun™. It’s a Triple Word™ of good times!
7 Wonders.
I don’t care that there are already four expansions with three more in the works. More 7 Wonders is more good.
Are you going to pick up Babel? I like the idea that it’s 2 separate modules that can either/both be played, but something about the mechanics makes me think it might be needlessly complex.
Still. 7 Wonders! \o/
Babel is basically two expansions in one box.
Considering the fact that the only reason I haven’t bought all of the promotional leaders is because I’m waiting for more to be release, yes. Yes I will buy Babel. I will buy it with gusto.
Fun fact: When I bought 7 Wonders the shop had taped (in protective plastic) the Wil leader to the box. 3 boxes in the shop, only 1 Wil. Free Wheaton! \o/
He is so stupidly overpowered.
The internet gave him his power, the internet can take it away.
Errata doesn’t work that way. Goodnight!
Carcassonne is a crap game without playing with at least 3 expansions.
You need King and Scout, Inns & Cathedrals and Traders & Builders at the very least to get the true experience. Even better is when you’re playing with the original German scoring rules which aren’t as stacked towards farmers and building tiny cities. The cathedrals really help as well. Properly played, Carcassonne should involve one person starting an enormous city, everyone else fighting to sneak their meeples in by making unconnected cities then joining to the big one, and then right toward the end of the game the one guy who didn’t do that will plonk the cathedral down at the most inappropriate spot and then set about deliberately making the enormous castle as open as possible to stop everyone else getting their guys back.
I personally always play with the river & river II as well. The way we open it out is that we randomly draw river tiles from the starting position, and everyone builds onto the river. No fixed size on it though like they say to do in the rules, we have the end tile in the river bag as well. So potentially the river might be 2 tiles long. Or you’ll get one mega long river. Or you get the fork in there and it goes two directions. Rad way to start the game.
I also always play with the two aforementioned expansions plus Abbey & Mayor and the tiles of The Tower, but ignoring the tower, just using the extra tiles from it (the tower isn’t a great expansion but the tiles are cool).
Eh. I like vanilla carcassonne just fine.
Had friends over. Played Worms: Battlegrounds, Powerstar Golf, and a little Diablo III.
Powerstar Golf continues to drive me up the wall with it’s broken physics bullshit. Like, if there’s no wind and I hit the ball at it’s maximum power, why does it fall 50 feet short of the target in the fucking water hazard? Even using power boosts it just falls short. Drives me up the goddamn wall.
Diablo counch co op continues to be pretty fun though.
WORMS!
I miss Worms. Could play Armageddon forever. And then some.
Battlegrounds is pretty fun, we did about 5 or 6 rounds. I found Armageddon in a weapon crate. I didn’t know what it did. I have now learned not to use it unless at least one of my worms has ample cover.
Was thinking about downloading Worms. Can you play XBL friends in private matches? I only started really taking notice of the crappy physics in Powerstar Golf after you mentioned it here and now I’ve lost all interest.
I’m not sure, we tried playing it across two TVs but the multiplayer options only seemed to allow for matchmaking rather than creating a private lobby so we just decided to play on one screen since there were only four of us.
Sorry I ruined Powerstar for you. I still enjoy playing it but sometimes when a shot goes awry for no reason I go completely off, especially when it completely ruins your round and you have to finish playing through your lost cause of a game to get any rewards or avoid wasting your perks/boosts.
Ah no that’s fine haha, I’m sure it was only a matter of time. OK cheers, will look in to Worms.
Is there a way to turn the coins off on Worms: Battlegrounds local multi? pretty much killed my interest in the game completely all we could do was skip rounds.
Really? Were youp laying on a high difficulty or something? We played on Family and Beginner and had plenty of weapons at our disposal, but we are also playing with four players so we had more than enough of an arsenal to obliterate the map.
We tried Family, Classic, Beginner and a few others and every game we started with 0 weapons and 0 coins.
Oh god, is that the time?
24 hours til cricket starts.
Also, morning TAY.
@ash
Ok. I was on my tour with a couple of cricket blokes from Nee Zealand. Nice guys, both recent law grads. One was diabetic, so he had a little esky thing with his insulin, which had to be kept cool
So our first night in siem reap, first night in Cambodia, they go looking for some ice for the bag. They leave the hotel and go to like a corner store thing and ask for some ice. The guy they talk to looks around nervously, and says “you want some ice? I can get you some ice ” so they say yeah and ask him for it. He’s still looking shifty and weird so they say “can we have it? ” and the guy says “not here, come out the back. ” they start to follow him and then realise
The guy is trying to sell them meth
They nope out of there before they stumble into either buying class A drugs or the world’s worst police sting
OMG thats gold.. and lucky for them. I’m so gullible I probably would have come back with an esky full of drugs saying ‘most things r cheap here, but they really rip you off on the ice’.
LOL. Wow.
Anyone able to take advantage of Mad Monday?
Nothing for me 🙁
EB sale prices = normal price of every other store
EDIT: The flash sales seem kinda like a good deal. If they actually put something I want to buy on sale that is.
I can’t sit at work checking the eb site ever 30mins 🙁
No new deals until 12:30. This is the worst special ever.
Mad Monday? Is there a bunch of cross-dressing sportsball players running around drunk?
Isn’t that just Monday?
$52 Shadows of Mordor! \o/ —- o/ —- \o —- \o/
Was it $52? At the time of Mark’s article (9:30) the 1/2 price Mordor special had been finished for over an hour…
If $52 was as low as it got, though… that’s well, it’s okay, I suppose.
I bought it at around 9am, I think that was the first sale? I jumped at it because every place I’ve seen it (eb, gamestop) it’s been $99 and I’ve not been able to find it at JB, Dick Smith or Target lol.
On Saturday I went to a shindig thing Gutsoup was having at his place. Am so socially awkward. Genuinely stood at the end of his street for thirty minutes psyching myself up to go in. D: Eventually went in! Met his dogs! Saw his snake! Was a real snake, not innuendo. 😛 (WHY DID IT HAVE TO BE SNAKES?) Jimu was there too who’s the leanest TAYbie I’ve ever seen! The dude’s lost weight! 😀
I’m not that thin.
We played Mario Kart, we Smashed.
There was talk if the vidya kind.
gutsoup’s sister plays Dragon Quest IX, we can swap maps!
Beyond Two Souls
Lucky you didn’t show us your special power OR we’d have locked you in a cupboard after making out with you & bagging your awesome gift!Teenagers are the worst.Saw this in the weekend, think I’ll get the app
Saw it too, blew my mind. GarageBand is actually really neat and easy to use. Can put together some decent sounding tunes with little to no musical background OR some more complex songs if you are quite in to music/music production.
I’ve always wanted to learn the Drums but never had the money or the space, at least with a Guitar I could turn it down if I had to.
Was going to go to Melbourne Supanova next year to meet @shane, but I just had a look at the list of “guests” they’re having, and I reckon they’re all pretty meh. Have pretty much zero interest in meeting or getting autographs from any of them.
http://www.supanova.com.au/guests/
I’m thinking of pulling out of Melbourne, anyway. Last time I exhibited there, I lost hundreds of dollars – just couldn’t sell a comic to Melbourne people. So don’t base your choices around me, man.
If I can get the money back I’ve already paid for the table, I probably won’t be at Melbourne next year.
You’ll have Undad, though. Zombies sell! 😀
Nah, Supanova is in April next year… Undad probably won’t be ready (estimated delivery date is May).
You weren’t hipster enough. Sit on a milk carton, wear glasses with no lenses, drink from a jar even though it would be easier to just drink from a glass, etc…
How much was the table?
It was about $250. If it was just that, it’d be okay.
It’s the other costs that’ll sink the endeavour. Planes, accommodation, transport, couriers, etc. You need to sell a LOT of books to make that up 😛
I would help if I already had beanbags to go. We could go halves otherwise
Wanted to buy Civ 5 for Mrs, as she stated she wante dot practice ‘on her own’, after I beat her in our hotseat game on my laptop.
Go to steam… $70??
Try greenman gaming… $30… ok getting closer.
Friend suggests some online place I never heard of:
http://www.g2play.net/category/7425/sid-meier-s-civilization-v-complete-edition-stem-gift/
MAD DEAL!
Yeah, G2Play is pretty good sometimes.
I jumped on that offer and received an email that my order is “on hold” for security reasons, but they didn’t hesitate to take my money. :/
Update: my bad, I forgot I’m on a VPN at work so their site flipped out when I said I lived in Sydney and used an Australian Visa card but my IP said I was in New Jersey.
I assume the code will work, I’ve emailed it to my wife and await her response.
Still, though, if they were going to hold my order why did they still take my money? Grr.
Sorry if I gave you a bad tip man; I got my code quick and it worked great. Hope it works for you! Please keep us posted!
I actually bought two copies, because it was cheaper than buying the expansions for my existing copy :p I also got L4D2 for 3 euro – pretty amazing prices really.
I’m sure now that the transaction has gone through then the code will work fine, I guess I was just confused by the VPN roadblack and the fact they took the money anyway.
For me they emailed me a link the same as when someone sends you a gift via steam, rather than a code.
Yeah, they’ve sent me a link which I assume my wife can redeem via the web whenever she sees the email. I noticed it has a .ru suffix which implies the source is Russian. I assume it’s all above board but I’ve heard sometimes that steam blocks them because they’re generated via some kind of bulk purchase and steam can flip out when a shitload of Russian keys get redeemed all at once from all over the world, or something?
Yeah it is a russian thing I think. The gift says ‘Civilisation 5 (ru/cis)’ so i was pretty nervous, but once it is installed it is just the regular civ 5 that you get thru au steam store or whatever/ same as everyone elses. There is no further mention of russian anything, unless you pick Catherine that is.
I use them all the time, good place.
@piat & @jocon how’d you guys go last night?! Man I’m so jealous =P
Kargath and butcher down without much fuss, didn’t attempt tectus as by all accounts he is damn hard, 2 attempts on brac but it was getting late and everyone was losing concentration so we called it there. Fights aren’t nearly as hard as they are on paper.
@distantdrop came as well 😛
Sweet! Sounds like we’ll get past Kargath and Butcher without much trouble then =] Should we be aiming for the third boss on our first try? I reckon we should skip bracken and tect
But Bracken drops a bow and shield…
I’d say we can solidly aim for at least 3rd boss and we should give brac a try. It shouldn’t be too bad once everyone understands what’s going on
Was pretty cool.
Kargath down in two tries, Butcher in 3 I think.
Brac is very complicated, lots of things to keep track of.
Personally, I got the helm off Butcher \o/ tho the secondary stats are terrible. And managed to pull solid last apart from the heals on dps :I
So I officially suck at wow.
What spec are you maining at the moment? Marksman is the best spec for Hunter as the other 2 perform very badly at the moment.
Not saying you have to go MM, hunters don’t need to top charts because they have a lot of versatility, but if you do want to compete MM is where it’s at currently.
Yeah I’m mm.
Kinda bummed about it really. My dps was a bit under my usual dungeon scores (14-15k vs 17-18k) but that could be attributed to a couple deaths and spending most of Brac killing adds and moss.
But the others destroyed me at 20k+ easily and I’m just not sure what I’m doing wrong.
Ah well, I’ll get there eventually.
Yeah you cant count brac, as your DPS would be way down. Don’t stress about it too much, the other hunter has been playing a hunter since vanilla, and every xpac and most of the other guys in the raid were pretty experienced so you’d expect them to be pulling bigger numbers while being able to adjust to mechanics. You’re just getting into the end game really, so I would say focus on the fight mechanics and staying alive before even taking notice of the DPS numbers.
If you’re really fussed about your dps there’s a couple of things you can do assuming you want to stick to your spec. Firstly and most importantly don’t put a lot of stock into recount; its only to be used as a feedback instrument not a bar to compete against.
Secondly if you do decide to compare keep a couple of factors in mind. One whats your role in the current fight; i.e are you on adds, are you kiting, how often does your dps rotation need to be interrupted. Second only compare against other ranged dps if you absolutely must compare. Third where does your ilvl fall against theirs. Fourth are your stats, glyphs and talents best spec’d to your play style; different peeps can have different styles even when they play the same class/spec don’t always go by noxxic. Is your stat spread the best for your talent spec, use “askmrrobot” to help you optimize your current gear and to inform you of what gear to get; one downside to “ilvl” is it oversimplifies the stats, for e.g. a lower ilvl trinket might help you pull better dps depending on its procs or depending on the boss fight in question. Finally and most importantly find the best player of your class in the server and ask him/her questions on their build; even if you find another hunter within a raid group pulling more than you engage them and find out how they’re pulling more.
Don’t get too caught up in dps meters, they’re only there as guidelines and according to noxxic realistic dps for a 630 mm hunter is around 21k so you’re doing pretty well; probably just a little room for improvement from there. Oh and dont forget to practice against training dummies =]
Edit: If anything I would use the training dummies as a base for dps comparison; you’ll never have the freedom to dps like you do on them so they should show you your maximum possible dps and something for you to aim for in raids/dungeons.
Yeah I can pull 21k against dummies but the more I have to move the more that suffers.
And I’ve optimised my talents for how I play, tho I noticed the other hunter had a few different choices.
My gear could do with some optimising but I have limited options – the apexis gear has useless secondary stats, all versatility and haste and mastery.
Well then there you go, given yday was your first exposure to those boss fights its perfectly normal for you to be taking a dps hit; once you get used to their mechanics and positioning required your dps will pick up closer to that 21k mark.
So my kitchen exploded this morning.
Also I decided to upload a playthrough of Tales from the Borderlands for some reason.
Exploding kitchens doesn’t sound good. Well unless it was a big drawn out boom like the thunder we had the other night. So cool. Right above us so all the windows were shaking. So loud and powerful, pretty awesome.
It was more like the sound of running water splurting everywhere.
Man, I got woke the fuck up by that thunder at around 5:30am, on…. was it Friday night/Saturday morning? Crazy storms, man.
I had to do something I hadn’t done for a while. I had to go and check to make sure my daughter was still breathing, because it hadn’t woken her up.
Crazy. I’m in Glen Iris and I swear someone let a bomb off outside my bedroom window. Pretty sure I engaged consciousness spewing expletives. Damn nature, you scary.
Yeah, felt like it was right above me too (southern part of Camberwell)
GreeTAYings,
Bit the bullet and ended up getting a PS4, ID is HugoBarbarian, and wow, just wow.
So this is what the future looks like, all pretty with Uruks and lush green urban decay, hackable streetlights and batshit crazy wildlife.
I want to try to concentrate on just one of the games, but they are all just so pretty, I’m like me in a candy store.
Totally broke and living off whatever spare change I can find lying around the place… but so totally worth it!
Add me Jmuhsn & Jimu_Hsien
So I thought I was getting a good deal this morning buying Shadows of Mordor for $52 on Xbone, but the more I’m on Kotaku the more I’m reading that the sales are only for ‘gullible’ parents who want to buy Christmas presents for their kids. So it’s all a sham, then? Am I that gullible?
I suppose I’ll have to be happy to be in the knowledge that the NBN is coming to my house by 2017 and that I ate all of my toast’s crust this morning to make my hair curly-… Wait.
(What’s left of the) NBN is coming to my house next year! NEXT YEAR! *flails arms*
I was supposed to get it in 2016, but under the Liberal
scamscheme all they can offer is “no rollout build in progress”. The closest preparation is like three suburbs away.NBN is apparently already at my house… Telstra HFC hanging from the poles out front.
Just a pity that to use it right now I need to pay Telstra $113/mth (compared to $49.99) for 200GB (instead of 500GB) to get 100Mbit speeds (instead of 8Mbit).
That being said… I’m sorely tempted as I’m almost at the end of my tether with TPG.
I’m on Telstra HFC and aside from the cost it’s awesome. I couldn’t go back.
EDIT: Also that cost sounds slightly high? I’m paying… $120? I think? And I get 500gb, max speeds (130mbit when it’s not congested i.e. 3am in the morning) and bundled in home phone for free (which I don’t use because lol fixed line phone).
It’s their $93 plan with the $20 speed boost. It’s a hard sell to the wife, a doubling of cost when the noticeable browsing speed difference for my wife will be marginally noticeable.
Might reconsider next year when wife’s mobile contract is up and see if Telstra can do some sort of bundle with 2 mobiles and internet.
Extra speed unlock is only $10/mo. I think. Or it was for me. But I got it included I think?
The higher speed also unlocks many things which you can’t readily do on 8mbit. Like streaming Netflix.
I stream Netflix quite happily on 8Mbit, no problems.
From what I have seen, that is a good price, probably the only good deal they will have.
Sorry, man – EB scepticism is automatic, though not always fair. They do sometimes have legitimately good prices.
Wow. Okay. Someone is cranky this morning. Don’t mind me.
Aw, but I totally agreed with your point of view and thought you hit the nail on the head :/
I’m not usually that vitriolic.
Yeah, but still.. What you said was true 😛
Didn’t see your post, but hope I wasn’t offending you!
Absolutely not. Just ranting about peoples unrealistic expectations.
Good, wasn’t sure if the vitriol was directed at me or penny pinching Kotakuers 😛
Yay fraudband! I’m meant to have the NBN by 2017, though NBNCo cannot for the life of them tell me if it’s fixed wireless or fibre to the node or fibre to the premises, all they can tell me is it’s “mixed” bleh.
Apparently getting items you want for prices you’re comfortable paying isn’t enough. You have to bend the retailer over the table and fuck them in the arse. Plus EB are the devil. Literally the devil.
That imagery almost put my lunch all over the keyboard from laughter haha. People are being good about it for most part, I think they are just trying to be helpful and point out my mistake as a ‘console peasant’ lol.
Well as they say, the first step is accepting you have a problem…..
I think I am just spoiled by Steam.
Taybie Christmas (and boardgames)
So it’s that time of year again, time to deck the halls with Bells of Awakening, stockings full of coal to craft our torches and the sound of reindeer pending imminent death (Far cry 5 is set in Scandinavia)
Due to scheduling we currently have Christmas day free from family obligations again this year. Thinking we might host a Christmas lunch and board games like we did a few years back.
At this stage just wondering if anybody in melb (or who for some crazy reason is traveling on Christmas day) would be interested in coming round. I’ll provide the lunch but also happy if people want to drop in for a little if that works as you bounce between lunch and dinner.
Oh and my place is in Glen Iris for those that don’t know.
Expressions of interest?
works for me!
Possibly. I’m not sure what my family commitments are. It does look like my Dad will be back in the country again (hasn’t been in AU since August or so) so probably will be doing some family time.
Hope everyone had a great weekend. Mine was spent first with a lot of Destiny, getting my hunter to 26 and grinding rep to buy the last two legendaries I need to get higher, and farming as many shards as possible to be able to upgrade any that I end up buying after the DLC launches tomorrow (and praying the upgraded stuff doesn’t require rank 3 rep).
Then hopped back onto Dragon Age, yesterday. Unlocked a new area of the Storm Coast, so went to investigate, and was blown away by the sound design and the graphics there – it was like I could feel the thunder in my bones, and the spray of water at the back of my legs… oh… shit. Turns out there was a huge storm outside – my louvres don’t block backspray off the roof, even when fully closed… Mess was surprisingly minimal, thankfully, though I continue to wonder why anyone thought unshieldable louvres overlooking a flat roof was a good idea…
I swear I read that the new gear requires Rank 5 with the Vanguard.
Hopefully that was just me making shit up again, though.
D’: Took me all weekend to get close to Rank 2… Can’t find anything on it being rank 5 – most sites seem to emphasise “available to all”, which suggests if you can afford it, you can buy it, regardless of rank; but it will require commendations (the new currency), and it’ll replace the old stock, so I can’t just get the old stuff if I wait until after tomorrow night. Upside is I’m about 20 rep away from Rank 2, so I’ll finish that off later this week and pray for commendations in the mail.
Kinda hyped to finally be close to scrapping one of my warlocks and making a titan… as long as Bungie aren’t kidding about “raid gear dropping more frequently”.
Haha, yeah I’d wait until we’ve run the new raid a few times before you decide to scrap the second Warlock.
If I get a ship this time I swear….
But… but I love my ships… /s
But, in all seriousness, I’ll not be scrapping it until we get a good idea of the new drop rates in both raids. So still a while yet.The weekend disappeared too fast. Friday night I went to my work friend’s place to play Smash with him and his mates, got drenched head-to-toe by a bus charging its way through a gutter puddle on the way there. Went ok though, eventually started nearly winning some matches. Best part was scoring a perfect KO on Palutena’s Palace as Little Mac, I’d been losing and/or wasting his KO punch all night, but finally landed one. And did it in a spot that happened to be exactly between two unpassable platforms, if he were a single step in either direction then he would have been safe. I meant to do that 😛 I seem to have found a bit of a groove with Falcon, Mac and ROB now. Pretty happy about that.
Saturday was more Smash at Pow’s. Went ok there too, but had to leave fairly to go and meet my friends in the city for a birthday thing. Played a little more Smash working through challenges on the train, before having another go at unlocking Lucina. Finally managed to get her. Eventually. Had to have another go or two of it when we were waiting for others in the food court 😛
Right before we were about to make our way to karaoke, the heavens opened up and unleashed a torrential downpour. Great timing. The place we went to was pretty disappointing, there were so many reviews for how great it is, and how they had such a great selection of songs. They really didn’t though. I’m certain it was a different place, but the music setup and selection was exactly the same as the place we went for Cake’s birthday thing. Pretty much every time I clicked on a band they’d only have two or three songs and most of the time none of them were any of their big/main ones. Also I hate how they just have the one touchscreen mounted on the wall, it’s so horrible for browsing. Wish we could find a place like Kbox up here, that place was great. Can’t really remember what I sung, I think the first one I put on was The Trooper and later, Paint It Black. Pretty Fly For A White Guy. Sadly there was no Turbo Lover.
We made our way back to her place afterwards, but weirdly the one large group got there first, then I got there next, and the birthday girl with the others who were bringing her back didn’t get there til maybe an hour after I did. I should have been the last one there, I had the longest trip and managed to get lost along the way. Then there was a food run that took forever to get going, and even longer to get back. Maybe an hour? It was two hours after someone first said “is anyone hungry?” that we actually got to eat 😛
Ended up staying up all night talking, so only got a couple of hours sleep. I volunteered take the get-up-early bullet and drop Pillowmaker off at the station, so then I could just go home and sleep properly. Didn’t get up til 2 in the afternoon. I was really hoping to play some more Smash by myself, work on unlocking things on my own copy and opening an Amiibo or two. But no, stuff just kept getting in the way. Of course I can’t even think what right now, but it was there. I hate that so often it feels like I need to just cut out everyone else in my life if I want to do anything for myself at all. It’s stupid.
Sunday was fruitcake day, so the house smelled great. I had to tend to the oven while the others went out to the shops though, managed to burn myself bringing the last lot out trying to balance the oven tray but gripping too hard to compensate and using part of the base of my palm on it, because the stupid little silicone glove thing is too small. Ow. Weirdly enough though, while it visually looks like it’s kind of bubbled up it doesn’t seem to actually be a blister, nor does it hurt. So yay I guess 😛
Last night my sister came to me asking to borrow some games for her boyfriend to play on his Wii. Then they wanted to borrow GameCube stuff, so I got overexcited and almost tried to load them up with a couple dozen of them. Whittled it down though, I got told he likes fighting games and shooters/war games so I recommended Geist and Battalion Wars to add in on top of Soul Calibur II which they were taking. Then she also wanted to grab Tony Hawk’s Undergound 2 and SSX Tricky. Also decided that he needs to play Resident Evil 4, and since there was room to spare in the case I threw in TimeSplitters 3 as well. Also made her take Zack and Wiki, since she’s the resident adventure game nut of our household.
Glad I’ve got the spare GameCube there, made it much easier to let them set up in her room 😛 Although when searching through for memory cards to give them, I found that the spare 251 I’d bought off a guy getting rid of a bunch of his stuff didn’t work. Not corrupted or anything, just plain old wouldn’t work. Can’t format it or anything. Annoying :/ I’m wondering if maybe I can use the case/board for making an SD card memory card, I know I saw a mod for that once that showed it was pretty easy to do, apparently the pins line up really well and it pretty much works just like that. Though that has me wondering if maybe an adapter is possible, if I get an SD slot from somewhere and wire it up so I can just use whatever card I get my hands on. Must investigate.
Some of you might remember that when my third kid was born mid-year, I took 11 weeks off from work. During this time, everyone else in the department had their performance review, but mine slipped through the net. I realised a few days ago that this review was tied to my salary advancement, which was supposed to happen in August. So I got that review expedited, and should be receiving a nice little Christmas bundle of backpay, and a higher rate of pay going forward.
Ah, red tape. You old rascal. *playful punch*
Not only that, but the fridge that died last week is being replaced by my parents, because reasons! And we’ve started getting some Christmas money flowing in from other family.
Everything’s coming up Shanehouse.
So this sudden (forthcoming) influx of cash can be put to more useful things, like living expenses, paying down some debt… and reducing the stretch goal for Undad to nil.
Yep. That’s right. ISSUES 3 AND 4 OF UNDAD WILL BE MADE.
I’ll be sending out a message to all the $30 backers, offering them the chance to increase their pledge by $5 and get a TPB with all the issues in it.
I’ve also made available some additional reward tiers, including the TPB edition, and a new cluster of get-your-likeness-into-the-book rewards.
There’s only one week of Undad to go. Don’t miss out.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shanewsmith/undad-comic-miniseries-issues-1-and-2/
Our very own strange is also putting together a giveaway to TAY folk who contribute. Why? Because she’s very strange.
How much do I need to increase my pledge to receive your paperback writer goodies for issues 1-4?
By $0.00. Make sure it happens, man. Don’t want you to miss out.
(Check description for your tier(s). In your case, free upgrades are already built in.)Oh right. I was reading the description for 1 tier, and not the other. Pledge modified. Phew, just in time.
You didn’t actually take cash yet did you?
So if I just say yes, will you take the extra five at the time, or are the hoops we must somersault through?
Cash has not been taken yet. I’ve sent out a message to backers explaining how to jump hoops, but I’m happy with an off-the-books handshake arrangement as well. Just let me know.
I’ll go click on the link, if confused, I will get back to you 😉
Just manage your pledge and enter the new amount. That amount will then come out in a weeks time
I’ve already added money to my original pledge so I have no idea where I stand currently…
You’re all set. Don’t worry about it 🙂
If somebody backed the $32/$40 tier does that include dead tree version of Undad. Or does that need another $5 on top of that pledge.
The $32/$40 tiers include only digital files (no trees will be harmed in the fulfilment of those tiers). They will get digital Issues 3 and 4 for free.
Edit: if said people wanted to get the dead tree TPB on top of those digital files, they could add $25 to their pledge (that’s as low as I can go, though, I’m afraid, with the cost of printing and shipping).
I shall consult the minister of finance.
So my options for getting the TPB of undad are at $25 and get along with the rest of the digital goodies, or switch across to the $35 teir and get just unDad without the digital goodies
Basically, yes.
But to add an extra complication (because I love keeping track of this on spreadsheets), if you switch to the $35 tier, you can get one of my books (your choice) digitally.
How would one go about getting likeness and physical copies?
Click on the likeness tier, and then enter an additional $25 at the next screen (text box with your pledge amount is editable). This will net you a TPB in addition to the likeness.
Hey Shane, want to celebrate your good luck at lunch tomorrow?
By which I really mean “I’m free tomorrow, if I drop by the city would I be able to get my microphone back?”
I’m sorry I’m useless!
Yes, I’ll remember to bring it with me to work.
I’ve convinced ‘Leph to join me in going to meet you, so I’m officially designating this an impromptu meat, and telling you that you must* at least briefly “hang out” as the kids would say.
*MUST
Hope you realise this means you’ve just elected yourself Canberra’s official social co-ordinator. See you tomorrow!
I left my pledge on the $30 tier (because I was one of the people that got in on the SIGNED SPECIAL VERSION EARLY BIRD tier thing) but upped to $35. Is that the right thing or should I be actually changing my reward tier?
Either one, man. Doesn’t matter. (The $30 tier wasn’t an early-bird thing or anything – I just marked it as sold out today because the TPB is now available). The book will still be signed, of course.
Thanks!
BOARD GAMES!
Okay, so I’ve been toying with the idea of doing proper board gaming content since PAX. At the moment, I’m thinking that I’ll bring my website back to life and start doing mostly written content.
What the hell would people want to read?
Also, video content may or may not be an option. I’ve been toying with that idea for even longer but the various things are just kind of tricky to work out.
Has anyone said tasteful nudes yet? @freezespreston?
I figured that was a given but really, I want people to visit my site for the articles :p
Come for the nudes, stay for the articles.
That’s the Playboy way!
Why am I tagged here?
I wouldn’t ask for tasteful…I’d love to see some stuff on small time killers like sushi go in text.
I do love me some micro-games. Things like Hanabi, Sushi Go, Love Letter and Coup would almost definitely get some attention. The only problem is that after those four titles, the pool of games dries up a little.
Then again, there are other games like Unexploded Cow and Nuts! that kind of fit, they’re just not as good. I guess that’s the hard bit. Remembering that there are games out there that aren’t as good as the big titles.
If you’re doing reviews, yeah, “this game is awful” is valuable.
Even without reviews, it’s not easy to keep writing about the same handful of titles.
What about tablet board games as another line?
I’d probably have to own a tablet to pull that off.
Something that really annoys me about mobile/tablet ports is that if you don’t have an iPad you simply aren’t getting a good experience. Ticket to Ride is hands down the best port across all platforms. Do you know how much I want Agricola on my Android phone? It’s many lots. Many many lots.
I would like to see an expose on why boardgames are terrible and why you’re secretly bringing them down from the inside!
Is that what you’re doing with adventure games?
Here’s a fun filled fact. Adventure games got really terrible for a while. They brought themselves down. 😛
You mean when they were invented?
Same could be said for your face! 😀
I’ll title it: “Why DC is both wrong and a terrible person”
That think piece has already been written by many a news outlet.
Shopping guides. Where to buy, what to buy, good prices to watch out for, localised content, sales information.
Reviews of stuff we might not have heard of.
Boardgames etiquette: how to maintain friendships after you’ve proven you can lie adroitly.
That last one is easy: be the one that owns all the games. If people have to come to your for their fix, you can get away with all sorts of shenanigans.
Do you know how often I get ganged up on in games, bitch about it to evoke sympathy and then use that sympathy to get into a decent position? I even did it during the MtG draft that happened at PAX.
Didn’t work then, didn’t you get eliminated first? (I think I was second)
You were first. Then I knocked out the girl (whose name I forget) when the writing was on the wall that Steve-O was going to knock me out. I ended up in third.
Steve-O’s air force was simply too good. Why we didn’t gang up on him once he started to establish a decent board position is beyond me. Gang up on the leader, not the guy who might have a ramp deck :p
Adi’s usually pretty sharp, but she let you talk her into attacking me in steve-o’s stead
She wasn’t going to attack into Steve-O’s board and you were about to build up some serious threats. I didn’t have the resources to hit you, so I had to get someone to do it.
Pfft, I had no threats. My deck was built on winning votes. That’s why it was the American Democracy deck
@redartifice You don’t think democracy is a threat to the dictatorship I was trying to run at the table?
@trjn I can’t help it if all the other decks need more FREEDOM
@redartifice I’m kind of annoyed we didn’t get to play more. My deck has a couple of neat tricks with a Misdirection and a Stifle. As well as a Pernicious Deed which was literally my only path to victory in the game we played.
My favorite part of multiplayer magic is the politics.
“He played a land! Let’s get him!”
Because, as your girlfriend put it best, it’s just so much fun to upset you in board games 😛
7 Wonders: great game or greatest game?
To call 7 Wonders the greatest game is unfair to all other games as it robs them of something to strive for. I deserves a category all of its own simply so that other games can still aim for being the greatest.
7 Wonders: Greatest game featuring Wonders of a number 7 or higher.
Ongoing coverage of local government ordinances in the Uzbekistan provinces.
I know you say “read”, but perhaps getting some friends around and hitting up the boardgames ala Tabletop – you can have it accompanied by actual articles.
Also, news? Like, announcements and stuff, unless there’s a big site out there for that.
I’d love to do that sort of video coverage. There’s only one small problem: I live in Dubbo and don’t have many board game playing friends here. Next year I’ll be living in Canberra and might be in a better spot to record that.
Right now, I’d just be happy to be able to regularly play games.
As for news and announcements, that’s simply never been an interest of mine. The shiny and the new is less interesting to me than the stuff that’s been sitting out there for a while and is more realised. Board Game Geek and Shut Up and Sit Down both do decent coverage of this, if you’re after it.
Develop a split personality and play games against yourself.
Serious idea
Serious must win bunny, I don’t like attacking other people and get upset when people attack me bunny, go with the flow bunny, happy go lucky bunny, shy and reserved bunny, and ahole bunny.
Getting that perspective of the different player types all doing the same game and what does and doesn’t work during play.
Don’t forget my personal favourite: this is a dumb idea but I’m going to play it out anyhow bunny.
Sounds a lot like Gooky bunny.
Tigs has the brilliant idea below, but also – you ever seen the Nostalgia Critic on YouTube? Do that in article form.
Is suchandsuch boardgame as good as you remember when you played as a kid?
Track down some hidden gems?
(All of this may be WAY too much work for a hobby though!)
Board games I played as a child:
Monopoly,
Scrabble,
Risk.
Relevant games I played in high school:
Big 2,
500,
Warlords and Scumbags,
Mahjong,
Magic the Gathering.
The only interesting games in that mix are Mahjong and MtG, both of which I have played recently 🙁
Although maybe going back to schoolyard card games might be a thing.
I find that the obscure but excellent is more interesting to read about than the stuff everyone knows about.
But then again, I have imported multiple weirdo Japanese deck-builders with pervy artwork that I’ve never actually played with anyone. So yeah.
IMO discussion of mechanics is more interesting than discussion of games themselves. It’s one thing to know that a given game is good or bad, it’s another thing entirely to be able to discuss why it is bad, what parts of it seem off etc. But that might again be a reflection on me, since I’ve always kind of wanted to be a game designer and I used to make board games for myself and friends when I was a kid.
Also, if you want an editor/proofreader let us know, more than happy to read shit and tell you it’s good bad or otherwise
I’ll almost definitely take you up on that.
If you are doing written reviews make sure you include lots of pictures. Part of what makes tabletop so good is that for somebody who hasn’t played a lot of games seeing what happens makes it clear. Getting something like deck building explained isn’t the same a seeing it in action.
Maybe a Bunny recommends article where somebody can give 5 games they like and 5 they didn’t and you can make recommendations of what they could like and why. Or have a generic list of a dozen games and the person could rate them 1-5 for the ones they have played.
A glossary article that explains all the terminology that games use (Deck building, worker placement, push your luck, etc…)
Recommendations for different groups
– Games to play with people who don’t play games
– Games to play with horrible people
– 2 player games that won’t get you divorced
– Games for people who like pretty things
– The first hit is free, games for addicting kids to board games
If only I knew of any.
Pictures are definitely going to be a part of any review. Text can only explain so much.
The recommendations thing could definitely work but I think it might be more a case of responding if asked.
As for the glossary article, I’ve already tried writing that simply to get my head around terms so I can be more consistent when using it. The only thing more boring than writing it was trying to read it. I honestly think a better approach is to have individual articles going into more details about specific terms.
Oh and fuck Ameritrash. Seriously, try reading up on it. If you’re really lucky you might stumble across two people who almost agree on what the term means.
Thanks to everyone who came and played Smash on Saturday. It was fun! 8-Player local is really hectic. Hopefully you guys had a good time. Apologies for how hot my unit gets.
One of the highlights was having 2v2v2v2 team battles. I was teamed up at one point with Batguy/Cookingmama’s little son Batboy and we won the round. He seemed pretty happy about that 😛
Handy tip: if you’re playing with 5+ people, Timed battles are the best way to play. Stock battles just end up encouraging people to run away until the field has been thinned 😛
After most people left I ended up getting some takeaway Japanese with Rockets and Pants for dinner as the rains rolled in again. The poor man who delivered it was soaking wet as he handed me our dinner. I’m sorry, guy!
Thanks for having us – it was good fun 🙂
How to play Need 4 Speed like a big boy?
1) press accelerator
2) don’t stop pressing accelerator
3) Don’t stop believing.
4) don’t stop thinking about tomorrow
5) Don’t stop moving baby, only booties drive me crazy.
6) Don’t stop me now, ’cause I’m having a good time, having a good time.
7) Don’t ask me, what you know is true
8) Please don’t stop the, please don’t stop the music.
9) Don’t cry for me, Argentina.
10) Don’t stop nigga hit it
11) Don’t stop doin’ what you’re doin’
12) Don’t stop movin’, can you feel the music, DJ’s got us going around, round
13) Don’t stop til you get enough.
14) Don’t speak.
I started Yakuza 4 last night
http://i.imgur.com/89pDr2F.jpg
It’s making me happy though…
I had a squiz at the trophy list before I started and thought, wow, the platinum doesn’t look all that hard at all.
I was wrong. So very very wrong.
What makes it hard?
I do that with every game. There’s always at least , I read it & nope, no way.
So far in Inquisition it’s just beat entire game on xtra straight hard
Well, it’s not hard if you have a spare thousand hours….
Right!
It’s also not hard until you see something arousing.
Wait, are we still talking about Yakuza 4?
I really should get around to playing that now that Yakuza 5 is happening in English.
But I said that about 3.
And 2.
And 1. 🙁
I purchased all four games so no one can complain about me not supporting localization of them thoughI somehow totally missed them on PS2 & just starting now :-/
The first one had a crazily expensive Hollywood dub cast and I think they’ve always been on the back foot since then because it bombed due to no advertising.
Wiki says cult cast & big advertising. *shrugs*
We didn’t get the advertising in Australia like we do now back then.
Games are like movies now.
So I did my bronze level achievement in the Cha-Cha yesterday morning. My team also won the grand final of my tennis comp last Tuesday. Pretty epic week. Today is my son’s 2nd birthday and i’ll be braving a visit to my ex-partners place to visit which should be slightly awkward.
Best of luck buddy.
Hashbrowns with BBQ sauce for lunch. Things ain’t so bad.
Just occurs to me that I haven’t seen Sughly since August. The same time I last saw Trjn and Freya. MADNESS! Our Brisbane gang used to hang way more. Way more. *stares into distance* 😛
I was looking through some old comments for something I have written on here before, and I found my first ever down vote for something. I waded into The ‘Depiction of Women in games’ topic, I should have known better.
I hope you know that mentioning downvotes means you’ll get hundreds of them. It’s TAY protocol. 😛
I don’t see any downvotes DC… or are you all talk?
I don’t downvote, but it’s usually the TAY way. Sometimes they punish me by not doing what I say they’re going to do cause they’re all jerks. 😛
There. Because I’m not trying to punish anyone.
I’m ready.
I suppose I’m just numb from getting my first one. *sucks thumb in the foetal position*
You don’t think it is going to happen here do you. Comments from weeks ago are suddenly going to get red -20 appearing on them
There was something like a statistic of 42% of all gamers are females, and I was just musing that the only Female gamer that I knew personally was my mum who plays casino games on her mobile lol.
I will appeal the downvote to Serrels and the gang in the hope it is rescinded, I can’t have this blemishing my 1.3 upvote average per post!!!!
I will hunt your votes and cast them down!
I’ve lost all of my adrenaline @ash, you would be defeating a broken man!
Hmmm… I wonder if the downvote moderation limbo timeframe starts from the timestamp of the comment or the timestamp of the downvoting?
Vast majority of the down votes I’ve gotten have been over at Gizmodo. They’re a special breed there.
I got involved in a pretty heated argument there about wages and pay. Bunch of technology industry people claiming tradesmen don’t do anything to deserve any money and since they didn’t go to university they should be payed half of what they do. My responses were down voted like crazy.
Yes and they were PhD downvotes, which are worth twice that of a normal downvote
My dad used to get this. Until he went to Uni in his 40s, he constantly got derided – you’re just a tradie.
He’d often look at them and say “Yes, but I’m a smart, skilled tradesman.”
The one’s who’d bite would then go “You can’t be that smart, you didn’t go to uni!”
“Let me ask you a question – have you ever seen a dumb, hasty, old electrician?”
“No”
“Guess why.”
Also: I’d argue mechanics need to be paid more. As my mechanic friend once said “A surgeon screws up, he kills one person. I forget to secure a tyre, I can kill up to 20.”
I hate waking up and finding I’ve missed entire pages :'(
So anyway, I hope you’re all well, and that all of your weeks get off to a good start 🙂
You’ve only missed 1 today! 😛
We’re nearing the end of page 2 😛
And I don’t like replying to posts on previous pages.
Might sound weird, but I feel weird / lurker-ish replying to too old posts, haha! :3
All those missed conversations :'(
I think it’s fine to respond to previous page on the day the comments were posted. It’s only weird if it’s a week later. Unless you’re time travelling. 😀
But those conversations are, like, so 10 minutes ago 😛
I remember that time you time travelled on one of my posts!
Weirded me out a little 😛
Makes me want to go back and mention you in all the conversations
Nooooooo! Haha!
I wouldn’t know what to do! :3
I’ll stick to current conversations 😀
Another weakness discovered. Mwuahaha.
Yeah, but I know you’re too nice a guy to take advantage of any alleged weaknesses 🙂
No.
So, DC, started looking at nursing homes yet?
I hear you’re turning the big Three Oh soon, after all >:P
No.
Nooo, now you know my weakness!
Aww, come on buddy!
Please don’t start this again, haha! :'(
No.
It only became fun when you said not to do it. Remember I’m a bad boy rebel type who doesn’t conform with the establishment! 😛
I thought you were mad at me when you first started doing it, haha!
You’re never blunt except for when you’re grumpy, after all! :’O
Also, I much prefer your friendly “nah” than your blunt, soul crushing “no”.
@transientmind
Everyone knows you’re a giant sweetheart :*
Your biggest weakness! >:D
Replay faaail.
That is weird. You should feel weird.
For feeling weird. Weirdo.
After each week I do a sweep through the previous TAY to remind myself of the week that was, and often end up adding upvotes to stuff that I missed along the way. Sometimes replies when it’s called for. But then I fairly obsessively check over the last couple of pages as we go so there isn’t too much that I miss anyway 😛
I have problems with internet.
I read everything, I just don’t like replying to old conversations :3
Means I miss being involved in a lot of conversations, being 2-3 hours behind and everything, haha! :'(
It’s not IM, forum-type stuff is asynchronous!
Although the IM thing doesn’t stop me either. I’m constantly copying and pasting bits and pieces of the chat from throughout the day to respond to them 😛
Now that you’re not Uni-ing you should adjust your body clock to east coast time. That’s not weird at all. 😀
I’m going to start trying to get up at 7am, but only because I feel like I waste an entire morning getting up at near 10am every day :3
Might be a healthy change to make 🙂
Nothing wrong sleep into 10am if you can do it. That’s the dream. 😛
Urgh, I thought it was the dream too, but I feel so guilty sleeping in that late!
I’m a strange person sometimes, I know :3
Nothing wrong with being strange! 😀
There’s something a little wrong with being Strange 😛
Oh God I was joking please don’t damage my pretty face! :’O
Hi @strange! o/
So tired.
Watched an episode of Veronica Mars in bed before sleeping last night and kept hearing a kind of rustling sound. Was hoping it was the speakers or something, but when the episode finished and I turned off the TV the sound was still happening. Rustle rustle thud. Rustle thud.
Woke Mr. Strange up to make sure I wasn’t imagining it, and we moved the bed to see if there was something there but in the end we realised it was in the wall behind our bed. Rustle thud. Rustle rustle thud. All night. I slept with the light on.
The noise is still going. D:
Maybe a possum?
Used to happen in the place I grew up in a lot. Just pray it doesn’t die in the wall in the middle of summer. Happened to me once. Good grief.
Yeah, with the thud I was wondering if it was a possum or something that was stuck and hurt, which got me worrying it was going to die in there, in this awful muggy hot weather.
Yeah, that’s happened to me too.
The smell is indescribable.
There’s something in the vents? D:
Mr.Strange even went outside in the dark to check if it was outside. I was scared he’d never come back. 😛
And this morning I was so tired that when I went to post my parcel that I specifically took with me when I took my son to school so I could post it at the shops afterwards, I realised I’d forgotten to bring the address with me.
Well the spiders had to move somewhere after you took the Christmas tree away from them.
You are an evil man Pow
http://petcenter.info/petcenterstore/images/spider-hell.jpg
Not clicking. NOT CLICKING AT ALL.
I already had 2 spider freak-outs this weekend, I am NOT having another.
That’s not as bad as the spider field that popped up in a town in NSW a year or two back, shit was insane.
LA LA LA LA LA, I’M NOT LISTENING.
Big happy family.
Nope
THIS HAPPENED IN MY ROOFSPACE IN A HOUSE I LIVED IN AND ALL THE BABY HUNTSMEN CAME THROUGH MY AIRCON VENT AND WERE IN MY BEDROOM.
At least when it’s just the babby spiders they don’t trigger my OH GOD response and I had no issues crushing them all.
Imagine if they waited a month or two before venturing out….
Until Dawn looks amazingly terrible in the best kind of way! A Heavy Rain-esque slasher movie! I’m not the hugest fan of slasher movies but the over-the-top nature of them with a Heavy Rain-esque interface intrigues me. I also like the idea that it’s tailored around your fears after taking a survey at the start.
http://www.gameinformer.com/games/until_dawn/b/playstation4/archive/2014/12/06/hands-on-preview-until-dawn-wants-to-torment-you.aspx
What would you be noping out from on your survey?
Being forced to play board games with @trjn.
ily
So you’d opt into a whole game that revolves around board gaming? Rad.
It’d certainly up the terror stakes! Only thing missing from Alien: Isolation!
Also it would take place in a building and be shot like a multicam sitcom!
Laugh track mode would have been amazing, though. 😀
Man… that sounds really interesting. Added to the PS4 watch list for sure.
I’m keeping an eye open, well see how it goes. 🙂
I’m too scared to watch horror movies, but my morid curiosity makes me want to play Until Damn.
Also,
I wonder if that towel stays up the whole time…Will definitely keep an eye on it. Hope the survey can let you cop out of the SAW-like scenes, tho – that stuff just turns my stomach.
@trjn: Hope you know all these board game dissings are just me making fun. All jokes. You’re a good guy and I like how enthusiastic you are about this stuff. That is all.
I know.
<3
@evilmonkey
Buffalo Bar looks like a bit of a hike, by the time I arrived I’d almost have to leave again.
Keep me updated on Saturday please, I’ll try &ale that one. Sober though, unfortunately 🙁
No worries.
Nothing like having the cops come to your door and ask you to lock all doors along with the windows and stay inside until told otherwise because there is a potentially dangerous situation next door…
It all ended with the degenerate which lives next door being hauled off in hand cuffs, so all good.
You sure they got the right house?
I kid, I kid. You’re just degenerate, not being hauled off in handcuffs.To be quite honest at first I thought “oh shit what’s happened next door and are we being blamed for it again?” Cause that’s the only time the cops have come around to our place was if the neighbours are pissed off at us, cause someone else caused them trouble. They’ve gone as far before to call the dog ranger claiming we had a dangerous dog that wasn’t registered or micrchipped, the ranger was met with this awesome dog, who the ranger had no issues with lol.
Dog is sayin’ “Man, why don’t we all just chill out for a sec and this’ll all resolve itself.”
Haha, with hopefully the least amount of violence possible 😛
Atleast now the degenerate is gone.
Maybe all us upstanding citezens should get together and buy up all the houses in one town; no degenerates left and it would be like a civil utopia!
My neighbours are giving me a hard time too, in case you can’t tell 🙁
Yeah,exactly! Well for the moment, I just hope he isn’t back any time soon, I reckon if he went to jail he wouldn’t return, I have this feeling he would end up dead for any number of reasons. He’s a lovely mixture of amphetamines & a general psycho/sociopath, which is absolutely frightening…
I get that it takes ‘all kinds’, but these absolute wastes of space seem to be spreaidng at an alarming rate. Isn’t there somehitng we can do?
Actually don’t answer that – I’m getting depressed just thinking abut it 🙁
There is a legitimate answer that’s sensible and that is education and willingness to help people who are in this state IF they will accept the help. But the government doesn’t want to do that, so yeah…
Yeah an educated masses might ask too much of their own government, or start to ask the right questions, rather than just work, consume, sleep, repeat.
Eep.
OK, so the big question… you saw them being hauled off in cuffs, sure. But did the cops then come and tell you it was now safe to come out? Because that would be pretty funny if they told you to stay put until otherwise advised, then didn’t advise otherwise.
Yeah they came back maybe 10 minutes after, to tell us everything had been resolved and all was good. I’ll be honest at first I thought they were there because the neighbours had rung the cops on us AGAIN for bogus reasons like they have in the past lol, then dad told me what had happened whilst I was over the shops which would’ve started it all and then it all made sense.
So remember how I was talking about maybe running Star Wars Edge of the Empire over roll20 with some TAYfolks a while back?
Are the interested parties still interested?
That sounds pretty cool, how much prep does one need to play in these sorts of games?
Apparently not much, which is good because the last TT game I played was Dungeons and Dragons, 12 years ago.
Well, Star Wars is a bit trickier in that there’s no publicly available Reference Documents like there is with d20-derived D&D stuff like Pathfinder or 3/4/5th edition D&D or the like. So we’d need to run an actual character creation session for everyone.
It’s not really a huge amount of prep work on your end though I think. Have a Roll20 account (free) and show up online at a specific time every two weeks or so. For Pathfinder we’ve used google talk and connected in to Roll20 from that.
I’ve played a fair amount of tabletop RPGs but never GMed one. FFG’s Star Wars RPGs are a bit like being some kind of soothsayer. You roll a bunch of dice that have different symbols on them after building a pool for a certain skill and then you count up successes and failures and other stuff and from that sort of augur what happens. Eg I succeed at a roll but there’s a bunch of unrelated badness that wasn’t failures but suggests something might not have gone right, so maybe I took a shot at a guy and hit him in the head but he fell backwards onto the self destruct system and armed it.
It seems cool enough though.
The plan at the time was probably to run a preconstructed adventure, the Jewel of Yavin. Edge of the Empire has you playing as bounty hunters, smugglers and so on (the Scum and Villany of the universe basically) where Age of Rebellion would have you as agents of the Rebellion and there’s another one upcoming for Jedi. Don’t think the Age of Rebellion lets you play as agents of the Empire, sadly. Though could probably whip that up with some effort.
Jewel of Yavin is an atypical adventure. Most Pen & Paper RPG campaigns would have you going to a bunch of dungeons, murdering the inhabitants and gaining the fat loots yourself. Instead, Jewel is a heist. A huge uncut gem is on display during some kind of yearly celebration at Cloud City on Bespin, and you’re hired by some unscrupulous character to steal it for him in order to discredit his rival. Basically you plan for the heist by gathering intelligence and getting everything in place, then execute it during the main event of the festival which is an elaborate cloud car race. You’d obviously have to plan the theft and the getaway and dodge Baron Calrissian’s security forces and everything too. It looked like a fair bit of fun.
I just read your synopsis down the bottom and it sounds like perhaps some of the best fun ever, I’d be keen to try it out.
This sounds like heaps of fun.
Maybe?
I’ll be up for it, time and date pending!
Assuming it fits in my wacky schedule, I’m still interested!
Crap Neg I missed this so sorry for the late response, yes I’m still definitely interested to run with my battle droid 🙂
So how about that new Zelda WiiU gameplay that came out on the weekend? Looked pretty spiffy. I like the art style they’re using. Kinda realistic but still cartoony. It should fit well with the sort of lighting Nintendo have been using on the WiiU lately.
The only thing I’m worried about is the size of the world. I just hope there are actually things to do/find in it. It’d be cool to have lots of optional mini-dungeons and other secrets to find. Still early days though so I’ll wait until we see a proper trailer. Probably at E3?
Yeah, pretty hype for it. Thought it was interesting how Miyamoto said that Starfox would be out before Zelda, didn’t even know they were making a new Starfox.
It was “revealed” at the last E3! “Revealed” in that it was shown on a deliberately blurred screen in the background with Miyamoto going “Eh? Eh? Can you tell what this is? It’s coming, whatever it is!” 😛
Must buy if I owned a Wii U
The visual style looks awesome.
The biggest thing that I took out of it was that they’ve finally been able to make the Shadow of the Colossus knockoff they’ve been trying to do since Twilight Princess. The influence is absolutely unmistakable. You’ve got this big, beautiful open world dotted with ruins and dungeons and you wander around in it and you get a horse to travel around and the horse has a proper AI attached that will avoid trees and obstacles and you’ll form a real emotional connection with it. And you can aim and shoot your bow from horseback and there will probably be a boss where you do that. And so on. Really strong SotC vibes.
That’s not a bad thing, mind you. I just hope the world is interesting and they haven’t saddled the game with awful design decisions or terrible controls like Skyward Sword, and that it isn’t boring as fuck like Link Between Worlds and actually gives me some direction.
Hello friends, I want to give you a platform where you can get on your soapbox and promote a game of your choosing for me.
My aunt has asked me to recommend a video game for a family friend, problem is he’s 6 and has very limited experience of Playstation 4’s (I had a NES at 4 so I think he would be able to actually use it lol). He’s getting a bundle for Xmas already that includes FIFA 15, Little Big Planet and a driving game. I jokingly said first up GTAV but didn’t get the laugh I was hoping it would.
I’m going to tag some parents I think who might be able to help, but feel free to comment all the same. @cookingmama, @strange, @tigerion, @shane if you had some advice I’d be very grateful!
I get it… :'(
Damn you do have kids, my mistake 🙁
Haha, yeah. Two. A 6 and 3 year old.
PS4 is a little lacking in kid friendly games but Minecraft, Abe’s Odyssey: New N Tasty, Octodad and surprisingly Injustice are ones to look at. My eldest loves Injustice as it does support a button mashy approach a bit and she loves Superheroes. Octodad frustrates her a bit but she keeps going back.
Abe I’m basing purely on my own experiences with PS1 version, albeit as a teenager, and I’ve never played Minecraft but it seems to be the thing with the kids these days.
New & Tasty is gory, cattoonishly gory, so depends on the parent (yes me, no wifey)
@highperformance
I’m with you Freezy.
🙁
That being said, mines 2 and the closest he has got to gaming is sitting on my lap while I play Marvel Puzzle Quest yelling “Dadda making colours! Dadda making colours! BAM BAM BAM!”
My two year old sees my Dark Souls poster, and says, “Why he got two swords?” and I said, “It’s his job to hit monsters with the swords” and then we get stuck in an endless loop of, “Why it hees job to hit monster with sword?” (No known answer can prevent this last question from being re-asked.)
Rayman Legends is on the PS4… I think. Pretty great! Though tough!
Minecraft?
This
Oh yeah, this too. Kids go friggin nuts for minecraft. All the kids at his school will be down with it fo’ sure.
I would highly recommend the lego series of games. Depending on the interests you can get the ones most appropriate. My neices/nephew went absolutely crazy for the star wars ones, but there is a big selection of them these days.
Lego, OF COURSE! How could I be so blind?!
From the top of my head, they have:
LOTR
Batman
Marvel Heroes (can personally attest, this one is good)
Lego Movie
…I’m sure there’s a tonne more.
Harry potter
Star wars
Pirates of the Caribbean
are the ones the comes straight to mind (No idea what is on PS4 though)
The Hobbit
Indiana Jones
I think only The Hobbit, Marvel Super Heroes, Lego Movie, and Lego Batman 3 are on PS4.
the Lego movie game is also fun if he’s a fan
My son’s 6 and he loves Rayman and the Lego games. and apparently he plays Minecraft on the iPads at school. LBP sounds like a perfect fit too.
Wish I could help. My kids don’t game, though (eldest isn’t quite 5 yet). I’ll probably start them on Mario Kart when it’s time.
If you were getting a Wii-U, I could help a little more, because Mario is how I got started in games, and is still a very accessible way in.
Yeah, Wii U has an amazing range of kid friendly games.
Also, pretty much a majority of Wii U games are kid friendly, so it would probably be the safer option of console for young children to begin with 🙂
Trap Team; my boy is 6 and he is deff asking father Christmas for skylanders… also it’s fun game for father/ son time.
it’s lotsa fun, but beware the collecting bug. It bit me after picking up the first game, and I didn’t shake it till about a week or so ago. Got rid of about 150 figures.
No way man, all those little guys I buy are for my son, alright? Just like my amiibo?
:S
Hmm, PS4 has the Lego games, Little Big Planet, Rayman, Knack, Skylanders, Disney Infinity, Minecraft, and Plants vs Zombies.
Most of those seem alright for a 6 year old 🙂
Was it wrong for me to expect you to pick out some totally inappropriate games? 😛 My first thought today was Disney Infinity but I wondered how accessible it is for a kid when his Dad’s not a gamer as far as I know. @evilmonkey I know you’re a man who enjoys the Infinity game, is it easy to set up? I can see he him loving it sick with collecting the collecting the characters.
The playsets are easy enough for my son to play by himself, dunno about toybox mode though, I haven’t even got into that part of the game myself.
Also, as @liondrive mentioned PvZ is great, my son loves both the original and the shooter (Garden Warfare). Although it is an online only game, and I don’t know how good that would be playing with adults and all. I s’pose you could just mute everyone though.
Haha, I decided I’d rather be helpful for a change, rather than recommend inappropriate games 😛
I think either Skylanders or Disney Infinity are safe options, it’s just buying new figures may become expensive (but buying figures would be cheaper than buying new games).
I was waiting for a page 18 special haha 😛
If ‘slow wink’ was a game @liondrive would be all over that. =D
Just imagine the Steam reviews, for dramatic effect I’m thinking of Liondrive as the main character:
Slow Wink – A Slow Winking game
A naked man who obviously goes to the gym a lot winked at me, slowly
11/10 would be winked at again
If you are going to get something like infinity or skylanders check with his parents first. The pressure to buy more can end up costing a lot and you don’t want to start that if they are going to get pissed off by with that. Or if they are getting it just make sure they are aware of that.
So much this.
While those games are great fun, they are also a massive money sink and they could end up being very angry with you for putting them in that position.
For a kid though, you could buy them additional figures as the occasional gift.
I figured it’d also be less expensive say, buying two figures to extend the length of the game than it would be to buy a whole new game.
Still better to check with parents first, but I thought the was the whole point if this conversation 😛
If a new figure equates to the amount of play that an entire new game would bring, then it’s a good deal. I’ve never owned a game like this, but I’m not sure each new figure quite works that way, though.
I don’t know how these types of games work either, to be honest.
I figured a child would get a lot more play out of a new figure than an adult would though 😛
Easily entertained and what not 😛
With Skylanders, there are 8 different elements (fire, water, air etc) Once you have one figure of each element you can basically access every area of the game. The only reason to buy more than that is to complete the set, or because you like the look/moves of that character. Then all you can do with them is level them up and collect coins to buy all their upgrades.
Lego & mincrooft
Probably worth some education on parental controls, to prevent credit-card-linked shopping frenzies, or accidental download of things like, uh… the PT demo.
Bills a sweet little kid, I hope he never finds the PT demo.
Or Alien Isolation for that matter.
Minecraft and lego games are probably the best picks for a 6 year old boy. Plenty of fun to be had there.
I’m glad you replied, you and Batguy sound like pretty awesome parents from the meats! I’m thinking Lego the movie or Lego Marvel might be the way to go!,
Batboy loves the Lego movie game, and also lord of the rings, even though he has no idea what’s going on most of the time.He has a friend who is 7, and she’s obsessed with all things star wars and minecraft (saving up her chore chart stars to get a Minecraft book). Really though, the wiiu and the ds/3ds get the most attention.
Anybody who plays Elite: Dangerous (@mrtaco?), don’t look at that article about the gaming rig on the front page.
Don’t look.
Please tell me you’re not looking.
It’s cool and all. But honestly I’d rather the Rift 😛
And then throw one of these into the mix…
I looked.
*jaw drops*
Can someone hand me a towel.
Sweet jebus that is beautiful
About 24 hours before we head off on our trip. It’s gonna be so hard being away from my consoles for a whole week (bringing the 3DS though so that should ease the pain a bit).
Also, it’ll be an effort, but I’ll try not to TAY during the meat.
BOOOOOO
urnsNo Vita?
Not yet.
I heart mine, but I do the commute of the gods
PS4 peeps, who wants to PvZ it up tonight?
I’ve not touched it, but I’d be down to put some time in tonight.
Where do you get it from again?
Just off the PS store?
Yeah, buddy. Just look for Plants Vs. Zombies Garden Warfare and it’ll have download instead of purchase.
Yup, and it’s only free till tomorrow morning. If you haven’t played Mirror’s Edge grab that too (for PS3) while it’s free.
I better download that…
Hmm, it only says I can buy it for $55 :/ well that’s a bit shit..
I thought it was free till 7 am tomorrow morning, turns out it was actually till 7pm tonight. Sorry man, I fucked up.
Oooh, explains why, I looked about 9ish and wondered why it wasn’t free 😛
Meh all good, I might buy it at some point..
I was reflecting earlier today that it has been ages since I played something that really sank its teeth into me. Feels a lot like going through the motions recently. 🙁 I keep petering out on stuff, and it’s been happening basically all year. Last big AAA game I properly finished was I think Wolfenstein. Infamous I played maybe half the missions in and did some of the side stuff and then felt like I was done with it and stopped. Didn’t even bother with Dark Souls II or Watch Dogs despite buying both. Destiny I got to 20 and then stopped, and even getting to 20 felt very hollow. Shadow of Mordor I got maybe 70% through but it stopped being fun at some point and I just stopped. I’ve been back to WoW but having run out of story content I’ve kind of not been that interested, subscription runs out in a week and I might not renew. Grabbed Dragon Age at launch and I’ve gone back to it three times but it’s just not doing anything for me.
Slowly digging away at Senran Kagura on the Vita and nearly done with the story, not much left to actually get a Platinum for it after that so might actually do that for the first time ever. We’ll see.
Meanwhile I’ve got a stack of JRPGs sitting here which I haven’t touched and I’m not even sure I want to. Assassin’s Creed this year looks like it sucks, which is a bad thing since I’ve always used that series as my go-to for the Christmas break ever since they annualized it.
I think part of my problem is that everything recently has been going for this really frustrating open world structure. A big world that you can explore at whatever pace you want and it’s just dotted with heaps of stuff to do that’s mainly utterly boring and irrelevant and disconnected from the core story you’re supposed to be advancing but it’s there and so it fires the got-to-do-it-all mentality that I have. I like to be thorough. Give me a map that’s dotted with collectables and I can’t not collect them. I had to force myself to leave the Hinterlands in Dragon Age because I’d spent 8 hours doing quests there and ended up ruining the game for myself I think, since I don’t even know if it has a proper plot and I spend all my time constantly doing side stuff. It’s currently asking me to choose between two factions and I don’t want to side with either of them, they’re both a bunch of cocks. 🙁 So I’ve been putting that off. WoW is also that same structure when you think about it, and it explains why I’ve gotten bored. When you had quests to do there was a linear story guiding you around the place. Take that away and there’s nothing. Destiny also, once I finished the Black Garden I was just done. Nothing to strive toward. Making one number bigger than another number isn’t interesting.
I want something tight and linear. Give me a fixed path with a reasonable story and fun gameplay. I don’t need collectables and an open world. I need to be pulled through the world. I need a guided experience. Everything seems to be going away from that, and yet the games that I enjoyed the most this year were all like that. I don’t mind an open world here and there (I played the crap out of Black Flag) but don’t want every game to be like that.
Legit worried about how I’m going to feel about The Witcher 3 now, after Dragon Age. 🙁 I think I need to pick up something structured and linear (and good!) and start playing that.
Thinking about it, maybe this is why I don’t really go for a lot of Nintendo stuff and feel like it’s super overpriced and stuff? I’m the sort of person who as a child when confronted with a tub full of random Lego will not be interested for more than ten minutes, but give me the instructions for building something rad and I’d be occupied for hours. I’m not interested in play for play’s sake, I guess?
That seems odd to me. Because I’m in a similar boat to you, these open world games where you just explore everywhere are a bit too much for me, I’m not good at self-guidance and your Lego analogy fits perfectly.
…yet before I got to this post I was thinking “hey yeah, I guess Nintendo games aren’t really like that at all, and that’s probably why I mostly just stick with them” 😛
To me, most Nintendo games are pure mechanics and no substance to draw you through beyond that. There’s a goal – get the most points or come first or get to the end of the level or whatever – but that’s it. It’s all about the really refined mechanics. Stuff like Mario Kart. It doesn’t have any structure at all, it’s a bunch of dudes racing each other.
Not all of their games are like that, but a lot are. Maybe you have different associations. I didn’t grow up with their games, my first Nintendo systems were the Gamecube and the DS (and I got the gamecube for Wind Waker and Tales of Symphonia, neither of which are like that).
I played through Twilight Princess with a guide telling me exactly what I could do at every point in the game. Location of every collectible available at a given point, every heart piece I could now get and so on. It was one of the most fun experiences I’ve had with the franchise because it added even more structure.
I guess I’m broken.
Oh, you’re one of them story guys 😛
I guess it makes sense, if anything I tend towards more arcadey games. The game is my drive to play, I generally don’t really care much about stories or whatever. I mean it can help, sure. But I’m fine without one.
I totally get this. I really miss tightly constructed linear games. In some ways, the heavily corridored XCOM Bureau Declassified felt like a breath of fresh air to me (despite, objectively, being nothing of the sort).
One of my absolute favourite games is Grandia II. It’s linear even by JRPG standards. Fixed party, fixed plot, absolutely zero side content aside from an optional dungeon. All the areas are pretty much straight corridors with a few side areas with loot.
The combat is amazing and the plot and characters are great. So I don’t even care that it’s linear. I don’t need those other things to pad the game out. They’re nice if they’re there but they’re not essential.
hahahah, that music is still stuck in my head today along with the battling of the same enemy type but different colors 🙂 Damn orange crabs!
I concur entirely; even Dragon Age after about 20-30 hours has just felt like a solid disappointment and the last 15 hours have just felt like a slog…. I feel like I’m playing a bloody MMO with the complete lack of story for the side quests. The shards, the landmarks, the text only side-quests (which lets face it is 70% of all the sidequests) and even some of the companion quests are just tiresome. It feels like BioWare created a massive world and then went about populating it with a whole load of shallow crap which sucks because the story is actually enjoyable but there’s just way too much vanilla in between. I’m not even going to bother discovering new regions anymore (level 17) because I have shit-loads to do in the ones I have found (have about 4 operations left to discover regions).
That said WoW is an old flame and just like an ex it keeps coming back to haunt me =P
It’s been a while since I played a game that disrespected my time as much as DA:I does.
What about Diablo 3?
Never felt like any time was wasted with Diablo 3. Constant progression and always something achieved. DA:I I’ve played 50 hours, at level 13 and only changed weapons twice. I can play for a four hour stretch and have achieved literally nothing.
Wow, I zipped through the entire story over 5 days, then went back to do the rest. I wasn’t rushing.
I dont even know why they bothered with loot and chests, anything of worth comes from being crafted. I can literally play for hours on end fill up my inventory and then just end up vendoring everything and getting better stuff by crafting. It’s really starting to feel like this might be the only BioWare game I don’t play a second time, this has already been the first BioWare game where I got rid of a companion (Sera); she just annoyed the fuck out of me… I even grew to love Dorian and the rest. And dont even get me started on the audio bug; what the fuck is wrong with games journalism that most well known sites gave this game 9/10??? It’s one of the grindiest, most pointless RPG’s of all time; it literally only has about
8 story missions that take place so far apart they feel disconnected. None of the side quests impact the story or the game in any meaningful way and the war table is basically a fucking facebook game.What sucks is there’s some amazingly written characters in there but most of them aren’t your bloody companions!! No instead you get the elf girl that’s mentally challenged (I literally don’t understand her) and Vivienne started off being interesting and is now even more 2 dimensional than Blackwall…..
It’s just been a whole year of epic promises and mediocre delivery.
Hey, I really enjoyed it. Maybe that’s why they gave the game that score?
Seems like a pity you missed this one:
http://www.gamecritics.com/brad-gallaway/dragon-age-inquisition-preview-an-errand-girl-for-the-kingdom
I suspect that when you’re a reviewer playing a game on a deadline, you’re already heavily biased toward skipping all the side content and concentrating on the main storyline, and it seems like your experience is better if you do that.
The most interesting character in the whole thing so far for me was Krem. And he’s not even a party member. 🙁
Yep, this is my experience so far too. I’ve clocked 12-15 hours, level 9, barely advanced the story because I didn’t even know I had opened up the next bit, gathered some of the extra characters, gone and fucked around in a few zones doing their bullshit boring-ass uninteresting combat where everything is an insane bullet sponge. Got an upgraded sword at one point about four hours ago. Can barely tell if new gear that drops is an upgrade in the first place. Not sure why I should care about anything or anyone in the game. Main character is a disconnected, irrelevant cipher who appears to have been in the right place at the right time. Supporting cast are bland and ugly and what the fuck is wrong with the conversations? Everything feels weirdly disconnected and stilted. I picked up Sera last night and the first thing I thought on meeting her was “wow, her voice acting is awful. Overacted?” And she’s the only one that actually has any remotely amusing banter or anything. Iron Bull similarly feels off, the voices feel like they’re filtered or something to be muffled and the lip sync and animations looks off in conversations. I’m wondering if it’s an uncanny valley thing.
I’m not interested in hanging out with any of them. What the heck happened? The previous two games had great characters, it was what made a lot of the rest of it bearable. Where’s Alistair’s pessimistic snark? Awakening Anders’ wry humor? Varric’s dry wit? He’s had a personality lobotomy. 🙁 I can’t even believe that this is by the same people that came up with characters like Garrus or Mordin. It also feels like the entire NPC cast was designed by people sitting around in a boardroom going OKAY GUYS WHAT IS THE MOST CLICHE-DEFYING AND SOCIALLY PROGRESSIVE CAST WE CAN MAKE?
I’ve spent more time with it and I don’t think it’s a bad game, but boy is it mediocre and full of drudgery and boredom. 🙁 It just hasn’t clicked for me at all.
I never thought I’d say that I enjoyed Dragon Age 2 immensely more than the sequel, but I did. My snarky FemHawke had more personality in her little toenail than my Inquisitor does. 🙁
You need to get Dorian. He is by far the best character. And Cole is pretty great but moreso for everyone else’s reactions to him.
I think I’d enjoy this game a lot more if they had a better progression to gear and levels and made the combat not godawful. The actual sidequests that aren’t fetch quests are pretty well written as is the main story and exploring the world is great due to how it all looks fantastic. But then Bioware’s games have always been amazingly amazing held back by the actual game parts.
Do we need Obsidian to take this engine and actually make a good game out of it again? 😛
Yeah, the lack of interesting gear options and obvious progression to them combined with the generally crap combat is a lot of my issue with it. I think I’d feel less like I’m wasting time by exploring and doing sidequests if the result was cool loot.
Sometimes I really think I’m playing a different game to other people.
The war table has a big green cloud over main story missions, and they are under the Path Of the Inquisitor or something mission tab in your journal for easy finding.
I’m finding loot left right and center, particularly in the mid game. Blue and purple shit with interesting abilities.
Characters are not DA:2 level but still decent. They all fill a niche and some are pretty amusing. Run with Iron Bull, Varric and Dorian for a while – insult city.
Main character is the same make-it-what-you-want blank slate that every other Bioware RPG has.
Side quests are no different from any other RPG I’ve played aside from there being so many of them.
And bullet sponges? If you are fighting dudes significantly over your level with only auto attacks maybe. Bosses? Sure – they are bosses. But I can take out a basic foe my same level with two or so spells, which are aoe.
Amen, brother!
It’s the fact that none of the combat is meaningful since all the mobs respawn, the combat breaks down quickly when I can destroy anything with a barrier and aoe spell combo. The previous DA games and even the previous BioWare games every enemy you fought had a place and when you killed them that was it and the battles were hard fought. I remember playing SWTOR and DA:O heck even DA2 had some solid fights. This might be the BioWare people love now but it’s definitely not the one I once fell in love with. And are you really telling me you’re getting lots of purple and blue loot? Because I can count the number I’ve got on 2 hands (purple and blue together). My crafted loot is also usually much better than anything that drops. And i’ve been attempting all story quests within the level range i.e. they recommend 12-15 I go in at 13-14.
And are you seriously telling me the shards side quests and the various items you go hunting for companions is the same as the side quests you got in DA:O or in Mass Effect 2? If I recall you also mentioned you were completely skipping some of the side content (yes shards are half the bloody content since there’s like 15-20 per region). In the previous games side quests were a lot fewer in frequency but they were fleshed out; they had a story. Here I’m running around looking red crystals for Varric and various trinkets and keepsakes for BlackWall and Vivenne those aren’t side missions those are MMO missions.
And do you seriously not have a problem with how the crafting resources work? Literring hundreds of herbs and mining points all over the map isn’t interesting; it was more fun in the previous games where resources were hard to come by and you had to make meaningful choices on what to craft as opposed to having enough to craft armor and arms for the whole damn Inquisition. It’s a grind, compared to the previous iterations and not to mention previous BioWare games it’s just a colossal grind. And while I’ve grown to love the characters more from previously they’re still shallow compared to the affection I feel to previous BioWare toons; I still have fond memories HK-47 and Thane and lets not forget Morrigan or Grunt. Those were personalities; there’s just something missing with the ones in DA:I… they don’t feel natural they feel rehearsed.
@pupp3tmast3r
As I recall, the first post I made about DA:I the other week was a criticism of the combat and UI.
But DA:2 combat was more boring and ME was a shooter.
Yeah I’m getting purple and blue loot. I gots so much I’m loading up the characters I don’t use and trashing half of it. You get it from the side quests and mobs you hate so much.
But this is not DIablo where you get loot coming out or your but cheeks 2 mins in. Bioware games are utterly stingy with gear. DA:O, DA:2, ME 2/3: you could go hours without finding a single item. In Origins I remember upgrading my armor maybe 4 times the entire playthrough.
Later Mass Effect games had like 3 of each gun type. Total.
There’s random dudes that respawn in the world sure, but any quest relevant or even significant enemy does not. Just scrub mobs.
Mass Effect had plenty of mat grind dude. Planet scanning perhaps? And what choice? I crafted all the things in all ME games I believe. Did other DA games even have crafting?
For one I like not having to grind mats to make the occasional piece of gear. Not that I make any cause I find better gear than I find plans.
The side quests in previous DA was pretty basic I believe. Memorable enough that I can’t remember them. ME too but they felt different cause it was a shooter.
And really, don’t spend half your time collecting shards then complain you spent half your time collecting shards.
I don’t understand why you say it’s a grind. Don’t grind? All I have done the 40 hours I have played is wander and explore and do the things that come my way and sound interesting.
If you want to grind to 100% completion then sure, but you don’t have to.
Characters? I dunno. I don’t hold previous Bioware companions in the same regard you do I guess. Only a couple in any previous game ever grabbed me, others were just kinda there, same as this one.
Does the game have DA:2 levels of story and characterization? No: the only reason DA:2 could was because it had a fixed main character in a set location with a very specific, local narrative. Which people bitched about and so DA:I does not.
Does it have DA:O level of tactical gameplay? No, and that sucks.
But the gameplay is better than 2 and the story and lore better than O (which was boring and cliched as shit.) It’s The Mass Effect 3 of Dragon age.
As I said man, It’s like we are playing two different games.
Don’t do everything? You don’t need to do every mission to unlock the next story level.
just dodonate you need.
take control of the situation, it’s designed that way.
It’s designed really badly you mean? They don’t even surface what your next actual story quest is properly. I didn’t even know I had the next step to take unlocked.
You mean, that I mean, because you aren’t enjoying a game that I did, that I really meant to say that the game is poorly designed?
No.
No, I mean the fact that the game’s poorly designed means that even Bioware had to put out a PSA saying HEY GUYS YOU SHOULD LEAVE THE HINTERLANDS because they realized people were spending dozens of hours there doing everything and not advancing the story.
I know, I’m disagreeing. I actually was trying to help you out to find some enjoyment but you seem he’ll bent on trying to use ‘facts’ to prove me wrong.
Just wanted to explain how I enjoyed it, maybe you could to, dunno why I bothered. You’ve already decided & nothing I suggest will change.
Please, go on & continue with this attitude, I will be enjoying myself over here.
It says I need to be level 16 for the next mission. So thats nearly 10 hours grinding away?
If you open it & survive, you’ll be over the level before the end? I ignored the level suggestions & would retreat if I was gettin flogged
Im not doing everything though, I haven’t unlocked the Emerald something, exalted plains and 2 other regions. Im level 17 just from the Oasis, Crestwood, the undead marsh, hinterlands and the storm coast.
Yeah, I still had a few levels untouched when I completed it.
have yet to play DA, but from what im hearing, people are finding it hard to get away from the initial area, and once they do, they are way too overpowered and the game just ends up becoming a one hit chore….
I fucking wish the combat was that easy. I’d actually enjoy the game a lot more if I was OP. 🙁 Instead, everything takes ages to beat down. Nothing is actually very dangerous except when you get thrown in unexpectedly against some super strong enemy with no warning (happens sometimes), they just have way too much health and you need to have 3 guys wailing on them for half a minute to take them out.
That old MMORPG thing of ‘this fight isn’t challenging, interesting or engaging, it’s just long, unforgiving and makes me feel weak because even though I’m The One with a party made exclusively of the best in their class it takes us a minute just to scratch this named thug’. There’s no back and forth to it. You can knock Zelda’s ‘do that three times and it’ll die’ mechanics for a lot of reasons but the bosses are always physically engaging.
I had a case of the MMO burnouts a while back. I stopped playing MMORPGs before Destiny came out but I didn’t really get over it until I cut off all the games that make demands on my time for a month or two. Destiny wants 30 minutes to an hour per day? That’s not a huge demand but it’s every freakin’ day regardless of whether I’m in the mood, and when I am in the mood to play I have to do that stuff before I can start playing. Sure I can pass on the daily rewards but that’s not really how my mind works. That first 30 minutes I do every day just ends up casting a shadow over the game even when I’m happily playing it for hours every day.
Do play it though. I’m still having a great time with it. Don’t agree with anything that’s being said here today. I think it’s a great game
Sounds like you are burnt out dude. i rekon you should take a break from games and come back envigorated.
I think I need to get off the treadmill and find something that I actually enjoy playing.
I’m doing a second run of Inquisition & avoiding as much open world as possible. You only have to do a few tasks to open up the next story bits.
I’ve just installed Enslaved for this reason. Figure it might be what I’m after as a nice tight package that has a nice linear plot.
Maybe have a look at some of the FPS and drop the difficulty if you don’t want any road blocks. Did you play the metro series, that is still my fav of the genre. Some options to choose either stealth or guns blazing but very linear and well written.
Edit: As for the collecting urge had the the worst in the latest game I played steam world dig. 3-4 hour game that took me 8 hours of gameplay, but I missed only one mineral in the game. Which really annoyed me, it was just there but I destroyed the block I needed to be able to get at it.
Trip does have a nice tight package. #sexistresponse
Also Enslaved is a great game. Not perfect – some camera issues make the combat frustrating at times – but the story is great and I don’t think anyone does believable character animation as well as Ninja Theory.
I have Metro I think, but never played it. Stealth-focused shooters (stealth-focused anything actually) always involve so much trial-and-error gameplay and I find that immensely frustrating. Repeating the same sections over and over to memorize patterns until I can tap into the designer’s mind and figure out what they intended you to do is just not fun for me. I need progression. Dark Souls is the only game with that sort of gameplay that I got into, and that’s because dying is still progression a lot of the time. But even that eventually lost me when I got roadblocked by some sequences that stopped me feeling like I was progressing.
You really don’t have to stealth Metro if you don’t want to. I ended up failing the stealth part and blasting my way through large chunks of the game.
That said, I mostly gave up because its mouse controls on PC sssuuuucccckkkk (it has two different settings that alter sensitivity, and both of them ruin everything).
As weird as it sounds, I can actually recommend Advanced Warfare if you see it cheap (insert guffaws). You’re only looking at like 8 hours of campaign, but it’s pretty well designed, and does that whole “non-stop rollercoaster” thing very well. Full of plotholes and inconsistencies the size of a small sun, but you should expect that by this point.
How does it compare to Collardoody Black Cops? Because I actually really enjoyed the campaign in that. It was a bit predictable but very well executed and fun and the whole cold war setting was cool.
I don’t actually know. The last CoD I owned was Modern Warfare. It’s not as good, in my opinion, but it’s fairly close. Hard to really say though because I reckon my memories of MW hold it up to be a better game than it really was.
Trying to remember but I don’t think there are any required stealth sections. It makes some places easier but normally it’s a case of being stealthy until you mess up and then just shooting everybody in the face.
I think last light had one level really designed around stealth, but also an achievement for killing everybody on the level. I don’t think I ever had the trial and error issue of getting in the devs head. Then again I like stealth and will often play a stealth based player when given the option.
Sniper rifles FTW
Would you class Far Cry 3/4 as a stealth-focused / stealth-required game?
I haven’t played those yet so can’t say. Considering people are stuck on stealth section in those games it sounds like there is more required stealth.
Maybe consider Spayce Maureen, Hard Reset, Call of Juarez Gunslinger (or bound in blood)
Or some random other genres
Dawn of War II – Retribution, Injustice, Dark Messiah, Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light, The Tiny Bang Story
Hm. I can only reach the conclusion that since you have not enjoyed the same games that I do with the same level of rabid fanaticism, you are clearly a heretic, defective, worthy only of internet censure and various insults.
Seriously, though… gaming ennui is sadness-in-a-biscuit. Everyone handles it different ways. ‘Tolerance break’ (to use stoner parlance) is one option – avoid any gaming, do other stuff. Some folks just go back and replay their go-to timeless favourite, or something else that reminds them what they love about gaming. I prefer bingeing on movies, comics, TV shows, anime, whatever. Eventually I am drawn back to zer gaming.
Also…
This is why I couldn’t play Diablo-clone Path of Exile. It’s an ARPG with a punishingly small bag space, expensive-ass town-portals, huge maps, low mobility, and gear IS currency. Drove me NUTS. By the time you fill your bag and head back to town to sell it all, when you go back to pick up the next batch, all the enemies have respawned and now there’s more loot! When I complained about this on the beta forums, I was told by the long-time fanboys that this is intentional and you’re meant to ignore everything except rares. Which is like… uhhhh NO. IGNORE LOOT? Do you even Diablo, bro? Some people do not understand the driving compulsion that fills your body with an intense pressure if you do not obey.
I don’t really have a fall-back (the current anime season is really weak aside from a couple which I’m up to date on and I don’t really do TV / movies) and don’t have anything I feel like going back and re-playing. Last time that’s what I did, I played Okami and it was great. But I’m not about to re-play that again. Time before that, I got really deep into Ys and found a series I really liked as a result.
No idea what to do. Do think I need off the treadmill though. I need something nice and simple and concentrated fun. Maybe time to look at the pile again.
You on PS4? Grab PvZ: GW. Sounds like it’s just what you need.
I think they have fixed that problem for the most part. The respawn happens but only after you log out. So you can clear an entire area with multiple trips back to town.
But that compulsion, god damn that last mineral that I couldn’t get, gah!!!!!
hey guys tdid the secret san-tay thing ever happen? havent received an email yet!
@freezespreston, you’re up!
Sorry to say, man, I got an email, and have sent my gift out!
Definitely sent you one on the 17/11. Resent it just then.
sorted, thanks chief… was wondering what happened!
@highperformance pokemon arrived today \o/
Is there anyway i can thank you? Some money?
Haha oh gosh I don’t think that was me! I think there’s a case of mistaken identity at play here 🙂
Pst, [at]dogmanOh crap. I have no idea why I thought it was highperformance. Sorry mate.
Super sorry to @dogman Let’s just say I’m an idiot and leave it at that.
So, want money or something?
Heh, no problem. I’m just glad they arrived safely. Have fun with rescuing Professor Pokephobia. =P
@ash
I think you live near me too
I just looked up the suburb Google maps. For some reason I thought your suburb was way out on the other side of town. I sent it from work so I actually live a few suburbs south of there but that’s still freakishly close. I’m amazed it took them so long to take it to Hoppers Crossing, forget to properly scan it, then bring it back out here.
I thought Ash lived 5 minutes away from me. It wasn’t until I was double checking the label I realised it was the same suburb name in a different state. =P
There’s not many westies around in tay. They all live on the eastern side with the exception of Pixel and Beavwa. Where do you work? I may have met you and not even realised it.
Probably not. It’s a little online business selling industrial equipment. Best part of the job is that 99% of the time the gear fits into a box or onto a pallet and so the only people I have to interact with are couriers.
What’s more likely though is you’ve gone to either of the JB Hi-Fi stores nearest you and met friends of mine. I think they’ve all transferred to other stores or found different jobs, but a few years back I knew tons of people there because my friend ran the games department.
@dogman
Ah well, have you been to 8-bit yet?
@scree Didn’t even know it existed. I’ll have to check it out next time I go in there.
@dogman
Awesome, awesome food. I go to Footscray at least 3 times a week. =P
HURRAH! I survived a Monday at work without going into a murderous rage! \o/
Time to go home and get some gaming done
Dear TAY.
May i tell you about a star amongst us? His name is @dogman. More like, @GODman!!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzKsoRSGHnbkNnBsZkZmanl4X2pZdE15czRjVW82SUw5dlhF/view?usp=sharing
Thanks brother!!
I think you meant highperformance! 😛
I know you’re joking, but I seriously feel bad about it. =(
Got an acceptance letter for the Uni course I applied to on Friday, except I didn’t see the email until Saturday. To confirm my enrolment, I had to log in through their online site. I try and do that using my student ID and password, and it just won’t let me log in at all. I tried to get in through another part of the site, and it said my account was deactivated, which makes sense since I was a student there two years ago.
Anyway, it says if you need help logging in or a pasword reset to call them. Their offices are only open Monday to Friday though, so I’ve had to wait until today to call them. I called the help desk, and spoke to a woman who told me that you normally have to wait 48 hours before an offer has gone through until you can log on to accept the offer. Since I got the offer on Friday, its been far longer than 48 hours. The other thing she said I could do was ring up the IT desk and get a password reset. So I ring up the IT desk, tell the guy my problem, and then before I can say another word he transfers me back over to the help desk. This time, I spoke to another woman (I pressed 6 for other instead of 1 for enrolment when prompted), and she told me it’s 3 working days from an offer going out until you can go online to accept it. So since I got the offer on Friday, it wouldn’t be until Wednesday that I can go online to enrol.
None of this information is present in the enrolment email or attachment they send you, the how to enrol section on the site that you are linked to from the email, or is given to you if you try and log on before the 3 days have passed. Also, it’s 3 WORKING days, which makes it odd they’d send offers out on a Friday (I know one other guy who got his offer the same day), as that means potential students are left waiting an extra two days wondering why the hell they can’t accept the offer, and with no way to call up and ask since the offices aren’t open on weekends.
48 hours could be 2 working days?
I would never worry about a school thing over a weekend, noones there, nothing happens.
This is your first test, and is worth 20% of your over all grade – good luck!
as @jimu said, being a weekend i wouldnt worry about it too much…
my wife got a call on Saturday morning however to see if she was gooing back next semester to finish her course as she hadnt enrolled 2 weeks ago… she didnt even know she had to…
suffice to say, the lady was very helpful and had her sorted in 15 minutes…
if they only gave you an offer on friday, im sure they’d be giving you at least 2-3 weeks to accept or decline the offer, so dont freak out!
good luck man!
Congrats on the offer, buddy. Hope all the troubles solves itself soonish.
So who here is playing GTA Online PS4?
Whatever happened to INQUISITION multi player on PS4?
It has multiplayer?
i think theres coop missions from what my bro in law was telling me
http://www.dragonage.com/#!/en_US/news/multiplayer-faq
i was reading a couple of articles claiming coop campaign.
same thing was said about unity…
dont get why coop isnt just “a thing”… i mean it can be completely optional, and the story can still only account for 1 single player. just ramp up the difficulty a shitload…
just found this:
http://www.dragonage.com/#!/en_US/news/multiplayer-faq
No, I meant is any YAYbie playing on PS4, can I join in?
That Streetfighter “Arcade Cabinet” is perhaps the ugliest thing I’ve ever seen. And just having a shelf to plonk some fight sticks onto is even more awful. Everything reeks of cheap and ugly.
Started drawing up some plans. As soon as I get back from Japan I’m building one and I know I can do far, far better than that monstrosity.
When the cost of the electronic parts is added together, it certainly leaves a lot of ‘value’ for a bunch of bits of wood that are basically a shelf for TV and fight sticks.
Hmm, electronic parts work out to roughly $850 RRP and the cabinet sells for $570.
So what, approximately $1500 RRP? Where’s the other $2000 going?
I was going to jokingly say it’s to paint some street fighter pictures on the side.
Then I checked the Ts & Cs… And yep, it is actually 2k to paint the pictures on the side:
I need to learn how to paint apparently….
I do enjoy the television programmy things in new Ruby/Sapphire.
‘It’s time to check in on our favourite trainer, Tequila! Let’s see what’s new in his world. Hm. “It burns! Help!!” Yes, I understand now. Well that’s all we have time for!’
I’ve never pressed on it, even though I gave silly answers :-/
Dear @dc
That is all.
Haha, yeah. I saw that one. those guys really are amazing. Fun fact: He was the one that did the arrangements for Bioshock Infinite’s covers.
SKILLS TO PAY THE BILLS.
17 days til Xmas…
And 18 days til the Boxing Day Test! \o/
Into The Universe With Stephen Hawking is on SBS One right now.
I wanna play Yakuza ALREADY
I know! I gave up all hope and then woo! 😀
I completely forgot what happens in 3 and 4 though :(. I think you said you never played the other ones? I know 3 had cutscene recap videos for 1 and 2 (I’m assuming 4 had it for 1-3 but I can’t remember!)
I’d like that HD 1 and 2 too. And that Samurai one! MORE YAKOOZA
No no, I just started 4 last night.
But yes, good news & yes samurai ones & I vomit thinking they localised the shooting zombie one & not the new PS4 version of SAMURAI
Poo poo to Sega for second guessing westerners
You didn’t see my bargains? Check Twitter…….now!
There’s two samurai ones. Kenzan, which came out before Yakuza 3, and Ishin, which was a PS4 launch game.
Kenzan casts the Yakuza dudes as various people from the end of the Sengoku era where the Tokugawa shogun took power, with the protagonist standing in for Miyamoto Musashi. Ishin does the same thing but it’s the Meiji Revolution, which was the end of the Tokugawa Shogun and the restoration of emperor Meiji to power.
Both games looked fucking rad and IMO have way more sales potential in the west than mainline Yakuza does, since good historical Samurai games are rare and the US especially still loves them. But Sega are idiots 🙁
We also never got the Black Panther games on PSP which were supposed to be pretty good and had really good soundtracks (especially the stuff by Jet Set Radio’s Hideki Naganuma under the name Skankfunk)
Just got the latest Target catalog and it’s confirmed the new wave of Amiibo’s out this week will be $14.
@mrtaco
Also, you’ll never guess what’s advertised at $76.
GTA VHahaha, awesome.
Also, shit. That means I gotta try get to Target before work 😛
ALSO ALSO OMG LITTLE MAC AND FALCON YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!
Man, the ONE day when I won’t be at work!
I finally got my Cert III for Technical Production! \o/
…
Now I don’t know what to do… 🙁
Congrats on getting the cert! No idea what kind of job it can get you, but I’m sure it’ll come in handy some day!
Well done, buddy. You did good.
Produce something… technical!
What does that let you do now?
The details are here:
https://training.gov.au/Training/Details/CUS30209?releaseId=1b955904-aebc-4828-911f-c0631dc02145
@dire_wolf dyu reckon you’ll be able to make it to this week’s high maul run dire? At the moment we have 2 healers, 2 tanks and 1 Dps =p
I think I’m done with Smash.
Not fun in single player, and too competitive in multiplayer for my liking.
Leads to it being not super fun to play.
The noise is happening again. Guess who’ll be grumpy again tomorrow? 😛
I’ve spent a bit of time hanging out in the Storm Coast in DA:I tonight. Such a beautiful place!
I want to live in a place that looks like that. (Minus the weird wave-breaking.)
Oh, something that totally took me by surprise: did you realize that those funky columnar formations are actually natural in real life? I thought they were remnants of some dwarven engineering project, but my brother pointed out that basalt and some other minerals do this naturally.
(Google image search ‘natural columnar formations’.)
It’s my favourite place in DA:I so far. Majestic and beautiful and sporadic sunshine.
Those column thingies are awesome. I did that search and the results are overflowing with quilty inspiration. 😀
Urgh, missed Plants vs Zombies.
Great.
I’m gonna go sulk under a rock.
As I work towards writing up my Game of the Year thingy, I thought I should try and remember what games I’ve actually played this year, so I present my probably very incomplete list: https://docs.google.com/document/d/17oR-6okeA9UcIK9Zdxg1c9WYQUNEMuxYnBBMEmsolvw/edit
Tune in tomorrow when I reveal my GoTY.
Game of Transistor Year, that is.
It’s Transistor, in case that wasn’t clear.This morning I saw a 4:3 rear-projection TV dumped near one of the stations I drive past. Tonight on the way home, it was still there.
Somehow I convinced mum to come along and help me load it into my car. Also, my car is awesome and has some real TARDIS action going on inside. Shame it doesn’t have a little more of it going on outside.
Doubly shameful that it was pouring rain all day. Also that the power cord on the TV was cut. 100Hz set, nice and huge, both VGA and component inputs… kinda wish it still worked. Also that I wasn’t going to pull it to pieces.
@powalen, what are your thoughts on frozen churros?
They’re a little harder to chew. Not too bad though.
Frozen churros? What’s wrong with you?
I got my Secret SanTAY present today!
Thank you to my mysterious benefactor! This is fun.
…cannot un-learn
Now I want to watch That 70s Show. Also… that show would be weird.
You might as well just watch Friends.
I’ll be there for youuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
Or Dinosaurs.
You so old!
Goodnight TAY.
See you tomorrow.
Night.
*looks around*
It sure is.
Wait, isn’t it still like midday last Wednesday over there?
Just wasn’t having the best of nights, so decided to go to bed early rather than stay awake all grumpy.
Night!
Cheers for helping with lifting my spirits lately man, I really appreciate it 🙂 Hope the photo of me wasn’t too scary 😛
Any time, friend 🙂
On what I thought would be the absolute worst blue baby run ended with me finally killing isaac and unlocking the D6, go me
What items did you end up getting?
I can’t even remember what I had on my winning run, but it took me something like 25 tries as BB :P. I pretty much failed my run instantly unless I had a health giving item early on. I don’t think I’ve ever had Dark Bum though, would’ve been an instant win otherwise! :'(
Did you ever get the D6 in the original? I never did but D6 runs have been my favourite by far in Rebirth :D. SO MUCH FUN!
I ended up with Frank’s? Brain (exploding brain follower), dead baby, holy shield, soy milk by accident, something that kept causing the necronomicon effect, contract from bellow and scapular of note. Just got pretty lucky with soul heart drops, had like 8 when I got to isaac and tanked his holy beams mostly.
I had the most ludicrous room before isaac, 4×4 with 4 envy (one champion) and 4 invincible skulls, insanity.
It was my first time getting to isaac at all after maybe 11 failed attempt and about 40 restarts
Bob’s Brain! 😛
After typing that I tried an Isaac D6 Hard Mode run (and failed) then went for Azazel and found the D6 early on in an item room :D. Ended up with Dark Bum too!
Died in the Dark Room though 🙁
The dead baby is the one that gives the necro effect
That makes sense, absolutely saved my ass by clearing the adds from it lives and isaac
I can’t believe I finally got it! *wipes tear from eye*
Grats!
I played a game after reading your comment which lead to me getting that achievement. I guess I should be thanking you. =P
Thanks!
Just a reminder to TAY folk who have pledged $30 for the first two issues of Undad: if you switch to the $35 tier, you can get a trade paperback collecting all four issues instead.
Most of the people who pledged at this tier are on TAY, so I’ll keep posting these reminders from time to time. Hope you don’t mind.
Man, I wish I could, but $$ are a little strained atm.
It’s all good, man. I’ve gotten a whole slew of pledges from Cambodia* so I figure that this, plus what you’ve already pledged, means you’ve done your bit.
* Not really. But don’t worry about it anyway! 😛Oh I didn’t know, how do I change it? And when do I have to pay? I have to make sure I leave enough money for your donation
I was just writing a reply when I got the notification – looks like you figured it out. Thanks!
For everyone else, just click the “Manage” button in the green box that says “YOU’RE A BACKER” to the right of the page here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shanewsmith/undad-comic-miniseries-issues-1-and-2
PS: The money will come out in the early evening of 15th December (6 days from now)
I get paid on the 16th, so hopefully, I’ll be fine
Welp, bought stuff from the EB sale. Didn’t think it’d happen, but hey.
Itchy pockets 😛
So did I! I got Gears of War for $3 and Gears of War 2 for $5. #HeyBigSpender
I don’t even know if anything I got was discounted much/if at all. Well, I guess I know Ninja Gaiden for Wii U was $4 cheaper than in-store. Just browsed until I saw stuff that I remembered I was interested in and seemed like an ok price. Especially in comparison to JB.
SPECIAL OFFER:
Whoever pushes Undad over the $5000 mark, either by making a new pledge, or increasing their existing one, will receive an additional item with their pledge, with a minimum value of $100.
Winner will (hopefully) be announced tomorrow!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shanewsmith/undad-comic-miniseries-issues-1-and-2/
Goodnight all.
Ugh, it’s at $5006 after I increased my pledge. Just missed it =P
Well, you already achieved that, but regardless, I’m still considering likeness +TPB. How much effort does the likeness option require on my part?
If you pick that, I’ll ask for some photos of you (at least three). A profile face shot, a front-on face shot, and at least one full body shot. They can be new photos or already existing ones. You can provide more if you want, along with any special requests if you have any. The amount of effort is really up to you!
If you want, you can just point me towards a Facebook album that has some pics of you in it, and leave it at that.
Special requests?
i.e. Make sure they draw me with a big package.
There is a LOT of frontal nudity in this book. A lot of it. This is a request you should definitely be sure to make.
For example, one likeness client requested that his likeness be wearing a particular pair of shoes, and he be dressed in a certain colour. You might have something similar, or might wish to see yourself with or without glasses or facial hair or with a different hairstyle… up to you! \o/
Ooh, how about an eye patch?
It might take a little rewrite, but I’ll make it work!
Edit: Feel like being a patient suffering from pirate delusions in the waiting room of a psychiatrist’s office?
I’d prefer a whole ninja outfit but I thought that may be pushing the boundaries.
If you’re serious about the psychiatrist / delusion thing, can it involve wearing an eye patch AND a ninja sword and some sort of struggle between the two?
I’m mostly curious about boundaries here. Feel free to tell me I’m being an idiot and overstepping the mark.
@beavwa, I’m still considering how far this can be taken. Given your likeness will be appearing in just a couple of panels and won’t have much in the way of substantive dialogue, it might be difficult to get across a complex backstory like a pirate/ninja crossover conflict. Will let you know where it lands, though.
That was just a guide as to what I typically wear. It wasn’t a hard and fast request.
Of course if it’s not filled I reserve the right to bitch and moan. 😛😀 Just got new years sorted. That makes me happy. It’s gonna be the first time in 3 years all my friends back home will be back home so I am looking forward to it greatly!
Edit: Apparently I’m coming to Melbourne in January too, so… I’ll find time so see you Melbourne people too!
SO MANY BENS
NOT ENOUGH JOELS????
There’s enough.
Woke up at 5:30am…
🙁
Me too. \o/
My alarm goes off then every day \o/
Budding writers of Tay, I have a proposition.
I have an idea for a game/mod and it will have true facts, but the stories that are featured are going to be up to a writer. I’m not a very good writer, so it’s not really something I can do by myself. I’m afraid there are no plans to make money out of this, but rather it’s a labor of love. At the same time there are no dead lines. The genre is horror.
If anyone is interested, send me an email scree(at)y7mail(dot)com
Oooh, sounds cool. You should totally do a Kickstarter for it. I wouldn’t mind trying my hand at it, but I’ve never written anything before. Have you got a general idea for a story?
@beardymcmuttonchops, @shane
Beardy writes legit horror! I’d be keen to learn more, but horror is not my forte. @scree
Yeah I can’t contribute, mine would be horrible really..
“Little Jimmy just bought the game he was waiting all year for on the first day of sale, but little did he know it carried a terrible curse. He placed the DVD into the tray, and on the title screen he saw the terror… the terror… of day one DLC!”
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Holy shit, don’t scare me like that, man.
He screamed, then the season pass lunged at him. Hastily little Jimmy mashed the “B” button for all his worth and barely escaped with his life.
“with every ounce of strength left in his tiny, frail body, he used the skillsets one can only acquire after countless of hours playing frogger, dodging traffic to get to the nearest EB Games store to obtain the season pass.
He made it. He felt a sigh of relief surging through his body. he approache the salesperson behind the counter.
“$89.95 please sir!”
“…but JB has it for $29!”
His little heart gives in… EB’s prices are just too much.
PAY 0.95c TO DEFIBRILATE AND CONTINUE LITTLE JOHNNY’s QUEST!!!
Oh god, mictrotransactions are the real horror.
“Or alternatively log back in tomorrow for 2 extra lives!”
If you want to know more @shane @evilmonkey
I wanted to make a game based on the horrors of places such as Pennhurst State school and hospital. So far the idea is that the game is to be story driven with not only the main characters story, but some smaller ones tell of the atrocities in these sorts of places. Ultimately, I would like for the player to be able to pick up artifacts that would tell the player of a fact. For example, they often used ice baths to treat patients.I decided my game doesn’t need any monsters because humans are horrible enough.
Those two are published writers. They can’t really afford to work on something for love or exposure, it will lessen the perceived value of their work.
Fair enough, didn’t think of that. Beardy might be able to provide some tips on how to write good horror though. Although as you can see in the posts above I think we’ve got a pretty good handle on it 😛
Oh, I dunno. I think the rules are a bit different for friends, or for projects that hold some other interest. For example, I really enjoyed working on the James Flamestar comic, despite it not being my world or characters, or hoping to ever make a cent from it…
Speaking of Pez, did he delete his twitter?
And his website. And his Soundcloud. Aw man, hope he’s okay.
He’s still on Facebook, but just as him. Everything James Flamestar has been razed to the ground for about a month. Can’t even buy the albums anymore 🙁
🙁
ive been working on a game for a while, its gone from inception, to stick-figure concept art like 5 times. twice its made it off the drawing board and into initial design.
just scrapped it all recently and now im working on 2D minigame Couch Party game…. part of the only reason im still holding onto my XBONE so i can use it as a dev kit…
If you want some art help, let me know. I may be able to help out.
Morning all, on the way home yesterday I finished off Child of Light, all in all I’m glad I played it, absolutely gorgeous game and I’m going to purchase the soundtrack next chance I get.
@phlanispo – whats wrong with you?!? do you like, hate sleep?!?
I did last Friday, worked 21 hours and more the next day
whats wrong with you tech??? actually whilst i got you, prob doing a LAN on Saturday the 20th, or the week that follows… how you looking on those dates?
also @tofu , will do a larger TAY invite once ive finalised dates
*shrugs* well I don’t have a girlfriend or family I want to see so… yeah I volunteered to help when the project needed someone, downside was it took pretty much my whole weekend away.
As for my availability, either weekend could work for me, however the recall roster at work hasn’t been updated yet, so I’m unsure whether or not I’m actually free yet. I’ll keep you updated when I hear more, would absolutely love to come round though. How’s the game list going, getting mighty large or do you just want your Quake rematch? 😛
were getting there! runniung a local P2P system for file distribution now rather than using a single network drive or passing around a USB drive…
That’ll save a ton of time! Awesome
Minecraft?
lol yup! thats my guess! he replied to my comment at like 4:30am
It was only 1am in Perth. It’s not that bad. Kinda. Sorta.
That’d be bloody right, just checking out the weather in Brisbane, it’s gonna rain the whole time we’re there, and start fining up the day after we leave.
CRAP BOOBS CRAP!
(no such thing as crap boobs)
I would hazard a guess as to a quick google search proving you wrong….
They all have a certain quality to them.
DONT GOOGLE THAT (Link is Safe for work technically…)
I am not so sure that is true.
The Internet proves that all things are possible. Especially horrible things. Horrible things are the Internet’s specialty.
Yeah, I love the rain but I need to do a second coat of paint on my stairs and it’s rained every single day since I painted. D:
Rain can be good, though. Once the TAYbies went to Dreamworld when it was raining and it cleared out the queues and we got to ride Tower of Terror seven times back to back. XD
man, i remember las time i was in QLD, we were at movieword on the Batdrop. it started raining, and the drop is so quick it almost looked like the raindrops were standing still.
Pretty sure that’s the tagline for a particular feature involving a cup and two female actresses.
Thelma and Louise?
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/12/nintendo-warns-not-all-amiibo-will-get-a-second-run/
HOLY TESTICLE TUESDAY!!!
@mrtaco, @powalen etc.
Time to buy every single one and resell them at exorbitant prices, right?
Yeah, you thought you had a small chance of getting the ones you want, think again Mr. Now the ebay scalpers will definitely buy up every goddamn one on launch day, and resell them for a massively inflated price.
Ehhhh… I saw that quote a few weeks ago. Some stores not getting more stock is not the same as worldwide discontinuation.
Better preorder my Sonic and Megaman ones then… and hopefully ROB if he ever shows up.
Just did mine at the EB sale! XD
Welp.. *cracks knuckles* Guess I’m resetting my EBworld password tonight!
On that note, any Brisbane TAYbies want any of the Wave 2 Amiibo’s (Diddy Kong, Zelda, Luigi, Captain Falcon, Pit, Little Mac). I’m gonna make sure I’m at Target before they open on launch day (Friday), so if any of you are working and want a specific one, I can try and get it for you and save you from missing out. Then we can just do a swap over at a meat.
Going by this news the most likely ones to only get one run will be Captain Falcon, Pit and Little Mac.
What sort of monster wouldn’t want a Diddy?
One that gets reminded of monkeys enough by looking at humanity every day, why would I want a Diddy? 😛
Diddy represents primates at their best! BASEBALL CAP!
PEANUT GUNS!
HIGH PITCHED SHRIEKING! 😀
I don’t really care if some figures get discontinued in the future, honestly 😛 If some of the more obscure figures aren’t going to be used in future games then there’s not much point having them.
Jeepers. This whole unknown animal in the wall thing really has me on edge. Didn’t sleep well again last night, and just then I jumped so hard I nearly fell off my seat when the wind slammed a door shut.
How does one even go about extracting things that have moved into the walls?
Burning the house down is a pretty surefire way to clear out pests. Might be a last resort, though.
Wrecking ball! Singing is optional!
Ooh yeah, put your speakers up against the wall and crank some heavy metal.
Why would I do that? I want to get rid of it, not have it stay forever to listen to awesome music. 😛
make a hole in the wall and throw in a canister of tear gas… thatll fish the bastard out…
if south park has taught me anything, you may have a hippie infestation… look for a drum circle in the backyard, or some giggling stoners sitting in a circle inside the attic.
You send in the cat!
I say take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure
Or maybe…
Decent odds of rats, rather than possums. In which case, bait them with rat poison. One of the side-effects of the most common type (anticoagulants) are that the animals get very thirsty and seek out water. If you have some out, or even just like… on the floor of the bathroom/shower, they’ll come out looking for it when they’re close to death, saving you the issue of having to dig a rank corpse out of the walls (which can be both increasingly heinous for the time that you put it off until you’re finally driven to it by madness, and expensive).
Keep in mind it may actually be stuck rather than choosing to setup it’s home there. There’s sort of a H pattern to the frame work plaster goes on, so if the top is left open a mouse running around in your roof will sometimes fall down and be unable to get out (thus the occassional thud on the wall as it tries to jump out). I don’t normally recommend it, but if there’s a power point or light switch near to where the sound is coming from and it’s always coming from the same spot turn the power off at the fuse box and take the power point off the wall to create an exit. It may be a little shy at first but eventually once the house has calmed down it should come out and run off to find a new place to annoy you from.
Thanks, DogMan!
To me it sounds too large to fit through a powerpoint-sized hole, but that’s probably just my overactive imagination kicking in in the dark at night. 😛
Hopefully you’re lucky and it’s just a little mouse making a big sound thanks to the wall acting like a drum. Just be super careful if you’re going to start fiddling with power points. There’s no telling what condition the wiring is in if you’ve had something living in the wall so it’s probably a good idea to check it out with a torch anyway (or trick someone expendable into sticking their head in and checking for you. =P).
So I walked past @markserrels at Circular Quay this morning and didn’t even get a Streetpass hit. I feel cheated.
Oblig who’s this guy?
Just kidding, welcome friend.
The hazing will commence shortlyThnaks. I mostly lurk, but if you want a character reference you can ask @batguy!
Will that be a paddlin’?You better believe that’s a paddlin’.I got an OG Serrels streetpass hit back at the first ever Kotaku meat (which is what meetups have come to be known as, obviously!). Then I left that 3DS on a plane.
*looks wistfully out the window*
Also, before anybody else tries, jokes about lost my 3DS are so passé. Now it’s all about lost keys.That guy is pretty cool, that’s what. He likes the same stuff I like!
@knacks
DO YOU XENOBLADE?
I SUPER DO NOT.
Not as a deliberate, vindictive thing though, I just haven’t played it.
I can’t confirm that you’re cool then :'(
Tomorrow I see you following him, waving your butt in his direction trying to get your 3ds closer to his
At the very least until I see that green light flash.
Well, the person who put Undad over $5000 was our very own @mrtaco! *throws streamers*
Gooky, would you like your likeness to be immortalised in a comic book, or would you prefer to get yourself a copy of the limited edition diary?
Whee! *spins*
Well done @mrtaco. And congrats to you @shane for reaching this milestone.
And then Undad knocked Fifty Shades off the top of the charts…
But yeah nah I’m no fan of my likeness. Seeing photos of myself is bad enough, I’ll go the diary 😛
But wait, if Undad could be a bestseller…
Anyone got the number of @mrtaco’s porn double? I bet I could convince him…
I gotta say, I was impressed by your 3DS mii. I could tell exactly who it was. Maybe @shane should include *that* likeness?
Now I need to see if I’ve streetpassed Gooky or not…
I didn’t even have my beanie on!
I am pretty happy with it though. Looks much more like me than the 2006 one I was sporting on my previous 3DS, transferred over from my Wii. He had hair 😛
@evilmonkey: Thanks again for Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris. Absolutely loved Guardian of Light. 🙂 Unlocked this morning! Can’t wait for coop fun!
Eh, no biggie. Now I have to get ready for work, then we’re leaving as soon as I finish, so no Lara for me till next week 🙁
Hope you enjoy it buddy.
Ooh, is that game out already? Hooray!
I don’t have time for any new games though /o\
Does the fact that I have it (which means there’s potential for future co-op sessions) increase or decrease the likelihood of you getting it now? 😛
After Christmas!
Ooooh, I didn’t know that the PS4 controller had native drivers for the PC now. This changes everything. Was about to install MotionJoy and everything and then it just… works. 😀
Sweet! After getting rid of the Xbone, I didn’t have a controller for the laptop. Was gonna buy another Xbone controller, but this changes everything.
Hmmmm, seems to navigate menus fine but not actually working in the game itself. I will explore some more! XD
Edit: Damn it! Disregard. Detects and works to a point, but apparently I will need MotionJoy to actually use it as a controller. *shakes fist*
The PS4 controller is picked up as a DirectInput device, I believe, but it also suffers because its default inputs are bad, and if the game doesn’t support changing them, you can’t.
What you’ll probably want is the DS4 to XInput Mapper, which unfortunately suffers from its own problems on Windows 7 (8, so far as I’m aware, it’s completely cool with), because to get it to actually do anything, you need to give it exclusive access to the controls input, and programs like Steam and Teamspeak (particularly the latter) have problems with that.
Aw man, they totally got my hopes up when it started working.
Yeah. It’s not too much of a hassle (Need to close Steam before running the program, can’t use TS or else every time I try to load something it takes about three minutes longer than it should, even to like, alt-tab back into something), but I’m glad I picked up an Xbone controller. While it tells me that it’s had an error every time I open it, I’m yet to actually have anything go wrong with it.
I do wish some games on PC used the extra rumble stuff though.
This has been bugging me, why do TAYbies write their emails on Kotaku as highperformance(at)hotmayl.com? I’m thinking it’s a security thing so you don’t get a bunch of emails from bots, but I could be wrong?
Illiteracy!
Yep, pretty sure that’s the thinking.
A little of column @shane, a little of column @dc
I’ve always wondered about the effectiveness of that. It’s always felt like a bit of a relic of the early days of internet, I’d figure that any bots scraping e-mails would have caught onto that kind of thing by now.
See, that’s what I thought, but then everybody else was doing it, so I joined in. Welcome to peer pressure!
You could do one to do a range of options but that gets complex
Adding a regular expression for different types of @ symbols is easy enough but once you start breaking the structure other wise with spaces and incorrect domains the reward for the effort involved isn’t there.
Also it is better to say you are at the hot males than just hotmail 😉
I do it out of habit more than anything else. Plus, I hate seeing my email address as a clickable mailto link… it feels dirty, like it’s almost inviting someone to spam it, just cos it’s there.
GREAT ODIN’S RAVEN!
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/12/the-witcher-3-has-been-delayed-again/
And the bad news just keeps on comin’
And here I was thinking it was already aiming for a mid-year release. It makes sense given the scope of the game but it is a kick in the pants considering it was meant to have released by the end of this year.
Hey Mr @blaghman, what’s the lunch plan today? I have your microphone with me, and $20 burning a hole in my wallet! 🙂
I’m meeting Lep Lep at Midday in Woden, and I assume we’ll make our way to Civic from there.
And um…
Yes?
Any time specifically work for you for lunch? Since you work in the “city” do you have any suggestions on where to eat? Is there anywhere that’s easy for us to meet you? Have I mentioned that I’m really bad at organising things? If I just keep asking questions can I avoid any responsibility?
Elusive Shane meat! Don’t make eye contact or he’ll give you things! THINGS!
I forgot to bring my big pile of games I no longer want. *hangs head in shame*
But I want things from him. I want my moderately expensive microphone back!
Well, I wanted to put my hand in his pocket but Shane’s a jerk, I tells ya. 😛
We can meet at EB Games in Civic at 12:30ish?
In terms of places to eat, there are lots of them, but I have tried NONE of them because I’m on a budget! We can wander! We can learn together. \o/
Huzzah.
Good morning all. Was absent yesterday due to taking a day off so hooray for a longer weekend. Didn’t really do much but get a few Christmas presents and stuff. Also picked up the Witcher Adventure/board game for myself as a bit of a present so that looks pretty cool. I might also end up picking up the D&D Dungeon Master’s Guide today if my FLGS has it in stock. I’m kinda hesitant about it as 5E isn’t really my style of game but if it looks good I’ll probably grab it.
In other news, my OR Nuzlocke ended at the hands of May and her Wailmer outside Slateport. Goddamn rollout ruining my day. I lost half my team to a Geodude with rollout in the trickster house and then the other half was squished by Wailmer. Makes me sad.
Time to fire up again and try a different tack. Might go for an Equality run as Alphabet was too restrictive.
Diablo 3 ps4 peeps!
Does anyone know if you can do local and lan coop together? As in two people on two consoles all playing in the same game over lan?
I had heard you could not over the internets.
Don’t think you can since the game handles online and local differently.
As far as I’m aware you can 4-player co-op on the one PS4. Anything involving two or more consoles is likely to require internet as I don’t recall there being lan options.
@freezespreston
Ah, bugger. Thanks gents!
@piat @jocon @distantdrop You guys good for High Maul this saturday arvo? I should have 630 by then; 625 at the mo. And if yes what time frame suits you guys? Bear in mind we’ll be pugging half the raid group (4 DPS & 1 Healer) so if you know any other geared & experienced players let me know.
Yeah man, I’m pretty easy on the time.
Piat might know some peeps but maybe we could rope in other taybies on different realms? @cakesmith @mawt @otherpeopleicantremember?
@virus ?
Thanks for the offer, but I’m going to decline. I’ve only just hit 100, so I’m not close to ready.
You know me I’m usually available, my friend I mentioned is a no go, he hasn’t leveled an alt yet =/
A little advice though for healing, you should try hard to get above 630, I’m 640 and it was brutal healing the first two bosses… and we had 4 healers for butcher =/ however we probably had poor execution stressing the healers I guess.
I’ll just be swearing at piat and korr the whole raid; @piat I apologize in advance =P
We’ll need proper execution but don’t think we’ll get it when we have to pug half the raid….. Might jump on and see if I can recruit 2-3 peeps tonight. Do you reckon we need a 4th healer for butcher?
Actually if either of you guys are online could you put a shout out in trade that we’re looking to recruit 2dps and 1 healer for high maul this weekend? min 630 ilvl (and if possible ideally at least one rdps)
I doubt you need 4 healers for butcher, alternating groups every 3 stacks vastly reduces raid healing, however if they get cleaved for a 4th time, when that happens more than once you’ll probably have oom healers for the soft enrage.
As for recruiting.. just use the LFR tool, its pretty useful.
Nothing I haven’t heard before
You never know I might surprise you =P
Yeah I should be fine any time Saturday
Repost now I remembered those tag things
Taybie Christmas (and boardgames)
So it’s that time of year again, time to deck the halls with Bells of Awakening, stockings full of coal to craft our torches and the sound of reindeer pending imminent death (Far cry 5 is set in Scandinavia)
Due to scheduling we currently have Christmas day free from family obligations again this year. Thinking we might host a Christmas lunch and board games like we did a few years back. Understand most people will have things on, it’s Christmas day after all.
At this stage just wondering if anybody in melb (or who for some crazy reason is traveling on Christmas day) would be interested in coming round. I’ll provide the lunch but also happy if people want to drop in for a little if that works as you bounce between lunch and dinner.
Oh and my place is in Glen Iris for those that don’t know.
Expressions of interest?
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I’ll be there in Christmas spirit.
I’ll be there in anti-Christmas spirit. That way it gets balanced out.
I’ll get drunk and dream that I’m there, to finish the circle and just be there in spirits.
Thanks for the invite, but I think we’re doing the family thing up north. I really need to get those flights booked…
Probably a good idea, or you could wait until the last moment and pay twice the price
thanks heaps tigs, but yeah, were doing the whole family thing too!
Appreciate the offer but alas, though I don’t have anything to do on Christmas day, I have a desire to not drive 150 kilometres on Christmas day.
I wasn’t sure if I should tag you or not but figured the offer is there. Some people like driving and would come, personally I’m with you and really wouldn’t want to spend christmas day driving. Certainly not in that traffic
Sorry mang, I’ll be busy freezing my arse off back home
Awesome, enjoy yourself
Naww I still get remember even though I only ever lurk =). Sadly I’m booked up with family. But hope you have an awesome time
I’d be up for it certainly.
We have our first Commitment Free Christmas in living memory this year and it’s been a reaaaaaally long year. Normally there’s a family thing or we host an Orphan’s Christmas or something (like you’re doing). So this year we’re officially doing Nothing.
NOTHING.
I love it. Pub on Xmas Eve, sleep-in on Xmas Day, might take the pushie out for a spin on the abandoned roads, then sit about the house with a beer and maybe watch a film. Not even going to the Boxing Day Test this year.
Might be tempted into a Meat between Xmas and New Year though… pub and games… 🙂
Aside, a couple of Saturdays ago was in the Town Hall Hotel in North Melbourne, and in the back corner of the beer garden there was some good gaming going on. Can’t remember what they were playing now.
Would of loved to be there but I’m gonna be in Sydney for christmas this year
Both my Dad and my Sister will be in Melbourne for Christmas for the first time in I think 3 years so we’re going to be doing the family thing on the day. Thanks for the invite though.
Oh I get it :'(
You get what, Christmas lunch? Awesome, see you there
Thanks for the invite, but I’ll probably be doing family things.
Sorry. 🙁
it’ll be a bit hard for me to get there, but thanks for the offer
Yay! I’m in
Thanks for the invite but my Xmas is well booked up by family things
As it should be
I’d love to come Tigs, unfortunately it wouldn’t look too good to skip out on dinner with the in-laws, considering we are getting married next year :o)
hahaha, no worries, next year once you are locked in 😉
Hola TAY – Thought I would pop my head in and say hello. Haven’t been around here or on team-speak for a while – I’ve been putting in extra effort to get a senior position at work plus my little crap factory (I kid, she’s gorgeous) has restricted my time. To my secret sanTAY recipient – it is sitting here on my desk (well in my drawer, it’s a bit weird to leave out in plain sight at work) and I just need to post it, so if people are worrying that they still haven’t received anything it could still be on it’s way. So, how about that Christmas? I’ve spent a fortune on presents for my 4 month old daughter who probably won’t care about any of it, but have yet to think of anything for myself. So TAY, given a budget of up to $200, what is something that you would like to give/receive for Christmas?
Just in case I don’t get back here before, Happy Holidays TAY!
I was about to suggest a fistful of games, but for the time-poor, I’d recommend probably a nice boxset of TV shows on Blu Ray or DVD instead.
Good luck with your senior position ambitions!
You might kid, but I’m betting she is still a little crap factory. We still need to find somewhere to get the Santa photo done
As for the gift, one thing we are considering is PAX tickets to ourselves. Or some other event that lets you get away for a night. Beer and Whiskey tasting evening or something like that.
Maybe a bunch of movies that you haven’t been able to see at the cinema for the last 6-12 months.
Any collection type stuff that you want but can never get. nice statue from you favourite games/series perhaps.
I can really recommend the Scene To Believe santa photos – they’re in a lot of the shopping malls. They have lovely backdrops, nice Santas and really reasonable packages (with good options if you just want the photos on a usb stick to print yourself later).
http://www.scenetobelieve.com.au/christmaslocations2014
A decentish Hotas and Elite: Dangerous.
But man I hate present getting. Everyone in my family can never come up with anything they want. Including me.
I would love a day spa package. massage, facial, mani-pedicure – the works. What I am actually getting is a fitbit, which I think I’ll get more value out of!
Things like unlimited zoo/aquarium/museum/funpark passes are a brilliant gift if you have kids.
$200?
How ever many boxes of Snickers I could afford.
@highperformance
Ok, just going to my nearby target would yield up to 3-4 kg worth of reeses goods (worth of individual products, mind you.) The cost would be $30 worth, and shipping is about par on both our ends (On mine is approxmately “Fuckton of money” in CAD, $50 on your part if you wanted to go by sea and you send the same amount in weight (Can’t find any costs pertaining to parcel size on the Australia Post website.)
So, before we get into the nitty gritty, you gotta realize all this is going to cost a good $80 minimum, and that chances are you won’t see this package until after new years (Unless you’re willing to go by air, which I will happy match.) Are you a rad enough dude
to save the presidentto pay that much for chocolate?I love chocolate and would wait ’til the ends of time for it
Does Reeses count as chocolate though? Chocolate is meant to be delicious!
Now Pow, I think in my 900 something posts I’ve shown myself to be an affable and generally progressive person who takes on peoples view points… Yes?
Forget all that you think you know about me. These hands know. These hands are instruments for Reeses good work and punish those that speak ill of it.Ballin. Mad Ballin. Are you looking for anything in particular? A quick google search shows me there are quite the exotic varieties of Reeses; the stuff I’m planning to get isn’t that far from the norm.
As for what I’d like, well, have some fun with it I suppose, whatever australian-only goodies you can think of. Only definite requirements are Shapes and Raspberry White Chocolate Tim Tams. And Starburst Gummy Worms.
Ok I’m not a fan of Reeses Pieces so much as I am addicted to Reeses Fast Breaks, Reeses Peanut Butter Cups, The Mini Cups and the Reeses Chocolate bar.
OK, I’ll go and get $30 CAD worth of stuff and send them your way. I’ll let you know when I’ve send them off!
Edit: Do we know how much it would cost you to air freight stuff lol?
oddly enough, there’s a difference in air shipping between Australia/Canada. For you guys, it’s.. $80? For me, $100 or so. 😛
Oh gee, I’ll ship by freight 😛
ah, remember to holler on TAY when you’ve bought the goods, considering you don’t know my address.
And I don’t know yours. Of course. Obviously.
Pineapple Lumps
“Raspberry White Chocolate Tim Tams”
SO. GOOD. The best thing this country has ever produced, even 😛
Shadows of Mordor was a surprise? There was nothing but glowing, positive reports about it for months leading up to release…
I would’ve gone with Alien Isolation. Came out of no where. Did everything that Colonial Marines couldn’t.
Edit: Which I see Mark voted for anyways. Disregard. XD
Maybe surprise is based upon the original announcement. Or that mechanics from so many games could be cobbled together to make something (apparently) genuinely great.
I was surprised how good it was after I heard about the controversy surrounding people trying to get review copies early, and the embargo for anyone who didn’t agree to give it a glowing review. That’s usually the sign of a crap game…
I was still more surprised by Wolfenstein, tho – it was a franchise that had based itself around mindless ultra-violence. That story, tho… :’D
Wolfenstein is an amazing game and it has no right to be as good as it is.
If someone told you that a Wolfenstein game would come out that had a nuanced story, interesting writing, well-realized characters and be one of the best games of the year, people would have thought you were mad or from some kind of parallel universe.
If at the start of the year somebody said that a LotR game would be there GOTY you would consider them to be nothing but a LotR fanboy.
There was a lot that was surprising in the game, just because we heard about it pre-release doesn’t disqualify it
Yes, but a game that has been universally praised as being good turning out good is hardly a surprise. Compared to a lot of the other nominees which everyone expected to be awful but turned out amazing. I feel like a lot of people missed the point and voted for their favourite game in the category rather than what was being asked.
These days it is kinda surprising when a fairly high profile game doesn’t get destroyed with complaints on release 😛
I see what you are saying. I guess because I generally don’t get games day one, there is little surprise of games being great without having seen reviews before hand. I expect Alien to be great and I expect Modor to be great because what I have heard since launch.
So to me it’s a question of which I find more surprising, that a LotR game is great or an Alien game is great.
I voted for Nintendo hardware ahead of US/EU – that was a massive surprise.
By the same token, even though Mark upvoted and loled at my suggestion of Destiny, he didn’t put it on the voting list! But it was full of surprises! Not all good ones, though.
Had an epic session of online Smash Bros last night with @greenius, @blaghman and @liondrive. There was one or two fights out of…uuh…a bunch…that were really laggy for some reason but other than that it was great fun.
Keen to play more Smash with anyone who’s interested!
I’d be keen to try the two local players in the multi option too at some point.
I keep intending to join but end up playing the crap out of Destiny instead 🙁 once I work out how to add people on the Miiverse I’ll play 😛
I’ll be up for it from Thursday onwards.
So I’m pretty sure there’s some kind of meeting on now. Well, it started about an hour and a quarter ago. Faaaairly sure I was supposed to go. But I’m still just sitting here at my desk doing my own thing. One of them even came back up for supplies but didn’t say anything/seem to notice my presence.
Forever flying under the radar 😛
‘Under the radar’ is a term which I’ve hated ever since Big Brother. STOP THAT. 😛
Maybe they’re nominating Gooky for eviction.
Two points for Gooky, cause his handsomeness is distracting! How am I supposed to sunbake and mosey about all day with this going on?
*Mental image of D.C. in his Big Brother days wandering on set while nobody’s looking and hanging shirtless by the pool*
What do you think 90% of the Brisbane meats are?
As if you aren’t looking while dc is walking around shirtless
I’d advise not to do that. It’s like looking into the blinding sun or a solar eclipse.
I WAS DOING IT BEFORE BIG BROTHER DID IT
Too any taybie that plays Elite Dangerous (@mrtaco?)
Is anyone part of a clan, playgroup, guild whatever? My missus decided to preorder the mercenary edition for me for Christmas, so once I return from my trip I’m going to be keen as to get a group together!
Count me in – you might even be able to get me away from Destiny.
Eeeexcellent… What do you expect to be doing predominantly? I see myself trading a lot, maybe give bounty hunting a try but I don’t expect to do very well with it 😛
I’m a trader/explorer on the whole. I like heading out deep and dark.
I loved exploring in Freelancer too. Amusingly, been getting emailing about Crossfire 2.0 mod recently. 🙂
Sounds excellent! We should be able to organise some great play sessions then because it sounds like our goals align :P… As I said, I won’t be able to play until early January because I’ll be overseas until then
Suits me too – clearing the Back Room over the hols for a new study/gaming space. 🙂
Ooh, I am planning to grab it and a cheap Hotas sometime soonish.
Is the full release out yet?
16th… £35 you can preorder the Mercenary Edition which gives you a few bonuses such as unique ship skins and a better ship… Not bad for a full release game 😛
So, $70 au? I’ll look into it, tho I’m a bit wary of pre-orders and it will take a while for the Hotas to arrive from eBay.
Any recommendations on the Hotas front? Never used one so I don’t want to spend heaps.
The Thrustmaster Hotas T.flight X is what I’m using… Got it from oz gameshop for $65? I think… And it’s pretty much the cheapest HOTAS you can get… Missing some nice features of more expensive ones, but really good for the price
That seems expensive for the T.flight.
http://staticice.com.au/cgi-bin/search.cgi?q=t.flight+x&spos=1
http://staticice.com.au/cgi-bin/search.cgi?q=t.16000M&spos=3
I just got mine from one of those kinds of places, Skycomp is close to where I work.
Oh yeah and EB seem to have both the T.16k and the Logitech Extreme 3D Pro, though not sure I’ve ever actually noticed any of them in-store.
I picked up a Thrustmaster T.16000M and have just been using that. Never really used a joystick before, but I’m loving it. One of the main complaints about it is that the buttons feel kind of “cheap”, which I guess is true, but it hasn’t really bothered me. Sometimes the ones on the base can be a bit hard to press depending what angle you do it at, but it hasn’t impacted my play at all. It was about $60 when I got it, I think the price has gone up a little more recently though, around $68 last I checked. It and the T.Flight X (which has a separate hand-held throttle, rather than just a slider on the base) are the two main “cheap” ones that everyone seems to keep recommending, with some mention of the Logitech 3D Pro I think it’s called.
The other main points in the 16k’s favour are the “Hall Effect sensors” which are the same as what’s used in the more expensive sticks and apparently are much better for sensitivity and don’t wear down to give you a growing dead zone, an ambidextrous that lets you rearrange some parts to make it left-handed, and it has a crap-tonne of buttons. 16 of them, four (plus a hat) on the stick then two six-key pads on either side of the base. I’ve got a binding setup that pretty much lets me keep my hands in the one position for all my main flying and combat, it’s just more infrequent stuff like landing gear and the cargo scoop that go over on the right side pad, where it doesn’t really matter that I have to move one of my hands.
Does the 16k have twist?
And what’s the difference between a hotas and a regular joystick?
Twist, yeah. From memory of all the ones that have been mentioned, it’s pretty much only the CH Products sticks that don’t have the twist.
I’m a little confused on HOTAS myself, since the first time I saw the term it was used to refer to the Saitek AV8R, which has the throttle lever on the front of the base. I figured oh I get it, Hands On Throttle And Stick. Therefore others like the 16k must be a HOTAS too, since you keep one hand on the throttle slider on the base and one on the stick. But most people seem to use it to refer to a combo set of an individual stick and throttle, like the Saitek X52. Or hell, they’ll even use it to refer to just the throttle itself sometimes.
I haven’t tried a separate throttle before, so I don’t know what they’re like at all. They don’t seem to really come on their own either, apart from the CH one which is crazy expensive.
Cool cool. Might go the 16k.
T.Flight X apparently has deadzone issues and the 3DPro an imprecise throttle and poor base button layout.
Thanks for your help!
@jocon No problem! Hope it works out for you. Insert disclaimer here for any future dissatisfaction 😛
Having said all that though, the game is still quite playable on a gamepad too.
Nice. That gets you access to the training missions now, doesn’t it?
I’ve only been flying solo so far, haven’t really checked out any of the friends stuff at all. Would be good to give it a shot.
Yeah I’ve been playing around in the sidewinder in the training missions and I quite enjoy myself :P… Thing I’ve noticed the most though is that the sound design is absolutely amazing!
It really is. Crack out the subwoofer!
Also, have you got up to Incursion yet? 😛 I think Supply Strike was a pain too, although I know at some point it changed from being an Anaconda you were fighting to a Lakon Type 9, so no idea what it’s like now. But Incursion’s still a bitch.
Been too scared to try that one so I just repeatedly go into the first mission and ignore the targets and do my own thing :P… Which I’d mainly going “oooohhh” and “aaaaaaaah” at everything and practice maneuvering 😛
They have a mission on using supercruise and hyperspace jumps now, don’t they? I was wondering if the old glitch that let you “escape” the combat scenario area was still in there, but if they have those then there isn’t really much need for it. Was still so cool though.
I don’t think I have access to any hyperspace out super cruise training, the package specifically states “combat tutorials” so I guess I’m limited to that?
Ah ok. Well the old trick was to kill the last ship in the scenario by ramming into it and destroying yourself. Easiest to do on Supply Strike, since the Anaconda is a fat bastard and pretty much guaranteed to kill you if you ram into it. Take it down to less than 5%, full pips to engines and none on shields, boost right into its side and hopefully on respawning you would end up in some random new system. Wouldn’t always work though, so there’s no guarantee that if it doesn’t work now it’s because you got unlucky or because it’s been fixed or what 😛
So to my Secret-San-TAY dont freak if you havent gotten your gift yet! you have not been forgotten! ive ordered and paid for the gift, but because of current work schedule, wont be able to pick it up till WED or THURS… I shall Post it overnight the same day/following day though!
I still have to buy something for mine. Got a tricky one. 🙁
yeah i think we need to do a google doc next year where people can fill out things like their interests, gaming platforms of choice… had the same issue with mine… what helped was going through their comment history and checking out the articles they comment on, and general tone of certain messages.
I’ll get mine sorted and sent off later this week!
Hey everybody! BOARD GAMES!
That is all.
HANABI!
That’s all you know about board games? Gotta admit, that’s a little disappointing…
How was he going to stretch this out into a series of blog posts? 😛
I’ll give you a super special sneak preview of the first blog post:
BB? Bah, you’re just a cheap copy of shut up and sit down!
That’s not even remotely true. They’re funny.
That’s where the tasteful nudes come in.
Board games!
Got to learn new some Chinese chess given I bought a board back from Vietnam! Also organised a board game session for new years day!
Elephants are OP
My friend taught me how to play in high school. More precisely, he kicked my ass all over the board in high school.
It didn’t take long before I gave up and we went back to playing MtG and Mahjong.
Ah Mahjong… that game I can never play with other people because my grandad decided to “improve” the ruleset in the forties… -__-
How so?
Family rules. Most significant changes are the near-mandatory clearing of the hand (ie. single suit mahjongs; mixed hands are technically allowed, but preference is to go for the double score multiplier resulting from a clear hand – not doing so is considered bad manners), and max one chow per hand (unless mandated by a special hand, of course). Special hands are the same, as far as I’m aware.
When no-one clears their hand, or goes for multiple chows, the game ends far more quickly (too quickly, imo), and I always end up falling behind because the game ends when I’m barely starting to assemble my hand – been playing purely with family rules since I was five, and old habits die hard.
Advantage, in my eyes, is the greater opportunity for special hands, which counters the inherent knowledge from knowing who’s going for which suits, and makes winning far more significant as winning scores regularly end up around a half-limit, purely due to their composition.
As someone who doesn’t really play for points but to just play out hands, those rules seem dumb.
Even if you’re going to go for points, it seems like taking out the balance of going for a quick and low value hand over a slow and high value hand.
Mostly though, it sounds like you’re slowing the game down and I like the race. Knowing that my friend needs just two tiles to win and trying to get ahead is fun for me.
With the playgroup I used to play with at uni (mostly the “Sing girls,” Singaporean and japanese exchange students) it was lightning fast.
Also, they used to table talk in Japanese until someone busted them
And that’s normally the reaction I get. 😛 I suppose it just comes down to what we think a game of mahjong should be. I prefer a slower, more considered game, having been raised on my grandad’s rules. Most other people prefer the faster paced style that is used for gambling. To each their own.
I, also, never really concerned myself with scoring until around 2008 (as no-one could remember the exact scoring system :P). Around then, someone found the original ruleset grandpa wrote up, which encouraged us all to start using it properly, and encouraged me to write an Excel macro to do the sums – the arithmetic is extremely dull – which we now use to score across multiple games. We normally play a full round (ie. long enough to return the wind of the round to East) over the course of a weekend or more, so it was good to be able to keep track at last.
I also like the freedom to *choose* your hand, rather than cobbling together a winning hand from whatever fits. Plus, it helps to make every game feel different – if everyone goes for 4-poong/chow+pair of whatever every game, it all feels the same, and feels more reliant on random chance – “playing out the hands,” as you say, rather than playing against each other. Exactly as you say, our ruleset takes out the “balance” that randomness provides, in favour of slow, more methodical hands. It changes the game considerably – whether for the better or not depends on what you want from the game.
It usually leads to some cool mind games, too, as special hands are properly viable, so people could still need *anything* to complete their hand. Certain people also tend to favour certain hands, and it gets interesting when you know who usually goes for what, and leads to some fun double-bluffs. (Though I suppose that, in large part, comes from having the same small set of players for over two decades.) We play to enjoy the game, and each others’ company, but we all prefer games with a reasonably high skill-to-chance ratio, which (I guess) is what motivated the changes grandpa made.
@os42 I think you misunderstand what I mean by playing out hands. When I play with my friends, we’re actively paying attention to who is collecting what and even deliberately not taking some tiles if it will give away a direction we’re going in. We most definitely play against each other. We just keep playing until we get bored instead of keeping track of who’s ahead and whatnot. Sort of like playing basketball without keeping score.
There’s still a high skill level playing by the normal rules. The best player is going to win the majority of the games (which is why I will never, ever, ever play with my friend’s dad again. There’s no point).
Wow, okay, must’ve missed your original edit somehow, which pretty much hits the nail on the head, I think. I was raised on mahjong being a slow game, akin to chess or poker, and I enjoy the contemplation and relaxed nature of that style of play, along with the freedom to take a risk on special hands that have a hope of getting completed. You prefer the race to a complete hand, and the contention that that involves.
As I said (even if my followup was a little misguided by equating “play out hands” with “letting hands play out” :P), it comes down to what each of us thinks a game of mahjong should be.
On your second comment, fair enough. I only ever tried fast games a few times with others when I got to Uni, and it always looked like everything was determined by tile-draw and discards, with minimal choice – happy to have been proven wrong there. As I said, in my family groups, you’d quickly annoy people if you started playing that way, so I never bothered learning to do it.
Maybe it’s just that we’ve always played to relax, maybe it’s the passive personalities of most of the relatives I play with… I dunno. Over Christmas/Boxing Day, my mum and I spend pretty much most of the two days on one set of games (four handed, two independent hands each, as the relatives are too far away to play with us, and pure two-handed makes it way too easy to assemble a good hand quickly), and if we need more time to complete the set, we play a few games each day over the rest of the holidays – it never gets boring because there are so many potential options in every game.
I feel like we may as well be talking about different games 😛 Hence why I can’t really play with others.
@os42 It only feels like luck of the draw until you get used to it. Knowing what is safe and unsafe to discard makes for a huge part of the decision making and that comes from paying attention to what everyone else is doing. Without the rules you play by taking out the majority of winning hands, it’s very hard to only make safe discards.
Yes, but the problem is distinguishing between “what everyone else is doing”. From where I’m standing, it all looks like everyone’s doing the same thing, the only difference being their progress (both displayed and hidden), which is fairly simple to estimate. From my family’s rules, I can make the following assumptions: Four tiles left = likely fishing, likely to be at least one pair/part-chow; seven tiles left = could be fishing, maybe one but more likely two poongs/chows away. Universal rules may lead to differences in how quickly each hand gets organised, so four tiles may be more likely to be junk than when we play, for example.
The game seems too short to guess what they need based on what they *don’t* discard, is all. Closest I can see to guessing is “it’s probably safe to discard the same tile that was just discarded,” (guaranteed safe if it’s non-numeric, gets gradually less so after each turn) but with the increased reliance on chows, I’m not sure even that is reliable if it’s numeric.
You say that knowing what’s safe and unsafe is a huge part of the decision making, and comes from paying attention to everyone else, but simultaneously say it’s very hard to do so. So, what do you look for? Again, it sounds like a completely different game.
I’d be down with that kinda thing fyi.
If you’d welcome my company again.
I’ll let you know man once I have confirmations- my unit is tiny so I try to cap board games events 🙂
I’d offer to use my place but I live quite far north, have no suitable table/chairs and like to be able to leave when I’ve had enough socializing.
WITCHER ADVENTURE GAME GET. \o/
Physical?
Physical board game! Pretty snazzy too.
@os42 Making it a new reply chain because it’s just getting silly.
It definitely sounds like a completely different game and I’m probably too rusty to explain working out discards.
It’s things like noticing that no bamboos are coming out or that if the player picking up from you has already made a chow with certain tiles. In that case, you know not to drop bamboos because others are hoarding them and that whatever makes the chow or whatever is around it is probably safe.
Mostly though, it’s very quick and being aware enough of what’s going on to try and get into a good position. I played a lot of 500 and Big 2 when I was playing Mahjong and the basic skill of putting players on certain hands is pivotal there as well. When there’s a large pool of hands and a fast pace, it makes for a fun challenge when it comes to not helping your opponents.
Lol, fair enough.
Yea, I forgot about what’s displayed. If a poong’s displayed, the tile is probably safe (more so in a short game, I’d imagine). Similarly for chows on display, I suppose – poongs of its constituent parts are unlikely because the game is short so it’s unlikely three have been drawn in that way, I guess. If no bamboos are getting discarded, the same thing can be assumed in both rulesets – someone’s trying to build something with bamboos. Okay, I think I can see some openings…
I’m so used to all-but-ignoring chows (they’re not worth anything, so rarely come up), and thinking about displayed tiles being indicative of what to discard, that I didn’t think of it – seeing poongs displayed mean there’s one of those tiles left, so that tile is just about irrelevant beyond knowing it’s now only useful in a chow, if you’re desperate. Challenge in our ruleset comes from completing a hand before anyone else, and before the wall runs out. If you can screw over other people intentionally, or not help them along, while furthering your hand, all the better. 😛
Our games normally go for upwards of 30 minutes each, so “quick” is kindof a new concept. :3
Thanks, I think I understand a bit better. Still have no desire to play those rules (20 years of conditioning will do that, I guess), but it looks a bit less chaotic/random now.
My games run under ten minutes, for comparison.
EDIT: I meant hands. Probably looking at under half an hour for a proper rotation of four hands.
Dark Below Hype.
So hype.
*bounce*
Eight hours and counting… 😀
Excuse me sir, may I purchase a single adult ticket for a ride aboard the Dark Below hype train?
Maybe a group booking?
choo-choo!!!
yay.
I guess.
I giggled. I’m 12.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teben0W7huU
Oh man, you should hear Mr. Strange when I’m watching dress construction classes that include how to insert “boning”. 😛
Vera Wang designed a lovely corset with boning.
Well, it’s certainly the end of the year. It’s only Tuesday and I have no work left to do for the week. Going to be a loooong few days.
…if only I could figure out a way of playing my 3DS at work without anybody noticing. I caught a Shiny Carvanha last night and I need to check in on her! (It’s a shame that you don’t see your Sharpedo as shiny while surfing though)
Just say that your code’s compiling?
Would that I could, Bob. Would that I could…
Why can’t you bob? Problem with your neck?
SHINY
Online reading is pretty easy to hide. Or just write small stories and masquerade it as “taking notes”.
This works especially well if you set up a word-replacement system. Substitute your main character’s name for “productivity gain” and your antagonist’s name with “fiduciary pressure” and you’re all good to go. Write dialogue as dot points rather than in quotation marks. Make sure you change them back later, though. It’d just be weird.
What? No, I haven’t spent way too long thinking about this.
A chance encounter with fiduciary pressure leaves productivity gain with deep teeth marks in his arm. Shortly thereafter, he discovers within himself a sudden ravenous hunger for living flesh. Unable to control these urges, he consumes the hamster that belongs to his son’s class…
You need more replacement code. Using my system, that paragraph looks like this:
It, uh, takes a lot of practice to learn this system.
Compelling. I smell an Aurealis Award.
From your mouth to God’s ears.
Personally I hand-write a lot of stuff and transcribe it later when I’m at home. It takes longer but there’s less chance it gets picked up when they do a scan of our personal folders.
Even if they do look at what I have saved, most of it would be gibberish to them anyway. Plus the fact that I do a lot of notes in Excel helps a bunch (makes it look even more official-ish).
Protip: If you turn off images in your browser for TAY, it turns into a somewhat respectable looking, non-time-wasting website 😛
Back home after having walked 3.2 km for an appointment. Took me 50 minutes, so I’m pretty happy with that. Now to veg out for the rest of the afternoon.
TAY RPG 40K Rogue Trader tonight at 7:30 pm AEST, 8:30 pm AEDT. Starring:
@freezespreston @rize @tech_knight @pupp3tmast3r @sernobulus @gingerchris86
This is likely to be the last opportunity for a game of 40K RPG before Christmas so please let me know if you’re unable to make it tonight,
I don’t foresee any problems tonight.
I will be late. Probably get in at about 9pm (AEST).
All good. You’ll probably catch the very end of it but that will tie in conveniently with your full recovery from the toxins.
pop I think this is the point where I pull out of the campaign and you put my comatose character out of his misery >.< This new job is pretty erattic on how its consuming my time and I’m unable to make any fixed commitments on weekdays; e.g. tonight I probably wont get out of the office till 7. If you ever do run a campaign in the near future with weekend timings I’d most definitely jump in but for the time-being I’m just unable to commit on working days =\
It’s been great fun while it lasted; at the very least I’ll always remember Nigel Thornberry pretending to be a tech priest =P
Thanks for letting me know Puppet. It sucks that work is eating into your time but I hope you enjoyed what you were able to play of the game.
In any case, Porky just got another bodyguard. 😛
Yeah on one side it’s a more rewarding role than my last job; but its offset by the amount of work it requires >.<
That said the RPG sessions were mad fun =] If my workload changes I’ll defs register my interest again or keep me in mind if you ever decide to run a weekend session! And finally thanks for organizing the sessions in the first place pop =]
Then it’s now 3 Eldar, a Kroot and a techpriest
walk into a bar. It’s unfortunate that you’re not able to stay but I can understand why, it’s been a pleasure Tash’ta.In memory of the Tau that were in the party, I’ll do this, with my hands (And mechadendrite)
Yep I’m in!
I totally forgot that I have a Christmas thing to go to tonight. I should be back in time but will let you know.
All good. If you’re running late, you should be right to jump in.
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I get this is a joke, but am I posting about this too much? Can slow down/stop!*
* can try, anywayI don’t think anybody begrudges you a little publicity time when you’re pursuing your dreams. Post on,
Undad@shane.Thanks, man.
More seriously, though, I’m not making any money on these upgrades. I just want folks to get the whole story, if that’s what they want. Not sure why I had to say that, but there it is!
SPAMDRIVE ENGAGE! *fwooooosh*
Mr. Strange takes pretty awesome photos at music shows we go to. I want to get some of his favourites printed out professionally for Christmas to put up around the house. These will be pretty big things to try and hide though.
Any ideas on how to be devious? 😀
HIDE THEM IN THE WALLS! UNLESS THAT’S WHERE MR. STRANGE IS HIDING YOUR CHRISTMAS COLOBUS MONKEY!
Hahaha…I have to laugh at this or else I’ll cry. 😛
DC!
C’mon, man. I thought we had a deal! You don’t steal my jokes before I get the chance to make them and I don’t tell anyone about you-know-what.
Under the bed is always a good place, just wrap them in a towel or something.
Not sure how big your material stash is but you could layer them within that if it’s big enough
That’s a cool gift, though. Best wife.
Wow, okay. Have I missed something? Trying to make a play list of YouTube videos for my eldest, she wants a bunch of Katy Perry songs, and all the comments in her videos are a mess of puritanical homophobic rants. Like, all of them. Is she a lesbian? I thought she was married to Russell Brand or something?
Yeah, but he has girly hair.
I don’t actually know.
I think they had a nasty divorce.
I’ve probably missed something too, but didn’t she release a song about kissing a girl a long time ago? Homophobic puritans like to hold grudges….
URGH. That song makes me so ANGRY. I’m going to lunch before I start ranting.
Insert homophobic rant here?
Not quite. The song isn’t so much homophobic as it is trivialising / mocking of the legitimate struggles LGBTI individuals go through.
Enh. From my listening to it, it’s not really a LGBT thing, though. It’s more like a ‘thing drunken straight girls do for attention/curiosity’, which I had plenty of exposure to and discussions about with a straight, female roomie of mine who used to do that shit all the time. (Usually after about her fourth drink.) If it seems to be trivializing the very real and very tough identity issues folks go through around their sexuality, I’d personally figure it’s less about the song and more about the behaviour the song’s based on.
Exactly the point. The song makes sexual identity seem like a cry for attention, or the actions of a drunken idiot, rather than a genuine expression of sexuality.
Really? I don’t think it conflates the two. They’re pretty different, separate actions. Maybe because I’ve had plenty to do with folks in either situation, I can tell the difference? But frankly, it’s sometimes the same, because people can be complicated, and sometimes they don’t even know the difference. And sometimes they go through a train of thought pretty similar to the song to figure that shit out for themselves.
But if someone misinterprets, that’s pretty much on the listener.
Getting mad about it starts to stray into the territory of getting mad about people making out with their friends for attention, for experimenting, for following that train of thought and figuring their shit out, and trying to dictate who should and shouldn’t kiss who, for what reasons. Which starts getting uncomfortable.
I can get being annoyed at anyone who uses it for celebration of attention-whoring, but for me it’s hard to be mad at something that speaks to people about their experience, which doesn’t really get articulated that often, let alone discussed.
Maybe you’re right and I give Katy Perry too much credit.
@transientmind I think you’re giving Katy Perry’s writers too much credit. But it’s lines like these (I kissed a girl just to try it, I hope my boyfriend don’t mind it.) that make it swing from “experimenting” to “attention whoring” in my mind.
I’m not going to go in to the nitty gritty specifics of why I take issue the song, because there’s a lot more to it than that. Suffice to say I don’t like the song, let’s leave it at that.
The problem here is Youtube comments. You are looking for a tiny fragment of logic in a place where the most stupid and illogical people get together and comment on videos.
You literally just defined 98% of the internet; especially the news sites.
I will upvote you until the ends of time for your comment, so so so true.
I saw the comments for a hilarious Dragon Age scene and it was all rants about social justice warrior made games. XD PEOPLE ARE IDIOTS, FREEZEY.
Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris is just as fun as Guardian of Light, but definitely needs a controller for precision. Mouse and keyboard ain’t up to the task. Decided to stop playing and wait for coop, though. (Since I love cooperative puzzles where you really do need more than one person to solve it. One of the strengths of the first game was how puzzles were solved differently in single player.)
HOW DARE YOU PLAY WITHOUT ME!
*cries*
My new computer loads areas so fast, I don’t get a chance to read the Codex entries on the loading screens.
My life is a tragedy.
So… A semi serious question…
Having just switched over to an SSD for my OS drive I’m still installing games on another platter based drive. Is this because my brain is still stuck in the ‘early SSD’ phase where there were some pretty gnarly consequences for reading/writing too much?
Or… is that Gizmodo article about drives surviving petabytes worth or read/writes enough that I can throw a game or 3 that I play regularaly on there and not worry?
I’d not worry about it. Unless you bought the drive many years ago and want to never replace it.
But it makes such a huge difference on some games it’s a waste to not use it.
Thank you! 🙂
Will look at moving Far Cry 4 over as I’ve noticed loads on that are rather poor.
Ha, you said “semi”.
Cue five minutes of Beavis and Butt-head snickering.
You know me well, Transient.
You know me well 🙂
I sense this is becoming a game… How much sexual inuendo can I wring out of a boring sentance?
Now that all drives have… errr… whatever that thing is on SSDs that makes them not terribad, it’s safe to put stuff on them.
I don’t have any games on my C: drive though. But that’s because it has no space, and Windows keeps eating anything I free up.
Tough times at the office, and everyone’s cranky and douchey. Shit’s way fucking draining, yo.
In other news, I’m all but certain my job is fine, but the current environment is just tiring.
Need to go home and chill out with my bird and play Pokemon or sumshit to unwind.
EDIT: Need to catch the most Cockatiel-like Pokemon in game and rename it to Jeffrey in honor of my feathered friend.
EDIT EDIT: I never rename my Pokemon. I must be really tired.
EDIT EDIT EDIT: Pikachu is yellow with orange cheeks, much like Jeffrey. But I can’t rename Pikachu. *flails*
Nef I love you
Jeffrey is a pretty great name for a bird!
Pokemon people! Has anyone played a nuzlocke or randomised game before in any of the gens? I’m curious to know how different people play using the alternate systems.
http://www.powalen.com/taylocke/
Dammit, Freeze.
I’d say sorry but the apology would be disingenuous.
We did a TAY Nuzlocke a while back! http://powalen.com/taylocke
Oh dang, seems this was before my time. Thanks for the interesting reading. 🙂
@pupp3tmast3r I should be right for raiding. What time were we doing it?
I’ll start LFR at 12.30 with aim to get in to High Maul at 1pm to 4pm
@jocon @piat @distantdrop (for timings)’
Edit: You still heals spec yeah dire?
Yep, holy spec.
Sounds good
Got 627 last night 🙂 NOTHING CAN STOP ME NOW!
Hyper>> magazine is now a Quarterly 🙁
But better than being cancelled 🙂
Hyper>> has been monthly since 1993! I was born in 1983. A new Hyper>> issue each month has always been like a cosmological constant. Sort of always thought that Hyper>> was somehow immune to the negative trends in print-media…
Anyways, here’s to the future. Long live Hyper>> Long live print.
Isn’t it Hyper»?
Also that is sad 🙁 But still awesome that they’ve been trucking on as long as they have. Always kind of wished I never gave up my subscription, though then my pile of magazines would probably be unmanageably huge now.
How did you do that? 😛
1337h4x!
Man, I remember Hyper magazine used to be stocked in the local library… only gaming magazine to make it there. I remember when it first came out! The fact that you were born then and can vote makes me feel old.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/12/photos-inside-tesla-motors-first-australian-showroom/
Wait what… I just friggen drove past that yesterday. HOW DID I NOT NOTICE THAT?
In fact I remember actually taking notice of that particular dealership, noting that it looked different and that I felt like I remembered there being some kind of big turntable in there somewhere, which now seemed to be gone. Must be taking too many stupid pills.
YouTube app on PS4 is pretty great. Just spent two hours watching stuff. Way, way better than trying to YouTube on PS3 or Wii U. (Maybe it’s just a connection thing that made those ones seem dodgy, have fixed my interwebs since then…)
I love controlling it with my phone
Hoh? New YouTube app? This is of interest to me.
The search/discoverability/history functions on the PS3 youtube were fucking godawful.
Only times I’ve used Youtube on PS4 has been within the browser, rather than its own app, which was servicable… if sluggish and clunky. A better app is a Good Thing(tm)
It’s pretty great and intuitive and like @redartifice says, second screen stuff makes it so much easier.
No, the PS3 one was terrible. Haven’t used the Wii U one yet.
Hey Freeeeeeezey, now i think you’re Gorzilla with your new avatar. It’s weird how the mind associates colours with people. 😛
Don’t bother using the WiiU app, just visit the website directly via the browser. It’s fantastic! You can play a video on the TV while searching and lining up the next one on the gamepad. Works really well.
It always gives me low resolution on the Wii U for some reason. Always. PS4 is all nice and HD-ish. (Most of the time.) Which makes me think it was my net issues before I got range extender.
Oh, really? I never really noticed.
I don’t use it anymore because my new TV has a youtube thingy built in that I can push videos to using my phone.
What a time to be alive 😛
The future. <3
First time finding it: I noticed a new icon on my phone while browsing Youtube, pressed it and my TV automatically opened the Youtube app and started playing the video from the point I stopped at while the phone transformed into a remote with video controls on it.
I was like
I used to do that, then all the videos stopped working. Maybe some recent system updates fixed this?
I should investigate.
Oh, also like having headphones plugged into controller. Best of both worlds. HDTV with privacy of headphones. 😀
Chromecast for the win… Cast from my PC, Android, iPhone, laptop, tablet… basically anything on the same wifi network can be thrown to the big screen.
I just want you all you know, that I love you guys. I swear, the generosity that you have all shown me has encouraged me to be a more generous and better person.
No, don’t do that. You’ve already been far too generous, you need to scale back 😛
But I didn’t do anything ._.
Sorry.
Great. Scree is about to become an super villain. It’s the only way for this to go when someone already really great decides they have to become better. It’s like i-robot all over again.
It’s OK, she’s hurting us all for our own good!
=[
I trained my dog to hunt for underground mushrooms but now he’s more truffle than he’s worth.
Ugh.
Ruff crowd.
Boooo!
Hiiiiisssss!
The joke is totally pre-owned too. SO MANY THINGS AGAINST GOOD TASTE!
What happend to the pun hating DC that we all know?!
Taking them down from the inside, like @strange!
I think you’re in too deep, man.
They’re changing you into one of them!
Get out before it’s too late DC! :’O
I am feeling a little too hyped for Little Mac and Captain Falcon amiibos.
I hope the distribution’s not going to be like the last lot though, where each store gets like 6x Luigi, 6x Diddy, 3x Zelda, 3x Pit, 1x Mac and 1x Falcon :/
It won’t be.
It’ll be 3x Falcon, 1x Pit.
Whoa, monster storm out of nowhere. Thunder is shaking the whole shopping centre.
The Gold Coast was due to be smited some time back!
I want a storm >:(
*grumble grumble*
Stupid lucky east coast >:(
*grumble grumble*
Well, you guys had all those awesome sharks over there until you decided to murder them all.
And by you I obviously mean I hold you personally responsible for it.
Why you gotta be so awful Lion?
*shrugs*
It’s my nature.
*spits on a baby*
Yeah, why you gotta be so awful at Mario Kart and Smash Bros, @liondrive? 😛
I believe I’m one of the better ones here at Mario Kart, thanks, and I’m getting better at Smash.
That’s why I like 1v1ing with you.
I know I’m not the best, but it’s good practice, and I’m getting better at it 🙂
Yeah, that’s why I like 1 v 1 too! Don’t shy away from Omega. You need to manage your ledge and air game.
I’m keen to play more again tonight if you are? I guess we can do a private room?
I’ll play again tonight 🙂
Don’t worry about private room either, I need to practice not getting sour when I lose too, and fighting multiple people 😛
I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but my play style is far more defensive than offensive (hit and run, stick to edges, counter and run, etc).
My air game isn’t too bad, it’s just I despise ledges, hence why I always try and pick stages with no ledges 😛
Omega suuuuucks! 😛
@liondrive
No, YOU* suck! 😛
Nah.
Omega just isn’t fun.
Too small a stage, and falling off the stage isn’t particularly fun, especially when jerky losers won’t let you back on the stage to begin with.
Boooo, Greenius.
Boooo!
We can do a couple though 😛
Aaand part of the roof just tore away….
It’s the rapture!
Well… I’m still here…
Exactly. /o\
Neat. Just rain here \o/
I’ve been writing replies to posts all day, but my tone of the day is apparently snarky, even though I’m not feeling particularly snarky, or am intentionally trying to be, so end up deleting my replies before posting! :O
Weird :3
Also, it’s far too quiet for a Tuesday 😛
Well maybe if people didn’t keep deleting their replies 😛
I didn’t want people thinking that I was intentionally being snarky to them 😛
I don’t wanna come across as rude! :O
Maybe nobody is posting because we’re all feeling snarky.
I was going to post a snarky reply, but I don’t know how to fake it.
Anything I thought up just came off sounding rude. :/
Snarky is just like an arrogant rude 😛
Not the hardest to feign, but I get how someone like you wouldn’t understand it.
Yeah, sure, let’s just assume that because I’m an idiot I can’t understand snark. Sure thing, Liondrive.
Now I feel rude for making that joke :’3
I don’t like being snarky! :’O
I assume we both just need colon Ps on our comments. 😛
References to colon pee always put me in mind of a malfunctioning digestive system.
I did.
How about a joke?
Two goldfish are in a tank. The first turns to the second and says “I’ll man the machine gun, you steer”.
XD
Urrrrrrgggghhhhh!
My old boss used to love that joke. He was an ex tank commander
Whenever I hear the word snark, I think of Snarf from the Thundercats.
Silverhawks > Thundercats
Also whenever I see Snarf I think of Pinky
Is it because you’re just Lion around?
Lol.
Sorry, but you drove me to it.
Ouch… Someone call the hospital burns unit!
I thought you were cool!
You’re still cool, Freeze.
But this indiscretion is in your permanent record.
@dc had to start a second list purely to keep track of my indiscretions.
Nooooooo!
That was an unintentional pun, I swear!
Oh god!
You guys are ruining me!
I’m sure there is a slow-wink joke in there somewhere…
*slow wink*
Hmmm… reading that back… that fell very flat. Sounded much better in my head.
Ha, you said “head”.
That @sunsoar77 is such a deviant!
It’s like, keep it in your pants, Sunsoar!
…
Or not, I really don’t mind.
Sharing is caring… But my wife would disagree this time.
Sorry.
Urge to start innuendo… rising…
Start?
Your innuendo is rising?
Or something in your pants is rising?
First one okay, second one not so sure…
See, I do that too sometimes, but I post without thinking and only realize the snark afterwards and reallyreallyreally hope people will be swayed by the smiley avatar into thinking that I’m not really being too heavy. (Which is probably more often than not, anyway.)
It doesn’t help when my gravatar is a scowling black cat! 😀
Sometimes I worry it makes me seem grumpy, but I love my cat 🙂
I re-read everything I post before posting, just to make sure everything sounds right, and to make sure it’s the best way to articulate what I want to say 🙂
Went and had lunch with the extremely handsome, successful, well-liked, witty writer-artist of TAY today.
But enough about me, I also met up with @shane @mythamplutidipidabanana
Was an utter disaster getting there.
I left the house ten minutes late, got a message from ‘Leph saying they were hugely late, decided to wait around at Woden since I knew they’d be going via there, forgot to inform ‘Leph of this so they got to Woden and left, so I followed one bus back, which happened to break down halfway to Civic so I had to wait for another bus.
And all without stopping to draw breath, too.
But I have my microphone back!
And I’ve been too lazy to plug it in because UGH so lazy.
And that’s my uninteresting story of the day, prepare for next time, when I rant about how the Government’s fucking up Medicare.
Thanks for coming out to see me, man, and sorry I drove you to it. I know it was a big inconvenience for you and Leph for the sake of a 45 minute lunch break. Was good, though, even though I have entirely lost my ability to make conversation, big or small.
Man, it was little inconvenience, and only that much because of the bus problems. Always good to see you, and you’re not the only one who lacks conversation skills. 😛
Super close to getting my first platinum ever, for Senran Kagura: Shinovi Versus.
I finished the final storyline last night. The Crimson Squad’s arc is probably the most fun of the four, actually. Primarily it’s because I enjoyed playing with all five of them. I was a bit iffy on Mirai at first especially because I make significant use of the dash ability to dodge around and Mirai’s dash is a tiny little back step in the opposite direction which takes a bit of getting used to. With the other groups, there’s always characters I enjoyed playing with (Asuka and Ikaruga for Hanzo, Murakumo and Yozakura for Gessen, Miyabi and Imu for Hebijo) but all three schools have one character I really can’t stand (Hibari, Minori, Murasaki) plus all the Crimson girls are pretty OP and you’re playing them last so you know the game inside-out by then as well.
Definitely found that playing each characters’ individual story first was a good approach too. Made the main arc significantly less frustrating because I was going into the first battles already at around level 25+.
I unlocked the ‘Final Battle’ mode which is just a crazy hard boss fight between Asuka and Homura. Tried as Asuka and was touch and go, seems that staggers don’t work at all so it’s a war of attrition, which sucks. I actually managed to get ahead at one point and then stupidly decided I should try and get the completely-stripped-an-enemy trophy so let her bash me down to low health and then somehow she dodged the super attack and killed me. 🙁 Apparently got to beat that as both characters to unlock the final items I need for one trophy. Then it’s just a case of a bit of grinding – got to get a 7777-hit combo (apparently easy on one map with Asuka), kill about 1000 more dudes to get to 10k and do some parries and 10 consecutive air attacks to unlock those. Quick go at each one of the MP modes with bots and I’ll be done. Goal for the week!
Onwards to platinum Bon Appetit?
Nah, that game’s impossible to platinum at my general skill level. Shinovi Versus really just needs time put into it. Bon Appetit requires you to be some kind of @greenius-style rhythm game savant and beat everything on the hardest difficulty without missing a note.
Even on Normal it’s brutal. You hit a 94% of the notes! BOO! FAIL!
Have to admit that I did pick up the extra DLC pack for it though.
*flex*
One of the places on the list to pick up parcels from for work was just an address followed by the word “(fleshlight)” … Tis the season?
I’d have said Valetines would be the season.
Or single’s day like they have in Japan or somewhere
“Singles day” as in the day where people post photos of having valentines dinner with their animu waifu on a screen nearby? Because that’s just Valentines day.
It’s not really singles day then. They should call it Animu Waifu/”cuddle” pillow day.
Why is cuddle in air quotes?
You don’t want to know, Freeze! I don’t want to know! This is not something we should know!
Noted: never ask for a pillow whilst staying at @SerNobulus’ place.
Are they wrong?
The parcel? Not sure they are in boxes. =P
Just got off the phone with my wife. Her work got flooded out. Then lightning hit the building and set it on fire.
She’s a little stressed out.
That seems like a series of events in the beginnings of an apocalypse movie.
(I hope she’s safe).
It seemed pretty damn big… http://imgur.com/oVoNeXD
Sounds like a sex joke … DEVIANT!
Eeeeeep!
Yeah, see, this is the kind of thing certain Americans refer to when complaining that Australia is a dangerous country.
*looks at America right now*
It would be super nice if everyone could just be safe. Can everyone just be safe? Because that would be really great, please.
No time for that!
*hops back on unicycle to juggle more chainsaws*
Whilst simultaneously punching some ‘roos and eating a funnel-web.
Well sure, if you wanna be reckless about it.
I had to drive through hail today. Is that what you mean by safe?
Yes! I mean no! I mean… now you sound like her, quoting me back about blocks of ice the size of bricks and windshields that are tore up like they’d been hit by a machinegun!
It’s saaaaaaafe here!
I’m giving away all of my old batteries free of charge
#dadjokepagesix #hi@strangeMost people would say that’s a D Grade joke. Maybe C at best. I’m a fan though. Definitely AA or maybe even AAA material! 😉
Booooo!
Both of you!
You might look at this page and see a battery of bad jokes.
What I CR2032 ways to make @liondrive cry.
That… Is… Amazing…
*bows in respect*
Urgh.
*does that thing where you kill yourself*
It shocks me now you stay current with the jokes. Such a bright spark.
It’s like you just look at the line, then volt right over it.
I was worried I’d fall flat.
Ah, man. Remember a while back my PS3 died? It doesn’t stay powered on. Stays in standby mode fine but when switching the power button it starts to wind up for a second, then completely shuts down (no lights).
I bought a replacement PSU which arrived today. Replaced it and all, but still the same problem…
It’s completely dead, huh? 🙁
We’ll get through this together.
YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT I’M GOING THROUGH
EDIT: It can’t be dead. It just can’t be.
EDIT2: DAMMIT, WHY ARE YOU DEAD
EDIT3: Maybe… maybe I can buy some new parts?
EDIT4: …oh, it will never work. It’s hopeless…
EDIT5: There’s no helping it. I’ve got to move on.
*hand on shoulder*
Let it out, friend. Let it out.
That was clever. You’re okay, Pow. I take back all the stuff I said about you behind your back!
Isnt it meant to be denial, bargaining and then anger?? =P
You can try summoning the reaper and challenging him to a fiddle contest.
I’ve already used my deal with the devil though.
I don’t think the devil and the reaper are the same though, so you could still be in with a shot! 😀
Trying to drink Cheeky Rascal cider. It is the most disgusting cider I’ve ever tasted. Fucking hell.
Edit: Kinda become more of a ginger beer person lately. Ginger beer is pretty great.
Edit 2: I also made the revelation earlier today that my deodorant smells an awful lot like my new favourite ice cream (Coles chocolate orange). I don’t know whether that makes me happy or makes me feel like I’m a fat arse that smells like ice cream.
Edit 3: Y’know how I said burgers are a big thing down here? Some place just popped up on Facebook and I think I have to go there tomorrow. https://www.facebook.com/CrumbStreetKitchen/photos/pb.109790425853666.-2207520000.1418118490./379399242226115/?type=1&theater
Lol.
That’s all I have to say on the matter.
Ginger beer is awesome.
Time to play the “What’s on sale on my Steam Wishlist?” game?
Nothing on my wishlist is on sale. 🙁Wish harder!
I did that earlier today, same result.
Sigh. Australia Post are a god damned joke. The price of postage to send stuff over seas just makes me wonder why it’s even worth it, at this point I think i’d be better off looking into sending what I wanna send via DHL who seem like they could be relatively cheap, if I email them for a quote, damn it..
LOL NOPE. DHL were 3 times as much as Australia Post, who are insanely over priced as it is..
Whoa, just swapped out my secondary 23″ monitor for a 27″. Everything is huuuuuuuuge.
Colours are a little weird though. And I don’t really know what I’m doing in terms of adjusting them. Especially since it doesn’t have any actual buttons on it, just those stupid shitty capacitive touch spots. Which don’t seem to have any labels (if it did, they’ve been worn away), just a set of red LEDs that only illuminate if you find them. And have no shape, just red dots.
Urge to kill, rising.
Is it a Samsung? I had one which was like that.
An LG. Something dad pulled out of the dumpster at work 😛 Seems to be fine though. A little easier on the eyes than the Aldi TV I was using, plus the colours aren’t as… blue, in general.
Much easier to switch between inputs, so I might actually play some Wii U now.
Finally in Melbourne \o/
Plane in the morning, be in Brisbane by lunch.
I thought you were in Melbz this weekend?
Yeah we’re only gonna be there Sunday night.
I’ve mailed Tech Knight my mobile to let me know what’s happening on Sunday, would be good to grab a beer and spin you a yarn about Melbourne! XD
Sounds great.
Hey, TAY.
If I got the Jackbox Party Pack, would anyone be interested in multiplayer?
You wouldn’t have to purchase anything, I’d just put the address and code on TAY, and we could play multiplayer that way.
Add Teamspeak and I think it might just work.
What say you guys/gals?
Also…
Guys/gals… *Sales intensify*
That looks pretty neat actually.
The sale or the party pack?
The game in general.
That sounds like fun 🙂
That does sound interesting.
@tech_knight @blaghman @novacascade @popdart5
NUMENERA
Tomorrow night?
*Sigh* Goddammit.
I have my work Christmas Party. :/
I’ll be there for it
I’ll up for it. Or down as it were as we’re going into the Pit.
Oh man, Pugsley from the (original) Addams Family died 🙁 The series was fantastic. Such a shame it never took off at the time
Think I want to play more multiplayer with my pals. Maybe. I enjoyed Destiny-ing with jo, blaghman, transientmind, dkzeitgiest, freezespreston, hellscream, etc back when that game was released. Enjoyed brief stint with greenius in Borderlands 2. Maybe I should give this multi thing a bigger chance! *strokes patchy beard*
DRAGON AGE INQUISITION MULTI!
An intriguing possibility! 😀 @greenius also seemed keen for Temple of Osiris coop!
I was your first! :’)
XenUblade multiplayer? 😀
…if it has multiplayer…
D.C. is excited for XenUblade and it makes me happy! 😀
Sughly too …kinda!
Greenius will take us on a walking tour, no doubt! WHAT COULD GO WRONG?
Only if you show me where all the places are and how to catch trams.
Always keen for any multiplayer.
Just send me a tweet 🙂
I will Mario Kart with you anytime, man.
You should Fiasco with us sometime too
Depending on your mood, what you play doesn’t actually matter as much as the fact that you’re playing it with pals. 🙂 I remember us laughing at and running screaming from minotaurs and hobgoblins. I remember DC coming to rescue me in that final boss mission! These are Things which can be Done in many games. Nobs may be right on DA:I, I haven’t even LOOKED at its multi yet. But what I remember about the Mass Effect multi was a very fun horde mode.
You got Super Smash, if so add me and we’ll fight (y)
Or we can fight in real life! Those pants make you look fat! 😀
No Smash Bros, alas.
I enjoy the banter and chemistry between Hex and Bajo on Good Game more than the games themselves.
True story: I went to primary school with Steph, at one point she lived about 100m up the road from me. I may or may not have had a ridiculous pre-teen crush on her.
Flash forward to 17 it’s the end of high school, she goes to the same school, and was friends with, the girl I was seeing at the time.
Now she’s on TV…
I have an equally thrilling* story; Bajo once promised me a MP game of the new AVP game which was for GG content, when it was new back in 2010.. I never got that MP game I was crushed =( and there was also never any MP footage for GG’s AVP review.
*Not thrilling.
Edit: also a mate of mine, who was a hardcore CS/CSS player back in the mid 00’s a clan mate of his used to be room mates with Junglist apparently lol.
True story: I may have a post-teen crush on her.
When the transition happened it felt jarring how over scripted and forced that banter was. I stopped watching not long after that.
I think it was also around that time that it came out that the show’s presenters (before and after) were just reading lines and playing roles, since they hadn’t actually played all the games themselves for their ‘reviews’. It was hard for me to get value from the information presented after that without having the relative baseline of whose opinion it actually was.
If they’ve improved all that these days, it’s good to hear. Hope they’re not too badly hit by the ABC budget shake up.
I think they’re getting a daily digital show next year as well as regular thing, so sounds like if any thing their situation has improved at the ABC. I did find it weird that last night Bajo clearly said he hadn’t finished Dragon Age yet and then they gave it game of the year. I agree with the choice, but seemed a little off. XD
Was going to wear my Watch_Dogs t-shirt today, but then I thought it’s probably wise not to wear a shirt that says “hacking is our weapon” while going through airport security.
Probably wise. Airport security do not have much respect for pop culture or humour.
Remember the Princess Bride shirt that caused a scare?
I do not! And now I have google homework. 🙂
Can’t recall the exact quote but
My name is Montoya & I’m here to kill you
With a picture of his face.
Read up on it. Teensy bit ridiculous, yes. At least it seems like it was civil. Flight attendant gets complaints from passengers, rather than Airport Gestapo, comes over to have a quiet word and ask if the shirt can be changed… Since they do actually have a code of dress against it, they just rarely enforce it unless it’s bothering someone.
All seems very reasonable.
Could’ve been MUCH worse. Had a friend being a tourist to the US get deported back here before he’d even got through the airport because he got annoyed and snippy with customs taking issue with his tattoos, piercings, and mohawk. He probably didn’t HELP matters by getting self-righteous and defensive instead of humbly and meekly bending over and asking ‘how wide?’ the way airport security expects/demands. FOR SECURITAH. Though it was only a couple years after 9/11; the day America stopped being the land of the free or the home of the brave.
Either situation I would prefer to avoid 🙂
The worst one of those I’ve heard is the guy who was refused entry through security because he had a picture of Megatron on his shirt. That’s a picture of a GUN, in colour no less.
Beyond Two Souls
Spoilers for The Condenser chapter & beyond that with questions @DC & maybe @freezespreston
Whats the deal at the end of The Condenser? I worked my way into the building, she claimed I was just outside the room with the machine. I was overwhelmed by zombies that suddenly all just gave up, so she got up & walked out?Felt like I failed the mission & she gave up, but there was no explanation. Also felt like a cut scene was missing. Very confused.
I’m enjoying the game, there’s been the odd section that I really didn’t see the point of & some weird moments that didn’t make sense to me. That had to be ththquickest & easiest birth in history for instance.
Sometimes I have no idea which direction to push during the action scenes.
But yeah, good stuff, I had to switch it off after a night on the farm & was still feeling spooked when I turned all the lights off to go to bed.
What?
You didn’t go into the room and shit the portal down?Yeah, that’s why I didn’t answer on Twitter cause it was pretty straight forward and I wasn’t sure we were talking about the same area. My Jodie clearly turned the condenser off and lost contact with Aiden for a while and then freaked out before he made contact again.
Absolutley love the Navajo section. 🙂
Nope @freezespreston
she got up, ran back & next thing I was outside collapsing & they were gonna blow it up?I think it was a fail state without a game over so it either glitched or they just didn’t bother explaining.
Oh yeah, sounds like an alternate fail safe which is unfortunate. Very vague sounding too. Sorry ’bout that, buddy. 🙁YOU BES APOLAJIZE, DCage
The game, while interesting and pretty well executed, isn’t particularly well written. Found it easier to just shrug and go with it rather than try to think to much on plot holes and logic leaps. It doesn’t take long before its moved on to something else.
Yep, I’m doing that. This one was mind boggling empty though.
Need For Speed
I was really enjoying this but now I feel like I don’t have the skills.
it’s a bit buggy too, I can crash after a tiny clip of a wall sometimes & other times I faceplant straight into a wall & everything is fine.
I had one race where we had to jump from a boat over a fence & no car could make it because we bottle necked at the jump. For some reason after crashing miserably, I was respawned way shed & given a massive lead.
After the race, I tried to make the jump by myself & still couldn’t.
Its a good game though, I really wish I had more control over the music
Yakuza 4
This is a fantastic game. Loving the combat & the story is much more professionally handled than the rest of the game.
It’s funny that in-game, the animation makes every one look like action figures .
Don’t thinknim that far in yet, there’s a lot of pointless running back & forth across town that makes the game longer than it really needs to be.
My nose is running…
Arrest warrents will do that, though.
Probably mentioned already but EA is currently giving away Sim City 2000 for free on origin.
I’ll have to pick it up tonight.
EA IS GIVING AWAY THE GOOD SIMCITY????? I STILL HAVE A WORKING SAVE FILE SITTING ON A 3½-INCH FLOPPY!
screencheat 4-pack is 10USD on humble bundle if anyone is interested.
also, early Christmas presents 😛
little inferno
https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=kSR2yrfRBhqDHShe
orc must die 2
https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=Rfw28wsMEC6Wdd7Z
https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=V8uU7SUVnChXFkTV
hmm… very tempted… heard a lot of good things about it but didnt play it at pax…
Well looky here https://www.humblebundle.com/?gift=eYWFeMKfMh5HEAwq
cheers zapz, i grabbed the Orcs must die gift! (first link…)
Holy crap people, buy this game already.
Dear @NovaCascade, @transientmind, @negativezero and @jocon
100 days.
Regards
@FreezeSPreston
Sitting on Hype for the moment. Will probably UltraMega Hype++ to the Maxtreme after final payment is made, and everything is verified Real(tm).
I think we’ve only got about 4 weeks before final payment is due, yes? Stressing a bit since we’ve still got about $1500 left to go in that time. Especially with Christmas sitting right in the middle like a jerk, vacuuming up money.
Christmas is a real asshole.
I really hate ChristmasI’m not a fan personally. It’s a bit different with kids though. It’s more about them these days.
Hype train is currently taking passengers. \o/
One of my intentions is to scour Akiba and maybe Den Den Town in Osaka if we’re there long enough for copies of all the Sakura Taisen games for Dreamcast, just to own them. Hoping that won’t be too hard.
I’m going to burgle so many houses. 😀 😀 😀
What exactly is on your itinerary?
– Day 1: Get to Osaka
– Day 2: Osaka Castle, Osaka River Cruise, Sumo Wrestling
– Day 3: Free time (read: go to Den Den Town)
– Day 4: Himeji Castle. Shinkansen to Hiroshima
– Day 5: Ferry on the Seto sea to Miyajima, then back to Hiroshima to visit the peace museum & A-bomb dome.
– Day 6: Shinkansen to Kyoto
– Day 7: Sightseeing in Kyoto (Kiyomizu Temple, Gion district), Kaiseki dinner
– Day 8: Either more Sightseeing in Kyoto or day trip to Nara (haven’t decided yet)
– Day 9: Shinkansen to Takayama
– Day 10: Stuff in Takayama
– Day 11: Shinkansen to Hakone, boating on lake Ashino
– Day 12: Bus to Tokyo, then sightseeing (Akiba?)
– Day 13: Touring Tokyo
– Day 14: Official trip ends. I’m there an extra 2 days and I think some of the others are staying on a bit too. Hoping to do the Ghibli Museum if possible. Actually @novacascade, tickets for that might be going on sale soon?
No DisneySea or Tokyo Disneyland has me outraged. OUTRAGED. 😛
Who doesn’t go to American theme parks when in Japan? Monsters, that’s who! 😉
In all seriousness, that trip sounds amaaaaaazing. I think it’d be hard to top that as being the best meat evah.
I’ve totes added Disneyland to my trip at the end.
And that’s why you’re one of my favourites. <3
There’s many who say that DisneySea is the best themed Disney park in the entire world. There’s a volcano that erupts. A VOLCANO THAT ERUPTS.
I TOTALLY DON’T REMEMBER ANY ERUPTIONS 🙁
Page 18 came early?
*prematurely
Be sure to hit up DisneySea as well. It’s pretty great, I enjoyed it for the set design alone. Amazingly well-done place.
I dunno, I might do that during my Tokyo free time, but the Ghibli Museum has priority if I can get to that.
Have you booked Ghibli Museum? I heard it’s quite popular & can be hard to get a booking
Tickets go on sale 3 months in advance, so not yet. Soon ™.
Thanks, I have a friend who is going to Japan in March and she doesn’t know what to do.
Any suggestions?
Is it weird that I’m nearly the most hype for the kaiseki dinner?
Nope, Kaiseki is pretty awesome. One of the highlights for me when I went to Kyoto with my Dad years ago too. It was at some out-of-the-way hot springsinn up in the hills too. The old guy who ran the place looked like he was about five hundred years old. 😛
I really regret not being able to go but I feel I made the right decision as I simply could not afford the trip
Is it glorious @highperformance? It’s glorious isn’t it.
Sold, I’ll be on tonight.
It will be glorious, played a teeny bit of the raid tonight SOOOOO HARD!
So has Kotaku been kinda sluggish for anyone else lately, or is it just my work internet being a butt?
You’re a butt.
I’m sorry, that was uncalled for.
Can we go straight to the kiss and make up part now?
Meh I would only have LoL to talk about after last night 😛
But I also managed to get next Monday off after my entire previous weekend was spent working
so how has LoL been for you 😛
Pretty good, had some really awesome games recently, especially when you destroy a team with a mid Vel’koz in a ranked 5v5, which included ending the game by getting a full ultimate laser duration on all 5 of their team. I also tried Jayce for the first time just in a bot match, I really feel like I could become great with him in Mid lane as my AD go-to, and last night I had my first game in the new jungle with Skarner (And with the battlecast skin for the first time, and by the machine spirit is it a glorious skin), we won quite convincingly but I really struggled early game as I ran out of mana very fast, so I think my current build needs tweaking or my clearing strategy needs to be more limited to only using his Q when farming without blue.
Jayce’s always been a strong laner because of high base dmg of his combo, just learn to smoothly chain your skills and you will faceroll most champs. Haven’t tried jungle skarner but with blasting smite (the healing one) you should have decent mana regen
Not enough with the build I have in runes sadly, as I have his runes setup to AS reds and 5% CDR on blues to make ridiculous Q spam possible and it synergises extremely well with Iceborn Gauntlet mid-late game. I used the blasting smite that game and even then it wasn’t enough the whole way, I can clear very well but my mana remaining for ganks is kinda low. I’m sure I’ll figure it out, it was the very first game in the new jungle with Skarner, I’m guessing just being more mana conservative will fix the issue. It’s too bad spirit stone had to go, that really hit him hard.
It’s been fine for me.
ABC cutbacks, man.
Yeah it has been rather slow & intermittent with the loadings for me.
Ok so there is a feature film consideration website, according to a rumour, for transformers 4, would like to know, if these rumours are true, if you would be pleased if this film won that award?
Oh, what? I thought maybe for a special effects award or something but looking it up they’re gunning for Best Picture….
A feature, film consideration, website, you say?
Is that, like, IMDB? They seem to, considering, films a lot. Comma.
It’s actually a thing. Website set up to present their case and appeal for an Oscar.
Oh gawd
Winning Best Picture would certainly expose the awards as (more of?) a sham.
Frankly, I think even a nomination would be ridiculous. Especially since ‘Academy Award Nominee’ is seen as a kind of distinction in and of itself.
So, who is going to the @evilmonkey meat? I may or may not be able to go, I don’t really have much money, but even if I can’t go, I’ll send something with @tech_knight
I’m definitely going now as I’ve now got Monday off \o/
I think we may be busy that day. Plans sound like they’ve been made but I’m not aware of what they are yet.
@budgieishere @chuloopa @coldcamv @crazyguy1990 @f4ction @greenius @jordi @negativezero @pixel_the_ferret_viking @smurfydog @tigerion @tofu @zetrox2k
I might be, depends on whether I can get rid of this pinched nerve or not
thats this sunday isnt it?
i cant make it.. marks the 1 year mark since my mum passed away and we are having a family get together… already been losing my shit about it all week, not sure how ill go sunday… 🙁
*hugs*
What were the actual plans? I can probably make it, coming into the city from my new place is a lot less of a trek, but need to know what we’re doing and when.
Dinner at Fed square. That’s all I know.
What are the details? That will dictate my presence or lack thereof
Dinner at Fed square
That’s me out! Good luck
Something something I’ll be overseas something 😛
I am helping out with an xmas party unfortunately
I have a lunch wedding thing so I’ll probably not make it. Small chance I’ll be able to sneak in but I doubt it
If it’s an early dinner I’d love to come! I’d like to be tagged if that’s what we’re doing 😛
About 6:30pm I believe
Wow.
Dragon age 3
Cassandra and Varric’s relationship just cracked me up so much.
I just got up to givinger her a preview of his book(Disgusted noise)Yeah, that’s gold!
So we’ll written the relationships in this game.
I was very put off initially, because it’s very fraught and mean-spirited early on.
Well, In Varic’s defense she did kinda kidnap him. That’s bound to cause some resentment. In Cassandra’s defense she did have the greater good in mind.Layers upon layers 😀
So Square Enix’ Xmas gift is me giving them $8?
Nope.
Could buy FFX Even HDier for PS4 instead?
Whhhhyyyyyyy?If I didn’t grab it already I might. Remember all the new customers.
I want VII HDerest for trophies.
You know what’d be good, if these extra sales convince them to do XII HD. Be keen on that job version that wasn’t released locally.
My mum’s partner is on strike (along with the whole construction site at the hospital they’re working on) after they found out they’d been drinking contaminated water for several days. Management knew about the contamination but didn’t tell any of the staff. Don’t know what got into the water but it’s begun this whole process of lawyers and water evaluations and so on!
…… wtf??? That’s insane; how in the hell can management justify not letting staff know??
I’m gonna have a wild guess that it’s probably something to do with money.. Like any good greedy company, they probably only seem to care about money, not their workers health.
Look at the whole asbestos stuff that’s popped up in the last decade, then again the gov’t at the time when it all happened those few decades ago was to be blamed for that as well.
the legal repercussions over negligence is going to bite a mighty chunk out of their arses now… also their wallets… \o/
@f4ction on a more important note, no-ones fallen ill or at risk of anything are they??
If anyone so much as sneezes from drinking that water management and the company should be looking to settle out of court.
They’re waiting to see. Got to examine the water. I know mum’s partner is sick but if it’s related or not is yet to be seen
Any half decent management know the possibility of litigation in a situation like that offsets any short term expenses you can take to avoid it. If greed is the reason then they should’ve taken precautions; they could be sued for millions in damages and negligence depending on how many people were affected. Even if what was in the water is harmless they still owed a duty of care to let their employees know.
For the sake of every other workplace in the country, I hope they get raked over the coals for it. Employers need to know this shit is outright unacceptable and will cost them.
It doesn’t matter if it’s harmful or not, what matters is that you communicate so that people can make their own (well or ill-informed) decisions.
Woah.
Oh, that’s not good…
D:
>.<
Sigh. What possible fucking excuse can people have for sitting on that kind of knowledge?
It boggles the mind. Of course, I used to work for a company (Telstra) who installed ‘personal use’ internet PCs in the break room, with key-loggers on them so they could read what people type (personal emails, netbank logins, etc) to see if they’re bad-mouthing the company.
Power turns some people into complete ****s. (Others just rise to it naturally because they are already ****s.)
Uhh.. Wouldn’t that be VERY illegal, considering keyloggers are frowned upon and all that..?
Yeah. We used it to make some demands, but REALLY we should have reported it to federal police as a breach of the surveillance act. It’s a federal crime.
Stupid telstra. Surely they know everyone is already bad mouthing them. What difference would a few employees make?
If I start on the litany of unconscionable crimes I’ve seen against employees in that place, I’ll never stop.
Telstra’s management culture is rotten to the core and I feel sorry for anyone who suffers under it.
Cheers buddy
Fucking hell!
What the hell is wrong with the management there? Surely, moral issues aside, from a business perspective it would have made sense to but a pallet of bottled water the moment they found out about and and told the not to drink it because lawyers. Also depending what the contamination is and it’s effects sick days are costly.
Including moral issues. Those Assholes.
Jeebuz!
Ooh, BitF MP3s. I forgot I jumped on that thing.
Welp, the internet certainly didn’t fail to disappoint this morning. So much rage… Maybe Bungie shoulda told people about that plan for weekly heroics and nightfalls on DLC release weeks, eh?
That new strike, tho… XD Can’t wait to try the raid!how much is the season pass?
Think around $35?
so half the cost of the retail game for 5-10% extra content…
the maths makes perfect sense…
$35 or $40, I think. If House of Wolves is this good, and you enjoy raiding, then it’s an easy choice.
Every part of TDB thus far (story missions, “quest” bounties, and the strike) have been a huge improvement over the base game. Quality over quantity, but the prevailing opinion after completing the story missions was still “okay, where’s the rest?” Then we did the strike. O_o There’s the rest, or the start of the rest, at least. Then we did the nightfall. O____o Thank god for Sunsingers, is all I’ll say.The story missions actually lead really well into the strike, which sets the stage for the raid, and while simplistic (it’s three missions, not an epic) it’s actually told pretty well. If this is representative of the future of Destiny, I’m totally up for it. And if House of Wolves adds another raid on top of Crota’s End… I’d consider that worth it. Crota’s End got beaten in about 8-9 hours. So, assume that the season pass gives you two such raids total – that’s 16-18 hours of entertainment on the first run, in raids alone. The strikes bring that up to 20 hours, story missions up to about 22-24 hours, depending on your level. And not counting hard mode raids, which probably doubles that figure. $40 for near 50 hours of entertainment sounds pretty good to me.Otoh, if you never plan on raiding, it’s much harder to justify, and I’d wait until it all gets released.
God damn I’m excited to try that strike.
It’s a bad decision, to start with. It’s not just rubbing it in the faces of people who can’t/don’t buy the DLC that there’s a whole load of fun being had that they’re not a part of… it’s also taking away the bonus that they’ve expected to get every week. It’s insult to injury.
The worse decision was not communicating it in advance so that people could vent, then get used to the idea and just grumble about it.
Expectations are hugely important.
Everyone everywhere knows it. How many times do you hear people talking about setting their expectations for an upcoming movie or video game so that they don’t end up disappointed or are pleasantly surprised? How much of ANY backlash is because expectations weren’t met?
You’d think they’d have realized that a failure to meet expectations is why their review scores were a full 1-2 points lower than the game probably deserves on merits alone, in a vacuum.
You would think there would be a series of white boards installed in every major production or communications room with giant, furious writing, “EXPECTATIONS COST US MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN BONUSES. DON’T FUCK THEM UP FROM NOW ON.” And then any time you go to do anything, sign off on anything, communicate anything, you make sure someone goes and looks at the fucking whiteboard.
It’s like 2 days you can’t do one certain thing in a video game if you haven’t done another thing.
And they did announce it in advance.
The problem here is consumers unrealistic expectations ie: the customer is nearly always wrong.
I don’t think it’s unrealistic or unfair that folks thought they’d be able to continue getting heroic weekly bonuses as normal if they didn’t have access to the new content. And since nothing was posted on the news page/blog/mobile app apart from how the PVP map rotation was going go cycle between new and old, but that doesn’t affect the xur-token rewards, and other benefits, so it would be reasonable to assume that they would do the fair thing.
As it is, they didn’t. (There was a tweet today, and a forum post, and someone may have posted something on reddit, but who goes there?) But that’s not actually the player’s fault. You go to the News page, you expect it to have the relevant news. Especially since they waste so many words on irrelevant-to-most-people ‘news’.
The thing about expectations is that whoever holds the information is responsible for setting them.
Because if they don’t, it will be set for them without the correct information and it will probably be wrong.
As it is, it’s been blown out of proportion, sure.
But it’s also a bit of a dick move, and poorly communicated. ie: An avoidable mistake.
(lso, a mistake they keep making. And really… how often does a company need to go making the avoidable mistake of unpopular decisions communicated poorly before it’s reasonable for people start to asking them why the hell aren’t they learning, yet?)
They’ve got no reason to stop while people keep giving them money.
And that’s the thing. We’re all so conditioned by modern society to consume and consume, that not consuming can be quite a tricky concept for some to handle.
What’s the Venn diagram between people that are so addicted to Destiny that literally one time they can’t play a single strike causes them to hulk out in a frothing rage and people that haven’t purchased the DLC?
This is outrage for outrage’s sake. It’s tiresome.
Don’t think I’m having a go at you personally, I’m not. The whole gamer culture is starting g to get to me. On the whole they really are some of the worst people out there. I need to just retreat to Tay and stay here.
Every public-facing employee of every major company needs this tattooed in reverse on their forehead (or something to that effect). How can game developers/marketers not see what they’re doing to their products?
To marketers: “Everything is a let down because you have a habit of making people believe it’s ambrosia for months before they can try it themselves. Freaking quit it.”
But they’ve stopped me playing anything! I can’t even get into my home until I buy the DLC which I can’t do because work has fired me until I do!
Stupid Bungie.
Anyone heard when The Evil Within DLC is due? I bought a season pass :-/
I was wondering this myself
i am LOVING today… day is going by so smoothly… I’m alone in the office, caught up with all my work yesterday so im kicking back and browsing the internutz.
\o/
Then check your replies and clicky the link 🙂
what link?
Means all the important urgent pile of work is arriving at 4:45pm.
means im out the door 15mins later!!! \o/
got me thinking, id love for quantic dream to release a quad pack, with remastered editions of Nomad Soul, Indigo Prophecy, Heavy Rain and Beyond: Two Souls… i would buy the crap out of it.
Yeah, I’d buy that.
Even Heavy Rain/Beyond I’d be happy to buy again.
yeah but i have a soft spot for nomad soul… its what got me into cages games…. and indigo prophecy i hadnt played till after i played heavy rain… and for one reason or another, i havent finished it….
Oh yeah, I’d love to play them all again but realistically I’d accept those latest two just cause they’d be easier to remaster. 🙂
Fahrenheit was my first QD game. Haven’t played Nomad Soul.
Really hasn’t aged well, unfortunately. Fahrenheit has though. 😀
nomad soul is awesome, though as @dc mentioned it hasnt aged well… would need to be an entirely reworked game. from graphics, to animation, the works.
i remember you had the option at certain points of the game to find someone and remove your soul from your host and move into any new host. large open world game… it was pretty groundbreaking at the time.
Well looky here https://www.humblebundle.com/?gift=eYWFeMKfMh5HEAwq it’s a duplicate comment
and this was to you @zetrox2k
Looks like it loses the reply person if you duplicate comment post
Damn Duplicate Comments! So annoying.
Comments annoying duplicate! Damn so.
are you trying to make me do less work today??? if that’s even possible! thanks tigs!!!
love the “im not a robot” check boxes on humblebundle.com… reminds me of that WoW episode of south park… “im not an artard….)
:'(
i guess humblebundle has barred you indefinitely seeing as it doesnt cater to your kind?
There’s a reason for that.
http://tinyurl.com/3jea56z
Humble bundle are gods darn racists! >.
Damn humanists!
Hmm. It’s Teen Dog day, and seems like it’s not all that hot outside. But I also want to just eat and sleep for lunch instead. Tough choice.
…Teen Dog Day?
Gooky lives in his own little world. I legit love it. Haha!
Where else would I live? 😛
I dunno, man. I dunno. You’ve got me there. I’ve got some thinking to do.
I just mean a world where MSN is a viable option and all your endearing little quirks. XD
Some jerk’s been bricking up a wall to seal that world away 🙁
There’s still a few holes left though.
Teen Dog!
What.
So. Is there anybody I haven’t added on PS and vice versa? I’ll be playing destiny all day, so might as well suffer with comrades.
My condolences old friend =P
It could be worse he could …
…
ummmm, give me a minute.
I don’t play that but add me anyways 🙂
Me! did you just grab a PS4? been meaning to get back into some destiny… in all fairnes, it is a very fun game, unfortunately there isnt much you can do to keep the overhyped train from crashing into the wall of disappointment.
I don’t play destiny but you can add me if you so wish my PSN ID is; virus_mw
add me if you like, I’ma be playing the shite outta everything starting late next week once I go on Christmas break.
Shut Up and Sit Down are doing a series of articles counting down their top 25 board games.
I think it’s mostly because Paul and Quinns (the two main writers) have been traipsing about on holidays and Christmas is coming up, so it’s hard to churn out their usual content. It’s funny because really, all this has done is make me realise that top X lists are kind of meh. No matter how you try to format them, I just don’t find them very interesting.
The best board game is Buckaroo.
Game of Life
Mouse trap.
Except for the 95% of time when a vital component is missing. 😀
I can honestly say, I’ve never had a successful game of Mouse Trap
The anticipation though before you discover that is always pretty great, though. XD
A top anything of board games would be inherently tricky because there are so many different categories. You’d have to break it down into top Euro-games, top building games, top card games, etc etc.
On a side note, have you heard of/played Viticulture? It’s kinda similar to Agricola and I really enjoyed it. You basically build up a vineyard and produce wine to win and it was pretty detailed for what it was.
You could say that of anything with a mix of genres.
Haven’t played Viticulture yet. I really do love me some Agricola and will probably give it a go eventually but it’s not a game that I’m going out of my way to get. We’ve already got a handful of worker placement games in this house that don’t get played.
link please!
Games 25-21.
I think they’re doing an article a day up on their main site.
So why can’t they just make Deadly Premonition available to the PS4 users on PSN, rather than show it as available to download (but it only works on PS3)? That got my hopes up, really wanted to play this based on the feedback I’ve seen.
Xmas holidays is so close I can taste it!
Xmas holidays is so close I can taste it!
What?
Have you finished Episode Delta yet??
Negative. Maybe about half way through it.
But more random travel than’s needed but I appreciate the extra story.
http://www.siliconera.com/2014/12/09/etrian-mystery-dungeon-first-etrian-odyssey-rated-e10/
Wait, the game has an ESRB rating (with a localization) already?! It was only announced last week!
Baw, Teen Dog day is tomorrow. Stupid misleading website 😛
On the plus side I’ve got an extra copy of #3 that I was needing. Now just need to wait on them getting another copy of #2 like I asked. And hopefully they’ll have enough of #4 tomorrow…
One more copy of screencheat available https://www.humblebundle.com/?gift=eYWFeMKfMh5HEAwq
Whoever wants it can fight it out in the comments below. Or just claim it, whatevers
Do the people who claim the extra copies get the bonus stuff as well, or is it just whoever placed the order for the four?
Just the person you order the 4 pack I believe
That said, I already own critical mass so if you want it……..
Oh, I was just thinking of grabbing it for me and a couple of others, and was curious.
Well @saturday or @zetrox2k might be able to confirm if they got it or not. I don’t think they did
nah just got screencheat… had critical mass already though…
I nabbed it, if not only to appease @trjn.
I’m not gonna play it though HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH
Appease me like the angry god that I am.
Well, not so much god as unemployed twenty-something who spends far too much time playing Spelunky and has some slight hayfever right now.
We made it, we’re in Brisbane \o/
My condolences.
It could be worse. He could be in Adelaide.
You mean Radelaide!
That doesn’t sound like something I would say. 😛
I THOUGHT WE WERE FRIENDS
You know I always hate it when people criticize my city. I felt a stir of riled upness even when Saturday said that about Brisbane. My way to counter that was to criticize someone elses city. I’m a moron. 😛
If it’s any consolation, he’s stuck with having to live in Canada.
What a sucker.
Ugh, the worst people live over there!
I bet they’re sorry, eh?
I hate it because I chose to live here, having been born in Perth.
it used to be a happy medium, not so busy as Sydney, not as backwater as WA, but lately, she’s been getting busier 🙁
I don’t mind when the locals bitch about Brisbane. Just out-of-towner types. I don’t know why. There’s plenty to bitch about. Haha! I get irrationally defensive. XD
Since I lived in Brissy until I was seven, am I allowed to criticise it?
My favourite piece of Brisbane graffiti is something I saw spraypainted on my block: “This town sux but it’s ours”
That about sums it up, Transient. 🙂
Brisbane is amazing!
I think you guys take it for granted a bit, to be honest.
It’s so beautiful 🙂
Perth is, Perth 😛
I think everyone finds reason to bitch about their home city. Grass is always greener and all that. 🙂
Everywhere is nicer than Perth but, so hearing people badmouth their own towns when they have it so good seems weird to me, haha! 😀
That doesn’t mean badmouth Perth!
I still have to live here, after all 😛
FWIW, I bash Adelaide as much as the next man. Well, at least the NIMBYs.
I apologize. I was just being a jerk for the sake of being a jerk.
You don’t need to apologize. I’m the one with knee jerk reaction. 😀
No, pretty sure Adelaide is better, they do have the Coopers brewery after all.
Edit: I can’t even spell the name of my favourite beer, GG me.
Man. Those parmagianas.
Ah, from the Alehouse?
So huge. So many chips hidden beneath.
Somehow my friend managed to wolf his down in like 15 minutes or something. Took the rest of us closer to half an hour. Huge effort from the tiniest of our group, she doesn’t usually eat all that much but still managed to polish hers off too. Even if she abandoned the cheese 😛
Now I’m hungry. Let’s all get food!
Soooo muuuuuuch cheeeeeeeese
Any plans for Saturday?
Not at the moment, but I’ll keep you updated. Any tips on the cheapest way to get from the airport to the city? Please don’t say the airtrain. Can’t believe how expensive that is, might as well get a taxi.
A hahahahahahaaaaaaaa!
You have no idea the price of a taxi here. Public transport is just ridiculously priced in SEQ.
Can with multiple passengers is still a better deal than the airtrain
Wee gunna travel bye can!
The airtrain is ducked, but I’ve used it multiple times.
You don’t wanna be screwing around switching buses, which us the cheapest.
Get a cab.
Too late we’re on a bus to a shopping centre, (not sure which one) then we’ll get another bus from there. Thanks though.
DFO, then a bus to Toombul.
Do yourself a favour & cross over to the train station when you get to Toombul (just acroos the main road)
Can use the same ticket & train is just better all around
Got a flyer in our office letterbox:
“Mature Australian gentlemen looking to meet young, Asian lady to share an apartment in [suburb]. Rent negotiable to the right applicant”. With a picture attached.
Yeah… 😛
How much did it cost you to get them printed up and distributed?
Officeworks has some good deals.
O_o
All across Ho Chi Minh City we kept seeing older white men with young asian women.
Sex tourism. Gross.
Last time you do it?
Only sex tourism I engaged in was trying to pick up a Belgian student at a pub and failing miserably. Struck out bad.
Aw, did you show her your dong?
There’s a point somewhere where I’ll be tired of that joke but it’s not in the foreseeable future at least.It was in Cambodia, so I tried to show her a Riel good time.
If @strange can do an Undad giveaway (and she is!), so can I.
When the campaign finishes, two backers will be selected at random and will have their pledges upgraded to include the limited edition journal (current value about $150)
A further two will be selected at random to have their likenesses added to Issue 3 or 4 (this comes with an opt-out option, of course).
Folks from TAY (present and past) make up around 45% of the funds donated to this campaign. It’s pretty safe to say Undad wouldn’t be happening without you. This is my way of saying thanks (or one of them, anyway).
Five days left: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shanewsmith/undad-comic-miniseries-issues-1-and-2/
Can I win it in hard cover?
:p
Why they didn’t just include the original localisation of this on the HD remaster is anyone’s guess.
http://www.play-asia.com/ryu-ga-gotoku-12-hd-edition-paOS-13-49-en-70-55ef.html
Go Sega
Ooh, got some streetpass hits at the airport, nice.
I really need to take my 3DS places my total number of Street Passes ever is pathetic, less than 10. ‘swot I get for being a hermit.
I never wanna do it cos it fees battery & I wanna play on the train!
It really doesn’t drain that much battery at all. My 3DS would still only get the red battery light at the end of the week if I didn’t bother to turn off the wireless during the day while at work and at night once I got home, and still with clearing them out each night with the 3D still turned on. If you’re playing it daily and charging it in preparation for that you shouldn’t see much in the way of playtime loss.
Mine runs out on the way home sometime s when I do it.
Remember, I have two 40min train rides a day plus wait time etc.
Dunno what the deal is, I never use 3d but with WiFi on, it’ll run out before I make it home.
That is super strange.
Unless you’ve got it set up to connect to one of the access points you hang out near during the day? Then if it’s using actual WiFi it might drain the battery faster. Assuming it’s like the DS where they had their own low-power protocol for system-to-system communications. I remember playing through WFC drained the battery way faster than with local wireless play. Throw the rumble pak into the mix while using the touch screen and it was a fast track to flatsville.
I ran an experiment back when playing OoT3D, testing out how much playtime I got with 3D on and 3D off, and I think with the wireless on and off. Totally can’t remember the results though, or what I did with the paper they were written on.
Maybe I just forgot to charge one night & have been over careful since.
Keep it on in the cbd, I usually get a few. Each eb has one in store too
Oooh, I forgot about Secret Ponchos!
Keen to give it a go!
I need to get back into gaming more.
I was super bad at it this year :\
Just wasn’t feeling it.
I played too many games, I think. And didn’t ‘savour’ the games as much as I could. I need to learn to appreciate my free time more.
I’ve hardly finished anything this year 🙁
Between uni and work, I just didn’t have time or energy for games.
Gonna try and get back into it next year though hopefully 🙂
Some of my favourite games of all time will be selected from 2014’s pool, I suspect. This was an amazing year for games. The Big Question article has be utterly baffled as to what is wrong with people or their memories. Even Mark has been effuse in his praise of so many of 2014’s games on a level I hadn’t seen in other years. Was it some kind of scarcity psychology making folks have to be more enthusiastic in desperation for having nothing else to cling to? I don’t know…
I agree. This is what I’ve finished this year:
Broken Age (2014)
The Wolf Among Us (2014)
The Walking Dead 2 (2014)
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze (2014)
inFamous: Second Son (2014)
Botanicula
Moebius (2014)
Tex Murphy: Tesla Effect (2014)
Murdered: Soul Suspect (2014)
Mario Kart 8 (2014)
Wolfenstein: The New Order (2014)
South Park: The Stick of Truth (2014)
Valiant Hearts: The Great War (2014)
The Last of Us Remastered (2014)
Diablo 3 (2014)
Destiny (2014)
Transistor (2014)
LIMBO
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter (2014)
Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments (2014)
Costume Quest 2 (2014)
Alien: Isolation (2014)
Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers (2014)
Dreamfall Chapters: Book One (2014)
Tales from the Borderlands – Ep 1 (2014)
Dragon Age: Inquisition (2014)
Game of Thrones – Ep 1 (2014)
I can point to a number that could rival all-time favourites. Not all are 2014 games, but the majority are and there’s so much quality here.
Then there’s stuff I haven’t finished like Divinity: Original Sin which I’ve left off. AMAZING.
Jesus, I a vent played that manybinb3 year period!
FUAAARRKKKK!!!! You the man DC.
Highperformances games finished this year:
Super Mario Wii U
Destiny
Titanfall (If you can say that you ‘finished’ Destiny and Titanfall)
Starbound
Gone Home
Games purchased this year:
Super Mario World 3D
Destiny
Call of Duty Advanced Warfare
Alien Isolation
Europa Universalis IV
Shovel Knight
Fallout 3
Fallout New Vegas (To be fair I’ve finished the last two before)
X-Wing Alliance
Super Smash Bros Wii U
Mario Kart Wii U
Monster Hunter 4
Fifa 15
Battlefield 4
Darkwood
X-Com
Stanley Parable
Yeahhhhhhh I have a lot of work to do.
There has been heaps of good games this year, but I just haven’t been feeling it.
Not many that I was interested in, and didn’t have the time to actually sit down and enjoy the games I wanted to enjoy.
It’s been a good year for games, but a bad year for games for me.
Not game this year that would crack my top 50. Lots of good games but nothing truly great.
Really? Not even Wolf Among Us? I figure Telltale style adventure gaming should get a spot in any top 50 of gaming, and Wolf Among Us is their best entry so far. (Not having played Tales from the Borderlands yet.)
You should really play Tales from the Borderlands. <3
I thought we were talking 2014 games not 2013?
*neckbeard intensifies*
😛
2013 was all promises, the 2014 game was promises delivered. 🙂
I blame that mid year gap. There was. A few months were barely anything dropped & think October came & BOOM!
Depends on your taste in games.
Lots of games came out and lots of games some people like.
I’m not one of those people though.
Give parents a map.
ask parents to mark on map the route they use outside of school. School centered on map.
parents mark route well outside confines of map, complain of issues outside of map.
I can’t use this data, waste of effort.
So badly need to nap. This is what I get for not being lazy.
I picked up one of these. Definitely worth checking out if you’re after a gamecube controller for Smash but can’t get an adapter.
That being said, it is most definitely not a gamecube controller. The left stick feels kind of loose and dashing isn’t amazing. Left stick smashes also aren’t a good option because of this, although it means tilt attacks are the easiest thing in the world to pull off. It could just be that I’ve already got used to the Wii U Gamepad which practically feels like it has auto-dash enabled.
It feels good in the hands and is a fabulous shade of pink. Really, what else could you ask for?
The Hori Battle Pad. Same kind of deal, though it’s got turbo functions and none of that silly gloss finish. Plus I find Hori to be pretty trustworthy in terms of quality.
Oh, and I could ask for rumble. But ain’t nobody getting that out of a classic controller.
I’ve been thinking about my favourite stuff of 2014:
Favourite TV season:
Easily The Leftovers. So compelling. So well shot. Some of the most striking imagery this side of Hannibal. Probably the most immersed I’ve been in a story this year, I think. Just loved it.
Favourite movie:
I’m tempted to say Her, but keep coming back to Guardians of the Galaxy. It was a huge, sprawling blockbuster but one I absolutely loved. Fell in love with that world so much.
Favourite game:
Dragon Age: Inquisition was pretty incredible, but I keep thinking if I could only play one game this year it would have been Alien: Isolation. Such a unique experience. Then there’s stuff like Ethan Carter and Valiant Hearts. *flails arms*
Favourite album:
Prepare to judge me. Didn’t buy any albums this year. D:
Favourite book:
Once again, didn’t read any thing new. I’M A MONSTER.
Movies and TV shows I can’t do,I guess album is a competition between 1989 and… Actually I think that’s the only whole album I’ve listened to this year. De-fault! De-fault! De-fault!
Surprising nobody, Transistor’s my game of the year. Lots of strong games, but I loved every aspect of it.
Book I either cheat, and say my re-read of the Mistborn trilogy (so good), or go with Words of Radiance, since it was the only book that made me leave work early to take a nap because I’d missed sleep to read it.
Hmm, I want to do this too 🙂
TV Season:
Tempted to also say The Leftovers, but I think it’s been surpassed by How to Get Away With Murder for me.
Annoying lead character aside, I’m quite transfixed by it.
Movie:
It’s a three way toss up between Interstellar, Gone Girl, and Boyhood.
All three won’t hold up well to multiple viewings now, however, but I’ll probably have to pick Interstellar.
I’ve cried every time I’ve watched it :'(
Game:
Hmm, this one is a tough one.
I’ll have to pick Mario Kart 8.
I haven’t played many games this year, but playing online with friends was a highlight for this year for me 🙂
Album:
I’m going to pick this from what I bought this year, regardless of release date.
I was hooked on Reflektor for a while there, as well as AM by Arctic Monkeys, but as a whole I think Lordes Pure Heroin is the better album.
Whiles it’s best song (Ribs, FYI) isn’t as good as say Arcade Fires Porno or Arctic Monkeys R U Mine, the album as a whole is stronger.
Book:
HA! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! BOOKS!
FUNNY!
I guess the only book I read this year was Information Technology: PROJECT MANAGEMENT, 7th edition.
I’d recommend bleach to the eyes before this book.
I loved Interstellar so much, but the goofy grin that Guardians name conjures tips it over the scale. I think sometimes I feel expected to put serious over comedic, but comedic wins out this time for me. Not criticizing your choice at all. Was a brilliant movie. Haven’t seen Boyhood yet. :'(
I still loved Guardians, but I was captivated by each of my three options.
Each of my three movies was more of an experience, for me anyway.
They won’t hold up to multiple viewings well at all, now that I’ve seen each ones “moment” or selling point (in the case of Boyhood), whereas Guardians will hold up because it’s purely a fun movie.
I know Guardians will overtake Interstellar in the long run for me, this is just going off initial viewings 🙂
Worst movie would be Transformers 4. *glares at @freezespreston* 😛
Also Godzilla was a let down. I think that’s why Guardians blew me away. First blockbuster that didn’t really disappoint for me this year. 🙂
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes was amazing, though. Saw it with good company. 😉
Oh, I still haven’t seen Godzilla!
That looked like it was going to be good too! Might be one of those mindless movies though, I reckon (sit down, brain off).
Not even going to bother watching Transformers 😛
I think my least favourite movie of this year has been Anabelle.
Went in expecting scares, but it was just disappointing.
There was one terrifying moment, but it was let down by the rest of the movie.
Shame too, it was the first “horror” movie I’d seen in the movies since the original the Mummy (that was terrifying for a 6 year old! Nightmares for weeks!).
I was terrified of The Mummy too, when I first saw it.
I think I was like twice as old as you though :p
There was only one scene that scared me:
When the Mummy took the guys eyes and tongue. POOR GUY. 🙁A guy gets his tongue cut out!
Another gets his eyes ripped out!
There’s a guy walking around with no skin!
WHO TAKES A 6 YEAR OLD TO SEE THAT?!?!
@dc SO MUCH THAT
Although the whole walking corpse thing in general was pretty bad too.
The Mummy? The Brendan Fraser one? Scary? I guess the whole being six thing is a valid excuse! 😛
Look at it from a six year olds perspective!
People get eaten alive by bugs!
Tongues and eyes get cut out!
There’s a skinless guy!
It was horrifying, and I still don’t enjoy watching it to this day :'(
Regarding edit.
I enjoyed the company far more than the actual movie on that one 😉
“Oh no, there’s coke everywhere!”
Great day 🙂
One of my highlights, actually 🙂
I’m haunted whenever I go to that cinema now and hold onto drink extra carefully. 😛
I’ll have to take you back there when I’m next over 🙂
See another movie and see if you can hold your drink next time 😛
Really wish I saw guardians before the hype.
Really wish I find the time to see Interstellar at the movies.
I was off work yesterday, thought I’d catch it, nope, didn’t start til afternoon when I’m busy again.
Way to go various different cinemas having the exact same times too.
Favourite TV season:
Gah. I don’t think I’ve watched much. Only Californication and some of Sons of Anarchy. Sons is probably ahead at this stage, but can it stick the landing? Time will tell. Newsroom quite possibly could belong on this list too, but I haven’t seen it yet.
Favourite movie:
I’ve seen three films in the cinema this year: Interstellar, Guardians of the Galaxy, and Tinker Bell and the Pirate Fairy. Two of them were pretty good but I don’t really want to watch any of them again. ABSTENTION.
Favourite game:
Dark Souls 2. Next.
Favourite album:
I don’t tend to listen to music made this century.
Favourite book:
Don’t think I’ve read anything published this year except for my book, The Game. So, that… I guess.Edit: was Metro 7 a 2014 book? Well, it’s that, then.Blunt opinion of season three of The Newsroom that doesn’t really contain any spoilers:
Not Sorkin’s finest work. Part of me thinks it should’ve ended after season two now. Still decent. Just flawed. Would be surprised if it ended up your favourite season of the year.Oh well. That makes the decision a bit easier then.
Wait, when was Treme season 4?
Last December. 😀
I’ve seen the Pirate Fairy about eight times now.
None were my choice and I’d prefer not to but beside the point 😛
Dunno. INQUISITION for game of the year.
Tv will be game of thrones because the only other thing I watched was Dr who which is up & down in quality.
Movie? Dunno, was LEGO this year? I watched some way better older movies, Coherence was fantastic.
Album, Shin Megami Tensei IV OST, by far. But I’m behind on my pop.
Book, again, older stuff. Foundation trilogy is amazing!
Inquisition was pretty damn great, I think the side missions is pulling it down for a lot of people but I still think if all that stuff was cut and it was the core story it would still be amazing.
But they’re side missions. I wouldn’t praise many games if I based it on the dude missions.
That said, I found a lot of Inquisition side missions interesting or I was able to collect shards while doing an interesting one.
Yeah, there’s nothing I hate about INQUISITION, it’s so good.
My only criticism was some of the side regions were so damn beautiful I wanted some more complex stories there with cutscenes and NPCs and lots of dialogue and good vs. evil choices. The main missions had that plenty, but would’ve been nice if the side missions felt more BioWare-like. I agree that it kicked ass, though. 😀
I don’t get it. You just wanted more main stuff but there would have been so much less to do if they put that much work into side missions.
The world would have seemed emptier in that case.
The side missions were just little bonuses & you can finish the game without have to do the most boring.
(I’m not having a go, just discussing)
I know. Friendly discussion. 🙂 I just thought it was more a structural problem that there should have atleast been one main mission to anchor every region, I guess. Some felt like a stage waiting for something to happen that never did.
I liked how most main mission s used their own levels. Felt bigger & newer
Yeah, felt a bit compartmentalized to me. Like you knew nothing big was going to go down if there was no main quest happening. But we’re both Dragon Age true believers. Amazing game.
Troo BEELEEVAH
Didn’t read Metro 7 this year? You really are a monster!
I think my favourite movie of this year was The Wind Rises. So, so good! I really need to watch it again one day. Second place goes to Gone Girl with Guardians fairly high up there as well. Like Father, Like Son was pretty cool too.
Can’t remember all that much TV from this year though… I guess maybe the latest season of Shameless? I really enjoyed that. Walking Dead has been pretty good lately too. I’ve been watching way more Australian shows lately over the big must-see shows.
No idea about my favourite game. Maybe Hyrule Warriors? Bayonetta 2 at an outside chance… I dunno, nothing seemed to truly standout this year for me. Mario Kart is good but it needs more single-player content and Pokemon is good but has some massive flaws. Overall good year for games, just no obvious favourite!
Metro 7 was this year? There you go.
Can we also do one?
I’m doing one anyway cause it seems fun!
TV: Has to be Sons of Anarchy, it’s been a hell of a ride (get it ride?). Shame it’s the final season and all, especially being the final episode tonight!
Movie: Uh, I have no idea if i’ve even seen a new release movie this year that was not Sharknado 2 or The Grumpy Cat Christmas movie. Both terrible, but also both amusing.
Game: Only new games I bought were Infamous Second Son & Last Light which I am still to play & Warlords of Draenor. Favourite game though, would probably have to be GTA V on PS4, it’s nice to be in Los Santos again with all the new tweaks and prettier scenery to be immersed in. I like the photography challenge, that’s really cool!
Album: Has to be Slipknots new album .5: The Gray Chapter, so awesome. But there was like another 17 albums I bought this year heh.
Book: I don’t think I bought any books this year. I read a few, but nothing that came out this year..
Haha! Was hoping people would continue. I was worried no one would, so didn’t ask you too! The hope was there, though. XD Sons of Anarchy is getting a lot of buzz this season. I’m not following it, but getting that kind of hype reserved for the greats. 😀
Well Kurt Sutter is a pretty amazing writer and his team of writers & directors & producers seem to nail the show rather well. I’ll be amazed if they can top one of the previous season’s ending, though they may have already topped this season in terms of shock factor heh.
Oh wow, I forgot the Lego Movie was this year. Otherwise it was going to be between Guardians and TMNT for me. Oh, and John Wick. Which would have pretty much gone straight to TMNT, but between that and Lego I’m not so sure.
TV… ha, I don’t even remember what that is. Um. I’ve liked the latest of Person Of Interest.
This year was the first year I bought an album, so it’s Redeemer Of Souls by default 😛
I didn’t read anything, let alone anything new. Oh wait, I lied. TEEN DOG!
And the big one, favourite game… most of my favourite stuff I played this year was actually from last year. Link Between Worlds, Pokemon Y, 3D World. But there’s pretty much only DK Tropical Freeze, since the 3DS had nothing and the only other thing it could be would be Bayonetta (Smash is great and all, but I wouldn’t rate it above the other two) but I haven’t opened it up yet. Otherwise, Elite: Dangerous.
I’m terrible at picking a favorite anything, but I think my favorite TV show that started this year would have to be Rick & Morty, so damned funny, I got the DVD as soon as it came out. No way I could pick a game.
Favourite TV Season: Probably Game of Thrones as apart from Doctor Who, it’s the only one I’ve watched all the way through.
Favourite movie: Easy choice for me, Guardians of the Galaxy. Great movie with an amazing soundtrack full of earworms.
Favourite game: Not sure I can answer this one. I haven’t bought a lot of games that came out this year.
Favourite album: Queen Forever, followed closely by World on Fire by Slash. Listened to both those albums many, many times.
Favourite book: Tie between Metro 7 and The Great Zoo of China. Both great books, which would go well as movies.
Favourite TV season:
Old series: Hannibal Season 2 was incredible
New series: Fargo. Was initially verrrrry skeptical but they nailed it, and Alison Tolman needs to be in everything
Favourite movie:
Didn’t see very many. I loved Guardians of the Galaxy, but my number one film is actually The Grand Budapest Hotel. Who knew Ralph Fiennes was hilarious?
Favourite game:
In terms of hours logged, probably Destiny, though it is flawed in several ways. I loved The Wolf Among Us, and Tales from the Borderlands had a strong first ep. Broken Age was also very good
Favourite album:
Only picked up a couple of new ones, but Royksopp’s The Inevitable End was really good
Favourite book:
Spent this year reading a lot of older books, so I only read two 2014 releases. The Slow Regard of Silent Things was a wonderful, slight experience, but my best book has to be The Causal Angel by Hannu Rajaniemi, which was a massive and mindblowing end to his Quantum Thief trilogy
Very psyched for impending Hannibal season 3. Especially with…
Gillian Anderson in the main cast.It’s gonna be insane. I hope they get David Bowie for the role they want him for tooWas Grande Budapest this year? Well forget everything I just said.
WES!
Loved that film. Also, hadn’t clicked that it was out on Blu Ray yet, def going on the Christmas list.
Yeah, he always delivers the goods & really stands out with his visual style.
definitely film of the year!
It wasn’t until after Budapest that I watched Moonrise Kingdom, which is also insanely good
Oh yeah, I don’t think he’s done a bad film.
He is getting better though
+1 for Grand Budapest Hotel, was my choice as well 🙂
TV show? I didn’t really watch any to be honest. Not enough time to devote that much to them.
Movie? John Wick. Surprise of the year too. Low rent looking action flick turned out to be one of the most well made and thought out movies I’ve seen in a long time.
Game? Fuck you Dark Souls 2 for making me pick you.
Album? Only new album I purchased was Austrian Death Machine’s Triple Brutal so default I guess. Best album I got was Daniel Johnston’s Hi How Are You but that is disqualified for being a tad bit older.
Book? Again. Default. Great Zoo of China.
Oh wait, TV would be Bob’s Burgers. Can’t beat an underground guerilla protest performance of Die Hard: The Musical.
You see Man of Tai Chi?
I did. It was enjoyable enough but nothing particularly remarkable.
A million times better than Tai Chi Zero/Hero though.
I didn’t see that. Will avoid
Beavwa’s Monster List of things from this year also experienced this year:
TV – Game of Thrones and Doctor Who. I guess GoT did what it always does, and I personally rated the new Doctor Who season the second worst one (after season two)
Movies – Guardians of the Galaxy, some Eastern Cinema White Witch movie, John Wick, Lego Movie. Hey, that’s a higher total than most years, easy pick for Guardians.
Album – Last album I bought was in 2007. Bah humbug.
Books – got back into reading with the third Witcher book. Got back out of reading because the third Witcher book wasn’t very good.
Games – Smash wins purely for the amount of local co-op and multi that has already been played.
Other qualifiers are
– pokeyman OR, but I’ve literally spent hundreds more hours on Y.
– fantasy life – side quest the game. Decent amusement to fill in some time.
Edit: ohhhhh Dark Souls 2 was this year as well. Guess I played through that, but it didn’t feel ‘complete’ with all the rebalance patching during first playthrough and no DLC play yet.
Early this year was spent on several hundred hours of Monster Hunter, then there was more Minecraft, and I’ve started chipping away at Far Cry 3 to finally get the pile of shame moving. Quiet year for me.
Favourite TV season:
Sons of Anarchy by a long shot. End of Suits was a close 2nd but was a little same samey towards the end.
Favourite Movie:
Harder… i’m leaning towards Predestinatation. Watched it twice on the plane.
Favourite Game:
Can’t really answer this as games I finished this year were from my backlog. Going back to study really chewed into my time to play games. So I’ll say Tomb Raider… Really ticked boxes for me and had a great story explaining how Lara got to where she was in later games. I played Ps3 version… but it got remastered for 2014… so that counts right?
Favourite Album:
Dead heat between Lana Del Ray – Ultraviolence and Flight Facilities – Down to Earth.
Honorable mention to Arctic Monkeys.
Favourite Book:
Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson and The Slow Regard of Silent Things by Patrick Rothfuss. Both excellent books albeit vastly different approaches to the writing (Words is traditional fantasy writing, Slow regard is more of… a journey and learning experience)
High five for Words of Radiance!
Really need to get into reading Rothfuss. I have The Name of the Wind sitting right there *points backwards and to the left with head* but I don’t tend to read dead tree books much any more.
For a minute there…I thought I’d forgot about AM, but then checked and that was last year. Would totally of topped my list if it was 2014.
Favourite TV season:
Hannibal
Favourite movie:
Gone Girl
Favourite game:
The Wolf Among Us
Favourite album:
Angels & Airwaves – The Dream Walker
Favourite book:
The Ocean at the End of the Lane – Neil Gaiman (I don’t care if it came out last year, I only read it this year :P)
Needs to see me Gone Girl. Everyone seems to love it.
I forgot to mention we finally watched GotG on the weekend. Such a cool world.
And when they were having the metaphor conversation with Drax, my son piped up with “He just doesn’t understand it’s a figure of speech!”. But then he broke that illusion of smartness by laughing his head off at the mention of Kevin Bacon: “Hahaha…’BACON’!”. 😛Hahaha! Your son is amazing! 😀
After finishing Guardians of the Galaxy I thought I don’t need any more Firefly. This’ll do instead. 😀
I thought I didn’t need any more Firefly. But then I rewatched the series again earlier this year. I’d forgotten how damn clever it all was.
Aw, maybe I’m just in denial then. 😀
Firefly makes my heart ache for what was and could’ve been.
But never can be.
Hm. I should give it a watch 😛
Love this idea DC!
TV Season:
I started watching Mad Men season 1, about a couple of episodes from the end but really really like it. I love the setting and just when you start liking a character they do something that makes you think ‘Yeah, this WAS set in the 1960’s. I love Don Draper, he’s my TV show hero even with all of his transgressions aside. Cool, relatively calm and damn SO MUCH 60’S SWAG. I will get back into watching this, I swear. It’s hard for me, so many beautiful leading ladies in the show but they smoke which with my feelings about it makes me torn. Great show!
Movie:
Watched quite a few movies this year, but I can’t look past The Grand Budapest Hotel. So very very enjoyable, I loved the art style and the quirks of all of the characters. A truly marvelous story that get’s better after the first 30 minutes where you fall more in love with each second that passes, bravo Wes Anderson.
Gaems:
I played a LOT of games as you can see from my list earlier in this TAY, I reckon there are games that I still have left off this list lol. It’s a really hard choice between a couple of my all time favourites, Europa Universalis IV and Destiny. I loved EUIV because I am a mad keen European History buff and to see it play out and take nations like Byzantium into Western Europe to smash the Holy Roman Empire was a highlight for me. I have to let Destiny win on a points decision though, I have over 170 hours game time which says it all I think really. I also get to play with what I would call a good mate now in @jackunit13 which I’ve never really done with a video game before, is really fun running around shooting and doing tricks with speeder bikes 10/10 would play again right now.
Favourite album:
I have listened to a couple but not enough to say I’m anything other than an aloof, very very casual musical aficionado. The Bones of What You Believe by Chvrches I really enjoyed, I struggle to remember any other album but I know I liked this. It gets my vote.
Favourite Book:
Ahhhh another great art medium, another great big pile of shame with my books list as big as my non-finished games list lol. Right now I’m reading and have to say the best book I’ve read this year is ‘Why the West rules – For now’ by Ian Morris. It’s an exploration of why the Western World is viewed to be ‘leading the world’ and for how much longer this may be the case. Still not finished but so far I can’t put it down when I get a chance to read it, 9/10 would read again.
Mad Men! A man of good taste, I see. I absolutely love that show! You got to catch up before the home stretch next year! 170 hours in Destiny? WHAAAAAT? That’s crazy talk! The heart wants what the heart wants, I guess. You and Jack are BFFs cause of Destiny! Awwwwwwwww! XD
Yeah we besties now <3
That’s nothing, I’ve played with people who have around 400 hours of playtime which I can’t even begin to fathom doing on Destiny but it’s like crack man.
I was speaking with a friend of mine who was really into WoW and ended up selling his account for $750 just so that he would stop playing and resume his life. He told me at the time it’s like he doesn’t even enjoy playing, he would get home from school or work and turn it on without even thinking. I think this is happening to me with Destiny to some extent… *Shoots self*
<3 luv u bby x :))))
Loving reading through everyone’s choices! I’ll just keep this brief.
Favourite TV season:
Brooklyn Nine Nine.
Favourite movie:
GotG – but still yet to see Interstellar.
Favourite game:
Destiny
Favourite album:
George Ezra’s – Wanted On Voyage or
The Madden Brother’s – Greetings From California
Favourite book:
Definitely Randall Munroe’s – What If.
I really haven’t seen,read,played that much this year. Probably just going for what I played this year rather than something released this year.
Favourite TV season:
Watched doll house which was good, but I would probably have to say I enjoyed Eureka more.
Favourite movie:
Again I haven’t actually seen many. Maybe Winter soldier. Although shooter was pretty good.
Favourite game:
Tomb Raider maybe. Steamworld Dig but think that is just because it was recent and grabbed me.
Favourite album:
Probably still Carolus Rex
Favourite book:
Maybe Tactics of mistake. Although I’m not sure a book published in 1971 was quite what you were looking for.
Favourite TV Season
August marked the first time in 3 years that I watched television, and it was to watch sports like some kind of nerd.
Favourite movie
The only movies I’ve watched this year include John Wick, and Guardians of the Galaxy. Guardians of the Galaxy was the better flick.
Favourite game
I’ve only played one game this year that came out in 2014. I think. So this prestigious award goes completely uncontested to Always Sometimes Monsters, a.k.a. Hobo RPG.
I slept in an alleyway and managed to avoid starving to death. I didn’t finish it. 10/10
Favourite Album
The shit is an album? Is that one of those ‘music’ things that the kids like these days? I’ll just sit in the corner and listen to the Kill la Kill soundtrack on repeat, thanks.
(Actually if the Kill la Kill OST counts I’ll totally nominate that)
Favourite book
I think I only read one book this year, and that was Skulduggery Pleasant Book 9: The
Dying of the Light. A decent read, but it was a terrible way to end such a long-spanning series. Don’t leave so many unresolved plot points for Christ’s sake!
Something happened last night in Dragon Age Inquisition. I got to the Emerald Graves and suddenly the game got much much better. Enemies are giving decent experience, I found a bunch of new gear for everyone and the side quests are amazing. Unlocked the Reaver specialisation and suddenly I Am Become Death.
Why hasn’t the last 70 hours been like this?
Apparently there’s a patch out that’s fixing the audio issue, might give the game another go and skip all side content this time around.
How do you even get to hour 70 if a game isn’t good enough?
I literally can’t do it, I fall asleep, walk away, do other things, find excuses.
When did I ever say it wasn’t good? It has its fair share of problems and annoyances but overall it’s still a good game.
Good enough, I said. But yeah, mis understood.
Alright, in a few hours, I will be on a plane to Melbourne. I believe I will be able to attend @evilmonkey ‘s meat on the 14th, although timing is going to be tricky. Can anyone fill me in on the details of this meat? Location, time etc. Thank you, and I hope to be meeting all of you.
The gist of it is that it’s going to be for dinner on the 14th and we’ll meet at a cafe named Optic at federation square, which is up the long stairs and down the left side if you’re entering from Flinders street, should be easy to find. This is our normal meeting spot. In terms of time, @evilmonkey what time will you be arriving?
Plane gets in at 5:35, so I’d say 6:15 – 6:30 to be on the safe side. Great you can make it little phlanisbuddy, hope you can come too @scree.
I’ll be in the city in the afternoon shopping methinks so I’ll definitely be there and I got the next Monday off so I can stay for a fair while
@phlanispo and Monkey by the way, send your contact numbers to sdcdragonman[at]hotmail[dot]com so we can keep in contact via SMS otherwise we may never find each other as I don’t know what either of you look like
I sent the email, however I got a failure notice.
Okay, I sent it again. Time will tell if it works.
Got it, thanks!
Money is a little bit of an issue atm. I would like to come, but the public transport is crap and I’ll probably have to take a taxi home at least. Mum will let me know
So I just saw the article about piracy….. anyone know how to VPN? =D
I know nothing, but does a VPN help if the ISP is the one who has to enforce everything? The traffic all comes through them regardless, doesn’t it?
VPN will help… the ISP will know something is moving on their network, but can’t see what it actually is. Creates a private tunnel of sorts to another server which then fetches your data and feeds it back through your tunnel.
So, defeats the purpose of aussie ISPs attempting to block the sites… Also, with most torrents supporting DHT networks, or trackerless torrents, the need for a tracker to be scraped to collect new peer data is less of an issue than it was 5 or 6 years ago.
All the new legislation will do is fragment the torrent sites into smaller players… creates a game of whack-a-mole until the mechanisims used to block/police the sites becomes overwhelmed and we all go back to square one… or usenet.
Google VPN, download & then install?
Yeah, but there’s an awful lot of shit out there, and a lot of that shit is buying high pageranks.
At Roma street, now just have to get a bus out to Ashgrove to grandma’s house.
Roma St! I know this place! *flails arms*
I think there’s a 345 bus that heads out to Ashgrove from Roma Street. I can’t recall sorry. Otherwise try King George Square down the road.
Question: Is dressing fancy to go on a plane still a thing? I thought that practice died out 16 years ago.
Depends on how fancy you consider tracky dacks to be.
Mad Men-style dapper, eh? Don’t think that’s a thing any more! 😀
That was a thing? I always fly in whatever is comfortable.
It’s pretty much only done if you’re flying business class or above. However, if there are possibilities of an upgrade (such as with an overbooked flight), smartly dressed passengers generally fare better in terms of moving to the “classier” sections. Same thing if you choose to fly standby.
If you don’t worry about those things, board shorts and singlet tops are fine.
Even in business class, all but the most determinedly classiest of folks end up looking decidedly rumpled.
Comfort > fanciness. Esp if it’s a long flight
Can’t let the damn flight crew get all the stares.
I presume people only do it when they need to lookbtheur best as soon as they exit the flight
IT’S YOUR FAULT I’M BURNT!
I dressed pretty smart casual / nicely, just to make a good impression for @freezespreston (mainly the Mrs, cause I didn’t want her thinking I was a weird or anything), but after a whole day of flying I looked pretty haggard by the end of the day anyway 😛
Didn’t you spill chocolate down your jacket too? 😛
There’s still a slight stain 🙁
Worth the price for a romantic chocolate dinner with Freezy :*
You were just trying to find an excuse to get your clothes off….
I’m not as subtle as I’d like to be 😉
I’m sorry for laughing at your pain.
Well some people need to go straight from the airport to work 😛
I guess you could change but eh!
Now that someone other than me owns Screencheat, how about we muck about with lobbies and whatnot tonight at 8 (Sydney time)? You can only have four players at a time but if we have overflow, I’m sure we can just split into multiple groups.
Just hop on TeamSpeak.
Good idea? Best idea? Bestest idea!
Good news- I ticked off a box and I can play Screencheat without any stupidity now; bad news is that I can play Screencheat.
(But y’know Latency would still be a bitch)
Our second round went so much better. Who knew that the crossbow could actually be decent?
Sons of Anarchy (up to season 7, ep 4)
This is really violent. Insanely violent. It’s kind of hard to watch. And I’ve definitely started to lose my empathy with the characters because of just how readily they resort to killing to solve their problems. I think Jax has, sadly, passed the point of no return already – all that remains to be seen is how his downfall comes about.The only one who really matters at this stage to me is young Abel. Will he get free from the club and the toxic atmosphere of Charming? That’s the big question for me… and it seems like it’s a bit of a focus for the show as well, which is reassuring.
All in all, this season is a very mixed bag so far. Probably would be great if I felt that the violence was something to revel in. I think the vision of the show is still there under the surface (and this will all make sense in the broader structure of the season), but it’s not coming up for air much at the moment.
I know I’m eight weeks behind, so not really looking to discuss what’s coming, but just dumping my thoughts here… I guess for no real reason.
I’ve been catching up… and am waiting for last episode now…
strap yourself in… the gratuitous violence doesn’t stop anytime soon. I felt the same and that the season has felt like it’s getting waaaayyy beyond the control of the writers. At several points this season I’ve actually had to look away from the screen as it’s just… too much.The season is certainly explosive and Jax is seriously intelligent as more and more pieces start to come into play I continued to feel detatched from him because of the violence but my respect for his ability to manage as the world around him implodes is amazing.
Like i said… Strap in and hold on tight… also the episode lengths get longer and longer… episode 12 clocked in a 80 minutes.
No spoilers
They’ve all just become worse people throughout the show, I feel the same, I don’t care about any of the characters anymore, I think my favorites are Nero and Alvarez (the Mayans leader). Nero seems to genuinely want to get away from all the shit and actually be a decent person, Alvarez is just a good character I think, he’s always straight up and doesn’t manipulate everyone around him. It’s sorta sad but I feel like I’m just watching it because I’ve invested so much time in it already. As for Jax, I never liked him, grew to dislike him more and more with every season, now I totally despise him and want nothing but bad things for him. Hopefully Abel & Monkey kid can get out before too much of Jax rubs off on them. I reread this several times to make sure I didn’t mention anything from the new season.Lol, Monkey kid.. I totally assume you mean Thomas, Abels brother? 😛yep, I always forget his name and he looks like a monkey 😛Hahahahaha. Not sure why we’re spoilering this stuff cause it’s not really spoiler material lol.Played some more Inquisition this morning and finally met this Dorian chap everyone here was talking about.
Were it not for his ‘stache I’d have been underwhelmed. He seems like he might be fun to have around, though. Was pretty funny when we met him and Iron Bull said “Watch yourself, you can’t trust the pretty ones” or something like that. 😀I romanced him good and proper!
My initial impressions were the same as yours, but he ended up being one of my favourites. If I was dating him in real life I’d
make himstrongly suggest he shave, though. 😛He’s my favourite. So much snark.
He pairs well with Solas.
I have him & Sera, so funny.
Well that’s great. Just downloaded the patch for DA:I, and now I can’t play the game at all. Everytime I try and launch it Origin gives me an error message saying it can’t activate the game on my account on this computer.
Ha. The Australian National Dictionary Centre awarded Word of the Year 2014 to “shirtfront”.
*head in hands* So embarrassing. It doesn’t matter how vile I may consider him, I just feel so, so, so bad for people who do such… embarrassing things.
(Also: Representing our nation. Hooray.)
In so many ways, Tony Abbott is our David Brent.
I remember when having internet speed like this was amazing. Now it’s like “LOL you can’t even load a normal webpage because of how media rich it is”
I miss my NBN D: I still get about 10mbps here but it’s no 100mbps.
Haha. Lame though. Any ETA on NBN where you are now?
Apparently pretty soon, but that can mean anything from next week till never 😛
Edit: True story, one of my friends signed up with Telstra for NBN at the start of the uni year, and between then and going back home last month still never got it :S Aaaaaand because they ripped all the copper up here had no internet at all the whole year other than from his phone.
Wtf.. How can they even get away with that?!
I have no idea. I’m guessing when people moved out of anywhere down here and had the internet disconnected they came and pulled up all the phone lines because fibre has been laid down here for longer than anywhere else in the country I think, regardless of the fact they weren’t meant to do that for a few more years!
Then you have to deal with Telstra who are incompetent fucks, who then deal with the contractors Vision Stream who couldn’t give two shits. Contact both and they’ll run you round in circles to each other, or direct you to NBNCo who refuse to pass on anything to anyone.
EVENTUALLY you’ll get told that it’s actually Aurora’s (energy company down here) fault because they won’t release the power poles and Telstra won’t use their poles either. So then you have to hunt down Aurora who have terrible Tasmanian quality customer service. Then they’ll release the pole finally and it’s back to Vision Stream who give you a date they’ll come and install the outdoor and indoor boxes but then never show. So you call them and they say they’ll come another date and never show, so you call Telstra to complain who say they’ll sort it out, then Vision Stream tell Telstra there is a box installed and Telstra close your ticket because that means there shouldn’t be a problem when THERE IS NO BOX INSTALLED, SO THEN you spend ages hunting down the Vision Stream offices which is about an hours drive away and yell at them and they’re completely bewildered that somebody would actually drive all the way to them to yell, THEN AND ONLY THEN will a Vision Stream guy actually show up at your house just to do an inspection. So eventually you get so fucking fed up that you cancel your contract with Telstra after a lot of arguing and swearing to the lady who can’t understand you on the phone and sign up with somebody else (iinet) and a couple of days later Vision Stream FINALLY come round to install the boxes.
This takes 4 months. I’m guessing we would never have gotten it if we didn’t get so proactive about it.
Oh and then you laugh at everyone in your classes at uni who are happy because Telstra said that a guys coming round to install their NBN boxes next Friday. Not once did any people in my class get NBN that next Friday. My guess is they still don’t have it.
Edit: I should add this is before all the plans for the NBN actually changed. I don’t want to know what the situation is like now
Wow… That’s fucked up.
As for your edit comment there, probably 10 times worse lol..
Whoever is coming to the buffalo bar tomorrow we should be there at 12.
@beeawwb @strange
I don’t think they open until 12:30.
Fair enough 12:30 then.
Oh hey, that craptonne of t-shirts I ordered arrived.
Phew, they seem to fit 😛
Well, a little on the smallish side maybe. But should stretch out I guess. A medium would’ve been too big.
Well that was quick. The Brotherhood of Steel bag and Imperial Dragon wallet were sitting on the doorstep when I got home.
Go Bethesda! (Package was marked as consignment from Think Geek…huh.)
But what about the Forgotten Son of Phobos?
http://store.bethsoft.com/brands/doom/doom-knee-deep-in-the-dead-resin-diorama-deposit.html
Makes it look like even more of a bargain 😛
So angry with Persona 3 Portable.
Zoomed through the game finding it a little too easy at times.
Been on the end boss for months because it will just randomly kill me.
A Move that I withstood in the previous turn suddenly kills my whole party in one hit the next.
There is no special defence against it.
Git good 😛
I feel for ya man, I remember you telling me you are stuck there and that was ages ago!
What level are you? I think you’re pretty much past any random encounters D:
Have you been buffing yourself and debuffing the boss?
It doesn’t matter, I’m a high enough level that I shrug off his attack then somehow its death.
It’s an almighty attack on all party. It’s just dumb.
I wish I set it on easy in the first place.
This idea that if you die then all the party dies & it’s game over is dumb. At least in P4G your friends would take a hit for you.
Yeah, P4 improved on the unfriendly gameplay parts that P3 had.
It’s still a dick though. I stopped playing 4 because stupid battle with the delivery guy
Aww no, keep with it, you gotta see it till the end! (Unless you’ve had the ending spoiled)
Spoiled =P I lent my Vita to a friend so she could play it. She blitzed through Persona 3 PSP and I also lent her P3FES so she could play the extra chapter,
What happens with the delivery guy? I can’t Remember D:
He turns your entire party against you. So you have 4 people attacking you.
Sounds like I need a replay
Dear Lifehacker,
Perhaps not the best image to use when talking about hardcore pornography…
Regards
Freeze
I have to be honest, when I look at the picture all I see is a dog. It takes a while for me to notice the other bitches. =P
:O
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Hardcore pornography page 9?
If I’d known it was going to be hardcore porn page nine, I would have planted more TAYslash fanfic on page 8.
You’re all awful people…
You set the benchmark, so you have no one else to blame but yourself =P
You’re just finding this out now?
… Oh dear.
Oh wow..
Anyone played The Crew? Is it any good? Will I like it if I spent hundreds of hours playing Test Drive Unlimited 2 (until my account stopped working and Atari are a bunch of fucking idiots and I’ll never buy anything to do with Atari again) and would highly consider buying a Xbox one just for Forza Horizon 2 cos I loved the first one so much?
…
…
More importantly does it actually work on PC? My luck with Uplay actually working is basically non existent.
@f4ction !
Works fine with UPlay on PC for me!
No connection or server issues at all? I’m not very forgiving on that front.
I haven’t been dropped from UPlay once. It’s honestly been one of the smoothest experiences I’ve had for a PC game in a while
I’m downloading it. I’ve been downloading it for two weeks. I’m halfway done.
Steam-filter to redirect downloads to come from unmetered servers seems to have stopped working properly, so it’s a megabyte or three every five minutes followed by disconnection… It was working fine a month ago… 🙁NUMENERA: TALES OF THE NINTH WORLD
@popdart5 and @tech_knight descended partway down the pit, encountering an elaborately carved room with a secret passage, an ancient insect who demanded sacrifice, a series of colour coded doors that they puzzled out, and finally a trap filled room complete with arrow, trapdoors, and antigravity rock slides!
Where is the impossible blade? what lies further in the tomb? Will the party have to make an offering to the bug thing to enter the underworld?
Find out in JANUARY when our tale from the ninth world resumes!
cc @novacascade @blaghman
also, @mythamphetamine: Interested in returning to the fold?
Damn, why flights gotta be so expensive 😛
@novacascade what’s a usual price to New Zealand around Christmas time? $450 each way?
What about in the “off-peak” seasons? How much cheaper? 😛
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Travel questionnnnn: what do people use for money when overseas? Is carrying a bunch of local currency (in cash) what others do? I’m assuming credit/debit and all that will cost a buttload. What about phone/mobile? Buy a temporary prepaid sim?
Commonwealth bank debit card should work anywhere in the world (that accepts Mastercard)
Dem fees though.
Fee for a withdrawal at an overseas ATM is $5 plus 2% of the AUD amount (that maybe 2.5% now as it’s been a while since I was talking about it).
Something like Commonwealth Travel Money card works well. Load it up with a bunch of money in whatever currency you want and it works like a local bank card for ATM’s and eftpos. No fees for using it. We always take a couple with us to NZ.
NZ it’s pretty cheap to grab a prepaid phone for about $40.
I took one of those commonwealth travel money cards with me to Japan (since it was one of the only ones that let you load it up with yen). Honestly would have been better off just taking cash, most of my transactions came through in US dollars so I got hit with the conversion fee each time :/
I’ve heard that about Japan. Depends on what ATM you get money from.
Just been to Japan with the same cards and I thought it was doing the same thing and almost made the very expense complaint call back to the bank then and there.
But, the transactions were showing in USD whilst they were still pending. Once finalised and charged to the card they were in JPY with no additional fees for cash out or purchases.
When I looked up the activity on the card they were still all there in USD, and the fees were there too.
Never got around to complaining to the bank about it. Also, I somehow managed to lose the letter with the PIN codes for both the cards. Got all the other travel documentation I had surrounding the trip, but that letter wasn’t in with it. Completely baffled.
It’s probably ended up in the void between dimensions that my previous passport slipped into.
I used a combination of USD (that I could just transfer to local at banks), and money via my debit card, which was expensive, but not too bad.
To NZ? your cards should work fine, but there’s be a % currency fee. Maybe look at a travel card.
Anywhere else, have a contingency in $US hidden in a money belt (either in the hotel safe or on your person), and try not to redraw money too many times as the fees add up. I’ve found a visa based card is beter than a mastercard one, but they’re both pretty good
I always used local cash but had a local look after me. Except Singapore, only had a local on the first day, but Singapore is super tourists friendly
Check out the 28 Degrees card from GE Money.
You checking skyscanner? Best place for flights to NZ I find. Last year I paid $1200 last minute to get back at Xmas 🙁 (albeit that included an internal flight to Napier and return flights.) $450 each way to Wellington/Auckland may be a bit pricey, but depends on the specific dates I guess.
I tend to just go to a regular NZ ATM and withdraw my cash. Usally gives a really good exchange rate and the fee is minimal.
Hope have a good trip!
I’m not going anywhere yet! 😛
OH YES YOU ARE
Do you have a debit visa or mastercard? Because those work fine in NZ, you just charge them as Credit Card transactions and they’ll go out of your savings. That’s what I’ve always done over there.
Yeah, MasterCard debit from my bank. Wouldn’t there be crazy exchange rate fees though?
Not really, not for NZ.
So I just watched the Sons of Anarchy final… Woah. I always hate it when a TV series ends, but I’m glad that they finished it before it grew stale.
It ended the way it should’ve & had to end.Also Kurt had stated since the beginning he saw no more than 7 seasons he always had this mind set and he ended it on his terms.
Also this bit from the final episode..
“I did what I know how to do.” when Jax is talking to the DA, damn.. That was just one hell of a line. Also the homeless lady made her final appearance I kind of forgot she existed heh. But it made total sense for Jax to end it like he did.Oh yeah I couldn’t agree with you more, me & my mates have a theory that the homeless chick is like the angel of death. Her first appearance is donnas funeral IIRC. And her last supper at the courthouse was bread and wine, which is seen again in the final scene.wasn’t there an episode where they suggested the homeless woman was the mother of the chick Rat has hooked up with, or did I make that up?That’s right, and that chick’s father says the mother dies in the car crash JT caused. So you could look at her as a spirit or omen perhaps, as I think only Jax & Gemma ever saw her.Actually the truckie Jax hits also saw her at the rest stop last week.
yeah, you’re right. she gets around. Interesting, I wonder what their idea behind her is. I think you’re onto it, something like an omen.Yeah, and from what I gather Kurt was saying the actor played a character in The Shield and I think he was reprising that role for SOA and it was some kind of poetic justice for him to kill Jax. Venus is the the other character from the Shield who Kurt wanted to work with on SOA. He said to Kurt he would happily be on Sons even if meant he had to wear a wig & a set of tits, and well there you have how Venus came to be 😛In Anarchy Afterword Kurt was asked about her, he actually said she is who you want her to be. He doesn’t have a specific story himself about her, that or he has many idea on who she is or he was just being lazy cause he was doing the show semi drunk..Sorry Brisbane peeps, looks like the buffalo bar meat isn’t gonna happen. Mentioned that we were going to the city tomorrow and my grandma piped up and said that she’d like to come along. Haven’t even mentioned anything to the wife about it, so I’ll just have to cancel it.
cc @strange @beeawwb
Surely your grandmother would like to meet your friends. I know mine always did 😛
My grandma’s met a few of my friends. She spent the entire time telling them brush their hair…
No, and don’t call Mr Shirley.
I can ‘accidently’ run into you if you like 😉
Mention Saturday XD
If I remember, I might to a 3DS walk, see if I don’t get any hits.
Dude, wives aren’t that scary! You should have told your wife how much it would mean to you. Bring her and your Grandma! Even just a five minute meet would be nice.
I’m about to head out to drop my son off to school (his last day of Prep! *sniffle*) and then I may even be going into the City anyway. Do the Twitter thing at me if anything changes. 🙂
Prep?
He’s a doomsday prepper!
They have all these weird different names for kindy now
When I lived in Victoria they had prep. I always assumed QLD was the only state that didn’t have it.
I dunno, everyone called all kindy when I went.
Apparently they changed it back & forth over the years.
You can run faster than your grandma, right? Not seeing the problem…
Unless she has bionic legs, had you thought about that Shane?!
Was out all day, fell asleep at 6pm, woke at 7pm, watched halfway through season 1 of Girls on Blu-ray, went to bed at 10:40, woke up at 3am… can’t get back to sleep. 🙁
It wasn’t a good night for sleep, I had the weirdest unpleasant dreams and kept waking up, then when I woke up one partially came true it was all very unpleasant.
That’s some cray sleeping patterns m9! A physiological thing you can do to help you sleep is stretch immediately before bed, releases melatonin and other sleep inducing chemicals. Helps me!
Remember in the second Mortal Kombat movie when Jax removed his robot arms (they were slip ons in the movie) & it made him strong enough to defeat Mortaro(is that MK 3s Goto stand in?).
Yeah, I saw that at the cinema.
I saw that at the cinema with Holland then immediately went to your house and bought trilogy off you. I still kinda like that terrible movie, they squeeze in so many characters. But yeah Jax’s slip on arms were stupid and most of the acting was awfull especially Sindel’s.
I really liked the Sub Zero VS Scorpion fight at the time.
I swear I must be dreaming! Someone pinch me quick!
Told my temporary manager about my grandmother having her operation yesterday, and we were discussing all the other similar things that have transpired over the past few months. Just got a message from him saying he wont be in today, and since I’ve finished all the mandatory training, he said I can take today to spend some time with family! Not sure if I’ll get paid or not, but either way, wow! No biggie if I don’t, being only one day. Considering I only started there this week, I’m surprised by the level of care shown by these guys! Even yesterday while discussing it, he said if I needed any support or assistance, just to let him know, and he’d organize something for me!
Seriously guys… wow! Just wow!!
Sounds like you found a good place. In some ways, this might fall under the heading of compassionate leave, which is a legal obligation (and means you get paid for it), but it’s good they are just offering it to you instead of requiring you to apply for it. \o/
He didn’t mention anything about money, and I was kind of too shocked to even ask! I know from the induction stuff that they do allow for compassionate leave etc, but being that it’s only my first week, I wouldn’t be surprised if I didn’t get paid for it, as I haven’t even worked enough to get sick leave yet. As I said though, even if I don’t, I’m not bothered. Missing out on one days pay will not likely make that much difference. I’ll still end up with more money from the week than I would have at my previous job! 🙂
Wow, that’s awesome, hopefully you like the job, sounds like they’re decent people.
Yeah so far I’m enjoying it. Even though I haven’t actually done any work yet, I know roughly what I will be doing, and certainly isn’t bad! Only been doing online training stuff so far this week. Basically just sit there all day reading and doing tests etc. Passed everything so far with at least 90% on all the tests I’ve taken, so looking goodly! 🙂
This little gesture today has really cemented in just how good this place is going to be to work at! 🙂
On top of that, he also said he has a discount code for parking which I can use, that will let me park for $8 a day! That makes it significantly cheaper than public transport for me, so it’s all kinds of win!
The Fat Controller had to call in the police, Clarabel had apparently gone crazy and murdered Annie.
They were quick to get to work – “Did she do this alone? What’s her locomotive?”
#pageupsidedownsix
#bitofastretch
What happened to the shoplifter who stole a calendar?
He got twelve months.I just went to the Shredder in our office and it’s foot operated, it’s too early for me but I know there’s a pun in there somewhere about Ninja turtles, Shredder and the Foot clan.
Haha, my friend started putting little pictures of Shredder all around the office near any reference to their paper shredder.
Nobody gets it 🙁
aww, it’d be the same here, I swear I work with robots.
Have you watched Season 8 of Beavis and Butthead? Aired in like 2011. There’s an episode with a copy machine and Beavisis sent to copy something and gets told not to copy his butt so he walks around for ages saying “do not copy my butt, do not copy my butt” I say that every time I go into the copy room, gotten some very funny looks 😛
…’Fraid not, I never got onto Beavis and Butthead 😛
I can’t even remember if I knew where it was airing back when it started. Wouldn’t have been allowed to watch it then, anyway.
ah, fair enough. I love me some toilet humor.
Haha, oh man that was a good season. I wish they made more :/
Hey @jackunit13 what was the name of your ISP again? spintle or something? or am I thinking of Spin Metal?
I think it might be Spintel
so close! cheers
Star Wars nerds are scary people.
And oh-so clever for their witty wordplay.
Hey wait, so there are fans that include the prequel trilogy as canon.
I always presumed that the clones began dying off & by A New Hope had mostly been replaced.
Nah, that’s why Luke is short for a stormtrooper despite being of average height 😛
I don’t actually know. I consider myself a nerdier-than-average-Star-Wars-detail-knowing-guy (yep, that’s a thing), but I gave up when I tried to rationalise the content of the prequels with the OT.
What was bothering you specifically?
I’m a pro a smoothing over inconsistency in fiction after 20 years of super hero comics that were written by various creators over a 50 or 60 year period.
The clones were only necessary for executing Order 66 and wiping out the majority of the Jedi. Once that had happened it probably got easier (and cheaper) to just conscript people, especially since that coincided with the defeat of the Separatists.
The clone troopers are genetically well-suited to combat, but they’re not grown to completion in a week or something. They have good aptitude but still required extensive training to be useful as soldiers. Additionally they were modified so that they age a lot faster than normal, which means they matured a lot faster, but also means that they degenerated and died of old age a lot faster too, and that’s not good for a long-term military force.
don’t they mention that they want to diversify the gene pool at some point to explain why Stormtroopers are all different shapes and sizes and Clone Troopers are all one dude. Or did I make that up to make it make sense.
Edit: Wookieepedia tells me they were mixed in with normal (naturally born) conscripts
Maybe? I only watch the movies & play the KotORs.
Might have been in one of the games,
Games are not canon.
Work fuck up, booooo
Kick dicks, take extended toilet breaks and play with your phone.
I say kick toilets, take extended phone breaks and play with your dick.
My brain just drew this scene for me and I may have chuckled.
So proceed as normal?
Actually, I never kick dicks. In this case it would need to be a vagina. She’s a good boss though
Ooh, Gamma 2.0 for Elite released.
Huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge gigantic changelog. And a couple of new ships and stuff too! Awesome.
So uhhh…after several days of me complaining of non-delivery of a package along with no communication and me cancelling my purchase at the bank, I think Toll walked in to my house last night around 10pm and dropped off my delivery. I’ve still got to double check with my other housemate but if this is the case, it’s creepy as hell.
@sughly’s post man strikes again! Remember when that was a thing? DC remembers!
@sughly pls explain
nah
I had a package left under my house once. Found by a friend who happened to walk that way (we normally went around using the driveway).
No idea how long it had been there.
Was it a dead drifter?
Yes, mum sent me a dead drifter so me & 3 friends travelled along the tracks & poked him with a stick.
The one kid later died trying to stop a fight & taking a once to the throat
I hope you guys stood by each other.
Me?
Yeah
Sounds like a forgetful housemate that lied to cover the forgetfulness then dug the hole deeper by lying more, finally breaking down in the middle of the night & leaving the package out in plain sight having no more believable lies to turn to.
:'( Atleast it’s done now and they can rebuild their lives in the wake of this web of lies.
It’s a pretty huge package though. It’s a portable air conditioner, pretty difficult to hide. According to the tracking information it was delivered 4pm yesterday. I don’t think anyone would have been home yet and I saw my housemate several times before this period and he didn’t say anything.
Maybe the ghost let the postman in.
Maybe the postman let the ghost in!
Maybe pacman chased the ghost in!
Maybe the postman is the ghost.
Maybe the package is the ghost
People do say they feel a cool chill when a ghost is near…
Maybe ghostman let the postman into Pac man…I give up
This haunting has many a layer to it. Who you gonna call? I dunno, some ghost people, I guess.
Postman… Post… Ghost…
GHOSTMAN D:
@powalen Nanananananananananana GHOSTMAN!
Feeling terrible as I’ve had to cancel my pledge to @shane’s Kickstarter. I just don’t have the funds to back it at the moment. I was really looking forward to it too. 🙁
http://www.kickstarter.com/project/help-ontargett-raise-funds-to-contribute-to-shane-kickstarter
Hope things improve for you soon, man. Don’t feel bad on my behalf!
That’s Shane’s way of saying you made the list that Mashaa and I are on!
You know it! *underlines DC’s name one more time*
What annoys me is I have money in my account, but it’s paying a bill on Monday, so I have to leave it there.
I keep thinking today is Friday :/
Same.
It feels far more like a Friday than it does a Thursday.
It really does. Damn days not being what they should be.
Two weeks to Xmas…
Shit, I need to get presents for my family…
My youngest brother and I have the best arrangement ever.
“Hey man, Merry Christmas. I got you some money.”
“Oh wow, really? What a coincidence! I got you some money too!”
“Holy crap, no way! And it’s the exact same amount!”
“Crazy. Merry Christmas, bro.”
Then middle brother wipes tear away. “They got me nothing.”
You guys are jerks!
Nah, he actually surprises us with gifts from Steam sales and stuff, so we go reciprocate. He actually cares about the process.
Yeah, but – at least for me – money received in this way is automatically earmarked as fun money, and is thereby exempt from buyer’s guilt and the responsibilities of bills, nappies and credit card debt.
Hah. That reminds me of Mum getting me money for Christmas and asking what fun thing I was going to spend it on. I said, “Oooh! I’ve got a power bill just came in… this’ll do the trick perfectly!” and when she looked crestfallen I added, “Naaaaah, just joking. I’ll spend it on video games and junk food. Best gift ever, Mum.” Which apparently made her happier.
Despite the fact that all money is money and sits in a pool that I used to both pay power bills AND buy video games and junk food.
Robot
Nono. Childless.
I spend all my disposable income on self-indulgence. I don’t NEED to make separate allocation to self-indulgence because that’s all I do. 😉
I always have thought about where money came from.
Like I could treat myself because I did overtime or I ‘Have’ to spend the birthday money on fun stuff.
My sis messaged me at work the other day, asking what I wanted to xmas. Would rather they didn’t get me anything, as I wont be able to reciprocate quite yet, but she insisted, so I think I’m getting a new kettle! w00t! Finally a kettle that has a lid firmly attached!
Well… I suppose I better go Christmas shopping this weekend!
Still have no idea what to get people. Why can’t everybody in my family just have the exact same interests as me? It’d make things a lot easier! It’s hard being the only nerd in the family 😛
Force your love of things onto your loved ones! BY THEM A BOWLING BALL WITH YOUR NAME ENGRAVED ON IT!
“Hey, Dad! I know you’ve never watched Doctor Who before and get embarrassed when you are around nerdy stuff, but I bought you this Universal remote control that looks and sounds like a Sonic Screwdriver. Enjoy! :D”
The more terrible gifts you give, the smaller the amount of ‘loved ones’ will get next Christmas. Because… they’ll hate you. get it? *makes diagram and pie chart*
Intriguing.
Get them the gift that keeps on giving.
Give the gift of
shameShane this holiday season!Same thing.
Just like that time you wouldn’t let me put my hand in your pocket. Shame. :'(
I weirded myself out. Thanks alot, Shane.
It’s still a bit early isn’t it?
I mean the 24th isn’t for another couple of weeks.
Do they like booze? If so Dan Murphy’s gift cards, boom done!
I’m morally against gift cards!
Though I probably will end up getting some alcohol for the people who I have no idea what to get… That’ll please those damn alcos!
Suitable co_worker gift, I say.
Unless they’re legitimately alcoholic.
Then just make an intervention sign! Put it up at the Christmas party and say their present is this intervention! *decisive nod*
I meant gift cards in general but sure
Well aren’t you the worst. I love it when someone gets me a gift card especially a JB HiFi one!
Booze is a goto present – a bottle of something bubbly is always good at christmas, and if you bring a cold one, they might even share it with you 😉
I need a New 3DS, bro
I’m happy, keen even, to join a discussion about inconsistency between the original & prequel trilogies.
@Shane @gutsoup
I a m excited for VII
Oooh, I’ll pitch in!
If only they could’ve just rebooted the series like a video game. Then we wouldn’t have the very weird clash between the series where it seems like fifty or a hundred years has passed, not one kid’s adolescence.
Also, we’d get to see Obi Wan and Vader actually fight like psychic warrior-monks in HD, instead of a couple d-list actors terrified of breaking props worth more than their annual income.
I loathe reboots, lazy, just do sequels unless it’s absolutely necessary & I really don’t think so with Star wars
Oh sure, they’re lazy and frequently bad, but… dude.
The prequel trilogy.
You don’t know? I like it. I rate Revenge of the Sith over A New Hope
Well then. This will be like trying to have a conversation about pizza toppings with people who assume that pineapple should be anywhere even in the vicinity of a pizza, let alone infecting one with its juices.
You should be open to debate. How else do you grow as a fanatic?
I once hated pineapple on pizza too, but grew to tolerate it over the years because of laziness to either order without or remove it.
Wow, an argument where both people are wrong…
Elaborate please. Bored, looking for friendly, thoughtful debate
No elaboration required, @jimu – these tenets of my faith (no pineapple on pizzas, the prequels were horrible) are inviolate. THE TIME HAS COME FOR HOLY WAR!
I challenge you to Nachos – to first blood.
@jimu is wrong. Prequels were great sci fi films but awful Star Wars films.
@transientmind is wrong. Pineapple should be enshrined in law as required on pizza.
That’s it! Purple light sabers for all!
@transientmind
I’m serious about the Nachos duel. It will settle things.
(We eat a giant plate of nachos with messy salsa, and the first to get something on them or their clothing loses.)
@transientmind I would lose that pretty much instantly.
Loved that fight scene with Darth Maul, this and playing Jedi Knight Academy… many good, such nerdy, much amazing.
Yeah, I think even apart from the fights, which are way better, there’s heaps to enjoy about the prequels. Stuff like the city designs & politics that existed before the Empire.
I agree.
With which?
I prefer Revenge of the Sith to A New Hope.
I like the Star Trek reboot because nobody was ever as good as Kirk but Shatner is too fat.
Seeing old Hammil will work well & be similar to old O b One Ken O b
But yeah, fights in prequel > fights in original
Did you just call Sir Alec Guinness a ‘d-list actor’?
YES.
You’re a monster.
…I know.
http://collider.com/star-wars-theme-park-attractions-new-films/
I am excited about the new theme park attractions and practical sets!
Pretty sure having attended film school, you know what a film is »:-{
That seemed especially jerky. :S Pretty sure the new sets are in the new movie and it’s a point of difference from prequels by not being all CGI extension… but whatever. I’ll post else where.
*folds arms*
Me or you? I wasn’t intending to be.
Eh, don’t mind me. I read it as especially snarky and it made me feel a little crap, like I wasn’t contributing or something. I think I misread. Sorry Jimu.
There there. You’re both jerks, okay?
Ok
I was going for friendly banter
Oh man! I’m a jerk! SORRY BUDDY! My friendly banter radar must be on the fritz!
@DC how are you a jerk, this happens to me all the time
do they even mention Qwi Gon in the original 3 (4, 5 & 6). Don’t they say Yoday trained Obi Wan?
I think so, I think technically Yoder eouldve trained OBi as. Youngling, but we know what he meant
Prime inconsistency for me was the complete absence of any precursor X-wing or Y-wing craft in the prequels. The best you got was that the A-wing was largely similar to the Jedi Starfighter but aside from that, not even a baby or prototype version like they showed with the clone walkers and fighters.
A lot of stuff in the now defunct EU said that the Rebel Alliance didn’t really have too many dedicated manufacturing facilities to churn out ships or fighters so it stretches credibility a bit to believe that they were building non-Imperial starfighters from scratch right under their noses.
I thought there was an xwing in revenge?
This is a hard one, because there are so many types, it’s not hard believe that you just didn’t happen to see them.
easier for me because the thought had never crossed my mind :p
Yeah it could have been something I just didn’t see. Then again, they straight played up the precursor Star Destroyers and AT-ATs with the clone cruisers and walkers so it seemed odd that the iconic Rebel starfighter was missing. Then again, so much was going on in Revenge that I’m not surprised if I missed it.
I enjoy both trilogies for different reasons. The original was a far simpler and, I would argue, personable story as the cast was smaller and the enemy remained the same throughout the trilogy. That’s probably why people latch onto it because it is elegant in its simplicity.
I enjoyed the prequel trilogy because it showed Jedi being badass and explored more of the universe and had better battles and fights. I maintain that General Grievous was a criminally underused villain but at least that was explored further in the Clone Wars series.
Yeah, after the shoddy performances, trying to do too much us the prequels biggest sin in my mind
Clone Wars basically redeemed the prequels for me.
There are Z-95s in Clone Wars. Those are direct precursors to the X-Wing. The ArC 170 is supposed to be the precursor to the X-Wing as well.
Clone Wars also has a Y-Wing that is clearly an older model of the ones you see in Episode IV.
Apparently the V-Wing, not the Jedi Starfighter, is the precursor to the A-Wing, and also to the TIE Interceptor.
I remember seeing the V-Wing and seeing a direct precursor for the TIE Interceptor but I didn’t even think of it also being the base for the A-Wing. Interesting to know.
I haven’t watched enough of the Clone Wars to get all of the hints dropped but I remember one of the episodes showed a glimpse of the clones from the Republic Commando game which I thought was pretty cool.
There are much more *headdesk* logical fallacies than outright inconsistencies, but here goes:
Until the prequels were released, I assumed the EU was a semi-consistent semi-canon extension of the SW universe. Imagine my surprise when all the stormtroopers turned out to be clones, despite all the prior EU content declaring that the Empire had conscripted most of its troops, including Tag and Bink. Also, cloning sounds like it’s a lot more resource-intensive than conscripting downtrodden citizens – why did it happen at all? Nonsense!
Anakin built C-3PO? Did he build him out of a kit? Because 3PO is remarkably similar to a number of other protocol-type droids he encounters in the OT, including a practically-identical droid at one point.
Anakin Skywalker is from Tatooine? So in his galaxy-wide search for the children that have been stolen from him, he doesn’t think to check out his old homeworld which happens to have a Skywalker living there? Did Obi-Wan want Vader to find Luke? He also didn’t do too good a job hiding Leia either, making her the adopted daughter of a very public figure on a highly rebellious world. The events of the prequel trilogy all of a sudden makes him look like a complete fuckwit incompetent.
Qui-Gon trained Obi-Wan, and yet Yoda is credited with ‘instructing’ Obi-Wan in the hut in ESB. This is probably acceptable given the context, but it’s lacking.
R2-D2 can fly in Ep III. WTF? Seriously. All the times he fell over in the OT… what’s that about? Did he forget how to fly?
There’s been a sub-twenty year purge of Jedi in a galaxy spanning thousands (millions?) of worlds with countless countless species and individuals. How is it possible that all the Jedi could be so thoroughly exterminated in so short a time… unless there were only a handful of them to begin with (in which case, their place as the arbiters of justice and negotiation for the galaxy is actually just a tragic self-deluded hubris of grandeur)?
Moreover, how is it possible that no one knows what a Jedi is? They would have been around when Han was a boy, for instance, and he would have been alive and old enough to remember the Purge – why doesn’t he believe in the Force? They certainly would have been alive when that Imperial officer who claims Vader’s ways are obsolete sorcerer’s ways was younger.
And this isn’t so much an inconsistency as the worst bit of writing I’ve ever seen: “I have the higher ground. You can’t win.” Go home, guys. You’re stupid and drunk.
More coming as I think of it.
PS: I’m excited for episode VII too.
I presumed C3P0 was built from leftovers found around the junkyard, so he looks like other protocol droids because he’s parts of them.
The rest of them are what I call ‘over thinking it’ :p
C’mon @Shane, does my Rob0 junk theory have legs?
Sure, but then the whole ‘he’s such a genius, he built a robot’ angle of Episode I becomes utter garbage. At best, he restored a robot and perhaps conducted some repairs.
I took it to mean that the whole time & figured that even just putting one together was awesome. Especially for such an annoying little shit.
Maybe he had to build a new robot brain? And I have officially stepped into fan fic
Nah, if that’s the case, it was obviously just a pick-up line. “Do you want to see the robot I built?” was obviously a euphemism for “Come into my bedroom.”
You’re on to something therw
Don’t knock that high ground advantage. +4 to attack and attack of opportunity if they fail their acrobatics check. 😛
But yeah, I agree that a lot of the issues with the prequel probably could have been avoided if it was set about a century prior to the original trilogy. Plus with sci-fi tech and Force magic, you can still make it work with having the characters age to what they were by the original even if they weren’t particularly spry in the prequel movies. Real world biology need not apply.
I always presumed the obvious writing if dialogue is for kids, it being a family film.
Revenge of the Sith is rated M and contains a violent quadruple amputation! It’s not for kids.
I don’t think they realised that at the time. Imbdead serious. I imagine there’s some petty odd shit he demanded that people just NOD & do because of who he is.
His bullfrog neck freaks me out.
It just crossed my mind that not all “kids” are under 15
– Clones were needed because of Order 66. Also they needed an army quickly. Once there was no more Jedi to murder and Separatists to fight, they transitioned to needing a long-term army and the cost of the clones – who age out and die quite fast – was too high, so they started conscription. Easy.
– Anakin ‘built’ C-3PO but you don’t know what that actually entails. My assumption was that he’d basically cobbled together a bunch of parts from multiple different droids and then programmed him. The kid did work in a junk shop.
– As I understand it, Anakin never knew there were twins. Also Anakin didn’t really have a lot of positive memories of Tatooine, maybe he just never thought to look there? You’ve also got to consider the possibility that he knew but he left Luke there anyway. As long as Luke wasn’t doing the Jedi thing there was really no need for him to pay any attention to him.
– Presumably Obi-wan had multiple teachers throughout his training, and one of the major ones was Yoda.
– I guess R2’s crazy rocket boosters got removed during the decades where he worked for Bail Organa.
– There were only a few hundred Jedi and the bulk of them were fighting in the Clone Wars. Many of them died in that, Order 66 killed a lot of them, and then the remainder were hunted down by Vader and his subordinates. Their order was waning at that point as well, and there’s a lot of talk during the Clone Wars that their methods just didn’t work and they were largely an obsolete institution. Watch the Clone Wars animation and pay attention to what Tarkin and Yularen talk about.
Also it’s not like Motti is wrong. On paper, a whole planet full of Jedi don’t hold a candle to a space station that can destroy a planet.
– Shitty, insipid dialogue in the Star Wars prequels?! Who’d have thought?!
Was up until 1:30 in Crota’s End last night. Woke up at 6:30. Feel like death. Coffee helps.
Worth it.
The spoils:
New Boots! \o/ 6 Radiant Energy and 2 Radiant Shards! \o/ Learnt converting between the two requires rank 4 rep with the new vendor in the tower. /o\ Praying Xur will have upgrades for the Skull or Nemesis helms tomorrow so I can hit 31… /o/Damn I’m still struggling to get past 28, I bought some greaves from Dead Orbit with 33 light and am levelling those but I need to get some getting some Vanguard marks to even compete.
Part of the raid spoilered
I jumped in mid game with a buddy and 3 other dudes in the darkness and lamps part, I wasn’t part of the party so I couldn’t hear what they were saying but it was sure as shit hard. Trying to keep moving and not die as a level 28 was tough. I haven’t played any other part of the raid, how far in was I lol? /o\Pains me to say it, but:
That’s the very first trial – you jump down into the Hellmouth from the surface, and have to do that gauntlet. Trying to keep everyone up with a party of 6x 30s (with three fully upgraded mythoclasts between us) was tough – I can’t imagine how a 28 would survive through that… /o\ You must’ve been getting near one-shot by those thralls. Did you get through it? The end of that is a nightmare – we ended up leaving 4 of our team dead and fleeing to the first checkpoint (lucky guess/praying there was a checkpoint ahead). And the next part was even tougher… Got past that second checkpoint (somehow!) and had a peek at what followed… O_o …called it a night.I’d suggest levelling as much 33 light gear as you can get.
Minor spoiler for existence of a chest, avoiding mentions of where, what or how tho.
We did kinda cheat by grabbing a chest early in the raid on multiple characters, hence the high spoils for two checkpoints. When I heard about people solo-ing a chest in the new raid, I was kinda hoping for this. Was a little disappointed, to say the least, especially as it would have fit in very well, I think. 😛COMPUTER KNOWING PEOPLE:
This price seems pretty low. Please tell me why I shouldn’t get this, and what I should be looking out for: http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Asus-DSEB-DG-2x-Intel-Xeon-e5450-quad-core-3GHz-32gb-RAM-Antec-Titan-CASE-850w-/131308977371
Is this, for example, suitable for desktop work, or is it one of those machines that’s for working as part of a server only?
Because you should be buying this instead.
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Intel-6-Core-i7-3970X-3-x-GTX780-9GB-SLI-64GB-Ram-Gaming-System-Desktop-PC-SSD-/131072237828?pt=AU_comp_dekstop&hash=item1e8483a104
I nearly did, but it doesn’t come with an operating system. Dealbreaker 😛
From my experience, buying a refurbished PC will be more expensive in the long run than building your own.
I’d suggest looking on PC Case Gear.
You could also talk to @welbot. He’s very knowledgeable about these things.
the machine uses workstation/server hardware, but there should be no issue installing win7 or 8 on there and using it like a standard desktop. It is a pretty good price considering what’s inside, and having a new PSU is a bonus. Only reason I would hesitate is not knowing what warranty is like. Some will offer 3-6 months on refurb stuff, others will just leave you for dead. Chances are the hardware in there should be ok for a bit, as the construction of that hardware is more geared to business, so they tend to last longer than your home pc might.
I’m not all that familiar with Poser (if you still use that) but if you are, and it can use multicores for rendering, it’ll be a good machine for that, but all depends on what sort of warranty you want. Doesn’t look like that includes an operating system either, so you will need a windows licence for it too.
Yeah, Poser uses multicores, and the beefy bits of the computer would be used primarily for rendering in Poser.
The reason is that the Xeon e5450 was introduced in 2007 and discontinued in 2010. A low-end i3 from 2014 would likely outperform it.
it would be beaten by almost anything released since, but it’s still a good work machine for various things!
This thing seems to have 2 of them. That’s better, right?
well it’s better than one yes. It’s got 8 physical cores in total, which is good. Sure new i7’s have 8 virtual thanks to hyperthreading, but they don’t have 12mb L2 cache either!
A Mexican magician tells the audience he will disappear on the count of 3. he says “uno, dos…” *poof*.
He disappeared without a tres.
#upsidedownpagesix #everypageispagesix #ifyoubelieve
Help I’m considering buying an Xbox One.
for what in particular?
I DON’T KNOW.
Gotta be for Scalebound. I mean what else could it be?
Buy it!
#helping
*SLAP*
Umm yeah…that’s not a good idea…unless…you want to have loads of fun!
#alsohelping
Yeah, I saw an EB deal a little while back which had the base console and a bunch of games I’d actually play instead of some stupid racing/sportsball bullshit. It ended up making the console be around $400 with 4 very decent-looking games for another $100. Seemed like a steal… but no! NO, says I.
Yeah, it’s $499 for AC Pirates Edition, AC No Faces Edition, Forza Horizon 2, Halo, Sunset Overdrive. $599 gets the same but adds a Kinect, Dance Central and Collardoody Advanced Warfare
That sounds like a pretty good deal!
Bwahahaha! I kind of spat my drink at that. 😀
*slap* You need to raid dammit!
I don’t think that’s going to happen. I’m not geared and WoW was ruining my sleep to the point that I think I’m running about a 20-hour sleep deficit at the moment. Also it was great while I had quest content to do, but the endgame feels about as sparse as Destiny and I’ve honestly gotten a bit bored.
TEEN DOG! \o/
I feel like an arsehole for taking all four copies that were there 😛
I wouldn’t worry too much. Nobody else knows what it is.
ooooh burrrrrn
🙂
They’ve actually been selling out, beyond my own purchases!
Which is really cool. I’m super happy for Jake, it’s awesome that he’s gotten to where he has.
So I’ve had a little New Year’s Resolution cooking in my noodle for a little while.
I’m thinking that in 2015… I won’t buy any games.
Now, obviously there’s some things I want in on, and will want that year. So I’m going to let myself pre-order-in-full maybe half a dozen games at best.
Here’s what I’m thinking I need to buy in advance:
Bloodborne: One of the very few titles I’m actually looking forward to in 2015. If it’s even EQUAL to Dark Souls 2 I’m going to have a blast, but everything seems to indicate it might just be better. Mildly hyped for this.
Final Fantasy 15: The walkthroughs have sold me on their own. I need this, I will have this. I NEED THIS.
Satellite Reign: I don’t even care if it’s everything I hoped it would be, this looks like a true spiritual made by Aussie indies, and it needs the money. This, I can get behind.
The Witcher 3: It’s the Witcher 3. What more needs to be said?
The question I need help with… what have I missed?
At the moment, I can’t think of anything else coming out in 2015 that I’m super keen for. What should be on my preorder list?Here’s some titles I think other people are probably excited for in 2015, and/or ones I might possibly have bought if I let myself:
Warhammer 40K: Eternal Crusade (the MMO). Don’t care. It’s PVP focused. Not my jam.
Yakuza 5: It’ll keep, and I have no investment in the series, never having played any of the others.
Xenoblade Chronicles X: Hell, I still haven’t played Xenoblade. This can definitely wait.
Uncharted 4: This is heresy around here, but I thought Uncharted 1 & 2 were pretty average and didn’t play 3.
Torment: Tides of Numenera: I have doubts about how good this can be. Torment WAS the Nameless One, for me. The nexus of the planes and all the stories that come out of it, not so much. Either way, this can wait til 2016.
Tom Clancy’s The Division: I’m very, very, very skeptical/hopeful about this one. I’m thinking that, much like Destiny, they’re going to realize that meeting their potential/ambition is too hard, and they should cater to the PVP multiplayer, relying on it to create this ’emergent gameplay’ bullet-point which is developer bullshit for, “We don’t have to do any work.”
Space Hulk: Deathwing: Hm. Maybe. If multiplayer is a huge big deal, I’ll consider it for pre-order, but as a single-player, I’m happy to wait. I’ve waited a couple decades for a Space Hulk video game, after all.
Rise of the Tomb Raider: Hah. Maybe 2015 will be the year I finally play Tomb Raider, the reboot.
The Order: 1886: I don’t think this will match the hype. It’ll be a Gears-of-War’ish Resident Evil in Victorian-era London. Sounds rad, but I don’t think this is going to blow off the roof. It’ll be serviceable and interesting at best.
No Man’s Sky: This was ALWAYS going to be a risky bet. Read any positive press about it and 90% of what you read is Hope and Potential.
Mordheim: XCOM in the Mordheim universe? Looks like a sale. But XCOM was actually BETTER a year after it launched. It’s tasty, and I doubt it’ll have XCOM’s polish/balancing refined quite as well (because any and all GW-related games end up being decent despite deep flaws), so it’ll keep.
Just Cause 3: I liked Just Cause 2. It was a crazier modern day Assassin’s Creed meets Prototype. But it had horrible scaling problems. I didn’t finish it.
Halo 5: No XBone, no can do. Don’t worry Halo 5… we’ll be together eventually. Have patience.
Evolve: The Alpha left me uninspired. Unless they can do something more than add more monsters/maps/classes to just… I don’t know, evolve their game, I don’t see this surpassing Left4Dead.
Dying Light: It’ll keep. Gotta remember that Dead Island, while fun, was deeply flawed, and improved greatly over time. And it also wasn’t the amazing game-changer anyone expected.
Dark Souls 2 + DLC (PS4): I already own it. This would be the height of indulgence. It can wait.
Batman: Arkham Knight: I haven’t finished a single one of the Batman games. I’ve started them all, and got maybe 1-2hrs into each. Maybe I’ll finish one of them in 2015.
Assassin’s Creed Victory: Will this be the AC4 to Unity’s AC3? Who knows. All I know is, I don’t need to play it when it comes out. I 100%’d AC4, and got close in AC1. Everything else, I ‘meh’d to completion (or in AC3, not even that). AC4 was a special case because god damn pirates, yo.
Armello: I might buy this as a wildcard preorder. Maybe. If I get a tablet – I don’t think it’ll do quite as well on phone. Unless it’s coming to PC, in which case definitely it’s getting pre-ordered/purchased.
Knowing that stuff’s not on the list, am I forgetting anything before swearing not to buy a single video game in 2015?
Metal… GEAR???!!!
I think I played one of those on the PS2 and one on the X-Box. The original X-Box.
Maybe I’ll watch the cutscenes from all the games as a 3-part movie in 2015. 🙂
I struggle with those games now. But I actually have all the cutscenes on DVDs. They’re kind of fun to watch – legitimately entertaining.
He’s a madman!
All I’ll be getting is Legend of Zelda Wii U.
Totally with you on No Man’s Sky though. I was really excited for it at E3 but the devs seem to be promising the moon (literally) without showing us any sort of gameplay. I hope I’m wrong but at the moment seems like it’s setting people up for disappointment.
I’m with you. I’m toying with the idea that I must do the following to every game I own on Steam:
1. Finish the main story.
2. Get 100% completion (minus DLC’s etc)
3. Get all the Steam Achievements that I am able to get (minus DLC’s and some CiV ones, i.e. Winning a game at the end of the Mayan Calender, which was 2012.)
So…not sure whether this is something I should stick to as I’ve calculated it to come to finishing it all in 2016.
Achievements? Cut that part. Just finishing the main game can be enough I reckon
Yeah, I’m with @jimu… so many achievements are just incentives to play the tacked-on multiplayer component, require multiple playthroughs, or are just… pure bullshit instead of a reward for going a little out of the way and exploring thoroughly.
Resident Evil fan? Revelations 2 looks great.
No type 0 FF? Looks & is supposed to be exceptional
Persona 5 will be amazing. If you like FFs, you mustneed to check out Persona (from at least 3 up, before I dunno)
Hm. Not enough to add Rev2 to the pre-order list. The last RE game I actually enjoyed was RE4.
Wasn’t Type 0 FF a hand-held game? I have none. If it’s on PC I may need to look into it.
Persona I have never played a single game of, so no idea where to get into on that. Not knowing what I’m missing makes it much easier to miss.
Did you play the first Revelations at all? Because as someone who was introduced to the series through 4 (best game of the forever) and didn’t at all enjoy any of what I played of 5, I really loved Revelations. Which is why I’m pissed I won’t have anything to play Rev2 on. Stupid Capcom.
It’ll be on pC won’t it?
Nothin’ at all!
No mention? It’ll get there.
Wiki says yes
Yeah it’d need Steam though so nah.
@mrtaco Wait, you actually refuse to play a game if it isn’t on steam?
What?
No – if it is.
They’ve done a complete overhaul of Type 0 and it’s coming on the PS4. It looks fucking brilliant.
In the long term (so maybe not during this little exercise) you really should check out Persona.
Dunno what consoles you’re packing(just PC?) Persona main series is all PS. 3&4 are up on US PSN at great prices.
Type zero is getting ported to console from handheld, lots if butthurt from the handheld community ( of which I’m a part, but happy to even be seeing it in the West at all). Definitely worth a look, you probably don’t want to miss.
Revelations2 will be more similar to The Last of Us than anything from what I’ve seen. Won’t have the feels. I loved Residents up until 4, which I enjoyed, 5 was poop, Revelations1 is quite good in the 3DS.
There’s some kind of Squenix conference later today I think where the rumor is they might be announcing Type-0 HD for PC. Sounds like their experiment with putting XIII and XIII-2 up on Steam worked out well for them.
Yes, it started as a PSP game. It’s kind of an evolution of Crisis Core FF7. It’s also considered one of the best games on the PSP and one of the best FF games of the last ten years or so. Also the game’s director is in charge of FF15 now so there will be a lot more commonality between the two. The PS4 and XB1 version is a remake, they’ve basically gone through and redone all the models and textures and tweaked a lot of the combat systems and so on.
Also it’s actually localized. And will be dual audio \o/. Type-0 will come with a playable FF15 demo. Or at least a code for it, don’t know if the demo will actually be there for launch.
OK, so I probably need the PC HD version.
You forgot Captain Toad: Treasure Trackers. Don’t wanna miss that.
You will notice there is nothing Nintendo on that list. Because I play video games, not children’s toys.
Oooooooooooh! *glove-slap*
*zing*
It’s ok, I’ll still let you come over and play them in secret so the other boys will still think you’re cool 😛
This is exactly what I did with my friend who had a mega drive during the console wars.
Boo! Hiss!!
I’m going to throw a few things in the ring, I think you’re a PS4 man but you’re just punishing yourself man!
The Order 1886: So much hype, I know next to nothing about this game but the premise looks so very very good.
Star Wars Battlefront: No good Star Wars fan could turn this down, will you? 😛
STAR FOX HYPEEEEEEE @dc you need this in your life m9, please save your pennies to share in the hype with meh!
Halo 5: Continue the story, Master Chief lives.
Dragonball Xenoverse: You fight in 3d destructible environments, characters speak to each other during fights and you make you’re own fighter. Goddamn if that doesn’t make you excited about making your character say ‘This isn’t even my final form’ I don’t know what will.
My hype levels are through the roof just seeing them pop up in a google search, I hope you can get them feels back man.
I’m a bit apprehensive about new Star Fox. I mean I’m sure I’ll probably love it in the end/regardless (I seem to be one of the only people who liked Command), but… I dunno. Something about it makes me uneasy.
Everything new and better makes you uneasy…
No it’s when it’s new and *claimed* to be better but is in fact the opposite that I am uneasy!
I hope Star Fox turns out good, that Gamecube one did so many things right but just didn’t feel right.
I didn’t play the Gamecube one 🙁
I have a feeling around the Star Fox game too, I don’t know where they go from here… do they try another Gamecube game where you are running around, or a space shooter? I don’t know if they would make another on rails shooter given the current gaming environment, and there are a LOT of space sim shooters coming out so I wouldn’t be game to try it. But I’ll give them my moneys as thank you for Star Fox 64 nonetheless.
Wouldn’t that be exactly the reason to do it? All the other games are space sims, there aren’t really any other arcadey on-rails shooters.
Plus that’s kind of exactly what Star Fox is. That’s why people love it, it’d be dumb to make it not that 😛
Personally I’d love to see them go back to the Thunderbirds style that the originals were going for/giving a nod to, and make everything look like puppets. Maybe get Good-Feel on the case.
oh I meant the Space Shootey Gamecube one Star Fox : Assault (was that it’s name?). I actually really enjoyed the on foot one but wished the whole time that it had space levels.
Oh, I totally forgot about Star Fox Adventures. Ha 😛
Oh damn is battlefront out next year??
The original wasn’t that great, I dunno why everyone’s so hype for the remake/sequel…
I just like having a current star wars playground to muck around in =] The originals were crap games but great sandbox environments!
I tried Battlefront once, and I did not understand the hype.
Never understood the appeal either. Also it’s DICE so it’ll probably be a buggy unplayable mess for about 3 months after it releases.
The actual date is TBD but it is slated for a 2015 release, I agree with you that the best thing about the game is the fact you take part in some of those awesome battles like Kashyyk and Hoth. The fact you could do space battles as well did it for me.
I’m a star wars fan but not a fan of that type of game.
I’m also a superhero fan & barely touch superhero games.
Big Fight Club fan, named my son Tyler. Refuse to even look at the PSX game featuring Fred Fucking Durst as if that didn’t miss the entire point.
wait, Fred Durst was in a Fight Club game…………………….. why?
Because stupidity
I’m in disbelief, that’s truly terrible.
I’d calm down on the Order 1886 hype. Everything coming out of it lately paints it as a game made purely to look good. Lowering the resolution to a non-standard aspect ratio to render less pixels, (meaning there will be gigantic black bars on your TV screen) and trying to justify the terrible framerate. I’m not saying not to buy it, but don’t preorder and wait for reviews.
I actually did this for this year; 90% of all games I bought were pre-ordered last year. In fact the few I bought this year were either through pure trade in credit from EB or it was WoW =P I don’t think you’re likely to miss much with your resolution at this point in time next year is looking to be an even slower year than this one. From the list you’ve mentioned I think I’m vaguely interested in 3 games? And the Witcher 3 cos.. y’know.. witcher.
You missed Night in the Woods!
Unforgivable!
Also missed Zelda U, Rime, the Witness (cc @dc), and the Order 1886.
Nah, I mentioned The Order 1886. Why did you mention a Nintendo game? I thought you GOT me, man!
So you did.
I did read it, I just lost track of what you had and haven’t mentioned :3
(and the Order looks great!)
And I mentioned Wii U ’cause Zelda U looks pretty 😀
There’s a tonne of good games coming next year, by the way.
– Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture
– Homefront: the Revolution (I don’t care what people say, I loved Homefront)
– Whore of the Orient
– Quantum Break
– Grim Fandango
– Until Dawn
Then there’s unconfirmed, but potential games, like Uncharted 1-3 Remastered, Silent Hill, God of War 4, etc.
You should set yourself a limit.
Say, preorder the games you want, and allow for three additional purchases.
And Night in the Woods.
Because it looks beyond amazing.
I thought Homefront was decent. Although the fact that I bought for like $2 changes my perception a great deal. Homefront 2 looks decent, although Crytek’s internal strife may soil the game.
Persona 5?
I hear it’s great, but a lot of it seems to be handheld only (which I don’t own), and I don’t have enough investment in the series (I’ve watched half of one of the anime series – that is the entirety of my exposure to the series) to have any idea of what I’m missing. 🙂
Nope, get em on PS3, they are just on every PS console
5 is on PS3&4…
The Persona games so far are self-contained and complete in their own right. Recent spinoff stuff has brought 3 & 4 together into the same world but that’s like saying FF7 and FF8 are tied together because Cloud and Squall are both in Kingdom Hearts.
You should be able to go straight to P5.
Admittedly, I think I did something like this this year. Had the major things preordered and decided.
Only really slipped up a little for hyrule warriors and bayo, but gave myself a technicality to get around that by using a stack of trade in credit from the bonus during E3 time.
Think I lasted pretty well most of the year. Fantasy life was the first hard break.
Having jumped on early access for Mordheim, I doubt it will even be finished by the end of 2015 so you’re safe there. Space Hulk: Deathwing looks pretty cool but if you need a Space Hulk fix there’s the regular game already available. Eternal Crusade looks interesting but again, doubt it will even be finished by this time next year.
I suppose my only suggestion is Blood Bowl 2 if you’re into that sort of thing. Otherwise you have a solid list already (Witcher 3 hell yes!).
Sounds doable to be sure.
I’ll probably end up doing similar just because the only non-kickstartered games coming out that interest me are Bloodborne and maybe No Man’s Sky.
Tho I’ll probably pick up some of 2014’s games I gave a miss out of boredom.
TRAILS IN THE SKY SC.
I should probably do something like this, but I think that my list of games I plan on buying would only get longer as I flipped through all the games being released. There’s like four games I would have completely miss if I didn’t read your list of passed on titles.
Are you subscribing to XBOX Live Gold and/or PS+ during that period? The PS+ titles never seem to be that great and I’m guessing both platforms will use 2013/14 games you’ve already played, but between the two of those it should help take the pressure off between main games.
Are you doing this with other media too? I imagine if I gave up games I’d end up with so much free time that all the money would just go somewhere else.
I think I’ll mostly spend the time playing games of 2014 and earlier. I hadn’t thought about PS+ or not. I’ll probably keep it? I tend to renew that annually for no particularly good reason. Same with my WoW subscription.
I’m not doing it with any other media, but for unrelated reasons, I have decided I’m not going to buy any other media until the piracy situation changes with rights-holders and government. The recent news about the government’s plans to tackle piracy have me seeing red.
Those assholes are spending my tax dollars on shit that doesn’t work to prop up a dinosaur-inspired business model that institutionally discriminates against Australians, then telling us we NEED to make cuts to public spending. On top of that, they’ll push costs of the scheme to ISPs, which we’ll also pick up the tab for. As far as I’m concerned, everything I watch from now on better not have been paid for in any possible way, including ads.Hey, protecting the entertainment industry is super important… unless you’re talking about the Australian entertainment industry which can go choke and die. Damn freeloading hippies.
Next season of [insert Telltale series name in here]?
But I still have to finish TWD1&2, WAU, TFTB, and GOT!
Armello is 100% coming to PC
I would consider doing this but I have all of this years games to get when they come on sale
OK, sweet, so that’s a fucking given. Hello gorgeous, whimsical Aussie-made virtual boardgame with solid, intuitive mechanics.
I’m just waiting for them to finish and send me my steam key
I think I need to do something like this too. The trouble is that there’s stuff I know will be out in 2015 and I know I will absolutely want to buy day 0, but I can’t order it yet.
Just get it from EB? I’m pretty sure EB is more than happy to accept multiple-years-away pre-orders at even the faint rumour of a title’s existence.
Sons of Anarchy Finale – Spoilers ahead!
What an amazing way to finish the series. I’ve empathised, sympathised, admired and despised characters and actions throughout the entire show. Season 7 has been an absolute roller coaster of emotion and brutality. No-one was safe… Allies, family, club members, business interests ended up full of bullets or carving forks at somepoint during the season. The poor pastor was buried and exhumed 3 times at my count… poor bastard.The last 2 or 3 episodes of this season, after Jax discovered Gemma killed Tara, have been a huge road to redemption for Jax. Watching him embrace his identity as an outlaw and killer before becoming someone so calm and focused on his goal of getting the remaining good things in his life clear of the chaos that the MC had become. Even hopefully steering the MC away from some of the worst of it. Jax becomes so calm… detatched from it all… Watching him sitting on the steps of the courthouse covered in the blanket he looked every piece the Grim Reaper his club identifies with and had arrived to deliever the final message to August Marx…
Nero puts in probably his best performance of the season (and he’s had a few) and him watching Jax farewell his kids and Wendy had me bawling on the couch and set the tone for the rest of the episode. Especially loved the touch of Nero fumbling to try and very quickly get his sunglasses on when Wendy arrived.
Jax met his end the same way as his dad, and by my understanding I think John Teller also chose to end his life (or at least not avoid the end) thinking back to what Jury said about Jax’s dad knowing his bike inside out. Jax met his end on the same bike his dad was on too. One more link, the truck driver was the same guy that picked Gemma up from the truck stop when she was running.
The final song being played as Jax was on his final ride was fantastic… Absolutely perfect.
The last question, that’ll never be answered, will Able escape the clubs influence as we see him toying with the ‘SONS’ ring Gemma gave him as he’s being driven away from Charming by Nero and Wendy.
What a show… Sad it’s over… but thoroughly enjoyed the ride.
I’m still eight days from watching it (Mrs Shane and I are doing an ep a night). It’s hard not to click on spoiler tags out of reflex 😛
Sons of Anarchy Finale spoilers (big ones DO NOT CLICK IF YOU’VE NOT SEEN IT)
it was a great ending, I absolutely wanted Jax to die, so happy they actually did it, he had gone beyond the point of any kind of redemption in my eyes. It was really great that he actually cleaned up most of the mess they all created and took responsibility for all the heinous things he’d done. As for Abel, it does seem like he’s been tainted enough that he’ll probably follow in his dad’s footsteps which is really sad. I think I was the happiest that Nero, Alvarez (Mayan Leader) and Tyler (9’ers leader) lived, they were my favorites by the end, especially Alvarez he’s a really cool character, he always seemed straight up and wasn’t manipulating everyone around him. Like you said full spectrum of emotions.I clicked
well then, you’re spoiled.
A SPOILED BEAT!
The show ended the way it had to & needed to for closure. I think they did a remarkable job on the final episode from tying up loose ends with the Irish, August Marks, Barosky & the DA on what happened with Tara, perfect. I guess Chuckie knew Gemma was dead he just didn’t want to admit it when Nero came around looking for Unser.I also absolutely loved the line from Jax when talking to District Attorney Patterson “I did what I know how to do.” when talking about Gemma, and that’s how he was able to deal with the horrendous thing she did to him.’twas an amazing episode, I normally watch TV episode on my PC at a semi-fast-forward rate, but that episode last night was played normally so I could savour the whole thing.
@Shane That second meaning to High Ground is so dumb I didn’t realise until you mentioned it that it was anything other than literal
I always assumed that Georgieporgie intended it to be literal, and nothing else. Obi-Wan was standing on a hill two feet higher than Anakin’s platform, giving him the higher ground and apparently sealing his victory. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYakQzVyWug
That’s how I saw it. But I thought you were saying it was bad because of the meaning behind it?
No, I’m saying it’s bad because it’s shit and doesn’t make sense.
Oh, like the higher ground has no advantage?
It doesn’t? You sword, bro?
It might if they couldn’t jump like supermen. A two foot height advantage is nothing when a Jedi can superspeed and fly and use the Force for just about anything else.
Luke from the Gilmore Girls agrees with me, by the way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYakQzVyWug
I’m not watching that.
Also, really, you’re over thinking it, dood.
I realise you a supersmahtguy, but you need to learn to turn that shit off occasionally 🙂
I think you may be starting to get a sense for how I am able to filter out noise* & just enjoy movies at a base level
*logic I apply irl situations
What’s with Brisbane’s crazy weather, looks like another severe thunderstorm is rolling in.
Edit: Mostly for Western regions, hopefully it’ll skip the CBD this time.
This one’s entirely Mr. Strange’s fault. It’s always terrible storms whenever I’m by myself for the night. 😛
*shakes fist at Mr Strange*
I’ll take that as an acceptance of liability. If any of my stuff breaks I’m hitting him up with the bill 😛
The good thing about not going to work today, is that I wont have to suffer through CBD rain traffic! The bad thing is I park in a covered parking area there, but at home I don’t have any cover! As long as it doesn’t hail, BRING IT ON!
I picked mudkip is my starter in honour of your art work @dogman 🙂
Did I already post this? I’m getting de ja vu :SOld man brain kicking in.
I think we already established on Twitter that the best possible nickname you can give a Mudkip is “Tough Mudder”
No, MddyMudSkppr
Internet ate my reply!
Basically was saying I don’t give my pokemon nicknames, because I’m used to them just being called by their real names due to the anime.
Also, I won’t let mudkip evolve b/c he is too cute just the way he is!!
Booooo, you should do everything the same way I do everything :p
This end of year review that seems to be going around gaming sites has got me looking back as well and while I know a lot of peeps here on Kotaku enjoyed the games this year I looked back and found it sorely lacklustre…. The only games that completely absorbed me this year were Infamous, Wolfenstein, The telltale games, Endless Legend, Destiny (though I wish I hadn’t) and now WoW. I don’t know if I’m getting older or more jaded in how I see games any more but a lot of the ones I was expecting something out of just didn’t hold the same interest for me as other people seemed to have.
Example – I usually give in and grab Call of Duty and AC over the christmas period and have fun with those games over the holidays; but this year I couldn’t even justify buying them. Even though CoD is trying something new and AC is well…. AC. I don’t know if it’s cynicism on my part or just the lack of creativity from AAA titles. Could be a mix of both but at this point in time I think after this year I feel less interested in games than I was at the same point in time last year. Am I burnt out? Can you be burnt out without playing half as many games as you normally would?
The thing is I look back at older games and have more of a passion to play them; playing DA:I made me want to fire up Mass Effect and the older DA games again; heck even go back to KoToR. I have more enthusiasm thinking about doing a new play through of Persona than I do of picking up Far Cry 4. I guess I’m trying to figure out if anyone else feels this way or gets this way? Cos right now I just feel like the magic’s been drawn out of the industry =\
Nah, I’m the same these days. Pick up fewer and fewer games as time goes on.
I think it’s a maturity and experience thing: when we were younger all the games were new and original to us, but the more we play the more new games feel derivative and too similar to stuff we played in the past.
Throw in nostalgia heightened by more volatile emotions and less world weariness of our younger years and it feels like all the new stuff sucks.
But the generation just getting into gaming now will in 10 years say this was the best time for games, just like you think of the games 10 years ago and older gens praise games of the 80’s/90’s.
The older I get, the more I know specifically what I want & the range gets smaller.
That’s said, it’s always a nice surprise to find something new.
I think I play far less games than most here, I thought it was a good year.
I rekon I play the least of all :'(
You wanna fight ???? :p
I would love to, but I don’t have enough time 🙁
TIL that my phone autocorrects Tekken to Tewkesbury.
Because of course…
I must have one of these – https://www.scmusic.com.au/products-page/electric-guitars/spongebob-squarepants-black-electric-guitar-amp-amplifier-accessories/
Just saw this pop up on my fb feed!
LOL
Seriously, if you live in Canberra, do yourselves a favour and go witness the awesome!
Oh man, Frenzal was my first ever concert in high school. As a full band, they’re amazing live, I’m not sure how Jay would carry a show by himself though.
You’ll never know if you don’t go! 😉
Yeah, but then I have to drive down to Canberra 😛
heh yeah. bit far for me too!
Did a quick scan of Wikipedia. Here are the games I’m most looking forward to next year!
Codename: STEAM
Bloodborne (if I get a PS4 – unlikely unless there’s an amazing deal or they release the Slim version)
Mario Maker
Rise of the Tomb Raider (if it makes it to PC that year)
Just Cause 3
Splatoon
Zelda WiiU
Zelda Majora’s Mask
Uncharted (again, if PS4)
XenUblade
The next Pokemon (not announced, but I mean, come on it’s almost definitely coming)
‘Maybe’ Games
Kirby and the Rainbow Curse
Yoshi’s Wooly World
Grim Fandango Remastered
Ori and the Blind Forest
Star Fox
Whore of the Orient (forgot this was coming out! Awesome!)
Night in the Woods!
Stop trying to make Night in the Woods happen. It’s not going to happen!
But it looks sooo good!
It’s my most hyped game!
Night in the Woods! 😀
Is Whore of the Orient still happening? For some reason, I thought that got axed ages ago. Didn’t the entire company get fired or something?
Wikipedia says it’s still coming! I hope it hasn’t been cancelled.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/04/the-australian-whore-of-the-orient-development-studio-has-reportedly-been-closed-down/
(http://www.kotaku.com.au/?s=whore+of+the+orient)
Holding. Out. Hope!
Stay optimistic, Shane.
It’s the only way.
*thinks of The Last Guardian*
It’s coming!
I used to believe. I did. I thought that if I wished it hard enough, Legends of Lone Wolf #13 might get written and published. But it’s been 22 years, man. TWENTY-TWO YEARS. I don’t know how much longer I can hold out hope 😛
No persona 5 *shakes head*
Rainbow curse.
Star Fox.
Maybe.
Maybe.
*adds Pow’s name to the list*
Never really liked the touchscreen Kirby games and I’ve never played Star Fox.
MAYBE! *stamp*
…
*adds Pow’s name an even worse list*
My first Nintendo console was the Wii, technically! That’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it.
Lylat Wars was on virtual console or so I’ve been led to believe! Or something.
Wait you have a 3DS, you should have Star Fox 64 3D 😛
You’ll love it. You even live the shitty Ninty franchises I hate. SF is actually good :p
I dislike nearly all Nintendo games but Star Fox is consistently great.
Did you like any Metroids?
That, Zelda & Mario Kart were my favorite. I lost interest over the years though 🙁
@jimu Zelda and Pokemon I love, played nearly everything else and hated them. Hasn’t been a good Mario game since 2007.
Also Canvas Curse was one of the best DS games and you’re a monster.
I assume that’s a permanent part of your “games I am looking forward to next year list”
Pretty much. I hope they take a year off to polish their 3D engine before Gen 7 though… The current engine is really gross in parts, if I’m honest 😛
Nah, it will just very slowly get better and better.
Yep
Arkham Knight
MGSV
The Order
Bloodborne
Uncharted 4
Mortal Kombat X
Dragon Ball Xenoverse
Pillars of Eternity
Hotline Miami 2
Resident Evil Rerereremake HD Evliest HDier
Grim Fandango
Heroes Of Might And Magic III HD
Heroes of Might and Magic VII
Armikrog
Rise of the Tomb Raider
Star Fox
Zelda Wii U and MM
Final Fantasy Type 0
Ooh, MGSV is coming out on PC?
Add that to my list then!
Grim Fandango! Ahhhhhhh how could I have missed it, so much nostalgia.
NIGHT IN THE WOODS!
I’m going to keep mentioning it till someone else shows it some love!
I just checked it out, I love those sorts of games that have a higher level concept and the art style looks really cute. I might have to pick it up! Don’t know if I have $15 at this time of year to go and spunk on a pre-order, but if you remind me I’ll come back to it and show it some love!
Yay!
It looks so good, right?!
RIGHT?!
I’ll definitely be reminding people close to its release! 😀
FF TType 0
FF XV
Persona 5
RE Revelations2
RE remastered remake
Duke Nukem 3D for Vita
Rise of the Tomb Raider
MGSV
Mortal Kombat Ex
Majoras Mask Again
Shin Megami Tensei Devil Survivor 2 Break Record (the record being broken is for dickiest title Evahs)
Games I still haven’t grabbed:
Walking Dead s2
Wolf’s Amigst Us
Persona Q
Yakuza 3
Gte those telltale games man – I grabbed seaosn pas for both for like $10 each – well worth it!
No money left atm.
$10 is PC yeah? I’ll get em for Vita, $20&$25
Nope, both were PSN on PS3!
Wow, on special? Sheeeeeeeet
2 3DS & a single vita game which is a 20 year old PC port. This is a sad year for handhelds
Armikrog looks good. I’m not on a hype train fo rit, but it does likke good
I’m looking forward to
BLOOOOOOOOOOODBORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRNE
The Walking Dead Season 3
Arkham Knight
That’ll do for now. There’s a whole bunch of other maybes and 2014 games I haven’t gotten yet.
Up vote for dedication
Upvote for upvote
Etc.
I’m looking forward to GTA V on PC.. Dunno what else tickles my fancy at this point in 2015.
Definitely:
– The Witcher 3
– Trails in the Sky SC
– Xenoblade X
– Uncharted 4
– Final Fantasy Type-0
– Final Fantasy XV (assuming 2015 release for localization)
– Tales of Zestiria
– Hatsune Miku: Project Mirai Remix (this is the 3DS Miku game with cute Nendoroid characters)
– Hotline Miami 2
– Hyper Light Drifter
– Hyperdevotion Noire (Neptunia SRPG spinoff)
– Grim Fandango
– Atelier Ayesha Plus
– Armello (because I kickstarted)
– Pillars of Eternity
– Yakuza 5
Maybe:
– Rise of the Tomb Raider (if I get XB1 or it gets PC)
– Omega Quintet
– Day of the Tentacle (depends what they do with it)
– AC Rogue (win release)
– AC Victory (assuming it’s less shit than
No Face EditionUnity)– Crackdown 3 (if I get XB1)
– No Man’s Sky (assuming there’s actually a game there)
There’s also a bunch of stuff that’s been released recently or going to be released in Japan soon which I will buy if and when it gets localized, eg Senran Kagura 2 & Estival Versus, Shining Resonance, PS4 Ys, Sen no Kiseki (holding out hope…), Eiyuu Senki, Corpse Party, Ar noSurge Plus and Ciel noSurge Offline, Demon Gaze 2, God Eater 2…
Oh pow, there is a little typo in your list; you accidentally put Wooly World in the maybe category!
Yeah, who’d buy that piece of poo?
Finished Dragon Age: Inquisition! \o/
Now that I have finished the game I have taken mental notes on what to do for my second playthrough. Probably going to finish Far Cry 4 first though.
EDIT: Play time according to Origin is 90 hours. That’s almost as long as I spent on my original playthrough in Dragon Age: Origins.
EDIT 2: Actually 93 hours but I think about 90 hours was spent playing the game. The other 3 hours me leaving the game on. =P
I kind of want to start a new game right away. I am already excited for my second play though.
I’M NOT OBSESSED! YOU ARE! I CAN QUIT ANY TIME I WANT TO I JUST DON’T WANT TO!
I started a new game, got as far as the first big decision, & then bought Yakuza 4
I should probably play a Yakuza game once in my life …
You get to beat up youths!
What else do you need in a game?
It looks bad but is really good.
The toy looking 3d models come to life in cutscenes & the combat is ace.
There’s also a healthy dose of Japanese humour at times
ATLUS just emailed me saying Devil Survivor 2 Break Record is coming to western 3ds, hope pal gets it in a timely manner
Games that I don’t care about next year:
Night in the Woods
Sorry Liondrive, had to be done. :pI’LL KILL YOU! >:O
Aw, you’re so cute when you’re angry. *reaches up two feet to pat you on the head*
That is, the distance. Not patting you with feet. That would be odd.
Gold!
If you touch my head, you have to play with my hair.
Them’s the rules 😀
Better than having to live in Canberra.
Does anyone?
I’LL KILL YOU TOO! >:O
Never heard of it? Is this some new “slenderman” bumpkin these kids these days go on about?
Aw, come on!
How has nobody heard of Night in the Woods?!
Wait, @liondrive which one is night in the woods? It’s not that motion detecting, teen horror game is it?
No, it’s the one based on the TAY camping trip. It’s far scarier.
Argh!
ARRRRGGGGHHHH!!!!!
It’s the one where you play as Mae the cat who moves back home after dropping out of college, only to realise that everyone has moved on in their own lives, while you haven’t.
There’s also something lurking in the Woods on the edge of town that threatens the town’s very future!
It’s a lot deeper than that, but it looks soooooo good!
Sounds like a PC only game.
Are my delicious consoles seeding a port?
It’s on PS4 too! 😀
Not Xbox straight away, though I think they’re trying to get it there too 🙂
I’ll have a look
That sounds awful.
Reply fail
Goddamit Freeze >:(
Reading it, it does sound pretty bad, haha!
Just watch the trailer 😛
It looks so good!
The story, the style, the art!
Beautiful! 😀
If it’s so great then why have I never heard about it before?
BECAUSE YOU’RE THE WORST! >:O
I’m with @mrtaco, @freezespreston and @blaghman on this one… Never even heard of it… =/
You were on track to make it into my top 10 favourite TAYbies list too :'(
Did you atleast watch the trailer I linked?
@liondrive – couldn’t watch at work. Just have…
So… Art style is kinda cool, kinda reminds me on LBP1 meets South Park… it looks charming… but still not sure I’m 100% on the premise of the whole thing…
Moved from “don’t know what it is” to “mildly interested but unlikely to buy unless it gets excellent reviews”
IT HAS MY EXCELENT REVIEW!
*SHAKES FIST ANGRILY!*
This reminds me, though, you should probably read the Broodhollow webcomic.
broodhollow.chainsawsuit.com
What was that one about the ghost? I completely forgot all about it until just now, and can’t remember what it was called.
Wilde Life by Pascalle Lepas.
http://wildelifecomic.com/
It’s waaaay slower than I’m happy with! But not as bad as Broodhollow not updating til NEXT YEAR.
So is everyone expecting X&Y2 or Z?
(I’m especially interested in the opinions of those that don’t play or are confused as to the meaning of my question)
If they take a page out of the Hollywood book, you’ll likely end up with a series of remakes! I haven’t played since Blue on the GB! Wasn’t til the last 2 batches of games that I even thought it might be worth taking another look at them.
Ha ha! They’ve been doing remakes every console since Advance.
Omega Ruby & Alpha Saphire just came out, remakes of Ruby & Saphire
heh pretty much what I thought 😉 At least OR and AS have new stuff though right? Like flying around? Does it also have that stuff like Nintendogs, where you can pet them etc?
Yeah, pretty much every remake includes just about every improvement & whatever else from the current generation.
the first remake gated off a lot of new evolution s etc but now they include them because I presume there were a lot of complaints.
Also, it helped to make available Pokemon that appeared in older games but we’re unavailable in the new. This isn’t such an issue anymore because it’s possible to move them up through each generation as far back as Advance.
Plus, it’s a kids game at the end if the day & 99% of kids aren’t playing old games, so it’s all new to them.
I honestly don’t think they’ll do Z because, well, the legendary for that one is already out there and I don’t know what else they could do aside from showcasing all of the hidden Pokemon. And throwing in more mega-stones but that’s a given.
I’m totally okay with them doing a straight up sequel. It would be awesome to see X&Y2 set somewhere like Pokemon England, Pokemon Germany or even Pokemon Spain or Italy. Stuff like that would be cool.
I’d like to see the sequel but I am expecting Z.
What you want seems like to much work for them.
Third legend s have been available in the past before their own game haven’t they?
I know they did it in b&w
If they did Z, I can’t really see what they could do. Zygarde was always kinda just sitting there similar to Mewtwo and there were no hints regarding him except for a rumour in the nearby town.
Actually, that town with the psychic gym (name I can’t recall, star something I think) could be expanded a bit. The great space/cosmic dial could have gotten a bit more story stuff out of it rather than just the post-game stone discovery. That could be an extra that could be added. Maybe also a bit more with the wandering man as he was introduced a bit clunkily into the story.
Was the same for the grey thing in B&W, they didn’t say that much & then they expanded his story in a completely new direction.
I would have presumed them to do Grey & have reshiram & zekrom be fused back into him but instead they did the split.
I think you’re selling Pokemon Company short a bit, if Episode Delta is any indication (maybe not) we should get an expanded post game. If you look at platinum, b2 & w2 well get new protagonist, a time shift if a few years, New gyms & a new narrative.
Remember Emerald actually fused the two games seperate narratives together!
The sky’s the limit!!
I don’t think there’s enough ‘improvement’ needed on story / gym stuff to warrant a Z (like Emerald or Platinum), nor do I think they want a revisit to X / Y now that there’s a ‘newer’ story in ORAS.
I’d lean more towards X2Y2, but more importantly, I’d lean towards next year being a year off with no release.
I dunno about when but I do think z or 2 is inevitable. They always do it.
I would hope, even if they don’t do 2s that they expand on it as much as b&w2. Extra areas, New story & maybe a proper challenge instead of just maison
Mega evolved Zygaurde & new story around him is a must.
both Rayquaza in Emerald & Giratina in Platinum had a decent but of new content surrounding them. There’s a completely new section in Platinum.
I agree 100% that zygarde is crying for some extended story like platinum. I’d hardly call 2 inevitable since that was something new they tried in gen 5 – they’re just as likely to do something different again this generation. Same with Z – they’ve departed from that formula since gen 4.
Looking at the dex entries for zygarde, I wouldn’t be surprised if the something different also ties into ORAS, there’s a lot of crossover with aspects of the delta episode. Plenty of opportunity for story cross-polination.
The million dollar question is what it could be… I’m thinking new series, same engine in 2016.
I didn’t mean with 2 or Z specifically, just one of them is inevitable.
Next gen will be New 3DS only or like B&W have extra features on said system.
(Did Gold & Silver play on OGB missing features?)
I don’t think one of the two is inevitable – I think they may go for option 3.
OGB?
OGB?
Why would they not do an enhanced version? They always do. Blue (Jp)& Yellow, Crystal, Emerald, Platinum, B&W2.
Why would they stop now?
I think they’ll do a new series with the gen 6 engine, and it’ll be in 2016. I want it to be a massive ‘best of’ that just has every region in it. Massively sprawling game. Maybe even an origin story set before all the current games.
Wait, Original GameBoy, my bad.
I was wondering if like Link’s Awakening DX they added functionality to gen 2 but let you play on an original GameBoy.
Like how B&W had extra features if you played on a DSi, but was playable on a DS.
Xz and Yz! Game Freak are too money-hungry to not do two of everything now 😛
Yeah, not 100% certain. It seems like the best money making choice since so many fans buy both
I vote for
Zb/c of patterns
?Sorry about today guys. Finally told the missus about the meats, she seemed to be ok with it “as long as it’s in a public place” she said. Think we’ll be back in the cbd again on Saturday if anyone’s up for a meat let me know what time and where.
“as long as it’s in a public place”
Does a seedy back alley count as a public space? Cause we like to hold meats in those..
Sounds great =S
Probably best not to take things I say as truth. My sense of humour is err unique?
It’s cool, I knew you were only mucking around.
Or was I?!
Dun.. Dun.. Dun…
Not that meat..other meat
What’s wrong with a bit of long pig?
It gets blisters in the sun
Keep it in a wet cool sack in the shade then 😛
Everyone needs a wet cool sack
Dohohohoho.
Woop
Why is that?
Your mrs doesn’t do that?
Mines quite happy to meet new people out & about but you have to be known to visit
Enh, safety stuff. Internet strangers and all that.
A little caution’s probably a healthy thing these days, and our human masks(tm) can always do with a little airing. They can survive public spaces for quite some time!
Stranger danger, gotta do 4 days of covert recon on the area and have bug out bags here, here and here
I think it’s better if you let us know what time, then we’ll figure out the where. 🙂
@beardymcmuttonchops @beeawwb @cufcfan616 @dkzeitgeist @freezespreston @gutsoup @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @sernobulus @strange @sughly @transientmind @welbot @janexo, @sunsoar77, @virus__
TENTATIVE MEAT PLANS FOR SATURDAY, DETAILS PENDING!
Just need a location really.
Yeah, exactly. That’s the easy part, we can fill in the blanks after @EvilMonkey gives okay about time but I’m thinking evening?
Lots of cool places we can go around Brisbane/West End/Valley.
What? I thought we agreed to restaurants inn the North???!!!
:p
Yes. The North. As close to, or in Alderley. So the Alderley Hotel it is
DINNER AT WESTFIELD STRATHPINE FOOD COURT!
That’s a joke before any freaks out. Jokes. JOKES. 😛
Plenty of choice. Subway, Aussie Chinese, KFC for the ladies & Fucking Full…I mean Bucking Bull
Bucking Bull does nice steak sandwich and gravy chips. 😀
I dunno, maccas for dinner is pretty Australian.. I assume they have that there..
As long as its in a public place..? What does that mean!
Okay… Spoke to wifey, turns out we have a friends Christmas party thingo booked in for Saturday evening, but am able to come out after if everyone is still out and about a bit later in the evening.
We should organize a dinner somewhere that you can come to or miss as needed
This. I can come along in this scenario.
Any ideas on location, you seem to be hip to the restaurant scene
Also, what time could you make it based on working, buddy?
6:30 – 7 usually works.
cc. @evilmonkey
Like @strange said… Time. Then place.
Hell, I think my weekend is kinda free I might even be able to show my face and drag wifey along, probably have the kid in tow too.
*suddenly super nervous about potential first meat*
It’s ok, the paddles don’t hurt that much.
Eventually.
My confidence levels just went off the scale………
Off the bottom…
BLOOOOOODBOOOORRRRRRRRRRRNE
Only 103 days to go!
Here’s the news from today:
Bloodborne is a dark and brutal successor to Dark Souls
Bloodborne feels like a natural evolution for FROM Software
Bloodborne director expands upon Chalice Dungeon, character customisation
And how’s the PS4 fund looking?
*shrug* Who even knows anymore? What’s below zero? 😛
It’s all right, though. I’m putting together plans for a daring heist when I visit Freeze’s house in April.
That’s if there isn’t one waiting here for you.
I’ll probably go through with it anyway, just so the planning time wasn’t wasted.
I been saving JB vouchers since my B’day – glad I’m not the only one with a PS4 fund 😛
Sounds like you are for the moment. What I’ve got is an aspiration for a PS4 fund 😛
*puts fingers in my ears*
LALALALALA NOT LISTENING!
NOT GETTING HOPES UP AFTER THE BITTER DISAPPOINTMENT OF DARK SOULS 2
LALALALALA
Storm’s a comin’.
yerrrrr! Think you can handle our weather? 🙂
I have actually experienced Brisbane storms before. It was a long time ago though. Should be fine.
yep just hit us, really strong wind and lotsa rain.
Hello TAY, for my 1,000th post here (Holy crap I’ve posted a damn lot) I thought it would be pertinent of me to share a little of how I’ve found my time here.
I don’t know how I ended up posting on TAY, I used to read the articles on Kotaku and didn’t ever think to post on them. I think I may have posted on TAY first, but I’m glad I did. In 1,000 posts I’ve only met one person in the flesh but I wanted to congratulate you all on contributing to one of the most special little places on the internet round.
Games are great and they are even better sharing them with good people, especially in a community like you guys have. Still being on the periphery having not met nearly all of you, I’ve always felt welcome and look forward to jumping on TAY for some laughs and learning about video games.
Thanks for making me feel welcome and look forward to gaming and Meating with you folks soon.
1000! \o/ You’re a welcome addition to TAY ranks, and more often than not, a rare breath of sanity (you get points deducted for that).
Thanks Shane, just checked out your post count. I better get posting, I’m going to have to start with single words to catch up! 😛
A good addition, right here.
I read this as “addiction”…
<3
Don’t worry, I haven’t met any of the TAYbies yet either. One day.
One day we will, one day!
You, me, Ben, MeaTAS, New Year. Somewhere. Somehow. It’ll happen.
I think you are a valuable addition to the community mainly because you’re going to send me food.
And you, to send me food also! I’m planning to get to the shops this weekend to load up. I’ll find a box to put it in as well lol.
Yeah, you’re a pretty cool guy, Duracell.
Glad to have you around 🙂
That memory though, gotta be careful what I tell you St!. I can just imagine a pin board with everyones ‘nickname’ with our gravatars next to them with little pieces of red string on the board 😛 Hope you have that kinda memory for my fitness advice for you! 😉
Fitness advice:
Donuts are the perfect after workout snack.
U R A BRO!
PS u r posting roughly 4 times faster than me 😉
Always happy to welcome great people like you to the scene! Who knows if/when we’ll ever meet, but if the time and place is right, I wouldn’t hesitate!
I think you’ve taken @dc’s title of upvote fairy 😛
Not the manliest of titles.
So *that’s* why you went and painted your deck.
*obligatory flex*
If I enjoy reading something I more times or not like to upvote, I’ll tone it down 😛 +1 for now though.
You are still welcome to come by at Christmas
Thanks man, I have a huge day with my family every Christmas though. I appreciate the invite though, if I were having an orphans Christmas I’d hold you too it 😛
Looks like my Christmas wish is close to coming true
Haha a Freudian slip or a spelling mistake, we’ll never know! 😉
Just played some more Screencheat. Man, I love me that crossbow. Area control is kind of ridiculously useful in that game.
Wow, Slipknot are in huge demand for festivals in 2015.. Good for them. But I do wish for a national tour in support of their new album, not just the 4 Soundwave shows :/
Ultimatum time: I pledge to buy no more RPG books for the next three months, starting today.
On a serious note, I may or may not have spent way too much money on this stuff recently and its starting to get a bit ridiculous. I’m getting to that stage where I could conceivably build a small cubby using nothing but my books.
Don’t feel guilty – I’m sure you deserve it 🙂
FALCON MAC AND LUIGI DAY TOMORROW
Pit Day*
Friday, no money for stuff*
Pit, he the fool.
I already have figma Pit and Dark Pit though so I’m less hyped about his Amiibo than Falc and Mac.
@freezespreston You didn’t like 3D land? That was my fave 3d Mario since 64, similarly to Link Between Worlds it wasn’t innovative in any way but just plain, Damn fun.
Didn’t dig any Metroid s huh? Miss that era oor not keen on that style?
Despised 3D Land. Loved Link Between World’s. Tried all the Metroids, they just didn’t do much for me.
Oh noes, my beloved Super Metroid *melts*
What about 3D World?
I can’t really remember much of what I thought of 3D Land, most of my friends seem to hate it as bland and boring though. I don’t remember hating it, at the very least 😛 3D World on the other hand was all kinds of amazing.
I wasn’t fond of 3D World. Wanted to love it so bad, but didn’t at all. Preferred the Galaxy games.
Haha, and I didn’t much care for the Galaxy games at all 😛
One day we’re gonna fisticuff! Or overcome our differences to become the best of pals! (AFTER WE FISTICUFF!)
PAX SHOWDOWN
Battle can take the form of a dance off!
WHO IS THE TURBOEST LOVER?
The original Galaxy game is awesome. Didn’t care for the 2nd one just felt it was the exact same game, didn’t even bother slightly changing it. I still think Super Mario Sunshine is the best 3D Mario game made though.
YOSHI!
Yoshi was rideable in Sunshine.
When it came out, everyone was going on about how incredible it was. I couldn’t afford it at the time so had to hold back, tried to not read too much about it or anything, keep that hype in check etc. Eventually ended up borrowing it from a friend and… it was ok? I find I can hardly remember much of it at all, no idea what was the first game and what was the second. Just didn’t do much of anything for me.
Btw the best 3D Mario is Mario 64 😛
Bland & boring? How? Charming little gem with nice little bite sized levels.
Don’t ask me, it’s not my opinion!
Nintendo stuff isn’t really something I begrudge everyone else liking and I get why they do (except Animal Crossing, dafuq, it isn’t even a game), I just throw it in the not for me pile. Occasionally venture out to confirm it’s still the case.
Fair enough, I’m pretty much the same with non-Nintendo stuff. Mostly just go “I don’t get it” and go back to my usual.
“Here’s a TV that looks like an apple.”
I hated 3D land but loved 3D world.
Ordered an Xbox one. Ended up grabbing via the MS Store. No special offers for employees but the MS Store bundle appears to be Bluray copies of the games that EB are bundling as download codes, and I decided that 12 months XBL Gold (and I think a second controller but not 100% sure) is probably more useful than a download code for collardoody.
Congrats! Is this your only ‘Next Gen Console’?
I got a PS4 almost exactly 1 year ago (bought it for myself as a 30th birthday present) and got a Wii U about 3-4 months ago if that counts as ‘Next Gen’. Also have a good gaming PC. So probably going to regret this purchase. 😛
Haha you’ll love it, I think a lot of the exclusive titles are worth it. I wish I could get a Ps4 for some of the games that has on it as well.
Add me on xbone when you’ve got it all set up; highperforma89
You can add me already if you’d like. NegativeZero1. I think my XBL account’s ten years old now! 🙂
Lol I’d be surprised if mine isn’t that old yet as well!
Congratulations, I guess?
So I’m likely grabbing an Xbox One for myself very soon as an early birthday present, I’ll likely get the EB Games 7 game bundle, but I’m keen to see what you guys are playing on your at the moment?
I’ll likely sell off the codes for both Black Flag, Unity, Dance Central & Forza 5… Is anyone playing COD:AW? I’ll be keeping the Master Chief Collection, Sunset Overdrive and picking up Destiny and a gold sub, but I’m not sure what else I should get.
*EDIT*
Of course it’s a new page…
Me and @highperformance on quite a bit. Play a lot Destiny. I also play Fifa 15 and own GTA V and Halo:MCC, but they aren’t getting much love at the moment.
I was close to getting CoD, but it just didn’t happen as I ended up having quite a bit of fun in Destiny’s PvP!
EDIT: Removing, nevermind. I think I got a better bundle because employee 🙂
I wouldn’t say no if you wanted to get me one too 😀
I can’t, unfortunately. Only can buy one bundle that way. 🙁
It was $599, Xbox One + Kinect bundle, same as EB. Differences:
– 12 months XBL Gold
– extra controller
– Halo, Sunset Overdrive, Forza are on disc, not download codes
– No CoD
It’s honestly only marginally better than what EB offers.
That’s way better, all but I think 2 maybe 3 games from that EB bundle are download codes. Being on a shitty data cap I reckon discs are a way better source than downloading 😛
I’ll probably be grabbing one too, sometime next year though.
I want to get in on Sunset Overdrive and Quantum Break 🙂
Hope you enjoy your Xbox!
Yeah, Quantum Break looks really interesting, I loved Alan Wake, so I’ll be keeping an eye on QB for sure.
Congrats man, I think you’re making a wise decision with your console! As Jack said we play a LOT of Destiny. I have Advanced Warfare but have only done two story missions thus far, Destiny has a hold over me like nothing else I’ve known.
Shadows of Mordor lots of folk here on this page recommend, I bought it last week so I’m pretty excited for that too if you’re thinking of picking it up.. Assassins creed climbing/running but with LOTR feel and Batman like combat!
EDIT: Nevermind.
Shadows of Mordor out-Assassin’s Creeds Assassin’s Creed and nearly out-Batmans Batman at the same time.
The Xbox bundles also had a $20 Xbox credit card thingy during EB’s Mad Monday thing.
It’s a pretty good bundle that has almost tempted me too but selling off the extra games just doesn’t seem worth the hassle for me :P. I’ll bite for $400 with Halo, Sunset and another controller though D:
*waits*
I’m reaaaallllly considering getting an Xbox One just for Forza Horizon 2. I’m longing for a good open world racing game so badly right now.
That was going to be included, but I grabbed The Crew on PC last week, and I figure if I get too many arcade-y racing games I’ll burn out.
Why not buy the cheaper one? $100 cheaper and you don’t get COD:AW / Dance Central. I’m probably going to pick it up for myself this weekend. =P
Maybe he likes CoD & Dance Central nob, gosh!
Dat Kinect
The dashboard UI is still kind of shit without a Kinect for voice commands. :\
$100 worth of horrible? =P
I’d prefer to have the Kinect and sell off the unwanted games.
@poribo
Just got P3 end bos down to what I presume was it’s finally form. Probably about one maybe two turns away from killing it.
And somehow gets me dead in one turn.
That was about 2 hours of work down the drain.
@nightflarer
*hug* it’s okay Jimy, I believe in you~
I really thought I’d done it this time *sobs, tears streaming*
*pats on back*
We’ll get through this together…
*sniffles*
So close ;_;
I bet your sick of hearing “The Arcana blah blah revealed blah”
Spam Triangle
I am so confused by the last episode of South Park. It was great, but wtf happened? And I got so excited at the end because I thought they were trying to summon Mr Hankey, not Pewdiepie 🙁
All in all it’s been a great season and the continuity’s been great. Especially gluten free and Lorde 😛
Grandpa.
A group of people all believed hard enough and summoned a high pitched, catch-phrase spouting piece of shit. Seems like it went exactly as intended.This episode was really weak. This is the problem with continuity for South Park, I don’t think they really know how to wrap things up. The rest of the season was great though, one of the best in a while.
Just read that as “Gluten Free Lorde” and was all “I don’t recall that mash up episode..”
I am Lorde, Yo yo yo
*How to end a conversation immediately, as demonstrated by Sean’s Mum*
*Jingle plays*
“… also Sean, I’m pretty sure [name] was flirting with you last night…”
“And you were oblivious to it…”
“Or purposefully ignoring her.”
*Sean becomes utterly engrossed in consuming his dinner*
That’s our Blaghs! *canned laughter*
So. Which was it? 😛
She was flirting, but it was a friendly sort of flirt, and I’ve never quite been sure how to react with girls who are like that.
Easy. You ask her that if you said she had a beautiful body, would she take her pants off and dance around a little.
I’m fairly sure the answer would be no, since she has a boyfriend, but it’s not like I have anything to lose, she’s only going to be at work for another month and a half.
Is it you? WOOO BOYFRIENDAGHMAN
You can, uhh, keep believing that, Deludius.
You’re already taken?
@freezespreston
Does being in a committed (though open) relationship with my hand count?
What therefore God hath joined together, let no man put asunder.
You work with your mum don’t you? Work functions must be weird! (especially with all the flirty ladies 😉 )
My mum had an interview at the place I work too …so I could’ve worked with my mum as well D:
Yup.
And, err, yup.
Picking up my Zelda amiibo tomorrow. 😀
FALCON!
PAWUNCHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Diddy!
Now I’m just seeing an old falcon with a big santa belly
I wanna too, I hope they’ve patched in a new weapon in Hyrule for her.
God dammit. Firefox update took away my homepage.
I WAS USING THAT, YOU JERKS
Arse. The firefox google page I used to use doesn’t seem have the old style textbox any more. Not sure if that’s google’s doing, or Firefox’s. Either way it pisses me off, I used that thing to keep track of things I’ve searched for on here previously.
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com.au/2014/12/google-removes-old-firefox-start-page.html
Baw 🙁
DOUBLE DAMMIT
Thought I could save the page and use it. Except it has the autocomplete shit enabled, and won’t listen to the ?complete=0 appended to the end of it.
They’ve also fucked with the search bar.
Thankfully that one’s reversible in about:config.
Yeah, thank god.
HEY GUYS LETS SEARCH FOR EVERYTHING PREEMPTIVELY ON ALL YOUR SEARCH OPTIONS AND MAKE IT TAKE THREE TIMES AS LONG TO JUST DO A SIMPLE SEARCH ON THE SEARCH PROVIDER YOU SELECTED! THAT SOUNDS LIKE AN AWESOME FEATURE!
They keep trying to make the thing look more like Chrome, yet Chrome continues to eat their market share. Wonder why that is? :\
You lost me at, “the”.
I’ve got my work Christmas party tomorrow night D:
Hopefully I’ll realise if [name] flirts with me though 😛
OoooOOOOOoooooooOOOOOOoooooOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooooh!
Her parents must have been horrible to name their child [name].
Beats being called (blank).
I lol’d
*hangs head in shame*
Give her one! Etc
Give her a name?
Julia Tan
Joelene
Joelene-Marie
Barry.
Bruce
I’ve got my work Christmas party tomorrow day!
Don’t have to worry about anybody flirting with me though.
Pauly has the hots for you!
Haha
(That dude’s in court now :P)
I see Pow likes the bad boy type!
Also D:
Totally just beat my 4year old son at Monopoly Junior
#BoardGames
Powalen told me he let some kids win when they versed him in Pokemon at PAX.
NAH MAN! SHOW NO MERCY. PLAY PROPERLY AND THEY’LL WIN IF THEY’RE GOOD ENOUGH, GOSH!
If I was a gym leader at PAX, I’d have two teams.
One for kids and casual plays who are in it for fun, and one for the hardcore players who wanted to test themselves.
(I’d be a poison gym, by the way :D)
I’d be Dark & dress like I did in high school but with Pokemon accessories, like a cap, maybe fingerless gloves
Do like you did in high school?
Dress
Dress-Marie
I’ll consider this a victory because board games.
I hope you yelled “in your face” and flipped the board over when you won.
Who’s up for Smash Bros on Wii U tomorrow night, 8pm AEDT?
Why not tonight? 😛
EDIT: I don’t know if you have us on Wii U or not, but there has been TAY people playing for a few hours every night this past week 😀
Add me, I need to fight with PAC Mannnn
Just finished “A Story About My Uncle” in one evening. Good game, gets the Blaghs recommendation (at least, it’s totally worth the <$4 I paid for it).
Hey @Shane, when does your Kickstarter end?
When it started I had 180 Instagram followers but now I have 280. That’s 100 more people I can expose you to. 😛
At 6pm on the 15th! A little under four days from now.
Though you should obtain consent in writing before anyone exposes themselves. Just so we’re covered.
Edit: also, make sure your followers are cool with a range of content. I’d hate for you to lose itching followers because you splashed some friend’s zombie gore in their face.
Meh. If they can’t handle a zombie’s gore then they shouldn’t be following me! 😛
Seriously though, as my IG account is part of my “branding” I try and keep it as authentic to me and my aesthetics as possible. 🙂
I’m ignoring the “itching” part! 😛Oh man! So popular! I have like 26! 😛
I can only assume that I have 0, though I’ll admit I haven’t checked. 😛
I have 0. I like to think it’s because I haven’t made one but we all know I would have 0 if I made one.
I’m actually kind of stunned at how fast my “following” is growing. It’s kind of scary if I think about it too much!
Constant stream of relevant, interesting posts!
I have 21.
I also have posted exactly one picture.
I going to assume on a follower/picture basis I’m the most popular Instagrammer on the planet.
Totes.
Damn, I totally killed my ratio by adding that second tweet.
After 10 minutes of searching, I think I found you on Twitter.
a) that should boost your ratio
b) I eagerly await your third tweet
c) yes I’m a sadsack who got way too excited that you joined Twitter and then spent 10 minutes trying to find you. I hope it’s you. Otherwise some random person out there is wondering whether I’m a spam bot.
@snrtaco
I din’ join nothin’ 😛
I’m too lazy to go back and check other pages, so here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MC3XuMvsDI
Looks like it will be another Pixar winner.
Also, I just worked 3 shifts in 2 days. I’m pooped.
Work Christmas party tomorrow night too.
Looks great!
Bllllaaaarrrggghhh! *flails*
http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2014/12/11/bloodborne-collectors-editions-pre-order-extras-revealed/
@shane @SerNobulus @transientmind @strange
Must.resist!
I assume you didn’t tag me in this because you wanted to save me money, right?
To be fair, he did say “Bllllaaaarrrggghhh!”
I also believe I wasn’t tagged to save me from spending money as a recently mortgaged broke person.
Hey @beavwa and @blaghman, I saw this and thought you might be interested: http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2014/12/11/bloodborne-collectors-editions-pre-order-extras-revealed/
That book tin looks nifty. Should be more prominently listed.
That’s my favourite part of it.
Agreed!
Responsibilities are the Dark Souls of life….
O_O
I must have it.
That quill pen is pretty cool. As is the book tin. The rest of the stuff is ruined by the stock standard dude-with-weapons-dangling-facing-away-from-the-camera cover picture. So bland and uninspiring.
Hey @shane…you should totally do a limited edition cover of Undad with him facing away from us and dangling a hamster carcass from his hands. You can be one of the cool kids,too! 😛
And make sure you can’t see anything in the background due to explosions or dark clouds
I love it! I’m totally gonna do this tonight.
Dad Souls.
Shiny, tho I love me some cloth maps.
Tempting to grab it for the art book to add to my Souls collection and the steelcase is nice.
But probably not.
I still have no idea what this game is about..
Each of these Event matches in Smash are getting more an more frustratingly hard.
Ready to hurt and break things. Many times over.
I remember mega bowser in melee. Good times.
Morning, TAY.
Who’s up for Smash tonight, 8pm AEDT?
Pissed.
Got to Target around quarter to 8, turns out they open at 7 at the moment. Eventually find someone, ask about Amiibos. Get told they’re in the storeroom downstairs, they haven’t started yet and need to do another two cages first. Can I come back later? Uhhh not til much later. Run around to Big W who were just opening, ask them if they have any. Nope. SDFJSOIRFOSEJFDS.
Took a shot and checked out here at Broadway (I didn’t even realise there was a floor above the food court, let alone that there was a Target there), get told some guy already came in and bought them all to sell on eBay. Of course. Fucking hate those bastards.
Ain’t gonna be able to find any of them now.
🙁
Maybe you should have asked the first place to hold some for you.
Maybe. But I don’t trust them to pick the ones that are up to my standards of quality >_>
Sometimes preordering from EB isn’t a bad thing….
Yeah but $84 is much more appealing than $107.7 😛
Also they weren’t open yet.
The thing about preorders is you can do them weeks before & cancel them last minute at no cost
Were they advertised as meant to be on sale today or something? There’s probably something about consumer there then I guess…
Yeah they were in the catalogues.
Does crafting bug out in dragon age inqusition or am I just really unlucky?
It seems if I try to build any masterwork item with anything below a 100% chance it doesn’t work.
According to my maths I should be at around 7 successful masterwork items and still not one. (I’ve been counting the number of attempts at what % chance.)
Are you save scumming, or attempting multiple times? It seems to use the same sort of system as XCom, where it just runs through a list, and I think the list is only applied when you use a %chance thing, rather than on all crafting, though I’m not sure as I haven’t tested it thoroughly.
A little of both. I tend to save, try a few times, run off and do other things then come back and try again.
I think if you save/reload the success chance goes down, because BioWare are jerks.
Tried once & succeeded I think. Maybe not & I thought it did?
I knew poop/fart jokes started early but this is a bit ridiculous.
Woke up this morning and was listening to my daughter. She has just worked out how to blow raspberries and that is her new trick. Well this morning she is laying in bed and she goes and does a fart. Then she would blow a raspberry. The she repeats the process.
When I go over she has the biggest cheesiest grin on her face as she is doing it.
So proudI loved it when my daughter was learning the same thing… <3
When my daughter (nearly 2) now farts or burps… She looks you dead in the eye and then giggles. Equal amounts hilarious and creepy.
It’s a good time, the first hints of her personality are starting to come out and she is doing things to get a reaction as opposed to just reacting to what is around her.
Look on the bright side with your little girl, that is hilarious and just a little creepy. It isn’t like she is telling you that you shouldn’t go to London because there is going to be a fire there soon. Just creepy and not hilarious at all.
My 3 year old ran into my room and woke me up this morning shouting that she had figured it out. Poo comes out and it’s magic!
Seems legit
Digestive systems – how the fuck do they work?
MAGIC.
Brisbane folk: should we make definitive meat plans even if EvilMonkey can’t make it? Longer we hold off, less likely it will be that people can make it. It’s been a while since we all hung out and people are leaving town for Christmas very soonish, so it’d probably be cool to hang even without new folks. *decisive nod*
Okay, Saturday night. Dinner. Someone needs to book somewhere cool.
Freezey says 6:30 to 7:00ish would be ideal for him coming from work? That sound good to you guys?
Have christmas thing at another friends place from around 6, but shouldn’t go too long as the kid will probably flake out. If folks are still out a bit later I should be able to drive in, show my face and have a beverage or two. Will keep my eye out here and Twitter to see what’s happening…
Yeah, wouldn’t be unusual to still be moseying about at that time. Assuming people want to go. Guys? GUYS? *wipes tear away*
I’m in a
weirdgreat situation where I’m meetingstrangersnew people either way! Potentially twice in a night… Yay for getting out of comfort zones!Friends doing the party thing – we know them, but noone else going (other friends who were going pulled the pin… jerks)
I know of a great meat cellar that’s pretty COOOOL *BUH-DUMB-TISH*
It’s more than fine not to want to meat. Just say so and that’ll be that. If everyone does this ignoring thing we’ll have no progress one way or the other. Don’t like this limbo at the moment. XD
Err…maybe people should be tagged! 😛
Did on the previous page. No one responded. Hate being this pushy guy. 😛
I responded. Push. If they say no, then remove individuals as you go.
I hate when I’m not tagged & something is organized, feels like I’m not wanted.
I would like to have dinner with you, even if we do end up in the Strathpine Food Court.
Stuck at work and shitty internet is keeping me from easily checking if anyone said yes/no/maybe last night…
When: 6:30 to 7pm start – Saturday
Where: TBA
Why: Reasons… actually, who needs reasons. Just because. It’ll be fun.
@beardymcmuttonchops @beeawwb @cufcfan616 @dc @dkzeitgeist @freezespreston @gutsoup @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @sernobulus @strange @sughly @transientmind @welbot @weresmurf @virus__
cc: @evilmonkey
Me: I’m a maybe, have other thing on but will try get in after if people are still around
PS: How does one get their name added to taytags page? Add me… and maybe @jimu if he’s interested to Brisbane bunch?
Depends where we are going but I shouid be up for it.
I’m a 90% yes. Acually no, make that a 100% yes. Mr. Strange owes me from flying to Sydney overnight for his work Christmas party….
I’ve said all along I just need people to tell me where and when.
Also, is Jimu really not already on the Brisbane TAYtags page?!
We need to put @janexo on there as well.
My bad… Jimu is in there! So me and janexo need to get on it… How?
I’m unsure. Bribe @powalen? 😀
Super keen, only reason I’ll pull out is if the weather gets too wet.
Il need to ride home from the station.
Hey kids! Sorry I missed all this; I’m out of town this weekend for a work event 🙁 But I look forward to photos! Have fun 😀
Think I’ll have to miss out on this round. Don’t get paid til next week. This week has been one hell of a juggling act as it is!
If I get paid today, then count me in.
Yeah, I’m game to do something somewhere on a Saturday night for a couple hours. The stated time seems OK.
I will awkwardly attempt convo with you this time.
please don’t scare me by dressing so much like an adult this time :p
This time
If it helps, I wear pretty much the same thing to all meats. A plain plack collared shirt with the sleeves rolled up, blue jeans, and black boots. Outside of the rare occasions I need to wear a suit, it’s practically a Steve Jobs’ian type personal uniform at this point.
But we’ll chop it up about games and shit for sure and you can tell me all about this cool Persona shit I’m missing out on and why I should be getting into it (and how) and all the ‘adult’ trappings will be forgotten in no time!
Could you wear a twist? :p (I wrote t shirt here but twist is just funny)
No, for sure. I think the real reason last time was we were on opposite ends of the table during dinner, then you left pretty soon after.
Not sure what the magic number is for these things to kick off… but so far have 7 peeps indicating a tentative to firm yes – @dc @strange @jimu @transientmind @sernobulus @cufcfan616
I can’t get there at proposed start time, but can come by later, so need a place…
My quick suggestions just off the top of my head…
Valley – Harajuku Gyoza – good fun, good food decent value… Is mana bar still open? Cos it’s near there.
West End – Lock n Load – nice place, decent beers, not tried the food though. Archive Beer Botique is pretty cool. Amazing range of beers/ciders, food is good, but is a bit pricey.
CBD – so many options… having a brain fart on remembering any spots to go…
My brother’s actually going to be at Harajuku Gyoza a bit after 6:30 tonight. I could join him.
(Edit: Nowait, that’s tonight, not tomorrow… we have something tomorrow but I can’t remember when. Blaaah. I should be right for 6:30+ onward regardless, I think.)
West End is a bit of a shit for me to get to.
I’m also keen for BYO if poss
E-mail about departure time for some team dinner thing tonight. Why is this the first I’m hearing of it :/
Should go to the meetings, Gooky! 😀
Well if they didn’t have them without me…!
Really I’m just thinking of saying I already have plans. Which I kinda do. My plan was to go home tonight, not out 😛
hehe, that’s my plan too. I’ll just pretend that my plans are more interesting. Well it sounds better than “I’ma go to the shop and see if there’s Amiibos I want, then gonna play all the games and stay up late like a big boy!”
yeah, I’m pretty sure our Christmas party is tonight. No one tells me stuff here ever and I couldn’t be arsed to find out.
I’m a mushroom, fed shit and kept in the dark.
That reminds me of a particularly unsettling episode of Hannibal. XD
I should get around to watching that, I enjoy being unsettled.
Edit: Does he eat mushrooms grown on dead people? The Last of Us would be like a smorgasbord for him.
Ups for Hannibal. Had basically no interest in it until my housemate convinced me to watch it. Best decision. Gorgeous show, and entertaining as hell to boot.
What should I do everyone?
One of my favourite pokemon is Garados, and my starter is Mudkip, so should I do a water pokemon themed team?
However Pikachu is one of my other favourites, and Mudkip is pretty cute, so should I do a cute themed team?
Basically I want additional interest to my playthrough so I want a themed team, but can’t make up my mind!
Practicality be damned. Make a team of your favorite Pokemon, and if you get destroyed, it doesn’t matter. Your team will always be coolest. Besides, real trainers know it’s not about winning.*
*May or not be true to anyone but me.
All Garados and Magicarp team!!
Be the best darn Fisherman there ever was.
I’m with the raichu, I just choose cool Pokemon, always have.
The only ‘rule’ I set myself (&I’ve broken it ) is that I balance out with different types.
This is more to make it not too challenging, but given the lack if challenge in ORAS, IIssue go for broke.
I ended up avoiding trainers because my level was too high. I read the Delta Episode was more challenging but by that time, my team was too strong.
So, in answer to your question, do a cool team. When I say cool I mean ones what you like, not ice type or stereotypical leather jacket wearing cool 😉
But what is he likes ice type and stereotypical leather jacket wearing poekmon
I’m reminded of the biker trainers, and just how uncool they are.
Then go with it, or PARADOX, whatever comes first
Considering contests are a thing, a cute themed team would suit pretty well. Not sure how effective it would be though but as Nef said, practicality doesn’t matter as long as you’re having fun.
Honestly though, I kind of do both. I get a team that’s optimised for battles I need to win, but most times I’m most concerned levelling up my favorite ‘mon, whether they’re good or not.
I have a sincere weakness for Ghost-types, but for some reason they never work very well for me. But I still love them. Cofagrigus and Haunter ftw!
And Raichu, of course.
Water based theme – You can still have Pikachu you just have to figure out how to trade one up from Yellow where he can learn surf.
Workplace Christmas party stigma is weird. There’s like this underlying expectation you’ll go, regardless of how wretched it may be, how much you hate every single person there or even if you have other plans. And if you don’t go in spite of all these things, you’re obviously a shit person/employee/fun hatter.
Anyways, I’m on call, so fuck you guys, I’m not going.
What a
shit person/employee/fun hatter/hero of our time! 😀Bah humbug!
It’s easier to decline in the public service, because we have to pay our way. Four Christmas parties (department, group, branch and team), and I’m going to none of them.
Christmas parties are great
Although as a sign of the times I am more excited because my little girl is coming into the office than because of the Christmas party. Is it during work hours? After hours Christmas parties are a bit dodgy
Yeah, after hours. Have to go hang out in St Kilda after hours with a bunch of people I have trouble spending time with during work hours. There’s a couple of exceptions, but I talk to them outside of work already.
Just do what I do – Abuse the bar tab as fast as you can then proceed to drunkenly call out the CEO for his poor management skills in front of the shareholders.
One of my coworkers got shitfaced a few years back at the work xmas party and told our total jerkwad CEO exactly what he thought of him. Was utterly glorious. He didn’t lose his job or anything either – I think the CEO was shocked someone actually stood up to him for once.
You probably wanna make sure that there is a skill shortage in your profession before you do this however.
Hah. I went to the one for the organisation I left 3 months ago on Monday,
It was fine, but there was no way I was wearing out that welcome.
So… I started playing Hearthstone this morning, after watching some of the crazy/awesome stuff being pulled off with the new expansion recently, and realising it was free. Two thoughts: “This is really fun!” and “My wallet is underlevelled for this game.” Might hold off on buying packs, and wait for the Android version.
Anyone with the PC and iPad versions: is progress/cards/decks shared between the two?
Yes. It uses your Battle.net account, so it’s universal.
Cool. Still gonna hold off on packs, but good to know I can play now without having to restart later. It looks dangerous enough to force myself to stick to the tablet version, lest I never get anything else done. 😛
I haven’t ever bought a pack, but on the other hand have never played it obsessively to get to a high level.
It seems that spending money doesn’t necessarily equal high ranking. It’s not pay to win, but it’s pay to have more opportunity to get better cards to make it easier to win.
I once had my arse handed to me by somebody who hadn’t even used one card out of the Naxx expansion, so it’s how you build your deck that constitutes 75% of your power, not your wallet.
What I’m trying to say is: Don’t go buying anything just yet. Wait and see how you do with the basics first.
Indeed. I’m just rather ignorant of the effort required to get cards (and the game’s progression system in general), but historically free-to-play and in-game purchases have always influenced progression.
Tbh, the wallet comment was more a dig at the unexpected cost of bought packs – $3 ($4? Still unsure if pricing is in USD or AUD, as it doesn’t say) for what, ten random cards? The matches I watch are of people who have everything unlocked (more or less), so seeing a $70 pack-set is kinda startling.
I found the tablet version is actually best. Just seems to really lend itself to that format – whereas when I play Hearthstone on my PC, I feel like I should be on my tablet. Just nicer to dung out on the couch, etc. Feels more.. comfortable.
Card packs can be dangerous, but you can deconstruct and craft new cards from ones you have extras of or ones you don’t want. It’s pretty lax on the real dollars front.
Re: The tablet version – that was my first thought, too. I enjoyed Magic on my tablet, but couldn’t really get into the game itself. Hearthstone seems to take itself a little less seriously, and looks a bit more approachable.
Just a warning if you do intend to buy packs, they are more expensive on the iPad than if you buy them through the PC store.
Apple tax I assume… (cc @ynefel)
Good to know… Don’t have an iPad, and I’ll be getting the Android version when it comes out, but I’ll watch out for it on that version.
Not sure how long I’ll be playing, now – I thought the tablet versions would have an offline mode (the desktop version has a practice mode with default decks, after all), given the games seem perfectly oriented to quick matches – a classic mobile game trait. I was planning to get into it so I could play on my tablet over the new years break, while I’m away from my PC and consoles, and beyond that, during my daily commutes. But the majority of those situations involve only having internet access via my phone (if at all), so I’ll probably not find the time to continue playing.
What’s happening ?
Let’s do one of those list games? Y/N?
M
Monkey as in Monkey Magic as in awesome show!
I’m driving down to the psych this morning and get to the railway crossing just as the barriers drop, “no problem”, I think to myself, “I’m really running rather early, I could actually benefit from being held up for a minute or 2 while a train goes by”. It turns out this is the longest and slowest cargo train I have ever seen in my life, it literally has more than 50 cars and must be going all of 20kph, probably because it’s nearing the station and isn’t allowed to speed through or something. It takes 7 or 8 minutes to go by and it got to the point where I actually turned the engine off since I could see enough of the track to see the end of the train and start up again in plenty of time before cars could move.
Under normal circumstances this would have been annoying but I was sitting there listening to Grand Funk Railroad, just the name of which amused me a bit given the situation, the album was Shinin’ On which I rather like and then it got to the third track… The Loco-Motion…
Top Ten individual Music Tracks
(One game per listing, please.)
Stickerbrush Symphony – Diddys Kong Quest
Kraid – Metroid Zero Mission
Flip game song (?) – Pokemon Soul Silver
Force Your way – Final Fantasy VIII
Behind TV (studio backlot) – Persona 4
Ken’s Theme – Street Fighter 2
Results Screen (?) – Tekken 2
Crystal Teardrops – Castlevania Symphony of the Night
Sky Sanctuary Zone – Sonic & Knuckles
Rainbow Road – Super Mario Kart
Please, show me yours.
Don’t fret, these are off the top of my head & in no specific order. I will remember a bunch later and die a little inside.
Please, join in 😀
Song of Storms – OoT
Suteki Da Ne- FF X
Uhhhhh … deaf man needs to think some more, takes a lot for a song to stick for me
Man With a Machine gun – FFVIII and Theatrhythm
Can’t Say Goodbye to Yesterday – MGS 2
Snake Eater – MGS 3
Super Mario Land – the music that plays in world 1-1
Ornstein and Smough battle music – Dark Souls
Suteki Da Ne- FFX and Theatrhytm
(Something from Secret of Mana I can’t remember anymore, but I recall digging it)
That 45 minute medley of Star Wars music that was in X-Wing v Tie Fighter
Indiana Jones theme – any Indiana Jones game
How many’s that? That’s 10, right? Jeez ,that was hard.
EDIT: ARGH I forgot one of the best of all.
The OBJECTION! music from Ace Attorney 1-3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWwhIjYBan0
Land has some great catchy tracks
Now I’m listening to this on repeat. THANKS >:\
Secret of Mana has some awesome tracks, I’m particularly fond of the menu music which is about 2 seconds long & repeats
Only related stuff I can think of is the talk back radio stations in GTA III, Vice City & San Andreas. GTA IV & V’s are extremely weak in comparison, despite Fernando being in GTA V, he’s a shell of the Fernando from San Andreas.
Sorry to say, but I thought Fernando and Lazlow were both at their best in GTA III. Since then, they’ve both been shells of their former selves…
Though I kinda thought that was the point. Talking about sensitivity training and court-appointed whatevers.
I meant comedically. As people, yeah, sure, that was the point.
Oh man just reminded me, Just or Unjust from GTA IV, I wish there was a Los Santos version of it. Was such an epic show.
Nah, you’re wrong. Vice City Lazlow is the best Lazlow. V-Rock was just epic.
Reign in Blood – GTA Vice City
V-Rock in general had good stuff.
Kraid – Metroid Zero Mission
Crazy Call At Cry – F-Zero X
Dark World theme – Link Between Worlds
Jungle Japes (Jungle Hijinx) – Super Smash Bros Melee
Blob In Space – de Blob 2
Rollercoaster – F-Zero X Expansion Kit
Get Funky – House of the Dead: Overkill
Red Hot Ride – Donkey Kong Country 2
Track 4 – Unirally
Battle for Storm Hill – Donkey Kong Jungle Beat
Unirally!!!
Yeh boi
Urine Alley!!
Man, so hard to pick stuff, I’ll put the beginnings of a list here and probably edit it all day.
In no particular order (these are mostly recent things, I”ll have to rack my brain for other stuff.
Resurrection – Blood Dragon (Blood Dragon Theme Reprise a close second)
One Winged Angel – Final Fantasy 7
Reach Out to the Truth – Persona 4 (so hard to pick just one)
Funky Bar 100 – Beyond Good and Evil (Fun & mini games a close second)
Hell March – Command & Conquer
Compass – Jamie Lidell from the Red Dead Redemption soundtrack (so many feels :()
Turtle Village Theme – Golden Axe (I think it was turtle village Level 2)
Boom Cha boom boom cha (no idea what it’s name is) – Puzzle Bobble
list pending, I know I’ll switch this around.
Soon ve vil stand, soon ve vil stand, soon ‘ve vil stand INVINCIBLE
No Prisoners……… No survivors
Those tracks from Puzzle Buuble are named Round 1,2,3 etc.
The classic, which I can’t belive I overlooked is either 7 or 9? Probably neither.
Fuck that songs gooooood
it gets in my head frequently, that and that song from Golden Axe, also get the little jingle at the start of Pac Man on Atari in my head all the time, it’s usually followed by the sound of him eating pellets oowa oowa oowa oowa
Every music in every zelda game. Huh what do you mean I can’t choose that!? JERK!
Song of Storms – Legend of Zelda
Song of Healing – Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask
Setting Sail, Coming Home (End Theme) – Bastion
The Spine – Transistor
One Winged Angel – Final Fantasy VII
Man with a Machinegun – Final Fantasy VIII
Return to Zanarkand – Final Fantasy X
Super Mario Bros – Underwater Theme
Main Theme – Dragon Age Inquisition
That’s all I can think of right away.
Bastion coming to PS4 &/or Via in 2015, so I will finally play \o/
That is an interesting choice. Not one you’d often see.
I’m assuming has to be versions from the games themselves? Also one entry per game or one entry per franchise?
Also I’m not sure if these are a top ten I’d select if I was talking about the best pieces. I’m listing stuff that has personal meaning to me, because I spent ages listening to it or playing the game it was in or otherwise and it has strong associated memories for me as a result.
EXEC_with_Method_METAFALICA – Ar Tonelico II
The Ar Tonelico series has some amazing music, badly overlooked. Hard to pick just one from it, Ar Tonelico III has a better soundtrack overall, but Ar Tonelico II is one of my favourite games ever and this was one of the best pieces in the game.
Crossing Rage! – Ys Seven
Ys is another one with amazing music. Actually the version of Crossing Rage in the game itself isn’t that great. In terms of in-game, probably Overdrive from Ys II is better, and I have a huge soft spot for The Theme of Adol 1993 from Ys IV: Dawn of Ys.
Main Theme of Final Fantasy VII – FF7
Aka the music that plays in the overworld. IMO FF9 has the best soundtrack of the series, followed by 6 and 8. 7’s isn’t as good. It’s also not my favourite game from the series either (FF8 is). However in terms of pure impact, FF7’s soundtrack is really big for me because it was my first introduction to JRPGs and I’ve played it multiple times. You spend ages listening to the piece so it’s etched in my memory and is what comes to mind when I think of the game, much more so than pieces that only appear in a few scenes. Also the piano bit in the middle after the main fanfare dies away is stunning.
The Sun Rises – Okami
This is the piece from the finale of the game, during the final part of the last boss battle. Anyone that’s finished the game will recognize it, it’s basically a reprise of the main theme but with a faster tempo and a more grand feeling. For me it’s the definitive piece from the soundtrack, and Okami is one of my favourite games ever.
Uncharted Worlds – Mass Effect
The ‘Star Map’ music from all three Mass Effect games. Even when they changed composers, they couldn’t get rid of it because it’s absolutely iconic.
The Concept of Love – Jet Set Radio Future
Though basically any of Hideki Naganuma’s pieces from JSR or JSRF would be fine here. JSRF is the better game with the better soundtrack, and this is pretty much the first thing you hear when you put the game in and it’s one of the best on there.
Marathon 2 Opening Theme – Marathon 2: Durandal
Marathon doesn’t have music. Bungie didn’t have a composer on staff (Marty didn’t join them until Myth) and they focused on ambient noise and careful sound design instead of punctuating things with music. They did, however, have some rad opening music in Marathon 2 and Marathon Infinity. Marathon was a huge chunk of my childhood and M2’s opening is still cool.
After The Rain – Realmz
Going massively, massively obscure here. A big chunk of my early teens were wasted playing a Mac shareware RPG system called Realmz, and this was the main music that would play throughout the game. It was a super catchy tune. I suspect it was also used illegally and not written originally for the game itself (most of the other music was taken from random MOD files found on the internet), but who cares? Just listen to it. It’s rad.
Descent into Cerberon – Quake II
Want to take me back to when I was an angsty teen? Just throw this on. I still have a soft spot for that sort of guitar-heavy industrial metal. Quake II and Descent II both had really rad 90s industrial soundtracks and both games had them in redbook audio on the CD-ROM so I would throw them into a CD player and crank it up and be angry about stupid shit.
Act On Instinct – Command & Conquer
It’s probably not my favourite piece from the C&C soundtrack (Target/Mechanical Man is) but boy is it memorable. It’s the first piece of music you hear when you start playing the game for the first time, and when the game was fresh it was pretty amazing. Obviously Red Alert’s ‘Hell March’ ended up outclassing it later on, but C&C was super memorable for me as it was one of the few RTS I really got into.
Bonus because it’s not actually a single piece: The iMUSE soundtrack from TIE Fighter
Technically this is cheating. TIE Fighter doesn’t have a soundtrack per se, it has a bunch of musical stems, loops and fanfares which it would play dynamically, reacting to what you were doing in the game, so it would start out low-key, and then the Rebel Fanfare would play as some X-Wings dropped in from Hyperspace and the music would build up as they got closer and then break out into full fast-paced combat music and then you’d shoot them all down and GOOD.WORK.AL-PHA.ONE.PRIMARY MISSION OBJECTIVE.COMPLETE. in really stuttery voice and the Imperial March would play and you’d feel ultra badass for killing those scummy rebels. The only game since then that I know of that’s done a rad dynamic soundtrack like that since is Red Dead Redemption.
You’ve taken this little game WAY too seriously but thank you for responding
How can you not take it seriously? Coming up with a top ten list like that with no reference point and nothing to scope it down to platform or game style or anything is extremely hard and takes a lot of effort to put together a decent list.
I agree, I struggled and still not happy with mine.
Hey, relax guy!
& music? Well it’s just entertainment, folks!
Because it’s just for fun & were only discussing entertainment, which while important to my sanity, is nothing to be taken seriously outside of it being your job & needing to to feed yourself.
Stickerbrush Symphony. Sooo good.
Oooooh YEEEEEEEAH
Hospital Room – Dreamfall
Gabriel Knight theme – Gabriel Knight 3
The Storm and the Sea – The Longest Journey
Rebuilt Jedi Enclave – KotOR 2
The Path (A New Beginning) – The Last of Us
Marco Polo – Uncharted 2
Moon Theme – Ducktales
Redemption – Heavy Rain
Jade’s Theme – Beyond Good & Evil
Pikmin 3 End Credits – Pikmin 3
Anthem of a Tyrant from Jade Empire was pretty amazing too. XD
Gusty Gardens – Super Mario Galaxy
Last one, since I know I’ll keep posting more and more and more until I reach my 40,000 post but:
The Night of the Rabbit theme is a thing of beauty. :’)
And then I remember how amazing the BioShock OST was! XD
Then there’s Elizabeth’s theme from Infinite.
ARRRRGH! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ME, JIMU! 😛
Made you remember good stuff, haw haw!
Mystery solved on the package appearing in my house at 10pm at night. Toll delivered the package to a house down the street. Neighbour came over and my housemate answered. He knew I was busy with a lady so he went over and picked up the package himself.
This has just been a continuous clusterf**k from several levels at Toll.
Upvote for working out the mystery and being busy.
@beavwa I think what you want from Pokemon is too big! Too much. I would love it but they work in baby steps .
I like your ideas, but don’t think they’ll happen. 🙂
No longer two games! Make it THREE!
Put two different regions in each game! Six regions across 3 versions of the game!
THREE TIMES BIGGER!
Screw regions, they need to aim for a Pokemon WORLD.
Hell just multiple regions like they did with G/S/C would be good to see again.
I want this. Once there’s been 8 regions, each regions champion is ‘gym’ leader with a spread of gym leaders & elite fours as those gits what stand about in gyms all day.
Then the ultimate challenge of the global elite four & world champion!
@shane FYI I just changed my Undad pledge from $35 and on the old $30 tier to just being on the new Issues 1-4 $35 tier since I think that’ll be easier for you to track?
Thanks, man. I had a spreadsheet keeping track of it all regardless, so I was on top of it.
https://twitter.com/Shane_W_Smith/status/541924984411529216/photo/1
I’m now about 350 SRs into my first hunt for a shiny legendary in OR.
I think I have a problem.
Could be worse. Pretty sure my friend tried something like 2200 times to get a shiny, and just a starter I think 😛
I am now an Xboner! \o/
Sorry to hear, man. Have you seen a doctor? Get yourself some little blue pills. Entendrejokesetc
Welcome
Add us on Live; Highperforma89, I play Destiny and a couple of other games 😛
I am only semi-boner. My package won’t arrive until next week 😛
Oh cool, you ended up getting one 😀
Did you get a special edition one or a good ol’ sleek black?
Black. 🙁
O-oh well! They’re all the same on the inside!
I’m guessing you got a good bundle though?
Special bundle. Internal promotion for employees. 🙂 Not enormously better than EB’s current 7-game one, but marginally better enough to go for it. One of the big extras is a second controller in the bundle. My old 360 wireless USB dongle that let me use my 360 controllers on my PC died this week so I was thinking about getting an XB1 controller to use in its place as it was.
Oh cool, that reminds me. I need to get one of those charge kits so I can use my Xbone controller on my computer too.
I think you just need a standard USB cable
@negativezero I tried various USB cables from other devices, but the xbone’s port is thinner than all the ones I’ve tried. I probably don’t have the right one.
@nightflarer: it’s I believe a Micro-B USB. Not the Mini-B USB plug that Sony used on the PS3 / PSP etc.
Right, Destiny TAYbies: Raid Of Ignorance tonight – Crota’s End for people who haven’t tried it yet and preferably haven’t memorised the walkthru.
From 9pm-ish. Don’t expect to finish, but an amusing 3 or 4 hours of blundering?
WHO’S WITH ME?
Just to tack on, anyone on PS3 who wants to join in, including @mrmcgarnical, @f4ction and @ash, me and @masha2932 will be attempting the VoG tonight
And on that note, I have no headset so I’ll be on TS or something, probably muting everyone’s PS3 mics since I’ve never heard anyone speak clearly
.. hold on, is there PS3/PS4 crossplay or do you own two copies of destiny?!
Digital version with free PS4 upgrade
SOUNDS GOOD BUDDY OL’ PAL-
“9 pm”
pppppfffffffffffffffftttttttttt
My plan for tonight:
Leave work.
Go to pub.
Drink a pint of Cooper’s Pale Ale. Oh go on then, one more.
Leave pub.
Cycle home.
Eat dinner (probably while watching Castle or Fringe).
Wash up etc.
Sit in front of TV waiting for Other Half to notice how fidgety I am.
When asked if “You want to be doing that raid thing don’t you?” say “YES GOD YES”.
Say good night to Other Half.
Fire up PS4, at about 9-ish.
RAID, BABY!!!
What’s the recommended level for it?
32, I reckon… 😉
It’s Level 30, and we’ll probably be a mix of 29s and 30s. Can always tag along if you’re less, and hide behind a L30. That’s how I got through Hard Mode VoG…
Haven’t friendified you yet – will req you when I’m online (about 9-ish… 😉 )
I might play a bit today, see if I can get my level up some, but I’m sitting on lv 27 :\
Don’t guarantee on me joining in, but we’ll see if you need more people 🙂
Cool – what class? If you see me around at any time I’m always happy to keep people company while doing strikes and bounties for levelling. Social headshots.
Main is a Hunter (the BEST class).
PSN = liondrive
The best class at coming second to Titans, you mean.
I’ve had this discussion at lengths with others.
Titans are too slow and clunky 😛
Hunters are fast, agile, can go invisible, have the better abilities, AND look 1000x more awesome (don’t argue fashion with me).
Also, I prefer Hunters passive abilities.
I’ll grant that Titans have better grenades though, and melee 😛
The only good Titan is a dead Titan 🙂
(Defenders are a’ight, I suppose)
Fast, decent abilities for hunters… sure, if you forget the badass sticky grenade Titans get. And that hunters have the shittiest jumping known to man.
Titan Jetpack > ALL. Height, distance, mobility, duration… Titans bring pure satisfaction. JUST LIKE IN THE BEDROOM, YYEEEAH.
Titans Lift leaves them so open to getting shot at though!
Too slow, leaves them as a sitting duck.
Hunters jumping is quick and precise.
You see where you want to go, you get there in an instant 😉
Their jumping is the best for evading enemy fire and for quick movements.
And Hunters have sticking grenades too, remember, as well as tracking grenades and trap grenades 😉
I just like the pillar of light grenade for Titan Defenders. It’s so useless, but so pretty 😀
Titans have the better grenades for pure damage, but Hunters grenades are good for deterring people and heavy injuring many enemies.
After all that, the pillar for reasons why Hunters are the best class comes down to one word:
BLADEDANCER.
Uh, it sounds like half the stuff you’re talking about is for PVP, and what kind of loser does PVP?
As a sexy-armoured Titan you’re MEANT to be drawing fire from the weak, squishy, helpless scrubs toiling on the ground below you, see.
This is where I come undone :'(
PvP is my area, where Hunters are the undisputed kings 😉
They’re less adept at PvE, granted, but still more useful than ugly Titans at dispatching enemies 😛
Titans may be bullet sponges, but Hunters just avoid the bullets and hit harder and faster 😉
You admitted vulnerability, I win! No need for comebacks. I, uh… totally would’ve had some. Yup. Wasn’t coming up dry at all. Nope.
I never admitted vulnerability!
I said they were better at PvP than they are at PvE, but still the best in both 😉
I said that now I win and don’t have to come up with any come-backs, dammit!
Really though, Blade-dancer is pretty kewl unless it’s against a single-target monstrous fucker who laughs as you tickle him then he smashes you into pulp. Which, end-game, is damn near everything. Like those fucking non-fire-shielded knights, because Bungie decided ‘fuck you and your advance knowledge of what damage types to bring’. In which case Defenders get the edge because holy crap when it’s raining fucking wizards, you NEED that purple bubble. It’s really more of a mob-clearing ability, though if someone’s got some good agro on an elite, the dance can do some nice damage.
Also, if they ever run some kind of stats on who dies the most in the VoG jumping puzzle, I’m gonna bet it’s hunters, then warlocks, then titans.
I know absolutely nothing about it, and will probably be 29 tonight, so SURE, COUNT ME IN!
Awesome! Hello!
I was kidnapped and more beer was forced in me and I’m Very Late and sorry.
Right! Let’s go!
(This is going to be terrible)
Haha, sorry man, I went to bed early, because I’m a super old man. hadn’t even hit 29 by that point.
Does anyone know if the Ace Attorney trilogy is getting a release on the Australian Ninty E-Shop? It’s already out elsewhere…
According to vooks it should of been on there yesterday?
Thanks! I’ll have to check when I get home. It’s not on the eshop website, that’s all I know for now 😛
My 1500th post.
My year that was.
Good points:
Meeting the Brisbane peeps at a Meat!
Getting deeper into the community here.
Discovering the joys of Pokemon (only up to 65 seen, 40 caught in my Pokedex in Black 2, don’t care, exploring every nook and cranny and spending ages trying to catch each one in each area)
The first time an orc came back from the dead to attack me in Shadow of Mordor.
Watching my son grow up and become more communicative, and realising that this is a little person that I want to hang out with because he’s awesome.
Finding a new job with just days to spare before destitution for my family.
Medication began to really work and my mood swings (including my regular bouts of depression) went away. I’m “letterboxed” now (i.e. on a mood scale of 1-10 I can only hit between 3/4-7/8 ish), but I’m cool with that.
Bad points:
Having the threat of losing my job hanging over my head, then it actually happening.
2x smoking quit attempts that went awry due to medical concerns.
Getting older and beginning to feel my unfitness.
Looking at consoles, starting to save for consoles, having to spend that money on other things.
Saying goodbye to my closest friend, who flew off to Peru to work for 10 months. She’s en route back to Aus and we’re going hiking in Cradle Mountain in January, so that’ll be awesome.
Things I’m looking forward to in 2015:
Being a stay at home dad.
New Batman!
Getting into my Info Systems Business Analysis course.
New Batman!
Finally catching them all in Black 2.
New Batman!
Trying out this “Dark Souls” to see if it’s any good.
New Batman!
No Man’s Sky.
New Batman!
Witcher 3
New Batman!
Fallout 4 announcement (please)
New Batman!
Hopefully picking up a 3ds.
Hiking Cradle Mountain
Potentially getting to PAX
New Batman!
No Man’s Sky
The creators of No Man’s Sky had an interview with The Guardian here . I can see they have a set direction they’re heading in with the design and feel of the game – the more I read about this, the better I feel about it.
Best and worst of your years? Or should we leave this until near New Years? (I’m going to be offline until the 30th of Dec from next week, so I may not be able to participate!)
Life ©
Ooh, that No Man’s Sky thing was good. Super looking forward to that. Even if there isn’t much there in terms of game, it looks like it’d be great to just fly around and look at things.
It was a good interview and a very interesting perspective, but confirmed for me that it’s not my type of game.
Yeah, it looks amazing but also I think I’ll be bored within an hour. It looks like it’s filled with stuff to see but nothing to actually do.
I also find Minecraft boring, incidentally.
You and I are much alike, I think, with the craving boundaries and linear progression. I’ve always favoured games like this. I don’t understand Minecraft, and probably never will.
Yeah, I’m the type that given a pile of Lego will get bored, but given a pile of Lego and some instructions for building something and I’ll be occupied for hours. Which is not to say I’m not creative, just that I’m extremely goal-oriented and like to see a plan that I can make meaningful progression in, a goal to work toward, and something where I can map my effort going in to progress coming out.
Reading this I think I am the same, and I’m forced to agree that I will probably get bored of No Man’s Sky pretty quick too, no matter how cool it looks.
I wish there were more games like Mount & Blade that achieve a good middle ground.
M&B is open world and non-linear and there is no plot or story or victory condition as such. But the game world is built so that there are definite things you can work towards and systems in place for you to achieve them.
The ultimate goal is to become emperor and take over the land. This is not said anywhere, there is no quest. But the companions you hire speak of the idea in passing and have things they can do to help you do it and understand how.
All the mechanics, once you understand them, all funnel into this goal. Hiring peasants, training units, fighting tactics, relations with lords and kingdoms, making money. It all fit’s into place once you take aim at that crown. The game steadily feeds you knowledge and skills and quietly invites you to keep aiming higher while making sure the tools you need are right there when you look.
It’s a true sandbox with a point. And one baked purely into the mechanics instead of a hand holding quest chain.
It’s very interesting to hear you say this about M&B. I always thought it was just a multiplayer hack-n-slash brawl.
@transientmind
Nah, Warband has multiplayer but it’s just kind of an extra mode added on.
The main game is a big singleplayer sandbox.
Iiiiiiiinteresting.
@transientmind
Definitely worth giving a shot.
Warband is the one to get and you’ll be able to pick it up for a buck or two on steam sales.
I also highly recommend Floris Expanded Mod Pack if you get into it. Adds a lot of great functionality and depth, especially in the late game.
Oh yeah, I’m a lot like you and Neg in that I need that forced progression most of the time, usually find Minecraft quite boring etc, and I’ll probably be bored of this within an hour or so. Maybe return to it sporadically before getting bored with it again.
But I still really really want it 😛
I want it enough that I’d pay $15 for it. Maybe $20 if there’s a bit more game to it than they’ve shown.
Yeah same, feel like I need to show support for them even if I’m not getting much out of it 😛
Although I guess if it shows up in a Humble Bundle down the track…
This is a good list. (Apart from all the Batman.)
I can’t speak for everyone, but I think a range of 3-4 and 7-8 is pretty good. *fistbump*
You forgot to mention the new batman.
Don’t think about the bad stuff 🙂
No point dwelling on it, kinda thing, all it will do is bum you out.
I’m really really glad that whole job situation worked out for you though, buddy 🙂
I think it’s safe to say we were all quite worried for you! :’O
Also, there’s no Night in the Woods on your list :'(
Haven’t heard about it. What’s it like?
I kid! I kid! Sorry Lion, it’s just so easy to do this to you! *Pats you on the head, plays with your hair*I’m so bummed that none of you guys know what it is / seem interested in it, haha!
Oh well, I’LL enjoy it by myself then 😛
Don’t tell Liondrive this, but I actually am interested, and have just been posting things to mock him, since being a jerk is my modus operandi.I honestly didn’t know what it was. Now I’ve looked at it, I might also pick it up. But don’t tell Liondrive this, as I’m a jerk to him because he gets cute when he’s angry.Go stay at home dad!! Find yourself an awesome playgroup. It’s a great part of the week.
Went to my first Kindergym the other day, where kids get to run around and climb on stuff.
My son got pushed off the slide, then a kid shat on another slide.
…actually it was fun and I’ll be going regularly next year!
We haven’t done Kindergym, but I’m the day leader at our playgroup (I do the craft and the songs). We have a nice mix of mums, nannies, dads and grandmas. Playgroup is the best place to go and do messy play like painting, playdough, sand, water, etc. without having to clean up your own house 🙂 It’s also really cheap compared to a lot of other activities for little kids.
I’ve actually got a schedule planned out and I’ll be busy with him every morning, taking him outside the house to something – playgroups, kindygym, Rock’n’rhyme at the library, swimming…
He is going to be spoilt. 🙂
I am going to be exhausted. :S
Edit: Also, I should say what I was thinking which was: Awesomeness about you being a leader. I could never do that, don’t think I have that kind of infectious energy you must do!
I’m actually kinda jealous of you guys.
Stop off in Launceston on the way back from your hike. 😉
New page re-post:
Smash 4 Wii U tonight at 8pm AEDT.
If you want in, let me know.
I want in, I’ll play a few games before I get into Destiny 😀
Rather than calling Target back like the guy told me to do around 1, I just ate my lunch on the walk up there. Got in a little early, checked out JB and saw they had the Amiibos there. $17 each, and no sign of Mac. Plenty of the others though. Went around to EB and… ok, a few. And one Mac! $17.95, ouch. Went around to Target to see what was going on there, and they had… Luigi, Zelda and Falcon up on the shelf next to wave 1. Dammit. Oh, on the floor behind the counter…! Still no Mac. I asked the guy if he could do me a solid and tell EB they had one in stock if I went down to price match. He agreed, so off I went. Went to price match and the guy decided he cbf waiting for the phonecall, “it’s only three bucks” and matched it for me. Awesome 😛 Thankfully seems to be pretty defect-free too, which is awesome. Went back up to Target and spent a good while poring over each one to find the least defective of each. Annoyingly, the Captain Falcon ones seem to all be pretty spotty, the shading they do on his boots to enhance the bumps and stuff seems to only come in varying degrees of bad. Hard to pick a clear best. The others are all fine though. VICTORY!
Guess maybe I’ll go to dinner tonight after all. Even if I’m probably a little stinky from all that walking 😛
VICTORY! \o/
VICTOIRE *clapclapclap* VICTOIRE *clapclapclap*
One step closer to ditching Windows. Have always been able to use Linux adequately for work/general stuff, but it’s always died in the arse for games. Steam’s been viable on Linux for a while, albeit with a much smaller game library, but that’s not my major problem. Getting stuff like my MMO’s and whatnot to work with Wine/PlayOnLinux successfully or reliably has always been an issue.
Generally favored Debian or Fedora in the past, but never had much luck on the games front. Everything else is ace though. But Debian, while stable, is not always the best choice because they generally have the oldest version of everything – but they’re all about stability. Decided to go Ubuntu, as much as it grates on me, and had much greater success. After figuring out how to kill Unity (Ubuntu’s god-awful desktop manager) and going back to something more classic, along with some other much needed tweaks, I’ve gotten EVE and Guild Wars 2 working quite well on Wine.
Finding myself increasingly not using Steam anyway these days – not it’s fault, mind – just spending more time on non-Steam games. Might be time to make the change on my desktop. I wouldn’t use Linux for hipster value either – it’s all well and good to have your high horse at the ready, but if it doesn’t work at least close to as well as Windows, what’s the point?
Almost there though, it would seem.
Would that I could do the same…
Whoa whoa whoa. Hold up.
This stripe on the side of Little Mac’s shorts. It’s orange. Orange is not red.
WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU’RE DOING, NINTENDO?
NOT VICTORY! /o\
“Orange is red”
“…brought nearer to humanity by yellow.” Wassily Kandinsky.Yeah, Unity’s not great. Tried Mint? It’s very Ubuntu under the hood but the Cinnamon desktop is really nice.
I still have the gaming tower running Windows, but I get why you wouldn’t want to.
Edit: No! Reply where I tell you!
*shakes fist at IE/Kotaku combo*
I think changing it on my gaming rig might be silly, considering I literally only use it for games. Whereas my laptop gets used at work, at home when I’m on call and for any gaming that’s required in between. Still, the idea of being done with Windows tickles my fancy.
I didn’t know Assassin’s Creed Mint was out yet.
It’s Stabs You!
In the mouth, with it’s Minty Freshness.
Tastes bloody good.
Onion breath? Doesn’t matter! Assassinate your bad breath fast with AC Mint.
It’s about time they set a game in Duff Creek.
Dear @strange,
You were wrong about the orange-flavoured Cadbury Marvellous Creations. So wrong. I’ve eaten half a block to give it a chance (and I’ll probably eat the other half, because hey, I paid the money already, and I do need more Vitamin C), but I just can’t agree with your perspective. At all. The orange lolly pieces in particular are an absolute abomination.
If you weren’t such a long-term friend who was otherwise awesome and generous and all that jazz, I’d be having some grave doubts about our friendship going forward. If @dc had recommended this chocolate to me, for instance, he and I would be finished (yes, DC, it could have been that easy!).
Kind regards,
Shane
I’m pretty sure this is shane’s polite way of saying FUCK YOU @STRANGE YOU’VE POISONED ME AAAAAAARGH
Dear @shane,
Try Hákarl, it’s the best.
Warmest regards
Freeze
Just looked it up. Seems legit.
Kiviak sounds far more appetizing.
Dead seabirds fermented inside the carcass of a seal, feathers and all, buried in the ground for seven monthsGlancing through, misread this as Harakiri. Was going to say that it seems a bit harsh to suggest @shane kill himself for not liking some chocolate. 😛
Got Wii U Smash Bros and 3 Amiibos for $100.
Not bad.
Which amiibos?
Peach, Zelda and Pukeachu.
Nice auto-correct, or are you a little pissed about the finish on that Amiibo?
My own private immature joke.
Just shocking. A re-VOLT-ing pun!
He’s just lightning the mood.
For a moment I thought you meant you got A Wii-u with smash bros and 3 amibos.
Was wondering where you got this crazy deal.
I gave Sunset Overdrive a go, it’s actually a bit of fun. The gameplay is great and solid. The story is kind of “meh” and the humour in the game is hit and miss. A couple of times I’ve had a good chuckle but some of the time the humour just falls completely flat. Would be playing it more but I have to leave for work. /o\
Anyone see this deal? PS4 + LoU + LBP3 + DriveClub
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/174160
Currently on Dick’s eBay store for the same price: http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/261694868927. Apparently on the 15th, eBay is having a 10% off deal, so if this price holds (and it may not), it’ll come down a bit further.
Could be a pretty sweet deal if you’re after these particular games.
Let’s hope the console doesn’t take 4 weeks to arrive!
Not that I’m bitter or anything
But dick smith are total jerk faces
Totally not bitter
It’s pick up in store. So probably won’t take 4 weeks! One chap on OzBargain got very quick notice that his/hers was available to pick up.
Paid review.
They delivered for me actually a couple days earlier than I expected! Superfast, ultra-reliable delivery, great service and price! Go Dick! 😀
*giant cheesy thumbs-up and teeth-sparkle-smile*
Only thing missing from that advertorial was an tragically unaware “I LOVE DICK!”
Dick came faster than you expected?
You guys shame me, you’re too good at this.
Same, it was lucky I was home sick bbecause they just slapped a sticker on the side of the PS4 box & I don’t like the chances of me ever seeing it had it have to wait for me at the post office
Hell, mine wasn’t even wrapped in any kind of packaging. It was just a PS4 box, like you’d get off the shelf at EB. No way in hell that would’ve survived a courier dropping it off at the door.
Yeah that’s what I mean, they just slapped a sticker on the side, nothing else.
Ridic
Someone needs to figure out how to make mandatory eLearning more interesting… 25 minute snooze-fest about security & fraud…
Pretty much ALL training puts me to sleep, these days. I always know to bring stimulants well in advance, but nothing works. People start talking boring shit and my brain tells me I’m on my own then takes a hike.
I’m actually feeling my eye lids droop as I’m reading this drivel… Moving onto confidentiality and privacy… I’ll let you kn-
*thump as head hits desk*
*snore*
I still have training modules from 2012… yikes.
What you do is you put a thumb tack inside yours shoe. That way, if you start to feel like you are falling asleep you can take the shoe off and throw it at the instructor!
I did that recently, wasn’t even that funny
5 Tech Training Videos That Prove the 90s Were In…: http://youtu.be/j2Gwst3C3dM
My strategy is generally just to start chewing on my own hand. Keeps me awake.
I hope the FF Type Zero Steel Book collector edition makes it down under!\o/
I saw the letter F in close proximity to the word Zero as I scrolled past and got excited.
Then disappointed.
Yeah, been a while.
that thin excuse about not being able to innovate from the company who baby steps like no other was poo.
At least I have a Captain Falcon now.
*fawns*
Show me your
boobsmoves.Who am I kidding I’m way more excited about Mac.
Even if his shorts are wrong.
I hat amiibo
I’m just happy to have proper Falc and Mac merch of any kind, would’ve got them even if they were just regular figurines.
I already got my plush Squirtle & Diddy.
I could use a plush Samus though
Awwwwwwhyeaah. Boss brought around a tin of chocolates and I correctly identified the strawberry cremes. A very important success for the day.
To make sure you avoid them right?
If you don’t want them I’ll take ’em!
*eyenarrows*
You do thees theengs on purpose, don’t you. I am deeply suspicious. No human being could have such terribly bad taste…
I shit ye not, Sony is apparently going to make a Mario movie.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/adambvary/sony-nintendo-mario-bros-movie
You lost me at buzzfeed.com…
I’m generally sceptical of buzzfeed
click baitreporting… Is there any source in that link?@shane Ace Attorney Trilogy is already up! $45 AUD
I kinda feel like I have to buy this… Just because the series seems to be this close to never being localized at all anymore 😛
I was even debating partaking simply because I don’t think I’d get around to buying or playing the originals on DS. Solid idea!
One day I will
Hey @Sunsoar77 are any of your suggestions for Saturday dinner both BYO & cheap?
7 is a good number, I’ve attended at least 3 meats with only 4 people
Me and Jimu had a meat all to ourselves!
It was so romantic! 😀
True, that was the smallest meat with the happiest ending though
I had a good time too 🙂
I’m glad we met, Jimu 🙂
*slow-wink*
cc: @liondrive
No pressure… *forced chuckle* *starts to sweat* Won’t be there for dinner… But two places that might work;
Tukeria in the Valley – Mexican, casual outdoor dining, has limited booze on-site not sure if they do BYO. won’t need a reservation http://www.tuckeria.com.au
Verve in the CBD (50m from corner of Edward and Charlotte St) great Italian food, average prices, again not sure if BYO. can get loud if it’s full and may need a booking as it’s a Saturday night… http://vervecafe.com
Hardest bit is the BYO… As restaurants will often do it, but it’ll be wine only and usually mean higher food prices (I’m assuming licensing is expensive).
Unless aim for good cheap food and then find a quiet pub or two?
This is why we Cyber City 2000 so often, cheap & byo.
Wouldn’t mind nice food for a change though.
At work we have a department called Care4Me, where they handle all the staff discounts etc. Called them up today to ask about the discounts etc, and they instantly applied them to my existing account, with a simple change from business account to personal! Groovy! So now I pay $0 a month for my mobile!
Since my phone is just rubbish now (Galaxy S1 running Gingerbread) I asked about new phones etc., and was told it’s quickest to go to the store so I can walk out with something, but she ran through a scenario just to let me know what I’m in for.
She used a Galaxy 5 as the example. Apparently I can get on a $60 a month plan, with a $10 handset payment per month (so $70 a month) including insurance for 2 yrs, and after discounts are applied, my phone bill would be $13 a month!!! HOLY CRAP!!!!!! Time for a new phone baby!!!!
Aw yeah! That’s the shit!
Absolutely! I can take my dad to the store with me when I get my new phone, and get his account registered under my name, and he’ll get 25% off his bill every month too!
Score. That’s awesome. One of the perks I looked forward to if I got the job I went for with Telstra, 25% off all Telstra services
Very quick, played-the-first-few-sentences impressions of Ace Attorney Trilogy.
Looks really good! Better than I expected (the screenshots make it look weird for some reason). Good that you can play it in Japanese as well which seems to have the JP voices/sounds too. Not that I ever will, but cool they included it.
Will have to play through them all again one day.
Smash in 40 minutes!
I’ve added folks to my friends list, so I’ll see you all online!
😀
Add me! Add me!
Done and done! 😀
@crazyguy1990 I’m drunk TAYing, I’m not going to make Smash!! 🙁
Yay, drunk TAYing!
Ah, the memories 😀
After reading a page of @liondrive hyping up Night in the Woods, I checked it out.
The story looks good. Like the direction they seem to be taking it. However, I know I’ll never play it because I don’t play adventure games. Sorry Liondrive.
Also, as is the case with Boyhood, I feel like I would get more out of the story if I were a year older.
BOO!!!
HISS!!!
Boo!
Hiss!
Hiss?
Boo?
Sib?
Hoo?
HOOBIES!
Ew.
Effin Amiibos man, what’s the point? And they look terrible.
*comes home with 5 Amiibos*
What the fuck are they, just another Skylanders or Disney Infinity but Nintendo capitalising on the trend?
http://t2.ftcdn.net/jpg/00/68/26/27/240_F_68262736_4wxo1v2zq5axC5PaIFoxeB7jqA9m8aY3.jpg
Figures 😛
I still don’t understand them :\
It’s easy.
Do you want something that essentially does nothing but sit on your shelf?
No?
Well, you’re not the target market, so piss off. Oi, Blaghs, get over here and buy more shit,
If you waste time trying to understand them, they’ll sell out. STOP THINKING AND START BUYING.
They’re an absolute mess is what they are.
I just don’t get them :\
Like, I’m still confused as to what they do…
Everybody is! Nobody understands!
But everybody’s gotta have ’em.
@gutsoup explained to me.
They are essentially a type of memory card & dlc rolled into one lump.
They can both unlock game content & for SMASH they hold AI for an enemy bot THAT learns.
We presume they will do things in other Ninty games.
I do not approve of them.
How do you feel about e-cards?
Indifferent
@beavwa
Are you online?
Not any more, sorry.
My six year old daughter is legit beating me at Smash.
This game is stupid.
Button-mash Bros!
This is going to be a hard post to write. Here goes.
I’m going to be taking a break from posting here. Not forever, but for a while. The short version is that my marriage is in some trouble, and part of it is because I post here. It makes me very sad, but if this is something I can do to help save my marriage, to convince my wife that she’s my highest priority in life, I have to try it.
After I finish this post, I’m going to sign off and scramble my Kotaku password. I’ll still lurk around from time to time, try to keep up with the latest TAYisms, but I won’t be posting.
I count you as some of the best friends I’ve ever had, so I know you’ll understand. And you’ll keep a seat warm for me (though no funny business, okay?). I hope you all have wonderful Christmases and New Years celebrations, and that Santa brings you all the gear you wanted, gaming or otherwise.
I’ll still be reachable via social media and the usual email address if anyone wants to get in touch to find out where the hell the book they ordered is, but for now…
PS: Thank you to everyone who has supported Undad and my various other creative abominations. Your support means a lot. More than a lot.
🙁
Edit: I get it though. I’d be lying if I said my wife and myself hadn’t fought about the amount of time I spend on here.
I’d echo all of this, but I don’t really have a significant other to have done that. Although my friend at college used to get annoyed at how much time I’d spend on here. It’s probably only a matter of time before someone at work says something…
That’s really sad to hear, but if it’s what’s best for you and for your marriage, then you have my support, and I hope you all the best 🙂
I know I don’t talk with you too often, which is a shame cause you’re a really great guy, but I’ve always admired your kindness and generosity towards everyone.
I’ll miss you, Shane, though I look forward to your return 🙂
Sorry to hear about the troubles man. Gotta do what ya gotta do! All the wishes for a positive outcome!
Hope it works out for you man, and we see you again sometime
We’ll just have to post our own links to UnDad
Sure, we can post UnDad links, but who’s gonna post links to shane.smith.com ?
Aww, see, we’re already getting the website wrong!
This is why Shane can’t leave!
What? No! Nah, this can’t be happening. This isn’t happening. I refuse to believe this nonsense. It’s simply preposterous.
Damn it! What god would let this happen!? Damn it all!
Look Shane, I’ll buy all your books if you stay, and I’ll finally get around to reading the Lesser Evil! I’ll pledge money to Undad, I’ll be your new wife! Just don’t go!
:'( This is so sad. *wipes away tear*
Okay, okay. It’ll all be right. You do what you need to do, Shane.
Do what you gotta do S-DOG, you’ll be missed, but not forgotten :’)
Hope all works out well man.
Have a good Christmas and enjoy Blooooodbooooorne!!!
Bestbofbluck, bloke. Hope it all turns ouout well. 🙂
But don’t you mostly just TAY while you’re at work? I understand if you think staying away from here for a while might help you focus more on your marriage, but if it’s something she’s demanding then that’s definitely something that needs to be discussed when you guys are working on things because giving up something that means a great deal to you just because someone you love asks you to can cause way more problems than it can fix.
It sucks that you’re having problems, hopefully it’s just mostly due to all the responsibilities, exhaustion, and challenges having a lot of young kids in the house at once can bring. All marriages have problems, it’s how or if you work on them that makes the difference. *hugasaurus rex*
Haven’t had much time to check TAY this week 🙁
But I am here with a cool Binding of Isaac seed, it is on the Vita so not sure if its available on the PC, it’s also for Eve so not sure how they work but here it is:
2LPN-YWF2
Super powerful run, starting with miner’s hat and book of revelations, got the goat’s head and bible tract so guaranteed angel rooms more or less. Got both bandage girl and meat boy lvl 2, the wafer, number one and lots of luck up (3 bars)
Just to top it off, I replaced revelations with book of secrets? (temp invulnerability) on womb II and then the habit in cathedral from the challenge room, so yeah, very strong
I have now beaten It Lives, Isaac, The Devil with: Isaac, ???, Azazel and Eve. Have not unlocked the polaroid or the negative yet, which is my next goal.
I want to fight Mega Satan again 🙁
Now that I’m making 2+ hour calls I think I need to look at my phone plan options… The current setup isn’t working too well 😛
Skype?
Facetime seems to work okay, but sometimes an old fashioned phone call is the best option depending on our situations 😛
Facetime does just audio as well you know 😛
and I find it way more reliable than Skype has become for Audio quality :/
Oh yeah, I was talking about audio only 🙂
Ah fair enough 😛
Work christmas dinner thing was good. Lots of talking. Few drinks. Went to a Mexican place, the food there was great. Also sangria.
Some of the guys are pretty funny when they’ve had a few. Although all the talk about how hot NAI Girl is was a little gross 😛
She’s so hot though! (who?)
My Christmas party: the person I went with felt sick, so we left early. THE END
Not Actually Italian Girl. Or should that be Not Actually Available Girl 😛
Oh wow, Luigi got here already. That was fast.
…no wonder the postage was so friggen expensive.
I’m on the verge of listening to the entire Kill la Kill soundtrack again. I’ve restrained myself to the song “Till I Die” and just a little bit of that sweet, sweet, Blumenkranz, but I don’t want to relapse. Hold me back, man. There’s an English cover of the second opening theme in the recommended videos. HOLD ME BACK MAN.
I still need to watch that. One day, I guess.
It’s got that same thing that Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of Time had, where the first few sections (in this case two episodes) are kinda boring to contrast to how batshit-insane it gets by the end. With Kill la Kill, it’s rather banal for the first two episodes, then it goes off the wall with a 12-minute long fight scene in the third episode. It just builds from there.
On another topic, is this the sixth time you’ve changed your avatar?
Not sure what you mean by sixth but I’ve only ever used three before. The jet one, the Mii one and a Halloween special Ash Williams one.
It was more a joke on how you keep switching between the jet one and the Mii one.
Anyone up for some Smash this weekend? Either 1v1 or group (depending on who’s intetested)
@liondrive
Yes, very much so.
Any particular time?
Any time! I might be going out for dinner so before then would work the best. How are you with “For Glory” mode? I like playing that with friends (1v1 with no items on Omega)
EDIT I’m going out now so afternoon would be better
I’m cool with For Glory. 🙂
Is 2pm good for you?
I can do earlier if you want! But 2pm should be fine. Just tweet etc. as a reminder!
I’m Greenius on there as well so add me if you haven’t already 🙂
Already added. 🙂
Happy birthday @jamiedeecee!
yes indeedy! Happy Birthday JamieDC!
@DC @freezespreston
Finished Beyond Too Seouls last night
I liked it, I had fun & what little frustration I had with the directionless QTE (not a dirty word) was ok because I think, in a forgiving sort of way, you aren’t always sure which way to punch or dodge irl.The story & concept was overall interesting& fun, even scary at times. Nothing ever topped Navajo for me. Other sections did have their moments though.
Big tease seeing all that post apocalyptic urban decay & never getting to actually play that but it’s a real lost opportunity if they never do a direct sequel. That bit looks more fun and interesting than 80% of the game.
My biggest problem was the relationship with CIA guy. It was believable that she had developed a crush (just a crush!) on him even though he was a complete cock when met.
At the dinner I turned him away, so no further relationship of that type was given a chance to blossom.
At every opportunity I knocked him back and was rude to him because I didn’t trust him at any point.
Then after invading China he has the balls to call me pig-headed for not returning his love?
From then on everything he said painted him as this creepy stalker that was oblivious to the facts & I was still given the choice to tell him no, then , no & no and he persisted in his stalker ways.
Then I suddenly ,out of character, was being friendly to him & apologising as if we once had something. Even during the ending after I chose the handsome native American chap, she popped by to see the stalker before she left? No, nonono, no no no NO.
So loved the game but the biggest problem is giving you choice & then not properly following through with the consequences.
Lol, too.
Stalker?
If it makes you happy, sure.
I wanna play that but don’t really wanna buy it :P. Anyone want to let me borrow their copy?
Yep, pop over & you can borrow mine.
Was $18 preowned
I’m not into figures and stuff but I just bought a Luigi Amiibo :P. I figured I’d go for the green ones so I intend to get both Links and Yoshi and maybe whatever else serves an actual purpose in another game.
Normally I wouldn’t bother but I got an unexpected prorated bonus 😛
Should have got ME a gift, jerk :p
I give you the gift of friendship.
*puke*
Dawwwwww
*internal haemorrhage*
@pixel_the_ferret_viking @mrtaco
Ok, sell me on Elite: Dangerous if you please.
I’ve been looking at vids and such and I’m not sure there is much to do? Trade hauling and mining and blowing up random npcs for credits and rep. Does that get you anything more than a fancier ship to do more of the same in?
Are there factions to join? Things to build? Secrets to find?
If in terms of factions you mean like player guilds or whatever, there isn’t anything like that at the moment. There’s talk of “wings” being added for release I think, which is some kind of player group thing. No kind of crafting system or anything at the moment, there are some secret things to be found around the place. Often mission-relevant type things.
I’m not sure how to answer, really. It’s kind of… I like it because I like it? It’s fun to play, combat is enjoyable and I’m pretty happy to just fly around trying to take down as many bounties as I can. There’s a mission system in place, and that’s set to be more integrated with the overarching story that kicks off on launch and be influenced by how players play, eg in a warzone if more players pick one side over the other and help them win, that faction might end up overtaking that system as the major power, things like that.
http://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/2p1hov/you_choose_to_make_it_a_grind_a_great_post_about/
Possibly relevant thread?
@dc @jimu @strange
Where am I driving to tonight?
Oh right, that whole meat thing. Did anyone actually end up booking/agreeing on a place?
I’m just trying to find TAY tags, but I was going to suggest New Shanghai in the city
http://www.taytags.com
Ha ha! So simple *facepalm*
If it gets to a point where we dunno, call me & I’ll meet wherever
@beeawwb @cufcfan616 @dc @dkzeitgeist @freezespreston @gutsoup @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @sernobulus @strange @transientmind @weresmurf @virus__ @sunsoar77 @evilmonkey
Unsure who was coming only removed those who gave me a definite no.
Plan is, tonight 630- 7 at either
CBD- New Shanghai http://www.newshanghai.com.au/
Valley – Harajuku Gyoza – good fun, good food decent value… Is mana bar still open? Cos it’s near there.
West End – Lock n Load – nice place, decent beers, not tried the food though. Archive Beer Botique is pretty cool. Amazing range of beers/ciders, food is good, but is a bit pricey.
Tukeria in the Valley – Mexican, casual outdoor dining, has limited booze on-site not sure if they do BYO. won’t need a reservation
http://www.tuckeria.com.au/
Verve in the CBD (50m from corner of Edward and Charlotte St) great Italian food, average prices, again not sure if BYO. can get loud if it’s full and may need a booking as it’s a Saturday night… http://vervecafe.com
Answer with yays or neighs or I will choose for you!
I liek fod
Thanks for the help, dudebro
I don’t really care to be honest. Just need to know where I’m going so I can plan accordingly.
I’ll note the CBD has easier and cheaper parking for me.
Cheers.
Count me out. Lack of funds to do fun things, and the current weather isn’t making me want to go anywhere sorry :/
I’d put a vote in for Harajuku gyoza because I go there pretty frequently and like it. They don’t do BYO though. I think.
New Shanghai looks interesting. I’d like to try it.
New Shanghai do the best dumplings!
I think Din Tai Fung would like a word with you…
Where is it, I want to go!
Din Tai Fung… Is there even one in Brisbane?? Been to Sydney one twice… best dumplings I’ve ever had in Australia
No, Sydney only. Make it a point to go every timeline down there though.
Looks like they take bookings. May be a good idea. Still gotta hear from up to 13 people, though. 🙂
NS do bookings for 13+? Ah, cool. Thought they didn’t at all but if I remember correctly, that may have only been lunchtime
That New Shanghai place looks amazing! Might have to go there some day! mmmmmmmmmm
How about tonight? =P
I have $4
If I shouted you dinner, could you make it in?
Dunno at this stage. Going to see my Grandma later today with my Dad. Not sure what time he wants to go yet. I’m ok with missing out this round. Wont be too much longer and I’ll be on board for most meats 🙂 Lots of goodness to look forward to in the next month or two 🙂
Just re-iterating won’t be able to make dinner. But if people are still around I should be able to swing by later depending on how the kid goes at the party.
If I answered with yay or neigh how would you know which I was choosing? 😛
Just pick something and tell people to be there.
#Helping
You’re the one who had specific requests, so you have to choose. Them’s the rules JimJim!
I just added New Shanghai to a list that was building all week *scratches head*
Cheap, byo, healthy….
New Shanghai.
Done.
Sorry man, it’s gonna be a no from me. Spent way too much money at Movie World yesterday and then left my wallet on the bus last night. Amazingly I got it back. Can’t believe the cost of public transport here, spent around $150 -$200 on public transport alone.
Sorry, but I can’t afford to do both Brisbane and Melbourne meats.
You guys have a good time.
It’s alive…ALIIIIVE!!!
Tthanks for the update, enjoy your trip 😉
@greenius
I’m jumping online now.
Thanks for the games 🙂
Sorry for beating you all the time 😛 (just kiddin, I’m not sorry :D)
You never thank me for our games :'(
I’ve thanked you for picking Omega! Same thing!
And I hope you didn’t mind the stock, no items, Omega thing since it’s just how I like playing. I just find it’s more since skill based that way.
For me there’s that “For Glory” mode of 1v1 and then there’s just derping around with 3+, items on and on any stage. Both good fun but I like to keep them separate 😀
I usually play stock with items off by default.
The only time I don’t is if there’s more than 2 players and it’s Free-For-All.
Hah.. Dad just bought a 5kg box of cherries for $20. I guess we’re making cherry jam again this Christmas 😛
Which is fine by me, I loved the last lot we made.
That’s a good deal
Yeah! It’s apparently a bumper season for cherries, which is great. They’re good quality too!
I wonder if my friend who works at Adelaide markets will get a box of cherries as a Christmas gift again, like a few years back when cherries were in over abundance haha.
Hey man, what you doin for xmas?
Just jam with fam! BAM!
LOL!
2.5kg slab of pork in the slow cooker. Pulled pork for dinner \o/
yummmmmm!
@beeawwb @cufcfan616 @dc @dkzeitgeist @freezespreston @gutsoup @lambomann007 @popdart5 @sernobulus @strange @transientmind @weresmurf @sunsoar77 @evilmonkey
7-730 New Shanghai under the Queen St Mall, be there or be otherwise engaged. http://www.newshanghai.com.au/
India are 7/305.
We need 3 wickets in 15 overs, India need 59 runs…
The new ball is available to us.
New ball has been taken. at 5:30pm ACDT.
And we’re 1 wicket away from victory!WE’VE WON!
That was a cracking test match!
MAC IS FREE!
…and I almost slipped and cut off my face. Lol oops classic gooky etc 😛
I’m gonna need some sort of previously on TAY recap to understand what is going on in this post..
I bought Amiibos.
Today I tried to open Little Mac.
My thing is collectorism, so I’d like to open the packaging with minimal damage.
These things are in blister packs, so that means getting rid of the plastic bubble while preserving the cardboard.
This requires a cutting tool such as a knife.
Me using a knife is almost invariably a bad idea.
Always. I already have one scar from a previous incident.
*rips up packaging*
*pulls out Luigi*
*throws the rest away*
😀
Apparently you can use a can opener along the edges to open them perfectly without damage 😛
I can’t even picture how that is supposed to work.
Run it along the edge of the blister packs where they are pressed together…
But how will that not chew up the cardboard?
Also how do you do the top part where the cardboard moves further away from the edge of the plastic?
I haven’t seen the packages, so don’t ask me. I was simply repeating an idea I see a lot of people use..
@virus__ Oh wait, you mean the kind that are two pieces of plastic sealed together with that seam around the edge that’s impossible to get open without stabbing yourself a million times and/or shredding your fingers.
This is the other kind, the plastic bubble glued to a piece of cardboard 😛
Yeah that’s what I was thinking these were. Fuck those sort you’re dealing with.. Maybe a heatgun or hair dryer to loosen the glue then err I dunno 😛
Anyone know much about coax cables/adapters? I need some help.
The plug on the wall looks like this: http://i.imgur.com/JXkWkVW.jpg
It needs something to screw on and the little hole is friggen tiny and I have no idea what kind of adapter I need to connect my standard M-M coaxial cable.
Anyone know?
Urgh, my brother in law put those all through the house while we were renovating it. RF F type cable I believe.
Same cable as Foxtel use for their boxes and points.
Yes that’s correct. It’s an F type connector. Foxtel uses them. Can buy cables to suit it in many places like dick smith, k-mart etc.
You need a coax connector like this. Jaycar, Dick Smith, Kmart, Big W, JB, Bunnings all should sell them or any self respecting electronics store.
That looks right, thanks! (Thanks @freezespreston too) I’ll go hunting for one
No worries!
Screw it, I’m turning all of my Steam Trading Cards into Gems. \o/
Not like I had any other use for them, anyway.
My cousins in Melbourne have Netflix, so I lost my Netflix virginity by watching the Prince of Egypt. (again)
God. Damn.. That is a good movie. Fantastic visuals, (although Netflix’s auto-resolution tried to ruin it as best as it could) a fantastic soundtrack, and a great, character-focused take on the story. One of my favourite 2D animated movies, and my favourite musicals. I really like how some of the songs incorporated other languages.
Although my extended family tried to ruin the last half an hour of the movie by a combination of loudly arguing in the background, and my English-challenged grandfather asking questions. No Granddad, Moses isn’t sick, he’s sad because every one is dead. No Granddad, this isn’t set in America. It’s set in Egypt. E-gypt. Africa. It’s set in Africa, Granddad.
Omg you guys, OMG. Rune factory 4 on the 3DS marketplace. RUNE FACTORY 4!
What’s up? I can’t access the marketplace.
Rune factory 4 wasn’t meant to be released in Australia or even Europe. It seems like they’ve changed their mind and decided to go with a digital release for niche games. I love harvest moon and I thoroughly enjoyed Rune factory 2, so it’s big news for me
XSeed did us a solid and put it up digitally for us.
XSeed have rapidly eclipsed all the other localization companies out there over the last couple of years and IMO become the coolest of them.
@evilmonkey @phlanispo @highperformance
WHAT WAS ONCE THE EVIL MONKEY MEAT TURNED INTO MANY NEW FACES MELBOURNE MEAT
I’m going to be in the city from lunchtime tomorrow so if you get in earlier than the planned dinner time of 6:15pm – 6:30pm, SMS me and we’ll meet up at Optic in fed square, look for a guy with a leather bag with a silver decepticon car badge on it.
No worries man.
Awesome, unfortunately Scree can’t make it as she’s ill, so it may be just me, depends on who else texts me at the time!
I don’t have your number, but look for a guy with a chinbeard.
Hope you feel better soon @scree.
email me your mobile at sdcdragonman[at]hotmail[dot]com just in case 🙂
My nose won’t stop leaking. It will probably be peeling tomorrow.
Right, I am pretty sure that I will be able to be there tomorrow, although I might be late. I’ll tell you what costume to look out for once I bother to plan one. For now, remember to look out for the short dude with sideburns. I may or may not be carrying a light blue bag.
EDIT: Just remember that since I don’t have a smartphone, once I leave my house, I will be un-contactable via TAY.
What’s happened with Evil Monkey?
Have you exchanged numbers with Techie or others that are going to be there?
There was one meat where no one thought to get S-DOG’s number (except for me :P) and he ended up going to the same restaurant, just in another location 🙁
He has, so we should be alright for the most part.
@evilmonkey Meat hype! \o/
Are you going to make this one?
Barring any unforseen circumstances, like the plane crashing.
I like to call this one:
“You Don’t No-Sale, Jack”
Okay, so…
I’ve got the Jackbox Party Pack in my Steam Cart…
Given that it’s priced at $24.99 USD, and the pack has 5 games in it,
Should I, or should I not purchase it?
1. Yes, you’ve spent more on 20 cans of Coke Zero.
2. No, you’ll spend more on a KFC Fillet Burger meal per game.
3. Yes, you’re a huge fan of the You Don’t Know Jack games and have been since you were a kid.
4. No, one person at a computer isn’t a party.
1
No, that’s half the price, speaking of halving…
*-$2,000 from Strange’s score*
And here’s what a right answer looks like
I’ve been a fan since the original came out, which was in 1995, and the game is rounded out to 20 years old, so 25/20 = $1.25, the cheapest amount here.
It’s $25, but that’s $1.25 a year since we started this gig. 1995 seems so long ago…
But yeah I caved in and bought it.
I’ll post a link to join a game that everyone can log into throughout the week. 🙂
I knew 3 was the proper answer (I remember you searching for and being hyped for YDKJ games on here), but I didn’t want to seem too much like an enabler. 😛
It’s not mysterious, or a fun time when the question and answers are revealed!
27 min wait for train D:
Just in case you guys haven’t seen the best trailer released this year… http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/12/this-nsfw-trailer-for-a-tv-show-might-be-the-most-ridiculous-thing/
Keen as for new Workaholics!
To be honest, that trailer kind of put me off whatever that show is :\
I think to appreciate the trailer you’d probably have to have already seen the show. It’s an awesome show, but the trailer isn’t the slightest bit representative of it 😛
Yeah, it feels like maybe after the reveal it should have maybe cut back to the regular stuff or something, to better deliver the punchline. As someone unfamiliar with the show, it kinda makes it fall flat.
J St got home…… The host had a fridge FULL of asahi and my wife said she would drive… How could I say no?
Now she’s challenged me to wii sports bowling…
Oh god…
Don’t let her beat me at my own game…
sorry im new to this but im a aspiring journalist im only sixteen so sorry if it isnt very good. but i just want to write something that happened this month and wanted people to share there opinions. sorry in advance if you hate it or you dont care.
I would believe that everyone knows about retail stores target and Kmart taking grand theft auto 5 off the shelves because of a petition that the game depicted violence and sexual abuse against women.
This in my opinions is very disappointing in the way that these advocates have change something that some would know very little about. Most of them I feel would be mothers and women alike (not every woman) and the reason they have done it because of the popularity revolving around this game. Rockstar do a great job about violence against women in a sense that they didn’t force a player to kill a woman (off the top of my head anyway) in the game they never forced you to pullover and pick up a prostitute or get a lap dance from a stripper. I have never even thought about picking on a certain gender or race in GTA 5 and none of my friends have done that either.
I agree that violence and sexual abuse is a problem not just against women but men alike (yes women aren’t the only one that suffer from this problem) and it is a problem that needs to be fixed but trying to put a bad spin on a product like GTA is depressing. I feel people will single out acclaimed titles, products, companies etc. purely because of the popularity around it. If this is such a problem then ban anything that discriminating against women for example fifty shades of grey, a man using women for his own sexual gain. Get this self-acclaimed book (and soon to be movie) banned because of what it represents it will influence men just to have sex with women like a play thing (sorry that this is a bad point and again it’s just a simple opinion).
I’m not demanding this book off the shelf though and women would be disgusted if it was because of its popularity amongst women not saying every woman but it is accepted amongst most.
I conclude on that nothing is forced and nothing is encouraging you to do something you don’t want to do. No one has a gun pointed at you to pick up the game and buy it. Not all games try to influence you to do horrible things to other people because of the gender, race, age etc. and I leave you this to think about try not to be so narrow minded in your opinion and use tunnel vision on problems. Take in opinions, and expand your knowledge.
Hi 🙂
Hi 🙂
Getting other peoples opinions is never wrong or frowned upon in these parts. But I’m a little unsure if you were looking for opinion one the issue or on the writing.
On the issue at hand, Target is family store that is trying hard to push a soft friendly brand. GTA does not fit within this brand. It is an adult game but the primary target market of target is not the adults who would buy that game. Considering that Target also make very little on selling games it was not a hard business choice to remove a single item from sale, certainly since a majority of sales had already been made.
What reason do you offer to think this is a bad business decision. Firstly that you can do all these ‘terrible’ (in the eyes of the target shopper) things in the game but you are not forced to and you have not done so. That is attempting to brush it under the carpet, because you didn’t does mean that that representation of women is embedded into the very core philosophies of the game.
Your reference to 50 shades of grey is doing exactly what you accuse them of, talking about and making opinions on something you don’t understand. Then lumping all women into the same category does your argument no favours.
Selling GTA makes no sense for target from a business perspective, the reperenstation of women is the game is terrible and at odds with the primary target market.
thanks for your opinion. i do have to admit the 50 shades point was a really shitty example for an argument and i was wondering when i was writing it if i should keep it. but this was just a trial and error piece so i can expand on opinions and see whats wrong with my own.
On one hand I get why they chose to do it, because it is a family oriented store, but at the same time, I also feel it’s a bit pointless. Games now have ratings just like movies. If a kid goes in to buy it, they should be asked for ID and denied purchase if they are not of required age. If the parents are buying the game for them, then they only have themselves to blame for their stupidity.
If Target really wants to be ‘fair’ about the ban, then they should take the next step, and ban all r18+ rated movies and games. Funny how you never hear them whine about their kids picking up R rated movies, yet they are just as accessible as the games. Some even have rather explicit or semi explicit pictures on the back cover! If they don’t want to ban all products, they should use some common sense, and lock them in one of those glass cabinets so their kids can’t just pick it up and look at it.
As I said in the beginning, being that they are a family store, I understand why they think it’s important to do something about it, but I feel targeting just one game is just silly. Either do it properly and across the board, or find an alternative solution. Target shouldn’t have to stop selling one product just because a bunch of helicoptering nanny state loving mums say they should.
You do realise you’re talking to a 16 year old about an R18+ rated game, right? 😛
hahah yeah! I was just expressing my overall viewpoint on the situation!
yeah im sorry, everyone was raving on about it when it first came out so i thought it was socially acceptible. and to be honest i thought GTA 5 was targeted for teens and young adults anyway even with the R18+ rating
And that is part of the reason that target removed it from sale.
It isn’t clearly marketed as an adult game and if video game fans are confused about who it is targeting, it is easy to see how mothers who just buy games can end up getting ones that are not appropriate.
Woot, someone on here that’s younger than me! I’m no longer the youngest! That… that title was… was all I had… 🙁
You’ll always be my little Phlanis(po/bro/buddy) 😉
Who’s up for some multiplayer jackbox party pack?
Go to jackbox.tv on your pc or mobile device and enter MCFJ to join the game.
Event Mode complete! All bonuses earnt, all matches defeated on Hard!
A real exercise in masochism.
“Touch an amiibo to the NFC” pad it said. Ok, sure. “Can’t let you do that, please perform initial amiibo setup first”. Uh. Ok. Guess I’ll go grab the instruction book that came with the amiibo. Let’s see, introductory passage saying that amiibos are compatible with various software, can only store info for one game at a time… bunch of standard health warnings about how to not kill yourself while using the product… alright, I guess the instructions are over the page. Aaaand we have contact information. Already? Huh, that’s usually at the back of the manual. Let’s go one more page. Nope, too far, we’re into German now. Maybe I missed a page? No, definitely went straight from 5 to 6.
Uh. Nintendo. I think you’ve spent too much time not making instruction booklets. You’ve finally gone back to doing it, only you’ve forgotten to actually PUT ANY INSTRUCTIONS in it.
I had a quick flip through and noticed all the words and other languages and just gave up… I need pretty pictures and colours! Seemed more like a warning than anything else though 😛
Aaaand he’s lv50. Hand-reared, all the way 😛
Managed to beat him still, though.
…eventually >.>
Little Macca? Can you beat Luigi? I’m struggling now that he’s in his high 40s :(. Dude gets me in some crazy combo until I’m like 100% >_>. I’m guessing Mac might be easier to beat because of his terrible recovery moves.
Is there any point in feeding Amiibos equipment? Even though I don’t use them, it feels like they’re being wasted! D:
Dunno, Mac’s my first one I’ve opened. Actually I haven’t tried beating him with Falcon yet, should do that. And he’ll probably be next.
I think feeding equipment is supposed to boost their stats, they’ve got attack, defence and speed iirc? And yeah, I always shy away from using up consumable stuff too. Gotta save it for later. For what, I don’t know, you just gotta keep them around 😛
Hello, all.
Hi.
Yo
Hi Jimu! Managed to stick out the 27 min wait for the train I see?! How was last night? Did ya end up going to new shanghai? was it any good?
Yep to all.
Why are you so dreamy? :*
I eat fantasies for breakfast
(Or something)
I hope you don’t secretly fantasize about me then! :p (I mean.. I know I’m awesome, but I dun wanna be eaten!)
I hope he fantasizes about me 😉
Woot, 3 and a half hours sleep. Today’s gonna be fun.
Ah shit… You’re supposed to save data to the Amiibo again?! I turned off the game yesterday and it looks like Luigi is back to level 1 🙁
Yeah, that takes a bit of getting used to… 🙁
🙁 my new Luigi is nowhere near as good as the one I had yesterday. That one was pulling off crazy combos really early on and this one just suckkkkkks!
Well that killed all my Amiibo motivation 🙁
Reset him! Teach him better!
Had one of these moments this morning… http://xkcd.com/1360/
Only instead I unearthed a text file called ‘deletion link’ which had an imgur deletion link in it… and also a bizarre string of words. Open up the link it’s a screen dump of a bitcoin wallet address… realise the words are the recovery mnemonic to said bitcoin wallet.
I found an old wallet with 6 bucks in it! Woo!
Oh hey it’s my other computer…
The future is amazing. Soon, we’ll be able to find ten dollars on the ground.. online.
The future is here for me!!
My brother is in hospital today getting a bunch of tests done. They think he might have leukaemia. I have no idea how to handle that information. A
If they’ve caught it early then there’s a good chance for him. I would be terrified as all hell, as I imagine you are right now. Best you can do is be there, whether you’re strong or not.
Sending good thoughts his way. And yours too, Freezey. If you need to talk any time, let me know.
That’s some really scary news to hear 🙁
Hopefully it’s not, but if it is, then hopefully they caught it early enough for it not to be serious.
If you want to come over to see him, but need a place to crash for a bit on short notice, it’s not even a question.
Hopefully he’s alright 🙁
Sending good vibes man.
Make sure you talk it out with someone, even if only to help get some of your thoughts in order.
Best wishes
🙁 Hope everything comes out alright man
Oh man, I hope it turns out ok.
I started playing Ar noSurge (because fuck Dragon Age, so boring) and it’s all pretty decent and semi-serious and then I’m talking to the chick who runs the restaraunt and she wants help doing item synthesis (a staple of the Ar Tonelico games) and so I get the stuff and then everyone starts dancing while they make it. So weird.
I love these games.
Chorizo and crumbled feta on Savoys with olive oil and a light sprinkling of salt…
Mmmm… yum.
I saw Theme Hospital for $2.89 on GOG.
I thought, “Hmm… I already have it on PS3/PSP/PSVita, so I’ll just re-download it…
I go to re-download… and I’m unable to do so….
fffFFFFFFUUUUUU….
D:
Eh, three bucks. I’ll just get the GOG version.
Noooooo!
I’m sooooo hungry waiting for friends to arrive before we order lunch….
Might die waiting… If I do, it was nice knowing you all.
Stewies most anticipated (HYPED) games for 2015:
– Night in the Woods:
No surprise here 😛
Love the art, the story concept, and the amazing style of it. I know little has been shown on it, but it looks exactly like my kind of game.
Legitimately cannot wait.
– The Order 1886:
I know that lots of people seem worried about it, “It looks pretty linear”, and, “it plays more like a movie”, but I think it looks incredible.
I’ve been sold on it since day 1, and continue to think that it looks great.
– Zelda U:
I’ve never played a Zelda game before.
Something about it always kind of made me bot interested in it. I think it was the style of it.
This new Zelda looks incredible though.
Gorgeous even.
Truth be told, I’m more playing because if how stunning it looks :3
– Final Fantasy XV:
Though not confirmed for 2015, I continue to believe!
I’ve been following it since it was first announced as Versus XIII, and continue to be impressed by everything that I see about it.
A confirmed release date would be nice though.
Stewies cautiously optimistic games of 2015:
– Bloodborne:
I hated Dark Souls 2, loved Dark Souls 1, and am neutral on Demons Souls.
I’m hoping that it turns out more akin to Dark Souls 1, but am staying cautious until I get to play it for myself.
Anything like Dark Souls 2 and I’m out.
– Uncharted 4:
Still pretty excited, but I want to see more of it.
I’m a firm believer that it should have ended as a trilogy, so am not sure what to make of it.
It looks amazing from its graphics, but graphics aren’t everything.
No doubt it’ll be great, but I don’t know if it’s the game I want.
– Firewatch, The Witness, Rime, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture:
I don’t know a great deal about these games, but a certain someone’s hype is quite infectious.
Each one looks great, but that’s all I know about most of them :3
There’s still games I’m interested in, but these are the main ones on my horizon that I can recall.
Not checking out FF Type 0?
Probably will, but it’s one of those games where it’s like, “Oh, may as well pick it up” 😛
Not hyped, but still interested, kinda thing.
What what what!!!???
:p
“It looks pretty linear”, and, “it plays more like a movie”
Yeah, that makes me more interested in it. A tightly made shooter with an interesting story and focus? Yes please, getting sick of “you can do anything, freedom!” games that sort of lose themselves in a bunch of unneeded crap.
Also Bloodborne is being made by the same team that made Dark Souls. Dark Souls 2 was made mostly by From’s B team. So I’m well hype.
I like the way that the Order looks!
I story driven shooter seems like a nice change, and it looks stunning!
I can’t wait to give it a go, and I’m always keen for a new IP 🙂
I remember hearing Bloodborne was being made by the first Dark Souls team, but Dark Souls 2 left a really bad taste in my mouth :'(
Hence why I’m cautious of it.
@SerNobulus was saying the same thing last night about Bloodborne.
Y’all just heretic unbelievers. Praise the sun! *praises the sun*
Hey, I loved Dark Souls 1!
I even spent a whole playthrough making an awesome PvP build that I could destroy people with!
(Power Within + Dark Moon Blade + Uchigatana = insta win)
I just didn’t enjoy the sequel all that much.
Everything felt, uninspired, I guess.
I wanted it to be more, but it was so bland.
I’m 50/50 on Bloodborne.
Yup, even though I’ve loved every video and every bit of news released about Bloodborne I just can’t get myself super hyped. Dark Souls 2 broke my hype. ='(
Agree. My worry about the Order is they keep showing bits that are super cinematic but very light on gameplay (lots of QTEs) and what they do show is standard cover shooter and often very short. Worried there might not be enough actual game in there.
Personally holding off on Bloodbourne to make sure there’s no stupidly hard roadblock-style bosses in it and how they implement PVP etc. I never finished Dark Souls because Ornstein and Smough were just way too hard for my ability level, and whenever I went human and tried to bring Solaire along for the fun I’d get ganked by someone within a minute or two of leaving the bonfire. 🙁
Twilight Princess was my first Zelda game and still my favourite, and now I’ve played all of them 😛 Hopefully you like your first Zelda game too!
Just sitting outside, pulling a TV to pieces.
Don’t even know why, but it’s fun.
That’s what got me in to computers! Well, not so much pulling TV’s apart, but pulling computers/gadgets apart! When we first got a computer when I was like.. 12, (it was an old one from my uncle) first thing I did was pull it apart (much to my mothers horror!)
I just wanted to see what was inside that made all the magic happen!
Ever since then, I’ve always tinkered! It’s amazing how much stuff you can learn simply by doing stuff like that. Even if you don’t have the answers at hand right away, it generally inspires you to go and find out more, and each bit you learn, often leads you to something else to find out! It’s like an infinite flow of self discovery! 🙂
For me it’s more like an infinite flow of unstarted future projects that will never happen 😛
I’ve decided to dip my toe into Podcasting.
It’ll be called “15 Minutes of Lame”, and as the name suggests, will run for 15 minutes at a time.
It makes me talk on my feet, rather than constantly having dead air.
I’ll put it up on SoundCloud sporadically:
https://soundcloud.com/crazyguy1990
Breaking things apart with a hammer is fun.
Generally not reversible… What are you breaking?
I remember the glorious afternoon when I got to take a mini sledge to the space under my house to pull down shitty walls previous owner had installed.
THE SKULLS OF HIS ENEMIES
^
Also a TV.
I didn’t know this was a thing but it totally is and that’s okay!
I honestly don’t care that I’ll be 21 when it comes out and excited for it! I watched the first Spongebob movie a couple of weeks ago because I wanted Oliver to see it 😛
Good thing I just sent a random message to my friend. Got a reply asking if I was going to the dinner thing that’s on tonight, which I’d totally forgotten about. Even though another reminded me about it on Friday.
Probably because WHO EVEN DOES ANYTHING ON A SUNDAY NIGHT.
“Huh, why is my palm itchy?”
*looks down, sees nice, bloody cut*
“Oh.”
“Why is the ground wet?”
*Sees shard of glass sticking out of foot*
“Hmm.”
Could have been me also. There were lots of nails sticking out of pieces of wood, and I didn’t have any shoes. Also was stomping pieces of wood to break them down to fit in the bin.
Yeah I’m smart >_>
A few years back I was down in Tassie helping around my Grandfather’s house, and that involved breaking up bits of a fence, from memory. I ended up stepping on a nail (very rusty), and my response was to walk inside, and ask my Mum when my last Tetanus injection was (at least I was wearing shoes though, I’m not quite as special as you :P).
That reminds me, have they changed it from having a tetanus every 10 years to just when you injure yourself?
The ten years thing is part of a the full tetanus course, which is 3 jabs as a tyke, then a booster at 4 years of age, and 15/16 ish, from memory. After that, it’s recommended you get one once you hit your 50s (as the long term immunity does fade). So, assuming you’ve been through the full course, it’ll only be recommended if a Doctor thinks you’re at risk, or for the 50s booster.
Had the full course so I don’t have to worry
Tetanus is also a part of the boostrix vaccine, so if you get a whooping cough (pertussis) booster (which I strongly recommend if you know any babies) then you get a tetanus top up too (also diptheria).
I was just wondering as I heard that you have tetanus ever 10 years. I asked the doctor when I turned 25, because I last had one when I was 15.
Hey at least I can stand on a floor.
Right in the uncoordinated feels.
@evilmonkey @tech_knight @highperformance
(I’m sorry if other people are coming and I didn’t tag you, I’m just copying the tags Tech Knight used)
Right, I am about to leave. Look for the guy of slightly-below-average height, wearing a red shirt, carrying a blue bag, sporting the worst sideburns ever. I might be late. When I am closer to the meat location, I will probably ring Techie, as he’s the only guy whose number I know.
I don’t know what anyone else looks like, so finding people is going to suck.
Surely it can’t be that hard to spot a monkey, a robot and… *takes closer look at highperformance* Rove McManus.
Lol I do get that a lot actually.
Sorry I can’t go. I didn’t want to pass my horrible cold onto everyone though. That and I would probably just feel like sleeping.
No problem, hope you’re feeling better soon!
If I’m not better by Thursday I’ll go see my doctor. I had bronchitis earlier in the year and I need to make sure it doesn’t happen again
Yesterday my mum said I looked like Ryan Gosling from The Notebook. I laughed for ten minutes. I can never trust compliments from her again. Credibility lost.
Haha family members always try their best to make us feel better :p
At the height of his powers my grandma used to say I looked like Ian Thorpe. No chance, but thanks Nan!
My mother used to say I looked like Ryan Phillipe.
Pretty sure she was drunk every time…
The lies help them sleep at night. Haha!
Figured I’d convert all the Steam junk I had into gems and look at the bidding stuff. I ended up with a couple of thousand gems. Ooh, let me see….
Aaaaannndd there’s bids of 1 million+ gems on things. Well shit.
I should have just sold everything as now I’m stuck with something even more useless than I had 🙁
First day people were bidding 7 million+ gems on games.. It’s a joke.
Hooooow????? It took like 50 items from the steam summer sale where I spent nearly $500 to get 2000 points….
I think there was a glitch/exploit and people were duplicating gems. That’s why Steam took it down for a while.
Looks like they didn’t do too good a job of fixing it :/
No clue. Possibly the exploit that was being spoken of the following day. But either way I think this whole auction thing is stupid since it’s aimed at people who literally farm cards :/
yer! I looked at that yesterday. Lowest bid I could see on any game at the time was like 30,000 gems.. i wouldn’t come close to 1000 if I converted all my stuff. total bullshit!
Well gems are selling for around 70c per thousand so worst case is just dump those on the market
Thinking I may take a break from Twitter & TAY.
Whhhhyyyyyyy? Every ones leaving. Soon it will just be me shouting at myself.
I’ll always be here
… ALWAYS
*begins breathing deeply*
I will also be here!
If I’m not sewing sequins
I feel like I’ve been shit to hang around with recently.
I don’t think that.
Well we weren’t going to say anything…
Do it. It’s SO goddamned refreshing. Just take a break from any part of the internet where people can interact full stop.
Well, shit…
I think I may have stuffed up my Windows 7 install.
Now I’ve lost just about everything,and have to resort to using Ubuntu for the time being.
:\
EDIT: Got a bit of stuff back off my USB HDD, but I’ve still lost a fair bit. 🙁
I may need to invest in a new portable hard drive…
what’d ya do?
I booted the windows 7 install disc, and by the time I’d figured out what I’d accidentally done, I’d lost everything.
I’ve started to use the word ‘yo’ un-ironically. Just kill me now.
Could be worse, yo.
I just realised it was Jimu’s fault!
See most of you in new TAY 🙁
Turn that frown upside down! ):
Wait, that doesn’t work at all!