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New TAY???!!!
At 8am too!
7 for me!
Must be 5 in Perth!
*noncommittal grunt*
So, my nephew has reached the age where he’s obsessed with LEGO. So buying presents for him for the next 6 years is going to be pretty friggen simple.
Yeah, got my son a big fire station set 😀
I bought myself a fire truck. It’s red. I’m 24.
The best part of adulthood is fulfilling the promises you made to yourself when you were a child.
“What’s that, kid? You always wanted to try an Aero bar that looked so good when you were standing behind Mum at the supermarket check-out and they always had all those goodies on display that she wouldn’t buy for you? Well it’s your lucky decade, kid… you can go drown yourself in motherfucking aero bars all you like, now. You know what? Let’s go nuts and get some god damn tic-tacs, too.”
Hence my having pretty much all the consoles lol. Never had any as kid. 😛 Yay freedom!
My parents gave me a box of my old Lego a while back, almost finished rebuilding a sweet alien space ship except I have know clue where the last few parts are /o\
My nephews are the same. The Lego games have been excellent buys for them. I’d have gone with Lego itself, but they get enough of that from other family members.
I got Star Wars Lego from both of my secret Santas this year 😀 the work one I asked for it but my friend got me it out of instinct 😀
Six years?
My sister got me Lego for Christmas this year (she’s going away, so we traded gifts early), and I’m kinda sad she hasn’t been doing so for the last… 17 years now.
http://i.imgur.com/tjSjLOo.png
Early TAY?!
\o/
EDIT: Also, dogs have settled for laying on my bed…
…which means no leg room… 🙁
I think I fucked up in DA:I a bit. After unlocking Skyhold, I went and did all the side stuff, 100% each map (or close enough). Then I went and did the main story stuff, which keeps unlocking a bunch of operations at the war table, some (most) of which are several hours long. There’s enough of them, and they’re so long, that I don’t think I’ll be able to complete them all before completing the game if I just keep playing through the story stuff. Obviously I’m meant to be off doing side quests while these operations are being played out, but I’ve got no side stuff left to do.
So I want to complete all these operations before completing the main game, but I don’t have anything to do while they’re completing, so I’ve been logging on, assigning my advisors to missions, and then logging off, only to get back on a few hours later and do it all again. The game’s basically become a facebook/mobile style game for me at the moment.
It sort of fits in with the general feeling I’ve had since I started playing the game. That this first playthrough was basically a test run to get a handle on how all the game’s features work and how things are paced out. I think if I eventually play through the game again with all the knowledge gathered from this first playthrough I’ll have a lot more fun with the game. Not that I’m not already having fun, I just feel I could have more fun.
Also started watching the final season of Legend of Korra over the weekend. I waited until all the episodes were out to start. I was going to marathon through the whole thing, but then decided that since this is probably the last Avatar show we’re getting, and almost certainly the last Korra, I should draw the experience out a bit. So I’m thinking of watching an episode every day or so, which should give me enough time to appreciate one episode before experiencing the next one.
Why am I up at 6am? I don’t have to go to work today!
But you typed that message at 8:53 AM.
5:53 AM in WA.
Because the sun rises at 4 in the morning for fucking insane reason these days. FOUR IN THE MORNING.
There isn’t supposed to BE a four in the morning for any reason other than symmetry!
Ugh. It’s now 8.30 and still too early 😛
Yay! I have internet again, which means I can TAY. Had a pretty awesome weekend. Did my Christmas shopping on Saturday morning, got my parents some nice teas and coffees from the Oxfam shop, and got a secret santa present for my church young adults group. Then I went home and watched Australia beat India and the Hobart Hurricanes beat the Melbourne Stars. Also watched Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, which is my favourite of the 3 Indiana Jones movies.
Sunday I had church and we had our Christmas service. I sang a song called Mary Did You Know, which is a beautiful song. I think everyone enjoyed my performance as I got lots of nice comments. After church we had our young adults/youth group breakup which was fun. We played Uno, watched QI, Blackadder and Father Ted Christmas specials and did Secret Santa. I got a little box of Lindt chocolates and a dvd of Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation.
TL:DR: I had a pretty awesome weekend.
Last Crusade is fucking awesome.
Also Blackadder.
Tis the season to play board games. So go on. Get. Go play.
I don’t have any board games with me at the moment, but I got Cards Against Humanity for Christmas (got it early). I was also given We Didn’t Playtest This at All for my birthday a few months back, haven’t played that yet. Hopefully I’ll get the chance to play crazy card games with people soon
Don’t worry, soon you’ll uncover the good stuff and a life of madness awaits. It’s fun, I swear!
Looking forward to it \o/
We played Carcasonne with our son last night and he did really well.
It’s only the second time I’ve ever played that game since I was given it for Christmas a whole bunch of years ago. He keeps bugging me to play board games (I swear sometimes I should have made his middle name Trjn! 😛 ) with him, but usually it’s just this kind of lame Madagascar one. Now that he knows how to play Carcassonne, I see a great deal of board gaming in my holidays, suddenly. 😀
Carcassonne, the more I think about it, is probably my favourite game. Was my first board game purchase (in recent years) and I still cart that box around and crack it at any opportunity
If he’s got counting and basic addition (single digit) down, you could try Qwirkle next. I get the feeling he’d enjoy a good Qwirkle block.
I doubt he has the attention span for Hanabi, which is a shame because Hanabi!
I have something lined up for the 27th but nothing until then. May try to introduce Hanabi to the family on Christmas though.
Hi TAY!
I wasn’t on here much last week as I was having a pretty relaxing holiday in Hamilton Island, managed to get a little bit of a tan and eat my weight in seafood \o/
I wanted to drop a quick shout out to @tech_knight for organizing a really cool Meat last weekend, good food that was really cheap with good company! Thanks as well to @phlanispo who was kind enough to explain his username to me for the second time , and for being a pretty funny guy. I was disappointed I didn’t get to meet @scree or @evilmonkey, slowly but surely though I’m meeting TAYbies which is fun!
Also, a big apology to my Secret SanTAY who I managed to get your present sent today, it will arrive hopefully this afternoon. I originally had it in my room with the express purpose of sending it out on Friday when I got home from holiday, but my parents got into a cleaning frenzy and threw it in the bin :@ From what I’ve read on TAY you will enjoy this present though, it will be worth the wait 😛
When was I ever funny?
*ba-dum tish*
*audience laughter*
Sorry I didn’t come. If I hadn’t been sick, I would’ve shown up.
TAY XMas Edition!
Quick post (although who am I kidding, pretty much all my posts are shorter than this) to say Secret SanTAY present arrived, and now stands guard atop our fridge at home. Thank you very much!
Three day week. \o/
Casual attire. \o/
Persistent headache for the past two days. /o\
I envy your casual attire.
Then you can envy me til the end of JANUARY. \o/
Oh believe me, I will. I’ll pencil daily envy into my diary.
Seeing the words pencil and envy in close proximity, I totally read something different in your post.
penicl?
Stop… having my life….? I swear, if you work in insurance…..
Wait. Has anybody ever seen the two of us in the same room?
…I’m a liability claims specialist.
But you both pledged to Undad.
#PROOF
Yes… both of us…
It’s probably just the illuminati setting up multiple fake people with the purpose of pledging to kickstarters so that we seem like different people when in reality we’re puppets.
EDIT: HA HA, JUST KIDDING. THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS ILLUMINATI AND BOB IS TOTALLY A REAL PERSON. I MEAN I. I AM A REAL PERSON.Illuminati confirmed.
My job for the last 3 and a half years has only ever been casual 🙂
I like wearing suits, makes me feel like a big shot.
But not in this weather. Cripes. Anyone else feeling this humidity today? I’d rather be in shorts than jeans but I’ll take jeans over wool, thanks.
I’ve always hated suits, even tailored ones that fit me. Maybe it’s because I associate smart dressing with my bullied years or maybe because they’re uncomfortable. Or maybe because in summer they’ll get ruined by sweat.
I have never had a job where I wear anything remotely formal. Wearing polo shirt and shorts today. Normally jeans. Some of my current and former workmates wear even more casual stuff on a regular basis.
Sadly few insurance companies are that laid back.
‘sup.
Your bank account?
Hahahaha. No. It’s Christmas – who has money?
(If you’re referring to Kickstarter, I won’t getting those funds until probably around New Year’s, as they take two weeks to process it before they send it out.)
(I was, actually)
You’re back!
EDIT: Wait…
…shit.
This girl from high school is trying to track me down. I feel like the biggest jerk deleting the e-mail without even reading, but I honestly feel like I’ve moved on from high school and don’t want to think about that time in any capacity. Am I a jerk? :\ (My brother gave her my contact details. *shake fist*)
“DC, I found your wallet. Have been trying to track you down for 15 years.”
If you’ve moved on from high school, you’ve moved on from high school.
Your finally legal to drink! Now you need to decide do you go to uni with your friends and do a course you have no interest in simply because your besties are? Or do you take a gap year and travel the world like other outta high schoolers who hadn’t already gone overseas previously
I speak to a grand total of 0 people from high school on a regular basis. I’m friends with … 3? 4? on Facebook but we rarely interact. I’m totally fine with this.
The people we are in high school is/are very rarely the people we are in our adult lives. People who stay rooted in that single era of their lives are often trying to make up from some other shortcoming. Embrace that you’ve moved on. You’re better for it.
I’m gradually started removing high school contacts from Facebook. I wasn’t friends with them then, and the novelty of reconnecting via social media has worn off. Now I’ve only kept the dozen or so people who weren’t fuckheads.
Yeah, I’ve deleted a few. The only ones I’ve kept are those who I have some interest in what they’re posting. E.g. the guy who works for SA Labour.
Dear @dc
A man has my husband and three young children at gunpoint. He has demanded that I make contact with you and if I don’t get a reply within 1 hour he will execute them. Please help me. Don’t let my family die.
Being Facebook friends with people you knew in school, whether primary or secondary, can be a weird experience once you find out what some of them have gotten up to with their lives.
90% of them is getting knocked up in their early 20s.
Just remember DC Highschool Never Ends 😛
Awesome song.
Agreed!
That’s interesting DC, that’s your prerogative to delete the email though.
I was chatting with a mentor of mine recently around the idea of happiness, and he put some little bubbles on the page that all contribute to happiness (significant other, extended family, work, health, etc.). One of the concepts he was speaking to me about was friendship, and that there might be some folks in your past that you may have fallen out of touch with whom are good people and would enrich your life for reconnecting with them. I know I have one of my best buddies at high school who for just a bit of laziness on both of our parts we don’t see each other as much as we’d like.
I suppose I don’t begrudge people for hanging on to their time at school as 13 years is a big part of shaping your identity, maybe this person from your highschool is trying to reconnect with you for those sorts of reasons?
My other thought was around her organizing a school reunion of sorts, I don’t think you’re a jerk but I feel if you think she’s a good person you could read the email and then decide what she wants is something your comfortable with helping with?
Maybe she just couldn’t get enough of DC! 😛Always the voice of reason. YOU JERK. 😛
Depends on how that girl was treating you at the time. If you two were friendly to one another, then why not just a quick catch up, but if she was not nice to you, then you made the right call.
As many already know of my high school experiences, if any one of them tries to add me on facebook I actually just decline and report them without a second thought. My last actual “bumping into someone from my past” was a girl that apparently had a crush on me in primary school, who’s married with kids of her own already. I was easily able to tell that she didn’t like what I’ve become, being all cold and bitter to a lot of things from my past and present, hell even she instigated some of the stuff that went wrong in my primary school late years after I trusted her with something that was meant to be kept secret. Never heard from her again after that one conversation.I just couldn’t be the incredibly sweet and nice boy that she knew while growing up, cuz I quickly realised during high school how easily I got exploited for my kindness. So anyone that declared that war on me, I never looked back at them as that is just a waste of energy.
I think this girl actually had a high school experience a bit similar to yours. The girls bullied her like crazy and she transferred away in year ten. I can’t imagine why she would want to dwell on that time either. :S
I know this is unrelated, but I genuinely hope you’re able to tap into happier, carefree Tech Knight mode again some day. Not for any one else, just for you.
I’m actually glad she had the option to transfer away and get a fresh start, not that many get that chance. I can definitely sympathise with her having such a horrible time (And I can’t even imagine how horrible it’d be for a girl to go through this, I can only think it’d be much worse in terms of self esteem), I was stuck where I was due to my brother being there and my parents didn’t want to spend the money on me either.The whole breaking up with Artemis didn’t help at all in me trying to be happy again. I’m basically back to being my old “feeling like I’m not worth existing anymore” self and being able to hide it well like I did during high school and tafe. My confidence is so low now I can’t even speak to strangers properly anymore, before it was just girls. I struggle to even form sentences and after just one failed sentence I want to simply run away and hide somewhere. To be honest I really don’t know if that happier version of me exists anymore, I don’t even remember what it was like
He exists. Sometimes you’ve got to actively pursue the whole happiness thing even if it doesn’t seem natural.We had a cool chat last week man, hope you didn’t feel like you needed to run away!
Aww man, we talked okay. Remember that time I asked about the decepticon logo on your bag? Good times.
If it was me I’d have done the same, then I would’ve had stern words with my sibling for giving my email out.
I clearly told my brother a few months ago not to do it. Grrrrr.
Eh, that’s your call. Not our place to judge dude. Well that’s what I honestly think anyway.
I have a few I know from school on Facebook, some I wonder why I bother staying in touch with despite that I was good mates with them in high school. I guess some of us move on after high school, and some of us stay the same, thus high school never ends, in a sense. Of which I know a fair few like that, they think they can still bully you and be a general prick, or act immaturely and think it’s funny, it’s like come on I don’t have time for that, please mature and move on, I know I have.
If you’ve fully moved on from highschool you wouldn’t delete the email without reading it. IMO, give the email at least a read. A lot of effort went into delivering it, which is strange.
By moving on I mean repressed those memories good and proper. 😛
I don’t think I ever have or ever will excise anyone so thoroughly from my life like that. We are our connections and the sum of our experiences, good or bad, and that’s not just all about me (or you). Sometimes they have their own shit their working through, and them reaching out is about something they want to do for themselves, prove to themselves, atone… whatever.
Maybe they’re reaching for something that isn’t there, trying to make a connection you don’t want to maintain, maybe they’re just trying to tick a box on their 12-step program, who knows. Maybe they just want some peace of mind, reconcile their past. I can sympathize with that. Either way, I’ll usually hear people out. Even people who have treated me very badly… after all, maybe they’re looking to apologize.
It’s not often you can help a stranger with little effort or cost, even if it’s one who wasn’t a stranger at a point in the past. And you never know what benefits they’re willing to bring to the table. But that’s me, and we have different priorities and experiences.
I think you gained the benefit of saving yourself some awkwardness and discomfort of telling someone you don’t want to be in contact… and I guess that came at the cost of opportunity, and curiosity.
Given how you probably value those costs and benefits… I think you made the right call for you.
Ah, so much insight, like @highperformance before you. WHAT A JERK! 😛
What’s the harm in talking to her? Especially in a virtual setting.
I’m not in contact with many people I knew from school. Only see one of them on any semi-regular basis, and maybe three or four more periodically. Periodic contact with a few friends I had back in NZ. I kind of regret that.
I’ve kind of compartmentalized that part of my life. Might not be healthy. :S
I knew her from year 3 all the way to year 10.
I’m never up this early! Oh well time for a 5 hour car trip of playing Pokémon. I’m still not prepared for a whole week of being everyone’s favourite older cousin.
Still waiting for my PS4. I feel a @sernobulus story coming on…
We call him Inspector Nob these days. He’s quite the prolific sleuth.
I’ve been keeping tabs. Did he ever actually close a case? 😛
All on going. Heroes style. That season finale is going to be amazing. 😉
*desk flip, files scatter*
*Inspector Nob sits back down and lights an e-cigarette. He dies of plastic poisoning.*
*Slam to credits*
He hasn’t even closed his fly yet…
Sounds like another case for Inspector Nob!
Tried to make plans for board gaming in Canberra. It was meant to happen yesterday but there was some family barbeque thing. It was then meant to happen tonight but people aren’t staying the night at the zoo until tomorrow.
It might happen tomorrow but that would mean being organised.
Hello taybes. Forgive my prolonged absence.
I adore you guys, even if I’m not around x
Oooh, that sounds intriguing! Hope all is good, Jane. You’re missed, but I’ve held off tagging you as much because it seemed weird. 😛
You’re pregnant! \o/
Dammit, you’re not even back 15 minutes and you’re stealing my jokes already.
*nods*
Ahem.
Aliens?
Yep 😉
So… opposite pregnancy means… vasectomy?
I bet that’s it.
Baby?
How baby is formed?
P in the V.
…
Of course! It all makes sense now!
Piano in the violin?
MAKIN’ SWEET MUSIC.
That’s pretty hard.
(That’s what sh… oh well, you know)
I *knew* I should have talked to Violin Girl…
\o/ for strange life! P
I miss being called a pumpkin, though….
Naww, merry almost christmas, pumpkin 😉
If the trains could just be as empty as they were today forever that would be fab, thanks,.
But then they’d slowly go broke and then cease to exist like the train line in my region did…
Not with the amount Metro keeps putting up the fares (“annual fare rise”) even while slapping advertising all over literally every flat surface.
Sounds like any public transport company in the country /sigh
Yeah I know right?! The seats are blue, I never noticed before as there was always a human in every one of them!
Legend of Korra, how about that ending.
I took a huge break from finishing season 2 and am only just now halfway through season 3. I have been seeing reactions to the ending which is really driving me to push through and get it finished before I get spoiled somehow.
For reference, I’m up to where
Korra met with Zaheer in the spirit world and got some explanations for the purpose of the Red Lotus – Korra and Asami have been captured by the Earth Queen, Mako and Bolin have been captured by the Red Lotus.I think 3 has been a pretty good season so far, though I didn’t mind 2 which everyone seems to hate except the avatar origins flashback episodes – which admittedly were pretty good.
You are in for a treat. Really, the best is yet to come 🙂
It really does feel like it’s ramping up rather nicely. Zaheer and co. are some impressive antagonists.
Zaheer is such a great villian because he isn’t inherently evil and Henry Rollins does such a great job bringing him to life.
Seriously, he’s got a pretty convincing argument for his cause. A real far cry from the “evil for the sake of evil” Equalists from season 1.
That is the thing isn’t it. He makes so much sense in the context of the world. That alone is scary
That ending
After a pretty stellar season 3, I felt like having a giant mecha-suit with a laser beam was a bit silly. Funnily enough, I enjoyed the odd numbered seasons much more than the even numbered. Giant mecha-suit is pretty up there with giant spirit monster in terms of plot stupidity.That said, I still enjoyed it. Season 4 was a bit fan-servicey but it was a good kind of fan service. I don’t see them doing much more Avatar with Nickelodeon though considering it got pretty dark over the course of LoK (ending in fantasy Hitler basically).
I always enjoyed the stupidity of the end of S2, so when they decided to have the Giant Mech thing I just started laughing my head off. And it was silly, but was totally justified with that fight scene against it, which was just tops.Slept for twelve hours last night after being awake for two days. It was awesome. I needed that.
I got to sleep in until 9am today for the first day in months. Not even on weekends have I been able to sleep in so it was awesome. My son was all quiet because my daughter’s at her Grandparents’ so he’s playing Little Big Planet on her profile. 😛
Oh man, that’s a fight for another day, eh? 😀
Uh-oh. Playing on a sibling’s profile. That’s gonna be a war…
I think I was lucky in that not many games had clear and obvious separate profiles when my brother and I were growing up, so we shared heaps.
I’m not going to tell her…. 😛
I always regretted introducing my family to games because it resulted in a lot of instances of my saved games being accidentally overwritten by them.
I once lent Smash Bros 64 to a ‘friend’.
It came back with all of the unlocks no longer unlocked.
Another time some dickbrain deleted my Pokemon save while on year 7 camp. Grrr…
Similar happened to my 101% complete DKC1 cart >:|
There were two unused save slots, dammit!
It’s a Monday and I woke up at 11:50. Awesome!
A little less awesome that I stayed up til 4 trying to get something on the computer to work, since that’s a habit I’m not fond of being in, but hey.
Last Friday was the office christmas party. A lot of people not making eye contact with one another, haha
How many people were drunk? Because you can totally start making up stories about them.
There’s about a hundred of us and I’d say about 90% were extremely drunk. BRB, gonna go spread some rumours
“MAN DID YOU SEE MATT AND KATIE MAKING OUT? THAT’S FUCKED, THEY’RE BOTH MARRIED.”
“To each other though.”
“Well shit now I know why Matt was so offended when I checked out her butt the other day. To be fair, that is a nice ass. High five!”
“…I don’t really feel comfortable having this conversation with you.”
“Don’t be such a prude, Matt.”
Morning everyone 🙂
For those that remember me, Sam and I found a place to rent in Meadowbank, so no more 2 and a half hour trips for me to get to work 😀
The end of this year has been interesting, I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and a happy new year
Also
LAST SONG PLAYED GAME – for me it was Soshaku by Dir En Grey
Spaghett!
Home – Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
Good song. I approve 🙂
Introducing… – James Flamestar
Garbage – Automatic systematic Habit. I’ve pretty much been listening to this album every day on my commute then I flick back to that song to get me pumped for work on the walk from the train station to the office (which is roughly the length of the song).
Anarchy In The U.K. – Megadeth cover version.
I just love how every cover of that song i’ve heard is unique in it’s own way in regards to the lyrics.
According to last.fm: This Will Destroy You – Burial on the Presidio Banks
The CD in my car: Silversun Pickups – Surrounded (Or Spiraling)
Also, I’ve been watching Scrubs so: The Fray – She Is
Let Me In Your Heart Again – Queen
Me And Mary Jane – Black Stone Cherry
Best of Me – The Starting Line
Dive – Tycho
Been trying to stick to more calm music recently because it’s the worst time of the year.
Pokemon Anime Theme Song Kazoo Version – Tsuko G.
Crazy theory time from my watching the latest episodes of Agents of SHIELD.
Minor insignificant spoiler for AoS ahead, and possibly the MCU as a whole (though it’s really just pointless speculation at this point).
So, in AoS they mention the Kree. Just an off-hand reference to an alien race in marvel’s universe right? Wrong.Before we get to the Kree, we’ll need to discuss the Skrulls. The Skrulls were humanoid reptilians that had space-flight, and they used to have a cube. The name of this cube? The Cosmic Cube. Or, in Marvel’s Cinematic Universe, the Tesseract. This is connection #1.
The skrulls find 2 races, the Cotati and th Kree on a planet. To decide which is better they put them on some moons with some tech, give them a year, and come bck to see who performed the best, and thus is the ‘superior’ race. They can’t decide, so the Kree wipe out the cotati and steal the skrull’s ship, then using this ship figure out the secrets to space flight. They proceed to fight a war with the skrulls.
This is where it gets good.
At the beginning of the kree-skrull war, the kree set up a station on Uranus, and they started experimenting on the then-primitive homo sapiens. They eventually stopped, and the experiments went on to form a society of their own…and they were called the Inhumans, like the movie coming in 2018!
The kree then statioend a sentry on an island, which was re-awoken by…The Fantastic Four. This alerted the Kree to Earth, who sent an official, Ronan the Accuser, to Earth, but the Fanastic Four defeat him (he was foing to kill them anyway). Anyway, this alerts the Kree to Earth, and they start noticing it a lot more now.
Then the Avengers (2.0) get involved, from Wikipedia:
I suspect that the next few seasons of SHIELD will start dealing with the Skrull a lot more.
Then Captain Marvel, former leader of the Kree empire, approaches the Avengers showing that renegades led by Ronan the Accuser plans to erase humanity. This is defeated by the Avengers 2.0.
The Skrull then abducted Captain Marvel, Quicksilver, and Scarlet Witch, so the original avengers (the ones we have currently) were called back into action. The Kree try to destory the Inhumans base, but are thwarted by the Avengers.
From Wikipedia:
Then Avengers side-kick Rick Jones becomes super-powerful thanks to the Kree’s leader, a super-computer, but dies stopping the war.
Note: I know Captain Marvel is female in the MCU. This quote still works if Marvel is female.
I belive that with the introduction of the Inhumans and Captain Marvel in between Avengers: Infinity War Parts 1 and 2 (which will feature Avengers 2.0), Marvel will be setting up the plot devices for Phase 4, and the Kree-Skrull war.
Additional Notes:
The Kree are blue-skinned, and I was thinking that the blue-skinned aliens from Guardians of the Galaxy might be Kree, and that shows part of the war, but I couldn’t find anything to support the claims.
Also, this quote from the wiki:
Further Reading/Source:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kree
So yeah, crazy speculation, but it’s possible.
I believe Fox owns the rights to the Skrulls, so I wouldn’t expect to see them in any Marvel films anytime soon.
Fox owns the rights to the Super Skrull, but I think Marvel can still use skrulls.
They still own part-rights to it, the same reason they can use (and are using) Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch.
Even if they don’t usethem, they’ve se up other alien races with The Avengers and Gurdians of the Galaxy that they could use…
I love it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRsPheErBj8
Morning TAYbies, how were your weekends?
Mine was ok, played games (though none of the ones I intended to). Then last night I cooked my first ever roast on my home made spit. Did a roast Lamb, didn’t do anything fancy with it, but man it tasted so good.
Also, I have to give a shoutout to @stickman, who gifted me 10, COUNT ‘EM TEN games, including The Bridge, Brothers, the Metro Redux bundle and Lego Batman 3.
Thank you so friggin’ much man, you are an absolute fucking legend.
Mine was alright. Worked both mornings 6-12. Figured out how to get gas to my new place (need to call the company today) which means I don’t have to rely solely on the microwave. Finally got some of the property owners furniture taken out as well, which meant I could construct my bed and stop sleeping on the couch \o/
Other than that: got my Mage to level 100, watched a lot of Scrubs and some Christmas movies.
Spit roast is always the best kind of roast. Though saying that, I had roast pork last night and it was just amazing.
Mine was good!
I played Rayman Origins with my brother for pretty much all Saturday while the family was out, and I finally got that game. Couch co-op is amazing, and it sucks that so few games have it (cc @dc, who has been trying to get me to give the game another shot).
Yessss. You’re okay, Shane! LEGENDS NOW!
INVESTIGATING PS4 PRICES NOW.
What have you done to me? 🙁
It’s gonna have to be cheap. I tried some of the later levels solo, and just got creamed. Co-op is so much more forgiving because players can revive each other as long as they don’t die simultaneously 😛
I never peer pressured you to get a PS4. That was all Freeze and Bloodborne. 😛
Yeah, I think the beauty of the Rayman game is how fun they are to play with others. It’s still damn fun in solo, but I don’t think you ‘get’ how great it is until you coop. 🙂
Yeah, but you’re pushing me to add another game to my tight budget, so I feel justified in blaming you for everything.
We blame @phlanispo for our troubles now, just so you know!
You’ve ever been my scapegoat, and I can’t let go of the past.
I believe this song was written about this very thing.
You’re welcome.
Hope you have enough of a Christmas break to enjoy them. 🙂
I’m sure I’ll squeeze them in somewhere. Can’t believe your generosity, seriously dude, I can’t thank you enough.
Mine was alright, spent most of it sleeping, the rest playing Torchlight 2 Synergies mod (My Outlander died after getting one shot by a boss in Act 1, geez Elite mode is harsh) and League of Legends with friends.
Getting my PS4 at lunch! What time is it? TIME TO DANCE!
Edit: Thank you inspector Nob. Another case closed by your expert indifference! \o/
Nob makes his cases look so easy, but I’m sure there’s an element of difficulty we don’t get.
\o/
Don’t forget to send me a friend request.
Why? Is there a waiting list?
Er, yes…. yes there is.
Halfway through Rick and Morty. Why did it take me so long to watch this? It is amazing!
Also… Dark. So very very dark. Love it.
I should give it another go. I saw the “where are my testicles” clip which got me to watch the first three episodes that were out at the time, then I sort of felt like that was enough and moved on. People still rave about it though. That and Bojack Horseman seem to go hand in hand popularity-wise.
It’s my favorite new animated show in years, I hope you keep watching, so damn good.
Grah work is quiet today, all my alarms closed off, no more faults to work on, getting bored -.-
No more faults… until you sabotage! DO IT!
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I’d say “There are already people that do that” but the people that do that aren’t online yet! /o\
You’re scheming on a thing that’s a mirage, I’m trying to tell you now it’s sabotage.
Bah, humbug!
I’m totally Scrooge this year. I just can’t seem to care about Christmas. Recent Christmas’ have had me on Christmas spirit overload and I haven’t enjoyed them very much (it’s kind of exhausting being the one responsible for making sure everyone else has fun) so I’ve decided to embrace my Scrooginess and maybe I’ll have a good Christmas Day for once.
Every year I tell myself I’ll get in the Christmas spirit, and every year I just can’t seem to do it. Christmas day is nice enough for seeing family and eating tasty food, but December always feels like just another month.
Last I remembered, the christmas spirit was eggnog and vodka.
We had ours with spiced rum which was quite nice
• Move along
First year in ages I’m gonna have lunch with my folks. No circling the wagons for DC. WHO’LL DEFEND THE WAGONS?
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Por que no los dos?
*townsfolk celebrate*
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The face makes it better <3
It’s my time to shine!
Doesn’t really feel like Christmas yet to me. Even though I had a Christmas party yesterday, I can’t really get into the Christmas spirit. I think it’s partly my Dad’s fault. He’s always a bit of a grinch, never wanting to open his Christmas presents (which is why I’m buying my parents a combined present this year). Must have rubbed off on me.
Would a Blaghs Christmas song help you get into the Christmas Spirit?
No?
Good, because I don’t have any.
Worst. Christmas. Ever.
It’s hard. I’ve had work the past few weeks, and now that I’m off I have Grandparents in my house, as well as an actual parent nearly all the time. I can’t sing with them around!
I stopped caring years ago. It’s one of the least pleasant holidays, and everyone expects people to be into it. Well, I’m not a Christian, so it had no religious significance. The commerciality of it sickens me – retailers start plugging it in bloody SEPTEMBER. Families always have rows, people who are underprivileged feel like they’re missing out. Whole thing is poisonous.
All that, plus it’s the middle of summer and all these northern hemisphere customs make no bloody sense at all when it’s 35 degrees.
My other half and I are going to ave a lovely holiday doing as little as possible – a few drinks on 24th, chill out by ourselves on 25th, and then settle in for the cricket on Boxing Day. There will be Destiny, there may be Assassin’s Creed Rogue. Probably backgammon too.
Celebrate festivus instead.
It’s a festivus for the rest of us!
I had a very merry Midsummer party yesterday facilitated by two good friends getting married. 🙂
Festivus would be a terrible idea – given the year we’ve had, the Airing of Grievances could take ’til Monday and the Feats of Strength would be a hilarious non-starter… 😀
Fuck Christmas.
All this hate for Christmas is making me sad. Christmas is great, but I guess it depends on how you approach it. Love to get the family together, have a big wonderful meal, a few drinks and catch-up.
Let the kids run about with new toys, giving you a chance to play with them when they are happy.
I guess if you are left to do everything it doesn’t help you enjoy it, we all pitch in to make the dinner, Mum is in charge but we do whatever helps. Don’t stress about the little things and just enjoy the day.
It’s not just the approach you take into it in some cases.
Yeah, I know.
I always enjoy Christmas and it is a time that my family enjoy. I know not everybody is that lucky. I guess it was just a whole bunch of people saying how much Christmas sucks and I wanted at least somebody to say it is great.
I love Christmas!
Mum and I have decided the most important thing about Christmas is food. If we have enough money for food, when we’re okay. We have some presents (some I had to buy myself, but I don’t mind), but they’re mostly practical.
I also happen to love wrapping presents and Christmas lights =P
I love making the main presents look nice.
Playstation Plus? Can someone explain to me about this? It seems to be region-locked, is that right?
Xbox Gold, I could just get a card from anywhere and it would top up my AU subscription.
But I can’t do that now, can I? Is there a cheap way to get online access for Australia, or am I stuck paying $70 p.a?
Is there any difference between regions? I’ll be setting up a fresh PSN account, so should I claim a different region, or is AU the way to go?
I seem to be the only one that doesn’t have PlayStation Plus. That’s all I know about it. That, and the part where Neg pops up and says that the freebie games for the month are shit, every month.
I’ll need it by Bloodborne-Day (in which case 90 days should be sufficient to get a good taste), but I’m debating its value otherwise.
I could never justify the cost of XBox Gold, but PS+ is something I’ve never regretted spending money on. It does help that I have PS3, PSV,and PS4 though.
I can justify $35 a year on Xbox, especially because it’s cheap enough that I can just get my bro to top me up each birthday. $70 per year… gonna be tricky. I’ll keep an eye out for sales and discount opportunities. Thanks.
I’ve bought only a couple of games each year since subscribing to PS+. So it’s certainly saved me a great deal more than it cost me. I never have enough money at the one time to get a yearly though, so I get a three-month sub.
I guess you could get your brother to give you a $30 playstaion network card each birthday to help with the expense, still.
To be honest, if I didn’t have a PS3 I’m unsure how much value I’d get out of it at the moment though. Eventually it’ll be worth it for PS4 alone, but for right now I’m not so sure.
They’ve only been shit for the last 2-3 months. Before that, PS Plus was rad value. The problem is mainly that they’ve stopped having anything worth it on PS Vita.
@shane: Playstation digital stuff is region locked by store, so US, Japan, Europe, Hong Kong. Australia can use European codes. I personally use a US account as my primary account now, because I have it on my Vita and I need to use the one account for stuff like cross buy. I buy all the codes for it via Amazon, which also means that I generally don’t impulse buy games as much as I could, because I have to go to Amazon and buy a code to top up.
However I don’t know if we can use UK/European PS+ codes for AU accounts or not. I think it works, but you’d want to check. It’s also not really much cheaper.
If you’ve got a PS3, and if you have a Vita, then PS+ is good value. If you only had a Vita it’s debateable. You’ll get two free games every month, but on PS4 (and Vita now) they tend to be indie games, so you’re getting maybe $20-30 value and often they’re games you wouldn’t have bought anyway. Some of them are good though. PS3 tends to get 1-2 year old full retail games and also if they put up anything that’s cross buy, you get all the versions it supports (so eg if it was cross buy on PS3 and PS4 you’d get both versions) so sometimes you end up getting 3-4 games for the one system due to that.
This month’s PS+ ‘free’ games on PS4 are Injustice and Secret Ponchos. Next month is Infamous: First Light (stand-alone expansion to the main game) and The Swapper.
Sometimes the regions get slightly different free PS+ games.
And it’s not fixed at $70 a year. You can take advantage of sales and kind of top up your account because they stack.
You could always get the $20 I want to say 3 month membership? See if that’s worth it for you 🙂
I get XBL Gold just to make sure I can play online when I want, but it’s not something I would always recommend.
PS+, however, is something I tell everyone to get. Not only is it now necessary for online multiplayer, but the free games thing is awesome. I have a heap of indie games on my PS4 that I never would have tried otherwise, but are awesomely fun to play. And the lineup keeps getting improved as more games are released.
I suggest setting up a US account for cheaper everything & bigger range of old stuff.
You can buy all the to ups, refills or whatever through Amazon US digital store at the proper price (like US$50 for US$50) then you only have to worry about the exchange rate.
I have both my PS4 & Vita set to US, you just have to watch DLC, because even though games are region free dlc isn’t (if you have an Aus game you must buy an aus dlc to match)
I find it hard to really take full advantage of plus, I never play multi, I have often already purchased the free or sales games I like.
Mostly it’s proved to me what a narrow minded jerk I am :p
I just realised “We Wish You A Merry Christmas” is about people begging for food…
Sinister. “We won’t go until we get some…”
I read that Germanic and Norse Yule celebrations typically involved the sacrificial slaughter of much livestock, with idols, walls, and celebrants all covered in the sacrificial blood. There is much to enjoy in Christmas!
Wait, so Shane’s back? And only a week after closing his Kotaku account and ‘forgetting’ his password. And he also has a PS4? Did I miss something here? Was it the PlayStation competition that made you return, @shane? I blame the PlayStation competition. 😛
Ssssh, we’re playing it cool on the Shane front. Don’t want to scare him off.
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No. I just needed to mend some fences at home. All is well.
Sorry for all those ‘who’s this guy?’ comments. It was my way of coping with you leaving. In hindsight it seems somewhat mean responding to all mentions of you with this. I’M SORRY.
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Uh… that’s fine. Those comments are funny, and they always will be.
Oh man, now I feel like I should be apologising for years of “Dammit, DC!” comments. This is gonna be an epic shame spiral.
I’m sorry for cutting the brakes on your car! I had my reasons at the time that sound silly in hindsight!
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No-one can take, “Dammit DC!” away from me.
(Except DC, I guess.)
And the PS4? Did you buy one or did I miss out on collection time for that ‘fund a PS4 for Shane’ thingo?
Got in on this deal https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/174756 which coincided really nicely with a sudden pay bump at work, and a guilty wife who wanted me to have a nice Christmas present.
Also, I really, really wanted to avoid that “fund a PS4” thing becoming reality! 😛
That was a sick deal on the PS4, when I saw that I kinda regretted buying mine for full RRP with no games, this is why it was bad I was working at EB at the time of the release of XB1/PS4…
Make sure you don’t neglect her feelings in this.
Buy her some flowers, some massage oil, and make a trail of lindt chocolates to the bedroom, where you will offer her “an express trip on the meat-train” to a place called “Pleasure Town”. To really close the deal, assure her that she will reside there for some duration, and possibly hold some kind of public office. Mayor, I guess.
I know these might seem like advanced techniques but I like to bring my “A”-game to the holiday season.
This sounds suspiciously like an extra present for him, rather than one for her…. 😛
I can see how you’d think that but… uh… SMOKEBOMB!
Not if it’s done right. 🙂
(Spoilerised for TMI)
Mr. Strange can’t be bothered. Since we got married he’s been all “WhamBamThankyouMaam”. Moral of the story: don’t get married. 😛That is sad-making. 🙁
Most women I know have more stamina than me, but there are ways to keep your partner occupied, while you recuperate.To be completely honest, for the first few of years it was a relief because I was too tired after dealing with a very young child all day to be bothered doing anything but sleep when I had opportunity to do so. Only thing is, that now it’s kind of a habit which we should probably break now the kids are older and not so exhausting. But then, getting old is kind of exhausting, too. 😛Sounds like a fun plan to work out.
And NO WE ARE NOT OLD THIS IS A LIE WHERE DID YOU HEAR IT THEY ARE LIARS
Yeah, but for Christmas, I feel I should do something out of the ordinary.
*airpunch and flex*
Hola Tay
I’m back at Kapunda, for Christmas. On Saturday went to my aunt and uncles house – had a bit of an emergency last week, my uncle got hit by a car on his bike, so spent two nights in hospital. He’s home now, in a neck brace and with a broken arm, but alive and not paralysed so that’s something. Also got to see my cousin who was back from the UK, and my other cousin and his 18 month old twin girls, who are adorable.
In Kapunda, have been playing with my parents puppy, who is pretty well behaved but boisterous.
A Monday morning question: on the 3rd day of Christmas, what did your true Love give to you?
Upvoted because on balance there were more good things than bad. Glad your Uncle’s alive, hope he recovers well.
The answer to your question: Three fat quarters.
We’re pretty sure in a week’s time he’ll be feeling a lot better, once the bruises go down.
My mother has boxes on boxes of fat quarters sitting here, doesn’t need more!
You always need more! 😀
Yikes. Fingers crossed for a speedy recovery!
Re: MMQ
Aw man, I really wish I could answer Three French Revolutions, but I really don’t want Unity at the moment 😛
Three PS4 games.
3 Humbugs humming.
Bah
Will let you know when they get here 😛
Vanishing of Ethan Carter has forced me too take notes when solving puzzles.
WHAT IS THIS!? I’M NOT SUPPOSED TO USE MY PROBLEM SOLVING SKILLS WHEN PLAYING VIDEO GAMES!
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Such a beautiful, atmospheric game. You’ve chosen… wisely.
It was on the daily deal sale yesterday and have heard good things about it (mostly from you) so I decided I may as well.
That was my primary reason for buying, too. As well as watching a video critique that was complaining about it.
This is one of the reasons I prefer to watch/read negative reviews… surprisingly often I end up thinking, “Well if that’s the worst you can say about it, then I’m sold!”
So Christ didn’t really drink from that huge, golden goblet smothered in rubies and sapphires? Funny story, yesterday I watched a Youtube video that showed the ten best father/son films of all time. That film was one of them.
https://twitter.com/Blaghman/status/515463072245227521
Remember that time I got stuck on a puzzle for three hours because I misread a clear instruction that I never bothered to read again? XD
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Hey everyone!
I had a pretty good weekend to be honest. Friday I was in Brisbane with dad for a meeting with a mate/business partner of many years of his, 2015 sounds promising, he’s opffered us a landscaping project for his factory space at Acacia Ridge (their old site) and his farm out at Leyburn (100km other side of the great dividing range out of Toowoomba) which would be great. The other thing he pitched to us is he wants to move into the gourmet sausage market with a small line of other boutique things. Since they farm dorper sheep/lambs, black/ulstra black angus beef along with deer, since the property used to be a deer farm. So they would be looking to use those, which I think could be great..
I also mowed the lawn, damn stuff grew about a foot & a half in a few days thanks to all the rain we had last week. Along with that i’m about done with yet another play through of the main story of GTA V on PS4, this time i’ve been saving my money and all the investing missions so rake it in large after the final heist mission.
Christmas this week, not too sure how to feel about that, I am not a huge fan of Christmas these days, and even more so this year since i’m not working during it this year, because I really enjoyed working Christmas in retail last year for some odd reason. I guess cause I wasn’t working for a store that gets hammered every day of the 2-3 weeks leading up to Christmas, really only the last 3-4 days before Christmas we got really busy at Dan Murphy’s, who were awesome to work for.
Dad just asked me what I want for Christmas, I hope nothing was a good answer, because that’s what I want. I have this problem, I buy whatever I want/need throughout the year that there’s nothing I want come Christmas time, I usually ask for concert tickets for Christmas, but again I bought those myself as soon as they went on sale lol.. I’m shit to buy for 😛
So how is everyone else?!
I get out of mowing the lawn. Mainly because it triggers allergies, but hey, no lawnmowing for Cracker!
Haha, it doesn’t trigger my allergies thankfully. That’s reserved for dusting 😛
Also, regarding the hard-to-buy-presents-for thing, I’m the same. I see something I like, and I acquire it.
Yeah, I mean that’s what money is for 😛 and I guess if anyone wanted to get me anything EB/JB gift card may be their best bet, since I sink a lot of money into those two stores. That or I buy a lot of crap on eBay heh.
Yeah, apparently I’m an absolute pain in the ass to buy gifts for because I do that too. It got to the point that my Mum was like “hey, I want to get you something – can you order yourself a game or something and I’ll pay you back for it” which is actually an okay arrangement.
My wife and I got some money for Christmas so we went shopping. She bought some limited edition makeup items from Mecca Maxima but I honestly couldn’t think of a thing I wanted. On the way back to the car she suggested we go look in Dymock’s. Not having any idea what books I would be interested in (having not really kept up to date on new fiction releases) my wife spotted side by side Allie Brosh’s “Hyperbole and a Half” publication, and Cyanide & Happinees’ “I’m giving you the finger”. Together they came to $50, which was my share of the Christmas money. Goddamn providence.
So anyway, the only books I bought this year (other than Game of Thrones) were from internet cartoonists. And since my wife picked them out, I guess that was like her figuring out what kind of gifts I like.
Apparently there really are things I want that I don’t deem necessary to buy for myself.
It’s Monday and I’m not at work.
Glorious.
Will be good to get XMas over and done with, then onto fun stuffs, like boardgame days and JAPAN SNOWBOARDING TRIP. Getting excited.
Where are you boarding in Glorious Nippon (I may have asked you this before and forgotten)? I was at Nozawa Onsen at the start of this year, and it turned out Hermes/ScienceJayZ/Whatever we call him had been there like a week and a half earlier.
Going to Osaka, mainly because one of my friends moved over there with his fiance and have bought a house, meaning good accommodation 😛
Snowboarding at Mount Rokko (I think – I forget stuff o.o)
Wandering around wherever we end up.
Shame I’m only there for 10 days.
Nice.
And yeah, I wish I’d had more time in Japan, even though I wasted some of it (okay, so I wish I wasted less time in Japan).
Also. Because I didnt put a picture link in:
PUPPY PUPPY PUPPY
http://instagram.com/p/w478HPib-K/
Oh my glob.
So damn gorgeous.
I want to steal it.
Not if I get there first!
I think I want a Labrador. Uh, it’s for my kid.
It’s labradorable!
😀
So cute!
What type of personality has it got? Sweet, lazy, boisterous.
Little excitable, very smart, mostly obedient
That’s good! My friend’s Lab gets very excited very easily and then he gets a little rough.
I think I’m getting the hang of this Steam thingy.
Buy 1000 gems for $0.70, sell for $1.00
Buy 1000 gems for $0.41, create booster pack for 400 gems, sell for $0.70, create another booster pack for 400 gems, sell for $0.65.
Queue to buy another 1000 gems for $0.44. Prepare to create / sell 3 more boosters. \o/
I just took advantage of the gem thing to get rid of all my junk emoticons and backgrounds. I would have done it with all the duplicates I had listed on the market for 1 cent each but they got bought out while I was sleeping, with me waking up to about 15 emails.
That would explain why those things I listed for 1c finally sold after months.
Soon enough you’ll be the Scarface of the Steam gem world..
Snorting gems, and selling cocaine…
…wait…
Say hello to my little gems.
I can also seeing such an empire ending in a similar way, but instead of the Colombians murdering you, it’s those who run the blood diamond mines in Africa…
Leo still won’t win an Oscar for it though.
Basically, poor bloke.
Oh, is that how it works? I thought it was:
Buy game for $10 instead of $60.
Buy another game for $4.99 instead of $20
Buy yet another game for $1.29 instead of $10
Do not play any of these games.
This is a sidequest to the main game which you describe.
I have completed all these side-quests and am now on their repeatable ‘daily quest’ versions.
I recognise at least one of these prices (through buying it myself) but forget what the game was.
#juststeamsalethings
Watched the first 4 seasons of Workaholics over the weekend, well i’m on the last 4 episodes of season 4.. It’s a good show, for what it is, it’s actually pretty good. Now I have to find something else to watch damn it 😛
Seasons 1, 2 and 3 were awesome, but I don’t think season 4 was quite as tight butthole. Looking forward to season 5 next month though!
Probably because there’s not Jetset since the actor passed away.
Oh lord I just remembered the last episode he was in. Very dignified sendoff 😛
Oh yeah, totally hahaha.
Just realised @freezespreston and @welbot wished me a happy borfday for last week in the previous TAY. THANK YOU!
Also @tech_knight, thanks for the Stanley Parable kind robut sir!
Well I hope you enjoy it!
The game will give me the choice to enjoy it or not, I’m sure!
🙂 No problem sire! Hope you did have a funtastic b’day!
To my secret Santay: I am sorry. I am terrible. Your present is in the mail today and I hope it will arrive tomorrow.
It’s not very good though so don’t get excited or anything. Also I hope it arrives intact and fits in your mailbox. In retrospect, I think next time I should go for something a bit less bulky and heavy.
I can’t resist. Apologies in advance.
“In retrospect, I think next time I should go for something a bit less bulky and heavy.” – Things I say after sleeping with your mum.That kind of joke reinforces how juvenile I am inside.
Just yesterday a coworker was saying, “You should join us! It’s cheap, easy, and everyone is doing it!” I had to clamp a hand firmly over my mouth and choke a bit.
See I’m just on that good terms with my team that I’d be able to make the joke and get away with it. \o/
Christmas have you stressed out
Just chill
Yo TAY.
*TAY LURK MODE DISENGAGED*
Not posted much to TAY lately, but still been reading it semi-regularly. Seems like there are a few new names around here (belated HI! WELCOME! HAS THE REPLACEMENT OAR ARRIVED?!).
Busy weekend!
* Steam sales: Picked up a few things… so far (most “woo!” about Borderlands: TPS).
* Been playing Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris with some friends – pretty fun.
* Saw about 80% of Horrible Bosses 2. Literally went to sleep in the cinema (this isn’t a comment on the movie itself, but due to: dumb sleeping patterns, busy at work and being super old, I guess). People afterwards were talking about the best bit in the movie and I had no recollection of the scene they described.
* Goard bames. Played Dead of Winter (this has become the game I try to encourage people to play with me), Pandemic (With On the Brink, but not In the Lab because I was too lame to digest the new sideboard rules while others played Archaeology. We still used the neat ‘cure’ tokens, though). Tsuro of the Seas was a nice game to end on (around 2am?) – doesn’t really require much thought, can just YOLO.
* Managed to avoid crazy shopping crowds. Still have to do some xmas shopping, though. :S
* Didn’t happen this weekend, but am employed again (…found out the day after I got back from PAX that I was no longer employed).
* Had no time/energy to work on some hobby projects I really
needwant to spend some time on. 🙁Happy and safe holidays to all of you and your loved ones.
Yay for new employment!
Is it pants off Friday?
No.
But is sure is pants off Monday!
\o/
Finally got RACE: Injection installed again! \o/
I had to remove the .tga file association from IrfanView before it would work properly. 😀
That seems like a bizarre requirement :S
I think it might be to do with the texture files for the car skins in game….
EDIT: Found it. “MenuImage, MenuFlag and IngameFlag must be saved in TGA format (32 bits to support Transparency on Alpha layer).”
Yeah, but it relying on a specific file association configuration at all seems bizarre.
As above, the menu icons appear to be .tga files, so if the game can’t access them due to a 3rd-party program, in this case Irfanview, it won’t be able to load them in the way they’re required to for the game to work properly.
Yeah, it does seem odd. Perhaps some kind of explorer extension gets in the way? But shouldn’t really stop the game from being able to just load the files unless they’re doing it in a very odd way.
Also the real what the fuck here is Targa.
As in “Why would they use Targa?”, or “What the hell is Targa?”
If what the hell is Targa, then this should answer things for you:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truevision_TGA
I know what Targa is. It’s an old legacy image file format and is kind of shit.
Oh wow, things that didn’t make it out of the 90s…
What’s the world coming to when EB Games is the best place to pick up PS4 games?*
Watch Dogs: $23 (pre-owned)
Lords of the Fallen: $57 (pre-owned)
Trials Fusion: $18 (incl all DLC)
Rayman Legends: $23 (pre-owned)
I can’t beat these prices anywhere. And I’ve tried.
* I’m kidding. EB Games has actually had quite a lot of really attractive prices lately, especially on older games.
I’ve been keeping an eye on LotF on steam, but it’s mainly because of the comparisons to DaS stuff people have made. I understand that the game itself is linear… the openness of the world design in DaS (and even DeS in some parts) was something I really appreciated – I think this was a contributing factor to not liking DaS2 to the same degree :/
The Souls comparison is the one and only reason this game is on my radar. I think I’ll wait for it to come down a little in price before I make the jump. I’ll have Watch Dogs and Last of Us to keep me busy for a while anyways!
I really liked the world design in DaS, but I think I liked the story better in 2 (after VatyaVidja explained it, of course). I’m not expecting LotF to match either game in any respect, but hope they nail the combat elements to an okay degree.
I had quite a bit of fun in WDogs, but am a terrible person who stopped playing TLoU about 1/3rd of the way (or so I’m told) through.
Frankly, the combat is a little slower and clunkier, it’s less tightly-responsive than Souls. It’s very much ‘Souls Lite’ in pretty much any respect you can think of. It has a few stand-out points where it wins/innovates on its own, but I forget what those are. You’ll realize them when you play, though.
I’ll take Souls Lite if that’s what’s on offer! Though the planned wait-for-price-drop might take me right through to Bloodborne and Dark Souls II re-release territory, and I may never play this one 😛
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I need to use this picture when I see a ‘por que los dos’ moment 😛
Oh, that DC!
For a while I suspected that maybe your TAY handle derived from some element of your name being Washington.
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Nah, it’s because his real name is Dudley Chesterson
Wow, I’ve finally found another one!
The city was named in my honor! True story!
The shoe store too.
https://twitter.com/hermitdc/status/495437013051404288
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Comic company?
I founded that one in a time travelling adventure!
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Story checks out.
But now I feel I have to punch you for this: http://www.againwiththecomics.com/2007/12/dc-fatties-fattest-girl-in-metropolis.html
Please, DC, sing us a ballad of your adventures.
*begins to play banjo, string snaps*
Aw well, it was gonna be a good one. Never mind.
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Deponia-stylin’, I assume.
*nods confidently*
There are ATMs in Canberra which are yours too, apparently. I like using them because it means you’re giving me money!
(I’ve never used one, actually, but shh)
Is that a shi or a tsu?
tsu.
Katakana shi is シ, The stroke order (and also the direction of the bigger stroke) is different but it’s harder to see in typed characters.
The trick is that the strokes of shi (シ) and n (ン) are aligned such that if you drew a vertical line on the left hand side, the strokes all would touch it on the left. Tsu (ツ) and So (ソ) are aligned such that if you drew a horizontal line at the top of the character, the top ends of all the strokes would touch it.
no (ノ) is super easy because it’s the bottom part of a tsu/so with no extra strokes 🙂
Cheers. You’re spot on, they’re more difficult to determine when typed.
I confess, I copied and pasted someone else making that emoticon dealy and had no idea what you were talking about and how to replicate it myself. 😛
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Yes, properly written the Shi and n have a steeper bottom stroke with a blob at the end where the stroke ends, where the others are more shallow. It’s tricky.
I find Shi and Tsu easy to tell apart (especially because in Katakana you usually see tsu in small form, not big, and Shi is more often ji or combined with small ya/yu/yo which the other characters never can be), but n and so are a pain in the ass to tell apart in printed matter.
http://store.iam8bit.com/collections/hotline-miami/products/hlm2 Actually tempted but I don’t own a record player.
Things I’ve learnt today…
1. I am terrible at wrapping gifts. Seriously. I’d ask my wife to do it but it’s her gifts I’m trying to wrap.
2. I have a ‘geographic tongue’. (f you google, it may be slightly NSFW). It’s been bugging my wife for ages (read: years) but it’s never bothered me, went to doc’ this morning and nothing I can do to stop it/treat it etc.
3. Far Cry 4 is super pretty – although just today I’m getting weird random slow downs and frame rate stutters on PC.
4. It’s still hot without pants on.
In regards to number 3
https://twitter.com/sernobulus/status/546662805332439043
Anything that isn’t in a bow, you put in a box. Best tip for wrapping presents
Posted in the wrong TAY like a stupid:
My mum always used to say that TAY is where the Powalen is, so if any thing… we were posting on the wrong TAY.
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Your mum said some really weird things.
I lied, okay. I made up the quote. Are you happy now? ARE YOU HAPPY NOW?
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Not really.
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This looks like a happy little spider.
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It’s @strange’s bedroom wall! 😀
KILL IT. KILL IT WITH FIRE.
Your mum is a wise lady.
YOU STAY AWAY FROM HER! >:|
¯\_(ツ)_/¯Went to Target after work today, all the Amiibos they had were one Captain Falcon, one Zelda, one Samus and a bunch of Pikachus and Peach’s.
So the Xbox One is so much better as a media center thingie than my PS4 that I haven’t even turned the PS4 on since I got everything set up.
Figured out that I can get the Xbone to turn on my amplifier and TV when it boots up, which is super rad. Kinect is kind of maligned but it’s fucking incredible when it works. I can walk into my lounge, flop down on the couch and be like XBOX TURN ON and the Xbox turns on, the TV and amplifier turn on, it automatically recognizes me and signs me in, and then I can be like GO TO PLEX and it pulls up Plex and I can navigate all my shitty anime by voice without even moving or having to turn on a controller. Every now and then it doesn’t pick up on a voice command (too fast sometimes, other times I obviously say stuff that’s not quite distinct enough. Also turns out you have to say ‘anime’ with the proper accurate Japanese pronunciation or it doesn’t recognize it). But it all works so well and is so integrated and everything that I can’t go back.
Did notice a few minor usability issues with Plex itself though. The biggest problem is that if it failed to get metadata for an episode that included the air date, it doesn’t add the episode to On Deck which is very, very annoying because some of my shows just don’t show up there. Going to raise a few bugs / feature requests against the app too. Sucks not to be able to skip forward, and not to be able to immediately queue up the next episode of a show you’re watching.
Wait… you gotta say foreign words in foreign-talk? Bloody hell, that’s a bit rough. What’s an ocker Aussie to do?
Konichiwa, mates!
Koneecheewah, eh? Where’s that, now? Or is that one’a them exotic foods? I’ll ‘ave one if you’re game.
It’s tough, I’d pronounce it as ‘Ana-may’ lol
At least it’s not “A-neem”
Ah-knee-may?
But I don’t know how to say Anime with a Japanese pronunciation!! :0! I’ll just have to navigate the menus with a controller 🙁
Sounds like you’re enjoying the Xbone straight up!
Oh my god my entire life has been leading up to this. A legitimate reason to link Anime ja nai from Gundam ZZ!
Holy fark, that’s awesome! I need a voice-operated media centre!
*also, my guess for correct pronunciation: ah knee meh.
Thanks @beeawwb for Corsair recommendations… currently typing away on a brand spanking new K70 with Red switches…I’m calling it my Christmas present to myself.
I’ve always been a light typer (typist?) but these keys are something else all together. Will take a little getting used to but for right now it’s doing all the right things and feels super smooth. 🙂
I have a feeling I’m going to hate going back to my keyboard at work when I go back from annual leave!
Nice! May your keystrokes be accurate and light. 🙂
The red switches will take some getting used to, but once you do you’ll certainly have a hard time going back to anything else. I’m lucky enough that I have red switches at work as well, so I never have to type on anything but.
Heh. Just got a message from my middle brother.
“When we were young, peer pressure was used to make people smoke, drink, or do drugs. Now it’s used to make people exercise or eat organic. :(“
I love not having any peers! \o/
That’s why @Strange is our peerless leader! That’s for you, @shane. Welcome back!
I love being a stubborn bastard! 😛
And say things like “is everything” :p
“You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.”
― Woody Allen
\o/ Soundwave ticket showed up today. Though I must say, Eventopia have a very odd concept of registered post where they don’t send it as registered post at all.. Even though it was stated at time of purchase they would be sent via registered mail.
Look at it this way… you still got your tickets, and they get to pocket the difference between the registered post fee and not actually paying for registered post. Everyone wins!
\o/
I still paid 15 bucks on top of the ticket price for postage & service fees.. Not over the top, but when for the same price last years included registered, which I think might be kinda important for a bit of expensive paper 😛
Weird issue at the moment in GTAV for the PS4. Several times now in Story Mode I’ll be mid-mission in my saved game. All of a sudden the screen goes black and restarts my entire game at the opening cutscene! It’s just a frustration more than anything.
I’m assuming this is a known bug? Otherwise I’m loving it. Trevor makes this game.
I can’t say i’ve had that problem, could it be a PS4 issue? :/
Been reading up thanks to Dr. Google, most of the issues tend to be with online. But I haven’t even touched online yet! (Can’t wait to, mind you)
Odd. I had an issue initially where it would revert my setting (FOV, Sound etc..) but nothing as major as that :/
Damn straight, Trevor is the tits.
Just wait till you meat Mr. Raspberry Jam 😛Oh what a (jarring) moment that was!Damn, I hope that gets sorted out, I’ve put in around 50 hours on the PS4 with no issues at all.
Thanks man, gonna try a reinstall tonight. Seems to resolve a majority of PS4 game issues doesn’t it?
More like how to make people think you’re a complete douche when you first meet them.
“I can’t stop spinning, even when I’m not at work!”
“So… what is it you ACTUALLY do?”
“Wow. I don’t think I could do what you do for a living. I mean… the chafing alone.”
In a business setting, maybe. Where the purpose of the introduction is networking and trying to find like minded busineses to work with.
In a social setting as recommended, I think you summed it up
In a business setting where people already know what your job is roughly and what team you’re in, sure. I introduce myself to new team members / people from other parts of the team / company pretty similarly (normally more a “I look after feature X which is used by group Y for purpose Z” style things).
If I introduced myself like this in a social setting I’d sound like a tremendous douche
much more so than the pompous prat I usually seem like :P.My head is a hundred times lighter after getting a haircut that I’ve been needing for months. My hair’s gone from savage barbarian to sophisticated and cultured. Feels good.
D:
I love savage barbarian hair.
I do like barbarian hair, but it’s not so good during summer weather. The way it fell into my eyes was also a bit of a pain. I can’t game properly if all I can see is hair.
Those are both very good points. Fine, be all sophisticated and cultured then. 😀
Awh. At the very least you could’ve gone with a viking top-knot and braided your beard…
Did you shave it Max Payne/D.C. over the sink style?
Or Mr Taco over the bathtub style?
The government was actually helpful!
They have a checklist of places to advise when you change addresses. I only had to call one place to change it as well, the rest were done online. I’m sure there’s one or two that I missed, but it made it easier. http://www.australia.gov.au/services/service-task/change-my-address
Doing 7-3 shift this week.. Soooooooooo good! 20mins to and from work, as opposed to the 40-45 mins last week! Also parking on lower floors instead of on the roof in the sun! Success!! I could get used to this!
See how amazing life would be like with less humans? 😛
Tell me more about this robotic genocide…
That would be telling 😉
I know right? I could never go back to a 9-5 job. Hell at my last, and only, 9-5 I convinced my boss to let me work 7-3 just to skip the traffic.
I generally work like 10:30 to 6:30 or 11 to 7, because:
– Fuck Traffic
– Fuck Mornings
Agree with these two points 100%, but don’t have the freedom to shift hours 🙁
Yeah, but 7-3 also leaves you a lot of time in the late arvo/eve to do stuff.
I hate mornings but I’d hate going to bed having achieved nothing but work more.
lol so hope one of my new team members is like you! would be fantastic! 🙂
I think for the moment I might have to work on a rolling roster with a group of guys I’m lumped with while I train. The rest of the team I’m supposed to be working with next year, don’t actually start til February, so I may have to wait til then to see if I can permanently hold down a shift like that. All depends on who likes doing what hours etc. Hopefully they other guys catch public transport, or like sleeping in, in which case I’ll roster myself 7-3 every day! 😉 Just have to wait and hope for now!
Sunday: Jump into a strike playlist in Destiny, get paired up with people, ‘hey that other person also has the Kotaku AU clan name OH MY GOD ITS @ynefel ‘ but I was too scared to do anything so we did our strike and went our seperate ways. Fun times though.
Monday: Christmas shopping in the city after the day of hell at work and I find two Pit amiibos so in panic mode I bought both for Shiggy and Pow but IF ONLY I HAD READ TAY BEFORE LEAVING WORK I WOULD HAVE KNOWN POW FOUND ONE JUST THIS MORNING so yeah that was fun.
Then there was a fatality at one of the city stations so I got to spend a half hour in a boiling underground station. Has been a bad time for Sydney lately.
I’m a bit all over the place. I really need a break. I luv u TAY.
*hugs*
I don’t need your hug but I will take it because I love you and also I do need it
We smashed that Strike. Freakish, randomly getting paired up though, right?
Literally the first Strike I’d done that day too. The third guy sent me a friend request, so I assumed he was a bud of yours, but when you left I had to take the awkward action of unfriending him.
I’ve noticed people just friend request you on Destiny all the time these days. I ignore them all unless they’re friends of friends, really.
A while back, I decided I wanted to get a job. So I printed off 13 resumes, walked to the nearest shopping centre, and handed them all out. Several of them told me that there were no job opportunities, and 3 told me to apply online instead. However, I still consider this a net positive.
If I don’t hear from any of them, I will do the same thing with a shopping centre further away. I will check out some of the online application stuff, but in my experience it is usually clunky and takes a lot of time.
If they told you to apply online then the resume you dropped off probably went straight into the bin. Check the site, some of them are as easy as enter name and stuff with an upload cv here
I got every job I ever had either online or through friends.
All through high school & the years following I handed out resumes & never even got a phone call.
*checks tracking for Xbox One on Toll’s website*
WHAT THE! O_O
🙁
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Q6_9A90cUk
I would downvote, but that reflects on you. And it wasn’t your fault. Super sad face.
The moment of truth will be tomorrow if it arrives or not 😛 (and hopefully in working condition!)
That might just mean that the delivery address got smeared somehow. Maybe.
Might want to get in contact with the retailer though.
I bought it from MS Store who use Toll. They attempted delivery on Friday but I wasn’t home so I filled out the request to get it redelivered today/tomorrow.
I’d be ringing Toll then. Sounds like they might have fucked up.
o.O
Fingers crossed for you, Green Dude.
Well after spending nothing for the first couple of days the steam sale might have it’s claws into my wallet.
Bought a couple of things this morning and just checked the latest flash sales. 2 games that taybies have on their GOTY lists. Wonder how much they are. hmmm a total of 70c less than my wallet has.
Oh well I guess I have no choice
Which games? 😮
I bought the remake of shadow warrior as it had good reveiws and was a couple of bucks. I also got never alone becasue it looks adorable and I want the support the devs and community involved with the game.
Just now I’ve grabbed wolf among us and Valiant hearts
Never Alone looked really great. I grabbed it for PS4 when it released but haven’t gotten to it.
I might grab Shadow Warrior if it’s still cheap, actually. I really enjoyed the original game back in the day.
Valiant Hearts is awesome. You should play that. The historical elements in the encyclopedia thing it has really add a lot to it.
What sold me on Shadow warrior was that is was done by Fly wild hog, who did hard reset which I really really enjoyed. So I know they can do FPS I enjoy. Still on sale for another 30 hours or so
Worked the opposite for me. I found Hard Reset to be pretty awful. Guns with no weight or impact to them, enemies that didn’t react to them and a bunch of not very well thought out mechanics around their weird advancement system.
I’m guessing Valiant Hearts and The Wolf Among Us…
Wolf Among Us and Binding of Isaac I reckon :p
Well guessed jaja
I spent nothing in the last two sales and so far have bought only one thing \o/ I gave myself a $20 budget and still have $18 left.
What did you grab?
Analogue: a Hate Story and its sequel.
I’m holding off until I actually finish at least one of my games \o/
All I’ve bought is a copy of Euro Truck Simulator 2 as a Christmas present for a friend.
I bought one thing.. The Bridge Constructor pack lol..
That game looks cool. Did the pack have the medieval one?
Yep! It’s not bad, can be a tad frustrating wondering why your bridge doesn’t work when you swear it should though 😛
Damnit you enabler, I ended up buying Wolf Among Us and Isaac…
Please stahhhp GabeN, my pile of shame is so big I’m about to drown in it.
Don’t look at me, my backlog is over 200 days of continuous play
I started out reasonably well. Gifted 3 copies of Bleed at $1.24 apiece to some friends and TAYbies, bought King’s Bounty for two and a half bucks because TotalBiscuit keeps raving about how good the series is, and left Steam alone for a couple of days. I did my service, and didn’t need to buy anything else.
Next thing you know, I’ve spent an extra $15 on games I probably won’t ever play. I await for the cycle to repeat.
Any other Brisbane TAYbies have this song stuck in their head since Oktoberfest? It haunts me!
http://www.oktoberfestbrisbane.com.au/fliegerlied-ein-schoner-tag/
NEXT YEAR I’M GONNA LEARN THE LYRICS FOR MY DRUNKEN DANCING! 😛
Dammit that song is stuck in my head now. =P
You’re welcome. It’s pretty great. Now lets all keep our pact not to put drunken dancing videos on the internet.
Just about to start making 6 litres of ginger beer (almost 0% alcohol) for christmas.
I love how easy it is too… Have recipe jotted down if anyone is interested. Family Friendly Ginger Beer
Been doing some googling and apparently if you bump up the yeast and let it go for another few days it becomes alcoholic ginger beer… I don’t have the gear to test the strength of the booze though… so could be prblematic! 🙂
Edit: Should clarify if anyone wants to give this a shot… use 2L PET bottles (like Coke or Soda Water bottles) and disinfect them first before use. Put them in the fridge on morning of day 3 and leave them till completely cold to slow down and then stop the yeast from making CO2.
Man, the best sort of ginger beer is alcoholic 😛
Edit: to avoid having to de-gas it every day, you could probably use a brewers air-lock, which will let gas out but nothing can get in. They’re a couple of bucks at the supermarket in the brewers section.
Had to ‘unfollow’ a mate on Facebook last night, the lies he comes up with for attention is just sad… And he knows a few of his friends can see through his bullshit. The amount of times I or anyone else caught him out lying still didn’t discourage him from doing it. Sad really. I’m still pissed at him for the stunt he pulled on me in ’09 regarding Alice Cooper tickets, be “bought” the tickets, which I paid him for with a little extra, he then never produced any tickets and then said he had a family function on that night he couldn’t get out of, then a few weeks later he was going on about going out with his girlfriend that exact night somewhere, and at that point I was just so pissed off.. Sometimes i’m glad he moved to Melbourne a few years ago, so he couldn’t disappoint me any longer. But it did make me wonder why I bothered staying friends with him after school..
People like that are why I subscribe to /r/thathappened and /r/quityourbullshit on reddit, but I’d have having to deal with that directly. I already have an angsty 20-something vaguebooker who posts streams and streams of statuses that are undirected messages to whoever the fuck she’s thinking about at any given moment.
So turns out the printer ink I can buy from eBay for my printer (HP 3520) is actually pretty damn good quality for the price 1 black + 3 colour for 13 bucks.. Downside is the chip in them isn’t recognised, but the other cheap black one I bought its chip is so I might buy from that mob. Which is fine by me since it’s still about 10 bucks cheaper for all 4 cartridges than it is for one official HP one.
HP ink is sucky expensive.
Canon is far worse though & Epson, well lets just say their build quality is just shit.
I miss 2D Castlevania and Metroid :'(
Yeah, we went from what… three on the GBA (can’t remember if four), then three on the DS then nothing.
WHERE MAH CASSELVAN
HAVE A WEIRD ONE ON 3DS, ENJOY EVERYONE!
NO! GIMME NORMAL METROIDVANIA PLS
Not even a single 2D Metroid on DS 🙁
That’s not so unusual though, even the GBA ones came after a long long drought for the series.
Yep, it was yeeeeears after Super Metroid
Fuckin A.
but if hope for a while when Iga quit konami & went indie until he needed cash & signed on with another company 🙁
Metroid guy just has no idea anymore.
Did you play all the advance & ds games?
Metroid Fusion & Zero Mission on Advance are fantastic.
Castlevania Harmony of Dissonance & Aria of Sorrow kick butt!
The 3 castlevanias on DS get progressively worse with each installment but I enjoyed the first 2.
Outside of those Guacamelee scratches the itch quite well
Got a huge-mongous container (like, almost as tall as my son) of pretzel snacks at Costco on the weekend, and tomorrow I’m going to use some of them to make this:
http://jamiecooksitup.net/2013/04/easy-toffee-pretzel-bark/
And that’s about all the cooking I have to do this Christmas because we’re going to my parents place on Christmas Eve instead of the usual them coming to our place on Christmas Day. Yay!
Although if I hadn’t already done the groceries today I’d be tempted to make a version of these for Christmas Day: http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/12/how-to-make-a-delicious-mac-and-cheese-bun-burger-in-eight-steps/ 😀
I got a bucket of pretzels too. Costco truly is a wondrous place.
Yup. We ended up getting a camera, a bluetooth speaker and Wind Waker HD for my daughter for Christmas/her Birthday, and a box of Captain Underpants books for my son for Christmas as well. 😀
We got so much chocolate that it has to be hidden from me and portioned out because apparently I have no will power. :'(
…
Especially after the 70 Freddo Frog incident.
My word…
I think I’m going to have to make me some of this.
MSN won’t sign in.
IS THIS FINALLY IT??
Holy crap, Secret SanTAY – I could smell something amazing walking up the stairs, and when I finally unwrapped the deliciousness that is a “Hot Toddy Fruitcake” well I just couldn’t wait to tuck in.
And for the record: Scotch? My favourite drink. Earl Grey? My favourite tea. Nailed it. You rock, whomever you are!
Now that Avatar is over, I’m very glad that I was along for the ride. Even if I only hitched on during the season 3 hiatus of Legend of Aang.
Seriously, there have been some amazing things happening in television this last decade.
I’ve been meaning to watch Avatar for ages. Plenty of people seem to recommend it. Is it that good?
Same. Have seen none of it.
I definitely think so.
After my stint of watching Christmas movies (and re-watching Scrubs) I’l get into it.
I second the rabbit. It has a rep as ‘kids TV’, and I sure as shit would get my hypothetical kids to watch it, but it’s a fantastic ride in itself with some of the best characterization I’ve seen on TV EVER, not just animated.
Thirded. The Last Airbender is suitable for most kids but dang if it isn’t enjoyable as an adult. It’s probably one of the most mature Western animations for a while.
Really need to buy some new strings for my electric guitar and get back into Rocksmith. Hadn’t touched it in ages, picked it up a while ago and it just wouldn’t stay in tune, so I’m assuming it just needs new strings.
Edit: Might have to splash out and get some lessons next year too.
It’s possibly a combination of the strings & tuners. What brand of strings? I’ve personally found Ernie Ball Regular Slinky strings stay in tune best.
Not sure what strings they are. They’re the ones that were on the guitar when I bought it about 2 years ago.
Was thinking about getting some Ernie Ball strings, I’ve heard they’re good.
If you haven’t replaced them in two years it’s most likely the strings. Especially if they’re the ones that came with the guitar.
I really should hit the hay…
Also, I was thinking back to when I did my Link cosplay at PAX, and after remembering how much I enjoyed it, I’ve decided to make that my 2015 New Year’s resolution, dedicating more time to cosplay.
Saw a guy walking down the street last week in Attack on Titan gear – full costume sans ODM gear. Was awesome.
Listless restlessness don’t want to bed too many things need to happen stupid brain shut up.
Don’t worry…I can’t sleep either… 🙁
Morning all!
Yesterday after I picked up my PS4, I went to EB to trade in LBP3 and Drive Club. They offered me $36 for both, so I said, “No thank you” and went around the corner to CEX, who offered me $64 cash or $82 in store credit. I took the store credit, and redeemed $25 immediately for a copy of inFAMOUS Second Son.
So, let’s recap:
PS4 + Last of Us + Drive Club + LBP3 = $495
(-9% Dick Smith special)
(-10% eBay special)
Subtotal: $399.60
– Drive Club and LPB3 = $82
Subtotal: PS4 + Last of Us = $317.60
PS4 + Last of Us + inFAMOUS = $342.60
I’m happy with this. A great deal was had. And I still have $57 CEX credit!
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In other news, convince me:
https://webshop.cashconverters.com.au/item/2063829/shadow-of-mordor
https://webshop.cashconverters.com.au/item/2067565/rayman-legends-on-ps4
I didn’t like Mordor but if you’re keen on Assaassins Creed, go for it.
Are you looking to offload your copy of Mordor? I might be interested.
Sorry, borrowed mine from gutsoup
Rahman legends is amazing but not as good as origins.
the touch bits are pretty bad. 🙂
the rest of the game is a modern platforming master class
I thought about it, and will let it slide for the moment. I’d be buying it for the co-op fun, but remembered that my PS4 has only one controller! Besides… haven’t quite beaten Origins yet! 😛
Touch controls are pretty great in coop too. (Atleast on the Wii U.) It’s only folks who play it in single player who seem to not love those levels. But yeah, completely second controller dependent. You should get Alien Isolation. Or not. Considering you’ve never beaten Dead Space, that probably won’t convince you. 😛
Actually hold off on Rayman Legends. There’s a crazy amount of new levels but there’s also remakes of about 30% of Origins levels which I imagine you won’t be psyched about just coming off that game.
No way. I know my limits, and that game is way past them. I’m perfectly happy to accept that it’s a great game. But it’s not for me.
Congrats on the PS4, though. Wooo! *flails arms* Too bad there’s nothing really multiplayer/coop like we can play Mario Kart-style online yet.
Last of Us and inFamous will serve you really well, I think. Two amazing games.
Nobody will play INQUISITION with me 🙁
I don’t have PS+ anyway, so multiplayer is a no-go.
Oh, I got a year subscription for Destiny. And then didn’t like Destiny. And now am twiddling my thumbs. Oh well, atleast the inFamous Second Son DLC is free for PS+ folk next month.
In 2p does Murphy get controlled by a human?
My issue wasn’t with the touch controls themselves as they responded as you would expect.
it was that fat phuck, if he followed the same pattern it would be ok, but one turn he’d take it slow & easy then the next he was suicidal.
So annoying.
Yeah, Murphy’s controlled by second player in coop. I also swapped controllers from time to time with my friend so one person wasn’t always doing the Murphy stuff.
That would make all the difference
I finished Yakuza 4 the other night & now can’t commit to a game.
Tried out Mordor, not being an Ass ass Ins Creed fan, it just isn’t doing it for me.
Started a new game of Tomb Raider, been fun seeing the updated visuals on PS4 because I played it on three & on vita through remote play.
And I’m littering around in an evil game of INQUISITION, everyone keeps hating on my douschery. I can see why people didn’t like the quest style progression now that I’m trying to speed through. (Thats an backwards compliment about taking your time & enjoying a game or whatever :p)
I really need to find that Shin Megami Tensei iv guide & finish it off.
Now I’m thinking about completing Persona 3 on PS3(2) because I’m stuck on psp
Another PS4 post. Sorry!
Games I have:
The Last of Us
Diablo III
Watch Dogs
InFAMOUS
Existing games I am thinking about getting (in the next couple of years)
Octodad
Shadow of Mordor
Rayman Legends
Lords of the Fallen
Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes (though hopefully will be bundled with MGSV:PP)
Forthcoming games I want:
Batman: Arkham
Dark Souls II: SotFS edition
Bloodborne
Grim Fandango
Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD
Uncharted 4
Metal Gear Solid V: Phantom Pain
Is there anything I’ve missed that I should be considering? Recommend games to me. I don’t really want Dragon Age (the sheer size of it just makes me feel tired thinking about it, and I haven’t really loved either DA1 or 2), I’ve already played GTAV on the 360, and I’ve never really gotten into Far Cry.
Upcoming games:
Rime
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture
The Witness
The Order
I have heard of zero of those.
Off to Google!
With the exception of The Order, they’re all indie adventure game types.
There’s also Ninja Theory’s upcoming Hellblade as well as Naughty Dog’s UC4!
I assume Firewatch is getting a PS4 release? If so, put it on the list! 😀
Uncharted 4 is a no-brainer. Thanks for the reminder. I’ll also be getting any HD remaster of Uncharted 1-3 that may be announced.
You and me both, Shane. You and me both. Holding off a replay… just in case…
Yes, Firewatch was going to be my recommendation! Good one DC
A man of good taste! 😀
Judging by the footage shown so far, it looks more like ‘Survival with MASSIVE Hands Simulator 2015’
Just watched the trailer. It looks amazing. Hopefully it gets a PS4 release! Can’t find any news saying it’ll be anything other than PC, though.
If you didn’t know, Firewatch is basically the season one creative leads from The Walking Dead who left Telltale to make this!
I saw that!
The PS4 is sorely lacking truly great games. Bunch of okay ones, a couple of good ones. Diablo 3 is amazing but it’s on everything and been around for years so not sure I’d count it as PS4 specifically. There’s not even a lot on the horizon.
BLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODBOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRNNNNNNNNNE
I wouldn’t be surprised if what we’re seeing is publishers twigging that they’re making more money on cross-platform availability than the platforms are paying them to stay exclusive, and that the only ‘true’ exclusives (resulting in that ‘great PS4 game’) are going to be coming from studios who have strong relationships with the platform companies.
Maybe No Man’s Sky as well? Thing looks ridiculous.
If it’s got a story and campaign, yes, I would like a space sim game. Otherwise, it’s totally not my thing. I think I discussed it with @negativezero before my TAY moratorium a couple of weeks ago.
Agree with you there. I’m an offliner mostly so would like a good fleshed-out story to consider a purchase, that’s for sure.
Final Fantasy XV? Type-0?
Day of the Tentacle HD?
Oh yeah, Day of the Tentacle. I keep forgetting that’s a thing. I can see Grim’s controls seamlessly working awesome on the PS4, but imagine the PC will serve DotT the best.
I’m gonna wait for reviews to drop for FFXV. I enjoyed FFXIII’s gameplay and visuals, but felt extremely let down by its story.
I don’t know what Type-0 is. Researching now. Edit: Okay, this one is on my radar now.
Adding DotT to the list. Thanks! 🙂
Type-0 HD is a port of reputedly the best FF game since XII (and some people go as far as to say since IX). They’ve redone all the art for it so it looks not quite PS4/XB1 level but pretty good. Also fixed the high difficulty the original had.
It’s a more action-oriented game and it’s way darker than normal for the series. The opening part of the game involves one country being invaded by another and basically everyone being slaughtered.
What I played of it seemed pretty good. It’s basically an evolution off Crisis Core FF7. Also Hajime Tabata, the director, was put in charge of FF XV to make sure they actually get shit done, which is why suddenly it looks like the game might actually come out in 2015 as he actually knows how to develop and ship good games.
Only downside to Type-0 is they took out the ad-hoc multiplayer, but I don’t think it’ll matter much.
I’m with you on XV though. Not sure if that’s a game I want to play. Uninterested in the core characters and the idea of spending hours in a boring open world like the Pulse part of FFXIII or basically the entirety of FFXII is a massive turn-off for me.
Type-0 sounds pretty great. It’s definitely on my radar now (it made the fabled Excel list :P).
Only issue is that it seems like it’s gonna drop at the same time as Bloodborne, which will make Type-0 a ‘later in 2015’ purchase instead.
Yeah fair enough. Got to prioritize.
Unmentioned stuff coming for PS4 that I’m interested in which you may also care about:
– The Witcher 3 (getting for PC personally)
– Cyberpunk 2077
– Mighty No. 9
– Persona 5
– Broforce
– Super Time Force Ultra
– Hotline Miami 2 (though this will be best on Vita)
– Kingdom Hearts 3
– Mirror’s Edge 2
– The next Mass Effect when that happens
– Whatever that Star Wars game that Amy Hennig left Naughty Dog to direct turns out to be
Stuff coming for PS4 that I’m excited about that you haven’t listed and which I imagine you’re not going to care about anyway:
– Ys 8 (technically I think timeline-wise they’ve said it’s between 5 and 6 though so it probably won’t be called Ys Eight)
– God Eater 2 (assuming it gets localized)
– Neptunia V II (not Neptunia VII!)
– Disgaea 5
– Fairy Fencer F
– Dead or Alive 5: LR
– All the Touhou Project stuff
MIRROR’S EDGE 2 \o/
Yes.
Other stuff, I will need to Google. Thanks! 🙂
Oh, and comedy The Last Guardian option
I have a months free trial subscription to PS+ if you want it.
I’m never going to use it, so am happy to give you the code if you want at some stage 🙂
Also, Night in the Woods.
I’ve never heard of it.
Still want to give me that code? 😛
(Thanks for the offer by the way. I have no need for it yet, so if you find someone else in the meantime, please feel free to pass it on.)
Nah, code is yours when you want it 🙂
Though you need to check out Night in the Woods
Oh, and I’m glad you’re back, by the way 🙂
Hopefully that means everything is alright at home?
Thanks for asking, man. Everything is fine, and I’m glad to be back 🙂
Dammit. Stealth one-day listing for a copy of Space Invaders on Virtual Boy, somehow made it through to this morning still at just a hundred bucks, thought it could be my chance to snag it for a not-totally-unreasonable price.
Nope, shot up by two hundred within the last minute 😛
Happy Festivus everyone.
We’ll start with the airing of grievances.
I GOT A LOTTA PROBLEMS WITH YOU PEOPLE!
Bring it on, monkey-man. >:O
You know what it is about you guys that really makes me want to puke?
And as for the Cat, what an unbelievable git!
It’s one of my favourite parts of that series xD
Time to break out the cricket bats.
Ho, ho, ho
We have an airing of grievances on Christmas Day, it replaced our old ‘Gift Swap’ game that got messy after my uncle swapped out his chocolate almonds for my baby cousins gold class movie passes as to avoid confrontation…
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Watched Dallas Buyer’s Club last night. Laughed more than was probably appropriate for a movie about a guy struggling to survive with AIDS in the late 80s but they frontloaded McConaughey with snappy dialogue to make his asshole character likeable so I can’t really help it. Good movie, would watch again.
I kinda want to pirate that one. Because, y’know. Contrarian, anti-authoritarian, smartass, cheap, take your pick. Also the whole business about sending people letters extorting $5,000 for their illegal viewing of a $30-60 (at best) movie by threatening them with ultra-expensive legal action if they don’t settle. Because there aren’t any hells deep or hot enough for fuckers like that.
Strangely, that behaviour is part of why we wound up watching it, It was on the “maybe some day” list but my wife had an itch to find out how she could watch it easily without pirating it given they were going after pirates in this really heavyhanded way – she didn’t dare incur their wrath by torrenting it.
Turns out we could buy it in HD over Xbox video for $13.99, so we did that. Wound up only being $7 to us because my wife had money left in her Xbox “wallet” after they converted her surplus Microsoft Points.
Speaking of copyright infringement, TPG forwarded me a complaint from Starz Network for my alleged infringement of their Black Sails property. It is Starz that distributes Dallas Buyers Club as well? I feel like it is.
Anyway, I watched an episode of Black Sails (through purely legitimate means unrelated to the alleged infringement notice referred to above, which is completely baseless and false in every respect) and it didn’t hold my interest.
GUYS! Tabletop Sim is on sale for $9!
IF you enjoy playing board games and enjoy wonky physics you should get it! So far it’s just been @rize @cakesmith @f4ction @blaghman and I that’s been playing it so if we get some more we can start playing some big boardgame sessions!
Seems more like “see how long it takes until someone just decides to flip the desk and ruins it for everyone else” 😛
The host has an undo button, and if someone doesn’t stop when asked I just kick them 😛
What have you guys been playing? I saw it a while back and thought it looked like a good way to play board games with people you physically can’t. I’m considering it 🙂
Betrayal at the House on the Hill
Boss Monster
Cards against humanity
We have a heap more downloaded it’s just we have yet to try them.
I have that. If I’m online you can invite me to play
Spotted that when we play on…Sunday night? But you were offline 😛
I refuse to buy early access games but if someone gifted it to me, it’d be rather rude not to play a few games with people…
Mr. Strange’s main Christmas present is “On board with driver for delivery”, which means (because it’s a courier) I can’t go anywhere today. What a shame, I’ll just have to play Dragon Age all day. 😛
I’m actually very pleasantly surprised it will make it here in time for Christmas, considering I only ordered it on the weekend!
Oh hey. I was just thinking about that Humble Bundle thing that said it got shipped the other day, then Mum pops around the corner and hands me a package that just got delivered.
“2 imitation jewelery of base metal, 1 software floppy diskette, 1 100% cotton mens t-shirt”
@greenius
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y260/Gooky/Purchase141223.jpg
That box feels like it totally should have a VHS cassette in it.
Haha I saw the notification and thought “Mr Taco mentioned me in a comment. Must be related to T-shirt bundle!”
EVERYONE’S A PSYCHIC
I think I’m in need of a larger bookcase, particularly from IKEA…
Considering the size, is this Billy bookcase worth it?
I’ve got two of these guys standing next to each other. Would work out to be around the same storage space and cheaper. Do you need the doors? Would you prefer the single bookcase? #helping
Cheers! 🙂
EDIT: And it’s even cheaper in white! \o/
Winning! \o/
I’ve got two of those as well, side by side in my study. Lots of book/magazine space. They look really nice in a group too.
They’re good and sturdy and decent value. They’re not amazing, though. And building them can range from relatively simple to *headdesk* frustrating.
They’re cheaper without the doors. We’ve got about eight of them.
They’re not strong enough to be good bookcases. I have a bunch of them for movies, collectibles and books and the shelves with books on them are all sagging.
Really? I’ve had a a fair amount of weight on some of my shelves (artbook collection, years worth of magazines) and haven’t had issues with sagging.
Hmm. I have ones that are 39cm deep rather than 28, but can’t seem to see them in that list of other Billy stuff. *Fairly* sure they were Billy too…
They hold all my game stuff. Well, they try.
Expedit were 39cm deep, but they’ve been discontinued and replaced by Kallax. I’ve got lots of Expedit shelves and use them all over the house. Even used one as a desk.
I checked on the instruction booklets, and they were definitely Billy. The only 28cm one I have is the tall narrow book shelf, no wide ones.
Interesting. I can’t ever recall seeing Billys in anything but narrow shelves, never a deep option. Not that I’m exactly an IKEA connoisseur but I’ve got a lot of their stuff over the years.
I currently have the Kilby and previously had the Billy. Both are fairly average and my Kilby has bowed shelves from books. I’d take a risk and try the Hemnes with solid pine.
Bonus points if you can find one that doesn’t have notches in the shelves as you can then flip them over if they ever do start to bow. 😀
I have a Billy, seems good.
Just trying to decide what type of cider I should get for Christmas lunch. I’ve already got some Apple Isle, but I want to get something stronger for the adults. It can’t be too expensive, so any recommendations?
Bulmers.
Otherwise, Strongbow.
I’m a fan of Monteith’s. They’re pretty cheap, too.
Monteiths is good if you don’t like any flavour or quality with your drink.
I like the lighter taste to it, it’s more refreshing than something like Bulmer’s which just starts to get gross after the first glass. And every freakin’ bar seems to have Bulmer’s on tap…
Old Rosie Scrumpy?
Aspalls Cyder is pretty good. Strong and tart green apple taste to it. Not really for people that like sweeter stuff though.
The Kirin cider is decent too. The one mixed in with Ume (sour plum) is particularly good. Couldn’t have a heavy night on it though.
I have a couple of bottles of Kirin cider with Ume stashed for Christmas. 🙂
I’m quite a fan of Napoleone & Co. which is brewed in the Yarra Valley, same people that produce Punt Road wines. It’s a bit expensive though and probably not something you’d buy with the intention to get drunk off it. I suspect that the cheaper Coldstream brand is the same people (since Napoleone ciders are in Coldstream and they have huge orchards there) but not sure.
For cheaper stuff I tend to get Bulmers or Strongbow. Mercury is also okay. Three Oaks at a pinch.
*rolls up sleeves*
If you are heading to a Dan Murphy’s:
Sweet: Three oaks cider
Dry: Savannah Dry, if you can find it
Hills Cider Co is an excellent sweet, tho a bit pricey, same with Magners for a more savoury taste.
Tooeys 5 seeds is a solid choice for a more basic brew and can be found at any bottlo.
I actually managed to come up with an idea on my own. There’s a place near my parents that makes excellent cider, so I’ll ask them to get some.
Magners Pear. Deeelicious!
Anyone playing Far Cry 4 on PC want to add me on uPlay? Just seen the fortresses come up on the map and they recommend co-op… would be keen to have a crack at them.
my uplay username name is sunsoar777
yep – someone got sunsoar77 before me… thought it might have been me with a previous game but i’ve tried every email address under the sun that I might have used and aint seen a recovery email.
BLOODBORNE COUNTDOWN
91 days
Here’s the news.
http://www.joystiq.com/2014/12/18/swifter-not-safer-bloodborne-trades-dark-souls-creep-for-spee/
http://www.dualshockers.com/2014/12/18/ps4-exclusive-bloodborne-gets-more-info-on-three-lethal-monsters-that-will-us-down/
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/new-bloodborne-art-depicts-the-awful-foes-that-lie/1100-6424282/
The comments in the first article are a bunch of people talking about trying to beat Dark Souls for the first time before this comes out. And even though I platinum’d it, it makes me want to play Dark Souls again. 😛
(Also, I’m a little sad at the replacing of the slow, creeping pace. I LIKED that crawl-of-dread as you tip-toe through new and unfamiliar environments looking for the surprising new thing which will inevitably kill you.)
I liked it too. But at the same time, my favourite part of Uncharted 1 was the part where you were forced to stop slinking in cover and had to run-and-gun just to survive… just because it made me play differently. So this new gameplay mode might appeal for that reason.
Interesting.
As a sword & board regular it might be a nice change of pace, as long as they keep the difficulty and need to read enemies.
Bah. I need a new bookshelf. I’m quickly running out of space and the family is heavily hinting that I’m getting more books for Christmas. Sure I could box them up in storage however that seems a bit mean to the books.
Is this what you had in mind?
Maybe. I think an Ikea journey is in order, at any rate.
Build a bookshelf out of books.
Another case solved by Inspector Nob
A book case?
Dear Secret SanTAY,
I’ve been even more slack than the rest of the slackers who were posting yesterday! I only managed to to have your present in the post today unfortunately I’m not sure if it will reach you in time for Christmas D= Please accept my humble apologies 🙁
Kind Regards,
Puppet
Is it me? If it is, that’s okay. I don’t even live at that address any more 🙂
Uh, will you still be able to get the gift from that address? Somehow?
I will 🙂 I still know the person that lives there
LOL looks like we know who your Secret SanTAY was! =P
Check out @PstiDrdn’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/PstiDrdn/status/547191200906620928?s=09
@scree the dog has this annoying habit of using her teeth to play- back of my hands are covered in scratches. Also not quite housebroken. Other than that she’s pretty good
Ah, She’s mouthing. It’s normal, and most puppies grow out of it. It’s best to discourage it just in case because some don’t grow out.
So, what do we want for Christmas?
Alien Isolation. Steam sale: 75% off. Come ooon!
Daily deal at 50% off means that’s the best you’re going to get
Cheers for the tip.
A break.
Day dream about all the time you will have off for the Japan trip.
You.
Isn’t that what Hannibal Lecter wanted, minus the platter?
But I’m already spoken for-…
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Sorry, awkward. I’ve just had that bloody song in my head all day and answered by reflex!
Maybe a hug. A good one.
*hugs*
*hugs tightly*
*hugs goodly*
Sounds like a request for a *hugasaurus* to me…. 😛
I hate offering virtual hugs.
I’d much rather give you a real one 🙁
You’re a good man DC, you’ll get some hugs!!
Don Bradman Cricket 14….
Haha you still don’t have that?! You’ve been looking for ages!
I’ve bee waiting for a discount…
You must be desperate for the discount at 1.34am! :p
World peace, and to be better off than everyone else. I’m sure they’re not mutually exclusive.
A week with my wife and without the kids.
The dream
I’m getting 10 days of that in just a few weeks! \o/
Err…with my husband, not your wife. I think….
*frowns suspiciously*
Get back at her by eloping with her husband.
Lots of change recently, so a bit of normality again would be nice.
On a less sombre note, more video game time!
I dunno. Nothing?
Hey, you’re not buying into the consumerism of Christmas man. Help save your economy!!!
I don’t need a designated time of year to be a consumer whore.
Oh god, this FFXIV expansion is going to probably make me start playing again isn’t it? The three new classes look cool, and so does the rad looking Thief / Ninja they added for 2.4. Plus there’s a new race and they’re interesting looking – some kind of dragon/lizard people. Mainly human-ish looking though more tall and lithe, but they also have horns and tails and parts of their skin have scales. Almost enough to convince me to re-roll to play one. Almost. Catgirl still marginally superior. But that’s still a step up since I find all the other races in the base game pretty uninteresting.
I just wonder if they’ve made the game more fun when you’re leveling other classes, since that was kind of grindy. Also whether there’s more to do when you hit endgame, not that I ever actually got there thanks to $&%*(&* Garuda.
I stopped because my max level Legacy Black Mage had to do the entire main quest line again for ARR. Easy when you’re max level, but fuck me – I just could not be bothered.
I only stopped because I was in a guild that was way too big to get any real community going to play with, my friend that was playing ended up disappearing and I got stuck on Garuda and also affected by that periodic lag issue.
That expansion does make it mighty tempting to dive back in and give it another go …
If you do we should try and get on the same server. Same goes for anyone else that’s interested.
Maybe interested… not played since launch-ish though.
I never got to level cap either and I’d be more than happy to re-roll on another server.
Suppose it’s too much to ask if it’s cross platform between PC and PS4?
For you, Freeze?
I called up Square-Enix, and let them know in no-uncertain-terms that they had to patch in support for cross platform support.
You should find the notices here updated to reflect the change.
Better. It’s cross-platform PS3, PS4 and PC, and you can use the one account on all platforms (have to buy the game per-platform though)
Veeeeery tempting.
I actually wouldn’t trying an MMO on a console. All things considered though, I would just play on the platform with most people I know playing.
Apparently it works pretty well. I tried it with a controller on PC and couldn’t get the hang of it personally, but that might have been because I was playing a Monk and the class is pretty complicated.
Another question. How much does the expansion cost?
No idea yet. They’ve only just started talking about CEs and stuff.
The cheapest way to get the base game is $28 for PC or get PS3 for around $25 and then upgrade it to PS4 for free (they have a free upgrade offer until the end of March).
I don’t know how they’re going to handle the expansion though. If you play on PS4 and PC do you have to buy the expansion twice? Who knows.
Hopefully the expansions will be tied to an account so say you have it on PS4 and PC all you need to do is buy an “expansion upgrade” for your account.
Also, I am literally hovering over the “buy now” button on a PS3 version which I can upgrade to a PS4 version for free (right?)
http://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/pr/ps4/ps3_users/
Oz game seems to be selling the PS3 version for under $20. Is Aus considered UK or US?
UK unfortunately. So the big issue is that Squenix expect you to pay in Eurodollars because that makes so much sense for Australia. At least, that’s what it was like back when I played. Dunno about now.
OGS sells 60-day time cards for EU region accounts for around $26 AUD, 60 days EU time is 26 euros (13 euro a month) so OGS time cards are way cheaper.
Last song played game time!!
Melt by Broke for Free
Feathers and Down – The Cardigans
Little drummer boy
Do You Hear What I Hear – Glee Version
Don’t judge me. Trying to get into a non-depressed Christmas mood. 😛
I don’t mind a Christmas-week period of smiling good-naturedly at Christmas Carols and seeing festivities and stuff. I don’t like it getting started in September, and I insist on a bare minimum of waiting until December 1st before anyone in my vicinity starts cracking out the decorations, but Christmas week is a fine time to be uncommonly and unreasonably cheerful for no particularly good reason other than it’s nice to participate in a bit of ritual and everyone agreeing on this to be the season for it is efficient and convenient.
I agree, but wait until December 24th for the carols IMO.
Part of the reason I hate Christmas so much is that every fucking shopping center and store you can imagine will start blaring terrible, irrelevant ‘christmas’ music (protip: IT IS NEVER A WHITE CHRISTMAS IN AUSTRALIA) on the 1st. Which is my birthday.
Waiting For Cousteau – Jean-Michel Jarre. Had the bedroom to myself last night and it’s fantastic ambient to drop off to sleep to.
Herr Mannelig – Haggard
Enigma – The Eyes of Truth (Deep Bass Club Remix)
Been ages since I broke out the Enigma stuff. Shame that he seems to have stopped making more (and that the last one was kind of crap)
Yeah, I’ve got a remix album (Mystic Mixes II) on my work music drive, break them out every so often.
According to my phone, nano.RIPE – Nana-iro Biyori. Not sure if that’s accurate though.
Say Anything – Admit It!!!
Got the album because one of the songs (Alive with the Glory of Love) is the one at the end of season 6 of Scrubs.
Oen of my all time favourite albums
Frank Zappa – Camarillo Brillo
The Living End – Prisoner of Society
Don’t Stand So Close To Me – The Police
Creep – Radiohead
One more – Elliphant
Damn it’s catchy.
Secret SanTAY gift arrived, $20 to spend at JB Hi-Fi. \o/
Might go pick up that Guardians of the Galaxy blu-ray after all.
Well, my mother just bought this thing.
Isn’t that why we have flyscreen doors?
Sure, but try training small children to close a door every time they go through it, and you’ll realise why this product exists.
Edit: the moral of the story is that Phlanispo is clearly incapable of closing doors.
She bought a cynical, jaded man making snarky comments?
You could have asked us,we would have done it for free.
I can’t stop watching this guy now!
(IM)”Everybody loves bacon…!”
(JM)”Jews.”
[Title card.]
Lost it.
He’s great. Half of his episodes are on cheese graters and I don’t care.
That cheese grating plate! Seriously, WTF!
Just wait until you see the Rotato.
EDIT: I meant to say Robo Stir, but the Rotato is also excrement.
Haha, yes those were fantastic. I loved how quickly the Rotato broke, especially after the second one was pretty well done.
DA: Inquisition. Blergh. This mission is super boring. I can’t wait until it’s over.
The ball.It’s taking forever. I just want to get it over and done with before I have to stop and do some work. Also, eavesdropping? What are we? Assassins following the Creed? 😛I liked that mission, but…
Hated that feeling of being rushed whenever you weren’t in the ballroom. It wasn’t fun, damn it. I like to explore on my own. XDExactly. That’s why it’s boring. There’s no freedom. I feel like it’s just something I need to get through.
Which I guess, makes it a successful thing. 😛
As much as I love Dragon Age, I have some pretty major complaints, but I’m too afraid to say anything because I’m pretty sure Freyr knows how to best murder someone.
I’m sure she has at least a dozen ways to make it look like natural causes too 😛
That was actually one of my favourites. A nice break from the monotony the rest of the game was proving to provide.
I just felt bummed I couldn’t take in the prettiness and intricacies of the place. Timed for the sake of timed is not fun, BioWare. *shakes fist*
Mass Effect 2 Arrival DLC:
This was one time where timed felt good. Knowing there was a clock ticking and the stakes.This mission didn’t have that.
Eh, it ticked down so slowly and I had do much of it it never bothered me. Even going super slow and checking everything I never even came close to running out.
My crushing need to please the court makes me want 100% approval rating. 😛There is never a situation where putting a timer on any gameplay sequence makes it more fun. Ever.
I dunno, the high stakes conversation choices in Telltale games can add to the tension, but it’s got to be fair. Very careful balance, I think.
Implied timers are all over gaming. Pursuing monsters in platformers (or pursuing runaway treasures ala Rayman) and in puzzle games (Catherine) are variations of the time limit mechanic, as are timed respawns that require you to kill quickly or be overwhelmed in certain games.
It’s not a mechanic that works in every instance, but sometimes being forced to react quickly instead of deliberately can add to the authenticity of the moment.
That’s not really the same thing though.
The Maw in Halo worked reasonably well.
Yeah but that’s not really timed so much as that the whole place is fucking exploding and if you stop you will die.
I was disappointed that most of it was spent running around hitting the scan button. I wanted more interaction with random nobles, but there were only a few short instances of that. The whole thing could have also done without the combat sections. Those all felt rather tact on to me, like they were only included because video games are supposed to have fighting. Oh, and my Qunari didn’t get to wear a mask. I know Qunari don’t get helms, but would it really have been too much for them to design a face mask? It’s not like the different horn styles would have had an impact on something that only covered the face.Maybe the most likely reason I wasn’t enjoying it was that I didn’t realise my inventory was full before even starting the mission.
Is there any way to better manage your inventory? I’ve got two capacity upgrades but still I’m mostly full all the time. All the ingredients and recipes are taking up the majority of the space. Is there somewhere I’ve missed where you can store things?
The inventory menu in that game is all kinds of terrible. Before I utterly lost interest in bothering to play any more of it I was actually half tempted to see if someone had modded it to make the inventory unlimited. Don’t see why it has a limit other than so they can give you a capacity upgrade later.
Oh man, I hate when your inventory is full and they don’t put vendors at the camps. Where’s the Enchantment guy, damn it?
On one of the load screen tips I saw advice that recipes and ingredients don’t take up space (with the exception of modifications). Was that a lie? Do they LIE TO ME? For me, the bulk of my inventory glut it was a bunch of gear I was saving for when various characters reached the appropriate level(s).
Recipes and ingredients don’t, but the stuff in the “valuables” category do, so if you don’t clear them at the thingy table, and then sell off all the crap that’s left, you’ll probably run out of space.
If they don’t take up space, I have no idea what’s filling my 90 spaces, then. Pretty much everything is ingredients and schematics and recipes. I’ve gone to pick up new ingredients in new areas, even and been told my inventory is full. Does the stuff you all have equipped count? That would account for half of my spots, but certainly not all.
Valuables? Hm. Yeah, I have no idea either. PC or console? Maybe something non-PS4 got bugged out.
I’m playing on PS4. 😀
I have some monster research items in Valuables, along with a few few things I didn’t care about so I knew what to destroy if something I didn’t want to miss out on happened to appear in a chest or whatever,but yeah…like I said, most of my inventory appears to be taken up by schematics, recipes and ingredients. Odd.
If I bought the Mario Kart 8 DLC, would anyone play with me, or is the Mario Kart 8 train well and truly over?
I only play with friends, so don’t want to buy something that isn’t going to get used.
Get with the times you ancient old coot.
decrepit old fool >:(
Don’t be too hard on yourself..
Awwww!!! :'(
The tracks are amazing and high quality, but didn’t spark much of a TAY Kart resurgence. Maybe the April DLC will? If you’re a fan of the game it’s just more of that and that’s a good thing!
Yeah, but I’m a fan because I like playing with friends.
If there’s others to occasionally play with me, I’ll get it.
I just don’t want to get it to have no one to play with, kinda thing.
Maybe, but only if a few others are on at the same time.
I’m a maybe. Kids have a way of derailing game plans. 😛
I’d play! \o/
Smash Bros. people, wondering if anyone has come across this issue: I’ll be playing a bunch of 1v1 at level 9 against random opponents, and certain characters are just insanely better than others. Like, Bowser behaves like he’s level 7, but Pit is like a level 12+.
EDIT: I should specify, these are not one-off situations. Each character behaves consistently when at level 9 in terms of overall skill. Some are just way better than others.
Hi Rize! How’s life?
Obligatory who’s this guy.
Shaaaane!
Yeah, pretty alright. Still working on finding a job, but on the bright side we’re saving a fortune on childcare. Most places here are the same price (or worse) than the places we looked at in the ACT…
I think the AI is just programmed with a general play style in mind. When that play style suits a character, they’ll appear to be much stronger than characters that are just god awful when played that way.
Seriously, try playing Bowser the same way you would play Pit. It’d be simpler to just walk off the stage than endure it :p
Nah, it’s not about character play style. As an example Pit is incredibly good with every aspect of the game (edge guard, counters, shielding, grabbing through attacks somehow). Bowser has a tendency to miss attacks and really sucks at defence.
In that case, maybe the people who programmed Bowser were just a bit slack at their jobs.
Braved Parra Westfield to do final Christmas shopping. Got in early this year!
Made the mistake stopping by Gametraders though. Spotted one of these in there, still sealed for just under a hundred bucks. Thought hey, that’s unusual. Ebay on my phone to see what’s going on. Only see the above show up (although I could have sworn on the phone it came up as au250), and in completed listings it was also the only one. Hmmmmmmm.
I am worst impulse shopper.
Daaaaaaayum dude, that’s one hell of a good find.
It totally bugs me that it’s a UK thing though. I’m all about collecting the AU copies 😛
Look if it bugs you that much I’ll take it off your hands. It can sit next to my USA SNES and my USA Chrono Trigger.
Ok, you got $250 on ya? 😛
Yes.
Generally though it’s kind of a hierarchy. If the AU copy exists I want that, then if it doesn’t it’s a fall-back to the UK/EU copy. Then after that comes the US version, and if none of those exist then I’ll get the JP version.
Arbitrary rules are great.
Now YOU just made the list!
*(See page 5)
I wonder if MS making KI available again and giving it sequels and stuff has affected the value of the older games? I know that while most of us were rejoicing at the news of Suikoden II hitting PSN, some ebay scalpers were crying – that game went for crazy amounts on Ebay before since it was well-known, well-liked, rare and not easily available digitally.
If anything, I would have thought that old games would mostly benefit from extra attention being brought to them via newer entries and such, meaning more people are aware of the old ones and decide to go searching them out, driving up prices. Always felt like that’s how it’s worked while I’ve been looking for stuff, you’re better off getting in while it’s niche and nobody’s heard of it and think it’s worthless.
Okay, well, I bought the damned MK8 DLC, so now people will have to play with me occasionally 😛
For only $16 ($20 due to adding funds), it wasn’t actually too bad a deal any way, I guess.
That’s one thing that supremely passes me off, the whole give us $20 if you want a $16 item. It’s an unnecessary rip off that would see most other stores shut down pretty quick. Fucking hate it.
I’m pretty sure you can add funds for the exact amount.
I couldn’t for the Theatrhythm DLC. Sony do it as well for sub $10 things. All it does is make me not buy it.
The options it gave me when adding funds waere $10, $20, then I think $50 and $100.
maybe if you add funds right at the checkout maybe, but I didn’t see that option :\
(@freezespreston)
Yeah, I think it’s because you must’ve added the funds before purchasing.
I usually try to buy the item first then it says I have insufficient funds (because my balance is 0) so when I add funds I have the option to only add the required amount (as well as the options to add a set amount – 10, 20 etc.)
Legend of Korra finale spoilers:
So Korrasami is officially canon and they were not subtle at all about it. Even then, people tried to claim that two girls holding hands and then entering a spirit portal together in a pose that mimics two people taking wedding vows (which happened literally minutes earlier) is just a sign of friendship.I’ve never been one for shipping. It just gets in the way of enjoying a perfectly good plot. But when some characters’ development makes them drift towards each other and it becomes something else, I can get behind that. That’s just good writing.As for the actual conclusion to the show, the battles with Kuvira were kickass. Everyone got their moment to shine and it all came together nicely. Sure the battles were the ridiculous epics we saw at the end of The Last Airbender (dat agni kai) but it was all still very rad indeed.I give the show 1 Avatar out of AvatarI suppose the question now is: what is your favourite season of Korra? I’m going with
season 3. In my opinion, Zaheer was the best villain out of all of the Korra seasons and the whole story arc with the new Airbenders was pretty cool. I also liked that s3 felt more like the original Last Airbender what with traveling around the Earth Kingdom and seeing a few more varied locations.I actually feel like seasons 3 and 4 felt more like one larger season with Zaheer’s end being the mid-season finale. So I’m counting both, just to be that guy. Otherwise it’d be 3.True that. Now that you mention it, it reminds me of the solar eclipse episodes from s3 of Last Airbender in that it also acted as a mid-season finale.Finished The Talos Principle. Good game, recommend you pick it up when it’s on sale if you like puzzle games (I still have a moderate number of the super hard puzzle bits to do, but I’m story complete).
Kind of annoying in terms of writing though, because some of it is really solid stuff, and some of it is hackneyed biblical/mythology references. We get it guys, the tower’s the tree. To question is to sin. Yadda yadda yadda.
I played through the public test a while ago, and the graphics & puzzles seemed quite great, but the story may as well just not actually been there? Not sure if it was just a sympton of it being, well, just a short public beta.
I think the public tests actually used different puzzles and stuff to the final game, so I assume they removed the story elements for it. They’re most definitely present (in terms of voice-overs and things you can read on computers) in the main game.
There were audio recordings and computers that you interacted with, but it seemed very disjointed/not coherent… didn’t add much (anything?) to the experience.
Maybe there was something more signficant and I was just didn’t notice the links/blah – was focused on the puzzles.
I shook the CEO and CFO’s hands earlier…
MAY THE POWER OF EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT FLOW THROUGH MY VEINS
I also called Toll RE: my “Undeliverable: Damaged or Repackage Required” Xbox One tracking issue. Seems like it’ll be re-delivered tomorrow. It should’ve been on Monday or Today :(.
I slogged through an ultra-hard level on Bleed, trying my best to dodge all the crap that was being flung at me. It was too hard, it was all coming too fast…
And then I remembered there was a slow-motion button the entire time.
After discovering the slow-motion mechanic, I cleared the area in under two minutes…
Pfft, casual.
*snigger*
Oh and I’m totally on leave until January 5th. If anyone wants to catch up or do something, lemme know?
I could possibly do an impromptu interstate thing but it seems unlikely 😛
Us Brisbane folk don’t believe in meats any more. Try Sydney. 😛
LIES! I was at one just a couple weeks ago!
The group used to be way closer, though! Now it always seems like an obligation when the bat signal goes up, if people even reply at all. We all suck! *decisive nod* 😛
Oh man, what a horrible post. Haha! Don’t mind me, folks. Not in the best of moods. XD
We should do a Northsider meat! Like at Chermside or something.
Sushi Train?
Edit: Let’s be honest, I’ll go anywhere.
We haven’t had a north side meat since Boxing Day/Hobbit-fest 2012! Chermside is way closer, but weirdly the city is easier to get to because of the direct train instead of bus hopping. 🙂
…
Though based on how I feel right now, I don’t think I’m up for meats any time soon. So don’t know why I’m bitching anyways. 😛We’d better be doing a DeeCee birthday Meat again! *shakes old lady fist*
Aren’t you the one who called a Meat, and then didn’t go? 😛 I don’t think that last Meat can be used as an indication. Jimu was being unusually aggressive, we were all waiting on Evil Monkey to tell us when/if he could make it, and that close to Christmas it’s difficult to round people up.
That was a really good night. Really relaxed.
Really really.
Really.
That’s good. Because the planning part sure wasn’t relaxed! 😀
Really really really really really.
I didn’t go because I was incredibly annoyed at the Brisbane group to be blunt.Do you mean at people like DAN! and Hellscream not responding to anything? Or something more than that?
I hope not at me. I was literally in the middle of moving house and hadn’t been on a PC in 3 days. Any other time I’d have been there with bells on. 🙁
I feel like I’ve created some unnecessary drama and tensed up the mood on TAY. I hate it when this stuff happens and hate it all the more when it’s my own doing.
I’m sorry, guys. Return to normal operations.
Meh. There’s hardly anybody around. TAY could do with drama to liven it up! 😛
@beeawwb it was especially you.
Why?
Strange is right, circle the wagons!!
Aggressive?ok
Aggressive! @freezespreston – I knew it! YOU JUST MADE THE LIST. You all just made the list!
That being my “Step 8” list. It’s inevitable.Woooo! Holidays! 😀
Plenty of Xbox time in your future, I’d wager?
If I receive it.
If I receive it and it isn’t completely damaged.
😛
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Hey me too!
Leave buddies!
WOOOO!
I’m already bored! 😛
If only you got a floppy disk too.
I’m off til around then, do it!
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Only if we can play Xenoblade < 3
If you bring a copy, sure
Office closed yesterday.
Came in for half day.
Ended up stuck here for full day.
Have to come back in again tomorrow.
Operating at Maximum Ebenezer.
🙁
\o/ Secret SanTAY arrived today thanks @zetrox2k 😛
That’s not a secret!
Well maybe he shouldn’t have put his TAY tag on the return to sender with his real name 😛
I DONT KNOW HOW THIS WHOLE THING WORKS!!! /o\
No probs man hope you enjoy it!
I do thanks! and to top it off I haven’t had nerds in years 😀
Finished off all of the new tracks.
Highlights include:
– Excitebike Arena (so much jumping!)
– Mute City (gotta go fast!)
– Warios Goldmine (I love the music!), and
– Rainbow Road (my home turf 😉 )
All except one of the tracks are great though.
Dragon Driftway can burn in a fire!
Lots of these tracks include a ton of quick drifting too though, which I am out of practice with.
I think I need to have better grip on my kart :3
I also hadn’t really thought about it before, but I like how heaps of the shortcuts pretty much require a speed boost to use.
It means the front runners are less likely to take them, cause it slows them down, while people at the back are more likely to get mushroom boosts, so can take them.
Mute City is my favourite. The speed. So awesome. Love Ice Ice Outpost too.
Ice Ice Outpost is pretty good.
I need to figure out the fastest route though before I’ll be happy with it :3
Mute City would probably be my favourite of the new tracks too.
I like how they’ve put other franchises in.
Kind of makes me want a Nintendo Kart game :3
I hope we get an Olimar/Pikmin track. That would be amazing. And adorable. And fun.
I should probably get around to playing Pikmin one of these days :3
I’m not sure if it’s popular enough, but it has a similar graphic style that would fit in nicely 🙂
You should come play Mario Kart with me! 😀
Or not :'(
WAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!
😛
Oh, I didn’t think the last sentence meant right now. Haha! Sorry buddy!
<\3
That’s alrighty 🙂
Though we should restart TAY Kart, or organise a time to play 🙂
@sernobulus – I caved and bought Tabletop Simulator.
I also bought The Walking Dead: Season Two (daily deal)
$20 later and that really needs to be my only purchase this sale.
Woo! Not sure if I have you on steam.
Pretty sure I have no one on Steam. Going through TAYNames now…
Sent you a friend request, as well as @rize @cakesmith @f4ction @blaghman.
My steamid is rhynnplays/Rhynn
I see how it is…
:'(
He just uses me for Survivor discussions…
@freezespreston @greenius
Invites sent 🙂
EDIT: I didn’t want to go through the whole thing and add EVERYBODY. I’m too lazy for that.
Good choice with Walking Dead 2, it’s worth the sale price.
I’m on Steam too (⌐■_■)
Where? I can’t find you…
I forget! I think my steam I’d is ‘archsinc’ lol
@highperformance
Is it n_s_mclean? n_s_mclean has the name HighPerformance, and like KotakuAu…
That’s me!
Apparently not
I think I found him but my comment is being moderated…
See above, n_s_mclean! My
soulgaming time is owed to Destiny for most part, but I do play on Steam occasionally 😛Well I sent you a friend invite so when you are on add me
What’s the best way to convert video? My TV doesn’t like certain codecs and I’m wondering what people use
It may be best to set up streaming or something instead of converting every file?
Show it how much better life could be and appeal to its immortal soul.
Stop trying to change it, Scree!
IT’S ITS OWN PERSON KINDA!
Yes, but my tv doesn’t like it so it has to change.
tv’s are notoriously picky about playing video files through their network stream utilities. Mine supposedly supports MKV, but I can only get like 2 of mine to work, and they’re choppy as hell when I play them. You’d be better off getting an older pc or a cheap one with a hdmi port, and using it as a media centre of sorts.
If that’s not an option, there are transcoding apps that can convert movies on the fly (I used to use one to get movies to play through my 360) I used TVersity for ages, and it worked well for my situation. There’s also options like xbmc and plex which can also transcode on the fly. Or you could get a NAS from Synology or QNAP which often have transcoding functions built in.
I’m putting it on a USB, so it’s not streaming from the computer
well yeah.. you’re probably shit out of luck. I’ve never known a tv manufacturer to actually specify the codecs they support. You could always write to the manufacturer and ask if they can provide that info, but generally the only thing they ever seem to publish is support for DivX, which is next to useless.
so, either watch it on my pc or find it…another way
well.. that’s definitely the easier way. You could always try playing something, see if it works, and if it does, you might be able to use something like gspot to find out what kind of codec was used to create the movie file. But then you’ll have to try and make sure all your movies are either in that format, or convert them to that, which is quite a lengthy process. Guess it depends on how many movies you want to watch on the tv. Streaming it would likely be less hassle, or even less hassle, would be to plug a pc in to the tv via hdmi and just watch via that, using the tv as your monitor.
Western Digital HD TV media player is still a thing right?
If terms of a no fuss option it works well. Plug a USB in or share a folder if you go for networked version… Played ever format I threw at it including ISO and TS_VIDEO.
Otherwise you need a media server of some description and a way to get it to the screen. I use Plex and a Chromecast right now…no cables all on wifi.
Handbrake:
https://handbrake.fr/
Haven’t needed to do any re-encoding in ages though. Also be aware that Handbrake isn’t necessarily the most user-friendly tool on the planet, but for your purposes it should be easy enough to drive.
You could use Handbrake to encode/convert to a suitable format. I used to use it all the time to do just that. I always found it to be a great program.
Going to also say that Handbrake is probably your best bet. Takes a bit to get the hang of but it’s perfect for what you need.
Has anyone mentioned Handbrake yet? Because that program is the shit when it comes to fire and forget encoding.
If your pc has a hdmi port, plug a cable inyo it and the tv, download either Daum PotPlayer or XBMC, and you can play practically anything.
I’m working 10 of the next 12 days. Yay! \o/
Just thought I’d share 🙂
Hooray? 😀
I’ve worked 18 of the past 20?
Like seriously. It’s stupidly draining and sucks badly.
14 of the last 20 for me. Though its kinda 15, because I did a morning shift, then came back for the overnight, the did the afternoon shift the next day. 3 shifts in 2 days!
And yes, it is so very draining.
And now as Festivus rolls on we come to the feats of strength.
Until one of you pin me, Festivus is not over.
LET’S RUMBLE!
I keep reading it as “Festivius”. =P
Festivius \o/
Ugh, Festivius
@freya She absolutely loved the teapot thing. *air-punch*
Meanwhile my uncle got me an RFID-shielding wallet. Which is pretty cool I guess… except my paywave-enabled card is the one that I keep at home and just use for internet stuff. And I have both my Opal and security card for work which kind of rely on the whole wireless thing to work. So I kinda don’t really have any use for it 😛
Worst part is it’s from Mountain Designs, and I doubt I’ll have anything I can exactly exchange it for there. Pretty sure they don’t exactly have much (if anything) in the way of climbing shoes I could even put it towards…
They sell camelbak bottles. Get one of them. Best bottles!
I dunno. What am I going to do with a bottle? 😛
Wait. I think my sister used to have one of these? And complained about them always leaking from the neck, possibly.
Picked up a PS2 Slim with 10 games & 2 memory cards today. Shame it’s missing it’s controller & power brick. I may still have the power brick from my old NTSC PS2 Slim, which bit the dust like 7 years back I think?
So I played the first level of Valkyria Chronicles earlier today.
1. It is super pretty.
2. GOD DAMMIT GAME LET ME RETRY THE FIRST LEVEL RIGHT NOW! I MADE A MISTAKE!
First level is fantastic for early-game leveling up. You can clear it with top rank in about 40 seconds using a single scout (use Alicia). What you do is from the starting point, run the scout directly east, up the hill and keeping a long way out of range of the guys on the road. Move them again and rush the bridge and you should be able to just absorb any shots if you aggro the guy on the road near the bridge, and then you should easily be in firing range of the dude on the other side of the bridge where their command post is. Heatshot the fucker. Then you roll in and capture their base and win. One turn. \o/
Scout rushing ruined the game for me. The strategy just feels like it goes against how the game wants to be played but the reward for winning quickly is so great that you feel like a moron for not doing it.
I kind of liked it because it means that every level is a puzzle with an optimal solution. Some of the levels are super gratifying when you can clear them with an A rank as well. But you don’t have to scout rush to finish the game and I recommend against it.
(Also some maps can’t be rushed with scouts at all, you need to use the tank or other classes strategically)
Well I best get to bed.
Just finished Enslaved so up past my bed time. Enjoyable game, now I have the DLC to do
So it’s my birthday still for the next 20ish minutes. A friend came down to Hobart and we spent some time down there, then he drove me back to Launceston for the holidays. It’s gonna be a lonnnnngggg week. Apparently there’s gonna be 14 of us round at our place for christmas. Yay. I’d rather be by myself I think. Also starting to feel the allergies kick in, so… fun times ahead!
I did have the present and card Oliver sent me waiting when I got here though. He designed me a mug with Nier stuff on it. I’ve mentioned a few times that I wish I had some kind of Nier memorabilia, so now I do! Had no idea he’d think of it though. He also found a musical card which are apparently still things to give me 😛 arghhhh I miss him so much
Happy BenDay, Birth!
Hayfever? Go see a doctor and get a prescription for this Dymista 125/50 nasal spray thing. It’s been working wonders for me lately!
It’s still your birthday in WA, so happy birthday friend!
Hope you had a good one 🙂
(should of let people know so they could have wished you happy birthday though!)
Happy birthday!
Oh, awesome. The outside fridge has decided to be not cold again, just like it did last year. Thankfully the inside fridge hasn’t done the same concurrently like what happened that time, but we’ve lost one lot of cream that went off and are suspicious about the ham. Oh wait there was salmon in there too…
So back when I moved into my previous place and moved to Telstra cable, I was playing FFXIV and was often having random latency issues. Assumed it was a combination of known bugs around server lag (the game was bad at tracking positions of characters for a long time) combined with the fact the servers were in Japan and that cable often has higher latency. Thought nothing of it. Don’t really play much online.
Now I’m in a new place and last month I was playing WoW on a shiny new AU server. And I would get random lag spikes. Sometimes minor, sometimes major, but fairly often. Assumed it was server lag since the game was pretty crowded.
Turns out it wasn’t. It’s a strange bug in the Netgear router that Telstra uses (I believe after some sleuthing that it might even be a bug in the broadcom cable chip the router has) which causes random internal and external packet loss and latency, but only when Plex Media Server’s DLNA server does its regular 60 second UDP pulse to announce itself to DLNA clients. Something about that packet causes the router to shit the bed.
I’ve been running a Plex server on my network for ages, on my NAS. I never really noticed issues playing Destiny, but I assume that game pushes a lot of the calculations down to the client and isn’t heavily affected by network latency. Obviously periodically slow packets aren’t going to affect browsing very often either. Had never realized it was Plex until today. It was actually very easy to see it happening once I realized it was consistent – just ping google’s DNS regularly. 25ms average, but periodically 700ms to 2000ms+.
Turned off DLNA. Problem solved \o/ Maybe I can MMO again \o/
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2 weeks …
http://tinyurl.com/mupj2x4
I just forced Blaghs to play board games. I’m the greetest.
Also, I won at Seasons because an unlucky dice roll forced me to draw the one card when I didn’t want to. That card was literally the one card in the deck that would guarantee crushing defeat for my opponents.
\o/
Sorry I couldn’t make it, man. Things got away from me, and I didn’t even end up replying to you – sorry! Did you say you’re moving here soon?
It’s okay.
We’re moving mid/late Jan and will be here at least all year. Plenty of time for board gaming.
Pacific Rim is currently free on the Google Play store at the moment.
I thought you meant some mobile game thingy, didn’t realise you meant the actual movie.
Glad I checked, thanks for the tip 😀
Democracy 3: President Kieth
Part 1 – A Rocky Start
Raised in Siam, Kieth rose to the title of king. He quickly changed the country’s name to Kiethland, and laid the foundations for a mighty civilisation.
After everyone got bored of his civilisation and abandoned him mere turns before a diplomatic victory, Glorious Leader Kieth was out of a job. The religion he set up to recognise him as god was losing members. He needed to get another empire, fast. He moved to Washington and got a part-time gig at Chipotle whilst he worked on his master plan. America was a weird country. It had this ridiculous concept called “democracy” to elect leaders. What was wrong with ring-tossing contests like they had back in Siam? If he was going to convert the world to Kiethism, he’d have to get there by popularity. Shouldn’t be too hard. All he had to do back in the civilisation days was throw money at people until they loved him.
The Kieth Dominion Party was formed. It’s enemy was the universally hated Magenta Party, friends of peace and and promoter of joy. They must be stopped.
The whole ‘throw money at people until they like you’ plan kinda crumbled when he realised that America was running on a deficit. Also, in order to force compulsory military service and force his religion on people, he had to appeal to the conservatives. His biggest concerns fixing the deficit as quickly as possible, and attracting the votes of patriots, religious nuts, and conservatives arseholes, and fixing the deficit as quickly as possible. Because if there’s one thing conservatives like its being dictated to by an Asian person.
First, Kieth slightly increased the petrol tax and increased import tariffs. Then he decided to emphasise creationism in schools. Then he fired my entire cabinet and replaced them with random people who lined up with the demographics he was aiming for. This rapidly proved to be a mistake, as his new cabinet couldn’t govern for shit, and massively crippled his power. Deciding he wanted to appeal to racists more, I increased police spending and did general things that made not-white people sad. Coincidentally, black supremacist group was formed to oppose my rule shortly after. Then a group of socialist revolutionaries was formed shortly after.
Facing crippling debt, Kieth decided to go full on removing the deficit by jacking up income tax by 8%, replacing school textbooks with planks of wood, and cutting space travel, because we aren’t going for a science victory, dammit. By his calculations, these massive cutbacks and revenue-raising schemes would kick in in a couple of turns. Then a good chunk of the problems facing the Kieth Dominon Party would be solved. It would raise his popularity, alleviate the unemployment problems America was facing, and fix the country’s credit rating.
Kieth staged a press conference to deliver the news. He was promptly shot in the head by a revolutionary. Despite living for 3000 years, committing genocide against the Byzantines and converting the entire world to Kiethism, he was felled by a mere bullet.
THE END?
Went to bed at 11pm, woke up at 2am, couldn’t get back to sleep until 3am, woke up again at 6:25am….
This is why I never go to bed early. 🙁
Woo! Xbox is on the way…
It better not be a random 6:20pm delivery though, so late!
Xboxers, how does Games for Gold work?
I thought it was like PS+ where you can “buy” games when they’re free, and they’re yours to keep forever, but you can only play them when you have an active PS+ subscription. Although I’ve read some reports that say SSX is playable even if your Gold subscription runs out.
Does that mean ALL Games for Gold games can work without a Gold subscription? If so, that’s pretty good!
Any idea if those Gold trials also let you download these games while you’re on it? I’m assuming no since you never used to get Gold exclusive discounts while on them.
Thanks! I don’t play games online that much so I’d only be using my Gold sub for the offered games. Looks like next month is going to have a worthwhile game (D4) so I’m considering it!
Pretty sure as long as you’ve downloaded them, they will continue to work (at least this is the case on the 360). This is probably because the wireless adapter is an optional extra on 360s, which would limit the console’s ability to verify the account. It’s inbuilt with the PS3, etc.
On Xbox 360 once you download “or at least start the download to tie the digital rights to your account) you can redownload it under that account forever even if Gold expires.
On Xbox One it copies the PS+ model – once a game is free while you have gold, it belongs to you unless you let gold lapse, then you lose access. Even if you download it, you will lose access (and be prompted to buy it when you try to launch it) as soon as you revert to silver.
And no I’m pretty sure gold “trials” don’t let you do anything but play online multiplayer, and even then it sometimes won’t allow you to play in ranked playlists. I remember using a trial for one particular multiplayer game (can’t remember which, might have been Battlefield 3) which didn’t distinguish between ranked and social, so I wasn’t able to play ANYTHING online even though the 48-hour code came bundled with the game.
You definitely can’t use free trials to download/access Games with Gold, there’s probably some fine print somewhere that says you need to have at least a one month subscription to be eligible for the deal.
Oh that sucks for the Xbox One :(. That makes it worse than the PS+ model too then since you lose it as soon as you go to Silver.
Hmm…
How much does 12 Months of Gold usually cost (standard and sale prices?), I’m assuming something like $70 and 50 on sale? Isn’t Gold subscription codes region free as well?
Yep, region free. If you pay more than $50, you’re getting ripped, and they sometimes drop as low as $35.
I wasn’t sure if XBL gold subs were region-free since I think the points cards weren’t. I’ll try and remember to order codes online when our renewals come up in March.
Yeah, points card aren’t, but Gold is. Verified several years running 🙂
I thought you lost your PS+ games as soon as you lost PS+, but you could resume ownership if you renewed your PS+ later – all the games you unlocked previously would be available again.
I assume that’s how it works with Games with Gold but I don’t plan to experiment. I’ll just keep my gold going.
Oh yeah, I think I just misinterpreted what you said 😛
When your PS+ sub runs out you can’t play the games but you can still own/download them.
I thought you said something like once your Gold runs out you lose access to the games permanently, even if you re-sub a few months later, but I assume I’m wrong and it’ll be just like PS+ (doesn’t make sense for them to be worse than PS+ :P)
hey guys! so i went to visit my friend who had heart surgery and is confined to home for 2 months… across the road, they were having a moving out sale…
scored myself a PS2 (the original brick style thing) BRAND NEW SEALED IN BOX, an extra controller and 2 games…
THREE. DOLLARS.
I’ll give you twice… no, three times that for it!
Five.
Ten!
ONE HUNDRED MILLION D– wait.
Ha ha! You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders – The most famous of which is “never get involved in a land war in Asia” – but only slightly less well-known is this: “Never go in against an American when collecting is on the line”! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
That’s ALOTTA D!
SOLD!!!!!!!!!!
Fatty PS2 was the best model for modding since you can get the broadband adapter and put a hard drive into it.
I went through 2 broadband adaptors that way. Still got the software and the bootloader PS1 disc, probably still have the HDD, but don’t have a third broadband adaptor to put in.
wait i forgot about that…. IT WAS BACKWARDS COMPATIBLE!!!
I have two mod mine, mid mine!
I bought a slim PS2 with 2 memory cards & a bunch of games yesterday for 5 times that price, yesterday..
PS2 Brothers!!!
\o/
I technically own 3 PS2’s. Freeze currently has my original silver edition PS2 and I picked up another one a few months back. Which works and came with games, controllers & a memory card ha.
on my 4th!
hhad 2 x fats, one chipped, one unchipped with damaged laser.
sold both fats. now i have this fat plus a slim in my desk drawer with no PSU so not sure if it works 🙁
I’m tempted to mod chip this slim I got if it works.. Mainly because I never had a chipped PS2 only a chipped PS1..
Just received my Pathfinder (band) early access copy of their song ‘Fifth Element’ with the new vocalist. And then was brutally honest about it on their FB page. Eek! Dude was all over the place, though so I couldn’t just say nothing. Especially as this IndieGoGo campaign is to promote their new vocalist and announce they’re back with a video of the song. If I’d heard that version of the song I’d never have checked out any of their other stuff!
Police are warning the public to be on the lookout for a band of criminals who broke out of prison last night and hijacked a Pfizer Pharmaceutical truck. Pfizer, makers of the ED drug Viagra, and the Police have issued a statement advising the public to contact authorities should they spot these hardened criminals.
#Page6 #Finally
They must be having a hard time getting rid of these stiffs.
Have you been waiting patiently all week just to tell that joke? I have to admire your commitment. 😀
YES!
It must have been HARD to last that long.
My comment may have looked more like that before I proofread it. 😛
You’re doing page 6 all wrong >:(
Well 2 wrongs don’t make a right.
3 lefts do.I bought the new viagra eyedrops, but I think it was a mistake. Thinking about it while shaving I glanced in the mirror and took a long hard look at myself.
It was the right call taking it before going on stage at the open mic night though. I heard the guy after me saying that I would be a hard act to follow.
Good work. Keep it up.
Xmas shopping complete! \o/
Page 6 is a day early. Might have to pop some crackers today just to share the bad jokes.
My dad said, always leave them wanting more. Ironically, that’s how he lost his job in disaster relief.
I was having a really good Isaac Rebirth HARD MODE run but then I screwed it up with a really stupid mistake :(…
so sad now :'(
Had Curse of the Unknown so I couldn’t see my health but everything was going fine on The Womb I. Managed to kill the double Loki boss but it was one of those annoying rooms where there’s about 6 spike traps circling around the room :(. I had There’s Options so there were two boss items to pick from but one of them was in a horrid position and I ended up getting caught between the pedestal and a spike trap and next thing I know I’m dead :'(. I even had a Full Health pill I was waiting to use but had no time to react. SADNESSI got this game off PS+ a couple months ago. I’ve tried it several times and just have no idea at all what the **** is going on.
I was a huge fan of the original which I picked up completely on random from a Steam sale. It ended up being the game I played (and probably enjoyed) the most from that sale 😀
It sucks at first though and it’s bloody hard, but stick with it and you’ll unlock better items, find cool synergies and you’ll feel like a golden god when you complete a sweet run.
It even has an achievement/trophy that says “You are the best!” 😀
Well, yeah, but I already knew that 😛
But you need a trophy that confirms your beliefs!
I didn’t say I believed it, I said I knew it. There’s a difference 😛
(I just want you to play more Isaac :3)
ISAAC TIME!
Watched the myth busters Star wars special, it was rather interesting. The fact that the ewoks had viable weapons was interesting.
They also discovered what the internal temperature of a Tauntaun is
Luke warmMerry Christmas Taybies!
Much like all the other humans here on Earth, I’ll be heading to the pub come lunch time to enjoy some quality mind-enhancing beverages – minus that Absinthe stuff – reminds me too much of liquid Kryptonite. Safe flying.
Love,
Golden Age Superman.
I’ve heard that father Christmas occasionally goes down chimneys with lit fires and ends up a Krisp Kringle
#dadjokepagesix #hi@strange
And then there was the year he took sides in L.A.’s gang wars; I’ll never forget the tale of Crip Kringle.
After seeing all of these puns, I bet Kris Kringes
Let’s not make him angry, I’d hate to see a Cross Kringle.
Remember the year he decided to deliver presents to the deceased too? I personally will never forget when he became Crypt Kringle.
You’ve always gotta watch out for the later stages of the night though. After all the eggnog and milk-with-a-little-extra-something that people keep leaving out, he’ll end up a bit of a Crass Kringle.
Every time I see a K in place of a C all I can think of is the Krusty Komedy Klassic.
Kontinue?
I just think of Krispy Kreme :’)
Picked up Lords of the Fallen last night and was pleasantly surprised. The game seems pretty solid, looks pretty and first boss not 10 minutes in kicked my ass.
Didn’t have time to play more than that but based on my brief venture I think I’ll be happy with this one.
Telltales’ Game of Thrones is 25% off today. I assume that’s the best we’ll do considering how new it is. Can’t decide if I’ll pull the trigger now or get it 50% off in 6 months.
Yeah, I’m really not sure.
Dunno why, since I’m yet to dislike a Telltale game I’ve played, and yet I’m still reluctant.
I’m going to wait, I never play a Telltale game until they release the entire season anyway.
Happy holidays everyone! Serve your loved ones with tender care (I recommend a careful light glaze and a homemade stuffing). Enjoy the Christmas feast.
#APageSixChristmasMiracle
Thanks again for sharing this @freezespreston
I don’t want it to end!
It’s so good isn’t it. Guy is a master.
The drum thing was the only bit I’ve seen previously
http://blog.esuteru.com/archives/7984732.html Yakuza 0 special edition PS4 faceplates are pretty~
The dragon yes, the other one not so much
Yeah, don’t know what the other thing even is.
I’m a little late on preordering wave 3 of the Amiibos.
I’m guessing I’ll probably have to pay through the teeth for Shulk, Ike, King Dede and Megaman.
=(
I should’ve pre-ordered Shulkies, I blame @powalen !
Out of the four that’s definitely the one i’d prefer to have, no doubt the eBay re-sellers or opportunists are gonna bank on that goodwill.
Or you can get up early on the morning of the 29th and fist-fight everyone else in your way as the shop opens!
It’s what I’ll be doing 😛
To be honest I got a little lax, i preordered the first two waves without a hitch, I guess the panic buying caused by the news of the discontinued wave 1 units went over my head.
Hmm… is that when they release? I might do the same 😛
I need something to do while on holidays…
EDIT: ohhh… the 29th of January! I’ll be working then 😛
I’m thinking of putting in for a day off then.
I think a pretty girl at work invited me to her work birthday celebrations on that day.
Amiibos can wait 😛
OoooooooOOOOOOOoooooooOOOOOOOooooooooh!
Surely they’re not first thing in the morning, plenty of time in the day to do both 😛
*looks in pantry*
*sees all popcorn is marked as “@mrtaco”
*writes: “buy @greenius popcorn” on shopping list*
From now on I’m just going to preorder every one I want. I’d rather pay the extra few dollars than have to constantly look in shops 😛
http://allrecipes.com.au/recipe/8897/amazing-soft-and-chewy-chocolate-chip-cookies.aspx?o_is=Hub_TopRecipe_3
I’m about to adapt this recipe to attempt to make my favourite Coles’ Caramel and Pretzel cookies…wish me luck!
I’m only upset that I won’t be able to try them once you’re done making them. Good luck!
Costco bucket of pretzels. The gift that keeps on giving
http://instagram.com/p/w-R59JIYC6/
Making headlines today: Corduroy pillowcases
#StillPage6?
A photon checks into a hotel and the concierge asks if he needs any help with his bags
The photon says, “No thanks, I’m traveling light”
Had to think about that one for a second.
The best ones will make you do that. 🙂
Dear secret sanTay
ily <3
Saw that it was a package from snapfish and had no idea what it could be. We have given some photo books this year so was thinking maybe it was something like that of game screenshots or something. Opened it up to fins something even better
Thank you so much
Tig Erion 🙂
Edit: I’ll get some photos up once we get the room setup
So an album full of topless DAN! pics instead of a single one inside a snowglobe? You lucky man!
Suddenly my gift doesn’t seem so wonderful
Nah, I made a comment a while ago about how I was thinking about getting this picture in hi res and getting it printed for Tiglet’s room. My secret santay went ahead and got that done for me 😀
Santa never was the greatest pimp.
He kept giving away his ho, ho, hoes.
Have to go see the family today :'(
Family is nice for one day.
Family is terrible for three days.
Not looking forward to all the impending fights 🙁
Sucks 🙁
I won’t be seeing any family this Christmas. I am working though, and seeing the Hobbit with friends on boxing day, so at least I’ll get out of the house \o/
@evilmonkey @dc (and anyone else that has it on Steam)
Lara Temple of Osiris co-op sometime soon? 😀
I played some of this on PS4 on the weekend… was quite good!
I have a copy! It’s a physical copy so I still need to activate it. =P
Ugh, Needs to Activateulus
I dreamed that Cersei Lannister conspired against Ryuuko Matoi to banish her from the Red Keep into the mountains of the north, and Luigi took Ryuuko’s place. Ryuuko went feral and started biting people until they surrendered their clothes, and then she used the clothes she stole to make a super-kamui that looked suspiciously like Junkestu, and then she marched on King’s Landing (which looked suspiciously like Whiterun) single-handedly. And then Luigi confronted her at the gates and it turns out Luigi was more popular than Ryuuko because he didn’t kill people that looked at her funny and then they prepared for an epic battle and then I woke up.
So, how is everyone?
I dreamt that people learnt how to make dot points on TAY, so everyone was writing lists of stuff using dot points, but I didn’t know how to make dot points, so I just pretended I did and used hyphens instead :3
• Move along
• Nothing to
• See here
Noooooooooooooo!!! :’O
What’s wrong Liondrive? Is it:
• Something said
• Something you need to do
• Or just impending flights?
I like this post because
• It’s funny
• It’s contextual
• It makes @liondrive scream like Darth Vader
I dreamed that I was going camping with friends, and when we stopped at a petrol station I asked “Wait. Why are we going camping when it’s winter in Canada?”
And then I woke up.
Dream me knows what’s up so woke me up so he didn’t have to suffer, and I can respect that, even though it cost me some sleep.
I dreamed I was in a post apocalyptic world where most of the streets had turned to rivers and everyone lived on boats. We’d send raiding parties to search the houses closest to the river shoreline but no one was allowed to go too deep into the suburbs because they might alert whatever it was that had almost wiped out humanity and then it would chase us back to the main boat and kill everyone.
The main boat out society lived on was under a harsh dictatorship, so myself and some other survivors ended up making an escape attempt while everyone else was distracted by some other survivors who were trying to escape in a home made submarine. We were spotted and chased down, but we managed to make it far enough into the suburbs that they gave up and ran off for fear that they might attract the attention of what lived there.
Turns out the great horror that had ended our world was cartoon like wackiness. The physics in those sections of the world had changed in a way that no real life human could hope to survive for long. There were mountains that rose impossibly high into the air and holes in the earth that lead to worlds of nothing but sky where you would fall forever. There were a great deal of monsters that humanity could not hope to destroy because like the Looney Tunes if you blew one up they’d just twist their head back on and keep coming at you.
Myself and the other survivors ended up making friends with a few of these creatures who tried to help us survive in that crazy world. I ended up getting a disease where my teeth kept falling out but new teeth kept growing in place. The falling out and regrowth happened slowly at first, but towards the end of the dream I basically had a never ending stream of teeth pouring out of my mouth. One of the friendly creatures was collecting all the teeth in bottles while another was searching for a cure when I woke up.
I have to say it was one of the more strange dreams I can remember having.
The other night I think I had a dream where I kind of accidentally ended up asking someone out? I don’t know, it was weird. I’m gonna blame it on that stupid suggested youtube video that I watched right before bed.
http://www.salon.com/2014/12/23/deader_than_a_roadkill_dog_disgusting_racist_song_about_michael_brown_performed_at_lapd_officers_charity_event/
Woooooowwwwww……
Jesus.
Anyone eyeing anything in particular at the boxing day sales?
I have been conscripted to construct a gingerbread house. With free reign.
I can’t help but feel this is a terrible idea.
@mrtaco: Gingerbread Slumlord
http://images.complex.com/complex/image/upload/t_article_image/pbwzcoxfvglifrxgvobn.jpg
Christmas miracle reply fail!
It’s a festivus miracle!
w00! 4 days off! Shame today was my xmas day though. not much of it left really. Oh wells.. Happy Hols to those who are lucky enough, and Merry Xmas to those who are in to that kind of thing! 🙂 I’ll be around tomorrow, as I have zero plans thanks to my sister deciding to do my family xmas on a day I had to work, and then tomorrow, go see her hubby’s family, who are all either retired or on holidays. Thanks sis. Perfect planning there!
Well. I took the high-risk move of turning the whole thing upside-down to better cement on the roof pieces. Then one of the walls fell off as I was turning it back over. Then I put it in the fridge for the icing to cool down while I put the chimney together… which went terribly. The thing popped apart in my hands as I doing the last bit of icing and it all went all over the everything. And part of it broke.
I don’t wanna decorate, I’ve done my part. Someone else take over.
Democracy 3: President Kieth
Part 2 – Moving on Up
Kieth’s eyes flickered open, then closed again slowly. Consciousness slowly flowed into him, and his eyes flickered open again. White. He was in a white room. On a white bed with white sheets. A white needle was pressed into his arm and a white cable led to a white heart rate monitor. How did he get here? Last thing he remembered, he was giving a speech to some bankers about how awesome the economy was going to be next quarter, when some men with big guns came in…
Kieth scanned the room, trying to remember what came next. Nothing. He could’nt figure it out. Kieth rose from the bed, plucking the needle out and throwing it at the window, lightly cracking it. Kieth walked to the mirror at the other end of the room. He admired himself. He was looking good. Something was different though. He didn’t remember putting on his Professor Quirrel cosplay this week. Why did he have a turban of bandages? He slowly unraveled it. The more bandages he unraveled, the more quizzical his frown got. The last of the bandages dropped to the floor soundlessly. What didn’t drop to the floor soundlessly was Kieth’s jaw. Kieth’s wail was enough to make the crack in the window just that bit larger.
That looked very much like a hole in his head. He turned his head slightly. That looked very much like his brain. Kieth observed the hole from several angles before his Vice President walked in the room. Kieth opened his mouth to speak, but no sound came out.
“I’ve been tending to the flock while you were sleeping, sir.” spoke the Vice President. “That assassination attempt was quite the scare. It was all thanks to that crown you wear everywhere that stopped the bullet from hitting your brain! The Revolutionary Army tried to take over the government, but our agents stopped them. They all decided that a violent uprising was too much work, so they formed a political party to beat you in the next election. While you were away, I reversed all your policy decisions!” he beamed. “It’s like you were never President at all! Aren’t you proud of me sir?”
Kieth breath in and out slowly. He chose his next words carefully. “Why in Kieth’s name did you do that, Bernie? Explain carefully, ya shit.”
“I… I needed to appease the revolutionaries! If I removed your policies, they would try to assassinate you while comatose!” pled the Vice President. “Now you have a chance to right your wrongs and learn from your mistakes.”
Learn from his mistakes? Who did this guy think he was talking to? Kieth didn’t learn from his mistakes, he persisted until nature bowed down to him.
“Bernie, you have been relieved of your duty. For saving the life of the president, the crown will be the new Vice President. Hold a parade in its honour.”
Kieth strut out of the hospital, head held high and with blood slowly leaking from it.
Kieth set to work on fixing the country. This time, he caused a tax hike right off the bat to fix the deficit early and relieve the country of debt. Then the global economy kinda collapsed, rendering everything moot. Kieth made a raft of decisions to appease the religious dunces, made a bunch of economic decisions that appealed to neither socialists or capitalists, gave police bigger guns, and he built trains. His popularity soared, peaking at 60%. The election was getting very close, and he was the cle For all of his policy decisions, he could never do anything to please minorities. All the things they wanted changed got them angry even after he changed them. Black supremacists tried to assassinate him two times. Well, tried and failed two times, succeeded once.
THE END PROBABLY FOR REALS THIS TIME
That was the longest set-up to “I started a new game but pretended I didn’t” I could possibly come up with.
THESE ARE IMPROPERLY DESIGNED CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS THAT ARE NOT CORRECTLY MADE TO FIT TOGETHER THIS IS ALL GOING WRONG
That’s what you get for trying to bring joy to others!
My god.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1873107026/aviary-attorney
This is a thing that exists.
Well haven’t you heard?
About the bird?
Everybody’s talking about the bird!
Yeah, there was even an article on here earlier…
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/12/its-basically-phoenix-wright-ace-attorney-but-with-birds/
I think it looks cool. Might be a good game, if just for the laughs.
Xbone seems to be working fine!
Now I dunno which game to play first :'(
Why the game cases gotta be all backwards and bizzaro? Discs on the left, manuals/codes on the right? Huuuuuh
Halfway through the initial set up and the Xbox has already frozen… THE FUTURE! 😛
“Halo requires an 18GB update” … SAY WHAT D:
I think from memory they didn’t include the single player component on disc.
But that’s all I wanted :'(
It’s kind of the only component. Worth playing.
*glances left and right for Neo-Kaiser*
Multiplayer was the part they made a download. Single player is on disc.
Ah, knew it was one of them
Incoming Xbox questions (for you or anyone who knows)
Ah! How does one distinguish between the installation (from disc) and patch/update download? Seems to be combined for me? Or maybe I’m assuming the disc installation is first before any updates are downloaded. Can they download in the background like Wii U/PS4? Can games install in the background?
I couldn’t find a “rest” mode and when I turned my Xbox off nothing seems to have progressed :/
Because having the game on two discs would be so last gen. >:/
Future.
I said say what, not future!
I know right? I thought it was such a weird & silly idea..
Just chilling at work. Still here for another 4 hours. Merry Christmas to you all! Hope it’s a good one and treats everyone kindly! \o/
I figured why the minorities wanted
meKieth dead when I was playing Democracy 3 earlier today. I was supposed to sign a racial discrimination act that was hidden behind some menus. That’s a dick move, designers.Racist.
EDIT: Somehow I double-posted.
May as well make use of this comment.
Holy crap, it’s Christmas Eve? I thought that was a couple of days away.
Yeah, i’m kinda taken back that it is Christmas tomorrow, it hasn’t been as busy as previous years around here I swear..
\o/ JB have started what seems to be their boxing day sale… Well there’s that blu-ray player I wanted to get dad I guess! Now to see if Godfrey’s lower their price on the steam cleaner mum wants…
Can’t…stop…farting… 🙁
I assume that means you have a job interview or a date or are in the middle of a road trip with other people? Congratulations!
Did family Christmas early tonight. Crab in black bean sauce, first time we’ve had that in years upon years upon years. SO GOOD.
And then did presents, because lots of stuff tomorrow. Got way too so much stuff. Mainly because both my sister got a new phone, so things had to balance out for that, but in combination with some really good bargain shopping apparently 😛 I feel spoilt.
Hey, if anyone doesn’t want their steam christmas cards, I need 1, 2, 6, 7 and 9. I want to try and make a badge. I can’t buy any more games myself because I don’t get paid until after the sale ends.
Sent you a trade offer for 1&2
Thank you!
I’ve got more than I need. If you still need some, hit me up when online, I should be able to give them away through the trade menu instead of having to trade for something.
i still need 6, 7 and 9.
@strange
I LIED! HERE ARE YOUR CHRISTMAS SONGS! https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B44lMzBcunsnajF3dzl0R1loSUE&usp=sharing
I know I always say that they’re utterly rubbish, but this year I’ve taken utterly rubbish to a whole new level of utterly rubbish.
There is an uncomfortable amount of rubbing me in the above post.
Man I fucking hate Christmas! I used to love it, but now all it means to me is stress. Can’t wait till it’s all over with.
I wish it would just go away and fucking die!
BAH HUMBUG!
Edit: On the plus side I bought myself the James Bond box set today. Only Bond movie I’ve ever watched is Casino Royale. Seen bits and pieces of some of the others, looking forward to watching them all.
First Christmas I’m not spending with anyone. Well, family that is.
I’m working an 8 hour shift tomorrow instead to distract myself.
Enjoy! I love Bond movies
Merry Christmas everyone.
It’s not Christmas yet!!!
You and your crazy living in the past. Get with the times, man.
I agree with this guy. :-p
DAMMIT YOU STUPID TYPO AND MODERATION HELL
GUYS!
Well, first check out my awesome gingerbread house. I sent that picture to my sister’s boyfriend’s sister, who apparently was also making a gingerbread house today. I told her the gauntlet had been thrown down and it was gingerbread houses at 20 paces. Also I didn’t say who it was from and left it totally as a mystery message out of nowhere, so my sister and him can clear that up when they go over to their place 😛 Super proud of that miniature M&M wreath, btw.
BUT ANYWAY.
There was a looming disaster. The house needed to survive the night, but we didn’t have any kind of container large enough to fit it because of that stupid chimney. There are two eskies here, but one of them is full of fruit and veg to make space in the fridge, while the other smells like the crab that was sitting in it all day waiting to be used for dinner. But then, it dawned on me. The solution to our problems. It suddenly seemed so obvious. I just had to… well, the filename says it all.
Also, Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas Gooks! That gingerbread house looks awesome!!
That is a very fine house!
Very impressive sire! Great effort indeed!
What the fuck Sony.. Just noticed a heap of my PSN friends do not show up on my PS3 friends list like @freezespreston yet everyone shows up on my PS4 friends list… That’s really weird..
Do you have over 100 friends on PSN?
The friend limit on PS3 is only 100, so if you have over 100 friends some of them won’t show up on PS3 while they will be visible on PS4 which has a limit of 2000.
Nope just a handful maybe a dozen or so D=
Merry Christmas from Canada TAY \o/
My condolences!
I share your pain.
Aw it’s not so bad, I’ve never had a white Christmas before!
Even the deer have gotten into the Christmas spirit by finding our garbage bins and leaving presents all over the yard. Cheeky buggers.
Merry Christmas Everyone!
Merry xmas to you and batguy and the little one! Hope you all have a great day! 🙂
Merry Christmas! \o/
Merry Christmas to all y’all!
Merry Christmas all!
Send a Christmas message to a friend (admittedly I called him a git), and his response is “Merry Saturnalia you feckless heathen.”
My friends are horrible nerds.
We’ve been spending the week with Freya’s family for Christmas.
Ignoring the bit where we’ve been put on the futon, they’re now looping this one Christmas carols CD. Looping a CD should be a crime. Looping a bad CD… well, there should be a step up.
What’s worse is that nobody here seems to be interested in watching A Muppet Christmas Carol. They couldn’t even think of Kermit’s name! He was “that green frog guy”.
Heathens!
I watched A Muppet Christmas Carol last night, and Nightmare Before Christmas this morning. Best Christmas movies ever!!!!!
Well, they’re almost as good as Die Hard.
I watched Muppet Christmas Carol last night as well. I do it every Christmas eve, though usually I fall asleep. Last night I made it all the way to the end!
We had the annual viewing of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer (1964 Rankin Bass). Batboy watched it for the first time and it was so cute seeing him nodding along to all the songs.
I watched SLiTHER
MERRY CHRISTMAS! SEASONS GREETINGS! HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
No Hanukkah?
Munster!
If anyone wants to buy a late Christmas present for themselves or others, the Microsoft store have changed their Xbox One bundle a bit and have swapped out the 12 months of Xbox Live Gold for a second controller instead 😀 (which is probably a better deal)
http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msaus/en_AU/pdp/Xbox-One-Assassins-Creed-Unity-Bundle/productID.307223800
Xbox One + AC4 + AC Unity + 3 games (you select – I chose Halo, Sunset and Forza Horizon 2) + An Extra Controller
INSANITY! Also $100 more for the Kinect and Dance Central bundle 😀
Forza Horizon 2 is so pretty!
I’m waiting to see how much money I can sap out of everyone today, then we’ll decide on the Xbox 😀
USE THAT SWEET BIRTHDAY MONEY.
Stuff your eyes with wonder and fill your face with turkey!
Oh man, I got them mixed up. My eyes. MY EYES.
ZE GOGGLES! ZEY DO NUSSINK!
Loot!
I got my hands on:
– A set of coloured pencils
– A set of watercolour pencils
– A bunch of vouchers for JB, EB and Myer, and
– A Selfie stick!
Merry Christmas everybody <3
All I can think of when I hear the term ‘selife stick’ is this now..
I got an INQUISITION hoodie
a Zelda wallet
Persona Q
& cash
Did you put the cash in the Zelda wallet?
Nah, I dint have any physical cash
Hoodies are awesome and I resent Brisbane weather for not giving us more than 1-2 weeks opportunity per year to wear them.
Are you D.C.!? 😮
I bet you have “Skeletor arms” too!
I’m asthmatic etc. I wear them more often than you might think.
The good thing (for me) is these Bioware goodies are thicker & keep me (almost) healthy in the winter 😀
Merry Christmas TAYbies. Enjoy x
Merry Christmas man x
Thanks mate. Have a good one. 🙂
Merry Christmas!
Hope everyone enjoys the day with friends, family, selves, machines, animals and co-workers!
I’m enjoying the Isaac discussion!
I’m gonna use the gyro!
Did i break TAY… on Christmas….
Merry Christmas!
Hope everyone enjoys the day with friends, family, selves, machines, animals and co-workers!
I’m enjoying the Isaac discussion!
I’m gonna use the gyro!
Merry Christmas friends! Here’s hoping that you got some sweet presents and have a great day with those that you love.
Hey!
Listen!
All a ya!
Merry Giftsmas!
Merry Xmas to you and your family too Mr Jimu san!
Share share :-p
lol so weird to read that with english spelling! Took me a min to work out what you meant 😉
It’s how Sodom speaks Japanese in Street Fighter Alpha
rq87.flyingomelette.com/FF/OS/sodq.html
Because nothing says Christmas more than ripping lines of coke with a politician… http://imgur.com/gallery/ocwlUgl
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!
Hahaha. Oh that’s perfect.
Everyone’s finally gone. It wasn’t as bad as I expected. My uncle and his missus and one of my cousins came so it was nice to actually have some educated people to talk to. Although I don’t envy her doing medicine doing 17 week semesters…
Now I just need to find things to buy. Might buy that Xbox one. Maybe.
DO IT!
One of the games has a guy named Ben in it and he’s supposed to be that cool party animal rebel friend!
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/HXHP0tGeezw/maxresdefault.jpg
Dontcha just wanna punch him? 😛
A little bit 😛 But I’m not a cool party animal/rebel so can’t relate to his rumbumptious lifestyle!!
I think I’m gonna be stupidly boring and put all the money I got away and use it to buy my watch whenever they actually make one for me.
Merry Christmas all.
Food coma imminent.
I haven’t even had Christmas food yet 😛
Got baked ham with a cherry glaze with roast veggies for dinner followed by cheesecake, cherry I think.. But it could be mango, depends on which mum thinks is better lol.
Don Bradman Cricket get!
And it was under $30, too. \o/
Merry Christmas crazyguy
I just sold a bunch of trading cards so that I could afford to buy Talisman without topping up my wallet. An whole $1,49
So much crackling. I de-gloved a leg of ham before, and we decided to chuck that skin on for some crackling. Then my sister finished up with this salmon fillet that got cured in this gin, beetroot and carrot marinade, and someone decided to fry up the skin from that. And then we have pork belly in the oven as well.
CRACKLE CRACKLE
Nah man, you throw the ham skin out for the local ibis, well that’s what someone in my street did today and there’s like half a dozen of them in the local park chasing each other for it…
Oh we already dumped a bunch of meat down in the local park. That other ham and salmon that went off because of the dead fridge, my mum and sister put them in the bins down there so they wouldn’t stink our place out 😛
hahahaha, class.
@benny did you ever get Smash Wii U and if so, end up playing much?
I did get the bundle – but am yet to even take it out of the box!
I wrote a new Christmas poem. https://effluviumboy.wordpress.com/2014/12/25/reindeer-flames/
It’s real highbrow stuff. Probably a bit too precocious for most of you.
Erudite.
Twas a good day 🙂
Had some great food and had a lot of fun 🙂
It might sound cliched, but presents don’t mean all that much to me.
I’m all about the food and the fun 🙂
Plus I prefer giving presents 😀
Hope you all had a good day too 🙂
I present to you; Chilli The Kristmas Kelpie!
:’)
Well, fuck.
My Geelong Cats beer glass fell off the top of my wardrobe and shattered.
🙁
🙁
Obligatory joke about how my local team is better etc
Merry Christmas to all my amazing friends… Had an awesome Christmas eve (where food is eaten and presents exchanged up here) and woke up to nothing short of a Christmas miracle, the entire country side being covered in a beautiful layer of snow!… BEST.CHRISTMAS.EVER!
What about the rest of us?
An entire season of Zeitegeist for Christmas? Aww, @dkzeitgeist , you shouldn’t have.
Best Christmas gift ever.
I treat my lovers right.
Merry Xmas Everyone!
I have just awoken from a food coma (a good haul too BF4 which we played all night and Xbox money which I used to get Tomb Raider (I waited like a good boy and didn’t play the 360 version)
But now I have discover that XBL is down. Either lots of load from US Xmas logins or that hacking attack that Polygon was talking about!
So far this 25th of December I have managed in short order to:
-Have a snowball fight with the missus
-Make a snow angel
-Built a snowman
-Take 5 million photos
And finally caught a lovely cold!
Seriously though this is the best time I’ve had in ages… Hope everyone had an amazing Christmas also! Tomorrow I’m off to obtain some fireworks for new years… Going to be so awesome!
EDIT – Amazing Christmas page get! \o/
Best Christmas gift, my friend in England being over the moon at the gifts I got her for Christmas. That makes me so happy, and is all I want to see those I love enjoy what I got them.
The wonderful @transientmind gifted me a copy of Ziggurat on steam yesterday! I only discovered it like the day before, and it looked interesting enough.
Having played it, I can now confirm it is indeed quite a bit of fun! It’s like Hexen/Heretic, mixed with a dash of Rogue Legacy! Kind of hard to explain, but if you’re looking for some good single player fun, give it a whirl! 🙂
Transientmind is so
dreamykind!🙂 yeah! He’s a rockin fella! I have him something yesterday morning! Wasn’t expecting anything in return, then BAM! New game! And a good’n by the looks of it!
Now if only I could get someone to buy one of my trading cards on the marketplace! I need 7cents more to buy Rollers of the Realm!!!
haha w00t! opened steam again, and I’m exactly 7c richer!!! I can buy rollers of the realm now! SUCCESS!!!
Had a lovely Christmas day with the family.
Second best gift – Cards Against Humanity.
Best gift – while playing Cards Against Humanity with the family and Mum had to grab the ipad to look up ‘queefing’ .
“Oh. Oooooohhhhhh. Oh my… ” 😀
Mum, me and a friend had to look up “Pooping back and forth. Forever.” Because we had no idea what it was. We were in fits when we found out
Whoops I think our fridge is a little too cold. I put a Monster energy drink in there other day at the back and I just took it out and it is frozen heh.
@beardymcmuttonchops @beeawwb @cufcfan616 @dc @dkzeitgeist @freezespreston @gutsoup @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @sernobulus @strange @sughly @transientmind @welbot @virus__
Had a hectic Xmas? Wish you could just relax and unwind? Come to Freeze’s Quiet Night Inn for New Years Eve and sit back and relax with some games. Have a quiet talk with some friends over a drink. Tuck into a complimentary meal. Free lodging. Free limo* service from train station. Book now to avoid additional disappointment.
*not a limo
I gotta work on NYE, so I’m out I’m afraid :\
Hanging with Freezey sounds awesome as always, but I’ll get back to you buddy. 🙂
Hah. ‘Additional’.
I’m probably down for this. I will need to confirm with family to make sure.
Can I come? 😛
Yes!
Flight prices say no! 😛
I would so love to do this! But I can’t. Stoopid family. *grumble grumble*
Bring the family!
Anyone else tuning into the cricket?
We’re 3/115.
…is that good?
Well, I think it means they’re 115 touchdowns to our 3 slam dunks so it’s a close fought game.
Not really. Our current score is apparently 0.026086956521739
Golf rules. The lower the score, the better.
Was watching all day. Pretty good result at the end of play consider we lost Warner so early
Lords of the Fallen is $47 at EB right now. Might be Boxing Day only, unsure. I picked it up, thanks to @freezespreston’s recommendation, and an infusion of Xmas $$.
If you have a controller for PC you can pick it up for $20 until the end of today on Steam. I’m enjoying what I’ve played so far.
Picked up a Wii U Pro Controller and a Link Figurine from EB, as well as Legend of Korra Book 3, Patema Inverted, and Kabukimonogatari on Blu-ray from JB.
So, my sister wanted a CD player for Christmas, so I went around to try and find her one, but all the ones I could find were either really bad quality, or $400+ dollars, and not worth the price.
So instead I bought her this really nice portable Sony XR-5 and XR-2 speaker combo that works over bluetooth, since I just finished importing all her CDs to her iPod.
It wouldnt normally be cheap, but was on a really good special so picked them up.
I gave them to her today, since it was a bit more expensive than the other presents I bought.
Her response?
“This isn’t what I wanted. Why do I bother asking for things if people don’t listen”
She is the most ungrateful person I’ve ever met in my life.
She’s never getting anything from me ever again.
Yeesh.
Yeesh is right, little Phlanispo.
And now she’s confused as to why I’m mad / upset with her.
Next time just buy her the crappy one and if she’s still ungrateful, tell her that’s it. No more presents for her.
So how’s your new CD player & speakers, that have bluetooth?
My response would be:
“Okay, that’s fine, I wouldn’t mind some nice speakers anyway”
and walk away with her present.
Democracy 3: President Kieth
Part 3 – A Fallen Hero
It was the event that shook the nation. After surviving three separate assassination attempts, our great leader Kieth was felled by an attack from a group of black supremacists. Kieth’s entire cabinet was also murdered, the only survivor being the crown he elected to be his vice president. The Kieth Dominion Party collapsed in on itself. The Magenta Party joined up with the Revolutionary Army to form the mega-party known as the Magenta Revolutionaries. The black supremacists felt kinda bad about the whole ordeal, and delivered a eulogy at Kieth’s funeral.
However, through the dissolution of the Kieth Dominion Party, a new party rose from the ashes. A group of young supporters of Kieth formed The Young Kiethlanders to oppose
Abdul Hamid IIthe Magenta Revolutionaries. Kieth’s crown was nominated as head consultant.The Young Kiethlanders quickly rose to power, and, just like Kieth, led the way with sweeping change. Right off the bat, The Young Kiethlanders jacked up the income tax by ludicrous levels, cut NASA’s funding down to ‘big telescopes only,’ and signed the racial discrimination act that Kieth didn’t realise existed. These changes led to a near-instant surplus. Although the public opinion polls were dire at first, this quickly changed as the county’s credit rating became more and more awesome with every turn.
America was facing a crisis of crime and alcohol consumption, so The Young Kiethlanders fixed this by making light beer the only permitted form of alcohol, and giving police officers sub-machine guns. Surprisingly, no one really cared. Crime plummetted, and the opinion polls got better and better.
Sadly, the global economy completely failed and went into a recession. By jacking up the tax some more, America managed to run at a surplus despite. Sadly, this meant the government could not afford to pay for any new programs, so they did absolutely nothing for about three terms. Right before the election, they gave the CIA a ring to see how things were going.
Well, shit. A group of rebels were armed and ready to attack the government at any moment. The Young Kiethlanders tried to increase NSA spending to increase security, but this wouldn’t come into effect until after the election. So, it was pretty much up to RNG to see whether the government would be assassinated before the election. The government prayed to Kieth, and Kieth provided.
America reached its election without a single assassination. The Young Kiethlanders rocked the election, winning by a huge margin.
The Young Kiethlanders have one more term in office left. Will they survive? Will Kieth return? Will Stacey choose Tristan or Chad?
Ok that’s annoying. After a short while of playing Elite, the new monitor seems to want to just randomly white-out. No idea why. And nothing I can do to fix it but turn it off and on again.
Dammit and just when I’d gotten used to it too…
There’s a leak in your ship…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greyout
So realistic!
I’ve been playing a ROM of an Ice Hockey game for the NES a lot. That is all.
Is it blades of steel?
If not change ROMs and play blades of steel
Nah, just regular creatively titled Ice Hockey.
Put in blades of steel now »:-|
No one does anything on new years day, right? Maybe some of the vic Taybies should come over for lunch at my house. Everyone brings one item of food and we’d probably have plenty.
I wish my house was bigger though
You should tag them! 😛
Also I haven’t had a chance to have a look for Just Dance 4 yet, sorry! =(
That’s alright. I just want to use it to lose some holiday weight while having fun =D Mind you, I feel like playing starships and Video killed the radio star
Lords of the Fallen players, @sernobulus @freezespreston ect.
I’m kinda stuck, anyone got any advice?
I’m at the bit just past the smith, have to smash a stone or whatever to stop the bad dudes from dimension traveling.How do you unlock the orange seal across the big circle area? I have explored everywhere, I think, but no key or switch or killed dude opens it.
Any help would be appreciated, I have no idea what to do.
There should be stairs up somewhere in that “arena” area
Yeah,
I killed the 2-hand dude in the arena and got the Tyrant Heart, went up the stairs, killed everyone there, went down the stairs in the circle area to the left, killed those dudes, opened the gates to the arena there, opened the rune sealed door, got loot.Then went back up, found a path next to the statue to the open snow area, found the hidden save shard in the canyon to the right, explored the canyon and killed the spider but it was a dead end.
Then went back to the snow area, killed everyone there, got the Tyrant Heart off that dude but again; the area is a dead end.
Then went back and opened one of the locked doors in the Western Antechamber, but there is still one door and a locked chest I can’t open.
And that’s it: as far as I can tell, nowhere else to go.
I gotta be missing something but damned if I can see what.
I played up to the First Warden and got my ass kicked, haven’t had a chance to play again since.
Got Sam and Max Seasons 2 & 3 in my cart… not sure if I should get them… :\
Did you get them? You totally got them, didn’t you! 😉
Yes. I just got them. 🙂
@greenius: http://www.siliconera.com/2014/12/25/heres-extended-version-song-xenoblade-chronicles-x/
@powalen shared it with me already 😀
Love my family… but… I’m glad I’m going home tomorrow!
It’s been great but some of my family… actually, make that my sister and dad, just subconsciously rub me the wrong way after a day or two and I’m ready to snap.
Couple all that with an almost permanent hangover, constant consumption of alcohol in one form or another, too much rich food so I’m not sleeping well, daughter not sleeping well in a strange house…. BLARGH!
I just want to go home and sleep in my own bed, drink juice from the bottle and eat weetbix for breakfast. 🙁
All that aside… cleared some of Binding of Isaac today (cleared ‘Mom’ for the first time) in a quiet moment… Also started reading The Way of Kings for the second time round… already thoroughly enjoying it (again!) only 52 pages in.
Yeah, my mind gets into a high alert state when with family for too long. You can’t go home again…
OTHERWISE CRAZY ENSUES.
Isaac 😀
Clarke
Asimov!
Hayes
Oops! I had to Google them all but I should’ve known 2 of them 🙁
Family is the best, in small doses.
I don’t want to spend a long amount of time with my entire family together.
Everyone is so boisterous, and has clashing personalities, while I just sot on the outskirts.
I’m actually kind of looking forward to not seeing them as often when I move away, as bad as that sounds :3
I know the feeling man, my Dad’s been here since Wednesday and I’m ready to friggin’ throttle him and he’s still here for another 2 days yet.
He’s driving us all insane, the in-laws just laugh at him, but the stupid fool doesn’t realize that they’re making fun of him.
So glad I’ve got work all day today and tomorrow. Rather be at work than be around him any day.
Monday can’t come soon enough.
AAARRRRGGGHHH!!!!!
Titanfall finally has a ‘the floor is lava’ mode. I’ve been wanting this since day 1. I’m so happy.
I bought Mr. Strange ‘The Crew’ for Christmas.
Worst present ever.
Mr. Strange only had Christmas and Boxing Day off work and could only play his new game once due to its ridiculous “Online Only” nature and the little kiddies who ruined loads of peoples’ Christmas’ by attacking PSN and XBL.
Aw man, that’s not good. :'(
And they tell us always online is a good thing >_>
Not really the worst present ever. More like worst timing ever! The present itself is pretty good!
THE FUTURE!
Yeah forced online is the worst. All games should have an offline mode.Anyone want to verse me 1 v 1 in Smash Bros in “For Glory” style (2/3 stock, no items, on Omega stages)? I feel like trying out some new combos’n stuff! 😀 (@liondrive @crazyguy1990 anyone else :P?)
Also, @beavwa – when are you guys back from QLD? I think I need to set a reminder to ask you to MH3U or I’ll totally forget 😛
Tomorrow!
Family stuff pretty much done for the holidays, now there’ll be a bit of time for a holiday at home.
Groovy! I’ll keep that “early Jan” time frame in mind (unless you want to play earlier?)
Any time from tomorrow!
I’ll be back at work Monday week. Still happy with evening / weekend after that while you’re feeling like hunting.
Back on the 29th!? D:
Monday week (5th)
I don’t get it :P. How come the “week” implies the 5th? Seriously just wondering as these tend to go over my head 😛
I’m back to work then too.
Short way of saying Monday in a week I guess. Clearer than using next Monday as opposed to this Monday or something.
Oh, and once I’m back at work, there’s still school holidays until after Australia day, and I’m not the only monster hunter in the house…
😀
@princesspipster – are you G Rank? I’ve been on HR7 quests for ages, just kind of want to rush through the key quests and reach the elusive HR8+. I’ve always wondered if it’s possible to do 2 player online from the same console (someone on 3DS, someone on Wii U) then we can all play and everyone wins! 😀
Not possible AFAIK. Generally it’s been local co-op or one online and one solo for us.
I’ll be up for it tomorrow.
PSN down sucks donkeys. 🙁 Fortunately AC Rogue doesn’t need it so I started that.
I’m interested to see how that is. Let me know how it compares to the other AC games, please!
So far it’s Black Flag with a twist, and slightly lower graphics quality (as I did AC4 on PS4…). And more icebergs.
If you enjoy naval battles, dodgy sailing mechanics and pottering about collecting treasure from islands, it’s not a bad effort. Story so far is engaging too.
Thanks!
I think I’ll check out Rogue when it eventually lands in the Strange bin. AKA the bargain bin. 😛
So happy Diablo III isn’t always online for consoles. (Oh yeah, I finally own it…got it for Christmas! :D)
I played a couple times over the last few days, and just played it all morning today. So damn fun!
We’ll have to play coop sometime! Maybe with Freeze too! Enjoy, Strangey!
PS4 buddies? I’ll have to get PSN for this. I’m keen!
PS4 best buddies! I’ll even use headset too! 😀
Diablo III plays so nicely on consoles. I can’t believe I am saying this but I prefer it to the PC version.
I couldn’t enjoy Diablo 3 on PC at all.
Too much pointing and clicking for me.
It works so well with twin analogue sticks though 🙂
Which console did you get it for? I’ve been playing it on PS3
I got the PS4 version.
I think I’m going to raid EB for games this afternoon.
I’ve been eyeing off the Walking Dead seasons 1 and 2 for PS4, but don’t actually know if I want them or not :\
They look interesting, but they also don’t really look like my kind of game either :\
Maybe Tomb Raider?
Maybe Wolfenstein?
Maybe Pikmin?
Maybe Lords of the Fallen?
I don’t know what to get 🙁
Guess it depends on prices too though :3
Whilst The Walking Dead is good. If you have the choice i’d suggest get The Wolf Among Us.
WD s1&2 are $6.25 each on US PSN
Tom Raider is really good. Shockingly so for me.
+1 for Tomb Raider. It is rather amazing.
Not super difficult sure, but certainly scratched an itch I didn’t know I had earlier this year.
I love Gravity Falls 😀
I’ve had a few episodes of the second season for a while but didn’t get around to watching them until the other day. It’s just as awesome as the first season, funny and with excellent writing!
I still find it weird that it’s on Disney though since there’s some pretty crazy themes hidden in the jokes!
Man, I need to watch more of Season 2. I put it down since its release schedule’s so erratic, but it has been quite a while…
Thanks Greenman!
Same here. Just going to wait until season two is over. Disney really aren’t helping that show by messing about with the schedule so damn much.
Yeah, but now that I’ve watched another episode it’s reminded me that it’s the best show on TV now that Korra’s ended, so I have to watch more. MORE!
Who is “Seaman of Sealand” on Steam?
How goes everybody?
I am play the Persona Q, sooooo slooooow
Hey Jimu!
What’re u doing here!
Hi, @DC
I like PQ. It’s good fun once you get the sub Personas, really encourages you to use magic.
Yeah doing all that, not bad , just sloooooooow
No. You’re just shit at the game.
Git gud.
*faints*
Oh yeah, it’s definitely slow, but I find it does work pretty well for commutes and stuff.
Maybe that’s it. Not commuting atm
If there are much more levels to this Wonderland dungeon, I dunno how I’ll feel about it…
Ha!
I’ve spent 6-7 registered hours just on the first 3 floors of Wonderland. Maybe another hour or so of lost progress.
Good times.
I don’t like how it forces you to leave so often.
First I had no mp, then I wasn’t strong enough, then my bag got full & now I have too many demons.
The short cuts are nice but you spend more time retreading the same shit over & over.
I bumped it down to easy, not because I was dying, but because I was getting bored.
Not a bad game at all, fun combat & the mapping is fine. But yeah.
I slapped it on Hard mode.
Every room I manage to map feels like actual progress, though the number of shortcuts is a lot higher than what I’m used to.
Enemy balance is still questionable, king beetle thing wrecks my party even though everything else on that floor is easy to fight. Might just be a one off case though.
I think they’ve managed a good balance with the Sub-Personas acting as a buffer for HP and MP in battle, and smart management prolongs the time you’re in the labyrinth, and compensates for the low max HP&MP/high MP skills use dynamic.
I’m having trouble getting over the party system though. One of Etrian’s strong points was forming a party of your own and tailoring them to your needs and testing out their success; and there was a lot of satisfaction in that for me. I’m a numbers guy, and at my worst I will obsessively min/max skills and stats. Q has lost that completely for me.
Still a solid game, but… yeah.
@blaghman
Beat the first dungeon last night, big cut scene & a lot more options opened up, hopefully make for a more interesting time.
I’ll keep playing on easy just so I don’t have to re-do so much.
There’s nothing I have a major problem with, I just don’t have the patience to rinse & repeat that much.
I think I’ve lost about 2-3 hours of progress so far. Does seem to go way faster once you’ve mapped it though, even if the shortcuts aren’t unlocked.
Dammit, looks like Interstellar isn’t showing at Imax any more. There were sessions up just the other day!
Stupid Christmas stuff getting in the way.
I still haven’t seen it because the few chances I’ve had were between sessions 🙁
Movies are jerks.
More like theatres, but yeah!
I don’t think I’ve had lunch all week.
Looked at Tomb Raider and Blackflag, but ended up not picking up anything :\
Might save the voucher(s) till I actually know what game I want, whenever that may be :3
Best part is EB gift cards don’t expire so you’re good unless you lose the bottom half with the barcode and such on it cause you need that bit 😛
I think I’m gonna try and date more next year. Put myself out there. It’s terrifying prospect, though. Apps are terrifying. Clubs are terrifying. People are terrifying. TERROR! D:
All the ladies will swarm towards you! *swoon*
I just don’t venture into that world anymore, some reason I just don’t find it appealing D=
Something I’ve never really tried properly. Self-esteem issues and all that, but something I wanna work on.
That’s the spirit man, more power to you! I’m sure there’s a lovely person out there who is perfect for you!
*upvote*
*favourite*
Dating will be good to you, DC 🙂
There’ll be plenty interested in you too, trust me 😉
I don’t even know if it’s dating I want. Maybe just being around more people, more often. Build my confidence to make eye contact and not run with arms flailing. 😛
That’s why it will be good 🙂
Getting more out there will be good for your confidence and your self-esteem.
You’ll be making eye contact just fine in no time 🙂
Maybe you’ll even start flirting!
Oooh!
DC = Dreamy Casanova! *swoons*
I think I’m getting ahead of myself :3
Still, I’m proud of you and your new found resolve 🙂
Dating won’t be hard for you 😉
Oh you.
If you bat those pretty eyes and say, “Oh you”, that’d be flirting 😉
*runs with arms flailing*
Hahahaha! 😀
Don’t forget about us :'(
*clingy*
Join a club.
I mean it – go find a sporting or social club and meet lots of people who do fun things. The bigger the better. I know SO many people who had found a partner they met through dragonboat paddling. Sport is a good way to meet people, and it makes you feel better about yourself too. Post training coffee/breakfast/beer is such a nice way to spend your time and get to know people – and even if you don’t find a date, there’s nothing wrong with having a few more friends.
Good advice. 😀 (And based on making friends from Kotaku it makes sense!)
Start here and run for free: http://www.parkrun.com.au
I want to lose weight before I try.
Problem is I’ve been wanting that for 3 years. :/
I’ve been making excuses too for ages. Get my teeth fixed. Go to gym. Get job. (Even when I had job I still made excuses.) I think it might be a defense mechanism. We got to try, Blaghs. You’re the nicest guy and there’s a person out there waiting for you.
…
Too sappy. *shoots self*
You know what my biggest issue is? I am shallow as shit. I want someone nice, smart, polite, and pretty.
And you know what, I don’t deserve that.
You’re not alone. That’s why I’m not a fan of apps. Hard not to be a little superficial or shallow. I think meeting someone face-to-face and getting to know them in person is helpful in getting past shallowness. 🙂
Yeah.
And how the shit do I meet people in person?
I really am fine once I start talking to people, but I don’t know how to do that.
Life, man. I feel like Soos in that episode of Gravity Falls that you probably haven’t watched.
I’ve watched that ep. Was amazing! 😀
I watched that earlier too 😛
Damn poor man Soos got a date 🙁
Cut down on animal products & cut sugary crap completely.
Worked for me.
Believe me Jimujim, I know what I need to do in theory.
I’m just really, really bad at the in practice part.
I don’t think you’re shallow, sounds more like low self esteem to me.
Losing weight is hard. Same advice to you as to DC. Go join a club, have a go at a sport and the fitness and weightloss will come with it. Exercising is easier when it’s fun and when you’re doing it with friends and working towards a goal.
You’ll be fine, I’m sure!
I need to do the same though. I just need some kind of companionship or… something. Anything. I hardly feel like I have a purpose without anyone with me anymore. It’s so friggen lonely.
I hear that, buddy. It’s a lonely thing. You’ll do fine too!
Sad fact: I haven’t been hugged since November. I miss human contact. 😛
I haven’t had a hug in almost a month now (unless you count my mum but I kinda don’t :P) and god I miss them. I just hope there’s some girl who can hug as good as Oliver did (that sounds really gay, shut up :P) I miss just standing there listening to somebody elses heartbeat and breathing…
Strange won’t get angry that I borrowed her hugasaurus, right?
*hugasaurus*
*flees*
Oliver will come back eventually :'(
And since everyone else is opening up… I’m in that same boat :P. I just need a solid companion I can do stuff with. Shopping, movies, going out to eat etc. My post high school hermitness definitely didn’t help. but at least work is making me be more social again.
I highly doubt he’ll ever come back here 🙁 Maybe to visit his family (and hopefully me) like once a year but that’ll be it.
And yeah, that’s what I want 😛 Just somebody to do things with. Unfortunately being in the computing school doesn’t give me much of a chance to meet people I can slightly relate to or want to be around, save for a few. The weird thing is though I’m much happier being around people who are nothing like me. Relationships of any kind are a lot more interesting when you’re both completely different!
Oh yeah, this post has rekindled my resolve to take you clubbing next visit 😉
*runs away with arms flailing*
He showed me his favourite gay club D:
Thankfully he just pointed it out from a distance 😛
We were only going to go for lunch!
It’s really nice!
Next visit! XP
So never, then? 😛
Don’t go breaking my heart, Greenius :'(
He couldn’t if he tried.
Please, you’ll enjoy it 😛
Or a pub / bar!
I’ll help you find somebody! ;D
*stealthily creeps away*
*steps on twig*
Please, I have it marked in my calendar that your 18th is in…
*checks calendar*
March sometime, so there ain’t no getting out of clubbing for you! ;P
Too early for new years resolutions!
Similar thoughts may be echoing around in my own headI present to you the super ultra fun Isaac seed!
It’s a special level seed so you literally can’t win the game, but it’s a good way to chillax and be super overpowered 😀
The seed is “BASEMENT” and it makes the first two levels (The Basement levels) repeat indefinitely. This means enemies and bosses are super easy and since the levels are small it’s really easy to rush to the item room and boss room and get all the goodies. ALL OF THEM.
@f4ction @sernobulus @freezespreston @evilmonkey @sunsoar @masha2932
Try it out for a bit!
@sunsoar77 as if you have numbers! 😛
Yeah… Sorry about that.. Someone had taken sunsoar@hotmail when I was 12 and it recommended sunsoar77 so I took it… It’s stuck since. =D
Interesting. I’ll try it out when I get home. Remind me on Monday!
It was the perfect way to play after my -16 The Lost streak…
If you don’t know about The Lost it’s…
a secret character that has no HP and dies in one hit 🙁via @f4ction 😛
SO GREEN
Sup y’all..?
I had a good Christmas/Boxing Day. Was just mum, dad & I on Christmas Day, which it has been for I dunno how long now, but it’s always nice. We had a cherry glazed ham with roast veggies, and a cherry cheesecake for dessert, which mum made, it was awesome.
Boxing Day consisted of dinner with some family friends who don’t have family anymore/or in Australia, it’s been a bit of a tradition the last while. That was good, had turkey, ham & salads for that meal along with a mango cheesecake which mum also made. Boxing Day also meant cheap things to buy in sales, so I ended up buying mum & dad’s Christmas presents which was a blu-ray player for dad, and mum got a new steam mop & steam cleaner, two things she wanted since the previous ones broke only a few weeks back.
So now i’m here catching up with internet stuff, listening to some ZZ Top and drinking rum.
Mango cheesecake? *drools*
Yeeeeeep! It was good! Got topped with whipped double cream & sliced mango 😛
Back home from Christmas with all the fam… Knackered…
Had friends over for dinner who are visiting from Sydney…
Ordered the local Malaysian for dinner…
Now can’t sit still…
So. Much. MSG.
@thecracks @freezespreston @sernobulus @fled @rize @cakesmith: I think this is everyone that’s interested in checking out FFXIV again? I wasn’t originally going to jump in until the expansion but I have to admit the Thief/Ninja is mighty tempting, so if everyone’s jumping back in I will too.
Wondering where everyone is at as far as that goes? I grabbed a $13 PS3 copy (free upgrade to PS4 in March) from OGS on Friday night along with a 60-day time card. Got to wait a bit for the game itself to arrive but the time card is digital so can sign up and start straight away. If the plan was to start again straight away I can jump in, but might want to wait for everyone to be on same platform?
The servers are located in Canada for NA/EU and Japan for JP. Latency is better to Japan by ~100ms so a JP server is suggested. When I last played, the bulk of the Oceanic players gravitated to Tonberry and then Tiamat when Tonberry was full at launch. Masamune is the unofficial oceanic legacy server for JP but I don’t think anyone has a Legacy character (?). I do, but she’s on some random server somewhere and I didn’t transfer her. If we wanted to go for a NA server, then Behemoth is the one.
I have a high-level character on Tonberry but will happily re-roll with you guys if we’re doing this, regardless of where we end up.
If you are interested and intending to give it a shot, have any of you given any thought to the classes you’re interested in? I’ve played most of them a bit so can give you some basic ideas what to expect with any of them.
Never played MMOs before so this is all entirely new to me.
Don’t worry about that. Several of us have, and FFXIV is a good one for starting out in as it eases you into everything.
Class-wise, it’s a standard ‘holy trinity’ setup. Tanks, Healers and Damage. Tank takes and holds the attention of enemies, healer keeps the tank (and the rest of the group, but especially the tank) alive, and the damage classes do the killing.
There’s currently two tanking classes, Marauder/Warrior and Gladiator/Paladin. Note that in all cases at the moment, all the classes have a starting class, and then later in the game they gain a ‘job’ which is like a specialization that adds more abilities etc. Marauder/Warrior uses a big axe and tanks mainly by dodging and self-healing. Gladiator/Paladin is your traditional sword and board tank, so all about blocking stuff on a shield and damage mitigation. Paladins are easier to heal and marginally easier to play as a tank. You can’t really play as a damage dealer with these classes.
There’s also two healing classes. Conjurer/White Mage is a pure healer class, where the Arcanist has two job specs, one for healing (Scholar) and one for damage (Summoner). Conjurer is quite slow to play with outside of a group, I’ve found. They’re very much exactly what you think of when you think ‘white mage’. A few damaging abilities so they can solo, but not as effective at it as others. Arcanist meanwhile is a pet class. They have a summoned monster to help them out – base has various types of Carbuncle, Summoner gets Ifrit, Garuda and Titan summons, and Scholar gets a fairy summon. Where the White Mage healing is a lot of direct, big heal spells, Scholar has a lot of heal-over-time type spells.
The rest of them are damage. Pugilist/Monk is what I played highest. You get in close and punch shit in the face. It’s a complex class to play. Basically there’s a bunch of stances, and certain abilities are usable from certain stances, and using them shifts to a different stance. There’s a bunch of debuffs you need to put down to do best damage, so it can feel a bit like spinning plates with all the stuff you have to keep in mind. Lancer/Dragoon is the other melee damage dealer. You poke shit with a spear. Dragoon’s an easy class to play and fairly powerful. It has a few abilities where you’ll gain a bonus if you do them in a certain sequence, but it’s not complex like the Monk. There’s also the Rogue/Ninja, but I can’t tell you much about them beyond that they use daggers and poisons. Ninja seems like it plays differently too.
There’s also two ranged classes. Archer/Bard is a non-magical ranged class that uses bows. Very strong in groups. Bard also brings party-wide buffs in the form of magical songs. Pretty much exactly what you’d expect aside from that. The other ranged class is the Thaurmaturge/Black Mage, which is all about blowing the shit out of things with magic. They have a simple mechanic where casting frost or fire increases their tendency toward the frost or fire side. Casting more fire spells increases damage but also mana use, and casting frost spells decreases damage but also mana usage.
There’s also gathering & crafting classes, for gathering wood & herbs, metals and fish, and for crafting by carpentry, cooking, alchemy, armorsmithing, blacksmithing, goldsmithing or weaving.
You can be any class. You pick one to start with as your primary one, but to swap to another class requires progressing a little way into the game, and then visiting the trainer for that class. Once you’ve done so you can swap to another class and level it up from 1 by simply equipping whatever the classes main hand tool or weapon is, eg pick up a bow to become an archer.
I have absolutely zero knowledge of how FFXIV works, in terms of anything.
I’ve played several MMOs, so know what to expect in that respect, though.
Busy today and possibly tomorrow, but should be good after that for whenever people want to start.
Just tell me which server we end up on, and I’ll be good to go.
If you’ve played WoW:
– Gladiator/Paladin = Protection Warrior
– Marauder/Warror = Blood DK
– Thaurmaturge/Black Mage = Balance Druid
– Arcanist/Summoner = Affliction Warlock
– Conjurer/White Mage = Holy Priest
– Pugilist/Monk = Feral Druid
– Lancer/Dragoon = Retribution Paladin I guess
– Archer/Bard = Hunter without the pet
– Arcanist/Scholar = Restoration Druid with a pet
– Rogue/Monk = Subtlety Rogue
You, ser, are an enabler :p
I have yet to hear anything from Ozgame about shipping my game so who knows when I will get it.
I’m the same. 🙁 Hopefully it’ll ship next week.
Mum just left to have coffee with friends.
*stares at clock*
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
In my experience coffee at 11:15pm only really means one thing, little Phlanispo.
One day you’ll learn about the birds and the bees 😉
Whaaaa? You’ve trained birds and bees to be baristas over there? You Perth people are weird.
It’s not like they have anything better to do over there!
Stupid PSN still down so no Destiny still.
So I’ve fired up Elite: Dangerous. Joystick set up. Game eventually synced and ready to play. Haven’t looked at it since early beta. It’s looking great. I’ve done all the training missions now and ready to head out into the wild black yonder…
SO!!!! @pixel_the_ferret_viking @mrtaco @jocon and anyone else who has previously mentioned it… who’s playing? Pixel’s away til Jan IIRC, but happy to find friends out there.
Mmm… definitely not me. Nope, certainly not at all.
*awkwardly stands in front of clock*
I’m back in the country on the 3rd and will be keen as shit to get into that XD
How does the game handle friends lists and stuff like that?
I don’t know as I don’t have any yet… 🙂
Woah, I just got an invite to be a moderator of a subreddit.
Must get up & make son breakfast.
Too tired from watching movies til late.
Movies are jerks.
Just watched City Hunter again.
Jackie is da bes!
Gala Gala Happy!
@gutsoup
*sigh* I got an email from Bravado stating that the Slipknot merch store was having a 75% off sale, I thought great i’ll buy more stuff.. So I found a few things I wanted, two being two box sets, of which one I already own but still I can’t say no for $18 since I paid $130 for it when it came out in ’09. So I get to the checkout on the site and the only postage available is priority shipping for $70. What I have in the cart barely comes to $50. I can see where they’re making their money, forcing more expensive shipping on to everything. Even with just 2 shirts in the cart it comes to $30+ for shipping instead of the normal $17 like I usually pay.
Ok, so I’ve decided what I’m (mostly) gonna do with my JB and EB vouchers!
I’m going to buy the Walking Dead Season 2 and Tomb Raider, and see what else rounds out the voucher from EB (unless I make a US PS+ and get both the Walking Deads for cheap), and I’m going to preorder the Order 1886 from JB 🙂
I should go slap a pre-order down on Order 1886..
Oooh, so empty in here…
I guess it is a Sunday :3
Hmmm, so lonely…
So very very lonely…
Hi! *waves*
There are still people here!
Hello CookingMama!
Did you have a nice Christmas?
Mostly good. Batboy is still hoping that there might be a few unopened presents lying about. Glad to see the back of christmas though, and hoping to have a relaxing NY.
Am back. Will be on Destiny later… if PSN etc.
Oh cool!
Do you want to try helping me with some stuff again maybe?
Feel free to say no 🙂
Absolutely. I’m just levelling weapons, and my alt and alt2 are both good enough to come doing bounty runs up to L28, so happy to help you crack out strikes.
Is PSN back? 🙂
I was able to play Destiny last night, but I hear digital copies of games may still be having issues :\
I have a couple of exotic bounties to do.
There’s complete a Nightfall / Heroic strike, kill enemies in a Nightfall Strike (might be too hard for 2 people though), and that same one we tried last time (kill Xyur) :3
I need nightfall kills too. 🙂
YES IT’S BACK BABY!!!! \o/
TV cabinet of 7 years finally bit the dust and I was organising the contents of the drawers and shelves in prep for the shopping venture tomorrow to find a new one.
The sorting of ‘DVD’ boxes went something like this Demon’s Souls, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Disney Princess Stories Vol. 2, Uncharted, Shrek the Third, Dora saves the Mermaids, Super Mario Galaxy, Tangled (disc only), Disney Princess Enchanted Tales, Final Fantasy 13, MGS4, Tangled Read & Listen DVD/Book combo, Castlevania Lords of Shadow, Mad World… and so on… Now to find a cabinet that can hold all of this… stuff… in some semblance of order.
Not looking forward to tomorrow…
Coffee guy is here again! :O
@mrtaco’s naming conventions spread! D:
I tried to read his name badge, but ended up looking at his b…
Smile.
He has a nice smile.
A nice, perky, smile.
He has his name tag on his butt? You Perth folk are confounding!
I wish people had their name tags on their butts!
My life would be so much simpler!
Though, it may take some if the fun out of it…
Alas, he was walking past me.
Didn’t get a look at his name tag, cause I didn’t want him seeing me trying to read his name, but he can’t see me checking out his butt! 😀
A bit of harmless perving is healthy, you all do it!
Only when I’m alone…
Oh jesus I sound like a creep… /o\
My missus does the perving for me, then point out anything that’s worth checking out…
We have a good relationship 😛
IM THINKING OF A NUMBER BETWEEN 1 – 2.
Clues: Its a whole number no decimal point.
2 guesses
winner gets a copy of Garry’s Mod, that is currently gathering up digital dust in my inventory…
GO!
0!
DAMN IT VIRUS!!!! YOU WIN!
youre not on my friends list!
whats your steam name?
I already have Garry’s Mod 😛
But here’s my Steam profile if interested in adding me lol.
– !
DAMN YOU GREENIUS, YOU ALREADY OWN GMOD!
Wait, I do? I didn’t even want it though 😛
EDIT: Huh… I do!
Halo 2 Anniversary’s remastered cutscenes look pretty kewl!
Oh yeah, well so’s your face!
@greenius has a remastered face?
Unfortunately he has no privileges :/
http://i.imgur.com/efOPNMF.jpg
I remembered why I was so eager to move out and am so eager to get back to Hobart. The complete and utter lack of freedom and the inability for me to have even the slightest bit of independence. It’s driving me insane.
Bought Valiant Hearts on PS3 because it was $8, and it’s not as good as I thought it would be…
Everyone made it out to be this great thing. It looks nice, but it’s progressing really slowly and the gameplay isn’t all that flash either…the instructions are really basic, and I scratch my head at some puzzles, because it’s not clear what I’m meant to be doing.
Granted, I haven’t finished the first chapter yet (defeating the baron), but I thought it would be a lot better than it actually is…
I thought the best bit of Valiant Hearts is the story, and the fact that it brings to life real people and events of WW1.
I also liked how it built. Start of the game felt the weakest to me as well, but through these mechanics and visual storytelling it gets pretty incredible when you bond with the characters and their predicaments.
Yeah. At the moment, I think the story has great potential that perhaps isn’t fully realised in the first chapter.
I think once I get to know the characters this game will have amazing potential. I was just slightly let down afetr the first chapter
Yeah, I found the same thing.
The gameplay is a little jarring, for me anyway.
The style and story are both amazing, but playing it felt a little too sluggish, I think.
Good game though.
I’ll finish it off one of these days!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0u4M6vppCI this may be the best thing I’ve seen on youtube this year
I had the weirdest crush on Rob Cantor after watching that earlier this year. So handsome. XD
Time to go watch either; Top Gear Christmas Special, The Interview or Dumb & Dumber To. All stupid in their own unique ways heh.
You should watch Mean Girls.
I don’t have a copy. Plus Jeremy Clarkson is practically part of the Mean Girls group, all he does is boss around Hammond & May and make fun of them and they still stick around 😛
… You should watch Mean Girls.
… Or Clueless.
Naaaaah 😛
My love of that movie is one of my deepest secrets…
Why is it secret? It’s a terrific movie!
Everyone should see it!
Everyone should love it!
In a couple of days we will be officially half way (5 years) into the decade. What are your top 10 games of the 2010s so far?
That’s quite a sombre thought…
🙁
Game of the year all years
Mass Effect 2
Fallout: New Vegas
FTL
Halo: Reach
Civilization V
Wolfenstein: The New Order
The Binding of Isaac/Wrath of the Lamb
Journey
The Dig: 20th Anniversary HD Remix
Isaac :D!
Isaac!
Still just can’t get into Rebirth, I’m afraid. I think part of it is the new art. I don’t know why they decided to make it more retro and pixel-y. 🙁
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
Rebirth is so much better man, keep at it! I wasn’t initially a fan at first (I don’t mind the art though) but the new features (enemies, bosses, items, characters) made it so much more worthwhile. It also doesn’t randomly slow down or freeze every couple of minutes! 😛
I’m already over 100 hours into it and have completed the game with every character except for one… *shakes fist*
(this has also reminded me to remind @freezespreston to use the BASEMENT seed!)
In no particular order:
Mass a Effect 2
Destiny
Black Ops 2 (Zombie mode ftw)
Fallout NV
Metro 2033
Assassins Creed Brotherhood (love Italy in this game)
The Walking Dead Season 1
Starbound
Gone Home
Hearthstone
Super Smash Bro’s Wii U
Europa Universalis IV (playtime says it all)
I could cull to five if needbe :p
Things have been hacked: http://www.businessinsider.com.au/hackers-released-13000-passwords-2014-12
Affected:
Amazon
Walmart
PlayStation Network
Xbox Live
Twitch.tv
Origin.com
Hulu Plus
Dell
Shutterstock
As well as some other websites.
Be wary of suspicious activity.
Nevermind, looks like a false alert repost of old 2012 hacks: http://www.databreaches.net/verifying-leaks-uncovers-fake-leaks/
Still be wary though.
I prefer to be vigilant.
OH MY GOD
INTERSTELLAR
OH MY GOD
Didya IMAX it?
Nah, no more sessions 🙁
Just went Dendy.
*pretends he knew what Dendy was without Googling*
*nods*
See you all in new TAY. 🙂
….or, y’know…stay in this one…
…is it just me or is there no new TAY this week? 😛
It appears there is no new TAY.
LONG LIVE OLD TAY.
If we get no new TAY @liondrive better start preparing for page 18.
Are we bringing back dick pic page 18?
Finally I can put faces to the names.
My former boss (promoted, so he’s boss of many more people than just my team now) went around offering to buy coffees for the people on skeleton crew. I already had a coffee but accepted anyway because he’d already asked four other people and gotten rejected.
Good thing I’ve switched to stevia tablets over sugar.
We all know how that ended in Breaking Bad for poor Lydia 😛
Well if I ever make enemies with a genius chemist/meth lord, there are probably easier ways for him to kill me than break into my secured office with a dose of ricin compressed into a tablet and insert it into the dispenser in my desk drawer. 😛
Hey, you never know 😛
Wow, yesterday was Stan Lee’s 92nd birthday. I did not think he was that old, I was under the impression he was at least 10 years younger.
New TAY for week of Monday 29 December! (Sorry about the delay)
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/12/talk-amongst-yourselves-308/
@jimu @greenius @thecracks @neo_kaiser @stickman @transientmind @phoenix @cufcfan616 @blaghman @georgestmichael @crazyguy1990 @dire_wolf @ontargett @trjn @strange @negativzero @phlanispo @scree @beavwa @renne @beeawwb @kermitron @highperformance @dc @coldcamv @freezepreston @virus__ @tech_knight @evilmonkey @batto @shane @sernobulus @janexo @thatteemo @popdart5 @jajabinks2 @gutsoup
@everyone else also! Only went through first page, sorry 😉
Merry Christmas! (Or Happy New Year?)
Class act! Thanks buddy!
*inappropriate hugs & kisses*
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/12/is-it-safe-is-it-not-safe-fox-host-speculates-metric-system-brought-down-airasia-flight/
I KNEW IT!