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Which is it TAY or WYWS? Morning.
Talking among ourselves but only while we’re sleeping
I’ll get my girlfriend to write post everything I say while I’m sleeptalking then. Be prepared for better posts than when I’m conscious
Monday-itus at it’s finest ^.^
Bleh, morning sucks
Heh… Stealth TAY.
Oh, and … SHINY
https://twitter.com/CannonFodderJnr/status/544215071501463552?s=09
Dear kickstarter, thanks for reminding me to back Shane’s Undad comics… Ends today, get in quick!
Argh, why doesn’t Kickstarter take paypal??
because it uses Amazon payments which is a direct competitor i believe
How confusing.
Man, every time 343i opens their mouths about Halo I hate them more and more.
Oh well, at least I hit a good stride with my current project and might be finished in a couple of weeks.
Now I just gotta get through the rest of the day after a night of troubled sleep.
yup my xbox one is now up for sale… and its all the Master Chief Collections fault…
Beta comes out in just 2 weeks! Should hold on for that man…there may still be hope. May.
Yeah, maybe they didn’t add in ADS and included some other system that… ok, seriously, it’s friggen ADS.
Yeah I have no idea what they’re thinking. Take the one popular FPS that doesn’t play like CoD and turn it into CoD? Why? Who are they making the game for?
Halo 4 already kind of disappointed me with the terrible third faction that weren’t fun to fight and which forced you to use guns that were generally terrible.
I’m against ADS (I’m actually pretty bored of it honestly, I rarely even use it in Borderlands now) but if they want to make a game with it then fine. I’m against it but it’s their choice.
What I hate is how they’re spinning the terms around to try and make it not sound like ADS when it is exactly like ADS.
Okay, I’m a dumb-arse, what is ADS?
Aim Down Sights.
How much? 😛
i have it advertised for $550 with kinect, dead rising 3, Ryse son of rome, Halo masterchief collection, complete in box.
might sound a bit pricey but was only bought in july, still have the receipt from JB hifi which covers the standard 12 month warranty, but i also have an extended warranty with Microsoft that covers it till either February or August 2017 so yeah… its all in mint condition, ive literally played it less than 10-15 hours….
on a rough guess, i finished Ryse (6hrs) played DR3 for about 10-20 mins, Halo MCC for about 2 hours… and a few indie games here and there…
I can get a new Xbox One for around $450 with Halo and Sunset from EB. Thanks though! 🙂
i know greenman bro, but you gotta start high to give enough leway for people to knock you down a peg or two!
$300 for the console and Halo 😛
They’re up to what, 50gb of patches that still doesn’t make the game work?
dont even get me started… it is broken in so many ways its not even funny…
http://i.imgur.com/YenGrqh.jpg
That’s just preparing you for the inevitable Assassins Creed/Halo cross-over project.
holy shit is that a leaked shot from the new terminator film?
I had an awesome glitch where my body glitched out of a banshee in mid air, the banshee went crashing down, but i remained in mid air flying around in a seated position flying the masterchief around as though he was still in it… i landed after a few minutes, but couldnt get out…
Yeah, I took mine back. Same reason. I’m done with it.
Damn. That was the only reason I’m considering buying an XBone. Looks like I’ll keep my money then and wonder why other people hold Halo with such high esteem
Well! Have I got a video for you!
🙂
This is just making want to watch Red vs Blue again 😛
Never played Halo except for 20 minutes of co-op years ago, but I love red vs Blue 😀
And even that has been ruined over the years. I refuse to watch RvB Season 12 after the broken shell of a series that was RvB Season 11.
When they made the switch to Halo 4 I stopped watching because I hate Halo 4 that much. I believe it’s fair.
Halo 4 is a lot harder to make machinima in due to 343i being stupid, and it kinda showed.
Yeah, they programmed in the ability to lower their weapons, but they forgot to program it remaining when the player crouched or walked.
Dammit. I superglued my hand together last night to stop myself from pulling it open again as I was doing stuff, but now it’s getting a little crackly and peely and annoying.
……. What??? o_0
Perfectly normal thing to say on a Monday morning
Should I have waited til Tuesday? 😛
That is an acceptable Tuesday situation 😀
If it doesn’t need stitches, a band-aid will do. If it does need stitches…GO TO A DAMN DOCTOR!!!! How’s it supposed to heal with superglue in the way?!
It doesn’t need (strange) stitches, but it can’t really be band-aided because it’s on my palm up at the top near my fingers. The glue seemed like a better solution to me 😛
There’s always a way to band-aid! Go to a chemist’s and ask them to help you find something that will work. Something that’s not toxic. 😛
Superglue is never a better solution!
Sure it is. It held it closed all night!
Dunno how it’ll go with rock climbing tonight though 😛 But hey, going by this chances are good that someone there will have some on them…
Should’ve gone with PVA glue. You’d get the satisfaction of peeling it off when it’s dried
I’ve used superglue for cuts for years. It works brilliantly if you have to remain very active around the injury site.
I didn’t realise this was tay. I am terrible
Well neither did Mark…
Morning. How were people’s weekends? I got some Starcraft II time in – haven’t played since Wings of Liberty and wow its changed
staring at my computer monitor, then at my ps4, then at my xbox one. also dozing off every few seconds whilst trying to decide what to play… this went on for 8 hours…
i played NOTHING and then gave up and went to bed early…Man I did the same thing, except replace xbox with books and anime I’ve already consumed.
Such a productive weekend.
I know exactly how you feel. Small games like the Binding of Isaac are great just to get into in times like that
Morning Gents!
11 Sleeps left till the holidays! Whats everyone got planned? Cant wait to see my bro’s reaction to his present… Built him an i7 based gaming pc. short of funds so we didnt get him a monitor keyboard mouse, but i have spare keyboards and mice he can use for a while, and my dads getting him the monitor!
So hoping for some suggestions with this one; i am absolutely stumped as to what to get the missus for christmas. Thing is, she doesnt really have any hobbies… she loves her movies and tv shows, she doesnt play games, no hobbies outside of this, except for maybe cake decorating, but she pretty much has everything cake related…
was going to buy her the new ipad air but she doesnt want one cause shes quite happy with her 3rd gen ipad. I know she wants a new phone, but im a couple of hundred short of getting her an iphone 6 (which is what shes wants…), theres no point in looking at a used one either, as i can get 15% off from the retail prices anyway through apple. and a used phone usually goes for more than that…
Holidays?
i get two weeks off… sorry to rub it in\! /o\
I get 3… starting end of this week!
I have Christmas day off…
Mr. Strange has similar “holidays” to you. But that’s only so he can take the 2 weeks off he needs to go to 70K. I imagine you’re similar due to Super Mega Kotaku Takes Japan trip?
Pretty much. Except I’m taking six weeks off to just do nothing either side of Japan trip. I have about 250 hours leave currently so why not?
I can take as many weeks off as I want, but I don’t get paid…
6 weeks, starting next week.
#TeacherLyfe
Cake Decorating classes? http://www.craftsy.com/classes/cake-decorating (These guys have an app, too so she can watch them on her iPad.)
And take it from one other who has an arty hobby…you can never have “pretty much everything” . 😛 There’s always new tools, new materials, new recipes, new techniques.
Vouchers for activities are always good – a massage, a facial, getting nails or hair done, a high tea, a harbour cruise lunch…
Soo… get your lady Netflix or a BD boxset with tons of extras perhaps?
Played some Destiny on the weekend to try out the new stuff. The new story missions are a lot better than previous missions from a narrative structure, though some work is still needed on the exposition. Mechanically things were a lot more interesting. The fights felt more like Vault of Glass stuff than the mindlessly holding down shoot fights of vanilla Destiny. Disappointingly, the new missions don’t really take you anywhere new. Some new rooms do open up, but you’re still running around the same Old Russia and Moon you’ve been to before. You’re also fighting the same enemies. There’s a few boss fights where the characters have a new attack or two, but it’s still the same old knights and wizards and thralls. This is a problem I had with old Destiny too, where visually there’s nothing to distinguish boss/important characters from canon fodder but for the name above their head.
I upgraded my already fully upgraded Thunderlord weapon, which I’m regreting. It now does 2 more damage than before, with the potential to be upgraded to 330 damage, but all the other upgrades I had for it – the increased stability and firing speed and stuff – is gone. If I were going to be playing a lot of Destiny I might not worry about it because I would eventually earn it all back, but I don’t think I’ll be playing Destiny that much, and for the few times I do play I’d rather have my old weapon than this new one.
I think overall the DLC is an improvement for the game, even if there were a few poor choices made in relation to it, but they still have a long wat to go, and the base version of the game is still classic Destiny, flaws and all. I haven’t tried out the strike or the raid, but from what I have played, and from what I’ve read on what else the DLC brings, it’s not really worth the $25.
For me Destiny ended with the base game. Paid my $60 and got a lot of fun for my money.
DLC has never been worth it and Destiny never looked to be changing that, even before it came out.
agreed, if season passes were more like $15 -$19 EVERYONE would be buying them… $35-$70 for some extra maps and a few more missions is basically zero value for me
Yeah, and Destiny was the perfect game to change that DLC price point. Solid core and massive hype behind it.
If they had halved the price of DLC they probably would have trippled the amount they sold and maybe even had a shot at the 10-year game they wanted.
But it’ll be dead in 6 months this way.
agreed i would have been all over the dlc for an extra 15-20..
Yeah, I rarely bother with DLC unless it’s part of a GOTY bundle. Only played this because it was part of the limited edition version of Destiny I got.
One thing I’ve had a problem with is exotics and how you get them. Hearing about an ‘evolving’ auto rifle or what have you that you can upgrade as you use it from a rare to a legendary and then to an exotic, that’s how I feel you should have been able to get exotics.
I reckon you should have been able to choose your weapon type at, say level 20 when you’ve had enough time to run around with each different type of weapon so you know your favourite (handgun, auto rifle, whatever) then you have the chance to upgrade one of those to a legendary and then to an exotic, choosing what element damage and what perks you want it to have.
This would’ve led to everyone having vastly different exotics rather than everyone buying the same exotics from Xur each week and turning the crucible into a Suros Regime fest
Eris’ storyline I’ve enjoyed though, but there needs to be more of those little one off missions I reckon to keep things interesting until the next DLC comes along. Introduce a one off quest giver every now and then, like the Queen’s Emissary but one that gives new quests rather than ‘hunt down this character from this existing story quest’.
As with a lot of people’s views, the basics of the game are good, more than good, just how the quests and rewards are handed out are sub par
I tried it for a couple hours on the weekend. At this rate, I’m not going to bother installing House of Wolves.
Maybe Destiny 2 will show me something interesting, but the hell I’m buying it on launch. There will be reviews and if they aren’t fucking glowing, I’m passing on the whole mess of disappointment.
Played an Xbox One for the first time on the weekend. My brother-in-law bought one and I have a key to his house!
woah… as a wrestling fan, i had no idea!
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/12/i-was-chris-benoit-playing-a-video-game-as-a-real-life-murderer/
What, that he did it, or that it’s being yanked from the CAW databases?
Either way that is a brilliant article – that kind of writing keeps me here at Kotaku.
agreed on the quality of the article… and i like the way he expressed both sides of the argument…
but yeah i had no idea that ever happened….
the double murder that is
It’s terribad. It was just after I stopped watching wrestling. I had a habit of deciding on a fav wrestler, only to have something terrible happen.
Shamrock – got his back busted by Jericho.
Jericho – got so many injuries he had to have years off, then came back a twat.
Benoit – went and killed his family.
…I still have a deep love for Mankind, as that guy seems indestructible and also a very nice human being.
wasnt Shamrocks back busted by Jericho’s bodyguard?
…you may be right. Actually, you are right.
Still, that was (over?) a decade ago, so my memory may have difficulty remembering the finer details beyond “NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO you prick.”
hahahaha! lol…
I don’t even give a shit about wrestling and I found it a really interesting piece to read.
Morning all.
Had a pretty good weekend, I played way too much GTA V and took like 1000 screen shots, there’s so much to admire in the little details and in such an expansive game it’s almost dumbfounding how much they’ve jammed into the world. This is my second play through & I still discover something new almost every time I play. I did discover that the money glitch still exists though. @virus (and anyone else planning on using the stock market to make money).
I also stayed up till 4am last night watching the Expendables 3, it was stupid, over the top, filled with corny jokes & unnecessary explosions but still entertaining in its dumb way.
Hope you all had a great weekend.
Details of GTA V money glitch (not an exploit a glitch that could steal your money :O )
On the PS3 your money limit was capped and if you went over $2.14 million it’d rollover into a negative figure and screw your game (if you had no back up saves). I read they’d patched it but instead they’ve just made it not roll into negatives, you’re still capped at $2.14 billion but if you try to sell stocks over that amount it just won’t let you and your cash is trapped in the stock market, I tested it with various reloads and tried different ways. In the end I had to let my stock’s value drop low enough that I could sell for less than the $2.14. Nothing major as even $1 billion will buy you everything you could want, just letting you know in case it happens to you and your money gets trapped. I was set up to make around $3 Billion with Michael and 2.6 with Franklin and Trevor, I guess 6 billion between them will have to do :P.GTA V had better come along on the 12 deals of Christmas on PS Store. I have a bit of cash in my wallet that I need to get through. Dragon Age would also be nice
Yeah those deals are usually pretty good, they’ve helped keep me occupied on the christmas break a few years running. This year I have a monstrous backlog to work through though. Hopefully they do put one of those up.
Morning everyone 😀
I spent most of my Saturday calling every store I could think of in my general area looking for a Little Mac amiibo with no luck. My local eb games store said they got one in for a preorder and it was for the guy I was talking to who worked there. Then I gave up and just played Smash Wii U for the rest of the weekend.
I don’t like how tempting the eBay listed Little Mac amiibo are getting now.
…I know, I have a problem.
I have a friend who bought a Mac just to put up on eBay. Last I saw it was at $41.
If I could, I’d go and steal it off him for you.
Ugh, I made the mistake of looking at the eBay listings. Both current and complete.
So much angry.
There are some at the stores here.
I’m in the mountains area of western Sydney (about an hour west of the city).
Unless the stores you’ve seen them at are in my general area, I’m wondering if there’s any chance of me paying you to pick one up for me and posting it to me.
Edit: Unless I can contact the store directly and get them to ship it to me.
Sorry, missed this until now, I’ll take a look at lunchtime and see if they have any left.
I managed to get a target to put their last one on hold for me. I’d still be interested to know if anywhere else has them though.
Driving with my littlest to drop her off at school and Dethklok is playing in the car. I notice in the corner of my eye her feet are bouncing in time with the D-Beat and her head is nodding.
YES! At least one of my kids has picked up some taste from me.
It’s great when you catch your kids doing that. I have video of my 3 year old daughter dancing to Fear Factory.
Them feels… <3
Relevant
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCEq3-w8Ls4
oh god ive hit the twilight zone where ive woken up still a tad drunk from the night before
tay what do
hair of the dog. One for each Lassie which is 9 drinks
dean martin it? well alright boss
better than Steve Martin
Drink a powerade or eat some Mee Goreng 2 minute noodles in the broth.
Pre dope the hangover.
water —> berocca —> bacon —> more bed
Mix a poached egg and vodka in a blender and scull. Don’t ask questions, just do it.
ELECTROLYTES
Hi TAY
Had a quiet weekend, played Destiny and Skyrim and some Splinter Cell.
Also spent some time thinking about something, so…
Provided it gets through the company’s board, and we negotiate the salary etc, I could have a job from the 5th of January for six months!
A Monday morning question: What should I plan to spend my first paycheque on?
Pinball machine.
I live on the first floor. the bloody couch was hard enough to get up here.
Virtual Pinball Machine.
Not as cool, for me.
Yeah, but saves having to have 15 pinball machines when you can’t choose a fave.
To me it’s like the difference between watching a TV show about food versus getting to eat the food yourself 😛
Nah, get one with 3D and headtracking and all the force feedback, the new unity based on is amazing, plus Zen pinball now supports cabs, so there are VPs that don’t exist in the real-world, which are great fun. Also no maintenance.
I have real machines as well, but find the VPs are getting more use these days. My main thought was it is easier to get a VP up to a first floor apartment than a real machine 🙂
I dunno, I’m just yet to play one that “feels” right I guess. The physics of it and everything, they just feel kind of off. There’s just something more visceral about it all being actually there in front of you that’s missing when it’s virtual. Although I wouldn’t mind trying one with head tracking and force feedback, that’d go a long way towards replicating the experience I’m sure.
Hookers and blow.
great minds
drugs and women
BOARD GAMES AND RPGS! \o/
HIRE HOOKERS TO PLAY BOARD GAMES AND RPGS WITH!
WHILE HIGH!
Lady, I think you’re confused about what I mean by Dungeon Master….
Strip D&D is actually a thing, FWIW.
Pathfinder tonight? I’ll grab a webcam today.
You can borrow mine.
Yep. I’ll post the details later today.
Suddenly glad Freeze doesn’t use his webcam when we play
Roll to save.
WINRAR
Actually, given when I’ll be starting, there’s a Magic prerelease around then…
ALso reminds me- Lvl 4 now, yes?
Yes.
I watched you and adi play destiny, like a creepy internet stalker, but your fireteam was full so I couldn’t join 🙁
Aww man, didn’t see you were logged in. What lvl are you at?
24… I’m assuming a bit low for you?
I had great fun with adi and masha the toher night tho, so seemed like the lvl deifference wasn’t too big a killer.
It’s only an issue when in a lvl critical mission. If you can get to 26 we have 5 for the raid, 6 with @faction
I’m trying dude!
I never know when I’m going to get a chance to play, so it is hard to plan to meet up with people I know (like yourself) in Destiny 🙁 I end up only doing strikes with matchmaking; not the worst, but it isn’t the best either.
If you ever see I have a free spot in my fireteam, just join. Or, if you’re on and I’m logged in to psn , send me an invite
Anyone here a Kinect fan?
Plugged it back in the other day & my 4 year old went nutsi for it.
Seeing games as cheap as $10 around but have no idea about quality (in comparison to other Kinect games & for a child).
Any tips, suggestions or recomendations?
Star Wars! (that’s like the only kinect game that I can even think of :P)
Gunstringer was cool.
The Sesame St game is pretty good, the kids liked Kinectimals as well, and the Disney theme park one was fun as well.
There’s a number of sesame street games, which is the good one?
The double fine one. Once Upon A Monster.
Cheers.
I thought I saw that in a special box the first time.
I saw a cheap copy in a normal case. Was there anything included in the box that is required or enhanced the game in any way?
We only had the normal box. 🙂
Kewl, thanks
From memory, the “special” one just had a decorated strip of somethingorother to put on the floor as a marker for how far back to stand from the TV, I guess so the kids know to keep in range of the thing. Or something along those lines at least.
Yep, that’s the one. The Disney one is great too.
What do you do in Disney?
http://youtu.be/n0mF18ZGTtw?t=4m30s
Walkthrough of the Kinect Disney game. Start at 4:30
One of the rides:
http://youtu.be/QoROY9fGmL8?t=2m6s
Basically you get to run around disneyland exploring, go on the rides, interact with characters, lots of fun for kids.
I gave a kinect to a mate of mine for Christmas a few years ago (got one cheap from work) and his kids have basically grown up with it around. Apparently his son gets frustrated when he goes up to other screens and can’t manipulate them by making gestures at them. Kid’s only about 2 years old…
I’ve been told that the Double Fine Happy Action Theater thing is pretty good fun for kids, and the Sesame Street one is apparently great for playing with your kids too.
Back to the drudgery I go after a pretty great weekend. Had a family gathering where I saw my grandad for the first time in about 5 years so it was good to see him. Looked through some old family photos going back to the 1930s and 40s so it was interesting to see what everyone looked like when they were younger (that 80s fashion though *shudder*).
Also ran some Dark Heresy on the weekend where the main antagonist (Nurgle psyker) tried to be all spooky and creepy but the party just sprayed bullets through everything that he tried. When he tried to escape, he managed to barge into a Tzeentch psyker in the underhive where he only barely survived. Had to sacrifice his tox-dog to evade the party though, which made me sad (had plans for the tox-dog to fully mutate into a Beast of Nurgle). For his failure, Nurgle punished him by making him emit corpse fire from his body at all times. Bad time for him to mutate in that fashion considering the group’s preference for fire.
Good morning everybody. I feel like I haven’t been on here in ages. Which… really, is true.
Since Wednesday last week I’ve pretty much spent zero time on a computer. Wednesday was the day of the big move, so I’m now officially “moved in” with my partner / fiancée / person-who-hangs-around-me-a-fair-bit. Removalists though… I’d be a hell of a lot happier if they could show up on time. When you book a mid-morning slot (to avoid traffic) and they don’t show up until late afternoon, and then you get stuck in rush hour traffic and end up having to pay extra (time) because of it… well, I’m not happy. Then they sent me a satisfaction survey. Felt good to vent.
Thursday and Friday was prepping my apartment for handover, which involved lots of cleaning but it’s totally worth it. The place looked as good as it did the day I moved in. Handed back my keys on Friday quite happy. I was in such a good mood, I went Christmas shopping. Which could easily have turned in to “BUY ALL THE TOYS… FOR ME! \o/” had I let it.
So that just left the weekend which was unpacking, unpacking, cleaning, unpacking, working on my resume, unpacking. You get the drift. One “fun” (if you can use the word) bit was digitising the pantry list so that it’s all synced between phones. Now there’ll never* be another instance of buying more canned tomatoes when there’s already 10 in the pantry. 😛
So, what’s your best / funniest / worst moving story? I’m sure we’ve all got one. GO.
I was about 2 or so when we moved so I can’t really remember anything about it.
Not…moving per se, but getting one couch out and another in.
So anyway, we’ve hired a trailer on an hour by hour basis, so wanted to get that out of the way as quick as possible. So we pick up the new couch set, on the trailer, out to the front of our house, load it off, run inside to get the old couch, get it on the trailer, start tying it down…
And a guy runs up to us out of the blue and points to the (new) couch sitting on the lawn. “OMG, you’re going to just throw that out? I’ll give you $50 for it!”
I look at him and say “It’s not for sale.” He quickly yanks $100 out of his wallet and says “$100! I’ll give you $100!”
I look at him and say “Mate, that’s the NEW couch setting. You can have a look at this one if you want (gestures to couch on back of trailer).”
He just looks at me for a second and says “Man, you got ripped off!” and walks away.
…yeah we questioned our choice of couch for a few days after that, until the butt-groove wore in and it became super comfy.
I’d buy that for a dollar!
Morning all, I’m about to setup a media server (DLNA) and wondering what y’all use?
I’m looking at Plex at the moment, but am open to suggestions.
I use Plex. I was running it off my NAS previously but when I moved out I realized I can run it off my desktop instead – the reason I didn’t want to do that was mainly noise levels because my PC used to be in my room, but I moved out since then.
Unfortunately I don’t have a good sink for the source. The PS3 can connect okay to it but the PS3 is old and clunky and feels like I’m going back in time when I turn it on. PS4 will work, but your server needs enough grunt to transcode it, you have to go via the web browser (and the PS4 web browser kind of sucks for navigating that interface – especially because in full screen it exceeds the screen area of my TV so I lose the edges). Also if you go that way you must force it to transcode audio to AAC or it won’t work.
I’m getting an Xbox One arriving very soon (actually got a text from the courier saying it was delivered as I was typing this!) and I know it has proper DLNA and an actual Plex app so I suspect that it’ll become my de facto video system until Sony pull their finger out.
I’ve used both XBMC and Plex extensively and I think Plex provides a much better product in that you’re basically building a home media ecosystem instead of just running a player. It pulls down lots of metadata and generally looks a lot nicer and is more user-friendly, but if you want you can dig into the guts of it as it’s got a pretty good plug-in system in Python. I actually wrote a metadata scraper for anime (anidb) a while back, ended up passing it on to another guy who wanted to maintain it subsequently. By default Plex uses TVDB for TV, and it doesn’t index Anime in a way that reflects the way Anime is produced, often conflating things that should be separate and so on. So yeah, Plex is way better if you have OCD. 😛
Thanks, BTW, you can fix the PS4 fullscreen problem by going to the settings (on the PS4 menus) -> Sound and Screen -> Display Area Settings.
That fixes it for the main UI, but not for any apps or games running in it unless they inherit that info. PS4’s web browser doesn’t use the settings and bleeds over the edges 🙁
Btw, the Xbone app works really well. Kinect integration too so I can just yell at my Xbox and not even have to touch a controller.
I <3 Plex
tried XBMC for a while but I’m more comfortable in Plex…plus I have the paid apps on Android and iPhone.
Still have shelled for a PlexPass but I’m considering it.
Plex.
Some smart TVs have plex apps built in – my samsung does.
Good news this morning. My brother isn’t dying. He’s not 100% okay but nothing life threatening.
Fantastic news. Really glad to hear that.
Fuck yes. I’m relieved. Still sending good thoughts his way.
That’s great! Let’s hope he gets completely better soon!
That’s great news,
Every time I’ve gone past a newspaper in the supermarket recently I’ve been a bit disgusted at the headlines deliberately designed to ignite tensions. And now there’s this siege happening in Martin Place right now. Goddammit.
The headlines tomorrow, ugh. All I can see is it’s gonna be bad…
I’m feeling a bit sick at the thought of the political advantage that will be taken by this. Not to mention the further blind and ignorant racist panic. Fuck.
Yeeeeeep. I can see at least the NSW state gov’t over react and inject fear into everyone over this and then amp up police and give them more powers which can probably only end badly for the general public. Then I can see the federal gov’t using this to take advantage of being able to pass some really idiotic national security bills and being shown as “heroes” to the public and win their support back and proceed to ruin the country, yay politics… Ugh.
Yeah, the pollies will love it, get an excuse to sow more fear and snatch up remaining freedoms whilst people are too scared to say no.
Totally. You know some of them have been absolutely gagging for a (relatively) small scale incident like this to happen.
I’m not even sure that people *are* scared. It’s just that, I dunno, it’s the “right” thing to do to support these freedom-reducing changes. Because if you speak out against them, that’s means you’re supporting the terrorists, yeah? It’s an almost indefensible position.
Just heard @markserrels on ABC News 24 regarding this hostage situation. Love that scottish brogue
Channel 7 currently has giant 7 News symbols scrolling across the screen while showing footage of what’s going on in Sydney. There’s already a 7 News symbol in the corner of the screen. There’s absolutely no reason for the symbol to appear elsewhere. It’s really disgusting that peoples lives are in danger and all the media can think about is advertising themselves.
What’s worse is they’ve been showing response team movements, News peoples ain’t the smartest….
Not to mention close ups of the scared people inside. Shouldn’t even be showing a live feed.
It’s disgusting and they really should know better, based on previous known hostage situations where it is known that the hostage takers watched the news and changed their plans accordingly.
Good Mornig all,
First time I’ve jumped in on TAY, but I figured the collective brainpower here may be able to answer a question that I have literally been losing sleep on trying to figure out. In the 90s (or maybe even 80s) I signed up to a video game club that was run (from memory) by the Australian Sega Magazine. I beleive it was called “Revolution X” and everyone who joined got sent a medallion with an individual member number printed/engraved into it. I have had no luck tracking down any information about it on-line and have been racking my brain trying to remember if that’s what it was called and if I’m just imagining things. I’m sure I had the medallion up until a few years ago, but having moved house 5 times since my youth, who knows where it is now.
My question is this: “Does anyone remember this club I’m talking about at all and have any idea what is was and who ran it?”
For reference, I have tried to (from memory), draw what the symbol looked like that was used on the medallions at this link on my twitter.
https://twitter.com/interestingmix/status/544286104464015362
I hope someone knows/remembers, I’m going a little bit nutty over this one
I’m sure somebody can help you on this, but in the meantime: Welcome to TAY! Enjoy your influx of Twitter followers as well! 🙂
I dunno, but welcome 🙂
Yeah, I have some flyers re joining the club, I’ll check when I get home.
It was totally rad, dude.
You know it was a 90s club if it was totally rad.
There’s a skateboarding Sonic on that pamphlet, I’ll bet my backwards facing baseball cap on it.
He’s clearly a hedgehog with attitude.
Deal. Your backwards facing baseball cap vs. my pog collection.
Also…
I say radical!
I think I remember that little DL slip. Glossy black.
I have one of those medallions. Not sure where but I know I have it.
I thought it was from Mega Zone magazine.
Yeah, Mega Zone! I’m pretty sure that’s the one I used to buy.
A clue!
Sup? How was everyone’s weekend?
I did things! Like order a custom printed calendar and probably did other stuff I guess!
The lindt Cafe bout a hundred metres from my work. Was evacuated bout 45 mins ago. Enjoying a couple of sneaky mid morning drinks and thinking bout those inside. Sad times. Most interesting Monday in a while though.
terrorism against chocolate is just too far
jk btw, hope everyone is ok
Current situations aside…
Morning, all! I finished all my Christmas shopping over the weekend. Who invented the bottle and why did they make it so difficult to wrap? That guy sucks. Also after much brain-using, I ended up getting my bosses those Pop Vinyl figures. They went over very well, kinda surprisingly. I think they’re ugly 😛
And of course, I ended up buying myself lots of presents. You know, as a reward for being so generous or something. The Wind Rises on DVD! \o/
During my shopping I happened to walk by a Target. “Hm, might check on their Amiibo situation,” I thought. One Mario, Three Pikachu and… a Villager. What. Bought. I have no idea how this thing wasn’t sold, but there it is. Still no sign of a Pit figure. Then I went home and spent the rest of the weekend marathoning Mad Men. The End!
Wow a villager! Those are going on ebay for $50+. My friend got one for me from the New York Nintendo Store though. Meanwhile, I went around a few stores on Friday and Saturday in the city and Parramatta, and finally found a Captain Falcon amiibo in the 6th store I walked into (the JB Hi-Fi in Parra Westfield). I don’t even have a Wii U, but I leveled the villager up a bit on my friend’s Wii U.
I did 95% of my Christmas shopping on the weekend. My pay went in early (because whenever payday falls on a Monday or weekend they do the pay run early) so we spent all our money super early and will be completely skint this month. \o/
That said, we did pretty well, I think we did half the shopping at K-Mart on Friday night, since they recently opened one near us that’s open til Midnight. We also went a little crazy picking up various household items we didn’t know needed replacing until we saw them. I was enthusiastic about replacing our bathroom floor mat, for crying out loud…
Domesticated man is an interesting animal…
Wouldn’t happen to be the Bass Hill one would it? Haven’t been to check it out yet, though still kind of annoyed that it’s no longer Target. That place was handy to have around.
That’s the one, we’re just the other side of the meccano set.
I have to admit, while I miss the Target that KMart is pretty darn good.
There was still loads of every wave 2 figure but Mac when I hit up Broadway at lunch on Friday. Was surprised that there were still so many.
All this scarcity bullshit has me feeling like I need to pick up the “rares” if I see them, just for the sake of snatching them up before someone else does.
I honestly wouldn’t have bought the Villager if I didn’t know they were “rare” 😛 Part of the problem and all that…
I actually haven’t seen any Wave 2 figures besides Diddy and Zelda yet. Was planning to go up to Broadway at lunch to check. Pit is one of the few figures that I actually want so hopefully somewhere has one.
Only if you’re going to sell it on eBay 😛
If I end up back at the shops or anything I’ll try keep an eye out for you.
As long as you don’t buy me anything. Thrill of the hunt or something 😛
It’s funny though, I somehow ended up with the three rare Wave 1 Amiibos without trying at all. Just happened to stumble across all of them…
EB and Kmart here have literally all of them and in large numbers. No idea what anyone is talking about 😛
Yeah pretty sure my local EB has a fuck ton of them as well.. Since they’re pimping them to people buying Nintendo stuff every time i’m in.
How much do Kmart sell them for, actually? Not sure I’ve seen any mention of their price anywhere, just Target and Big W.
Man, you tried to wrap a tea cup?
That’s a mission.
I successfully gift wrapped a large (fake) potted plant once. That was an ordeal.
My local EB has Peach and Capt. Falcon.
I have literally no idea if it’s worth nabbing them to pass on to someone who really wants them because I just don’t see the point in Amiibos.
Yes
Our office building is on Park street a few blocks from the Martin Place thing and apparently they’re considering sending us home for the day. I think I’d rather be in the office than on a train, tbh. :/
Hi all! Hope everyone had a good weekend. Mine was pretty laid-back, mostly Destiny, interspersed with cleaning to get the place into a respectable state for an inspection on Thursday. New desk chair arrived on Saturday, too, so it’s been good to replace the three-year-old comfy-yet-falling-apart one; hoping this one will last a bit longer.
Spoilered for Destiny rambling. 😛
Spent a good deal of time in Destiny on my alts, got my hunter to 30 and my warlocks to 31, bought the last piece of gear my hunter needs to get to 31, too, but shards are in short supply (energy count is a few shy of 200, tho, still with nothing to spend it on – yay, RNG -_-). Exchanged and fully upgraded my Suros to 331, too, so now it hits even harder than my mythoclast. Originally, I never bothered with it – the sound design makes the Suros sound piss-weak at first, so I couldn’t really enjoy using it. As soon as you add the Focus Fire perk, the sound changes drastically (at the cost of fire rate, I guess, but that just makes it essentially a scout rifle, which is awesome), more like you’re shooting a *gun* than rapid-fire blow-darts. Plus, the potential for 33 headshots per clip is amazing value. 😛I’ve gotta say, I’m kinda bummed with how easy it is to get to 30 now. It took my warlocks 2-3 months to get there, two raids a week, eventually in Hard Mode as well, before I got the gear to drop. My Hunter just waltzed from 26 to 30 in the last five days with the only obstacle being shards… 32 really is the new 30, I guess, and 31 is the new 29.Shocking to hear about the situation in Martin Place. I hope it gets resolved swiftly and peacefully.
In happier news, I placed third in a tiny little Smash Bros tournament yesterday at a friend of a friend’s house. I lost to a Rosalina player who was reaaally annoying but eh, that’s just how the character plays. I got a few 3-stocks against other players so I’m pretty happy with how I did overall.
I started Workaholics last night, it’s not bad. it is really funny at some points. I’m guessing like most shows the first season is usually weak compared to the 2nd & 3rd, even 4th. Yeah?
I love it all. Can’t differentiate between different seasons now to be fair cz just all really good!trailer came out recently for latest season and got me real hype.
Hmm fair enough. I mean it’s not bad, just i’m not getting as many laughs out of it as I expected. I guess drug/stoner culture/humour doesn’t appeal to me as much anymore 😛
Good news for Vita owners what like Oddworld. http://blog.us.playstation.com/2014/12/14/the-drop-new-playstation-games-for-12162014/
Awwwwww yeah!
I’m worried to play Munch again though. My rose tinted glasses made Stranger’s Wrath very difficult to play and I have very, very fond memories of Munch.
I only had a quick go back inthe day because I didn’t own a bawx.
there’s a demo on PSN for you to refresh your memory
I got strangers on Vita, first time I played, I like it but doesn’t feel like an oddworld game
I know what you mean.
Oddworld was always about puzzles for me, something both Munch & Stranger’s Wrath don’t have much of.
I’d love a new Abe centric game.
Did you play the re-release?
I couldn’t justify the price seeing as I’ve finished it a million times.
It’s spot on. I was reluctant to buy it too, but was gifted AU PSN points for my birthday.
Grabbed it & couldn’t put it down. I really didn’t think they’d get the atmosphere down in 2.5D but it’s perfect.
Got the dlc free with plus & it’s a little infuriating because it’s harder.
That’s promising about the DLC, then.
I can blitz through it with all 99 in about three or four hours but would love new content.
Might see what ol’ Saint Nick stuffs in my stocking…
Ooh, I didn’t play that one cause XBawks (I tried it on Lally’s), I’ll hafta check it out.
Same bawx I played it on, probably in your house even!
MGS4 has only just been made available digitally?!
Ayup, weird. Remember it got Trophies last year?
I don’t (I’ve never gotten into MGS and I think I last put MGS4 in my PS3 a few weeks after I got the system) but I’ll take your word for it.
Got given a phone by the company again. \o/ iOS and my crappy old iPhone 4 were starting to grate on me a fair bit so might be time to go back to Windows Phone.
Issue is that it’s a different SIM. One of the even smaller ones than the small ones.
If this doesn’t work out I’m going to seriously think about getting an Xperia.
I got the Z3 and have had no problems at all with it apart from the volume buttons being a bit stubborn sometimes. Really hardy phone for a smartphone though. A couple of times I feared I cracked it but nothing.
Everyone seems to be switching to nano sims over the micro sims, all I can say is blame Apple with this stupid sim trend.
Did a lot of contact moving at work because of nanos, most phones support the blue tooth transfer. The only one I had trouble with was Galaxy requiring I use their cloud service.
Never did any iphones though.
& your new provider should give you a free nano
I’m not moving providers as of yet, though I have actually been pretty tempted to swap off Droptus for a while. Have to do that in-store though as I want to keep my number (I’ve had my phone number since I was 15!) and that’s a bit of a pain.
SIM cards are a pain, actually. Feels like there should be a better way to do it.
My calendars are all in Outlook & Google, and my mail as well. Migration should be easy. Only trick will be getting it to de-register me from iMessage.
Yeah, I’ve coincidentally stuck with HTC because of deals. My contacts were saved by Google which was handy.
You have to go in store? That sucks, we can call at work.
I only use a calendar at work & we have some kind ifnpersonalised OutLook dealie.
I’m pretty into my Windows Phone (Lumia 1520) after using an iPhone for a long time. Getting a Nano (or was it Micro?) SIM for it was a pain in the butt however being able to put a microSD card in it paid off pretty well. I would imagine any old Android phone is the same, but after having an iPhone for so long it was really nice to break away from having iTunes constantly standing between me and whatever I wanted to do on my phone.
The only major thing is the app store is pretty basic. Hold onto your iPhone 4 if you can and just use it whenever you need it. I keep my old iPhone on my desk because it’s the only thing authenticator apps are ever released on.
Admittedly I was never a huge fan of the iPhone. I brought it because it seemed like the next step for replacing my 128GB iPod but it didn’t do half the things I loved about my iPod.
Everyone seems to be talking about the Lindt thing going on. Even just got a message from Mum mentioning it, and suggesting I don’t “go downtown” today.
All I sent back was a correction that it’s actually uptown from here. Feel pretty indifferent/don’t care about it. Maybe I’m weird, I dunno.
Haha, “maybe”. Good one.
Idk man I’m really worried about it. I’m even having trouble concentrating on my work!
It doesn’t really do anyone any good for me to feel affected by it. I’m 29 floors up, a kilometre away. I feel for the people on the ground, in the cafe. All the stuff about a wider threat is just speculation.
Basically, yeah. Though 2km, and eight floors. Don’t know anything about wider threat, but still feels like it has little to do with me. Got more pressing matters at hand, like TAY or something 😛
I think we should all be worried about the repercussions from it, and how government is going to handle it, especially if they overreact to it all regarding police & security measures :/
I don’t really give a shit about that side of things at this point. I just want those people out of there safely. Plenty of time for political hysteria later.
My worry is Abbott will use it to take focus away from how poorly the Government’s been doing lately.
Maybe it was a setup! [/conspiracy hat]
Wait where’s Freeze’s facebook friends, they’re bound to have the inside info.
Re: Joe Hockey announcing budget shit tonight.
Tbh I don’t know much about it other than “some guys held up the Lindt cafe” which at first had me kind of laughing because it just seemed like a totally bizarre thing to do, and then something being mentioned about ISIS and I don’t know. Too busy being ignorant.
They’ve also claimed there to be “devices” planted throughout the city.
I’d be skeptical about that. If I had to bet, I’d put money on that’s going to be something they just said as anti-sniper insurance. But the people in charge can’t bet. That’s why it works.
There are a bunch of people with guns at their heads who don’t know if they’re about to die or not. They have kids, parents, siblings, loved ones and friends who don’t know if their loved ones will come home tonight. All they did was go to get a coffee and that coffee may now cost them their lives.
My heart goes out to them and I really hope it gets resolved without loss of life.
Think if it was your mother or sister or even yourself. Because it could have been.
I guess I’ve always had a problem with things like this. Since it isn’t directly affecting me or anyone I know and is beyond my control at all, it’s too distant to feel anything about it other than acknowledgement.
Re: The loss of life… I had some buddies and family who were AJs. Infantry grunts who did some training with the SAS… which in practical terms, to hear them tell it, means ‘were test dummies for the SAS’.
I’d be pretty confident that if the call gets made, it’ll be resolved pretty swiftly and probably without any hostages being killed. Harmed maybe, but unlikely killed. From what I’ve heard, there’s even fair odds on the terrorists not being killed.
These Army guys… they described the exercises as being told to pretend to be hostages or terrorists, holding fake guns they were to try and use on the SAS, or the hostages. Some had been through the drill before and tried to put the guns in the hands of the hostages, they were that scared of what was coming. There’s apparently a green light or a red light shining, and when that switches to the other colour, the regular lights go out and a few seconds later there’s nothing but darkness, light, pain and confusion. Far as I recall, many of the ‘terrorists’ didn’t even get ‘shot’, but rather, subdued. Like… some needed dental work, kind of subdued. Including hostages carrying guns. Either way, they all said they had never even dreamed of anything like it. Like… Hollywood doesn’t know shit and can’t ever convey how just unrelenting it is. How hard and fast.
That kind of testimony could just be talk… a tall tale to impress. But if it’s even half-true, it makes me feel a little better for the people there. There are scary, scary borderline inhuman people out there, and they are in the employ of the Australian Defense Force for just this kind of thing. So, y’know. Take what comfort you can, I guess.
I’m in a similar situation, but only because I just woke up and still don’t really know what’s going on all that well.
I know there’s a hostage situation, and I hope that everyone is alright, but apparently there’s offices being evacuated and what not also?
I have a feeling I’ve missed something about the situation.
Holding up a Cafe seems a little weird to me too :\
(and it’s probably not the time, but I really want a Lindt Cafe in Perth)
Hopefully everyone is fine though and that the situation gets resolved with everyone safe.
Also I hope that the hostages get free therapy and such afterwards.
There was some incredibly scary footage this morning where the hostages were made to stand by the windows with their eyes closed holding a flag that implied it could be a terrorist attack. Right in front of Channel Seven studios as well. Very tense. 🙁
Urgh, that’s disgusting 🙁
Poor people. They should definitely be given free counselling for as long as they need afterwards.
I don’t understand why people do this kind of thing.
It’s disgusting and appalling.
TAY RPG Pathfinder tonight at 7:30 pm AEST, 8 pm ACDT, 8:30 pm AEDT. Starring:
@redartifice @tech_knight @freezespreston @sernobulus @negativezero @beeawwb @rize
What now for the valiant and not-so valiant members of the Monday Knights? Why, more adventure and glory of course!
Also nudity.
Gonna miss out. =(
So you’re saying there was no point in me learning Unnatural Lust since you’re going to make it natural? 😛
Berserk machine of violence in the battlefield and berserk machine of passion in the bedroom.
I got called in to start work early which probably means I will be finishing late. Hopefully be on by 8:45-9:00 pm
All good Nob. I’ll make sure that Kaldar doesn’t get slipped any more Dwarven fire ale. 😛
*Lundgredolph slips Kalder some Scour*
Saurian brandy on the other hand…
Saurian brandy? Is that something you kick back with a nice glass of after a feast of Roast Raptor?
Probably.
@redartifice: FYI, last session the heist was pulled off successfully. De Clamerie is now in prison or something for theft of the elven amulet.
Had to make a snap decision at the time and planted the ‘real’ amulet on him, with the reasoning that the owners could spot the fake and the plot might unravel. However, thinking about it, I planted the amulet that you passed me as the real one, and I didn’t do an appraise check. So IMO (and @popdart5 can veto this if necessary) it’s up to you which one was actually planted.
Hello. I need to go to Sydney airport to leave Sydney and go home.
This may not be possible today. :/
Wish me luck.
My building is near the hostage situation and we’ve been told not to evacuate and we’re basically under lockdown. Meanwhile the building next to us that is further away has evacuated o.0
greedy corporations… wouldnt want to waste a days paid productivity…
hey guys, hoping all the sydney taybies are safe from this bullshit happening at the moment…
Dammit, why doesn’t the first aid kit here have superglue?
Superglue is not an option!
Medigel isn’t real!!Makes sense. With a name like that I would assume they must be a fictional character.
Cyanoacrylate adhesive is actually used in place of sutures for a lot of cuts now. Better bind, less prone to infection (the extra holes punched through the skin for the sutures open extra sites for infection) and generally heals faster with less scarring.
My wife hemmoraged after a tonsilectomy (fuckign scariest thing I’ve ever seen), and they used that to close her up… but I’m sure there is some differences to the domestic glue that Gooky is using!
Yeah, standard glue is Butyl-Cyanoacrylate and it forms a strong, rigid bond. Medical glue is Octyle-Cyanoacrylate and it is a weaker bond but flexible, and doesn’t irritate the skin.
Yeah, that’s the thing. Superglue burns.
Because 2-octyl cyanoacrylate is the only superhero that isn’t toxic and used for medical purposes. Which isn’t the Super glue you find 99% of the time. Which is toxic.
On a scale of Healing to Horrible Mutation Into A Dastardly Supervillain, how toxic are we talking here?
Mild. They just don’t recommend it.
The fumes can irritate your nose and throat, and it can irritate your skin. Also some people have allergic reactions.
Also don’t get it anywhere near cotton. The reaction of superglue and cotton is highly exothermic, can cause serious burns from the heat released and will produce toxic smoke.
Interesting… *takes note*
Wait, probably a bad time to be saying something like that hey?
I love the autocorrect “superhero” here. Made me laugh.
I’m pretty sure the first aid kit for my kendo club has superglue in it 😀
The bandaid is already getting sweaty and non-adhesive.
Good mor-… oh omnissiah I’ve really slept in, happens when I got a day off work. Anyway, onto the main event!
MELBOURNE SUNDAY DINNER MEAT WRITE-UP
Getting there really darn early, as in 1:30pm I did a lot of walking, a lot of browsing (Which I ended up buying a megaman shirt) and a fair bit of playing Point Blank at galactic circus. While I was on my way to Galactic Circus though I saw some really REALLY disturbing performances going on, including an old guy doing a kind of softcore strip show… well I hope it was cuz I decided to walk past as fast as I could, then shortly after that guy I saw another old guy in a singlet and yoga pants dancing. What the heck is wrong with you humans, honestly? 😛
Fast forwarding to 6pm I was at Optic having a drink and trying to get @scree to stop texting “Sorry” (I counted, 5 times I got it xD) and I was also getting worried as I wasn’t even getting contacted by anybody about them coming, until I got a text at 6:20 from @highperformance about him running late, and not so long after that @phlanispo called me that he was literally about to walk in. Yay, I wasn’t going to be alone for much longer! \o/
Phlan walked in with those more impressive sideburns than I could ever grow when I tried growing facial hair, and he’s flipping younger than me dafuq?! He comes through the door and looks to me with the bag and says “I’m assuming you’re Tech Knight and that’s the decepticon thing on your bag?” good times. After a short chat we got greeted by Rove McManus, whom introduced himself as HighPerformance. Well spoken and a fun gentleman to be around with an infectous laugh. So he really is like Rove, except he’s actually funny and great to hang out with. We waited there while having drinks until about 7:30 and unfortunately we didn’t see evilmonkey show up(sorry that we didn’t get to meet you monkey), so we moved on to eat at Yoyogi’s. Phlan was regretting ordering a full meal as he was already starting to feel full after having some of the small entree soup and before that accidentally setting off the “press for service” button, but he managed to eat about a third of his meal and boxed up the rest to take home after his mother was calling him up about picking him up in a street that doesn’t allow cars in it :P. But yeah both of them were cool and really friendly guys, glad I got to meet the you Phlan and HP.
Too bad you couldn’t make it @evilmonkey, hope your flight was okay, we’ll have to try it another time 🙂
That’s it, @phlanispo – You and me, in the parking lot. Sideburns vs sideburns.
How are you going to assert dominance? Rush at each other and crash sideburns?
That’s pretty much how I pictured it.
Aint you ever seen a sideburn duel before?
Involves a lot of static discharge.
*glares at B-ob*
*B-ob glares back*
I yield! I yield!
Techie at first offered to shout the meal, but I insisted that I pay. Then my aunt and a friend of the family suddenly appeared in the restaurant, and I left without paying anybody anything.
Were they looking out for you?
I’m a little confused of what the question is.
Did they come in to make sure you weren’t murdered?
Probably, but I’m thinking it was a convenience thing. Mum called me less than three minutes before.
EDIT: I think I’ll add a bit more information:
My mother just really wanted to get home at that point. I think if Mum had called and said meet me outside, it would take an extra two minutes for me to get there as I would have said goodbye to TechKnight and HighPerformance and ensure I pay for the meal. If my relatives show up, I would have no choice but to leave immediately. Quicker for her and means she doesn’t have to wait the extra time.
I hope you at least got to finish your food.
Nope, but I wouldn’t have been able to anyway. It was a miracle I managed to eat as much as I did.
Your family seemed pretty cool man!
Yeah, sorry about that man, plane didn’t crash or anything 😛 Got off the plane, dropped off at the car, drove to the hotel, checked in, dropped off our bags, freshened up a bit, then took off for Fed Square. Felt like it took forever to get there. Finally got there and couldn’t find a park anywhere. Had a fairly shit holiday and I’d had just about all I could take,, so I went fuck it and we went back to the hotel.
By the time we got there it was like 7:15 anyway.
Hope you guys enjoyed yourselves.
Not a problem, I’m on holiday at the moment too and when you’re having a bad time I think it’s best to chill out and start again. Catch you at the next Meat!
Thanks for organizing man, was great to meet you! Here’s hoping you got home relatively unmolested from half naked people lol
Asking the commissioner “Can you confirm that there is a hostage in communications with a media outlet?” Are people actually trying to get them killed? Ffs.
Problem with live coverage of a slow developing situation. Lots of dead air which is no good for television so they start putting everything on air to fill it, regardless if whether they should.
Indeed, the number of stuff this morning that was labelled “unconfirmed reports”… Gotta be first. Gotta get them hits. *sigh*
In other news, Freya and I are going to be spending a week or so in Canberra. We’re heading down on Friday and staying with her family for some early Christmas stuffs.
Board games?
Oh hey rad, the Bubblegum Crisis Bluray set I kickstarted ages ago finally shipped \o/
I’ve been playing more Dragon Age:Inquisition and have just trekked to a place where it all opens up a lot more
(Skyhold.)I have a question, though. As I began the mission that led me there a whole bunch of “Quest completed” notifications happened. Does this mean there were missable quests in the first part? And they’re no longer available?
Also…
I missed saving the potions guy in Haven. He apparently burned to death while I was saving the tavern lady. I’m tempted to go all the way back to the start of that battle now. 😛I’ve started to romance Solas ,too. I feel like Dorian would be great to have a fling with, but Solas and his world view are kind of really cool.
Solas and Dorian’s romances are a little incompatible.
Dorian is gay and Solas is a straight racist.How is that incompatible? Sounds like a good three way option to me. 😛
*monocle breaks*
Solas’ way of life makes him seems like the kind of guy I would shout “Cut you hair, hippy!” at, and then he would just stand there and I would be all “Oh, uh…” and then I would just awkwardly shuffle away.
Also, I’ve found out I’ve been inadvertently romancing everyone.
Playing on PC, and when you use the numbers to select conversation options, it doesn’t have a chance to show the love heart to indicate flirting… so yeah. I guess my Inquisitor is overly friendly to everyone.
There are a few missable quests in the first part that won’t be available any longer. They mostly weren’t very fun or particularly deep in story or lore though. They are really there more as little mini tutorial missions.
But also I found that even if I completed them, they fired the Quest Completed again at the point you’re talking about, which I assume is just the game going through and redetermining that they were done and can’t be done anymore…oddly.
I’m on my second playthrough now and romancing Solas too! He’s such a lovely weirdo 😛
I’m a little confused by this hostage thing. What reason does ISIS have to do this anyway? Sure, Australia opposes them, but Australia’s opinion doesn’t matter. Australia is a small country (population-wise) with next to no influence on world politics. I suppose Australia is just an easy target.
EDIT: I stand corrected. Probably not ISIS.
It’s not ISIS. It’s a bunch of nutters. Admittedly, ISIS are also a bunch of nutters but a different bunch.
It’s probably not ISIS. It’s probably a bunch of nutters. The fact is we don’t know anything at all yet.
That doesn’t stop the media.
It makes sense that it would be a bunch of nutters waving ISIS flags to make their hostage appear more relevant. ISIS might be like Anonymous, where anyone can claim to be one of them.
They’re not waving ISIS flags. They’re waving a black flag with white Arabic writing on it that has a pro-Islam message (Shahada). ISIS is a specific group with specific goals.
It’s important not to get caught up in all the nonsense and speculation.
ISIS is nothing like Anonymous. Yes, anyone could claim to be from ISIS or Anonymous but equally anyone can claim to be part of the Socialist Alliance or whatever as their motivation.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-12-15/islamic-flag-explained/5968010
There’s no relation to ISIS as far as anybody knows.
It’s not ISIS.
The flag isn’t an ISIS flag, it has the shahada (an islamic creed) on it, and that’s all we know. could be (and I imagine it is) a lone nutter who went to the equivalent of an islamic ecclesiastical supply store.
But we don’t know.
So Steve Smith taking over as captain of the Australian Cricket team instead of Haddin. Interesting choice, planning for the future rather than throwing to the guy that’s probably the better short-term choice.
I think it’s entirely the correct decision. Give the young guy a chance while the old guy is still around to help out. Rather than face the situation where Clarke and Haddin are suddenly both out injured/retired and have an inexperienced captain heading into the Ashes.
Yeah. It’s really the final part of the lack of succession planning that went on during the Ponting years coming back to bite them in the arse. They had such a strong team for so long that they never really gave the slightly younger guys a go, so now they’ve got the problem that all their guys have aged out and the rest of them are all really young and inexperienced. The tier of early-30s guys that should have been there to step in by now never got a chance to have their start.
Smith’s a good choice though. Clarke’s never going to get that position back though, despite that they’re basically spinning it as a caretaker thing. As long as he’s got these injury issues – and I can’t see them going away – they can’t rely on him to be there and so he can’t continue to be Captain. Which is a shame since he seems like he’s still in amazing nick when the legs and back are keeping up.
The only other viable choice seems like it would have been Bailey, but he hasn’t been in the Test side for a while and when he has been he hasn’t been particularly effectual.
I wonder though, if they lose another player to injury (or just get it over with and fucking drop Shane Watson since he’s been dead weight for a while now) who’ll step in for batting duty? Hughes was the obvious one to replace Clarke originally, but that’s obviously not happening.
How about those things we like, huh? Those are pretty great to talk about.
People who follow me on Twitter will already have heard of this, but this past Friday was my work’s Christmas Party. We did an Escape Room thing, which was super fun. Who’d have thought being locked in a room with my three bosses, one of their wives and the accounts lady could be a good way to spend a morning?
It was really cool, if a bit cheesy (I thought the cheese factor made it better though honestly). We had a dude acting as an evil scientist who locked us in a room to do experiments or something. We were literally shackled to different sides of the wall at first. I won’t give away too much but the puzzles were actually pretty fun. Typical adventure game “Oh, THAT is what you’re supposed to do!” stuff. My crowning achievement was solving the very first puzzle to get us free from the chains (pretty proud :P).
Afterwards we went to a very fancy Japanese restaurant. Boy am I glad I wore a collared shirt on that day 😛 Food was okay…
Got a little Christmas present from the bosses too. A little set of
Lego“Character Building” Lego-like building blocks.Doctor WhoProfessor When themed. Was pretty cool.So yeah, it was a good day!
Well.
I watched a movie about that once.
You’re on Twitter???!!!
:p
I should have posted this about a week-and-a-half ago (I am the absolute worst gift recipient ever), Secret SanTAY’s gifts were perfect. The Nintendo-related goodies were much appreciated by me and the boy, and I *will* eat that scary lollipop. Eventually.
So thanks SanTAY! You know who you are! (And I’m pretty sure I do, too) 😉
I wonder who they could be.
The safe goods declaration ruins much of the mystery.
Only if you use your real signature. And put your real address on the return section. But only amateurs do that. Not criminal masterminds.
I thought about doing that, but… Yeah, if those gifts aren’t going to get delivered then I want them 😛
That’s fair, but then what am I going to do with 100 sparkly novelty blow up sheep?
Crap! I’ve given away what I sent. Foiled again!
I am the worst gift giver ever as I still haven’t arranged my SanTAY present. Was going to do it today but got stuck in the office during my lunch break.
Let’s point and laugh and pretend that you’re the only one. Haha! What a chump!
I just read the entire Snowpiercer comic at lunch in the Libra ry
Good stuff, a little rushed but interesting concept.
Guessing that ending (or beginning come to think if it) wasnt in the movie.
Will have to watch now, see how butchered it is :p
Babies taste best ruined everything. Also, Edgar’s death preceding the revelation just made it feel like a waste.I understand none of this having not seen the movie…
The comic must be pretty cut down.
Cut down? The comic came first…
There were quite a few idea I think the movie would change being a big Hollywood production & all.
I’m thinking they filled the gaps with some other ideas.
Perhaps I’ll enjoy the comic more.
It’s old & serialised so repeats points a bit too often. Could have used some more editing
wait a minute, are you saying they included the main idea from Soylent Green?That wasn’t in the comic…
edit: meh, I’ll just not say stuff in case I spoil stuff.They didnt, the back carriage turned to cannibalism to survive because the door was permanently locked after they tried to revoltThe bacback carriage us inky shown in flashback & it is implied to be full if death & barbarism
sounds similar but yeah they started feeding them after a while in the flick & they didn’t lock the door after the revolt as far as I could tell (they had people waltzing in talking to them)the revolt happened years before & is remembered different on either sideToo late suckers, I’ve figured it out!
So
they fed them human flesh I guess, but of a spin on them needing to turn to cannibalism, makes the villains more villainousgood guess but nopeDidn’t think they’d be comfortable having Captain America
willingly eat human beansNot human beans but just as disgusting. Watch the film.
Will do
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Holy crapsticles, how huge is this place?! (DA:I related)
I’ve spent forever running around Skyhold exploring, getting my bearings, and talking to people. And there’s still loads I haven’t seen or spoken to! Also, I just found the Stables. There’s other Mounts we can get besides horsies?!!! I feel both excited and overwhelmed….Did you get the pre-order dlc? There were mounts
Oh, wait. Shit. That was a thing wasn’t it? Probably pointless downloading it by now in my game isn’t it?
Nah, the mounts are good. The other stuff is useless.
I couldn’t get mine working for a week, so a waste in my first game.
Armour only lasts until you reach hinterlands anyway
Nothing could beat my current mount.
What you got?
dlc includes the zombie horse with a sword through the head & a Dragon style one, the other two are fairly horse likeDeath NugIs that real? That is amazing!!
@jimu it’s in the
Mystery Box yo.I KNEW I needed to buy that!
Don’t remember such a thing :-/
@transientmind
as soon as I saw it I knew I wanted whatever was in there. I didn’t even care what it was. The instant I had the money I went straight there.Yeah, the sales pitch for that is the BEST.
Hoping for Gryphons in 4
Nah, I didn’t pre-order.
I think there’s a way, but I’d didn’t find it. List of ???? is long though
Do you want my codes?
I would love them if no one else wants them…
If @strange doesn’t want them they’re yours.
Uh, PSN though so not sure what you’re playing on?
PC 🙁 do they not work between platforms? Probably not. BOO.
Thanks for offering, but no, I kind of need to continue punishing myself for not pre-ordering so that I remember to pre-order Bloodborne…. 😛
That place is amazing. Make sure you talk to all your buddies (even more than once, because sometimes they have multiple conversations even after a cutscene has ended!)
I really love that game. Poor Bun has been ignored for about a month ever since it came out.
Has it only been a month?
I talk to them so much I’m sure they’re all sick of me asking a whole bunch of inane questions! 😛 Except Vivienne. I feel like talking to her is a chore so I don’t deliberately seek her out.
She’s so bland and uninteresting. Which is a shame because she introduced well.
Yeah, I thought she was going to be fun after her cool intro. But all she does is lecture me.
Maybe if I hadn’t let the mages join as equals, or if I’d gone to the Templars instead of the Mages she might have been more likely to show me her fun side?Yeah, she was always the person I reluctantly went to last.
I actually think she’s quite a fun character with interesting motivations.
Seriously, I spent several fucking days and got entire levels exploring, doing missions, and codex entries, companion conversations, etc, etc, etc, etc, HOLY ETCETERA BATMAN in Skyhold.
I didn’t even leave.
Hello TAY in general with a particular emphasis on people who still play Destiny on PS4! I still haven’t been able to even have a go at the Vault of Glass because it doesn’t have matchmaking and I never seem to be on at the right time to invade friends’ games. It sucks not being able to play what I’ve heard is one of the best parts of a game I paid for! And now that The Dark Below is out, players will be concentrating on the new raid leaving the Vault of Glass deserted.
So! Please add me to your friend’s lists! My name is Naaxx on PSN. And I might add the rest of my various usernames and codes and so on to the TAY spreadsheet. Connect if you want!
Man, our raid team still plans on running VoG before Crota’s End every week, it’s that good.
If you can, you should try and build up at least a group of three you work well with first because shit can get really frustrating. Run a few Nightfalls until you’re comfortable with working as a team.
My other suggestion is try to get a blind run for your first time. I reckon it’s so great because of those times you and your team are figuring these obscure mechanics out for yourselves.
If you manage to get 5 together I can lead or be a ringer, just send me a message with a time when you want to do it.
I think @f4ction was keen to try it?
I’ll help out 🙂
I’ve only run it once, and will happily help out 🙂
Only Lv 29 though.
Level 29 is more than enough for standard Vault of Glass. In fact, it would probably get you into a few hard runs, too.
Ugh.., I might get myself a larger hard drive for Xmas…
Anyone know what a good price for a 4TB HDD is?
You can get Seagate 8tb drives for around $260 USD in a few weeks #helpingnothelping
I hate to be selfish about it but I’m really stressing over this Matin Place stuff. I know on Wednesday when I take my nan to dinner my entire night is going to be listening to racist bullshit. Now that my sister doesn’t live close enough to come every week I struggle to steer the conversation away from the echo chamber of her and her friends telling each other how everything is terrible and out to get them. I really don’t think I can handle it anymore.
But everything is terrible and out to get them! ISIS hates grandmas >:(
Been a horrible day. Sister works minutes up the road from the affected area and has been distraught all day, but pretty much the entirety of that area has been sent home and the like now. I’m sending her stupid pictures of our cats because it’s the only thing I can think of doing. 🙁
Can you go get her? Sounds like she needs to go home 🙁
She went home not long ago. Spooked her a lot being so close, I guess. Obviously there are the hostages in a far scarier situation, but still sucks all round.
It is scary; if it happens there it makes you think it could happen anywhere 🙁
That is probably the point of why it has been done there.
I might call Nintendo tomorrow… @mrtaco :P. I dun wanna!
Has anyone had any dealings with them regarding warranty (for accessories)? I think my Wii U Pro Controller has issues so I’d like to get it checked out, but it’s kinda hard to test because it works fine most of the time but only gets glitchy after a while.
Don’t really wanna waste money posting it only to have it come back with “it’s fine”.
Cheerio!
You have to call and schedule a meeting, fly to Japan, go to their offices and meet with Miyamoto. Then he will require you to allow him to take a dump directly into your mouth. Then he’ll high five his assistant, laugh at you and call you a filthy, honourless consumer whore and call security to throw you out.
It’s all there in the terms and conditions of the End User Agreements of the Wii U. You did read it before agreeing, right?
That’s why you booked that extra time to stay on in Japan after the main trip right?
I want my Theatrhythm DLC I paid for back damnit!
No, I won’t stand for that. The retailer who sold it is the one responsible for provision of warranty. It should be them who gets dumped on.
This is the real reason that Jerry Harvey is so upset about people buying their leisure computers online. He hardly ever gets to shit in anyone’s mouths any more, Jeff Bezos gets all the fun.
Who did you buy it from? Was it a retailer here in Australia? If so take it back with proof of purchase and ask for a replacement..
Bought it online from a… bookstore? Can’t exactly take it back to them, but I’m pretty sure their warehouse is literally next to the NIntendo HQ 😛
It was a few months ago so it’s still under Ninty’s 12 month warranty.
Email their customer support and tell them. If anything Nintendo may just direct you back to the retailer because of Australian Consumer Law.
I started playing Ar noSurge over the weekend, 7 hours in now. I’m enjoying it so far. Thoughts:
– They’ve basically taken and refined the combat from Ar Tonelico II. This a good thing, because AT3 had a terrible combat system. They have expanded the system so that you basically can fight all the waves of the enemies one after the other and clear out the zone – you have a certain amount of turns to do it, but getting quick clears by breaking their defenses gets you extra turns, and song magic when built up can blow through multiple waves at once. Which is cool. It’s a bit easy though, so far, but I don’t mind much.
– The downside to being able to blow through the enemies and clear out the whole area in one fight is that you can’t grind. Though the previous games had this as well, and you can reset the area by leaving and re-entering I guess. It just feels like I get through stuff too fast. The areas so far have been disappointingly unambitious too. Previous games had dungeons with at least 5 screens and a bit more intricacy to them, but so far this has been quite simple and linear. Perhaps because of the lack of enemies to fight?
– I’m not sure how the world ties into Ar Tonelico yet. This might not be something they fully explain. The game takes place on a colony ship, and the doomed planet they left from is not the same planet as Ar Ciel from the AT games. Terminology is different and I think the way some of the stuff works might be technically different. So hard to tell if this is actually a proper sequel / prequel or if it’s an alternative universe, but I’m assuming the latter. I’m just glad to see it continuing.
– The plot starts kind of in the middle of things – main character Delta did some stuff six months beforehand that put everyone in the town at risk? Also he can’t remember anything (lol JRPG trope #1). I’m not sure if this is just the game setting things up nicely, or if it’s actually because we’re missing the first game in the series? Way back when the Vita first released and Gust was going through the Koei acquisition and everything they released Ciel noSurge, which is a weird game that’s as I understand it basically one of those raising / life simulator things, a bit like Seaman on the Dreamcast or the like. Except instead of a wierd fish man, you’re talking to Ionasal, the quintessential anime moeblob. It was a 12-chapter story, one chapter released per month, and it never got localized. Apparently there’s heaps of plot elements in it that we miss out on as a result, and that sucks. Ion is actually in the game, I just advanced to the point that she’s turned up, so I suspect that the plot bits I’m missing are more on her side.
– Item Synthesis in the game is fucking amazing. Not because you’re doing anything particularly good, but because every time you make something, the main character, main heroine and the crafter get together and do a dance and sing a silly song. And it’s different depending on the item type. Seems if you’re playing with the US dub, it doesn’t have the singing, but that’s okay because I’m not (dual audio). Wasn’t expecting it to happen and it’s so out of place it’s awesome.
– Their new take on the whole visual-novel-in-the-mind thing (Genometrics in this game, Cosmosphere in the AT games) is basically the same thing, but you’re diving into other characters and not just the main heroines? This one weirds me out a bit, since I’ve got heaps of dive points at the moment and I feel like I could have gone further in Casty’s world, but I’m not sure how and I don’t want to waste time going back into her world if it’s already completed. Thinking maybe things open out a bit later.
– They stepped back on the whole innuendo and perverted crap a whole lot from AT3 (where they went way too far IMO, it just got silly) so whenever it does slip out, it’s actually kind of jarring. A couple of full-screen CG shots so far in particular made me kind of glad I live alone, though to be fair they weren’t much steamier than you’d find in a bunch of other stuff. The strange thing is that the that whole ‘purification’ system they’ve added is actually more tasteful than the previous games’, yet at the same time it feels a thousand times more awkward because the chat stuff is there too. Felt way more natural in the AT games where chat stuff happened when you stayed the night at the inns, but they seem to have set it up so everyone recovers 100% after battles so no need for inns beyond saving so I understand that that system had to fit somewhere else. It’s just so weirdly awkward watching to people sitting in a bath in their bathing suits chatting about random shit. But I guess they were always odd games.
– This might be the first AT game where I actually like both of the core pair of female leads. AT1 the choice was obvious: Misha was amazing and Aurica had the personality of a sack of bricks draped in a wet blanket. AT2 both of them seemed initially fine but oh my god once you got a bit further in (spoiler: they’re both craaazy). And AT3 felt like they designed Finnel and then were like “well shit, what now”. I think Casty is more my type, but Ion seems nice as well. Probably would like her more if I had played Ciel as well.
– I was really disappointed to find out that the ability to change costumes for the characters requires fighting an optional boss, and that optional boss is only unlocked if you have a Ciel noSurge game save on your account in the JP release. Apparently because Ciel was never localized, they took the boss out of the English-language release and so you can never unlock it. Sucks so much. Still hoping they patch it in or something. Actually, hoping that T-K follow through with the way they’ve handled the Atelier games. A complete re-package of Ciel plus a Vita port of Ar nosurge were both released just recently in Japan, and T-K have so far brought over all the Atelier ‘Plus’ games for Vita so fingers crossed!
– As expected, the music is amazing.
Looking forward to playing more. It’s not a fantastic game by any stretch, it’s a low-budget JRPG and it’s fucking weird, but these games always were odd. Enjoying it much more than I’ve enjoyed a lot of stuff in the back half of this year. I should have just jumped in with it when it released a few months ago and ignored the AAA space in the mean time.
In lighter, more show-offy news, I got a delivery from what I can only assume is my Secret Santa – https://twitter.com/AlexAndHisPants/status/544378666738675712/photo/1
I am in awe. It’s incredible. And completely puts my secret santa present that I regretfully haven’t sent yet to absolute shame.
Yay, passed the exam I needed to pass 🙂
It was the level 3 one, which I have to do two of as electives, so now I only need to do one more 🙂
Passed one of my other exams too, but failed the one I knew I was going to, haha! (don’t worry, failing literally means nothing, and I didn’t study for it X3).
Really quite excited to start my new degree next year 🙂
I just need a lot more discipline :\
Haven’t drawn nearly as much as I planned to.
I blame it on my rut. Just haven’t been in the mood to draw 🙁
But I know I need to practice…
Well done, my friend. Next year is going to treat you well!
Hopefully 🙂
I think the new degree will be good, but there’s much more I want to do to get my life where I want it to be.
This is just the first step 🙂
Dafuq is wrong with people?
I love Australia, but I hate Australians sometimes.
Those people should be given move on notices, and then subsequently arrested if they don’t leave.
Interfering with police is an offence, so is drinking in public.
It would deter others too, and show that it’s a serious situation.
You’re so much more charitable than me.
I tend to operate within the law 😛
But the police are well within the law to arrest those people, which is what they should be doing.
Let special forces handle the main situation, while police do the grunt work (evacuation, crowd control, etc).
Transientmind IS the law.
Well he does have a striking resemblance to Max Payne..
I wonder if that was the deal with the guy they arrested
Really struggling today, TAY.
So my girlfriend and I have separated. That was just over three weeks ago now. I signed the lease on a unit a week ago, sitting here waiting for the removalists to arrive now. Wondering if I’m doing the right thing. Didn’t know who to talk to. Just thought I’d post this here.Commiserations. That’s rough.
That sucks to hear :'(
Hopefully the post breakup blues won’t last too long for you.
You’ll be alrught. Might even be a good time to start fresh, with the new year looming and everything 🙂
Hope your alright though.
I’m sorry to hear about the break up, buddy. 🙁
Change might be good.
This damn day and age.
So I saw an unattended Nike bag left on a seat at the Busway platform. Asked around the folks waiting to see if it was theirs – no bites.
Now just fifteen years ago I’d have opened it up to look for ID and if not finding any, called up translink to find out where lost and found is. Turn it in.
But because fuck everything, instead, I call police link.
They want me to hang about for a bit, so I miss the bus. Boo. But whatever. They say they’ll send someone to check it out because y’know… This fucking day and age.
On the plus side, in the next 20min, a fella wearing a craptonne of Nike gear gets off a bus, grabs the bag, breathes a sigh of relief and sits down to wait for another one. (So I call the cops again and tell them not to waste their time.)
So with Shane’s Undad Kickstarter finalised and fully funded I can now look forward to drawing my giveaway winner. Just waiting on a list from Shane to double check against mine and then I might write all entries on a piece of paper, stick them in a bag and get my son to draw one out. Unless anyone has any better suggestions for drawing a winner….
Let’s cut to the chase, sweet cheeks.
You should just pick me 😉
*takes Lion’s name out of the draw for saying “sweet cheeks”* 😛
Hahahaha, awww :’O
Write Freeze on all the pieces of paper so you can make an awesome Solaire quilt.
Write Freeze on all the pieces of paper so you can make an awesome Solaire quilt.
If by some freak event you happen to draw me, you should give it to freeze so you can make an awesome Solaire quilt.
Write my name on all of the pieces so you can make an awesome Solaire quilt that I can give to Freeze and make myself look charitable in the process.
This is why I didn’t want people to say their ideas before winning…now I’ve put a Guts quilt and a Solaire Quilt on my ever-growing to-do list for next year! 😛
Hooray Guts quilt 😀
You should probably write Freeze on all the pieces of paper so you can make an awesome Solaire quilt.
@markserrels
How come we can’t bookmark articles from within the article anymore?
The pulled pork I made for Saturday dinner is only half gone.
Also I need to find some more interesting things to do with it. It turned out a bit disappointing – a bit dry, not very saucy. So need to add some liquid bits. Saturday night, sunday lunch and sunday night I put it in corn tortillas and added coleslaw. My ignorance of mexican is astounding but I believe this is something approaching a Carnita, but I don’t know the technical side. I actually just whacked this together with things I had in my pantry / fridge.
Tonight, flour tortillas, lettuce and chipotle, tomato and bean salsa (courtesy of Mission who are awesome). This is nicer than the last few nights.
No idea what to do with the rest and it looks like I’m going to have to figure something out because I’ve got half of the total meat left. 🙁 Maybe I should asian-ize it with some rice or noodles or something in a stir fry? Noodle soup? I DON’T KNOW.
What was in the original broth?
Orange juice, beer, fennel seeds, coriander seeds, chilli flakes, onions and garlic.
EDIT: The dryness is because I used leg rather than shoulder. Not enough fat.
Right, yep. Do vietnamese stuff. Pho, noodle dishes. Limes
Ooo, pho.
You could middle-eastern-ise it by frying it up with some spices like a ras el hanout mix and add hommous and stuff to make a kebab.
You could mix some shredded pork with BBQ sauce to put on a pizza base with some cheese.
You could cut the corn kernels off the cob and mix them with the pork, some tomato, capsicum, red onion, jalapeno, lime juice and coriander for a salady thing.
You could make up some sushi-rice, and fry up your pulled pork, adding it to the top of the rice with some steamed asian greens, chilli oil(just steep some chilli flakes in oil for a while to make some), rice wine vinegar and soy.
These are all awesome suggestions. Especially pizza.
I saw Jamie Oliver make a mean looking Korean Stir Fry with left over pulled pork or beef or something. Can’t find the vid anywhere, nor a recipe direct from the source, but it was very similar to this.
http://thefamishedfoodie.blogspot.com.au/2013/10/ff-takes-on-jamie-korean-fried-rice.html
This recipe uses beef, but pork would work just as well!
Pulled Pork burgers!
Make Frickles on the side – Mini pickles fried in a light egg, water, cornflour batter.
@tech_knight Still right for tonight?
Hello my friends, quick getting from up here in cold cold Scandinavia… Flight went as well as one would expect and we arrived safely yesterday morning… Toured the local sights about before heading to my sister’s place in Bara, Sweden… Got to meet my 1 year old niece for the first time (so damn adorable) and ate Medister Pølse for dinner (nearly 10 years since I had that last… Do good)
Hope you’re all well on TAY, I will now prepare for a lovely day of eating way too many cookies and marzipan… God I love Christmas XD
ICE CUBES!!
I need a movie to watch tonight.
Any suggestions? 🙂
Frankenweenie
or Paranorman
I’ve seen them both 😛
Anything similar though come to mind?
…
The BoxTrolls (I don’t think it’s had its home release yet)? I guess, I should assume you’ve also seen Coraline.
Laika are just the best when it comes to stop motion. They put everyone else to shame.
Was going to suggest Boxtrolls but I haven’t seen it yet and don’t want to put my reputation on the line. 😛
For some reason I want to say Pan’s Labyrinth in a dark fantasy sort of way. Must like reading subtitles.
Yeah, still haven’t seen Boxtrolls, but I assume that it’s excellent (I haven’t even looked up reviews for it).
Pan’s Labyrinth is probably one of my top ten movies of all time, so I agree with that choice.
Hmm, Boxtrolls looks intriguing.
Might give it a look 🙂
Thanks Blaghs and DC! 😀
It better be good.
@liondrive I hate a great deal of kids movies (like most of the Pixar ones :P) but I greatly enjoyed Boxtrolls. Make of that what you will. 🙂
@strange
You were never on my list Strangey, but I’m writing your name on there just so I can cross it off >:(
*writes Stranges name on the list*
*crosses Stranges name off the list*
Grumpy Cats Worst Christmas Ever. So bad, yet so awesome.
Oh my god, I didn’t realise it was out yet!
Strong contender right here! 😀
I had low expectations, but I honestly really liked it. It’s intentionally cheesy & awful, and it knows it. Like Sharknado lol.. Plus Aubrey Plaza I think voices Grumpy Cat rather well. It has the plot of just about any Christmas movie that is intended to be a comedy but is also just terrible 😛
Heat
Chill Factor
Die, Mommie, Die! or Psycho Beach Party!
Die Hard, just in time for Christmas.
Urrrr, confession…
I hate Die Hard :3For a moment I thought you were saying you hated Die Hard 3, which, y’know… was the best one. But the original? OK, you’re clearly crazy but not talking ‘burned at the stake’ heresy… just ‘locked in the oubliette with an iron mask’ crazy.
I dunno, just not my type of movie 😛
I absolutely love Die Hard but I think I’ve seen it so many times that I could comfortably never watch it again and be okay.
*crosses DCs name off the list*
*re-writes DCs name on the list*
12 Angry Men!
Finally back home.
So, while on holiday, I had to drag my 90 year old grandmother round the city on the first day (we only went from the bus stop to city hall, down to the Myer Center and halfway to the City Cat) before I had to cut our first visit to the city short, I could see how exhasted she was, and I decided that it just wasn’t fair on her. Later back at her house she tells me that she thought all we were doing was going on the City Cat when we pretty much told her before we went that we wanted to look all through the city. She’s losing her memory too and seeing her like that was quite depressing.
The next day we went to Movie World, that was kinda fun, until I ended up spending my entire weeks pay for us to get there, get in, have lunch and buy a bunch of swag (saw a Batman utility belt that I wanted so bad, but it was 400 bucks, so I didn’t get it). Then when we finally get off the bus to Grandma’s at night, as soon as the bus takes off I realize that I’ve left one small bag on there with my friggin’ wallet in it. Eventually tracked it down and amazingly everything was there.
Arrived back in Melbourne yesterday, attempted to go to the meat, had a hard enough time driving down there only to find when we got there that there wasn’t a park to be found anywhere. pretty much had enough by then so just decided to go back to the hotel and try and relax a bit.
Fuck me Melbourne is so hard to drive arouind in, NEVER doing that again.
WORST HOLIDAY EVER!
Edit: The only way I think our holiday could’ve been worse would be if we’d been mugged, the car had died and/or the plane had crashed.
On the plus side, I did get like 42 Streetpass hits, so I guess that’s something.
It really sucks seeing loved ones like that man.. I remember when my grandmother was like that, it was horrible 🙁 I have no idea how my mum managed to work as an aged care nurse in the dementia unit of her nursing home, and on night duty by herself, I find it would be way too tough :/
I think your problem was you tried to drive through Melbourne, I remember when I first went to Melbourne, I was going into the city every night with my friend (who lives at Point Cook, like 40 mins from the city) to see The Living End, despite it being like 9pm every night we were getting into the city it still sucked for traffic and finding parking especially was difficult, at times we were parking like 15 mins walk away, which just sucked but yeah.
Damn dude, sorry to hear your holiday wasn’t relaxing or anything for you, i’m also sorry I couldn’t come to the Brisbane meat, you were there right? At least the weather was kind to you when you went to Movieworld, so that’s a positive?
Nah, didn’t get to the Brisbane meat either.
Lame dude 🙁 truly a horrible holiday all round. Next time maybe!
Got this in the mail today. I can only presume it’s from secret santa (not the TAY edition, another community I’m part of that decided to do it) i’m not huge into plushies, but it’s pretty freakin’ rad I must say, and the tail can be moulded into positions same with the wings, which is pretty awesome!
Would anyone like to play some Fibbage XL?
If so, go to http://www.jackbox.tv and type in KAGO.
(I’ll edit this as each game code changes.)
If you want to view the game, go to twitch and look for simracer1990.
Login to Steam to find I’ve been gifted Screencheat by @beeawwb and Star Wars Battlefront II from @welbot.
Thanks heaps guys, you’re awesome!
Most welcome sire! Saw it on your wishlist when I bought my copy, and thought I’d give ya some love since I missed the meat! Then I read your post about missing the meat yourself, and the terrible holiday experience, so hopefully that put a smile on your dial! 🙂
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Would anyone like to play some Fibbage XL?
If so, go to http://www.jackbox.tv and type in DDJH.
(I’ll edit this as each game code changes.)
If you want to view the game, go to twitch and look for simracer1990.
If it wasn’t Pathfinder night, I’d say hell yes!
Trying to find a place to stay in Orlando that is affordable and has an oven so we can finally try some of the many wacky frozen things them crazy Americans have in their supermarkets is kind of difficult. It’s difficult enough getting a place with a queen bed instead of two twins.
Don’t Americans usually microwave that stuff? Well that’s the general idea I get from a lot of posts on the internet lol..
We’ve been in a great deal of US hotels and none of them have even had a fridge in the room, let alone a microwave….
No fridge?! That’s just bloody rude!
Not cool.
I haven’t been to the US but I know plenty of friends who have, and I think it’s just one of those weird cultural things – we have the very british expectation that a hotel room has a mini bar fridge and things for tea and coffee, but they’re not big tea drinkers, so you just go out for coffee. A friend of mine was pondering if she should take a kettle with her just for making tea at the hotel. 🙂
If it’s high priority, go to a motel (they generally have fridge and microwave) or buy a $45 one from Walmart.
Toaster works for a lot of things too.
Man, this food just sounds so lazy & convenient! I see why a lot of Americans choose to eat it..
Especially Toast 😛
Nah, they’re better for bread.
AirBNB. 🙂
We stayed here: http://grandcypress.hyatt.com/en/hotel/home.html
Free shuttle to Disney and if they ask you if it’s your first time to Disneyworld say yes and they’ll give you a room overlooking the parks.
They didn’t have an oven but that didn’t stop us from gorging on ridiculous late night snacks from the convenience stores close by.
There’s also a Macaw in the lobby.
Just had a friend link this to me, asking what I think: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFyEjUXGE2I
It’s rad. Had no idea the Priest version was a cover.
:/
One friend on Facebook who made a post about the unfortunate situation that is still happening in Sydney. Has come out saying anyone who wants to be racist about anyone of Middle Eastern appearance can fuck off etc, fair enough, I wouldn’t have chose those words but eh.. He then goes on to state in a comment that today shows why religion should fuck off & die. I’m not a person of faith. But to say something like that I think is extremely disrespectful to those who choose to believe. I know if I engage this it’ll only end in a shit storm with him keeping his blinders on and not being open minded and respectful of others.
I was brought up in a religious household, I stopped going to church over 20 years ago, and I will never go back. It’s not my thing, but if that’s what they want to believe then who am I to tell them it’s wrong. As long as they’re not hurting anyone else, or trying to shove their beliefs down other peoples throats then I couldn’t care less who or what they or anyone else worship.
Praise Jeebus.
Edit: Oh, and I have no idea about what is going on in Sydney, but it sounds like it would be better if I didn’t know.
Damn right dude. I was baptised Catholic & went to a Catholic high school, mum & dad aren’t religious, it was all my grandparents doing, but I don’t mind I got a good education and teachers who gave a damn! I don’t have an issue with someone’s beliefs as long as they are not cramming it down my throat & respect my choices. It isn’t religions fault people choose to do horrible & nasty things in the name of religion, but hey, it’s an easy target to blame apparently.
I believe, those who denounce religion and say it should die off have to realise that every religion is going to have its extremists & crazies who do insane unspeakable & unfathomable shit, but they’re most likely going to be a small percentage, a minority if you will, of that religion, but usually they will be the most vocal and thus painting a bad image for that religion.
On the other hand it’s also sad when you get someone like Pope Francis come along and do the exact things that are in the guidelines of being a good Christian/Catholic and people praise him for that, because it’s so abnormal to them. Not going to deny it, he’s a top bloke, for his open & accepting ways, but damn, he’s just following the rules of his faith and being a genuinely good person to everyone despite who you are! I personally think it is a sad world we live in that good deeds are so far & few that everyone is amazed when someone does one.
And that kinda went off topic, but you get that 😛
I know what you mean – I went to Catholic school as well, but no more. I just can’t stand the hypocrisy of an organisation that preaches “love thy neighbour” – and then goes on to make the lives of millions of people miserable with nasty, exclusionary rules. No thanks.
I agree, Pope Francis is hardly a revolutionary, he’s just stating the bloody obvious, but it sounds amazing after the nasty ultra-conservative Pope Benedict.
how have you avoided hearing about this hostage thing?
Was on a plane yesterday, busy in Melbourne today, then driving back tonight.
Quickly Googled “Sydney” before, and it was the first thing that came up. All I’ve read is that there’s a person (or persons) holding some hostages in some chocolate shop. Apparently one of the hostages held something up to the window with some Arabic writing on it, and it seems that everyone has lost the plot and straight away assumed they are islamic extremists.
Has anyone seen their face(s) or have any proof whatsoever about what race or religion these people are (not that it even matters in the first place)? To just assume they are Islamic without any sort of proof other than a hostage putting some Arabic writing up to the window is just ridiculous, hell, they could’ve put something in elvish up to the window, but it doesn’t mean that’s what they are.
It is a terrible thing, and the situation needs to be dealt with delicately to try and save these hostages lives.
It wasn’t just Arabic writing, it was an islamic flag – we discussed it a page or two back: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/12/while-you-were-sleeping-994/comment-page-2/#comment-3076524
That’s why it’s bringing out the terror talk, and the PM (who’d been handling this pretty well IMO) has confirmed that there is a political angle to the gunman’s demands. Given the lack of PR surrounding the guy, and the general shambolic nature of this situation, I reckon he’s a lone gunman, and I’d be surprised if this was connected to or sanctioned by a major terror group.
Whatever the race or religion of the perpetrators is, I don’t much care.
My concern is for the hostages and the Islamic community (especially in Sydney) that had nothing to do with this event, let alone support it, for the retaliation they will no doubt receive from ignorant and closed minded people.
Absolutely.
@dc @dkzeitgeist and any other theme park gurus: anything you can tell me about Disney World that would help me to plan accordingly? We can only go for a maximum of two days.
Only two days! You can maybe take a stroll up Main Street USA, I guess? 😛
There’s four parks. (Hollywood Studios, Magic Kingdom, Epcot and Animal Kingdom.) If you’re going for the rides I would probably go to Hollywood Studios and Magic Kingdom. Though the excellent Mission: Space is at Epcot as well as crazy food places from different countries that will probably appeal to you. Animal Kingdom is a zoo with not many rides, but a couple of good ones like Expedition Everest. I think Magic Kingdom is a must, but worth going to a second park for sure! Embrace the fast pass system or their equivalent now. I think I read that they replaced it with an app or something? Either way, it’s worth figuring out so you can skip lines and do other stuff instead of lining up. I will have to think about this some more. XD
My friend went to Disney World earlier this year and Hollywood Studios sounded AMAZING. I so wanna go one day..
Hollywood Studios is my favourite. The themeing is amazing and it has some of the funnest rides. The Aerosmith Rock n Roller Coaster is one of the best things evah. Also Star Tours and Tower of Terror. It’s authentically themed around golden age of Hollywood. Magic Kingdom is the ‘Walt Disney’ park with all the staples of Disney like Pirates of the Caribbean, Haunted Mansion and It’s a Small World.
Woo Aerosmith, i’m sold!
It’s a roller coaster that’s inside a dark, laser filled building set to their music. Disney doesn’t really do the ‘thrill ride’ thing but this is as tense as they get. Space Mountain gets all the hype but it’s crap compared to Aerosmith! 😀
As much as I hate to agree, Aerosmith trumps vanilla Space Mountain.
Halloween Space Mountain, though, is on another level.
We’re not worthy!
Okay so we were planning on definitely doing Epcot. We’re not rollercoaster and thrill ride people (OLD! :P)
Remember I was scared on the Scooby Doo Coaster….but Mr. Strange is a huge Disney fan so we were thinking Magic Kingdom as well.I also get pretty bad vertigo since my second pregnancy and that kicked in in a big way on the Harry Potter Hogwarts ride thingy at Universal’s IoA. So I’m wondering what else there is to do that will not make me feel like I just wasted two days walking around and exhausting myself. 😛
Well EPCOT will treat you well. There’s this entire ‘land’ of restaurants themed after different countries with unique food, beers and incredible themeing. I imagine foody types could spend the entire day in that section alone. The beauty of Disney is the rides are for the most part very tame, the thing that makes them unique is how well themed they are. They feel like little movies. You won’t be getting sick and I think vertigo won’t be a problem on most of them. (Especially at Magic Kingdom.) There’s lots of non-ride attractions too at all the parks.
I think if Mr. Strange is a Disney fan then Magic Kingdom is a good choice. It’s the one closest to Walt Disney’s vision and is the one people associate Disney with. (Tea cups, etc.)
Two days!?
Oh man… As suggested EPCOT & Magic Kingdom for sure.
EPCOT will be kind to your no thrill ride & delicious food tastes and Magic Kingdom is well, magic.
They’re both on the monorail so that’s a bonus as Animal Kingdom & Hollywood Studios take a bit longer to get to from the main ticket area.
My big, mondo Dan suggestion is try to go to Magic Kingdom on a night it’s open latest. If you’re staying close by you can usually see the fireworks from your hotel so when they’re on you can take this time to hit a lot of the busier rides as they’ll have cleared out for the shows.
Also, Fastpass everything you can. If you can get a Magic Band even better. When I was there it was only for Disney affiliate hotels but they might have rolled these out in greater numbers.
My must do things are:
Magic Kingdom – Space Mountain, Big Thunder, Haunted Mansion, Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (so, so, so amazing) New Fantasyland, Beasts Castle (you’ll need to book months [I mean at least 6 months] in advance for dinner or start lining up when the park opens for lunch. If you happen to get in, try and get a seat in the West Wing where the rose is. It is so good.)
EPCOT – Spaceship Earth, Test Track, Mission Space, German Buffet for dinner, Mexican & English Pavilion for food and getting hammered at the Happiest Place on Earth.
The thing I love most about Disney parks is the atmosphere though. The exact thing that happened to me will happen to you. All your plans will go out the window when you see something that shouldn’t exist.
Also The Voyage of The Little Mermaid is my favourite ride and Magic Kingdom’s version has the best queue.
So make sure you do that too, dammit.
Shit, also Jungle Cruise because nothing beats wannabe actors mono tonally delivering animal puns to non english speaking tourists.
TAY RPG Pathfinder over for another night. Starring:
@redartifice @tech_knight @freezespreston @sernobulus @negativezero @beeawwb @rize
GM Summary: Well I guess you’re now all on my naughty list, ha ha ha.
*makes list with a thousand exclamation points*
I’m HELPING.
*gun fingers*
*knocks over the table*
That list smells fishy.
Saw that one of my mates bands has a god awful website, i’m really tempted to do a proper better looking one as a nice gesture cause he’s been really awesome to us fans & the hardwork he puts in with making music, making merch insanely cheap for us & touring to show his appreciation. Since I have nothing else to do and it’s all quiet with Kats website, I guess I could do it.. Anything would be better than the single HTML page they have me thinks 😛
Don’t know if this has been posted already on Kotaku or TAY, so I apologize if it has.
http://www.playstationtrophies.org/news/news-15134-Borderlands–Remastered-Edition-Rated-by-Australian-Classification-Board.html
Nooooooo!
Stop trying to sell me games that were just made! :’O
It’s so uninspired and lazy 🙁
I don’t like this trend that the industry has jumped on 🙁
Man, how good was last week? I’m getting all nostalgic just thinking about it!
Don’t worry. Soon you’ll get to buy HD re-releases of games that haven’t yet been released.
I just want new IPs and more imaginative sequels 🙁
Is that too hard to ask for!?
*shakes HD remastered Eight Ball* the 4k graphics say “yes”
Oh goddamnit Dragon Age Inquisition. That was the worst piece of hack writing that I’ve ever witnessed.
Josephine’s romance line hit a part which,urgh.
Duelling a rival Lord she has been betrothed to for her hand, guy is snarling in my face and threatening to kill me. She jumps in suddenly and asks why am I doing this. “For love!” shouts the Inquisitor to which the rival Lord is suddenly, “Oh, if you love her then okay”, puts his sword away and everyone is happy.Bllleeerrrrrgggghhhhh. *vomits* You can do and have far better than that Bioware.
I think that is because it’s kind of Orlais.
Like it’s sweet and romantic so it’s okay? Whereas if you were doing it for political reasons (ie the Game) he would go ahead with the duel…
I dunno, I romanced Cullen in my first playthrough and am currently romancing Solas. Josephine’s romance is pretty low down on my list of playthroughs 😛
I don’t like her in that way at all.
I was talking to the Scout yesterday. Scout Harding? And I noticed there was a “heart” conversation option. Is there anyone in the game besides Varric that you can’t romance?! 😛
I still can’t help but chuckle when that is clearly shown in the conversation options. Like the game thinks you’re too stupid to figure out that this is called “Flirting” 😛
I require the heart.
I’m often choosing things to be nice & apparently sometimes giving a crying friend a hug initiates a relationship (looking at you P4G!)
Okay that I can understand, when I fell into that trap with Ash in Mass Effect. Just being nice to her and supportive and suddenly she and I are in relationship cahoots. I dunno since then I’ve kinda hated the conversation wheel tbh, too few options can cause those kinds of traps where I get too terrified to talking to the opposite sex if I didn’t want to romance them. I preferred the KOTOR/DA:O way of doing it, so what if I didn’t have a voice at least the amount of options helped me make my character feel a lot more unique.
Yep, I pprefersilent protagonist.
INQUISITION is a happy middle ground though
Yeah, I kinda need the “flirt” option because a lot of the dialogue choices actually differ from what is written on the choice wheel and also, a lot of “flirting” type actions are often just you saying something silly/snarky/nice and so I’d probably choose it thinking “this will be interesting”.
Oh my god, Scout Harding is the best. I flirt with her often. I may be repeating playthroughs just so I can flirt with her more…
Boxtrolls was really good 🙂
Not at all what I was expecting, and far better for it 🙂
Thanks for the recommendation, Blaghman, DC and Strange 🙂
Holy shit. That was horrific. Hope we get the facts soon, but I have a nasty feeling there’s at least one dead
I’ve seen “reports” of at least 2 hostage casualties, but I’m staying optimistic that it’s not true 🙁
I guess I’ll find out in the morning 🙁
2 confirmed casualties. One woman and one man.
A lot worse than I was hoping or expected. 🙁
Relieved all my Sydney people are safe, but… shit.
Third casualty is the gunman himself
Considering their ages, I really hope they haven’t left children behind.
It’s horrible to happen just before Christmas. The images and the video is harrowing.
Fuck Christmas. It’s horrible any time.
Of course, but it’s even worse being right before Christmas. 3 children will wake up Christmas day knowing they no longer have a mother.
Sadly looks like that was the case. The woman was a mother of 3
:'(
Woke up to see the siege had ended and the gunman and 2 hostages dead.
Then on Facebook I see my best (and only real life) friend ranting about how Muslims are trying to change our country, and that he’s glad that the cops did what they did.
So ashamed to call him my friend right now, his attitude really disgusts me.
My thoughts go out to the poor victims families. Such a horrible thing to have to deal with.
There’s going to be a lot of mindless and pointless retaliation from the more bogan Aussies. It was already bad enough yesterday with people saying Muslims should get out of the country. As if the vast majority of Muslims didn’t have it bad enough around the rest of the World, now there’ll be a big backlash from this in Australia.
This is what I’m worried about. How we all react to this (Politicians and civilians alike) is going to be what defines Australia’s people to the rest of the world…
Worst news to wake up to 🙁
I don’t have any words. :'(
So $200 for the FF Type 0 CE…
Start saving, me.
Local now?
EB exclusive
It might actually be cheaper to import :-/
Looking at it there doesn’t seem to be anything to justify that price tag :S
DAI was $20 more expensive when I ordered.
*fingers crossed*
Dragon Age ending spoiler on Kotaku’s front page.
Was initially non-spoilery gif, now it’s video screen cap.
Jeepers. Thanks for the warning, DeeCee. <3
Good Lord *shoots the messenger*
You just spoiled the spoiler! D:
What? For real?
Now no-one will have that moment spoiled! Poor Patricia!
Oooooh, Freeze was joking? I get jokes! Haha… ha… ha! D:
I’ve never joked once in my life.
Loaded the home page on my phone. I saw green blob on black background and the phrase “Dragon Age Inquisition ending” before my thumb got the “start scrolling, twit!” notification. Catastrophe averted. Looking forward to playing dodgeball with gaming news sites for the month or two it takes me to eventually finish it…
Oh crap, it’s now a video still! Abort! Abort!
Seems to be fixed now. Back to animated gif. Atleast on my end. Be vigilant!
Never has an animated gif been more welcome on this site…
Managed to ignore my alarm for 40 minutes this morning before finally waking up. Bleh.
Also weird is that Mum slept through hers as well. This kind of sync-up seems to keep happening, and only when Dad’s working so there’s no one left to wake either of us up 😛
I’ll be honest with you, I’m having a hard time finding an angle that requires popcorn from this anecdote. Pick up your act, man!
Depends on how far down the incest road you’re willing to go.
Let’s say that road is closed indefinitely?
I’ll be honest, I was debating whether or not to go down that road. I’m glad somebody has less scruples (and pants) than I do.
Ever see Spanking the Monkey?
Don’t bring me into this.
Bend over!
Now now, let’s not get catty about this.
Meowwwwwwwwwwwwww?
Managed to ignore my alarm for…
*checks time*
… 3 hours.
It’s alright for some 😛
Still having heaps of trouble with the De Pleur mission in Far Cry 4. Anyone here actually passed it yet.
@gutsoup @janexo
Doesn’t sound familiar, I’ve been a bit side tracked lately. Not sure how far off it I am, I’m about halfway through I’d say, cleared most of the southern part of the map and 2 fortresses and they keep talking about the north so I think it’ll open up soon.
I’ve pretty much cleared out the entire southern part of the map, haven’t done any fortresses though. I’ve almost done half the story missions and still haven’t unlocked the northern part of the map.
Since my initial comment I’ve been able to reach the first two checkpoints, one objective to go and I should complete the mission, still getting caught a fair bit though.
I just read about it, sounds annoying, throw all the rocks :P. Hopefully you can get through it soon, I hate it when dodgy missions interfere with the fun of an awesome game.
Edit: Can you call in animals or Golden path back up, I find that helps a lot in the annoying stealth bits.
You can throw bait, but unfortunately it won’t let you call in Golden Path. I’ll keep trying, I’ll get it eventually.
YOU CAN DO EEEEEEET!!!
Aaand done.
Finally
Sorry I haven’t been around so much, but dude, I did it last night! I FINALLY fucking beat that mission 😀 😀 😀 I lost like, six times, but then I just managed to snipe/animal attack the first set of guards, and kept using the animal injection to see enemy outlines to progress. It took a lot of sneaking around, but I finally did it, ughhhhh.
ALSO I still keep having this super dropkick problem with my game, wherein it installs the last update file WHICH PREVENTS ME FROM SAVING THE GAME. wtf. So every time that installs, I have to delete the whole game file, reinstall, stop the update, delete the update, and then play. And there are some friggin’ horrible bugs without that patch, but being able to save it is worthwhile.
That’s really friggin’ weird, I’ve had no trouble with it, apart from the odd glitch here and there, pretty minor stuff like people levitating.
Congrats on finally passing that mission.
Oh maaan, everywhere I turn, everyone is having the exact same conversation D:
Save me vidya!
I am pretty much done with OR, at a loss as to what to do now. I’ve spent too many hundreds of hours Pokémonning this year, so to just stop is leaving me with an empty feeling.
Yeah, there’s still a post game thing to do & I’ve lost interest. Gen III remains my least favourite Gen.
I did the post game, I hunted down every legendary and caught them in premier balls, and I even got the last one as a shiny.
No motivation to do any secret base or contest stuff.
I did one contest to get cosplay Pikachu, secret base I set up when they shied me but that’s it.
I was working on the New Mauville quest, but barely started.
I also tried Battle Chateaux & died on the first boss because app at i can’t damage Grumpig.
Can you suggest any gem related ‘mons?
My list so far is sableye and carbink.
I haven’t gone near the battle stuff since my playthrough team won’t be any good for battling.
I used Gallade & Mawile.
There’s a full list on seribii.net or bulbapedia or gamefaqs…can’t remember which.
Seems all the stones are available at al times of day now
Or wait, do you mean mons with gems on or in them?
Gem theme.
@beavwa whoops, not sure, other than what Psyduck evolves into…Golduck!
Ooh, there’s starmie – I already have that too.
Mega Steelix!
Hmmm…
Steelix (steel/ground)
Sableye (ghost/dark)
Carbink (rock/fairy)
Starmie (water/psychic)
?Persian? (Normal, but looks eh)
How to finish the set? Could cheat a little with something that at least just learns power gem.
@beavwa Does Clamperl count? If you wanted a gimmicky throw-away slot 😛 (Though DeapSeaTooth doubles Clamperl’s SpA up to over 100)
Diancie is the only other one that has gems on it but you can’t breed those.
If clamperl counts then grumpig or ampharos could probably sneak in.
I can probably settle for ‘naturally shiny’ if the gem thing doesn’t quite stretch enough.
Green post apocalyptic urban decay
Started playing Enslaved recently and really enjoying it so far. The green is a wonderful change, it truly is a beautiful destroyed world. Think this is the sort of game I’ve been looking for.
Linear, story focused with no side quests and random hunting of collectibles. Figure it isn’t going to be a long game but that is perfect.
Loved that game. Loved that world. One day I’ll help @strange get past a certain bridge. 😛
I think I just finished that, assuming that’s the one
I’ve just reached Trip’s homeMust go back and finish it.
I enjoyed my time with that, don’t think I’ll go back though
Let’s do something fun and celebrate Doom.
Best piece of Doom music? I’d say it’s a toss up between Dead Simple and The Pit. Big, booming and inexorable, Dead Simple let you know this level was here to kick your ass, which at that point it really was a slaughterhouse for the first time you entered it. The Pit was discordant and slightly manic with an energetic beat, perfectly reflecting the confusing rush of elevators, falls and hidden walls and traps.
Your turn go.
Well, I feel like Doomsday carols really hit their peak in the early tenth century, but given the translations, re-orchestrations, and so forth that have gone on since then, I’m not sure I can necessarily pick one that’s the best.
I can’t go past Hangarmageddon. I’m a sucker for that kind of high-energy adrenaline-pumping music, and it’s a great cover of the piece.
I dunno names but fuck I love the feaux guitar & drums. So, so good!
Morning errbody hows every little thing?
Rant incoming
So far my shit is shit. Christmas can turn its sleigh around for me and head on home because no one is getting anything from me. Im broke. Have water, electricity, phone and rego payments all due on the 22nd so theres nearly $1000 and then my car shat itself! The ignition barrels gone and to fix it they need to get a new steering column plus installation theirs another $900 and I need to pay for my plane tickets to sydney for xmas because “I need to be there” but they wont help me pay for the tickets so currently im $2150 in the hole plus rent of $200 a week oh and next wednesday work is shut till the 6th of Jan.The amount of pressure cathryn and I are under I feel defeated I really do.
Anyway
A tuesday morning question..which series deserves to be turned into something its not yet? Maybe an anime into a game or a book into a movie? Go nuts
Zoids, as a third person arena brawler
Edit: Really sorry to hear about your troubles mate, really wish I could help 🙁
We talking all iterations of zoids or just a certain group? (Ie fuzors, etc)
Also its alright cathryns family has been really helpful
All iterations, I would love to see all zoid models available and you can colour and customise with decals/vinyls etc
That would be cool, would you allow weapon modifications like in Zoids Legacy?
That sucks to hear about getting financially kicked around just before Christmas. Hopefully the new year comes up Milhouse for you two.
Re the question, there’s a book series I read called Skulduggery Pleasant that would be perfect for either a graphic novel or some sort of animated series. Every character is very visually distinctive and unusual plus the spectacle of some of the written scenes is fantastic and would translate very easily. It certainly helps that the author was originally a film writer so he has a good understanding of scene framing and visualisation.
I tend to visualise how I would frame scenes from books as if I were directing them when I read them, and Skuldug was fantastic in that regard.
Though I think I’d rather see Mistborn as a 3 season TV series than anything else. >.> #FanboysGonnaFan
Thanks dude hopefully without the flooding but haha
Never read Skulduggery Pleasant might have to check it out.
This time of year fucking sucks man, I can only hope the new year is much kinder to you and it gives you a much deserved break from all this!
I’d honestly love to see the tv show Burn Notice turned into an open world game, working in a very similar way to how GTA V works switching between characters, intertwining plots then they all come together to do big jobs. I know the show ended over 12 months ago, but I always felt if Rockstar & another developer who do amazing open world games teamed up together with Fox’s approval & funding it could be amazing. But it would need a hefty budget and I know it would not recoup it in sales, so that would never happen sadly.
Thanks man
Yeah I would love a burn notice game such an amazing setting and plot(yet to watch the final season) however if they ever made one it would be crazy linear instead of open world
Yeah, a linear story would be fine and I agree it would need to happen, but I some how think an open world and being able to interact with people would be ideal in a way and being able to do odd jobs like Michael tends to pick up bit like the strangers & freaks in GTA V or the random events you can encounter lol 😛
If you can’t do Christmas then don’t. It sounds like you literally don’t have the capability to pay for flights. You will cop some grief but they will get over it. The only reason to go is if you want to.
My first thought is a GoT style TV series of the black jewel series by Anne Bishop. But thinking it through they are not going to match my thoughts so think it would annoy me more than anything else.
Although the one that keeps popping up on my pinterst is an Avengers sitcom. I would watch the heck out of that
Yeah thats the game plan, besides christmas nowadays feels more for the kids than adults.
Avengers sitcom with Seinfeld music
Well that’s extremely depressing news to hear this morning..
So… Crota kicked our arses again last night. That said, we’re working out the kinks in our strategy, and it looks like it could work, if we get a good run. Took a few probing attempts to work out the mechanics of that fight, and I think we’ve got a handle on them; now it’s down to optimising roles and executing it successfully. Crota’s End is so different to the VoG… I love it.
Also, my phone considered a message from “isthegunsmithsellingrarefusionrifles.com” to be unworthy of my attention. Back to the waiting game…
http://futantshadow.deviantart.com/art/Dark-Souls-Dark-Wraith-Statue-500419632
*spoodge*
Nifty but middling quality.
Shame that’s all there is for dark souls statues.
I’d probably pay good money for a high quality Artorias or Black Knight statue.
It’s not middling quality, it’s just the artist’s style is a kind of hand-drawn style but in sculpture. I have one of his bonfires and it’s pretty cool. 🙂
Just a question for everyone. Considering people dream, scheme, plan, or just have random thought bubbles pop up during the day, what is your most recent idea that you’ve remembered/noted? It could be an idea for the future, an alternative career, or just something wacky. Feel free to share if you want!
Actually noted? Pathfinder plot hooks.
Random fleeting though? “What was the name of that Christmas song in Rise of the Triad? Oh yeah, ‘Deadly Gentlemen’.”
How are you going for your campaign creation? Hope it’s going well and being fun to write.
Yeah, it’s coming along. I know how the adventure starts, which is what really matters since the players will drive the rest of it, but I’ve got ideas (some fleeting) that stretch all the way from level 1 to level 20. Just trying to give some sense of scale so that the main NPCs don’t feel tacked on. I want the players to feel like the NPCs are growing, at least in scope if not level, with them.
So I’ve moved on to world building. I want to try and make the main city as detailed as possible so I’m mapping out districts and where pubs go, that sort of thing. Have also sketched out a continent.
I imagine it’s going much the same way you went creating Idris, tbh.
My sister and I created Idris back in high school with the intention of writing a few short stories in the setting. Aside from the continent sketch, placement of cities, and notable landmarks, we didn’t really lock down anything aside from some of the ancient, mythic lore for the world.
As for the actual detail of the various places, I painted everything in very, very broad strokes so that I don’t trip over my own feet. Pretty much all of the NPCs I’ve created were not fully fleshed out when they started but they have grown and developed as we’ve played, mostly because I’ve gotten better at wrapping my head around who they are as people. Things I’ve said on the fly I’ve thought about more deeply and made it work. The magic preservation and transportation of food thing is something I remember discussing a long time ago about why mundane magic isn’t more widely used in standard fantasy RPGs. I figured I’d incorporate it and give it some life to see if it really is a “revolutionary” way of doing things.
That said, I’ve been utterly generic at times. In another game I’m running, the players ran into two thieves. I introduced the first one as Bean and the second one as Shaun which, as you can imagine, got a few chuckles.
Yeah, I’m sticking with broad strokes it’s more just “This guy seems to be doing XYZ at Level 1 but he’s really doing ABC so the players will see that in connection to this other guy 123 down the road, hopefully by level 10”
The rest is so far utterly based on tropes, but that’s intentional. Or is it? ;P
A bread-storage container that can also reheat foods.
I’ll call it… a Microwave.
Never gets old
That I had a bottle of sherry that apparently tastes like Christmas pudding in a box under my desk and I should put it in my bag to ensure I take it up on the weekend for family Christmas.
I’m always writing down ideas for comics I never write
So I think I’m going to start another Dragon Age playthrough.
Suggestions as to race/class/motivation/romance? I WILL TAKE ALL OPTIONS/SUGGESTIONS. I love the roleplaying as something I wouldn’t do otherwise!
They needed to make a class like Dagna, Dwarf with a bunch of devices to roughly approximate a mage so they can pretend. But no, Dragon Age has to be so damn straight laced and boring with classes.
Could be a sweet Origins if they did a dwarf that can do magic for made up reasons
I so want Dagna as a party member. Krem, too. And Scout Harding.
I highly recommend romancing Dorian! Perhaps with a self-deprecating type who makes fun of people whenever they get too serious!
This is your 4th play through? =P
Third. ALSO IT IS CANCELLED BECAUSE BUN IS GOING TO PLAY
Also, a Qunari Reaver has been a tonne of fun once I unlocked it.
Maybe you should do a run as a midget or dwarf mage with a focus on restoration spells.
For romance options maybe go for the layabout type who has no real occupation. A gentleman with a penchant for tea, would be ideal.
Poor Bun needs some attention somehow 😉I already kind of did that. Dwarves can’t be mages for lore reasons, so I went elf mage. There are also no restoration spells anymore…
However I romanced an apostate who is homeless and who is the only character shown drinking tea in the game. 😛
I went back into Keep & set up the opposite world state I had in my first play, an ‘evil’ state. Then I made a character as fdifferent as I could. So archer instead of mage, male instead of female & human instead of elf.
I got as far as the first big decision before buying Beyond Two Souls & Yakuza 4 for cheap. 🙂
When I finish the second, before I start a third I might read some guides, see what I missed, who will have a relationship with whi etc.
God, there are so many possibilities. I’ve gone female warrior/Cullen/Free Mages, mostly diplomatic in tone, genuine concern, occasional jokester. It’s very satisfying.
I definitely want to see the Solas romance as a female elf, for sure. (Maybe a mage, to relate on the Fade… One who sides with the Templars, for some bizarre reason?)
And Bull and Dorian are intriguing. Sera irritates me, but the occasional vulnerability is cute and maybe I can mentally wrangle a kind of irreverent character who actually digs her philosophy/politics. A prankster type.
Speaking of vulnerability… Josephine and Cassandra have their moments alright. But I don’t think I could ever go through with it. I mean, for brave Cassandra who threw away everything for the good of Thedas to be relegated to ‘The Herald’s girlfriend’ is depressing. Especially when she’s so cute about her few tiny indulgences. I really wanna explore that at some point. Maybe a semi-devout rogue guy.
I wish I realised about Solas tastes before I shacked up with Sera & after she dumped me, Cullen.
I played as a mage elf lady & won’t be doing that again for a long while 🙁
Sera was a surprisingly eentertaining partner though. Cullens a bit if a toss :p
Currently doing the Dalish lady elf with a Solas romance. It’s been pretty fun so far…
Is this your third playthrough?
One thing I’d suggest is keep-related (DAO spoilers)
Alistar goes through the dark ritual with Morrigan, make Alistar stay a Grey Warden. Apparently this yields interesting dialogue between the two when they reunite.Hmm… looking at how my Hearthstone download is going, I’m kinda more sympathetic toward Blizzard for their online launches. First ten minutes: 47MB downloaded. Subsequent twenty minutes: 500kB downloaded. Google Play store is apparently crapping itself…
Apparently mine was already dl’ed when I went to go and play the other day :s
http://www.mattkeeter.com/projects/pixelsim/
Squishy spaceships!
Hoorah, Better Call Saul has a release date, Feb 8th 2015! I’m not really sure how to feel about an entire show dedicated to Sauls character, he was great in Breaking Bad, but i’m just not sure if an entire show based on him would be as amazing as it sounds…
Time will tell if it’s a Frasier type spin-off or a The Cleveland Show.
The Cleveland Show was actually better than Family Guy.
Then again there’s not much that isn’t….
You take that back!
This is true.. But it’s still pretty meh.
And American Dad trumps them all.
Finally, someone around here with some taste!
Oh man. At its worst American Dad can be just fucking awful. At its best it is sublime. The Apocalypse episode. Oh my god.
In all honesty, I’ve never seen an awful episode of American Dad.
The Apocalypse episode is great. “Condemn them Mother for they know exactly what they do!”
I find the Steve centric episodes fall a bit flat for me.
Oh man, I love Steve.
The Vietnam reenactment ep is one of my favs.
I disagree, the first 4 seasons of Family Guy (before they first got canned) were good. Anything after season 4, yeah I agree.
Turrrrrble. Turrrrble, turrrble show.
You know what show I can’t stand? Frasier! 😛
It is the best of all the shows that make me cringe and wince when people spin webs of lies that all fall apart.
I really forget that Frasier is a spin-off of Cheers heh.
Cheers is a time-travel prequel of Frasier.
I’m cautiously optimistic, but time will tell I guess.
If anyone is looking for something new to read, do yourself a favour and pick up The Great Zoo Of China by Matthew Reilly.
Almost 200 pages in so far, and loving it.
I read a lot of Reilly in HS, but it never really elevated for me. Felt like he had one gear.
This is my first Matthew Reilly book, so far I’m finding his writing style is similar to Chris Kuzneski (who I also enjoy).
Try Temple. It’s my favourite book of his.
If anyone is looking for something old to read, do yourself a favour and pick up Taronga
by Victor Kelleher.
Was my favourite author for a good many years
I loved Ice Station – a friend introduced me to it in 7th grade, and I read it cover to cover without breaks. Ditto with pretty much every one of his that followed. By about 2009, I figured it was (a) exhausting to read, and (b) expensive by book standards to only get a day or two of reading per book, so I kinda stopped reading his books.
I remember going to a book signing of his, held at my high school, way back in 2004/5 (was for the Hell Island release, I think – I remember getting an advance copy there and getting it signed), where he discussed his writing style. He said that most books tend to have defined peaks and troughs – they build reader interest and then let it ebb, over and over, until the climax; he described his books as (and I’m paraphrasing – it was ten years ago) getting rid of the boring bits. Start the story at 11, and keep it there until the end.
If nothing else, it taught me to appreciate the slow parts in every story. 😛
A+ for Ice Station!
As a 12yo who had pretty much just read fantasy/sci fi epics (Tolkien, Goodkind, Jordan, Dune series, Asimov, etc), it was a bit of a shock to the system. 😛 They swore! That may have shocked me more than the graphic violence, somehow.
Poor Matt; he’s had a hard life 🙁
How so?! :O
I better let you look that up…
Sarcasm.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Reilly
Oh Jesus, I have no words @ash. And here I was calling myself a real Matthew Reilly fan.
Bought it thinking I would read it on holiday, nek minit left it on my bed when packing. Many hype for this.
And now my (so called) best mate is on Facebook saying that he found out that the manager of the Lindt Cafe wrestled with the gunman and is calling him a hero. What a putz.
Because of his actions two people were killed.
Edit: Just Googling it and found that he was one of the people that was killed. Still think he did the wrong thing though. Up until that point, to the best of my knowledge nobody had been shot.
Hero or not you can’t make the assumption that his actions caused those two deaths… Of which he was one.
You and I, and just about everyone else, don’t know what was happening. We can’t make any assumptions based on what we know right now.
Give the man a break.
After 14 hours being held hostage, with all those peoples lives at stake, he did what he thought was best, and what may have been best.
You shouldn’t judge or blame him when you weren’t in his position.
Terrified for your life, terrified for others lives.
Wrong or right decision, it was a decision that you don’t get to judge.
I know it’s a shame that 2 people died, but be thankful that it wasn’t more.
And this is why I usually stay right away from commenting on things like this and watching the news. Sorry I even looked it up, I was right last night when I said that it would be better if I didn’t know what was happening in Sydney.
It wasn’t meant as attacking, Monkey!
I’m sorry! :'(
It’s just, it’s easy to say stuff when you weren’t in their position (not just for you).
Sorry, that wasn’t targeted at you specifically.
And yes you’re right, it’s easy for us to sit here and say he shouldn’t have done that, or whatever. I can’t imagine what would’ve been going through his head unless I was there.
Shouldn’t have been so judgemental.
From what I heard, the gunman fell asleep. The gunman wasn’t going to get out of there alive and I think he knew that. It was a silly thing to do, but at the same time, we have no idea what may have happened otherwise. For all we know, the gunman could’ve decided to go out in a blaze of glory and kill them all.
He’d killed before and he definitely had issues.
You have a point, I have absolutely no idea how I’d react in a situation like that.
Hey, TAY, serious question (for which I’m hoping for stupid answers).
I’m supposed to get a generic Secret Santa present for my workplace (they’re all being chucked in a pile). It has to be gender neutral, food and drink are banned, and I’m pretty sure the limit is $10.
Help. Please.
A signed photo of yourself.
In a snow globe.
It’s been done.
But seriously, man those rules are restrictive! Food/drink is my go-to when I don’t know what to get…
Uh… How about a nice pen or something? I dunno. You have to go super boring if you don’t know who is actually going to get your present 😛
Alternatively, get something for yourself and then pick your own present from the pile.
Right?
The problem, is that as a medical clinic, at this time of year we have a huge excess of chocolate, biscuits, chocolate biscuits, and if you’re a male Doctor, wine (patients be mad sexist in terms of giving alcohol, apparently).
Happens to teachers too. Wine to males, chocolate to females.
I started giving wine to teachers in grade 5. I don’t think I ever had a teacher who didn’t appreciate it.
Never understood not giving wine as a present.
Buy some food but then paint it so that it is inedible and no longer food.
A1 laminated.
A rock
– $10 worth of Christmas cards, all signed by you, each saying a different thing, with a red lipstick kiss mark from you.
– A framed picture of you, with your own inspirational quote signed on the picture.
– A $10 gift voucher to the salvation army.
– A copy of “the Santa Claus” on VHS that you recorded off TV (where you also recorded the ad breaks).
– $10 worth of breath mints, and a card saying “honestly, you could do with them”
– Your mixtape.
This is the funniest idea here. I love it.
I really like the idea, but I worry that it will go over REALLY BADLY.
They can’t get angry, they chose the present!
(Too bad it’s technically classified as food :P)
Isn’t it anonymous? 😉
Yes, but given the staff there, I think they’ll know immediately who did it.
Also, I have the worst handwriting in the building, so it stands out.
No food? Ergh.
Cheap card game, Mug, humourous or puzzle book, Beer glass?
Fruit flavoured condoms. Always a hit.
Rat turds in snake bile & horse phlegm
Easy there, early 90’s Australian children’s writer.
Man, whatever happend to Paul Jennings and Morris Gleitzman
I heard they dissapeared down a well & were replaced by a ghost that had been waiting down there for 50 years
Jennings dropped off the earth at the turn of the century but Gleitzman is still writing.
The accuracy of this gag is making me giggle
Terrible, terrible joke book. Like, #pagesix jokes times a thousand. They might not appreciate it but it will certainly be memorable.
Like this one?
http://www.bookdepository.com/Very-Embarrassing-Book-Dad-Jokes-Ian-Allen/9781907554537
I did a coffee mug with chocolates in! Although that cost more like $15. So a coffee mug (because no food?)
Serious, no joke: Charity gift card. Like an Oxfam card that congratulates you on buying a chicken or a goat or something for a village somewhere horribly disadvantaged.
Alternately: A gift card for somewhere really fucking absurd. Like for surfboard wax somewhere in the middle of nowhere, South Australia, at a place that doesn’t deliver.
Amiibo from Target – it is worth breaking the budget by $4 to spread the joy of nintendo characters!
Condoms.
Edit: Okay, so someone already said condoms, but they were fruity flavoured and the rules state “no food”
A nice pen. Everyone likes a nice pen.
A nice sword would be better.
Unless there’s some obscure adage I don’t know about which states otherwise. Unlikely.I vote for “no more talk about sieges” Page 5 😛
So @rocketman and I are having a bit of a Pokemon challenge soon. We’re just putting together a team of 6 for a series of Singles battles some time after New Years. Just some friendly matches, nothing serious. Just hoping to help each other get better! If anybody wants to join in you’re more than welcome!
I’m glad it’s so quiet at work, I’ve been able to just plan teams all day! Now to get to the actual breeding part…
*opens mouth about to talk about HOMM6 but stops* aww
I tried to talk about Doom music to have some fun and no one really cared.
So I’m checking the news. Hey look, this just in, you guys suck!
*runs crying to bedroom, slams the door and plays Doom music at full volume*
I’ve never played Doom 😀
How?
It’s pretty easy to not do things!
Hard not to trip over a wandering DOOM while wandering the waves of gamedom though.
I’ve never played Legend of Zelda 😀
The best ones on CD-i
I couldn’t really join in on that conversation as I’ve only ever played through the first level and about halfway through the second level.
Kinda maybe interested. Feels a bit empty to just cut Pokémon at this point.
The idea is to just have fun while also building up a bit of a selection of properly-trained Pokemon (I really want to get to a point where I have a variety of things ready to go so I can just mix-and-match a good team on impulse)
Plus it’ll be good to learn from each other. Hopefully we can give each other pointers and such after each battle.
Building up a selection?!?
You know how long it took me to get 6 for PAX?
Hey, that’s just my goal. You can use the same team over and over if you want!
Of course, if you’re not worried about shinies the breeding process becomes a lot quicker 😉
‘Not worried about shinies’
Huh. Tell me more of this foreign concept.
Manly hair cut talk. Every time I’ve gone to get my hair cut professionally the varied ladies make comments about how greasy or horrible or oily my hair is no matter how many times I shampoo and condition in different combinations (Which if any thing, I over do. :P) It brings down my self-esteem, which sounds stupid but it’s true. I feel like I want to get a proper haircut after years of shaving my head but can’t take the shame. *panics*
Any one know of any non-judgemental barbers in Brisbane? 😛
Have you tried not being greasy?
Birds gotta fly, fish gotta swim. 😛
I had a woman wash my hair before cutting it in high school.
It was filthy
That’s her problem for setting up shop in the middle of swamp, I guess!
You mean Brisbane?
Yes well it’s like Dentists telling you to floss, even if you actually floss. Once a week, they say twice a week, every day, they say EVERY 6 HOURS! 😛
Last time I got my haircut the (very little English-speaking) girl who cut my hair loudly exclaimed “PIMPLE! You got pimple neck!”
D:
And they wonder why they never get return customers. It’s like those pick up artist guys who try to bring down peoples self esteem for some reason. 😛
Surprisingly, she & @Powalen are now going steady
I hope you politely explained that it was, in fact, your head.
Fucking manners, no?
I’ll also take a hair dresser proficient in lying to me! 😉
Clippers over the sink have never lied before!
Just-cuts are fast and cheap 🙂
It’s where I go.
If you’re worried about greasy hair, use either a moisture rich shampoo + conditioner, or even a repair and protect shampoo + conditioner.
If they still mention greasy hair, just say that your hair goes greasy abnormally fast, and even see if they recommend anything.
I dunno what your current diet is like- still cooking?
Oh this has been a problem all my life, even when I was a kid and mum made healthy stuff.
It’s just crap genetics. 😛
I haven’t had a proper hair cut since 2007.
I inherited greasy hair from mum, she uses some chemical cocktails to cure herself.
She still has the shiniest forehead by days end though
Bogarts at MacArthur Central is where I go.
I’ll come back with red mutton chops! D:
😛
You’re saying it like that’s a bad thing? 😛
So that’s the upside, what’s the downside?
The downside is I’ll probably challenge him to a sideburns duel like I did with @phlanispo yesterday. THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE.
I’ve got grease ball hair, too.
My tactic was to wash & condition immediately before going to the hairdresser.
Now that my hair’s at it’s ridiculous length it only stays clean for about an hour but short hair should hold off it’s oily tendencies long enough to get to the barber.
You should try and go to a Barber that’s run by an older man, you know, with, like, footy posters on the wall and shit.
You won’t fit in but when I lived on the Coast that was my place of choice as they’re not catty, do one style and if you’re lucky they give you a beer and don’t chit-chat.
That tactic got me through high school but unless I combed it in a very specific way it was an old man haircut. It’s the only one he knew.
The barber I went to when I was growing up had an old Englishman who just coated everything in pictures and memorabilia of Manchester United. He even had an extra special deal going for whoever was Man U’s rival at the time.
Standard haircut = $20, X Rival Fan = $150.
I miss that place. But yeah, @dc older male barbers don’t care about the quality of your hair. Just as long as they get paid.
This is why I just go to my neighbour who is a qualified hair dresser with her own salon in her home. Plus we can gossip about our shit neighbours!
We need a Brisbane hairdresser TAYbie. We can have hair cut meats!
…
That sounds not fun.
So our hair would be a butcher?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0408236
Let it grow! I’ve not been in a few years, and I quite like my braid. 😛
Imagine what it’s like to have hairdressers insult your hair and be kind of culturally pushed into having long hair…
Yep, it’s why I get haircuts like once a year, which leads to them insulting my split ends, which leads to longer between haircuts…
So mean! :'( I take solace in the fact I can just shave my hair. You have my respect.
I found a really lovely hairdresser recently! Shame she works in ADELAIDE 🙁
‘Tyrone’s Salon’ in the Gabba is a good one. Tyrone’s a top guy. You could get your hair cut anytime you’re in the Southbank area to see a movie, using go-card continuation travel!
Seriously, though, why are you not just getting your hair clippered down to a 1 or 2?
If anyone’s going to spend extra time grooming you, it only needs to be on trimming your very manly beard.
http://yearofthehermit.tumblr.com/post/95429413921/22-august-2014
I scoff at your 1 or 2 clippering. 😛
Your finest hour.
…So far. Greatness awaits.
Skip the conditioner – it moistens your hair, thus making it greasy quicker.
Make sure your shampoo is not anti-dandruff, as those ones makes your hair greasy also.
So, Christmas: What are we all doing for christmas?
2.5 weeks off, plan to game & father-husband combo.
Taking time off to play video games and hate myself.
Worst time of the year.
Really? Even at my lowest, I appreciated Xmas as a time to not work, be paid more for less work or get stinking drunk with other family free pals.
Yeah, that doesn’t happen for me.
I reiterate, fuck Christmas. Worst time of the year.
What? You have to work at normal pay & there’s no one to celebrate with?
No, I just really hate it. It’s ridiculously stressful.
EDIT: If I was working it I’d probably top myself.
Heading home! Catching up with some of the ol’ southern friends. Rolling home once I’ve eaten enough food at the family Christmas lunch. That sorta jazz.
Grandparents are coming down at the end of this week (whee, panicked cleaning time). Aunt, Uncle, and maybe-one-of-my-cousins-but-I-haven’t-heard-anything-about-her-lately-because-nobody-tells-me-anything will be coming down at some point.
On actual Chrissie day, parents and I will be going up to Thirlmere to see uncle/aunt/2 cousins/rellies-that-came-down-earlier for gift giving and food eating. On top of my work Christmas woes, I also need to get something for a secret santa for that day, because everybody hates fun.
Working.
Extra pay though
Christmas day all the in-laws are coming around because thanks to my wife putting her hand up for it we are hosting Christmas this year. Not looking forward to it at all. Then starting Boxing Day it’s gonna be flat out at work for the school holidays. Yay
FML!
Sitting around doing not much, going out of my mind & helping out a bit more at home since mum broke a toe and has quite a sore foot from it…
2 weeks off from next week.
Wife wants to paint and in theory I have Monday & Tuesday of next week free… I was going to clock some serious time in Farcry 4 and Xenoblade… My wife seems to think that I’ll get bored with that though.
Heading to my folks place near Byron for a big Xmas do with all the family converging on the joint from around the country.
Flying over to Melbourne (no time to meet TAYbies), off to Aires Inlet (or some such place) for 7 days.
Trying to figure out the final days of my trip, but maybe time to catch up with peeps in Melbourne. We shall see.
Rolling a boulder across the entrance to my hermit cave, drinking enormous amounts of coffee and luck permitting playing several hundred hours of games. Also going to gigantic hippy festival for the 7th time :D. (Woodford)
My family this weekend up at the folks place.
Christmas morning with Tiglet, then board games and roast lunch
Boxing day Christmas lunch with Mrs Tigs side of the family
Christmas day with one half of the family, hopefully Boxing Day with the other half (still to be figured out though). Other than that, I’m on holidays until the 6th so yay! Might try and do some painting/side projects I haven’t gotten around to yet.
Heading back home to spend a couple of weeks with the folks. Two weeks with only a 3DS and a small laptop… D:
Might be more bearable if I could find a place that rents electric guitars in terms of weeks, not 6-month intervals (unlikely – doubt such a business exists) – gonna be getting an amp for christmas, but won’t be able to try it out until I get back home. 🙁
Visiting Mum and her side of the family.
I nearly said ‘familial obligations’, but that isn’t right. Or it shouldn’t be. It won’t be if I don’t think of it like that. Just gotta get past that hurdle of resenting anything that drags me away from precious, precious man-cave hermit time.
Coming to Red’s for lunch?
Well, I won’t be there. I’ll be at Greenock
I’ll be at Nuri 😛
Going home probably this weekend for the holidays. Dunno what’s actually happening on xmas day though. Lunch at nans probably. Don’t think anyone in my family really gives many shits about it 😛
Very European-esque lunch, walking through the back fence to have a huge lunch with my family at my aunts place.
Well, I did it. I slapped down $50 on the CE of FF Type 0, like a schmuck.
Gonna be fun explaining this spend to my wife.
Where?
EB, gonna be $200, sounds cheaper to import if they don’t drop the price like they did with DAI.
Seems excessive.
Game = $80, HC artbook = $50, manga = $20
& then bits & bobs. $150 should be the price methinks
Jesus, $200?! Is the steelcase made from solid gold?
Just a steelcase version is $80 or $90.
I want all the other stuff through.
only 4 card s, should’ve gone a full deck really
PSA: SBS are broadcasting Spirited Away on Sunday 20th at 5:55pm Eastern. Howl’s Moving Castle and Ponyo will be on the two subsequent sundays, in that order.
They also played Totoro and Kiki’s Delivery Service the last couple of weekends so they’re probably on their On Demand website now if people missed them.
Fucking SBS.
Because of them showing those, the entire city was stripped of Totoro merchandise when I went looking for it on Friday.
HOW DARE THEY
If it weren’t for SBS employing Des Mangan in the 90s to host the cult movie nights. I would know much less about anime & HK cinema
March is full of games for me. FFT0 & RER2 confirmed with a possible TLoZMM
Next few months look like a steady release of 2-3 games a month for me. Type-0 probably the most anticipated since The Witcher 3 got pushed to May.
Game industry* should get together & do up a calendar, pacing out each release so I can afford to keep up.
*fictional being
COLLUSION?!
I thought my Soundwave tickets arrived today, turns out it was a ticket like receipt for them, which will be posted out on New Years Day apparently 🙁
Still they’re going to arrive before I see any prizes I won 15 months ago from Soundwave lol…
Oh yeah, need to get onto that…
Hahahaha…
I always print mine now, I had mine stolen from the post office, it was even registered post, went through a huge saga with Police, Ombudsman and lots of getting angry at people. Now I just print them to avoid the hassle (I liked the mailed tickets too though 🙁 ). It was really dodgy too, the page that was supposed to have the signature of whoever signed for them was really dodgily ripped out of the book and the dude at the post office was really suspicious and really unhelpful, that’s why I got cops and Ombudsman.
Woooooow, that’s some shit the AFP would just love to charge someone on, why the fuck would you tamper with mail, from what I gather it’s a serious federal offence, morons! I’m lucky that I haven’t had issues like that with Aus Post :/
But saying that IF Soundwave had used OzTix (I really wished they did :/) I have an OzTix vendor in town where I can buy and have tickets printed on the spot for any show they’re promoting.
Plus they’re paper tickets from what Soundwave has indicated, and for a 2 day event, seriously a plastic card set up with a barcode & the persons name on it would be waaaaaay more durable, and you could also put it in a plastic sleeve on a lanyard etc..
Karen Gillan singing Chandelier. Amazing.
To put the weather in Hobart into perspective: If this was Harvest Moon, I’d be locked inside my house all day wondering whether my chickens have been blown away.
Blue Skies. Hail. Wind. Lightning. Epic Thunder.
Oh look, third bout of hail in two hours.
Oh well, nothing left to do but talk to your wife a couple times and then go straight to bed so you can wake up the next morning and survey the damage. Don’t forget to charge your swing when clearing debris.
All of this could’ve been avoided if you spent your first nights out on the farm physically exhausting yourself to the point of no sleep to move rocks around to create a makeshift fence around the entire property.
So that Player Piano video was awesome. Clicked through on that banner talking about her playing the Guile Theme, then also watched the Bumblebee and Tetris ones.
All I can think while watching is how I know I’m totally capable of playing like that, but if I were to go and try it just wouldn’t work. Depressing.
I’ve been contemplating doing a Nuzlocke run of Pokemon, but I don’t know if I want to do it in either White 2, X, or buy OR/AS.
Honestly, I much prefer the sprite based pokemon games too :\
3D models are cool, but the 2D sprites have charm 🙂
Less prattling, more battling!
But which one should I play?! :’O
Help me Pow-pow!
Follow your heart!
Well, my heart belongs to @jimu, so White 2 it is!
Thanks Pow-pow-pow! 😀
Tell us how you go. It’ll be interesting to see how people play.
Also, @powalen, mayhaps be interesting to try another TAY-locke in the future for whatever next Pokemon gets released.
White 2
Brother is in hospital again. Third time in 2 days. Might be more serious than they thought. Not sure I’m handling the stress all that well. I kind of want to be over there but there’s nothing I could do 🙁
Oh man, poor guy. Hope everything turns out okay.
Having family around would be good for him, even if you don’t think you’re doing anything.
And you’ve been saying it’s been too long since you’ve seen him.
*hugs*
Really itching to music now.
(again)
Alrighty @rocketman. Here’s my list of the JJJ Hottest 100.
1. Grandma’s Hands – Meg Mac
2. Arcadia – Kite String Tangle
3. Chandelier – Sia
4. Cosby Sweater – Hilltop Hoods
5. One for the City – Ily
6. Talk is Cheap – Chet Faker
7. Mess is Mine – Vance Joy
8. Live it up – 360
9. Stolen Dance – Milky Chance
10. Uptown Funk – Mark Ronson
(note: this is not MY voting list, in fact I hate some of these songs – just my prediction).
EDIT: Are we going how many we get in the top 10, or the placements?
Chandelier-Sia
Cosby Sweater- Hilltop Hoods
Faded-Zhu
Yellow Flicker Beat-Lorde
Safia Feat Peking Duck- Take me over
Uptown Funk- Mark Ronson
Banks-Begging for thread
Talk is Cheap – Chet Faker
Skrillex- Recess
Milky Chance- Stolen Dance
I have no idea for order except Chandelier is probably one and faded or stolen dance is 2
I kinda hate some of these songs too. But making this list made me listen to skrillex again and that makes me happy.
DUPSTEP FOR EVER
Ah stuff it, let’s sit with “how many make it into the top 10” and leave it at that.
*handshakes* Gentleman’s bet is a go!
A GENTLEMANS AGREEMENT
HUZZAH
Yes, quite.
Haha, none of these words mean anything to me.
Except Hilltop Hoods. I recognise that one. Something about nosebleeds.
My Triple J Hottest 100 List:
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Yes we know you are too old and cool to like new music because you hate everything except Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash, Grandpa.
Even when I was young there was only the odd thing that popped up like Radiohead or Bjork.
Mostly, I like unpopular craps & in my forage, spend my days listening to 16 bit game OSTs on my gramaphone
that is the best mental image ever. 🙂
Love you Jimbob
Forage was dotage but autocorrect helped this old fogey
http://25.media.tumblr.com/d439f64aad0c8834209f13247e8e3efb/tumblr_mf711vHUIx1s0qwlko1_500.gif
A striking resemblance
I know a few of the artists. Sia because of South Park, 360 because he was either a massive douchebag or downright awesome on Facebook (I forget which it was), Hilltop Hoods are ooooolllldddd, Chet Faker because it’s a stupid name and sticks with you and seriously, how the fuck do you not know who Lorde is by now, she’s goddamn everywhere.
No idea who lorde is.
My secret? No radio & only ABC4Kids
I only know of 360 because he did a song with The Living End at BDO 2012 lol.
Well Lorde was only in Rocket’s list, not QB’s. And I pretty much only know her (and that she’s a her) because of that whole “…who?” thing that went down in one of the articles earlier in the year 😛
But yeah, similar tactics to Jimu. No radio etc.
Got a letter in the mail from the police. Apparently I have to go in for finger and palm printing.
I can honestly say i am not suprised.
Mainly because i know you need a security license and thats common practice.
Yeah, its about time honestly, was going to give them a call today but it finally came yesterday.
🙂
What did you do?
Whoa, that seems odd. Why’s that?
It’s your Facebook photo..
my mum saw a comment he posted on something of mine and told me i shouldnt hang around with people like him. When prompted she implied heavily that he has dealt drugs for a large portion of his life.
Oh god, please tell me this story is true.
So they got my alert then.
Im glad you called them, i watched him steal your Marth Amiibo and it made me sick to my core.
Makes you really want to Smash them, eh?
Hahahaha, I just had to shoo a bush turkey from the front yard because it was taunting Chilli & making her bark. Good thing she was tied up otherwise she would’ve chased it and had a field day.
Going to be interesting to see how quickly the bid cost of games in the steam auction drop now that they are being ‘bought’
Noticed a number of the small little indies on my list are down to a couple of thousand. Think I’ll probably spend my gems on a really terrible game, just so I can win and get the badge. Yes, sad but true.
What happened?
From the multi million gem bids they did a reset due to exploits. There was still some really large, I think the top bid on the banner thing last I saw was abut 1.4 million.
The actual auction thing has started now so the top bid buys it each 45 minutes. About 20 of each have been given out, from the 100 that there is.
So the banner that was previously 1.4 mil is now at less that 400 k
Just had one of the most intense fights I think I’ve ever had in a video game. Basically soloed a level 23 dragon in DA:I on normal difficulty on my level 21 character. My companions went down in about 20 seconds at the start of the fight. Managed to get them back up half way through using that mass res ability, but then they dropped again in another 20 seconds. And of course they used up all my potions, so I was left with only 3 for my solo fight against the dragon.
The whole fight took about 20 minutes. It was one of those dragons that can summon drakes to help it. I probably killed about 30 drakes during the fight, and towards the end they just stopped spawning even though the dragon kept doing the summon attack screech it does.
Part of what made the whole thing really intense though was for about the last 7 minutes of the fight I only had about 10 health left. The only thing keeping me alive was my barrier, which ended up dropping completely a few times.
I managed to down the dragon in the end though. This is one of the few times I’ve legit felt proud of something I’ve managed to do in a video game.
Total badass!
In the snow? I can’t beat the one in the snow on easy
Just got called by a friend wanting to make plans for NYE.
Feels weird and too early for that.
Two weeks away! TWO WEEKS!
End of the month!
That’s forever away!
Forever’s gonna start toniiiight!
I feel like this is a reference to something I don’t understand.
I don’t know what to do, I’m always in the dark,
We’re living in a powder keg and giving off sparks!
…I really need you tonight.
Forever’s gonna start tonight,
forever’s gonna start tonight.
DAMMIT, I was going to use the ‘always in the dark’ line because it’s PERFECT.
You perfect, PERFECT bastard!
Or…
Once upon a time I had the perfect line, now I’m only falling apart. Nothing I can do I… DAMMIT DC.
This’s on my list of the JJJ Hottest 100.
Once upon a time I was falling in love,
Now I’m only falling apart.
*looks around, confused*
*slowly backs away*
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/bonnietyler/totaleclipseoftheheart.html
@transientmind Any hope that ever existed for me not hating that song was destroyed by Mighty Boosh and friends who refused to ever shut up about it 😛
I’ve already got plans:
-Drink
-Get Bored
-Drink some more
-Sleep.
What does your pal wanna do for new years? Harbour?
Just something in a park near his place with a couple of other friends, depending who’s available.
General plan for pretty much everyone I know is to avoid the harbour completely 😛
Me and one of my friends started planning new years back in October… 😛
He couldn’t make any decision on where he wanted to be for new years though (down here or up in Burnie), so I took up the offer from my friends back home instead. I can’t see them everyday so I think it’s a better choice.
Planning for new years is a foreign concept to me. 80% of the time it’s just me sitting at home on the computer like every other night. Other times there’s a last-minute message from someone asking if I want to come around to their place (often this guy :P).
*sigh*
What a week so far… and it’s only Tuesday!!!
Tomorrow is going to be packed wrapping up end of month garbage at work because I’m off on holidays from Monday (yay!) so hopefully it’ll go fast.
Work Christmas lunch on Thursday… 1 till 3pm, surely I get the rest of the day off? Hell it’d take me nearly an hour to get back to my office in the burbs, and then I’m meant to finish at 4:45pm?
Friday is a normal day but get the feeling it’s going to go off the rails… because you know… last day before holidays panic mode kinda kicks in.
Need to get over this stressing and look forward to a short holiday.
Question for TAYbies – anyone playing Far Cry 4 on PC? Wouldn’t mind some drop-in/out co-op if the chance arises however my uPlay friends list is tumbleweed city. Edit: realised I should include uPlay username… sunsoar777 (that’s right… some asshat got sunsoar77 before me!!)
Also… updated the drivers for my AMD card (first one I’ve had since running ‘green’ for nearly 10 years and it prompted me automagically which is awesome!) and some bundled AMD Gaming app was installed and recommended I bump most of Far Cry 4’s settings to maximum… so I let it… still runs smooth and damn is this world pretty now! Can clearly see that Rhino horn coming in at full speed right before I go flying off a cliff!
When Marnie Was There Bluray up on Amazon JP.
At the moment unless something changes over there, this looks like it could possibly be the last Ghibli theatrical feature. Ocean Waves hasn’t gotten a release yet, but it was a made-for-TV film so it might never (though if it doesn’t I’ll be sad).
I fully expect that Ghibli will eventually make some more films, that said. It just might well be that by the time they’re happening on home video, Bluray itself might have died. 🙁
Thinking of having a “Quiet Night In” for New Years Eve this year, ie: cook some food and have a beer and play some games or something. Anyone want to come along and partake of said beer, food and games are more than welcome.
@beardymcmuttonchops @beeawwb @cufcfan616 @dc @dkzeitgeist @gutsoup @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @sernobulus @strange @sughly @transientmind @welbot @virus__
Edit: Could totes be a pizza party like we were all 14 again.
That sounds like a pretty swell idea for a new years actually, just depends if I’m in nsw or not. Most likely I would be thoughhhh
I’ve forgotten what your voice sounds like and by now your face is fading 🙁
TAY Brisbane NYE plans are cursed, remember? 😛
Why I’m keeping it simple 😛
And somehow you’ll end up at Pez’s house having Chinese food with Aleph!
Korean.
My spies have misled me. D:
I just assumed racist.
I honestly wouldn’t be able to tell the foods apart, but it’s more for being sheltered food-wise than racist. Remember I ate exclusively spring rolls at Freeze’s 29th at Korean BBQ place. 😛
@DC you were at a Korean restaurant & all you are was spring rolls??!
@strange said the same thing! 😛
Dunno if Mrs is working or not yet D:
I was considering doing something like this too for Melbourne Taybies. Then I remembered that Mum and I like to go to bed early.
Rebels!
I care not about fireworks =P
Same, my wife adores them.
I nodded off during a show when we were dating & she was so angry!
#OldManJimu
That would totally be me. I think last year Mum came in to wake me up and I was like “Go away! I like sleep better.”
My friend’s girlfriend has a ridiculous love for fireworks.
Watching her watch them is more entertaining than they are.
Yeah count me in, most likely my only other friend to have a party won’t because they now have a demon spawn to care for D=
I have to confirm my work schedule. By the sounds of it, I might be working on NYE, in which case, I wont be in any mood to drive that far after finishing!
Sorely tempted because that sounds exactly like the tentative plans I’ve been thinking of. Quiet. Board games. Etc. The only thing stopping me from saying “Yep, I’m in” is that’s a “kids-on” week so I should probably spend it here.
Bring the kids? Mine will probably be there.
Tay kid meats.
Wait, that sounds kind of wrong.
The Tay Bus
http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s–ClycKeF3–/y2uu80y17kfptmvpvywb.jpg
Aka, your car?
Nah his car has more dents & scratches to the panels & paint 😛
Poor Freezey. :'(
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Stop taking pictures of my ride.
Oh, I see how it is, freeze hats my son!
Wife and son are welcome.
U hat stuffs
Figured, was being silly
M…..aaaaaaaaybe?
Sounds great, count me in!
That sounds great man. Would Ber and I be able to crash?
Absolutely.
I’ma be partying with a couple hundred thousand people at Woodford, some of the best New Years I’ve had have been up there. People are really friendly compared to any other festival I’ve ever been to, it’s great 😀
Plex on Xbone is a pretty cool guy. Works nicely, much better integrated than the shitty web browser system I was using with my PS4.
Side note: by god, the Xbone interface is horrid. Why is everything broken up into random apps? Nothing is consistent 🙁
*whispers* Mehhhtrrroooooo
They dreamed of a kinect-powered Minority-report-style swipe interaction with their critically-acclaimed, hugely popular tablet interface.
sick burn.
Fuck gestures, I got Kinect for voice. And when it works the voice command stuff is rad. Issue I have is that it’s not picking up on me properly. Either I mumble like crazy or my place is echoey and it can’t handle it or it’s expecting me to talk like a super ocker bogan or something because I said I’m from fuckin’ ‘straya mayte.
I like voice controls with Siri. Set 8am alarm or an hour countdown. Makes me smile when it just works. :’)
One day I’ll have a spiffy Plex setup. (If you recall I’m still a put stuff on USB kind of guy. I like to think it’s because I’m a edgy retro hipster Gooky-style type instead of technologically out of touch. :P)
I think you have mis-evaluated Gooky and it should be the other way around. 🙂
ily gookyNah, he knows what he’s doing. His dedication to MSN just smacks of irony… I assume… if I understood how to use that word properly… which I don’t. 😛
Damn straight.
I ain’t no hipster, and touch controls suck.
*flicks fringe*
*has no fringe*
…
God freakin’ dammit.
Hugs?
You can’t hug away the shame.
I’ve been reduced to that, cause I broke my media server 🙁 Thank fuck my TV plays MKV’s is all I can say..
Wife took the news of FF Type 0 spend Surprisingly well. Must have been a good day at work.
She did sing a song about me loving the vidya more than my family though.
I might buy it too…
Hmm… I love me some art books but $200 is still super pricey D:
It’s less than DAI & contains 200% more books with content
There’s just something silly things I enjoy wasting cash on.
Non tech savvy family friend is doing christmas shopping for his kids. He asked me the difference between an Xbox 360 and an Xbox One.
I told him about three hundred and fifty nine.
#dadjokepagesix #hi@strangeThree hundred and fifty nine what?
Dollarydoos?
Indeedly doodly.
I feel like we should name page six in honor of Shane! Remember him?
Who?
That guy who used to make adventure games about flamestars!
@sughly?
Hey @negativezero – you remember you were talking about that classic Doom-clone/RPG hybrid: Strife?
http://store.steampowered.com/app/317040
Do yourself a favour and get it!!! Such a gooooooooood game!!!! I’m even tempted to get this new ver, despite having played the original only a matter of months ago!
Ohyeah, grabbed it soon as I saw it.
Had an argument with my mother in-law today, she thinks I’m effeminate.
Well, compared to her I probably am #pagesixforever #hi@dcThere’s one major difference between cheating on your wife and cheating on the taxman.
When you get caught the taxman will still want to screw youThe brave Dutch lad stuck his finger in the dyke.
And she punched the bejeezus out of him.Homemade pizza for dinner \o/
I had homemade Pork Buns, Sweet and Sour Pork, and Steamed Rice for dinner last night! 😀
I’m sure someone lives at that restaurant.
That sounds pretty good to me! No stir-fried veggies though? 😛
Dear Secret SanTAY.
I haven’t posted your gift yet, because I’ve had trouble working out how to get it to you in one piece! I think I’ve found a way, and you should receive it shortly.
Regards, CookingMama
Now it won’t be secret…
The dangerous goods declaration makes it hard to send things anonymously. Also, I’m sure I’m not the only TAYbie sending things this week.
You and I both (y)
I am sending stuff this week too! When I stop being lazy 😀
I’m going to try and send mine before the weekend in case my recipient can’t get to the post office during the week and therefore wouldn’t receive it til after Christmas.
I also feel like an ass because it seems like a lot of people are putting personal thought and/or creativity into their gifts whereas I went and just tried to find something interesting in a shop.
It’s just supposed to be fun! Some people have fun making things, and that’s ok. Others love buying funny novelty gifts, that’s ok too!
Classic Cookingmama misdirection! This goes all the way to the president!
Oh yeah, Secret SanTAY.
My poor recipient.
If they’re lucky, they might get their gift before February next year!
…
You could see if a courier like FastWay is more acceptable as opposed to Aus Post, cause they will transport stuff Aus Post won’t, downside is it may cost a fraction more 🙁
I’m gonna chuck this in spoilers cause it makes me angry and I need to just vent..
Wooooow, a friend of mine just shared a status on Facebook spinning the tragic events in Sydney as targeted violence against women, that’s just so wrong.Your friend be real dumb.
From just sharing that hell yes. The thing that gets me is she is NEVER like this. I’m disgusted.
Just like another mate who thought it was appropriate to make jokes like “he’s not a very good gunman with a ratio of 2:1” or when I said that it was alleged one of the hostages may have suffered a heart attack he was all “well then he’s even more shit with a 1:1 cause one fragged themselves” I just didn’t say anything in response, I couldn’t even fathom a response to that. I’ve never known him to say such horrible fucking things, especially since he was going on about a friend of his the other day completely stressing him out over something she made comment on. I do wonder why I talk to some people at all…
Yes, the gunman had a string of sexual assault charges as long as my arm, but no, that doesn’t make him taking hostages an act against women.
Without the “muslim” angle, he’s yet another disaffected middle aged man with a history of violence and weird views.
Exactly. And he may have possibly had a mental problem.
If not an actual mental health issue, he definitely had a history of dysfunction with society and was out of step with… pretty much everyone.
Dammit. Acetone didn’t work, bubble did not come away from cardboard as easily as youtube would have me believe. Guess I just gotta cut.
Amiibos still? 😛
Amiibos forever.
I went to every store that sells Amiibos in the CBD today (had two hours to kill :P) and none of them had anything outside of Mario, Peach or Pikachu.
I guess I better pre-order the ones I want from now on. It’s getting ridiculous.
shoolk
I’m really worried I won’t be able to get the wave 2 ones. Was gonna grab a set while we were away, but after spending all my money at Movie World I couldn’t. Really hoping that my local shops have at least one of each left when I get paid, I highly doubt it though.
Hahaha.
Hairdryer?
Well, just a regular heater. Same diff, right? >_>
All it did though was start to make the plastic shrink.
Damn, $200 for the Type-0 collectors edition at EB. I think it’s going to be cheaper to import it from US.
Yeah but I need it ASAP for Final Fantasy Xenoblade demo!
haha, is the demo available as soon as the game is out?
Oh I didn’t even think of that! I know that “Day One” copies have the download code but I just assumed that it would be available to play ASAP. Didn’t occur to me that it could be released at a later date >_>
Yeah I have no idea either. Type-0 will be fun while we wait for the demo though! 😛
Fairly sure they said the demo will be around then but didn’t promise it’d be available until they were ready to make it so. Be surprised if it’s not though, since they’re showing dubbed trailers and stuff now and with Tabata taking over the game will actually ship since he’s a really good development director that actually sets schedules and deadlines.
I put $50 straight away
Put $50 down, as in paid cash money to secure a copy.
Why can you never find lawyers at the beach?
Because the cats keep burying them in the sand…OMG MY LITTLE MAC AMIIBO JUST TAUNTED AFTER KILLING ME
SO PROUD ;_;
I reset him to have another go of training from scratch, see what happens. I am happy if this is going to continue to be a thing 😛
Get a room.
Do y’all train your Amiibos with the same character? (ie. Mac fighting Mac)
My (old) Luigi was pulling off crazy combos and I didn’t even use Luigi against him :/. Did the same thing with new Luigi but he sucksssss
As I’ve said before, I trained all my wave 1 Amiibos by putting them all in 8 man smash and just let them fight each other. I figure if they learn from me they’ll just end up being shit, so they couldn’t possibly be any worse learning off each other.
I’m pretty okay at Smash though ;D
Yes, I’ve read about your little games with @liondrive on the Twitters 😛
I smashed Greenius last time! ;D
Geddit.
Smashed.
Haaaaaaaa!
*has an aneurysm*
The evolution of your thoughts on this game seem to mirror mine with Mario Kart. As your skills grow you like it more and more. XD
Nah, I’m still pretty bad at it :3
I’m just learning not to take defeat personally.
I think I’m slowly getting better 🙂
@liondrive: That’s exactly how I felt about Mario Kart. I took losing a race way too personally and took it own on @powalen. 😛
I just didn’t realise Smash was so competitive!
I’ve always viewed MK8 as a sort of friendly competitive. You play, you come whatever place, you have fun and improve as you have fun. I liked watching people improve 🙂
Smash was more like, you win or lose.
You need to practice practice practice if you want to improve, which generally comes from losing a lot.
That’s where I wasn’t having fun.
I don’t wanna practice, I just want to play with friends and have fun 😀
As soon as I stopped caring about getting better, I think that’s when I started to get a bit better 🙂
@liondrive when you take the losses less personally, only then you improve as a player.
*floats above the ground, cross legged in fighting dojo*
Started out with mirror matches for the first few rounds, then switched it up with my other guys. He was starting to kick my arse quite early on this time round when I was still using Mac, but then I switched to Falcon and absolutely pummeled him. Moreso than last time, it was a struggle with Falcon then.
I don’t know any combos or anything, and I have my doubts as to how good a fighter they’re each going to end up. But I’ll feel much more proud if I hand-reared them and they manage to beat someone else/their Amiibo 😛
Neat, Green Day have been nominated to be inducted in the Rock N’ Roll Hall of Fame in 2015 along with Joan Jett, Lou Reed & Ringo Starr. Just a shame Lou Reed is dead and won’t get to see that achievement.
Lou Reed was already in the Hall of Fame (Velvet Underground)
Sidenote; Velvet Underground and Nico is still one of the finest albums ever.
Wahhhhhh
Rare Amiibos going for like $70+ on eBay. Man, peeps be cray
Blame Gooky or Powalen!
I generally blame them for most things anyway.
Don’t forget @phlanispo! Remember what he did to @liondrive?
Bloody Phlanispo, giving me sunburn >:'(
He’s the source of all our problems!
Once he cried wolf. There was no wolf. NOW US TOWNSFOLK DON’T KNOW WHAT TO BELIEVE!
I’ll tell you one thing, don’t believe Phlanispo is what you do.
That man would lie to his own mother for a quick buck.
More like Ebay and greedy mofo’s. Also Nintendo for discontinuing certain ones so soon after release.
I realize you were joking by the way 😛I didn’t do it I only bought one of each!
*gasps* MONSTER!
I’m sorry I will go get more 🙁
If I find any at my locals I’ll be sure to let you guys know and grab them for you if you want. Obviously can’t make any promises as to whether or not I’ll find any though.
Oh, I wasn’t looking for them I was just curious as to what they were selling for. The ones I’m interested in would be all popular ones anyway (main Nintendo characters – Link, Yoshi etc.) so I’m sure they’ll return.
Might have to make an exception and pre-order Shulk since I’ve wanted a Xeno something for a while!
I’m pissed that I wasn’t able to get Marth.
People better not be selling their Diddy’s. >:|
No one likes Diddy.
We found Cranky 😛
No one person, maybe. Love for Diddy is universal.
My Donkey is sitting here just waiting for a Diddy to play with.
He seems to be one of the “cheaper” ones (at only 2x the price!)
People call him cheap because he doesn’t wear pants one time… for a twenty year stretch.
No one likes pants.
I like pants. I feel naked without my pants. I was raised Catholic and having no pants is a sin just like breathing and blinking.
Jesus didn’t wear pants.
He also did a great kite impression.
Lucky I only wanted two and they were easy to find 😛
Guess I’ll preorder the two from the next wave I want and not risk the fustercluck that seems to be their release.
Shulk and a second Shulk?
Shulk and Sonic.
Toon Link and Sheik for me!
A new guy in town walks into a bar and reads a sign that hangs over the bar…
“Free Beer! Free Beer for the person that can pass the test!”
So the guy asks the bartender what the test is.
Bartender replies, “Well, first you have to drink that whole gallon of pepper tequila, the WHOLE thing at once and you can’t make a face while doing it. Second, there’s a ‘gator out back with a sore tooth… you have to remove it with your bare hands. Third, there’s a woman upstairs who’s never had an orgasm. You gotta make things right for her.”
The guy says, “well, as much as I would love free beer, I won’t do it. You have to be nuts to drink a gallon of pepper tequila and then get crazier from there.”
Well, as time goes on and the man drinks a few, he asks, “Wherez zat teeqeelah?”
he grabs the gallon of tequila with both hands, and downs it with a big slurp and tears streaming down his face. Next, he staggers out back and soon all the people inside hear the most frightening roaring and thumping, then silence. The man staggers back into the bar, his shirt ripped and big scratches all over his body.
“Now,” he says. “Where’s that woman with the sore tooth?”
A vacationing penguin is driving his car through the desert when he notices that the oil pressure light is on. He gets out to look and sees oil dripping out of the motor. He drives to the nearest town and stops at the first gas station.
After dropping the car off, the penguin goes for a walk around town. He sees an ice-cream shop and, being a penguin in the desert, decides that something cold would really hit the spot. He gets a big dish of ice cream and sits down to eat. Having no hands he makes a real mess trying to eat with his flippers. After finishing his ice cream, he goes back to the gas station and asks the mechanic if he’s found the problem. The mechanic looks up and says “It looks like you blew a seal.”
“No no,” the penguin replies, wiping his beak, “it’s just ice cream.”
What’s black, white, and red all over?
A Collingwood supporter with his head kicked in.I… What?
A guy walked into a take-away shop and asked for two Pies and a couple of Dim Sims, he was impressed to see that the man was using Tongs to put the food into bags and made a comment. The man behind the counter told him “Yes, we are very clean here, always use Tongs, no hands ever touch the food.
The customer paid for his food, and as he was about to turn around and leave he noticed a piece of string hanging from the shopkeepers fly, so being the inquisitive type he asked what it was for. “All part of the hygiene program” said the shopkeeper. “When I go to the toilet I simply pull it out with the string. Not touched by human hands”.
“Well, how do you put it back in” said the man as he was walking to the door with his food. To which the shopkeeper replied “Oh, with the Tongs sir”.
http://www.siliconera.com/2014/12/16/steinsgate-coming-playstation-3-vita-english/ OMG
He cares for physical releases!
I don’t think it’ll happen. Seems like the sort of thing they can only really hope turn a profit with digitally. I’m just glad it’s actually happening.
Hope it does really well and opens the floodgates a bit. Also interesting that this means that Sony is actually allowing VNs on their platforms in the west. That was always one of the stumbling blocks for VN developers, Sony required a certain amount of gameplay and wouldn’t certify pure visual novels for a long time, rather than just letting the market decide if they wanted those games.
Steins;Gate is excellent so looking forward to this.
Aw he unlearnt the taunt 🙁
You must unlearn what you have learned.
Elite: Dangerous is launch! 😮
Really? I thought it was a game?
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=76535
Holy shit!
Liondrives Pokemon White 2 Nuzlocke run!
Against better judgement, instead of either picking Tepig, the fire type, or Oshawott, the water type, I went with Snivy, since he is my favourite.
Even though grass types are quite common, I love the Snivy line, and couldn’t bring myself to pick any other.
Being super original at naming, I now have Stewie training his Snivy, Stevie :3
Also rounding out my team include Rattus the Patrat, Lacy the Sewaddle, and Jasper the Lillipup.
I can see myself having the worst team come the Elite four 🙁
I contemplated naming my pokemon after TAYbies, but I wouldn’t be able to handle the trauma if any of them died :'(
After beating the first gym, entirely relying on Stevie, with more than one close call, it’s on to the poison gym, where I’m going to have to rely on Rattus and Jasper.
I need to get some diversity in my team pretty soon :3
Even after only a short amount of play, it’s already traumatising when an enemy gets a critical hit, almost killing my pokemon :S
Stevie had 1hp at one stage! :O
I never want to lose my little Stevie 🙁
Snivy is the best, named mine Smugly. 🙂
Sugly! @sughly
No, no. There’s an M. sMugly, as in smug, because it looks smug.
you’ll figure it out one day, my boy.
I just like saying Sugly!
Weird, I got 2 legit emails from Blizzard this morning one asking for a password reset on a battle.net account with my main email, an account that I never knew I had and then secondly stating that battle.net account had been locked. But my actual battle.net account is fine given it has the authenticator and SMS protect on it and I don’t recall ever making that other account..
Hendrix 12 pack! Woo! *flails arms*
Rocksmith DLC day today.Magic Johnson.
Teehee.
EDIT: BEST PAGEGET. \o/ NEF YOU SPIFFY MAN.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/12/hacker-a-url-trick-lets-you-use-someone-elses-boarding-pass/
I don’t get this. A buzzfeed intern claims some security flaw that no one can replicate and the original claimed flaw doesn’t even work. Buzzfeed intern gives a lame excuse why it doesn’t so then Giz goes ahead and says “For now, it’s probably safe to say that something is amiss with Delta’s online boarding passes”.
Dafuq? So if I claim that I found a flaw in Giz’s site that empties your bank accounts and I totally saw it guys, it would be safe to assume that you should stay away from Giz for the foreseeable future and media outlets should run with that?
HEY GUYS I FOUND A SECURITY FLAW IN FACEBOOK IF YOU GO TO FACEBOOK IN FIREFOX IT SHOWS YOUR PROFILE AND ALLOWS YOU TO EDIT YOUR PERSONAL INFO oh wait I forgot to log out
I found a security flaw with Delta, I keep getting some dudes & his girlfriends boarding passes emailed to my iCloud email…
“Oh yeah, Elite comes out this week. I wonder if the mercenary edition is still available.”
(Checks website. Only base game on offer and the price has been jacked up.)
“Ahahahno.”
Sorry Gooky.
TooSlow.gif!
*shrugs*
Combined with continued progress for gamma players and I’m just left with the impression they don’t respect players who were not willing to throw money at them on blind faith alone.
But that’s fine, my money’s good elsewhere.
Flump
Amen to that!
Hey does anyone know what’s in Squeenix’s Christmas deal box thing. I got an e-mail saying there’s 6 Steam keys and 3 deals for $9 . Why don’t they just tell us what’s in it?
If they told you what was in it nobody would buy it!
I’m not buying because they won’t tell me.
Edit: Ha, tried googling it, one of the first things that comes up is “Square Enix users complain about the contents of its Christmas box”
Tomb Raider, Just Cause 2, Hitman: Blood Money, and Dungeon Siege III is what I’ve found.
Just Cause 2 is worth it. Well, mostly for the multiplayer mod.
Just Cause 3 soon though!
Does that have multiplayer as standard? It should.
Also a full priced game. =P
I hope it does, I played the crap out of Just Cause 2 on PS3 (got the platinum trophy) but never got to experience multiplayer, I imagine it would be amazing considering the stuff I managed solo.
In today’s news: people on the internet complain about stuff. Details to follow.
yeah, just thought it was funny that that came up in the results above most other related stuff already, people sure do like to complain.
Especially about multiple games for less than $10. Perspective, man. People need it.
yeah that is ridiculous, I’m not really interested in the games but I can see it’s good value, people are dicks.
@liondrive got me a Diddy! D: http://instagram.com/p/wr533GtatX/
THANKS MAN! HOW DID YOU KNOW? I DON’T RECALL MENTIONING MY LOVE OF DIDDY BEFORE! 😛
Wait.
DC accepts gifts now??
No. He just came upon my address under the guise of wanting to send Christmas cards. He’s deceptive! D:
I should’ve let him send me Christmas cards too!
😛
*adds note to file*
Luckily he’s got the address of my decoy house. Diddy was extracted before the… contingencies… came into play.
I’m just glad you like it 🙂
Gaaaaah one day I will learn how to sleep well.
Oh well, at least I’m going to dumpling king for lunch.
Don’t forget to call him my liege!
There’s also a waffle king in the far off lands to the south known as oaklands park.
I’ve misplaced my magic carpet so I can’t see the king of the potato people anymore
Also, fun fact: we took Shane to dumpling king for the first satay meat!
Confirmed! Shane is the Dumpling King! Another tough case solved by ace detective nob.
Man, I can see the inspector nob mysteries being the next big hit on the ABC
The parent groups will have a field day.
Who’s that guy?
And kneel. Don’t forget to kneel.
And whatever you do! NO REGICIDE!
Ooh, thanks for reminding me, I always forget.
There’s a reason we don’t have burger king here.
I could have sworn I ate at a Burger King. In… wait, was it Elizabeth? Or Gawler? Possibly Gawler.
Though that was back in 08, so who knows what’s happened in the meantime.
I remember around the Sydney Olympics they themed a few HJ’s around BK!
Huh. I just looked up the whole HJ/BK thing, and it says that the whole disappearance of BK thing happened around 01-03. But I could have sworn I saw some around while I was driving, and that wouldn’t have been til maybe 06…
Would have been a hungry jack’s. Never been a “burger king” up that way.
Also, wtf were you doing at Elizabeth?
Seeing how it compared to Blacktown 😛
I’d been with my ex out to visit her parents’ farm in the middle of nowhere, and we took a different route back to Adelaide via Gawler to visit a couple of friends that lived there. Also she worked at a shop in Elizabeth so we stopped by there to say hi to some of her friends too.
@mrtaco you remember where the farm was?
@redartifice I wasn’t sure before because I got the name confused with somewhere else, but now I remember it was out near Pinnaroo. Also had to go up to Loxton to visit some other friends, had an awesome burger there.
We did a lot of driving 😛
@mrtaco hah, my dad was a Loxton boy
Burger King’s pretty much only exist in airports or overseas. Some sort of trademark agreement or something in Australia where I think they took on the Hungry Jack’s name because it was an established brand. I vaguely recall that there something like a small family business had already taken the Burger King name before the US company moved in but I can’t recall the details.
That’s correct, the trade mark was held. Also the regicides.
In 1991, Hungry Jack’s Pty Limited renewed its franchise agreement with Burger King Corporation which allowed the Hungry Jack’s to license third party franchisee; however, one of the conditions of the agreement was that Hungry Jack’s had to open a certain number of stores every year for the term of the contract. In 1996, shortly after the Australian trademark on the Burger King name lapsed, Burger King Corporation made a claim that Hungry Jack’s had violated the conditions of the renewed franchise agreement by failing to expand the chain at the rate defined in the contract and sought to terminate the agreement. Under the aegis of this claim, Burger King Corporation in partnership with Royal Dutch Shell’s Australian division Shell Company of Australia Ltd., began to open its own stores in 1997 beginning in Sydney and throughout the Australian regions of New South Wales, Australian Capital Territory, Victoria and Tasmania.[5][6][7][8] In addition, Burger King sought to limit HJ’s ability to open new locations in the country, whether they were corporate locations or third-party licensees.[9]
As a result of Burger King’s actions,[citation needed] Hungry Jack’s owner Jack Cowin and his company Competitive Foods Australia, began legal proceedings in 2001 against the Burger King Corporation, claiming Burger King Corporation had violated the conditions of the master franchising agreement and was in breach of the contract.[citation needed] The Supreme Court of New South Wales agreed with Cowin and determined that Burger King had violated the terms of the contract and awarded Hungry Jack’s A$46.9 million (US$41.6 million in 2001).[10] In its decision, the Court said that Burger King sought to engineer a default of the franchise agreement so that the company could limit the number of new Hungry Jack’s branded restaurants and ultimately claim the Australian market as its own, which was a purpose that was extraneous to the agreement.[9][11] The case introduced the American legal concept of good faith negotiations into the Australian legal system, which until the time of the verdict had been rarely used in the Australian court systems
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungry_Jack%27s#Corporate_profile
Your king demands fealty. Pledge undying allegiance to your lord by eating dumplings until you question the very nature of existence, and time itself bends to your every whim.
This is a Monarchy that I can get behind
This is a Monarchy that I can stand in front of
It’s way too humid outside, thanks to the massive amount of rain we had over night. I don’t get how can anyone who lives in the tropics handle the humidity Q_Q
I think everyone’s disappeared to a meeting again.
Maybe they’re all talking about how you’re oblivious to their advances and strategizing how they can change you.
Change? Me?
*haughty laughter*
It rivals the quest for the holy grail in fool hardy pursuits.
Well I won something on that whoel steam auction, gems thingamajig
Picked up Shadow puppetter (http://store.steampowered.com/app/316480/) a little indie puzzle platformer. Not bad for a few inventory items I had no interest in and around 70c
Dumped the rest of my gems on muffin knight but the amount is so low I doubt I have a chance even if it is the 20th highest bid so far
Shiny winner badge \o/
Man, that game had amazing music. I used to stay on the title screen listening like I do now with the Uncharted games.
Best is listening to it all again and picking up on the recurring themes that carry throughout all different pieces that you never noticed before.
http://youtu.be/mQU7ml26JVM
Best.
Love how it goes from bright and cheerful to all battle-like.
Random Pokémon side project – decided to start catching a bunch of dittos to get the full set of 25 natures.
3 boxes and 1 shiny dunsparce later, I have 24/25, just short one Lonely ditto that misses its friends.
You know, there are other games available :p
Might I suggest Shin Megami Tensei IV for $25 on the eShop.
it’ll ease you out of Pokemon gently, because you still have to catch & use the demons. In a shocking twist, you fuse them instead of breeding 😮
Hmmm… Is that regular price or a special sale?
Regular as far as I know, unless it was dropped in the first week.
It’s fantastic though
I admire your dedication 🙂
PAX was a clean break that got me away for a while to get some time with Fantasy Life.
Then ORAS happened, and I figured I’d do my normal thing of catching all the legendaries in prier balls, then just to make it more definite, make the last one shiny…
But I don’t feel *done*. Guess that’s the problem, it’s a game that is never really done outside your own personal definition.
Like Minecraft. Or Monster Hunter. Or, in its own way, Smash.
What is with me and ‘toybox’ games that can just keep going and going? The equation is well beyond value for money at this point.
I usually finish the story or whatever, have a break, then come back later
Diddy-cation. All Diddy, all of the time.
I’m starting to think that getting you that Diddy may have been a mistake 😛
Zzz.
Wow. Life Insurance ad on TV asking (this is verbatim) “How do you want to be remembered after you die? For your life and achievements or as a burden that destroyed your family’s life?”
I believe my parents already consider me the second thing. 😛
Your first problem was watching daytime TV.
Ellen’s not going to watch herself!
Are you sure about that?
A guy just purchased a 3 foot plastic banana for £130.
I’ll buy what I want, when I want, who I want.
On my 18th birthday a funeral home sent me a letter about considering funeral insurance :S
Dear Liondrive
Now that you are an adult it is time to think about DEATH!
YOU ARE GOING TO DIE! GET FUNERAL COVER BECAUSE YOU WILL DIE!!!!
Sounds vaguely like a threat to me! Another case for Inspector Nob?
I’ll take the case!
It’d be a pretty boring episode if you didn’t.
*start credits*
Secretary: “Mr Nob, we have a client with a case”
Nob: “Ehhh, not really feeling it today. Re-book an appointment for next week”
*end credits*
*26 minute ad break until next show*
This week’s episode: “The private life of Inspector Nob”
*sitting at home, reading a newspaper in his underwear*
Nob: “What? I can’t be exciting all the time.”
@popdart5
Underwear? That defeats the whole purpose of this show!
http://24.media.tumblr.com/3ac187b3f3d7a79a50a487af492c92af/tumblr_mj2l9uPOev1qh59n0o1_500.png
@piat @jocon @distantdrop @dire_wolf LFR tonight 8PM? Faster queue with healers and tanks =]
DPS queue is faster than tanks at the moment apparently lol but yeah I’ll be there
If jo and red can make it tonight lets talk about future timings for raids; new recruits; setting up a possible TS/Vent server and this weekend’s raid timing.
Roll a blood DK and queue as both! You only need to switch presence! 😀
I can’t make it, sorry. Going to go see Interstellar tonight.
Have fun! =p
Sure.
This chemical suture thing is working out pretty well. Toxicity be damned!
Bit of a bitch peeling it off though.
If he finds you, you’ll soon find out,
The devil’s fire just won’t go out!
He’ll burn you up, from head to toe,
The devil’s grip just won’t let go!
Apparently Santa is a massive Xbox fanboy http://a.pomf.se/ojmxya.webm
Lol wtf!
What did I just watch
I seriously thought the guy in black was @Virus__ at first! Serious doppelganger!
I just kind of fell into my job here, never saw myself doing anything like this but f#@$ I’m awesome some days (I have to praise myself cause none of the chumps around here will), I just mathsed the shit outta some complicated crap that my manager could not get their head around (this happens often, how they are a manager is beyond me), then worked out everyone’s hours/ holiday pay & bonuses etc for the Christmas break for the whole company. I’m the most disorganized mother f$#@er there is, how do I have such great skills at work, maybe it’s all the vidya gaming problem solving skills I’ve developed over the years coming into play. Now it’s all downhill until the Christmas break. *pats self on back & gives self a handshake*
You go, gutsoup!
Damnmit gutsoup I asked for that report yesterday
Stop congratulating yourself and get back to work
“gutsoup bonus recommendations: multiplier is 2.5 times base salary, ignore pro-rata functions.”
Signed,
gutsoup
Got bored and started trawling through all the old video game video series I hadn’t watched in years. Went to the Spoony Experiment and holy shit, Noah Antwiler is just @trjn moonlighting right?
I don’t know who that is, so I guess nobody has ever seen us in the same room?
http://spoonyexperiment.com/game-reviews/black-hole-of-board-games/
I like good board games.
EDIT: On a more serious note, I’m actually pretty sick of reviews that are just excuses to mock whatever is being reviewed. People are driven to make them because they’re incredibly popular but the general negativity and just seeking out things that you know are shit just doesn’t do it for me.
Highlighting something awesome while still being entertaining is a much more difficult thing to pull off, but damn is it more worthwhile.
This guy isn’t too bad with that. His stuff is usually very long (Final Fantasy reviews are over 4 hours) and is more in a style of Riff Trax than anything.
It was more the guy could easily pass as your brother.
I’d argue a review that long needs some serious work.
Neat. Exodus & Steel Panther got added to the Soundwave lineup for 2015 😀
Also there’s The Smashing Pumpkins who from what I gather are playing on the same day as Slipknot but before them, since they’re the 4th band to be there in their own font on the poster…
Sweet, It’s gonna be good :D.
Hells to the yes!
So now there’s like; Slipknot, Slash, Judas Priest, Faith No More, Marilyn Manson, Lamb of God, Steel Panther, Exodus.. Gonna be so good. Gonna be so sore.
Now I need the list of who plays on which day
The first line up announced what days that lot will be playing, but line ups 2 & 3 haven’t been confirmed what days they’ll be playing in each city.
Ooh. I think Steel Panther might be another one I’d be interested in seeing.
So worth it. Saw them in 2012 at Soundwave, basically best band the day that I hadn’t seen live before 😀
Wednesday.
And that’s all I’ve got to say about that.
In terms of the week though:
Ohhhhhhhhh we’re half way there
He lives in a pineapple under the sea.
Edit: I hear this everytime I see “ohhhh”. -_-
hahaha I was going in a different direction xD
Whoa-oh! Living on a prayer!
Couldn’t leave you hanging.
And here I thought I was being too subtle 😛
Ohhhhhhoo living on a prayer…
Seriously though… F*ck this week.F$#% I’M SO F$#@ING HAPPY IT’S ALMOST TIME FOR A CHRISTMAS BREAK!!!!
*flails arms wildly*
Gonna do so much nothing.
I will match your nothing & raise you zilch!
This is going nowhere.
*stays in place*Man I wish I could do that.
My supervisor came over to me today to say (effectively): “Just letting you know (Jo) that your co-worker who suddenly resigned has also sprained his ankle so can’t finish up his quota of the work, several large jobs just came in that you will need to do asap in the new year (on top of the doing two peoples worth of work, taking over as lead in this position + training the new guy) and the co-worker who you help with two-man jobs is on leave all next month so cannot help you out. In fact you might need to help another guy shoulder some of that work too.
Meanwhile the office is closed for the next two weeks while all the brass take holidays so make sure as much as possible is sorted before the end of the week.”
Yeah, Merry Christmas boss.
damn, that really sucks. Good luck 🙁
Oh god Sekai Project finally put their Kickstarter up for the Grisaia Visual Noval Trilogy and I’m so fucking close to backing the $3000 tier for serious. Akio Watanabe is one of my favourite artists ever. But I can also see having buyers remorse over it…
Purchase regret is the best kind of regret! \o/
You make a compelling argument.
Ended up doing it.
Jebus!
The way I see it, I would have backed at the $1000 tier anyway. The extra gives me a piece of art that will be one of a kind, made for me by an artist I’ve really liked since I saw Popotan and Komugi-chan/Soultaker over a decade ago. Still one of my favourites. Hoping it can be personalized but not sure if that’s included or not, either way it’ll be special and unique and actually probably worth a fair bit. Maybe not as much as I’m paying, but for reference their Clannad kickstarter had a similar Shikishi tier where the original artist would do one with a requested character, and those are $7000 which is insane especially since Clannad has IMO not very good character art. Not sure why she commands such a high premium.
Also it’s early days. The kickstarter opened today and it’s very popular ($130k/160k as of right now as I type this). There’s only two of these available. I can always decide to pull back later and drop down to a lower tier, especially if they get through their funding stretch goals (and I think that’ll happen easily, they chose a great time since the anime adaption of the first game is currently running). However if both of those Shikishi tiers disappeared I’d be left wondering ‘what if’ for ages.
I’d actually been seriously considering doing this since they talked about the possibility of it on their Prefundia page for the campaign a few months ago. Back then it was $4000 and I couldn’t do it.
Jelly, I’ve not once in my life been in a position to blow 3 grand.
All that hard work pays off, huh.
I technically am not really, but I’ve got a decent enough amount in savings from when I was having delusions of affording to buy a house (lol) and I also get pretty good treatment from the company in terms of shares and MS’ stock price has gone from the low 30s to the mid 50s since I started there. Especially in the last 18 months since Satya took over from Ballmer.
Don’t give up on a house, you only need like 10% & a full-time job.
I managed it somehow.
I gave up directly saving large amounts – still put a bit aside each month. I have a ton of share vesting that will happen over the next two years and that alone will get me over the line. Also it’s more like 15% than 10%, since you need to pay all the taxes and fees.
I can’t remember, we saved way over the deposit amount, just got a small house on the outskirts of Brisbane.
And that’s secret sanTAY gift thingo posted off.. So \o/ I guess..
I accidentally crossed paths with Marth, Wii Fit and Fox amiibos in JB this afternoon and suddenly less money. This after last night declaring that they are dumb and I don’t need them.
What I’m saying is I hate myself.
Do you think any of us think it’s a good idea. Do you think we all enjoy buying these stu-HELLO INTERNET PEOPLE THIS IS
NINTENDOTHE ONE YOU CALL NOB! I LOVE AMIIBOS AND EVERYONE SHOULD BUY THEM!I do >.>
They are dumb and you don’t need them.
Luckily there’s folks out there on Ebay who disagree!
I heard rumours of Big W getting restocked today so I went out of my way on the way home to go there.
Turned out to either be false or they only restocked Pikachus…
JB definitely got a restock of wave 1 (or at least mine did…). I think the only one they were missing was Villager.
Side note: why did they decide it was a good idea to put a giant translucent yellow rod underneath Link’s butt for his? It looks like he’s balancing on a pillar of frozen urine.
They’re pretty bad on a lot of them. If you look at Captain Falcon the wrong (right?) way it looks like a giant pole is going straight up his finely toned booty.
Falcon squats!
He’s got to otherwise he’ll end up with a Falcon Paunch.
The near-opaque dark blue chocks that Fox is mounted on seem even more perplexing.
Why on earth wouldn’t they all just be colourless? :/
You mean like they were originally?
Yeah. I mean I get that the original ones were probably a bit thin and needed to add a bit more support, but I don’t understand why they needed to add random colours as well.
I don’t even know why they needed to go with the weird action-y poses either. Pretty fugs with those support things up everyone’s bum 🙁
Well, now we have proof of Link having a stick up his arse
I really like the action poses! Way more interesting to look at.
Just wish they kept using the thin metal pole supports from the prototypes.
Action poses should be fine. I bet the issue is they changed material from ABS to PVC at some point when actually producing them (I have not held one to be sure about this). PVC is slightly soft and will sag over time, where ABS is rigid but brittle and requires higher temperatures and more expensive moulds.
I don’t get it.
Not the humour in your comment, I get that, but I don’t get why you bought them (or why anyone’s buying so many).
Interest in them goes up with rarity. There’s probably a graph somewhere.
I am definitely having buyer’s regret though.
I haven’t been paying attention. Are they actually rare or just sparsely stocked?
It’s a bit of both. You could say there are 50 Mario figures for every Captain Falcon figure or whatever. And then they’re sparsely stocked and some figures are already apparently being discontinued, so peeps go into panic mode.
Interesting.
So perhaps, in anticipating the popularity of Mario compared to other characters, they’ve actually boosted the popularity of those deemed less popular…
Does anyone know if the PS3/PS4 is region free when it comes to Blu-Ray movies? Looking to back a doco and they’re offering blu-rays as one of the rewards but they’re NTSC only, and I don’t want to back it if I can’t play the damn thing lol.
PS3 is not region free for the blu ray
Dang it 🙁 Thanks though, Scree!
Sorry
S’all good, not your fault, unless you were head of Sony and made that call, then I guess you have reason 😛
HOW DARE YOU FORCE SCREE INTO A CORNER LIKE THAT, YOU MUNSTER 😛
I’m in a corner? I don’t…okay.
Nope, colon pee, dood XD
@jimu now you’re telling me to pee out my colon? I don’t even think it’s possible! =P
Diarrhea!
@jimu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-4WbjV1Jmo#t=29 =P
II’m not looking unless that’s Parenthood!
Quiet or you’re next.
Get back to your pee-pee soaked heck-hole!
@morkai !!!!!!!!!!!!! Did you buy an Xbox One yet?
I just purchased this https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/175161
$499 for the AC Unity Bundle + 12 Months Gold + A Selection 3 Games (I picked Halo, Sunset Overdrive and Forza Horizon 2).
Way better than the EB deal since I wanted Horizon 2 over Forza 5 (I think you can pick the GOTY edition from the MS Store if you wanted) and it has 12 Months Gold.
Free express shipping too! I don’t even have to leave the house 😀
So very tempting.
But I need to save.
*Starts crying*
*Goes back to browsing $800 Camera lenses*
That…is really tempting.
But… but xbone has nothing I need yet… I can’t just…
*clicks link*
ooooooh
Yes, yes. Let the desire consume you.
Also you can get a PS4 for 399 with 3 games from Dicksmith’s eBay store with the discount code
CPICKUP
and you get The Last of Us, Drive Club & Little Big Planet, pretty neat deal.. https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/174177This is such a good deal. I want so bad, can’t afford that right now though!!!! 🙁
Yeah.. I kinda really wished I hadn’t bought one back in Jan for full RRP of $549 without any games Q_Q But it was shiny and I just had to have it apparently lol.
Cashius!
Pay rise, bonus and tax backius!
Well done!
Looks like you’ll be eating the $15 lunches from now on!
The other day I bought a DRINK!
It was like a whole $3 too D:
Man… DRINK money. That’s the life!
I’m really tempted…
I love you dearly & want that for Xmas!
*dies*
Since I spent money on this I dunno whether I can justify 2 hundy on Type-0!
Maybe though… probably…
okay…
Why can’t you be my rich sugardaddy?
Cc @liondrive
I thought you were my rich sugardaddy! :’O
Does that make Greenius my rich sugargrandpa?
I am far from rich *dies*
There there Jimu.
You can still be my sugardaddy 🙂
@markserrels in case you feel like posting it!
Pretty good deal straight from MS 😀
I purchased mine from the MS Store directly too. I got an employee deal but what you have there is very close to it. Only difference to you is I got the Kinect, and also my offer also gave me a free 2nd controller which was what put me over the edge.
MS Store ships very fast – I ordered mine Friday about 2pm, processed by 5, courier picked it up that evening, was in by midday Monday. Shipped from Oakleigh. Toll priority couriers. And the shipping’s free. Would buy from them again.
(Obviously I have a bit of bias though)
Just a bit!
*sigh*
Yes, I bought mine last week, and I’m having no luck trying to sell off the games I don’t want either…
Son of a bitch…
Getting all growly and snarly over supplier trying to get out of their obligations and forcing me into corporate judo with them. I WAS hoping to leave before 5pm, god dammit.
That PS1 article/competition was a nice diversion, though. Fond memories.
Amen to that! The PS1, what a console.
I’m scared of losing….again.
Was my entry any good? Do I need to remove the more naughty moments???
It all started to blur for me. I’ll take another look when not on unnavigable mobile. (Because it is frickin’ HOME time.)
But like I said on the article it’s a shame it’s a merit-based competition and not a draw. I’m luckier than I am skilled. 😛
I’m neither
*dies*
Sounds like me!
I rambled, but I never win much. As long as people enjoy my little tale I should be happy…ish
Yeah, the moment it’s merit based, I’m out.
No chance.
Yeah, not bad with the sultry look, but I think Lion tops it with the nipple flash. 😉
I’m not subtle 🙁
I would be disappointed if you were.
What? No, I mean my entry, right above yours!
I’m gonna win! >:D
Probably not, but no harm entering 🙂
You’ll give it to me though, right?
Hmmm, hmmmmmm, hmm, hrrrmmmm, nah.
I swear Ron Perlman’s doppelgänger just walked into this bus. I wanna just gush at him, “WAR! TELL ME WAR NEVER CHANGES! TELLL MEEEEEE”
There’s a bloke who live in my area who is Ron Pearlman’s other doppelgänger. I had to do a double take one day when I saw him lol.
We have a George RR Martin that hangs out in our local Library, Arya has a hairdressing business in town, my mate looks eerily like Kahl Drogo, and The Mother of Dragons lives right next door.
I have to convince them all to come to Supanova with me next year, it is freaky how much they look like them.
Has bae been back on your bus yet? :O
Bae? Whodis?
Backwards Attired … Eee-ndividual.
If @beeawwb is right, then no. That was a random service I don’t usually take, just moving between offices for meetings.
I’m right. Even when I’m not correct.
I just piano’d for the first time since… at least May. Possibly earlier.
It actually went pretty well. A bit sloppy, but nowhere near as atrocious as I expected.
Yay piano buddies!
Any recommendations for cool Mario tunes? (links with sheet music plz). I’ve seen a few random Mario medleys and the tunes are funky as!
Uh… I did have some sheet music somewhere. But I don’t know where it came from, it’s been a long time since I used any. Usually learn either by ear or by following Midi files 😛
ooo Mr. Fancy uses his ears to learn!
Any snazzy vids of you playing that I can watch to secretly judge you?
Just the one. It’s super old.
Are those floppy discs? You’re right, you are super old!
Gotta load them midis somehow 😛
Think I got the piano back in 2002 or so.
Learn Super Mario Land Underwater Theme!
*youtubes*
Wait a minute, that’s just the regular Mario theme! But like… sped up. And turned on its head.
Scratch that, not Land just Super Mario Bros
I should really learn how to play piano considering we have 2 in my house.
If you are serious, check this out.
http://www.playgroundsessions.com/
I kept saying for the last 20 years that I would learn, and I can actually play now, much to my eternal amazement.
Interesting…
Don’t spose you know much about basic instruments?
I just need to play music more, I have a dusty old drum kit I need to set up again too.
Watching Criminal Minds and they say “There’s dozens of computers on that network, you’d need fibre optic cable at a minimum”.
Mash keyboard to hack.
It’s okay guys I can back trace the IP and triangulate their position via the proxy of the fibre optic cable.
Not until you’ve whipped up your GUI!
FYI this is exactly what it’s like to write software. They only gave me two monitors to work with though so I’m 3 times less productive than Hugh.
Enhance
They should talk to Turnbull, 40 year old copper will work just fine.
Got my Link & Zelda amiibos up to level 28 in Sm4sh. 😀
What’s your training method? I’ve only been running five-minute matches against mine, it doesn’t take many for them to level up though. Can pretty much get to 50 in a little under an hour, depending how crappily I play/distracted I am.
4-stock, 5 minute timed stock,items on low, add a level 8 cpu, making it a 4 player battle.
So I watched The Ten tonight. It’s a David Wain movie from 2007 and those that know me know that I love Childrens Hospital and David Wain is responsible for that (along with Rob Corddry) which started in 2008.
And omg it was great. It’s 10 stories from the 10 commandments (hosted by Paul Rudd) and in the first story the news man is the same guy with the same name as the host of Newsreaders (which was spun off into its own show) in Childrens Hospital. THEN Ken Marino (he’s great too) is a doctor in the second story but what was really awesome is that later on in another story he introduces himself to Rob Corddry’s character (who unfortunately isn’t a clown nor named Blake/Cutter Spindell) as Dr Glenn Richie! Exact same character as in Childrens Hospital. So cool. Can’t believe I never watched it earlier.
(PS I’m a massive fan of Childrens Hospital. I even own both of these 😛 http://www.hottopic.com/hottopic/Childrens+Hospital+Dr.+Blake+Downs+T-Shirt-377848.jsp
http://www.hottopic.com/hottopic/Childrens+Hospital+Property+T-Shirt-377851.jsp)
Bloody hell… I’m sick of waking up at 3am…
Get a baby, you get to do that every day!
Went to see Interstellar last night. I loved it. Loved the visuals, loved how sciency it was – no sound in space and all the relativity stuff was great, and are two things sci-fi films unfortunately tend to ignore – and I loved that it wasn’t afraid to be a long movie. My only small issue with it was
the bookcase in the black hole. I mean I expected some sort of time travel to happen, but the way they chose to visualise it all just felt a little too Hollywood for me when compared with the more hard sci-fi of the rest of the movie.Yeah, surely there could have been a way to setup the time communication thing without throwing science to the wind.The alien construct was fine to me, but not inside a black hole.
Also, how could she interpret the code if he started sending it to the watch years before she found it? Would have only got half the data.
I assume the watch ran a (long) repeating pattern, rather than just displaying the message once.Thanks for using Spoiler tags, I haven’t seen it yet!No one had any issues about a spaceship surviving the gravitational forces that make up a black hole? Which should have torn the ship apart long before it approached the event horizon?Yeah, that was my major beef.I did think that too, but I’m willing to forgive some use of sci-fi tech (ships that can survive anywhere) for the sake of exploration.Normally I would but up till that point the movie was being really science oriented; all of a sudden for the sake of the story lets get back to tossing science out the window? I can forgive a movie doing that if it wasn’t attempting to be as accurate as possible…. If I didn’t watch the ending of that movie it would’ve been the best movie I’ve seen all year basically =\I’m working through the xmas/new year period but apparently we get half days on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve – on top of that casual dress code through January unless we have external meetings.
*checks calendar*
*cancels five things*
That moment when you decide to try a t-shirt on you got for last Christmas that didn’t fit (at least not without looking like like the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man) and it actually fits you now.
http://imgur.com/e9y6Dzj
16kgs down, fuckers.
Wow! Well done, Ne-ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD
Nice work man.
There you are nef! When did you leave Twitter??
Probably a month or two back? I announced it a couple of times, but I think disabling my account probably removed the Tweets, so unless you saw, you probably didn’t know.
Just stepping back off the internet as a whole and focusing on my own happiness and well being for a bit. General internet/social media fuckery is draining and unnecessary. I pop into TAY off and on still – might go back to Twitter eventually, but not sure.
I’m still around though!
I became a lot happier with my twitter usage when I realised how little it mattered. There’s just no need to get involved in social media arguments or trends if I’m not invested – and I almost never am. I’ve gotten halfway through so many tweets in response to some fucking bonehead when I’m just like “nah, this isn’t my fight”.
Talking to you guys was the only thing that made it worthwhile, and I do miss that interaction. All the usual TAYbies are amazing people, and that’s why I’m back here now I’m not on Twitter. A community of not-retards who all get along.
The bigger problem on Twitter was even just hearing about controversy/fuckery from the grapevine – even people that aren’t perpetuating it and just laughing at it is enough to make me headdesk – just being aware of the existence of said fuckery. You know the usual shit gamers are up in arms about today, or just people being pissy and whiny, or combative, etc. Drama is tiring.
I developed a substantial off switch – but even that failed at times. Even worse when it failed and on the rare occasion I’d get involved, or worse perpetuate the shit that annoys me. I just wanted to take a step back, and live free and ignorant for a bit I guess.
Good work, I left twitter and facebook a few years back, I figure any friends that can’t take 20 seconds to contact me via text or email probably aren’t really my friends anymore, just people I used to know.
Frees up a lot of headspace and time, and forces you to contact people individually to keep them updated and in your life, you know, personal interaction that requires a bit of effort. Much more focused and much better relationships has been the result. I miss the distractions, and the random updates from people I used to know, but once I let that go, I was much happier having a more personal connection with less people, but ones who are actually a part of my life *now*.
My family was pissed at first, but got over it when they realised I would still email them photos etc. regularly.
Well, it can force you to do that if you were in that kind of habit to begin with 😛
I’ve kinda done it wrong, I’m free of the bad side of facebook etc but am extremely bad at maintaining relationships in general so don’t really have any of the positives on the counterside >_>
Nice work, I am 6kgs down after 4 weeks, another 8 to go!
My pants do up again! Woot!
/fistbump
So what’d you guys do? I cut sugar & animal products to lower cholesterol & chances of getting diabetes then the kilos just fell off.
@poita
I pretty much just started actually eating breakfast – have always been adverse to it, just don’t feel like eating in the morning. Haven’t since I was a teenager. I just have 4 Weet Bix and milk, and a multivitamin for breakfast. Lunch I either skip or have an Isowhey shake and another multivitamin, dinner depends on how motivated I am – sometimes something simple like rice and veggies, or another shake, depending.
Apart from that, I just ensure I don’t snack during the day, drink only water or tea – apart from an energy drink on some days if I’m dead shit tired. I also try and do a set of situps when I wake up (can only manage about 30 atm), walk around the block at lunchtime at work, and I walk around the block twice of an evening – once when I get home, and again at about 9-10 o’clock. Each of my evening walks is followed by another set of sit ups (30-40) and a set of squats (20-25 – those things fucking hurt, man)
So pretty much just eating better and exercising. I’ve gone from 135kg to 119kg (as of this morning) in a little over 2 months. Probably about 2 weeks of that I slacked off hard because I was on holidays too. So pretty impressed with outcome.
I’m 5’11”, and I’m hoping to crack 100kg as my immediate goal – then assess how much further I think I can/need to go after that. Maybe 80-90? Don’t think I’d realistically get much lower than that – I’m a fairly solid guy anyway.
EDIT: Double post.
I was just about to post “Apparently EB Games restocked all of the Wave 2 Amiibo on their online store this morning!” but looks like Little Mac, Captain Falcon and Pit are already sold out again.
*waves*
*whisper behind hand, subtly nodding in McG’s direction*
O_O…
Hi, welcome back, frond! How you been?
*breaks*
Welcome back man, how’s tricks?
Meeeeee3eerry Giftsmas
Hey everyone @mcgarnical is in TAY. It’s a Christmas miracle! \o/
No work today! w00t! They’ve been planning to move my team up to the next floor for a while now, and they decided to start on it last night, and as a result, there’s nowhere for me to work today. Tomorrow I start back on a new floor with a permanent desk! Also finally got my photo ID and keycard, so I’m all officially official now! SUCCESS!
You now have a photo ID to go with your Employee number.
Great job, worker number 317! 😛
Hello all. How are you all.
All is well.
All is well.
Hey-o
How’s things Chris?
TAYlist requests are open, gimme those songs.
Frenzal Rhomb – My Girlfriend’s a man
Bowling For Soup, whatever you have, doesn’t matter their songs are generally all good!
Gun – Race With The Devil
CHVRCHES – Science/Visions
or
Faith No More – Evidence
Gimme that punk (Audio Bullys). Because you said gimme.
The Pipkins – Gimme Dat Ding
Face in a cloud – Audio Bullys. Because Transientmind said Audio Bullys (and this is my fav song of theirs.)
*brofist*
Hall & Oates – You Make My Dreams (Come True)
Alternatively, something by Tracy Chapman.
Cotton Eye Joe – Rednex
Or
Ace of Base – Beautiful Life
Village green preservation society – the kinks
Or
Wuthering heights – kate bush
What time does your show start?
Noon, SA time, listen online if you can. URL is http://www.5yyy.com.au
Garbage – Control
Bjork – Hunter
Requests are now closed, thanks for the requests.
Radio….awh rrrrrrr
Holiday Plans –
1. Sit down with a guide & finish Shin Megami Tensei IV. I worked really hard to get the neutral ending, not realising it leads to even more hard work because I need to do all these quests & don’t know my way around .
2. Finish Yakuza 4. Picked this up cheap at a sale, great fun. Have only looked at a guide once when a vague mission came along with no quest marker.
3. Sleep in, I’m sure I can manage this at least once in two weeks!
4. Eat some of the food that I haven’t touched in the last 3 months. It’s Xmas dammit & I want chocolate
5. Not be at work. This is the best bit.
6. Spend time with wife & son.
You can get a skyship.
Well… a demonship.
Anyway, that’s like the best thing ever in SMT4 because even though you’ll still be lost, at least you can be lost wherever you please.
I saw that, but it requires another quest.
I took a break to Pokemon & I’ll just sit down with a guide.
some of those questions descriptions, ugh!
“Go north of Shinjuku”
Yeah, in the world map or the Shinjuku map?
Oh, north in Shinjuku then exit the east on the map & then a room randomly placed riiiiight.
& one quest was timed, gawd, I didn’t even realise until it was too late.
Serves me right for taking the hard path though
Holiday plans:
1. Make no plans, because I know work is going to fuck me right in the eye socket and I’ll be working over the next couple of weeks regardless of being on leave.
2. Whinge about 1.
Sounds great!
Looking forward to 2.
So am I , so am I
*switches off phone*
My Holiday Plan
1. Acquire lots of food, snacks & coffee.
2. Roll boulder in front of front door.
3. Dig large hole and fill it with wooden spikes for door knockers.
4. Unplug home phone.
5. Spend lots of time with my dogs
6. Play all the games, So many to choose from: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Far Cry 4, GTA V, Bayonetta 1 & 2, Alien: Isolation, Pokeymans Alpha Sapphire, Hyrule Warriors DLC, Smash Bros.
7. Go to festival for New Years.
8. General slobbing and slothing about.
Gonna be great 😀
I should pop around for a drunken Wii
I’ll wrap the furniture in plastic :p
Edit: I’ll be away between Christmas and New Year’s day other than that any day is fine by me.
Prolly after, I guess. Gonna have drinks with Where’s Wally & Snow on Friday in Wally’s dungeon.
Holiday plans
1. Work
2. Do my best to avoid in laws.
3. Work
4. Try not to burn myself out.
5. Work 9am until midnight all next week
6. Sleep
7. Work some more.
I’d feel more sorry for you if I didn’t know you were off to Japan later next year 😉
How have they not given you another employee yet?
Yes. We’re both here. Christmas sucks.
Ouch.
Yeah he has another guy there, they’re still flat out most days though :/ Well that’s how it whenever I pop by.
Mines business as usual, oh what an exciting life I lead :/
My holiday plans are pretty non-existent atm. Think I only have the public holidays off. Which means I will at least get a 4 day weekend, but not sure when quitting time will be on xmas eve, or new years eve. Gonna try to find out tomorrow so I can try to make some plans, cos my sis wants to do xmas on xmas eve, as she’s going to spend xmas day with her hubby’s family, so I might not have xmas at all at this rate!
Eh, it’s overrated, if I was allowed I’d just drink or game.
yeah well i’m not terribly worried for myself. I’ve already given my sis her present, and one to give to her hubby, but this will be our first xmas without mum, so I’m more concerned for dad really. Being without mum will be change enough, but then to not even have a family gathering at all might be kinda shite :\
Holiday Plans:
1. Video games
2. Anime
3. I don’t know, maybe something with sugar in it
Simple, yet effective.
*approving nod*
Last night I drew (well, my son drew) the winner for the Shane competition.
https://twitter.com/Strangist/status/545133221327814657
The winner was @bdkiaf.
So I’ll be making a red, black, Harley Quinn themed something. 😀
Here’s the video…
https://plus.google.com/111994873904816817079/posts/DQyod7h7BBP
“I don’t know what it says!” 😛That is the best reaction to my name.
I want my money back!
Congrats, BD!All that twittering for nothing!
Now is probably not the best time to tell you that your name kind of fell out of the box but I put it back in because falling out did not make it an official win. 😛
IT WANTED TO BE FREEEEEEEEE
I want to break free
I. Want. To. Break. Free-eeeeee
So far in my Harley Quinn research I’ve discovered that apparently I voiced her in Batman: The Brave and the Bold. 😛
Good one
Wow… I knew Hendrix used unconventional chord fingerings (ie. his thumb), but there’s a huge gap between knowing that it’s done and learning to do it… Especially as I’ve spent the last 8 months trying to do barre chords properly.
“Here’s this note – it’s an F on the 4th string, got that? Okay, let’s add an A on the 3rd string. Got that? Okay, now add a C on the 2nd string. Now barre that first finger on the 1st and 2nd strings to add a high F. And now put a C over that chord, on the 5th string. Okay, got that?”“Yup, no problem. I’m even keeping my fingers perpendicular to the fretboard, as you’ve taught me.”
“Cool. Now put your thumb on the 6th string, to add an F below that chord.”
“A little awkward, but I guess I can… waitaminute, that’s just an F major chord. Had you told me that at the start, we’d have saved 10 minutes of learning a chord I already know, using an obtuse, awkward fingering. Why can’t I just use standard fingering?”
“Heathen!” *bats os42 with stick*
This is why i’m a bass player 😛
This is why I’m a vocalist.
Put it this way, at least none of us are the drummer 😛
Bass would be my ideal band position, followed by drummer, followed by bouncer.
Mine is at home, listening on the iPod
🙁
But Danny Carrey (what’s the meshugga guy’s name?)
😛
But Mike Patton
That, and all the poon.
But Les Claypool
Going to a board game / magic the gathering day today.
I’mma cast so many bullshit cards
I’d tap it.
Given who is in this playgroup… You probably wouldn’t
But.. You’re in this playgroup.
Yep.
I’d tap it.
He is a desirable man.
Put multiples of Shahrazad in your deck and try not to get punched.
I’d like to be invited back again.
I have my commander decks. Next year we should do Tay commander
I’m keen.
excellent
The conspiracy draft was really fun, but it did take ages. At least with commander once people have a deck they can jump in
Yeah! Fill it with Charizard!
@freezespreston went old school in his deep magic stuff.
The card in question: http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=980&printed=true
It’s old school magic weird.
Wow.
I played a game where a guy played Shahrazad while in a Shahrazad game.
The house rules amongst us pretty quickly became no more effin Shahrazad allowed.
You made the right call.
It’s actually not tournament legal any longer
Just realised someone has stolen the cancer kids donation box from my shop.
Again.
That’s the fifth one. Rarely more than about $20 in it too, this time about $2.
I wonder if that’s why those boxes used to just be emptied-out juice tins with a cheap, shitty label printed out and wrapped around, sticky-taped on.
Draw some eyes and stick them to it or beside it. For serious.
It’s OK, was just me. Needed some change for hard drugs
Merry Christmas
John Lajoie’s Best Christmas song (disclaimer it’s terrible and lame, so not unlike most of his stuff :P)
Phrase #OldManDC Hates:
“This is just… everything.”
“I saw a puppy and it was just everything.”
“That season finale of Scandal was just everything.”
>:|
I can legitimately say I’ve never heard that term before.
Not enough BuzzFeed for Freezey.
I think you’ve given us plenty of reason not to want to see any more 😉
Too much BuzzFeed for DC.
You’re so ‘random’
Damn kids these days. All their stupid random word trends. None of them I’ve heard people utter in the past few years makes any sense what so ever!
We’s old!
Offloaded my oncall for the last night. \o/
Means I can chill the fuck out on the couch, play gaems and set up my housemate’s new laptop instead.
the best thing about Highlander is how they got a Frenchman to play a Scot & a Scotsman to play a Spaniard
Wasn’t the Spaniard technically Egyptian, too?
He was? All I remember is him spending enough time in Japan to own a masamune
Oh, maybe I do remember that.
Going to Wikipedia to read about Highlanderses
Time well-spent.
I’m going to go look for a billing code for that on my timesheet now, in fact.
*Zeistian
Hey guys, how’s things? I hope you are all well.
I’m good. I’ve had a busy year working full time as well as TAFE, but it’s been good to have a goal. I have a RDO today, and no school tomorrow, so 3 whole days off \o/ YAY!
I haven’t really had time for TAY this year, but I did manage to squeeze some game time in here and there and even finished a few games for a change, which was great. In fact, it might be a new record for me.
This year I finished;
Portal 2 (finally)
The Walking Dead (also finally)
The Walking Dead season 2
The Wolf Among Us
Tomb Raider
BioShock Infinite
Spec Ops: The Line
Brothers – A Tale of Two Sons
Valiant Hearts
Night of the Rabbit
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
Kentucky Route Zero (as much as has been released)d
I’ve got a heap of other games I’m in various stages of playing, but there’s nothing that I’m enjoying enough really stick with, although I’ll probably come back to Dishonoured, Contrast, and Metro 2033. I might even have a second playthrough of Brothers.
Does anybody have any gaming suggestions for me based on the list above? Looking through my own list I’d say I like a good story and nothing too challenging or too long.
How was everyone else’s year?
Hey Smurfy! Hope you’re well!
I am indeed. How’s your good self DC?
Decent enough, my friend. Decent enough.
Since I won’t shut up about it: Transistor.
Also, hello SmurfyDog, good to see you!
Thanks. Added to Steam wishlist.
Good to see you too blaghs!
I had the option to buy that on sale for PS4. I passed. Looked pretty lame.
My hatred for you rivals the power of a thousand burning suns.
It’s fine. It’s not for everyone. *starts crying at your awful taste*My year on the whole, was pretty rubbish. Mum shattered her hip and passed away, one grandmother had her leg amputated, and the other broke her hip not long ago, and long period of unemployment after being made redundant by the shitty company I used to work for. Dad also had his car stolen a couple of weeks ago, and it’s a write-off!
But I just got a new job, so new year will be awesome! So glad to see the end of 2014!
That’s a pretty shit year right there. So sorry about your Mum welbot. Big, manly internet hugs.
I hope you have a great 2015. You deserve it mate.
Playing enslaved at the moment and that might work.
Love me some Metro 2033, Guessing you haven’t played last light.
No, I haven’t played Metro Last light yet.
Enslaved looks pretty interesting. And also just pretty. Added to wishlist, thanks.
So very pretty
And on special too! Thanks Tigs, it’s downloading now.
For anybody not aware, if you go to GYG today and say “Churros Win!” with any purchase, you’ll get a free serve of churros. Win! \o/
So you tell me this *now*…
Oh, the place near me is a Mad Mex anyway.
Honestly, I found out a couple hours ago since it was posted to their Facebook page but I wanted to verify it for myself by actually getting my freebie. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
Wasn’t it Free Burrito Day the other day?
They do Free Burrito Day for the opening of any new restaurant.
*bangs on desk*
WHERE’S MY BURRITO!
what is GYG?
Guzman Y Gomez. Great Mexican fast food. Go eat it. Now.
Mmm I would love to, but Centrelink failed to pay me AGAIN today :\ le sigh
This makes me want a second lunch..
Does anyone have a copy of Just dance 4 for the 360 that i could buy off them? I don’t want 4 to be the only one I have to buy on a different console
EB have preowned for $18 or new for $9.95 which they’re out of stock of apparently..
My local one didn’t have any.
I can check my local one for you, if you like? I’m in there often enough!
Please.
Can do! 🙂
@piat @jocon @distantdrop @dire_wolf Guys slight change of plans this week and possibly for future weeks as we’re looking to merge groups with piats old guild and they can only make it on Sunday afternoons. This week’s raid will be on at 4pm this Sunday for approx 3 hours (let me know if this suits everyone)
We will be skipping Brackenspore and Tectus (until we have a full group); however come prepared to face Twin Ogron & Kor’agh.
Separate note – piat can you confirm your guildies are good to come for this Sunday and if so to watch Twin Ogron and Kor’agh? I’m going to go ahead and see if I can recruit some DPS tonight and tomorrow night for the remaining free guild spots.
Can we make it an hour or so earlier possibly?
Got a dinner on apparently, not sure exactly what time but I’m assuming around the 7 mark.
Sure I think 3 pm is do-able for me
Still only level 98 🙁
I now have internet at my new place so I’ll try and smash out 100 soon
Once you have 100 you’ll have to smash out 630 ilvl =P I’ll keep a DPS spot open for you =]
99 and a half now. Getting back on as soon as I get home from work 🙂
If you get to 600 ilvl you can run some normals with my shaman! Nothing’s better than grinding pointless dungeons with a friend =P
Heals and tank have confirmed, hunter should be there as well
If any Destiny people wanna help me out at some stage with a couple of bounties, that would be grand 🙂
I don’t know why I’m still playing this game :\
I can help you quit =P We have raid spots open in WoW =P
Crap. Family Christmas thing is happening this Sunday, and I drew my cousin’s girlfriend as my person to get a present for. I have less than no idea what to get.
Popcorn maker?
*narrows eyes*
Well played.
\o/
Curse you, that’s going to be stuck in my head for days now.
I’m tapping it out on my keyboard; it was a earworm suicide. Totally worth it.
I feel like maybe you should try refrain from comments like “*narrows eyes*” when posting under the pseudonym “Gooky”.
Seems like the sort of thing that might land you in trouble eventually.
It’s a slippery slope.
HA!
HA!
My cousin had this issue with my ex gf
He bought her a scarf/keffiyeh thing, they’re usually a safe bet. go to cotton on or similar
Having acquired many generic Christmas presents over the years (work, work)
a) what is the price limit?
b) how old is she (ish, there is a big difference between a 14 year old and a 30 year old)
I recommend
– bottle of wine (unless they are a non drinker – they are a good gift and generally go down very well)
– this is fairly feminine, but I’ve bought plain cups and decorated them (or not), filled them with chocolates (eg lindt/ferrero rocher) and the best way to complete this is by wrapping in cellophane so they can see through, tie with bow in ribbon. (seriously, great generic gift but people think it’s really personalised, plus usually comes in at $15-20)
– gift vouchers
– more alcohol
– don’t participate in Secret Santa if you are scared of getting anyone on the list 😛
Had no choice, that’s just how we’re doing presents now 😛 No more parents-get-something-for-all-the-other-kids etc because we’re all old now, so everyone just gets a random other person to get something for. Limit was $50. I ended up getting this, since apparently she likes tea. Maybe. Hopefully.
If it goes bad then I’ll blame faulty intel 😛
Yep, that’s also a pretty good gift if she likes tea.
Listening to @lucifer9783’s radio show.
I’m like 90% sure he back-announced Gwen Stefani as Gwyneth Paltrow 🙂
1. Forward announced.
2. I swear the computer said Gweneth Paltrow, I don’t care I just read what the computer says.
3. Off topic, but the station manager noticed one person was streaming the station, I was correct in assuming it was “my friend in Adelaide”
Confirmed, @lucifer9783 is Ron Burgundy.
I’ve never actually watched Parks and Rec, I should do that sometime.
Lol, I haven’t seen Parks And Recreation either, Ron Burgundy is actually a character from the Anchorman films.
It was a joke about how he reads everything on the teleprompter, no matter what it says.
That too, shows how much I know about the thing.
TAY is just everything.
I’m so going to throw some shade your way.
DID I USE THAT RIGHT, @LIONDRIVE? 😛
Oh god, I don’t understand anything people say anymore, this is it. This is when it happens. Oldness. OLDNESS.
…It’s probably for the best. There’s a certain peace to knowing you’ll never be able to keep up.
Quitter! You’ve just got to be more like DC
We can’t stop! We won’t stop!
DC is still young at heart 😛
Give the fossil a break!
Welcome.
There’s no need to worry, unless of course you actually WANT to sound like a retard in general conversation!
Throw shade is an old saying! >:(
Just not a popular old saying until recently 😛
Now, stuff like turnt, turn up, bae, twerk, dat, doe, mad, swerve, swag money, etc you’d be forgiven for not knowing 😛
I don’t understand what is happening but it seems to be making me angry anyway.
this is my favorite comment of today.
I’m pretty sure that’s the appropriate way to both Internette AND Be Old.
How is Swag money a thing? Throwing the word money onto a 16th – 18th century term makes it current? I don’t understand the youth of today.
*chases kids off lawn*
*ensures onion is still secure on belt*
Portmanteau money, son!
But it’s not a fusion of words it’s just two words put next to one another, and it certainly isn’t a travel bag.
Edit: I think I’ll just opt out of this conversation to avoid giving myself an aneurysm.
Mad was all the rage WAAAAY back when I was in school.
You did!
I’m so proud of you :’)
Totes prou-prou.
Prou-prou: that’s a kind of dog, right?
Stop trying to make prou-prou happen!
It’s not going to happen!
I saw your mis-quote and I’ve already judged you for it!
I was getting my Mean Girls wires and my Clueless wires crossed 😛
Meant to quote Mean Girls, but quoted Clueless instead :'(
That’s so fetch!
*rolls eyes* No one uses that term any more Grandpa. God you’re embarrassing.
So how ’bout that…
*consults cheat sheet*
Taylor Swift and…
*consults cheat sheet again*
One Direction?
Turnt.
Thank god for Urban Dictionary. 😛
I can’t go there. Damn near everything on it is a sex act.
It was required reading when I worked on Big Brother. We frantically had to check for terms we didn’t know during the commercial break. Geez, even when I was younger I was so out of touch. 😛
That’s the fun part of urban dictionary! 😀
You never know what kinds of fun stuff to try you’ll find!
Like the Strawberry Shortcake, the Angry Dragon, or the Mad Cow! 😀
Like Charizarding.
I cemented a deviant reputation at work when someone was asking about what a ‘donkey-punch’ was and I knew the answer because I had looked it up on urbandictionary some time ago after it was used in a webcomic.
5 Seconds of Summer are the new it boy band.
One Direction are so 5 Seconds ago.
I wonder which one will go off the rails first!
That was Justin Beiber 😛
1D are starting to come undone, hence why 5 Seconds managed to swoop in 😛
I am very disappointed in that I actually understood all of that.
Disappointed in myself. And the world.
Yo, let’s fuck up someone’s commas not flucking gettin turnt with the neargasm from the lumbersexual huxtabator.
I feel like my brain just dived out of my ear after researching that…
I had about 6 tabs open translating that… /o\
This just made me realise that even I’m falling behind on the lingo 🙁
I’m supposed to be the young one! :’O
Your youth has faded, old man. Now we’re all about @phlanispo and his side burns!
I can still be young and cool too! D:
*desperately tries to grow sideburns*
*laughs at your efforts*
Muahahahahahaha. All the sideburns shall be mine!
That’s mad tubular! You’ve flipped this odd ball bundie! Forgive me, I have to peel out in my deuce and a quarter. All this banter about how radical I am might bogart somebody’s feelings.
That comment was so fetch.
Just a casual 2 and a half hour lunch break… 😛
Thankfully it’s because we went out for lunch and my boss was there too.
@Powalen I even ordered an entree and desert :O. Living the fancy life!
Why don’t you just fly to Sydney and stab me in the heart in person.
Also: You ordered a
?
Man, the Executive Dining Room is fancy.
😛
Momentous moment in my Desert Golfing career.
I hit a hole in 2. My week is ruined.Edit: Added title for link.
Usually when I’ve been playing DA:Inquisition I’ve been putting a marker on objectives so I can methodically take care of them. Today I arrived in Crestwood and decided to just wander, instead. It’s been fun exploring, but I keep taking care of quests before people even ask me to do them. 😛
Also,
I hate what my Inquisitor wears when she’s wandering around Skyhold. Being a scrawny elf, it makes her look like a child. Is there a way to change this, like in Mass Effect?I think Crestwood was one of my favourite places in the game. So beautiful. That or Western Approach. The male characters clothes are worse. It reveals skin around the hips sometimes. It’s so strange.Emerald Graves is best.My Qunari wears super tight clothes. Like…. Second skin.
But I love when that happens in games!
“Hero! Can you go find me 5 blarbelgarbs from the far-away Volcano of Danger? It will take at least a few days of travel to get there!”
*hands over instantly*
I like it when games achknowledge it in the dialogue.
“Oh, you mean these things I already went and got?”
I kind of like it more when they don’t 😛
*hands over instantly*
“Oh, it’s you again! I hope the journey wasn’t too rough!”
“Here, I’ve brought these corpses back to you even though no one told me to pick them up!”
“I had a feeling they’d be useful! What? Stop looking at me like that.”
“DAMMIT SHEPARD, stop picking up random crap that you think people will use to justify your multi-pterabyte hannar porn collection. It’s got so big it’s doing things to EDI now. …Joker is disturbingly cool with it, but it’s freaking the rest of us out. I saw some of the… modifications she was fabricating. Now I can’t UN-see them.”
VOLCANO OF DANGER sounds like a rad place.
EDIT: Or a chiptune band.
No way to change your casual Skyhold clothes unfortunately. I think it’s eastern inspired pyjamas for every race/gender. My fem Qunari looks stupid in them in any case.I hate those clothes and I’m pretty sure everyone looks stupid in them. And I wouldn’t mind them so much if it weren’t for the fact that you approach the war council like that. It’s very hard to take the inquisitor seriously when all your advisors are geared for battle and looking super serious and you’re in your pyjamas.
Such a weird thing cause you can customize everything else in Skyhold including curtain designs and bed posts.Oh man, Crestwood is a pretty cool area to just wander round and explore. I managed to get lost on it (and it’s a pretty small map) but I was pretty awestruck with how it was this really pretty environment. Makes me think of proper little villages in the UK amongst the rolling hills and such.
Have you finished the main part of Crestwood yet? IE fixed things for the town? I want to talk about that but don’t want to spoil it for you!
I am probably also the only person who likes the Skyhold pajamas. I mean, if I was inquisitor I’d probably be running naked around Skyhold so the pajamas make it…decent 😛
Yup. Finished the whole place yesterday while I was supposed to be doing sewing stuffs. 😛
So Sony has officially scrapped “The Interview” due to the unyielding internet attacks by North Korea via hackers. Not sure what to think of this, except that if any movie were to be used as the reason of a NK-sponsored internet terrorism attack, I would’ve thought they’d cite Team America: World Police as a main offender.
Probably didn’t have the infrastructure in place to do much about it.
Inevitable.
I’m just disappointed that Team North Korea is winning this one. Feels like US hackers should be hijacking the NK propaganda machine to publish footage of glorious leader taking a shit or something.
The glorious leader has evolved past the need to ‘take a shit’ you western devil!
I’m sure their minds will temporarily be blown, but mere minutes later a pooping craze will sweep the nation.
Comment of the day!
New Regency also canceled a Stever Carell movie called Pyongyang because of it.
“FUCK. Who will we villify now? Do you think Russia will be cool with it if we agree to another cold war for movie-making purposes?”
All I could think of was this from Archer when I first heard about North Korea making threats over this movie..
I’m so ronery. Oh wait, that was his dad.
Played Occulus Rift after lunch. There’s a demo where you visit an arcade and play arcade games and basketball and ten pin bowling and pokemon. Very, very cool effect, but I am honestly still feeling queasy over an hour later. If that’s the future, I don’t want a part of it 🙁
DK1 or DK2?
2
And you’re not the motion sickness type – sounds like I’d need a bucket handy…
“It feels so real!”
Simulation sickness and motion sickness aren’t the same thing, though they’re related, both a disconnect between your inner ear and your eyes. Simulation sickness is because your eyes perceive orientation changes and your inner ear doesn’t, where Motion sickness is because your inner ear perceives orientation changes and your eyes don’t.
As such, even if you’re prone to motion sickness you might find that you’re okay in simulation cases.
I believe that Oculus have said they won’t release the product to the public until they’ve cracked the simulation sickness problem, and apparently the newest Dev Kits improve on it a fair bit.
(Also if you go in expecting to feel sick, you probably will!)
Pokemon VR?!?
Pokemon Red. Couldn’t work the controls, though.
Maybe it’s something you’d get used to after repeated goes?
Get them VR legs!
I was actually fine with the space demo at PAX last year. I think was a combination of greater control, things being closer and, yes, being unaccustomed to it. The guy who owns it says that he never had any problems, but it does feel more comfortable after a while.
I’m super dissappointed that the proposed TAY calendar never happend :'(
There’s still two weeks before 2015.
Yeah, but trying to organise something like this would need at least a few months 😛
It was a good idea too! 😀
Now I’ll never get to be called Mr. June.
You were gonna be Octember
“Lousy Octember weather!”
and here I am with dozens of photos of me in sexy poses and nothing to do with them.
😛Sorry @liondrive…and @powalen…and @jimu…and @gutsoup.
Bugger, I was going to do this – had every intention of doing it – then it flew out of my head.
We will do it for 15/16 financial year. 🙂
Damn my poor optimization in my head, stupid memory leaks.
But I even bought a whole new console just to use as a nerdy modesty-cover in my photo.
Now what am I going to use this Gameboy Micro for!?
WE.
CAN.
DO.
THIS.
Wait, we’re supposed to cover ourselves?
I’m out.
We know.
Oh man so many choices. Powerglove? Virtual Boy? Weegee tube?
Actually yeah. Gotta be Weegee tube.
Wii remote silicon cover?
Sure, if you wanna be grotesque about it.
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y260/Gooky/LuigiTube3.jpg
That’s not what I was expecting / hoping to see.
This is the first I heard of it
I tagged you, you’re in the calendar.
I don’t make the rules, man.
I am a sexy anime without pants
Fuck it, let’s do this. Email hot males to binoter at the hot mails and I’ll get the ball(s) rolling. Get it in before Xmas and I’ll try to have them sent out before New Years. We can do this.
Earliest I can have mine in will be Saturday.
It will be dodgy though.
How am I supposed to get a lion costume and a dozen cats on such short notice?
Wait, you said before that you’re not covering up.
What’s in the Lion Costume, Stewie?
WHAT’S IN THE LION COSTUME??!?
I was going to be taking the lion costume off 😉
It just seemed fitting being (un)dressed as a lion 😛
Oh good. I was more worried that the lion costume would be holding a dozen cats, like an oddly ironic trojan horse.
Nobody wants to see a dozen cats dressed up as a lion.
No wait, I DO want to see a dozen cats dressed up as one lion.
For that you’ll need a dozen ferrets.
As it is, you’ll just end up with a horse.
I think if you really wanted to capture the essence of your handle you should also be in or on a car.
Oh, I can do that, and that’s a good idea!
Thanks, Alex! 😀
Alrighty, expect something to be caught up in your spam filter within the next day or so.
I could print out a giant version of my gravatar to cover mah bits. Hilarious! Also not happening.
WE CAN DO THIS!
YOU GUYS CAN DO THIS
We know you’re not a team player Lonerlen.
Correct!
(But seriously, it sounds like a hilarious idea but I know I’ll instantly regret it :P)
Wouldn’t want anything too over the top. Even just something like a sultry look and top two buttons undone. Also, this isn’t going on the internet.
Oh what?!
Now even my less sultry idea seems too sultry 🙁
I mean, what you described is literally my Facebook profile picture 🙁
Screw it, still gonna go with my idea 😀
Like, still get creative. Just nothing too overt.
@freezespreston
Maybe I’ll send a couple of pictures and you can decide what’s most appropriate 😉
@freezespreston Alas, poor inbox. I knew him, Horatio.
HOLD ON TO YOUR MICRO, POW.
When they came out, I was all “that’s craps, don’t need that” & now I want one 🙁
I have a crazy friend who has more than a dozen of them.
It’s nice to keep her around because then my hoarding looks positively sane in comparison.
Random thoughts, does anybody in Melb want a vacuum cleaner
Sanyo 1000w, got a new one for my birthday so it’s just taking up space. Needs bags and is red in colour for those of you that is important to.
TAYlist for the 18th of December 2014
TAYlist – the TAY Playlist, sponsored by my intimidating station managerHoodoo Gurus – The Right Time
Traveling Wilburys – End Of The Line
Hall & Oates – You Make My Dreams Come True (Requested by @beeawwb)
Elvis Presley – Rubberneckin (Local request by someone who wanted to hear some Elvis)
Operator Please – Back and Forth (I kinda like this song, it’s Australian & it sounds good, what’s not to like)
Bowling For Soup – 1985 (Requested by @virus__)
Rui De Silva – Touch Me
Gun – Race With The Devil (Requested by @mrtaco)
The Kinks – Lola (@redartifice wanted a different Kinks song that we didn’t have, hope this is all right)
Gweneth Paltrow – Bette Davis Eyes
Crowded House – Fall At Your Feet
Faith No More – Evidence (Requested by @gingerchris86)
Savage Garden – I Knew I Loved You
*sigh*
I’m sorry, did you want to host the radio show in country SA? You’re more than welcome to.
If only I could. Then I’d be popular and I’d show them…
I like every song on this list! \o/
Hooray I got another!
Can someone shut Russell Brand up? Why is he sticking his nose in where it doesn’t belong?
http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/celebrity/russell-brand-blasts-media-and-tony-abbott-for-linking-sydney-siege-to-terrorism-20141217-1293lr.html
I’ve been asking that first question for years now.
I dunno, I think he raises some valid points (from the video linked).
I agree that he wasn’t a ‘terrorist’ (mentally ill yes, dangerous yes, and, dare I say it, a bad person, sure, but not a terrorist in the terrorism sense), so if the government tries to use this incident to push anti-terrorism agendas I can see why that would be something to keep an eye on (though I try to stay out of politics in the first place).
True, Russell Brand doesn’t live in Australia, or is particularly concerned with Australian politics, but the siege garnered world wide attention, so of course people from outside Australia will weigh in on it.
It just depends on what they have to say and if you want to listen to them.
He usually has some decent points of discussion but I really don’t like the way he presents it.
Yeah, sitting on his bed shirtless in a hooded robe probably isn’t the best way to have a serious discussion, haha!
And his voice is kind of shrill, but he can’t really help that 😛
He wanted to belong to terrorism though, from what I’ve heard. Apparently Islam rejected him though, so he was like “fine, I’ll make my own one.”
Islam =/= terrorism though…
I know, but apparently he wanted to join the terrorists cause. Mind you, I am getting this info from the media so who knows how true it all is.
I just ignore him. I’ve always found his style of humour & the way he addresses issues to be quite annoying.
Hey @greenius, if I were to put you in a paper bag and leave you on my kitchen counter, would you, after several days, become Yellowius?
It’s a slow afternoon at work, sue me 😛
Yellowius was a thing for a while!
He’s legitimately the worst 😛 @freezespreston
I tried to bring him back but I can’t remember the passwords /o\
Ha!
*@sernobulus checks TAY*
*sees everyone is using weird lingo*
*backs away slowly*
Send me your sexy photos.
I’m with you… Shit got weird today.
Baby don’t leave me
Ok, since it’s slow again for no reason, I want some help.
Since I’m home alone quite often these days, I have a lot of TV time.
The problem is, I’ve watched all the shows I have, and can never think of movies to watch myself.
If any of you want to recommend me a couple of movies and shows, that would be great 🙂
Watch the Venture Brothers and be as cool as myself and @greenius.
Seriously, it’s one of the smartest written shows on TV and one of the few that truly gets its medium and source. It also refuses to treat it’s audience like idiots and won’t rub everything in your face to make sure you get the joke.
MECHA SHIVA MECHA SHIVA
~o~
~o~
I’ve watched a fair bit of the Venture Bros 🙂
Got a little burned out in it from watching it too much, but I might go back to it 🙂
Yeah, that is a thing that I did, too.
I experienced similar with Frisky Dingo. I don’t think it’s safe to cannonball that many episodes at once.
I’ve started watching Jane the Virgin. Only three eps in, but I like it. It’s an over-the-top telenovella style show about a woman who falls pregnant after an accidental artificial insemination. (Despite being a virgin.) It’s stupid and fun.
Hmm, sounds interesting…
Thanks! 😀
Hey, you’re the TV guy, have you seen / know much about a show called ‘Helix’?
Helix is an acquired taste. It’s got this real science atmosphere that’s compelling but I found the actual story didn’t keep my interest. Seems to be a show that people love or hate.
I always see the cover for it, which looks amazing, but the plot seems kind of dull.
Just wanted some input mainly 🙂
Thanks, Dan! 😀
(honestly, I want to make promo work like that one day)
Mad Max.
I’ve never seen it :3
Or if I have, I was too young to remember :3
I should probably get around to that!
Thanks, Crazy! 🙂
I’ve never seen the first two. Should get around to that before the new one comes out (it looks rad)
Black Mirror is somewhat hyped right now. Can’t tell why, it’s only disturbingly awesome.
Oh, that reminds me about that thing I have to watch tonight through means. MEANS.
I’d wager that SBS will air it in about a week but waiting is for suckers.
Are you a sucker?
Sometimes.
*notes*
Oh yeah, this. Is the new ep/s out?
Hour long White Christmas special aired UK earlier this week.
Never heard if it, but will look into it!
Thanks a bunch, friend! 😀
Rubber!
Or if you’re in the mood for something subtitled I’ve got a long list of tear-jerkers and feel-gooders!
Pow laughs when others cry and cries when others laugh.
…don’t watch Rubber
Flubber? (Its green)
I’ve tried to watch Rubber so many times, but the copy i have doesn’t play 🙁
It sounds like my kind of movie too! 😀
The thing with subtitles is that I spend too much time reading them, and not enough time watching what’s happening :3
Plus the tears cloud your vision and you can’t read well.
But if you’re ever interested: “Swing Girls” or “Linda, Linda, Linda” for fun feel-goods. “Departures” and “Still Walking” for super tear-jerks. “As One” for a mix of the two. Also “Air Doll” for bizarrely sweet.
All fantastic movies!
Fight Club, Coherence, Sphere, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Stripes, Parenthood, The Grande Budapest Hotel, Brazil, 12 Monkeys, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The Meaning of Life, The 5th Element, 25th Hour, Dancer in the Dark.
Anime
Anita, Ghost in the Shell, Innocence, Voices of a Distant Star, Ninjas Scroll, Ah! My Goddess, Perfect Blue, Tokyo Godfathers, Paprika, Millennium Actress, The Girl who Leapt Through Time, Revolutionary Girl Irena, Monster City, Wicked City, Animatrix, Nein Genesis Evangelion, Macross Plus
Triangle
*ding*
Fo sho
Square
Enix
Hmm, I’m not the BIGGEST anime fan, but might look a bit into your movie suggestions 🙂
Thanks, old man Jimu! :*
Check out Satoshi Kon at least, his films surpass the quality of most directors
Ha! After @negativezero noticed the Utena – Irena thing I double checked.
Firstly, no S in Ninja Scroll, Anita = Akira (a must see classic) & it’s NEON Genesis Evangelion, not Nein.
Autocorrect may have turned your Utena mention into Irena. For @liondrive and others: it’s Revolutionary Girl Utena and it’s rad and weird and you really should watch the TV series before the movie, though the movie is technically stand-alone. It’s filled with all sorts of homerotic tension and bizarre symbolism and the whole thing is a metaphor for something but not entirely sure what.
Thanks, missed that .
I’ve never seen the show, saw the movie at dendy during the anime festival & loved it.
the fact that I knew nothing heightened brie experience for me. But I do love being dropped in the deep end.
Yeah, it’s a proper mindfuck whichever way you watch it. 🙂
Apparently autocorrect thinks I like brie
I just assumed you were having cheese and wine while watching your highbrow anime.
Even if you’re not a Foo Fighters fan, but enjoy music history, the Sonic Highways doco by the Foo Fighters is great!
Not really my thing, but thanks anyway! 😀
S’all good. What sort of movies/shows do you like? Cause I could maybe then give some better suggestions 😛
My tastes are quite broad, just not the biggest music documentary fan 😛
Umm, literally, I’m willing to give most movies a go 🙂
Action, Horror, Thriller all are good, but I’m happy for Comedy, Animated, and anything else 🙂
(just not foreign w/subtitles)
Get over that subtitle-phobia or I’ll give a punch!
Well there goes the idea of recommending him the Millennium Trilogy movies I guess 😛
Just when I thought we could be friends! D:
I spend too long reading subtitles and miss the actual movie! D:
I have a dyslexic friend who picked it up when he was 12 or 13.
You’re a uni student, can’t be that slow a reader
@jimu
I can read fine, but I find I read them, then re-read them to make sure I read them correctly :3
By the time I’ve re-read them the next ones pop up, and I’ve missed everything that happened on screen :3
You just need more practice, after a bajillion Jackie Chan films I got good. Those are movies you don’t wanna miss the action!
The Librarian movies (three total), TNT direct to tv movies starring Noah Wyle, and then the Librarians series (a continuation series currently airing with 3 of the 10 episodes already out)
Classic Jackie Chan movies are awesome – you want the proper Hong Kong ones, not Hollywood ones. Armour of God (kung-fu Indiana Jones), Drunken Master and Police Story are all classics.
Also, I’m a big fan of Bond movies – I find them hilarious! Especially the Roger Moore era ones. They became so self-aware at that point they were practically parody.
And for TV rather than going for new shows, how about digging out old series of british comedies like The Young Ones, Red Dwarf, Black Adder or Monty Python. Which reminds me – New Doctor Who next week!! \o/
I have to admit I liked the first of the hollywood ones, Rumble in the Bronx. Also I have a soft spot for around the world in 80 days.
I don’t even mind Rush Hour, but there’s a real sense of danger to the stunts in the earlier HK ones that you just don’t see in the Hollywood films.
Archer
Teen. Wolf.
Gran Torino, Prince of Egypt, and Mulan come to mind.
So uh… is AC: Unity even worth playing?
I mean it doesn’t really look too great but surely there’s some fun in there? It’s kind of “free” with the Xbox One bundle I bought but I don’t know whether I should just redeem the code and play it, or go through the trouble of eBaying it for maybe …$40ish?
It also comes with AC4 which I liked but I’ve finished it on PC already, so it’s kinda useless 🙁
Yes. People are going over the top with it because everyone loves an internet bitchfest.
If you liked AC2 you’ll probably see this as an inferior but still enjoyable version of that. It’s not terrible and the latest (6.??GB yikes) patch is ‘supposed to fix almost everything’ regarding the technical issues. I think it’s worth a play, but take my opinion with a grain of heart-stopping salt because fanboy.
I was planning to get it eventually as a $10 PC title so I’m not against playing it. I guess I might as well redeem the Xbox One version. Seems like it’s only going for about $30 now 🙁 (as opposed to the $60 or so it was a couple of weeks ago).
Highlights? I love the prettyness and settings of AC games but I hear the story ain’t too great. How’s the online co-op part?
I played the entirety of the co-op content alone. So I have no idea. 😛
You couldn’t hack it
Needs more purple
Most things do
Press “X” to hack
AC fan = go for it
Not AC fan = you could probably skip it.
Air Con cools me
I’ve been quite enjoying it thus far. Got shelved for DA:I, and is still there thanks to The Talos Principle, and The Crew (rather strangely), but I do mean to go back to it.
What is The Crew like? I was planning on getting it for Mr. Strange for Christmas.
It’s… odd.
Its world is absolutely huge, and quite well made, possibly worth it just for that, and the celebration of American car culture it innately brings (among that’s his sort of thing). It’s got a nice selection of cars one you unlock them, though they’re very samey thanks to its RPG nature, but the core driving part is definitely fun, so that’s fine.
Its story is utterly dreadful, to the point where I’m not sure if they’re playing it straight or not, but it does function at moving you around at a decent clip.
Oh, and it has chase/crash missions which I can only assume were designed to be as frustrating as possible.
So: as a pure racing game it’s probably the weakest of the three released recently, but if he likes the Ubisoft collect-a-thon style of play and mostly likes cars for the purpose of driving around quickly, then I’d recommend it.
That was actually super-informative. Thanks Blaghs!
I am really bored at work (have nothing to do, but last day before holidays, so I’m not asking for more).
Muscle memory is amazing.
Piano?
Pretend I said something way wittier.
Was it pianist but said more penier-y?
http://cdn.vanillaforums.com/pennyarcade.vanillaforums.com/userpics/615/pIVTS0F1LFI8I.jpg
I reflexively go to do his laugh all the time. Doesn’t really work as a reference though.
And even if it did nobody would get it anyway 😛
Ok
Yeah. Remembered more pieces that I’d forgotten yesterday.
Still can’t believe I can sit there and just play a good hour and a half’s worth of music like it’s only been a week since I last played, rather than over half a year.
Skills to pay the bills!
They are yet to prove as such.
4 hours til the Steam sales.
Games I’m interested in: 1.
Games I’ll buy: 1.
Games I’ll gift: Absolutely zero.
Time that Crazybuy’s resolve lasts: Absolute zero.
Never underestimate my dedication to not giving a fuck about something. 🙂
Never heard of Absolutely zero, it better be a good game since you’re gifting it to people!
So there’s a new anime season starting in a couple of weeks. Here’s a nice chart (not made by me).
Personal Thoughts:
Stuff I’m definitely interested in
– Minna Atsumare! Falcom Gakuen SC: The first season took forever to be subtitled given that it’s a 5-minute episode series, but it was worth it because if you’re into Falcom’s games it’s incredible. Especially the way that they handle Adol from the Ys games.
– Yuri Kuma Arashi: This is a Kunihiko Ikuhara show, of Sailor Moon S (the best season), Revolutionary Girl Utena, Mawaru Penguindrum etc. He likes stuff to be really trippy and odd but have a lot of symbolism and hidden meaning. Expecting this to go under the radar a bit but be pretty good.
– Aldnoah.Zero 2: The first season was great. In typical Urobuchi fashion it was largely a genre deconstruction, avoids a lot of the usual mecha anime tropes, and the guy’s more than willing to kill people. Also that fucking cliffhanger ending. Looking forward to the soundtrack too, another chance to sample what Sawano is likely to cook up for us for Xenoblade!
– Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders Egypt chapter: More Jojo! I actually didn’t enjoy Stardust Crusaders as much as the first season, mainly because it was officially subbed, where the previous seasons had fansubs that were fabulously over the top. They modified the translations to have dumb alliteration and stuff. Anyway, more Jojo is fine by me.
– Kantai Collection: Without a doubt, this one is going to be the biggest show in Japan among the hardcore nerdery. So far the trailers have made it look pretty good, though still don’t have a fix on exactly what they’re doing with it tonally. What I’m expecting is something along the lines of Strike Witches – absurd, self-aware, but also self-serious. So half about cute girls being cute and the other half about them strapping on enormous guns and blowing the shit out of things. This is the show I’m most excited for.
Stuff I am mildly interested in
– Durarara x2: Second season of Durarara, which is adapted from a novel series by the same guy that did Bacano, which was amazing. Durarara… isn’t. It’s okay. I never finished the first season so will need to dig it out before giving this a shot.
– Dog Days”: Third season of Dog Days, which is a stupid show. It’s really just silly. Main character is summoned to another world to be a hero and fight for the Dog-girls against the Cat-girls in mock battles. Also everyone’s named after italian and french pastries and desserts. But at the same time, the first two seasons had a crazy high animation budget and a cast list that was a who’s-who of vocal talent (even one of the rare appearances of Sakura Tange, who is ostensibly retired). It’s not good but it’s entertaining. I have a sneaking suspicion I may not have watched the last episode of season 2 though, and I don’t know whether or not I actually want more.
– Idolmaster Cinderella Girls: It’s an adaption of a free to play phone game in the same universe as the main Idolmaster series. I expected Idolmaster to be a terrible anime but it was excellent, so this has a chance. On the other hand, the original game cast is brilliant – they’re all very likeable and nicely differentiated such that it’s pretty difficult not to find one or two you really like, and very hard to dislike any of them. Not sure that the huge Cinderella Girls cast can pull that off.
– Kamisama Hajimemashita: So yeah, it’s a girls show. However the first season was really enjoyable in a trashy shoujo way. It has a lot of elements that I find interesting and it was done fairly well. Not sure if I want more or not though.
– Yoru no Yatterman: This is some kind of Yatterman reboot / spinoff. Every few years, Tatsunoko like to do this with their properties, letting some group just go wild with it. Sometimes they work out really well like Casshern Sins. Other times they’re a bit flatter, like Gachaman Crowds. Not sure if this will work or not. I’m also not familiar at all with Yatterman.
– Sengoku Musou: So it’s an adaption of Koei’s Samurai Warriors 4. I know some people really like those games. I’ve never gotten into them but never really tried. Willing to give this a go though, it could be pretty good and the last Koei anime adaption (Atelier Escha & Logy) turned out okay
– Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata: Light novel adaption from the same guy that wrote the script for White Album 2. Has some decent buzz, and also it’s illustrated by Misaki Kurehito, who i really like (he’s also the same designer behind Ushinawareta Mirai o Motomete / In Search of the Lost Future that’s running this season).
– Tales of Zestiria: Some kind of TV special or something to promote the upcoming game. I’m hoping it’s reasonable, as I see it as a chance to get acquainted with the characters before that releases. Also if it’s as good as the Tales of Vesperia anime it’ll be worth it.
– Tsukimonogatari: More of the monogatari series. Seems like they’re basically going to avoid a full TV run for this again, with Shaft announcing they’re going to animate the rest of the story in 4-5 episode arcs, straight to streaming and then to home video, like they did for Hanamonogatari earlier this year. I’m cool with that.
Will give a go:
– Rolling Girls: First show from a new studio that’s previously done bits and pieces for other stuff only. I know nothing beyond that.
– Absolute Duo: Sounds like absolute trash but I’ll give anything a look. Normally I have 1-2 trash shows but this season I haven’t watched as much as normal so haven’t needed it as much.
– Juuou Muujin no Fafnir; So one show this season called Fafnir, and one called Fafner. Not confusing at all. This sounds really awful. But the staff is actually pretty reasonable, director’s responsible for a few things I really enjoyed. Might be terrible enough to be entertaining.
– Assassination Classroom: I’ve heard a lot of people being excited for this and apparently it also had a live-action adaption already? I just know nothing about it. Might end up being a regular if it’s good.
– World Break: Dime-a-dozen action power fantasy thing, probably awful but probably also the sort of thing I end up watching all of because despite the flaws, it’s entertaining.
– Isuca: Watch as it turns out that the plot revolves around a random idiot dude constantly getting in the way of the capable chick because she’s suddenly rendered incapable of doing anything without his ‘support’ and because she’s actually madly and inexplicably infatuated with him. Seen it all before. Might be okay though, the supernatural element might hold my attention.
– Shinmai Maou no Testament: I’m going to go out on a limb and say this show is probably about boobs. There’s always a boobs show. If not, it’ll be the same thing as World Break. I kind of like the character designs though.
I definitely slipped behind, these last two seasons. The only stuff we’ve been watching regularly is Log Horizon.
On the plus side… healthy happy back-catalogue for the holiday break.
I’ve kept up on Fairy Tail, Seven Deadly Sins, Mushishi and Log Horizon. The rest have fallen behind and there’s a couple I didn’t even start yet despite being really interested (esp. second half of Chaika, which I really liked).
Need to spend a day or two and marathon some stuff and catch up. Been too tired or too busy recently. 🙁
Ah noo, I also liked the first half of Chaika and haven’t seen the second half. Boooo.
Is Jojo coming back this season?
Yeah, it is.
So, yeah, I’m good.
So a few friends are coming down for my birthday (23rd) completely unknown to me until just now apparently. Mostly just because they want to have lunch at The Standard (that amazing greasy burger place I love), but I’ll pretend they wanna see me too!
Then I’ll probably brave the trip back home for the holidays with them… I’ve been putting off calling mum for the past couple of weeks now. I kinda want to, but I mostly don’t, but I definitely don’t wanna stay here.
Cloud Atlas is amazing.
Didn’t this movie get panned?
But it was so good!
It was funny, and thrilling, and sad, and heartwarming, and so much more, and I loved it.
I liked it. Book is pretty damn good too
Should add to my reading list really
I really love it. Dunno what people’s problem is.
I think its the old give your film a message with a lesson to learn & your being “preachy”.
Personally I wish more stories bothered with a lesson.
Plus: Bae Doo-na!
Now you’ve just got to watch those movies I recommended to you last night to see more of her 😛
Good to hear. I’ve been meaning to see that for aaaaages… never found the time. New year’s resolution: see that movie.
Hmm. As I usually do, I reminisce on games I’ve played and how good they were. Namely, Katawa Shoujo and Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness and Time. There is nothing unusual about this; I have expressed my love of these games in borderline over-expressive detail more times than is tolerable. But then I think about the games I don’t think about. Like Telltale’s The Walking Dead. When it came out, it was legend for being a fantastic story experience, with a tear-jerker ending. I did not play this game until this year. Going in, I expected it to joins the ranks of Katawa Shoujo and Mystery Dungeon.
I either did not admit it, or did not recognise it at the time, but I was rather disappointed by Telltale’s The Walking Dead. The choices were decently compelling, but not entirely so. The ending was merely okay. I did not cry. I did not even feel that sad.
But, I suppose this is probably my fault. Could it have ever lived up to the mass public approval, let alone my own personal expectations. Expecting it to compete with the greats for an investment share of my emotions was foolish.
There was a sequel released. At the time I first played, it was not fully complete, so I had no intention of buying it just yet. But what about the expansion, 400 Days? Even the most paltry of paupers could afford its meager asking price, what reason would I have to not buy it and play it? I somehow found a reason, because I never did. This game was supposed to be one of my favourites of all time, and yet I wouldn’t even buy the expansion.
Personally WD was a big step up for me because I found the source material dry & predictable.
Was a pleasant suprise.
400 days is just a bridge to introduce some of the characters you (might) see in season 2 – which was an improvement over season 1 (even though I missed playing as Lee), but if you weren’t really the impressed by season 1 and don’t intend to go into season 2 there’s no point in buying 400 days.
However if the Telltale format interests you (even though Walking Dead itself didn’t) I can’t recommend the Wolf Among Us enough.
I think the Walking Dead was meant to be a personal experience to everyone.
When I played through it, when characters died because o my actions, I genuinely felt sad. When one character sacrificed themselves for me even though they din’t like me all that much, I nearly cried.
The ending was a little sad, but not a tear jerker.
I thought TWD was more of an interactive TV show. It’s one of my favourite games, but it’s not for everyone, especially if you son’t like the style.
400 Days isn’t anything like the main game. When I bought the game, it came included, and that’s the only reason I played it – I wouldn’t pay money for it.
Started the Steam holiday sale has.
So far, so good. I picked up Gemini Rue which was on my wishlist at 70% off ($2.99).
My thought pattern:
Hmmm, should pick up those Pinball tables from my wishlist that are on sale. Oooh, One Finger Death Punch, been meaning to pick that up. Heeeeeey, since when has Flight Simulator X been on Steam? Oh, today. Good price… yeah ok that one too.
Thus far, the only games I want are on sale but only 10-15% (excepting Civ, but that can wait for the inevitable expansions). I’ll wait for a better deal. *sits back, twiddles thumbs*
I sent my secret sanTAY gift off over a week ago. I was hoping it may be with you by now. Hopefully you get it before Xmas!
Secret SanTAY gift received! Thank you to whoever it was, someone from Melbourne I’m guessing; I love it. Will post an image when I get the chance.
Just had a stranger conversation on the train with an elderly gentleman from Lismore named Rodney, who was hanging out at my station this morning. Commented that it was rather quiet, having jumped off there just to see what was around. Wrong place to do that 😛 Then went on to have a long chat about all the various asylum seekers and such that he’s helped over the years, lots of photos to show, bitching about how awful the government is, etc.
Interesting end to the week.
I’m amazed he had interesting stories being from a town such as Lismore 😛
I’m sure a great many people from small towns have interesting lives because they come from small towns. As in… they left. Travel broadens the mind, etc.
SanTAY gift is out! finally got around to sending it!
Yay! \o/
Hey what’s going on with the LAN? I haven’t gotten any emails yet so I have no idea if it’s still on
more than likely looking at doing it next weekend! that way my bro will have his pc too 🙂
Okay sounds good to me!
Hunting High Dragons in Dragon Age Inquisition is a complete pain in the ass.
Fuck you Frederick! Go find my research supplied. Great. Now find an old manuscript. Awesome. I can’t read this so go get it translated at the war table because I’m the shittest researcher ever. Yay. Now go find me a Phoenix feather and Quillback guts an oh, I won’t mention there’s a bug in the game where the guts won’t drop if Dorian is in the party. Brilliant. Now go find me some mutilated remains all over the place. Thanks. Go over to the Eastern Waste and kill all the White Claws. Good good. Now go back there and take the bait out of all the traps. Excellent. Now go back and put all the bait back in the traps. Oh okay fine, now you can kill the Dragon.Aaarrrrggghhhh!
I remember the Hinterlands days when all you had to do to hunt a dragon was stumble into totally the wrong area and run around screaming on fire and being eaten by baby dragons.
Good times… good times.
Man, that was also the best fight. Epic. The rest have not even been close.
Really? I find them all really similar. What set that apart for u?
The way it’s presented. The area being built especially for the fight. Following her up when she’s severely wounded to the nest for the final skirmish. The whole thing felt like you were fighting a truly epic level foe. All the rest so far have been bare space and wail on it until it falls over.I think I encountered them out of order, so that didn’t especially stand out to me 🙂
Right? I think I did them in the wrong order, because after
flooding the dam and flushing that dragon outI was expecting a hard-as-balls higher-level fight, and what I got was a bog-standard tank-and-spank with lightning damage. Not even any phases or adds. DISAPPOINTMENT.That’s the second Dragon I saw. Totally turned out like you just said. 😀
I then ran around dodging its fire to collect all the area’s Shards, ran past the dragon to the looty cave, and got roasted just as I was on my way back to the camp. I didn’t go back there for a while. 😛It was such a beautiful creature, though!My first dragon encounter was
on the Storm Coast. Came across one fighting a giant and stopped to spectate. Eventually it flew away and I finished off the giant, still marvelling at how epic it had been to just come across them like that..My third dragon encounter was just a couple days ago, at (I think) Emerald Graves.
I ran into it while trying to run away from two giants. I don’t think I’m the right level to be there yet. 😛I haven’t killed any yet….
Oh man, that duel! SO epic to watch! Ground shaking and roars and cries echoing through the mountains… I really enjoyed the subsequent fight, but I spent the rest of the time in that map looking around for the other one.
I gave up at the baits, it was my secong or third task
I have encountered 3 dragons thus far. I was merciful, and have thus far let them live.
By which I mean, I tried each several times and died repeatedly, very quickly, so moved on to other ventures. They can keep their lands.On the plus side, you get an agent out of it…and I actually found the little tasks kind of funny because I’d done most of them anyway through wandering around the desert.
Make sure you explore that cave under the dragon too, it only stays open just after you’ve killed it and there’s some decent loot in there.
I’m sure it will be put up here soon, but Slayerage has soloed the latest Destiny raid in about an hour (video is edited.)
Crazy, crazy stuff.
^To this, I’d also add “Can you afford spending money on the game alongside your regular weekly expenditure?”
A.K.A. “Don’t buy it if it’ll send you broke for the next couple of days.”
Last day at work today. Then making the trip back home tomorrow morning to stay with family over Christmas. Will still be around on social media, but maybe less TAY due to being on mobile.
If I don’t see anybody before then: I hope you all have a very happy Christmas! It’s been a pretty good year for me this year and I hope we can all have a better one in 2015. Looking forward to meeting some more people next PAX and hopefully making a trip to Brisbane at some point too. Have a great holiday and a better New Years, you all deserve it!
So long, stink town!
No no, he’s coming to Brisbane, not leaving it.
…I’m not allowed to leave it? D:
Let’s bris!
Can we have another movie post PAX day?
Lemme know when you’re thinking of Brisbaning, maybe I’ll join 😛
Wonder if all the amiibos are selling out because ebay hucksters are preordering in bulk since they know how profitable they can be…
Yes.
Have to speak to the manager of my local EB and see if I can find out whether or not this is the case. Wouldn’t be surprised to be honest.
It has to be. Or there is just very little stock. Or likely both.
I really hope that all stock gets hugely replenished early next year so the scalpers are left with a bunch of worthless figures 😛
Oh so much this. I was cackling at all the PAX scalpers who couldn’t get rid of their tickets.
On the flipside, it is pretty tempting to just go *everywhere* on the 29th and buy them all for mad profitz. But no that would be wrong.
Finally finished Act II of Far Cry 4. Seems like it’s taking forever to finish. Collecting absolutely everything along the way though. Still haven’t unlocked the Northern part of the map yet. Hope I can finish it before Christmas.
This is one of the problems I have with ubi games. I obsessively tick every possible sidequest box, gather mission, weapon upgrade, etc, etc, etc as soon as they’re available, and next thing you know all you’re left with is a string of unpalatable story missions, half of which serve as tutorials for the activities you mastered thirty hours ago.
AC4 was
non-stopintermittently-stopped action and fun until I ran out of fun and the story snowballed into a tense crescendo of fucking depression without any diversions to lighten the mood.I still love them, but it explains why I rarely finish them. I eat my share of ‘fun’ and push the rest of the plate away, unfinished, because stuffing myself further would be uncomfortable.
Whole system is down at work. Impossible to do anything.
The system. Is down?
So apparently I won a prize last night at a board game event by virtue of being one of the few people to consistently show up over the last few months. I won’t say no to that prize although now I don’t know what I should spend a $100 voucher for a board game shop on.
Help?
Board games!
Monopoly.
The biggest D20 they have.
I need to get the d20 that lights up on a natural 20 and then does the depressing foghorn on a 1. I don’t know if they stock it though.
Yes. Yes. A thousand times yes.
Novelty merchandise
Cards Against Humanity.
Plus the expansions, then pick out the ones you like and make your own deck because lets face it, some are great and some are crap.
Shadows over Camelot.
You’ve been consistently showing up to a board game event over the last few months and can’t think of some games you’d like to nab for $100?
I am disappoint.
I don’t need to buy any games because a lot of my friends already have them. It would be unnecessary to double up.
Plus I don’t really have to space to store any board games.
Castles of Mad King Ludwig maybe? Android Netrunner for something that multiple people can own.
Hock it and buy drugs!
@piat Korr has agreed to dps =P Your tank is now good to go! I’ve put the raid times up as a guild event; going to have a crack at recruiting a few dps tonight and tomorrow.
all ranged lol
Actually we’re lacking melee dps now… So far we have 2 hunters and 1DK, possibly 1 mage depending on phoenix. I’m just going to go in looking for 3 dps and see what we get.
Fair enough lol
Also we need a good mix of physical and magic dps for Kor’agh, talk about making life hard!
Without magic his barrier doesn’t go down in time and without physical he doesn’t die in time! Not sure if we’ll clear Kor’agh this weekend; might need a dedicated group to pull that fight off.
btw the bags you can get from random WoD heroics now contain 630 gear and the bags are BoA
Woo, leave applied for. Today is now properly my last day til next year!
Public holidays seemed to line up nicely. Only used up six days to take two weeks off. And apparently I get paid for it?? Full time work is like magic.
*Full time work in the public sector is like magic.
Fixed. 😛
Oh is that what that is?
Yeah. I’m in the same situation with a paid break from Christmas Day through to New Year’s Day. Still have to work Christmas Eve though however they aren’t really stopping us from taking leave.
If by magic you mean full of deception and bluffing, yeah… yeah, that’s my experience at the moment. This holiday can’t come soon enough.
Ahem. I mean… Yes! I am looking forward to holidays!
Seeking help from the PC
masterracerspeople… for keyboards of all things!I think I need a new keyboard – my G15 has been holding up pretty well for the last 5 or 6 years (i think…?) how ever I’ve noticed lately that it seems to be really loud when I’m typing stuff out and the keys seem to be getting a little clunky.
So what I’m after is good quality, media controls and back lit keys. Not fussed about macro keys, displays etc. If they’re included, that’s great, but don’t care either way.
My GameBoy has a D-pad
I’ve got a Corsair K90 at home and a Corsair K65 at work, absolutely love them. The Cherry Red switches are perfect for me (very light activation force) and the brushed aluminium look is just fantastic as far as I’m concerned.
For what you’re looking for you’d need a K70 (without macro keys) or a K90 / K95 (with macro keys) – be warned though, the K90/95 are huge. (Or a K65 RGB, which is tenkeyless but backlit)
Just checking them out… the K70 has media keys according to the Corsair page… and it’s a nice looking bit of kit.
Next question… Is there a quick summary of what the different colour key-switch-a-ma-jiggas are?
I meant macro, I typed media. 😛
Red: Linear (no bump), No click, 45g to actuation, 60 to bottom out.
Brown: Tactile (bump), No click, 45g to actuation, 60 to bottom out.
Blue: Tactile (bump), Clicky, 50g to actuation, 65 to bottom out.
Black: Linear (no bump), No click, 60g to actuation, 80 to bottom out.
Green: Tactile (bump), Clicky, 80g to actuation, 105 to bottom out.
Might be a good time to try out a mechanical keyboard?
I wish the Apple keyboards were back-lit like the ones in their laptops (maybe they are now? My one is fairly old)
Nope, it’s one thing I wish Apple would do, release a keyboard with back-lighting for the desktops..
Auspost are being weird again. Two notifications, for two parcels, both from EB games. One notification I only got through SMS (according to the tracking info, they never even tried to deliver it), and was waiting at the usual “local” post office. The other, I got an SMS and a delivery attempt card, telling me to pick it up from a post office two suburbs away. What’s it doing there?!
I dunno, maybe they direct large parcels there. or, maybe they only direct Dragon Age: Inquisition post there… going by the only other time they sent my post there.
They employ contractors to do the parcel deliveries & they don’t give a shot because there is no repercussions for shit service.
I’ve had one knock at my door at 8 in the evening & I always get notifications for failed delivery attempts when I’m home.
Not forgetting the old leave the parcel somewhere on or near your property trick.
I don’t know who services our area but my packages always seem to end up just outside my front door. I’m guessing they take the extra precaution for a block of units or maybe the parcel people here are just good at their job.
But yeah, AusPost varies quite considerably depending on where you live. I heard a story that a mailman dumped an entire sack of letters into a creek out of spite and no one who would have received their letters could claim for compensation. The guy was fired but it doesn’t really help the people who were waiting for their mail, especially in the case of bills and stuff.
Yeah, I think it depends on the deliver & the place. It’s been much better since I moved further from the city.
I’m familiar with their “delivery” service (ie. they tell you where it was delivered so you can go pick it up yourself), but it’s only recently that parcels have started showing up at the wrong PO. Maybe they just got a new courier.
Heh. Ah yes, good old ‘failed delivery’.
Every delivery form should have an option to tick a box that says, “Just leave it at the post office, I’ll pick it up myself
because the local couriers are lazy/incompetent liars.”Snarking at couriers aside, it’d be useful for everyone. Doesn’t waste the courier’s time trying to deliver it (HAH), means you don’t have to wait til they’ve got back from
pretending to dotheir run before they drop it off at the post anyway.You can pay for that service, they call them PO boxes :p
And Parcel Lockers… 😉
Ohhh, I see. They figure enough failed deliveries and delays will force us to PO boxes, so one day they never deliver anywhere at all… This is their long-term campaign to have us pay twice for delivery – both for shipping and for there to be somewhere to ship it to.
I’M ON TO YOU, DELIVERY ILLUMINATI.
Hm. I better update my blog with The Truth.
I used to hate this. Half the time they wouldn’t bother trying to deliver and it was a pain. They’d card it to a post office staffed by old harpies that hated the fact you were putting them out by picking up your stuff, or to a post office in a busy shopping center that was hardly ever open at convenient times and which was a pain to get a car park at.
My new place though, I discovered that the post office that packages get carded to is run by a really nice lady and is 5 minutes walk away. So not quite so upset about getting things carded. But I’ve just taken to getting most packages sent to work, since AusPost don’t fuck around and actually deliver to a business address.
Couriers don’t like to walk up two flights of stairs to get to my door, so they just pretend that I’m not home even when I am. Once got an SMS saying “Sorry we missed you!” while sitting at my computer desk 2 steps from my front-door patiently waiting for my parcel 😛
Actually, couriers don’t need to deliver parcels to doors that are deemed dangerous or would take too much time if they have a busy run. It’s perfectly reasonable for them to leave a “pick up at post office” card.
Is this actual courier companies or the normal posties? I would kinda expect the actual couriers to come to the door. The posties I can understand if they’re rushed.
Just that I had to get this courier to re-deliver with a permission to leave form because they don’t leave parcels at normal post offices 😛
That’s odd. Usually they will try your house 3 times then leave at a post office. Kinda odd that they held onto it
People fail to understand that couriers don’t only deliver to one suburb. Depending on the run they may go through 3-5 different suburbs and at the end of the day the designated “drop” post office is where they put all the parcels they couldn’t deliver.
Customer just tore open the packet of an expensive item to have a look at it, decided to buy it but said she wasn’t buying an open packet and refused to buy anything but a new unopened packet.
These are mitigating circumstances for aggravated assault right?
Gunt
If it’s something you can engrave, sell off the opened stock by offering a free engraving, or something?
$130 orthopaedic insoles. Tore all the packaging getting it open. Just have to put it up for half price I guess.
…Offer to engrave it anyway for kicks and giggles? Foam everywhere!
You let a customer touch the stock! That’s it you’re fired!
System still down, boss delivered protein balls.
Argh, sometimes tech support piss me off so much.
I’ve got a USB drive and our system policy is that all USB drives must be encrypted. Early in the year we were using CheckPoint security, no issue. Then recently we switched to BitLocker since it’s part of Windows 7 / 8 builds and wouldn’t require any extra programs. So I unencrypted my drive then re-encrypted with BitLocker. Fine. Then about 2 weeks ago I was having issues with my PC so I moved to another one, and when I plugged in my drive suddenly the CheckPoint encryption was taking over and showing a list of Bitlocker files.
So when I get back to my PC I reformat the drive, remove BitLocker, remove CheckPoint, add BitLocker, add my files. It’s a 32GB drive so this takes a while but everything seems fine, finally.
Until today, when I’m being asked for my CheckPoint password again. So I try to uninstall CheckPoint and get asked for an admin password. Call up tech support, explain the issue in detail and am told “No, that shouldn’t be happening. Just reencrypt the drive with BitLocker.”
AAAAAAARGH! I know it *shouldn’t* be happening. I’m telling you what IS happening. Accept that I know what I’m doing / seeing and actually listen to the problem.
Did you try turning it off and on again?
You know that I did.
IT is one of those roles where ‘the customer is always wrong’. It’ll get to the point where you’ll tell them something is true til you’re blue in the face and they won’t believe you until they see it with their own eyes, and even they do, there is very good money to be made betting that they will still probably say – disbelivingly – “That can’t happen,” WHILE they’re looking at it happening.
Yeah, this guy was being shadowed by somebody else and I could hear him saying “No, that’s not what happens.” so I said to the guy on the phone with me, “Ok, fine we’ll do it your way but when it doesn’t work in 1 or 2 weeks time then I’m coming back to THIS job and you can tell me again how it doesn’t work that way.”
He didn’t like that. 😛
Ahhhh. Threats to their SLA KPIs 🙂
Love it.
When sledging really doesn’t work
We are back in the game 😀
Yawn.
So cbf doing anything.
Please send me interesting links.
Cannot work at work.
Maddening
What a coincidence, I just got sent one of those.
http://looopism.tumblr.com/
I used to maintain an emergency board game cache for occasions when our systems / network / power shit the bed, but it hasn’t really happened my entire time I’ve been working here. Worst that’s happened was a power problem to a single row of cubicles.
Click, and enjoy.
http://www.pornhub.com
Christ, I came so close to clicking on that before having read what it was.
It’s not as bad as it looks 😉
I think that’s what @mrtaco was talking about.
I don’t know who actually clicked it and who didn’t 😛
I assume you’re all either prudes and didn’t, or you’re all either perverts and did 😉
Mouseover.
See, I do all my TAYing from my phone, so forget about that 😛
At work and didn’t.
But now I see 😛
What the fuck Cairns?
This week is all kinds of messed up :'(
It’s getting pretty hard to stay chill and philosophically detached. I really, really, really need to hunker down and hide from the world with my video games.
Me too. Except I can’t, because you know; wife, kid, responsibilities and shit. 😛
What did they do?
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-12-19/cairns-stabbing-eight-children-dead-after-manoora-stabbing/5979452
Well then.
Damn it. My computer chair just broke. The back rest came off because the metal connecting it to the rest of the chair has completely shorn through.
My friend had that happen to him the other day. Pretty sure it was like the second chair he’s managed to break, somehow.
My old cheap desk chair broke earlier this year, after years of faithful service (I leaned over to grab something while still trying to sit in in, and the metal in the middle bent. :/), so I replaced it with a nice relatively expensive replacement that has already fallen apart on me once (four screws fell out. FELL OUT!), and now has a slight lilt to it. All my (very mild) fury.
Silverchair split.
Hot damn… I want one so much…
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/12/tesla-motors-model-s-australian-review/
The summary is excellent…
Sooo pretttty.
Hell yes. I want this car so badly. It’s everything I want out of a vehicle.
I like the look of the Model X too – true 6 seater sportwagon/light SUV, crazy doors and actually quite quick. When my trusty Forester turbo goes to the big caryard in the sky in a few more years (it’s 10 years old, 84000km and we’re only the second owners (!) so it’s got plenty of life yet!) I reckon electric will be the go, and they’ll be mature by then. They’re still just a little bit beta-test/early adopter and a couple of brackets too expensive for me at the moment, but by the time I’m looking for a replacement car there’ll be a lot of good options in electrics (in fact, why aren’t we building them in Geelong and Adelaide?!?)
I’m in same boat – ’03 Forester just clicked over 120,000kms (reminds me, I need to book a service) and we’re second owners.
Definately will consider a hybrid or electric when the Subaru gives up.
It’ll run to 600k with regular service, just like a Commodore…
I took a closer look at their showroom as I was driving past/waiting for the lights this week. All kinds of want.
They’re remarkably nice looking cars. I think though that the whole needing at least an hour to recharge thing is going to ultimately limit the technology until we either come up with faster charging batteries or a fuel cell or similar that allows you to swap stuff over, or an energy source that practically lasts the lifetime of the vehicle.
I agree, to a point.
I don’t think that electric cars are on track to replace long distance travel requirements any time soon. As the article points out, 5 minutes at the pump vs an hour for a 500km tank (Wikipedia has range estimates) is probably not going to be very inviting for a family travelling from Sydney to Brisbane which you can do in about 12 hours with 2 drivers using petrol.
Electric cars will be amazing for city driving. Zero emmisions (from the car), quiet, range suits perfectly. Can you imagine our CBDs in the near future – cleaner air, quiet cars, quiet cars hitting oblivious pedestrians, charging hubs in every buildings parking space… Ignoring some of the other shitty things that have happened recently, what a time to be alive!
Yeah absolutely, but I think about my previous place. I had to drive 45 mins with no traffic – at least an hour, usually 75-80 mins in traffic – to get to work every day. And I was only about half as far out as the real population growth areas on the east side of Melbourne goes. I don’t know if I could do that each way in an electric without charging it. So if I fucked up and forgot to plug it in one day, I’d potentially get stranded.
Certainly it’s fine if you generally only drive 15-20 mins a day, but what are you going to do on the occasions you actually need to drive a decent distance? Have a second car for emergencies?
Electric needs a lot of new infrastructure to be a workable practical thing. If I were investing, I’d be putting money short-term into Hydrogen fuel cells or similar. Electric will come, but I think it’s a decade away from really being a practical thing.
waaaaaaaaaaaant
So… last day at work before holidays… really just skimming over work and a little bored.
I could start reviewing some things for next year… but that’s next year!
Maybe I’ll just do some tidying of the 160 page process guide… that’ll keep me busy for nearly 3 hours right… right… Maybe not…
Rocked up at work this morning, found some of the issues that I was having with certain training modules were fixed! Good start! Then I received a slew of emails with details for logging in to various systems etc. Manager comes over to show me what they’re all about, and nothing worked! Oops! He didn’t seem too surprised though, as he had the same issue when he started. So he gave me a rough demo of some of the stuff, and told me to go have lunch. Get back from lunch, and issues still not fixed, and since I’ve finished all the training I can do by myself, he told me to just go home! Score! Next week I start actually working along side someone else and watching what they do etc! Hooray!
I got sent home too!
All our systems were down, woo hoo!
Getting mighty sick of coming across Patrats >:3
Caught another and named her Heratio, then came across another and killed it immediately out of frustration >:(
I could have had an Elekid and a Growlithe, instead I see 2 Patrats! :'(
Anyway, Virbank Gym defeated, with no casualties 🙂
Couple of close calls again though.
Jasper is now a Herdier.
Stevie is now a Servine.
Lacy is now a Swadloon.
Rattus is now a Watchog.
Finally I might be able to catch some good pokemon! 😀
Like grass and normal types much!
Oh my god, I hate it! >:(
My “if I’m lucky” team was going to be
Snivy, Purrloin, Azumarill, Venipede, Elekid, Growlithe.
My, “I’d be happy with team” was going to be
Snivy, Purrloin, Lillipup, Mareep, Growlithe, Koffing.
My “team”
Snivy, Patrat, Sewaddle, Lillipup, Patrat, Patrat (but I killed this Patrat out of spite)
I’m 100% expecting to find a Patrat at the desert.
Ben Run.
Bloody Bens…
Oh my god, I’ve never been so happy to catch a Zubat!
(who I named Zuzu :3)
Just one more hour, just one more hour, dear anyone give me strength…
…or cookies. Same thing, really.
Just half an hour to go!
I got cookies. You want cookies?
Only just watching Survivor finale now. Did I miss the convo?
Keith just won reward. I’m totally rooting for Natalie after her John vendetta. Though I wouldn’t be sad if Keith won. Such a battler.Keith is killing the immunity challenge!Total bitch move by Natalie, voting out Baylor… and I loved it! She is so in control of this game now. Totally needs to win it.I wanted to post Survivor talk but we were on page 9 for ages and I didn’t want it to be lost 😛
I assume you’ve finished watching the finale now though?
FINALE AND REUNION SPOILERS:
Haha Keith! Such a loveable dude :D. My jaw dropped at the Nat Immunity Idol Baylor blindside :O. I’m so glad they didn’t vote Nat out before the final 3 (which would’ve been the smart thing to do), because I felt she played the game the most out of the rest of them left. How sick was that Jury burn by Reed though? HOLY CRAP! Happy Nat won though but I was team Nat/Keith 😀I was expecting big things from Season 30 (just based on 20 being Heroes vs. Villains). They’ve done a few seasons with new people so I kinda wanted to see a full returning players cast. I’m not sure what the gimmick could’ve been but I like the idea of something like an all winners or Winners vs. Runner ups/favourites. “Survivor is always evolving” blah blah… …. such disappointment :P. I don’t really get the whole blue/white collar thing and it seems like a more American thing. Oh well! I was slightly disappointed by the Brawn vs. Brains vs. Beauty gimmcik and that turned out to be one of the best seasons EVER, but I think I’m just a little bit more bitter since S30 could’ve been big!
Overall this season was okay. I’d rank it somewhere in the middle of everything. There were some big moments but most of it was kind of dull or nothing spectacular 😛
@powalen @sughly @f4ction
@strange – have you been following this season weekly? You haven’t really posted in the discussions :'(
Baylor just sent home. Still watching.Oh shit I didn’t even notice the times! Ha! I thought it was like 6pmish (my time)
My boss just said “go home” at like 4pm so I did 😀
Damn, Jaclyn came from behind to win that. That challenge would have been tough.Stupid Keith! looked like he was having a sunday stroll out there on that challenge! mustve been exhausted. He was coming last URGH! He was meant to win dammitHaven’t read your spoilers yet. Good effort by Keith, surprised they didn’t get rid of Natalie actually. Once it came up I thought it was obvious to get rid of her. Then again, pretty sure it was either Keith or Natalie. Doubt Jaclyn or Missy could ever win it. John and Baylor probably had better chances.Loved Jeremy’s speech. You always need someone telling others to vote with their heads not their hearts. WOAH! Reed? Was that necessary?My jaw hit the floor and went through it when Reed said what he said! OH MAN! I love me a good Jury burn :P. I liked the idea of Jeremy’s speech but the execution was kinda shit… too self centred as well 😛Booo WRONG! It was the best thing ever!
My TiVo screwed up and missed an episode, then there was a storm and power outage and I missed another and to be honest, everyone was boring and stupid so I didn’t care enough to see what happens.
It got slightly better but it was one of the “just okay” seasons.
The season before that was so amazing though, like I’d put it in my top 5 or so :O
John Vendetta sounds like the name of an 80s action hero.
Ok, lazy question for a Friday afternoon.
What’s your favourite film score? Not asking about soundtracks, just the score itself.
For me it’s absolutely American Beauty. Minimalist, haunting, beautiful and the summation of the film itself. This is something I can (and do) put on in the background and be both swept away in the movie and completely bathed in white noise at the same time.
8.3/10
Being dead honest – I’ve never paid a huge amount of attention to scores… probably should though. 🙂
Casting my mind back… Only one film really springs straight to mind which is weird, as I’m sure there are more out there I like.
The Mission – sound track is great, but I remember the movies sound being much more engrossing than the tracks by themselves.
That’s a classic one to remember though. Ennio Morricone is great!
Back to the Future was one of my favs for sure! Such a memorable one!
Excellent choice, and so easily identifiable. Interestingly I had no idea how many films Alan Silvestri was involved in, for example Forrest Gump (which has one of the best soundtracks of all time) is backed by a wonderful score.
Indiana Jones is equally amazing of course!
Wasn’t that John Williams?
dun remember who it was. dun think it was the same guy as bttf though. Just expressing that it’s another I liked! 🙂
Lord of the Rings.
I remember seeing a short part of a documentary about how Howard Shore composed the music for each realm, it was really interesting. It’s on YouTube somewhere, but I can’t find it.
But it was just so wonderfully done for each part of the landscape.
An interesting choice for me because as much as I “know” bits of the score from LOTR it’s never been one that just jumps out at me but they certainly provide a level of “epic” to an epic movie.
Well, anything Disney is pretty good.
“Truman Sleeps” from the Truman Show is also pretty good…
But my favourite would have to be Star Wars – and personally I think the prequel score is better than the Original Trilogy, although both are good.
I think anything John Williams deserves a mention. 🙂
Hard to pick just one.
– Star Wars (all of it) obviously is iconic and a huge part of my childhood as well, and is just generally brilliant.
– Huge fan of some of Ennio Morricone’s spaghetti western stuff. Probably The Good, The Bad and The Ugly is the best of them, but Once Upon a Time in the West is also pretty great.
– Vangelis has done some amazing soundtrack work. Blade Runner is awesome, Chariots of Fire is stunning, 1492: Conquest of Paradise is beautiful too.
Also I feel like with a score, divorcing it from the movie is tricky. A good movie will elevate a mediocre soundtrack, and the music in a good movie that misuses its music won’t be memorable. Using music well is really important, and the best movies often don’t just have good soundtracks, they use those soundtracks really well. Watch the final duel in The Good, The Bad and the Ugly. It uses the music insanely well, but there’s long periods and really important points where there’s no music at all. It knows when to shut up.
I guess that’s what makes the American Beauty score so good for me, is that I can listen to it without the movie and still “feel” the same way I do when watching the movie.
You’re right though, it’s difficult to separate the two. A good score though… Put it this way. I had the privilege of seeing Randy Newman conducting the MSO for the scores from The Natural and Toy Story… There was no need for visual images. The music said it all.
Vangelis!
I’ve been a fan of his stuff since (and this is pretty weird) I heard Alpha at a sort of sciencey exhibition thing they were doing at the Cheddar Caves in England when I went there when I was three.
Yeah, when I started buying his CDs there was a lot of “I know this”
ey toll where my xbox one at?
:[
If it was DHL we could make jokes about it being thrown around & mistreated..
Aw, I was at home for like an hour but when I left to go out for the night, they tried delivering it a few minutes after 🙁
boo
DONE!
WHAT IS OMG SHOULD I BE WORRIED
I DON’T KNOW BUT GET THE POPCORN READY JUST INCASE!
I thought popcorn was for the awkward courting… Surely it’s liquor and cigars after he’s ‘done’?
Shame and tears.
Dog has made himself comfy on my lap.
I repeat, dog has settled on my lap.
Remain calm and maintain position. Monitor the situation and report back in the event of escalation.
He left. 🙁
On the walk through the tunnel to the station, I could hear the sound of an accordion. Though it sounded different to usual. Deeper. Richer. I know the guy’s got like a million accordions, but it didn’t sound like any of them usually did. I round the bend and see it’s not the usual guy at all. Had a bit of a moment where it just flashed in my mind, “what would @transientmind do?” and thought what the hey, see what’s up that staircase. Or more like throw myself down them, perhaps.
I quipped “you’re not the usual guy”. Only to find out that this young girl is from Japan, only been here since April. And I talk too fast and with too many colloquialisms 😛 Only been playing for two years, and it’s her first instrument too. She played well though. Did a few things I recognised, including Chim-Chimeny and… something I forget the name of, but it sounds similar to the song the goombas danced to in the Mario Bros movie. Had been hanging around for a while to listen, then asked if I could play something for her. It wasn’t as big as I’m used to, and I ran out of range at first. The reduced weight was a nice change though. So I went the easy path and just played Tetris, she got an excited look saying “oh I know this one!” Was pretty nerve-wracking jumping on an unfamiliar instrument in front of a bunch of strangers, but managed to weather the storm. She seemed impressed, couldn’t tell if she said “so good!” or I think maybe “sugoi”? That’s a Japanese word, right? Also that my fingers move faster than hers can, or something 😛 Gave her back her instrument and slipped a fiver in her case, wished her a nice day and went on my way.
That was fun.
Worthy of a Transientmind story! You did good!
Transientmind would have gotten her phone number, even though he didn’t ask for it.
We can’t all be experts 😛
1 digit at a time.
…Wait.
Hey, I recall a Transient story where he made a connection with lady on the train who couldn’t speak English well and he fumbled getting her number even though she hesitated and people on the train thought he was a schmuck. Happens to the best of us.
That was exactly the point. And I still very vaguely regret that. It was practically a sure thing, I wanted to, and didn’t. Too nervous, too worried about leaving a bad impression, too concerned about what the other passengers would think, and most stupidly of all, locked into this weird idea that having to catch another train after getting off at the wrong stop with her was somehow a worse waste of my time.
Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid. Clumsy schoolboy shit.
Fished out, re-read and bookmarked. Good motivational stuff 😛
Hey, she just wanted to show me her tattoos, it was a totally innocent thing, all about the art.
GET A LADIES NUMBER YOU CHARMING GOON! >:(
HUH?
*facepalm*
Urrrgh, the things that I could do with your charm.
Tbh I suspect she would likely have been beyond my lower age limit 😛
I don’t understand “age limits”. They seem odd to me.
Except for the legal ones.
Those ones are good ones to follow.
http://xkcd.com/314/
It’s science.
Get another ten years older and you might start to think differently. Was chatting with a 19yr old recently and I swear to all intents and purposes she may as well have been three years younger.
A lot of accelerated maturing does happen for a lot of folks around our socially-defined ‘coming of age’, but that’s usually less to do with the age and more to do with handling more responsibility, broadening experience and establishing independence and control over their lives. So for some folks still living at home years later and relying on parents for financial support (a very sensible and fiscally-responsible move in many cases), it’s a slower process and the maturity we associate with an adult ready to get freaky is less developed.
That’s why some folks persist in seeing someone legal age as still being ‘a child’ when the gap between experience and responsibility is so vast. It’s just an associative thing, purely subjective. To their peers, a uni student with their own car, steady part time work, and granny flat adjacent the family home with no rules about who they can bring home and when, can perceived as ultra mature and experienced by comparison.
What if, say, a 31 year old comes along that you really like, and who really likes you, but you say, “I won’t date people under 20 or over 30”.
Should it matter if you make each other happy though?
I get that too big an age gap might seem weird, but what’s too big an age gap?
I just don’t get it, but I guess I’m not super experienced in these matters 🙁
Yo.
@liondrive Too big an age gap is when you don’t understand what the god damn kids are talking about and they don’t understand what the hell your references are supposed to mean and you feel the urge to tell them to get off your lawn 😛
@liondrive: It’s a guideline, or even just a natural tendency, not a rule. If you can make it work (and it’s not illegal), who cares what the gap is, really?
FWIW there was something like a 14 year gap between my grandparents and they were happily together for nearly 60 years, and would have been for longer if she hadn’t gotten Alzheimers and faded away.
I think thinking of it as ‘a rule’ is perhaps the wrong way about it. It’s more like a handy observation of a trend for which there will always be an exception or two. It’s more a case of, “That person seems really young to me,” and the chart says, “Yeah, because people of your ages are usually far apart enough in experience for it to be jarring.”
It’s more to do with how society as a whole will perceive the age gap than actual compatibility. Like, at 30, according to The Rule, anything below about 22 or so can look a bit suss. A year or two probably not so much, but someone 18 or 19 with someone that’s 30 immediately seems potentially ‘off’ as a casual observer that only knows the age gap.
Hahaha, right? She let him play with her accordion, he was totally in.
You didn’t ask if she wanted to fuck up someone’s commas not flucking gettin turnt with the neargasm from the lumbersexual huxtabator did you?
It’s what @transientmind would do.
Freeze is just everything.
My bae.
You just need to bust that out at every available opportunity to justify doing the research, huh.
I’m sure as hell not researching a new one.
‘Sugoi’ is basically Japanese for ‘amazing’. Soooo… yeah.
Don’t worry about pressure to get numbers and shit anyway unless you’re really keen. Life’s better with random moments of playing with a busker and learning about them, anyway.
*notes*
For some reason I thought it might have something to do with rabbits.
Close. Usagi is the word for rabbit.
@mrtaco: Sugoi is the proper adjective but in more colloquial use it’s sometimes ‘sugee’ which might sound closer to usagi if you’re not used to listening to the language.
I think it sounded more like sugoi than sugee.
Oh my god.
The ending to Legend of Korra.
T-T
MQFT
Y/N?
Y
N
/
?
____
Words from the wife: “If you cheated on me we could probably work through it, but if you put that parmesan cheese on my spaghetti bolognase we are completely done.”
Hahaha! I love Mrs. Freeze! She’s a keeper! 😀
Was it Kraft?
This stuff
www2.woolworthsonline.com.au/Content/ProductImages/big/221042.jpg
Not familiar with the brand, but surely anything coming from a block couldn’t be that bad.
I’ve had that before, it’s good, authentic parmesan.
I’d have to side with her on that one. Ye gods, that stuff is terrible.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k24YNuJ1b3E
Monsters! D:
Well, The Santa Clause 2 is not as good of a movie as I remember.
Dear god this movie just keeps getting worse.
This movie teaches kids that if they deliberately knock out their teeth, they get a chance to see Santa Claus.
The Punisher in Avengers 3 please.
Also own movies. Proper hard R rating. Not as cheesy as War Zone got.
Warzone started quite well, but I couldn’t sit through it.
Jigsaw ruined it with the way they played him. Trying too hard for a campy Joker figure.
Yeah that & it seemed like Punished was sad or something.
the man is a killing machine!
Silver Linings Playbook was pretty good 🙂
Wouldn’t break my top 10 movies, but was still quite enjoyable 🙂
Plus it had Bradley Copper, so *swoon*
No Cloud Atlas, and Definitely no Lars and the Real Girl, but still really good 🙂
Accept my Steam friend request so I can buy you things, dammit!
But I haven’t logged onto steam in ages :\
I don’t actually use steam, I just made an account so I could greenlight Mount Your Friends :3
There is no point buying me any steam gifts, because I will not play them, but the gesture is appreciated, little Phlanispo 🙂
Someone made a cover of the pokemon anime theme with kazoos.
Yes.
@masha2932 and I got all the way to Atheon before half of our fireteam got dozy. ATHEON YOU HAVE GAINED A SLIGHT REPRIEVE, BUT SOOOOOON
Happy Birthday @Scree!
SURVIVOR FINALE SPOILERS:
The “Llama” clip of this season of Survivor
At first I was confused but after reading some of the comments it totally makes sense why Reed voted for Jaclyn. He didn’t want Missy and Jac to be tied for second/last so he voted to make Jac second and Missy third. OMG!@powalen @sughly @f4ction @phoenix
…@strange >:| 😛 (it’s worth watching anyway!)
That wasn’t the Llama moment at all!
There was no Llama moment because this batch of people were pretty boring 😛
Each week:
“[name] was so stupid!”
Llama clip as in that’s what I’ll probably keep randomly sharing every few months 😛
Yeah I figured that was why he voted that way. Srsly, they gots to bring this guy back, love him
So I recently went out and bought an xbox controller and 10m HDMI cord which I’ve used to connect my pc to the TV on the other side of the room, does anyone know the best way to manage a TV as an occasional monitor for using with steam big picture mode? I’m looking for a solution which wont take up any resources when the TV is not in use and that will allow me to easily switch over to the TV (including setting TV as default audio device).
I do the same but don’t have an easy solution. I just switch HDMI cables at the back of my PC as needed.
Using the Win+P shortcut to select between PC Screen Only/Second Screen Only works OK. But there are still a few problems… (I should also mention that my monitor is 2560×1440 whereas TV of course is 1920×1080)
– Windows always allocates the TV as monitor 1 which, from speaking with NVIDIA and reading various forum posts, there seems to be no way around, which means selecting PC Screen Only actually selects the TV and vice versa.
– Windows boots up not to the display selected as main display but whichever I used last (PC Screen Only or Second Screen Only)
– If the PC is booted up from the TV when I move back to my monitor the resolution is all screwy where the toolbar and desktop shortcuts are big but if I say open an internet browser everything is tiny and text is blurry, I’ve checked and made sure that the resolution is correct (2560×1440). When I boot up from the PC monitor I don’t have this problem.
– Still haven’t found a way to automatically select TV as default audio device when switching over to it.
HDMI splitter? Run one to the monitor and another to the TV. Press a button in the splitter to switch displays?
Yeah I was thinking about a splitter but it’s just another step in the process. Current solution works I just have to remember that PC is TV and vice versa and to switch back to the monitor after gaming which isn’t a biggie. Now if only I can get the PC to automatically select TV as default audio device when it becomes available.
Want to do the 1v1 “For Glory” Smash thing this weekend? 😛
Anyone, @liondrive, @crazyguy1990
Sure, why not?
Woop woop! Lemme know what time you’re free 🙂
Any time is good for me.
3pm or so?
EDIT: Nevermind :P. I did proper For Glory with randoms! 😀
I no can do today, but, I might be able to do regular matches in the arvo.
Have a friend coming around, so we were gonna play, but he’s new to it, so don’t want to subject him to “For Glory” mode 😛
Happy Birthday @scree. Eat all teh cake.
Any Final Fantasy XIV players here? I need to know a good server. I’m on Goblin which seems fine but it’s pretty laggy.
Wish I had the time/cash D:
Happy birthday dear, @scree eeeee
Someone should probably wish @scree a happy birthday.
Did anyone know it’s @scree’s birthday? HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
It’s my friend Jess’ birthday today too birthday’s all round \o/
Happy birthday @scree
I posted a birthday wish on the previous page hours ago!
That’s the running joke. 😛
ahhh ic 😉 I’m too chillaxed to be “with it” today! Outstanding bills are paid, and I have money left! :0 It’s like some sort of Christmas miracle!
Hooray! Start of good things for ol’ welbot! 😀
haha yeah! gonna be a slow crawl for a month or two, but I wont be anywhere near as stressed at least!
I decided to talk to some old friends (who I pretty much haven’t seen or spoken to in years since finishing high school) on Facebook.
Good or bad decision? Who knows… 😛
I’m kinda keen for the 5 year reunion though, would be nice to see everyone next year 🙂
Ugh, Socialius
Oh yeah that reminds me I ran into a school friend at work yesterday. I guess that makes for three random encounters.
He was always a huge (Hagrid-esque) guy, but somehow managed to get even more huge.
I also saw a few old school friends when I was working at Optus. It’s kind of awkward at first cause it’s like “do they even remember me?” 😛
Did you fight Hagridfriend?
No, there wasn’t any time for that. We were both running late for various things.
Why hasn’t anyone mentioned it’s @scree’s birthday on this page yet?
Just watched an epic majin buu vs kirby death battle
KIRBY WONthe arcsys fans are going to be HYPED by who is on their next death battle: sol badguy, 1 of thee best bounty hunters, who happens to be genetically engineered like fellow bounty hunters samus aran & boba fett, a prototype gear, which is an artificial attempt of making a magitek warrior, which is also a potential world destroying wmd, he is also a speculated father of dizzy, another powerful gear, who is also powerful, her true form’s destructive capabilities is akin to some of her potential counterparts: ff6’s terra branford, noel vermillion, elphelt valentine, madoka kaname, nyu from elfen lied & countless others. In short sol badguy is the speculated dad of a very destructive being who chooses to use it when they are at their last despair. His opponent is ragna the bloodedge, a well known 1 man army who acknowledges that he is an artificial human, brother to someone in his timeline becomes 2 heros
actually the same person as a previous timeline of hime exists as a powerful cyborg samurai by the name of hakumen& his poor sister who got targeted so to fulfill the big bad’s plans to create a world of death. Ragna wields an artificial artifact of doom, which grants him powers of the black beast, which is like yugioh’s earthbound immortals & yvetal, a power hungry black being capable of draining life. Both opponents are excellent swordmen like a previous death battle: link vs cloud, both of these combatants have defeated supposedly undefeatable armoured beings (sol: justice, ragna: hakumen & 2 murakumo units) & both are seeking an immortal being to destroy (sol: that man, ragna: inazumi). I hope their death battle will be epicFourth wicket for India to fall today.
India are 5/87, trailing by 10 runs.
Oh hey, I hear a rumour it’s @scree’s birthday
Scree’s B-day is tomorrow, sorry.
E: Well, I feel dumb (Numbers Gets Jokes)
I remembered your Birthday, you could at least remember mine! =P
That Gizmodo “The Bests” Nerf Gun article was super handy, considering both my son and my husband want Nerf guns for Christmas. 😀
It was actually pretty informative. I clicked it half expecting it to be a video I couldn’t be bothered watching, but instead I found loads of words. \o/
Baw, no mention of the hail-fire.
Inefficient, jam machine if you’re using the included drums, I’d recommend importing two US/UK Rapidstrikes for a better time, using their stick mags, less likely to jam.
Didn’t have that happen any of the times I used mine. Not that I used it much.
Oh wait. Drums? No drums here, just stick mags. Short ones, but they were crazy cheap and getting two guns was cheaper than getting a second lot of four mags to fill up the extra slots.
I like it because it’s huge and heavy and ridiculous and super easy to stick a 9v battery in place of the cartridge thing they use to hold the AAs 😛
I thought it ran 4*C batteries?
Wait, I’m confusing the hail-fire with the rhino fire, disregard, but yeah, stay away from that rhino.
*googles*
Ah I see.
…
That does look pretty badass.
The ends of the barrel shift back and forth, but that takes power from the flywheels, resulting in slower flywheels and lower overall ranges, and the drums have never been good at feeding into auto and semi-auto blasters like the rapidstrike or the stryfe [sic] (I have no clue why there’s a ‘y’ in that one’s name).
Also the price point is nuts, rapidstrikes are cheaper and can even be minimized fairly easily.
Any weekend TAYers should probably go to http://www.5yyy.com.au and listen live like right now.
@greenius et al
Survivor collars reminds me of brains/beauty/brawn. Brains=white, beauty=no, brawn=blue. After seeing the teaser for it I have to admit, I’m excited. But I too wish it was something more epic for the big 3-oh.
Oooh, let’s brainstorm potential survivor ideas! 😀
Survivor: Lone Wolf
Each contest (to begin with) has to fend for themselves, and only has interaction with other contestant when it comes time for the daily challenges! (for the first 1-2 weeks)
Survivor: Usurper
Contests are made up of people, and their work bosses! 😀
Survivor: Duel Destinies
Each contestant is partnered with another at random. If one of the partners is voted out, they both go home.
Survivor: Two Birds, One Stone
Each tribal meeting, instead of voting for one person, you have to vote for three people.
2 of the people you vote out, 1 of the people you vote back in.
Survivor: Enmity. Each contestant has a partner who is their bitterest enemy in life. Acrimonious ex’s, political rivals, school bullies, opposing theologies etc.
Oooh, that’s a good one! 😀
So the opposite of blood vs water. Pure-burning-hatred vs water.
Survivor: The Floor is Made of Lava.
No contestant is allowed to touch the ground. Ever.
Survivor: Sisterhood
Each team is a different sisterhood of nuns.
Survivor: Mars
Two tribes, in two different space crafts, hurtle through space towards Mars. The merge occurs when (read: if) they make it to the red planet. Then it’s a battle to see who the last person standing is.
Hey guys! It’s @scree’s birthday today! You should wish her a happy birthday.
Happy birthday @dc !
Happy birthday, @greenius!
Happy birthday @blaghman!
Happy birthday @bish!
Happy birthday, @freezespreston!
Happy birthday, @santa!
Amiibo training is so much slower when doing 3-stock instead of 5-min matches.
Ok what, he just used the golden hammer to like… fly.
Glad the replay save feature is a thing. Not so glad that there doesn’t seem to be any controls for fast-forwarding etc.
Can you please explain to me the point of Amiibo training?
Please?
Slow down there, buster. Most of us haven’t gotten to the point of having Amiibos explained.
There is none
Surely by now you have some idea of what Amiibos do?
I get what they do, but I don’t get why people are going crazy for them :\
Like, they unlock some additional content in a very limited amount of games. Great.
And with Smash Bros. Cool you can train an amiibo to fight.
But why?
Like, I can fight the AI and friends already :\
See my previous comments re: Miyamoto shitting into plastic bags.
A well-trained amiibo is much more difficult to fight than even a level 9 AI.
Can’t answer your other questions though.
This is a completely different question to “I don’t get why people are going crazy for them :\” 😛
Amiibo training is more or less the same as pokemon training. Get your guy to be stronger so you can then take him to beat other people’s guys, simple as that.
As for why people are going crazy for them… probably down to a mixture of fanboyism, the fact that they’re decent quality figurines of characters both common and obscure, collectorism, along with a whole load of opportunism and/or perceived scarcity.
Crap… I seem to have forgotten how to re-enable Windows Aero.
I initially disabled it because I felt that it slowed my PC games enough to warrant disabling it, but now I can’t turn it back on…
Don’t you just have to select an Aero theme from the Personalise thingo? As opposed to a Classic theme.
I have no idea whether there’s an actual setting for Aero/Classic, far as I can remember the only way to do it is to modify one of the defaults that already has it going. Which is pretty dumb.
I’ve tried selecting the Aero theme, but there’s no transparency…
For some weird reason, there’s no way to enable it…
What part of Aero do you want? The slightly fuzzed taskbar/toolbars etc?
Control Panel > Appearance & Personalization > Personalization > Change window Glass color (sic) > tick the ‘Enable Transparency Box’
Or is the fancy alt-tab? Which is actually WinKey + Tab… Didn’t think you could turn that off.
I lie… if you pick a ‘non-aero’ theme and then tweak it the WinKey + Tab doesn’t work.
However, edit and save any Aero based theme and it returns.
Happy Birthday @scree.
Happy Scree, @birthday!
@liondrive Enjoy. System requirements are low enough that all you need is a keyboard and a mouse.
Urgh, little Phlanispo >:(
I don’t want people to gift me games.
I don’t use Steam, and don’t enjoy PC gaming all that much, to be honest.
Thanks for the gesture. It’s a sweet thought, but I’m going to have to reject whatever you bought me.
It’s wasted money otherwise.
Gift it to somebody who you think will appreciate it and PLAY it 🙂
I don’t think you can reject gifts on Steam.
I did 😛
It said it returned it to your inventory 😛
Hope you enjoy the game, Phlanispo! 😀
Seriously, thanks for the gesture though, just PC gaming isn’t for me.
Did @jimu leave his computer on with Dragon Age running? 😛
I left my computer with BoI on. =P
On the bright side the second I got home I could start playing it. =P
I gave my steam deets to my pal Snow.
My craptop can’t run it 🙁
Nice to hear he’s playing though.
Looks like he’s been at it since 7am or so! 😛
Yes the type to get up & do something else & just leave it paused
Happy Birthday @scree! Enjoy the birthday gift I got you.
Thank you for that. You didn’t have to.
I was going to gift it to random people anyway. I must spread the word of the video game Bleed wherever I can.
Amiibo science: he seems to be uninterested in taunting once he hits level 40.
After the 3-stock thing (which took about two hours) I reset him yet again, this time going for 15 minute matches. Only took five of them for him to hit lv50, and this time he exhibited much more taunting during his 20s and also kept it on through his 30s. No more after that though.
Can’t quite tell if he’s not as good as he was in previous tests, or I’m just getting better than I was then.
We should play online sometime!
Yo @scree Happy Birthday!
@welbot @evilmonkey @jimu @mrtaco @dc @sernobulus @virus__ @redartifice @freezespreston @dire_wolf @phlanispo @smurfydog
Thanks for the well wishes. I kind of forgot it was my birthday twice today
Nob and Evil Monkey, thanks for the games, wasn’t necessary
If only someone on the previous page mentioned it was your birthday at least once you would have remembered. /o\
=PIf only someone had thought to remind you.
I missed out on the other page. Happy Birthday @scree!
Happy Birthday! 🙂
Hope you had / have a good one! 🙂
Hooray! Congratulations!
You look old now!
Chim Chim Cheree is a fun song to play. Thanks, Accordion Girl!
Hahaha! I like how you give every girl you meet an obscure name! XD
Quiet, Hermit Guy 😛
I’ve been labeled! D:
And thus began the awkward and ultimately unfulfilled relationship of @dc and @mrtaco.
Feat. Minit Man.
Is that because of his job, or his sex life?
Yes.
It is sort of a terrible habit I’ve picked up though. Years ago, a friend used to talk a lot about his girlfriend and her friend, we knew his girlfriend’s name but for some reason he always kept her friend’s identity a secret. She was only known as “Nintendo Girl”. Then at some point or other when I started sharing stories, for similar identity-protecting measures I did the same thing. But also it kind of made sense as a thing to do – I mean when you start throwing random names into a story, for people who don’t know them or have any face to associate with them it doesn’t make the story any easier to follow. But if you give them a descriptive name then it tells them who they are and is much easier to remember, plus if they reappear in another story then they instantly remember who this person is without you having to say “oh, remember [the thing that happened]? That person”.
And now I’ve done it so many times it pretty much happens without thought 😛
Wait, there’s a Jingle All the Way 2?
*googles*
Oh god, starring Larry the Cable Guy. The mind boggles at the extremity of the train wreck that film would be.
Aw damnit! It looks like I just missed out on free Halo content because I missed my Xbox One delivery :'(
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/12/microsoft-sorry-for-broken-halo-games-giving-away-free-stuff/
Halo ODST would’ve been nice! But oh well 🙂
More amiibo findings. Did a reset on Mac to do another round of 5min runs. This time during his mid-20s, I ended a run as Giga Mac and couldn’t catch him to kill him. While I was transforming back to normal, I observed a new behaviour – he stood there and taunted me. What??
Fuuckkk… I know I said I wasn’t going to get anything during the Steam Sales… but I did some looking around and found Don Bradman Cricket 14 for $37.67 with a discount…
I’ve been eyeing this game off for months…
I’m still kinda iffy about whether I should get it or not…
I highly doubt it’ll go on sale, and even if it does, it’ll probably only get discounted to $44.99 USD…
Looked again, found one for $36.56…
Eggnog is pretty great.
Wow, I somehow won a few matches against my lv50 amiibo and a pair of lv9 CPUs. I don’t think I’ve ever beaten a lv9 CPU in any Smash game before. Not that I think I even played any matches against CPUs in Brawl, but pretty sure in Melee I never went higher than 6 or 7.
Hello, it is Sunday today.
I keep thinking it’s Monday for some reason :-/
Thanks for the reminder! (:
Lining up a huge day with the in laws… D=
I have 2 days of work left but I’m already in holiday mode :'(
I have 3 left! At least they’re early shifts though! 7-3! w00t! Nice quick hassle free run too and from work!
Damn you Australia Post 😐
Posted 2 parcels last thursday. One is on its way, the other hasn’t even appeared in the system. They were posted at different post offices, so I think the second one just hasn’t been picked up 🙁
Aw, that ain’t good. Hope they both arrive safely.
Don’t trust the tracking app on the Aus Post website, it doesn’t update very well, sometimes it doesn’t at all until the parcel gets there.. Best way I found is to tweet them with the tracking number for any updates.
Might try that.
The tracking completely depends if the people at the post office scan the parcel in. They are supposed to but some times it doesn’t happen. That being said the parcel person should have been around to pick them up regardless.
And so another Inspector Nob mystery begins!
That’s a good point.
Taylor Swift’s version of Riptide is fairly amazing.
Right? I linked it to Rocket a while back and he was like “eh, I’m not really a fan” so I’ve been planning my vengeance.
I’ll help!
Alright, I’m going to need 12 gallons of paint(various colours), 284 metres of 2×4, a suspension coil from a 1965 Ford Galaxie, and a metric fucktonne of dried cranberries.
Got them on my last Costco trip!
I am reading this to say that she has made a mod or some such of Dead Island.
What is this new fangled young person music.
I don’t like it.
Haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate…
That was a fast reply.
DC, you never miss a beat. Some would say you’re lightning on your feet.
I make the rules up as I go. That’s what they don’t know…
I envy the way you keep on cruising, that you can’t stop, and won’t stop grooving.
You could have been getting down to this sick beat!
The moral of the story is that you’ve got a chance with Taylor Swift if you’ve got hella good hair.
Oh god, I am being so unmanly right now. Even more so than usual!
https://v.cdn.vine.co/r/videos/5A55FDBF1C1150387329882857472_39dc7bee264.1.1.9140622663400693591.mp4?versionId=fMNWnTUKkgHIM8VEk3F.6tfwvo6JyNoR
D: Hopefully it’s not a sushi train-type thing.
You’re a monster.
The Nagasaki Biopark set up a bridge for their Guinea Pigs to move between two “play areas” apparently. And now I really want to go there.
I hoped it wasn’t one. I was looking out for the little guys.
The fact that you even considered that as an option proves that you have the monster gene.
Someone has to think about the troubling things to keep the regular folks unburdened.
You’ve won this round, D.C..
I shan’t let that happen again.
*Creates another list just to put your name on it*
Got a notification, ok, better check it, from some guy called pocketrocket in reply to my comment in “What Are You Playing This Weekend”, in which I stated the many games I was going to be playing over the weekend.
This was his reply
Clicked on his profile and it is the only comment this guy has made on any of the Allure sites.
So basically this guy made an account just to tell me to get a life.
What a dick!
Guy liking video games on video game site? *gasp*
Maybe if you’d just stop being such a colossal nerd he wouldn’t have had to sign up to give you that advice.
Hey pal! Did you see that nerd!
Pardon me?
OMG! You are so right, I need to change my hobbies post haste.
I know, I’ll take up smoking.
Well… Did you?
He coud’ve said that with a guest account. Jokes on him for making an account to do that!
Maybe it was your wife? 😛
We should play more Mario Kart 8, more of the time.
I forgot how fun it is 🙂
2am TAY Kart! WHERE WAS EVERYONE ELSE?
They’re obviously just not as dedicated as you or I XP
I was surprised you joined, but glad you did! 😀
No.
No one plays Mario Kart any more, Grandpa. Get with the times, square.
Masterful shade throwing was just everything.
RUNNING JOKE SHALL BE RAN INTO THE GROUND. *folds arms*
You’re just upset you weren’t invited to play 2am TAY kart 😛
Because I’m not, like, 100 years old.
But, you totes, like, are 100 years old.
All the more intelligent people are playing Sonic Racing Transformed
You’re so old that palaeontologists want to study you.
You’re so old that you make dust look young.
You’re so old that you’ll forget I was teasing you for being old in about 5 minutes.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/this-is-what-happens-when-a-stadium-is-abandoned-for-years
Oooooh! Cool!
A lot of Detroit looks just like this too…
PAUD! \o/
Also
…N-Sync… Really! They’re saying it like it’s a good thing. Such an insult for them to be mentioned in the same sentence as all those musical legends.
It’s not quite post-apocalyptic urban decay, but it’s close enough.
It’s funny how engrossing Euro Truck Simulator 2 can be, even after not playing it for a while…
downloaded it yesterday (after breaking steam, my peak download was 3,459,296,397.00 GB/s) and it is a lot of fun, even though the tutorial wouldn’t let me finish.
Also crashed several times, but it’s a lot of fun.
Hey, hey. I got nuthin…
What about us?
You’ve got us, don’t you? 😛
Sure thing, handsome
You got enthusiasm for posting! That’s something! That’s something! :’)
Remember how cool you were at school if you had a full set of Faber-Castell colouring pencils?
Oooh, connecta-textas!!!
I was da kewlist when I was the first in class to get the purple glue stick that dried clear…
MAGIC!
Ah, so that’s why I was continually tormented.
Please. I had over 150 connector pens.
Bubblegum blue was the king of colours.
So, back home. Everything smells different and my nose is getting runny. I’ve been officially City-fied I think 😛 There’s a distinct lack of bus fumes being blown in my face as I walk around here.
Also, this town is totally a gym-junkie hotspot now. Singlets and footy shorts everywhere. When did that happen? 😛 Feel a bit out of place, honestly!
Pow returns to Sydney “ripped as brah”.
You know what they say, you can’t go home again. *stares off into distance all haunted like*
Heeeyy…
Remember this?
http://www2.warnerbros.com/spacejam/movie/jam.htm
Hey you, watcha gon’ do.
I see your video, and raise you.
Walking Dead Season 5 Spoilers:
WHY DID IT HAVE TO BE BETH?!?! :’OSHE WAS MY FAVOURITE!!! :’O
WHY?!?!
You answered your own question. It’s because she was your favourite. Like Hershel and Dale before. Carol and Daryl are my favourites. I worry for them. D:AAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
EVERYONE I LOVE DIES!!! :’OI was so happy when it finally got to the Beth episode :'(
I loved the Beth episodes!!! :'(
AND NOW SHE’S DEAD!!!!! :’O
This is the worst season so far >:'(
Best. Season four and five have been amazing. 😀 (Give or take an episode or two.)
It was a great season >:(
Until THAT ending >:'(
Now it’s the WORST season >:(
Season 4 is the best in my books, but I’m glad 5 built on 4, unlike the other seasons that tend to undo the work of the previous season.
Still half of five left. I imagine stuff will happen, Lori. Thangs.
The second half will probably be setting up stuff for season 6.
There hasn’t been any obvious setup for the next season yet.
Washington DC I think will be happening, even with the Eugene thing. The Beth/Carol/Daryl arc felt like a goodbye to Atlanta, as well.@dc
Washington is the only thing left, really.Doubtful that they’d stay around the hospital group.
I still can’t believe that they believed Eugene was a scientist though. He was a redneck with a mullet :\
Blind faith gone a little too far there.
It’s a shame, cause I know my two new favourites are gonna die too 🙁
(Father Stokes and Rosita)
Still got Carol, I suppose, and I can’t see her dying any time soon.
@liondrive:
I think the rest of the season will be the road trip to Washington with a big reveal in the season finale like the prison was shown at the end of season two. 🙂Did you see the post credit scene, btw?
@dc
Yeah, it has to be something like that I reckon.It’s a bit too late to try and set up anything too large.
I hope they take it in an interesting direction though 🙂
And nah, didn’t see the post credit scene.
Should I watch it?
I didn’t see that post credits thing. Can you put what happened in a spoilertag for me, please?
Rick’s friend from the pilot had been following the signs to Terminus and eventually stumbles across the church and the map to Washington DC with the message to Rick written on it. He realizes that Rick is still alive and they’re heading to the same place.Because she did a stupid, stupid thing.YOU LEAVE BETH ALONE STRANGE!!!SHE DID WHAT EVERYONE ELSE WANTED TO DO!!!
SHE WAS SO SWEET AND INNOCENT AND I MISS HER!!! :’O
As sad as it was the danger had been defused and it was over. She acted impulsively. She shouldn’t have died, but it was a stupid thing to do. :'(Yup. She put everybody else in danger. What a stupid, stupid idiot.ALL THE DOWNVOTES!!!!! >:’O
I think that’s what makes it so tragic, though. That a momentary lapse in judgement can turn catastrophic.Like I said, she just did what everyone else wanted to do.She shouldn’t have got shot for doing what others wouldn’t :'(
My poor little Beth :'(
I’ve been terrified of her dying ever since she was introduced :’O
I think it was an all or nothing thing. Scissors weren’t going to ‘cut’ it. (All puns accidental.) At best it was going to be a minor stab wound and escalation. I think the others would have only done it if they had the means to do it properly. And not if situation had already been defused.It was worth her dying to see everyone’s reactions, though. Darryl totally needed a *hugasaurus*! 😛And Carol watching Daryl. Oh man, so much depth in their relationship. Just the look she gave from the background broke my heart. I thought the Maggie thing was a little heavy handed. Getting her hopes up only to crush them.Yeah as soon as they told Maggie that Beth was alive, it was all over for Beth. 😛Walking Dead has never been subtle. XD@strange, @liondrive:
Here are the two post credit scenes from the season. I didn’t know about the first one until after the second one. :\
Oooh, interesting.
I thought he went crazy though :\Blergh. My local member who I haven’t voted for once but consistently wins is now the immigration minister. D:
It’s all @phlanispo’s fault.
I wouldn’t worry anyway.
Troy Buswell used to be the WA Treasurer for a while there.
You know, the guy that sniffed that ladies seat.
And of course there’s Tony Abbott.
No one votes for these people.
They just somehow, win :\
Oh, at least that inhuman monster Morrison isn’t any more.
BECAUSE HE’S NOW THE FREAKING SOCIAL SERVICES MINISTER!
Geeeeeez.
Shit, I’ve forgotten how to drive again. Again. God damn it.
Well, Euro Truck Simulator 2 Multiplayer isn’t what I expected, in a good way.
It’s sort of like an MMO, in that you have different players on the road doing their deliveries independent of one another, yet collisions and bad driving will affect other players, hence why there’s a certain expectation of driving quality, rather than just simply jumping in and winging it.
I personally found it to be quite enjoyable.
You can’t pause or change the radio/music unless you pull over and stop your truck, and other drivers might not be so forgiving of your mistakes on the road, but it’s an otherwise fantastic free addon for ETS2 that added what we never thought could be possible, or even necessary, in the first place.
There’s this guy who works at the place I get my usual coffee from, and he’s pretty cute, but seems straight, but has a borderline “gay” haircut, and he gave me a cute smile + look today, and I’m super confused :S
Kiss him and see how he reacts.
I was thinking about maybe giving him my number, but then if he’s straight I’d need to find a new place to get coffee :’\
Kissing him solves all those problems!
Thanks, Freeze!
Look, I know I’m the last person to be able to say this, but just try asking for his number, and if he’s straight, he’ll probably just laugh it off, and you can keep getting coffee there like a normal person.
So what if he has a happy haircut!?
Borderline happy!*
Strut in there, point at the guy, and start singing this.
You guys have the best dating advice.
It’s not actually the worst idea, if I invite him out somewhere maybe…
I don’t know how to do these things! :O
Well, after the zero dates I’ve ever been on, I’d like to think I’m quite experienced at this sort of thing.
Look at it this way, you’ve never had a bad date! \o/
Never had a bad date, a messy break-up, or even a rejection. I’m a goddamn winner!
You could always go the high school route and ask one of his coworkers when he’s not working. Or be all @transientmind direct!
It’s more nerves about potentially making moves :\
It’s a good idea though!
I’m quite friendly with all the females there actually.
GET A DUDE’S NUMBER YOU CHARMING GOON!
Yes.
No.
Maybe.
DON’T PRESSURE ME!!!
You know what the worst part of Kerbal Space Program is?
Every time I think I’m done with it, something appears that makes me want to play it some more.
Also it’s in beta now so I really need to give its new version a shot, even though I’m utterly rubbish at it.
Brilliant marketing, because I’ve now gone and bought Mass Effect 1 & 2 on Steam.
Goddamn it, I am so bad at this.
While I’m engaging in Talk Amongst Blaghself:
A few weeks back I went into EB to buy a game, I do all the money stuff, and the guy looks at a message on his screen.
“Okay, so the system is telling me that I need to give you a new EB World card.”
“Oh yeah, of course, my Game Informer subscription would have lapsed.”
“Yeah, it’s just that it says you’re downgrading from a level 3 card, to a… level 3 card.”
“…”
So he hands me a new card, and I hand over my old exactly the same card which he slams into the rubbish bin, nearly missing it at point blank range.
I feel like Tab is a pretty good name for me chatting, given my mild
alcoholismDoctorism.Don’t gamble though, so TAB is right off the table.
Hey Tay, I’m alive and well here in cold and wet Scandinavia… Been eating way too much over the last few days so I’ll probably be twice the weight when I get home!… My niece is absolutely gorgeous little critter, always smiling and laughing… Yesterday we went up and purchased a real Christmas tree, the smell of pine is spreading throughout the house! Hope you’re all well here, have I missed anything?
You have missed so much everything that I can’t even hope to describe what you’ve missed.
Okay well I will need a short summary in bullet point form organised by importance! If, if you could do that, that’d be great!
• A whole lot of nothing.
• Absolutely Nada.
• A considerable lack of anything of import.
• Six TAYbies left their families to run off with other TAYbies.
• <0
• I saw a pretty bird.
Re: that last point – kick its ass
Re: that last point – pics or it didn’t happen
http://i.imgur.com/sQtiSBU.jpg
Boom shakalacka?
That is pretty (and it’s staring into my soul)
How do you feel about this guy? http://i.imgur.com/cD5NTa6.jpg
@blaghman
I feel like he’s preparing to poop on me (if I were actually standing under him, and assuming it’s a dude. Hard to tell.)
I walked my sister past the guy for a second opinion.
“Hmm, he has the haircut, but I don’t know”
“RIGHT?!?!”
Her suggestion was to ask him for his number, but that’s so direct!
I can’t do that!
I’ll just keep being oblivious and see if he makes any moves :3
Yo, spoilers from the king of not making a move, he isn’t going to.
Just ask for his number.
What is the worst that could happen? You’ll probably get a hilarious-in-three-months story out of it. Just do it. ™
Worst thing would be that he isn’t interested, and I get so embarrassed that I end up having to find a new coffee store, but I’ve saved up near on 30 free coffees at that store, and I don’t want to waste them like that! :O
Look, mate, just don’t get embarrassed about it.
If a girl asked you out, how would you respond? You’d presumably try to be polite, indicate to her that you aren’t interested in the women folk, and go about your day, thinking that it was hilarious. Or something like that, fuck, I’m not you so it’s not like I’d know.
Odds are, this dude’s response if he’s straight/in a relationship will be more or less exactly the same. Lord knows, if anybody showed interest in me I’d take it as a compliment.
Well, I’d obliviously take it as a compliment because I wouldn’t notice, but I digress.
Maybe I’ll wait to see if there is any other signs, then go from there :3
Damned nerves! :’O
Here’s what I would do. Nothing. Follow my advice and you can be single for years to come as well. 😉 (Pssst, I’m implying you should do something in case you missed that. Haha! Be braver than me!)
Silly Daniel.
I’m sure there’s plenty of people interested in you 😉
Or there would be if you let them be 😛
(D.C., Liondrive wants to go on a date with you!)
Shall we talk about that time that D.C. went on a “definitely not a date”?
Because it was totally a date, he just didn’t know.
@blaghman OOO I WANNA HEARRR!!!
@greenius
Well, I wouldn’t say no if he asked 😛
And besides, I’ve already taken him to Max Brenners.
That’s basically a date 😛
@blaghman
I too want to hear this story 😀
@blaghman!
Story time!
Don’t leave us hanging! :’O
@liondrive
Sorry, that’s @dc’s story to tell. 😛
@blaghman
But @dc never tells me his stories!!! :’O
I’m still waiting to hear an embarrassing story he was about to tell me in Brisbane right before other people joined us :'(
The tried and true Gooky Method. I like it.
With this you can be sure to go on for months upon months wondering whether there is anything there, building up a nice set of data to pore over until you become more and more certain that there must be something there, only to just about work yourself up to doing something about it then find out he’s already taken at the very last moment before you do. It’s a great way to pass the time!
Unzip, slap it on the counter and ask what is he going to do about it.
This applies to just about every situation I can think of!
I don’t want to break the counter Freezy.
You guys are stalking him now? 😛
Only slightly! :O
I mean, no! :O
IT’S COMPLICATED! :O
What does a gay haircut look like, btw? Does it differ much from a ‘hipster’ haircut?
It’s one of those semi hipster ones, where it’s shorter on the sides, slightly longer on the top, even slightly longer and a little wavey at the front, but not hipster length or ironically 😛
The problem is that the young straight guys have started dressing fashionably too, which just confuses everybody :'(
You just described 95% of the people I see at uni 😛
EXACTLY!
It’s like, STOP IT!
That’s how you used to be able to tell who was gay from who wasn’t!!! :’O
NOW IT’S ANYBODIES GUESS!
Sometimes it makes me wonder whether I’m meant to put any effort into how I look I must admit 😛
As it stands right now I don’t even know if I own a comb…
If there’s a smell I hate more than Kraft ‘parmesan cheese’, it’s the smell of some kinds of Lynx deodorants. I have no idea what kind it is but you can smell it from ages away and it makes your nose hurt. It makes me feel sick. Gives me a massive headache and puts me off eating and makes me feel a bit queasy. Has done ever since some prick that I still hate in year 10 sprayed it round constantly in classrooms and that.
There’s another prick here that uses it. Don’t know who but I can smell it and it made me feel really sick yesterday. Is that good enough grounds for terminating a lease? 😀
Coffee, stinks to high heaven. Cafes are the wurst
Oh man, to me there’s no better smell on earth than the smell when you open a fresh bag of coffee beans 😛 Sometimes I just sit there for a while with my bag of coffee beans sniffing it…
edit: not sure why I wrote freshly ground there…
Airplanes are the worst. Can’t get past that coffee smell. Blergh. XD
I don’t think we can ever see eye to eye. Freshly ground coffee is the best smell.
So says my wife & mother too.
They both have bought beans in the past & left them around the house *dies*
@benj
Is it Africa? Does it smell like fly spray?
That is the worst. They’re all pretty bad though, Dimension and Dark Temptation are the only ones I’ve ever liked.
Well that’s interesting. Sora no Kiseki / Trails in the Sky getting an ‘Evolution’ port for Vita, presumably along the lines of Ao and Zero no Kiseki. That likely means the game gets fully voiced, plus updated artwork.
Meanwhile XSeed are still working on the old PC/PSP version of Second Chapter as far as we know? Though I wonder if maybe the delays that project hit recently are because of this? It’d be so rad if we actually ended up getting a proper Vita version in the end. Also I wish Sony’s third party productions group that have stepped in to localize a few games recently (Yakuza) would step in and do all the Kiseki games. It’s a crime that we’re so far behind in them.
I’d love to see that, I keep wanting to play TitS, but I can’t quite justify it on PC thanks to the huge number of unfinished games I have there already.
But on Vita, I can buy it, then never play it at all.
This joke is too obvious that it’s not even funny :'(
It’s a little funny :-p
TitS Flash
Only the first three games are Trails in the Sky. ‘Flash’ is Sen no Kiseki.
Also it’s not that sort of ‘flash’.
Naked Boobs!
閃. It means to flash or brandish, i.e. to show off a weapon in an intimidating fashion.
…
I guess it could work with boobs?
It’s a bit slow-paced at takes a while before things really get that exciting but it’s a really fun game.
EDIT: Or to be really crass, TitS starts out small scale but eventually gets larger and more exciting as things progress
Just watched Jingle All The Way. What I noticed: Phil Hartman as the annoying neighbour, Yeardley Smith cameo, a decent moral at the end of it (when the kid gives up the toy he wanted the entire movie).
Oh, and the diner is the same as the one in Mighty Ducks
Which according to Wikipedia:
Now watching Miracle on 34th Street (the remake). Hans from Mighty Ducks is a bad guy!
P.S. Now it’s Talk Amongst Phoenix. Sorry @blaghman
Man, I love Tap. At the end of year 8 my English teacher stood on the table and did a tap dance, and it was rad.
I sometimes wish I could tap #secretdreams
I feel like Christmas week has officially started now. Just had the RSL christmas roast. Ham, Turkey, cranberry sauce, baked vegies, gravy and a bowl of pudding and custard. Now falling into blissful food coma.
That sounds amazing! Save me some 🙂
http://instagram.com/p/w3PxesAST5/
Amazing and all gone (although I did share a bit with my little boy)
#jelly
I just finished watching the latest episode of Agents of Shield, and I think I might have just figured everything out. Like Marvel’s whole plan. This goes beyond Infinity Stones and stuff, if I’m right, this is insane!
Spoilers – Last 3 eps of AoS and possible future spoilers
So, in the second-to-latest AoS episode they mantion that the race that built the city were 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
I’ll post this again tomorrow when more people are on, and maybe to reddit as well, but what are your thoughts?
I’ve refrained from reading because spoilers, and yet… I’ve missed the boat with AoS, I’m never going to end up catching up on it. And yet I still won’t read it. Pretty dumb.
To be fair, the first season was pretty bad until the Winter Soldier came along.
The spoiler’s aren’t major, I could probably give you a really minor spoiler version of it? I’ll edit it when I repost tomorrow so that there’s a separate spoiler with the AoS spoiler and then my theory (which can be understood mostly without the spoilers).
I completely understand as well…there’s always that feeling that you might watch it, even though you probably won’t…it’s so annoying!
Heh, I haven’t even gotten around to seeing Iron Man 3 of Captain America 2 yet. Dunno when that’ll happen, usually my movie catch-up service is the TV but I haven’t even been looking at the guide for weeks now 😛
Down the media black hole I go.
How’s Forza Horizon 2? It looks pretty cool and it’s been a while since I’ve played an open world racing game. I didn’t even know it was a thing until I saw it pop up in Xbox One bundles but now I really wanna play it!
I can’t remember the last time I played a racing game, I think the last one that interested me was The Crew (saw a video of someone driving coast to coast). Seemed pretty cool.
The Crew’s problematic from a raw gameplay standpoint (some of the missions are awful, its plot is silly, the cars more or less handle the same way based on what spec they are), but the world itself is pretty cool, and I’m enjoying it.
/me adds it to Steam wishlist
I wrote a short… reviewy thing? to Strange the other day : http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/12/while-you-were-sleeping-994/comment-page-9/#comment-3088302
May or may not help. I’ve put a lot of time in, and am enjoying it overall, but I don’t think I could recommend it to everyone.
Thanks!
I want more Burnout! :'(
I think I already have that on my wishlist.
Right? I loved Burnout Paradise, and The Crew just makes me want a new one of that (I know purists prefer the older ones, but Paradise was my jam).
Me too! But only so long as it’s like the first two games, I didn’t care for any of the others 😛
3 and Revenge was more my jam
*mortal enemies*
Best friends!
Same thing!
Frenemies til the end
How’s AC4: Freedom Cry? Worth playing? It seems to be $3.75 on Steam so that ain’t too bad! Although it looks like I’ll need to redownload a whole 30GB for it… eh :/. This is making me less likely to wanna play it!
Omg Geometry Wars 3 is so good.
Do all Bens love Geometry Wars? I remember getting a 360 and playing “Project Gotham 3” (GEOMETRY WARS) with a Ben and we were loving it 😛
I gotta look into getting 3 ASAP!
Do it! So good!
No game has makes me feel more tense and proud of myself than Geometry Wars 😛 The only problem is if I’m showing it to somebody else and give them a go they get frustrated cos they can’t get anywhere near my score cos DID I MENTION I’M A GOD AT IT and then they pass the controller back to me and I just casually beat my high score again and they’re just like ‘wtf???’
Ben was better than me at Geometry Wars 2 too :'(
Whatcha playing on? I see it’s on PC now… hmm…
PC
Although I pirateded it but I think online and everything still works fineBad Ben! Support those developers you love 😛
See you all in new TAY (Or possibly not, cause Xmas holidays and whatnot)…
Urgh. Skype auto-updated itself for some reason tonight, to the shitty new version that automatically accepts file transfers. NO THAT IS NOT HOW YOU WORK GO AWAY. Never mind the god-awful new UI that comes with it.
Yanked out the ethernet cable to try and stop it, but it was too late. Managed to downgrade though, but then started looking for a solution to the formatting thing that now bolds any text between two asterisks. Found one, but I’ve gone through and read so many posts that are also pissed off about the shitty changes that keep coming, I’m getting too much angry.
Almost makes me want to become a real programmer and make a superior alternative because fuck you, Skype. But that’s way beyond the scope of my abilities.
Oh man, I hope there’s a way to use the Wii U’s GCN adapter to play Screencheat. I think there’s gonna be four of us kids on Christmas day, that could be perfect.
You say ‘us kids’ like you’re not old.
Kids table 4lyf.
In other news, it looks like it won’t work. Because it’s a Unity game, and Unity seems to have issues with vJoy.
Fuck Unity. Hate it so much.
…why was this the second suggestion on youtube when looking at a video on controller remappings?
STOP BEING CREEPY YOU STUPID WEBSITE
Creepy YouTube, you say?
And now the BEST YouTube
I thought that was going to be more like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FavUpD_IjVY
Awww yiss. Nabbed a Pit and Captain Falcon Amiibo. Regional Targets pull through!
Wrong TAY, Pow 😛
Nah.
I was trying to be helpful.
Ah!
Reordered the NBA League Pass now that I’m about to start time off work… It’s normally $280AUD if browsing to the site normallly, but by using the same plugin I use to watch Netflix, I managed to get it for $124AUD by making the website think I was browsing from Argentina 😀
*bows to the power of t3h int3rw3bz*
Merry Christmas errbody! Hope you all have a happy and safe xmas and dont get too drunk! Ha! What am i saying we will all be passed out by 2