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New TAY! \o/
… that’s all I got.
New TAY saying 8:45AM, suspicion-detector is going off the charts 😛
Hope everyone had a good christmas!
I forgot to do it at 8am. Busted! 😉
Haha all good! Afterall, you’re only human 🙂
He tried his best techie, no need to insult the poor man
Hey hey hey, I held back okay? It’s not like I called him a meatbag or something 😛
/o\ \o/
This is the dangers of holidays, I completely forgot it’s Monday today. Fortunately I’m working tomorrowand not today 😀
That new Tay smell
Just had an odd conversation with my 5yo son about Castrati. All he did was giggle at the word “scrotum”, though. 😛
*giggles*
Help! I can’t stop playing The Witcher 2!
Also, my secret SanTAY gift arrived! (It actually got here before Christmas but the post office was closed until today…)
They got me some wooden puzzle thingos. The first of which fell apart as I pulled it out of the box so I had to try and put it back together immediately… They must plan that to happen.
Even though I have no idea who you are, thanks buddy! They signed their name in moon language. The best I could decipher using Google Translate was:
Thanks, @doorsurgeryhandsomecalendarmonth.
Door surgery in action: http://imgur.com/gallery/tDLuMUu
Morning all, How was everyones Christmas?
Was good. I had 3 lots of christmas lunch/dinner so food overload which is always good in my books.
Gift wise nothing much, we mostly buy for the kids these days, although I did end up with a few village cinema vouchers things so might have to go see a couple of things soon. Best of all both lots of vouchers came with the offer of babysitting so we can actually use them.
The other really cool gift I got which is only kinda for me was a print by childrens book author Freya Blackwood (Hi @freya). It was the mockup for the mural she did for the Orange childrens hospital. We are waiting for it to be framed but basically this is the print
Stayed Sat night at the in-laws and darling daughter didn’t sleep great so she is a bit cranky. But most of christmas day was spent cleaning and trying to make space to move her into the 2nd bedroom.
Not terrible. Visited with my mother’s side of the family Christmas day, went to my wife’s aunt’s place Christmas night. Got a nice bottle of scotch from my mother though that was technically a late birthday present.
Pretty average really. No dramas. For which I am relieved. A few more years and I might believe our family is nearly normal instead of the dysfunctional mess it was a few years ago.
Kind of boring, actually. I was mostly sitting around waiting to go home.
I’m on skeleton crew this week which reminds me of the game where you create a fake album cover where you generate it by:
1) going to wikipedia and hitting “random”; use the article name as the band
2) going to http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3 and taking the last quote on the page; use last 3-5 words as the title (whichever makes more grammatical sense)
3) go to http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days and use the 3rd image as your cover art
Now mock up that album cover!
http://imgur.com/soFDvKV
P.S.: The reason “skeleton” reminds me of this game is because one time my band was “2005 German Skeleton Championships”.
P.P.S.: you might have to click the button to get new quotes, I tested it and it seems that the default “random” quotes are always the same, at least on my work PC
Most boring album ever. Although if you don’t have a Christmas gift for grandma have I got a deal for you
https://imgflip.com/i/fsfpj
Nice. I believe Deborah Ball (or D-Ball as she’s known on the streets) is reponsible for the summer hip-hop hit “C*ntry Lyfe”
I actually quite like my one 🙂
http://imgur.com/Zc2IkCe
I’d buy it, even though it’s probably dubstep.
That looks like it could be a real album
I know, right?!
http://imgur.com/rvfiUgr
Well that turned out pretty well.
Also I just realised I meant to chop out the “like” from that quote bit. Erase it in your mind, I already closed the thingos 😛
I remember doing this game years ago. Found one of my old ones, according to the timestamp it’s from 2007 (!). Don’t think I’ll ever top it.
http://i.imgur.com/pUU1DS3.jpg
That is excellent.
Hey Persona Q players, did you choose 4 or 3 as your starters?
4.
I do love 3, but 4’s cast of characters were better developed. I thought it’d make for more entertaining team dialogue.
But then I forgot how annoying Teddie was.
I should have gone with 3.
If teddie wasn’t annoying you wouldn’t get everyone treating him like dirt though.
A necessary evil
4. I haven’t played 3. My knowledge of it comes from occasional looks at the wiki, and the first of the movies.
Totally agree with Bish that Teddie’s annoyingness is amped up to 11.
You should check out 3. The PSP version is playable on Vita ( what region are you because dunno how that lame Aussie store is)
Also, I played like $5 for P3Fes on US PSN.
Ah, the post Xmas droop…
What are we all looking forward to in 2015, gaming or otherwise?
Captain Toad in 4 days!
Dunno man! I never know what’s going to be around the corner 😀
Gaming wise there’s Bloodborne, MH4U, MGSV, Xenoblade X, Final Fantasy, Zelda, Grim Fandango, Resident Evil, Witcher 3, Batman, Yakuza and a bunch of other things! Life wise – this job is awesome and I could end up interstate and what happens with my intercompany rotations could affect errythin’ ;o
…and of course seeing TAY peeps at PAX! (board games all day erry day)
Resident Evil Revelations 2
Final Fantasy Type 0
Duke Nukem 3D Megaton Edition for Vita
Resident Evil Remake Remaster
Devil Survivor 2 Break Record
Yakuza 5
Maybe Bravely Second & FF XV if they come.
Star Wars VII
Jurassic World
I honestly have no real idea what’s coming up that I’m looking forward to. I’m sure there’s stuff coming out I want but I just have no idea. I’m sticking to my “don’t buy it until you have time to play it” principles and part of that is that I don’t really check out upcoming/new release games anymore unless I have a gap in my schedule.
Star Wars Battlefront.
DICE better not stuff this up.
Me too! I know next to nothing about it though.
Uh, The Mandate, maybe? I want that Frogatto platformer game I greenlit to come out already. I have no interest in the actual game, but the level editor looks so awesome.
Woah, through some random searching whilst trying to think of games, I found out Bleed 2 is in development. YES! YES!
Woot, I’m freaking pumped for that game! Woooooh! Yeah!
I should stop typing out my exclamations of joy. Hoorah! Yipee! HYYYYYYYYPE!
3 days left!
@beardymcmuttonchops @beeawwb @cufcfan616 @dc @dkzeitgeist @freezespreston @gutsoup @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @sernobulus @strange @sughly @transientmind @welbot @virus__
Had a hectic Xmas? Wish you could just relax and unwind? Come to Freeze’s Quiet Night Inn for New Years Eve and sit back and relax with some games. Have a quiet talk with some friends over a drink. Tuck into a complimentary meal. Free lodging. Free limo* service from train station. Book now to avoid additional disappointment.
*not a limo
NOU..!
I mean, err, I said yes to this didn’t I..? I can’t remember /o\
Can’t make it, sorry 🙂
I’ll go! (Unless no one else goes, then I’d just feel like I was in the way. :P)
I will be there. I will probably get in around 8pm…ish. Depends when I finish work.
I know I’ve said this in last weeks post, but for the sake of consistency, I’ll post again. I wont be able to make it sorry. I wont get home from work til like 5 or after, and then I have to work again the day after new year, and given how ill I’ve been feeling, I think I’ll need the day off to recoup a little. Wish I could, but better to be safe than sorry!
Kids haven’t been well behaved enough to warrant a trip down for a good time. 🙁 Thanks for the offer though. 🙂
Looks like I’m going to be with family, now. (I had a suspicion this might be a request after we met properly for xmas day/boxing day). But this is a most excellent idea. I am very into the down-tempo vibe.
Christmas was excellent, ate too much and never want to eat again (lies).
Mum is sick of Skyrim (after 180 hours I’m not surprised) so she wants something like that to play. She’s already played Oblivion, so I suggested Dragon Age 2 because it’s fairly basic, but we had a small (“small”) argument because she was having difficulty in the tutorial stage getting used to the fact that the mouse doesn’t control the camera like in Skyrim. She seemed to pull her patience together like she was keen to give it a go later after I left, but who knows if she will.
Anyone got any suggestions for good Skyrim-like games with easy controls?
If I could get her onto a console this would make life a billion times easier.
Would she like Fallout 3 or New Vegas?
Sorry, I forgot to mention that she doesn’t like shooting games. She’d prefer to hit things with swords.
Hmm, that does kind of limit options especially if difficulty is a concern. I hit a wall early in DA:O that’s prevented me from enjoying the franchise.
Maybe an entirely different kind of game is warranted? What does she like most about Skyrim? The setting (sword/sorcery medievalesque fantasy), the gameplay (whacking shit with swords) or generally just an engaging story regardless of gameplay/setting? Are there other games she’s liked that might give us some more insight?
As far as I know, she’s played/finished Skyrim, Oblivion, and Overlord 1 & 2. She also plays some puzzle games, but gets frustrated at those.
Diablo 3? I don’t have any problem with those controls (I’m terrible at shooting games)
That one might be worth a go, thanks.
…No, I’m not also getting suggestions for games for me to play not at all!
I’ve been working on a Diablo III shirt all day, played it for a few hours last night, and still didn’t think to suggest it. *facepalm*
Bit late to the party, but I would note that melee builds in Fallout 3/New Vegas are pretty damn viable, and V.A.T.S. makes it a cinch. All planning, no fuss on the execution.
Oooooh, CAT!!! 😀
There aren’t actually many games like Skyrim, that I can recall.
You could try downloading some mods for her though maybe?
Some of them offer heaps of content.
Other than that, the only games I can think of (that are First Person) would be the Fallout series, and maybe even the Far Cry series.
Yeah, I was going to get the DLC for her, but I think she’s just sick of the game in general at the moment. When she wants to get back into it I’ll get her the DLC and some mods to give her new content.
Unfortunately she doesn’t like shooting games, which really cuts down on the games I could suggest for her.
I love hitting things with swords and axes, but hate shooting games. The Fallout games don’t at all feel like shooters to me. I love them. Plus, she could go all crowbar on her enemies and pretend it was a sword…. 😀
That’s true! I will broach that idea with her…
Also…did you try Dark Souls?
It’s my Mum, I would never do that to her!
I love Dark Souls, and I’m someone’s Mum…. 😛
You’re not my Mum though, and I know what would make her throw the computer out of the window 😉
Hmm, the only other games I can think of aren’t first person though.
There’s Dragons Dogma and Kingdoms of Amalur, maybe?
Or Dark Souls! 😀
(don’t get her Dark Souls :P)
Thanks for stealing my also also ALSO suggestions, Lion!:P
(@renne – definitely try Kingdoms of Amalur and/or Dragons’ Dogma)
Those are good suggestions, thanks!
Amalur is a really good suggestion. Which reminds me, I must install and play that from PSN.
@renee Another vote for Amalur, that is such a decent game.
Also also…what about Morrowind?
Haha I’d completely forgotten about Morrowind.
There’s that total conversion mod for Skyrim that turns it into Morrowind coming out at some point. Or lots of mods for Morrowind making it look and play much less dated.
Thanks, I think I remember the Morrowind mod being mentioned. I’ll keep an eye out for it when it’s done, she might be ready to go back to Skyrim by that point anyway.
Morrowind is the greetest.
Mount & Blade: Warband?
Controls can be a bit tricky to get a hang of and visuals are a bit dated. But tis a big open world medieval hack n slash and can be played first person if you want.
(Tho scale the difficulty right down as “Normal” is utterly brutal.)
Yeah, I usually put her on the easiest difficulty anyway, because she likes to game but she would rather plough through a story than be frustrated by having to do battles over and over. If the controls are tricky, I might have a bash at it first myself, because the way she lost her temper over the DA2 ones…
Dishonored
Shadows of Modor
If you are considering dark souls maybe try lords of the fallen
The witcher series
And on a different note and slightly different style what about things like Jedi academy or force unleashed?
That’s an excellent range of games, clearly I wasn’t thinking hard enough (too much christmas ham probably).
There is no such thing as too much Christmas ham
Oh and for the next 12 hrs kingdoms of Amalamadingdong is on sale for $5
And Mount and blade is $4
I sent her the steam link for Kingdoms of Amalur so she’s currently downloading that one.
I actually recommend Dragon Age Origins or Dragon Age Inquisition… I cannot remember how the camera controls work in Origins but in Inquisition you can use the mouse to control them.
I also hate shooting games but loved (LOVED) mass effect…
I think Inquisition would be great, but it’s still a bit too expensive right now for her. I’ve definitely got it on the list for her to try later down the track once she’s got through a few of the suggestions and it’ll have dropped a little in price.
Is it just me, or is twitter down?
*cries*
What am I supposed to do with my day now?! D’:
Also, starting today, I have the house to myself for 3 weeks! 😀
I suspect the lack of human interaction and the confined solitude will make me crazy…
It’s down on some phone apps, but the browser version is working.
*shakes DC vigorously*
BUT WHY WON’T IT WORK ON MY PHONE!?!?!?
*continues to shake DC vigorously*
WHY?!?!?!
Down for me too on my phone. Now how will I see how many people favourite my hilarious tweets!?
I stopped favouriting your tweets because I thought it’d be annoying for you if I favourited all your tweets…
*coughs*
I favourite them in my heart…
*coughs*
Favourites are my life.
If this were a tweet, I would favourite it, in my heart.
For now I’ll just upvote it…
In my heart.
The #IfYouAreTheOne crowd love’m!
I measure a successful #ifyouaretheone night on the amount of favourites I get.
…last night was a failure 😛
I liked you’re out-of-context slightly racist tweet.
“Mr. White”, HA!
It was in context if you were watching the show! He turned up in an entirely white outfit (shoes and all) and wore full white in all of his videos 😛
Apparently the Android App thinks it’s 2015
Twitter was out on my phone most of the day, but ok on my laptop
Question, I’m trying to figure out how much money a new tv would cost in terms of electricity. I know our current one says 120 watts on the back. I have no idea how much it uses a year which makes it hard to compare to the new tvs, as they have the star ratings. They usually tell you the amount of electricity they use per year as well. Does anyone know how they work this shit out?
Those stickers on them with their energy rating is based on (I think) 10 hours of use per day. Mine (a 40″ Sony Bravia) apparently only uses 110kw a year based on 10 hours of use per day. Our currently price per kilowatt of energy here in NSW is somewhere around the 32 cent mark. So it would cost me something like $350 a year to run my TV for 10 hours a day every day.
Are you talking about adding another TV on top of your usual power load? Because unless it’s going to be in use 24/7 the cost should be pretty negligible. The real power hogs in the house are the things that are always running like the fridge, air con, etc. Probably consoles running in stand-by as well.
An extra TV running a couple of hours a day probably comes out at a few bucks at most.
I am looking at replacing the one we have for one that is more energy efficient.
Worst three days of my life with PSN down. I even had to talk to family and wasted my only two days off on the weekend.
I looked at that statement after writing it and it seems very first-world problem-esque. But in all seriousness, it was tough this Festivus. I was excited about finally upgrading my Titan helmet and stressed about missing Xur (who I found out via constantly watching the Twitter PSN feed is Agente De Los Nueve in Spanish). Damn you Bungie for making me feel this way! *shakes fist at nothing in particular*.
Bungie Maths time: VOG runs 11 + Crota runs 3 = 2 bits of armour. Why is this so? *shakes fist with disgruntled look*
And still I play. Is Bungie/Activision part of FIFA or something?????????
My cousin’s boyfriend bought a new Xbox One and brought it over to my aunt’s place for updates and to download his gamertag, savegames etc as they don’t have internet at their place at the moment. He actually had an Xbone before when he worked at EB but they made him either pay for it or give it back for bullshit reasons when he left (he could afford to keep the PS4 or Xbone and he chose the PS4).
That afternoon I turned on my Xbone to kill time before my wife picked me up after visiting her family – thought I’d play some Volgarr while watching videos on my PC but I couldn’t sign in at all, so I thought: man, lucky it wasn’t down earlier in the day or he would have been screwed! Then it occurred to me: I thought you could still play offline now since people got shitty about the always-online stuff, but apparently not, so I guess he’s screwed til he gets internet at his new place anyway. :/
Can’t edit posts at work: I should clarify this is Christmas Day I was referring to.
Was he a manager at EB? Because all managers were given Xbones & PS4’s last year at release it was really silly..
That’s so shit you can’t play anything without being online with the Xbone :/
Yeah, I think he was a store manager at a crappy store and they kept him going by promising him a better store, but kept giving these new awesome stores to newly promoted managers. He’s taken an assistant manager role at a Bose store and is much happier earning more with less responsibility.
He was told that the consoles were his to keep no strings attached, but when he quit they 180’d and told him he had to return them (or pay for them). He could only afford one on such short notice and had more time invested in the PS4, so he let the Xbone go.
Yeah EB managers & ASM’s are worked to the bone, which is entirely unfair. Good to hear he found a better job somewhere else.
That’s just so wrong.
Yeah I feel sorry for everyone that turned on their brand new XBone or PS4 with excitement in their eyes Xmas Day.
Would have been devastating. Dad getting angry, everyone combing through the instruction manual, resetting their modems, smashing Google. A terrible day for some.
Oooh, a Destiny player!
We should be friends, friend! 😀
PSN = liondrive, if you want 🙂
Done. Invite sent. bigharro99 on PSN, Always happy to have more friends for raids!
I watched The Interview last night, it wasn’t that bad. It was even funny at times as well.. It had way more plot to it than I thought it would as well. I’d give it a solid 6/10.
I’m hearing mixed things about this movie.
I think it was @jimu who said it was hilarious (nay be mistaken).
I thought it looked kind of, “meh”, but might check it out at some stage.
I was really worried because I like those guys but am not so keen on the anti N Korean ‘humour’ that the US is so keen on atm.
I thought it was handled even better than Team America, which I love.America is portrayed every bit as stupid as Korea & it’s set up early on to make you realise what you’re in for, the tone is set expertly early on.
It’s full of hilarious jokes & top notch acting. They only play the same idiot characters they always play, but they do it well.
I was laughing a lot, which as a comedy meets the goal, but there’s also a strong message about the power of the media, the government & all the bullshit in between.
10/10 silly American comedy
It’s a good movie. It’s no greatest movie of 2014, but I actually found it funny, I don’t find a lot of stuff funny for some reason, but I did here for some reason. I watched it out of pure curiosity, I don’t think i’ve ever seen a Seth Rogen or James Franco movie before, but thought it was good.
I quite enjoyed it, laughed out loud way more than I should have. 8/10 for me.
Started watching Star Wars Rebels the other day, since I’d run out of Gravity Falls, and it’s a pretty cool guy. Feels like it owes a bit to Firefly or Farscape or one of those other “small crew” sci-fi shows (Which I guess a lot of the original trilogy is anyway [just chilling on the Falcon], but it feels different, ya know?).
Super predictable, and while I don’t mind its art style, some of its character animations are a bit rubbish. But, I’ll probably keep watching it, because it has the “bwaaarrrmmm” and the “pew pew” and all that jazz.
Tried playing more Lords of the Fallen, but I restarted it, got absolutely smashed by the boss at the end of the tutorial, which was kind of odd since I’d breezed past him the first time, beat the second boss, and seem to have hit a wall of unfair bullshit, so it’s back in the pile (for now).
And Valkyria Chronicles is a pretty cool guy, still. Actually laughed out loud when I got the requisite fan-service beach scene. And it’s interesting. Half the levels I seem to breeze through, getting an A or B rank without really trying super hard. Other ones I don’t think I could complete without a guide.
And now I’m sitting here, talking about crap that hopefully nobody cares about (for your own sanity), and considering buying This War of Mine, because I definitely haven’t bought enough games on Steam this sale.
Where you stuck at in LotF?
I’ve also put that back on the pile, despite being probably near the end, largely due to bugs.
Just after beating The Commander (who, by the way, is an utter wanker. Oh, he only has two attacks that leave him vulnerable enough for a hit, hey, let’s make it so that he never uses one of them, and so that the other one just drops bombs from the sky wherever it wants, and can juggle someone between them with nothing they can do as they lose 70% of their health. That sounds like fun!).
Had a choice between going backwards, and being murdered by some poisonous creature that had a habit of comboing me down from 80% health with an attack that went through a metre of wall. Going forwards and to the left, where I was murdered by an enemy who kept their shield up all the time, and only dropped it to kill me in one hit, or to wander aimlessly where I found a big dude with a scythe who wasn’t so bad except for how he did… something? And I just sort of died. Again.
Oh yeah, if the dude on the left is who I think it is (big guy, sword/shield) I found him impossible to beat at that point in the game. The only way to beat those guys that I have found is:
Later on when you find the smith, put a Luck? rune in your explosive gantlet to make it cause a distraction like the Alluring Skulls in Dark souls. Then hit em in the back till they snap out of it, run like hell and repeat. Cheap as shit but the only way to kill them I found.The Worshiper boss with the Scythe:
When he gets down on one knee and starts casting blue clouds all over the place, run into one of the white glowing shrines, it will protect you when he explodes everything.Also, in general I found speed is king in this game. Enemy attacks are too fast for slow weapons or fat-rolling. Even using a shield does not help half the time as they smash through your stamina too quick.
Also a bug when fighting the next boss, the Infiltrator: the magic fount in the middle will drain your magic if you go near it. And after you kill the boss, your magic will never regen past the amount you had when you killed him. So make sure you stick to the edges and have full mana when you win.
That’s a pretty damn bad bug.
Apparently if you do the shield charge you’ve got a decent chance of breaking the big dudes’ guard, but I haven’t tested that.
Hey at least it doesn’t put you in an infinite spawn/death loop and completely break your game like a couple of other bugs I’ve heard of…
Not the most well made game around that’s for sure.
Where are you watching Rebels? I want to start watching it, but iTunes seems to be releasing episodes painfully slowly (last episode released was no. 6 on 10 November). I’m considering ust waitinguntil the DVD comes out with everything on it…
Yarrrr, I’ve been sailing the seven seas.
The seven seas of rye, that is. *High fives self, drinks into an alcoholic stupor*
Edit: Oh, and iTunes isn’t that far behind, I assume by no. 6 you’re including “Spark of Rebellion” as an episode, so they had 6 out on the day it aired. Since then, only 2 episodes aired (gotta take a Christmas break), though they’re a two-parter.
OK, thanks. I think I’ll buy Spark of Rebllion and see if I like it.
Otherwise I’ll just find the clone wars DVD collection somewhere.
It’s only up to ep 8 and then it took like a 4-5 week break for some reason, won’t be back until next week.
Any one here with an Xbox One who doesn’t have Assassin’s Creed 4 and wants it?
I’ll take the Xbone?
You and @freezespreston think alike!
D:
Oh god.
I made another album cover because I’m bored. I mean, I have work to do, but I’ve been really productive today and I felt Limbless Skink had a pretty successful debut.
http://imgur.com/Sbtma1U
Twitter is still down, so I’ll have to tweet here instead:
Contemplating shaving my belly hair into ab lines.
I’d tweet here but I’m saving my A-material for real twitter.
> implying I have A-material
Twitter works via compooter but not fone 🙁
Seems like 343i really can’t help themselves turning Halo into CoD. Has anybody else seen the redesign for the Rocket Launcher in Halo 5?
I saw some video clips from the Halo 5 beta and I’ve decided I have no interest whatsoever. If I wanted to play future CoD I would have bought Advanced Warfare or gone back to Titanfall.
It looks the same?
Haha! No.
http://i.imgur.com/5DkrhzE.png
Wait, what? That looks totally different from the one I saw. It must have been a Halo 4 one with a misleading label. That new one looks pretty stupid.
Just tried to use my credit card & it claims I have not enabled it for online shopping, never mind all that stuff I’ve been buying.
I freaked out when I got a paypal login rejection stating my account has been permabanned. Then I realised that I was trying to login with the wrong email address. Now I’m bothered because the hotmail account I’ve had for about 15 years, that no one else had before me, is “banned” from paypal?! I don’t plan to use it, but… banned?!
Maybe it just auto-rejects hotmail accounts or something?
Seems ozgameshop has extra security & asks your bank for permission.
because I didn’t bother setting up internet banking, it couldn’t ask.
Fairly painless process to get them to set it up & it was immeadiate, which is nice.
Also, ozgameshop just charged me $2 for shipping!
When did that start?
Middle of the year I think, suddnely shipping is no longer free, prices aren’t as good… adding in the wait time and it’s suddenly a lot less competitive compared to just taking advantage of JB’s low launch prices and sales. :/
Yeah, I used to go there for everything but now, not so much.
It just so happened they did have the cheapest price this time, shipping included.
What a sad turn of events 🙁
Claimant’s correspondence states he is “weak at the knees” due to an incident involving our insured’s “loose manhole”.
I definitely kept a straight face while composing my response.
Oh dear
So I ordered Hyperdimension Neptunia ReBirth, here’s hoping I don’t hate it.
@liondrive mobile twatter is back!
I sent you an important massage
This was a page get?
Fuuuuuu
I’m going to hold you to that “massage” next visit.
*wink*
Right, so, yeah, I got a pair of shoes as a gift for christmas, right? I mean, I only own all of 2 pairs of shoes so I’m like “AWESOME NOW I GOT LIKE, FANCY LOOKING SHOES I CAN WEAR TO THE BALL AND SHIT.” And then I go from the gym to work and realize that when I switched to my runners to my work boots I forgot my runners at the gym. So now I own, get this, two pairs of shoes.
And that sums up the entirety of my holidays.
BUT THE BALL! THE BALL!
Trying to decide between either Lords of the Fallen (since I only hear praise) or Wolfenstein, or I can pay a little bit of money for Alien Isolation.
Suggestions?
Lords of the Fallen isn’t great. It’s thoroughly mediocre. But in a good way.
It’s nice to play a game with relatively high production values that isn’t trying to be everything to everyone.
Aside from some very bad bugs I’d call it an excellent $20 game.
It’s selling for $47, down from $99 :S
I picked it up for $20 USD on steam the other day.
But still, assuming you don’t encounter any game breaking bugs, if you like Souls games it’s still a solid play for that much.
I like how this comment proves that you completely ignored me on the last page.
No, no. It’s fine. *holds back tears*
In all seriousness, Wolfenstein is a really, really solid game. What it does, it does well, but I don’t think it truly excels in any field. Alien Isolation is a very flawed game, but it has lots of brilliance shining through its crusty elements.
Lords of the Fallen can suck a fat one.
Edit: I should probably mention that that last point is due to a combination of me being bad at video games, and a whole lot of design decisions I don’t like.
Lords of the Fallen is better then Dark Souls 2
…
but that’s not saying much.
EDIT: I personally think it’s a pretty solid game. The stuff that works, works well but there are a few game-breaking bugs. I personally haven’t encountered any of them but have ran into a couple of minor ones.
I also like the way it’s very similar to Dark Souls but also twists some of the mechanics. Dual wielding is actually fun and not pointless! \o/
Wolfenstein is an amazingly well-made game. Great plot, great writing, great action, lots of fun. Very nuanced as well, lots of interesting tricks (BJ becomes a relic of a bygone era in the game just as in real life, I thought that was really clever).
Also you get to murder Space Nazis on the Moon.Lords of the Fallen looks to be a thoroughly mediocre Dark Souls clone. I’m all for Dark Souls getting clones, but Wolfenstein is by far going to be more worthy of your dollars.
Wolfenstein was probably my game of 2014 though.
Turns out Tabletop Simulator is pretty great. Once you get past the wonky controls and the like, it’s a solid substitute for playing board games in person. Which, given the geographical nature of this here TAY thing, is quite welcome.
Bear were punched by gypsies, small girls were eaten (twice!) and I read the wrong rulebook. The hilarity!
In other news, having four days off work has really reminded me that I desperately need to take some leave. I’ve only used about a week across a year and a half of working, so I’m pretty pooped. Two weeks off soon is starting to sound mighty tempting, even if I don’t go anywhere. Although attacking some TAYbies would be fun.
Hello.
It’s convenient but I’d wager there are more than a few games that it simply can’t handle.
Rampage would be tricky for one.
Well you could have a preset board so that everything was setup for it.
The physics should be able to handle the dropping, but there is blowing as well isn’t there?
I think twister could also be a struggle
Blowing and flicking are the two things that would be tricky to pull off.
You can flick but yeah, blowing (heh adult) might be a bit difficult.
Can you balance something on top of something else and then flick it? Because that’s how you throw cars in Rampage.
I really haven’t played enough Tabletop Simulator to really work out where it works and doesn’t work. All I know is that actual physics based games would be a nightmare, despite it being a physics sim.
I’m on my first work leave at the moment. It’s only about 12 days (including weekends and public holidays) and even though I thought I’d be bored out of my brains since I’m not going anywhere or doign anything too substantial, it has been surprisingly good going back to having ALL THE FREE TIME IN THE WORLD to work on finishing off some of the games on my pile 😀
Sitting on your ass all day playing games is so underrated! 😛
I’ve been off work for a week & mostly played Q & not much. 🙁
I just got an Xbox One so that kinda helped pass the time since I’ve been playing a bunch of new games and I’ve been co-oping Halo with a friend
12 days of freedom sounds glorious. 🙁
Oh so that’s why I’ve been seeing a tonne of people playing that!
(ps. I was thinking of maybe going up to Brisbane for a few days sometime in Feb/March. Theme parks! And TAYbies of course. But mostly theme parks. Maybe you’d like to tag along!)
(wasn’t invited)
:'(
*rides his river of tears to Brisbane himself*
Mostly theme parks?
I would certainly like to tag along!
Can I bring my Greenius?
I knew you were the cooler one!
Quick, I think Webjet still has a deal on for flights!
I bought that the other day! Someone invite me if you see me online 🙂
I’ve worked the last 3 days, still another 6 to go before I get a day off 🙁
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/12/is-it-safe-is-it-not-safe-fox-host-speculates-metric-system-brought-down-airasia-flight/
I KNEW IT!
If only those foreign pilots could get a bit of cowboy attitude
More like cowboy altitude amIright?
Your attitude largely determines your altitude.
Still can’t decide what to buy, so am definitely going to wait, especially since only Freeze replied with input.
I did pick up Tomb Raider and the Walking Dead Season 01 / 400 days though 🙂
Xenoblade you dweeb.
What a Xenojerk.
He said he was gonna buy it!
:'(
HE SAID!
I said maybe, but I’ holding off for as long as possible, just to spite you :*
Top choices
*Single emo tear*
Good choices though. Tomb Raider’s a fun 8/10, The Walking Dead’s flawed, but pretty damn great.Haha, I was just teasing you 😛
Those were the only two games I was fully interested in.
The other games were kind of like, “Yeah, this might be interesting. Lots of TAY guys talk about them”.
Might just wait till something jumps out at me though 🙂
Don’t worry, I gathered as such. 😛
And I’m the last person to talk to about self-control when it comes to buying games, so uhh, I’ll trust that your reasons make sense in your mind.
*Goes and buys 12 games on Steam that I have no interest in*
Why do that when you can buy 12 COPIES OF TRANSISTOR AKA SECOND GREATEST GAME OF THE YEAR
I like how close you are to being correct.
I’m sorry, but Bayonetta. I had to.
My album cover from Kermi’s game on the previous page
cc @kermitron
Here’s mine.
WOO! BUY’N ALL THE BUSINESS SHIRTS
Feels good wearing nice shirts for once 😀
Mum vs. Dragon Age 2
After the frustration fit she pitched the other day, she actually has tried to play more and I quote: “Am still playing Dragons Age and having to work things out as I go along lol……..totally hopeless at the fighting though lol..the others do that mainly then i have to heal them.” Seems like a legit way to play to me. I figured once I got her to Kirkwall it wouldn’t be so annoying for her to figure out controls and stuff.
…I’m pretty damn proud of my 63 year old gamer mum, in case that’s not obvious.
My mum could never see past her own reflection on the original green screened GameBoy & she would have only been late 20s at the time
Mum was never even remotely interested in games when we were kids, but I think probably in the last 5 or 6 years, mostly thanks to Facebook games, she’s gotten inspired to try things that are more than just point and click.
That’s not to say she doesn’t enjoy smashing the hell out of Farmville or whatever it is she’s playing on Facebook, though.
I’m tempted to put my Mum up against things like Journey to see how she deals with them (she too was introduced to Facebook games and no longer sees games in as nearly a negative light as she used to).
That’s a great idea, Journey is such a beautiful piece of art. Flower might be good too? Even though my Mum likes games with fighting and stuff, that can be a real block on people enjoying games.
Man, introducing someone to ‘core games’ from scratch is such an exciting prospect.
There is so much great stuff out there in gaming, now, too. You could really show off the breadth of the art. Maybe she’d get a kick out of Wolf Among Us’ take on fairy tales… or the simple hack’n’slash with gorgeous art, music, and narration of Bastion. The dark, morbid comedy puzzle-solving of Portal, the guns’guns’guns wacky madness of Borderlands/Blood Dragon (it’s an 80s sci-fi-action flick in a video game!).
God, there’s just so much variety in genre representatives available… The Sims, Civilization, Puzzle Quest, Deus Ex, From Dust, Gunpoint, Orcs Must Die, XCOM, WoW, Worms, Batman: Arkham whatever, Minecraft, Magic: The Gathering, Papers Please, Saints Row/GTA/Red Dead Redemption, Tomb Raider, Trine, Evil Genius, Heroes of Might and Magic, Spore, Thief/SplinterCell/Hitman, Dawn of War, Costume Quest, Endless Space, Prison Architect, Valkyria Chronicles, Wasteland 2, You Don’t Know Jack, Valiant Hearts, Child of Light, Assassin’s Creed 4 (only 4)… Oh the trip I wish I could take my parents on…
I introduced my parents to gaming through Abe’s Oddysee. They played it together and loved it. My Mum then moved on to games like Tomb Raider and fell in love with platforming games, and my dad moved on to Final Fantasy VIII followed by hack n’slash games. These days they own both a PS3 and a Wii.
I m going to try and get her into the more indie stuff that she doesn’t have to spend 180 hours on to try and get her to try more things 🙂
I just Arrrrr Fored Strange Journey, @bish
Think I might have to buy me a real one on the eBay
Is it really grindy is it? I got smashed by the first boss
Jimu!
Sailing the high seas to acquire games is bad, M’kay? :'(
Tell me it’s okay for overpriced and hideously late BluRay/DVD of excellent TV series?
*cough*Sons of Anarchy*cough*
In all seriousness, a cursory look around my Westfield, JB Hifi was only retailer with more than season 3. But only had seasons 2 through 5. Only seasons 2 and 3 on BluRay.
The show just finished for good. At season 7. :'(
Hmm, I kind of potentially want to work in games though (character design and concept artist), so I’ve never been a fan of “swash-buckling” games, or second hand games even :'(
I don’t like doing it for shows / movies either, but feel less strongly about them.
(double standards, I know)
Liondrive, what is the best way to contact you?
A massage on twatter according to @jimu
Probably on Twitter 🙂
Why?
I’m not in trouble am I?! :’O
I feel you. I had a family friend that would give me copies (I think he literally copied them from a CD drive) of PS1 games, and I had a CycloEvolution game cartridge that stored pirated games from a cousin. Someone copy+pasted a copy of Call of Duty 4 and Minecraft to my macbook. That is the last time I ever engaged in any form of piracy. I just feel too guilty. Also I’m scared of viruses but let’s focus on the guilty bit instead because it makes me look like a better person.
If I refuse to pirate Game of Thrones and can’t justify paying $50.00 a season, I just wait 2 or so years until the next time I go to my cousin’s house in Melbourne and watch their collection. I just watched season 2, and it was awesome. Now to wait another two years. \o/
Nope, I buy so many games & you should have no problem with me trying before I buy.
You can’t buy this game new anymore anyway, so if I do buy it, it’ll be from eBay.
The world’s not black & white & I’m sure we did this on Twitter last time I bought a second hand game.
If you make a good enough product, the people who are willing to spend will buy it.
A pirated game does not = a lost sale.
In a moment, I will tweet you a photo.
I spend more money on games than any other entertainment.
I’m just not a fan or pirating games, ol’Jim-jim 😛
Never have been, never will be 🙂
I’m glad you look at it as a try-before-you-buy approach though 🙂
*smooch*
*butt-squeeze*
Photos are up.
I had to sell all my games prior to PSX to upgrade, but I’ve been buying new games since the original GameBoy
Oh, and all the other legit merch I buy too, like clothing & toys.
I wouldn’t have wasted all that money on Final Fantasy, Metal Gear Solid, Sonic, Mario etc etc, if I wasn’t able to borrow, hire or pick up cheap as a kid.
Trying it opened the opportunity to get me to spend more later.
PS: not trying to be a jerk. I just feel strongly too 🙂
It’s reasonably grindy?
But there is a password system that gives you Demons… so it is possible that you could try blast through it (with not so much grind) and then if you get stuck use a password demon to try save the day.
I don’t think it felt too grindy to me because I was happy levelling up demons for their source. Gave an additional purpose to fighting and all that.
Source?
I really liked the atmosphere. If there is a way to knock off some grind, I’d be keen. Will look into this password thing.
Will hold off buying until at least February or April, depending on funds/ release dates of other things.
Once you hit 100% analysis of a demon once it’s levelled up, it’ll give you its source which lets you throw on a bunch of skills onto another demon (I think you use it during fusion?). Different to skill inheritance, and a great way to be putting extra skills/resistances on new demons.
Ah, kewl.
Is that a thing in SMT or just SJ?
SJ. Don’t remember exactly why they did it, do demons in SJ gain skills as they level up? Can;t remember. If not, that’s probably why.
Definitely unique to SJ though.
Everything else I can think off the top of my head (P3,4, Raidou Kuzunoha, Q, Nocturne and SMT 4) is just regular ‘ole skill inheritance.
I didn’t play long enough. Caught pixie & she died in one hit.
Is SMT 3 better than those two Digital Devil Sagas?
I’ll probably grab it next ATLUS sale.
Never played the DDS games, heard they’re great. Was also hoping to pick it up in a PSN sale.
But 3, maaaaaaaaan. That game was tight. Really nice and refined, I think that will always be the pinnacle for me, so I may be biased.
I hope none of you ever have to replace a dishwasher that’s been installed for more than a decade…
I need to have a bath in some bleach.
And maybe remove my eyes.
Oh, and a new pair of hands would be nice while I’m at it.
Should’ve just moved house.
Amazing that a dishwasher lasted that long! Usually cockroaches fry the control boards long before then
Oh it hadn’t survived… when we moved in 4 years ago rats/mice had got to both the water and power cables. Got them fixed. Early last year the pump went, but quotes were stupid expensive.
We didn’t use it a lot, but now with a 2 year old it’d be nice to be able to throw a load on every now and then to save some time… plus we’re getting new carpet, repainting most rooms, some new furniture… so thought we’d just tack a new dishwasher on the end.
*waves goodbye to 2 years of savings*
Uh oh…our old dishwasher is on its way out….
Eek!
Contemplating going to see Big Hero 6 tomorrow…
Oooh. I wanna see that at some point. Helping?
Doit.
I just saw Night at the Museum 3. I liked it. I’ve always been a huge fan of the franchise, so my opinion is a little coloured. (Millennials got shafted in the nostalgic movies department, this is all we have)
It had its crude and stupid moments, but this was alleviated by a decent number of good jokes and gags. Attila the Hun and Sacajawea are in nearly every scen of the movie, but only have about 8 lines between the two of them. It is also one of Robin Williams’ and Mickey Rooney’s last movies. It’s not often that a movie is dedicated to two separate people. I felt that the last 2 minutes of the movie kinda ruined the heartfelt ending they were shooting for, though.
However, I have one major critisism of the movie. At 98 minutes, it felt way too short. Sure, it was only 10 minutes shorter than the first movie, and 7 minutes shorter than the second. However, the second movie seemed way larger. I suppose it comes down to a massively reduced cast, and less interaction with the museum itself. Although I absolutely loved it as I was watching, my thoughts rapidly turned sour after leaving the theatre. Such a shame.
I think I will rent it when it comes out on DVD, and see how my opinion has changed. I suppose I should be glad I saw it, but god damn is going to see a movie expensive. Now I’m just angry over how much money I had to spend. Grrrr.
Going to the movies isn’t too bad if you play the system properly.
1) buy movie voucher books in advance – they average out much cheaper
2) take advantage of cheapie tuesday tickets
3) If you or anyone you know is a Telstra or Optus customer, then you can buy discounted tickets to Hoyts or Event anytime. You just have to register through their customer rewards portal.
4) both of the big chains have “movie of the week” type offers for members where you can see a movie that’s been out for a while at a discounted price.
I haven’t paid full price for a movie for a very long time!
Plus join Cinebuzz if you frequent an Event/Greater Union! I managed to earn a free ticket on mine somehow and I don’t go to the movies all that often. They sometimes give deals for being subscribed to their newsletter too.
Trailers these days bridge the gap between short movies and advertisements. Simply by watching a trailer, you get to experience a plot from start to finish.
*Sean’s Adventures in GODDAMMIT MUM STOP, PLEASE JUST STOP!*
Walk up for Dinner, talking about things, when:
Mum:”[Temporary Receptionist] is very nice”
*Brief pause*
*Pointed look at me*
Me: “Uhhh, sure?” (I have not talked to them at all)
*Awkward deflection is mildly successful, Mum shuts up about it for a bit*
*Later on*
Mum: “I guess I should tell [Other Receptionists] that they’ve failed as matchmakers for you two.”
Me: 😐
“She’s about your age. She’s cute. She’s nice.”
😐
“Look, Sean, I just think that you should be going on dates.”
(With the knowledge that I might have earned a reprieve): “I’ve never liked Dates. Terrible fruit.”
“I think you should go and do things. With women.”
“I do do things with women. Often with other men there, and the women are my friends.”
“You know, your Grandfather would really like Great-Grandchildren. They don’t even have to be yours, really. You could just adopt someone else’s.”
*Hurriedly leaves*
I’m going to side with your mum on this one 😛
If she is interested, then hey, good work buddy!
And if she’s not interested, well then she’s only temporary, and will leave soon anyway, so no harm done!
It’s the perfect situation!
Look, as much as I (don’t) appreciate my mother’s advice, I feel like there’s little point in trying, since she won’t be interested.
Smooth, mum. Smooth.
=D
But was she cute though? What’s the Blaghman verdict!
Oh yeah, definitely cute.
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy out of my league.
DARE TO DREAM!
Also dates are the best fruit, you monster.
Hahaha I can’t believe I missed this post before.
Your mum seems pretty great. Almost seems like a shame she’s never been around when you’ve had us over 😛
I’m extremely grateful that my mother wants to be a grandparent about as much as I want to be a parent.
My mother doesn’t want to be a Grandmother any time soon, she mostly just looks for opportunities to tease me.
I love your Mum. 😀
I’ll never admit it to her, but she’s pretty great.
How much are return flights from Melbourne to Brisbane usually? (@freezespreston @sernobulus @transientmind @strange @virus__ I think you guys have been to Melbourne recently :P). Just had a quick look at current prices and $200ish each way seems like a lot! D:
I’ve never actually booked flights for myself, by myself before so I have no idea what the general prices are. I don’t mind waiting for a sale or shopping around, but I definitely want to go interstate more. Maybe I should just ask around and see what work can do for me 😛
EDIT: Whattabout return flights from Melbourne to Sydney? This one seems more likely to be scabbed from work since my boss is in Sydney… 😀
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Valiant Hearts, man D:
Initially I kind of agree with what @jajabinks2 said on old TAY but it grew on me. I was mainly in it for the story and “history lesson” so I enjoyed that part of it. The gameplay was ehhhh! Overall I think I liked it more than Child of Light though, god the writing in CoL was so horrid… 🙁
I didn’t know what to expect with Valiant Hearts though but I kinda like how they did it and it wasn’t some 4 player co-op shooter thing :P. Puzzleyness worked surprisingly well!
I also finished Pokemon Alpha Sapphire in the morning after neglecting it for a few weeks. Kinda didn’t have hype for it but bought and kinda enjoyed playing it at first. Did a Grass Type only run but it got less exciting once I got EXP Share and wrecked everything by being so many levels ahead :P. But as soon as the SURF EVERYWHERE part of the game happened I just skipped a lot and used Repels constantly so I ended up kind of underlevelled in the end which made the Elite 4 exciting 😀 (it was also pretty difficult when doing a mono-type run)
Those two games put my “Games Finished in 2014” list at 60! HUZZAH
Full list:
Games finished in 2014:
1. Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag and Aveline DLC
2. Attack of the Friday Monsters
3. Bayonetta 2
4. Beat the Beat: Rhythm Paradise
5. BioShock Infinite
6. BIT.TRIP Presents Runner 2
7. Bravely Default
8. Broken Age Act 1
9. Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
10. Child of Light
11. Costume Quest
12. Dark Souls
13. Dark Souls II
14. Destiny
15. Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze
16. Dragon’s Crown
17. Fantasy Life
18. FEZ
19. Final Fantasy X HD
20. Final Fantasy X-2 HD
21. Fire Emblem: Awakening
22. Flower
23. Gears of War: Judgment
24. Guacamelee
25. Gunman Clive
26. Halo
27. Hyrule Warriors
28. inFAMOUS: Second Son
29. Kid Icarus: Uprising
30. La-Mulana
31. LEGO MARVEL Super Heroes
32. Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII
33. Mario Kart 8
34. Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
35. Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes
36. Octodad: Dadliest Catch
37. Pokemon Alpha Sapphire
38. Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright
39. Psychonauts
40. Pullblox World
41. Resogun
42. Risk of Rain
43. Rogue Legacy
44. Shovel Knight
45. South Park: The Stick of Truth
46. SteamWorld Dig
47. The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
48. The Last of Us Remastered and Left Behind DLC
49. The Night of the Rabbit
50. The Stanley Parable
51. The Walking Dead Season 2 (Episodes 2-5)
52. The Witcher
53. Theatrhythm Final Fantasy: Curtain Call
54. Tomb Raider
55. Toukiden: Age of Demons
56. Transistor
57. Trials Fusion
58. Valiant Hearts
59. Year Walk
60. Ys: Memories of Celceta
Usually I’ve paid about 70 to 100 each way. Peak season currently though so prices everywhere would be a bit silly.
Yeah that sounds a lot more reasonable. I wouldn’t mind it around those prices. Was that with standard carry on included? (7kg)
It’s usually cheaper to fly to the Gold Coast then it is the city. Depends where you’re staying though I suppose.
Your house!
Freeze’s house!
D.C.’s house!
Strange’s house!
Someone’s house!
Wherever Powapantaco stays! 😛
A seedy Gold Coast motel? 😀
Powapantaco…
It’s sounds like the name of a tumblr shipping scene.
Team Peenius!
…no, wait. Team Greenalen.
This is where we disagree.
PS.
I still want Lara co-op sometime soon! @dc @evilmonkey ? 😀
Yes! I activated the game and everything!
Paging @powalen
Don’t even include me in the original post! ;_;
Is it 4-player co-op now or still two? I’ll be buying it in this Steam sale regardless!
4!
Steam reviews seem to say there are issues with it though and it’s laggy :(. A recent patch came out though so maybe that fixed it? 😀
Last flights I took were Gold Coast > Tullamarine then Tullamarine > Launceston then Launceston > Tullamarine then Tullamarine > Gold Coast was about 315 bucks in total for all flights which also got me 15kg of checked luggage on Jetstar.
Edit #1: I think it was $70 down to Melbourne from Gold Coast and $80 on the flight back, and I know I paid a flat fee of $75 for 15kg of checked luggage for all flights & my two flights to & from Tasmania were $45.
Edit #2: I booked all my flights through a friend who just happened to be a travel agent at the time for STA Travel, she got me some of the best deals I like to think, especially since my accommodation was cheaper than my flights, and the place I stayed at was pretty nice for the money!
The only travel agent friend I have is @novacascade and he hates me for beating him in Pokemon Online and all the (forced) Xenotalk! 😛
I’m sure he won’t turn down some sweet sweet commission though 😛
Not what he does any more..
Wow, I think I’ve beaten Thomas Was Alone and Pokemon Y this year.
I may have bought more than 2 games though… Not exactly balancing out…
I was unemployed for a couple of months 😛
Some of them were started last year but only finished this year (since I was near the end). I worked out roughly how long I’ve spent playing games this year and it’s still something crazy like 2 hours a day D:
http://backloggery.com/rhynnplays
My backlog is probably a hundred or so too :3
Current peak season nonsense means I just spent ~700 doing 2 people return over Christmas. With Jetstar *shudder*, but would have been ~900 with a good airline like virgin.
In contrast, parents visited at the start of December, and their return flights were about ~180 for some silly 2 for 1 specials they booked way back in April or May.
Dayumn! Yeah, my plan of not planning ahead doesn’t seem to work with travel 😛
I have a new favourite song.
I’m strongly considering plugging my pc into my tv, connecting my audio via optical cable, plugging my F310 gamepad in, and just chilling out on the couch.
Hehe, Milhouse grandpa…
Evening errbody hows every little thing? My festivus was topsy turvy on the one hand I spent the christmas in sydney with family and went to a christmas party with some of sydney’s elite drag queens. But on the other side Cathryn had to work so it was the first christmas since we started dating that we havent spent together 🙁
When I arrived home I had heaps of xmas pressies to unwrap from cathryns family including Munchkin Zombies, SSB Wii U, a new 3ds case and Freedom Wars for the Vita.
Anyway hope everyone else is having a great holiday season and something aomething something bom shakalaka
So that is what you get up to when Cathryn isn’t around 😉
Pretty much! haha lovely people but and so friendly and welcoming
Edit: I need to learn to think of the things missing from my posts BEFORE hitting submit. Even if I already give them a read-through first as it is.
Ohai newTAY.
Man I am loving holiday mode and not having to be at work. Don’t know why I ever gave it up 😛
Been back into Elite the last few days, first I’ve played it since Gamma. It’s going pretty good, I’ve just been hanging around the last system I was in and running missions for it, building up my reputation with them and working up ranks within the Federation. Most recently been taking assassination missions, and hunting down Anacondas in my tricked out Sidewinder. The battles are tough and drawn-out, and I’ve had to run off half the time (especially since it seems chaff doesn’t really do much to NPC gimballed and/or turreted weapons), but it’s doable.
Weekend, went around to my friend’s place to play Smash. Even managed to beat him a few times, which is good. It had been a while since playing though, so I’ve forgotten my groove I had with Mac. Still pretty sure he’s my guy though.
After that we went to see Interstellar. Which was SO. FREAKIN. AMAZING. I spent so much of that movie just mouth agape in awe, it was all just… wow. Right after all I could say was “I need to get home and play copious amounts of Elite”.
Today, went down to see Big Hero 6 with Wingman and Pillowmaker. It was pretty great too. I thought so many of the voices sounded familiar, but going through the credits (it took a long time to get to the voice actors) I didn’t recognise any of them. Dammit that’s annoying. Also we hung around til the very end of the credits (GOOD GOD THEY TOOK FOREVER) but it turned out it was worth it after all. Shame the other two girls who had been waiting in the cinema gave up and left before it got to that part 😛
We hung around the shops afterwards, and saw some weird things. Here is a picture:
http://photos-f.ak.instagram.com/hphotos-ak-xfa1/t51.2885-15/10890803_785810381490821_621283252_n.jpg
Also since we’re reposting album covers from page 1’s thing, I did one http://imgur.com/rvfiUgr (I forgot to eliminate “Like” from the title)
Also also, holiday driving is the worst. Every single freakin car going 20 under the limit, and making me catch every red light along the way. UGH.
Just bought my first set of kitchen knives earlier. Now I’m kinda excited about all the cooking 😮
The induction stovetop and oven in this house kinda sucks though. The stove doesn’t get hot enough and the oven has uneven heat so the right side cooks things quicker :/
Cleaning up sucks too and the barely used dishwasher doesn’t even work anymore. I’m pretty sure it’s been used less than 10 times for years and when we finally did want to use it again, it dain’t even work! 🙁
I finally found out how to turn the gas on after living in my new place for a week. Turned it on, created a new account… and still haven’t used it. It’s been another week.
Woot knives! I bought a couple of good knives cos like all the kitchen stuff was Mrs Oliver’s so I’d need my own… I ended up with like half of it including some good knives so now I have too many knives 😛 They might come in handy one day. Chop all the onions!
That reminds me, I need to buy a good chopping board.
But yeah, there’s nothing worse than an electric stove. There’s induction cooktops where I am now and they’re pretty deadly at least. Much better than what I had.
Whoops! Think I got my terms mixed up, we’ve got an induction thingy too.
I hate all the oil splashing everywhere whenever I fry stuff too. Makes everything all… oily (who’da thunk!) and the tiled floor all slippery 🙁
Usually water content causes oil splashing. Buy a lid for the frypan 😛
This post sounds like you’ve moved out… Did you? 😮
Nope 😛
@liondrive do you have a drawing tablet?
I kinda feel like drawing again too so it could be good motivation to have a buddy again. Just ask @blaghman, it’s the best! 😀 (you’re gonna draw too Blags)
Also iSketch.
Nah, no drawing tablet currently, but it’s on the list of things to get!
I want to get good at drawing and sketching before moving onto drawing on tablets 🙂
@greenius you cynical bastard! and you said it couldnt be done! xbox one SOLD for 450!
just got to play it cool!
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That poor soul could’ve got a new one for a bit more! 😛
Nah, but your deal was alright though since it included the Kinect!
The Microsoft Store has had some killer deals lately though! (one of which I ended up buying :D)
XB1 + AC Unity + AC4 + your choice of 3 games (I picked Halo MCC, Sunset Overdrive and Forza Horizon 2) + 12 months Gold OR an extra Wireless Controller for $499 or $599 with Kinect and Dance Central 😮
No need to go and get a fat head!
Holy damn. The Last of Us – amazing. Left Behind – equally amazing. All the feels, all the action, all the wandering in slack-jawed awe.
I’m already happy to be a PS4 owner.
Now inFamy!
I can’t decide! I’ve got Watch Dogs, inFAMILIAR, Lords of the Fallen, Diablo III, and Murdered Soul Suspect to choose from.
So… one vote for inBLAMEUS.
Of that list, I’d go inFamous.
Can probably pick it up quite cheap too.
Diablo 3.
Send me presents.
I figured it’s good to start with the exclusives :D. Didya get the PS+ games? inFamy DLC in Jan!
EDIT: you HAVE to get The Binding of Isaac Rebirth too!
I don’t have PS+ yet.
New & Tasty 😉
Yessss. Was hoping you’d like it as much as me. 😀
I don’t think that’s possible! 😛
I’m really digging having my PC hooked up to the TV… now I just have to connect the speakers, and I’ll be all set.
Also, Dark Souls on PC is much more enjoyable now. 🙂
Wow, the Simpson’s has gone really down hill since I last watched it :\
Watching season 23 currently, and it’s…
It’s, ah, not good…
I don’t know what kind of gap between my last “regularly watched” episode of the Simpsons was and now, but a couple of years ago I watched the Lady Gaga episode via Hulu and it was utter rubbish. I thought “maybe they just didn’t do a very good Lady Gaga episode, she’s kind of difficult to parody being so over the top ridiculous already” and the next episode was even worse, so I gave up.
I really don’t know why it’s still on TV.
After the Simpson’s Movie they changed all the characters, so Homer became smarter and more caring etc.
So after around season 9/10 the general consensus is that it got worse.
Homer used to be smarter and more caring. Then somewhere along the line he became Captain Jerkass and the show became more gag focused.
The Zombie Simpsons theory breaks it all down rather well. Mostly, the problem is that the show got taken over by fans of the show. Fans of the show that didn’t quite grasp everything that made the show click and instead kind of forced it towards the bits they liked best.
I watched 18 seasons of the show, and I loved every one of them. I acknowledged the new stuff wasn’t as good, but I still liked it.
Talk about shit timing. 4 weeks in to my new job and I get a terrible cold. 😐 BLEH!
I hate getting sick so early in to a new job, but at least it’s quiet at work, and I’m only supposed to be listening in to conversations atm. That’s mostly why I decided to have today off though. Having to do that means working in close proximity to someone else, and I don’t really want to give them what I have. Thankfully my team leader is totally awesome and understands. Seriously gonna be so glad to see the end of this year! Bring on the new year with a fresh start! In the meantime, I’m off to the chemist to load up on cold and flu tablets so I can better my chances of being there tomorrow!
Getting sick in a new job is pretty much inevitable. New germs, new environment. You’ve probably been fighting new germs since you started and this is just the one that got through. When I was teaching, the start of each new year meant a guaranteed cold.
I’ve been sick for the past 4 days really. Just different kind of sick. Like haven’t been able to keep food down for more than about an hour. Went to work yesterday feeling that way as the toilets are close by enough that if I need to spew, I can just run in there, but that’s not likely something I’ll pass to someone else either. I think I actually got this cold from one of my sisters friends kids at xmas time. Saw a post of her friend on facebook yesterday saying her kid was fine in the morning, but by midday, he had a temp of 40C, and nose was running like a tap. Pretty much how I feel today. So my guess is that’s where I got it from. Got me some cold and flu stuff to help dry up my eyes and stuff, and the chemist recommended some Otrivin(sp?) nasal spray. Have never used one before, but it seems to work really well! Nose is nowhere near as leaky as it was when I woke up. I shall take that to work with me tomorrow in case it flares up again, and I should be ok I reckon!
What’s with bumping of the old articles?
Better than no activity at all?
I think they’re bumped for people that got new stuffs for Christmas. The older articles seem to be mostly about tips for the bigger game releases of the past few months which tend to be popular Christmas presents.
My daughter turns 14 today. I barely made it through 13, though. Eek! 😛
Happy birthday Girl Strangeling Jnr!
Don’t worry, she’s only just starting to find her rebellious and sullen side. Still a few years before she’s mastered it.
I laugh because I get to do it twice.
And by laugh I mean cry.
Someone help me. My seven year old has already started.
ahhhhh words of comfort
A few more years before the Monster Gene metamorphoses into its most powerful form?
I blame the rock and/or roll music.
I blame the lack of it! 😛
Is Wolfy worth $27? I’ve heard good things about it but is it $27 good things?
Also Battleblock Theater is on sale for 90% off ($1.49). If you are in the mood for a laugh I would highly recommend picking it up, probably the funniest game I have played this year.
Wolfy was well worth the $80 I paid for it.
I’d say definitely worth $27. Probably in my top five games this year. Not sure though. Need to sit down and think it through.
Wolfenstein is absolutely $27 good things.
I considered Battleblock Theater but I just don’t see myself ever playing it. It might only be a buck fifty, but I’m trying to develop a habit of not buying things I don’t need. Gotta draw the line somewhere.
Wasn’t it part of Games with Gold a few months back?
Beats me, maybe. If so then my wife probably downloaded it.
Even I enjoyed Wolfenstein ( not that I finished it…yet).
It’s old school level design with new school controls. Quite good.
Really enjoyed the stealth too.
Hahaha. Hex from Good Game is currently trekking across Europe, and posting a lot of pic on Instagram of it, today she stopped at a place in Denmark that only does porridge, so naturally poor Serrels got tagged on the pic LOL.
I don’t have instagram but I do follow her on tumblr. Unfortunately I follow some blogs that occasionally post NSFW content/art so I don’t check it at work. 😛
You can conveniently look at Instagram these days from your browser \o/
http://instagram.com/hexsteph/
Our workplace uses IE8 which for some reason won’t load instagram or instagram links on twitter. 😛
Wow, that’s a bit shit lol..
I walked past Hex once in the CBD just before PAX this year, she’s a lot shorter than I thought 😛
Haha. But you’re also tall from memory, Techie 😛
I’m not that tall, lol.
I think from memory her head was as high as my chest
Oh wow, she is short… That’d be what 5’1″ maybe 5’2″?
Most likely, possibly closer to a flat 5′
So short hahaha.
So I don’t know what the hell was going on with me the last month or so.
I started Dragon Age Inquisition over yesterday from scratch despite being about ten hours in. Chose a different race and class, made someone that doesn’t look fugly or weird, and suddenly I find I’m sucked right in. This by the way is the third time I’ve restarted.
Combat is still shithouse and I can’t find a group that feels effective, and I really really really hate the limited potions thing, but I’ve made it to
Skyholdand now there’s a proper baddie and stuff and I feel much more interested in the game. It’s very deeply flawed in a lot of areas but this time I’m feeling confident I may actually finish it. I clocked 12 hours up yesterday. :OI’m right near the end but not sure I want to finish it. Most of the remaining side quests I want to finish up are locked behind 15 hour Wartable missions so basically I’m turning the game on, assigning missions and turning it off, leading to resentment and doubt I want to play it again.
Whoever designed the Wartable needs to be shot in the sensitive bits.
Yeah, the war table thing was clearly designed by someone at EA that wanted it to be part of some shitty phone app or something.
I finished it & kept a save from before
I did them all & still have heaps of those other missions to go.
I just used to do the quick ones while I played & left the long ones go while I slept & worked.
Just don’t play the game on Nightmare difficulty. Without a proper tactical camera some battles are more about luck then they are about skill.
I have it on the easiest and still struggled on a couple of fights.
I found the only fights I struggled with was when I went into a higher level area.
I would leave & come back later.
It’s why I left the Hinterlands so early, just happened to wander into death early on.
This time around I went to the Hinterlands long enough to get to level 6 or so and have about 8 power, then I advanced the plot.
I kind of like the questing in the hinterlands though.
I don’t mind it, but too generic fantasy looking though .
I wish there was more Fade & some proper Deep Roads.
far too few Dwarves in this game.
Agreed. Just spent some time killing Darkspawn in the Storm Coast area and they’re much more fun to fight than all the demons that just rush you. I really liked the Deep Roads stuff in the first two games too.
Sucker!
Ended up watching Dumb & Dumber To last night, well it was pretty horrible to say the least.. The Rotten Tomato score of 23% reflects it well I guess.
Really? I heard good things about it from Dumb and Dumber fans.
I did not like it. I like their previous movies, but then again I was young and probably preferred that style of comedy..
To be fair, the original Dumb and Dumber does not hold up all that well today.
*dodges hellfire*
Valiant Hearts Chapter 2
Yeah, no, I’m still not liking this game.The characters could have been killed off later, and it would have been better since I would have known them. Now it just feels like “oh, some characters I just met died, why does that affct me?”
I’m sure i’s going to affct Emile, but at the moment, I don’t care abou these characters. Had they waited until the final chapter, it would hve ben more powerful. But it’s just not at what is efectively the start of the game (even though it’s the halfway point of the game).
But I think what I really dislike is the puzzles. The puzzles themselves are quite easy, but the lack of communication in what to do makes them hard. Often I know what I’m meant to do, but the game doesn’t communicate how I can do that effectively enough. Often it seems like actually “solving” the puzzles relies on a combination of pressing buttons in the hope something new shows up (e.g. pressing L1 and hoping somethin appears that the dog can pick up, like a piece of bread) or a reliance on timing when to place something (putting a sock in the washin area when the backs are turned. It really breaks immersion when I have to find a guide online so I can find out where someting is, or how I gain access to solve a puzzle.
The game’s hint system is useless as well, I’ve often done all three hints, but the fourth step is the one I really need.
I know I probably sound dumb talking abou the lack of communication, but I don’t know how else to express it. In Professor Layton (for example), the puzzles are often hard, but the instructions for it are set out in a way so that you only need logic to solve it.
On the other hand, in Valiant Hearts the puzzles are easy, but are expressed so poorly that it is a lot harder to solve.
It’s more frustrating because I feel like this game is a shell (if you’ll pardon the pun) of a greater game. This game had so much potential for storytelling and the puzzles are great, but it’s made bad because of it’s lack of communication.
And I started playing chapter 3, part 1, which looks like a ridiculously drawn out puzzle.
1. I need to get inside the building.
2. To get inside the building the dog needs meat.
3. To get meat, I have to get somthing else from a guy.
4. To get that something else from a guy, I need to get something from a different building.
5. I need something from a different building again to get something within the first different building.
6. [to be done in real life] Gets up and turns PS3 Off.
You should all go play Lost Constellation.
It’s pretty great, and free too!
Also, NIGHT IN THE WOODS!
Said this on Twitter, but is anyone keen for some strategy game goodness this evening? AOE2? Crusader Kings? EU IV? Civ V multi?
I could play some Civ V. Not right now though as I have to go to work. =P
Civ could certainly work for me this evening, I’m on recall though so I may have to leave suddenly (Unlikely) and let the AI take over 🙂
Could go some Civ
Man, I’d love to play Civ V multi after what happened with when I tried to play with Crazyguy.
Looking for short extension cords (new dishwasher cable is about 80cm short) and found this extension lead/power board on the bunnings website…
http://www.bunnings.com.au/arlec-4-outlet-power-extension-lead_p7052931
WHY HAVE I NOT SEEN THIS BEFORE?!
Maybe I’m a little excited, but that’s the best freaking extension cord ever!
It’s a good idea, but holy shit that is way over priced 😐
That is actually pretty cool. Why have I never seen anything like it before?
HAHAHAHA.
Just looking at this receipt for Godfreys where I bought a steam cleaner & steam mop the other day for mum, and the name they put on the receipt is no where close to my real name. It is pretty hilarious the name on there though ‘Amas Chesler’ sounds like an 80’s action hero name or even a porn name ha.
@greenius I’ve shaken out a lot of the MH3U cobwebs now! Been doing a bit of derping around online – what’s your goal for multi? Getting past the level cap?
Yep! I’ve been curious as to what HR rank I really am since I’ve done a fair few non-key G Rank quests. I also haven’t played in years so I’m assuming I’d be pretty terrible, so bear with me 😛
Like riding a bike, only took me a few rounds to get back into it.
Just remember the nastiest key G quest will be deviljho. People will die, there will be failure. It’s a really nasty one at G rank, good to save it to the last of the key quests.
@sernobulus @tech_knight @jocon Civ V 8pm SA time then?
Sounds good to me!
Why would you ever start a game of Civ that late? You’ll be playing until 3 AM.
THREE DAYS FROM NOW!
Sure.
Also Blaghs has a point. Maybe we should set up a scenario or a Renaissance age start, team comp-stomp.
Only conquest victory? What can I say I love bloodshed in Civ 😛
If we go conquest, ban Ghandi please!
Team comp stomp it is. Also, @blaghman, you in?
Sorry, got work tomorrow morning, so I don’t think I can risk staying up too late.
Ummm, what time is that EST?
830 unless you’re a QLDer.
Okay so 7:30 my time. I should be able to make that.
Wait, it already started? NOOOO!
Wait, SA time? What’s that, +10GMT?
Plus nine and one half. Sorry dude, you missed me renaming all the cities of Morocco after sauces and conquering Amsterdam with @tech_knight just to call it Hollandaise
http://www.polygon.com/2014/12/29/7440457/polygons-games-of-the-year-2014-3-dark-souls-2
Did these people play the same game I did?
I don’t think so. DaS2 felt much less fair about things than DaS.
Just look at Sens’ Fortress, probably the most unfair bit of DaS. Well, aside from maybe those goddamned sniper bowmen dudes. You can see literally everything coming if you’re paying attention and deal with it. Sure, the first few times you’re probably feeling overwhelmed and don’t realise it but it’s all there.
Dark Souls 2’s approach to everything was just “fuck it, stick some more enemies around.” Not only was it less fair, it was less interesting and that is a far greater crime.
I can blow through the entirety of Dark Souls with my eyes closed but those bowmen still make me want to punch a puppy.
Sens’ Fortress was brilliant because it was a microcosm of the whole Souls gameplay.
Initially it is brutal and unfair and you hate it and rage and don’t understand.
But eventually you realise it is not unfair, there’s no random BS. It all comes down to knowledge and patience and paying attention. And once you have that skill and knowledge, once you “get it”, you can then speed run through the place without a single death.
People what use big wurds when them no understand
They just mean ” I preferred this one” but cover it up with pseudo”I’m a REAL critic” bullshit
“Intellectuals” don’t like to say straight so smother their buttery articles with sugary twat wurdses
If articles were 100% honest they’d all be:
This game seemed to inject more endorphins into my system than those others, 10/10
Some people confuse showing off their vocabulary with good writing. I’m still trying to break that habit.
me no have dat problim
That whole article reads like a parody piece :\
The game is almost completely opposite to some of the things said.
The most balanced.
Dark Souls was far more balanced.
It is also the least fair of any of the entries!
So much poison EVERYWHERE, mobs of surprise enemies EVERYWHERE, and ridiculous enemies (stupid exploding zombies).
And that part about the enemies having more character than the lead characters in other games?
The enemies were so uninspired and dull!
That’s the biggest dissapointment with Dark Souls 2.
It felt so lifeless and dull.
The Witcher 2 is a pretty cool guy! He swords and doesn’t afraid of anything.
Good game too! I liked it. Looking forward to Witcher 3 now!
The more I look at it, the more I’m okay with just staying PC/WiiU this gen (maybe grabbing a PS4 in a few years if it gets some more good exclusives) – I’ll have to get a better desk if I’m going to be spending more time at it though.
Man, I feel bad for The Witcher 2. I was really enjoying it, but it just somehow migrated onto the pile, and the odds of me finishing it before The Witcher 3 drop are slim.
At best.
I’m too shit ar the combat 🙁
Funny. Barely anyone even remembers what Arby and the Chief even is, but that ‘doesn’t afraid of anything’ quote pops up all the time.
While they did use it in the show, I don’t think Arby and the Chief was the origin of that meme. I’m pretty sure it started on 4chan, probably as a parody of people who think Link is called Zelda, etc.
Ugh…I feel so lethargic… 🙁
Just did a quick back of the envelope calculation but in the last day Valve have made about $14,000 of people buying and selling holiday trading cards
Holy shit. Reading through the customer complaints on the company Intranet and I thought I had it bad.
One guy got a spare car key made, a month later his son wrote the car off and he’s losing the plot because Minit wouldn’t cut a new key for the replacement car for free for him.
Another one stating he declined the reseal and pressure test of his watch because it was too expensive. Now the watch is full of water and the company owes him a new one.
The fuck is wrong with people?
At the moment my job involves answering phones for companies that are closed for Christmas/New Years. Them: “But what am I supposed to do?” Me: “Call back on Monday…” Them: *RAGE!*
@beavwa @budgieishere @chuloopa @coldcamv @crazyguy1990 @f4ction @greenius @jordi @negativezero @pixel_the_ferret_viking @scree @smurfydog @tech_knight @tigerion @tofu @zetrox2k
http://www.beat.com.au/arts/400-metre-water-slide-coming-melbourne-2015
I believe this is what’s known as an obligation. Get on it.
The trouble is that attending requires me to put on a bathing suit and no one wants that.
Or, we all go naked and no one else wants to get on so we get it all to ourselves.
This guy gets it.
Naked dogpile?
\o/
One day only? Gonna be *packed*
Wait, there was a 300m slide in Perth? Nooooooo!
Also, I’ve managed to ‘earn’ $2.50 in Steam credit today from selling all of those digital cards that you get for playing games.
…people will buy anything, huh? 😛
I’ve made around $30 from those chumps! 😀
Chump change!
See my post up the page
Man, all that cash just from a 2c fee off the top of people buying digital cards from each other.
Grr, I should’ve gotten Injustice when I had the chance… :\
EDIT: Nevermind, sold some Steam Cards, got it for USD 8.43. 😀
Good game. Haven’t been able to play online, constant drop outs but even the single player makes it worth while
Went out for dinner with mates to the Bavarian Bier Cafe tonight. That was a satisfying meal, fresh pretzels, a litre stein of beer, schnitzel & chips, finished with a black forest cake for dessert. Good times.
It’s a good night isn’t it! See schnitzel war sehr gut 😉
Games I Finished in 2014: (spoilered for length)
-Telltale’s The Walking Dead Season 1-Timeshift
Huh.
WALL OF TEXT WARNING
Wolfenstein: The New Order
Walking Dead season 2
The Wolf Among Us
South Park: The Stick of Truth
I think that’s it. I also replayed and finished the free copy of Limbo Microsoft gave me for the Xbox One for being a loyal Xbox supporter, but I finished that on 360 when it first came out so I don’t know if that counts.
The Walking Dead Season 1, Episode 1:
That was pretty intense! I know I’m late to this bandwagon, but I’m glad I jumped on 🙂
I’m glad I picked it up when the whole season was done though. No waiting for the next instalment for me! 🙂
Ok, Decisions I made…
– Apparently I chose to lie to Hershel, but honestly, I was trying to tell the truth! I blame vague dialogue trees for that one… (46%)– I saved Duck first. Shawn had expressed his sympathies earlier when he said he saw a guy shoot a kid, so between the two of them I thought Shawn would have wanted me to save Duck first. (30%)
– I sided with Kenny in the argument, but tried my best to stay level headed and calm. How was i supposed to let him throw a family out, after all? (54%)
– I gave Irene the gun. She was suffering, and didn’t want to turn, and I didn’t want to leave her to turn or to shoot her either. It was out of mercy… (47%)
– I saved Carley. Doug had already saved Carley once, and I thought he’d want me to save her. I also don’t think he’d forgive me for letting her die… (48%)
In each save someone situation, I was thinking how best to save them both.
I just want to be a good father 🙁
Hahaha, oh man, you’ve got a journey ahead of you.
I got the weird dialogue tree with Hershel too. Things are much tighter in almost every respect in all future episodes.Vague (obvious) spoiler alert regarding your last spoilered statement:
You never can.I thought I was telling the truth!
I was on my way out of Atlanta, and it was with a police officer!I didn’t actively lie! I thought I’d be given the chance to explain in detail if need be, but that chance never came, and instead I got called a liar 🙁
In regards to edit:
I figured it’s a one-or-the-other scenario, but I’m still thinking about who best to save first, and likely hood of saving both.I wanted to save Duck first, and thought that by saving him I’d be able to move the tractor off Shawn as well.
Similarly with Carley, I figured saving her first would allow her to shoot the zombies off of Doug.
I also wanted to save her first too though.
Same here.EDIT: In regards to the Hershel lying thing, of course.
Very similar to my choices. I chose to save the guy that wasn’t Duck, as I thought it was more important to stay friendly with Hershel. Upon looking at the screenshot of choices I made, it appears I refused to give Irene the gun.vague dialogue ending in the wrong words outta my own mouth is the only time I did a reset
Otherwise I stuck with my choices
Not going to do any redos until after I’ve finished it in its entirety (Season 1 and 2).
It’s my bed, I have to lay in it, intentionally or unintentionally made as it may be 🙁
I play that way too, just not when I misled.
I don’t accidentally scream at someone instead of being friendly irl, it’s a interface problem.
One of the (many) reasons I disliked LA Noire so much.
D= get home > check Facebook > 12 notifications, oh god have I done?! Turns out a mate tagged me in a status reminiscing about the old Stone Sour forum, which I rarely visited, if anything I miss the old Pure Pwnage forums. Only good thing I got from the Stone Sour forum was I met now one of my best mates, and her & I bond more over Slipknot than we ever have over Stone Sour.. Since they were always the go to band when Slipknot was in down time lol..
Undad rewards are starting to roll out. Just made it by year’s end.
\o/ WHEEE!
Hyped to read my copy! \o/
So I’m only about 2 months late, but I finally got around to seeing Interstellar, and I loved it. Ended up having to drive a few suburbs over to a cinema that was still showing it, but the bonus was that it was near my friend’s place, so she decided to come too 😀
Jelly 🙁
Oh, good, Here I was thinking that it’s 1:00am…
Man, I am so in love with this webcomics artstyle.
http://www.avasdemon.com/
Welp. That sure killed the last hour or so.
I read this webcomic! I like it more then the other one I read which is earthsong. Not such a fan of that one anymore.
I just had trouble figuring out if ‘read’ was past tense or present tense…
Considering I haven’t checked it in a few weeks, make it past tense
Yep, that’s fantastic!
@sughly
yeahhh not bad! not bad. kind of reminds me of one that had a lot more instant appeal to me though, Anya’s Ghost
Wow it’s so easy to just keep reading. Too easy. Thanks for recommending!
I finally bit the bullet and bought Binary Domain. I’ve been following this game since before it was released. The divided reviews between “tired Gears clone” and “best Japanese shooter since Vanquish” kind of put me off. Every Steam sale, I’ve waited for it to become massively discounted. $10 often feels too much to pay during a Steam sale. However, I said screw it and finally bought it. To ensure I play the thing, I’m downloading it right now and playing it tomorrow. I’m going to play this game, dammit.
I was surprised at how much I enjoyed it.
Even the story, I was calling out so many predictable cliches that when the real plot twist came along I couldn’t figure out which cliche they were going to go with. But the one they chose was so unpredictable and so incredibly stupid that I actually admired them for having the balls to go through with it.
Any other time I’m fine with $10, that’s cheap for pretty much any of the games I play, but during Steam sales it feels like I’m getting ripped off if I’m paying more than $3 for anything.
So I’ve been playing this war of mine. I’m enjoying it but I don’t like stealing from people. I try to do the right thing and I keep getting Katia killed. I keep trying to upgrade the garden bed, but my people starve before I have the chance to upgrade it. It’s quite difficult trying to juggle everything. I still fed the homeless man though.
So Christmas was shit (as expected).
Can’t wait till February when school goes back and everything can finally go back to normal.
Also, my laptop crashed the other night, after what sounded like the hard drive making noises, so I’ll need to pick up and install a new HDD, sorry @greenius there’ll be no co-op Tomb Raider till I get it fixed, which will hopefully be by the weekend.
Also also, trying to register my copies of Smash Bros. (3DS and Wii U) to get my bonus soundtrack, but I get almost to the end of the survey, click next and it won’t go any further, keeps saying the link is broken.
DAMN YOU NINTENDO! I WANT MY SOUNDTRACK!!@#?
*shakes fist*
Edit: Now it’s letting me proceed, but it’s asking me to join Club Nintendo when I’m already logged in FFS!
Aw! 🙁
I had the same issue with registering Smash. Selecting “the game was purchased for me” somehow made it work though :/
Finally got it to work, had to log out then back in again.
You spent it in solitude too?
Personally I would have gone to Windhelm
That place is overlowing with Stormcloak scum. I also don’t like my house being covered in blood and plans for murder. Markarth is where it’s at. Brilliant job opportunity, brilliant exercise destination, and the prime destination for acquiring chef hats.
Ah crap I still gotta do that too.
Okey, hey. I have a spare Far Cry 4 code for PC laying about I got for buying a SSD recently. I’ve no use for it, and I keep forgetting to put up a posting for it online, and you lot aren’t complete arseholes, so I’m willing to sell it on the cheap, $20 (preferably in steam credit, I can do other options.) A caveat is that you need to activate it using a bit of VPN trickery as the activation is region-locked- but however, a bit of research shows that you need only to get past the activation, once it’s in your origin account you’ll be ready to play it whenever, wherever.
So, uh, yeah. Anybody feel jumping through this one, if not slightly annoying hoop?
Where’s it region locked too, North America?
specifically the US.
EDIT: the activation is done via a website, so a plugin like hola will do to get past that particular wall.
Ah right, fair call..
So, any plans for the last day of 2014?
1) drink
2) ????????
1) work
2) eat
3) work
4) bath Tiglet
5) work
6) ??????
7) sleep
What are everyone’s plans for New Year’s Eve? I am getting the feeling that this year is going to be a quiet one for us – maybe some 9pm fireworks. I’m actually looking forward more to getting up in the morning and doing the New Year’s Day parkrun.
Going to a friends house, then tomorrow hosting board games at mine
1) drink
2) ???????
I got invited to a friend’s place, but since I got no sleep last night, skipped work due to being incapable of getting up, and have 2 weeks of unpaid leave starting next week, I shall be going to bed early to make sure I can get to work.
God I live an exciting life.
I start at 8am tomorrow so I’m having lunch with some friends, then it’s home to bed.
We can both be exciting!
I’ve just realised that I don’t even know if my work’s open tomorrow (being a medical centre, we have weird hours with holidays and stuff), so I may have backed out of my plans purely out of stupidity.
Crying alone because I have no friends.
Crying,
…
actually you know what it’s New Years I should do something different to what I do every night.
=PRunning around naked in the city.
Same with me, my buddy who organizes a party each year is in Sydney. So I think I might walk my partner round to the lake and hopefully see the fireworks with a chocolate picnic lol.
Going to a friends house to drink/probably go to wherever the fireworks are. Then tomorrow promptly going back to Hobart 😀
Nothing. 🙂 Maybe a few beers in the backyard, but we’ve really not felt like doing anything this summer.
Oops, forgot to make plans for New Years Eve 😛
Apparently.
Shit, I should’a thought of that.
I don’t know where I get these ideas.
They just come to me.
Looks like @liondrive has been on tumblr again
http://imgur.com/gallery/XmcDd
Posted January to November of timelapse if anyone’s interested. It’s a bit embarrassing to be honest, but whatevs. Haha! http://instagram.com/yearofthehermit/
Now do one year long one with Greenday’s Time of Your Life playing over it.
*sniff*
I’m going to miss the daily pictures :'(
*sniff*
Do you think I should mute these? I thought it’d be a point of difference to have commentary but the more I listen the more I hate my voice. And boring rambles. 😛
I liked the little anecdotes!
Agreed.
They provide a nice little recap / summary of the month.
Your voice is a lot more pleasing than I was lead to believe 😛
I had no idea there was even sound! Now I have to go watch them all again…. 😛
I like when we meet irl and have interesting conversation
http://yearofthehermit.tumblr.com/
And December. The end.
I hope it’s not the end.
Gonna do it again next year?
I’m considering trying it.
Dunno. Sick of my face. Got a new goal for next year. 😀
Get a new face?
Booty pic of the day.
11 out of 12 months?
Spoilers!
They’re great!
Thanks! 🙂
You have hair!!
I was expecting to see a number zero cut DC! Keep the voice overs to give context (y)
Haha! Was a zero cut for one day in August. 😛
This heat/humidity is just ugh. To the point it’s making me feel ill =(
Maybe you are getting a… “Virus”…
Or it’s just the heat 😛
Picked up Wolfenstein…
Wolfy \o/
I ended up picking it up as well.
Fun!
Drama Queen.
I saw the post, Freezey. You’ve got my number any time you need to talk. Any time.
If it makes you feel better. I robbed you off out of parental laziness/ responsibility.
Robbed? I can’t even remember the word I wanted…
Eh, @greenius will translate
*shrug*
Probably “pulled”
I assumed “fobbed”.
Ah, you speak jimunese well, remind me to teach you the secret hand shake
Is that the one where you take their right hand in yours, and then quickly scratch your junk with your left?
@blaghman shhhhhh
We should hang out for New Years! THERE’S STILL TIME!
Happy last day of 2014 everyone.
I finally finished DA:I’s main story a few days ago. Only took me 90 hours to get there. So, Dragon Age Inquisition ending spoilers:
I both liked and disliked the ending. I never really cared much about Corypheus as a villain, and the final confrontation with him felt a bit meh since he basically just turns up and challanges you to an arena match. That said, the arena was pretty cool visually and the fight itself wasn’t too bad. Slightly disappointed that they spoiled the whole Morrigan as a dragon verse the other dragon thing in the trailers for the game though. I enjoyed the after bit more, with everyone having a party. Also the post credit Solas scene was great. I’d guessed his identity during the credits, but didn’t actually think there’d be a confirmation so soon.
Leading up to the game Solas was probably the companion I’d paid the least attention to, but then when I started playing the game he quickly became my favourite companion. I’m really looking forward to seeing what they do with him in the future.
Glad I missed that particular trailer
So my friend thought that when I told him I was all good for NYE (having had a potential clash to find out about before getting back to him, which eventuated to nothing), he thought it meant I’d gone and sorted myself out with other plans. And now there are no plans 😛
Guess I can just spend the night flying in space or something.
I hope to put my family to bed early(ish) & do all the Megaten IV side quests needed to complete the game…finally.
Wild, I know. Go on, call me party animal, I don’t care.
Party animu
What wwouldyou call anime I made?
Jimune?
Binary Domain is fun so far. The fact that you have to configure options through an external launcher is as infuriating as always. The exposition appears to have been delivered in the wrong order though, and two of the exposition dumps pretty much said very similar things. We know that Yoji Amada is the bad guy, you said that already.
It’s adorably cheesy, though. NO FUTUUURREE!
Thanks so much to my SanTAY who got me seriously the best presents I could ask for in a Pikachu and D.K amiibos. I’m sitting here with them now thinking how I can justify these living on top of the entertainment unit to my girlfriend who’s 20 minutes away :p
Guys, how have you convinced your significant other a pop culture phenomenon is fine to have in your room?
My wall scrolls are hung in the garage…
That’s an easy one! Simply don’t have a significant other!
… D:
Tell her if the amiibos go, she goes. Them dramatically point to the door.
Foolproof.
Let you know how this one plays out.
Worst comes to worst you’ll end up with plenty of new room to display your amiibo collection on her side of the bed.
Never really had that problem. We both like collecting stuff – so our problem is just that there is not enough space for All The Things.
Eh, don’t stress about it too much.
Tell her you want to have them on display, same way you’d hang a bit of art. If she isn’t really getting it explain it with the art metaphor again. Like a piece of art some people like to look at them and others don’t. You do. So they stay.
Ahhhh I really like this, I led with Freezes ‘Amiibos go, you go’ and think I need a subtler approach moving forward :p
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mialinkup/mialinkup-a-new-direction-in-connected-car/
Interesting. Feels like something I should be keeping an eye on post release rather than backing though.
Looks very cool… But I’d be waiting for that one to hit retail. Looks like it’d be super handy over the longer term.
I’ve tried using those bluetooth OBD transmitters before (to check ‘engine light’ codes) and getting it paired with my phone was a really hit and miss.
Bought the New 3DS XL today, and added some folks, these ones to be exact (warning: long)
@35 @mythamphetamine @alexpants @andre @ashuramgs2sub @batgirl @batguy @batto @bdkiaf @beardymcmuttonchops @beavwa @becaroonie @bendaman @benj @benny @bish @blaghman @cakesmith @cj @coldcamv @dkzeitgeist @dire_wolf @distantdrop @doc_what @evilmonkey @fled @freezespreston @freya @gemini @gorzilla @grandmasterb-funk @greenius @gutsoup @hindenlagen @hugo_the_hungarian_barbarian @jimu @jocon @joshy206 @liondrive @kermitron @mawt @mcgarnical @Knacks @d370n8 @negativezero @nomad @novacascade @phoenix @pixel_the_ferret_viking @platinum-urchin @popdart5 @powalen @redartifice @rize @rocketman @sarcasmfairy @saturday @scree @sernobulus @shane @steve-o_the_deve-o @strange @sughly @thecracks @tofu @wilbur @ynefel @zetrox2kIf you could add me with the friend code 4098-5334-9430, that’d be great.
Will do 😉
Portable Xenoblade machine! 😀
I ditched my 3DS so I won’t be reChable on that number anymore but thanks for adding me anyway. I should remove that from the list.
Ditched? Woh!
I never get rid of consoles anymore.
Probably from a childhood of forced sales in order to upgrade
The next time either of my 3DSes have any power in them I will do so.
Done. 🙂
Oh, and if anyone would like to add me (particularly if you’re playing Smash 3DS or Pokemon; I desperately need those Friend Safaris), my code is 2191-8941-4628.
MONSTER HUNTERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!
I finally reached HR8+ with the help of @beavwa last night and this morning. Since I broke the cap, my HR immediately jumped up to HR51 :D! Now that I finally know what my HR rank is, I can rest easy… (except for the fact that it’s gone and given me the Monster Hunting bug again D:)
I don’t think I’ll brother playing it again since I know MH4U is just around the corner… but can MH4U just be released like tomorrow? Please? 😀
Finished off the Halo 2 Anniversary campaign today and that makes 62 games completed for this year :D. It’s more than what I had last year but I don’t think I’ll aim to beat it next year since it’ll be my first year of full time work :P. I reckon I’ll just try to get at least 52 again 😀 (which was my original goal for this year)
You guys and your fancy ranks. I’m still in the “noob” ranks. ='(
Not good job 🙁
YOU.SUCK.AND.YOU.WILL.NEVER.GET.GOOD.GEAR.
Let’s smash some monsters then. Will be fun.
Five hours left in 2014…
What would be your ideal way to spend them?
If I knew, I’d probably be off doing that instead of sitting at home doing nothing 😛
I still have 14 hours left of this year XD
Snuggled up with someone I love :*
One more time for the new page, new year.
$20 Far Cry 4 Code for PC- region-locked to US but can be easily bypassed with a VPN; it’s a one time activation via a website, then it’s fully accessible anywhere afterwards. Paypal/Steam Credit accepted.
I’m pretty sure buying this won’t solve all your problems and fulfill your dreams, but hey, it doesn’t hurt to try.
Everyone should play Far Cry 4, it will solve all your problems and fulfill all your dreams, that’s a @saturday guarantee.
Seriously though, that game is all kinds of good. If you don’t have it you should get it!
The Walking Dead Season 1 Episode 2.
Overall, I didn’t enjoy it as much as the first episode. It was still really good, but didn’t have as much of an impact. It was good to see more character development though.
I even started to like Larry!
Though Kenny is becoming a bit of a dick :\
Decisions I made…– I chopped off David’s leg. I tried the chain first, but couldn’t see any other way, and didn’t want to leave him to the walkers. (43%)
– I didn’t shoot Jolene. It sounded like she knew something about the farm, and having Danny shoot her only confirmed those suspicions. (60%)
– I didn’t help kill Larry. I’m trying to be a good father to Clem, so don’t want to kill anyone in front of her. I also thought he might survive a heart attack. Right when I started to like him too… (50%)
– I didn’t kill either of the brothers. Trying to avoid killing in front of Clem, and I knew they would be eaten by walkers anyway.
Seemed more fitting having them eaten. (61%)
– Clem didn’t want to take anything from the car, so I supported her. She’s a good kid. I’m raising her right. (48%)
If you haven’t already, check out The Wolf Among Us! I finished the first Episode yesterday and I’m really liking it. It’s the same sort of gameplay as the Walking Dead Games but in a much different setting 😀
Also much much better written I felt. Less SOUL CRUSHING CHOICES AND EMOTIONS™©® and more genuinely grey choices.
I’m honestly liking it a lot more already!
How do they compare with Borderlands and GoT?
Haven’t played Game of Thrones yet. Borderlands is pretty great but very different in tone. Much more action and surprisingly funny. I enjoy Wolf and Borderlands for different reasons whereas Wolf and Dead are similar in tone.
I’m guessing Game of Thrones will be even grimmer :/
Still gotta get through Season 1 and Season 2 of the Walking Dead first 😛
That’s what I was thinking :-/
Stoopit @greenius
I didn’t say he had to play it nowwwww 😛
It’s on my list. Next sale I see it, BABAM! I’ll give it a strong consideration
But I need S2 of W D to sale on vita too.
Man, Episode 2 was my favourite… 😛
It wasn’t bad, just want as good as the first 😛
There seems to be a bit of difference in what players of the PC version chose.
Decisions made:
-Chopped of David’s leg. I tried the chain first. (84%)-Didn’t shoot Jolene. (87%)
-Did not help kill Larry (68%)
-Killed the first brother when I made my escape, (I reacted purely on instinct for that one) but I left the other one alive. I felt bad about killing him in front of Clementine afterwards. (82%)
-I stole food from the car, as I assumed the guy was already dead. (55%)
The lights to the car were still on, little Phlanispo!Also, there were no screams or anything.
They’re definitely still alive.
Plus I’m being g a good influence to Clem.
I didn’t want her to go hungry.Yeah, no, my sister is definitely 14. She got a phone call form my mother reminding her that she isn’t allowed to have a new year’s eve party, which resulted in her screaming into the phone. She hung up while screaming about how she hated her. Then she called up her friends and started complaining very loudly. Then she started crying while screaming. Now I think she’s called up my mother again to shout at her. Now I think she’s calling someone a slut.
It’s such a beautiful time to be a parent.
Yeah..? No..? so which is it? :p
Ok, gonna crash my friend’s gathering. Even if they are playing *shudder* Monopoly.
Happy New Year, TAY.
Would you rather they be playing naked twister?
this might be the last popcorn of the year!
*grabs popcorn*
…Yes.
With women?
… Yes.
Hey, heeeeey. Hey.
Eww Jimu.
That’s gross.
That made me laugh
I’m trying to think of a movie to watch for New Year’s Eve, and all I can come up with is Patema Inverted.
FiGht Club
Pacific Rim
Goodbye 2014. Don’t ever come back.
Is… Is there a chance it could come back?
With a vengeance? D:
Better not be!
Or maybe even with…a revengeance?
Sorry…not actually sorry
2014 has a lot to answer for. >:(
Happy New Year, New Zealand!
Happy new Crazyguy
Happy new year TAY
Oh god, premature again. How embarrassingHave a good year, TAY.
YOU CAN’T TELL ME WHAT TO DO!
Happy New
BeerYear!\o/
I have been made custodian of my father’s wine collection, such as it is.
Happy New Year everyone. I’m at home, alone. I celebrated by taking down my 2014 calendar and putting up my 2015 calendar. I feel like Ned Flanders at the moment.
Was hoping you were wearing nothing at all. /o\
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
YOU CAN ALL WAIT YOUR TURN.
tryin to celebrate with out ne, the nerve…
Happy New Year TAY!
A lot of hate for 2014 on the Internet. People need to focus on the positive instead of the negative! Sure 2014 wasn’t my best year but I still enjoyed it and am glad I got to spend most of it with you awesome folks. It may have had some hiccups along the way. I lost my job and Dark Souls 2 was released but I also think my life is going to turn around from this point. Going to uni, going to move out, hell, maybe I will get enough self confidence to give online dating a try.
What I’m trying to say is 2014 may not have been my best year it certainly paved way to a big chapter in my life. Perhaps a few years time I will look back on 2014 and say “that’s the year where everything changed and how I ended up here” and hopefully I will say it with joy.
Anyway, thank you 2014 and thank you TAYbies for an awesome year but let’s make this one even awesome…er?
Install nit new year, so you can all cars your fans!
Your all a good bunch, I just hate being behind.op
I have a suspicion you have been drinking… can’t pinpoint why that thought occurred to me though.
Little Or oh flanispi!
Good bivmud? Pffft, you’re the best bunch!
I have some.open positions in my family, if you guts want th gen?
G’night, TAY.
Happy 2015! \o/
2015, huh? Doesn’t seem so great.
First piss of the new year! History in the making here, folks.
Haaoaosyd, new auysr!
The fuck. Seriously. What the hell?
Through some convincing, my sister convinced my mum to let her have one friend over for the night. Or at least, my sister told me that she’d convinced my mum. At around 7pm, she said that she would be spending the night in the gazebo outside with some sleeping bags. She said it was really important to her that she can spend the night with her friend, and that it would ruin it if I ever went outside. If I had any common sense, this should have been a warning sign.
Five minutes ago, my mother calls to wish me a happy new year. She asks for me to check on my sister. So I go outside. A lamp is on in the gazebo. Oh, so they must be awake. I go to see them anyway. Except they aren’t there. The lamp is on and some blankets are casting shadows to make you think that people are in there. I check her room. She isn’t there. I check the gate. Where previously it was locked and secure, the padlock is resting on the recycling bin.
She did a runner to go to a party. I thought this was just a trope of 90’s Touchstone movies, not something people actually did.
Lord it over her for favours!!!
,,
Too late. Her mother knows. However, mum doesn’t know some other thing that my sister did a month ago. Besides, my sister isn’t the type who indulges in bribery, as she’d just belittle the claim. And I’m not the type to indulge in blackmail, as my sense of moral conviction or whatever is too high.
I’ll blackmail h er day you!!!
Please littyklgr phlanisbuddy!!!!
She came back. Since I had the gate and the door locked, she had to jump the fence and crawl through the doggie door to get in.* I was waiting for her on the other side of the doggie door. She isn’t the least bit apologetic. She swears she was only gone for two hours, and she was just riding her bike, despite the fact that all the bikes were at home the whole time.
She is angry and surprised that I told mum about this. She declared that I would never speak to her again, and stormed off. You know the worst part about this? Her friend that tagged along is a good kid. She just follows whatever crap my sister does. Although I sound like a shrill parent when I saw this, but my sister is a bad influence on her.
*She breaks into the house like this all the time. She doesn’t believe in carrying keys, and prefers to break into the house. I wonder what that says about her.
My be tdc friend gsteyedim.my.facilities r :'(
It’s you am nr, tonihig, ]¥ touches nhfuk *
I think it’s about. Blogs I’m drunk, and I’ve been kicked in the head tonight s:3
Happy be tueae l, agusn! I love you Ll, for rwaksueae, nit fir okay okay.
I wish I was brscet tihkifg 🙁
Um naked 😉
… We’re making this the first TAY post of 2015. We dig? we dig.
One for the old year, one for the new year.
Pics or it didn’t happen. 😛
So, new years resolutions?
Last years was to learn to cook new things, which I’m fairly happy with how I went. I didn’t keep a tally or anything but I learnt a few good things that have made their way into my regular rotation. (original goal was one new thing every week, but that turned out to be a bit too demanding. Not to mention expensive)
I’m really not sure what I want to set for this year though. I guess the only real thing that I’m lacking right now is any sort of love-life 😛 Maybe I should work something out for that this year.
If you want to continue your cooking skills, I am happy to help!
After having such a good time at PAX Aus as Link, I’m dedicating myself to do more cosplay in 2015.
You know, I was highly considering putting together a Pit cosplay for this PAX. Would’ve been really cool.
But I’m hoping to do this gym leader thing again so figured it’s probably best to do something for that instead. Maybe next year 😛
I don’t tend to set resolutions, but this year I’m definitely aiming to be more active. I got a bit derailed with my fitness in the last couple of months, so I need to get it back on track. New Christmas fitbit is helping 🙂
I’m also starting the #100happydays challenge today.
Good luck with it.
The 100 happy days thing sounds pretty cool too!
I hope to be increasingly bitter and insular in my views and grow evermore confused about young people’s culture.
Not exactly resolutions, but I really, really, re-e-eally need to do this whole “weight loss” thing, and I think I need some public way of tracking progress, because I am just god awful at staying motivated.
I also have three stories (well, one of them’s just a mechanic that I like) that I would like to tell this year in some form or another.
Also, maybe ask out a girl or something.
Hahahaha, like that’s going to happen.
Good luck, buddy! I think you can do it.
I appreciate your beautiful lies, Powapalooza.
I can be a weight loss buddy if you need one. Pm me on Twitter!
Freeze’s fitness frenzy. The sequel to red’s running rampage
Coming soon in 2015
I thought it was a freakout?
Por Que no los dos?
2560 x 1440, why you ask?
Marathoning three seasons of Legend of Korra seems like a really good udea right now…
So it’s the year 2015 now!
Everyone happy with what they finished gaming wise?
Here’s my list!
January– Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag
– Freedom Fall
– The Banner Saga
– Enslaved: Odyssey of the West
– Super Mario 3D World
Feburary
– Broken Age (Act 1)
– Guacamelee!
– The Witcher 2
– Disgaea D2
– Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze
March
– Metal Slug 3
– Fire Emblem: Awakening
April
– Shadowrun Returns (Original Campaign)
– Shadowrun Returns: Dragonfall
– Toukiden: The Age of Demons
– Hotline Miami
– Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine
– Kingdom Hearts Final Mix
– Deponia
– Chaos on Deponia*
May
– Child of Light
– Goodbye Deponia
– Transistor
June
– Mario Kart 8
– Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon
– Octodad – Dadliest Catch
– Shadow Warrior
– Shovel Knight
July
– Battleblock Theatre (Normal: All A++)
– Tomb Raider (100%)
August
– Infamous: Second Sun (Heroic Route)
– Risen 2
September
– Destiny (“Finished”)
– Hyrule Warriors (Legend Mode)
October
– Shadows of Modor
– Costume Quest 1 (with DLC)
– Binding of Issac “Finished”
– Sleeping Dogs Definitive Edition
December
– Dragon Age: Inqusition
I have no idea what I finished last year, apart from Might and Magic X and Risen 3. Enjoyed the hell out of both games though! 🙂
I think;
-The Last of Us
-Infamous: Second Son (Infamous side of things)
-GTA V (PS4 twice)
-The Wolf Among Us
-The Stick of Truth
I think that’s everything..
I started but never finished;
-Assassin’s Creed IV
-Trial’s Fusion
-Tomb Raider
-The Walking Dead Season 2
Broken Age
The Wolf Among Us
The Walking Dead 2
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze
inFamous: Second Son
Botanicula
Moebius
Tex Murphy: Tesla Effect
Murdered: Soul Suspect
Mario Kart 8
Wolfenstein: The New Order
South Park: The Stick of Truth
Valiant Hearts: The Great War
The Last of Us Remastered
Diablo 3
Destiny
Transistor
LIMBO
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments
Costume Quest 2
Alien: Isolation
Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers
Dreamfall Chapters: Book One
Tales from the Borderlands – Ep 1
Dragon Age: Inquisition
Game of Thrones – Ep 1
You didn’t finish Diablo 3! Lies! *shakes fist*
I finished the campaign. That was good enough for me. 😛
18 in total for me but that includes small and DLC
JanBrothers: A Tale of Two Sons
The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing
Batman: Arkham City – Harley Quinn’s Revenge DLC
The Stanley Parable (2013)
Mar
Bulletstorm
Call of Juarez: Gunslinger
Apr
CastleStorm
May
Wizorb
Metro: Last Light
June
Injustice: Gods Among Us – Ultimate Edition
Tomb Raider (2013)
July
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
Rogue Legacy
Oct
Costume Quest 2
Nov
Road Redemption
Sparkle 2 Evo
Dec
SteamWorld Dig
Enslaved: Odyssey to the West
And at the same time added to my steam profile was
Tiny BrainsDrunken Robot Pornography
Bardbarian
Imagine Me
MURI
Ittle Dew
Talisman Digital Edition
Defy Gravity
The Wolf Among Us
Valiant Hearts: The Great War / Soldats Inconnus : Mémoires de la Grande Guerre
Never Alone (Kisima Ingitchuna)
Shadow Warrior
Shadow Puppeteer
Screencheat – Deluxe Edition DLC
Screencheat – Humble Bonus
Screencheat – Humble Holidays 2014 Bonus
Screencheat Prepurchase
Desktop Dungeons Special Edition
Lexica
Batman Arkham Origins
Letter Quest: Grimm’s Journey
KickBeat
A Bird Story
Massive Chalice Beta
Full Mojo Rampage
Euro Truck Simulator 2
Grid 2
Blackguards – Standard Edition
Insurgency
Always Sometimes Monsters
Tesla Effect
Violett + OST
Card City Nights
Teleglitch: Base Game
Sid Meiers Railroads
Sid Meier’s Ace Patrol: Pacific Skies
Sid Meier’s Ace Patrol
Civilization IV Complete Edition
Sid Meier’s Civilization III: Complete
Race The Sun
Neighbours from Hell Compilation
Saints Row IV Game of the Century Edition
Sparkle 2 Evo: Soundtrack Edition
Assassin’s Creed Liberation Release
Road Redemption
Power-Up
Huntsman: The Orphanage
Hero of the Kingdom
The Sun at Night
Pool Nation
Defense Grid 2 Special Edition
Wasteland 2
Prison Architect Standard
Luftrausers
Papers, Please
Gone Home + Original Soundtrack
Gunpoint
Hammerwatch
SteamWorld Dig
Warframe
Costume Quest 2
Pinball FX2 – Doctor Strange Table
Pinball FX2 – Civil War Table
Pinball FX2 – Marvel Pinball Vengeance and Virtue Pack
State of Decay – Lifeline
State of Decay – Breakdown
State of Decay
Awesomenauts – Starstorm Expansion
Awesomenauts – Costume Party DLC Bundle
Legends of Eisenwald
LEGO Marvel Super Heroes
Pinball FX2 – Excalibur Table
Pinball FX2 – Star Wars™ Pinball: Heroes Within
Transistor
The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
Space Hulk Gift
Rogue Legacy
Darksiders II – Death Rides
Darksiders 2 – Argul’s Tomb
FORCED Gift
PAYDAY 2
Payday 2: Armored Transport
Bioshock Infinite Season Pass ROW
Pinball FX2 – 249121
Urban Trials
Velvet Assassin
ENSLAVED: Odyssey to the West Premium Edition ROW
Orion Dino Horde Gift
Sniper Elite V2
Injustice: Gods Among Us Ultimate Edition
Dead Island: Epidemic Beta Gift
ibb & obb – Gift Luxurious Friends Forever
Shadowrun Returns
Tabletop Simulator
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning – Teeth of Naros
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning – Legend of Dead Kel
Ethan: Meteor Hunter
Kerbal Space Program
LYNE
Age of Empires II 4-Pack Gifts
Super Sanctum TD
Amnesia Fortnight 2014
Amnesia Fortnight New
Starseed Pilgrim
Beatbuddy: Tale of the Guardians
FEZ
Antichamber
Guacamelee! Gold Edition
Dust: An Elysian Tail
Deus Ex: Human Revolution – Director’s Cut
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
Defender’s Quest: Valley of the Forgotten
Sanctum 2 Complete Pack
Broken Age – Backer Key
The Banner Saga Preorder
Oh god, that Steam List… you need to play like 2 a week to get through that list lol.
My full steam list as a solid 212 days
oo! I like the month thing. I think I’ll do that for this year 😀
2014:
1. Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag and Aveline DLC
2. Attack of the Friday Monsters
3. Bayonetta 2
4. Beat the Beat: Rhythm Paradise
5. BioShock Infinite
6. BIT.TRIP Presents Runner 2
7. Bravely Default
8. Broken Age Act 1
9. Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
10. Child of Light
11. Costume Quest
12. Dark Souls
13. Dark Souls II
14. Destiny
15. Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze
16. Dragon’s Crown
17. Fantasy Life
18. FEZ
19. Final Fantasy X HD
20. Final Fantasy X-2 HD
21. Fire Emblem: Awakening
22. Flower
23. Gears of War: Judgment
24. Guacamelee
25. Gunman Clive
26. Halo 2 Anniversary
27. Halo Anniversary
28. Hyrule Warriors
29. inFAMOUS: Second Son
30. Kid Icarus: Uprising
31. La-Mulana
32. LEGO MARVEL Super Heroes
33. Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII
34. Mario Kart 8
35. Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
36. Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes
37. Octodad: Dadliest Catch
38. Pokemon Alpha Sapphire
39. Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright
40. Psychonauts
41. Pullblox World
42. Resogun
43. Risk of Rain
44. Rogue Legacy
45. Shovel Knight
46. South Park: The Stick of Truth
47. SteamWorld Dig
48. The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
49. The Last of Us Remastered and Left Behind DLC
50. The Night of the Rabbit
51. The Stanley Parable
52. The Walking Dead Season 2 (Episodes 2-5)
53. The Witcher
54. The Wolf Among Us (Episode 1-2)
55. Theatrhythm Final Fantasy: Curtain Call
56. Tomb Raider
57. Toukiden: Age of Demons
58. Transistor
59. Trials Fusion
60. Valiant Hearts
61. Year Walk
62. Ys: Memories of Celceta
One a week, nice work greenmang
500 hours of Pokémon Y
250 hours of Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate
Couple of hundred hours of Minecraft
I didn’t do this whole finishing games thing very well.
First meal for 2015: an entire wheel of double brie.
So much for the losing weight this year…
I haven’t eaten since 2014.
oh man! what a way to bring in the new year! yummmmmmmmmmmp!
First meal for 2015: vegemite on toast. 2 pieces.
Solid start with the Vitamin B!
Jeez..
Screaming child/children at one of the neighbours (not sure which) sounds like a whistling kettle, then again it could be an old fashioned whistling kettle and someone is making tea..
Finally got around to playing the second episode of The Wolf Among us. OMG! I love this series, so good. Kinda tempted to start reading the comics.
Choices!
Sympathized with Crane (Ugh, I regret that, what a creep)Forced the suspect to talk
Let Snow join me to the Trip Trap
Didn’t hit Georgie (but I broke his boombox, keg and sign)
Didn’t hit beast while he was down.
Whoops.
stick it in the fridge for a bit, that’ll help /s
Put your iPhone in a cold glass of water, it helps me cool off.
I was thinking of freezing it in water 😛
Currently doing my first show of the new year, no requests though, unless you dial in 😛
Damn. I’ve been waiting to request Dance the Kung Fu all week. Guess I’ll have to wait some more.
The number isn’t hard to find, especially if you’re listening online at http://www.5yyy.com.au
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_in_video_gaming
The year looks decent.
Still only a Q1 release for Hotline Miami 2, I thought that would have been nailed down by now…
My body is ready. Meanwhile my wallet is crying somewhere in the corner.
Doesn’t Captain Toad come out in a couple of days?
NA already has it.
April 7th & 14th all the way. 😀
BLEED 2!
Nothing interests me, kill me now!
Nah, if anything there’s probably too manyThis is pretty uncool. I posted a comment on the article about 50 naked dudes fighting and killing each other asking if the site would publish the same article if it featured women instead. Legit question. And it got deleted.
I saw that.
Pretty stupid reason to delete a comment.
Can’t you post it again though?
No point. It’ll probably just get deleted again.
On a lighter note, happy new year!
Happy new year!
My other comment got deleted too. Not that it matters the slightest, but the site just lost another reader…
Heya @miketarno Your comment was “Would Kotaku publish a video of 50 naked women fighting and getting killed? I’m curious.” In my NYE hungover state, I read this as trolling, maybe I was wrong, maybe I wasn’t.
But to answer your question. Depends on the context, and case-by-case basis. But maybe.
Happy new year dude. Nope wasn’t trolling. Legit question. I’ve been on here for quite some time and posted way worse things yet never had anything deleted. 🙂
You too man, sorry if overzealous. *pops open champagne and hands glass* 🙂
I hadn’t even realised we were at the point where we deleted comments on Kotaku. Is it really that bad these days that we can’t let the upvote/system and discussion sort things out anymore?
Now there’s no comments section at all.
Fixed!
Comment deletion has been a thing for quite a while. You might not notice it but it definitely happens from time to time.
Usually for really messed up comments and personal attacks, very seldom on the basis of someone disagreeing with the article posted or questioning it’s validity.
I had Mark swoop in an delete insensitive comments I made not realising what I was doing.
saved my oblivious arse multiple times
I understand everything that @liondrive has said on TAY and Twitter. Clear as rain
😛
Edit: Sooooo my new years! At around 7 we went and got pizzas and went to the park with the awesome flying fox that omg it’s the best thing in Launceston. I overdid it and pretty much passed out. Lost my vision and hearing and everything. That’s how you pass out on new years isn’t it? Had a massive headache so didn’t drink anything till like midnight when I started feeling better. We went out to see the fireworks and on the way there was a cat fight in the drive through at Maccas which was better to watch than the fireworks.
Also we went to some independent bottleshop and a) they have like nothing, and b) it was INSANELY overpriced. $51 for a 700ml bottle of Bacardi?!?! It’s $15 or more cheaper at BWS! Found some Jack Daniels that was reasonably priced though so I guess it was okay. I wanted my old faithful though :l
I’m 100% legible, 100% of the time.
Bah! Everything still hurts from the run I did a couple of days ago 😛
I usually jog for a bit and then walk (for a lot longer…) before doing it all over again for a few km. I figured I’d try to run on this time and managed to get through about 2km straight without having to walk :D. I’m pretty happy with that since my area is super hilly but I’m definitely feeling it though :'(
I haven’t been running for the past few weeks since my usual work running babe has been busy. Boo! I don’t usually set resolutions or goals or whatevs, but I guess I want to run more :D. Maybe learn how to swim too 😛 (NAH!)
Are there any big fun runs that you’d like to do this year? I did the Sydney City2Surf for the first time last year, and it was pretty good.
This year I think the Mothers Day Classic and the Pub to Pub are on the cards. And maybe a colour run – they look like such fun, but they’re pretty expensive to enter.
Haven’t really looked into it :P. A group of us were supposed to do the colour run last year but most people dropped out so we never bothered signing up. Seemed really expensive like you said though D:
The colour run is an interesting one, from what I’m reading you’ve done some serious runs so it’ll feel pretty nice only doing 5km if you’re cruising.
Having taken some students before to do the Colour Run you don’t want to go there and do a personal best 5km time because you”ll have swathes of people on the course. You’ll need to navigate as folks as they stop and pelt colour bombs at each other lol. The Pub to Pub looks tough with that 800m at the start, I hate the sand so running around with sandy feet for an extra 13km doesn’t do it for me!
The pub to pub is essentially a local run for me, I live only a suburb away from the start at dee why, and the thought of finishing with a beer at The Arms sounds brilliant. And by “run” I mean shuffling along slowly and lots of walking. I did the C2S in just under 2 hours, so I’m not fast 🙂
The colour run would be just for fun 🙂 but first up this year is the Sun Run from Dee Why o Manly. Very scenic, a few steep bits.
Woo, starting the year out on page 6!
…where is all the page 6? BOO!
So new years was alright. Went to hang with Wingman an a few of the others, thankfully the Monopoly was winding up once I got there. We sat around talking for a bit, before eventually cracking out Smash and playing that through midnight and beyond. I totally cleaned up 😛 Even when they were trying to gang up on me. Then we got her boyfriend playing (he didn’t want to at first) and while I still ended up winning, I pointed out that if we were doing a timed match instead of stock he would have won instead. They still didn’t change it though. Oh well.
Oh and also, there was “jaffa cake” vodka. And honest to god it tasted just like those little cupcakes you used to have for parties as a kid with all the cartoon characters printed on the rice paper. Except in liquid form. Amazing.
Otherstuff: So the other day my sister and her boyfriend swung by the house to scavenge some lunch. I thought they’d already left to go on their trip to Tassie but apparently not, also I didn’t realise they were taking a friend along too, so she was there with them. She got talking with me, asking how climbing was going, eventually got talking about outdoor and was surprised to hear I’d never been, said that we should go sometime, she’ll get my number off my sister when they get back and organise something, or whatever, and yeah. Thought this was a little weird, like she’s a fairly friendly person usually but this seemed a bit different. Then remembered how a little while back it was mentioned that she was telling my sister how she (sister) had to introduce her (friend) to me or something – even though we’d actually met and talked at climbing a few times previously, she must’ve forgotten or something. A couple of months back actually, she was there one night and talking to someone else when she just clicked and went “oh you’re [your sister’s] brother!”. But yeah, all this had raised my suspicions but I didn’t say anything about it here because I figured it was just me being all paranoid and everything again.
Fast forward to last night. Half past midnight and I got my first message for the new year – from an unknown number, reading “Happy New Years cutie! (Lucas) Hope all your dreams come true in 2015. Keen to climb mountains together. Love Tyreece”.
Welp. I have no idea who Tyreece is, but I’m pretty sure he’s not the actual sender of that message.
Tyreece sounds like a catch!
*popcorns up*
When I was an eligible bachelor and got messages off of numbers I didn’t know, I used to call them from a private number and say I was from a water company and needed there name for a survey. Get’s them every time. (⌐■_■)
Really? Most people I know seem to ignore private numbers 😛
Also did you actually have survey questions lined up or did you just get their name then hang up?
I was fluid with happened next, more or less it usually was: name, current water provider and a scale of 1-10 how happy are you with your current provider.
Oh yeah, we ended up digging out old toys and Wingman had a set of light-up astrojacks that were still working somehow. So we took them outside into the dark and spent like a good half hour out there playing with them, I got my phone out and set the exposure time to long and tried to see if we could get some cool pictures. Think we got a few 😛
@beardymcmuttonchops @beeawwb @cufcfan616 @dc @dkzeitgeist @freezespreston @gutsoup @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @sernobulus @strange @sughly @transientmind @welbot @virus__ @janexo, @sunsoar77
Hey guys. I’m having a birthday thing on January 10th. That’s a Saturday. It’ll be at night around the CBD/Valley/West End area. I’ll give you definite details soon. Just wanted to give you heads up early. Would be cool to see you folks! 🙂 (No stress or obligation, though.) Don’t worry, we won’t be doing that spend three weeks working out a place thing we often do either. I’ll choose something. 🙂
Maccy Ds!
*no invitation*
🙁
Interstate people are welcome. Just short notice, is all. 😉
Will there be roast involved?
My mum visits and makes me a roast on my actual birthday. Which is 15th. 😛
Yay!
hmmm right in the middle of pay cycle. Will have to wait til closer to the day to know if I can make it or not, but I will update you at some point! 🙂
No problem, buddy! 🙂
I’ll come along but needs to be an early one since the Mrs works EVERY Damn Sunday now.
Which blue ray have you the least interest in, or maybe a JRPG? 😛
Hahaha! I’m sure 12 Monkeys is excellent. I just have poor free time planning skills! 😛
*dyes*
D.C. bought Xenoblade once and locked eyes with the love of his life!
I got flustered and awkward but I can safely say she was not the love of my life. 😛
whoops typo!
the love of MY* life
Xenolove < 3
*vomits*
Did you end up getting Megaten IV?
Nope! I will one day though…
I’ve just got too many games at the moment :P! My plan is to finish up what I’ve started and clear up stuff before Bloodborne and Type-0 in March.
Captain Toad will be shortish so that won’t be too bad then I’ll just work through whatever I’ve got on Xbone (I plan to play D4 from crazy Deadly Prem dude). Xillia 2 has been sitting unplayed in my PS3 for months since it’s such a dud! Don’t really want to just give up on it since I paid good monies for it, so I’ll force myself to get through it cause I don’t wanna out JRPG myself before March.
Been wanting to play AA5 for ages too so I think I’ll finally start that soon. It worries me having downloaded 3DS software before doing a transfer, in case something was to go wrong I’d lose everything :O (I’mma buy a New 3DS for MH4U/Xenobladders)
I did a new memory card to fit SMTIV, scared the dickens out of me when it didn t work the first time.
OH man, just sell Xillia, rip that bandaid clean OFF!
AA5?
Ive got a bunch of almost finished games. Stuck on hard bits or lost or whatever, sucks.
Ace Attorney!
Sure, sounds good
*flails arms* Wooooo! 😀
Would love to. =D
It’s my daughters birthday that day so will probably have stuff on during the day but might be able to make it that night.
Oh I see 🙁
Hehe I’m actually in Brissy sometimes for workies!
Fuck it, I’m re-installing Wolfenstein: The New Order.
MQFT!
B C
C
Castlevania it is! 😀
Castlevania ftw!
Which one?
The badder ones!
Lords of Shadow 2 and Mirror of Fate.
I want more normal Castlevanias again 🙁
Yeah, I’m not interested. I like backtracking n shit
You play the first Lords of Shadow? I really liked it as an actiony hack and slash game, but it was a pretty bad “Castlevania” game 😛
I did, borrowed it, didnt finish it and didnt really think of it again til the sequels.
It wasnt bad for a god of war clone but it wasn’t what I wanted.
Even God of War I only ever played the trilogy once each, theyre solid games but I never feel any need to replay.
To be fair, the first couple of Castlevanias were linear action games.
Playing a bit of Diablo III before having to cook dinner when suddenly a wild @shane appears. Eek!
Oh crap, oh crap what do I do?!
Oh, I know! I’ll just pretend he’s my normal follower and try and forget he’s there. 😛
(But hey, it was kind of fun.)How does loot work in a multiplayer situation, by the way?
I’ve only played splitscreen but any loot drops is pre-allocated to a player. When we kill a boss or open a chest and get a loot fountain we can all run around spamming A to pick it up, but that just puts it in the respective inventory of whoever it actually belongs to.
I assume playing online you’ll only see your own loot since no one else is sharing the screen with you.
Everyone gets their own loot when you play multiplayer.
I need to play with you sometime! I can start a new character if you like. I don’t have a barbarian yet.
I was worried I was stealing your loot, but after a while I realised that the game was dropping separate stuff for you and me, as long as I wasn’t the one opening chests and stuff.
About the only time it’s worth having a particular person opening chests is if they have a special item that boosts loot from them – but it’s usually only a small effect so we rarely bother.
Everyone has different loot.
Also, being in a party gives players more exp and better loot. So basically you get rewarded for playing multiplayer.
I finished Megaten IV 😀
Anyone up for PS4 Diablo III multiplayer tonight? @freezespreston @dc @strange @cookingmama
I’m level 8, but happy to join your games if you prefer.
Ooooh, tempted but not really in a gaming mood at the moment, my friend. Thanks for thinking of me, Shane!
Once you started you might find the gaming mood returns to you.
Captain Toad is only two days away, though. TWO DAYS. (I don’t know what that has to do about any thing, but… *shrugs*)
I don’t think I’ll be on later, Mr. Strange will be hogging the TV. But if you see me, feel free to join me. I’ll try not to freak out. 😛
Sorry! I had fun, though! Smashing things with TAYbies is a recipe for a good time!
I could quite possibly be but I’d have to join your game with a level 1. All my characters are level 70 Torments.
You level up pretty darn quick though…
Can you join my game with such a high level character? Does that do anything bad to your game? Probably would be boring for you, though, I guess.
Activates what’s called Apprentice Mode. Boosts your stats to meet my level and sets the game to level 70. So same as usual for me, a bit more difficult for you.
Mine are 20+ and 50+ but I could start a new level 1 character.
I’ll be on for a while longer, so feel free to join in! I just found a place called Whimsydale and it’s HARD. 😛
Uh.. What the hell did I just read 😐
https://imgur.com/orLn6VI
Happy New Years, TAYbies. 🙂
I am looking forward to the symbolism of a year beginning to renew efforts at doing better. Being better.
You and me both, friend. Happy New Year. I have done more writing today than the past two months. Hope the year treats you awesome!
Happy New Year! Here’s to being better beings.
Okay… Rollercoaster Tycoon World looks like everything RCT4 should’ve been, instead of a F2P, money-whoring piece of trash.
Colour me genuinely excited.
Also, I’ve found a copy of Shadow of Mordor for $22.
https://www.g2a.com/middle-earth-shadow-of-mordor-steam-cd-key-global.html
And on the same site, Dark Souls 2 for $24.
DS2 is $20 on Steam now! But if anyone’s interested, I’d hold out for the “complainy edition” in April 😀
With a mental note to maybe hold out on Dark Souls 2 PC until after the PS4/Xbone versions come out.
@greenius Stop living in the past.
THIS ISN’T THE TAB I THOUGHT I WAS IN oh well
Still works just as well.
Says the guy who don’t like dat d-pad!
Did you end up buying the New 3DS? :P. I still haven’t seen the normal one but I think I’ll just stick with the XL for that extra Monster Hunting screen size.
Yes, I don’t like bad d-pads!
Didn’t end up getting one yet. I’m not sure what I want. Of the brief go I had of Pow’s, it’s making me think I’d prefer the XL. But I dunno. My old one will do me for now. Maybe splurge if there’s an MM special one.
Monster Hunter! Gonna give it a go again? It’ll be fun playing with everyone else around that launch hype!
Yeah, hanging out for MH4. Dunno if I’ll get around to multiplayer, but hey 😛
There’s more than enough content for solo play 😀
But there’s a whole bunch of extra things that playing with others will make a lot less tedious and it’s super fun to get insulted by randoms when you’re just starting out the game.
Apparently.I’ll.Never.Get.Good.Gear!
Yeah, I have a friend who is obsessed with the game and will not shut up about it. And I mean like in the “holy crap could you be even more autistic about this if you tried” sense. His discussions actively make me want to never touch the game again.
MH3U was my first proper go at it and let’s just say I conveniently fell sick and took a week off Uni (which was just before my mid-semester break) when it launched and I ended up spending something like 8 hours a day on it for a few weeks D:
I WAS SO ADDICTED, MAN
@greenius Yeah, I totally get it. When I first played MH3, I sunk 60 hours into it in the first week. 40 in the second, which got me to the credits (and thus, an escape :P). Think I had maybe another 20 or so on top of that as multiplayer, though that was more spread out.
So horribly addictive.
Oh yeah, I forgot you played Tri. I just remembered the part where you sold 3U or something and it made me sad 😛
Now I remember you just didn’t want to buy/play it again since you pretty much played Tri. I remember things!
I wanna play Wolfenstein!
🙁
First page 6 of 2015, and there wasn’t a single Dad joke.
It’s going to be a good year 🙂
I didn’t want to ruin @dc’s party ideas.
I think he should have it in space, but then he’d have to planet.
I had a joke about German sausages but decided not to tell it because it was the wurst.
Oh man, I was just looking at the Bavarian Bier Cafe website. You’ve ruined that place for everyone.
Pfft.
Nothing could ruin that place.
You were one of my favourites too.
Were being the operative word here.
Wrong =P
Uuuuurgh.
You love it.
Oh.
I missed page six.
Darn.
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU…Happy new year to all of you fantastic taybies out there! Had a fantastic new years with plenty of fireworks! I fully understand why it’s illegal in Australia but it is insanely fun to light yourself!… Hope you’re all well, one more day up here and we’ll be headed back home to ‘straya… Oh and @effluvium-boy(?) I may have bought something for you that starts with Y and ends in ankie… So when I get home I’ll have to grab your address so I can send it to you 😀
You bought effluvium boy an american?
Yep exactly XD, they’re not in high demand up here so they are quite cheap 😛
Won’t it cost a lot for you to ship him/her over? =P
Don’t forget the air holes!
Nah we managed to fit him in the suitcase… Don’t ask 😛
Does he come with or without gun?
Optional extra 😛
😀
What’s the Tooth Fairy’s exchange rate these days?
A crisp $50.
*pulls out all his teeth*
*checks under pillow*
Whoa! A hundeth and fifthy dollaths!
With inflation, probably wise to remortgage the house.
I always used to get 20c (OLD! :P) but these days my kids get $2. No idea what other kids get, though.
I managed to get $5 from my dad for my first lost tooth. It was danging by a thread and I refused to pull it out until one day the whole family was over (Christmas maybe?) and he offered me $5 if I pulled it out right now. Which I did.
It’s one of those family stories that often gets pulled out at gatherings 😛 (pun intended)
I wrote a note to the Tooth Fairy and asked to keep my teeth and still get money. The Tooth Fairy was silly enough to agree. I have a bunch of my little baby teeth in a little box somewhere still.
That’s like, serial killer material right there, Strangey.
Haha, me too. Except one of them is missing because it probably got thrown out with a bunch of dirty tissues, because it was wrapped up in a tissue too. Another one accidentally got left behind at the dentist’s after getting pulled out (because it had split in half while still in my mouth).
Damn incomplete collections.
About three fiddy.
Aww damn Liondrive, you ain’t goon’ and givin’ your tooth fairy tree fiddy? That’s that dayyyum Loch Ness monster!
Context spoiler
South Park: Succubus Episode 1999You have no idea how happy I am that people get the reference :’)
Well that didn’t take long. Jumped on the climbing gym’s site to see if this girl was in any of their pictures, to show Wingman. Ended up finding one on their instagram. Which linked to her profile.
This is how (accidental) stalking happens.
My urge to play Wolfenstein may have seeped over to RollerCoaster Tycoon.
@beavwa have you swapped your weapons a lot in Monster Hunter?
I love me some Switchaxion but I’ve messed around with the Longsword a bit while derping around in multi. I kind of want to mix it up a bit and try other things (especially the ranged weapons) in MH4U but I also kind of want to just stick with the Switchaxe because it’s the bestest 😀
I use the axe too much. Derped a little with other weapons just to get an idea of controls, but it’s too easy to just keep coming back to the axe.
I’m kinda curious to give ranged a go at some point.
Ugh, Switchaxeius
Ugh Dualswordulus
A shiny version of 4 is coming out in the west next year on 3DS yeah?
Might have to see what all the fuss is about.
What platform do you guys play on? Are you gonna get the 3DS 4?
I hope it’s not next year! 😛 (I’m still a bit in 2014 mode too, but yeah, it’s “early 2015” for the West :D)
We were playing MH3U on 3DS/Wii U (mainly Wii U since that version has online) since MH3U was on both platforms and there’s cross platform multiplayer. It got pretty crazy around its launch and there were about 10 of us playing for a good couple of months. It was also the first Monster Hunter game most of us had spent any real amount of time playing.
Safe to say I got addicted and spent 200 hours playing it in a really short amount of time… so I’m definitely getting MH4U and I’m sure the others will too! It’s always good to have buddies to hunt with 😀
Already have my MH4U pre-order in, I too get a little obsessed with the MH games so hopefully it gets a good following this time around with online play on the 3DS
Played Race for the Galaxy. After we got past the initial OMFG this game is complex stage, it’s a pretty cool guy
It takes a couple of games, but that is an amazing game 😉
I don’t think I’ve reached that point yet but there is some definite fun to be had with it.
The couple of games I played were fun. Not expansions in those set though which apparently make some of the other colour strategies more viable
Race is fantastic.
Suggestion if you’re ever playing the two-player variant though: remove the Improved Logistics cards for it. It can make the game unfun. Specifically, in the two player variant you get two Settle and two Develop cards so you can potentially take that action twice, which means if you have an Improved Logistics out you can throw out four planets on a single turn. Normally hard since you need to pay, but with military worlds or alien/uplift worlds and cost-reduction stuff, you can do it nearly for free.
It’s unfun because you can be neck and neck with someone on 6-7 cards out and then they can suddenly and unexpectedly end the game.
Okay… the light on my G400s is on, showing that it’s supposed to be working, yet when I move the mouse, the cursor stays put…
Any ideas why?
hmm that’s a wired mouse isn’t it?
well, a quick google shows others having a similar issue (not sure if it’s the same, but they claim the mouse disconnects, but the light stays on). They all boil down to cable issues. Every single post I read says if they move the cable (near where it connects to the mouse) to the left, it disconnects. If that’s the case, it’s a hardware issue for sure. Will need to replace mouse. Your may be different though. When it happens, have you checked in device manager to see if the mouse has disappeared from the list of devices?
All that’s listed on Device Manager is “HID-compliant mouse”.
I’ve found the Logitech mouse, yet when I try to update drivers, it says “The best driver software for your device is already installed”.
I might try plugging it into a different USB port.
EDIT: Plugging it into another USB port worked.
I think I may have to get rid of the old USB hub. 🙁
Ahhh hubs can be troublesome. Was it a powered hub? (Like plugs in to a powerpoint) Or did it draw power from USB? If it’s the latter, chances are it wasn’t able to draw enough power from USB to power it completely.
If your mouse only shows in device manager as a HID compliant mouse, chances are it’s using the default windows driver to run the thing. You could possibly get it to register as the actual device by installing the driver from the logitech website, but I personally wouldn’t recommend it, as they tend to offer no advantage over the windows generic driver, except for some mice having apps to assist in configuring button assignments etc., and they usually install an auto update checker which annoyingly runs in the background all the time.
Glad to hear it’s working ok now, but still curious about the hub!
So, why did they remove that article on the guy who sold all his games to be an adult? I thought it would be a nice area of discussion for maturity and staying in touch with your hobby.
Hmm, was it a repost? Sounds familiar. Did they just remove the repost, or the original article too?
Anyone here played Octodad? I bought it last night on the PS4 – just $10. I’ve played through the first few levels and it is just hysterically funny.
I’ve got the 14 day free trial of PS+ at the moment, so Diablo III shenanigans anyone…?
Octodad is awesome. I beat the original story but still need to do the mini episodes they added.
I played it on PC when it came out & same with the sequel, I thought it was awful with a controller when I tried D= But it’s an awesome game lol.
Have you used that trial yet?!
This is super important!!!
Yes. I played Diablo III yesterday. Did I dun goof?
Ah, drats.
I read the terms of the trial I was going to give you (the full month one), and you’re only able to claim one trial period, ever 🙁
Edit:
It’s not a big deal.
Would have just been an extra two weeks was all.
Whoopsiedoo. Oh well. Sorry about that – thanks anyway!
This made me sad.
Any one heard from Pez? We weren’t close but it’s troubling he just vanished from internet! :'(
He’s still on Facebook as himself.
Why is sad? All I see is some Russian guy? Is this the handle that James Flamestar gave up/decommissioned being taken on by someone?
Shane hates Ruskies so much…
Yeah. That. But @dc is also right, there’s some deep-seated racism in there too.
Speaking of social media I barely use, anyone know who this Biohaze Gaming thing is that followed me the other day? I see a few TAYbies follow it, is this someone we know involved in it?
Bah. Replyfail, I meant to reply to myself.
So, before I sell all my Steam Christmas cards, anyone want any to fill in their gaps?
I’ll take all of them for the low low price of $0. Accounting for the state of the canadian dollar, it’ll go to about.. $0.
ehh, I’ve already got level 1 of the badge. I’ll probably end up selling all mine too unless someone needs to craft the badge.
if you still have a spare rhombus or tender im interested lol
I don’t think I have you on Steam? It’s Transientmind. Send me a trade request with what you need, you don’t need to put anything else in your ‘offer’ tab, it considers it a gift.
@cakesmith, Diablo III gave me a drop that was called “A gift for Cakesmith.” I don’t know if it’s got a time limit or not, but it might be something good!
Random legendary sent to him. You’ll get drops for all Diablo friends you have throughout the game.
Want some Imperial Rubies to make your weapons crazy overpowered for your level? 😛
If you have no use for them, why not. Thanks!
Good game that. Might jump back in soon once I run out if other things to do.
Look at this. Good guy @shane!
Mr.Driller is on the Playstation Store…
Why was I not informed of this earlier?
Geez the coffee shops that stay open at this time of the working year are just rubbish. It’s the only time a latte with 2 sugars is as bitter as an espresso.
Can’t wait for my normal coffee shop to open again on Monday.
Anyways hope you all have a lovely new year and I hope mine is not another trainwreck like 2014 was
Oh cool, I just found out you can design your own pair of Converse on the converse website.
Ooooh… interesting…
Yeah! I think you can even upload your own pics and not have to just use what they provide.
TAYlist for the 1st of Janurary 2015
TAYlist – the TAY Playlist, sponsored by a Happy New YearSnow Patrol – Chasing Cars
Eurogliders – We Will Together
Thirsty Merc – Someday, Someday
Billy Idol – Mony Mony
Pink – Try
Dandy Warhols – Bohemian Like You (Requested by a fellow station member)
Violent Femmes – Children of the Revolution (Ditto)
Motels – Only The Lonely
I understand that the TAYlist is very late, my computer is a pile of shit that hates me.
Thirsty Merc, wow there’s a band I haven’t heard in years!
I play them semi-regularly, they usually make the TAYlist when they do get played.
I like this playlist
39 degrees today, 42 degrees tomorrow… 🙁
Did I mention that I hate the heat?
:'(
28 here in the shade, easily mid 30’s in the sun, if not higher :/
Everytime I look at it it gets hotter. Time to stop looking
Then take the mirror down and worry about the sun! 😛
42 now?! O_O yikes…
Welp, at least the hose can cool me down while I wash the car tomorrow 🙂
Might be time for us to use the air conditioner
37 today, 41 degree thunderstorm tomorrow. Joy.
Anyone in Sydney want a free (online) ticket for The Hobbit at 2:10pm George St? Not using the one I booked anymore. Only going to go to waste.
Good luck with that 😛
Doesn’t hurt me if nobody wants it 😛
Nobody likes a freebie!
So XSeed registered some interesting domains recently, pointing at some localizations in the works:
– CorpsePartyBloodDrive.com (Blood Drive is a PS Vita sequel to Book of Shadows, so the third in the series with those characters)
– LordOfMagna.com (Presumably for Forbidden Magna, which is a JRPG / life simulator-ish thing by the guys who used to work on Rune Factory before their company went under)
– XanaduNext.com (Xanadu Next was a 2009 or so Falcom action RPG for PC. I believe it’s a direct sequel to Xanadu / Faxanadu from the 1980s, one of Falcom’s first games. Looks like it plays a bit like Ys. Falcom just announced Tokyo Xanadu, a new Xanadu game, is out early fiscal 2015 so this seems timely.)
– TrailsOfColdSteel.com (This one has me the most excited. They’re registering a Trails domain, after all. The most likely option is that this is Sen no Kiseki. ‘Sen’ is an untranslatable word meaning to flash or brandish a weapon, so Cold Steel sounds about right. Additionally, Sen and Sen II are Vita & PS3 and are reasonably new games. It’s a bit disappointing that this suggests they might be intending to hop over Trails in the Sky 3rd and the Crossbell games (Ao/Zero) but Sen is its own self-contained story that happens coincidentally with Ao and Zero, so I guess you could do them out of order. I’m just happy for more trails. Wish they’d get SC out though)
Oh yeah, Cold Steel is definitely Sen no Kiseki. it’s straight out of the title of the main battle music.
2015 off to a great start.
Hello friends. My
firstsecond post for 2015!I hope everyone had a rad time over Christmas and New Years. I’ve set myself a little goal this year. I aim to watch a minimum of 100 films that I’ve never seen before.
So far, I’m 4 films in (I had a day of nothing yesterday). I found a nifty little site that helps you track what you’re watching and rate it/write reviews. http://letterboxd.com/asharples/films/diary/
So yeah, that’s pretty much all I’ve planned to do in 2015.
Oh man, Dear Zachary is fucking rough.
Oh yeah. I went in knowing nothing about it besides that everyone always sings its praises.
I was…not prepared. Loved it, never want to see it again. Do not recommend watching at 2am.
@beardymcmuttonchops @beeawwb @cufcfan616 @dc @dkzeitgeist @freezespreston @gutsoup @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @sernobulus @strange @sughly @transientmind @welbot @virus__ @janexo, @sunsoar77
Hey guys! Trying to be decisive with these birthday plans so am thinking I’ll nail it down now!
How does Bavarian Bier Cafe at 7pm on Saturday, Jan 10 with drinking/shenanigans afterwards sound? If there’s any problems I’m pretty flexible in changing plans but at the same time know people get annoyed at lack of details and doing that indecisive planning thing. Let me know if you’re keen. Will probably have to make reservations by early next week at the latest!
If you want to dinner you’ll have to RSVP, otherwise just find us afterwards if you want to hang!
If it guilts you into going it’s also a milestone birthday. Eeeeep. 😛 (No presents necessary.)
Your pal,
DC
So far we have:
Confirmed: DC, Dan + Mrs. Dan, Freeze + Mrs. Freeze, Nobs, Strange, Hellscream + Mrs. Hellscream, Transientmind, Sughly.
Maybe: Virus, Gooky.
Stuff will definitely be happening, no matter who’s going.
Plans will be tweaked based on numbers, though. 🙂
Dan and Mrs. Dan are keen!
Lock me in homeboy.
Mrs. Freeze too?
You know it.
EXCELLENT! 😀
Count me in!
Yessss.
Man I am keen but am concerned I’ll be needing that weekend to prep for stuff going down on the following one.
Restocking the popcorn machine? 😀 I didn’t think you were serious but you’re more than welcome! Let me know by early next week at the latest for the whole dinner booking thing. 🙂
Not my popcorn, got a friend’s proposal that I’ve been recruited to help out with 😛 I’ll try find out more details on what needs to be done and when.
Practising making-out?
*grabs popcorn*
No need for practice with that much raw, natural talent.
There is when you’re this badly out of practise >_>
Maybe.. Depends how my moolah situation is.
@highperformance: More than welcome, buddy! 😀 Let me know!
Hey…I confirmed, DammitCee!
You confirmed to vague plans, didn’t want to be presumptuous! WOOOOO! 😀
Damn it! Can you go back in time, and tell your mum to hold you in for a couple more weeks?! 😉
I have internet payment coming out any day now. That might be enough to throw me out of contention for attending :\ Fingers crossed it wont, but ACK! On such a milestone! Would suck to miss out!!!
My mum actually fell down the stairs when pregnant and had me a week early. Haha!
D’oh!!! DAMN YOU STAIRS!!!! *shakes fist
I’m up for it.
Awesome! 😀
Hey you.
Yes, you!
I just got the Humble Bundle, and it includes a giftable Steam code for Lovely Planet, which I already own.
Lovely Planet is probably the cutest little FPS I’ve ever seen and it can be yours for free so just let me know you’re interested and I’ll shoot it over to you.
Also, @tigerion thanks for the recommendation of Enslaved. I’m really enjoying it. Quite a nice surprise to find that it’s pretty much the story from that old TV show Monkey.
Year Walk is scary 🙁
May I please have Lovely Planet?
Done. How should I send it to you?
Sending via Steam Chat would work best.
Don’t forget pretty, so very, very pretty.
Glad you are enjoying it, very underrated game. I just finished the DLC extra, Pigsy’s perfect 10. Interesting but a very different style of play, for starters you have no melee so it is more tactical and shooty shoot.
All I wanna do is Monster Hunt again :/
hmm… HMMM!
If anyone feels like derping around in MH3U just lemme know!
That game is for NERDS.
(I could probably do a hunt or two if you want to do noob rank missions)
I’d feel like noob rank missions anyway, G-Rank is too intimidating D:
Let me know on twitter/steam when you want to play some games!
Today maybe? I forgot Captain Toad is out tomorrow so that’ll take up my Wii U disc space!
@rize was interested too! Maybe @beavwa @princesspipster ?
Yeah, I’m keen for some huntering of the monsters today.
We were busy with our annual christmas holidays terraria playthrough. Sorry.
I figured! No worries 🙂
Last night, after some Betrayal at the House on the Hill, F4ction, Nobfrond and I played Superfight.
It’s one of those Apples to Apples/Cards Against Humanity/Dixit style games. The idea is that you have a hand of white (people) and black (powers) cards. Two players then play one of each, plus an extra black card from the deck. Whoever isn’t playing then judges who would win in a fight or who would win in a dating show, or really whatever criteria you like.
I won the first round with a Bald Eagle riding a Phoenix riding a Dragon.
The biggest problem with the game is simple: there are trump cards. It’s a problem with pretty much all of these games. It doesn’t really matter what you play when your opponent has Cthulhu. There are also a lot of cards in it that are deliberately there to screw you over, mostly in good fun. Fortunately, there’s a solution: take the trumps out of the deck.
I’ve taken to intentionally not giving the win to trumps cards in CAH. I is grump.
Super Fight sounds like a nice break from that game, too. The debating would be fun.
I honestly think that if you get something that you think trumps the lot, just discard it and get a new card.
Mowed the lawn this morning, headache now. Boo
That’ll learn ya!
If there’s one thing I’ve learnt by taking part in TAY, is that I have a severe video game addictions
I buy them, I play them and I think about them when I’m not playing them. Sometimes I buy one and only play it for an hour and don’t play it again for a month (Alien Isolation, I am SO SO sorry). I just played Shadows Of Mordor and fear I will never leave my room again.
@blackdahlianz, you sir are an enabler and I don’t know if I’ll ever get to thank you in person once you’ve moved here because I’m too addicted to lead a social life 😛
Last night I think I dreamt I was trying to buy a copy of an old Castlevania game at some kind of retro game shop or something. But was baulking at the price, and telling the guy $200 was pretty much my max, I didn’t think any game was worth hundreds of dollars. And this one was going for about 500 or so.
Certainly a new one for me, don’t think I’ve had anything quite like that before 😛
Hey, you know what reminds me of video games? chocolate.
Because I just remembered I have like, 50 bucks worth of reeses just laying in the corner of my apartment meant for you. Seriously, I forgot about it until now. Should.. probably get around to sending those off, but I’ve no idea how it goes (or if you remember) on your end.
So, yeah.
… I’m bad at segues.
Oh god speaking of being an enabler lol. I actually bought your mailing box yesterday, but only have about 20 bucks so far worth of stuff for you :p shall I do another 30 bucks worth of tim tams and other things?
honestly, take your time. Long as we both remember in the end, lol.
It’s $50 worth of reeses, but I was able to get it all for $30; discounts and the like pared down the price quite a bit. So really, $10 more and you’re set.
Haha I been here 12 days mate, loving it so far, still getting my bearings is a big place compared to where I’m from. How about this heat today WTF!! Just saw the hobbit again at IMAX. Don’t have a TV yet so no gaMing for me but that’s ok, plenty to do. How you liking Mordor, so good at, def contender for my game of 2014.
Where you living now bud?
Prahran in Melbourne mate, just moved from New Zealand.
Oh I dont envy you today haha, prahrans gonna be a hot box. Granted I live in Dromana and cant even get to the beach because their is quite literally no room
We went to Mornington Peninsula the other day, beach was mental, so many people.
Yeah i cant go to my local shops because every parking spot taken by beach goers i could walk to the beach but i couldnt take anything with me as nowhere to put it down
Yeah this heat is really smashing me, it’s about 27 degrees higher than I like it. I was there on Friday actually, good choice watching the hobbit there!
Also am reallllly liking the game, I read people saying before they needed to run away and I thought they were wimps, little do you realise that 30ish orcs are seriously tough to beat especially with a captain and some berserkers chasing you. It’s made me put down Destinyvwhich I was 260 hours into :p
Yea the beginning can be a struggle, near the end you’re pretty much unbeatable though, I’ll get the dlc for sure.
Apparently getting to 42 today, think we checking the markets out, not sure how smart that is haha.
Where abouts you live mate
I’m in Essendon, Toorak of The West!
You back to work yet?
Yep, been back since Monday. Productivity could be better but I’mon a slow burn until all of our students are back!
Keen to catch up for a beer some time?
@blackdahlianz sounds good m9, I’m not much of a drinker but a couple of beers are good! I’m in the city most days if you’re around after 5pm?
Sweet man just a couple nothing crazy, might as well meet some peeps now I’m here. Friday any good?
@blackdahlianz I’m actually going to the Asian Cup Australia v Kuwait game if you wanted to have a beer before I headed there?
Yea sweet man sounds good, what time and where?
@blackdahlianz shoot me your number in an email, send it to n_s_mclean(at)hotmaildotcom somewhere in Richmond is cool or near Flinders Street station. I’ll pick a place 😉
I made Shiggy an Xmas gift!
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B6K2RWcCEAE6sBE.jpg:large
Oh my glob, that’s awful.
Spotted blue shirt and fawn coloured pants? Someone needs a talking to.
That is incredible.
Last page reposties:
@sernobulus and I will be derping around in MH3U later today. Anyone else is free to join!
BLOOOOOOODBORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRNE
Countdown: 81 days
Today’s news:
1. This video states that co-op and PvP are confirmed features of Bloodborne, and names the items that will make these things happen (apparently they are bells, which is probably what that trinket on offer in the Nightmare Edition signifies)
2. 22 minute developer commentary gameplay video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jc6MzeHjTM8
HEY PEOPLE WHO PLAY PROJECT ZOMBOID.
I started a new server. PVP is forced on (so it’s up to you if you want to try to group up or not!
IP is 220.253.126.168 with whatever the default port is! No password, I may whitelist it in future if people go stupid.
Join in, the newest patch adds an erosion system, new medical system and more!
How much for the game? Watched beagle play it awhile ago and im interested as lately ive been playing dead state
$12.75 at the moment! $15 normally
\o/ Workaholics resumes this Tuesday for us & Archer on Friday woooo. I also think there’s Bob’s Burgers, South Park & The Simpsons next week too.
Wooo!
*sways side to side*
LAST PLAYED SONG GAME:
Smashing Pumpkins – Tonight, Tonight
Ain’t nuthin but a g-thang – Dr. Dre and Snoop Doge
Zombies & Prom Queens by Daniel Holter & Matt Smith
DJ Falcon & Thomas Bangalter- So Much Live to Give
Heaven In This Hell – Orianthi
Wayfarer – Hot Water Music
Operator Please – Just a Song About Ping Pong
Talk You Down – the Script
People still like the Script, yeah?
Edited because I’m not really a fan of the film clip version.
Dethklok – Hatredcopter
Dear god, we’ve nearly hit 40 degrees… D:
Long since hit 41 down here.
Go Air-Con! I believe in you!
Worked out my GTA V problems were caused by not just PSN intermittent outages, but my wireless behaving so poorly with the PS4. The game’s story mode appears to restart when PSN signs back in (or signs in for the first time).
Couldn’t get online last night either 🙁 Still TAYbies around playing Online (and on PS4)?
Oh wow, i’ve had this issue a few times since you mentioned it. So it may be just that too..
It still doesn’t recognise my load games on startup sometimes either, so weird!
I’ll try using my wireless repeater as an AP and plug an Ethernet cable into the PS4 from there, might work. Worth a try hey?
That’s really weird :/ Mine reloaded fine. If it happens over a wired connection, maybe if you delete the game saves & game data & re-install it all, it may fix it? Seems extreme but sounds like you’re having quite the issue 🙁
I’ll let you know how it goes. GO EXTREME
All the best! I’ve only had it happen twice, thankfully.
Things I want to do this year:
-I’ve no fucking idea. Stuff I guess!
Things!
Things could be on the agenda!
I need a future ex girlfriend, so that’s on my to do list 😀
Haha.
That’s a, umm, optimistic outlook :\
Just trying to stay positive man, just trying to stay positive.
-Make a professional style cosplay
-Stop having afternoon naps
Yay to the first, boo to the second.
So business as normal? 😀
My cosplays are adequate, not professional.
But naps are so good for you, 20 minute naps are proven to be optimal for improving productivity… It’ll HELP your cosplays!
I take 2 – 3 hour naps. Not good.
Me too 🙁 haha, maybe we could just slowly ween ourselves down to 20 mins? Going cold turkey next week for no naps is gonna hurt.
There is a nap challenge that we could do backwards, but i was going to just dance instead of napping.
Hah I have seen that pop up on Instagram a bit lately. You dance and I’ll do it backwards and let you know it if works lol.
Sounds like a plan!
You should make afternoon cosplays and have professional naps!
The semi-announcement of an English localization of Xanadu Next earlier ended up starting a cascade of events which culminated in me discovering this:
Apparently back in 1986, Japanese metal band Anthem (who I had never heard of but apparently they were one of the really influential 1980s metal bands in the country) recorded a promotional song for the original Dragon Slayer II: Xanadu. It’s pretty rad in a 1980s metal way (the guitar riff in there is very Iron Maiden) and apparently it’s the first ever song written to promote a video game.
What I’d give for a Maxibon right now…
is your first born an option? If so Satan is waiting just over there for you!
@piat @dire_wolf @distant_drop @jocon
Guys raid this Sunday 2pm; try and make it would be awesome if we can clear Highmaul this week on normal. Piat you’re in the clear; if you can get any of your friends to come while you’re away would help fill up spots! =]
@distantdrop
I’ll try and make it, but might not be able to. Could be doing stuff with family at that time so if I’m not on don’t bother waiting for me. Good luck clearing it in any case.
All good man; realize its still holiday time and thanks for letting me know!
Warning: RTS Jargon below
I had an awesome game of Supreme Commander. For the last couple of days, I’ve been trying to beat a Challenge A.I. in an Ambush Pass skirmish. Whenever I get close to building my army of death, the A.I builds a super turret that kills me from across the map.
I had one Galactic Colossus experimental unit built, but it was damaged. So it had to be repaired before I could use it again. I was in the process of building another one, but it was going to take a long time. Just at this moment, the enemy build a super turret and started bombing me from across the map. Luckily I had a fleet of engineers and Support Command Units. Dividing my resources perfectly, I had to repair the shields, repair the Galactic Colossus, and build a new Colossus. I quickly discovered that if I build a mass extractor, the super turret would target that instead of my shields. So I had to take a Support Command Unit away to build mass extractors to use as meatshields.
I managed to survive about five minutes of brutal onslaught before both of my Galactic Colossi were ready. I marched them on a suicide mission to destroy the enemy super turret. However, the Galactic Colossi went above and beyond and managed to destroy their Armoured Command Unit in the process, winning the game.
You should get into EUIV
@NovaCascade
These onsen ryokan you’ve booked us into, are my tattoos going to be a problem?
On some research it seems it will be a problem.
… Shit.
They ban tattoos because it’s easier to do than “no yakuza plzkthx”. I think it’ll possibly be less of a problem when you’re obviously a foreigner and you’re talking about an inn and not a public bathhouse.
The Green Hotel Takayama specifically forbids tattoos even for Westerners in their public facilities.
Is wearing a wetsuit shirt considered weird?
Can you get those flesh tone bandage things?
Probably, bit hard to cover elbow to neck and over the middle of my back though.
Try waterproof concealer that’s designed for swimming
Looking into that now. Not cheap but looking at the onsens we are visiting it would be worth it.
I think if you’re going to a water park/swimming pool, then a long sleeve rash vest would do the job. But you’re not supposed to wear clothing in an onsen, and that’s where you’ll run into a problem. I think you’ll have to go with a combination of bandage/tape and concealer. The problem with concealer will be the time it will take to put it on, and needing a mate to do bits you can’t reach – not much fun if you want to onsen every day (which you will, it’s super relaxing!)
There are a bunch of professional grade cosmetics for covering tatts. I would recommend Kryolan . The Dermacolour is a professional concealer.
Would only need a short sleeve. Ends about 3 inches above my elbow. Luckily wife will be there to help out and we’re only at the onsen places for a few days.
Those prices though. Ouch.
Another thought is if you can get a skin coloured lycra shirt – like a morphsuit style thing that you can wear to cover your tatts, but will still be comfy in water…
You’ve got a few months to join the Yakuza.
Go go go!
There’s a concealer designed to blend with flesh to hide tatts. I know Kat Von D promotes one of them or at least used to and I know a girl who uses one to cover up both her sleeves if she feels the occasions calls for it. Works pretty well from what i’ve seen and you wouldn’t a clue they had ink, something to think about maybe?
Waterproof though?
Can’t quite remember honestly.
yes. There are a VERY select few that will allow tats on westerners, but it’s safest to assume you will be refused access :\
One reason I’m glad I’ve never had any, even though I have considered it on multiple occasions.
Damn Yakuza!!!
I’ve got 3 words up my side (hip to bottom of ribs) and was told I couldn’t go in with them visible. No ifs, no buts.
Had packed some sports bandage tape and strapped up like I had an injury went in without an issue.
This was at a Kyoto hotel that caters well for westerners too.
This time in one week I’ll be freaking out about having to be all social and stuff the next day @dc’s milestone birthday thingy.
This time in two weeks I’ll be freaking out about flying to the US the next day for 70000 Tons of Metal!
Don’t freak out about my birthday. If it helps we can meet before hand and get drunk. 😛
…
Now I recall last year where I turned up to my birthday party completely wasted. Sorry guys.
Cruise sounds terrifying, though. All those metal bands. D: D: D:
Funnily enough, the cruise isn’t all that terrifying. I’m more terrified of plane transfer shenanigans making me miss it! 😛 This time we’re flying Brisbane-Sydney-Dallas-Orlando when we usually just fly Brisbane-LA-Miami.
And I’m too old to drink beforehand on your birthday thing, I’ll fall asleep! I haven’t actually had to be social for a while, though. Maybe I forgot how!
I’ll probably more be freaking out that I don’t have anything to wear and such, though. 😀
Tee hee.
Dallas.
Strangey Does Dallas.
*immature giggling*
Okay I’ll stop being a ten year old now that’s out of my system.
Strangey does Dallas often…. 😛
I’m jealous, I wish I could be on a ship with metal bands for a few days which spans my birthday D=
It’s not too late! 😛
Well with no passport & money it kinda is D= lol
So, apparently there’s some roundball action on in Geelong tonight…
Ping pong?
Oh boy! What day! I arrived at work to find that the guy I’ve been training with is away!!! On top of that, EVERY single member of his team except for the team leader, was either away or on annual leave, so I got thrown in the deep end! Not quite as bad as it could have been, but I wasn’t supposed to start tending to actual jobs til Monday. Just simple low severity jobs and follow ups etc, but without someone there to ask a billion questions to, it was major panic stations for me! Thankfully the team leader for their team was there, or I’d have been up shit creek without a paddle! Even still, I felt terrible having to bug him for info instead of the regular team members. On top of that, I went to log in to the system to check job tickets etc, and my login worked (as I’d tried days earlier,) but during the creation of my account, they managed to fuck something up, which meant that when I searched for a ticket number, I got zero results. 😐 So the TL had to spend about half an hour on the phone sorting that out for me before I could even do anything! Considering all that though, I think I did pretty good! I managed to action all jobs that were assigned to me by the end of the day, and even managed to get a few other things sorted like access to various other things like general internet and internal systems!
I guess come Monday, whoever I’m going to be continuing my training with, will be surprised when I don’t ask anywhere near as many questions as I would have otherwise! I’m gonna look like a fuckin genius!! 😉 LOL
Trial by fire! Well done 🙂
Back in Hobart, finally.
I drove mums Hyundai i30 down and omg I swear it’s the worst car to drive ever. It feels completely lifeless. You don’t feel anything in the wheel and it’s slow and doesn’t want to go! I miss my ’02 Magna 🙁 That thing was awesome… Until the gearbox went.
gamergate is shit
Hey Rimmy!
Don’t be silly, you don’t have to leave over having an opinion that may differ from someone else’s 🙂
People are entitled to their own opinions.
And besides, I don’t think people around here really hold grudges too much.
Most people try to avoid controversial subjects around these parts anyway 😛
Just, don’t leave over something so silly.
gamergate is shit
There’s nothing to forgive. You thought they were on the right side to begin with, so sided with them and their stance, then found out about how they were treating and what they were doing to women, and decided to change your side.
There’s nothing to forgive, friend 🙂
If I was held to account to all the stupid shit I’ve said….
The ability to admit you’re wrong is what separates the dbag asshats from someone being a little overly enthusiastic in most cases, at least as how I see it.
So you see now that they weren’t straw manning? That the “consumers” they were talking about, the people behind #Gamergate, are actually misogynists (and worse).
I noticed that you changed your tune as this went on and was happy that you had realised how misguided you were at the start.
Gamergate is propaganda. There was a lot of “We speak for gamers” nonsense in there, to give the impression that the gaming media had conspired against gamers. In reality, the gaming media had just got the shits with this group of asshats.
You’ve come a long way in a short time on this one. If you go to /r/gamerghazi, you can see a steady trickle of people who have come to realise that they were in the wrong and maturely dealt with it. Maybe that’s the one good thing about this, people like you won’t get fooled twice. Hopefully.
Edit: Oh, and I have to say it: there was never anything wrong with Irish feminists :p
Yeah, I was wrong about them. Knew it for a while, actually. I ain’t supporting them. I never was a member, and I’m glad everyone saw through their shit.
They duped me with consumer advocacy. I was a dick, and I’m not happy with myself for trusting them.
Women are consumers too. But man, GG is hilarious. I gotta come clean on that one. They thought they could win, ahahahaha. I don’t even know what they’re trying to “win”. But it’s funny.
Glad I’m accepted back into the Kotaku Australia illuminati. Uh, sorry for editing the post.
Dude. Seriously. Take a breath. Relax.
I’m fine. I just felt really remorseful. I’ve got to stop using foul language and all caps, it makes it seem like I’m mad all the time.
Mostly it’s mild frustration. I was just mad at myself. Sorry for venting, but something felt unfinished.
Thank god they’re gone.
You weren’t alone, my friend. A great deal of well-intentioned people were caught up in the Gaters’ storm.
Good on you for ending up thinking for yourself and seeing things from a different perspective. And much respect for having the guts to speak out about your changed views. *hugasaurus*
TL:DR.
I’m glad you have got this off your chest buddy.
Takes a big person to publicly admit you’ve made a mistake and to own it. Nicely done.
Just spent 4 hours at work doing checkout hearing about the fire about 5ks out of town. just walked out and the smoke cloud drifting over town looks like something out of a movie it looks awesome. (as in i stood in awe, not the totally rad kind).
I’m safe where i am, though i have a few friends evacuating who im keeping in contact with.
Edit: heard it’s getting under control im not too worried about my friends they say they’ll be alright.
Where abouts is this in the country?
South-east of SA
Ah right, stay safe!
I mentioned on Twitter that I don’t like how Cthulhu was a trump card in Superfight.
You’ll notice a complete stranger replying to the tweets. That’s the creator of Superfight. The world is a bizarrely tiny place.
Wow – that’s pretty cool
You’re pretty cool!
Said with complete honesty.This gave me a good chuckle the other day!
http://i.imgur.com/fnLQafn.jpg
Any FFXIII veterans know any good party/paradigm combos that the AI will actually use properly? I’ve only just got to the part in Chapter 10 where you fully unlock the customisation options, and the AI is just worthless at everything I try. Right now I’m running with Com/Rav/Rav, Rav/Rav/Rav, Com/Rav/Med and Com/Sen/Med. It works but it’s painfully slow in any fights that require healing. The problem is I have to be overly cautious of incoming damage because if someone falls the medic refuses to revive them. It’ll heal the surviving party members to 100% and then just stand there waiting for someone to take damage rather than reviving the KO’ed character.
I feel like I should be working Sab and Syn into the mix too but they don’t seem to want to buff/debuff properly. The AI Syn will focus on making sure every party member has Physical defense before putting up any Magic defense against a Magic using enemy or focusing on the party member taking the most damage.
It hurts my brain. At this point I’m thinking I might just Google an OP cookie cutter combo so I can move on with the story. =( The most frustrating part is that I was actually really liking only having to control the leader until it became clear the AI sucks when the fights aren’t tailored to specific party setups.
Com/Rav/Rav for chain building, Com/Com/Rav for Staggered Assault, Syn/Med/Med for heavy healing, Syn/Sab/Med for milder scenarios.
Found every other combo pretty useless personally.
@liondrive Thanks. I’ve been using Com/Rav/Rav and Rav/Rav/Rav for staggering pretty well. It’s just that when the stagger takes too long or there are multiple enemies with high stagger marks/HP things go bad quickly. I’ll give those a shot.
I feel like paradigms aren’t as useful as they’re intended to be, but I know from other games I suck at working this stuff out on my own.
It’s been a while since I played, but I think, depending on the types of fights, I usually had set:
– Com-Rav-Rav
– Com-Com-Rav
– Com-Rav-Med
– Com-Rav-Syn
– Com-Rav-Sab
– Sen-Med-Syn
Though it depends what you’re fighting.
Doing high level hunts you’ll want more with Sentinel and Synergist, or even full Rav for quick chaining, then full Com for lots of damage.
My mains were:
Com-Rav-Rav, Com-Rav-Med, and Com-Rav-Syn.
The Walking Dead Season 1 Episode 3:
I liked this episode, mainly because Lee has started to call Clem ‘Sweet Pea’, and it’s making my heart hurt with emotional overload :’)
Wasn’t as good as the first episode still, but I liked the atmosphere and tone of this episode far more than episode 2.
Ok, choices I made…
– I shot the girl in the street. I’m trying to be a good person in general. If someone needs my help, I’ll do my best to help them (or put them out if their misery, in this case). (40%)– I did not abandon Lilly. Sure, she went crazy there fir a while, but I wanted to get to the bottom of what happend, so kept her around.
I really liked Carley too 🙁 (54%)
– I talked Kenny into stopping the train. He was going through a rough situation. I’m not going to fight a man going through that. (45%)
– I shot Duck. It didn’t seem right to have Kenny shoot him, not after his wife just shot herself… (81%)
– I did not help Omid…
This was a mistake! I thought it was another one-or-the-other situation! :O
I’d take that back, if I could… (39%)
I’ve gotten so defensive over Clementine…
As soon as I met Chuck for the first time, my immediate thought was, “If he does anything to Clementine I will kill him before he even knows what’s happend”.I don’t think I’ve ever been this attached to an NPC before…Even when Duck died, the first thing I thought was, “Poor Clem doesn’t have anyone to play with anymore”.
Call me an arsehole, but I’m the opposite. I just wanted her to die.
I’LL KILL YOU!!! >:O
How can you want her dead?!
That’s so, heartless!
Well, I am evil.
I found her extremely annoying.
I’LL KILL YOU, THEN RESUSCITATE YOU, THEN KILL YOU AGAIN!!! >:O
I find some of her dialogue a little flat, but then I just imagine that it’s part of what seeing so much death would do to a little girl…
MY POOR LIITLE CLEMENTINE!!! :'(
The annoying thing about Clementine was that Telltale tried so hard to make her not annoying. This meant she didn’t act particularly realistically and didn’t seem to have much of a personality. I still protected her, though.
I found that, after episode 2, my guide for decisions was “what kind of man do I want clem to think I am”.
Millionaire space cowboy astronaut
-Did not shoot girl. Hoped she’d survive on her own. 59%-Abandoned Lilly. No way was I letting her stay with us. It would tear the group apart. I was also really angry about Carley. She was seemed to be the only guaranteed ally. 42%
-I fought Kenny into stopping the train. He thanked me afterwards. 55%
-I shot Duck. I’m not going to let Kenny become the monster that I am. 79%
-I did not help Omid. His weird interest in Clementine made me think that he and Christa were some sort of sex offender couple. I think it was just really poor animation that made him look creepy.
Man, my friend is really having a hard time trying to figure this one out. I said I wanted to start going out and meeting people and hopefully find a girlfriend or something.
My take: I want a companion. Somebody to spend and enjoy time with that doesn’t function on copious amounts of alcohol.
His take: I want to find piles of bitches at O bar (horrible, horrible nightclub) for casual sex and nothing else. It’s ALL that’s running through his mind and I give up on his advice :l I can’t get anything else out of him.
Apparently some people see relationships quite differently than I do. I think it’ll be easier going to places by myself.
Edit: And it’s not like he doesn’t know the kind of person I am and my personality…
In my experience with nightclubs, you don’t go there looking to find someone to start a relationship with. It’s hard enough even making friends at nightclubs. Everyone’s drunk, the music is incredibly loud, and everyone just sticks with their own friends.
Bars are better for making friends, I reckon, but it’s still difficult to do.
Maybe if your uni has bar, maybe?
More relaxed than an actual bar or a nightclub, and you have the added benefit of already having something in common with other patrons (you all go to the same uni).
And you all hate accounting!
The business school is moving to the other wing of the computing building so I’ll probably be surrounded by budding accountants this year D:
I just don’t go to nightclubs full stop, I can’t stand them 😛 95% of the male patrons at O bar are at least double my size, dress exactly the same (white top and jeans), all looking for sex. I find the place way too intimidating cos I’m always the smallest, scrawniest guy there.
Bars are nice though. And I can’t say I’ve been to the uni bar other than at the start of last year for the o week concert. I keep telling myself I’ll go check it out though!
Wait, nightclubs are loud?
*whimpers*
My best friends the same dont worry, but it doesnt mean that meeting someone at the bar and possibly having relations down the line cant end in a relationship. I first met my current gf at a paint party after party and we’ve been going 3 years strong. The point is if you want a relationship you just gotta get out there and take it at your own pace
@shane
Sorry man! Was rubber-banding all over the place in your game.
You won’t be able to join me till you have unlocked Adventure mode but I’ll attempt to crash yours again another time if you like.
Anytime!
Funny though: the instant you left, I got KER-USHED by the next group of enemies I saw. I lost my MP high-level bonuses… but the enemies hadn’t 😛
Feels good to be writing again. Feels good to have goals. Feels good to be doing something. Anything. Feels good to be reconnecting with uni friends. Feels good having birthday plans. 🙂
I’ve started changing my big dreams into small dreams lately.
I want to be one of those people who can invite a bunch of friends around to my own home, and just chill out for a night, for instance 🙂
More so, I want to have friends that I can invite around 🙂
Move to Canberra, then you can have friend.
Friend is great.
All hail friend.
I already have one friend 😛
I’ve been thinking about moving a lot lately, actually…
All hail friend! >:|
Is friend you?
Nah.
Then I don’t want them.
CAPTAIN TOAD TODAY
AWWW YISSS!!!!
Apparently $49 at Kmart but I can’t find anything that confirms it…
25.6C outside at the moment…
I’m not going to have much fun getting to sleep, am I?
27.5 here.
Yeaaaaaaaah gonna read on the couch so my bed is less of a heat sink
Opened up Alpha Sapphire to start the Delta Episode, saw thatbthere were e-shop deals and decided to buy Shovel Knight for $13 because I hear good things.
Now I have $4 in e-shop credit left over, which is not enough for anything.
Oh well. Shovel Knight, though, right?
Also, this Delta Episode in Alpha Sapphire is pretty good. This is probably the best main-series game I’ve played.
EDIT: clarification
Just spent the afternoon/evening at my friends’ place, I haven’t seen them since March last year. Like I’ve said a few times now, it’s ridiculous that they live five minutes from me and I’ve seen them once all year, meanwhile I’ve seen someone who lives in freakin Townsville (sup @rocketman :P) at least three times.
Pretty good catching up though. There’s a few other lapsed friendships I’ve got lying around the place, could probably stand to give them a dusting off.
I kinda wanna reconnect with old friends but it’ll be super weird to just be like “hey” after 4 years of nothing 😛
It isn’t. People get busy, people have lives and the years slip away.
“Hey, we’ve lost touch. I was just wondering how you’ve been going and wanted to reconnect.” Done, the end. To the pub!
Well I think the 5 year high school reunion is coming up soonish so I’ll save the catching up for then :P. It was more me being a terrible hermit than anything to do with being busy.
And nearly 1am, and the temperature has gone up. 🙁
It’s a brisk 19 degrees here.
Yeah, WA ain’t lookin’ so bad now, is it?!
The air smells weird in WA..ill just let that sink in
The weather, no.
The people who live there…. well… that’s another story….
The people?
Pffft, I’mma give you the old WA welcome if you ever visit, just to show you how wrong you are 🙂
Crazy windy too
http://i.imgur.com/0PhU4Qd.jpg
Ok I’d seen the star size comparison before (although different), but not what came after.
Wow.
I’ve said it once, and I’ll say it again.
This kind of stuff terrifies me.
Absolutely.
I’m the opposite. I get a giddy thrill from it. We’re so sure that our laws of physics are immutable and universal except, you know, when we find things that prove it wrong. There’s so much we don’t know and so much to discover and that excites me to think of what we might discover in the future.
It makes me sad. Cause there is so much to discover and understand but as individuals we won’t live long enough to do so.
Oh, there’s no doubt that it’s fascinating, it just makes me feel so meaningless, I guess :\
The universe is so vast and multitudinous that our brains simply can’t comprehend it. And the thing with that last image is that that’s only what we can see. There’s likely even more stuff out there, but it’s so far away that the light from it hasn’t had time to reach us yet.
This one is missing the crazy Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann mech
Thought since it’s going to be a stinker today, I’ll get some stuff done in the comfort of the office
Get into office and find it is 30 degrees inside :-s
ewwwww! So glad I work in a well air conditioned building now. The humidity here of late has been unbearable! If I had to put up with it at work as well, I think I’d die!
It’s so gross this humidity Q_Q It just rained for about 15 minutes here, with no sign of continuing. I dread the rest of the day lol.
I’ve got my toad in my hand, and I’m gonna play with it all day.
^^ If this guy starts making gibberish posts today, tell-tale sign he’s a toad licker!
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2015/01/talk-amongst-yourselves-308/comment-page-7/#comment-3141168
Got a nice turn out so far for Birthday meat! 😀
Confirmed: DC, Dan + Mrs. Dan, Freeze + Mrs. Freeze, Nobs, Strange, Hellscream + Mrs. Hellscream, Transientmind, Sughly.
Will make booking on Monday so RSVP by then if you’re keen for the dinner, Brisbane folk.
Waitwaitwaitwaitwaitwaitwaitwait…… THE Sughly? Like, for real reals?
That was exactly what I was thinking. 😀
Yeah, I might’ve cried when I got the text message. (Not really, but still happiness! :D)
Proof everyone loves you! 😀
I expect a re-enactment of that moment at the meat, now. 😛
Or they like the restaurant! 😛
I’ll take it! 😛
Don’t think I’ll be able to RSVP with certainty by Monday. Hopefully they can squeeze me in somewhere if I do end up being able to come.
Here’s hoping, buddy. Hate to make reservations so soon, but I know they get crazy busy so feel like I probably have to. I can always RSVP some extra spots. Worst case we’ll be drinking and doing other stuff afterwards too. 🙂
I’d say if anything I’ll only be able to just afford dinner. Still got a few weeks to go to clear some bills before I can really live it up!
😀
I need to leave my house to go buy this game.
But so lazy. Why can’t Captain Toad adventure his way over here?
Same price on the eShop as it is in stores!
But then I have to go to internetland!
Should’ve taken a pic of the double nap!
A true Captain never naps on the job!
It’s pretty great and adorable and pretty. I’ve done eight levels. Taking a break.
I didn’t think you liked Toad! Maybe we can be friends after all.
I like Toad’s theme song and I like the mechanics. I hate whenever he makes noises though. 😛
WHAT IS HE EVEN SAYING?!
Something something adveeeeenture!
READY FOR ADVENTURE
Wha? …how?
I’m sorry I don’t have a PhD in Toadanese 🙁
When trying to use actual words he sounds like he’s doing a terrible imitation of Marge Simpson.
Same! Good in small doses I reckon!
Yeah, could see it getting repetitive if you try to play for hours at a time, but still very fun.
Yeah I’ve just being playing for 20-30 mins at a time. Works pretty well like that! Like any puzzle game, really.
Fun 100%-ing the levels too before you move on and they’re small enough that it doesn’t feel like a chore.
Finished The Wolf Among Us Episode 3. Another great episode!
Choices:
Didn’t interrupt Snow’s eulogy (80.7%)Searched Tweedles Office First (19.8%)
Offered Flycatcher a job (Technically I didn’t offer him a job, I told him to talk to snow) 96.1%
Didn’t burn Greenleaf’s Tree (79.5%)
Killed Tweedle Dum (44.2%)
YOU MONSTER!
Kinda can’t be though 😛
I feel that getting shot repeatedly by a shotgun warranted it!I did it to send a message because I’m a monster!Started this show ‘Justified’ last night. So far it’s great. The dialogue in the show has some great moments like:
Ex-husband: “Are y’all sleeping together?”
Ex-wife: “No! We’re cousins”
Ex-wife’s Cousin: “It’s not like we’re first cousins and he already knows anyway!”
I can’t stop playing The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth ;_;
It’s getting very close to being my most played Steam game and it’s already at 117 hours 😛
So good! But so bad…
Apparently my skin tone is “Enchanted Rose”.
Well hello Mr Fancy Pants! 😉
I always thought so.
When you fear playing games on you laptop on hot days because you’ll probably suffer third degree burns and melt a hole in your desk. 🙁
This is why I don’t get gaming laptops. Just seems like a meltdown waiting to happen!
Haha it’s just a regular old laptop, i dont have a gaming PC because i cant justify it with how mobile i am with my gaming. 🙂
My friend just bought one of those new MSI laptops with a 970M inside. $4k or some such he paid for it! He could have built one hell of a desktop for that!!!
Holy smokes yeah i would never think of spending that kind of coin on a laptop
Maybe if I was a multimillionaire and didn’t give a toss about money, but until then, I’m with you! 😉
Dangit, no Captain Toad at Kmart.
Was it $49? The Kmart I checked didn’t have it either o_o
Everywhere else was $59 🙁
Supposed to be. Will have to check back later.
None anywhere other than JB/EB for me.
Yeah, I went to JB as well. They were almost sold out! D:
My Target had a few copies but I couldn’t see anyone at the check out desk so maybe that’s why 😛
I just bought it from the estore. I’m too lazy to leave the house!
I hope Captain Toad is in the next Smash Bros.
And I hope he gets an Amiibo.
And a New Super Luigi U-style DLC pack for this game starring Toadsworth.
OR a New Super Luigi U-style DLC pack starring all four of the Toad Brigade in 4-player co-op levels.
Only then will I be happy. Only then.
Diddy needs his time in the sun first, Pow. 😛
Diddy Kong Racing 2
Diddy’s Kong Quest 2
Dr. Diddy
Diddy Party
Diddy and Yellow Yoshi Adventures
Captain Toad and Diddy Kong: Jungle Journey
Alternatively… Captain Toad vs Diddy Kong: Quest for the Golden Banana
I would play that!
I’m still waiting for a Tingle Amiibo!
That will unlock Tingle as a playable character in Smash
and as a playable character in Hyperule warriors
and as a costume change in Majora’s Mask
and as a playable character in Mario Kart
And a playable character in Bayonetta 2.
and monster hunter 4 U.
You know what let’s just say it replaces every character in every game with Tingle
“I wonder if my Tingle Amiibo will work in Uncharted 4?” *taps to DS4*
…oh my god.
Tingle’s Smash move – Bad Touch.
His kart is a white windowless van.
Nah, those were for Waluigi I think.
What have you got against Waluigi? What has he ever done to you?
*Kolorado
I’ve been acquiring the episodes as they aired but I just haven’t watched Korra since the first book came out. But since I ran out of other shows to watch earlier I decided to finally get back into it again!
I couldn’t remember anything that happened in the first season but I’m glad past me decided it would be good to get a Book 1 recap episode :D, so now I’m all refreshed!
If there’s one thing I hate about watching Avatar/Korra it’s that it makes me sad that I don’t have cool bending powers and can’t do all the cool things 🙁
II
I-I-I was typing something, I swear 😛
I saw it too. And laughed.
And it’ll be our little secret!
:X
You wish.
STOP FAVOURITING TWEETS I’M ABOUT TO DELETE, LIONDRIVE!
THAT’S NOT YOUR JOKE! >:O
It’s not a joke at all, it’s serious business!
Seriously not YOUR bees wax 😛
So bloody hot right now… 🙁
Yeah, you are! *slow wink*
…
I’m sorry.
Too late! Your secret Birthday wish is roaming free now!! 😉
\o/
Hooray, someone thinks I’m attractive! 😛
Tempted to buy Monster Hunter Freedom Unite for iOS with an iOS gamey controller thing… hmmmm! HMMM!!!!
Apparently some Italian site leaked the MH4U release date as Feb 27th? :D. I hope that’s true! I just don’t want a late March release since that’s Type-0 and Bloodborne month!
I won’t though *hmpf*
*waits for MH4U*
DAMNIT BEAVWA.
You could play MH3U more. =P
But there are all these weird (old) new monsters in MHFU that I don’t think are in other games! I’m missing out!
The changes in mechanics is what’s making it hard though, but I’m sure it’ll look smexy on an iPad
The Walking Dead Season 1 Episode 4
Pretty good…
Pretty shit…
My heart…
It’s…
In pain…
I didn’t cry…
My choices…
– I killed the boy in the attic. It was too soon to have Kenny do it. (73%)This episode…– I lied to Vernon, unintentionally! I called Clementine my daughter, because I’ve started thinking of her as my daughter.
She is my daughter… (42%)
– I bought Clementine to Crawford. I suspected either Omid or Christa had been bitten, so didn’t want to leave her alone with Omid, just in case. (47%)
– I pulled Ben up. He’s a dumb kid, but I wasn’t going to let him die for trying to help. (45%)
– I revealed the bite…
Goddamn bite…
How am I supposed to break this to poor innocent little Clem? (80%)
– I managed to get everyone to come with me (Omid, Ben, Lee, Kenny, and Christa) (16%)
It broke me…
Oh wow, I didn’t realise I was in the majority with the Ben decision. MONSTERS UNITEUgh, BensThis is why we’re friends.
< 3
I wanted to smack Lee when…
Clem was crying at the end, and he just walked off like that.Also, I’m really on a roll with page gets lately :\I was almost screaming, “Pick the poor girl up and hug her you fool!”
-I killed the little boy in the attic. No way was I letting Kenny do that after his son died. 74%-I was rational and honest with Vernon. 66%
-I left Clementine at the house. Crawford seemed way too dangerous. Why would I take her too a school of zombies when I could leave her with a potential zombie and a loaded handgun? 26%
-I let Ben fall to his death. He asked me to. If I refused and let him live, his was going to tell everyone his secret, and spill discord amongst the group. Plus he had been a total liability up until this point. And he was annoying. And he didn’t have any Scooby Snacks on him. 33%
-I revealed the bite to the group. I wouldn’t be able to hide it anyway. 80%
-Final group: Lee, Kenny, Omid, Christa 13%
One of the choices you made in another episode is likely to radically change the story for you. Or it won’t. Because arbitrary moral choice is easier to program than meaningful moral choice.
BREAKING NEWS! (that no one cares about)
I’ve figured out my Monster Hunter dilemma!
I totally want to play Monster Hunter Freedom Unite since just based on what I’ve seen/read, it has a whole bunch of 2nd Generation monsters that weren’t in Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate. So I’ll be fighting all new dudes!
BUT! It’s relatively expensive at $18 or so and I’m pretty sure I won’t have any co-op buddies to play with 🙁 (or will I? 😀 YOU! PLAY?!). Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate IS just around the corner so I don’t want to out Hunt myself if I was to buy it and play it like crazy now, and I’ve also got all those other games I’ve started and should really finish first :P.
So I’ve decided to buy it if it ever goes on sale for like $5 or something. MH4U should provide me with that portable MH kick whenever it’s released and I’m sure it’ll be way better than MHFU. It seems like it has more monsters but it’s still missing some of those ones found in MHFU.
MONSTER HUNTERRRRRRRRRRRR RARWRRRRRHGHRHHRRRR *foams at mouth*
@beavwa @princesspipster @thecracks @hindenlagen @wilbur @piat (any other HR8+ G rankers)
Aw dang! Guess who wants to play a bit of MH3U again… 😛
I still haven’t killed Alatreon but I feel like I should do that singleplayer first. But since I’ve reached HR8+ I kinda want to kill the new subspecies at least once just so I’ve “done it” (I think there’s just Gold/Silver Rathian/los, Lucent Narga and Abyssal Lagia)
Would anyone be keen sometime soonish?
I’m 3DS only no WiiU or I totally would, hence why im holding out big time for 4U
Oh man! What did you get up to? Multi much?
I completed pretty much all of the single player quests (except the last one) but multiplayer is where the game really shines! Multi stuff is still soloable but it ends up more tedious than fun 🙁
I dont think i ended up finishing solo and got to like the 3rd tier of multi quests, I did have an RL friend who played briefly but not enough to get any real progress
Finishing one of the final solo quests is one of my greatest gaming achievements. It was such an intense battle D:
(Mark of the Hero quest)
I’ve done Alatreon a few times online but not single player yet – mostly still depending on others that know what they’re doing.
Fully farmed g/s rath armour sets (got pretty familiar with those), just finished sets for g rank jhen and its variant.
Tried Abyssal Lagi a few times, melee is pretty useless since the only group strategy I’ve seen is to hide in an inaccessible corner of the map and cheese it with ranged.
Have yet to try lucent narga. Didn’t make the priority list as far as being needed to make something awesome.
Done the savage deviljho yet? That one is certainly … fun.
I haven’t done any HR8+ stuff yet (except for the Dire urgent if that counts) but I might have done it if it was in some HR6-7 advanced quests. That’s where it starts off in red destroy everything mode isn’t it? I’m scared already 😛
So is that a “YES” to more random quests :-)?
Worst case I don’t mind doing a few HR6-7 quests that I haven’t completed yet (mostly advanced ones)
You should see it when it gets pissed off. Don’t look up any videos – save it for a first hand experience.
I might be up for some more random quests when possible. Not sure how easy that’ll be for the next few weeks.
I need to farm some armour that isn’t -35 Dragon or something first though 😛
Gold rathian is a good set since it also gives better drops for all other farming. I think it’s 10 or 20 dragon resist.
Which ones freedom unite? I might have it, but is it online?
It came out on PSP in 2009 (for the West) I think? But they’ve move recently released a port of it to iOS which has online included (I’m not sure if the original has online).
It looks alright!
https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/monster-hunter-freedom-unite/id744769918?mt=8
iOS *makes a face* lol
Also I think I have it on the Vita, which you can online but only through a PS3 (and mines broken)
I think I read the servers shut down a while ago 😛
Yeah, but apparently the touch controls work… reasonably well! I briefly considered buying an iOS controller thingy if I did end up buying MHFU, except they’re pretty damn pricey :/.
I didn’t hear about them removing the adhoc party app from ps3? I thought it was hosted on the local ps3 rather than dedicated servers.
Got twelve people RSVPed for birthday now. I’m psyched. Psyched, I tells ya.
Hope you have a good time, friend 🙂
It’s gonna be good. I’m crazy excited. You might have noticed. 😛
Nah, I hadn’t noticed a thing, truly 😛
You’re usually not the most excitable person, after all 😉
Does that mean no pre-meat psyching needed?
Or is that more of a tradition then anything now? =P
I psych up in phases. Sometimes by getting drunk. 😛
Apparently my sister and her friends don’t get back from their trip til the 13th.
This mystery message is going to drive me nuts.
Impromptu trip to Brisbane will take your mind off it. 😛
Ha, this guy.
Achieve your TAY goal of meeting D.C.!
But seriously, if you were really serious I needs to know by Monday. *decisive nod* SAME GOES FOR YOU, @highperformance! 😛 And @jimu? You still keeeen?
7pm! Saturday, Jan 10 with drinking/shenanigans afterwards!
Yup, chasing down my friend now for details on what needs to happen. Will likely just try and make do with a weeknight instead.
That’s awesome DC, I’d love to come. I’m not in Brisbane until Feb though unfortunately 🙁
A birthday beer is in order in a The Valley next time I’m floating around up there though!
You guilt tripped me for nothing on page six! D:
I forgive you. 😛
Made friends a while back with one of the blokes that runs the local BWS, after he noticed I worked for Woolworths Liquor Group (Dan Murphy’s to be exact). Well that knowledge had paid off he’s informed me there may be a job opening in the store after next week, and to come have a chat to his boss about it. Which would be cool cause I liked working in that environment quite honestly.
Hey Virus, have you ever thought about working with food as a career? You seem to have a knack for cooking….
I had back in high school, but with a lot of mates working in that field of the hospitality scene and how overworked and stressed out they were it put me off it quite honestly!
Captain Toad is fun! *decisive nod*
So’s your face!
It’s more homely than fun, but thank you for the compliment. :’)
I liked how when you first boot up the game it dumps you straight into the first level with no menus or anything.
Also it’s really quick to get into playing every time after that too. Definitely made to be played in quick sessions!
Oh yeah, that was an awesome start to the game. Really pretty graphics too, I think prettier than Super Mario 3D World even!
Those bonus levels! Only played one but did 3D World look that pretty? Woweee, maybe it’s because of the more zoomed in Captain Toad view that I can appreciate it more 😀Probably just that Cappy Toad is a slower-paced game so you’ve got longer to appreciate it!
Another thing I like about Captoad: His face! His eyes follow fish as they swim around him underwater! Birds as they fly away too.
More like Craptoad.
😀
Just when we were finally tolerating each other! D’:
That’s what I read it as when he said “Cappy Toad” earlier 😀
I KNEW YOU WERE COOL, D.C.!
Euro Truck Simulator 2 is more enjoyable than it has any right to be.
It’s such an immersive, well-made sim.
I love it for that. 🙂
A few guys on here I’ve seen have bought it, from what I’ve seen it sounds pretty cool!
It is.
🙂
I enjoy it too, even though my PC can’t even handle the nice scenery, so Ii acrually have no reason to play it…It’s just really well done.
Also, its sequel, American Truck Simulator, comes out this year, so that should be interesting as well.
My brother plays it all the time and watching him I don’t get it 😛 He’s put like 130 hours into it and I feel like I’d need to play it to understand the appeal!
Don’t know what game those people were playing when they said the first half of Valiant Hearts is boring, but it must have not been the same game as mine 😛
I thought it was fantastic throughout! Such a great game. Really great. Highly recommended!
I thought the gameplay for the entire game was boring, but I enjoyed the story from the start!
We’ll have to agree to disagree! I enjoyed the gameplay. Paired really well with the music/presentation, I thought.
Happy to do so. Jolly good, pip pip, and all that. *Tips hat*
*Tips hat too far and falls over*
*Struggles on the ground like a beached whale*
Urrrr, I feel so, dirty, but I have to agree with you…
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to wash this dirty feeling for agreeing with you off me…
*sets self on fire*
😛
Hey, guess what Liondrive, I’m enjoying reading your thoughts on The Walking Dead. MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. YOU CAN NEVER BE CLEAN!There is no fire hot enough to cleanse me 🙁
😛
Reminded me a lot of a Ghibli movie for some reason. Might be why I liked it so much.
Very similar in tone to The Wind Rises. Lots of happysad. The way it used music was sometimes similar too.
I don’t know why anyone would say it’s boring. Frustrating in a few parts, sure, but not boring.
The only part I could have done without was that daft car chase stuff, though on paper it’s a cool idea and it’s executed about as well as it possibly could be.
Probably me 😛
The puzzles are just poorly communicated, in my opinion. I know how to solve them, but they are xplained so poorly that I can’t.
For example, in Professor Layton games you are given clear instructions, and solving the puzzle requires pure logic. Same with many other games.
Valiant Hearts, to me, requires a deeperunderstanding of what the game wants you to do. I don’t know howt describe it, but it’s just communicated poorly. It’s hard to describe. Maybe I just don’t “get” this style of puzzle genre.
I also knew a bit about WW1 before I played the game, so I can’t really use it has a history lesson, unlike others.
And I got up to Chapter 3 and I had the same issue, it looks like I have to go to several different buildings just to unlock something in one building, but I don’t know, becauseit’s explained poorly. Maybe I’ll get back into it.
So far the highlights for me have been the soundtrack and the driving bits, because the soundtrack synced perfectly with the driving. Not much else is grabbing my attention though.
Fair enough! I quite liked the driving bits too because of the music.
Well, I feel like I should head to bed…
Goodnight, TAY. 🙂
Haha, just got a message from my friend telling me he’s found the perfect place to propose. As in, just now, at 2am. GO TO SLEEP, GUY!
Who proposes by text at 2am?
CONGRATULATIONS MR. TACO! 😛
lol
CONGRATS, GOOKY!
You know what sucks? Jet-lag… Jet-lag sucks!
Woke up at 4:30am, and couldn’t go back to sleep, just laid there, staring into the ceiling… 5 hours later (as in now) i feel like an absolute zombie, but i know i can’t go back to bed because then i will just make it worse :\
Tomorrow is going to be fun at work 😛
On the plus side, HI GUYS, I’M BAAAAAAAAAAACK!
ALL the caffeine 😛
Yep, preeeeetty much XD
I predict it will be like that episode of Futurama where Fry sets out to drink 300 $1 cups of coffee..
Edit: that was 100 coffees for $1 each, wasn’t it? Derp.
100 $3 cups I think.
That’s probably it 😛
Of course, as I’m about to sign up for Netflix, they start cracking down on VPNs…
Ugh. I’ll probably still sign up, but it’s going to be annoying if I have to change VPN services every week :/
What’s the deal with this? In planning phases of this myself as a late christmas gift
They’re cracking down on VPN sites apparently.
http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/3/7486869/netflix-international-block-vpn
http://gizmodo.com/it-looks-like-netflix-is-cracking-down-on-vpn-pirating-1677277648
Hopefully it’ll block some US usrs, because apparently that’s what happened to Hulu a few years ago and they stopped cracking down on VPNs.
I’d have more sympathy for the piracy-plight of content-creators if their representatives could stop being *****s for like… five minutes.
New 3DS XL vs Vita battery life:
Now that I’m carrying both around with me and using simultaneously I can get a good feel for how they compare.
2 weeks use of all wireless turned on and volume at full. Brightness levels at default.
3DS I’ve been leaving in my bag for Streetpass and opening once a day to collect puzzle pieces and Streetpass Quest.
Vita I’ve played about 20 hours of FFVII.
3DS has been lasting about 3-4 days before I have to recharge.
Vita finally died this morning after nearly two weeks of stand by and playtime.
Wow, the Vitas battery is THAT good?! I remember my original PSP 1000 model would maybe go 6 or 8 hours before needing to be charged. Things sure have changed in 10 years in regards to handheld consoles.
I seem to remember it lasting a lot less when playing Vita games. PSone games probably put a lot less load on the system..
Ah, that’s probably a very good point, I hadn’t thought that. Still need to get me a Vita..
I thought you needed Wireless on to Streetpass?
Regardless the Vita’s battery life is really impressive.
Wireless was on?
Oh, missread. Thought you said they were off for both.
That’s not bad – I heard the New 3DS doubled the standby time for streetpass stuff, and I wouldn’t trust my old XL to go more than 2 days without charging.
Vita has awesome battery life. I should use it more.
I use my XL in pretty much the same way as Freeze, asleep for StreetPass through the day and then (usually) a round of collection each night. Though I generally turn the wireless off once I get home since I’m not going to get anything there. Usually lasts me through the week without the battery light going red.
Presence of mind to turn off the wireless for at least half the time would definitely help, but I just plug it in instead once I get home (and I get overnight street passes from other 3DS presences). I also use mine on the train (about 2 hours a day).
Me from 15 years ago, what was I thinking liking Limp Bizkit and similar…
Nothing wrong with Limp Bizkit, I still listen to a few of there songs. Wouldn’t rate them as a favourite band or anything but they are ok
Saw ’em in 2012 at Soundwave, they were alright live. honestly lol…
*burps*
*farts*
*flings poo*
Back to work tomorrow!
…
I don’t wanna 🙁
I hear ya. I like my job, and I’m still feeling sick at the prospect.
It’ll be my first time returning to a bunch of work and emails :3
I don’t wanna!
Don’t. Wanna. Either.
Does anybody here have a setup that lets them easily record stuff frm the radio? The 2hr long Arcade Fire concert from Sydney in January is on triple J at 5pm today, and I’d love if someone could get a copy of it for me.
Also, the 2hr long Arcade Fire concert from Sydney in January is on triple J at 5pm today.
Perhaps not the easiest solution, but it should work!
http://trog.qgl.org/20090812/how-to-record-triple-j-to-your-computer/
This is actually my preferred style of digital-only solution. Simple well tested command line tools that I know and trust. Not something that will crash after an hour because the thread that renders the lovely waveform chews up all the memory or some such.
Edit : this phone is doing some crazy auto completes today.
Either that, or if your sound card has “Stereo Mix” or “What U Hear” (may be hidden in recording tab of Control Panel > Sounds – Right click and show hidden devices), you could enable that as your default device, and then load up your stream and record using whatever program you like.
My dad uses this method to do his karaoke stuff online. The music streams from some site, and enabling that basically tells windows to send the sound signal through the speakers, while also enabling other software to ‘hear’ what’s playing, which combined with his microphone input, allows his voice to be recorded/mixed over the top of the music. Make sense?
I’ll try the wget option, but I’d be surprised of the same method still works 4+ after the post or what the quality is like. Live streams are gonna be patchy over that length of time. Also not sure if I have decent software to record that much under OSX… Add to all this that I’m out at the moment, won’t be home till later.
So thanks for the help, but it would still be easier if someone out there has a solution ready to hand to do it for me 🙂 preferably direct stereo input from a radio to the sound card. It’s how I’ve done such things historically.
Have a comment stuck in moderation… try replay media catcher. May need a few tweaks to get it running but has worked a treat for me in the past.
Funny thing is that I saw your post, and now it’s gone! Stuff about eye patches and so on.
Everybody seems to be suggesting stream, but I’m just worried that it will inevitably drop out. Any idea what quality the triple J stream is?
I’m not sure what quality in terms of bitrate they use these days, but I usually listen to the hottest 100 via their site, and it sounds good through my speakers (Logitech Z5500’s).
If you have a cable with 3.5mm jack’s on both ends (male) you could always run that from a headphone socket on your radio (if it has one) and plug it in to the mic or line in input on your mac. I’m not all that familiar with mac software, so I can’t advise on what might be best to do the recording itself, but that could well be an easier solution if you have the right gear.
This is what I figure I’ll end up doing (if I can find a working radio), but figured I’d ask others in case they have a better setup. But now that I think about it, why the fuck would anybody record from the radio any more? I might as well be asking for someone to send me a VHS of the most recent Simpsons episode…
Yeah – edited to add a link to audacity and post got swallowed.
Triple J stream (any ABC stream really) could be anything from 64kbps to 128kbps. Doesn’t specify what the ‘new’ player is streaming at. But like welbot, I listen to is regularly and it sounds pretty good.
I think my phone should be able to record it directly. I’ll give it a whirl, hopefully reception here is ok.
Thanks, but only if it’s actually practical for you. A phone recording for 2 hours could be really inconvenient – battery, storage, and not really being able to use it for anything else!
With my usage, its primary function is to sit there and do nothing 😛 Then it’s mostly there for its camera, with some occasional messaging. I pretty much got it because of its non-phone features, anyway.
Pretty sure it should be set-and-forget, should be able to just turn on the radio and hit Record.
Replay Media Catcher works alright… You fire it up and start recording, launch the stream and it captures anything being played. Just make sure you mute system sounds/close other apps or you might end up with a notification sound caught in the stream.
From memory you need the full version, so you could don the eye patch or fork over the $50 asking price.
You could then use Audacity (freeware) to edit your MP3 to trim down each end and cut out any breaks in the concert. You could even cut the MP3 up into individual tracks if you wanted.
Cassette tape.
If you can record onto tape, I’ll happily take a copy from you!
Haha, if I could remember how to work the stereo I would 😛
I remember once shortly before the movie came out, I read that the original Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy radio play was going to be aired on one of the stations around here, and I went to set up the stereo to record it all onto tape. But for whatever reason either the recording didn’t go or they didn’t end up airing it or something, either way I didn’t get to listen to it. Annoyed me.
I have all 5 series on MP3 if you wanted them.
Just went to check on it and sound is still coming out and it still says “recording”, so presumably all is good. One more hour to go then?
Hi Tay
I start my new job tomorrow, and that probably means I’ll be a little bit absent here during the day. What I’m saying is TWEET ME
Grats on the new job btw.
Congrats, buddy! 🙂
Awesome news. Congratulations
Here’s an invention idea. A refrigerated lounge. So that on hot days I can sit on a nice cool couch.
Someone get on that.
Why not the opposite of a hot water bottle that freezes your bed so you can sleep when it’s ridiculously hot?
I love it. Slap a patent on it right now!
That’s just called an ice pack wrapped in a tea towel.
Or you could just build a lounge out of doughnuts.
This is why we’re not friends >:'(
😛
Because he didn’t build you one?
*sigh* some twat left a coke glass in the grass on our fence line out the front, I only discovered this once I had smashed it with the mower. Thankfully I didn’t run it over and send glass shrapnel every where.
Edited: Proper tagged post below.
You should probably tag some people.
I’m not sure how many check Sunday TAY after all 😛
Only the weird ones do.
Finally, I’m part of a clique :’)
Only the weirdest of people eat frozen doughnuts…
Alright, count me in. The rest of everything can sort itself out.
Haha! Yessssss! 😀
Hey guys! Trying to be decisive with these birthday plans so am thinking I’ll nail it down now!
Bavarian Bier Cafe at 7pm on Saturday, Jan 10 with drinking/shenanigans afterwards.
Probably will post one last reminder, but if you’re keen for Birthday dinner on Jan 10 you gots to RSVP by tomorrow. That’s when I’ll be making reservation. We’ll be moseying about after dinner too, so feel free to join us then but dinner is RSVP dependent. *decisive nod*
If for whatever reason we can’t get reservations for BBC we’ll go to Buffalo Bar or something.
If it guilts you into going it’s also a milestone birthday. Eeeeep. 😛 (No presents necessary.)
Your pal,
DC.
CONFIRMED: DC., Dan, Mrs. Dan, Freeze, Mrs. Freeze, Nobs, Strange, Hellscream, Mrs. Hellscream, Transientmind, Sughly, DC’s non-TAYbie friend, Gooky.
Good turn out! 😀
@beardymcmuttonchops @beeawwb @cufcfan616 @dc @dkzeitgeist @freezespreston @gutsoup @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @sernobulus @strange @sughly @transientmind @welbot @virus__, @janexo, @sunsoar77
You turned out good!
:’)
…did you just tag yourself?
Yes. Yes, I did.
I love BBC!
Also, sorry for being annoying with these tags. Hope you don’t mind. Just want to get this done. 😀
Not annoying at all. Can’t wait!
<3 Been far too long!
SOS has a thing that afternoon so she’ll either be late and belligerently drunk or on time and belligerently drunk.
Either way, pack a sass guard.
We’ll all be belligerently drunk soon enough!
Wait. Since when am I a non-TAYbie friend?
Haha, that’s a seperate entry! 😛
*sigh* don’t think i’ll be there, gonna be pretty broke after the post-christmas bills I need to pay >_>
Aw, that’s too bad. 🙁 Thanks anyways! 🙂
Yeah, sorry dude, If it makes up for it I went to the Bavarian Bier Cafe down this way last week 😛
I saw. That planted the seed in my head. 😛
I was sad though they were out of their lager Hofbräu 🙁 I could drink that all night. So I had to settle for Löwenbräu, whilst okay, still not as good 😛
ALL the presents!!!! 😛
YOU WOULDN’T DARE! >:|
I think I’ll lock in reservations at 14 now that I have 13 confirmations. Nice round number and allows an extra spot just in case. Unless more RSVP! *looks at people*
So many.
You guys are the best presents of all! :’)
NO PRESENTS! >:|
Sooooo, you don’t want us to come then?
Will be suffering from an aversion to money this week but will see if I can pop along after dinner
TAY, help. I’ve been suffering a dilemma lately. I can’t decide whether Golden Gaytimes or Maxibons are the better ice-cream treat.
I choose…
I’ve never had either :3WHAT? 😮
And obviously the correct answer is Golden Gaytimes.
Yeah, Golden Gaytime Ice Creams are a good first choice. If you’re cray.
Maxibon and all of it’s incarnations FTW
You have not lived.
Why not both?
1. Blend Golden Gaytime and Maxibon using a blender
2. Freeze result
3. Check until frozen solid (will take time)
4. Eat result
WARNING: This recipe is untested and it is unknown what side effects it may have.
Maxibon all the way.
Bubble O Bill.
Also Boomys and Zipps.
http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2014/117/d/8/sonic_the_motherfudging_ice_cream_by_thefeverplauge-d7g794h.png
Ah yes, Bubble O Bill. My mother only let me have ice-cream roughly once a year, so I remember seeing that all the time and getting frustrated that I couldn’t have it. Then after about two years of lusting after it I finally got my hands on it. It wasn’t at all what I thought it would be and set me on a path of jadedness.
Paddle Pop.
Hell no.
The rainbow one in particular. <3
BANANAN
Also pretty great.
Yeahhhh Rainbow is the best one! I remember being a kid at school and somebodys Mum was sweet enough to buy an entire class of 30 kids paddle pops using one of those variety containers. I got a Banana one 🙁
And that’s when she made your list!
If that was all that was in the freezer… Golden Gaytime. None of this americana-icecream-sandwich-business.
Otherwise, chocolate paddlepop or mint choc drumstick.
This guy knows where it’s at!
It was more like deciding whether I liked one over the other in general.
And then the Mango Wies bar arrived and blew everyone elses choices out of the water! 😛
Macadamia!
Fisticuffs next Saturday!
Though Macadamia is pretty okay too.
Mango… only mango.
I like my desserts decadent. Americanify the crap out of anything. My all time favourite ice cream treat are Caramel Maxibons, haven’t had one in bloody years but I know wherever they are they are being enjoyed by lucky people.
Lara is fun!
I guess we’ll wait for a time when we’re all free for some co-oping again? 😀 @powalen @sernobulus
(@masha2932 :P)
We only exploded each other with bombs some of the time! \o/
Captain Toad is really fun. I always like it when Nintendo try something new with their IP. More experimenting, more of the time!
Have you unlocked the “Target Times” for each level? Oh man you need to get the levels perfect to even come close.
Long ago I learnt I’d be far happier never doing time trials so don’t even bother any more. 😛
Mans-formers
Excellent.
Kramsformers.
@batguy
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Interestingly, it only chewed up less than 15% of the battery. When I used the recorder to record through the mics, I’m pretty sure it ate maybe 30% for around the same time. Possibly. Ok I can’t really remember, definitely more than 10. Actually those files ended up about twice as big too. Huh.
Cool, thanks! Much appreciated! I did manage to get a motley collection of recordings going myself (including a super-awesome script I can kick off from home in the future) but I just listened to yours briefly and none were as complete or as good quality as that.
FYI it wasn’t actually a two hour show in the end – it was an hour of edited highlights rather than “we’ll bring you the whole thing” as promised. They originally played it earlier in the year over two nights (and I missed it then too). But still pretty good, and well worth a listen! I’ve grabbed it now, so you can take it down and edit your post unless somebody else (e.g @dc?) is interested.
Heh, that jet-ski sequence in Binary Domain was pretty good. A good mix of spectacle and user control, contains a failure state but is not overly difficult, controls that aren’t crap, all to the most out-of-place electronica music.
Just capped off my 9 days in a row at work with a 14 hour shift. I’m ready to take tomorrow off I think.
See you all in new TAY. 🙂
The thing in my wall is back. I should have known it was too good to be true when the noises disappeared but no bad smell happened. 😛
*things in your wall are back.
You don’t want me to be able to sleep, do you? You want me to be awake wondering if it really is thingS , and then to be yelling at my kids (and everyone here in TAY) all day tomorrow because I’m tired and grumpy. 😛
Hahaha, you don’t have to wonder if it is things in your wall, Strangey 😛
It is things 🙂