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Up early today!
Hi!
Hello! This last week I’ve been up at around 6am every day. It is a nightmare.
Hello! This last week I’ve been up at around 6am every day. It is a 5 month old baby.
/shudder
The roads are good again. So much so that my morning drive only took me 40 minutes like it’s supposed to, instead of over an hour. Got into the city so early I decided to detour via Broadway on the way to work, and found the Kmart there a*actually* had a copy of Captain Toad.
I guess work’s good for something then 😛
Well enjoy it for this week until everybody is back next week and things are horrible again
Shh don’t say that 🙁
At least school isn’t back as well 😉
Hi all! I’ve been playing quite a bit of Diablo III.
Last night, I killed Diablo. Act IV only took me a bit over an hour to clear completely.I’ve been using the same weapon since Act II of the game. I know that’s really unusual, but I just can’t find anything to beat this particular legendary weapon. Its base damage is starting to get a little low (around 200 or so), but with every strike, it sends out this wave of energy that does 700% damage to any foe in its path. I’ve tailored my passive abilities to take advantage of this, and it devastates mobs of enemies – totally unbeatable.That sounds like a pretty rad weapon. Also act 4 is pretty short, 5 is good tho.
Bump up the difficulty if it’s a complete faceroll. You get more XP, Gold and better loot.
Yep, was playing with Pantaloons yesterday and we started 1 shotting things on hard so we upped it to expert. Still face rolling everything though…
I have – as soon as I got that weapon. It’s as high as I can get it without completing the game first, and has been since Act II. 😛
Act IV was pretty short, the game seems to get progressively shorter each act because Act I felt really drawn out by comparison. Having a crazy good weapon that obliterated any resistance would certainly have helped!
Urg
My thought processes exactly
I know where that’s coming from
First day back at work today. WTF am I doing here?! 🙁
Eh, I never left! Haha 😀
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😐
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:'(
I’ve only had the public holidays off. It feels like I was here at work just yesterday. Ugh.
I hadn’t actually had a holiday since October 2013, so having a week and a half off felt like 6 months 🙂
Back to the grind today come on Kotaku give us some good articles to make the day go faster.
Back to work today. :c
It’s one of those days with everyone back at work then? Why did I waste another Christmas break doing nothing? I have lots more ‘nothing’ to do dammit
Ain’t that the truth. So much nothing left to be done yet I’m stuck doing work ‘nothing’ which is no fun at all.
SATURDAY GOES SNOWBOARDING
Friend 1: Are we there yet?
Saturday: It’s like a 3 hour trip to the mountains, can you be patient-
Friend 1: ARE WE THERE YET?!
Friend 1: Man, crazy that we get barely any snow down in the mainland compared to up here.
*We start driving into heavy snowfall*
Friend 2: What the fuck is this?!
Saturday: How much for a goddamn one-day ski pass?
Saturday: How much for renting a snowboard?!
Repeat ad infinitum.
Friend 1: SATURDAY! THIS HOT CHICK’S FROM AUSTRALIA! YOU WENT TO AUSTRALIA! MAKE CONVERSATION!
Saturday: Uuuuhhhh.. I hate Tony Abbott?
Postscript: Cannot remove italic tags on last story. Also, I thought about saying “I hate Julia Gillard” first but I’m pretty sure you guys hate all your politicians so I’m sure it didn’t matter.
Today I was walking up a path on refrozen slush and started sliding down and I thought to myself “This is how I die, by slipping on ice” and I guess that’s sort of like snowboarding?
Fuck no, that’s far too extreme a activity. You daredevil, you.
Extreme showshoeing.
You’re complaining about Canadian snowsports costs? Man, it’s so cheap there compared to here.
Worse than Japan and most of Europe, but still.
I’m afraid to ask how much.
… Nah, I’ll ask. How much?
From memory it’s like 80-100 buckaroonies for a day pass.
Oh god, please tell me that’s for a smaller ski resort.
cc @saturday
Nope, was a good $100-150+ last year. And then accomm/transport/flights/rentals are also super-expensive. Canada is slightly cheaper in the skilioft prices.
Hi all! Hope everyone had a good christmas/new years – I spent two weeks up north with the folks. Christmas day was great, if a little wet. Played mahjong with my mum, ate lots of good food, had a few too many espresso martinis. Got a proper display case for my pen collection, an EB gift voucher, and my first guitar amp. \o/ Had to wait until I got home last night to try the amp out, but it’s awesome to be able to play without Rocksmith in the way (finally).
Boxing day was spent having a second Christmas lunch with our friends, which was good. Went to my parents’ friend’s birthday get-together on the 1st, and met this guy that reminded me so much of that drug-addled doctor from Far Cry 3… only minus the drugs, I guess. Naturally enthusiastic about everything, especially food; a great bloke.
The rest of the holiday was pretty much spent relaxing, reading (Brent Weeks’ new(-ish) series is rather good), playing Pokemon OR (just got the last badge – looking at the next steps is a bit daunting, tbh) and a bit of Hearthstone (still working to unlock all the basic decks – maybe halfway there), and continuing our game of mahjong (I’d had a bunch of small wins over the course of the few days, so was sitting about 4k points ahead, and the last game mum pulled off a win as East in the final game with four doubles, giving her about 4900 points – gg, mum, gg)… Good times.
Got home at about 8:30 last night, and realised I was 30 minutes late for Xur. What did he have? Oh. Oh. There, but for my poor foresight when booking the flights months ago, goes my Gjallarhorn upgrade. :'(
You only need a Paladin deck, don’t worry about the others! 😉
CCG. C!!!! 😛
I actually enjoy playing against the AI – it makes me feel like I know what I’m doing :P. That, and I’m having a heap of fun just playing mage – “Oh, you have me down to 3 health? You, however, have no taunt – fireball to face, fireball to face, send minions at face, *grin*.” 😀It’s a really cool game, if I wasn’t a Destiny addict I would play it more. With the Goblins and Gnomes expansion the Paladin deck is pretty OP in early rush/aggression decks which was my playstyle before it came out.
The mage was the first I started with as well.. you will learn!
Well, yea, I can see myself playing a little bit, but still very much addicted to Destiny myself. If only Bungie reduced the daily load so I had time for other things… might have to stop bothering with the daily stories for all three characters, as it’s not like I need ascendant mats anymore, and have nothing I really want to upgrade enough to warrant the XP (that 9k XP bounty aside) :P. Maybe I’ll start to focus on specific repping specific factions…
My time with the paladin was indeed fun – got all the basic cards for it, built a deck with what I had (including my first and only legendary, Grommash Hellscream :P), and went roughly 50/50 against the expert AI. Very much still learning, but I’m a little worried whether I’ll have the time to keep it up now I’m back from holidays. The android version runs like arse on my old 2012 Nexus 7, and hits an endless loading screen when I try to play against the AI… maybe I’ll be able to spend more time on it when they bring out the phone ports, during my commutes.
What sorcery is this where you can use a Warrior exclusive legendary in a Paladin deck!?
Sorry, I know way too much about Hearthstone…
Oops 😛
Mighta beenWas probably using it in another deck – I was swapping around pretty frequently while getting each to 10. I do remember Pally being pretty fun, tho 😛Brisbane folk, making reservations in an hour. I’ve tagged enough so won’t again today, but you got an hour if you haven’t RSVPed yet. XD
Edit: It is done. Made booking, but they’ll call back with confirmation.
@beardymcmuttonchops @beeawwb @cufcfan616 @dc @dkzeitgeist @freezespreston @gutsoup @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @sernobulus @strange @sughly @transientmind @welbot @virus__, @janexo, @sunsoar77
😛
*shakes fist* 😛 Most have already replied, though. We gots a good group, I tells ya.
Oh yeah, I totally don’t know Brisbane at all. What area should I be looking at and would be a good place to stay?
Uh, I’m gonna let someone else answer where to stay, because I’m a hermit with no experience on this front. But all bday plans will be in the CBD so as long as you can get somewhere central like Queen St it should be easy to navigate. (Or get someone to find you.)
The Meriton (either one I think) was reasonably cheap from memory for new apartments in the city. My family stayed there for a couple of days and it was quite nice. Not knowing budget though, hard to answer 😛
+1 for The Meriton, I stay there for work and is very close to the CBD and a short cab ride to The Valley 😛
I misread that, and I thought you were telling him to sleep on the grass at Metricon Stadium.
@dc ‘s house!
Gooky’s Sydney residence is probably closer to Brisbane than my house. 😛
I know a tool shed you can sleep in, though. It’s not mine.
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/FMeED7mPY4k/maxresdefault.jpg
Sitcom ahoy!
All depends on when you’ll be here and for how long I guess? I’m always happy to offer my couch for a night or two if needed, but depends on what you’ve got on and when as to whether it might suit you or not!
Is it too late? I’ve only just logged on to TAY! That’s what I get for working. 🙁
Made reservation, but with an extra space. Want it?
Yes please. Sorry for the lateness in response, I tend to only do my TAYing at work which means when I’m on leave I’m doing anything but checking in.
Done.
I have absolutely no idea what this is all about. Except for the fact that I’m three days late 😛
And one year too. 😛
Whelp, here’s the big day where I find out I’m fired. Wish me luck!
I like the edit. Gotta end in positivity!
And so in honour of that I give you a multiple choice ending!
A) Don’t forget to steal all the office supplies!
B) Sorry to hear that, I hope it works out for you.
The only thing I’m planning on stealing is my own crap, the camera… and the display boat.
Rig the display boat so you can give the finger to everybody and then drive through a wall/window with said boat into the glorious sunset.
Give the finger to who? We’re all being fired.
… Well, shit.
…..
Drive the boat through the wall anyway.
The Man of course.
Happy Monday, and Back to Work Day for some of us. Hoping to scrounge a copy of Captain Toad Treasure Tracker today as well, EB sold out at Marrickville…
Hey all. Long time no talk, I know. Sorry for my absence since whenever I last TAYed but I hope everyone enjoyed their Christmas and New Year’s.
I like that I’m on a two week break starting today, so I get to laugh at all you suckers returning to work.
HIghperformances weekend:
Saturday: Swimming in a pool and Shadows of Mordor
Sunday: 80km bike ride, bee sting in my mouth and Shadows of Mordor
Turns out I’m not allergic to bees! \o/
Sounds like a mostly good weekend. Except for the assassination attempt. D:
Someone asked me why I had a bee in my mouth in the first instance.
Why wouldn’t you? It was a Bee Plus for looks =D
Must be the new buzz for 2015…
Will you knock it off and beehive yourself
It must have scared the beejesus out of you!
I couldn’t beelieve it.
I can imagine. Who would have expected them to be pollen this kind of stunt?
Just bee yourself man, just bee yourself.
Ha, boss showed me some Nintendo hanafuda cards he picked up on his trip. Wants to play a game during lunch.
Heeelp. I was the first one in the office today and the air conditioner hasn’t been on for weeks and it’s 35 degrees in here and I don’t know how to work the buttons to turn it on and ahhhhhh I’m mellltiiing.
How hard can it be? You press buttons until the number is low.
What could go wrong! \o/
I’m already getting an a/c headache from it being too cold in here. Bleh.
Just do what my Dad does with his TV remote. Press every single goddamn button until it does what you want it to.
Press the big red button
I have been playing this war of mine and I have learnt something about my self. I am useless in a war. I cannot bring myself to take anything that belongs to anyone else. I also can’t refuse people who ask for help. I don’t fight back. I am just terrible.
So yeah, do not expect me to be a help if a civil war breaks out =P
*takes Scree’s name off list*
I don’t think I could bring myself to even play that game, I’d probably end up leading with an iron fist and everyone ends up leaving cuz I’m too hard on them 😛
God, it’s such a good game, right? Depressing as hell. When your best isn’t good enough… I was similar in that I didn’t turn anyone away who needed help… but we learned some very different things, I think. Namely: before food, water, shelter, sleep, your top priority should be weapons. Because weapons get you all those other things. And yes, you may need to rob the helpless when your buddy is severely wounded and you don’t have enough medical supplies, but hey, those people were old and going to die anyway oh god I’m sorry why aren’t they there anymore how do I atone what have I done?
Yeah, I only make weapons to defend myself, nothing else. I can’t hurt other people because I am a terrible person
Applying for something later this month that’s industry related and I’m a little excited about it. It’s been a long time since I’ve had to hype up my uni degree on a CV, though. TELEVISION DEGREE QUALIFIES ME FOR EVERYTHING! *flails arms* 😛
We, with the way the Australian Government is going, they really wish your TV degree will still be viable. They’re working extra hard to make sure it will be by charging Aussies through the ass to watch Game of Thrones.
Wheeee! \o/
If you want another set of eyes on a Cv let me know
Thanks, bud.
Aaaaaand the beanie is on.
Hey, TAY.
My neck hurts, and I think we’ve exceeded our download quota for the month.
Won’t reset until Sunday.
Also, I’ve resolved to cut back on my game purchasing this year, so I can put my money towards more useful things.
Also, 4th test starts tomorrow, and I’ve been watching a bit of the tennis in the meantime.
Hope the rest of you are staying safe and enjoying yourselves! 😀
every time I hear the music for that Tennis commercial before it all began for this year it reminds me of: “Don’t cry for me, I’m already dead” – Barney
The heat, it does terrible things to a man
Was meant to be there, but the rescheduling and new job’s leave policies mean that I can’t 🙁
It looks like it’s going to get washed out a lot anyway. Might be a blessing in disguise that I’m missing out.
Hilarious reading reviews and experiences from people who have gone to Japan and are genuinely angry that everyone speaks Japanese over there. And 90% of the time it’s Americans assuming the whole country purely exists to cater to Yank tourists.
Those monsters. they probably prefer dubs too.
I know it’s a joke, but I have often wondered why the Western market is so eager to support an industry which only uses a total of like… five voice actors for dubbing anything and everything.
Are we talking about anime or video games?
Hah. Well, Nolan North and Troy Baker are pretty damn prolific in games, but I was thinking mostly of anime. It really does seem like only the same half-dozen actors doing ALL the dub work.
(Edit: Crispin Freeman and Steven Blum in particular.)
You can blame the Japanese for that. They’re the ones who make the choices. Every change in One Piece was done by the original creator.
That’s very rarely the case.
To be fair, anime is like that to some extent in Japanese too. Takehito Koyasu for example feels like he’s in more than half of the anime produced since about 1995.
And there’s an emerging problematic trend in the industry over the last 3-4 years as well, where they keep ‘discovering’ flavour-of-the-month ‘idol’ female seiyuu who are of really average quality but they push them really hard ahead of the more talented or experienced actresses because it’s often cheaper and the companies involved with the production have more incentive to push them.
Steve Blum is awesome and everywhere!
Don’t understand it myself. Dubs just break the characterisation and tone of the whole thing, as well as being generally terrible.
I’m very much in the “it depends on the production” camp here.
Things like Dragonball Z Abridged take it to the extreme but it works. Others places that take a Woolseyism approach tend to be alright too.
When you don’t speak the original language, you can lose a lot of nuance that subtitles really don’t handle well. You can also ignore some of the more irritating or less well done aspects because you just aren’t hearing them the same way you would if you heard them in a language you speak.
I think the whole debate is silly.
There are a scarce handful I’ve seen where the dub cast does a better job than the original cast, but you could probably count those on a single, badly-mutilated hand.
Probably Unpopular Devil’s Advocate Theory for kicks and giggles: The reason we prefer subs to dubs is because in our native language we can tell how hackneyed and contrived the dialogue and delivery is, but when it’s in a foreign language, we can’t tell if the tone is being delivered terribly or not.
🙂
Or, what @trjn already said a minute earlier… JINX!
@trjn
That’s probably a fair call. But for me dubs just sound off, the voices and language just does not match the characters and their animations.
When watching subbed stuff I tune out the subs in the same way as when I read a book I don’t really see the words half the time, it just merges into a scene in my head.
So it’s like I am listening to it in Japanese but understand it.
There’s a lot of truth to this. I think it’s pretty easy to tell when you’re hearing a bad performance if you’ve heard the language a bit, but very hard to pick out a mediocre or over-acted one.
That’s something that’s always stood out to me with anime dubs too. It’s almost like they’re deliberately made to sound bad. You can take some people who are very talented voice actors – Troy Baker for example does a fair bit of anime too – and they’ll sound great in most video games. But give them an anime dub role and they sound like amateurs. Someone once described the approach to me as “reading the ingredients on the label of a can of soup and being really excited about it”. Accurate.
I think some of the issue is that they’ve got to fit the translation into the mouth movements, and also that Japanese has a thing where they say people’s names with a whole mountain of pathos and everything, and that just sounds daft in English. I can’t remember what it was, might have been an 8-4 podcast where they were talking about it, but their example was the final scene in Terminator 2. If that had been anime, there’d have been a lot of shots of Arnold and John Conner staring at each other as he lowers himself into the furnace and a lot of “TERMINATOR!!!” … “JOHN!!!!” going on. It doesn’t translate well. But they’re kind of saddled with that baggage when doing an anime dub. There’s other language conventions that don’t translate very well either.
Also a lot of anime acting is mediocre, overacted or just plain shit in Japanese too. And even really good actors and actresses will struggle with a crap script or bad direction. Not just in anime either, look at the caliber of actors that put in wooden performances in the Star Wars prequels for example.
Of all the anime I’ve watched (ie all of like… two series), I preferred the dubs. Subtitles are annoying, having to read the whole time.
Ended up missing an ep or two and tried to download it, but they all had the weird-sounding Japanese voices and I just couldn’t watch it. Everything was wrong.
Ahh but that’s what bugs me about dubs: they are Japanese characters in Japan, they should be speaking Japanese and sound Japanese. English just does not fit.
Translation convention applies here. Anyhow, quite a lot of anime series are set in worlds that don’t even have a Japan. I’m okay with Luke Skywalker speaking English for the sake of the story, there’s no reason Eren Yaeger couldn’t (although given the setting, German would be most appropriate).
You’re not wrong, you’ve just become used to it being a certain way. This is all about preference and that’s exactly why I take the approach that it depends on the production.
Yeah but I don’t speak Japanese 😛
When I played Katawa Shoujo, the writing and all the characters’ “voices” in my head were all in English and it didn’t seem weird to me. For TV shows it doesn’t seem like it should be any different.
This is the normal arc people go through. You need to watch stuff subtitled for a bit to get to the point you’re comfortable with that.
When I got into anime, it was exclusively dubbed stuff. I would get annoyed if I couldn’t find stuff in English. The tipping point for me swapping over to subtitled was two things. First, I got frustrated with slow release of Bubblegum Crisis 2040 and watched ahead in Japanese, then re-watched the ‘proper’ dubbed version and found there was a ton of stuff that the dub changed for the sake of it so I wasn’t getting as ‘pure’ an experience (one example that I can still remember was some people talking about going on holiday to Australia getting dubbed to Hawaii). The bigger tipping point though was that I got into Rurouni Kenshin, and it wasn’t available dubbed at all for ages, plus watching a show set in the 1800s in Japan in Japanese just felt right.
Nowadays I suspect that the same thing will happen for a lot of people. Get in via dubbed stuff, but eventually you’re going to want to follow the latest and greatest stuff or go into some more niche shows, and that means subtitles. Additionally a lot less stuff is being dubbed for home video releases since the bubble burst in the US around 2008 or so and sent most of the localization companies bust.
Yeah, I don’t know what their problem is, I mean the Japanese should know by now that the U.S. is the centre of the goddamn universe.
Why else do all alien attacks happen to occur there and no where else on the planet?! HUH!?
Well. Unless you watch anime, in which case the the apocalypse pretty much always has Japan as alternately Ground Zero or the Last Bastion of Civilization.
Pfft, Independence Day is way more believable than some cartoon with their unrealistic eye sizes 😛
WELCOME TO URF!
Independence Day was anime as fuck. Seriously.
One of the numerous things I love about Japan is that you don’t know exactly what’s going on most of the time. Important things like airports and train stations have English signs and speakers, but the rest of the time it’s just a blur of crazy characters and alien language. I actually find it relaxing.
On another note, don’t be ‘murican in japan. They don’t like ’em. E.g. no ‘abercrombie’ or other bullshit shirts, leave the slogans at home, make sure you have aussie accent, etc.
Already feel like lunch. This is the worst.
I have things I need to do today but all I want to do is play Diablo III or Dragon Age: Inquisition.
I wonder if I have the self control to stop playing once I start? I’d like to think I can play for a little bit and get it out of my system so I can focus on work, but I’m pretty sure if I start, all of a sudden it will be dinner time and I’ll wonder what happened to the day. 😛
Diablo III is really hard to stop playing. #helping
And then there’s Dragon Age:
“Hey NPC! How was your day?”
*commence seven hour quest*
Haha, yeah I got caught by that the other day. I was all “Okay, I’ll just do this one little quest and then I’ll stop.” “Whoops. Not such a little quest after all!”. 😀
DRAGON AGE
I keep meaning to get back to Diablo, think I got to the end of act I and stopped. Still gotta go back and finish Far Cry 4, Shadow Of Mordor, Call Of Duty: Advanced Warfare, Lords Of The Fallen, Borderlands:TPS, Destiny etc etc.
I think I actually finished a whole 2 games last year, inFamous: Second Son, and Skylanders: Trap Team.
Really need to pull my finger out this year and complete more games and try not to buy more before I’ve finished the ones I’ve got.
Good morning everybody!
It’s been a while. Since last year, even. I’ve been on annual leave since XMas so have just been relaxing and doing not much at all. Read a couple books, play some video games, just enjoy having time off and not having to work.
I gotta say though, the last year of semi-regularly getting on TAY and getting to know all you wonderful people has been absolutely amazing. I challenged myself last year to get out of my comfort zone and meet some new people, make some new friends, and I’d say I’ve met my goal and then some. It’s so great to be part of this community, and I’d like to thank each and every one of you for being awesome. Yes, you. You’re awesome.
So, first Monday of the new year question: What’s your favourite memory of 2014?
Edit: My favourite memory of 2015 is this Page-Get.
http://yearofthehermit.tumblr.com/
I posted favourite memories here. 😀
Would have to be PAX, so many new faces that I met this year (including you!). Was really the only bright thing that happened in 2014 as the rest was just depressing for me.
“Hey, is that David Cattenborough?!” – Still get a chuckle and a big smile remembering that. 🙂
Best moment: Birth of my third kid.
Well a pretty easy one for me, my daughter was born this year.
As for the actual memory, probably the first skin to skin hold I had with her, when she was about 20 minutes old.
My favorite moment was when it ended. Last year was a year best forgotten apart from spending time with my son of course. Just need to get through the court hearing for divorce next month and it’s onwards and upwards from here (I hope)
All the best, friend. 🙂
That’s a hard one. 2014 was far too full of suck. I guess when I first played Elite in the Rift? That was a pretty mind-blowing experience.
Oh actually there was that time I had friends over for the weekend and…. er, hilarity happened. Yeah.
Wait no I changed my mind. Getting together my Shredder costume for my friend’s 21st, turning up fashionably late, being served way too strong a drink (or three) and then attempting to test out the drunken piano theory, then having to literally get dragged out of the place by my sister because I wouldn’t get off the damn thing. Then ending up with an audio recording the whole car trip home, including running into Oporto in full getup because I really had to pee.
It was probably the most interesting thing to happen all year 😛
I think you win. Nobody can top that. Not even those who had children. 😛
Closing old tabs atm. Just realised I didn’t even mention the part where the police pulled mum over for a breath test, and I got chatting with them. Also shoved my helmet out the window to show them, somehow managed to not break and/or drop it.
My favourite memory of 2014 is spending a morning with a person whom I’ve come to see as my mentor, who sat me down in a cafe and shared with me some of the things he thought were important for leading a happy life.
Very pertinent and it resonates with me to this day, kinda like my own New Year Resolution.
2014 was a terrible year. Glad to see the end of it. No favorite memories at all.
Can’t remember much memorable stuff from last year. I started my current job, got made permanent, my footie team got promoted and won some silverware, I turned 30. Average year really. Nothing outstanding, nothing terrible.
2015, I’m an uncle for the first time so have a smile on my face every time my sister sends me a new picture 🙂 Now I need to scrimp and save so I can go back home and see the family.
In Mongolia on the first day of their “new year” celebration, in a local home out in the country. The patriarch of the family (who was rather drunk) was making us eat and drink while he told stories (and acted out large portions of them) that our guide had to translate out for the group.
Just went back through the photos on my phone, and there’s many things that come to mind as particularly cool.
The year started off with watching Australia complete a clean sweep of the Ashes at the SCG. Also on a sporting note, NSW finally managed to win a bloody State of Origin series, after so many years of dropping the ball (figuratively and often literally) – and I was there for that too.
Went to see Arcade Fire on a whim in January, and it ended up being one of the most fucking awesome concerts I’ve ever attended. Couple of days later I went to see Wil Anderson do a tour warm-up show, and chatted with him about that concert during the show itself!
I left a job that was actually affecting my health for an awesome new position that is actually everything it promised to be.
Finally, there’s loads and loads of photos of me going on trips with my wife and son. More “adventures” than I can count. And that’s my favourite memory, really: spending heaps of time having fun with my family. Sure it’s cheesy. But it’s true!
When we went to pick up our kitten, we took with us a cat travel bag. As we walked in to the breeder’s house, there were kittens and cats everywhere. We sat down and put the bag on the floor. We played around with some of the roaming kittens for a while and then the breeder found ours and brought him to us. We gave him some lovin’ and let him back down to play with his bros/sisters, but he walked straight in to our travel bag on the floor and got comfy. :’)
Edit: Grammelling
Falling into, and crawling out of the pit of anxiety* was a rather interesting experience.
*May not have crawled out, may simply have run out of things to stress about for the time being.
@dkzeitgeist, @freezespreston, @strange, @sernobulus, @transientmind, @mrtaco, @beeawwb
Reservations made! Had to push it to 8pm, though! Hope that’s okay! 🙂
Talked to German girl that put me in Bavarian Bier Cafe mood. 😀
@beardymcmuttonchops, @sughly
Keen as mustard.
Happy New Year everyone. I hope 2015 will be great for those that need it, and will continue to be great for those that had it. All the best.
Happy New Year you sexy mofos.
This might sound insanely stupid but taking care of these birthday plans myself is a big deal for me. Both Strange and Freeze offered to help me kick things off on the planning front, but felt like this is something I have to do myself. I don’t like using the phone. I don’t like being pushy. I don’t like forcing people to do things. This has been an exercise of getting out of my comfort zone. Haha! That’s my New Years resolution, I think. And also dating more. *strokes patchy beard*
True story: I have your birthday in my calendar and I have no idea why or how it would have gotten there. I just noticed “DC Day” in my upcoming meetings / events.
Haha! Whenever a TAYbie mentions a birthday and I have them as a contact I’ll add that into my phone. 😀
So you mentioned your own birthday, got a hold of my phone and added your own birthday as a reminder for me to remind you?
Seems legit.
I was just musing that others might do something similar. 😛
Nah, what’s so unusual is that I don’t put anybody’s birthday in my calendar. Like, at all. Not even Mrs Bob / Bob Jr. 😛
I get that. I’ve always felt weird about trying to organise things, especially for birthday stuff. It feels like it should be the kind of thing someone else does. For some reason.
Though really if it were left up to me I wouldn’t do anything. Last year just happened to fall at a time when we were at a friend’s place for the weekend, so I woke up to cake one morning. No plans for this year, but I get the feeling I’ll be pushed into doing something by Wingman.
Yeah, I’ve had years and years of times where I’ve never done any thing for my birthday and last year I decided that wasn’t good. This won’t be any thing on the scale of Freeze’s epic party but it is a step up from sitting at home by myself. 😛
You’ll love it, Friend. Having people all there to celebrate the fact you are a part of their lives will make it all pretty rewarding!
More power to you, soon you’ll be taking over the world \o/
Nothing is stupid. Unless it is. This was not. So you’re not.
BEARD PATCHES
TAY RPG stuff!
It’s a new year which means more games to play. I honestly can’t remember which game I said we were playing first however I’m going to roll with it (hah puns) and say that 40K Rogue Trader is first up this week on Tuesday night. Which means that Pathfinder will be next Monday. Both of these will be at the usual daylight savings hours play times. Hope to see you all then.
On a slight side note, I’ve noticed a lot of people talking about/playing Tabletop Simulator. I had a quick look and I’m not sure if it’d be suitable for RPGs but maybe it’d be worth trying it out in the future with a new RPG.
Alright awesome that works with me just fine, I’ll be there!
If I recall you sent an email around asking about story and characters. Did anything actually eventuate from that or are we just sticking with what we have?
Sticking with what we have for the time being however I’ll be refocusing the story a bit to make it so that it’s not “Eldar and their lackeys” which, I agree, was what was happening.
@Greenius
Blenoxade progress:
I am up to the (first?) settlement on the fallen arm!Best area in the game!
I can hear the theme playing in my head 😀
@fled
On the positive side of things – at least it blocks out the voices.
What’s wrong with the voices?
Boo!
Heropon Riki time!
What a bunch of jokers!
Are Dunban’s attack shouts in English as rad as they are in Japanese?
Probably! But I don’t recall any of them 😛
Oh I just meant “those voices that are always speaking to you in your head”-joke.
Wasn’t having a dig at the in-game voices.
I think I’ve just played the whole game with Shulk-Reyn-Sharla 🙁
But… Bionis Leg.
I also really liked the Eryth Sea.
All good choices!
Annddd I’m back! at work…. that said it feels good to be back. My holidays feel like a blur of WoW and a few hangovers thrown in!
@distantdrop @piat @dire_wolf Cleared Kor’agh, brack and tectus yesterday! Only Margok stands in the way now!
While I’ve got all of you guys tagged you need to let me know if you still want to keep the raiding going? I’m fine with either/or; however if we want to keep going I’ll need you guys to let me know before-hand if you aren’t coming to a raid. If any of you wish to stop raiding that’s not an issue either but just let me know so that I have heads up and find replacements.
On that note I also wanted to ask you guys how you felt about raiding twice a week for 2 hours each as opposed to the current setup of 4 hours on a single day? We cleared every boss on the first attempt yesterday (except Kor’agh which took 3 tries) and that took 3.5 hours and I think everyone was pretty burnt out by the end of it. Given that Margok by himself is about a 15min fight per attempt I was thinking it might be less tiresome if we made the raid times shorter.
I’m back in board from next week. I don’t. Mind what times we raid but Saturdays are pretty much off the table for me and evenings are preferred
I’ll be honest, I’m really enjoying doing raids but spending an hour or so pugging randoms, then more pugging when people leave after every fight, every week, is kinda annoying. And all to do half of normal.
I’d like more reliability and more progress.
If we can get a reliable roster and make solid progress over a few days then cool. But otherwise I’m considering finding a heroic/mythic running guild.
🙁
I’m at the same stage tbh; hence me asking if people still wanted to raid. It also feels like the whole server is making faster progress than us >.< Most peeps are 6/7H at this point which makes sense given that blackrock is due out soon; however we’re only at 6/7N or more accurately 4 people in the guild are 6/7N.
The truth of it is if we have to pug key roles or more than 3-4 peeps each weekend it’s probably worth people joining a progression guild or pugging; both of which would be faster and probably yield better progression than what we’re currently doing which is pugging half the raid or more.
Separate note are you logging on tonight? If so can I grab your help against a training dummy for 15-20min? Need a benchmark dps to compare to; gonna spend the week fixing my rotation until its second nature to me.
Edit: Worth noting I spent the better half of last week attempting to recruit peeps and only have 1 healer and 2 MDPS to show for it; if you guys do want to proceed with the guild I’m not going to be able to fill the spots we have open on my own!
Yeah ill be on.
Hi TAY, hope the new year is treating you all well.
I had a pretty terrible break, but let’s not dwell on that.
I’ve got no internet at home, so I’m using productive work time to get my fix. Been playing a lot of Wii-U; Smash Bros, Hyrule Warriors, and Captain Toad are all pretty great. Also finally got around to some serious Pokemon time. Beat the Elite 4 and now wandering aimlessly around Hoenn. For the first time in a long time, I didn’t use Synchronise + RNG Abuse to get near perfect legendaries. It felt a bit weird at first, but then I discovered out that ORAS gives you at least 3 perfect stats on those Pokemon anyway, so I felt a bit better about that. Still not sure what I want to do next. There’s a new competitive season that is starting soon, or has just started, which involves Double Battles with Berries as the only hold item allowed. I think I could probably create some interesting teams for that. I’m also a little bit surprised at just how few additional Mega Evolutions were added to ORAS. I would have expected a lot more.
The legendaries (aside from story ones) aren’t shiny locked…
Don’t do that to yourself 😛
Side project if I get an AS cart. My shiny cresselia is lonely.
I thought the competitions didn’t start till September or something? Nevermind, just saw that nationals were in July last year, what time do the regionals and stuff start this year? I’ve been meaning to get into competitive…
Also, how could berries be the only held item? Wouldn’t they need a mega stone to evolve? And yeah, the format’s double battles. 4 pokemon allowed I think.
Details on serebii
http://www.serebii.net/omegarubyalphasapphire/specialbattle.shtml
Season 8 kicks off on Jan 13th. Berries are the only hold item, which means no Megas.
Just popped over to see the manager at the local BWS, all of my luck he was out for lunch /o\ But the bloke I know who works there was on and was telling me it’s very likely he will employ me, since he is hurting for staff so fingers crossed!!
2015, the year of the job \o/
It better be 😛
@mrtaco and any other Elite: Dangerous peeps.
So, I got Elite on Christmas on the understanding that I was to trial run it for my middle brother, and only just finished completing the ridiculous installation like… two weeks later. Fired it up the other night.
Out of curiosity, how did y’all learn the ropes? Guides? Dicking around, experimenting? Forums? Got any favourite recommendations? The tutorials aren’t bad at teaching you SORT OF how to handle a dog-fight, but oh my god… EVERYTHING ELSE.
That last part is why I am hesitant to avoid space sims. Simply the sheer scale of everything and so much other stuff that you need to keep track of and understand is mind-boggling. It’s the same reason why EVE looks really interesting but I could not be bothered to try and understand how to actually play.
Haha, I honestly have no idea. I’ve seen so many people saying that kind of thing and just react to it without any understanding of how they’re finding it to be so complex. Totally can’t remember how I got to know what I do now, it just feels like it’s always been.
I know I played through the combat tutorials before the Beta opened, and I feel like I want to say that that taught me pretty much all of it? But I guess there would be a whole bunch of osmosis stuff going on from having kept an eye on all the developments as it’s been going along.
Though the biggest one for me is docking. As in I don’t get why people find it to be such a dauntingly impossible task that they need the docking computer. I know for sure that that one was always simple and straightforward for me, and now I just fly in at max speed and slam straight down on the landing pad every time 😛 Well, not when I’m flying without shields…
Well, docking actually wasn’t too bad for me because I’d seen a video of someone doing it already while waiting for installation. But seriously, though… there’s nothing in-game or tutorial that tells you you have to select the station from your contacts list, to request docking first, and there’s no indicators of where the docking port is either if you’ve approached from the wrong side and it’s your first time seeing a space station… you have to roam around looking for something likely. And then when you DO get in, you have to avoid the incoming/outgoing traffic while rolling to its rotation, and then you have to be aware in advance of actually finding the correct launch pad.
I mean, it’s all stuff that makes sense once you’ve seen it done (like a sudoku puzzle), but I could definitely imagine tripping myself up on, going in blind.
Example of something that has no explanation and really needs it:
For me, supercruise: the pre-flight launch check tells you what it is a little bit (hyperjump between systems or supercruise in-system), but after that you’re on your own.
I want to go to another station in the same system because I guess the starting one doesn’t have any commodities for me to trade and all the bulletin board missions are so fucking illegal and I’m not ready to be an outlaw.
CHOOSING the station as a target was a slow enough process to figure out as-is, because I had no idea what it means to choose a target, but I guess I point toward it and… hit the button?
OK, so I’m going there, now I… overshot? Shit. Why? It was already slowing down automatically for me, why didn’t it bloody finish the job?
Fine, so it’s not auto-stop/slow, do I hit the button again to get out of warp or something?
Ah damn, too fast to stop?
OK, fine, I’ll turn around and point at it and go slow.
OK I’m closer this time, hit the button again to cancel?
Ah damn, I was going too slow, cancelled too early, now I’ve jumped out like… a fucking billion miles away. What do those fucking numbers on the target mean? Distance and how long at this speed? I’m not cruising for 45min. Let’s jump again.
OK WOAH SO MUCH OVERSHOT ON LAUNCH. Why can’t I just fucking start slow’ISH because it’s too close to cancel out of in the first two seconds of cruising? Faaaarkin’ hell.
OH GOD DAMN IT TOO FAST I’LL MOTHERFUCKING OVERSHOOT AGAIN FINE, EMERGENCY BRAKE.
What the hell does dangerous heat mean? Why isn’t my heat vent key doing anything? What the fuck is venting for if not to get rid of heat?
So now I’m getting everywhere by inching forward slowly in supercruise, tapping my throttle up and down miniscule amounts to try not to fuck it up and shoot past… There has to be a better way. And that’s just travelling. What new bullshit am I going to have to intuit for mining? What the fuck is a refinery bay? Scanning? Is it a hostile action or something? Do I need to have it bound to a hardpoint group?
Literally the only thing I have done is checked the bulletin board for something newbie to do and found nothing, checked the market to see if there are goods I can buy low and sell high, checked the galactic map to see what the trade routes are and what I should be exporting where (HOLY CRAP SO MANY GLOWY LINES – and am I going to be able to make enough money to cover the cost of fuel with my measely 3-tonne cargo space? Do they still do fuel scoops for tight-asses to skim off the sun like they used t–holycrap the price of that thing), and docked in a station.
So obviously I have some reading to do.
It sounds like one of the issues it has is that they are developing and speaking to their kickstarter backers who have been with them from the start. So it has just been a slow increment of stuff that is being revealed bit by bit and experienced when released.
So coming in at early access the information being released is assuming you have that groundwork knowledge
Yeah. Used to tutorials and first-timer tool-tips that do the training for you. Gonna have to actually RTFM for this one.
Have you tried getting good?
*twitch-twitch* YOUR MOTHER IS A …classy lady. (Srsly, dat Suntory.)
Git good… Bah.
Well if that’s not your cup of tea, there’s always the alternative of not sucking. If you’d rather try that instead 😛
Get good? Try not sucking? YOU PEOPLE ARE VILLAINS.
It’s a tricky one, trial and error mainly. What exactly are you having trouble with, profits in trading and such or things like controls and navigation?
A lot of it might come down to the controls you’re using, a HOTAS setup (especially with trackIR) is a dream to play the game with, mouse & keyboard or joypad would make it a lot harder I suspect
I’m using keyboard and mouse, I don’t really have anything else. I guess I could use a gamepad, the sticks might help get over the REALLY FUCKING ANNOYING thing of not being able to move the mouse to a position and have it stay there, like pulling on a joystick and keeping it in position. The cursor seems to keep pulling back to the centre. Which, y’know… makes something as simple as, say, doing a loop-the-loop an exercise in picking up your mouse a whole hell of a lot. Which made all the training dogfights incredibly annoying. Brother’s like, “Why are you picking up and dropping your mouse so much?” There’s got to be a better way, but I have no idea what the language is to describe that.
I ended up switching the mouse X-axis so that it did yaw instead of roll, which made steering a LOT more manageable, but pointing in any kind of direction or pitching is still a gigantic pain in the ass if you actually need to turn, and not just correct your aim.
Wouldn’t that cursor thing be to do with whether you use relative or absolute positioning? I haven’t tried mouse controls at all, but I think I’ve seen mention of that around. It does work quite well with gamepad.
Ohhhh you’ve just given me flashbacks to the time many years ago when my joystick broke and I still wanted to play TIE Fighter and I made the mistake of trying with a mouse… If I wake up screaming tonight I’m blaming you.
A 360 controller would be worth a try, I imagine that there’s some manner of auto-centre mouse option in the controls somewhere that you can turn off but it’d still be quite clumsy to use a mouse. I really think they put keyboard & mouse controls in as a concession to the fact that not everyone owns a joystick. I can heartily recommend one of these: http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=284_960&products_id=6607 one of those served me damned well for a good 6-7 years of pretty hefty use before I got my current G940.
The only other good option for sticks these days that don’t end up in the $500 range seems to be the ones by CH Products, a good stick & throttle by them would be about $300 but they’ve got a really good rep. Not the flashiest looking things but by most of what I’ve read, they put all the money into build quality which is what matters.
I’m a fan of the T.16000M. It’s been serving me well, and has enough buttons that the only thing I need to defer to the keyboard for is comms/chat stuff.
Finished episode 5 of the Wolf Among Us! Such a great series. Too bad it is over though.
Choices!
Killed Georgie (68.6%)Killed Crooked Man (10.4%)
Stayed at the Witching Well (84.7%)
Accepted TJ’s gift for Snow (98.5%)
Last words to Nerissa were “I hope I’ve done some good here” (54.8%)
Bonus Choice: Chased after Nerissa at the end
Agreed, it was a great game. I found it more enjoyable and immersive than I found season 1 of The Walking Dead to be, even though I found it to be a good game.
Can’t wait for the 2nd install me of The Wolf Among Us.
The game convinced me to buy the first book of the Fables series.
I should do that.. Where’d you get yours?
http://www.bookdepository.com
Cheers buddy!
Do you happen to know when it comes out? I bought season 1 the other day!
Negative. I hope it’s announced soon for a 2015 release!! Spose I should go finish season 2 of The Walking Dead now too..
Wait… this is a real thing that is real and not something I dreamed?
Pretty sure it’s been confirmed, but hasn’t entered development yet.
Pretty sure it has. The way it ended definitely points toward more!
It actually feeds pretty well into Issue 1 of the comic from where it ends…
Cool. I really need to pick up the comics. They actually interest me!
Damnit @mrtaco, why didn’t you tell me Elite Dangerous was so good??
I’ve spent the last 3 weeks cruising the space ways on and off shooting the crap out of pirates and finally managed to afford the good old Cobra MkIII, spent a quarter mil on upgrades to heavier armour and beam lasers and decided to have a crack at one of the assassination missions and a nasty collision during a high speed pass on the target took me from full shields to 8% hull integrity and a cracked canopy, I only just managed to get into FSD whilst being pounded by it’s turrets and escaped with 1% hull integrity and made the second most gentle landing I’ve ever done.
The MOST gentle landing was when I’d been experimenting with my controls to try and kill a minor drift issue (that turned out to be my joystick’s analogue hat) and bound the 0% speed button to the bottom front finger button on my throttle and went to hit that when I was a bit disoriented near a small station with the external landing pads, turns out that it was a less than brilliant idea since I accidently hit the TOP front finger button on my throttle which was the afterburners… Slammed right into the station at 400kph, breached the shields, hull integrity down to 4%, smashed the canopy, 5 minutes of oxygen remaining and I had no idea where the landing pad was or where I was by then so I had to start the whole thing from scratch but with a hell of a ticking clock. I finally manage to land and it takes me a full 5 seconds to realise that I’m not getting repressurised because I need to actually enter the bay because I’m still sitting outside in space… duh…
Yeah, pretty damned awesome game…
Haha, was wondering where you’d been. Suddenly explains it all 😛
Nice escape on that assasination mission. I’ve taken out I think at last count about 15 of those, all from my trusty little Sidewinder 😎 Gotta call it quits on that though, I’m gonna end up with carpal tunnel from clamping down on the joystick for such long periods of time, slowly drilling down their health like that.
Heh yeah it seems to be the luck of the draw on what weapons an anaconda has as to what level of threat it poses, some I’ve taken down relatively easily and one in my sidewinder with burst lasers but this bastard… well lets just say turreted beam lasers leave you little place to hide. I had to try and turn it into a boom & zoom fight and it was on one of the afterburner flyby attacks where I was trying to strafe it’s powerplant that she had the idea to light up her burners as well and… yeah someone had the most inertia in that collision and it sure as hell wasn’t me.
The worst part was that it actually did a moderate amount of damage to her hull and for a completely insane minute I actually wondered how long I could stay in the fight despite all that had just happened… glad I came to my senses, my ship insurance is something like 50 grand on the cobra now
Yeah, I think the assassination anacondas have pretty much the same loadout. And apparently they’re tweaked so their turrets are less affected by chaff than normal. Normally with an anaconda you want to keep nice and close hovering behind their engines where the turrets can’t hit you, but with my setup that’s just not possible if I’m going to be using my beams at all. Sweet spot seems to be about 2km away, any closer than 1.5 and my shields get pretty well stripped away, from further away I can manage to cling on especially once the feds come along to help and divert some of the fire.
Are you using subsystem targeting? If you focus your attacks on either the FSD or power plant (I think the power plant might be a more centralised and easier location to hit), then once that’s gone the whole ship blows. And if you feel like playing it a little more safe, you can take out the drives first so then the ship is stuck tumbling along its last vector, unable to go anywhere or flee while you finish it off.
Yeah if its anything bigger than a cobra or viper then I usually take down its power plant, unless it’s one of the dumb ones and it’s running without shields, then they just die to massed beam laser & multi-cannon fire. I did have rail guns but the hardpoints on the cobra are really too widely spaced to be practical for 4 fixed weapons so sadly I need 2 gimballed ones and there’s no gimballed rail guns
When I was playing around with a cobra I set up the hardpoints to be left and right pairs as primary and secondary, so I’d have to do a kind of wobbling manoeuvre to alternate between each side to continually hit them. Moreso with cannons than anything else. I’ve shied away from all the ammo-based weapons though, because having to stop fighting to go and reload sucks.
I’ve gone with the top 2 as fixed weapons as my primaries (since gimballed are for noobs who can’t aim) and the bottom 2 pretty much have to be gimballed or turrets since they’re so wide and those are my secondaries so I’m only firing those when I know I’ll hit with them.
It’s kind of complicated how I’ve got things set up, I’ve had to map 5 weapon groups, I’ve got my 2 beams & a discovery scanner on 1, my 2 beams & kill warrant scanner on 2, my 2 beams & 2 miniguns on 3, my 2 beams & ECM on 4 and back to my 2 beams & miniguns on 5 so I can flick between ECM & back to full guns for heavy combat. I’ve not got QUITE enough buttons on my stick for a dedicated switch back through weapon groups key unless I use the currently unmapped pinky switch but I only foresee that going wrong.
I still want a universal button to flick you back to the forward view from anywhere in the game. I used to use the UI Focus button on the pinky switch to get out of the side panels but I had to stop when I realised that if you hit it twice in relatively short order it cycles between screens. Since the second one is the comms screen and that LOOKS like it’s a straight view of the cockpit, its easy to think the UI is closed & out of focus then wonder why your guns aren’t firing, “oh wait, it’s because I’m actually pressing select in the comms screen WHICH DOES NOTHING ANYWAY!!!’
You could put the disco and kill scanner both as secondary on the one group, couldn’t you? And just have them both fire off together. Actually I like the idea of the disco boom firing off whenever you’re set to swoop in and kill someone who’s wanted, like a warcry 😛
Have you got something bound for the (relatively?) new UI Back function? That thing is a godsend.
@mrtaco is UI Back an exit command or just go backwards through the menus? As in going out of a specific weapon selection list in the outfitting menu back to the list of hardpoints kind of thing.
I’ll give it a look next time I load up, I’m XCOMming at the moment
@aliasalpha Yeah, just “one level back” in menus and stuff. But from the UI panels in your ship, it’ll take you back to normal view. I used to re-select the same panel to do that, this is much better now since my UI Left key is also my “shift” key for one of my extra layers of binds.
@negativezero I kind of lost track of this over the xmas/newyears period, but did people end up starting on ffxivarr?
I didn’t. I think @freezespreston grabbed a copy but didn’t start yet, and @sernobulus got a PS3 copy & time card from OGS so that’ll take at least another week or so.
I got my time card digitally instead so I can install the game on PC at any point.
Who else was interested? IIRC @rize @cakesmith @thecracks were all showing some interest. And not sure if @ynefel still plays?
Time card digitally sounds rad. Where do you get that through & how long do they take to send?
OzGameShop. Took them a few minutes. They don’t look like they have stock at the moment though.
I’m gonna download off the PSN store when we’re good to go.
I am, but need to take a close look at my finances to make sure I can pay for a subscription.
I just found something a chest in Diablo 3 called “Gift For @cookingmama”. I sent it off. I really hope it was an actual gift, and not a “gift” like a curse or something. 😛
I’ve found a few of them. Cakesmith, ynefel, thecracks and a couple of others, too. I think these gifts are all random legendary items, from all accounts.
Can confirm I got a legendary item in the mail from you when I logged in yesterday.
It was a nice 2H sword that I will give to a barbarian when I roll one. Or Pants, as he’s playing one now.
Awesome.
Those things are fine. The curse is when you inadvertently send across a nemesis.
We haven’t played for a month or so. I was just thinking today about how we need to jump back in to it. So she’ll hopefully take receipt of your gift soon!
I really want to face down a nemesis. They sound like fun!
One took down three of us once. Good times.
One of those was meeee!
Yay! I can play tonight too 😀
Hola Tay
New job, day 1: reading.
A Monday arvo question: how’s the family?
Growing up fast
How goes the new job? Something similar to your old one or completely new?
Sick, tired & doing the usual, yours?
Great!
Mam and Dad get back from their cruise this afternoon.
I’m off work until end of January, and I leave for Japan in 11 days.
My brother is grumblesome at having to go to work, but it’s a good pay and a great opportunity for an engineering job when he finishes his degree.
Probably doing things, the nerds.
Awesome Games Done Quick may have just broken the concept of meta.
They have a segment where the TASbot does silly things to games. Typically reprogramming the game by playing the game. Last year they made Super Mario World play Pong and Centipede. This year, they made Super Mario World play Super Mario Bros and then followed it up by making Pokemon Red do a live display of Twitch Chat.
Basically, they made Pokemon plays Twitch.
Helix fossil sends praise to the twitch chat?
Mum vs. Dragon Age 2 update
She’s still been playing (v. proud of her for slogging on, even if she hadn’t figured out she could just buy health potions) and she has completed Act 1. Am trying to figure out if I should warn her about the Arishok fight or not.
EDIT: Spoilered!
Was there a way to avoid fighting the Arishok? I feel like there was some combination of things that let you not fight him.There is, but
it involves handing over Isabela I think? And I’m not sure Mum would be down with that. She can fight him with everyone though instead of a one on one duel which would probably be better.New year and I haven’t written 2014 yet. This is the year where everything gets sorted financially, my cats get de-flea’d, I finally get to go back home after 6.5 years in Australia to see the newest addition to my family, I get to fly a plane (birthday present from last year), I learn to drive and I actually get out to some TAY meats. The only person that will stop me in any of this will be me so don’t screw it up cufcfan.
I do already want a nice cold refreshing cider but the first payday of 2015 is still a week and a half away 🙁
All the best, friend! This year sounds like a good one!
Forgot about getting citizenship too 😀
I just realised a little earlier that the file I put up yesterday was named with a 14 instead of 15. As was a folder I created today. I am always hopeless at new year.
During the break I finished exactly 0 games. 🙁
But I did watch a ton of anime over the last 4-5 days \o/. Trying to get caught up as much as I can before the new season starts this week.
I watched a guy finish Shin Megami Tensei 1&2 on YouTube after finishing IV.
Now I’m watching hilariously dubbed late 80s/early 90s anime on YouTube.
All demons, all day.
“After the New Year, we’d like to reveal content with proper timing,” said Hashino [Persona 5’s producer].
Mate, it better not be another 30 second trailer of a dude standing.
Give us a date, give us at least a minute and a half of reasonable trailer footage with the regular poppy Persona music, or give us the opening animation, and then we can be interested.
I want Shin Megami Tensei 5 now ‘as well as Persona 5).
I watched some Devil Summoner Raidou Kudokawa VS The Soulless Army gameplay & it looks good!
I was worried because it’s full action & sounded a bit poo, but reminded me a bit of Onimusha, a fave of mine.
Anyway, only a tenner on PSN, next ATLUS sale, I is stocking up!
Nope. Had enough of this “work” thing. Ready for more Christmas holidays now.
(Not that anything in particular is going wrong, and my co-workers are all actually quite pleasant – I just hate them all with a fiery passion for dragging me away from my home)
I feel you. I’m sitting here eating GYG nachos with my six year old daughter before we go in to see Big Hero 6.
Wait, sorry. That’s actually the opposite of you.
My bad.
I had GYG for lunch too! Though I had a burrito. Then I saw the nachos that some of my colleagues ordered, and wished I’d had that instead. Hmmm, might have found the root of all my problems here… God damn nachos.
I would totally brave a cinema full of screaming misbehaved kids to watch that again instead of whatever it is I’m supposed to be doing instead right now.
Also in case you haven’t heard, the credits are long as hell. Worth sitting through though.
Just 354 more days to go until Christmas.
Hi Tay, first day back at work today! Had to leave halfway through the day though… Combination of jet lag and a lovely cold I was pretty much told to leave XD… How is everyone?
God damn it. I bought a bubble machine for the dog (for teh lulz) and forgot to take note that it required batteries. I now need 6x AA batteries, which sucks cause it means going back to the shops for some D=
I hate having to go back to the shops after just getting home. Worst feeling of waster time.
Also, as an aside, I find Dick Smith AA batteries to be awesome. Reasonably cheap for a large box of them, they last ages.
Ended up finding 1 & a half packs of aldi batteries & a pack of rechargables so hoorah!
Yeah the DSE box of 30 is a bargain & they’re good. Shame DSE closed down at my local shopping centre to merge with their other store at a shopping centre which is mostly dead now heh.
There’s been a lot of Diablo 3 talk today. I’m getting back into it after playing yesterday. Admittedly on PS4 I don’t have any high level characters (I have a level 17 Crusader and 20 Wizard that’s being run with @alexpants) but if people want to play we totally should.
I will probably join. Not sure if I have a level 20ish character though.
I have a level 20ish demon hunter, and I’m happy to start a new game with a barbarian.
Question for those of you who have done weddings before and such: Did you employ the services of a wedding planner at any time? Why / why not?
Just mulling over the idea and interested in other’s opinions / experiences.
(2 Page-gets in a row? BRB, buying a lottery ticket)
Ugh there’s so much wedding talk around here. By which I mean at work, not TAY.
It’s like Christmas season is continuing, requiring further Scrooging 😛
Bah. Hump hug?
Well ok since you offered.
It really is my lucky day!
Just watch the Wedding Singer and hope Billy Idol turns up at your wedding
And hope to the movie gods that Jennifer Lopez and Matthew McConaughey don’t show up?
At first I read Jennifer Lawrence and I was thinking ‘why wouldn’t you want Jennifer Lawrence turning up at your wedding?’. But yes, definitely not those two 😀 unless it’s Cartman with Jennifer Lopez on his hand. I like tacos and burritos
I was actually going to type Hennifer Lopez but decided against it.
No
Cost was the big one and really what is the point. There are so many lists and checklists and what not about you know what you need to do.
To me they are long for people who need to have a wedding that was better than such and such or who want very specific things that are hard to organise. Or if you are having a stupidly huge wedding there might be a point.
I tend to agree with you; I’m pretty organised and keeping a list of things to do / organise and having them handy seems pretty basic. I then look at the realities of trying to organise a wedding in the Byron hinterland from Brisbane and think “Maybe it would be easier if somebody local did the running around”
My wedding was planned by me and my mum?! To be fair though, I got married in the registry office, and we went to Jade Buddah for dinner after! :p
Sounds very similar to my first wedding. 🙂
We did registry here, was way classier than I was thinking
I got no experience with them myself, but from friends around and about, I hear a big reason ‘why not’ is going to be the cost. Anything you do where your supplier/vendor discovers that it’s for a wedding will suddenly jump around 100-150% in price. If you go through a planner who has established good contacts, maybe you’ll only get fucked by an additional 50% instead.
I got a mate who managed to sneakily arrange his wedding for somewhere around six grand and it was really nice, and he got there by not mentioning the ‘W’ word wherever possible, being brutal with the guest list, and paying for everything on a credit card for points.
Nope. Seems like a lot of money to not get involved.
Nope. Apart from the ceremony, its like organising any other function. A function centre will provide most of the advice you need.
Yep, our reception was held in a hotel with a special room & everything & this service was provided
Nope, we are cheap arses that had two weddings (one here one there) so did everything on the cheap.
Much help from friends & family though.
thankfully my wife had few expectations & none as outlandish as the stories I hear at work.
You can also save a lot of $$ by choosing a date that is “out of season” -generally march to august.
Or a Thursday… We have a wedding to attend later this year on a Thursday… They were telling us it was nearly half the price of a Saturday or Sunday gig.
paid a guy $400 at our wedding. He was fantastic. Not a wedding planner, but for that amount, he MC’ed the entire night and ran the entire night, sorting the band, the chefs, everything… best $400 we ever spent imo… it all went incredibly smooth and required no involvement from us or our families whatsoever.
incredibly professional..
That’s like 4 hours pay, that’s a bargain!!
Well, if you’re contemplating a wedding planner, it’s already bigger than what I’d do. Therefore it’s a good idea to get a wedding planner IMO.
Another tip: screen the shit out of the photographers. I’ve seen some horrendous wedding pics. I took better photos on my phone.
b-ob, you in melbourne? if you are i can recommend an INCREDIBLE photographer…very well priced as well… in all honesty mate, ive never found anyone comparable in terms of quality…
I don’t usually go for new year’s resolutions much. Mostly because I can’t usually think of any. This year’s pretty much the same, although I’ve kind of got something almost fitting that. The other day when visiting my friend who I hadn’t seen since March, we got talking music at one point and she made a comment about a couple of pieces I used to play, years ago. Pieces I’d totally forgotten about, and couldn’t even remember the sound of when she said their name. So continuing the “dig out the old stuff again” thing I’ve kind of got going on, I’ve rounded up all the midi files I used to learn a bunch of pieces, as well as a stack of others that were kind of improved versions of other pieces (which I’d already learnt from sheet music, then gone on to forget them too), which I never got around to learning. I was kind of surprised that my phone would play them, although they sound pretty bleh so I’ll need to record them from my piano to listen to them properly. But yeah, the plan is to listen to them on all my walks and train trips so that I can memorise them which will hopefully help me be able to learn to play them again. There’s about 17 of them, so a whole lot to get through. But honestly I’ll be happy if I can even get one of them going again.
Maybe that could be my resolution. Keep on reviving all the lapsed things I’ve got lying by the wayside.
Also they’re pretty much all ragtime pieces, so it means that my life is going to become a silent movie. And/or western.
New music for playing Red Dead Redemption to 😀
Still got that sitting on my 360 pile of shame >_>
Same here.
Scotty Jopz in da hizzouseeee
SO MUCH JOPLIN
I’d love this to be the year I finally pick up guitar properly and at least get competent enough to play Queen songs. I’d also settle for getting back into music and finding new bands galore.
My old housemate also left her keyboard at my house while she’s overseas for the foreseeable future. It could be fun to pick up the basics
…and to call Nintendo!
I ALREADY DID THAT YOU THE HAS TO CALL
Well it’s been an exciting day at work today! Turn up in the morning to find the lobby of my building flooded. Enter the building to find all of the corridor/stair lights aren’t working. Got up to my office where I was greeted with a heatwave caused by a malfunctioning air conditioner. Then finding a swarm of bugs because someone managed to leave a piece of fruit in their bin over the holiday break. The elements are against me! I hope I don’t see a tornado on the way home.
Kinda good to be back at work though, if I’m honest. I was going a little cabin-feverish at home.
I did finish a whole bunch of games over the break though! Witcher 2, South Park Stick of Truth, Valiant Hearts. All pretty great! Had a go of Dragon Age: Origins too but didn’t like it that much. Started CapToad (fun) and the new Lara Croft (also fun). Games are pretty cool.
Work is trying to tell you to stay away and finish more games. I wish my work did that 🙁
Do you want ants!? Because that’s how you get ants.
Didn’t like Origins..?
*leaves*
It didn’t seem like it could decide whether it wanted to be top-down or third-person and it miffed me 😛
On pc?
No option for top down on console
Oh really?
On PC movement/UI feels like it’s made for top-down but the environments seem made for third-person. It’s weird. Camera keeps zooming in and out too. Maybe there’s a way to force the console setup…
Yeah, strict third person view on consoles.
That top down was added in INQUISITION for consoles & is really handy in battle.
That’s my most replayed game last gen, made me a believer in WRPGs after a strict diet of JRPGs
Are you living inside the movie 2012?
Yup. I outran an earthquake on my way home yesterday.
Re: new year resolutions: mine is to begin keeping a commonplace book.
Mine are more aims, rather than resolutions.
Just trying to improve myself slightly.
Mainly just try harder at uni, practice drawing more often, and be more straightforward with stuff.
Mine is to stop being late for work. Achievable but also a nice thing to strive for. 1/1 so far.
I think that’s the point with resolutions: aim for the small goals so that you accomplish a bigger goal by the end of the year.
Yeah, but I don’t want the pressure of them being a ‘resolution’ 😛
I want to do them, but I don’t want to feel guilt tripped by myself into doing them.
I’ve been thinking about getting into comics. Trying to set myself a reasonable target for the year though.
Comics Etc is the best Brisbane shop. Daily Planet is overpriced & Ace are moody.
I bought a washing machine at Good Guys yesterday. The sales guy I dealt with brings me to the cashier to pay for the goods and is about to start a conversation with her, announcing, ‘You know what really sucks?’ To which she promptly replies, cutting him off, ‘A vaccuum cleaner?’
She was good.
Hey, you know what sucks in a metaphorical sense?
Dammit guys, way to leave me hanging.
Haha, nice. Haven’t seen that one.
Bash.org has some hilarious shit.
She’s been putting up with his shit for a long long time
How cheap was the washing machine btw? I’ll need one in a few weeks when my housemate moves out taking his. I have a feeling nothing will beat the whitegoods factory outlet just down the road from me though. Then again, January sales…
Haha, the opposite of cheap. $1,999 cheap.
http://www.samsung.com/au/consumer/home-appliances/laundry/washing-machines/WW90H9600EW/SA
It’s pretty cool, though. My washing machine has a touch screen and wifi. 😀
Alright, what do we have here
*puts on reading glasses and squints*
THUD
*picks self up from floor*
Yup, factory outlet for me 😛 I wish I had $2k for a washing machine. Only looking for 5.5-6kg anyway but I know that you do actually get a better clean the more you spend. Ho hum, like the Sims I’ll start at the basic model and get to a luxury model some day
Get bigger than 6kg if you can fit it. You’ll save time and money in the long run by being able to do larger loads, plus the difference in cost isn’t huge.
Niiiiiiice. I LOVE front loaders and I have an 8kg one. Everything comes out so clean, even on the super fast cycle.
But can it play Crysis?
To be honest, I had two other Samsung models in mind when I walked into the store that I had done my research on, and I had planned to only spend around $1,000. I needed a 9 or 10kg, something quiet and with possibly a quick wash function. These were the other two:
http://www.thegoodguys.com.au/samsung-10kg-front-load-washer-ww10h8430ew
http://www.thegoodguys.com.au/samsung-10kg-front-load-washer-wf1104xac
That second one looks fairly decent for the price actually.
The Samsung guy told me that that one was the discontinued old model that was actually brought back in on boxing day due to its popularity! I was almost going to get that one!
WTF are “Aqua Pebbles”? It has a couple of pictures on that page, then says nothing more about them, like it’s so obvious that only an idiot would need an explanation.
HA! Hey everybody, check out the guy who doesn’t know what Aqua Pebbles™ are! Next thing he’ll be telling us he doesn’t know how to use the Three Seashells™!
The pebbles are just flexible plastic cups to fill with additional detergent and throw into the mix. Not really needed as the unit has auto dispensing softener and detergent – just fill about a litre into the cartridge and it lasts around twenty washes.
Let me double check but I might have a F&P toploader I can give you if you pick it up. Still wrapped in plastic from when the removalists took it from my apartment. Perfect for 1 or 2 people usage patterns.
Really? You would be a life and time saver if you have one available. Shouldn’t be a problem to pick it up from around Brisbane. What would you want for it?
I would want you to pick it up from Mt Gravatt East, that’s all. It’s just sitting there doing nothing, and I’m 99% sure my partner already has a spare one sitting under the house so there’s not even any point keeping it around in case the primary breaks. I’ll double check when I get home.
Shouldn’t be a problem to get there with my mate’s Ute 🙂 let me know either way
Parents don’t buy anything higher than low-mid range any more. Pretty much every single machine from every corner of the budget range has died within 5 yrs. Faulty buttons, panels, rust, etc. 11yr parts warranty on motor makes me lol.
Got a JB voucher for Christmas. Used most of it for a new pair of headphones (dog chewed through my last set), and with the remainder I bought Fantasy Life. It sounds pretty cool, figured I may as well justify my purchase of a 3DS by owning more than 2 games for it \o/
Theatrhythm gogogo!
I still haven’t finished Fantasy Life & I loved it to begin with :-/
What are you into? There’s quite a few great 3DS games. More than 2 at least :p
I now own three games: Pokemon Y (finished the story), Ocarina of Time (probably 10 minutes playtime), and now Fantasy Life.
Did you not make it through ocarina because you dont like it or did it on 64?
Here’s what I’ve enjoyed:
Mario 3D Land
Resident Evil Revelations
Bravely Default
DK Country Returns
Fi’re Emblem
Zelda Links Between Worlds
On eShop:
Crimson Shroud
Attack of the Friday Monsters
Shin Megami Tensei IV
Depends what you’re into though 🙂
Nope, never played it on 64. That’s partly why I got it for 3DS. I just haven’t played it enough to get into it I don’t think. I need to give it (and all of the games I own) a bit more of a chance. I get distracted very easily and end up playing one game, remembering something else I had to do, getting distracted by YouTube, starting the game over, remembering I still didn’t do that other thing, etc, etc.
Link Between Worlds is a must play for a 2D Zelda fan! Fire Emblem is good too 😀
I’m not a massive fan of the system and find most of the games on it leave me cold, but Bravely Default and Fire Emblem Awakening are both top-shelf games. Especially Fire Emblem. Justified owning the system on its own.
Luigi’s Mansion 2 is also pretty good aside from some gripes I have about the design of the game.
Those were on my list too. Bravely and fire emblem. Maybe next pay day
I’m interested to hear what Fantasy Life is like, it looks kinda cool but I can’t pry myself away from Destiny to play another game lol.
The only game I’m playing at the moment is WoW. Though I seriously want to try and play some other games this year :-p
Animal Crossing meets Zelda with a little Final Fantasy thrown in.
Sounds glorious.
I thought so at first. Put in many hours and lost interest
Apparently Im right at the end!
Looks like XSeed will be possibly publishing the last ever english-translated PSP game on US PSN next week. Falcom’s Brandish: The Dark Revenant. Remake of an old 80s dungeon crawler. I know nothing about it, though being Falcom I’m sure it’ll be reasonable quality. PC version will also happen at a later date.
I just wish they’d hurry the hell up with Trails in the Sky SC. It was originally supposed to be out by mid 2014. 🙁 Though I’m kind of hoping that maybe the delays are because they’re going to do the recently announced Vita ports.
Does anyone have any recommendations for a decent Gbit modem router? I’m in the market for a new one. Doesn’t have to handle wifi, as it’ll be linked to a Airport Extreme which will be broadcasting that.
I have a TP-Link 3600 but it lacks a modem, so I use a bridged setup. It’s pretty zippy and all network ports are gigabit. I think. There’s definitely a modem/router variant and it shouldn’t set you back more than $150?
Mine now runs dd-wrt after a bit of tweaking, which is pretty cool.
This does wireless too (AC Band though) and is currently the most badass modem router on the market as far as I’m concerned!
http://www.dlink.com.au/home-solutions/dsl-2900al-viper-dual-band-ac1900-modem-router
Yes it’s around $350, but so many features, and many many good reviews!
Sup?
Hometime yet? Dammit 🙁
It’s 17:11 according to the clock here, I say it is home time!
If only my boss listened to you I’d be home by now
Latin for beneath
*half-nod-up* N’much.
Healthcare costs.
Dem GP taxes yo.
First game of 2015 finished:
Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker! Still need to 100% some levels, but if I never played it again I’d consider it won.
Does 3 The Wolf Among Us episodes count? 😛
If not, Cap’n Toad will probably be my first too, or Lara 😀 (which turned out to be really fun …and glitchy while co-op!)
You played the first Lara, right?
Wrong!
Well you should. It’s more of the same but more balanced for single player (two players max back in them old days!)
In my first Steam sale you were all “you should get it, it’s a good game!” so I did but I couldn’t find any co-op buddies 🙁
Now I’m waiting for Bumasha to PS3 it or something but I’d rather PC it (ANY BUDDIES OUT THERE?)
Have the first Lara on PS3… Think it’s still installed too… Been a looonnngg time since I played it though.
I just started playing tonight, don’t know if I’m doing it wrong but I’m STILL on the first Episode after about an hour and a quarter of playtime lol.
I haven’t even bought one yet…
How is it?
Really fun. Good puzzle game. I liked it more than Super Mario 3D World, but it’s a bit repetitive and demands to be played in small doses.
I didn’t love super mario 3d world at first. It got really good after you beat the end boss, though. Almost like galaxy 2.5. Shame you have to wade through some uninspired stuff to get there.
Before the holidays, a couple of the girls emptied out the staff fridges.
All the old lunches, function-food-leftovers never eaten, racks of expired milk, blackened bananas, half-tins of tuna, rarely-used condiments which have changed colour, and an interminable variety of indeterminate… ‘things’ no-one is known to be responsible for. Likely grim artifacts called there by the reality-twisting powers of their dark brethren.
The idea was, don’t leave anything for a couple weeks that could go bad. (Even though that’s what people have been doing all year.) All in great garbage bags in the kitchen wheelie bins, to be taken out by the cleaners in their final evening run before the holidays.
So. Guess what the cleaners didn’t do before we got back to work today?
Oh, the garbage bags were gone, but the scent lingered, so it’s pretty clear they only did it before we all got in this morning, or maybe yesterday.
And now we have fruit flies.
Fucking. Everywhere.
The little bastards are fast, too… very difficult to swat. Even though all of us have been doing it all day. I was able to catch a couple in my hand, but couldn’t squish them, apparently too soft a surface for proper squishing. They have grown so brazen in the absence of their food supply/breeding colony, that they now descend on food and drink AS YOU CONSUME IT.
We laid a trap with sweet, sticky leavings in open garbage bags in bins, which we waited until were infested enough before rapidly swooping to close up the bags, trapping them inside before we dispose of them. What followed was usually a small cloud of little bastards fast enough to escape the fate of their brothers, which had to be exterminated by hand. It got to the point of such frenzied waving that at one point, seized by rage and madness, I grabbed a nearby travel umbrella to use like a fly-swatter… And in a moment of clarity, I had a vision of a future where I swing, miss, and the end of the umbrella shoots off and smashes a monitor. I didn’t swing the umbrella.
Don’t leave food out, kids. Especially not rotten fruit. Fruit flies are the worst.
http://www.mortein.com.au/
+ http://www.zippo.com.au
If they’re still a problem, I find apple cider vinegar & a bit of dish washing liquid in a small bowl is very effective in ridding them.
Apple cider vinegar seems to be a good go to product for any number of bugs and nasties. I’ve recently been washing my cats over with it diluted in water as they’ve picked up fleas from somewhere.
How successful would you rate it? They’ll pick up fleas from basically anywhere from my experience, especially if they go outside and like rolling around in the dirt lol.
One of my workmates went overseas for 2-3 weeks. The lad sitting next to her desk one day noticed a lot of flies around her drawers, took one look inside and gagged. I think there was a couple of bananas and peaches in there. Glad I didn’t go and check it out myself
Ha! Your office is cleaned in the early morning, not night XD
Big Hero 6 is pretty radtastic.
Even if I fell asleep for a bit in the middle. Christ I’m getting old.
Getting?
I liked it fairly much. Loved the short BEFORE
@shane you ever get around to finishing Sons of Anarchy? If so what did you think of the final season?
It was disappointing. Moments of real greatness swallowed by an overwhelming mediocrity. The first six seasons are some of the best TV ever, but the last one… disappointing.
Damn, that sucks you thought that. I only thought there was too much violence. I liked the way it ended though.
Saying that, I feel that way about the whole last season of Breaking Bad how you felt of the last season of SoA 😛
SAME. The last nine episodes of Breaking Bad SUCKED.
I’ve been really spoiled by some truly great TV endings. The Shield is one of the very best ever, and unfortunately for everything else, it’s become a yardstick I judge all other shows by.
I thought they were good. But they were NOT the holy grail of TV like a lot praised them to be. It felt very rushed and I just felt let down, how it just ends and you’re left wondering where some of the characters are etc,.. Ugh just a mess. At least SoA tied up just about every loose end I thought was important.
I should really watch the Shield. Especially since Walton Goggins is in it. I’ve been watching the other show he’s currently starring in ‘Justified’ he’s just awesome.
Walton Goggins is amazing. And I think The Shield might be his best work.
I picked up season one of The Shield today – hope to check it out shortly. Question: which did you enjoy more, The Shield or The Wire? and why.
Oh damn, that’s hard. They’re both really excellent shows with very strong casts and characters. From a purely sentimental perspective, I’m giving it to The Shield, but if I had to make an objective distinction, I don’t think I could.
Better than Dexter 😛
Screw you guys. I’m going home.
Actually, no I’m not. Screw you guys, I’m going to the pub.
Actually, it’s not really a pub. Screw you guys, I’m going to the Opera Bar.
Point being: screw you guys.
@mrtaco
Getting the new T-shirt bundle?
$30 is a decent price but I’m not a fan of the designs 😛 (prefer subtle/abstracty ones like in the other bundles). Hmmmm… none of the games really interest me at the price point (I wouldn’t mind Shantae and Escape Goat though) but $30 for two t-shirts is pretty good anyway!
Did the old shirt look like the one that was advertised?
HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
Nah, they’re all Steam games.
And I totally can’t remember what the last shirt thing looked like. If you can dig up a copy of the picture, then link it or something 😛
Which bundle was it? I can’t remember what were the themes 😛
12.
Tenkyew
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/humble-entertainment-pack.jpg
The floppy didn’t look like that. It was black and its label was hand-written in black texta.
Scree’s adventures in This war of mine.
I clobbered the soldier in the supermarket with the crowbar. He had an ak-47, so I kind of panicked and hit him again. He then said “enough, I’ll stop!” but I’d already given the hit command again. He died and I felt terrible. Everyone else was like “you did such a good job!” But I still felt bad. The guy learnt his lesson and if I hadn’t worried about dying, I could’ve saved him too.Worst survivor, ever.
Could be worse. I lost a survivor stealing from old people because I needed medicine. Lost another one to a group of thugs because I mistimed trying to stab one from behind. Two dead people, leaving two weak ones behind…I always try again if anyone dies. I also felt bad that I didn’t have bandages to help a man.
I usually restart, but I figured I’d try to live with my decisions (also I was getting close to becoming self sufficient).
that is so frustrating
And it just happened to me. Fudge.
This game sounds so damn good but I couldn’t bring myself to buy it, too many morally grey choices for me to feel bad about making 😛
It also autosaves so the minute you make a bad choice you are forced to live with it or start again.
For all their talk about basing it off the siege of Sarajevo and so on, apparently actual survivors of that conflict have said that the game is about as far from their experience as possible. Rather than hoarding resources and getting all insular and stuff, apparently the people generally banded together, shared everything and helped each other as much as possible.
In fact that’s the case in a lot of major conflicts and similar situations. In fiction we tend toward those Lord of the Flies style situations where people become inhumane in desperate situations and everything, when in fact the opposite is possibly more likely to occur. It’s one of the reasons I really struggle with every-man-for-themselves post-apocalyptic stuff like The Walking Dead.
boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo D:
Yeah, it was a little warm today.
Suddenly realisation that Shin Megami Tensei IV has knocked Bravely Default from the top of my fave 3DS games!
Was there anything about it specifically that clicks? SMT never really grabbed me personally, always more partial to Etrian Odyssey for a dungeon crawl. Maybe a result of the sort of games I played as a kid.
A few things.
I find demon fusing fun for some reason, although I couldn’t explain why.
somehow demon negotiation is also fun, also, no idea how to explain how as it’s a very simple conversation SIM with arsehats in the middle of a battle
I really, really liked the concept, which I can’t really explain without spoiling what little story there is.
I absolutely love the alignment system, all sorts of choices throughout the game add up in the background to say whether or not you’re Law (religious nuts mostly) or Chaos (murderers & rapist at the most extreme but mostly just people who do as they please.
And you can also go Neutral, which I’ve always done, & this path is the hardest & gets the happiest ending. I say happy, but this is a post apocalyptic world.
I love the fact that neutral is a seriously considered choice. One of my biggest problems with RPGs is that neutral is mostly considered the wishy washy, can’t decide path. Personally, irl I dont like being a blind follower & so that really resonated with me.
All of it added up to a really enjoyable time, & adding an easy option was a great way to ease me in gently then get me hooked.
I can understand why it’s so niche, lots of gameplay, little story.
I wouldn’t so much consider this a dungeon crawler like the originals, it’s not just one hub with one long dungeon anymore.
The world opens up & gets a sort of world map.
I also absolutely fell in love with the 80s soundtrack, it is just an absolute eargasm.
Edit: pisspoor phone typist
Hey, I totally played one of these… *googles it*
Devil Children (or DemiKids in the US). Back in the emu-ma-lator days. I remember enjoying the fusion aspect as well.
I was just watching a vid about it, that was SMT for kids, very similar but less rude words and adult themes.
Yeah! Fusion is kewl!!
Rude words? Adult themes? I might have to play this game… >_>
eShop only, unless you have a US 3DS 😉
@fled @freezespreston @sernobulus @rize @cakesmith @thecracks: I got my PS3 copy of FFXIV today and completed the upgrade process. Assuming nob gets his in the next few days, a few of us at least will be ready to go.
We should coordinate server. Also, @freezespreston, assuming you’re still interested, since you’ve never played an MMO before, what starting class in the game strikes your fancy at the moment if you’ve had a chance to look? The reason I ask is that certain classes start in certain areas. There’s three main cities – Ul’dah, Gridania and Limsa Lominsa, and your starting class determines where you begin. Once you follow the class story a little way through you’re sent to the different cities and can pick up extra classes and then the classes all come together.
Ul’dah is a big city in the desert. Starting zone for Thaurmaturge/Black Mage, Gladiator/Paladin, Puglist/Monk. They’re ruled by a midget and her pet giant.
Gridania is a city full of tree-hugging elf hippies. Starting zone for Conjurer/White Mage, Archer/Bard and Lancer/Dragoon. They’re looked after by a hot chick who wishes she was an elf so she could do the Galadriel impersonation a bit better.
Limsa Lominsa is a weird city kind of built on stilts situated in a coastal area. Starting zone for Marauder/Warrior, Arcanist/Scholar/Summoner and Rogue/Ninja. They’re also all motherfucking pirates and their leader is a badass green pirate lady with an absolutely unpronounceable name (Merlwyb Bloefhiswyn, I shit you not).
In the longer term it doesn’t make much difference and the game is great at easing you into playing an MMO, but it’d be cool if there was someone starting in the same city and I don’t mind doing that.
Jelly
Was thinking Lancer/Dragoon or Rogue/Ninja.
I kind of want to try the rogue out too.
NINJAAAA
I’m a Lancer/Dragoon. Combat is interesting without being complex. There’s an emphasis on setting up combos.
Just remember that one character can be anything, and can switch to anything and level it. You’re not locked in by your starting choice.
So turns out that despite the fact you have to go through a login and everything so you’re actually logging into a game account separately, they link it to your PSN account and you can only log in from that account. So it won’t let me play on PS4 on my primary (US) account, only my shitty old AU one. 🙁
At least you don’t have to pay for plus again, since MMO fees override it 😀
True, and it gave me 30 days subscription that will work for my PC version too, and at $13 that’s cheaper than paying them directly for a month’s worth.
I assume we should be trying to get tank and healer between us all so we can try some dungeons. I wouldn’t mind trying out healing, which classes are healing classes (in early game)
Conjurer turns into White Mage. You do get some offensive abilities as a conjurer but keep in mind that solo play might be a bit slower as one.
Arcanist seems kinda interesting, apparently it eventually unlocks a specialized healing job.
Conjurer/White Mage and Arcanist/Scholar. Arcanist is a bit harder to heal with. Conjurer is basically a WoW Holy Priest with big reactive heals and stuff, where Scholar is more like a Resto druid, with HoTs.
I played Conjurer to mid-20s in Alpha and Beta, it was my secondary class after Monk. Slower to level and a bit squishy but the white mage clothes are pretty cute~
I’m intending to reroll as a Ninja this time, but I’d be okay with picking up Marauder as a secondary for Tanking as well, though I haven’t tanked in an MMO in a long time and never in FFXIV.
I could try tanking, but be aware that I’m off to Japan for a couple of weeks in a week and a half.
A HEAP of my Facebook friends think that sharing a bit of text as a status will make Facebook not snoop on them even more and do immoral things with your information..
At least one friend has the common sense to post about how it’s all a crock of shit with links and information supporting this heh.
I saw somebody do that. I commented with “What the actual fuck?” and then they deleted their post.
Hahaha. One friend just posted a CBS news link on another friends status with the copy past stuff with a report about how it’s fake.
Hahahah I think I just said “lol” on someone’s. Post got deleted too.
Makes me lol, I immediately judge people that do that and jot it down in my brain as unable to make semi-informed decisions and can’t ever be taken seriously. Like, they accepted the ToS when they signed up. Is a “sorry brah u can’t spy on me nao” status gonna invalidate that??
Haha, basically. Pro tip for those people, don’t post shit on facebook you wouldn’t put in the public eye.
Yeah. Or don’t use real name. I’m Stick Man on there. No profile pic, no info. The only things that can give me away are my tagged pics and stuff I post about.
Ughhhhhhhhh. I walked for like 3 hours today. My legs. They ache. It’s nice going outside though when the sky is clear and it’s not insanely hot or cold. Bought some coffee beans from a roaster in one of the shopping centres round here that I’d never seen before though! It’s a hell of a lot cheaper than the place I don’t buy from anymore since they jacked their prices up so much. Hopefully it’s good.
Gimmie gimmie names of places. I need to find a new coffee bean supplier.
*scratches arm*
Hurry up man, need to find…need to find…*scratch* coffee beans…
Coffee Plus in Centrepoint 😛
OMGOMGOMGOMG
I gave up playing normal The Lost runs in The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth and decided to just restart until I had a decent enough item in the first item room. The Lost is a secret character that literally has no HP and dies in one hit :/
SOMEHOW managed to get Holy Mantle, Mom’s Knife, Infamy, Nine Lives AND Brimstone all in a single run D:
Any one of those could’ve been a game winning item but the combination of them all meant I didn’t have to be super careful and just managed to scrape through 😀
Ha. Couldn’t find any of our old super long-length headphone extension cords to be able to hook my piano to my computer. Had no idea what to do without moving one to be next to the other, until it struck me – somewhere around here was my sister’s old Creative MuVo, which had the ability to record line-in via a 2.5mm jack. Dug around and found it in my old uni bag, then did a little more digging and found a 3.5->2.5mm adapter. Plug that into an RCA->3.5mm adapter, then plug that into my piano via male-male RCA cable and VOILA! Problem solved 😛
@dc/brisfolk, found this place at 214 Elizabeth Street with a bed for $24. Seems like a good spot, going by the map?
Very central. Won’t need to train/bus any where. Just hope it’s not too shifty for that price. 🙂
Eh, not like I’ll have much with me in the way of stuff. Should be right. Looks to be about the same as the place I stayed for PAX, and seems similar to a couple of other places I looked at for that (all of which cost more :P)
I see you don’t value your organs highly.
It’s ok I’m more of a piano guy anyway.
You’re preaching to the choir here.
$24?!?!
Like, a night?!?!
In an 8-person dorm, yeah.
Oh, that’s kind of less cool.
Aren’t those places a little, dodgy?
(speaking from zero experience)
A stranger’s just a friend you haven’t met, right?
That saying could apply to everything.
“A stranger’s just a _________ you haven’t met”
A stranger’s just a Liondrive you haven’t met!
Well, you don’t know what I look like or who I am, so I could have met you already and you’d have never known 😉
Falchion Rebirth: A Euro Truck Simulator 2 Story
Part Three – On the Road Again
Lavernius Trucker decided to quit his job as a gorillagram to pursue his dream; driving trucks in Europe.
He moved to the Czech Republic and started his new business. And on that day Falchion Enterprises was born. Sadly, it did not end well.
Lavernius burned the evidence, and relocated Falchion Enterprises to Austria. Falchion Enterprises blossomed, and avoided any prosecution of insurance fraud. Then the demo timer ran out, and he had to buy the full game. Bummer.
Falchion Enterprises has been reborn again, this time in Slovakia. Lavernius is back on the roads. God help us.
After three months of rewatching old VHS tapes of Captain N: The Game Master in a Slovakian apartment, Lavernius remembered that he vowed to start a truck driving business. He scooped up a job offer and drove around Slovakia and parts of the Czech Republic that did not have lawyers. Except something was wrong, he kept crashing into things. It caused massive loss of life, but more importantly, it cut into his paycheck. Instead of blaming his innate lack of driving talent and the fact he never actually got past his L plates, he decided it was because he was driving on the wrong side of the road. The simplest way to fix this was to move to the United Kingdom, where people drove on the correct side.
It was simple. Jump on the nearest boat, go to UK. Then Lavernius looked at a map for the first time and realised Slovakia doesn’t have a lot of harbours. The nearest harbour was in Calais, France, which wasn’t very close. It was so not close in fact, he could not get a job that far away. He’d have to get there, job by job. And he could only look for jobs in cities he had been to. So he took a job from Slovakia City A to Slovakia City B, Slovakia City B to Germany City A, Germany City A to Germany City B, and so on.
However, Lavernius developed an innovative solution. Start from Germany City A, but skip the turn-off to Germany City B and go to Germany City C instead. Then turn back and go to Germany City B and deliver the package. It was a brilliant solution that let him take job offers from cities closer to Calias, if his employers didn’t keep bitching about how late he was to delivering the packages. Look, if you didn’t want the truck driver to take a detour through the Netherlands, why did you lend him a truck?
Lavernius was driving too smoothly, and crashing too rarely. He decided to put on a podcast as he drove. There was a noticeable drop in the quality of his driving, but it was worth flipping the truck again if it meant he could listen to TotalBiscuit complain about FOV sliders.
However, the all the manslaughter and reckless driving eventually caught up to him. Oh sure, the employer would cover the €40,000 in truck repair, (He crashed the same truck twice) but if it damaged the packages, he would get a deducted pay. Suddenly, he wasn’t getting paid for delivering broken Christmas gifts by Martin Luther King day. The nerve of some employers. And the mounting pile of speed tickets, multiple traffic collisions and headlight infringements. (Oh sure, they charge me when I don’t put on my lights on a pitch-black empty road, but the second I put my highbeams on while traveling on a narrow, busy road I get fined?
His money kept dwindling and dwindling until he lost about €5,000 in four days. Luckily, he reached Calais without getting too bankrupt. He sailed across the sea with renewed hope. He drove from the harbour to London – which consisted of a mechanic’s, a Renault dealership and a shipping company – before immediately getting the truck stuck in a carpark. He managed to get himself out of the carpark with no head-on collisions with moving vehicles, but he struck enough fences to cause thousands of Euro in damages that he didn’t have to pay anyway.
#OhLavernius
I know it’s a polarising show, but The Office (UK) is one of my all-time favourite shows, and has one of TV’s best final episodes. What did you think of it?
I never finished the series. It lost its charm to me when Steve Carell left.
You’ll notice I specified UK. 😛
The US version is not my cup of tea at all.
Hahaha, my bad. Pre-coffee and my housemate has been watching the US series on Netflix over the holidays…
I preferred Extras.
Extras is amazing, too.
The Patrick Stewart ep is one of the best things Gervais has ever done. I love pretty much all of Extras though.
So good. I also love the Liam Neeson clip in Life’s Too Short.
That’s all I’ve watched of that show and it was brilliant I thought. So deadpan, but when you watch the outtakes you see how much of a struggle it was for them to do that.
I’ll put my hand up though, I’ve always had an irrational fear of Warwick Davis ever since watching Willow. The man hasn’t aged in 30 years
It made me physically uncomfortable to watch 😛
Me too. Whenever I watch this show, or Extras, my reaction always includes this strange sensation of terror that makes my stomach churn. And this real and genuine undercurrent of complete depressing darkness. But that’s part of what makes it appealing.
I don’t think I ever made it to the final episode because of that feeling.
Never liked it. I’m not really a fan of cringy comedy. I can watch stuff like The Inbetweeners which has just about the right amount of cringe but Gervais took it to another level. British comedy should all be about sarcasm and weird s**t 😀
That’s why I like the Mighty Boosh and IT Crowd. Good old crazy Brits and good old sarcasm with every second sentence.
and puns!
I dunno. A lot of British comedy has, for a long time, been about humiliation of people who have high ideas of themselves. Dad’s Army, Fawlty Towers, Yes Minister and The Office (to name just a few) all share that ethos, but only The Office shows those moments for the truly cringeworthy ordeals that they are.
Edit: that said, I guess a nation can produce more than one type of entertainment. You know, if they really wanted to.
To some extent, but the older shows were a lot about absurd situations occurring in normal life rather than out and out cringe. The Office is just a normal office in which there’s a stereotypical cringey boss (worked with a couple of those so it’s definitely a brilliant observation on the workplace) but nothing out of the ordinary really happens.
Dad’s Army, ‘Allo ‘Allo, Are You Being Served?, Porridge, Open All Hours, all those shows were about silly things happening in normal life, yes with a bit of classism in taking down the hoity toity people a peg or two, but not in an overly cringey way. Fawlty Towers wasn’t so much about Basil being humiliated in each episode, but more so his over-reactions to what were normal situations in a hotel because he’s so highly strung.
But then there was a lot of other comedy that stemmed from Monty Python (outright silliness although laid out in a different format) such as Not The 9 O’Clock News, Alas Smith & Jones, The Young Ones, Blackadder, Fry & Laurie, leading onto stuff like Graham Linehan’s writing (he even started off writing a few sketches for those shows) in Father Ted, Black Books, & The IT Crowd.
There are cringey moments in all of these shows, sure, but Gervais likes to let those moments linger on and then leave it at that, especially in The Office. Other shows would follow up a cringey moment with full blooded sarcasm or something ludicrous that takes your mind off the cringey and reminds you that you’re still watching a comedy. It’s just something I’ve never gotten while watching The Office because I was brought up on all the shows mentioned above
Those shows you just listed. They are all awesome.
Got the entirety of Dad’s Army for my Dad a year or two ago, sat and watched the whole lot with him. Genuinely hilarious stuff, there.
MC Hammer / Flashdance Fusion is the greatest.
I personally couldn’t get into it so I never finished it. I know it’s considerably shorter than the US version so maybe I’ll give it another try and come back to you.
12 eps + a 2-part Christmas special. You can blow through it in a single work day 😛
Anyone up for some Plants Vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare shenanigans tonight?
Give me a holler and we’ll see if we can’t organize a time.
On the Pee Ess Phwoar by the way.
Oh man, neat, I’ll play if I see you online. Great game.
Worst sleep. Zero focus. Swarm of lorikeets. Zombie mode.
Air conditioning. Grumble.
Beanie on.
Fist bump.
http://www.polygon.com/2015/1/5/7494743/scarlett-johansson-ghost-in-the-shell-film
That film’s actually going to happen, isn’t it? 🙁
ugh.
try to look at it as simply just a sci-fi flick unrelated to the manga… I have high hopes that it will actually be quite good on its own merit, but yeah dont expect a faithful retelling cause it wont happen..
As long as it has the name Ghost in the Shell on it, that’s going to be impossible to do. That title brings a huge amount of baggage and expectations with it.
Also I have zero faith in Hollywood’s ability to make a film that captures the philosophical elements that make GitS interesting. It’s not just a bog-standard SF action film, Even Japan struggles with that, and Hollywood will approach it with all the subtlety and sophistication of a brick to the face.
Who knows, maybe they’ll treat the whole ‘what makes a human ‘human’?’ identity crisis as oscar-bait, handled with all the nuance and depth of, say… Surrogates or Gamer! PERSONALITY BODY-HOPPING WOO.
Seriously though, that’s… pretty disappointing, but not unexpected. Hollywood is in America, it’s storytelling told by Americans for Americans. It’s just unfortunate that this property didn’t get made by Japan’s live-action industry, I’m pretty emotionally-invested in the GitS franchise thanks to their outstanding anime iterations.
AV Club has reported that her name in the movie, revisions pending, is Major Montana Kristofferson.
I don’t know whether you’re joking or not. 🙁
Why would I joke about a major anime icon like Hannah Montana Kristofferson.
I loved Hannah Montana Kris Kristofferson in Fallout New Vegas.
I was willing to give it the benefit of the doubt right up until I saw that Rupert Sanders is directing.
Also, the whole “DreamWorks” thing doesn’t instill me with confidence.
I think Hollywood could produce a good GitS film, but it would have to be from one of the smaller studios, with someone like Guillermo del Toro producing, and probably take a risk with the director, but go for the indie, human side of things, not the shittastic bombastic Bay style of him.
Oh, and get Weta to do all the effects, because I think they’re great.
Yeah, it’s not impossible to do it well, it’s just impossible for this film to be good.
So it’ll be a CG film? What’s Johansson’s record in regards to voice acting?
BLOODBORNE COUNTDOWN
77 days
New gameplay vid featuring co-op: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHT2RSD5GAM
Article about Chalice Dungeons: http://www.lazygamer.net/general-news/will-chalice-dungeons-make-bloodborne-impossible/
Errgh, left my car keys in wife’s car and had to get a cab to work. $15 for a 5 minute drive.
Freaking Gold Coast.
Should have jacked the taxi, you’d have gotten +$50 instead!
@novacascade @freezespreston @jocon @transientmind Were any of you guys on the TAY Japan magical extravaganza interested in the Ghibli Museum? Tickets for March should be on sale this week I think so if we wanted to do that, we’d need to get onto it soon.
Nah. I’m not a big enough fan for that.
Maybe, but probably not. Like Jo, I’m not THAT big a fan… I’ll look it over.
The only Ghibli thing I’ve ever seen is the short film that they showed us when we were there. Knew nothing about anything, had no reason to have any kind of interest in it at all, only went along because the rest of the group was going. Still thought it was pretty good.
Mostly though I wish I knew how to read Japanese so I could read what all the notes stuck to all the old sketches and stuff around the replication of the guy’s old studio (or whatever you’d call it exactly) were saying. Actually you’re a bit of an art guy aren’t you? Could be a bit of an interest there.
I kind of want to go but not sure I want to go by myself, so if no one else is interested I’ll skip it since it’s a lot of faffing about.
I’m going but my mother’s bringing over the kids to meet us over there for a week after we finish and my eldest is a huge fan of the Ghibli stuff.
So it depends is you want to go with them or not. I just tend to automatically assume people aren’t interested in hanging with my kids around.
I think I have kind of tight timing, only staying 2 days at the end, so could do the 3rd or the 4th.
Ah, we were doing the 5th. Going to be at Disneyland for my birthday on the 4th.
Yeah unfortunately I need to be in Narita by 3pm on the 5th to take a 5pm flight, and I believe that the Ghibli Museum is really something you need to spend a decent chunk of time on.
Ah well. Next time! Hopefully Ghibli will still be around by then.
My brother’s pretty keen on their stuff, he might be decent company. We’re not joined at the hip, so may do separate things.
ATT: Weight Loss Gurus…
im not normally one for the whole new years resolutions thing, but felt i needed to make some changes…
so i’ve set my self a goal of hitting the:
110 mark by October 30th,
(37kg in 43 weeks Avg. 0.86kg per week)
and
the 100 mark by Jan 1st 2016
(10kg in 9 Weeks Avg 1.11kg per week)
hoping by the time i clear my 1st goal, ill be a bit more fit and able to exercise a bit more…
My question is, am i setting myself up to fail? am i being a bit unrealistic?
I think you need to set smaller milestones as well. Maybe every 5 kilos or so. That’s what I try to do. Helps you see that you’re progressing. I too am trying to lose weight and it’s not easy. Also Fitocracy is a really good exercise tracker, and I recommend you start exercising now.
Was going to tag you in my post. What was your total for last year in the end?
I think I lost 15 kilos or so in 2014. Not sure what I weigh at the moment, but I’ll find out on Saturday.
Fantastic 🙂 I didn’t manage to lose much over the last year, but I didn’t gain either, and my fitness is much better, so still positive.
Oh yeah definitely doing that. Those are just my 2 key goals. Have also taken into account that i may gain a tiny bit over holidays such as easter, and bday outings. will be doing my best to prevent that however. I
If you’re disciplined, that’s achievable, but it’s how you achieve it that’s the tricky part. If you’re ok with increased physical activity plus portion control you’ll make that
Those sound like realistic goals. Measurable and deliverable too, also not unhealthy. I’d suggest that you have some goals in the interrim too, eg get below 140 by March, 130 by May, 120 by August, 110 by September. Don’t beat yourself up if you don’t make it, but reward yourself somehow if you do.
I need to do something like this again too, put on a ton of weight in the last 2-3 months and lost nearly all the gains (or gained all the losses?) I made last year 🙁
yeah, as per my reply to @ontargett, i have set myself monthly goals. Planning another 2 week Brisbane theme park run in november, want to save myself the embarassment of not being able to get on a ride because the safety bar wont close :/
That’s certainly achievable, but it would depend entirely on how well you stick to your diet/exercise plans. It’s not for everyone, and it’s certainly not the best way to go about it, but I’ve lost 12kgs in about 6 weeks on a meal replacement shake diet.
thats a pretty damn good effort! i tried the meal replacement shake diet a while ago, problem is, because of my size, i always felt constantly hungry… was impossible for me to maintain
Not really the best person to ask about this, but good luck Zetty! Hope you get to your goals.
thanks pow man!
I shed a lot of weight pretty quickly when I was training. Went from shapeless blob to being called Thor by my brother in about 7 months.
Found weight is a bit of a terrible metric since if you’re exercising you’ll be adding muscle while taking fat off and muscle weighs a lot more than fat. So you’ll think you haven’t lost much while actually being much better off. So don’t get too disheartened if it doesn’t seem like you’re doing much. Try pulling a @dc with a photo a day and you’ll see progress.
Keeping it off once you’ve reached the goal is a bit more tricky and where I failed miserably.
Something something the only one pulling a dc is dc something something. 😛
To my great disappointment.
Seems like a lot of people have weight loss/ fitness goals at the moment. Maybe it is worth getting a long term fitocracy group going, not so much for competition but for shared enthusiasm/ friendly accountability ect.
Ahhh shit and here I am sending you Pop Rocks, sorry about that mate.
An average of around 0.5-0.8kg per week loss is quite healthy and achievable, you’ll find that you will lose weight very quickly with changing your dietary and exercise habits however will slow down as you get closer to your goal weight.
I would like echo @ontargett’s sentiments re: beginning exercise now, it’s a magnificent way to increase your metabolism and has many other health benefits like improved cardiovascular health, improving flexibility, cognitive function, etc. Undertake some exercise that you feel comfortable with but at the same time makes you hot and sweaty.
Also @negativezero’s (who I will add to my Xbox live friends tonight). A stretch goal like what you have is great and having the smaller goals in the middle like you have suggested will work as well.
Edit: Also Freezes sentiments around weight being a little misleading too, you can put on muscle which has a larger mass compared to the same surface area of body fat. You will feel lighter and fitter so make sure that you continue to check yourself out and using measures like tummy circumference, thigh girth, chest girth, etc.
hahahaha! that alright dude, thanks again for that! my wifes little bro and sis cleaned them right out! as for excercise, ive actually already started and put myself in a daily half hour routine that results in some heat, sweat and muscle pain… Other then the stretch goals, i do also have smaller monthly goals.
Don’t they always say to check with your doctor before you begin a major regime change? Most doctors aren’t nutritionists/fitness physios, etc, but they’ll be able to help check out your vitals and see if there’s any hazards or dangers. There’s a lot of moving parts in that machine. Blood pressure, cholesterol, body fat percentages… Losing too much weight too fast can have really powerful negative consequences on your system, apparently. (Even if only cosmetic – loose skin, stretch marks, cellulite.)
@zetrox2k as always transient makes valid and enlightening points; this is a major reason why weight loss in itself is inherently unhealthy. The healthy way to go about it is to build muscle mass so that your body gradually accustoms to your new level of metabolic activity. This way your muscle takes on some of the excess skin you’re bound to have from weight loss but at the same time also slows down your body’s internal weight loss so that it has more time to adapt to your new shape.
If you’ve never worked out before I would recommend a cardio regiment along with a free weight regiment that strengthens your core muscles – i.e. quads, back (upper & lower) and chest. Also be careful how much you mess around with your diet; what you eat can affect your morale a lot more than how much you workout and it takes each person a while before they can figure out a personalized healthy diet that works for them.
@zetrox2k Also, psychology is hugely important. Losing weight is something your body does not want you to do, because evolutionarily, it’s a bad sign. Y’know. Starvation. Dying. You WILL be physically and emotionally uncomfortable. And if you’re doing it over a long time, that means being physically and emotionally uncomfortable for a long time. That’s not great on anyone’s psyche and a lot of folks underestimate how powerful that can be.
You’re going to NEED a reward system, and it will probably have to not be food-based.
I think what a lot of folks who are successful long-term find is that the endorphins from exercise serve as a counter-balance to reward and incentivize the workout, but maybe set aside some other rewards for milestones, like an expensive toy, some fancy clothes in your new size, rostering a day off to do nothing but play games, or booking a holiday for a major milestone.
Also, I agree on the importance of cardio as your first step. Good lungs and heart are the engine of your machine and you can’t move a big machine very far without a good engine. My Dad was diagnosed with some major health issues like… 15yrs ago, and the first simple thing he did was get up an hour earlier in the morning to get in a half-hour walk every day, and trim down his portion sizes without actually changing what he was eating. The weight melted away within months and he got much healthier, fitter, and happier. But before too long you’re really going to want to make the next step to resistance – weights.
not sure about that transient, but i do have to get my thyroid checked anyway…
Also don’t be to worried about hitting goals exactly. If you try to always stick to hard and fast numbers you will get stressed and disheartened if you don’t always hit it and probably stop.
Maybe instead, get a habit going and adjust the routine as needed to roughly hit the numbers you want. Or don’t worry about your weight and just set fitness goals and keep trying to beat them – you will.loose weight anyway.
to be honest, jocon, even if i only make it half way, i feel its a good start…
Yeah man, progress is progress.
Do you want to start up a fitocracy thing? I could also do with getting an exercise routine going but I hate it so much and having a thing going could help stick to it.
@blaghman ect
yeah thats fine by me man!
Achievable if you’re committed to sticking to diet (most important) and to a lesser extent exercise.
Weight is a poor benchmark in fitness; you can be a 110kilos and be unfit or be in the best shape of your life. It’s always better just to say you want to get yourself into better shape; and then use that goal to find out what exactly you mean by better shape. Are you looking to be more aesthetically pleasing; do you want more stamina; are there any parts of your body in particular that you want to work on; or are you just looking to increase your general fitness.
It’s really important that you tie your goals and your motivation for working out tightly together; because it’s just all too easy to lose that motivation.
Personally I’d recommend figuring out what exactly it is you want from working out; bear in mind weight loss by itself can actually be considered being unhealthy. If and when you figure it out feel free to tag me and I’m happy to provide more focussed guide lines; plenty of exp with personal trainers and been my own for about a year and half now.
bit of everything actually:
increase stamina, reduce strain on my body from doing ANYTHING physical, as per my post to negs above, be able to get on a theme park ride without having to walk off the ride embarassed that the safety bars wouldn lock into place, get rid of a large chunk of body fat to avoid health issues, so yeah, a bit of everything.
last time i went horse riding, they took one look at me and went out and got me this huge ass horse that has been hauling minecarts most of its life. i swear to god ive never seen a bigger horse in my life. that thing was an abomination… it was monstrous…
so pretty though 😀
Alright so let’s say you’re looking improve your health and your physical appearance; I’m going to give this advice with the impression that it’s been a while since you’ve put your body through physical strain ergo you’ll need to condition from the beginning. Now I’m not sure what you’ve already implemented as part of your exercise routine and your level of comfort with different exercises so only take these on as guidelines; at the end of the day your body’s comfort with a particular routine is a much better indicator to progress and your health than any factual figure I could use as a reference point.
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To start with you should try and find half an hour during your day (ideally every day or at least 5 days a week) that you’re happy to put aside for working out; you’ll see magnified results if this part of the day coincides with a period of there being little food in your stomach. e.g. for myself I do my routine soon after work in the evenings about 90 min before supper. This way I’ve still got some fuel leftover from lunch to keep me going but force my body to pick on my reserves (i.e. fat) during workout routine. If you feel peckish it is important to have a snack before your routine (I’d recommend a celery stalk; or 4-5 almonds which are packed with energy and will keep your stomach from ingesting itself). Me personally I grab a teaspoon of peanut butter if I feel I need that pick me up.Once you’ve got your timeframe picked; for the first 2-3 weeks just focus on building your stamina and pick a workout that appeals to you. I.e. something you look forward at the end of a long day. For me it’s going for a swim, but going for a brisk walk with headphones on; jumping on the treadmill with a book can be just as effective and enjoyable. If you do decide to go for a brisk walk or a jog (I don’t recommend running unless you’re at a much higher fitness level) make sure you get the appropriate footwear and stick to sand/grass as much as you can as opposed to gravel and cement. Softer surfaces puts more effort on your calf and thigh muscles and most importantly they reduce the wear and tear on your joints and the soles of your feet. At the end of your workout make sure you have something small to eat or drink that’ll boost your energy reserves back up; given you’ll only be doing cardio to start with I wouldn’t recommend protein shakes but maybe a muesli bar or a slice of vegemite and toast (whatever your preference of a light dose of carbs is).
My final piece of advice would be in relation to your diet; I always tell people this aspect of working out is optional because it’s the part of a workout routine that is most likely to make you throw in the towel and quit the whole routine. However if you do decide you’re up for it I would start with small changes for the first 2-3 week to coincide with your walk/jog/swim/etc. First off replace all forms of liquids you ingest with water; obviously within reason i.e. a morning juice or coffee is still fine. Water is the best thing in the world for the human body and there’s no better substitute; not even powerade or motorade or w/e that crap is. Secondly make a conscious effort to cut back on your portions during lunch and dinner by about 10-20%. The human brain has a lag effect with the human stomach; basically when you feel hungry and start to eat it takes time before you brain realizes it has fuel in the tank and in return reduces your appetite. By cutting back your largest meals by 10-20% you’re basically allowing your brain time to realize it’s full and that 10-20% would’ve just been excess. Finally and I cannot emphasize this enough; find yourself a healthy protein that you love to eat; chicken, tuna & salmon are the best but kangaroo is a damn good option as well. Once you figure that out it’s something to implement after the first 2-3 weeks of cardio; until then just stick to your current diet but slightly reduced portions. It is important to note to never let yourself feel hungry; a hungry body begins to increase it quota for fat storage since the brain believes you don’t have access to fuel; it’s actually immensely counterproductive to a workout routine.
The thing is that while it’s not a fantastic benchmark, it’s something that’s easy to measure and see improvements. What you’re talking about there are reasons why you want to get into shape, but they are intangibles. They are not goals, they’re outcomes. You need measurable things for goals, whether that’s a weight goal, body fat percentage, or something else like being able to run for 5km. You need to be able to set an ultimate goal that you can actually know for sure when you’ve hit it, and you need to be able to measure your progress toward it, and figure out how you’re going to get there on the way by breaking it down into sub-goals. You can’t do that with a wishy-washy goal like “have more stamina”. How much more? How do you measure it?
I actually think you’ll lose weight a bit quicker earlier, and the rate at which you lose it will slow down later. That shouldn’t be a problem but I guess don’t hit the 110 mark and get complacent.
Also don’t take too much advice. There’s a lot of bullshit weight loss advice out there, and it isn’t possible to follow it all at once. The most important part is make whatever changes you make a habit rather than a resolution.
Sounds like an achievable goal. I’m on Myfitnesspal if you want to use that. Feel free to add me as friend.
Do you have a parkrun near you? http://www.parkrun.com.au
It’s made a massive difference to my fitness in the last year. When I started I couldn’t jog for more than about 30s without dying. Now I can comfortably jog about 2km, and I’ve finished a bunch of races – the longest being the City2Surf at 14km. I’m as slow as a tortoise running in peanut butter, but I run. And I actually look forward to running 5km now :O
I agree with others about exercise being a good balance to the discipline required when sticking to weightloss plan. You always feel like you’ve achieved something in your day when you’ve done some exercise.
too social for me 🙁
i really struggle to socialise like that……
You only have to socialise as much as you want to. It’s perfectly ok to turn up, run, and go home straight away. It’s perfectly ok to walk the whole thing if that’s all you can do. The trick with parkrun is that it’s timed, and all your runs are kept in a database. So it’s really easy to see how much you’re improving. It’s on every week, and it’s 100% free.
Combine it with a Couch-to-5k training program and you have an easy way to build up your fitness, with a weekly benchmark.
I’ve found the advice of Dr. Rudi to always be concise and to the point.
thing is i dont actually eat that much… in fact i eat a lot less than most of my friends who are a good 50-60 kg behind me… im either at home, on my desk or at home on my desk. so for me its more of a case of a severe lack of activity & what i actually eat.
Dr Rudi cracks me up every time 🙂
It’s that time of year when we get inundated with urgent client emails telling us to help them update the copyright on their websites’ from “© 2014” to “© 2015”
“Oh god… our website copyright still says 2014! It’s been 2015 for six days. WE’RE NOT COVERED!! Someone could steal our website ANY MINUTE AND THERE’S NOTHING WE CAN DO!
SHRED THOSE DOCUMENTS! I’LL CONTACT OUR WEBSITE PEOPLE! THEY MUST FIX THIS BEFORE WE ALL LOSE OUR JOBS!”
I wonder if those people feel sorry for the poor shmucks in Hollywood who have to update all the copyrights for movies every New Year’s Day to prevent movie piracy from becoming legal.
Wait… it’s not legal?!?!
*ahem* I mean what’s movie piracy?? is that like a new pirates film??
It’s legal for the 6 hours were in 2015 before America
#totesnotalawyer
@distantdrop hey dude just wanted to check in to see if you’re alright? Just realized haven’t seen you online in a few days or posting on TAY for that matter; here’s hoping its cos you’re on an impromptu holiday!
If you were a Xbox gamer like me you’d probably see me on mostly all day.
I’m fine, just DA:I has sunk its hooks into me with the added problem that I decided to start off with a Nightmare run. so many stop-starts to even count.
Played The Wolf Among Us Episode 1 last night.
Spoilered for my choices:
I liked the look of this Faith broad, so I gave her my money to try and settle her pimps debt.I was in the 14.7% of people who told Beast the truth, I knew some bad shit was going on so I thought it best her husband knows that she is close by.
I decided to go to Toads House, man that little amphibian made me want to hit him when he was lying to me. I knew his son would walk out the moment I tried to threaten him so I called him out on his lies instead.
Prince Lawrence is dead and it’s all my fault 🙁 I’d be interested on a second playthough if it’s possible to save him and learn a little more.
At this stage my suspicions are for Blackbeard, that guy’s got old money so I imagine he’ll have some implication in what is happening .
I don’t know why I did it, but I ended up grabbing the Huntsman instead of Tweedle Dee. He started opening up to me at the bar and I felt that I’m close to getting some information from him and having him apprehended was for his safety as well
Spoilered view on first episode (Damn you Telltale!!!):
First I get to like Faith, then I start enjoying the relationship between Bigby and Snow… and now this. I should have learnt from The Walking Dead as soon as you start to like someone, BAM. I will be a cold and callous detective from now on.Spoilers regarding your third choice (in case you wanted an actual answer to your musings there – don’t read if you don’t actually want to know :P)
Yup, it is possible to save Lawrence in chapter 1.Playing a quick game during lunch break Episode 2:
HOLY CRAP
Haha the one thing you should have learned from Telltale Games is to stop trying to predict them =P
Finding I have to make lists to get everything done that needs to be done before we go away. Doesn’t help that as well as leaving for the US next Saturday, this Sunday and Monday we’ll be taking the kids up to the Sunshine Coast for swanky resort and theme park fun to make up for the fact that we’re going to Disney without them. 😛
Today’s list includes taking the kids out to lunch, giving the 14 year old her belated birthday shopping money, and getting manicures. Maybe even the 5 year old will get a manicure too. 😀
Oh, and I need to finish the mind-numbingly boring straight line quilting on my latest mini quilt for swapping.
I also need to decide which the kids will like better (I can’t ask them, because it’s all a surprise): Australia Zoo, Aussie World, or Underwater World. The oldest has been to Australia Zoo, they’ve both been to Underwater World (although the youngest probably can’t remember it), and neither have been to Aussie World.
Trying to figure out how I can work into casual conversation whether they prefer land animals, water animals, or rides. 😛
AUSTRALIA ZOO! It’s what Steve Irwin would want you to do, Strangey!
You’ve got some Instagram quilting ladies calling me “Strangey”, by the way. 😛
Haha! So influential! 😀
We could work on making it Itchy if you like?
So generous. 😀
Underwater World is getting a bit run down these days, sadly.
Yeah, it’s actually the last of my preferences, but Mr. Strange seems really keen to go there. It can’t be price because there’s not enough difference in costs of family passes for it to be meaningful.
Ettamogah Pub?
That’s where Aussie World is. Apparently it’s way better than it used to be. It’s my first choice, but I just have to find out if the kids prefer rides or animals.
Oh man, I just did something kind of mean…I told the kids I was trying to figure out which of the Disney parks to do and if they were me would they choose rides or animals. So mean. I feel bad.
Got results though, they both prefer rides. Guess we’re all going to Aussie World!
Monster! 😀
They are probably all upset at you and said the one they liked least so you don’t have as much fun without them.
I read this a “I also need to decide which of the kids I like better (I can’t ask them)
Was really confused, I figured you would have worked out your favourite by now 😉
Sportsball!
Australia 0/79 after 14.1 overs, Rogers 39 Warner 34
I only watch T20 Stars over the Sixers in a super over with Faulkner hitting double 6s to clinch it for the stars
Dear Pokéfriends,
I have decided that my first ORAS project will be Azumarill. At a quick glance, i think I want Aqua Jet as an Egg move, Adamant (+atk, -spatk) nature, and Huge Power as its ability. Seems like I can PokeNav Surskit for Aqua Jet and Marill both on route 103?
I PokeNav’d for aaaaages trying to find an Aqua Jet Marill on the route west of Mauville. Eventually just gave up 😛 Figured I was either having incredibly bad luck or that not all egg moves are able to be PokeNav’d.
Maybe you’ll be luckier!
PokeNav employs the same desire sensor technology as Monster Hunter.
It senses what you want then actively prevents you from getting it.
Surskit learns it at 30 and can breed it into Marill. I was just going to churn through Nav to try and get some good starting IVs.
Prospective FFXIV Friends: You may be interested to know that Patch 2.5 is hitting mid-to-late January. It’ll be the last major patch before the first expansion. Adds a bunch of stuff that won’t matter until you’re at level cap.
Buuuut… some time after 2.5 they will be doing version 2.51 which adds the Gold Saucer to the game. Gold Saucer will have FF7-style Chocobo Racing & Chocobo Breeding and FF8-style Triple Triad minigames. \o/
I don’t have time for MMO’s……. but… I’d play the sh*t out of the Golden Saucer games in HD…
Oh god, I would resubscribe to FFXIV if it added Triple Triad in its original form with HD art.
I assume the plan is to use new chars… because not doing that would be a bit silly.
*googles his own old char name*
Looks like I have a 46 PAL
Are Final FanTAYsy 14 players trying to work out good “holy trinity” roles?
(Sorry if I’m bombarding you with Q’s – you seem to be spearheading this 😀 )
That was kind of the plan I think?
I was personally going to reroll as a rogue to try it out.
Pathfinder peoples: @redartifice @tech_knight @freezespreston @sernobulus @negativezero @rize
Drewan has a question to ask you before next Monday. I’ll let him ask it.
Lundgredolph said Drewan will have to repeat that because he stopped listening about the point where Drewan started talking.
I don’t need a haversack. I have a pony.
My saddle’s waiting; come and, jump on it.
Or store it in my haversack.
If Narshak says yes will you stop talking?
Yes*
Until such time as talking becomes necessary.If I can dump stuff I pickpocket in there, sure.
With two side pouches and a larger central pouch I’m sure there’ll be room to store some of your things. What’s pick-pocketing?
Erm…obtaining objects that have been lost to return to a rightful owner at a later time.
Purrfect!
I hate myself for typing that.You do whatever you need to, as long as you do repay that debt in the end.
A
LannisterCat always repays his debts.You better or you may be made into a new fur coat for Lundgredolph, by most likely Narshak
Bored at work (when I have shitloads of work to do)… So far I’ve made dice using blutack… I have a D4, D6, D8… conteplating how much time, finesse and blutack I need to make a D10.
Just remember that a d10 isn’t a platonic solid.
*blink*
Well… There’s my new thing I learnt today. Platonic Solids.
Solids has to be one of my favourite topics in the Year 7 Maths syllabus. We do the Platonic solids, the Kepler-Poinsot Solids, Johnson Solids and Archimedean solids – it’s fun finding out how a lot of them form naturally as the shape of crystals.
See if you can make a truncated icosidodecahedron out of blutac – that’ll keep you busy for a while… 😉
All I remember from Year 7 maths is basic algebra and Pythagorean Theorem!
a truncated icosid…. what… ??
*googles*
All of a sudden my normal work looks more interesting. 🙂
I honestly don’t recall studying them at primary school. Granted, I missed a term for family travel and was already ahead in the class, so teachers never did much of a catch up
TAY RPG 40K Rogue Trader on tonight at 7:30 pm AEST and 8:30 pm AEDT. Starring:
@freezespreston @rize @tech_knight @sernobulus @gingerchris86
It’s been a while however Vaethril has recovered from the toxins that coursed through his body and Jarallius has another mechadendrite. You’re still kinda stuck on Taruta though with Dark Eldar somewhere and a mystery ship approaching the planet. What do?
Also please let me know if you can’t make it or if you’ll be late.
Yay! *waves arms and mechadendrite in joy*
Crap. Sorry guys. Can’t make it tonight, I’m going to be kneedeep in work stuff tonight 🙁
All good Chris. Thanks for the heads up.
Geez that guy’s Shaper is a real slave driver 😛
What? you want to go play with those eldar and that technothing?
No – WORKWORKWORK!!!
Bun has decided that we’re amalgamating our stuff. As a result, apparently we no longer need 2x PS3s, 2xXBox360s and 3xTVs. Apparently this is what real adult relationships involve.
The PS3 is mine. Barely used (seriously, I played about 3 hours of LA Noire, 10 hours of Journey and maybe an hour each of about three other games). Anybody want it? Preferably someone in Canberra that we can drop it off to later this week?
I currently use my PS3 (that I lugged alllll the way from Australia) as a shelf for my console controllers and headphones.
#Helping
You do need them! What about LAN co-op? You’ll be kicking yourself…
Also, that’s a very generous offer!
How much do you want for it? Wouldn’t mind a replacement for my dead one.
I’m not in Canberra though… Maybe Blaghs could hold onto it for me.
We’re moving to Canberra, trying to offload extra stuff that we (apparently) don’t need anymore. If you seriously want it, DM me on twitter and we can sort something out.
We’re also including a good chunk of our games collection. Simply because they’re just taking up space.
D:
We have two working PS3s, two Xbox 360s, and five TVs. Is this why I don’t feel like an adult yet? 😀
hang on, maybe @trjn should see this
I saw it. I also saw that the removalists charge by cubic metre and we’ve only used one of the PS3s as a BR player this year. The only console we’ve used to any reasonable extent is the Wii U.
PIKMIN
Tbh the PS3 is equivalent to the best bluray player you can buy. I would think twice. Also, streaming. It can make a nice media box.
We have two of them.
Yeah but you can either be generous and sell it for a little cash, or keep it and save $150+ when you need it in the future.
I can’t think of any situation where a second PS3 would come in handy. No in a small household where we have a multitude of media devices that can be used in a pinch and we mostly use our computers anyhow.
DARK SOULS II – SCHOLAR OF THE FIRST SIN COUNTDOWN
[insert number of days here]
News:
Lords of the Fallen devs talk Dark Souls comparisons: http://www.gamespot.com/articles/lords-of-the-fallen-dev-talks-dark-souls-compariso/1100-6424474/
Dark Souls 2 director says internal documents could blow your head off: http://www.cinemablend.com/games/Dark-Souls-2-Director-Says-Sequels-Could-Have-Virtual-Reality-Support-69187.html
Sorry fanboys, someone thinks LotF is better than DS2: http://www.noobfeed.com/features/412/lords-of-the-fallen-is-better-than-dark-souls-2-sorry-fanboys
Is the last person @SerNobulus?
If LotF was not a buggy mess and had a bit more attention to balance I might agree on the last point. It did a lot of things right and some better than DS2.
Yeah, I was really surprised at some of the interface/quality-of-life improvements and actually a little bit by the whole combo-counter for how much exp you gain without spending it. That would’ve been rad to have in Dark Souls.
I’m still weighing up Dark Souls 2 goat edition as a second game to get and count towards the critical mass of *enough* games to justify getting a ps4. Anything else on the horizon for this year that might take that list to 3?
Also, it’s kinda funny timing for it to be out just a matter of weeks after Bloodborne.
My list of games:
Octodad (sort of exclusive)
Mordor
Last of Us
Watch Dogs
InFAMOUS (exclusive)
Diablo 3 (lots of TAY MP action on PS4)
Forthcoming:
Bloodborne (exclusive)
Dark Souls 2
Batman Arkham 3
#HELPING?
Mustard race
Mustard race
Probably should, but I’m also useless at uncharted games
Mustard race
Earlier point on uncharted – I got the first infamous after the free games for PSN outage thing, and I’m also terrible at that. Me aiming with a controller really doesn’t happen. Only thing that saved red dead for me was the auto aim lock-on.
Mustard race when there’s an offline / LAN mode.
Yup (#1)
Yup (#2)
Ehhhh, maybe if it’s in a bundle.
I’m no fun.
I don’t understand. I’ve built this branching structure in exactly the same way as a previous game I made before the break. SO WHY IS IT WORKING IN EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE FASHION.
Which seems like a bit of an oxymoron actually.
*Stares at branching structure*
*scratches beard*
*turns it upside down*
There. That’ll be $50 and a mention in the credits, kkthxbyby.
Dammit, Quiz!
Maybe your computer is upside down.
CTRL + ALT + DOWN_ARROW
Right, first Matt Lees quits VideoGamer and becomes independent.
Then Jim Sterling quits The Escapist and becomes independent.
Now half of IGN have quit and became independent.
This mass exodus of journalists fleeing traditional media is fascinating.
I didn’t realize VideoGamer and IGN were considered traditional media; nor did I realize the journalists associated with them were what you would call “traditional journalists” either =P
This is because you’re old and he is young.
🙂
Dammit transient can you not advertise that?! =P
He probably has never read a copy of Hyper magazine.
I always wanted to buy that, but I had no money and my mother wouldn’t buy it for me. I remember getting a copy of Nintendo Power at some point and really enjoying it, though.
By ‘traditional media’ I meant the big news outlets. The ones with a couple dozen employees and strong links to publishers, usually owned by another corporation. I definitely could have worded it better.
(IGN is owned by J2 Global)
Sooo…. I’m thinking of buying a 3d printer… anyone want to try talking me out of it?
Depends…. Would you be printing custom built transformers?!
I’d start with models (Borg Cube, Turtles, Penguins) and then make my way towards Board game prototypings
You had me at Borg Cube. If you make a spare I’d love to take a crack at painting it =P
It’ll probably fulfill your life in ways you didn’t even know required fulfillment. WHO NEEDS THAT?
Yeah who needs that!!!!
I doI want to try and convince my boss that we need one for the office.
These guys do pretty cheap kits http://printrbot.com/
I do know some people who sell them here for a pretty good price 🙂
Theres also the more expensive ones of coursetoo
We have absolutely no need for a 3D printer in the office, I just want one without having to pay for it 😛
Is there anything you can get out of owning a personal one that you can’t currently get through a hackerspace? I think there’s one in Mel.
Sex toys.
Pfft, hackerspaces won’t care.
Owning my own and personal satisfaction of owning my own?
Also the ability to go – ooh i could print that and do it instantly and wake up to freshly printed shoes
Because the decent ones are $1500+ (makerbot). Because it’ll eventually just be another toy, unless you have definite use for it (you don’t, since you’re asking here). You’ll create a couple cool figures, maybe D&D characters, then it’ll sit in dust because you run out of random things to print. Also even the consumer makerbot isn’t the best, the tech still needs to trickle down the chain to give consumers better layer widths.
I forgot how much I love ragtime. Best most happiest music.
Very entertaining. 😛
You a fan of postmodern jukebox?
https://www.youtube.com/user/ScottBradleeLovesYa
I don’t know what that means.
*clicks*
Yes. I believe I am.
Stop stealing my advertising job 🙁
You should buy The Lesser Evil! http://www.shanewsmith.com/
They’re touring Europe at the moment, if they ever make it to Australia we should see them!
I don’t understand how that is a question?
It’s the answer! D:
*clicks*
*Heart Melts*
That is hilarious.
A keytrumpet?
Melodica, I believe.
So, apparently, Supanova is taking place in the April school holidays. That means no cheap fares. To get to the Gold Coast, it’ll be a $400 return trip at least, just for flights.
I get that scheduling comic conventions during the holidays makes some good business sense, but it’s not good for me. At all. Sad to say, I’m thinking I might have to forget my plans to hit Melbourne and the Gold Coast in April.
Or catch a bus to Sydney and fly from there and it’s $140 each way including bus fare on those dates.
Also free accommodation and transport and food. I’ve got that weekend off.
And the promise of friendship!
And pockets.
And possibly a hand!
I’ve been looking into it but buses from here don’t stop at the domestic terminal which means taking additional transport from syd central and traveling 8 hours instead of 3 to save about $40.
Succinct.
They usually stop at the international terminal, and the train that goes between the terminals is pretty cheap.
I thought it was possible to walk from international to Domestic (it’s a bit of a walk, but you look like a fit young man from the meat photos I’ve seen)
Otherwise, if you need a connecting car, I live pretty close to the airport, and should be able to offer my driving services 🙂
Much appreciated, man. I’ll be lugging 30kg of books (at least), so won’t be walking it. I’ll let you know if I decide to go this way. Thanks again!
Not a problem man 🙂
I feel like @dkzeitgeist’s haircut should be pointed out!
http://instagram.com/p/xf7JgaMgfC/
D:
He looks normal.
WHAT A DEPARTURE! 😛
Did someone say Departure? 😀
That’s what passes for normal these days?
(Looks awesome, btw. *swoon*)
WHAT A COOL GUY
It’s Sonny Crocket from Miami Vice!
Whoah, whaaaaat?
(Close, but still not clippered. Still… baby steps.)
I’m getting a haircut on Friday. It’s my first for a year. I hope you understand why I’ll have to cancel my attendance at your Birthday Shindig if it doesn’t work out. 😛
I was thinking about getting a haircut tomorrow. We can be haircut misfits together!
I think I might just dye mine a wacky colour if the haircut doesn’t look good. 😛
May I suggest green?
The beauty of shaving my head before is it’s an undo option for me. If it turns out terrible, it’s more than socially acceptable to cut it all off. 😀
My son’s says if I dye it blue he’ll love me better (because blue is his favourite colour). 😀
Buy his love, Strange. Do it! 😀
Hey, I was going to do mine on Thursday. Completing the set!
Wasn’t someone asking just the other day about what happened to Morris Gleitzman?
http://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/2015/jan/06/morris-gleitzman-interview-loyal-creatures-australia
That was me. Good to see he’s still writing
My favourite thing he’s written is probably a collection of his articles: Self Helpless.
2 of his books had a organ transplant theme didn’t they? or was that another author? I loved those books when i was younger.
I never liked Morris Gleitzman all that much as a kid. He would come up with a wacky ideas for books, then forgot how to make the actual writing part interesting. I liked Boy Overboard, though.
John Marsden FTW! Also Paul Jennings.
THE BLAGHS IS BACK IN TOWN
(hopefully this is now stuck in your head)
So @blaghman is in Sydney for a while (though hiding in the middle of nowhere) which is always a good excuse to get the shambling corpse that is the Sydney gang to come together for a few hours and be merry. But also it was my birthday yesterday so we could probably try and celebrate that a bit.
My good movie buddy @Cakesmith and I are keen to see Big Hero 6 this Saturday and then do some dinner/drinks for a bit of a casual night out. He’s suggested a place called the Soda Factory because it accomplishes both the food and drinks thing at the same time, and also it’s been explained to me many times that that place is pretty cool, but always open for better and/or more lazy suggestions I guess.
DIY TAY Meat Planning: insert relevant tags here!
Shit I’m bad at organising things.
Hands off @mrtaco, we’ve booked him for the weekend! 😛
@35 @alexpants @anonymous_pessimist @batgirl @batguy @cakesmith @cj @cookingmama @doc_what @effluvium-boy @fatshadylive @gingerchris86 @gorzilla @harli @hugo_the_hungarian_barbarian @mawt @morkai @mrtaco @novacascade @powalen @pupp3tmast3r @ruffleberg @shiggyninty @vonsack
Just coped and pasted from TAY Tags, so I’m sorry if you’re not actually a Sydney TAYbie. I’m fairly sure @vonsack moved away. :\
Thanks DC you beautiful man you
Noticed you didn’t invite me :'(
I’ve already reserved you for this weekend. *slow wink*
:S
You uninvited me because of your irrational and unfounded hatred of Martin Shaw, remember?
You said it was too late! I consulted with my lawyer and your story checked out, so I will reluctantly be seeing you on Saturday. I’m sorry. 😛
Can Marty S still come?
I’ll have to consult council.
What’s that, news of a better offer? 😛
*runs off crying*
Working and shit. Pencil me in for the next meet though. Keen on hanging out with all you awkward trashbags. It’s been too long.
Saturday might actually work for me! Maybe. My potential plans were for Sunday so I could possibly do both!
I CAN HAVE IT ALL!
JOIN US. Jooooiiin uuuuusssss…
I’m in like sin.
Assuming that this is like, Sin City, we’re talking about, or wherever Miami Vice was set. You know, that sort of place.
Nope. Giant whale monster from FFX.
Well, Sin swallowed a whole lot of things, right? So I guess we’re inside Sin, which is close enough.
Have seen Big Hero 6
Would see again.
Food and drink also a plus.
I’m in 🙂
Yeah Soda Factory ain’t bad. Im free both days so its all good, also haven’t seen Big Hero 1-5 is that gonna be a problem?
I could be up for it. I’m unfortunately on call so may have to dissappear if things start happening.
I’ll need to check with the other half
Ah dangit, you try to teach them some of what you know, steer them from the pitfalls, and you hope for the best for them, and maybe that they’ll carry some of your values, and then it comes to this. Mum asking me if Candy Crush and Scrabble are available on Steam. Where did I go wrong? I do feel a hint of pride at her looking for things to be on Steam, but… those? *hand-wring*
Hey.
Nothing wrong with Scrabble. Also, if the answer is no, just buy her Ticket to Ride.
Scrabble is a genuinely good game. The only downside is that it favours people with a broad vocabulary/good at anagrams, which isn’t necessarily a factor of the game itself.
Basically, it’s an issue of assumed/prior knowledge.
That’s why my family play it- we’re all very literate.
That said I may supplant it with Qwirkle.
This will sound so damn nerdy but I bought my house mates in London a copy of Scrabble for Christmas back in the day and some of my fondest memories from that trip is playing with them. :’)
My family has a long tradition of Scrabble.
Mostly it involves yelling at each other, referring to a dictionary from the 1970s and making my guests and me and my brother’s assorted girlfriends very intimidated.
Ah, memories.
Awhile ago @beavwa sent me up a copy of Star Fox 64 for the 3DS and included a copy of Wheel of Fortune he found in it. My wife spent an unhealthy amount of time playing it.
You were this close to getting the biggest loser DS game instead but decided to steer clear of any implied message that could be interpreted from that.
I can’t remember what the two other dodgy games were that I sent out with the other shipments though. Ah well. They were worth the couple of bucks purely for the amount of giggling I did packing those parcels.
Maybe suggest Dark Souls instead?
Buy her Portal. I did that for my sister, and now she’s buying a Wii U and getting Mario Kart 8.
We actually already did that. It took a VERY long time for her to get the hang of conceptualizing the 1st-person perspective and navigating a 3D space. But once she got it, she was solving puzzles like a champ… then we left, and she didn’t play it while we were gone and forgot how to be in a 1st person game. 🙁
That’s a shame. My sister probably actually got into Portal 2 more as she played coop with her friends, then went back for the original eventually. So maybe try that?
I really think I need to get her gaming on a desktop PC instead of her weaksauce laptop, really. Or possibly hook something up to the TV, Big Picture style. She does like the large print books, these days.
Get her puzzle quest?
Yo, Dawg, I herd u liek meme?
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That triforce is far too accurate.
would r8 8/8, m8.
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Fuckin’ newfags
Cool story bro, but I’m going to have my guy who’s an expert on cool stories to check it out.
I hate Kotaku competitions, I always completely miss the point, I have no idea what Mark is looking for. Makes me feel stupid every time.
the answer’s always dick pics.
and porridge
That’s okay. I wrote a long winded story about how my brother sold our joint N64 to buy a playstation. I thought I was in with a chance but no where near. Oh well.
Don’t worry Scree, I thought my story was good. Then I remembered there’s people here who’re actually good at writing & are creative 🙁
I thought I belonged in that basket. I don’t. D=
Oh you do.. I’m saying I suck at being creative lol.
I’m not so great at creativity either
Me neither \o/
Stop lying.
He’s looking for everyone to be Chuloopa. 😛
I won a Kotaku comp once – it was a looong time ago. I do believe it was the first time I met @serrels and a bunch of other Sydney TAYbies.
I’ve won quite a few in my time. Mostly back in the Wildgoose days though!
I won a Wildgoose comp once, in the Bioshock 2 era. Nothing from Serrels, though, alas.
I still hold a grudge against Kotaku because I never received my Vanquish prize.
There was a Company of Heroes 2 competition that I didn’t enter. @f4ction and I still managed to get copies of the game for helping Serrels out with the game when he was streaming it.
I feel weird about entering the competitions. After being around here so long, it’s just odd.
There are some comps I don’t enter but a limited edition PS4 is not one to pass up.
Yeah, I’d have probably entered this one if I had any appropriate memories to turn in. Unfortunately, I don’t think going round to a friend’s house after school with my PS2 and turning FFX into a co-op game really counts.
I still hold a grudge against Namco because I never received my Soul Calibur V prize. Stupid jerks were never there when I tried to swing by their offices to chase them down about it.
Never won anything from Serrels or Junglist 🙁
Just runner ups!
I won a copy of Blur, one of like 10 though, IIRC. Great game. A bit unimaginative, but I had some fun with it. I think the one I wanted most to win was the Mass Effect assault rifle replica. Not only did the winner blow everyone out of the water by making a flash animation, they weren’t even in Australia so they had to spend hundreds shipping it. Since then, being an Australian resident became part of the terms & conditions. But not before. *shakes fist*
I was the first one to try the poetry gambit, so I’m glad Loop’s epic 500 words of haiku didn’t scoop the win. 😛
My competition entering ability kinda tops out at follow and retweet. I never win those either.
I got a free copy of Alien: Colonel Marines from entering a comp on Kotaku. Not sure if I won or lost …
Just enter stupid entries that you don’t expect to win. So if they do, you end up extra surprised and happy ;D
Like when I won a DSi XL and Mario from Nintenty!
I’ve actually done OK.
Got Far Cry 3, Total War Rome II…
Alien Colon Marines which I traded in for Dishonored…
Hey, I just realised the winner’s in Adelaide! So am I! And I also gifted him a ticket to ComicCon once! Maybe I’ll pop by and check out that fancy new console in the flesh..
Also, I did win a Rize of the Planet of the Apes bluray and tee shirt competition on Gizmodo once. Received the bluray but not the tee which was weird.
I would do a comp but I’ve not seen any yet where I feel I have a chance of winning, I thought of joining the Alien Isolation one but I don’t have an internet connection that would allow me to upload a video in time 😛
Ahh, for those ones I don’t think winning is really the point. It was a great exercise in reliving a fun memory. I enjoyed it just for that.
@crazyguy1990
Some interesting tweets you have there. Didn’t know you spoke Russian…
Maybe he just plays a lot of Dota.
Wait… what?
Nyet!
Actually, that one was a favourited video from my phone.
Mobile Youtube seems to be going haywire in some way.
Carted the computer out to the piano to redo all the recordings again, the other ones from the MP3 player all had clipping issues, pops and crackles everywhere. Much better now 😛
@greenius, do you play much Joplin? I have this feeling like he’s come up before, but can’t remember.
Yeah, we’ve talked about him!
I learnt simpler versions of The Entertainer and Maple Leaf Rag back in the day when I was a youngen. Wouldn’t mind learning them again though!
Let’s go.
You’ve just made me watch a bunch of Tom Brier videos!
That’s what I’m doing right now >_>
Had never heard of the guy til now then suddenly HOLY SHIT SUPER GHOULS N GHOSTS!
Figured you’d go crazy for that one! I saw his vids a few years ago but it’s good to see he’s still at it 😀
dat neck beard has magical ragtime properties!
Unless perhaps it’s the bald spot *scratches chin*
*shaves head and puts hair on neck*
I grew up on Joplin
Janice Joplin
She must have been uncomfortable.
I was jus a kid & she were dead!
Oh, god…
I just recorded myself doing the trip from London to Glasglow in Euro Truck Simulator 2…
It took 56 minutes…
D:
Here’s a link to it, as well as a delivery from London to Grimsby:
http://youtu.be/d8SEBkazSoo
AGDQ is thata way.
Huh?
I don’t get it…
Awesome Games Done Quick.
TAY RPG 40K Rogue Trader completed for another night. Starring:
@freezespreston @tech_knight @sernobulus
And unfortunately absent:
@gingerchris86 @rize
GM Summary: Goddamn space clowns.
And here’s a link.
I felt useless this week,
Just sometimes your rolls are super unlucky.
That or Freeze is absorbing everyone’s luck and is ridiculously successful.
I blame his reaper rifle
Confirmed Freeze is using the warp for his own ends 😛
Hey, remember that time Blaghs got fan mail?
https://twitter.com/redartifice/status/543260265072975872
Good times.
Well, Shin Megami Tensei 3 bought & downloaded
For some reason my PS3 demanded 6gb be free for a 4gb game.
@bish
Liking it so far!
<3 all the SMT games!!
Mainline SMT or just all of them?
I’m finding SMT itself is a far more consistent series compared with say Persona or Devil Summoners.
Loving them all, but SMT wins out.
My order of preference would be SMT IV -> Digital Devil Saga -> Persona -> Nocturne -> Devil Summoner games.
That said I would love another Digital Devil saga or Nocturne game D=
Nocturne is officially SMT3
I’m in the process of ordering Strange Journey, was almost IV but they decided against it since it wasn’t set in Tokyo.
I really wanna play the Raidou Kuzanoha games after Nocturne & then DDS.
Trying to hold out for the inevitable ATLUS sale.
Also, playing the original SMT on my phone, having an inner battle about buying the original carts on eBay for my shelf.
Numenera: Tales of the Ninth World – Twenty-Third Session Recap (10th December 2014) starring:
– Elandar Kintan aka @popdart5 the foolish Nano who controls gravity.
– Scrappa aka @tech_knight the mechanical Jack who talks to machines, and
– Storyteller aka @redartifice the awesome GM who weaves tales.
Unfortunately absent:
– Blaghs aka @blaghman the tough Glaive who masters weaponry, and
– Nova aka @novacascade the stealthy Jack who explores dark places.
The windswept plains of the Cloudcrystal Skyfields spread out before the adventurers as the cart of Avendar the lore seeker trundled out of view. The tale that Avendar had told of Queen Stalliset and her long-lost kingdom had kindled the thrill and excitement of discovering riches and uncovering forgotten relics. However, the group was wary of the other tale regarding the beast Uturi and the gateway to the Underworld. After pondering the scrap of symbols that Avendar had given them, the party continued to venture north towards Uturi’s Pit.
Read more at http://taynumenera.tumblr.com/.
Great write-up, as always.
I still have no idea how I’ll get past that though! /o\
It’ll probably end up being Blaghs throwing you and then he’ll jump across. That’s probably what’s going to happen.
Blaghs jumping a 10 metre gap, sounds about right, he’ll call upon the hidden passive of his musclitis 😛
I know nothing about this, aside from the fact that the limited edition box looks shiny!
http://www.montecookgames.com/product/limited-time-only-exclusive-numenera-boxed-set-edition/
I manage to snag one because it is indeed very shiny. Expensive but shiny!
It’s a science fantasy RPG set one billion years in the future.
The best way to describe it that I can think of is a mish-mash between medieval fantasy, John Carter of Mars, and H.G Wells “The Time Machine”.
Compared to The Strange which is kinda like the Matrix crossed with Inception crossed with general parallel/alternate dimensional ideas.
Monte’s certainly had some interesting ideas since moving on from D&D.
I’ve always felt The Strange cribs a lot from Fringe
Finally got around to playing some Diablo III tonight.
1) Thanks to @strange who gave me a lovely pair of bracers for my Demon Hunter
2) Thanks to @shane who jumped in with my new Barbarian and helped me with some smashing and looting.
Thanks for the invite – it was fun!
WANT!
Quite, I wonder what we get other than the tin.
Steelbook, pin badge and a poster for Aus/EU.
I’d only get the special edition if it included a life-sized, wearable Majora’s Mask 😛
Dammit Nintendo.
But…we probably won’t get that.
I can still dream can’t I?
You can, but you know it’ll only end up with you disappointed, like every other time =(
Oh god I need dis
I finally got my secret santay! Thank you ‘!’, whoever you are \o/
I still haven’t received mine. D= I’m paranoid because my court comes off a street with the same name and numbers
Who on earth approved that? I mean ok sure, same name. But same numbers? That’s just asking for trouble.
Maribrynong council did. They won’t change it either because it’s too expensive apparently. they’re all odd numbers.
!
\o/
Anyone remember those ghibli 10th anniversary edition sets?
They’re still available at jb online and they’re part of the current 20% off sale.
So, which ones have you now seen? And what’s your verdict?
Totoro and Spirited Away. Next one in the queue (due to being the third one we now own) is The Wind Rises.
Verdict is that they are pretty awesome and more will be acquired and watched.
Ooooh! The Wind Rises.
Prepare to see the other side of Ghibli films (my favourite side :P) – I hope you enjoy it as much as the fantasy stuff.
Shit, I am so sorry. I don’t watch much television, but on the 20th December I noticed Spirited Away on SBS2 and four other Ghibli films that were showing each week as part of some special. I meant to tell you about it but forgot. Crap.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/12/while-you-were-sleeping-994/comment-page-5/#comment-3077995
I was aware. Thanks for the thought though. Appreciated.
Unfortunately they didn’t seem to end up on catch up with their 500+ other movies.
Hump day!!!
\(^-^)/
Now’s your moment to shine, @beeawwb.
Unf unf unf unf.
The Kantai Collection anime starts tonight and I am dangerously excited about it. That probably means it’ll be terrible.
Oh damn really!? Where are you getting your fix from because I definitely need to see it. Sure I won’t understand it without subs but I still want to see how ridiculously it works.
I only just got around to finishing Girls und Panzer about two weeks ago so I’m in the mood for more silly military + girl crossover.
Both Crunchyroll and Madman’s AnimeLab announced they have streaming rights for it, but don’t know if they’re going to simulcast or not. It airs at like 2am tonight so we’ll see tomorrow I guess?
If it’s even half as entertaining as Girls und Panzer I’ll be happy. I mean, it has a paper-thin premise. But so much potential. What I’m expecting is probably something more along the lines of Strike Witches.
And just after I typed the above, ANN posted this:
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2015-01-06/crunchyroll-announces-kancolle-tv-anime-streaming-schedule/.82975
So should be available some time tomorrow evening. However it looks like they’re region-blocking it and it won’t be an option for AU. Which sucks. Hopefully AnimeLab are simulcasting it properly too.
There is really only one appropriate response to region-blocking, in my mind.
(It’s unprintable, though.)
I probably need to invest in a region-unlocking solution that works with both Netflix and Crunchyroll.
Instead I pay monthly for a CR subscription and torrent rips of their shows. :\
Question for all you computer building peeps:
I want to build a little box for only downloading and playing vids to my TV via hdmi. What sort of specs would be sufficient and any hardware suggestions?
You could get away with an Intel NUC if you want a simple off the shelf solution.
You could probably put a mATX build together for less, that’ll do more, particularly if you have any spare parts. Any 3rd Gen Intel CPU onwards will handle 1080p video fine so you won’t need a graphics card. Biggest cost with the small video builds is always the OS if you opt for Windows. Although these days Ubuntu and Mint are serious contenders and very solid if your downloading clients have linux variants (most do these days).
Aye this; the biggest thing holding you back will be the processing power requirements of the OS of your choice; if you can even get XP installed on there it’d bring the overall cost of your gig down.
It wouldn’t cost you much if all you want it do is download and play vids; you’d probably need a decent motherboard; processor and RAM (these 2 would depend on your OS; you’ll want to get something higher than the minimum recommended specs), get Windows 7 as your OS if you can it’s less demanding on the hardware meaning you’ll have more processing power for vids; and a moderately priced gfx card should tide you over. If you included the cost of a new case and a vga-hdmi cable you’d be looking at around $400-$500 bucks?
I’m planning on doing the same thing but using my current computer while I build a brand new computer to use for gaming after I move out 🙂
I think @redartifice had a link to a build that was pretty good.
We use a Raspberry Pi at home, it handles 720P video fine (though I doubt it could handle any 10 bit encodes or HFR or anything). Main downside is that it doesn’t have that much storage (uses micro SD, I think, could probably attach an external hard drive to it though).
What sort of vids?
If it’s most stuff that’s in normal h264 or similar, then you barely need anything at all. If it’s for anime, then the elitist neckbeard assholes rule the roost as far as encoding goes and they’ve all adopted 10-bit h264 because of no good reason at all, and that can’t be hardware-accelerated so you need a pretty grunty CPU for them. 😐
Alternative option: Plex server on your PC. Plex App on a bunch of devices that you plug straight into the TV, or maybe even a Plex app straight onto the TV depending on whether it’s a ‘smart’ TV or not, and if so, which brand.
@sunsoar77 @pupp3tmast3r @tech_knight @stickman @blaghman
Thanks all, gives me a place to start.
I’d probably run win 7 on it for ease/versatility/VLC.
Do any MB’s generally come with a hdmi port or would I need to go a vga/dvi-hdmi cable and run audio separately?
@negativezero
Anime would be the bulk of it but I know zip about vid encoding. What kinda grunt we talking?
I could just run the stuff on my desktop, it’s even hooked up to my TV. But booting up my tower is inconvenient for just a vid or two and power hungry to leave on for downloading.
ooo if you’re watching h264 you might need a heavier hitting processor; that said if you’re going win7 you’ll need less RAM than win8 so that should free up some budget for a higher grade processor.
Sorry I can’t give you more specifics on the parts; I only bother researching and staying up to date when I decide I want to build a comp for myself; until then I keep my head down =p
There are MBs that come with HDMI ports, but I’m unsure if it ports the sound through it as well or it only uses its own sound port on the MB
10-bit H264 needs a desktop-class CPU at at least 2ghz. 🙁 The neckbeard dickhole encoders all swapped to it because “it plays fine on most people’s PCs” and left those with integrated devices or low-power systems that require hardware decoding out in the cold. I had a rad little box I used to run XBMC on that was powered by a low-end AMD Fusion CPU and 10-bit encodes ruined everything. 🙁
If you’re looking at a fair bit of anime you’d want to chuck a current i3 or one of the AMD ones in there. Either that or stick to ripping groups like HorribleSubs or re-encoders like Deadfish that release in normal 8-bit h264.
Yeah, that’s where I generally get stuff from. Tho I can see me getting frustrated if I happen to pick up one of those 10-bit releases from somewhere.
This is becoming way more complicated that I had thought it would be.
I automate everything using flexget so it only gets from those groups 🙂 But I also run plex server on my desktop now, so that helps a lot.
Yeah, mobos come with HDMI ports these days (so just check). You can run the sound through it too. An i3 with 4GB RAM should do you fine. I’ll let you work out the rest, but it should be like $400 without OS, or less.
@jocon this ^
Intel CPU with the integrated graphics will be fine. Intel has done alot of work getting good video performance out of their integrated graphics. Any of their current (even last gen) desktop processors will eat up any transcoding you need them to do without thinking about it. 4GB memory would be more than enough for a Win7 machine and plenty for Linux.
I’d imagine nearly all mATX boards come with HDMI now. My board that is 5 years old has HDMI out included.
As an example – I have an i5 2500 (so 3 revisions old now) memory and was using PS3 media server to transcode and serve 1080p content without any issues.
Also, if you have a tonne of content to organise then I second @negativezero ‘s set up with Plex with some automation happening and all of a sudden choosing what to watch is as simple as picking from your library. No fiddling with unpacking, renaming, moving, etc etc. I use Plex on my desktop (runs 24/7) and view on TV using a Chromecast with my phone (HTC) acting as a remote.
Speaking of SanTAY’s I got mine yesterday! So thank you whoever you were =D
It’s sitting on top of my PS4 =D
Now stuck listening to video after video from https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaZJPiTaMvNXmFHGXDizzYQ
I blame @greenius.
Do your work!
I don’t need my ears for work!
Half of our clients’ websites are down.
Our office server is down.
Our email is down.
“Crisis” is probably too light of a word to use right now 😛
And you still have time to TAY comfortably… Looks like your handling the crisis with ease. 🙂
I literally have nothing to do unless a distressed client calls asking where their website is (“I TOLD YOU SOMEONE WOULD STEAL MY WEBSITE IF YOU DIDN’T UPDATE THE COPYRIGHT”)
Which none of them have because we’ve trained them to always contact us via email first… which is down 😛
RIP in peace inbox when it comes back online.
*strange whirring noises, flashing lights, and a sudden VWOOOMPH! before Mad Danny bursts into the TAY comment thread, blinking and slightly dazed before composing himself again*
Greetings from The Future!
I made it back to the start of the comment thread – now to finally make my worthy TAY introduction on …page… …five… Dammit! >.<
I didn’t make it far enough… stupid TAYDIS ran out of fuel three pages short *grumble*grumble*
Hey buddy! Welcome! Want some rye? Course ya do!
can’t talk yet – too close – gotta watch out for future me to avoid a paradox
appreciate the Zork meme though
But you at least have some lottery numbers to share right, futureman?
Welcome!
We already have too many Dans though. You can be… Albert. Welcome, Albert!
We don’t have a Danny, though. I assume this is the karate kid!
I vote this guy gets to keep Dan/Danny.
He’s mad Pow. The other ones aren’t mad. We must be nice to him.
I vote we move DC to Dudley officially from this point on.
I am DC. It stands for Deceptively Calm. DON’T TEST ME! 😛
I actually think Dudley Chesterton is a delightful name!
#DanLyf
Great. I’m now spending an huge time trying to think up a witty acronym for TAYDIS.
…
I have nothing.
You’ve perplexed me on your TAY comment number one @mad_danny. Well done. Well done.
Read that as TAYAIDS.
I need more sleep…
Talk Amongst Your Displacement In Space?
When does WWIII start?
Xenoblade?
Bleh, can’t stand this heat… 🙁
Then get out of the kitchen. *decisive nod*
Ugh. *upvote*
This is my dog currently
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/luckydogofdeath/WP_20150107_004.jpg
So… yesterday I interviewed for a newly created position to manage the team I’m currently in (our current TM is now line-management).
24 hours later… Achievement Unlocked: Management. :O
Edit: #NotPage6
Yessss. Congrats.
I’m a little bit in shock, honestly didn’t think I’d get it.
Should’ve believed in yourself as much as I l believe in you!
*orchestra begins to swell*
*slow motion hugs and high fives all-round*
I was waiting for the punchline disappoint /o\
(Seriously though, congrats!)
Promoted up to stop you screwing up the actual work so much?
Congrats.Bob’s risen to the level of his incompetence! Yay!
I kid, I kid, congratulations man it’s a great achievement and you’ll be greatIt was bound to happen sooner or later. 😛
Seriously though, all my skills are technical. If anybody is going to be incompetent at management you’re looking at him. 😛Done a management qual?
I’ve done in-house training, few years ago. And I’ve had indirect reports / delegates before, but I have no qualifications in anything (except a Cert III in Financial Services.)
Congrats Man, I’m sure you’ll do well 🙂
I started playing Dark Souls last night, keen to see what all the noise is about.
Made a Thief, I dunno if it’s a good choice? It has backstab, unsure if other classes have it too. I got up to
the area that looks like castle walls. Then I went through the white door into next area and died because I got swarmed. 🙁Hopefully people are still interested in giving help if I need it haha.
Factoid page #6 from your all-time absolute put up with him because we haven’t figured out how to stop him posting quizmaster!
Dame Judi Dench, probably best known these days for the time she played M in the James Bond movies, does cross stitching in between takes. This seems quite stereotypical, as she is an elderly woman who has that grandmotherly quality about her.
However, every single one of her massive, intricate cross-stitches (seriously, some have been reported as being as large as an A3 piece of paper) have one thing in common:
In the centre of each one is beautiful cursive cross-stitching lettering that reads “You are a c*nt.” or “You’re f*cking terrible” or, in one case, just literally the words “p*ss sh*t ar*e c*nt”.
She has apparently made over 100 of the now-infamous “You are a c*nt” cross stitchings in the course of the last decade.
She gives them as gifts to her co-stars.
Another little factoid that I remember reading about Judi Dench. Years ago Judi Dench and Vin Diesel were starring in the same movie and, after shooting was done, they’d sit down and play D&D with a couple of other actor friends. Apparently Judi Dench played a Barbarian during these games with Vin Diesel.
She also is a Dungeon Master when she plays with her grandchildren.
I’d pay good money to watch a recording of a D&D session with Vin Diesel and Judi Dench in it.
Holy crap. I would love to hear Judi Dench DMing.
Judi Dench is one of my idols.
“Doctor, Doctor! I’m addicted to Twitter!”
“I don’t follow you.”
#page6
Got a pimple on my nose days before birthday meat. THIS IS THE WORST THING TO EVER HAPPEN.
*cries hysterically*
…
That or I don’t care. Probably the second thing.
Also, I wussed out on getting a haircut. A friend was even going to go with me for moral support and everything. XD
Just wear one of these and no one will notice
Gross.
I don’t think I can make it any more.
Contractually obligated, my friend. You’ll be there. YOU’LL BE THERE!
Clearasil the hell out of the little f’er!
Actually, don’t do that. I used it once on a pimple for a couple of days I ended up with this massive rash on the side of my face lol.
I don’t even really get pimples any more. It’s the last hurrah of my 20s I guess. 😛
Go to Chemist. Get Oxy 10 cream. Apply twice daily and it will be GONE.
I have the skin of a 15 year old and Oxy5 is the best (10 is the stronger version for emergencies)
My new job is in mining, so I’ll get to spend a lot more time with geologists. I like geologists, they’re down to earth people.
#dadjokepagesix #hi@strangeWhere the does the joke end and the truth begin! *flails arms*
You sure you aren’t just being picky?
I thought that joke was rock solid.
it was either that ore it went completely over his head
Well, something was always slated to. Chalk it up to an inevitability.
Red’s are usually pretty good. I think mineral much more likely to miss the mark.
Some of these jokes are pure Gold.
Maybe that is the joke?
I don’t approve.
The best people are the chefs at those mining sites. Salt of the Earth, they are.
Please don’t take your job for granite …
That’s it, I’m reporting all these comments. They’re offensive and have shaken me to the core… sample. Hahahahahahahahhahahahahahahhahahahahhahahahahahahahhahahahaa.
Idiot.
HE JOINED IN!
HEY EVERYBODY, DC JUST JOINED IN ON PAGE SIX!
WE’RE WINNING!
Don’t make me break your sternum, Stan. >:|
I used to think there would be a time when puns consumed the world and consequently destroyed it, there would be a few of us left standing that could say “We fought. We fought page six for so long. And we will always fight.”. I would look around and you would be there. Strange would be there.
But here I am, all alone.
My friends have fallen.
But I will continue to fight. I will fight for my friends, not for what they are now, but for what they represented.
Rest in peace, DC.
You’re not alone. I fight but in my own way. From the inside. Deep cover-like.
My New Year’s Resolution for this year is 1920×1080.
#dadjokepage6I might try 2560 by 1080.
2560×1600 OR GO HOME
But when I go home that’s my resolution.
I see, that’s the solution to your resolution confusion.
There’s just no substitution for such elocution.
That’s what I’m on, and I love it. Yay for multitasking!
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but plateaus are the highest.
#Page6
Factoid Page #6 (in lieu of the last couple of weeks where I haven’t posted on page 6):
There is currently a vehement, intricate, long running argument amongst scientists about whether or not the colour pink exists.
This argument has been going since 2010, has been reported on in 2012 and is still ongoing.
According to many scientists, pink is a pigment of our imagination.
Still managed to get a pun in there. FIGJAM #dadjokepagesix hi @strangeRene Descartes was sitting in a French cafe, having an espresso and a croissant. The waitress stopped by and asked him if he would like another espresso. “I think not”, he replied, and *poof* he disappeared.
#higherlevelpuns
There was this magnificent mathematical horse. You could teach it arithmetic, which it learned with no difficulty, algebra was a breeze, it could even prove theorems in euclidean geometry, but when you tried to teach it analytic geometry, it would rear back on its hind legs, kick ferociously neigh loudly and make violent head motions in resistance.
The moral of this story is that you can’t put Descartes before the horse.
Anyone else feel slightly violated when someone else uses your game console? Had someone staying with me the other day and he said that he had been playing my copy of GTA (he has his own and his own console) and changed my characters appearances. Seriously who does that? Or am i just weird?
Using anything of anybody’s without their permission or heads up is odd. I’d not raise a fuss about it, but I’d certainly call them out, forgive them, dismiss the matter as trivial, and then be passive-aggressive about it for the rest for the day.
Yeah, I’ve felt weird when my best friend got into my account and changed my Xbox Live profile character to be a clown head with glasses on and a CoD drone prop.
Did he ask? Because I seriously don’t mind as long as they ask or have permission
No i was not asked, i came home from being out all day and he mentioned to me if i had seen that Trevor was now in a dress, When i said no he was like oh.
Although he is a friend he is not a real close friend so it is a bit weird. I just get really panicky when people touch my things without permission, I had said he is more than welcome to unplug the cables from my console so he can use his own but i never mentioned he can use mine.
yeah, that is weird. They wouldn’t wear your clothes or eat your food without permission.
My clothes no (helps when i am bout a foot shorter and about 90kgs lighter though) my food yes he did.
I couldn’t do that. I would have to ask. Always.
My unwritten law is that no one but me touches my savegames. Anyone is free to use my hardware, consoles, games, whatever – just don’t mess with my savegames and all my hard work.
I tend to make backups of my savegame files, I am definitely a fan of multiple profile-allowing games but of course not all games make use of this feature.
That is roughly mine as well unless i am present and in a cbf playing mood then i will let people play and do whatever they want but if i am not present its weird.
My kids however can do whatever they want with the games they play ( Don’t stress they are never allowed to play anything that is not within age group).
I wouldn’t be overly upset about changing my GTA apperance, but if they touched on of my RPG characters there would be hell to pay.
I didn’t spend an hour in the character creator for you to come in and make them Derpy McDerpson
Derpy McDerpson…
This is actually an awesome name for my next Fallout or Skyrim playthrough. *scribbles down name for safe keeping*
I saw you on Steam the other day too with Puzzle Quest, good game??
Yes. 😀
You are welcome to it
Puzzle quest is really good, I’ve played all of them. f2p model that isn’t too bad, you can play as much as you like without paying anything. leveling is slower and very hard to win at a low level but you get stronger.
Changing appearance is weird as fuck, I gotta say. Also I’ve only had consoles short time, and only one friend played it while I wasn’t there. Was pretty funny – he started streaming Destiny and it put it on FB where I have co-workers as friends. 😀
Without permission? Very much so.
I don’t mind people using mine but not my profile.
Hey all! *waves*
I’ve chipped in with the occasional article comment, but finally decided to hop on TAY for a proper salutation. I… *crickets chirping* …right… I get a bit of free time to say hi and the darned thread is already six pages long! …and I missed joining the epic line of geology puns! -_-
hmm…
*after some delay, the mechanical noise and motivational power ballad of a construction montage play from somewhere just offside of the comment box. Shortly after, Mad Danny returns, triumphantly holding a macguffin aloft.*
I call it… The TAYDIS! …Talk About Yourselves Dimension …In …Somethingorother ~Dammit it was the first time travel pun that came to mind… TAYme travel …time TAYvel …Gyaaahrgh! >.<
Anyhow; with this, I shall travel back to the start of the comment thread; page one if I can, but I’d settle for the top of page two; and I shall make my proper greeting when the regulars are still active with the start of their discussion! …hopefully they don’t start asking me silly things like lottery numbers or future wars though.
*The macguffin starts blinking, first with lights and then with visibility itself! Mad Danny shimmers as the device envelops him with the gratuitous particle effects typical of teleportation in pulp visual science fiction media. An epic lens flare, and Mad Danny is gone – hurled backwards through time to prevent himself from missing the start of his first Talk About Yourselves comment thread!*
you haven’t missed a thing, page six is all about bad jokes.
Honestly popping in whenever isn’t bad, TAY lasts for a whole week so it’s not like introducing yourself on page 1 or 10 makes a difference.
It does if page 10 falls on a weekend though.
Nobody reads TAY then.
You’re forgetting @dc
He called me a nobody. That’s about right. 😛
Who’s this guy?
Nobody.
Except the depraved and desperate, so people like me would stick around.
Yeah I’m always there too.
Bad jokes? No, it’s about Dad jo–oh, I see what you did there…
*glances around*
is this about right? future me left already? – I was watching from page five – now I don’t need to worry about accidentally causing an apocalyptic paradox that might tear asunder the very space-time continuum itself… not that it would be a very impressive paradox when the damned time machine can only travel one page before failing me like so many people in my life! Oh they will pay. They Will PAY!
*coughs*
I mean hello there everyone! *waves nervously*
Oh hey DC – thanks for th~ohgod it’s only been one page and that rye is covered with purple mould! How was I to know tachyon radiation would cause aurghblpht~
*Mad Danny is devoured by hideously mutated Zork bread*
~Damn you DC you planned thi~
*loud crunching sounds*
~will get you~
*grotesque pop akin to the end of Akira*
I like you! Dammit @dc why’d you have to ASPLODE him?! 😛
I find it amusing that a mad scientist with a time machine pops into TAY at the start of 2015. 😛
Lunch Roll Call!
I have a Multigrain Chicken breast sandwich with walnut ( ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ) and diced celery.
I had leftover slow cooked beef stew. It was good eating.
salsa, chips and iced coffee
That’s an interesting mixture of flavours, I don’t like salsa or iced coffee but I can imagine how it would go well together!
well, salsa is highly acidic and s a little spicy. The iced coffee counters that.
Leftover steak and wedges.
Swapsies?
*pauses chewing for a moment*
…
*keeps going*
Probably Lamb Chops. Not sure if I’ll have them for lunch or tea.
I have $10 and a hideously expensive work cafeteria.
So probably meat pie and a coke then.
#healthy
I have another 3 hours before lunch dammit.
Hang in there, breakfast is the best meal of the day anyway.
yeah but i forgot to have it before leaving for work.
You’re in WA I’m guessing? Otherwise if you’re in AEST you’re waiting a pretty long time for food!
Yeah I am in WA. Thankfully i packed a small amount of watermelon this morning otherwise I doubt I would last.
Whatever I damn well feel like at the time, that’s what!
The luxury of working near a million different cafes/restaurants/a shopping centre food court 😛
Did you buy the expensive lunches?
I went to the Executive food court.
Was it in a desert? 😛
Vegemite and cheese sandwich, peanut butter sandwich, nut bar, and an apple.
Pretty much the same thing I took to school to eat.
See ya at the handball courts!
You mean the footpath between the science and home-ec blocks? You’re going down!
RUSH
Point 1, Powalen.
Dang it, I’m always faulting. Too much power in my hits. You win this day Pow. *shakes fist*
Pizza scroll.
It’s not time for lunch yet but when lunch is taken I shall be having some chicken on brown rice.
It’s only breakfasting time, you crazy people!
What is breakfast but an early lunch?
French fries! Just french fries. Practicing for when I’m in America. 😛
Not enough bacon cheeseburgers!
You always have a good lunch!
And I have the belly to prove it! 😀
A brown rice sushi roll with salmon and avocado.
Yeah, I’m jealous now. I fall for a sandwich nearly everytime and think I’ll enjoy it, and 9/10 I don’t enjoy it. I’d imagine Sydney has some pretty awesome sushi places so that’s not a problem for you!
It was nothing too special, just from a sushi shop the local shops. But they do a nice mini-sushi box with a few edamame thrown in that’s just right for kids.
I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me.
My friend’s bakery burned down last night. Now his business is toast.
I used to be a banker but I lost interest
I really wanted a camouflage shirt, but I couldn’t find one.
The other day I held the door open for a clown. I thought it was a nice jester.
To write with a broken pencil is pointless.
Show me a piano falling down a mineshaft and I’ll show you A-flat minor.
Drop a piano on an army base and you have A-flat major.
Kant walks into a bar … only he doesn’t, a prerequisite of movement being three-dimensional space, which is merely an illusory construct of pure intuition.
HEY THAT’S MY SHTICK
I’m a shtickler for quality.
A baby seal walked into a club.
What did the Buddhist monk say to the hot dog vendor?
“Make me one with everything.”
The monk gives the vendor a hundred dollar bill, and the vendor pockets it. The monk asks for his change, and the vendor says…
“Change comes from within.”
Chistmas and Halloween are the same day, because dec 25 = oct 31
Holy shit.
Spooky shit?
Entropy isn’t what it used to be.
They say a Freudian slip is when you say one thing, but you really mean your mother.
OK i’m done 😀
STAR FOX HAS LISTENED TO PEPPY, REPEAT, STAR FOX HAS LISTENED TO PEPPY
Tiglet rolled over for the first timeI need to invent a mechanism to create additional realities in order to experience various things, but the ability to also merge them together so the experiences come back to reside in my original timeline. This whole 24hr a day thing is pretty lame.
Try drugs.
(don’t :P)OKAY! Peer pressure, you work so well!
When the Sun shines upon Earth, 2 – major Time points are created on opposite sides of Earth – known as Midday and Midnight. Where the 2 major Time forces join, synergy creates 2 new minor Time points we recognize as Sunup and Sundown.
The 4-equidistant Time points can be considered as Time Square imprinted upon the circle of Earth. In a single rotation of the Earth sphere, each Time corner point rotates through the other 3-corner Time points, thus creating 16 corners, 96 hours and 4-simultaneous 24-hour Days within a single rotation of Earth – equated to a Higher Order of Life Time Cube.
Don’t you fucking dare.
Did you hear about the lab assistant who accidentally froze himself to absolute zero?
He’s 0K now.
3 men walked into a bar.
Don’t you think the third would of ducked.
Did you guys have epic dad joke threads around Christmas time? They are pretty abundant in those pop crackers haha.
There wasn’t too much actually, a lot of folks I think are hoarding them for the year too come 😉
I on the other hand, pulled out some TAY Page 6 specials at the Christmas Table for many lolz.
So these jokes on P6 are they a regular thing?
Yes, every page 6 is dad joke. There’s some other themes too, like ‘letter writing’ or impromptu appreciation pages. Someone else can probably explain more.
Cheers will have to keep coming in here seems like a fairly good page.
The BEST page, I think you mean. Unless you’re @strange. Hi Strange.
Yeah, it’s pretty cool for chats n stuff and people here are pretty rad.
Real life dad-joke/fail…
My father-in-law was lamenting that when he makes fried rice its gluggy and not loose like the take away variety.
My brother-in-law says, the trick is using day old rice.
Father-in-law looks at him incredulously and in a puff of exasperation asks how can you tell how old the rice is… It’s not on the bag in the shop!?
Queue 4 full seconds of silence before the entire family falls over laughing.
Penny drops for him and walks away to get a beer.
Alright. It’s been well more than 4 seconds and I still don’t get that one.
Edit: oh wait. The day old rice isn’t the joke.
I wear not getting dad jokes as a badge of honor! It means I am not too far gone!
Realising now that story probably works better in person…
I am still missing it >.>
Fried rice works best using rice you cooked the day before… Father-in-law thought you had to buy rice that was only a day old.
*tilts head sideways, frowns*
I think you’re going to need @freezespreston’s pie chart.
Don’t worry, I got it straight away 😛
Wait, Patrick Klepek works for Kotaku now?
Yes?
So Kotaku US actually have a good writer on staff again? That’s cool.
Giant Bomb are going to miss him though.
I’ll say. His introductory article on Kotaku US was stuffed full of angry comments hoping he fails for leaving Giant Bomb.
I’ll never understand why some people are so willing to turn on the people they like for no reason. :S
Says Mr Sternum-cracker 😛
That’s an injoke. You’ll have your own after Saturday! 😀
Which reminds me I should figure out flights and stuff…
Hey, what did the chicken say when it crossed the road?
I’ve hidden this warning in a dad joke @mrtaco so dc won’t read it – quick, run. Run. Get out while you can. He wanted me to sleep in a shed. IT WASN’T EVEN HIS SHED. RUN GOOKY!Because the internet is mostly populated by toddlers.
In this case, Patrick is one of the people that gamergate attempted to target as an UNETHICAL JOURNALIST because he was once in the same room as the chick that slept with that other guy then broke up with him and made him angry.
Hmm, I would’ve thought you’d give a mote of praise towards Schreier, at least. Is he not the one who did a fair few decent articles on RPGs, western and eastern alike?
It’s a Highlander situation between JRPG fans.
I’m not sure why JRPG fans would be such a fan of Highlander, but I guess Sean Connery is kawaii as fuck, so I guess that’s a point in it’s favour.
It’s like Babymetal
He’s okay, though his YOU SHOULD WATCH THESE ANIME SHOWS THIS SEASON lists make me facepalm every time, though that’s likely more a result of being a jaded asshole that’s watched the stuff for more than fifteen years.
? From memory, doesn’t anime articles and the like fall under Richard Eisenbeis?
Oh. am I getting them confused? The two seem to blur together for me for some reason. Lack of a distinct writing / editorial style perhaps?
Schreier is usually pretty upbeat and positive. He gets excited about a lot of JRPG news.
Eisenberis is a dickhead douchebag that hates everything because liking anything would cause his world to explode.
He likes a lot of stuff I don’t and vice-versa. Eisenbesswhatsisface, moreso.
Hey, @liondrive is it ok if I emulate a game that can no longer be bought??
No.
C’Mon @liondrive don’t be like that.
No.
But @liondrive D:
Just do it and if anyone ask say “I was gonna murder a baby but then I found this game”. All will be fine.
But then I couldn’t murder any babies for a while 🙁
*Strange rumbling sound, followed by a sort of backwards ‘pop’. Mad Danny stumbles into comment thread, stopping short when he starts to read his previous posts*
Great Scott!
*ducks as half-giant walks past wearing a kilt and wielding a claymore*
(…the sword, not the anti-personnel shaped explosive charges you twat!)
I can’t believed I was saved by page six of all things! The excess joke-a-watts seem to have splintered the timestream, leading to this alternate reality where I haven’t been devoured by mutagenic carbohydrates! What a punbelievable coicidence – I guess you guys did have enough flux to give this time! 🙂
See, @dc, we’re not just funny, we’re heroes
well if you’re claiming to be heroes, then you can deal with that damnable kilted half-giant!
Look at the mess he’s making! *gestures frantically at strewn detritus*
It’s chaos! He’s a chaotic Scotsman! We need a saviour! Perhaps Simon Peg~I mean Mark Serrels can save us? He’s more of a lawful Scotsman – though I guess that then means we have…
*puts on sunglasses*
…no true Scotsman
YYYEEAAHHHHH!!!
Then the only solution is a fake Scotsman.
Mel Gibson, it’s on you
There’s going to be a Japanese remake of Free Willy.
Apparently it’s called “Blubber”.
I’m scared that I might be falling further and further in love with Elite: Dangerous.
Can somebody gimmie some BAD points about the game, before I rush out and ruin my relationships and personal hygiene on it?
Con: If it weren’t for two people on TAY, I’d have never even heard of it 😛
It can be highly addictive.
If you’re going the joystick route you could be risking carpal tunnel syndrome.
If you’re using the Rift with it you’ll probably never been seen or heard from again.
IS IT WORTH THE RISK?
MAYBE
*probably
On a serious note: I just want a lovely game that I can go explore in. Without having to fight dragons (Skyrim), mutants and raiders (Fallout) etc. A game that pits my ability to manage my resources, with constant pushing towards that horizon.
That’s why Elite just got on my radar. That article is making me wonder whether this may be the game that scratches that itch.
Everyone who plays it is a paedophile.
Hey she was 18!
It looks so deep it scares me.
So I may or may not have already started planning my costume for this year’s PAX (specifically my gym leader costume for the Pokemon League)
I also may or may not have already bought/ordered a fair bit of it as well… It’s possible that I may be a little too enthusiastic about this 😛
Bad news though: the hat I bought for my costume doesn’t fit my big fat head very well. Just a fraction too small! At least it wasn’t expensive.
Can you give us a hint of the theme at least? I admit I am curious after your Swarm gym last year.
Yes, I could give you a hint.
Missingno?
Great, now I’m going to have a nightmare about seeing missingno as a reality-tearing hole in all available senses and then the world’s save gets corrupted and it ends.
I think he’s just painting a cardboard box…
First he cuts a hole in that box. Then it’s what he put’s in the box during step 2 that makes it interesting.
Come to think of it, a costume for that couldn’t be too far off being possible these days. Between that active camo tech or even just a bunch of screens on the outside of boxes, throw in some fancy shaders to distort everything…
But you wont.
@beavwa was talking about the possibility of joining in by being the guy who only uses Shiny pokemon and wears a shiny sequined suit…
“Mr Shine”
I could sound like a cleaning product.
Sequined body suit with a blond mohawk wig and black sunglasses
I haven’t even decided that Batboy and I are even going to PAX this year, but he’s already decided he wants to dress up as a Blue Pikmin.
That’d be great. You could re-use your pink wig and go as
Pikmin Julia GillardBrittany!Wearing a fishbowl on your head all day wouldn’t be the best though 😛
You ruined Pikmin 3 for me!
Actually, I was thinking of re-using my green wig and going as a Belossom, and dressing Batboy as a pokemon trainer.
We might need to go on 2 days now 😐
Now you have to go. Preferably as Brittany but Olimar is also a perfectly fine option.
Oh my god, that is awesome.
Do I haveta help you find green shirts, pants and yellow shoes again? 😛
Nerp.
Going with nice colours this year.
Yeah, Yellow(ius) is gross.
Dammit. I wanted a shopping montage.
Quick, call @liondrive!
What type of hat is it?
If I told you that it would give the whole thing away!
I can’t help you fit it on your head then
Hmmm… Reverse clue… What kind of hat would give away the theme?
– Cowboy hat – desert theme – rock, ground, cacturne
– Armoured helmet – steel
– ye olde aviator cap – flying
I was thinking bug catchers hats =P
Fedora – Murkrow/Honchkrow team
M’Pokemon *tips fedora*
Dirty paper hat and fingerless gloves – hobo theme with trubbish / grimer?
Our development data centre has gone down, thus I can do no more work today.
*spins on chair*
Early mark!
I just realised (since I haven’t yet purchased one) that the “New” 3DS doesn’t come with a charger any more. Seriously!? How the hell can you sell something and not include the means with which to make that thing operational? I mean, if it ran on AA batteries (*Batteries Not Included*) that’s different, but when it physically requires a charger to work… I just don’t get it.
They’re now solar powered handhelds.
Wasn’t there a GBA game that had a light sensor to change the game depending on when you were playing it? Maybe they can tie it in with that.
BOKTAI! THE SUN IS IN YOUR HAND!
Lazy me used to hold it up to a light bulb for dat “solar” energy… 😀
Did that work?
I didn’t try the game because I worked nights back then.
Yeah but you pretty much had to have the light bulb touching the game cart 😛
It is kind of crazy isn’t it. Here’s a thing. You literally can’t use it unless you buy another thing.
But then, Nintendo is the king of dick moves since no one ever holds them to account for it.
Well that changes now! I’m going to hold them to account for it.
*buys New 3DS*
Dammit.
Yeah, that does tend to happen.
Yeah, they’ve done that some the XLs came out, I think. I could understand it if they ran off micro USB power, since I have hundreds of those, but since it’s a specific cable it’s rather annoying.
Makes you wonder how companies are allowed to do that here, sell your a product that takes a proprietary charger and battery but do not include it with the product forcing you spend more money on buying a charger :/
I know Nintendo expect 99% of buyers to own a 3DS already thus having a charger, but what if they’re trading the old 3DS in toward the new one or selling it off on Gumtree/eBay/whatever or giving it to a brother/sister/cousin etc.. Seems a bit shitty, they could at least offer a discount coupon for a charger or offer ones with a charger for a little bit more. Just seems silly.
It does actually go against the ‘unit pricing’ section of consumer law, but that’s more to do with advertising – they’re meant to prominently display that it requires a $219.95 3DS + $14.95 charger = $234.90 for full working unit.
Guess no one’s complained yet to get them investigated and slapped down?
Yeah, I just checked a few catalogues and I can’t see any advertisements for it, nor do I recall seeing any advertisements anywhere else. Maybe that’s how they’re getting around it! 😛
Edit: EB Website has it VERY prominent as part of the Buy Now button, so I guess they’re fine at least. Target have it in grey text on a white background, same size as the rest of the description. Not sure if that counts.
Most prominent price must be the total, not the bits. That’s the law that I looked up when they first announced it. Been wondering if anything would come of it.
I’ve submitted a complaint to the ACCC online form. *shrug* Probably nothing will come of it.
I think Big W had a New 3DS + Charger bundle around launch but yeah, it’s not advertised very well 😛
I saw someone mention that they got it classified as an accessory, so they didn’t have to include the charger.
My question to that is does that mean when the sales disclaimers say “does not include video game consoles” then it doesn’t get excluded? 😛
From memory back before the 3ds xl came out when Europe and that didn’t get a charger with it, people on Whirlpool worked out that it was against Australian consumer law. Somebody already had a submission ready to send to… no idea who, so maybe detective WP are already on the case 😛
I am sooo over work – I need an escape plan. Hmm, does anyone have any cool stories about the things they may or may not have done or the extent they have gone to to get out of working for the day? The week? Please share.
Once, I did this crazy thing to get out of work.
I applied for leave months in advance and then when the time came, I took it.Annual Leave? Pfft, everyone does that. Real workers hoard that shit.
I just got “directed” to take annual leave since I’ve got too much. Jokes on them! I qualify for Long Service in 9 months.
Kudos to you for making it that far along. I’m at five years and holding on an extra two for pro rata is really feeling like a struggle.
Bouncing around various jobs / departments has kept things fresh and interesting. Every time I get bored a new opportunity comes along.
Also, too premeditated. I think at this point I’d prefer something more spontaneous.
Jump out the window?
I’m on ground floor already. Unfortunately for me, it wouldn’t be a long enough fall.
My 2015 New Year’s resolution should have been: stop working; but instead I went with..
..2560 by 1080. Okay, I lie. It’s what it has always been: 1280 by 1024.
640×480.
VGA 4 LYF
I am doing market research.
Market. Research.
I am melting.
Heh, sounds fun. ..ny. I thought you were on the unemployment train?
I’m not doing market research currently, I have been employed for a whole 3 days now.
More seriously, I’m phone taying during a biobreak
My boss is based in Sydney so another person in my team is kind of like my supervisor.
On Monday she said “go home” and it was fairly early
On Tuesday she also told me to “go home” and when I was still trying to finish up some stuff she said “you’re still here? go home :D”
Today she left early so I also left early 😛
The benefits of having a boss in Sydney 😀
But even when my boss is down in our office she also tells me to go home hour(s) earlier than usual. Can’t argue with my superiors 😛
Either they’re pretty chill and want me to go home early, or I’m just not wanted :'( (can’t argue either way if I get to go home early :D)
For my brother, ‘Go home’ means, “I have to sign off on the shit you did today, and I don’t want to do it first thing tomorrow. Stop working, it’s giving me more work to do.”
Hey mum! I got to come home early and got a sweet pay check! Something about server ants.
Or the bosses are up to something and don’t want you to see it.
Co Worker: Has @greenius left yet?
Boss: Yes He has
All Co Workers: YAY PARTY
It’s probably like that episode of The I.T. Crowd where Jen is being excluded from the department head meetings and turns out it’s all massages and drinking haha.
I think she’s trying to drop you a hint.
But you keep going to the wrong home.I’M NOT YOU!
YOU’RE DOING A PRETTY GOOD JOB OF PROVING OTHERWISE!
WE BOTH LIKE GAMES AND RAGTIME
OMG TWINS
I only have one story to share and it’s a sad one. I’m way too by the book to actually skip out on work randomly. One time however, I could have. Back maybe ten years? I was at an awesome house party that went well into the night on a Sunday, though I did have work early Monday.
6am hits and everyone else has crashed out except for myself AND the most beautiful girl there that night. Anywho, she grabs a blanket and proceeds to sit onto the couch that I’m on, covers the both of us and before I knew what was happening, fifteen minutes of fondling passed and she whispers, ‘Let’s go upstairs.’
‘Sorry, I have to work.’
Yep, truth be told I bailed on her and went off to some job that I can’t even remember. Priorities, huh? I don’t know if I truly know them well. But everyone has problems, right? You can only hold a false smile for so long. Fun tales, though. I like fun tales.
Ayup. Sure-fire reason to call in ‘sick’. There are more than a couple instances I really wish I’d done that. And a few where I did… You wanna keep that to a minimum, though. Otherwise you end up with coworkers thinking you’re really disease-prone.
Not a misplaced suspicion, if it did happen too often 😛
On another hand, I have a friend that last month sent an SMS to his boss at 2am saying “chatting to a girl, won’t be at work”.
People in my office don’t really know wtf I do, so I can do whatever I want if I feel like it. I sometimes take trips to the other city location in the company car blaring tunes streamed from company iPhone. Feels good man.
w00t! Work perks keep getting better and better!
Found out today I can get Unlimited 100Mbit broadband on the HFC network, for $29.99 a month! Providing it’s available to my house of course, but it should be. We have foxtel points in to some units, so there’s definitely cable access around here!
Just have to wait til tomorrow to find out for sure! *fingers crossed* I might finally be able to do away with my landline and ADSL!!! w00t!
Everything’s coming up Welbot!
I envy you. Think of me with my 800kb connection when you suf the web or play games.
*runs away crying*
Mmm well you can stop being envious. Apparently the cable is not available in my st yet! It’s coming some time in the future! D’oh! Not sure if it’ll be available before or after NBN is ready, so just have to suffer with my current stuff until then. I could get Telstra cable, but not at the prices they charge! My mate who works at Telstra has 100Mbit cable with them, and he said even with his staff discount, he pays more than a consumer pays for the equivalent service with Optus! :p
LOLZ
Woah, that sucks for you and your buddy, both. How can Telstra justify that price difference?
Cos despite “Competition” being available in Aus, they still own most of the networks, so they just do what they like!
oh my. Apparently starbucks is introducing flat whites to north america. I’m curious to try it out if I can find it but I imagine it might be like reuniting with with a hot schoolmate a few years after graduation only to find they’ve become let themselves go and had 2 kids in the meanwhile.
Wait, what? Flat white isn’t a thing over there? How is it not a thing?
Because it’s an Australian / NZ invention?
It’s coffee and milk. Seems rather obvious…
Adding milk was the first mistake.
I don’t know, do I look the type to be contemplating a coffee’s existence?
But yeah, it’s odd. Even in locally owned coffee houses the flat white is a rare, if not wholly non-existent breed. I’ve wondered about it myself and I think it’s just how coffee is marketed, starbucks and their neverending line of frappuccinos and the such. We’re getting better at it, but it’s just so odd how behind we seem compared to the rest of the world.
I have no idea, but a mate of mine did some training in the US and when he asked for one, everyone looked at him suspiciously like he was racist. Apparently you can’t mention the words white or black without people checking to make sure it’s not a race thing.
Yeah, my in-laws had that as well. You can’t order a short black or anything like that. Merica is wacky,
Ok, after reading my analogy I slightly regret using that particular example, but I feel it still quite well conveys the disappointment I could potentially get myself into.
There’s no potential.
It’s Starbucks. It will disappoint.
Wait, there’s Starbucks in Canada, I thought only Tim Hortons existed there!
The truth is is that Starbucks just uses Tim Horton’s coffee.
And the actual truth is that while Tim Horton’s ‘Double-Double’ is almost drank as a rite of passage it’s still not that prominent.
In unrelated news I heard they might get rid of timbits and if you understood what that meant you’d be throwing up your hands in absolute disgust.
I’m gonna go into a food coma pretty soon…
sweeeeet! i love a good food coma! So long since I had that joy though! If I can make it to @dc’s shindig this weekend, I’ll have one for sure though I reckon! The dishes at Bavarian cafe are huge!
Bob accepted the last reserved space, alas. D:
I’m a horrible person.
Nah, the spot was open first come first serve. You’re a hero of our times! 😀
I reserved an extra space specifically for such occasions.
I’m an anti-hero for the every-man?
With a heart of gold!
I hope I haven’t annoyed or alienated anyone. I don’t want any one to miss out, but I feel like I had to book quick. It’s always pretty damn busy and I was in a decisive mood to get it done. I also know that lots of people dislike when plans are up in the air with no detail. Wanted to have those details straight away. 🙂
Eh, you could always ring up and ask to reserve a few extra spaces if that;s possible..
As Virus said, if you let them know before hand that 1 or 2 extra will be going they shouldn’t really mind. After all, they get more money that way. =P
@virus__ The lady said there’d be a deposit if I did that and also I had a hard enough time psyching myself up to make the first, easy call. XD
Deposit?! Well we better boycott them then!
it’s all good! Maybe I’ll treat myself to a hamburger in celebration of dc’s b’day for lunch one day this week instead! If anything, it kind of takes a bit of pressure off!
Awesome. Don’t need to do anything Saturday morning now, can come up to Brisbane whenever suits.
…I have no idea what to do with the afternoon 😛
Woooo! This is actually happening! 😀
Not yet it isn’t!
I am bad at booking things.
It’s. Happening. >:|
😀
Trying to decide which would be “better” out of a 4, 6 or 8 person dorm. And JetStar flights are cheaper but far more sparse than Qantas, pretty much only got a 10:55/11:25 to pick from coming up and 12:35/3:10 coming back. Rest are all a bit early/late. Hmmmmmm.
Gah, just unfriended someone I used to work with because they keep tagging me in those stupid “Thanks Bunnings” type phishing posts.
They’re just trying to save you money because they care.
Sony are making a new version of the Walkman that costs $1200. Who is going to buy that?
Not @f4ction.
Audiophiles who want a new portable music player, particularly those who have a nostalgic attachment to the Walkman brand.
You’ll never hear about it after release, but it’ll probably sell in the (low) tens of thousands, about what Sony probably expects.
I was interested until the stupid price. I loved my walkman MP3 player which i owned back in 2006. I do wish someone would come out with something that would replace the hole the iPod classic left behind with a similar price range :/
I was a fan of the Creative ones, especially the MuVo. They used to be pretty spiffy. Mainly got to know them because my sister had one, then a Zen, then… some one that came out when the whole touch screen thing was coming along. Still had buttons, but started playing up. Then I think the one after it didn’t have buttons so she wasn’t interested any more. Never really had any use for one myself, but I liked the idea of them 😛
You always struck me as a die hard Zune fan.
Maybe if I had ever come across one at all!
But then, they were Microsoft weren’t they? Probably would’ve fanboy’d away from them 😛
Skype, Nokia, MSN… You are the Microsoft Man!
Lumias aren’t real Nokias!
Haha, fair enough. I need to find me an iPod Classic, so I can have all my music in one place, all 110gb of it heh.
Nottttttt me. I’ve never really been interested in Walkmans, and I’m not much of a fan of Sony, and I’m quite happy with Fiio’s offerings!
Seriously, there’s so many amazing DAPs out there for so much less money (comparatively) that I don’t get why you’d buy one unless for some strange reason you have to have a Walkman. And if you have to have a Walkman to you I say, your loss.
A rant
Seriously, fuck this heat. It’s 11pm and it’s still fucking 30 degrees! Get your act together Melbourne, because this is bullshit! How am i meant to sleep?I have no idea how people in queensland put up with this. It’s stupidly humid to boot.
I can’t even open a window in my room because one is right next to a tree and last year, a spider came in. The other window will fall out if I try to open it.
Fuck.
My wall isn’t cold anymore so i can’t even rely on that!
I don’t deal well with heat. Especially at night
We deal with it by just being superior people in general.
I think it’s more of a case that we just get used to it. We have a solid few months of heat that we can acclimatise to. In your case it sounds like another case of Melbourne weather with the whole multiple seasons in a single day thing.
But yeah, I don’t even have a fan to sleep when it’s hot so maybe I’m just weird.
And us Queenslanders say we’re freeeeezing whenever it gets below 25. XD
I must be an honorary Queenslander.
Put an ice pack around you. And around your groin. Nothing suss, it’s legit one of the target areas *go figure*
Icy Cold water before bed can help lower your body temperature until you fall asleep, also stretching causes a chemical release that’s conducive to sleep! It’s helped me get through the hot nights without an aircon.
No portable fans? It’s the only way I’m making it through these hot summer nights in Syd.
@welbot and other TAY folks who advised me on computerness:
I ended up getting this for $950. It had the added bonus of being a complete enough package that I could set up my old computer for Mrs Shane at no additional cost. Swapped out the video card for my existing 2GB thing, and installed my SSD in here, and now have a pretty damn decent machine. Today I upgraded from Win7 Home Premium to Professional, so I could take advantage of all 32GB of RAM, and now I’m good to go!
Thanks for your advice – it helped!
very welcome sire! glad you are happy with it! 🙂 I would have thought home premium 64bit could handle 32gb though.
Nope, alas.
ahh dang! That’s pretty shite! Not surprised I never knew about it though. Never had anyone who used Home Premium try to put any more than about 8gb in a machine yet!
It’s a pretty damn good feel when you’re chilling out to some sick beatz, but it’s so good that it gives you the chills. You can feel the pressures lifting away from your body as you start bopping along to the beat.
Yeah
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boNRVXR7bqg
*Dances*
BADADADIDADOUUU
I’m bummed I’ll miss the DCelebration this weekend, but on the plus side, I booked my April flights to the Gold Coast today. @freezespreston, pls remind me to send you an email with the details when it’s a little more like daytime.
It’s now 5 minutes more like daytime. Remember the email.
Done. Strangely (hi @strange!) this worked, and I remembered to do it this morning! 😛
Dear diary,
Fuck Chocobo breeding. Seriously.
It’s easy!,(after doing it a bajillion times)
The quest part is waiting for that douche to remember how to do the next bit. He’s poop
I finished Act V of Diablo III today, and almost instantly my desire to keep playing kind of dissipated. I tried out a bounty in Adventure Mode, but it didn’t really do it for me. I think the game has just been relegated to the MP-only pile, just like my Mario-Kart-U console.
Back to 32 degrees today…
Almost wintery. 😛
Ugh, I hope the cool change comes early
Pretty much all lower from here, mid 20s and lower
I decided to play Bleed, I realised that I had never touched the Arcade or Challenge modes, so I thought I’d play them. Checked the description. I would have to beat the entire game on one life, with the option to play with one-hit deaths. I made a promise to myself to never, ever touch that mode.
Okay, let’s check out Challenge mode. I fight bosses. Seems easy enough.
OH GOD I HAVE TO FIGHT THREE BOSSES AT ONCE.
Huh, accidentally pressed post. I guess I’ll continue writing from here. I decided to play the vanilla game. I played the second stage on very hard mode. It seems that very hard means very hard. I was stuck on the boss for 30 minutes. I could only ever get it to half health before dying.
I encountered problem after problem. First, I kept dying to his attack A. Then something clicked and I figured out how to dodge it. Then I kept dying to his attack B. Then something clicked and I figured out how to dodge it. Then I figured out how to dodge his attack A and shoot him at the same time. Then I figured out how to basically dodge all the attacks, but I kept dying. Finally, freaking finally, I figured out his attack patterns and how attack A transitions into attack B and what side of the stage to be on when you think he is going to use attack B.
So I beat him. Arms were raised in the air and an hurray was uttered. I beat him with pure skill and not luck for once.
I randomly chose a video from YouTube to show how insane Challenge mode is. But after commenting, I actually watched the video. It’s freaking insane.
Bleed is pretty fun, I’ve played it for a bit. Got it on my SteamBox to finish one day.
When I got home tod– er, yesterday, now – I created my own ‘blackout curtains’ out of alfoil, stickytape, and flattened cardboard boxes (cereal box thickness).
It’s super-effective!
I laid down for a nap and immediately slept for six hours and dreamed of being Archer. I really should’ve done this sooner.
Government mind probes stopping you from sleeping?
Somehow managed to get 3 new games the day before my Xmas holiday finished, I plan well!
At least two of them are handheld though, so trainamajig!
Pokémon: So I May Have A Problem
Got a new team member sorted within 150 eggs. Quite lucky there.
Now I’m trying to get something with its hidden ability, but it only shows up rarely as a singke mon in horde battles (the only way to get the HA), and the handful of times that’s happened in several hours, no HA.
Can’t DexNav it in ORAS? Friend Safari in XY?
Nope. Not catchable in ORAS. Not in friend safari.
Horde encounters come with a “small chance” of HA. I actually think this might be as much as 5%. No further way of increasing that chance.
I’m going to guess that you’re interested in Sheer Force Nidoking, I might just have some extra Hustle Nidoran males if this is the case.
I’m going to put my guess in for Sturdy Carbink!
Ding ding ding!
Aiming for Carbink – the reflection cave hordes feel like about 70% mine Jr and 30% roggenrola, and about 10% of roggenrola encounters having a carbink. So if that is onlybabout a 5% chance… That’s something like a 0.15% chance, or about a 1:600 rate. Joy.
Not going to try and dissuade you.
I would probably run Clear Body Carbink, or find another to fill whatever role.
I may end up with a clear body one. I want the carbink for the theme, and I like to breed with the HA (if I want it) and then let fate decide whether I get it or not.
Like how I spent several hours back in pearl just to catch a female togepi with a premier ball and bring it all the way forward so my eventual shiny would have the premier ball… What I do doesn’t always make functional sense but it’s the system I want to apply.
Heh, it stabilised to about 50/50 between mime Jr and roggenrola, probably still about 1 in 10 roggenrola has a carbink.
Interesting numbers then – the 1:20 chance of HA means it’s about 1:400 for that HA carbink. Meanwhile, I’ve managed 21 carbink encounters so far (but no HA), small saving grace being that it’s easy to check for sturdy without catching.
Something else to note – while it’s a 1:400 chance for that HA, each encounter is also 5 chances at a shiny, and with the shiny rates somewhere around 1:1000 these days, that would make it twice as likely for me to encounter a shiny rather than the HA carbink.
Case in point – got a shiny mime Jr this morning. Still waiting for my carbink.
Edit: I stand corrected. MM plus shiny charm is supposed to be about 1:1000. Just shiny encounter with charm is just over 1:2000. Puts what I’m trying to do about on the same rate. Joy.
Well, here’s hoping that you catch a Shiny, 6IV, Sturdy Carbink
That’s only a 1:816,503,386,520,000 chance.
Sure, why not.
Have you tried searching on the GTS for level 1 Carbink? If they’re level 1 it’s got a pretty good chance that someone is getting rid of their breeding rejects (perhaps with the HA)
I managed to get a HA Buneary that way (which also was 6IV and had 2 egg moves, believe it or not :P)
I checked the XY GTS this morning and it was just a wasteland of silly trades for legendaries.
The problem here is that there’s pretty much zero chance of someone trading an HA one without realising it, and there’s hardly any trade demand or volume since anyone can catch it in their game as part of the normal playthrough.
Maybe I need to try my luck with the ORAS GTS, or I may have to dive into somewhere like the GameFAQs trade forum. I’ll come up with something eventually.
Hey Secret SanTAY recipient, did you receive your gift?
If it’s Secret SanTAY how’re they going to know who its from?! >.
Well I mentioned mine on Twitter, but not here in TAY. It could be me?
Got an awesome (over the price your naughty SanTAY!!) gift. Wrapped in Superhero wrapping paper (love it!) a pub quiz question book (gonna be mined for upcoming questions, you bet) and some steam wallet money.
Naughty SanTAY. That’s over $20.
Very appreciated however!
And if they haven’t received it how will they know that you are their SanTAY?
Waitaminute! Does this mean one of you 3 is my Secret SanTAY?!! =O
Haha no, my Secret SanTAY worked out who I was when I left my mobile number on the back of the box… Damnit!!
On the plus side they now have you for a possible booty call
I don’t have mine yet…
I forgot one of the big problems I’ve had from piano. Getting bashed-up nails. Really need to figure out how to fix that, I’ve already got one turned to mush which I’ve tried to fix (again :P) with superglue. Not sure how well it’d hold through another session though.
Doesn’t a lot of nail polish have stuff in there to help strengthen nails?
Time to get fabulous!
Try a strengthening polish, and cut your nails square – they’re stronger in that shape.
Live from Twitter, somebody I follow literally just posted this (direct quote):
“What the fuck. My ‘Dungeons and Dicks’ cartoon is missing – it was on the office wall before the hols and now it’s gone”
*sigh* oh to be an artist in an art studio like that. Best I can do is charge my DS by my office desk. Anything else would get me a trip to HR and a stern “re-education” on “workplace sensitivity”.
So today’s question is: What personal stuff do you have hanging around your home comp desk/work desk?
Good ol HR, you know sometimes I wonder if they’re good for anything aside from legal compliance?
Well since I don’t work in an office these days. My home computer I have, 2 guitars picks that I got from James Hetfield & Robert Trujillo of Metallica, a hand made little devil keychain which my friend in the UK got me, bunch of random crap, hard drives, batteries, an iPod, thumb drives, blank media disks, ADSL filter, thats about all I can see 😛
I’ve got my cardboard cubbyhole. And a bunch of post-it notes that haven’t been transferred to my notebook.
Photo shrine to my wife and kids and departed doggie! \o/
Made me picture a dog that looks like Leo DiCaprio.
I’ve got a bowling pin momento given to me by some students I was caring for at a recent sports event, with their names and bowling puns written on it.
“You derailed my heart, love Charlie”
“You’re a one-pin-wonder, Taylor xo”
etc. ad infinitum
It’s like a personal page six, just for you, all the time. 🙂
I think I’ve posted pictures of my work desk many times before, but I have:
– A big tennis ball
– A little cheapy figurine of the Great Saiyaman
– A little LEGO boat with a Gollum, Bilbo and Michelangelo minifig sitting in it
– A paper aeroplane that I made one day when bored
– A Genesect figurine
– A Velociraptor named Captain that wears a little origami sailor hat I made from a post-it note
– A statue of Liberty souvenir from when my boss went overseas.
– A T-Rex that is bound and gagged with rubber bands
– A Dalek and 11 Doctor Who “LEGO” (not LEGO) figures
…typing it out like this I’m suddenly realising I have a lot of tat on my work desk…
At one point I had a squishy (stress ball style squishy) penguin holding a sign saying “The End is Nigh”, a small ninja Domo figure, a ninja theme water bottle, and some ninjago Lego.
Then after a few too many potential then cancelled desk / office moves, and a few actual ones, I didn’t bother unpacking any of that.
Now the most personal things on my desk between scattered piles of handwritten database notes are a dead hearing aid battery and a myki with $-6.05 of credit (new ones cost $6)
Edit: speeling
I don’t have a work desk, but the one I use often I modified by plugging in a spirometer!
Printouts of the most borderline webcomics I think I can get away with.
Plus some of the funniest. (Eg: http://xkcd.com/386/)
Get some oglaf on there. 🙂
Ahahahahahahahano.
I actually had to black out a swear on my Christmas special strip.
2011 TDF poster
Poster of TDF winners 1903 – 1934
Framed photo of day one with my daughter
Invite from the staf fto team meeting after they ignored me in email
Frog magnet from Mrs Tigs
That’s pretty much it in regards to poster type stuff, random little things on my desk as well
A little boat stress ball and a frenchsackboy figurine.
Aw I just read ZZ Top are touring this year with Jeff Beck. That would be an awesome gig, one of guitars best virtuoso’s & one of rocks best trio’s to ever exist. I have hopes they’ll come here, I doubt it though.
That would be awesome. I’d have to go to Melbourne though if they came. No one ever comes to Tassie, well except the Foo Fighters, and I wasn’t able to get tickets for them.
It would be, since I missed Jeff Beck last time he came out here same goes for ZZ Top, since they were supporting GNR on their 2013 tour I think it was?
Haha, yeah it’s like the Northern Territory they usually miss out too heh.
Tassie is easier to get to than the NT, and more people would come to a gig of that quality. Plus Tassie has some decent venues for concerts.
Didn’t get to sleep until 2am because of the heat. 🙁
Alright, so I didnt buy a 3D printer…
Anton called veto – for now.
he is okay with me doing the printing though, so it may happen later 🙂
Did you explain that you can print anytime you want?
WHO VETO’S A 3D PRINTER?
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2014/12/31/the-means-of-production
Seriously, though… One of the guys made a Ghost from Destiny.
A *checks calendar* Thursday morning question:
There’s a bunch of superbands and movies with a bunch of icons all in it, how about games? If you could get a bunch of studios to collaborate on a game what would it be?
eg: A game with id working on the graphics, Obsidian on the story, Vanillaware on the art and Square Enix on the music.
Note: not my ideal but a quick thoughtless example.
Like when the best people from Square and Enix got together with Dragon Quest’s Yuji Horii and made Chrono Trigger?
Bioware and Bungie to team-up. Some of the best combat you’ll ever engage in, and you’ll actually give a shit about why.
Mostly I just want Telltale to steal some Bioware properties. Telltale presents Mass Effect or Dragon Age.
This, except instead of Bioware (who are average at best when it comes to writing), substitute in Obsidian.
Rockstar, Valve & Bethesda. I have no idea what they would make, but boy I would be happy. Then have Telltale do an adventure game spin off of it 😛
Another Obsidian/Bethesda RPG is pretty much my ideal combination. More stuff like New Vegas please but with less bugs.
On the more crazy combinations, I would like to see Creative Assembly combine with Paradox and maybe whoever makes the Mount and Blade games to make a really nice strategy game with large-scale battles that you can fight in and have a robust strategy element as well.
WayForward’s 2D platformer team but working in tandem with some other studio that will help flesh out the game more and stop it from being as barebones as they tend to be. Idk, Nintendo’s Metroid guys or something.
FROM Software and Telltale. I don’t really care what they make, but I’m sure it would be unbelievable.
Or FROM Software and Naughty Dog for some brilliant and gorgeous gameplay, teaming up with Quantic Dream and Telltale for some of the best storytelling out there, with Square Enix and Lucasarts on the music.
Joe Madureira on art (Darksiders, various comics)
Atlus on battle system
Uematsu on music
Greg Rucka on story/dialogue
whoever designed FFIX’s world map on world map
Resident Evil 2’s level designer on levels
But who should direct???
Suda 51 for shenanigans and crazy. 😛
Nope nope nope.
I like his humour, but the gameplay has never entertained
Kamiya! \o/
I don’t care about the rest of it, I just want a new game with Joe Mad’s art. Darksiders visual style was awesome 🙁
He’s mad1
CDProjekt and Relic.
They could make a fun RPG/Shooter with an amazing story in the Warhammer 40k universe.
CD Projekt doing a Warhammer 40k game would be super rad.
Seriously it could be just Dark Heresy: the video game and that’d be epic as heck! Warhammer 40K D&D basically xD
even better if they could look at something like Spellforce or Overlord for inspiration – make your ‘hero’ central but still let you get into some epic scale battles
Retro Studios and ex-Psygnosis making a WipeOut-inspired F-Zero game.
That would be cool. Except for the WipeOut part.
Forget WipeOut! How about giving them back the rights to Rollcage? 😀
Never met ‘im.
Ugh. Why does everyone I speak to this morning HAVE to bring up the tragic massacre that happened in France and then go on to voice their opinion on it and why they’re right. I really don’t care and i’ve heard enough about it this morning *sigh* also all the unprecedented hatred that comes with said “opinions” truly disgusting.
UGH. People.
Something happened in france now? I haven’t checked the news my opinion is we should have burgers for dinner..do you agree
Burgers sound good to me. Must have bacon & caramelised onions on it though 😛
I wouldnt have it any other way, except with cheese..Jack Cheese with Jack daniels bbq sauce…mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Man this is sounding like an awesome burger, someone call epic meal time stat!
Oooh, been playing The Swapper this morning as part of the new PS Plus games. Fun, but it has left me thoroughly unnerved. Haha! Looking forward to the inFamous DLC too. 🙂
Here’s this months line-up for any one interested!
Play Isaac :'(
Nah, probably never will. *decisive nod*
The Swapper is bloody awesome, I got it on PC ages ago I think in a humble bundle and a few months ago when I was in a totally dead bored and sick of absolutely everything mood, I randomly booted it up and played the entire bloody thing from start to finish. Amazing little game.
Some of the puzzles are so mind crackingly hard that you think your brain is going to dribble out your nose until you realise that blue plus red equals purple and think that to miss something so simple, your brain probably already HAS dribbled out…
Oh, did the new PS Plus games change over today?
I’ve been wanting to play Duke Nukem. Should probably start downloding that.
Well it sounds like the latter is more fitting. Yet the article then goes on to pretty much only seem to talk about solutions to the former, with advice such as moisturising etc.
Out of curiosity, have you ever had issues with in-grown nails and things like that? I imagine if they break easily there’s a chance they could splinter and cause problems.
Nah, not really. The inner edge of my big toes seem to curl in sideways a bit and kind of got a bit irritated now and then in my late teens or so, but other than that no issues.
Breaking nails has never really been an issue, or at least not in the way that seems to be the most prevalent issue for everyone else. It’s just that they split, like… laterally. The layers separate so then with less thickness there the nail becomes soft and weaker. Sometimes they’d just flex too much and eventually kind of break along that flex line, but not so much snap as just get worn like when you crease something back and forth too much. Those ones are the worst since they tend to happen over the nail bed.
Mine were a bit like that when I was a kid. Now that I think about it, I have no idea when things changed…
Peeling nails can be a mineral deficiency – things like low iron can cause soft breaky nails. Also, just having your hands exposed to water too much is bad for nails. I wear nail poish partly because it looks nice, but also because it makes my nails waterproof – I spend a lot of time washing up. cleaning, or washing mine or someone else’s hands.
If anything I go out of my way to avoid water. Too much exposure to it makes my hands all peely and horrible, like even if I shower too frequently 😛
Try a layer of clear polish – it might help!
Actually come to think of it, I don’t know how any of this would work with climbing. That’s giving me a new beaten edge (if not top surface too) every week, which then gets trimmed back. Probably can’t be helping things at all.
Ah, well there’s my answer, I was anaemic/iron deficient throughout a lot of my youth.
Kind of like me in my 20s trying to figure out how to gain weight when eating shit-loads and going to the gym wasn’t working.
Millions of results for ‘how to gain weight’, all of which were rearranged into articles about how to avoid gaining weight. God dammit.
I’ve made those same searches! :'(
It turns out the solution was ‘get old’.
*looks to upcoming birthday* D:
Skeletor arms!
SKELETON MAN!
Skeletor knows his macros.
@mrtaco @jocon @trikeabout
I’ve finally started getting into Elite Dangerous over the last few days and loving the every living crap out of it… Still noodling around in my Sidewinder but have upgraded it a fair bit…
Feel free to add me to your friends lists in game and got me up for some co oppy goodness… My name is unsurprisingly: Pixel_Ferret
Sidewinder’s the best ship anyway. Still kicking around in mine, just because I can 😛
Which system did you start in?
I forget the name because I moved straight away XD… Currently kicking around near ngabali (?) mainly because there’s a station there called Tordenskiold which is very Scandinavian inspired XD
I’ve been wondering if they’ve changed/expanded the starting systems between gamma and launch. In gamma it seemed like there were maybe only three or four of them, and so many people got stuck in Cosi like me. And then complained that it was horrible there and all tried to move out. Hardly see anyone around there any more 😛
I haven’t had a problem with it though. Moved one system over to Suyarang where I’ve ended up allied with them and racked up a few million via (mostly the assassination) missions. Also recently some general bounty hunting.
I really should get on the whole bounty hunting thing… Seems to be where most profits are, but I was to scared the sidewinder was not good enough for that and I didn’t want to lose my Eagle either so I have just been mining and selling commodities (and salvaging less then legal items)
Have you found yourself a good mining spot? I only had like one system with a metallic belt, and it was on a secondary sun a good 8kls away or something. So not the greatest for finding those gold/palladium stores. Got impatient with the travel between clusters so used the logout/in exploit to boost my funds a little, now that’s gone there’s little reason to go back 😛
Not really, found a place in Frigaha with plenty of silver, so each run I’d make about 20k, which was good to get me started but that’s about it… Have sold my mining laser and started kitting towards more combat now, usually doing the salvage contracts to get money
If you’ve got an A-grade power distributor and don’t have much of a problem with aiming, a pair of fixed beam lasers holds up pretty well in combat.
@mrtaco Pretty well? Beam lasers shred anything they touch! They’re amazing. They take a good deal of trigger discipline to use effectively because they overheat damned quickly but they’re so effective the discipline is well worth learning
What was the logout exploit? I didn’t hear about that one, did you appear at your destination or something?
Asteroid composition used to be fixed, so if you logged out and logged back in you could “reset” the one you were mining after it had been drained and then you would be able to suck all the juice out of it again. So in the belt clusters, there’d usually be one that had palladium in it so if you found it and milked it dry, then you could just reset it and do it all over again. Interestingly, when you logged back in you would always be facing the opposite direction so you had to point away from it to be facing it when you came back. You could achieve the same thing by jumping into supercruise and back again, it’d still be the same rock with it. But then you’d have to hunt it down.
They’ve fixed that now though, the deposits are randomly placed. Better off finding a metallic ring, since belt clusters are so sparse.
Sidewinders can be amazingly dangerous if you’re a good pilot. It might vary a lot depending on your controls but you can get a hell of a lot of subtlety and grace out of it with a HOTAS setup. I’m using a Logitech G940 and between an analogue hat to control the lateral & vertical thrusters, the stick to control the rotation of the of the ship, the rudder pedals for yaw and the throttle that I’ve got mapped for full range so I can reverse as well, it’s pretty damned hard for enemies to stay out of my crosshairs for long (and I use fixed weapons because gimballed & turrets are for noobs who can’t aim)
I wish there was some kind of dogfighting “simulation” thing, a battle arena where you could just fight people without having to worry about trashing all your stuff or being on opposite ends of the galaxy to your friends, etc. Would love to have more practise playing against humans.
Hmm I really should hook up my pedals for this! But yeah got a very basic HOTAS, but hoping to pickup a X-55 as a delayed Christmas present for myself XD… my current HOTAS allows me to strafe quite easily but I don’t have any vertical thrust assigned to it due to lack of buttons/axis… I was going to save up in game to kit out my eagle that I got with the pre-order so the fixed lasers might be good for that
I never did get back to reply to this but you might want to think twice about the X55, it’s not been getting the best of reviews. At least do a lot of research on it at any rate and see if the reports I’d read about it being a bit crap were just a minority of people being extra vocal as disappointed people often are.
As far as good mid-priced HOTAS setups go, one of the most reputable is the CH products fighterstick and pro throttle, they don’t look that flash but from what I’ve read they put all their money into the build quality which is really the thing that matters
@aliasalpha I had a chance try one of a little while ago, and picked mine up on the weekend… I heard there was a huge amount of DOA units in north America but I have no complaints about my unit… Solid build, no creaks or cracks as summer have reported… Longevity of build quality I can’t comment on but I haven’t had an issue with Saitek before so I guess we’ll wait and see… All I can say is, a few days in, I’m very happy with it
Oh well as long as you didn’t get a wonky one that’s good, it might have been all early iterations that had the problems and they sorted out whatever was causing it
Maaan I dont even have it as I forgot and missed out on the merc edition and then they jacked the price up to $80 and I was all screw you guys.
But I am getting pretty bored at the moment.
Don’t spose you know how viable dedicated exploration is?
Viable? Initially not really, but it’s pretty easy to find a system where not everything had been explored yet and then sell that information, but it’s not worth thaaaat much… The most I’ve sold information for was $3000 which is peanuts in the long run… I’m sure there’s a lot more to it but I haven’t gone that much into it
Edit because autocorrect!
Is that just with the basic discovery scanner? I did a run with the advanced one just to map out a few of the nearby systems because I was sick of flying through them and not being able to tell where stuff was, I got a few that were worth 8 or 9 thousand. Couldn’t say what they had in them though.
From what I understand, using the detailed surface scanner on the stuff you find will make you more money. My station wasn’t selling any though so couldn’t grab one to try out. Gotta say though, the ADS feels like cheating 😛 Much more fun using the basic or intermediate, where you need to try and spot the points of light moving relative to the others with a parallax effect. Even if it is less time efficient to do so.
Yeah I read somewhere that the ADS just goes boom then you pretty much have everything, but I agree that using basic is much more fun… I wanna fly closer to stuff to find out what it is, much more engaging 😛
Still hardly played. :/
But I shall add you all and see what happens. I did the “classic start” option so I’ll be in Lave (and presumably will do the old Lave to Zaonce milk run a few times before I strike out for exploring).
Seen a few whinges about how hard docking is, but once I’d worked out the controls to actually request docking permission I flew straight in first time – the rotational docking is hardwired after so much Elite/Frontier in my yoof…
Got an X52 Pro last year and that probably helps, can do almost everything without removing hands from HOTAS.
Okay, gang, recommend me some games please!
Thinking about MGS:GZ, because it doesn’t seem like the disc will ever drop below $35 in price. Also considering Surgeon Simulator for the laughs.
https://store.sonyentertainmentnetwork.com/#!/en-au/ps4-games/cid=STORE-MSF75508-JANSALE15PS4
GZ is great, they did a lot with one level.
I played $45 & no regrets.
Surgeon simulator is hilariously dark, dunno how it plays on console but was more than worth the money I paid on pc for a giggle
Either of the Lara Croft dual-stick games!
EDIT: Of which neither are on the list you linked. Nevermind 😛
If you want MGS:GZ I can give you my disc copy. I don’t really have any plans to play it again.
For serial? Thanks… but at least let me buy it from you!
Nahhhhhhhh. Probably just going to give it to you hey.
Kantai Collection anime started. I couldn’t wait until this evening to watch it, grabbed and viewed it earlier this morning. It’s not bad. Not amazing, tries a little bit too hard to work in various characters signature phrases and stuff, but I guess it is the first episode.
Whoever the Admiral is, they have the weirdest strategy when it comes to ship selection. I’m thinking they must be using actual historical fleets or task groups because the combinations are just odd. Not sold on Fubuki as a main character, though they do make appropriate jokes about her seeming pretty plain.
A little bit disappointed that they featured 33 different characters (Shoukaku, Kuma, Tama, Haruna, Kirishima and Atago in the recon fleet, Nagato, Mutsu and Ooyodo in HQ, Sendai, Naka, Jintsuu, Fubuki, Mutsuki and Yuudachi in the torpedo squadron, Tone, Shimakaze and Kisaragi going for a run, Kitakami and Ooi eating desserts, Akagi, Kaga, Soryuu, Hiryuu, Inazuma and Ikazuchi in the main Carrier fleet and Mogami, Yuubari, Hibiki, Akatsuki, Kongou and Hiei in the support fleet) and all of them got a line except Soryuu and Hiryuu. Those two are my front-line carriers, and my Hiryuu is my highest-level ship at 92, but got ignored. 🙁 I know they’re a bit bland, but arguably they’re the best carriers in the game when upgraded!
Hoping that they build out a bit more depth into the plot etc. after this. Less catchphrases and more content. Good first episode though.
I’m still yet to watch it however that shall hopefully happen tonight. With so many different characters I always kinda expected that the first episode would have next to no plot as they just cycled through everyone. Slightly odd that Soryuu and Hiryuu don’t get a line but then again there are a lot of characters that they haven’t encountered yet. I imagine Yamato and Musashi will come along and introduce the main plot in the second episode and there will probably be a submarine episode at some point. Also probably an eyepatch episode too.
Maybe they might pull a switch and have Fubuki be the introductory character and then switch focus in a future episode. I can kinda see that happening but Fubuki is kinda an icon for Kantai even if she’s pretty bland.
Yeah, technically Fubuki is the ‘main character’ but Shimakaze is more of the image girl. It makes sense for Akagi to be a major character since she’s usually the first large ship people get since she’s a reward from an early quest.
I’m pretty sure you’re right on all counts. Maybe not the eyepatch episode though, at least not until they introduce Kiso. I’m also expecting an episode where there’s a harrowing night battle and Sendai and Jintsuu reveal themselves to be ninjas, and also at some point Yuudachi is going to go berserk and turn into a bloodthirsty killing machine.
Also expect an episode where some foreign exchange students arrive from Germany, though I’m not sure if they’ll feature Prinz Eugen or if it’ll just be Bismarck. Eugen is super super cute, but she only made it into the game in November and it might be too soon for them to add her to the anime, since it was likely planned out many months ago.
Also expecting a shocking mid-game revelation where one of them sinks and then comes back as an abyssal ship and everyone is like OMG
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-01-07-japans-console-and-handheld-physical-game-sales-at-lowest-point-for-24-years
Japan’s console market is fucked. Straight up fucked. Lowest it’s been since 1990.
Ouch
Console I know was failing in Japan, handheld failing surprises me though
It’s transitioning to mobile gaming, according to the article.
The future is now!
Yeah, was afraid that would happen. Guess most good JRPG’s will be transitioned to mobile.
RIP JRPG’s
If I remember correctly though, Japanese mobile games are much more videogamey than most western ones. As in, competely different to the free-to-play stuff than dominates the market today. Haven’t got a source for that though, but Wikipedia says they like classic RPGs and JRPGs (e.g. Dragon Quest and Chrono Trigger) on their phones, and to be fair, we have them as well. Dragon Quest 1 will set you bck $3.74 or somthing and $10 for Chrono Trigger.
But hopefully their JRPGs will be ported here. I wouldn’t mind if my phone became a portable JRPG device.
The problem really is controls. Phone games control like shit.
Also while it’s true that there are old JRPGs on phones that are popular there, that’s what they are: straight ports of old JRPGs, not new ones. In terms of new stuff, it’s all terrible gacha systems and randomized microtransaction bullshit.
That’s a shame.
I actually thought their mobile games were much better than ours.
Ah well, by the time they realise what they’ve done it’ll be too late.
I predicted that like three years ago and people called me a fucktard.
*prods TAY*
*post falls out below*
*Sitting down on a metal chair in a community hall, in a circle of TAYbies*
Hi guys, I’m Highperformance and I’ve been Destiny free for one week now.
After sinking nearly 300 hours into this game I feel that the time is right for me to move onto the next venture. Since I’ve quit Destiny I’ve played The Wolf Among Us, Valiant Hearts, Shadows of Mordor and Super Smash Bro’s and I think it feels good. Conversely though I feel like that each time I play a game I don’t leave it feeling satisfied.
Video games feel kind of different now, I can’t put my finger on it. Like I feel kinda flat when I’m playing them, I remember loading up the start of a Wolf Among us Episode and felt tired after the new revelations in the game and what this meant for characters I liked.
Has anyone gone through this sort of feeling with a video game, and will I get out of this videogaming funk?
YES. After I platinumed Dark Souls and emerged reluctantly from that particularly obsessive planning-and-execution mindset, it took me AGES to get into another game. Weeks.
I tossed a whole bunch of games after just a few minutes because they didn’t measure up, including The Witcher 2, which by all accounts, I should have enjoyed quite a bit.
Yeah, just got off a long gaming funk last September that began about the time I finished Dark Souls. Divinity:OS and Diablo PS4 being what got my enthusiasm back.
I played games in that time but far fewer than I used to and I could never get into it much aside from my Dark Souls Onebro run.
But that said, my gaming habits have irrevocably changed. I am interested in and play far fewer; it needs to be something special to get my attention. But that is also largely to growing up I think – I have played games for so long that the iteration and same-oldness of games stands out to me. Like a few times when playing Far Cry 3 and Dishonored I literally forgot what game I was playing as the moment could have come from any of a score of shooters or RPG’s I’d played in the past.
But it’s the same with books – I read fewer and demand a higher bar of quality than I used to.
So I guess I’d say just roll with it? Focus on quality over quantity and use the spare time and money to expand your repertoire of hobbies.
I made the mistake of fireing up Dishonored the day after finishing Tomb Raider (this was only November last year… yes i’m slow…).
I tossed it in after about 30 minutes because it just felt hollow compared to Tomb Raider. Apparently gets better but… you know… things…
Should really revisit it. =/
Nah, I utterly regret buying it. Recycled, unimaginative, trying too hard pile of meh.
This is what I was a little reluctant to admit to myself that I’m in a place where my gaming habits had changed in a way I didn’t like. When I was 14 I joined a Star Wars clan and got up at 5am most weekdays to play X-Wing Alliance online with the predominantly American group lol. My gaming habits have changed since then but I would still get a thrill out of it, it doesn’t feel like it since I’ve stopped playing Destiny though.
I think the quality over quantity advice is pretty pertinent, I think I’ll be taking your advice on that one.
Gaming burnout.
There’s two ways to manage it that can work:
– Don’t play anything for a bit, do something else
– Find an old game you really like and play it again
The biggest thing is to get off the new releases treadmill for a while.
(Also, side note, I’ve found that all the AAA stuff from 2014 left me pretty cold due to being honestly a bit mediocre, so it’s not just being in a funk IMO)
Yeah, I think I’m ready to get off the treadmill.
I had Far Cry 4 (I’m really sorry @dc) and AC: Unity staring up at me from my pile of shame and I couldn’t bring myself to touch them. The first thought I had was to push myself to finish off Alien Isolation as it was the only game in the pile that had appeal to me, but then I stopped myself when I thought I would be forcing myself to potentially dislike what I think will amount to a pretty good game.
I agree with Neg, go find an old game you love. Burnout’s hit me hard , though I’m having a great time getting back into Super Metroid – hope to finish it this time around, too.
Just used my work computer to add a bunch of games to my PSN account (the free PS+ games, as well as Surgeon Simulator, FEZ, and Hotline Miami, for those who were wondering), and told them all to download to my PS4, which I left in Rest Mode.
THE FUTURE IS HERE AND IT’S AWESOME/TERRIFYINGLY CONVENIENT.
Edit: oh. They’re not downloading. Is there some setting on the PS4 I was supposed to adjust? In some sick way, this actually makes me feel a little bit better 😛
The PS4 doesn’t do sleep mode downloading/installing? D:
I’m almost certain that it’s one of the advertised features. I must have done a whoops somewhere along the line.
Oh good. I was going to say! Jeez. Even the 3DS does that 😛
Yep. Doesn’t do it by default.
https://support.us.playstation.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5041/~/enable-automatic-download-of-ps4-content
You want to really enter the future? You can do that shit on your phone.
Last night I learnt that I am terrible at keeping time. Although I wonder if that might have always been the case for piano. I know I used to be ok with clarinet, following the conductor in band just fine though perhaps having “simpler” music to play also made it easier. One of the videos I was watching was talking about ragtime speeds and a misconception over what “slow” actually means, so I went and checked out how I was playing in comparison. And found it ridiculously hard to keep up with the metronome. Only hope I had was to put it to double speed to fill in the extra gaps, otherwise I kept racing ahead. And even then, I still had trouble. I swear the thing kept slowing down… except it’s the electronic one, not the wind-up one that actually does slow down.
Actually, considering the difference between clarinet and piano, I think with clari I didn’t really memorise the music that often, so was usually reading it. Whereas piano I have the whole muscle memory thing going on, I generally play without thinking. Maybe I should get out some sheet music and see what happens.
Come to think of it I’m not too shabby at rhythm games either. So that makes it even weirder.
I find that sometimes if my mood is off or my mental stability I just cant focus enough to do it 🙂
That’s pretty much why I didn’t play at all for most of last year 😛
Nah u suk
JUMPIN’ JACK FLASH ON HARD ROCK, LET’S GO
I had to Google that 🙂
I haven’t played EBA in forever! (since launch basically :P)
THEATRHYTHMS
THEATRMEH
Try starting a a slower speed if you can’t keep up with it, then keep raising the speed until you can play at a comfotable speed (raise the crotchet by about 2-3 each time).
Alternatively, set the mtronome, sart tapping your foot in time, then turn the metronome off (but keep the speed with your foot). You might be better with a “natural” metronome
It was the opposite problem, I was getting ahead of it too easily 😛
I think the muscle memory thing was on the money. It’s going better tonight, but once I’ve had to start actively thinking about what I’m doing it’s worked out better. Found a few parts where I’ve realised I don’t know what I’m supposed to be doing without going auto-pilot.
@shane
Finished Office UK, haven’t moved onto the Christmas specials yet.
I don’t know if David Brent is supposed to be a sympathetic character like his counterpart Michael in the US, but having really grown to dislike Gervais over the last few years I found the show a much easier watch when I took that dislike with me – yet I was still pretty moved by the ending.
He’s not really meant to be sympathetic. He’s a very abrasive, defensive, ineffectual little man who has difficulty facing the truth about himself.
And yet… when things really take a turn for the south, you do feel a little bad for him. You finally, finally see him at his most vulnerable when he begs them not to make him redundant. It’s a genuine moment, one of the very first in the show not masked by an aura of performance or bravado for the camera. And because it’s clear he’s got nowhere to go, nothing to fall back on, and will probably struggle to find meaningful employment elsewhere. And even though the office as a whole will probably function a lot better without him, there’s something deeply tragic when no one has any kind of sympathetic reaction to the news.That’s the genius of the show, at least how I see it. Its real strength lies in its ability to evoke irreconcilable responses to situations. Do you laugh because it’s funny or cringe because it’s uncomfortable? Do you engage in schadenfreude because bad things happen to unlikeable people, or do you feel this twang of sympathy because you’ve seen an insecure person brought down to earth and denied the opportunity to make things right?I think you pretty much nailed every thought I would have articulated.
Let me know what you think of the Christmas Special!
Watch Derek which is also Gervais.
That show had me in tears… of both laughter and sadness. Some genuinely excellent acting on Gervais part and also from his co-stars.
Derek is brilliant. Shame the upcoming series of it is the final one 🙁
Just went to pick up parcels from a printer distributor. When I asked for a parcel manifest the guy said they had printer problems. Has page 6 spilled into the real world?
I guess it’s all just part and parcel of real life.
did you press the issue with them or did the discussion manifest itself into something else?
Youtube keeps referring me to videos by a group labelled “PodTaku.” Bit odd.
In other mildly interesting news, my bank sent me a letter 4 days straight in a row. It was a neverending roller coaster of disappointment.
“Oh, I got mail- oh, it’s from the bank.”
“Oh, I got mail- oh, it’s from the bank.”
etc.
Please tell me it’s the same letter…?
Sounds like something my employer would do…
*grumble *grumble*
Has anyone ever had a car service cost less than they expected?
In related news, I have a shiny new radiator!
Could’ve been worse I guess. At least it was replaced now and not when it completely goes and cooks the motor D=
In other news the ignition has gone in our car, yay 😛
I had them try to charge me $350 for a $280 capped price service. Lady was like “that’ll be $350 all up”, I replied with “nope”. She looked puzzled when I said “capped price service, $280” and demanded to know where I got that price from. Handed over the printout and it took two of them five minutes to get the price right.
Fucking miner town man.
Holy shit. It’s been great we’ve been having all this rain of late. Saved us from water restrictions. But god damn it, the sheer amount of mosquitoes that has come because of all the still water around is insane. About the only time it sucks living near wetland/swampy land honestly.
Hmm, looks like I’m not needed for piano tuning til Tuesday. Now pondering whether to come up to Brisbane tomorrow night instead 😛
How much do impromptu interstate shindigs cost? 😛
Looks like flights are going to be at least $300+ from MEL o_O (randomly checked Tiger). Which airlines?!
$150 up and $170 back for this weekend.
Yeah, my $300 included returns. Is Tiger the “best” (cheapest) budget airline for spur of the moment interstate things? I’m assuming most places will have decent deals if booked in advance.
I’m assuming if I ever did any someone wouldn’t mind letting me crash at theirs… :P?
Definitely considering them now that I have $
Cheap places to stay exist too. I’ve found a place that’s $24 a night.
http://www.lastminute.com.au
Found it to be the best site. Collects all the airlines and you can choose whatever price and time you like. Booking a month in advance usually gives pretty good prices.
My place seems to have become the Qld Tay Hotel.
Also Tiger has so many horror stories I don’t think I ever could bring myself to fly with them.
@greenius what Freeze said, never fly with tiger no matter what. The horror stories i’ve heard just doesn’t seem worth it :/
Today, Batboy and I went to Taronga Zoo and…
…. a wild @blaghman appeared!
Which was good, because we’d invited him 🙂
And I only arrived an hour and a half later than I originally planned.
So good at life.
Edit: Was great seeing you and Batboy again. Even his little tantrum was adorable. :p
My hands are hurty. Must be all these weird shapes and stretching out to reach octaves and beyond which they aren’t used to any more.
Man, having tiny hands absolutely wrecked my piano playing. I have to stretch a little just to hit an octave.
I mean, the main thing that wrecked it is that I suck at sight-reading, but still.
I have average sized hands but smaller than average pinky fingers 🙁
Octaves are fine but it’s a real stretch to do a note more
Third above an octave *flex*
WHATTTTTTTTTTTTT
So like C to F?
C to E. Although maaaaaabye to F. Barely. At super stretch. And using only the absolute tips of the keys 😛
Edit: Ok only if it’s black keys, C# to F#. But probably not while actually playing something.
FRAUD
What? C-F is a fourth, not a third. L2interval 😛
I was terrible at sight reading too, though having to sight read the clarinet parts in band forced me to get better at it. Though still not great.
At this stage I would be surprised if I even knew how to read music any more, it’s been so long since I’ve done it 😛
I also suck at knowing what notes are. I could probably sit down, say I will play something in E Major and do so. And I can mentally harmonise and re-write songs in my head, but I cannot translate that into a practical form, and I can’t recognise notes and so forth.
Let’s be honest, my issue is that I’m just a bit of a shitty musician.
Yeah, that’s pretty much how I feel. I can memorise stuff, and work things out by ear. But that’s about the extent of it.
*Finally, after nearly a month, sits down at the computer to get some PC Gaming goodness in*
*Stares at Steam Library, clicks Shadow of Mordor*
Shadow of Mordor: 3.8gb update required.
F**k it
The future!
u pc n00b, dun u noe u leave steam run 24/7 skrub
Fuck. I really shouldn’t have left accommodation for Soundwave until last minute. There’s fuck all for a reasonable price. Guess i’ll just see if I can stay at a mates again lol. Next year booking a place for the weekend, especially if Soundwave is 2 days again.
The soundwave lineup is pretty awesome this year!
It is. I can’t wait for day 1 in Brisbane. Day 2 should be good depending how I feel 😀
OK ALL BOOKED IN
HAPPENING
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Yesssss.
Just ran some sanity check* numbers. What I’m trying to catch is probably about a similar level of chance as a shiny Pokémon. But hey, just caught a shiny Mime Jr this morning, so what I want has to come through eventually.
*Think I just proved that I’m not really sane for trying what I’m doing.
Edit: because numbers are fun, here’s some rough estimates
Ability I’m after: 1:400
Ability + nature: 1:10,000
Ability + nature + perfect stats: 1:8,875,036,810,000
Ability + nature + perfect stats + shiny: 1:21,033,837,239,700,000
I’ll settle for ability and breed the rest in one at a time.
What do you reckon is your total hour count for pokemon these days?
This game? Around 600.
All of them? Probably about double that, at a rough estimate.
I haven’t even beaten the elite 4 in Y.
There’s not much to do after that unless you’re an idiot like me.
That’s not idiotic. Running out the clock (playtime 999:99 ) on Blue was/is idiotic.
I’ll settle this!
You’re both idiots. 😛
well.. not idiot, I’d like to call it “Shenanigans enthusiast”
Started on my Azumarill yesterday.
PokeNav’d a bunch of Surskit and Marill, and got some good initial stock.
I hadn’t considered all the extra trappings that make breeding easier, so I’ll need to send those over to X. One question regarding egg moves: Do you breed a few Pokémon with the egg move and then just keep passing that along as you get IVs/Nature/Ability correct? Or do you get all that sorted first, then breed the egg move into that “good” stock?
I’ve always done the egg moves/natures/etc first before worrying about stats. Seems simpler to me.
My thought was – egg move I’m trying to pass on from the father can be overwritten if I leave the Pokémon in Daycare for too long. It’s not so bad on the “Source” ‘mon, but babbies tend to learn a bunch of moves over the first 10 or so levels.
It doesn’t appear to get overwritten until you take the parent out. Consider it a single use breeding block. Keep it in until it’s done the job.
Plus! Both parents pass egg moves now (father just has priority) so all you need is one round to get the move on your next base female.
Egg move first, since that’ll stay in the chain once it’s in. Takes one round of breeding to put those in, but several iterations to improve stats.
My normal priority order is ball + ability, nature, moves, stats.
Edit: to expand: base parent is female + ability + premier ball
First replacement has nature
1-3 replacements for moves
1-3 replacements for stats (can normally get a 4IV for the first)
Grind out the 6IV parent until shiny. Sometimes shiny happens before the 6.
And here I am, just trying to catch an Absol.
I think an absol is still on my eventual to do list.
Wouldn’t you just need the ability, because you can pass that down and then work on the stats/nature with the breeding?
Or is it more complicated than that? (Never got into the competitive side of pokémon)
Yeah, I’m just after the ability, then I’ll breed the rest. Unfortunately I seem to be going for one of the lowest chance ones in the game – about a 1 in 400 chance of finding it.
Anyone fancy some Halo beta tonight? I’m planning on doing a solid 3-4 hour session from about 7-7.30pm AEST onwards.
Would love to m9 but my interwebz is too slow to download a beta lol.
Let alone the amount of patches you’d need to install to first open Halo: MCC!
Friday morning question:
How do you like your fried eggs? Sunny side up (not flipped) or over easy (flipped)?
Poached
Flipped! So it goes a little crispy. With a runny yolk.
As long as it’s not poached eggs. Yuk 😛
Sunny side up. Whites mostly cooked and slightly gelatinous, yolks totally runny.
Hope you’re taking notes 😛
Shane knows how to fried egg.
My eggs come fresh laid from our chickens in the front yard. Prepare to be blown away by the difference between them and shop eggs.
I’ve been fortunate enough to have fresh eggs before.
*cancels flight back to Canberra*
You are so lucky! I have a friend with chickens, so we eat fresh eggs at her place for lunch. DELICIOUS!
I like both, but definitely prefer sunny side up as the runny yolk makes for a great dipping sauce.
Runny. Toad in a hole. But mostly the way Nanna did it.
I think the secret was basically “use craptonnes of butter”.
Sunny side up for me if you are frying them
Mrs Tigs has over easy and then cooked within an inch of it’s life. Then give it a few more minutes (intolerance to one of the proteins that breaks down with cooking so needs it dead)
At home, sunny side up, with a slight;y runny yolk. If I’m at a cafe I’ll have them poached. Batboy prefers his eggs as “Omyette”.
Scrambled. I’ve eaten so many bad scrambled eggs over the years that I really appreciate good scrambled ones now.
Fried wise, I aim for flipped but still runny. More like curled over than a full on flip.
I used to prefer sunny side up, but recently I’ve been going for over easy. As long as the yolk’s still runny.
I’ve also been doing this thing lately where I throw some chunky bacon pieces in the pan (got giant bags of these from Costco), fry them until tasty and then crack my eggs over them. Flip the egg/bacon thingy over and squeeze some stripes of sriracha or smoky chipotle tomato sauce on them before serving.
Bun is most excited about moving to Canberra for the Costco. When I tell him you can get giant bags of bacon bits, he’s going to explode.
Don’t overly care as long as they’re not runny. Not a fan of the flavour a runny egg yolk has for some reason.
If fried I go over easy without any runny-ness. My preferred style eggs is scrambled or omelette as I prefer some extra stuff mixed in. Also the fried egg pancake chunks in fried rice are fantastic.
I love eggs in most forms. As for fried eggs (your actual question), sunny side up is definitely my preference. Bun makes them with avocado on toast and a slightly runny yolk. It’s great. It was also good paired with my homemade ricotta cheese which I should really make again.
He also makes amazing scrambled eggs using the Gordon Ramsey method (the video is worth watching just for the innuendo).
I get poached eggs in cafes for brunches, and occasionally make them at home (usually for soups though), but they’re tricky to pull off consistently.
I also love soft boiled eggs with different types of cheese and bread for my breakfast when I’m doing night shifts. We call it German breakfast (because that was the most common breakfast in Germany that we were given and it was awesome). I used to eat cold soft boiled eggs on night shifts, as it’s filling and meant I ate less candy and shit.
I actually don’t like omelettes all that much although sometimes you really want the eggy cheesy mixture.
Anyway, EGGS. And CHEESE. I really miss having fresh laid ones from our chooks, but rentals kinda mean we can’t have pets…
My old place, the gas came through at just the right heat on one element that I could boil water, pour it in my small pan, add vinegar, crack two eggs in, then put toast in the toaster and the toast would pop at the exact point that the eggs were perfectly poached.
Haven’t been able to replicate at my new place 🙁
Unfertilized.
http://doseoffunny.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/rodney-dangerfield-e1308841440991.jpg
I’m not a massive fried egg fan.
It’s probably because when I was growing up Sunday was BBQ breakfast day and my Dad would do the cooking.
I have memories of oily, paper thin egg whites with busted, concrete like yolks that tasted like iron.
If I ever do fry an egg it’s sunny side up and in an egg ring but, as mentioned above, the Gordon Ramsay Scramble is where it’s at.
Holy shit it’s amazing.
I’m going to have to try making these now, aren’t I?
Oh bud, prepare yourself.
I find sour cream to be a bit nicer than regular cream but that’s just personal taste.
And try crumbling some feta/goats cheese into it. Sah gerd.
Why all these redundant words? Flipped/unflipped is one word vs 2-3. D: We don’t have time to waste like this!
That humble comic bundle, Holy crap *Clicks*
I wrote to the Humble Bundle people and offered to include The Game in that bundle, but they shut me down. It could have been even holy crapper! 😛
Then I would have had 3 digital copies of that comic 😛
That is a lot of great comic. Damn me not getting paid for another 16 days!
What in it takes your fancy? There is a lot, but what in there is any good?
Hickman is amazing, so Manhattan Projects and East of West interest me the most. Then theres the compendium of Walking Dead
Sex criminals is great, splurge for the Saga volume, heard good things about Wicked + Divine
TALK AMONGST YOURSELVES
“SEX CRIMINALS IS GREAT!”
Is great, not are great
It’s perfect timing for my upcoming long plane trips. \o/
Is there even one complete series there? Humble always turns me off lately, they have changed.
18/24 of SAGA is madness.
@mrtaco: What’s the best way to send you my phone number for tomorrow? I usually DM these things. 😛
Just get him to send it to you at Dudleychesterton(at)hotmaildotcom?
Who knows what delightfully off-putting person has that e-mail address. D:
He likes to make these things difficult.
They were like that when I got here!
*doesmannerism*?
I can send it to him?
Yessss. Sounds like a plan and then text me Gooky so I can put it into my phooooone! 🙂
Thanks bae.
Google says Dungeon Master, now I am even less understanding.
Direct Message. It’s a Twitter thing! 😀
Oh. Damn kids.
Well all the twitter stuff seems to go through to my e-mail, so I think that would probably still work anyway?
Freezeys plan seems better. He’ll text you my number. 🙂 THANKS FREEZEY!
Post it on TAY so we can double-check it.
Swapper is fuuuuun. Haven’t really been crazy stuck yet, but enjoying it like crazy. Just occurred to me that every game I’ve played so far this year has been a puzzle game. (Not hard with two games played. :P)
I havent played anything this week. Worst gamer.
I downloaded it yesterday. Will have to play.
Games played this year:
Octodad
Fez
Surgeon Simulator
Infamous: Second Son
Diablo III
The Last of Us
Games finished:
Diablo III
The Last of Us
Gonna be a bumper year, I think.
One day we’ll have to geek out at the amazingness of The Last of Us. Possibly in April. And then we will have milkshakes and I will attempt to put my hand in your pocket again!
It’s a date.
Hell be at my place so don’t worry, I’ll have plenty of time to point out all its flaws and explain why it’s not really all that great a game. He’ll come around.
There’s no flaws, Freezey. Only flawed people who can’t see it’s brilliance. 😛
Did you love Octodad?
I love the concept, and the puns, and the first couple of levels are amazing.
The wedding, the house/backyard, and shopping – I found them all hilarious and insanely fun.The shine wore off the apple pretty quickly once I got through the turnstile at the aquarium, though. Getting onto the ship (in a flashback, I think…) is as far as I’ve made it so far.That’s the second last level, I think.
I loved the aquarium. All the dopey mini games in the separate areas were tonnes of fun.
I really struggled with anything that made me throw objects, so although it was fun (and funny) for a while, I ended up getting a little annoyed with it.
On the plus side, I got into an insane tangle in the cuddlefish power cord section, and even though it took me twenty minutes to get free, it was hilarious the whole time.
The future is now! Skynet is happening!
…as soon as it finishes its winning streak.
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jan/08/poker-program-cepheus-unbeatable
Scientists have created an unbeatable (in the long run) computer AI to play poker.
I’d make a snarky comment, but this and Watson and a bunch of other things happening make me excited and scared for the future of AI.
I give us…three years before we subjugate it into a vacuum cleaner or something.
Most professional players just apply a standard set of actions based on memorised odds on possible hands – some number crunchers worked out that it’s more consistently successful than trying to play the opponents.
It was inevitable for this kind if system to get adapted to a program.
I saw Into the Woods last night. Was pretty great. And funny. And dark. With music. Music, I tells ya. Also Johnny Depp gave the creepiest performance of his career with a song that made me feel deeply uncomfortable. D: Otherwise it was an excellent movie I really recommend if you’re into musicals.
From what I know of Into the Woods, apparently that song is toned down a lot in the film
Yeah, but the actress playing the role he’s singing to is significantly younger than the mid 20s actresses who play the character on Broadway. D:
Again, not seen either incarnation, but that’s always been the subtext.
Oh yeah, sorry if I’m coming across as argumentative. I was just left thoroughly creeped out even with toned down version. 😀
It wasn’t actually toned down much at all. The tempo is slightly more “upbeat”. That’s about it.
Minor ‘Into the Woods’ theme spoilers:
Sondheim has never been subtle. Now, listen to “I Know Things Now” knowing that one of the themes of Little Red Riding Hoods story in Into the Woods is sexual awakening (along with growing up in general).I’m currently trying to figure out a way to play Blade Runner on my 64-bit Windows 8.1. It won’t accept the 16-bit installer, and other ported installers I’ve downloaded don’t work cos I only have the files on the computer and no physical disks. These are my problems today.
Oh man, what a great game. One day it’ll be on GOG. One day.
Dosbox?
Oh man, I was between computers when that came out and by the time I got one that could run it I couldn’t find it anywhere! It’s now one of those things in the back of my mind like “I’m sure my life would have turned out better if only I’d been able to play that Blade Runner game!”. 😛
…and on the flip side. Blade Runner came out in my final year of school, where my main subjects were art, english and geography. Art conflicted with geography classes, so I was allowed to do the subject on my own with no supervision and only minimal input from the teacher .
(Un)fortunately I discovered my teacher was a fan of Blade Runner as she had it on her computer. So the choice was to either beat Blade Runner and pay little attention to the art project, or focus all my energy on my project and miss out on this incredible game.
So it’s now one of those things in the back of my mind like “I’m sure my life would have turned out better if only I’d not been able to play that Blade Runner game!”
So i’m about done with the 2nd season of Justified, i’m disappointed I didn’t find it earlier on to watch! But I swear it’s a giant advert for Wilt Turkey & Jim Beam bourbon since it’s based in Kentucky heh.
Holy organistaion, @dc. You’re killing it with your mad Meat skillz! 😀
I’ll be commissioning him to plan my birthday this year.
Turns out he was a born event manager all along?
I learn from the best! 😀 @Blaghman!
They don’t call him Director of Celebrations for nothin’.
It sounds like I’m a cast member on the Love Boat with a title like that. D:
I really don’t know what to play… 🙁
Also, I’m going to trade Game Party Champions in towards a Wii U game that doesn’t suck.
Any recommendations? (I already have Smash 4, Bayonetta 1&2, and MK8).
Wonderful 101! \o/
Hyrule Warriors might be a good pick for you!
Hyperule Warriors is great!
MONSTER
HunterAll this talk about eggs and now I’ve realised there’s nowhere nearby work that makes them besides Maccas and Subway.
This is all you guys fault.
Same =(
Microwave bacon and egg?
Eeeeewwwwwwww.
Although microwave scrambled eggs are okay.
Bacon though… *shudder*
The paper towel method for bacon works fairly well.
@effluvium_boy can you please send a preferred postal address to me if you’d like to receive the yankie bars?
Just seems an email to Jacob.Didriksen at the gmails dot com (ZOMG real name alert!)
@effluvium-boy ?
Success \o/
Yessss. I have Gooky’s phone number. The power I can wield. *unleashes power of giving dinner details*
With great power comes great (meat planning) responsibility
One of thousands.
*checks phone*
Huh, I forgot you were in there.
Because you never call! D’:
Anyone, ever 😎
Wait, is he in town?
Or is this a bit?
Sorry, I’ve been uhhhhhh busy*.
*Combing and styling my hair for the last 2 days then falling into nightmare filled sleep as my sub concious believes I made the wrong decision cutting it all off.
Seriously, I had a dream the other night that I had the short hair at the front but the sides were still the same length as when I had long hair so it looked like I had a bob but I’d neatly parted it at the front. I didn’t remember asking for that but I couldn’t be sure so I wasn’t confident going back to the barber and having it corrected. I then awoke with a start when, in my dream, I tripped on some stairs because I was busy looking at the back of my bob in the reflection of a window.
Best dream and yes, he’s in town! 😀
Aww sheet.
Looked at your barber’s website for 30 minutes in silent contemplation. Still can’t psych myself up to go. You’re a braver man than me!
Seriously dude, they’re really great and super nice.
They don’t make too much small talk and there’s really good music playing at the perfect level that you can’t have extended conversations anyway.
I have a husband and a son. Both go to the barber and get a fantastic cheap, short haircut that actually lasts longer than 4 weeks, without annoying small talk or being given the sales pitch about expensive salon products. If you hate going to the hairdresser, then you’ll definitely prefer a barber.
I get my hair cut at a place called ‘Tyrone’s’, by a guy called Tyrone. He clippers the top, and trims the beard. Ten bucks. So fast. It’s great.
Do you think you have to change your name to Tyrone to work there? D:
This page has been eggscellent.
The word is ‘excellent’… Idiot.
😛
Jeez, dc, take a yolk.
I’m sorry for my hard boiled attitude.
That’s ok, you were just coming across a little scrambled.
I’m having a shell of a good time watching your steely anti-pun resolve slowly cracking open.
Omelette-ing go of my angst.
Omelet-it go? Sounds like the next big Disney hit!
The yolk never bothered me anyway
I don’t care,
white they say?
So proud right now.
You guys are poaching all my best yolks.
Noooooooooooo.
I too am feeling eggstatic about his eggsotic eggchange of eggstraordinary punny yolks.
Oh gods.
This pun thread is ova.
I think there is a little more to eggstract from this thread.
Hahaha dammit Red!
I’ll be disappointed when it’s ova.
I was going to put pun about egg white here, but somehow using the word white in this context just ended up sounding massively racist… So I didn’t… And then I found $10
Speaking of not wanting to be racist, Gooky has joined Nob as one of the few people I use real names for in my phones contacts.
So… Gooky and Nob? ARE YOU TRYING TO TELL ME THAT’S NOT THEIR REAL NAMES?
IT’S NOT RACIST IT’S A HOMONYM
HOMONYM? So now you hate gay people too! I see how it is!
😛I think “Gooky (It’s not racist it’s a homonym)” is too long to fit in the Name field.
@powalen Works for me.
Oh good. Finally, people looking over my shoulder at my phone as I call people will finally understand that it’s actually a homonym!
No.
You’re right. He shouldn’t be sorry.
By the way, I accept your apology for Zeitgeist season 1. The biggest disappointment was when episodes 6 and 7 turned out to be exactly the same 😛AWW WHAT!?
Lemme check that. I got Karl to upload it, which is always a gamble.
If it helps, I think the hypotheticalpalooza is the missing episode, because I heard about your Christmas twice 😛
Also, Jesus Christ, what a couple of kids, right?
I can’t listen to more than 5 mins before I say something I just want to punch myself for.
That’s what I like about it. It’s insight into another time!
I’m enjoying it, man. But it’s giving me this odd urge to punch myself every five minutes as well 😛
And @dc is right. It’s a time when Little Big Planet 1 was new and fresh. Simpler times.
Finally!
For some reason I find this more distressing than the Paris thing.
http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/jan/09/toddler-killed-car-sydney-police-pursuit
🙁
As a parent, I logged into the news this morning and saw that, and the man in Florida that threw his 5-year old off the bridge. Both stories just made me feel sick (literally).
I already had the sads, now it’s worse.
🙁
It’s interesting how deliberately vaguely worded all the reports are on whether it was the suspect or the cop that did it. Guessing it was the cop and they’re being initially cautious about the information.
“There has been confusion among residents on which car hit Tatiana —with many believing it was the police car— however police sources told The Daily Telegraph it was the stolen car that struck the toddler.”
http://www.news.com.au/national/baby-dead-in-police-chase-tragedy-in-constitution-hill/story-fncynjr2-1227179063691
Me too. I got this really sick squirming horror feeling in my gut while I read that.
I think anything that involves children, particularly younger ones are more distressing then anything else… Plus this one is kinda close to home as well :/
Probably helps when you’ve got kids yourself. Although now I think about it I can’t remember if you did or not 😛
Or maybe you just have to be not a monster.
Yeah no kids as of yet, but I still dread anything that involves children so I agree with the “not a monster” part…
I know, right? Cinemas and shopping centres in the holidays are horrible.
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Yesterday afternoon I tagged along with people on a coffee run. Someone said something about something being awful, I thought I missed the part so asked what was awful. They said “the Paris thing”, to which I just said “Paris thing?” They then couldn’t believe I had no idea what they were talking about.
…
I like stories.
Accident more distressing than a pre-meditated attack on innocents, my childless self doesn’t see it that way.
Hmm… turns out Elite: Dangerous is actually rather addictive. Started playing solo on Monday night, and… I think it may have broken my Destiny addiction*… was up until 1:30 the past few nights shipping cargo around, making money – have a nice route now, and should be able to invest in a Cobra in a few more runs. Between this, Destiny and Rocksmith, I may need to start managing my playtime properly…
*Well, Bungie linking my progress purely to raid mats means I don’t need to play as much as I did pre-expac, too, so it’s not entirely down to E:D.
Yeah that’s what has happened to me as well… Finally had enough money to purchase an Adder and upgrade it a bit… I kinda miss my little Sidewinder though! It’s a very relaxing yet engaging game and I love it… Kinda makes me even more excited for Star Citizen because the only thing I really miss in this game is fur the universe to feel more… Alive… And a tad more story driven… But yes fantastic game! Feel free to add me to your friends list! Pixel_Ferret is my name in that
Will do – I’m omegastealth on there, but still mostly play solo – I’ve avoided online as I hear docking times can be horrendous in some places.
I just love that it’s possible to just be a trader – manage my own resources, make progress of a magnitude determined by my own choices (good or bad), and run like hell if someone attacks me (especially as most of my finances are usually in my cargo bay at this stage :P).
I started solo but have jumped into open play now… Docking times at small orbitals can suck, but I like the feeling of added danger due to way more common interdiction attempts etc… Aside from that it hasn’t felt that different yet to solo 😛
Does everything carry across? I’m thinking I’ll wait until I’ve got enough money to cover a spare shipment or two just in case. That sense of danger would be awesome, but actually losing a single shipment at this stage would bankrupt me… not sure if I could handle that just yet.
As far as I can tell yes it does… Really selecting between open play and solo seems to be whether it drops you in a private instance or with other people but everything else remains the same
And… speak of the devil. Just lost my first shipment – got interdicted after rebinding my controls, panicked trying to remember the right button and got blown to bits. Back to 50kCR. :'(
Just 1:30? It hasn’t even sunk its teeth into you yet 😛
I like being able to work – no work means no money, no money means no new games (which I could probably live with as I’ve got Destiny, Elite and Rocksmith, but it also means no food or internet, which I kinda need :P). Friday and Saturday nights, tho… I might see 3am. Not sure if that’s a testament to the game or an indication of an addictive personality in the making… 😛
I saw 5:30am four or five nights in a row at the end of my holiday thanks to this game.
This game really does encourage the whole “I’ll just do XX really quickly before stopping” which then ends up taking 3 – 4 hours XD
5:30?! I’ve not even done that for midnight launches – in a studio apartment with a skylight, I value my sleep over just about everything else.
I do like an unexpected turn of phrase
Yes, it is a slippery slope. It’s times like these when you just need to shed your skin and slither away.
I’m about to be super pedantic.
Steam is having an ‘anime’ sale:
http://store.steampowered.com/sale/anime_sale
39 games on the list. Of those games, there are only two which are actual anime games, both of them Naruto games. Four more (BlazBlue, BlazBlue:CS, Trails in the Sky, Ys I & II) technically have had anime adaptions.
There are more games on the list which were aren’t even originally Japanese releases that have been localized than are actually directly anime-related.
Why not just call it a Japanese-style games sale? Or make it a Visual Novels sale since that’s what a good chunk of them are? Not that anyone but me actually cares.
Because it’s easier to brand it with an inaccurate term that draws in fanboys than be technically correct?
Fanboys love technically correct though.
The best kind of correct.
The true fanboys own the good games in the list already anyway.
It appears that my ordinary dice luck completely fails me when creating a RPG character where I seem to roll either the absolute worst stats or just generally under-par stuff.
So for a Friday question, is there anything that you do where you just generally fail for no discernible reason?
Life.
Yes, but it’s between me and my wife.
Jungling in League of Legends 😛
Girls.
Anything that involves tools and manual labor… Seriously there’s a reason why I work on IT 😛
Draw. Even simple stuff
Most things
Actually, it’s more a case of being super average. I’m never great, nor am I shit enough that I need help.
Trying.
Smalltalk. There’s something completely baffling to me about how people can pass time talking about nothing at all.
Oh right. Put me down for this, too. I specialise in awkward silence!
I’m a fellow sufferer… I just don’t get how you keep talking with no consequence of without anything of importance being discussed.
My friends have a verb for that. That verb is ‘Cracks’.
To Cracks something means to fail, for no discernible reason, and often quite spectacularly.
Take from this what you will…
Games?
Games!
Gaaaaames
Man I had completely forgotten how wrong/ politically incorrect Danish humor can be… As people may or may not know, there Danes are famous for their hot dogs and there’s almost a hot dog stand on every bloody corner of larger cities… In the ’70’s it was quite common to have slang fit each menu item, and it was quite… Terrible… For example, a standard sausage in bread:
Dick with ear muffsOr fish fillet with chips
goldfish with granma’s cough…
As I said… Terrible! At least now I know where I got my terrible taste in humor from
EDIT – Removed one as I felt bad for even writing it 😐
http://youtu.be/Cir05JyEsV0?t=18s
@freezespreston @rize @thecracks @sernobulus @cakesmith @fled:
Let’s talk FFXIV servers. It seems like we’re split between two options: Tonberry (JP datacenter) or Behemoth (US datacenter).
Tonberry has a lot of AU players. At launch, it was decided to be the unofficial oceanic server and there are a lot of large Oceanic guilds (esp. Mirai) on there. Population is roughly a 50/50 split english and Japanese, about 11k total players. Lag should theoretically be lower to Japan, but testing hasn’t shown that to necessarily be the case? The game has automatic translation built in and JP players are generally fairly nice.
Behemoth is a US server so active a lot during US peak times. Population is lower than Tonberry, around 8.5k, but almost entirely english speakers, so more than Tonberry has. Lag theoretically higher since it’s a US datacenter, but it looks like this might not be an issue.
Out of the two, I’m leaning Behemoth just to ensure there’s more English-speaking players, though I’m not sure how many of them will be around during our peak.
We should probably put this to a vote.
Also, relatedly, if any of you haven’t signed up for an account yet or haven’t reactivated an older subscription and intend to, let me know your emale address and I’ll send you a refer-a-friend code which if you redeem it and then subscribe (including buying the game) gives you some XP-boosting accessories. Not a critical thing to have, but useful.
Coordinating classes as well. What are people thinking of playing? I wanted to roll a Rogue, but Rogue isn’t actually available in-game until you unlock the Armory system at level 10 or so and can learn new classes. This makes me quite tempted to start as a Marauder so I begin in the right city to quickly change, however I’m also aware that @freezespreston is playing his first MMO ever so more than happy to roll a class in the same location so there’s another player around.
Don’t really care about server – if we play on Behemoth, I have a lvl46 tank (PAL) already there that we can use if we’re otherwise lacking one.
Role-wise, I don’t really care – I typically play DPS in other mmos, but pretty happy to just fill whatever role needs to be covered.
Is there much reason to start new char vs. grab old char and switch to a new unlevelled job/class?(…besides all the quests the old job devoured no longer being available…)
Whether you reroll or just swap classes is up to you. Leveling up a second / third class can be a bit of a pain due to the lack of quests is all.
We might have a little bit of trouble making characters on Tonberry. Just went through the character creation and it says the server is full. Seems to jump between full and not full though.
EDIT: ARGH! The game blocks you from creating characters even on servers you already have a character!?
JP used to give better pings for me than NA, but looking around today is telling me it’s the other way around. Ultimately I think I prefer Behemoth but if people have a better connection to one than the other I say that. Ultimately, if we have a bunch of friends playing, connection should be the big focus.
Having said that, I’ve never had any connection issues at 180+ ms, it runs fine.
I have a lvl 30 Lancer on Behemoth so I’ll switch him to something else to join in on low level stuff.
Behemoth has a better connection for me.
@freezespreston @rize @thecracks @sernobulus @cakesmith @fled: It looks like Behemoth is our pick then.
Waiting on the ‘enter this 8-character code’ email from Squenix to finish making my account 😐
‘Also this code expires in one hour, but we still haven’t sent the email! Ha!’
Poke someone to get a ‘recruit a friend’ code if you haven’t already used one – benefits for both you and recruiter if you end up paying for sub (more for recruiter though).
I’ll do it. Want me to DM you the code/link whatever you need @thecracks?
EDIT: Apparently I need your email.
iirc, @thecracks has to give you an email and it gets sent out
Anyone else still looking to set their account up? I’m avail to give a code, too
Will DM you my email over Twitter in a bit.
Half an hour later, still no code.
Seriously, how long does it take to send an automated email?!
Asian Cup 2015 Hype! \o/
My sister is going to see Japan v Jordan and the Quarter Final in Melbourne. I am completely jealous.
That’s pretty awesome, I’m pretty hyped to see Japan play. It’s poised nicely, Japan, South Korea and Australia who are normally seen as the ‘heavyweights’ recently of Asian football are faltering so it’s likely we’ll see a really good team like Jordan, Iraq or maybe Iran who will do really well.
I bought a Melbourne venue pass so I’ve got all of those games and the Melb Qtr final, I’m a little bit of a soccer tragic lol.
Can never write off Australia, home crowd support will be crucial. I’ll be watching as much as I can of it on Foxtel, beginning with tonight’s game.
Man, so hyped for tomorrow. Finally, I’ll get to
meet @transientmind!serenade @strange againsay “hi Nob!” in contexteat at a Bavarian Bier Cafe again. Yes. Definitely that one. And not [redacted].
It’s gonna be fun! And tasty!
Not gonna overplan this thing, though. Got some ideas for post-dinner stuff (no slow winks required… :P), but don’t want the thing to be too much like ‘ structured fun’… XD
It’s 8:05! Everybody stop eating and proceed to Activity B!
That just leads to nervous breakdown. *remembers Star Trek Into Darkness meat*
Perfect gift for the man who has everything.
I got nothing, though. 😛
Well, you’re about to get a breakdown, so it’s all looking up now!
Someone’s having a nervous breakdown! Everyone proceed to Activity 315-9, variant ZZ!
I once went to a friend’s birthday thing of dinner and a movie afterwards. They scheduled the dinner to start half an hour before the movie started. “That’s not enough time for dinner,” I said. “It’s fine! It’s fine!” she replied.
Ended up having to wolf down a fancy meal, throw money at the waiter on the way out, blubber across the road with a full stomach and cram ourselves into an at-capacity cinema just in time.
“So what’s this movie about anyway?” I asked, as we sit down.
“What, Twilight? It’s about vampires, you’ll like it.”
…not a great night.
Yeah, that’s almost exactly what happened at that meat! D:
Which was my fault. I wasn’t assertive enough in planning the thing and didn’t give enough time for dinner. Now I know it should always be movie then dinner instead of dinner then movie. XD
You tricked people into seeing Twilight because they were blissfully unaware of what it was about until they were trapped in the cinema on opening night surrounded by a bunch of squealing pre-teens?
Monster.
@powalen: Nah, we saw Star Trek Into Darkness which was a slightly disappointing sequel to an amazing film. 😛
I loved Into Darkness
Date night!
We pigged out at Bavarian Cafe (DAT SALMON) and then went to Hofbrauhaus and then my friend couldn’t stand straight and we danced on tables and such.
Don’t forget achieving the TAY goal of meeting DC!
GOD GREENIUS THERE’S SPOILER TAGS FOR A REASON
No love for Freeze.
There’s never love for Freeze :'(
A tragic figure, forever lost in the miasma of his loneliness…
Well it was supposed to be a surprise…
You and me both, Freezey. 🙁
Lies. I bought you lunch the other day, if that didn’t confess my love I don’t know what will D=
😛
Plans for the weekend?
I think I’m seeing Big Hero 6 with Blaghs and the Sydney Slicks (band name?) on Saturday. Plus dinner or something, I can’t remember. Should be good though!
Then I’ll likely be going to the Sydney tennis on Sunday! All my friends dropped out so I’m going on my own (anybody who wants to come is welcome *tumbleweed*). It’s only the first round though so I doubt there will be anything spectacular to see, but it’s the only chance I get to go. I always have a good time watching it though.
Not much really.
I finish 4pm so I decided to do a ‘final clean up’ and deliver items to a specific location, so I can be 100% free starting on the weekend. And play some Destiny. And maybe fix my bike tyres so I can go ride. And maybe hit some balls on golf driving range.
Have you ever tried one of those aqua golf ranges? Sometimes they have targets and things to try and hit. That was fun even though I’m abysmal at golf 😛
No I haven’t, but apparently there’s one on outskirts of town! It’s on my list.
If I weren’t mildly sunburned and thus afraid of its harsh power, I’d actually consider joining you even though I know nothing about Tennis. But I’m weak and pathetic, so…
Hat + Sunscreen + water = fun day out
Going to a bar crawl tomorrow from 5pm, culminating at a place that will bring me to the height of ecstasy – Bed and sleep.
We are going to Luna Park on Sunday to play with Lego \o/
In 3 days we’ve gone from bushfires to flood risks.
#SA
Hah, that was a couple years ago. Bushfires down south, half of QLD flooded, rest in drought. STRAYA
http://www.mashable.com/2015/01/08/russia-driving-ban-lgbt/
How would you even police this? “Have you had anything to drink? Have you taken any drugs? Does my butt look hot to you?”
It would be funny if it wasn’t so damn sad.
Would you like me to take my shirt off?
I… buh? Medical conditions?
What, like the limp-wristed can’t properly handle a steering wheel or something?
The pride parade floats that every gay person alive drives around are a danger on the roads.
Because it gets all complicated when the police go to write someone a ticket and they get to the “gender” field of the form?
Posted on Twitter but figured I’d share here too: http://whothefuckismydndcharacter.com/
CONSCIENTIOUS HALF-ELF MONK FROM A BUSTLING CITY WHO BELIEVES TREES CAN SPEAK TO THEM AND THEM ALONE
Reroll:
HYPERCRITICAL GNOME CLERIC FROM A ORPHANAGE WORKHOUSE WHO MAKES INAPPROPRIATE JOKES AT THE WORST TIMES
Dangit.
Might be a little tough to roleplay.
That could certainly be interesting in a dnd scenario… You should try it
stoic Tiefling Wizard from the smallest mountain in the world who finds it impossible to speak to girls
Sounds about right!
Reroll –
delightful Halfling Fighter from the base of a volcano who finds it impossible to speak to girls
… I really have issues talking to girls apparently
Fixed it for you.
Yeah windows phone is stoopid and apparently didn’t copy the text as capital letters
Nice try Gooky, give Pixel’s account back! 😛
MOROSE DRAGONBORN CLERIC FROM THE FOREST OF SADNESS WHO ALWAYS NEEDS TO BE THE CENTRE OF ATTENTION
PRETTY CHILL DRAGONBORN BARD FROM THE PETRIFIED WOOD WHO WAS BROUGHT UP TO BE A LIBRARIAN
EGOTISTICAL HALFLING RANGER FROM A STRICT MONASTERY WHO ALWAYS REFERS TO INANIMATE OBJECTS AS ‘SHES’
It makes a little bit of sense.
SURLY ELF BARBARIAN FROM A MAXIMUM SECURITY PRISON WHO IS REALLY (I MEAN REALLY) AFRAID OF THE DARK
Jeebus. I’m weeping.
A) Elf Barbarian. An Elf. Barbarian. That’s just nuts.
B) Who was in PRISON! Max security prison (i.e. dungeon). Which means they did something bad, bad, terrible bad.
C) Who is really, really afraid of the dark.
Re-roll:
CHARMING ELF BARD FROM A TINY VILLAGE WHO HATES MUSIC
heh. Heh. Hehehahaha. Yeah, that’s going on the will play it one day list.
Wild Elves made pretty decent Barbarians in 3.5 edition. IIRC they got +Dex -Int, which meant you could get the maximum benefit from Hide Armour and Int was already your dump stat for Barbs. You also got to keep the elvish sword/bow proficiency, so if you took feat that let you use Dex bonus instead of Str bonus in melee (Weapon Finesse??) then you could just sit back and ping stuff with arrows until it got close, then swap to melee and Rage.
CONFIDENT TIEFLING DRUID FROM A VILLAGE WITHOUT A TAVERN WHO IS UNCOMFORTABLE AROUND OLD PEOPLE (THEY SMELL LIKE DEATH)
Reroll:
SOULLESS DRAGONBORN WARLOCK FROM A TOWN THAT ONLY EVER BARTERED FOR GOODS WHO SAW THEIR WHOLE FAMILY CONSUMED BY A GELATINOUS CUBE
assertive Human Sorcerer from a mercenary company who has serious daddy issues
Reroll: sombre Gnome Wizard from a maximum security prison who believes they’re a demi god, but hasn’t figured out who’s their father yet
Further Reroll: reluctant Dragonborn Ranger from an unchartable island who is downright racist towards living skeletons
Cynical Elf Fighter from the base of a volcano who studied interior dungeon design.
Ha, I will totally roll that if I ever dnd. Spend half the fight criticizing the boss’s sense of Feng Shui.
APATHETIC HUMAN WIZARD FROM A CAVERN WITHOUT ECHOES WHO MAKES INAPPROPRIATE JOKES AT THE WORST TIMES
Do we click ‘I’ve already fucking roleplayed that one’ if it’s too close to what we play in real life?
METHODICAL DWARF PALADIN FROM THE SMALLEST MOUNTAIN IN THE WORLD WHO WAS BROUGHT UP TO BE A LIBRARIAN
Reroll: OVEREMOTIONAL HALF-ORC ROGUE FROM A CARNIVAL FREAK SHOW WHO HAS A BAD GAMBLING PROBLEM
Insensitive Halfling Cleric from a bustling city who hates music
Had a flat white at Starbucks. The result was the summoning of an eldritch abomination so horrid that Cthulhu himself rose from the infinitely deep abyss to go “Oh dude that’s pretty bad.” So, you know, pretty darned average.
Also, if I’m not mistaken, are flat whites not traditionally two shots of espresso? I was slightly thrown for a loop when they asked for the size (large gives you 4 shots,) and I’m pretty sure that goes against the definition of a flat white, but honestly it’s been so long since I’ve ordered one, so I guess my honest opinion of it is that it made me a tad nostalgic.
Double shot, yes. But that’s assuming a non-American size. With American sizing to get the proper proportion in a large you’d need more coffee. Especially if it’s the dirt-strained-through-a-used-sumo-loincloth coffee Starbucks usually serves.
I have nothing interesting to talk about but just want to feel included… So here; have a virtual internet hug that lasts for a bit too long and makes things awkward
*hugs*
Find out who you’re next DnD character will be above!
*Jabs pixel*
*Grabs your arse to relieve the awkward tension*
That’s it! Hand over your licence!
Haha, joke’s on you, all I have are long expired Learners!
That hug was eggcellent.
Yeah I’m really just shelling them out!
Anyone wanna run some Vault of Glass on PS4? I need ascendant mats. 🙁
Funny story: I am yet to even take the wrapper off my PS3 limited edition.
Join usssssss
Actually, I think I’ve stopped for now. The grind ground me.
I’m interested in playing it, but at the same time I’m not. If you know what I mean. I blame all the reviews and the four month on reviews and all the comments and backlash.
Join me Benny! I still play fairly regularly on PS3.
Might make it more fun tbh, since you’ll start with expansion 1 gear (vanilla destiny gear is now obsolete, thus previous players have a timesink to replace them).
Hey I totally remember you and I tackling a level together back when I owned it on PS4. Thanks for that! Ah well, I don’t own a PS4 any more..
Oh yeah! It was fun! Hey, what happened, you sell PS4?
Yeah, sold it. Figured I still had waaay too many games I need to finish on PS3 first.
Yeah, same here. I’m drownin’ in it. (games, not vajayjay)
I would but I have yet to finish story.
Also might need to get a bit higher then level 23. Before I try VoG
Yeah I think lvl 25 it opens? In any case not much point in trying it before that point. Add me if you want someone to run things with: tehst1ckm4n
Added you just then.
Hi I’m TV’s Dr Van Nostrand and I’m here to tell you I’m a Destiny addict.
PS4 – bigharro99
I’l try to remember to add you! tehst1ckm4n is me in any case
Sent one just now
Man, been feeling so low this week. Last night I thought I’d try and cost that F1 trip to Singapore thinking fuck it I’ll go this year. I know a lot about the place and how much things cost, have done 2 projects on it in business studies and that, so I knew what to expect and how to get around and that.
Look up flights. Awesome, thought they’d be more than $280 each way
Look up cost of F1 tickets. Cringe a little but digest it cos I knew they’re fucking expensive. Total’s looking at around $1500ish so far.
Start looking up hotels. Current prices seem fairly well in line with what I expected. Changed the dates to when F1 is on aaaaaaaaand the trip is definitely not happening this year… Or probably next year. Or the year after.
So all that was just an exercise in making me feel even more shit 🙁
It’s on Free-To-Air! 😀
That’s not really the point though… I wanna go to Singapore to watch Formula 1. I’m already annoyed at myself that I didn’t get there before they wrecked the engines. I don’t wanna wait till they go friggen electric or something and make noise from speakers.
Wait $280 each way? For real!? I thought Singapore flights were way more than that D:
I told you the Singapore car meat wouldn’t happen! 😛
Yeah, and that’s from Hobart. For comparisons sake it costs about $120 just to get to Melbourne, or $200ish to get to Queensland (all with Jetstar)
Aww yiss. New Archer is out today. Also Silicon Valley season 2 has a premiere date of April 12th \o/
Yeah thats what I’m doing tonight! Archer and new space boardgame 🙂
That sounds good to me!
@blaghman @cakesmith @cj @gingerchris86 @novacascade @powalen
Apologies for the lateness of this for those who are actually still interested. Bit of a brain fart kinda week.
Big Hero 6 is at 2:15 at the ol’ george st cinema. There’s a 3d session at 4pm, but that’s 3D, and eckghhhh. I’ll likely rock up in the city at about 1 at the ol’ meeting book emporium. The early movie does leave a bit of time between then and dinner, so, um, yeah. But after that, Soda Factory I guess. (I do not know where that is. I looked at the menu once and it crashed my phone. It looked nice.)
Yeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Yes we see sea as a was a why JHVH (which is what my phone suggested as an option when I typed a really long “yeeeaaaahhhh”).
Edit: Is anybody willing to have a Blaghs crash at their place overnight? While I’m nearish, it’s still a 2 hour+ trip and I have no idea what happens with the bus route out here.
GET OUT OF MY HOUSE
It’s too late for that. I’ll be here forever. Muahahaha.
Where the hell are you that’s both “nearish” and a >2hr trip? You can get beyond Gosford or Wollongong with that kind of travel time.
Thirlmere.
That’s not a place!
*googles*
…that’s not near!
I never said it was near, I said it was nearish. Anyway, Southern Highlands are still covered under Sydney public transport, so it’s near enough.
Haha, to me even Campbelltown doesn’t count as nearish 😛 Much to the annoyance of my friends who live there…
So what the hell counts as nearish to Sydney if C-Town doesn’t? A 1 klick ring outside the city limits?
@blaghman I dunno, I guess it depends what you mean by “Sydney”. To me that means the city, rather than the “greater metropolitan area” or whatever, which I guess includes places like Penrith and Campbelltown. On a greater scale I guess Thirlmere is near Sydney when you’re in another state or something.
See, for me Sydney means Sydney, so it includes the city centre out to Parramata and the like. Near Sydney is the greater area, so C-town and any other Satellites. Nearish extends throughout the Southern highlands, up to parts of what I call the Southern Coast but to Sydney folk is northern, and stuff like that.
Closer then Canberra
No sheepish “Hey, Pow…” yet? I’m surprised!
You can stay at mine if you’re stuck. Just keep in mind you’ll have to be out by like 9:30am if you do 😛
I need to feed the cat, so that’s not such a problem. :p
Let me know when you think you’ll be at soda factory, I’m on call and cant really do a movie 🙁
I give up – just deleting this one.
I know where soda factory is, plenty of food on the way.
I voted in the Hottest 100. It was a bit hard this year. I really struggled with the “I have no idea what any songs are called or who sings them” problem. But somehow I came up with this list:
Jamie T – Zombie
Hilltop Hoods – The Art Of The Handshake
Fences – Arrows {Ft. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis}
Future Islands – Seasons (Waiting On You)
Childish Gambino – Sober
Chet Faker – Gold
Presets, The – Goodbye Future
Odd Mob – Is It A Banger?
Bag Raiders – Nairobi
Saskwatch – Born To Break Your Heart
Not that I care. It’s worth entering just for the chance at at Golden Ticket.
Jamie T?! I haven’t heard from him since he released If you got the money, and Sheila all those years ago! Had no idea he was still making music!
New album dropped this year – has some good songs 🙂
The Presets are still a thing?
Apparently so, and for that I am grateful.
Nairobi was soooo close on my list… Chet Faker almost made my list… But got dropped for Pharrell of all things, Gust of Wind reminds me of my wife so much and I think it’s a very clever song.
Sunshine was my #1 this year… By a looonngg margin too.
My list for those interested…
Pharrell Williams – Gust of Wind
Flight Facilities – Sunshine {Ft. Reggie Watts}
Jungle – The Heat
Lana Del Rey – Ultraviolence
L-FRESH The LION – Survive {Ft. MK-1}
SBTRKT – NEW DORP. NEW YORK {Ft. Ezra Koenig}
Childish Gambino – Sober
Asgeir – King And Cross
Todd Terje – Inspector Norse
Kendrick Lamar – i
ooh – SBTRKT was a good one.
I really really really really really really really really really love SBTRKT…
And that song was my favourite from the album that would get in. Some of my votes are driven by what I think will make it in… so I get to listen to it.
Yes – that’s why Is it A Banger? is on my list. Love a novelty song 🙂
I’ve been trying to resist for the last hour… Can’t help it… I love the lyric in that track…
I once acidentally downloaded a lumineers song.
I had to throw away my whole computer just to be safe.
Every song i have to download has to pass a series of vigorous tests.
To answer one simple question
Is it a banger?
sorry to any lumineers fans…I got my short list down from 33 to 13, I think I know which ones will go but I’m not feeling ruthless enough to cull them lol. @sunsoar77
Definites on my list are;
Leave your windows open – All Day
Hunter – Pharrel
Are you what you want to be – Foster The People
Slow love – Mø
Hunter… excellent choice to lock in!
I think it was 2012… maybe 2011… my shortlist came in at something like 85 songs. Was in a world of hurt that year.
does anyone aside from @chuloopa and @f4ction paint warhammer models? I’m unhappy with how my Link amiibo looks and am thinking of trying to make it better. And and all advice would be appreciated.
Wrap it in thread!
It would look weird on Link.
Worked for NintendoLand 😛
Prime (really, if you can’t find good model primer any spray will work to a lesser degree, I’ve used cheapo brand stuff from Bunnings and it works) – go with white for lighter and brighter colours, black for lots of metallics etc
Then paint away. Once you’re done just use some gloss or matt varnish.
And flock the base for added tabletop realism?
ALWAYS FLOCK THE BASE!
Finally got my new mic working how I want it to in Open Broadcaster Software, which means I can do more Euro Truck Simulator 2 recordings! \o/
Looking up Brisbane trains. This trip planner is dumb. SHOW ME MORE THAN ONE OPTION, YOU STUPID! And why even bother labeling the only option you’ve shown me as “option 1”?
You’re not interstate travelling right. You’re supposed to go and complain that public transport in your city is so much worse than wherever you are/where you’re going.
And you are of course wrong in whatever assessment you make, because Canberra is worse. So very much worse.
From memory pretty much only Adelaide’s been better. Melbourne’s alright I guess since fare evasion on trams is fun, but I don’t remember doing much in Brisbane other than buses. And buses universally suck.
Either way, Japan is better.
Japan is fantastic.
Canberra sucks because all we have are buses, and their service sucks (price is decent though).
Beijing also had good PT (and really cheap taxis), and the St. Petersburg and Moscow metros are great.
Sometimes I wished there was a city in Australia with a population of 13 million just so the public transport was ace…
But Japan public transport is better everywhere… Even in the Thirlmere equivalents.
I think it does help that Japan is goddamn tiny, so the trip to Thirlmere would take you through two other major cities.
Heh.. last time I was in Thirlmere, the only public transport was a steam train :0
The steam train is great, especially when Thomas come to visit.
Is this to get from the airport to city proper? Once in city it’s so central you can really walk any where in CBD/South Bank/West End areas. Well I do. Then again, I get sweaty.
…
Disregard.
Just for figuring out train times to get me to and from the airport, especially making sure I don’t miss my trip back.
Looks like they’re half-hourly though. Lame.
Yeah, our public transport suuuuuuucks. :S And is expensive. D:
You have public transport to the airport, so you’re already ahead of Canberra. :p (always have to complain about your own city’s public transport)
Because of where I live, all public transport I take home is the transport to the airport 🙂
The Swapper:
Just landed on planet and after all those extra tough puzzles I’m stuck on a door puzzle. XD I’ll work it out, though. Just my cue to take a break. 😀I just realised I’ve known your actual rival all along – a friend of mine from ages ago who just reappeared on Skype for the first time in I can’t even remember. Called AC.
If they’re air conditioning, wouldn’t that make them your rival?
ARE YOU CALLING ME UNCOOL, SEAN?
That wasn’t my intention, but now that you’ve mentioned it…
It took me far too long to actually get it. I am stupid.
But I’ve theorised before that DC and I are nearly the same person half the time, so it only makes sense for him to be my rival as well. Also we actually kind of did have somewhat of a rivalry.
Haha! Turns out it wasn’t a puzzle. I thought I had four swaps when I had five. Over thought simplest thing in the game.
I started playing it tonight. Five minutes in, my brain said, “Try again tomorrow” and made an odd cash register noise.
Finished it tonight. Great game but got to be in right mood, for sure.
I can’t stop playing Duke Nukem!
I totally never know what to pack. Always feels like there’s something missing.
I pack like, three pairs of underwear, a spare shirt, and call it a day.
That can last you for a good two months.
Two months? That’s how I moved here, and that’s nearly 9 years ago 😛
A Manny costume in cardboard boxes!
IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A SURPRISE
Turns out FFXIV is pretty dang rad. I can see myself losing a decent chunk of time to this D:
*Cut to three months down the line, Freeze sustains subscriptions to 14 different MMOs, lives entirely through these games*
Yeah, the beta was fun. In the few weeks I had access I only played twice. Only one of those was a good decent run.
Me & subscriptions, man, it’s like I just wanna waste money.
If anyone’s interested, I’m currently streaming Euro Truck Simulator 2 on Twitch:
http://www.twitch.tv/simracer1990
EDIT: My last delivery was a ridiculously long route that took 1 hour and 26 minutes (real time).
Yep, I think I’m really getting into this game.
Hey, @liondrive, you’re a young person, right? Can you translate for me? My sister decided to blast electronic dance music at full volume, and the sole lyric to this woeful song was “I’m an albatross.” This confused me, as being called an albatross is to be called a dead weight. Translation, please?
I’m old, so don’t ask me how I know this, but it’s actually albatroz. And its meaning is simply that the artist is a member of an electro-hip-hop group called Albatroz
Truth be told, I’m rather sad that it’s not a song about people with really really long arms.
I figured it was like “if you kill me you’ll live a cursed life” or something.
HELLO GOOKY HOW IS YOUR TRAIN RIDE GOING?
That’s not the only lyric: http://artists.letssingit.com/aronchupa-lyrics-im-an-albatraoz-kt2v3gh
It was originally some song in Sweden or something (which is were the band comes from) but then became really big over here.
But the foreign language line translate to
“Ladies and Gentlemen,
Please,
Be prepared for AronChupa and Albatroz
Go!”
Going to attempt to dye my hair blue today so my son will love me more.
(Actually, I already had the blue hairdye before he said that. I’ve been trying to dye it purple but the red keeps being too dominant so I figured if I tried blue I might end up with purple. 😛 )
Very much looking forward to dinner tonight. Mostly because Bavarian Bier Cafe. Oh and something about the dining companions…. 😀
Can’t wait to see you, Strangey. Oktoberfest was too long ago.
You should talk to some old lady’s and find out what they use to make their hair purple!
Welp, that was disastrous. I haven’t had a hairdye disaster like that since going blonde from black, where you expect a disaster. The roots of my hair have gone a patchy yucky greenish colour and the rest of it is a flat, dull dark brownish colour. Not at all what you expect from blue. 😛
Off to go buy some different hair dye now.Think I’m gonna need some luck! 😀
And a hat! 😛
If your hair is kind of dark atm, you may need to bleach/lighten it for the blue to take properly
I’ve been dying my hair for 20 years, well aware of having to bleach to get intense results. I just wanted appealing results. This is not appealing. In the slightest. 😛
And the lightest parts of my hair (ie: the blonde roots) are the ones that didn’t take it. So wacky.
lol bizarre! hope it works out in the end!
Thanks Welbot, me too! 😀
So yeah, I won’t be listening to my son again. Next time I’ll just buy his love with McDonalds. 😛
I saw hair colour remover in Coles today if that helps. I almost bought it to take out the black I usef last time. I’m giving up on black. It doesn’t cover my silvers and I can’t keep up with the regrowth.
My hair just always seems to want to be red, so I’m giving it what it wants. I’ve coloured straight over one of those Paintbox colours before and it’s worked perfectly so hopefully that will be the case. Can’t really go for the shaved head option when I’ve just paid to get a really nice haircut. 😛
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/exercise_response
This is so true 🙂
Edit: fixed link
“Exercise not found”
Yep, that’s about right for me.
Fixed it
Woo, getting a lift from the airport! Suck it, pricey trains.
@blaghman trip’s over now. Like, right now.
Pretty sure we were on the same train. I should have run up and down it shouting “Gooky”.
Is this in Brisbane? Where were you headed from the airport cause the trains aren’t all THAT expensive in the city imo. Cause in a car you could easily end up on a toll road 😛
not that expensive? It’s like $17 one way from the airport to the city I think! That’s nucking futs!
In Brisbane they’re not overly expensive. From the airport it’s insanely priced. Privately owned line.
still pretty bad in bris though. Costs me about $10 for a train to the city from my nearest station :\
That’s only without a go card.
Hello Brisbane! Loving how toasty it is :p
Hi Tacoman! What are you doing to fill your day until tonight’s stuff?
I’ll probably be in city early like, so if any one else gets there early just hit me up!
How long does it take someone with long legs like you to walk to Eagle St. Pier from the mall?
Five mins, but I like being there early and might need a psych up drink. 😀
So, ten minutes for someone with short legs like myself? 😛
I’m not sure what time I’m getting there yet, but if I’m early enough to not go directly to BBC then I’ll text you. 🙂
Yeah, it’s a pretty clean walk. Just depends on traffic lights and all that mostly. Ten minutes sounds about right.
@strange Hi!
I have no idea. I just had lunch with a friend but he had to go off and meet his girlfriend, so now I’m just… wandering I guess. Can’t check in for another hour or so, though it looks like I’ve been dropped off at a different one to where I’m staying.
So just moseying, like DeeCee? Sounds pretty cruisy. See you tonight!
All the cool kids mosey. And sometimes mosey together. (Though not often.)
I’m not cool enough to mosey. Despite the threat of redneck rampage, I walk alone.
The posse mosey’s?
That’s atrocious grammar… SorrySo much moseying to be done. Or maybe I can park myself somewhere and just play a few hours of Smash or something :p
Also the site just loaded up as the mobile version for some reason and it seems to actually be working for once. Weird.
This place is a little more tightly packed than the Space Hotel. Not.much room to sit up on the bottom bunk. And it smells funny. But hey at least this one has windows that open :p Also I always forget to pack a USB cord that has length.
Wtf I StreetPassed @blaghman at some point either today or yesterday afternoon??
Ok, according to MK7 it must have been at 9:55. Did you mention the train trip because you saw me there? And didn’t just come say hi?
I got the streetpass while on the train, and since I was on the airport line I asked you were on it.
Also I totally forgot to put my pyjamas in my bag this morning. Whoops.
You wear pyjamas?
There is never a need for pyjamas in Brisbane. Too damn hot!
Wouldn’t want to terrorise the other guests.
Also why does everyone seem to find the notion of pyjamas so weird these days?
I can get behind pyjama pants but the buttoned shirt thing is just weeeeeird. Plain white t, bro!
I don’t. I wear cotton shorts and a tshirt.
Not through modesty or anything I just find it weirdly uncomfortable and itchy otherwise.
That’s basically what I wear too. I am confused.
I think when you say PJ people think of old timey striped button up ones. Haha!
hehe i always think that too. pyjamas are really a button through shirt made of flannel or cotton, and pants to match!
Yeah, the flannel ones..
Buttoned shirt? It is a plain white tee, actually :p
Lucky cinema spin up… The Imitation Game at 3:30 or Into The Woods at 3:50. Think I’ll go with Turing.
Into the Woods was pretty great, but got to be a musical fan. 🙂 My sister loved the Turing one though.
Lemme know how Imitation is! It looks okay but I dunnoooooo!
Some peeps at work want to see it but I’m pushing them more towards Birdman 😀
I managed to make my hair look not-stupid.. Phew! Thought I was gonna have to miss out on @dc’s Milestone Meat due to stupidly coloured hair and my overdeveloped sense of vanity, for a moment there. 😀
If there’s one thing I’ve learnt about hair dye, you never get the colour on the package. Red is brown, blue is purple and brown is a dirty blonde colour. Yay for it working! \o/
We spent the day looking at rental houses.
This probably isn’t the end of our house hunt.
House hunting sucks.
That is truly why I ended up buying a house. Got told we had to move out after only a year, for the third year in a row. So said f**k this S**t and moved into my own damn house two months later.
Not always an advisable solution, but effective.
I keep telling Bun we should do that but he says no.
@greenius I liked it.
I’ll assume “it” is Imitation Game, but if not then…
😉
This place doesn’t seem to provide towels as part of the supply bundle left on the bed, and I need to de-salt before heading out. No matter, it’s not like I need this blanket!
…
Well, what it lacked in absorbency it made up for in surface area.
nomnomnom
Grilled chicken wrap with corn+mango salsa and pickled cabbage salad. Oh, and lots of oporto sauce.
I think I’ve figured out why I was getting the echoing in OBS.
Apparently I had to disable the “Audio Input Device” field under “Webcam”.
@beeawwb sorry to bring it up if it’s a bit harassy, but did you check up on that washing machine and if it’s available? Just need to knoe if I need to budget for a new one or not 😀
Also @dc really sorry mate, there’s a housewarming I completely forgot about tonight that my missus reminded me about. I WILL make it to a meat at some point. Have a blast 🙂
Wish you had’ve remembered earlier! I could have taken your spot!!! *shakes fist*
I wasn’t in the dinner plans so that was good in that regard, was hoping to get out later but it ended up being a fruitless plan 🙁
ahh ok. fair enough. I was only really going to be able to make the dinner. Looks like much fun was had by all! Can’t wait til I can start going to all the things again!!
Whoops, sorry! I actually did check and meant to post back to you but in the craziness of this last week it totally slipped out of my mind.
Yes: It’s yours if you want it. 🙂
This is me not having time to reply during the week. Short notice, but does tomorrow suit you at any time? Hit me up on facebook.com/cufcfan616 or simonwitt7 on the twitter place 😛
Also, you’re a whisky man aren’t you?
Tomorrow evening suits me; during the day Mrs Bob is going to check out a bridal expo with a friend, so I’ll be looking after the kids and might take them to a movie. During the evening I’ll be at home for sure.
I bought my first ‘expensive’ Transformers today – the new Jetfire/Skyfire 30th anniversary – it cost me $89 and OMG it is the greatest Transformers toy I have ever owned.
I must admit though, most of the new Transformers toys are very shithouse. Half of them (the Mashers line for instance) don’t even transform! What is up with that? When I was a kid, Transformers toys came with a damn instruction manual. Some of these new ones don’t deserve the title of Transformers.
Which leads me to; anyone own an awesome Transformer toy? Old or new, I’d love a cool story.
Pfft. Transformers. Lame.
Go Bots are where the action is.
It’s a slippery slope, wait till you are forking out for the MP line *looks wistfully at my MP Skywarp*
@strange is sitting here sewing stuff while we stare. She waved us off and told us “talk amongst yourselves”. So uh… hi, guys.
Guy here. Singular. Hi. 😀
Dammit, Taco Man! 😛
Oh man, that was the best karaoke place ever. SO MUCH PRIEST. Sorry about that, everyone in attendance :p The performance scoring thing was cool too, haven’t seen that before.
I regret relinquishing the lower bunk to the girl that came in after me. It’s rather stuffy up here.
Also the lack of shorts.
I bought myself an Ultimate Bumblebee when it came out, because it was so cool and on special for like half price. Got one for my then girlfriend too, because she loved him so much. That was fun, going to the counter with a pair of those :p
I was eyeing off the Generations Metroplex, since that had an introductory special too. Then it ended up coming out around the time I found out Sketchbook was unavailable, so kinda ended up grabbing it to make myself feel better :p It kinda worked actually, he’s so stupidly huge you can’t not at least smile when you look at him. If not just laugh at the ridiculousness of it.
Dammit phone TAY, I thought you were being nice now. That was meant to be @benny.
Ugh, there had to be one. 4am and this guy comes back to the room with another, turns the light on, gets yelled at to turn it off, turns the other on, gets yelled at again, eventually does turn them off (I think the other guy lost his key card and they were going to look for it), then all of five minutes he’s out and snoring up a storm. And it’s still going.
I dug around in my backpack and found an elastic band, and have some paper too. But evidently it’s been far too long since highschool, I can’t aim paper wasps for shit.
And this is why I stopped staying in hostels as soon as I had a job.
I couldn’t resist the allure of a $24 bed in an 8-person dorm. It just had “TERRIBLE IDEA!” written all over it.
Geez, if I don’t do anything today, I’m gonna start feeling really depressed… 🙁
Need. Breakfast.
Need. To waste an hour.
Only 40 more minutes left to waste!
Ah, was just in City minutes ago. Would’ve hung otherwise! D: Good seeing you Gooky!
Bought a floating shelf at Bunnings yesterday for above my TV, thought it was worth it since they were on clearance for 10 bucks, not sure if I should paint it black or leave it white..
Free internet on the trains? What is this, the future?
Wait, it is actually working for you? It never worked for me and when my mate got it to work, everything he tried to visit was blocked lol.
Yeah, worked fine. Though I use Opera Mini which tunnels stuff through their servers to compact it, so that might get around any blockages.
@mrtaco couldn’t make it through a night without a girl asking for his phone number.
Like my wife…
Hahaha…
Oh man. Checked in for my flight, got told it was full because they cancelled an earlier one. Looked like I wasn’t going to be able to get on one til 6. Rushed over to see if I could get on Qantas, the guy at the desk couldn’t help me, nor the guy he put me on the phone to. Was all set to book a ticket on phone net, while waiting to see if I got lucky with my flight… and all five of us did! SO LONG, STINK TOWN!
Well that is if I even get to the gate. Slowest security check.
Which airline was that? I would think a person would be guaranteed their spot on a plane even if an earlier flight got cancelled :/
@greenius my tickets are standby, they’re never guaranteed. The numbers looked fine for this one, just got unlucky. Then lucky again :p
I didn’t know that was a thing!
So standby as in you didn’t really purchase them? I don’t get it! Which airline?
Just want to avoid similar situations in the future 😛
Unless you’re booking in on staff travel you should be fine 😛
Back to work tomorrow.
I wish I hadn’t spent my last day of holidays sleeping in til 2pm. 🙁
…blurt…
You’re up to the fifth episode right? It’s a pretty quick one, or it feels like it. You don’t really need to worry about 400 days until you’re ready to start season 2.
Blurt…
@shane
Finished Office UK Chistmas specials.
At first I was worried they were just “rebooting” with David coming out swinging, blaming the documentary producers for his downfall etc. and that the Christmas special was a pointless tack on – but those two episodes really gave David some character development and I really liked how it ended for him. Gervais played off that conflict well – partially wanting to be one of the lads, liked and popular, and realising (through timely advice) that he should live for himself and seek out his own happiness instead of pandering to everyone. It seems trite that maybe he just needed someone other than himself to care about to have that realisation strike him is a bit fairytale but whatever.The Tim/Dawn thing was predictable and I think they went a little over the top in giving her a miserable life to justify her going back for Tim, but overall I liked it. I can see why people are divided on this and the US version because once you watch this, which has some characters you can connect with, watching those characters get turned into caricatures and stretched across 8 seasons feels tiresome.
That said, I think I still like the US version better, at least the first six seasons or so.
@sughly, @dkzeitgeist, @transientmind, @strange, @sernobulus, @mrtaco, @beardymcmuttonchops, @beeawwb, @freezespreston
Hey guys, here’s the photos from last night. Feel free to download if you want the originals.
http://1drv.ms/1DLDmOo
My phone doesn’t take good photos at night. :'(
Haha I love the pic at the end :D. Sugs is rocking the classic green D.C. lumberjack shirt too 😛
And Is that person I don’t know, the person I don’t actually know? 😛 (the non-TAY friend?)
You know it!
I complimented Sughly on the lumberjack shirt too. So. Damn. Proud. :’)
Did you see like… every other patron there, as well? The lumberjack shirt is apparently in.
Damn hipsters.
Holy crap, it took me a second to recognise Dan in one of those. He looks like… a normal person.
Some might call him a dream boat.
Not me though.
I call him TurboLoverhttps://www.dropbox.com/sh/pzod1v0ckad2f2w/AABKJfkvrSfRDULPCLQSRPvsa?dl=0
I didn’t have much that wasn’t just snaps of the karaoke book to help me pick which ones I wanted, but I threw the rest up on here. Mainly though, the vid of you having fun at karaoke 😛
Also Dan’s rendition of Under The Sea. That was pretty phenomenal. Totally didn’t realise the thing was shining its light in your faces the whole time though, oops >_>
Oh sweet Jesus, can I request you take those pictures down. I’m too far gone there. 😛
Everything but the window one. 😀 That one is amaaaazing!
I dunno, you’ve plastered my ugly mug all about the place 😛 Even all over the twitters!
Yeah, pretty sure it’s handsome and we had popcorn on standby the whole night. But for real, if there’s any you don’t like tell me and I’ll take ’em down. 🙂
Nah, that’s life. Photos are horrible but they must exist.
But for real, can you take down the horrible singing ones. Pleeeeeease. For me. 😛
Oh, sorry. Thought you were just complaining, not serious 😛 Then I afk’d for a while with some stuff to sort.
If it helps, they’re proof that Brissie beat Sydney.
Pants was a goddamn disgrace, with his sobriety. It’s Un-Australian, I tell ya.
It’s pretty alarming how clean cut I look at the start of the night and how monstrous I appear by the end. XD
This is the advantage of starting off monstrous, I can’t really get much worse.
The only monster here is one of low self-esteem. GET CONFIDENT, IDIOT! 😛
I’ll get confident just as soon as I stop resembling the offspring of Hephaestus and Jabba the Hutt.
But Blaghs, you said you were aiming for self-effacing. WHAT GIVES?
I’m in a bad mood, spent too much time around handsome people yesterday!
Damn you handsome people.
@blaghman I had DC, Sughly, Transient, Dan and DC’s friend around. I had no hope of measuring up.
Bah! You so pretty!
Awkward for the guys not mentioned by Freeze…
😛
@freezespreston it’s fine because when I am near you, you look good by comparison! \o/
@greenius
It’s fine, Freeze doesn’t keep me around for my looks he keeps me around for my
intelligencemusclewit… uhhhh, give me a few minutes.@SerNobulus solidarity in mediocrity.
You keep saying this, and I am yet to see any evidence to back your claims.
After all the manic concern last night, I really didn’t end up feeling drunk at all. So I’ll admit to being a dramatic failure. BUT I STILL HAD FUN.
Look at that Dirty Creeper peering through the window!
Actually… I just realised the guy I’m probably referring to is possibly @transientmind? 😛
Black shirt with palm trees or something? 😀
Nup, that’s my pal. Transient is also wearing blackshirt and jeans but is a separate person.
Too many blackshirts! 😛
Yay photos!
Haha! Just in case this is sarcasm, let me know if there’s any you don’t like! 🙂
It’s not sarcasm at all!
<3
Finished season2 of The Walking Dead last night despite having the game since it released. All I can say is ‘meh’ about the final 2 episodes. Really did not like the 2nd season apart from;
Jane. I like Jane, I chose to go with her after I killed Kenny, he was just out of control and was not thinking straight.Frankly, I’m amazed
he made it out of the first season.Same.. I’m amazed he made it to the end of season 2 without someone killing him or taking his own life quite honestly.I want it on record that I called it.
Everyone else said he was dead. I pointed out that in the ‘post-mortem’ at the end of season 1, the game was careful to say who died, and Kenny was noted as simply ‘lost to the horde.’ This wasn’t evidence for anyone at the time, but who’s laughing now?Well, I wasn’t referring so much as to the finale as much as dislikeability and mental state. 🙂
But kudos!
If there’s one thing that The Last of Us taught me, it’s that survivors survive. Mental state notwithstanding, Kenny was a survivor.
NegativeZero’s Anime Impressions, January Season 2015, Part 1 of ?
Watching the new season so you don’t have to
New season started. Have some impressions. I’ll probably re-post this in New TAY in the morning too.
Absolute Duo
It’s basically shit. Dude joins school devoted to training kids to fight and he’s super strong but where everyone else has a magical weapon, he has a shield. And he ends up forced to pair up with a weird albino swedish chick who says ‘ja’ a lot. There’s an outside chance this improves, but I doubt it. Animation not remarkable, character designs are a bit shit, plot seems trashy. Not worth your time. 4/10.Aldnoah.Zero S2
Second season of Aldnoah. This was easily one of the best shows of 2014, and ended in a terrible cliffhanger. Great animation, excellent writing, amazing soundtrack. It’s very much an intelligent deconstruction of Gundam, but it has a western Science Fiction / Space Opera tone to it mixed in as well. I’m very disappointed with how they navigated that cliffhanger, though I’m happy for the implications on the longer-term show in terms of lead characters. This is probably the best show this season so far. 9/10.Saenai Heroine ni Sodatekata
“How To Create a Boring Heroine” is the translated title, and it’s appropriate because fuck me this was boring. Dude and his harem of girls that all compete over who’s going to fall on his dick first are making a shitty galge to sell at comiket. Literally the only thing going for it is it has pretty nice art (original character designs by Misaki Kurehito, same guy as Ushinawareta Mirai o Motomete from last season). 4/10 and dropped.Unlimited Fafnir
So, there’s these monsters, right? And they fucked everything up with magic. And then there were girls that were born that also had the same magic. But they were all girls. And so they put them all in one special school for them. And then there’s a dude that somehow has the same powers because of a mysterious plot contriviance. So now he has to be a student there too. The only boy in a girl’s school. Pretty original. Pretty shit but not as bad as Absolute Duo, just utterly mediocre and I’ve seen this concept executed better. May watch more but I doubt it. 5/10Assassination Classroom
Everyone seemed to be really hyped up about this online, but I don’t get it. It’s just… stupid, really. Setup is that an insanely powerful monster thing (that looks like Onsokumaru had sex with an octopus) blew up the moon, and in a year he’s going to do the same to the earth, but in the mean time he’s going to teach a random class of misfits. And that class has to somehow kill him before they graduate. It’s stupid, lacks interesting gags or interesting characters, poor line delivery and the premise is daft. Not a fan. Dropped. 5/10Death Parade
Remember the Young Animator Training thingie a few years ago? It produced Little Witch Academia and launched Trigger as a studio. Well, one of the other films in that project, Death Billiards, has apparently been expanded into this thing. Basically a couple appear in a random bar and are told they have to play a game with the stakes being their lives. Turns out they’re both dead and this is some kind of weird sorting procedure to figure out whether they go to heaven or hell. Anyway, it was crap. Dropping. 3/10Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders – Egypt Chapter
Direct continuation of the previous season. It’s more Jojo, and that’s always good. The only downside is that IMO Stardust Crusaders isn’t as good as the original. The Ripple was a more interesting power thing than Stands are, plus the subs play it way too straight. The show’s so fucking ridiculous and over the top that a good translation should reflect that. 8/10, on my regular watch list.Kantai Collection
My excitement for this show was warranted. I really liked it. It’s not amazing by any stretch and as a player of the game I have some major issues, but it captures the spirit of the game quite well. The setup is basically as stupid as it gets – the Abyssal Fleet has taken over the seas, and the only weapon against them is the ‘Fleet Girls’, girls who possess the spirits of warships the past. Special-type Destroyer Fubuki is the protagonist, a completely new recruit attached to a Torpedo squadron. Also the admiral running the base is fucking insane. Somehow he has a bunch of high-end carriers and battleships, but all his destroyers are base model. But he somehow hasn’t cleared the first area yet, and is willing to send level 1 Fubuki out to fight a boss. Crazy. I expect this to get better once they’ve established the cast and gotten the whole lets-make-sure-we-use-quotes-from-the-in-game-characters thing out of their system. 8/10.Military
3-minute show. Lolis drive a tank through a dude’s house and claim they’re there to protect him from assassins because his salary-man dad somehow became a mercenary in some far-off country. WTF? Also this is awful. 2/10 dropped hard.Yuri Kuma Arashi
It’s about lesbians. And bears that were infected with meteor dust from some far-off planet that made them go evil and attack humans. And the bears turn into people? And then two bears that are also lesbians go to a girls school and try and eat the human lesbians. And some invisible force destroyed the yuri garden. What the fuck is going on? This show is trippier than Utena. And the Utena comparison is valid, since it’s Kunihiko Ikuhara (Utena, Sailor Moon R, Mawaru Penguindrum). It’s all symbolism, probably. Maybe. 8/10.Koufuku Graffiti
I was pretty interested in this, since Shaft’s productions usually appeal to me. It’s not Akiyuki Shinbo directing like most Shaft stuff though, and that shows. Technically very competent but the actual material’s bland and the main character puts in an absolutely phoned-in performance. She sounds like she basically spent the whole show on valium. I’m not sure exactly what the show is even about. Girl who lives alone wants to have people live with her so she can cook delicious food for them? It’s got some mildly suggestive eating scenes I guess. Mouth close-ups. Not bad, but not good either. Aggressively mediocre. 6/10, probably dropped.Shinmai Maou no Testament
At least it’s not as bad as Absolute Duo, but this is pretty average. Dude’s dad suddenly announces he’s remarrying and dude is getting two ‘sisters’. Turns out they’re actually the daughters of a deposed demon lord or something and they’re on the run from assassins. But that’s okay because Main Dude is a HERO. Literally. He’s some kind of magical hero dude from a hidden village of them. And his Dad’s pissing off overseas, leaving him to look after the ladies. It’s okay I guess, I’ve watched far worse shows regularly. There’s enough good this season that I’ll probably drop it though. 6/10.Disappointing to hear that about Assassination Classroom.
Looks like all I’ve got to look forward to this year is High School DxD Born.
I dunno, your mileage may vary maybe? I can only talk to how I felt about it.
Surely there’s other stuff this year for you? I mean, not that High School DxD is bad to look forward to. Objectively speaking, it is bad, but at the same time strangely charming and self-aware.
At the very least, stuff I know is happening season after this (so April or so) includes the second half of Unlimited Blade Works, new Lupin III, an adaption of Rumiko Takahashi’s latest manga Rin-ne, and another season of Nisekoi. All of those should be pretty decent.
This season’s got some quality so far too. Aldnoah, Yuri Kuma Arashi, Jojo are all good. KanColle as well depending on how you feel about it. I left it out here accidentally but there’s a new season of Kamisama Kiss and I really liked that too. Durarara S2 is probably a good thing as well (I never finished S1, need to get around to that first).
There’s also a fair number of shows that are reasonably good carrying over from last season.
EDIT: I looked it up, and add a couple more things to the spring season of note: There’s a new Ghost in the Shell TV series coming apparently (25th anniversary in 2015). A while back the Full Metal Alchemist author started remaking classic manga ‘Legend of Arslan’ and that’s getting an adaption. Gainax and Subaru’s (yes, the car people) weird promo anime After School Pleiades is also getting a full TV adaption.
See you all in the new TAY! o/
I don’t wanna! old TAY 4ever!!!