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Morning. Just wanted to repost as not everyone frequents weekend TAY.
I bought my first ‘expensive’ Transformers figure on Saturday – the Jetfire/Skyfire Thrilling 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.
I never had a Transformer toy, I remember as clear as day being invited to Teagan Hunters 6th birthday part with pass the parcel and pin the tail on the donkey. I was so close to having the parcel, but the music ‘stopped’ when it got to the person next to me. They got an Optimus Prime action figure, I was so damn close.
This was the closest I ever got to owning a Transformer 🙁
Holy crap! How great were kids parties in the eighties/nineties?
Optimus Prime action figures in Pass the Parcel? Madness! 😀
Aren’t you an adult? Can’t you just like, go buy one?
Haha, here’s the thing. When you’re a kid you want toys that your parents can’t afford and you desperately want to rip them out of the packaging when you do get them.
Then you get old and can afford all the toys you want but don’t buy them so desperately. And when you do, sometimes you don’t even take them out of the packaging because of their ‘resale value’ still boxed. That might be just me, anyway.
I suppose I am, unfortunately collectibles don’t hold the appeal for me I had when I was a child though.
I had a few, although my favourite wasn’t any of the cool ones. No, my favourite was Cosmos, the flying saucer. I also had friends who had Metroplex and Omega Supreme. I have 3 Transformers at the moment, Starscream, Movie Bumblebee and Movie Barricade. Would love a few more though.
Oh nuts, I was totally looking up Starscream variants over the weekend. You don’t have the Masterpiece one?
Just a little figure that I picked up from Target. I wish I had some of the good figures, but they’re out of my price range.
Masterpiece is the way to go if you want rad, well-made transformers. I’ve got Starscream, Soundwave (w/Laserbeak) and Wheeljack in Masterpiece form.
Also have 3 of 5 of a set of third party Combaticons which are all fairly good, though not quite Masterpiece quality.
I did, when I was younger. Optimus prime, with the trailer cannon thing, back when they weren’t afraid to give kids a hunk of folding metal 😛 Got it as a hand-me-down from an older cousin. Although, for a truck, it seemed highly susceptible to getting clogged with sand and dirt, to the point it nearly lost it’s transforming ability. Also lost quite a few of the pieces, somehow… (how does one “misplace” a trailer of that size? :P) I believe it got cleaned up a bit, oiled a little to loosen the joints, and sold in a garage sale in ’96.
I remember having the 2 in one transformer things, don’t even remember what they were.
I had a deception set where a 4wd jeep thing and a helicopter combined to form the robot.
Man, we used to own a BOATLOAD of Transformers. We went from the hardcore solid metal ones (we had metal Optimus as the crowning glory of the collection, but there were some old-school metal+rubber decepticon jets in there as well, Ultra-Magnus, and the constructicons), to the next-gen plastics, and on to the re-coloured re-makes. (Which we were less pleased with. No, I’m sorry, Constructicons are purple and green, not yellow.) Getting all the cassettes for Soundwave was a particular high point. At one point they actually came with read-along-to-books-on-tape packs.
The collection grew to be pretty massive, though I always regretted not having Rodimus Prime, Shockwave, and the complete Dinobot collection. No matter.
One day I reconnected with an old school chum and we got to talking. He talked about how his big passion, his hobby, was collecting Transformers. Some he was collecting to on-sell to other collectors, but mostly he was building his own collection. Knowing that we had a tonne of scrap metal and plastic sitting in a half-dozen big crates, I offered him to take what he wanted.
You should’ve seen the look on his face. I didn’t think it was possible for an adult human to ever be that happy or excited.
We fell out of touch again but bumped into each other again just a couple years ago, where I met his kids and missus. I asked if the Transformers ended up going to a good home and he laughed and said, “Yeah… mine!” And the missus looked to me and half-glared, “So you’re the one that gave him all those bloody things. He still talks about that!” So, potentially relationship-wrecking, but well-loved. I think that’s the best thing that could’ve happened for those toys, because the only use it would’ve seen with me or my brothers is being looked at by accident every decade or two and fuel for bittersweet nostalgia for a while.
Morning all!
I finished Swapper (PS+ game) last night. Great game, great mechanics, amazing visuals, interesting ideas and clever puzzles. (cc @dc, because I know he played it). I made sure that I never left a room until I’d figured out the puzzle – some of them took quite some time. I’m pretty sure I got them all.
Edit: holy crap. This game was crafted in clay, apparently. Amazing.
I’m wondering if there are multiple ways to finish some of these puzzles, because in some ways, I kind of feel like I cheesed my way through them in a very clumsy way. Or maybe some of those puzzles just didn’t have any elegant solutions.Was unprepared for a moral choice at the end, and swapped with the rescue worker almost by accident. Feel bad about it, but had no way to go back and take it back.I’ve been working pretty hard on Undad too. Issue 4 is taking off, with more than 50 pages scripted and six pages of artwork completed. It’s gonna be a big issue, probably around 80 pages… mainly because I like making things harder for myself. Still aiming for May deadline.
Dreading the grind of the work week, and hope you are the same.
Sincerely
-Shane
I’ve always wanted to play Swapper, and I have it on Steam. The question I have is that, from the Vita version, does it look like it is a graphically amazing, as my computer is rather horrible, and can’t run anything that looks even remotely nice.
It’s a very pretty game (played on PS4), but my impression is that most of that is style and design, rather than something with graphically-intensive effects and sprites.
Specs you need for PC:
http://www.game-debate.com/games/index.php?g_id=7224&game=The%20Swapper
I don’t know what kind of machine you’ve got, but the required specs are relatively modest.
Great, great game.
I totally threw my Swapper off the cliff at the end. D:I wish I’d done that. I watched the other ending on YouTube, and I think it’s the better ending.
I did the same as you initially out of reflex, but just quit to main menu and the save point was just before it again. 🙂
You’re both monsters.I quit before the cutscene even triggered. SHANE’S THE MONSTER!I can’t believe I ignored my whole weekend to watch Awesome Games Done Quick. I donated about 100 bucks and freaked out when they didn’t kill the animals and save the frames.
One thing that kept bothering me though is how loosely everybody used the term ‘casual’.
What do you mean?
They kept implying that anybody who doesn’t speedrun videogames are ‘casuals’.
I think everybody who plays videogames thinks people show aren’t as dedicated as themselves are casuals.
Only play single player = casual
Don’t follow news on new releases = casual
Only play on PC = casual
Only play on colsole = casual
Only play portable or mobile games = casual
Play through the main quests but don’t complete secondaries = casual
Complete main and secondary but don’t 100% collectables = casual
What do you mean you can’t play blindfolded?
You mean you have to use your hands?
Complete main and secondary, 100% collectables – didn’t complete on ‘Nightmare’ difficulty = casual as fuck.
Morning. How was your weekend? I spent it playing ACIII and Captain Toad. ACIII is worse than expected, while Captain Toad is fabulous.
Got ACIII for Christmas, I am dreading playing it from all the feedback now 🙁
I liked it!
I mean, it’s still one of the worst AssCreed games, but I really enjoyed it.
Honestly, I think Revelations was worse. ACIII’s worst sin (IMO) is that it just wasn’t all that interesting. Everything picked up again with Black Flag, though!
So Rogue is the entry level pirate game I’m looking for?
I don’t know – haven’t played Rogue yet!
From all accounts, it is a very good game, though!
Rogue is very good – though if you haven’t played ACIV I would play that first
It’s not terrible, but it is very video gamey and a bit cheesey. I’m still going to finish it, and it does have a better story than Unity
My biggest issue with ACIII was that your character conveniently Forrest Gumps his way into every major historical event of the era – the Boston Tea Party, the Signing of the Declaration of Independence, Valley Forge, Bunker Hill, etc. Granted I think this was to try to lampshade his hypocrisy because he claims to be acting independently while clearly taking the side of the colonists but it’s pretty over the top.
In general I really liked how it played. I loved the homestead building though the frontier was a bit of a pain to traverse since I didn’t discover until the game was over that there were shops I could visit to unlock additional fast travel points. The game also gives you a dungeon-crawling minigame but you don’t think it’s important – it unlocks fast travel points around the cities, which again, would have been very useful to know.
Otherwise, I really enjoyed it. It’s a clear winner over Revelations and I personally didn’t care for the first game very much so my order is something like:
Brotherhood > Black Flag > AC2 > AC3 > AC1 > Revelations
Haven’t played Unity or Rogue yet but if Rogue is anything like AC3 (and I am of the understanding that it is, being set primarily in North America and the connector between the Black Flag & AC3 storylines) I will probably like it a lot. I intend to borrow Unity from a friend but don’t have high hopes for it.
Rogue is much more like ACIV but with New York – it’s really great. I didn’t know that about the shops for fast travel points, thanks for the heads up!
I recommend you lookup how to find them online, they don’t appear on the map until you walk up and enter them – even though I must have walked through those little unmarked towns a dozen times I didn’t have any travel points unlocked except the forts I’d “liberated”, which are mostly around the perimeter of the map, whereas the shops are scattered around the middle.
There’s also an achievement for trading with “all” the stores in the frontier, so discovering them is necessary to do that in order to send trade goods to them.
AC3 isn’t terrible. Unity is a lot worse IMO
I enjoyed it myself although Connor was a bit of a cardboard cut out.
Good to hear about Toad! I picked it up for $48 on Thursday, but don’t have time to play!
Hola Tay
Caught up with friends on Friday, who moved to Canberra a year or two ago bit were back for a wedding. Played the Resistance, which is always fun.
Other than that quiet weekend, went back to Arkham Origins after more than a year away to finish off the riddler trophies and also played more of The Witcher 2 which I am determined to finish before 3 comes out.
A Monday morning question: which game has sat unfinished for you the longest before finishing it?
Super Metroid – still unfinished but I am sooo close now..
Chrono Trigger for sure.
First owned (SNES): 1997ish
First finished (DS version): 2014
How’d you get it on SNES in Australia? Jelly.
From memory, we had one of those converters that allowed us to play NTSC games on our SNES.
We hired that a few times. We played Ultra Man & some mad max knock off
Well, Twilight Princess is still sitting there unfinished. Pretty sure the last I played it was Jan25 2007. There could very well be others though.
When I think about it a really strange one for me was Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon, I never owned the game so I had to keep going back to the video store each time I’d saved enough pocket money to keep playing it. I don’t remember their ever being a save feature so I would have to start from scratch every damn time.
I played it in 1998 and hired it about 5 times between then and 2000 before I finished it.
Wait, of course! One that fully fits the question!
First owned: Uh. Early/mid 90s.
First beaten: Pretty sure it was the start of 2010, when we got the floorboards put in and I was stuck sharing a room with my sister because mine was full of furniture. She sure got sick of the music for…
Game: Battletoads
Weirdly, considering your post, mine is the Witcher 1.
Bought it back before everyone knew about it (yeah, I’m a Witcher Hipster, I got it before it was kewl). Got to the (first?) city. Put it down.
Haven’t come back to it.
I’m fairly certain that’s about 6 years.
That’s never been finished? I have a looooooong list of those.
Like, nearly every game on my Master System.
Stuff was hard yo.
Going to go with Super Mario Bros. 3 – played it years and years ago on a friend’s NES, maybe 1993?
I know a bunch of friends and I got together at one point to try running it (no warps) some time around 2003 but we failed and gave up at world 6.
Recently ran through the whole thing, start to finish, no warps, with Aleph back in October. First time for me on that. So that’d be 20+ years for that one?
I’m not sure I’ve done it with no warps. Pretty sure there was a level or two in world 6 and 7 (possibly 5 as well?) that I just could never seem to finish, I’d always run out of time.
Never done SMB without warp pipes either, I don’t think I’ve even *seen* world 6 or 7 >_>
I remember distinctly in The Big Playthrough of ’03 when we couldn’t get past the big invincibility run across pirahna plants in world 6. Thought this run would also stop there but we made it.
Not counting games I am YET to finish, F.E.A.R.
I bought an Xbox 360 in late 2006 and got F.E.A.R. on sale a few months later, let’s say early 2007. I think it launched with the 360 in 2005? Anyway, I got about 3/4 of the way through and set it aside. My wife never finished it either but we later bought F.E.A.R. 2 (which she finished and I swore I would play one day, when I finished F.E.A.R.) and we later bought F.3.A.R. which we both finished within a week of purchase. I later went back and finished F.E.A.R. 1 & 2 during shameless gaming month (July) 2011.
Probably Sonic 2, was the only mainline Mega Drive Sonic I didn’t own & could never beat that last prick.
I didn’t complete it til I was 20 & first played when I was around 9.
If I ever finish Sonic 1 without cheats, then that.
Honestly not sure. After a while I move on from stuff and never take them off my backlog. Nier might be the oldest thing? Picked it up not long after it launched, never got to it until last year.
I don’t know about sat but from start to finish my longest was bioshock.
I think I played it for 4 consecutive calendar years
Crash Team Racing
First played: 2003
Completed: 2011
Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins
First played: 2003
Completed: 2012-ish
Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped
First played: 2004
Completed: 2012-ish
Castlevania: Belmont’s Revenge
First played: 2003
Completed: TBA (I made a concerted effort this year, but I can’t beat the final boss)
Good morning mark. Can you help out a query for me please? Went to play Zen pinball on xbone over the weekend and saw my two south Park tables have been removed. Bit pissed, as I paid for them. Any idea why they got removed?? Licence issues perhaps?? Thanks!!!!
He doesn’t check here really. Some Zen Pinball players are around though. Contact MS maybe?
Will do. I wanted to hear some south Park noises…
Mum vs. Dragon Age 2 update
I was right, she got stuck as hell on the Arishok fight. Also somehow she never got Isabela so that wasn’t an option. I was up visiting the parents on the weekend and she apparently spent all Saturday night (after I went to bed) trying to kill him and eventually was so frustrated she ragequit.
So I killed him for her on Sunday, and now she’s ploughing through Act 3.
Morning all. Not been doing much lately. Just waiting to hear back from the universities about my possible future, and playing Assassin’s Creed 4 to pass the time. I purchased the Freedom cry DLC, so I hope it’s good, cause with my shitty ATAR, I could be here awhile.
Morning all!
So… Application of stupidity in Pokémon – After about 50 of my 1 in 20 chance encounters (yes, probably took about 1000 encounters to do it, and I caught 2 shinies during THAT process since it took so long), the 1 in 20 chance of a hidden ability still didn’t come through. I ended up giving up and trading for one. Now I have hundreds as the hatching grind has begun.
:D?
Still haven’t entirely locked down what the next 3 will be after this. Plus, I realised on the weekend that I might need 2 teams if I want to try for the gym leader thing this year, since challengers could have XY or ORAS…
Those games work together though, why two teams?
If I want to run something like mega sableye, that won’t work with XY – could be easier to have a team on an XY cart and a team on an ORAS cart to avoid stuffing around and chopping and changing things.
PSA: Today is International Kiss A Ginger Day.
My beard has a few stray red hairs. Wonder if this counts? Will try it on the wife later.
Well I’d better go into hiding then….
Or maybe I should set up a booth??
Also known as “a very busy day for HR”
*looks around office*
Damn/phew.
*Grabs P…*
Damnit Gooky.
You deviant.
Sounds like a holiday invented by lovelorn gingers
Shocking DC confessions. I know society tells me I should make fun of gingers, but I find them secretly hot. D:
You and I both my friend, G.O.T Ygritte.
Gingers = no soul
Robots = no soul
Gingers = Robots?
My whole life has been a lie
Techy is ginger? 😀
Well I don’t look it, but can’t argue with the above logic 😛
Heyo, hope weekends were swell all round.
Mine was okay. Helped out co-worker with stuffs. Cleaned the house. Went to golf driving range, bought some cheap shoes! Rode bike twice, once with friend. Bike rides are rad. Cheesed Crota’s end, failed 30sec from end of Hard Mode Atheon because of bugs. Overall fun tiems.
I did the first raid with some US friends on the weekend, across 2 nights, but we got stuck on Atheon. all the US guys have done it before so I don’t know what the problem was but we always seemed to have half the team down after the second trip through the timestream so when Atheon warped us the third time there was no one to get the gates open. I just don’t know what to do about the explosing harpies (supplicants?). Considering we were doing normal difficulty and we’re all level 30/31 I can’t believe we were struggling so hard.
You know the two plates that you activate? If you jump on the pillars in the middle of them the supplicants can’t blow you up. Can still shoot you though. Unsure what the problem was with half your team dying. Were they dying outside or inside portal?
I think part of the issue was the people on the sync plate not keeping the gate clear of supplicants from the outside, so the team returning would get self-destructed. Obviously standing on the pillar, which none of us thought to do, would help with line of sight. It also seemed that despite my wife and I being the “newbies” we were the only ones holding the sync plates, while the other two solely defending the conflux from minotaurs, which doesn’t seem like a two-person job. One time we got warped together and no one opened the gate for us at all!
We only took half a dozen shots at Atheon before our US buddies had to retire for the evening – if I’m really lucky I might have another shot tonight before the weekly reset.
PS4 mate? Always happy to help where I can. Username – bigharro99
Sadly, Xbone.
Seems all the usual TAYbies are on PS4 else I’m sure I’d have got this done by now. 🙁
Oh………………..I……………see………………
All the best of luck sir.
Thanks so much to those who ventured to my birthday thing on Saturday. Was great seeing you. Hope you all had a decent night. (Though I think I might need to moderate how much I drink from time-to-time. I’m always the first one written off. :P)
http://instagram.com/p/xrgzy1NagF/
Also, I love this Brisbane TAYbies + Friends photo! <3
DC is the only one wearing a colour 😛 Birthday boy always drawing attention to himself, jeez.
Or I got attacked by deBlob on the way. He goes where Gooky goes.
Uhm…so as a foreigner from a foreign land who doesn’t socialise with you guys much outside of here…who is who? (I recognise some of the Bris peoples from my meat up there)
Top row, left to right: Sughly, Beardy, Gooky, DC, Mrs. Freeze, Transientmind, Mrs. Beardy, Mrs. Dan, Strange.
Bottom row, left to right: Nobs, Freeze, DC’s friend Ben, Dan!
Mucho Gracias and I’m happy you had an awesome birthday!
You have an odd definition of written off.
Everyone else seemed completely sober to me.
Have we discussed the relative sobriety scale?
When you are sober, and a friend is sober, you both usually consider the other person to be sober. When you’re seven drinks in, and the other is five (assuming you both react to alcohol in the same way and at the same rate), they seem sober to you, because of relative positioning.
The thing is, that as you get drunker (which is usually about drink 15 for me, presumably less for most people) your margin of error for analysing drunkenness becomes much wider, so that the drunk can appear sober, and vice versa.
So… everybody was embarrassingly drunk and we can never go to the Bier Cafe again? 😀
Yeah, what Freeze said. What are you even talking about? 😛 You were fine.
Weekend
Operation: Make DC Accept A Gift was pulled off with nary a hitch. Great success.
I was ambushed. AMBUSHED.
Thanks, buddy! <3 Played it for a bit yesterday, but was a little hung over for something complex so ended up sitting in silent contemplation instead. 😛
That’s kind of how I felt when I attempted to restart it. Although I hadn’t been drinking 😛
I spent my week of annual leave doing nothing but playing Destiny. I don’t necessarily consider this a bad thing, but I wish I’d devoted at least a LITTLE time to my unfinished (mostly Wadjet Eye) adventure games that I’ve been accumulating.
Good morning all. Hope we’re good. Didn’t do much on the weekend aside from Rome Total War 2 (where everyone hates me) and tabletop RPGs (where fewer people hate my character) but what else is new.
Finally got around to seeing the first episode of Kantai Collection and I’m liking it. Certainly could have been a hell of a lot worse than what it ended up being and the premise is delightfully silly so far so I’ll try and follow it.
The admiral is fucking nuts. Seriously. He hasn’t cleared out the area around the base yet (world 1!) but he has at least six of the game’s battleships and five of the fleet carriers. And he sent a level 1 ship into an event map? Granted as part of a support expedition, but still…
I’m waiting for when they start launching barrages of in-jokes and references eg. Akagi’s humungous appetite, Mutsu being unlucky, etc. Glad to see they’ve already done that with Third Torpedo Squadron so I have high hopes for the writers playing with the premise.
What did you think of the battle art style? I thought it was decently done however some scenes looked a little off.
IIRC The battle sequences were all CG and 3DCG can look off when characters move a certain way. I thought it seemed fine, if a bit silly at times. Biggest gripe is that the Anchorage Hime just stood there and let herself get dead. The destroyers early on did more damage to the fleet than the boss!
Also the boss didn’t drop any new ships, so the biggest question in the game (are the Abyssal Fleet some kind of ‘infected’ shipgirls or not?) still goes unanswered. There’s actually a lot of scope to take it in a pretty dark direction if they wanted….
Hee-Ho
Hey everybody, very little gaming done on the weekend. Got myself a Tynamo in Black 2 that has levitate – which means it’s only weak to ground moves, and is immune to all ground moves but mud slap. Eff yeah. I am scared that come breeding time I’m going to fall down the black hole of eugenics…
Also played Pandemic (board game) with the wifey. I have never known a board game to ream me so quickly and consistently. Five games on introductory setting, we won one – and only because we hit a beautiful player role combination of Dispatcher and Researcher, allowing moving of pawns freely(ish) and swapping of city cards.
If you haven’t played Pandemic, get onto it. Such a good game. 4.5/5 stars, loses .5 because of the insane difficulty level.
My sister’s like “I usually win at Pandemic, seems easy for me,” and then I’ll go and play and the game seems to spawn an unceasing torrent of outbreaks regardless of how I shuffled the deck.
Pandemic is good fun.
Played on new years eve, we lost by drawing out the player deck. 2 more cards we would have won!
Save the eugenics for gen 6 – they’ve made the process a lot easier and more transparent than previous games.
Ugh. Stupid neighbours. Thanks to them I got maybe 5 hours sleep, I dunno. Probably shouldn’t go to sleep at 3am but whatever, it’s my choice damn it.
DAMMIT I forgot to put my beanie back into my backpack.
I miss Brisbane.
Thanks for coming, man. Was great to meet you and you fit into the group perfectly. 😀
Dude it’s summer.
Not in this office it isn’t.
You didn’t shut the vent yet, did you?
Apparently the engineers were supposed to come by to be fixing it. They’re still yet to appear.
It’s gotten worse though, I can now feel gusts coming from behind me. Can’t even tell where it’s coming from, it’s just… there.
ghosts man
Reposting from Old TAY:
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.
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.BONUS ROUND! Saw these last night after posting the above in Old TAY:
Dog Days”
Third season of this weird show. I’m not sure if I recommend it or not, honestly. The setup is that the main character, Sink, is some kind of obstacle course prodigy or something. He gets summoned to a fantasy world via magic to fight as the Hero of the country of Biscotti against their enemies. But it turns out that the ‘war’ is basically a friendly competition where no one can die. Also the country he’s fighting for are dog people. By which I mean, they’re all humans with dog ears and tails. And the ‘enemy’ country are cat people. Season 2 changed it up by adding an empire of squirrels and there was always a badass wolf chick and her foxgirl ninja subordinate. Character art is excellent, production values are high and the cast is absolutely amazing, with just about every high profile actor or actress in it, even a rare post-retirement appearance of Sakura Tange. The only real issue the show has is there’s never much tension or conflict because everyone’s friends and stuff, so it’s basically all fluff. Maybe that’ll be different this time, but somehow I doubt it. Still, I’ve watched two seasons and I’ll watch this. 7/10The Rolling Girls
This is actually the first full production from new studio Wit. They’ve done a bit of animation production before, most notably Attack on Titan, but never done their own project until now. This one’s really hard to describe since I’m not sure what was going on. Seems like it’s set in the far future and Japan’s prefectures borders are decided by fights between super-powered people? I don’t know. The main character’s part of basically a support group for the local ‘Best’, Matcha Green, who fights in a mask and body suit straight out of a Sentai show like Power Rangers, and secretly is someone she knows. The big thing that this has so far is that the animation is fantastic. The action reminded me of Birdy the Mighty, heaps of movement and momentum, very fluid and weighty. Haven’t seen any key animator lists yet but wouldn’t be surprised if there’s someone involved that worked on Birdy or something with similarly high-quality action animation. If the quality stays similar, I’m interested in seeing how this develops. 7/10Any of these have demons or Ninjas Scroll style ninjas?
Define what you mean by ‘demons’? Several do, but I’m thinking not what you mean.
Like Wicked City, with the Gore etc.
Found a shit tonne on YouTube over the holidays, so good. I missed so many.
Modern anime doesn’t have a lot of gore and violence any more. Or nudity, either. It all had to be massively toned down because of censorship on free to air TV, plus it helps drive home video sales if buyers know they will get to see tits.
Still get some uncensored or less censored stuff but it tends to be only on satellite TV networks like AT-X.
Terra Formars from last season was pretty gory, but all the TV broadcasts are censored, big areas get black fog and stuff so you can’t tell what’s going on. Crunchyroll put up the first 3 eps uncensored and promised the rest, but haven’t delivered yet. Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure is full of gore but it gets the black fog treatment as well.
I actually haven’t seen Wicked City so I can’t make that comparison. If you mean demon as in the western concept, then I don’t think there’s anything. There’s a lot of supernatural beings in Japanese folklore that make it into anime that might get translated as being ‘demons’ though, and there’s a few shows with that sort of content every season. I think you’re going to be looking for something tonally different from a lot of those though.
I can’t remember the word. We seem to translate it as either devil or demon & it seems to cover more than just the bad ones.
Stuff like Wicked City has good & bad ‘demons’ but mostly it’s like a human taking on an invasion from the demon world or whatever. It has similarities to western stuff but is really it’s own thing.
All the Personae in Persona are referred to as demons in Shin Megami Tensei as they’re not manifestations of your mind but actually monsters that you must negotiate a pact with. (Obviously Megaten has refuelled my desire for such things). I’m sure you know, the inspiration for them comes from global supernatural tales, so gods from religion & even characters from Shakespeare.
What about the direct to DVD market? That all toned down too?
The demons in Megaten are ‘akuma’, which translates most directly as Demon or ‘evil spirit’. There’s lots of other terms for the supernatural in Japanese though which can be translated that way sometimes.
The catch-all is probably ‘youkai’. Basically every non-deity supernatural being can be described that way, and the term is often translated as ‘demon’ even though it covers a lot of things which wouldn’t be. Mononoke, vengeful spirits of the departed, are ‘youkai’. But so are tengu, the crow-like monsters that live in the mountains and often dispense wisdom. Shapeshifting animals (Tanuki and Kitsune especially) are usually referred to as obake or bakemono, but that term usually gets translated as ‘ghost’ or ‘spirit’ rather than ‘demon’. The oni are probably closest in visual depiction to the western demon, they’re big, super strong angry dudes with horns and red (or blue) skin, carry clubs and wear leopard skins. In modern pop culture they’re just as often just normal-looking people with crazy strength, little pointy horns and a penchant for leopard-print clothes, probably this is a result of Rumiko Takahashi’s ‘Urusei Yatsura’ and its depiction of Lum (who is technically an alien, but is basically an Oni). Another common term is Ayakashi,
On the content side, Direct to video (OVA/OAV) is a lot less common for brand new stuff. OVA content is usually special episodes, pilots for testing the waters, specials for filling gaps or pure fanservice, or sometimes just because they couldn’t continue the show any other way. Some ‘movies’ are actually technically OVAs that get limited theatrical runs beforehand to muddy the terminology. It’s a lot rarer to see original concepts in OVA, and a lot rarer to see stuff that wildly deviates from the level of content in TV series. Generally, the cost to produce TV anime has gone down a lot since the 90s, and home video sales have reduced in value, so there’s less emphasis on OVA and more on doing more sequels to your stuff. Shows that in the 90s or early 00s would have gotten one season of 13 episodes now will often get three or four seasons. When I got into the hobby, a single-cour show getting a sequel was uncommon, and getting a third season was nearly unheard of. Two-cour shows almost never got full TV follow-ups. Nowadays it’s pretty common. Hell, they’re even starting to go back to stuff from the mid-00s and expand on them.
It’s not to say original OVA stuff doesn’t exist – it does – but it’s much less common. Generally original concepts are being spun into single-cour TV anime, or they end up as movies or movie series. The recent Ghost in the Shell ‘movie’ series, Arise, for example. Technically it’s 4 1-hour OVA episodes, but it’s being advertised as a movie series. Ufotable’s Kara no Kyoukai is 8 movie-length OVA episodes too. There’s a strong argument that the -monogatari series has gone OVA recently too. It’s nicely set up to work that way, since each arc is a self-contained story they can divide into 4-5 parts, and actually the streaming broadcasts have been editing them into one big episode since all the parts come out simultaneously. Shaft have said that’s how they intend to do the rest of the story. I actually like this approach a lot.
Since you want something Shin Megami Tensei related, are you aware that Persona 3 is getting a two-part movie adaptation? First part is out I think.
I am, haven’t had good experiences with the Persona animes.
Persona itself has a very different focus than mainline SMT. I like them (the games) for different reasons. They do share many similarities in the dungeons & battles.
I’ll stick with my YouTube
Looking forward to seeing some more neg-reviews. Seem like a lot of warnings against things, and rightly so. We’re not always 100% on the same page, but I’m pretty sure I know what you’re talking about with this stuff. Feeling a little slim this season from previews, but I haven’t legit seen anything yet.
People raved about Barakamon which I genuinely did not get, and I ended up only watching Log Horizon 2 (which was a no-brainer) and Madan no Ou to Vanadis (which was a surprise).
Barakamon was an average show that largely stood out because everything else was worse. I liked it but I wouldn’t re-watch.
Morning all, I hope everyone had a great weekend 🙂 I had a great one myself. The pub crawl that I went on was a pretty cool guy and so was the party at the end of it. Managed to win a free drink card by being an epic dancer, either that or the host was too drunk to recognize the truth 😀
Anyway, ended up crashing at a mates apartment in the city at 4:30 Sunday morning after eating some weird chicken liver things in a random korean restaurant in the city. Good times.
I still managed to go for a run later that day too. Woot!
I’ve had this song in my head since seeing Into the Woods. i like it. *sways side to side*
Morning all! Still addicted to Destiny, have all three classes at lvl 31. Not lucky enough like one of my other friends who does Vault of Glass and Crota like five times and gets every single armour piece whilst I do them 12 times and only get one. Random indeed.
Hoping to get Shadow of Mordor at some stage but just love the big D (sans stupid Crucible).
Can anyone answer this please? Tuesday’s update by Bungie will amongst other things stop the cheese of Crota but will also increase the weapon damage for exotic weapons scored during the Vault of Glass making it relevant again. My question is will we have the chance to get updated legendary weapons such as my fav – Vision of Confluence? Or are they stuck at 300? It would be great to get an updated weapon or two and invite people back into the super enjoyable yet highly buggy VOG.
I dont think there’s plans to upgrade legendaries. Which is a shame, because I have one or two that I LOVE. Also, Bungie needs more timesinks I guess.
They only mentioned exotics, so I’m guessing not. I don’t particularly mind – I love my VoC and my Timepiece, but I can see some Crota’s End weapons that would replace them (although some are HM only, unfortunately…). Fang of Ir Yut looks like it will be the likely replacement for VoC…
Such a shame. I love my weapons from VoG too.
And now I’m starting to realise how much work I’ve put into weapons for all three of my guardians and anticipate the next DLC with dread.
If I have to start all over again for all my weapons to get 360+ damage I could be done. I’m a Destiny addict so if I’m willing to lay down imagine how many will as well. Not to count the hundreds of thousands who have already got frustrated and given up the grind…………
My tattooist just won 1st place for best hand tattoo at a big convention with Disney’s Beast.
Ooooh! That’s awesome. Any pictures? The one who did your dragon tattoo?
Yeah, same guy. Sent picture on Twitter.
Sweeeeeeet!
Saw that, it’s freaking awesome.
Guess you’re in good hands.
*chortlesniggercoughhack*
No need to get racist about it.
IT’S A-
Wait.
So you found your next piece I take it? 😛
Yes! Got the bastard! That one fruit fly has been flying around my desk for weeks. How did he even get here… why did he stick around? The only food I ever have here is coffee…
You might’ve just discovered a new species: The Coffee Fly.
God, I hope not. “Bad fly, this is my coffee. Mine. Go get your own.”
My colleague has a fruit bowl on his desk a few metres away. Open plan offices suck. 🙁I think your coffee has actually been a protein shake all along. 🙁
I.e. bug eggsIt gets refreshed every day, tho, and empty cups are always put in the bin in the next room…
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2?
Play it cool, DC. Play it cool.
*tips hat* M’lady.
…
That was the opposite of cool, right?
*waves*
Who’s this guy?
Some loser without a dick LULZ AMIRITE?!?!?!?!??!11111!!!one!!!
How’s your newborn doing?
Potato chips
Welcome back!
HI JANE *flails arms*
Whazzzaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhp.
Morning, TAY.
My weekend was pretty cool. Went and saw Big Hero 6 on Saturday with the Sydney Slicks. Surprisingly great movie! Story wasn’t anything great, but enjoyable enough. Probably the highest quality animation in terms of “graphics” I’ve ever seen. Some of the effects were amazing. Disney Animation is really giving Pixar a run for their money these days (also the pre-show short was adorable too). We also went to a bar that sold hotdogs and alcoholic ice-cream floats. Delicious is definitely a word I would use.
On Sunday I didn’t get to go to the Sydney tennis like I’d planned though. Of course the worst possible weather for tennis (constant light drizzle) happened on the one day I could go 😛 Such a disappointment. I always really look forward to it.
But I did end up 100% finishing Captain Toad (just the bonus 3D World levels to go now). I don’t want it to end! I loved it. Some of the levels were really brilliant. The extra challenges were great too when they were unique (I loved the one on the train where you have to defeat all of the mud creatures by baiting the Charging Chuck into killing them for you. Really challenging!) – I think games like these that re-use game engines are a good thing for Nintendo to help pad their release calendar. I hope they do it more often.
Spoilers for the Captain Toad end-game credits
Mario has the deepest lore. This game was a prequel to 3D World all along! SO DEEPI think we need a Mario wiki to help me connect all this well written, Game of Thrones-like lore.
Sounds like a good weekend, Pow. Sydney Slicks? Now we need a cool Brisbane name! Brawlers? Braves? Bros?
Butts.
Big ol’ Bris Butts at it again I see.
What are you saying about my wife?
That’s why he hasn’t showed up at Brisbane meats in a while, huh? The judgmentalness of him! 😛
Next time I see you I’m going to judge you so hard.
Judge you to be a swell guy that is. 😛
I, too, will judge you and your excessive amounts of enthusiasm and niceness. >:|
Positively-biased judgements for everyone!
I also watched Big Hero 6 – it’s awesome! Fun fact? I cried for like a third of the film.
Because of an unrelated nervous breakdown caused by overplanning a night out? I’ve been there, bro! *brofist*
Weak. I cried for all of it.
Remember that time we nearly played Lara? Good times…
Maybe I was extra strength paranoid about it, but I swear I saw people look at me judgmentally when I called Gooky that on Saturday. From then on it was all real names. I’M NOT THE RACIST, HE IS!
It’s a homonym.
You’re a homonym.
Well, he did just call someone a “nigger” last page.
It’s not really racist if you’re equally hateful of all races.
I don’t discriminate.
Hahaha. Well that explains the shaved head.. Maybe he’s one of them Aryan Brotherhood folk, didja think about that?! lol.
There’s no maybe about it 😛
I did that at a Sydney meat once, and there was audible gasps from everybody else who stopped their conversations, mid-word, to stare at me like I’d done something wrong.
Haha! Maybe that’s why he took the name. To embarrass us all! D:
It was a plan over a decade in the making. Dodecade? Is that a thing? Wait no, maybe tredecade now. Although I’m not entirely certain on the exact year of origin.
Question for those who are interested: what’s your favourite scary/creepy location from any horror movie/game/anything?
I’m personally partial to scary trains or trains that have scary moments.
House at night with no lights on. There’s something particularly terrifying and effective about taking the quintessential safest possible place and turning it into a horror zone.
Or even just an empty house, imo. That’s what made PT (the first half or so, at least) and (to a lesser extent) Gone Home so effective for me. Take somewhere safe and familiar, and show how unsafe it can be, and how little you actually know about it.
I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop in Gone Home for precisely this reason.
was pleasantly surprised when it didntDitto.
And, ditto. I’d have been disappointed had it not left me in tears for hours after finishing it.Abandoned mental asylums and hospitals.
They creep me out.
Agree with this one. Even Batman:AA that wasn’t meant to a scary/horror game gave me chills at times.
There’s this adventure game coming out this year called Asylum. The guy’s last game Scratches was full on psychologically scary and amazing. We must play this, film it and freak out. 😀
I still haven’t psyched myself up to play scratches yet
I know it’s a cliche but old, abandoned insane asylums.
Then again, there’s something creepy about abandoned main street any town at midnight.
Urban decay is just creepy in general. Or any old buildings that have been preserved in some way. They always seem oh so slightly off-putting.
Apparently in Spring Hill/The Valley there’s a really big Convent which used to be an Asylum. It’s actually got a bit of charm to it, but there’s definitely a sense of… uh… presence, to it.
We should totally never go there!
My favourite locations in horror games are the places that aren’t scary 😛
But then they make you scared to leave so therefore they are actually scary places 😛
That’s when I stop playing and create my own alternate “happily ever after” ending in my head.
I kind of like making regular places scary. That’s why I liked Alan Wake so much. Made the most innocuous places creepy as.
I really liked AW but can’t recall ever feeling scared. Not from horror, from mobs of doods, yeah.
Maybe scared isn’t the word, it was just off-putting and creepy atmosphere. I loved it.
Abandoned medical facilities (asylums, hospitals), Military (missile silo’s, bunkers etc..), Prisons etc. I like most eerie abandoned shit. Never know what you’re gonna find.
There used to be a cool abandoned country club near me, but it’s since been destroyed by the little wanna be gangster dickheads. One mate shot a ‘zombie’ movie there back when we were in year 12, good times.
Abandoned childcare centres/similar.
*shudder*
Have you played Dead Space 2? The nursery/primary school was super creepy.
I haven’t.
And I guess now I won’t.
That Silent Hills footage with the toys? NOPE!
weird thing is, it didn’t get me in dead space. Perhaps I was already too far on edge in that game, my housemate thought it was hilarious how many times I yelled “FUCK YOOOOOOOOOOU” at my TV
Oh, you played Zombi U I assume! D:
My endless ranting on here about how great it is wasn’t a giveaway? 😛
Still gotta finish it though, my save’s waiting at the signposted point of no return near the end. Wasn’t sure what gear to take with me etc.
Such a great game. Just didn’t like it when you played all calm, methodical and smart like the entire game and then they lock a door behind you and swarm you with enemies. Felt cheap. :'(
Full childcare centres 0.0
Hey at least you can beat away real kids with a stick. They just go right through ghost kids.
Dunno, probably when they do that thing where they return to a familiar place but something is off.
Empty spacestation/ship, you never know if you’re going to find, can range from survivors to tyranids
That reminds me, I still need to work on that mysterious Mechanicus ship. >:D
Fracking called it… things are going to get veeeery interesting soon xD
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System Shock 2 was the first game I played where I actively had to hide for five minutes out of terror of something lurking down a nearby corridor. Loved arriving at the ship in Dead Space as well. Alien: Isolation too. You know things are gonna get real terrifying, real soon. 😀
it’s not just unknown creatures you have to worry about, you never know if the next door you open goes into a vacuum or explodes in your face cuz you don’t know the status of the ship’s structural integrity, is the crew driven mad from something else, who the heck knows
and homicidal computer programs 😛
I’m not much for horror games, but I think the scariest of them that I’ve played was Project Zero II, and that’s set in a broken-down abandoned Japanese village from like the 1920s or so. So I guess that?
Jade Empire and Dragon Age: Inquisition minor spoilers:
I loved the flooded villages in both games. The tragedy and horror of it. The conspiracy behind it. Talking to the ghosts of those lost. So compelling!I really liked those areas too.
Bioware needs to make a new Jade Empire. That game was so cool. So underloved. 🙁
Yeah and just thinking of the lush beauty of the game with next gen graphics. *drools*
Plus Bioware have gotten a lot better at making action-oriented games since then. Remember how clunky Mass Effect was compared to 2 & 3? I imagine that a new Jade Empire would play like a good action RPG
In Dragon Age: Inquisition I really liked …
Exploring that abandoned mansion, it was tense and interesting until the first undead appeared. Bioware really need to learn how to horror properly. Combat can just ruin horror some times.I wish I had
taken Cole in there. I got the impression that it would have been an entirely different experience with him in the partyNope. Nope nope nope.
Anywhere with fog. Goddamnit, Silent Hill. Any street with fog? Scary. Outside of Disney World with fog? Scary. A playground with fog? FUCK THAT NOISE I’M OUT.
Command And Conquer? OH GOD NO.
Back when i used to work late nights, I would sometimes have to go to the Off Site Server Hold.
That place was scary as fuck. I would be the only person in this creepy building. I could never shake the feeling that an alien was watching me, just waiting to pounce
At home with the (ex)wife.
I feel terrible about upvoting this but……..
You shouldn’t, I didn’t feel horrible posting it 😀
Basically any kind of abandoned city / villiage / town. By abandoned I mean, completely abandoned, no zombies / etc… The kind of feeling like someone somewhere is watching you and every ambient noise makes your heart sink, just a little bit. The Vanishing of Ethan Carter captured that feeling really well.
Yeah, that feeling that all the horror happened before you arrived and you’re just piecing it together in the aftermath. Absolutely love that. 🙂
Yeah, fear of the unknown is much more terrifying than fear of the known. Also a lot of the games which throw you into a non-zombie-infested abandoned place also set things up so that you’re unempowered and fragile which adds to the tension a lot.
Play metro 2033 ;P
To answer the question, hmmm not sure. The wildernesss type places where you are not suited to survival. Open ocean, antarctic research base, that kinda thing
Dead Space put me off space ships.
Dead Space 2 put me off Nurseries.
P.T. put me off looping segments and houses.
Favourite would be the space ships, but the looping household is the scariest I’ve come across :3
(pretty excited for P.T. / Silent Hills!)
Ugh. Had an iced coffee this morning now feel sick, damn it 🙁
I been playing lots of Duke Nukem, I’m the furthest I’ve ever been without godmode.
Few levels into ep 3.
PS: I love pixelated titties.
Nice, I started Shadow Warrior last night, it’s fantastically gory, limbs go flying everywhere, they gave me a gun and I shot it once to confirm what shoot was then put it away and happily chopped everyone up with my Katana. Is Duke megaton still 8 player co op on the PS3? I’m gonna try play through it with my sister.
Dunno
a quick Googling says yes, we should team up some time.
I only installed on Vita, but I could add it to PS3 if need be.
another quick googling says cross play is supported, might not have to. How are you finding FPS with the Vita’s sticks? I struggle a little with them in some games, Battlefield wasn’t too bad but I tried Destiny and it’s almost unplayable.
Easy as. I found it a tad shitter with Wolfenstein, maybe I’m just lucky in the hand-to-controller comfortability area.
I am forced to use remote play more often, so maybe it’s just me used to it.
The new Shadow Warrior is surprisingly good, I actually played a few levels of that when having it open to get Steam cards.
Combat is really enjoyable, swordplay at least, literally fired 1 bullet so far.
Hope everyone had a good weekend! Mine was fairly productive. Played some Elite, lost 3/4 of my 250k CR earned over the last week when I lost a shipment to a pirate, crashed another ship when I somehow hit full throttle just after launching, and bounced off the station entrance from the inside :S, then proceeded to try selling rares, and travelled the galaxy in search of Romulan Ale (or it’s equivalent). Now I’ve upgraded to a Cobra and have 800k CR in the bank… apparently people are willing to pay quite a bit for exotic space leeches and odd sticks from the other side of the galaxy. 😛
Played some Destiny, got some coins at the last minute to grab Lucky Raspberry for my hunter (and then learning I can’t equip it until I find a legendary helm for her – the only helms she has are both exotic… boo), and traded my Gjallarhorn for an upgraded version. Bounties got me to the tracking upgrade, but still need more XP to reach wolfpack rounds to return it to its former glory. And the Swordbreaker I got last week is actually pretty cool – never particularly liked shotguns before, but this one’s kinda won me over. 😛
But that’s exactly how you’re supposed to launch!
Well, except for the crash part. Don’t do that.
I hope you were all like “Hey, wanna buy some deathsticks?”
You don’t want to sell me any deathsticks.
Well, I did rethink my life over the weekend*. Weird, I don’t remember meeting a Jedi…
Needed better time management between Destiny, Elite, and Rocksmith. That counts, right? 😛I discovered you can only equip one exotic at a time too on the weekend, got all excited thinking I’d be able to get to 32, only have 2 bits of the raid gear so far.
Oh, I knew about the restriction, I’d just forgotten that I never bothered with getting another helm for my hunter, as I already had the Achylophage Symbiote from a Xur engram. My two Warlocks are (collectively) one raid chest-piece (and a butt-tonne of radiant shards) away from sharing level 32, tho. May Crota be merciful with drops this week. 😛
Are the Crota road drops the “Deathsinger” items? I saw a level 32 yesterday with all Deathsinger items + exotic helm and could hardly contain my envy.
Warlock gear is all Deathsinger stuff. Titan gear is “Willbreaker’s X” and Hunters get a thesaurus (“Unrelenting/Dogged/Relentless/Tireless X,”) just to confuse the issue.
I really want that chest-piece for my warlocks – that collar is fabulous. 😛
My warlock has glowing sleeves. It’s not stealth, but it’s awesome… 🙂
Sunbreakers? They do look awesome. 😀 Far more tasteful than the gold chicken gloves that Xur sold me before Christmas. Thankfully I have raid gloves, so I don’t need to go out in public wearing them. 😛
I love my Sunbreakers on my Warlock but I think objectively the Claws of Ahamkara are the better item. That said, nothing beats Voidplate Vestments for a Voidwalker though. I need to upgrade my old vestments though, mine’s presently at pre-DLC stats.
@kermitron I don’t play voidwealker a lot – haven’t touched it since about mid-november, I think, so my voidfangs don’t see much use. Self-res and dual grenades are just too useful to sacrifice. I just really want a HotPF… if only Xur would sell it a second time.
I wish there were more ways to get Radiant shards, you need so damn many to fully upgrade and it’s hard to get people to run the raid.
I’ve not been able to get past the lamp phase of the raid even with a team of 6 (apparently we’re too incompetent to hold the end zone long enough to transport to the next section) but I’ve run the lamp phase with each of my characters for the past 2 weeks since you can reach the first chest solo. I have accumulated a whopping 8 radiant energy and 4 radiant shards.
If I ever get far enough into the raid to find raid gear, I’ll then be able to bemoan the fact I don’t have enough. \o/
Yeah, I need to work out what the hell is going on half the time, the guys I play with are really well organised, they’re all really experienced with a couple of lvl 32s in there. I usually just run along shooting what I can and they handle everything. I’ve been through the Vault and Crota legit (no cheesing) and had no idea what was going on most of the time. Edit: I don’t like how the game punishes you for not having raid ready friends.
I’ve been making sure to spam that first chest every week (barring except for one week over christmas) for mats on all three characters, but also have been lucky enough to have a group I run with regularly – have about 18 Radiant Energy and 1 Radiant Shard, but also have fully upgraded one set of boots and got the first “radiant node” on my gloves. Still rank 1 with Eris, so a long way to go before I can convert the energy to something more useful…
My main is a Titan and all my exotic helmets are so awesome I think I’m going to scrap my exotic chestplacte and leg armour. I already had the Helm of Inmost Light which is the perfect Striker helmet, and Helm of Saint-14 which is the perfect Defender helmet, but I had to buy An Insurmountable Skullfort because oh my god it’s a helmet called An Insurmountable Skullfort like holy shit can you even.
Anyway, I have no use for my Crest of Alpha Lupi or Mk. 44 Stand-Asides.
I have the no backup plans gauntlets, sweet for defenders.
My helmet is a Durga-gnt skull bucket just because I love the flavour text (I am a Durga-gnt skull bucket. please bucket your skull before entering combat)
I hardly play Defender but the Helm of Saint-14 blinds any enemies who pass through my Ward of Dawn. What do No Backup Plans do?
Also… that is some damn fine flavour text. I don’t know of Skull Bucket befeats Skullfort but it’s a close fight.
Increases duration of the barrier and increases special weapon reload. That plus the thing that buffs shields or weapon strength makes for fun times
I have the Glasshouse and two other pieces of legendary gear for a titan should I ever replace one of my warlocks. I dreamt last night that Bungie added a fourth character slot… it was glorious. 😛
One of my friends has Glasshouse, it looks pretty neat but I don’t see myself adding a fourth helmet to my lineup of exotics.
Saint-14 is essential for high level work I reckon. A must. I also have the Inmost Light which is perfect for Striker during the lesser stuff. No need for any other exotics I reckon.
I seem to go Defender for Nightfall/Raid/Important Daily or Strike and Striker for the rest. Nothing better than smashing 8 or 9 lower level baddies at once.
Also the Striker mode and that helmet means you can get across the jumping puzzle in VoG without having to use a single platform.
I assume you mean jumping across then using your super to aim yourself at the other side? I didn’t try that, I just jumped to the third platform (after getting the timing right) and then jumping to the other side – so, one platform. My wife, playing hunter, had to use two or three platforms I think. She HATES jumping puzzles in FPS games.
Yeah aiming your super, just run through the tunnel and jump straight off the edge, looks funny to others watching. When you get to the end of the jump if you keep going along the edge past the turnoff toward the last boss fight there is another what looks like a sync plate far away. ALMOST made it there using the super move but fell onto the rocks a bit short. Next time…………..
Dunno if it does anything, I just want to look. You know Bungie, putting shit in random spots and not telling anyone what it does or why they put it there. Like half of VoG which is unused.
Hear what your missus says about the jumps. One of my mates is a Hunter and always dies the obligatory 8-10 times doing that. Piss funny hearing him every time.
*a wild Gutsoup appears*
Hi everybody, I hope you had a great Christmas & New year, I spent mine mostly hiding in my cave surrounded by games and coffee avoiding human contact wherever possible. I started a lot of games but only really finished Destiny’s story, I got sucked into the time sink that is Destiny.
Welcome fellow guardian!
I’m already sick of rental applications and I’ve only done two.
What are you renting? A pony?
Don’t mind me, I like to fill silences with noise.
Don’t suggest that, Freya might get ideas and that means even more paperwork.
It’s either a pony or a proposal, my friend. 😛
#makebunpro-
*red is attacked by the killer rabbit of Caerbannog*
I’d prefer the pony.
Ha, yeah. Got a text from my landlord saying “we’re renewing you for another year right?” and my first thought was how I didn’t want to go through that process this year
Funny moments of hanging from Saturday night. Mrs. Freeze was insistent that I open a present. I asked if it was a pony. She and Freeze look at each other weirdly! What’s with that?
Then…
My Little Pony toy. XD
Thats awesome!
Hahaha, someone knows someone waaaay too well.
You’re a Brony now!
Which one though? THIS IS IMPORTANT DC!
This. @dc we need to know where you stand on this issue. It impact our future together.
I didn’t know they had names?
And just like that, I make enemy lists. 😛
It’s like wearing gang colors. Doesn’t matter if you didn’t know that that group wears yellow. Still going to hate you if you pick wrong.
There is no wrong answer, just varying degrees of correctAlso, TAYbies got me this nice, engraved silver cup thingy with all their names inscribed on the side. :’) Impossible to take picture of without warped DC face in reflection.
http://instagram.com/p/xvUIfhNaky/
Woo, I got a line to myself!
Drug slang?
No thanks I’m full.
http://gematsu.com/2015/01/xseed-games-teases-2015-releases
XSEED best localization company confirmed! Confirmed games for 2015:
– Brandish (out this week on PSP!)
– Trails in the Sky SC
– Story of Seasons (actually the latest Harvest Moon)
– Corpse Party PC (original version, PSP Corpse Party is a vastly improved remake so don’t know why they’re doing this)
Teased:
– Lord of Magna (new 3DS game from the Rune Factory guys)
– Corpse Party: Blood Drive (third Corpse Party game and the end of that trilogy of games)
– Onechanbara Z (possibly actually will be Z2, the recent PS4 game, which people have been saying is actually kind of good)
– Ys 6: The Ark of Napishtim (Presumably this will be a Steam release, since Ys 6 is really old – it was released in English (badly) back on PS2 and PSP by Konami before XSEED took over doing Falcom games)
They also recently registered sites for:
– Xanadu Next (Diablo-like dungeon crawler from nearly a decade ago, presumably testing the waters for Tokyo Xanadu which Falcom just announced)
– Trails of Cold Steel (Widely tipped to be Sen no Kiseki – ‘Sen’ means ‘flash’ as in the glint of light reflected off a weapon, plus the main battle theme’s title is “The Glint of Cold Steel”. Not announced yet, probably will wait until after TitS SC. Will be interesting to see if this is PS3, Vita, or both (or PS4 or PC port?))
They’ve also said that the stuff they’ve teased recently isn’t everything for 2015, and it seems incredibly likely they’ll pick up Senran Kagura 2 (3DS) and Estival Versus (PSV) since those are made by their parent company and they’ve handled all the other games so far. Can’t wait for Estival Versus.
I will probably buy almost everything in this list. Story of Seasons is the only one I’m not interested in, never got into Harvest Moon.
Hi Tay! How is everyone? Hope you all had a fantastic weekend.
I really did nothing of interest… Got my delayed Christmas pressie from the missus which was an X-55 Rhino HOTAS, so I played a crap ton of Elite Dangerous to try it out… That’s really about it for me… I lead such an interesting life 😛
O_O
That looks amazing…
There’s also X-Plane, the DCS sims (Don’t bother with World, though), Rise of Flight, and FSX to try it out on.
FSX is next on the list 😛 should be fairly good!
Edit – also as far as I can tell, the X-55 is really the second best thing to getting the full on Thrustmaster Warthog setup :P… Not paying $500+ for something like that though, despite being rather cool
How’s the wrist? 😛
Okay actually… My shoulder is a bit sore though due to the stick sitting rather high on my desk… I have to build some mounts to have next to my chair I think 😛
Oh, I bought a Playstation on the weekend!
Playstation 3, that is 😛 EB are selling the super slim one for an okay price at the moment so figured I may as well. Especially because I don’t have any plans on getting a PS4 anytime soon.Now, question: If I wanted to finally play The Last of Us, which version am I better off getting? PS3 GOTY version or the PS4 version (I assume all the GOTY stuff is included as standard on the PS4 copy?) – how much of an upgrade is it, honestly?
PS4 version isn’t really that much better looking to be honest. The 3 version stands up extremely well.
It’s fun to use the photo mode and handy having Left Behind on the disc, which is incredible DLC. If there’s no PS4 in your future, the PS3 version was still my game of the year of 2013. 🙂
The PS3 GOTY edition has Left Behind on the disc as well I think. I’m leaning towards that simply because it’s cheaper (though still relatively expensive considering how ‘old’ it is. What is this, a Nintendo game? :P)
Yeah, it’s an amazing game on PS3 and you won’t miss what you haven’t experienced yet with PS4. 🙂
Having played through the PS3 release, and a bit of the PS4 rerelease, the PS4 version is just oh-so-gorgeous. Insanely pretty game.
Other than that, I dunno. I’m sure someone else will volunteer more useful info 😛
I can lend you my copy of PS4 if you want. As long as I get it back one day, it’s cool.
Edit: nvm, just read the spoiler text. *shakes fist*
If you don’t have a PS4, then PS3 Last of Us will be fine. Naughty Dog wring every drop of performance out of the PS3 in their games.
Congratulations on your purchase. The PS3 has an amazing library of exclusives.
As you do not have a PS4, surely it’s moot?!?
I played TLoU on PS3 after finishing Black Flag and Second Son on PS4 and didn’t feel like I was missing out – TLoU really is as good as the PS3 can be. 🙂
Well I’ll get a PS4 eventually! If it was significantly better I may as well wait 😛
Yo TAY.
Weekend:
Decent chunk of time in FF14… leveling without having main campaign missions to smash is quite time consuming (and I think only going to get worse…) Up for lvl15/20 dungeon runs if others are interested.
Also, played some LoL and got my first pentakill vs. real players. \o/
Hope ya’ll had a grand weekend.
I’ve hit level 17 with my Gladiator, and have just left Ul’Dah.
I feel like you’re actually a bit ahead of where you need to be? Sastasha, the first dungeon (which you *must* complete to advance the story) is level 15-18 and you’re nearly past that and still have to do some shit in Gridania and Limsa before it unlocks.
I think I just got up to the Sastasha dungeon.
I’m aiming to put some time in tonight. Doubt I can catch up to you that fast though. Needing to do the switch over to Rogue set me back a bit.
I’ve got a level 19 Maradaur. Actually I tanked a dungeon on Saturday. We wiped twice but I got 2 commendations so I must have done something right! =D
Last Fri, I tried tanking a random dungeon w/ my old PAL – we got through with no wipes, but I felt kinda bad being clueless about what to expect in the dungeon & not really remembering my “skill synergy” so much 😛
I guess running w/ taybies it’d be a bit less srs bsns spdrun and more relaxed? 😀
I have a lvl-46 tank, lvl 20-ish dps and lvl-15ish heals so should be ok for whatever role… for the first dungeon, at least.
The biggest problem we had in our group was that the healer was lagging a lot. Everyone seemed really kind though, it was pretty relaxed.
I’m finding the only hard thing on PS4 is targeting the right enemy. The game plays remarkably well on a controller aside from that.
I didn’t get a chance to play over the weekend but Friday got my Marauder to 10, class changed and then got Rogue to 9. Sounds like I’m already miles behind you guys 🙁
I have noticed that I still get hit with the same lag issues that put me off the game originally. Specifically, standing in an AoE when the cast starts, moving out, being outside it when it ends, and still being hit by it. It fucking *sucks*. Especially in some FATEs where the enemies are all aggressive and spam AoEs. Some of those cast times are just too short to get out of, and I’m dreading going up against Titan with the problem. Part of my issue is probably that tanking in WoW trained me to only move just outside an AoE, rather than keep moving a decent distance outside.
I need to zoom through the story a bit and catch up to you guys. 🙁 Don’t want to be left behind again.
Feel free to just play at your own pace – if it’s grouping for dungeons or w/e, I don’t really mind doing whatever content. I feel like the Fate/Hunting log/Levequest levelling I’ve been doing is going to slow down quite a bit at 20-ish.
I started levelling the gathering classes, but they seem so very grindy. Not too bad to level mindlessly while doing something else like watching a tv ep/movie, though…
I leveled fishing a fair bit on my old character, and that’s pretty fun. Especially the exploratory aspect of it. Started to get a pain later on when you needed to fish in areas with dangerous mobs though. Later on you get some crazy fishing abilities, like being able to fish in desert sand.
There is quite a bit I really like about FF14, and a handful of things I outright love, but there’s enough there to keep me away, and one of the major factors is the post-campaign off-class grind.
Yeah, they really need to find a happy medium for that.
Yeah. Dunno what… More ‘off-class’ leves with greater rewards, option to redo campaign, boost the levelling, expanded hunting log… or just make the moment-to-moment combat of the first forty levels deeper and more intricate for your off-classes; open up more level-locked spells for example. Early levelling combat is boring as hell for most classes, which is a big part of the problem.
Holla Tay!
Been a while since I checked in. Few news notes. Lost my job again at the start of december (very sick of people hiring you telling you they have plenty of work, then 6 months later sacking half the company because they have no work) Of course no one has been hiring due to holidays. Did get engaged however to my girlfriend of over 7 years so that’s a happy side note.
In terms of gaming, I haven’t played anything since losing my job and am in a real funk.
Also, something happened to my HTPC which is how I watch all my tv shows and movies last week. Motherboard cooked itself, which then fried the Power Supply, it is probably 5 years old but was doing its job, so now i need to get a new processor, power supply and motherboard for hopefully as cheap as possible. If anyone can throw out ideas of what would be good enough to just watch video and streams that would be great.
Hope all is well.
Congratulations on the engagement!
Thanks!
I’ve got some old 1GB video card sitting around that my wife wants me to get rid of. If that’ll help, you can have it… as an engagement present! \o/
Thanks for the offer @shane for now I will pass as I don’t know if I am going to bother rebuilding this, or just get some other glorified streaming device which can also use XBMC. Kind of not feeling spending $300-400 on it at the moment.
No worries. It’s just sitting here for the moment, so when you make your decision, bear it in mind 🙂
Congrats on the engagement!!
Thanks Stickman
Wooo! Engaged? Amazing! Congrats, bud.
Thanks DC!
Guess you couldn’t find a pony that you liked. Congratulations.
Looking at a new router and HTPC myself but been lazy about researching what to get
Thanks, yeah I know how hard is it to do the research, buying and building parts is easy. Deciding what you want, not so much.
Weekend recap:
Went on a semi-date on Saturday :3
It went a lot better than my last semi-date! We pretty much just sat in a cafe for 3 hours talking. I even went to the right cafe! Except we were both there sitting waiting for each other for about 5 minutes :3
He even expressed that he’d like to see me again when we did end up leaving 🙂
That’s basically the most interesting thing to happen to me.
Yessss. I’m glad to hear it. Was meaning to ask but was waiting for a time where you seemed in a more conversation-y mood. Well done, buddy. You want to see him again?
Yeah, I was in a pretty foul mood 😛
Feeling better now though (except for headache :S).
He seems nice 🙂
I’ll definitely hangout with him again, if he wants to hangout with me too 🙂
Though if we do, that’d probably make it an actual date :O
OooOooooOoo! 😀
Hope your headache goes!
You know what they say, It’s either a pony or a proposal, my friend. 😛
I am ok with this being a thing.
I’m not.
Sounds like a full-date to me 😛
Going out for coffee isn’t a date, Pow-wow 😛
SEMI-DATE! 😀
*coffee date 😛
But, we had coffee together…
*gasps* :O
😛
I don’t drink coffee. Doesn’t count. 😛
Maybe you just haven’t met the right coffee.
Think I’ll find something on Grindr?
IS THAT A PUN! D:
Expendables 3 isn’t very good.
Number 3 was the first expendable movie I watched, and I watched it on a plane… With little to no expectations what so ever, I thought it did ok with what it set out to do… Blow shit up with minimal story 😛
I haven’t seen any of them, are they any good?
I enjoyed the first 2 if you go in with just a view to see a movie with no story and lost of explosions and one liners.
1 was terrible, 2 was fantastic, halfway through 3 and it’s okay at best so far.
Awh, but I loved 1. More than 2!
I’ve never seen an Expendables movie.. Are the first 2 any good, though?
They shouldn’t have dropped the rating down, trying to get a larger audience just limited what they could do and in a movie ’bout ‘splosions that’s probly not good.
The target market is older, remember when was the biggest thing going around, well they have all been shoe-horned into one film. That’s basically the sales premise.
exactly, why drop the rating down? Kids these days don’t even know who half those old farts are.
But the people who do know who they are can’t convince their nursing homes to let them out to see it.
I hadn’t realised they had actually dropped it from an R to a PG for the 3rd film.
Wait what? They even skipped over M?
Apparently, although that could be US ratings so not sure about here
Because of all the young guys in it I’ve never heard of?
The only one I knew was Rhonda and that’s only because of her Pokemon love.
Besides the twilight guy who else would you consider as the young guys?
Haven’t seen it, just going off the IMDB listing
Ronda Rousey and some other jerks 😛
Edit: You’d think they’d save her for the Expendabelles since they reckon they’re still doing that.
Lets say, hypothetically, that you’d be going on a pretty adventurous 5-week trip somewhere, including long flights and downtime at night (if you want). You have Vita (with a buttload of PS+) games, and a new 3DS with Pokeymans Y and Sapphire, LoZ Between Worlds, and Kirby. Take 3DS for dem streetpasses and pokemon completion? Or Vita to replace the feel of a console? Or both? 😮
I’ll answer your question if you can explain to me what a streetpass is, I have a DS and not sure what it does lol.
3DS has functionality where if you leave wifi comms acive, if you walk past someone it’ll bluetooth and then wifi exchange your Mii character. Then you use StreetPass software to unlock puzzle pieces and rewards etc.
Neat! I should actually fire up my DS and see how it works for realsies. Agreed with @thecracks that if they aren’t too big bring both, I brought my iPad to play Hearthstone somewhere recently and then realized I actually felt like playing The Wolf Among Us.
Por que no los dos is always the answer.
Both. They aren’t that large, even having to take two different chargers. And you never know what gaming mood you might be in at any given time.
Yeah, they’re pretty small, and not too heavy. I have USB charge cords for both so that shouldn’t be an issue. I’m thinking both too, as you say, “gaming mood”.
I’d take a tablet computer over either.
Heh, yeah. I have a Nexus 7 which is nice and light, or a Surface RT with keyboard cover. I need to test if the Nexus 7 allows me to transfer content from camera and GoPro’s, just in case the 64GB cards don’t last …
I don’t think it does, no USB.
Has microUSB, unsure if stock ROM supports USB OTG for both cams. In any case, I have the adaptor, so I’ll just try it. 😛
Multiple times I’ve gone away with my Vita and my 3DS, intending to play a ton of stuff in the downtime.
You know what I’ve ended up doing all those times? Reading. Reading a book. My sister got more use out of my Vita than I did last time I went away.
I guess one time I did play through all of Crisis Core FF7 while away on holiday though. So I guess the answer is to take a PSP?!
I don’t own any big novels unfortunately, and I’m trying to keep weight down since airlines keep reducing baggage allowances. I have some comics/ebooks on tablet, might load it up. PSP doesn’t help me! 😛
I think it comes down to what sort of games you want to play and how you feel about playing them in a public space, especially considering needing headphones etc. I have a ton of games on my Vita but the rare times I’ve used it on a flight, it’s been for stuff like Lumines. I have other games but I’m not sure how appropriate it would be to whip out eg Corpse Party on a plane where kids might be looking over my shoulder. That sort of consideration is less important if the bulk of your gaming time will be in a hotel room or something though. However if you’re sharing a room you’re going to potentially want to have the volume down etc. so games relying a lot on music or sound are tricky.
Also games where you are going to ideally want to put in a long session I find are trickier when you’re away. I wouldn’t normally play a traditional JRPG for example. I mentioned Crisis Core because it actually had a pretty mobile-friendly design, most areas could be done in 15-20 mins.
I got through like 8 books in 2 weeks on my trip, just sitting on buses etc. Advantage of tablet is you can d’load more
Also, check out your public library- lots of them have ebook services you can access and d’load from anywhere on tablet
Didn’t know this, will try to go look.
If you have a library card, you can probably do all of the sign ups through the website.
Failing that, sign up to the Sa libraries
In the hallowed halls of these threads I have seen creative folks talk about painting. I have just purchased a table soccer table for the gym, and I want to paint some some stuff on the side but I’m not sure what sort of paint I should be using.
The table is made of wood laminate, am I even able to paint it lol?
Paint it in the blood of your enemies! 🙂
You can paint anything, if you seal it with hairspray afterwards. #AmateurHour
And a great big bowl of strawberry ice cream!
I’d do that anyway!!
Wouldn’t clear spray paint actually be cheaper? 😛 Especially since I saw Repco selling spray paint 4 cans for $8 at the moment lol..
–> #AMATEURHOUR <–
You’d need to use a Primer before hand though right?
Optimus or Rodimus?
Optimus. Rodimus was a disgrace.
Prime it in the tears of your enemies.
Oh, I get it.
Steal my joke without even upvoting it.
No no, it’s alright.
I don’t even care.
…
:'(
When you think about it, isn’t stealing the most sincere form of upvoting?
Nah, gotta have them upvotes!
It’s how I calculate my self-worth! 😀
Okay, I’ll level with you. I know which end of a paintbrush usually does the painting. Beyond that, don’t ask me any questions.
Best bet is to talk to the people in the hardware shop when you buy the paint. They know more than we do 😛
If there’s anything I’ve learned from this thread, it is this 😛
The guys are right. The hardware store folks may know best. Maybe even go into an Eckersley’s because they will know best (don’t BUY anything though, it’s often pretty expensive) and get a shopping list that you’ll ‘buy later’/discuss with partner. (Sure… buy elsewhere.)
My two bits: Acrylic will go on pretty much everything, but I’m kind of biased in loving it from having worked with it so much. You WILL need a primer first, but should be able to pretty cheaply buy a few tubs of white acrylic to slather on a few coats of. And yeah, you should seal it when you’re happy with it. And probably with a bit more than hairspray if you’re intending to use it for anything where it’s going to get bumped and rubbed up against a lot. There are cans of professional-grade sealant you can (and should) use, and you probably want to check that out with the hardware store.
Standard ‘painting with acrylic’ tips apply. Eg: Mix on palette, not the surface. Mix more than you think you’ll need and remember how much you used because it’ll dry faster than you think and less of it will be usable. It’s water-based, so if you need a thinner colour, you can thin it down that way. It is semi-transparent, so bolder colours will need to be laid on thicker/dryer, or multiple times. Add dark on top of light, not the other way around, unless you’re adding fake ‘gloss’ highlights. If you’re impatient you can blow-dry with a hairdryer, but air-drying is a smoother, less ‘gummy’ finish. Have loads of brushes and keep them all wet and clean as much as you can. (Acrylic dried in brushes will pretty much kill them.) Let palette paint dry a little and hit with a big, fluffy brush to smoosh lightly onto the surface for dappling effects. Use watered-down wide, flat strokes for large background coats. Do those coats first, because you’re going to be layering the paints. Etc, etc, basics, can elaborate if required.
Blood. Of. Enemies >:(
Well, I guess you could use it as a wash, but it’s really going to dilute everything and make for weak, thin colours. Could let it dry and cake it on layers, but you’re going to need a lot of it. Maybe to mix with acrylic? Though in that case, if you want better colour variety, I think you’re going to have to go with Pow’s suggestion of the tears of enemies.
Shit, you were either up early or late last night!
This was the reply I was hoping for, thank you man <3
I’m picking the table up tonight and I’m hoping to get to painting it over the weekend, I was going to put the University and gym logo on there, and some soccer balls, etc. so this information is TREMENDOUS!!
Well, with some soccer balls you may need to be careful. The stuff I was saying about applying dark on top of light, and not the other way around? Try drawing in some pencil lines first, painting over the top of them, and seeing how much of the lines you can still see – it might surprise you how clear they remain. That translucence stuff is no joke, so if you want your balls’ whites to be bright and vibrant, just be aware that if painting them on top of the black patches unless you’ll need to be prepared to do one metric fucktonne of coats so that it becomes opaque. (Which, given the patchwork nature of the balls can actually look pretty vivid, with the patchwork texture adding to the depth of the picture.)
Foudn the real reason that @pixel_the_ferret_viking went home for Christmas. It was for a job interview
Best.job.EVER!
So people are talking about what Nintendo’s next handheld is going to look like. As usual we get some crazy fan-concepts like this one based on a story saying that Nintendo was interested in some new displays that can be cut into any shape: http://i.imgur.com/qxQfDin.gif
It’s at least cool to think that something like that might actually be possible even if it’s basically guaranteed to never, ever happen 😛
I’d buy that, especially since it has real buttons. REAL BUTTONS. XD
Lol all those people trying hard to make plausible 3D renders of new products is hilarious. The latest one was iPhone6, etc. I find it highly amusing, because those people know shit about the product, design language, or reality. Case in point, that gif.
It’s fun to think about though. The crazier the better.
I suppose, but not to me. I’ll leave that to cartoons/anime and those that have no basis of reality.
Disappointed it wasn’t something with a screen in the shape of a starman.
Nintendo just released a new handheld!
Stop releasing new stuff, and talking about ecen newer stuff so soon! :'(
That fan-made design looks kind of gross also.
I would not want my hands covering any of the display. Also, I can’t see Nintendo dropping the two screens for their devices any time soon.
It’s kind of “their thing”.
Their new handheld is equivalent to the DSi, basically.
We’ll be seeing a new portable console in 2016/2017.
Oh, TAY. No one must ever know of our forbidden love.
I love you too, you lovely young man. How was the rest of the evening? Finish your drink?
<3
No I didn’t in the end. Blaghs finished it for me. As soon as someone mentioned how much of the remainder might be backwash, I pushed it away.
So I thought I’d found the perfect sequins for the mid section of Elsa, but when they arrived, they are not turquoise. This means the hunt is on once again to find transparent turquoise sequins. I’ve even resorted to looking for PET film to cut them out myself.
*scree theme music plays*
I always get myself into this crap. Ugh.
Never, ever doing Elsa again and will be warning others off it. It is a lot more detailed then I thought.
You know what they say about adversity. Just like cosplay, it’s character-building!
That is terrible.
TAY RPG Pathfinder tonight at 7:30 pm AEST, 8 pm ACDT, and 8:30 pm AEDT. Starring:
@redartifice @tech_knight @freezespreston @sernobulus @negativezero @beeawwb @rize
The party went and acquired wonderful new accessories and equipment in preparation for their cross-continent adventure guarding a merchant caravan where there will be NO FROST GIANTS. 🙁
Sorry for the late posting but let me know if you can’t make it or if you’ll be late. Or tweet at me if that’s your thing.
There are Frost Giants. They’re just warmed up and shorter than normal. And in disguise.
I’m sure that Drewan knows all about the rare miniature flaming frost giant and will tell us about it in detail and at length if it’s mentioned.
Ah crap, that’s tonight? I’ll be late, possibly not at all. Dinner at my Mum’s which is about half an hour’s drive, and I have a house inspection tomorrow morning so need to make sure I do some final cleaning / put bins out.
Yeah it was my bad with the late notification. I know we kinda set a return date before Christmas but I should have posted something about this last week. My bad. At any rate, there’ll be stuff going on however you’ll be along for the adventure plus you’ll be able to acquire any items that you wanted to shop for.
I honestly don’t pay much attention to gear or anything and haven’t gone through stuff to see if there’s anything I particularly want to buy. I suppose i could probably buy a wand or something to supplement my lack of proper offensive spells.
Also no worries about the lack of reminder. I had it in my phone so no real excuse.
Huh, the AVGN Movie’s music composer was Bear McCreary.
Happy Monday everyone. I have almost survived my First Day Back At Work.
2.5 weeks off. Did very little. Feel mostly refreshed and renewed, apart from aggravating my back injury from last year and being all sore and ouchie for a few days.
I now have a To Do list measurable in light-seconds…
Whoo, just survived my first day back, so hard to motivate after doing nothing for so long.
My boss is at a conference for two weeks. \o/ His boss is on holiday for two weeks. \o/ People who normally talked to them now talk to me and expect me to know things that aren’t documented. /o\ *hides under desk*
This is going to be me in the first couple weeks of March.
It occurs to me that I have not logged into Kantai Collection since the end of the last event (or at least, when I was done with the event, as I didn’t bother trying the extra map for Nowaki, just getting Prinz Eugen was enough. The frustration of that third map nearly broke me.
Since I last logged in, apparently not much has happened. Added Destroyer Yamagumo, Kai-2 upgrades for Yamashiro, Furutaka, Ashigara and Fubuki, and apparently next update will be Kai-2 for Hatsushimo (presumably – either her or Yukikaze, but Yukikaze already has insanely high stats, doesn’t need upgrading) and Nachi to finish out the Myoukou cruiser sisters. Apparently I also missed out on a bunch of Christmas / New Years CG swaps and voice lines. 🙁 Also missed my chance to get Yamagumo easily from 1-5, will have to clear world 3-5 to have a chance at her and I don’t think I’m capable yet.
Going to see if I can log in some time this week, maybe. Spend some time building up resources. There’s an event coming up in February and it sounds like there might be a new sub, addition of a new carrier (probably Katsuragi or Amagi) an escort carrier, a Matsu-class destroyer and possibly a new foreign ship (which might be the sub?). Sounds like fun. Need to build up my bucket supply before then though.
Just puttin’ it out there, @freezespreston is a total legend, and I can’t thank him enough for helpin’ us out when the ignition snapped in the car and needed to be replaced and for last week with my watch.
He’s alright, I suppose…
I miss you Freezy! <3Can I get on the Freeze is a stellar dude bandwagon? He gave me a PAX ticket for gratis for my brother last year. Salt of the earth/champion amongst men.
Hells to the yes you can! Top bloke all round.
I’m going to counteract all this Freeze love by saying that he doesn’t come to Canberra enough, and barely even pushes back. What a monster.
http://i.imgur.com/v5kt1wq.jpg Nuff said!
He once drew me a very nice picture of goatse.
Top bloke.
Once Freeze beat up ten armed ninjas effortlessly without putting down his drink once!
No one’s slick as Gaston
No one’s quick as Gaston
No one’s neck’s as incredibly thick as Gaston
Oh… Neck… I thought it was something else…
😉
Brain?
Head.
You haven’t listened to @Freezespreston’s Pathfinder character.
It counts as a 1d6 bludgeoning weapon.
Actually, according to the DM it’s a 1d10. 😉
He’s given me a Dark Souls 2 collector’s edition, a Demon’s Souls collector’s edition, an engraved pen, a place to crash for a weekend in April, and tonnes of moral/financial/public support for everything I crap out writing-wise (and I’m sure some more stuff that I’ve forgotten to mention).
@freezespreston is a total jerk.
#FAPPage3
I like freeze, he seems like a cool guy.
Anyone here know where I might be able to find an official Sony PS3 Slim vertical stand? eBay only seem to have official ones for the super slims 🙁 the generic cheap one I got is really crap and doesn’t lock onto my PS3 like it should :/
Edit: ooh Amazon appear to sell them. Since EB Games stopped stocking them when the super slim was released Q_Q
have you checked your local cash converters? I was in one a few months ago and they had a bunch of them.
Nah, hadn’t thought of crime converters, cheers!
http://www.play-asia.com/gamecube-controller-adapter-for-wii-u-pc-usb-paOS-13-49-en-70-8h2n.html
Found this on PlayAsia… apparently it’s compatible with Wii U and PC.
Holy cow! I didn’t even think about 3rd party ones 😮
Seems a lot more reasonably priced than the $100+ or whatever the Official ones are going for on eBay 🙁
I know, I’m almost tempted to pick one up…
Almost…
I’d still beat you!
OOOOOOOOOO SHOTS FIRED
😛
Bleh, twinged my thumb at climbing. Had to call it early 🙁
Doesn’t seem like anything serious, should be ok by tomorrow or something. Still, annoying.
oh yeah forgot to mention: My brother-in-law got me Smash Bros for Wii U for christmas, so we should probably play that at some point… yeah…
*walks away*
Ha, who plays games? Nerds.
I am fully dedicated to sportsball right now.
*Balances beer on gut*
Monday night. 3 beers down. “Fast4 Tennis” on screen.
*lazily stretches arm out for fistbump*
The tennis was good – made a nice change from the T20.
How is the Fast 4? I don’t really watch Tennis, but I tried to explain what F4 was to Pow and failed miserably thanks to not being able to remember any of the Tennis terms.
It seems a bit odd to me as an idea though, since Tennis is usually a pretty quick game anyway.
Fast 5 was better.
The original was the best.
Of the original four 😛
To be honest… It doesn’t feel much faster right now.
So far it’s shining in the tie breaks. Instead of first to 2 ahead (i think is the rule… ) it’s simply first to 5. So no ridiculous drawn out 5th sets in men’s matches. Also the playing of ‘lets’ is keeping it moving instead of replaying the serve.
I’m almost sold on the idea… but…it feels too much like they want to capitalise on the success of T20 but, like you said, tennis isn’t necessarily a long game to begin with.
Sounds okay, I’ll give it a watch this year. Could be good.
I really like the super long deuce battles though. It’s about as hyped as you can get watching a game! 😛
That was my thought when I saw what it actually was. I can’t stand watching tennis as it bores me so I figure I’m kinda the target market, people who will watch T20 (ok lets be honest, I sat down and watched an entire day of the boxing day test) but not interested in tennis. That seems to be the angle they are pushing.
But it just seems like the exact same game just shortened a little. Might as well just play 3 sets like the women. T20 actually changed the style of play, it’s just hits and giggles. Stupid shots like ramps that you would never have been developed in test cricket. It is a very different game.
I don’t see how Fast 4 is going to be any different. And taking away the advantage back and forth on a set point is removing the only tension from the game anyway.
I find the idea odd
I think reducing the men’s game to 3 sets is a better format change too. Even as a tennis fan I think they can drag on for way too long sometimes.
If they truly wanted a fast version of the game as a side-show to the main event they should just copy Badminton’s first-to-21 and win-by-two rules. That way the entire game is essentially a long deuce contest.
Men play 3 sets in most tournaments other than the 4 majors.
@trikeabout
Which seems to make the ‘new format’ even more pointless
Wooo! Keep me in a Job, Watch those ads!!!
Between you and my Best mate, you have both got me hooked on Talos Principle. Nerds!
I’ll beat you!
OOOOOOOOOO SHOTS FIRED
😛
EDIT: Friend Request Sent. 🙂
Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker is $60 on the eShop…
I’ll hold out for a couple of weeks…
You know it’s like $49 at Kmart and I believe $48 at Target atm.
Either way, I’ll still hold out for it…
There needs to be more Freeze Appreciation Pages.
I love FAPing.
Wait…
All that FAPing made my arm sore…
We all need to have a FAP or two once in a while
Man, I could FAP everyday!
TAY RPG Pathfinder completed for another night. Starring:
@redartifice @tech_knight @freezespreston @sernobulus @negativezero @beeawwb @rize
GM Summary: Magic be powerful yo.
Magic like making fireworks and (temporarily) blinding small children?
That poor Hobgoblin, got held in place while a storm cloud formed above him and exploded him.
His death was quick, better that than being struck by lightning again… and again… slow death by electrocution
FIASCO
cc @freezespreston @beeawwb @negativezero @sernobulus
Here are the playsets: http://www.bullypulpitgames.com/games/fiasco/playset-of-the-month/
I’ll DM you a link to the Roll20 thing closer to the time
7:30 SA Time Friday. We might even stream this one for fun
@tech_knight next time, I’m sure @coldcamv and @trjn will be keen to go again at some point
If the next one happens when I have an internet connection, sure :p
Woooooo
I vote Hollywood Wives or Unaussprechlichen Knutsen.
Unaussprechlichen Knutsen sounds like it would be insane
Why do I imagine Unaussprechlichen Knutsen will turn very quickly into R-rated Scooby Doo?
At least, before Cthulhu eats you all.
Ruh-row!
Same as @trjn in regards to the internet and lack thereof at the moment
I’d be keen at some stage to play again too:)
Also, RPG talk:
The STRANGE (@strange?): The Series
What is The Strange?
Beneath our universe—beneath the quantifiable matter, the light and energy we can detect, the forces of gravity and electromagnetism that define the physical universe as we know it—lies a chaotic network of dark energy. Few know or even suspect its existence, but for those who have discovered it, everything is different. These select few know the Strange (as it is often called) hosts numberless recursions, unique but limited worlds with their own laws of reality.
You are quickened—you are one of the few on Earth aware of the Strange and even able to access the alternate realities that lie in Earth’s shoals. You know these worlds are often governed by rules of physics, science, or even magic that are different that our own. You know they often hold riches—not just gold or jewels, but powerful artifacts that can bend reality back on Earth. And that they contain dangers unlike anything back home.
A dimension hopping, body changing adventure through worlds both fantastic and familiar!
If people are keen, I’ll be running a series of short adventures that are loosely serialised of ths RPG. most stories will be no more than 3 sessions (so six hours) and the idea is that players can drop in and out between stories. If you’ve never played a tabletop RPG before, this’ll be catering for people new to the concept as well.
Plan is to run on alternate Wednesdays to Numenera, starting in February. Let us know if you’re keen below, I’ll probably want 5-6 per “series”
I’m probably in.
We’re moving in about a fortnight and I don’t know how long it’ll take to get a stable internet connection up. So maybe pencil me in for a slot in the second wave?
For those who don’t know, this is the follow up RPG system from the people behind Numenara and it looks pretty rad.
Potentially interested. A definite maybe.
Same here. Call me a maybe, depends on whether Neg0’s gets up and running and what day/time that will be.
I’ve chatted to Neg, he’s still a little ways off which is why I’ve jumped in
Well eff it, put me down as a yes. 🙂
@quiz_b: yeah, I’m still really trying to grok the rules and make sure the tools and everything are up to snuff before jumping in, especially since I’ve never GMed before. Lots of reading.
@redartifice’s Strange would probably be a short run rather than an ongoing campaign so the thought is that he’d run that, then I’d do Star Wars once that finishes since I’m also looking at probably a shorter run (just running Jewel of Yavin)
Once you start GMing it’s pretty easy just to let things progress at their natural pace. Also, a personal tip of mine that I know some other people disagree with is that improvisation is a tool that should be utilised as often as you want. Some people go for a more structured story which is all well and good however sometimes just letting loose and getting a bit crazy can be a tonne of fun.
I second this. One of the funniest Numenera sessions we’ve done (@blaghman and the millwife ) was totally improvised.
Yeah, it’s one of the reasons I’m liking the look of the Jewel of Yavin module as a thing to run. It’s got a sort of sequence of events, but a lot of the planning and preparation and execution of the actual heist is up to the players, and a lot of the necessary stuff can be done out of order.
I’m interested but would only want to get involved if there’s needed spaces. People who haven’t played one of these before should jump in.
What does “playing” involve?
1. Creating a character- I’ll send you a .pdf of the player’s guide, and they’re really easy to knock together. Your character will be a new recruit into The Estate, a private agency that monitors goings on in The Strange and dispatches squads of agents to protect earth.
2. Access to a computer with internet and a headset/mic, and being willing to participate in a Google + Hangout
3. 2 hours on every second Wednesday night to play
4. A sense of adventure!
You don’t have to be a good actor, or able to do accents (anyone who’s listened to my horrible british one in Pathfinder can attest to this), you just need to be prepared to have fun
Ah. 2 counts me out then 😛
No mic? because you can be in a hangout without a google account, I just send you a link.
Yeah, the headsets with mics all seemed to break. Usually the left speaker that stopped working, all the time. There’s probably a standalone mic or two lying around somewhere, but even then, I’m not really in a place where I can/will do voice chat at all.
OK, fair enough. Webcam works as well.
If you do get a working one, maybe for another “episode” later on.
@redartifice Oh I mean like physically I’m not in a place where I’ll ever do it. Computer’s out in the main living area, I don’t feel comfortable talking in front of the rest of the people in my house to people who aren’t there 😛 Always take my phone with me and close all the doors, etc.
If you have one, I think hangouts work on tablets/Ipads, which you could plug a headset into 🙂
@gingerchris86 Closest thing I would have is my Wii U and the video chat thingo it has on that. Though I’m not sure the wireless range for the gamepad would extend to my room 😛
I’m with freeze on this, If you need people I can jump in, But I think you guys should give it a go 🙂
I’m interested but as @freezespreston said, I don’t want to take up all the RPG games so if others who aren’t playing RPG’s want in they can have my spot
Since I love jumping on trains so much, I’m also putting myself out there as interested, but since I already Numenera, priority should go to others.
Not going to lie, I think we’re going to need you for the next session.
There is a chasm that needs jumping. 😛
Looking for a mini boom stand for my mic…
There’s a local in Geelong whom I’ll occasionally buy mic stuff from.
Would I be better off with them, or should I just jump on eBay?
That seems like the sort of thing for the local shop – you can try it out and avoid disappointment.
I have so many games to play and finish, but I keep going back to Destiny for some reason :\
It’s not even that fun, it’s just a habit at this point! :O
I was doing that, but I’ve kicked it now thank fuck
Same. But it has stopped me playing diablo 3 for the time been.
I think it’s because the game literally has the progression system of a phone game.
Yeah that gets addictive, which is why I’ve deleted it from my PS4
You’re an addict now, you need to go cold turkey like me to break the cycle.
I too am an addict. But enjoying it!! Until the next DLC screws me and my hard work……………………
For anybody that wants it, this Thursday I have the day off so will be declaring it the “Help other Kotaku people on PS4 in Destiny that need to rank up or get better gear or do the Nightfall / Weekly Heroic Day”.
Catchy title too.
Feel free to jump on and kill some………………..things. I’ll need to do the Nightfall myself at least three times so will be happy to help anyone and don’t even mind smashing out low level story missions if somebody feels the need,……….the need for starting a new character. *high five*
@gutsoup @platinum-urchin @liondrive @stickman
I think some people would be very glad that you decided to do the HOKPOPIDTNTRUOGBGORTNWHD
You’re right @tigerion ! HOKPOPIDTNTRUOGBGORTNWHD is a service to man/womankind.
Happy HOKPOPIDTNTRUOGBGORTNWHD for Thursday everyone! (Still weird there’s no official mention of it on Bungie website.)
I’m at work Thursday but will be up for it after, probably around 6-7pm (Qld Time)
Done.
I’m lvl 31 with some decent weaponry so I should be more help than a burden.
Then together we shall send the………….things through the gates of hell! And get some sweet gear from the nightfall. 🙂
Will probably have enough on in the evening to have a crack at Crota / Atheon too.
It won’t hurt to try. As long as I don’t get another legendary chest amour for a hunter rather then a warlock.
But knowing my luck it would be for a Titan.
Blergh. Woke up feeling sick. Sore throat a-plenty. All that socializing isn’t good for my hermit immune system. 😛
All them Sydney germs.
Damn you! DAMN YOU!
You’re allergic to Go– aaah, MrTaco. Yes, that. Not that other, very racist sounding thing. *nods*
Hi there TAY.
Second (full) week of the year is already turning out significantly better than the first. I hope it’s just as good for all of you.
I noticed a bit of a conversation going on yesterday about how to define “casual” in light of the games being played at AGDQ. I think I have to agree that any time you’re not playing to “master” a game, you’re playing it casually – which is most of them. I don’t think that you necessarily need to be speedrunning before you could say that you’ve mastered a game, but I do think that completion weighs in fairly heavily.
I’ve completed Chrono Trigger a number of times and achieved about half of the 14(?) endings, including soloing the Boss at the start of the game and the additional Boss added to the DS release. However I’ve only ever managed to get 1 character to max level (Chrono), which means I’ve never fully leveled Ayla’s Fists, nor have I used every possible triple tech.
I’ve played a lot of Pokémon; I’m not even going to go into detail. Let’s call it 4000 hours.
I’ve played a lot of Team Fortress 2 as well, although 1000 hours seems comparatively small after talking about Pokémon. I wouldn’t say that I had mastered TF2 at all though – I’m definitely considered casual by anyone who plays TF2 seriously.
There are a few games that I can definitely say that I mastered. I used to speed run Metroid Prime back in the day. Got it down to about 2.5 hours on Hard with 100%. I earned the Platinum medal for every level and every challenge in Timesplitters 2. And of course, unlocking 007 mode in GoldenEye – I also memorised the spawn locations and activation order for each multiplayer map and then no-one wanted to play against me anymore.
I definitely play most games quite casually, but there are a few that come along where I want to completely master them. So, you bunch of filthy casuals: have you ever even mastered a game?
Dark Souls is about as close as I’ve come to that. Learning enemy placements, weaknesses, playing the numbers game with weapons and upgrade paths. Unlocking shortcuts and then backtracking and going the long way anyway, just to clear out levels and loot. I don’t think I mastered that game, but I allowed myself to sink pretty deep into its systems, and I learned how to handle it.
By completing Dark Souls so thoroughly, I think it’s probably better to say that I mastered myself.
On the other hand, I’ve never Onebro’d, and I’ve never NG+++++++’d or anything, so there’s still plenty left in the game I haven’t done.
That said, back in the day, I spent hours perfecting Goldeneye 64 speed runs to beat the time trials, got every star multiple times in Mario 64, and mined Link’s Awakening for every last one of its secrets on the original Game Boy.
I call myself a casual in every game. It’s more fun to be a casual 😛
Uhhh… I earnt all the medals in Lylat Wars? Can’t remember if I did the same in SF643D, as in earning all those “extra hard” medals that were piled on top. I know I at least grabbed a few of them though.
Oh, I worked my way up to doing a perfect hidden target run in each of the three archery courses in Wii Sports Resort within a week or so of it coming out. Totally couldn’t do it with the regular targets, but hey 😛
Actually I think I count myself as having mastered HotD: Overkill. I earnt all but the last reward in the game, because I didn’t want to have to buy the shotgun. Because that thing seems like cheating, and I got everything else (and hit all those golden brains) using just the regular pistol with 1:1 aiming and the cursor off, ie the proper way 😛
I think I might count RE4 in there too. Being able to earn the handcannon (on the GCN version at least, Wii version is so easy my totally inept friend managed it :P) is mastery in itself. I used to have Super Monkey Ball’s Monkey Target mode pretty well mastered too, my friends and sister never wanted to play with me because I’d just perfect every round. And they’d specifically target me to just smash me off the stage, regardless of how it would affect their score.
Oh, F-Zero GX! I totally can’t snake or whatever, but I beat the game 100% (unless it has staff ghosts… I never touch the staff ghosts in any of those things because screw that) and will forever keep that amongst the most crowning of achievements.
That’s probably about it.
Ah HotD: Overkill. I think I did something similar or close to earning all the rewards. Mostly I did it because I got the big box edition with the handcannon slots for the Wiimotes and I just really, really wanted to dual-wield them. Of course that took a while but it was totally worth it.
Yeah, the Bang Bang Box! Couldn’t believe that was an AU-exclusive. Sega were badass back then.
I loved the hell out of the handcannons. They made the game so much better. Only problem was the front-heaviness of them with the batteries in the remote made for some hand strain after a while of play. So I modded mine to redistribute the weight:
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y260/Gooky/BlogStuff/HandCannonMod/HandCannonReMod7.jpg
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y260/Gooky/BlogStuff/HandCannonMod/HandCannonReMod4.jpg
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y260/Gooky/BlogStuff/HandCannonMod/HandCannonReMod6.jpg
Never actually got around to fixing up the second one though 😛
The one game that I’ve probably “mastered” was Madworld on Wii. Perfecting those kill-combos was pretty tough and then beating the game on super-insane difficulty. It got to the point that I had played the game so much that the game started glitching on a few bosses and wasn’t reading some of the waggle-motions correctly.
In hindsight, the primary reason why I wanted to master Madworld was because of the commentary. Greg Proops and John DiMaggio can pour sweet expletive-laden honey into my ears any time.
Nope. The closest I came would probably have been some of the Guitar Hero games, that I played obsessively for years… but again, I played to enjoy playing, and to get better, not really to 100% everything. “Casul 4 lyfe,” and such.
@shane is just the best guy. This can be Shane Appreciation Page too! SAP! The SAP-pier, the better! GO!
Alphonse is the greatest!
<3 you Shane you handsome devil!Not sappy enough! >:|
Unless he made you learn to love again! Did he? DID HE?
Daily and nightly and ever so rightly!
Meeee-eeeee
Aaaa-aaaand
Mister! Mr. Shane!
SCRUBS \o/
Guy-love, between two guys!
A surgeon and a doc,
Above it all!
@shane just reattached my arm after it fell off FAPing.
He shows a deft hand in all he does. Even microsurgery it seems. WHAT A GUY!
That man knows how to fried egg.
Ugh, this is so unnecessary.
…
Continue.
In which Pow gushes more about Captain Toad:
The bonus levels! THE BONUS LEVELS! They’re so good! Spoilers in case you don’t want to know some of the new mechanics only found in them:
I really, really enjoy the Brigade levels. Where you have to collect all of the Brigade members. They’re so adorable! The Mummy levels are really fun too.I just want more and more of this game. Hoping it becomes a regular franchise (maybe move it to the eShop though, it doesn’t really need to be retail). 2 and/or 4-player online co-op next game, please! And make Toadette a proper Toad Brigade member! Co-captain! Maybe give each of the other Toads playable levels too where they have unique skills. Bookworm Toad could solve word and reading puzzles, Glasses Toad could… I dunno. Find items more easily? Sleepy Toad could… Man, this is hard. Put enemies to sleep? Become invulnerable while sleeping? He’s pretty useless come to think of it…
But it’d be fun, I tells ya.
Sleep Toad could sleep walk through more dangerous environments. 😀
Now that would be hilarious. Through the entire level he just constantly sleep-walks forward and you have to guide him through the level until he runs into the star at the end, wakes up for a second confused and then falls asleep again 😛
@shane once took my hand and guided me to the light. The light of page 6 where I found myself and was born anew.
A new what?
#SawThatComing
While we are on the TAYpreciation page, I’d like to let you guys know that I really appreciate my wife.
Yesterday marked 31 rotations around the sun for me, and my wife got me a lovely card.
In that card – well, see for yourself: http://imgur.com/a/UK5qP
…HOLY HELL I’M SO DAMN EXCITED! 🙂
HAPPY BIRTHDAY! \o/
Real name alert!
Happy birthday!
EDIT: Ok, changed it. No real names anymore.
Too late! I already saw it, Eugene.
Stan. >:|
DONKEY! 😀
You changed your name? That’s a bit drastic.
That said, I don’t think anyone should ever use their real name online.
Shane is just a homonym.
Mind your language.
First @mrtaco, now dc.
Shocked and disappointed.
What! YOU SHOULD HAVE TOLD US!
Look at me, taking all the January birthday glory. D:
Happy birthday, Stan!
I didn’t want to steal your glory! I didn’t want glory! I wanted a picnic in the park with my family.
I got what I wanted.
You got what you wanted.
We all got awesome pressies and b’days, so YAY!
You’ve forced my hand. Your birthday is now in my phone. >:|
He just didn’t want the gift of being punched in the sternum.
I would have stolen his shoes! D:
Happy birthday!
Cute card with added bonus \o/
Also, see you at PAX.
Had a pretty great day yesterday. I watched Kiki’s Delivery Service with my mate John. Man, the cuteness factor of that movie is over 9000. Then we went to the local Korean place for tea and I had a plate of hot chicken wings, which were amazing. Also played basketball and scored 4 points. 10/10 would do again.
I decided to preorder the collectors edition of FF Type-0 at EB. So expensive ;_;
Lucky I have a Xbone because all the PS4 ones are gone.
Glad I got in quick then! Phew!
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2015-01-12-telltale-president-bruner-becomes-ceo
Intriguing. Telltale are working on original IP.
Original IP is interesting. Hopefully that lets them really design a story around their gameplay rather than the other way around. Could be good!
I hope they leave combat out of it. Whenever I have to fight something in one of their games it really reduces the experience for me.
I’d also like to see them do something a bit more comedic and whimsical again instead of the grimdark bullshit they’ve been peddling
Tales from the Borderlands is pretty whimsical. And violent. D:
Borderlands isn’t whimsical.
Bah. Again Nuzlocke is not kind to me. In X I couldn’t get a single Pokemon that could learn Fly. Now in OR I can’t get a single Pokemon that can learn Cut and I have to surf in Pelipper’s mouth whom is also my only Pokemon that can learn Fly. Pokemon RNGesus has not been kind.
Also my current team is wonky as anything: Beautifly, Pelipper, Minun, Slugma, Spinda, and Zangoose.
Girl at my youngest’s daycare is named Arreola.
Seems a bit mean….
Oh wow, nicely done parents. They’re ahead of the curve on destroying their child’s life front. 😛
I wonder if they even realise what they did.
Once they do, I bet they’d feel like a right boob 😛
Or a left boob. *nods stupidly*
Rack up one more for parenting failures.
Well, she’s young so there’s still time to nip it in the bud.
You can’t stop parents being a tit. They suck.
How, why, what?!?
Did they just hear that and have no idea what it meant and thought, that’s pretty
It’s appropriately trashy for the Gold Coast, though. I’m thinking intentional!
*ahem*
http://www.ufc.com/fighter/Akbarh-Arreola
They’re clearly not abreast of the situation they’re placing on their daughter. Seems like she got the pointy end of the stick.
PSA: Sang-Froid – Tales of Werewolves is 90% off on steam and well worth the purchase
You’re well worth the purchase.
Stop TAPing him.
He should close his windows, then.
Not sure if compliment or if he is calling me a whore 😛
The best damn whore the west ever did see.
D:
It’s absolutely bucketing down right now.
So, how is the clan TAY today?
Saddened by the rain.
I’m saddened by the mugginess of about to rain but probably won’t
Back at work, it sucks balls.
Yup, know dem feelz
I was too tired last night & went to bed before playing Shin Megami Tensei
Yeah, I played about 20 minutes yesterday and contemplated playing things for a good 2 hours, really not motivated to do anything after work, even fun things.
Edit: For some reason I did watch all the live videos on P4G, which was great.
Invigorated by the refreshing rain!
Wait, were in the same city. What rain???!!!
I got rain. The rain is good. I am feeling the need to quote CCR songs.
I’m in Hobart. There’s no rain.
…I don’t know what to do with myself.
Swim to Melbourne?
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mvonsteen/steal-her-look-the-most-stylish-zombies-the-walk-105xh#.gj3ozB3ZO
I kind of enjoyed this for reasons unknown! Walking Dead spoilers, I guess?
My work is hiring two new junior employees this year (which is a lot for a company of four people total). Boss posted the first ad this morning on SEEK and within 15 minutes we’d already had 6 applications. Man, people are hungry this time of year!
It’s going to be super interesting seeing the interview process from the other side for the first time though. I might also be sitting in on the interviews which will be great. I’ll get to see how the rest of the field fares.
Not to mention once they start I’ll be movin’ on up to not have to deal with as much phone support any more. Hooray! Plus it’ll be good to have someone of a similar age to me working here for a change 😛
Pow’s interview process involves the Pokemon battle elimination round. He will dress in PAX costume.
Pow: “Charmander, Bulbasaur or Squirtle?!”
Candidate: “What?”
Pow: “OUT!”
I’ll show them this and if they answer incorrectly, they fail the interview.
(But seriously I don’t think I’ll actually be doing any of the interviewing, just sitting in :P)
Plot twist, it’s actually Electrode 😛
Joke’s on them. It’s actually a Caterpie in a pokeball.
To be fair though, he dresses like that every day.
Well when it’s 5 unemployed to 1 job ad in the country, yeah you’ll get that sadly.
Grads. It’s how I got my last job
Can I apply?
I’ll put in a
goodword for you.Hung.
We’ve just also had two new juniors put on – It’s the first time there has been someone aged under 30 other than me working here in the past 6 years. It’s good to actually be able to talk games/drinking etc. with someone, but the best part is that they’re juniors and they can do all the shit work instead of you!
ARGH! Just got an overwithdrawn SMS from my bank! I’ve never worked in payroll anywhere but how can you miss paying someone 3 times in a row. It’s mind boggling how incompetent people can be. Sure, 1 time I can understand, mistakes happen. 3 times!? Surely by the ammount of times I’ve called and complained they would have made sure I would get payed but … here I am again, an overwithdrawn account.
This is what happens when you use Yuffie.
Bad things. Bad things happen.
Pfft what a stupid commWHERE’S MY MATERIA??!?
Nyuck nyuck nyuck.
That’s a pretty serious problem. I’ve been at multiple places where the payroll person would basically lock themselves away to make sure that payroll got done on time. Three fuck ups in a row is unforgivable.
I have worked in places where this is a problem as well, best thing you can do is call them the day before pays need to be submitted so that they feel damn awful and put your name on top of the pile.
Do they pay you via an emergency pay run or have you been three cycles without being paid?
Usually they will do an express/priority/whatever-it’s-called payment so I end up getting it within a few hours of calling up.
man that sux, I work in payroll and the only time I’ve missed paying people is when they put on new employees but don’t bother to tell me. I hope they sort it out. I’m one hell of a disorganized mess and I manage to get it right.
Do they refund you your overdrawn fees? I’m pretty sure that’s a common legal requirement, but might not be in your contract of employment/enterprise agreement.
Hey Shane. Do you still have that Transientmind most interesting man on TAY tumblr? I wouldn’t mind reading again! XD
Yeah, but it wasn’t on Tumblr, it was just a Dropbox document. Link’s messing up, I’ll see if I can fix it.
http://shanewsmith.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/TheMostInterestingManOnTAY.doc
THANKS SHANE!
I don’t even think once is acceptable, actually. Even the shittiest company I worked for made payroll on time every time but once, and that one time was because the bank’s systems shit the bed and everything was delayed 24 hours.
That’s a huge fuckup. I work for a massive employer and while they forgot to pay me once, doing it again would have meant I resigned. Should not happen 3 times.
Just a quick word on GTA Online Heists. I’m excited about them coming out for GTA 4 in 2017. *cough*
Ooooh an aircraft carrier! Surely I can get my Titan on there. You know it makes sense. I don’t think they’ll be much room to land on the aircraft carrier in GTA with all the gigantic plane wrecks all over the deck.
Rock Band released new DLC? Where the fuck are my plastic guitars?
Guitar Hero soon to follow. So glad GH 5 allows you to play all songs you have purchased and from older GH games too.
Now to find the time to get rid of all that dust. I told my missus it was worth keeping those guitars.
We need a next-gen Rock Band. 🙁
Gah… lift up my coffee cup this morning and three fruit flies launch themselves at my face. They really are after my coffee… D:
One time a team leader at one of my prior employers went on leave and we discovered the source of the weird smell near her desk was a coffee cup that was about half full of mould that must have been culturing for at least three months. No one wanted to clean it so it wound up being thrown out.
She actually had the audacity to get MAD when she came back to discover it gone. It wasn’t even a special cup, just one of the corporate-branded ones we had a million of in the kitchen.
Aaarrrrrrggghhhh! Just chipped one of my front teeth.
Ouchies. :S
Howzies?
You should probably avoid doing that in the future.
*winces* Expensive bills lie in your future.
By chipped, do you mean you just bit into a chip? or have a bit a of chip stuck in front of your front teeth?
That not good. Using them for work when you shouldn’t or a trip and crash ta boom situation.
That sucks, I should know, I had that one done to me by Nos when we were stupid kids.
*grumbles* Election on the 31st can’t come soon enough. I am already out of patience with political bullshit, fangs bared and snarling, but people keep fucking wanting to talk to me about it. I would much prefer we could just get over with this sumbitch charade of pretending to have meaningful influence over which untrustworthy assholes will be fucking us next, so I don’t have to hear about it and get any madder.
This is going to be one long-ass month.
You voting for John Jackson or his clone Jack Johnson?
Make a t-shirt. “Ask me about politics so I can punch you in the face. With a chair.”
I’d buy it.
takemymoney.jpg
Don’t blame me, I voted for Kodos.
I was stunned to see campaign ads running the very next day during the cricket… I was thinking, how much did it cost them to book out 30 seconds of primetime airtime with less than 24 hours notice.
So….
A needle pulling thread.
La…
A note to follow So?
Hey Jim-Jam! 😀
Hey, Li-Loo
Multipass!Is anyone signed up for the Razer Open Source VR project?
It looks interesting, and an open-source challenge to Oculus.
Every man and their dog is doing a VR thing now. I’m holding off, because the tech has some major issues that need to be sorted out (eg not making you want to puke, being friendly to people with glasses and shit eyesight, not giving you pinkeye) and I’m worried that all these me-too companies will end up flooding the market with shit products that disappoint everyone and poison the well.
Of them all, I have the most faith in Oculus or Sony to get it right.
Surely it’s gonna be 3DHead.
SuperBunnyHop’s year in review of 2014 is pretty good. And sad. Mostly sad.
So today I chipped a tooth eating a crunchy museli bar. I dropped a safe that shouldn’t have been here on my foot and judging by the feel and past experience I’m fairly certain I’ve cracked a bone. Then the shopping centre roof collapsed and dropped a tonne of water into the shop so in the middle of trying to save the machines.
At this rate I’ll be surprised if I live to see tonight.
I call dibs on his boots!
Wow! Are you sure you aren’t in a Final Destination movie? Also, there’s a myself bar? I’d like to try one “myself”.
They’re so good they took a bite out of him!
– Did you have to remove a few ribs to reach that?
– You might want to see a doctor…
I have no idea what you people are talking about….
Aw man. Sorry to hear that buddy!
I once cracked a tooth in half thanks to a muesli bar. A chewy muesli bar.
Pretty sure I cracked a second one within a week of that, as I recall having five needles all in the one week. Two for one cracked tooth, two for another cracked tooth, and one for the measles vaccination.
Ouch! Muesli bars are fuckin’ dangerous though.
So been reading up on everything Shin Megami Tensei & found out some interesting stuff
(Spoilers for Persona 4 & Digital Devil Story Megami Tensei)
So the villain of P4 was Izanami & when the main character’s Persona awoke it was Izanagi.
Two interesting points: the hero & heroine of Digital Devil Story were reincarnations of Izanami & Izanagi. Making P4 almost an inversion of its source material(the upbeat feel certainly is).
Izanagi & Izanami are the male & female gods(?) that gave birth to much of the demons you see in Megaten(the ones inspired by Japanese mythology, obviously you know Lucifer & gang are Western), they also birthed the actual islands that made up Japan(scientific fact!)
I found it interesting…
Interesting and confusing.
What’s confusing?
not that confusing. Just weird like you say they sorta inverted things, switching from protagonist to antagonist kinda in a reincarnatey way.Well, they ditched the protagonist from the first game in the second.
This is sort of a loose tie, that links a spin-off (Persona of SMT) of a spin-off (SMT of DDS:MT).
The only real link these games have is demons & gameplay, which has been changing & evolving all this time. Persona 4 certainly isn’t a first person dungeon crawler like DDS:MT
Anyone know much about Internodes Naked ADSL? Have been waiting on Spintel for almost a month now and they said it could be another month or 2? W….T…..F! so have cancelled with them and am looking into Internode, anyone use them? or have any advice for getting the best internet I can.
I use Internode Naked. Been fairly good so far. Not the fastest download speed in the world, but was reasonably quick to get connected (1.5-2 weeks, if I remember correctly). Only had two problems with them in the past two-ish years, neither of which were technically their fault (first was Telstra taking my area offline unannounced to do line maintenance, second was when a non-Internode technician disconnected my unit to hook up somebody else)
Their phone support is fairly decent too. When that second issue was solved I asked for some compensation for my time offline and they obliged even though it wasn’t really their fault.
What were the speeds like? Cant find much on their site except for over quota speeds of 256kbps which sounds very slow.
Can’t remember off the top of my head. I’ll check when I get home.
Sorry, forgot all about this last night! 😛 Here’s a speed test thingo: http://www.speedtest.net/result/4057113098.png (seems to range from 5.4 to 5.9 Mbps depending on what speed tester I use. About 650-700 KB/s).
It’ll all depend on how far away from a Telstra exchange you are as well.
Ok thanks man, gutted I was getting about 130mbps back in NZ haha
How do you find out how far from the Telstra exchange you are?
Try here! Or similar websites. http://www.adsl2exchanges.com.au/
Not sure how accurate it is though. Never used it before.
looks like im about 600m away.
I use Internode. It’s not the cheapest, but I’ve never had a problem with their service.
We’ve never had a dropout. We’ve had lag spikes, but never a dropout. All in all, I haven’t thought about them much.
So when you are with an ISP and you don’t think much about it, you know they aren’t doing a lot wrong.
Also, as a further example of awesomeness from them, when we ordered naked DSL we were told that there was room in the box for it (a port at the local switch). There wasn’t. They apologised profusely and converted over one of their other ports to a Naked one for us. Took an extra week or two, but was worth it.
ALSO if you use a Steam Limiter and download just from Aussie Servers (not usable a lot of the time, but for big new releases it works fine) that doesn’t count towards your quota, nor does ABC iView and a bunch of other things. So yeah, I’m happy with them.
Tonight I need to make like a musical fish and tuna piano.
Eel bet that will stop it from sounding carp.
Then everything will be hunky-dory.
Fish.
Fingers
Boooo, hiss!
Not your finest hour, Gooky.
Sorry. I tried to hold back, but couldn’t salmon enough restraint.
Nor could I even reply properly. Better loach next time.
You’re bream-ing with puns.
He’s krilling me with all these puns.
*dies*
Glad to see you decided to walk a marlin my shoes 🙂
@liondrive has come down from his perch… he’s a bit roughy around the edges though.
He’d probably puffer we don’t make a big deal about it.
HE JOINED IN!
HEY EVERYBODY, @liondrive JOINED IN!
HE MADE A PUN!
WE’RE WINNING! @dc and now @liondrive!
WE’RE WINNING!
I will edit it away so quick, I swear to god! >:(
…It just goes to show that you are not only incredibly hot and personable, but also funny. /suckup
Hahahahaha, whaa, haaa, urrrr, whaaaaa… *blushes*
He’s krilling me with all these puns.
*dies*
Never. Again. >:(
Yeah, gotta admit that you failing to reply was a bit carp.
It was all going well until I flounder way to screw it up.
Interesting. Apparently Ys Origin has sold over 200,000 copies in English on Steam.
That’s more than double what the best-selling installments in the franchise (Ys Seven and Memories of Celceta) sold in Japan (around 70k). And also nearly ten times what Origins sold in Japan on PC.
Based on charts etc. it seemed like Origins was probably a lower performer than Oath in Felghana or I & II, so that suggests both of those have also done similar or better numbers. I hope that makes Falcom/XSeed consider more. I know we’re getting Ys 6 at some point but I’d love to see a PC port of Seven.
So Anzac Day falls on a Saturday, no day off.
(QLD only?)
No day off here in Tas.
Apparently having the public holiday after the Anzac Day if it’s on a weekend will ruin the sanctity of the holiday.
…but Christmas? Yeah, don’t matter, have TWO DAYS off the following week if it falls on a Saturday.
Fair go… it’s apparently His birthday… I need the time to get blind drunk, eat seafood/too much food, exchange frivoulous gifts and recover.
Seems Anzac Day is the lone exception to the “Monday replacement day after holiday on weekend” de-facto rule, in NSW, at least. Every other public holiday either has a replacement day, or is designed to fall on a specific day of the week anyway.
Maybe not for you. I’ll get it off. Paid too.
Australia Day however falls on my usual day off.
Will shops be closed?
Probably public holiday times, open at 10, shut at 3… Or being ANZAC day they’d be open at 1pm if they choose to open.
I dunno why Sony did this. But the PS4 in vertical mode does not flow with the PS3 & PS2 when they’re vertical. It faces the other way. God damn it, I wanted my consoles to all look the part when vertical D=
Playstation dominoes!
They will now they don’t look right in a vertical position >=[
Two things; One, I watched most of the AGDQ marathon (speedruns for cancer research) by hooking up my desktop to the tv via HDMI, and now I feel like a mess.
Two, Nos got a Wii U for christmas, and because it was “too expensive a gift compared to mine” he has to pay the parents $200 before either of us can use it.
That’s weird. You should push for him having to pay $100 to you instead to even it out
Oops I upset a bunch of “true” sons of anarchy fans over on Kurt Sutter’s Facebook page. Not my fault the Sons of Anarchy game (which is going to be tablet only) looks like a shit rip off of a Telltale game made by some one else. Upset this one kid so much he went to the effort to say i’m not a true fan for expecting quality and it to not be for tablets only and should be grateful to get anything. When quite honestly I think the idea should just be left alone.
Go back to watching Big Brother and Australian Idol, scrub.
Big Brother & Australian Idol are still on TV? I had no idea o.o
Big Brother is, but I think Australian Idol got replaced by The Voice and X-Factor
Oh wow. Fair enough. I guess this is what happens when I get my TV shows online and watch them ad free or just stick to the ABC/SBS I don’t see any of this 😛
I watched What We Do In The Shadows last night.
Goddamn was that a great movie.
I really liked that one – so funny 🙂
I also recently enjoyed that.
Just got a rental application approved in Canberra. I’m going to be neighbours with @blaghman!
Wait, I probably shouldn’t be excited about that.
But think of how easy it will be to kidnap him for board games.
The best part is that I’ll be able to drunkenly stumble home after drinking all of their booze!
I feel like you would be dead after drinking all 96 bottles of wine.
I have more than one night to do it, right?
So after a week of dealing with TOLL being jerks (in which they left a failed-to-deliver card but didn’t check any of the further instructions boxes) by Xbone showed up today. Which is \o/
At the moment I’m considering making a whole new gamertag because my current one is tied to an old, terrible email (and the security checks for accessing these things are a ridiculous loop). But dat gamerscore…
Would be nice to move away from my terrible teen years gamertag though. Because AlexPants is SUCH a better name, you know.
What was wrong with LongSchlongDong69?
He can’t stand to live a lie any more.
Long is such an understatement.
ReallyLong&Wideschlongdong
ColossalDongWideSchlong69
P.S.
I’m liking this thread.
This is a good thread.
Size queen.
This comment is too smart for its own good.
That’s probably why I done get it
*sits in corner wearing dunce hat*
@Jimu
A size queen is typically a gay guy who is mainly concerned with the size of another guys, schlong.
On Xbox can’t you just change the name for a fee?
It’s the email address it’s tied to that I’m more pondering about. It’s not one I use for anything else anymore.
You can change the email address attached to it! It’s a bit painstaking…but doable.
Not if it was a Hotmail address. 🙁 If it’s tied to hotmail email you’re stuck with it, or you were last time I looked at this (I wanted to change my live account to use a different email because the hotmail address associated with it was my MSN sign-in back when I was in high school)
Worked for me! Both the original one tied to it and the new one I associated with it were @hotmail.com accounts.
They must have fixed that restriction! Rad. Time to update mine!
Will have to do some investigating then. Cheers for that!
You can change the email over. I did it. Mine was tied to one that closed.
They don’t update their mailing list, so you stop getting junk mail 😀
&free
This was my terrible teenage gamertag. I’m just that rad :p
TOLL were being jerks to me too!
😀
Just backed up my Marvel Puzzle Quest save to Facebook, and it’s returned me to a state I don’t even remember being at. I’ve lost so much progress and I don’t know what I can do. Feeling absolutely frustrated at the moment.
Boo 🙁
I’ve deleted it. After all the time I’ve spent playing the game, I just can’t face going through the it again.
Yep, been there. 🙁
I got that message about backing it up to fb.. wasn’t game enough to do it as I had no idea what would happen. Reading this sure makes me glad I didn’t. Perhaps I should look at their forums to see what else others have reported about it
We will miss you.
Understandable as to why you’ve deleted it, but still, missing will happen.
God damn online stores really gouge you for postage 🙁
Trying to buy a dog lead online (cause the local pet store doesn’t have the one I want in stock) every where I find it online postage ranges anywhere from 5 to 15 dollars for a single item :/ I blame eBay for not having any sellers in Aus selling what I want, only international sellers charging way too much for postage bleh.
Postage on eBay went up because PayPal takes a cut now.
To counter those sales where you buy for $1 but payfor it in shipping.
It’s a bullshit excuse for a bullshit move.
I rarely pay for postage on eBay tbh. But saying that I know international post for small items from the UK is around 8-10 bucks which can be bulky and weigh a little bit. But 10 bucks postage for a small item weighing like 50g is a total joke :/ I’ve had my friend send me almost 2kg of stuff (book, multiple shirts, hard cover magazine & chocolate) and postage was around 15 bucks Australian. That same amount here to send to the UK would cost me $75 god that’s sad..
hi @jimu
Hey, bloke.
@mrtaco
First 2 bars of Maple Leaf Rag learnt 😛
This is what I’m using. I assume they’re the original sheets?
Spooky timing, I just got back 😛
And hey, that means you’ve got the first four bars learnt!
It has been so long since I looked at that I can’t even tell if it’s familiar or not.
SPOOKOY
@dc
Just finished the original 3 episodes of Duke Nukem. Onto the extra levels!
I remember Duke being longer & harder. At least this version is uncut.
cc @liondrive
Longer.
Harder.
Uncut.
You guys really know me :’)
Actually, realised that could be read poorly, so disregard.
Nooooooo, what did you say?! :O
Put it in spoilers for me?
It was innuendo, as expected, but it was worded poorly so it read a little meaner than I’d ever intend. On a reread I just decided to nuke it
Went to tune the piano, and it turned out the tuner doesn’t want to work. Just sits there pretending everything’s a G, unless you actually try and play a note for it in which case it seems to just shut down until it goes away.
Thankfully the piano wasn’t as out of tune as they all seemed to be saying it was, so there were only a few notes that needed adjusting to be able to call it good enough. Dunno how we’re going to move it anywhere though, the thing’s a damn fat bastard.
It realised it would never tune as well as its user so gave up.
Uh, do kids still use the word tune?
Sure. What else would you call it?
Masturbation.
Watched the new episode of season 15 of Mythbusters last night. I really liked the change in the format, now it’s just Adam & Jamie and seems like they’re trying to be a bit more scientific at explaining things and showing the steps of them creating the builds which was really cool to watch, being more of a time lapse of that stuff. I got a bit bored how it previously was, it felt like they needed to use explosives in an extremely destructive way every episode.
Was that the Simpsons one?
Yeah. not overly interesting in terms of the Myths tested as @trjn said. But I think it’s a step in the right direction to refresh their brand and keep it interesting.
The new format is definitely an improvement but the episode was really let down by the content. Those Simpsons myths simply weren’t that interesting.
If you like that style, definitely check out Tested. It’s run by some nerds and occasionally Adam and Jamie. Easily the best content there is when Adam is actively building something. To be honest, any time you get Adam talking about a subject he’s passionate on is going to be entertaining.
Yeah, the myths were pretty meh, but gotta appeal to the masses I guess or whatever.
Tested is awesome, don’t see much content from them sadly.
It comes in fits and bursts. Con season meant that we got to see some interesting stuff but it was all over the shop. Whenever Mythbusters is shooting, Adam and Jamie disappear. It’s amazing they get anything out.
I think you all should know
About a tv show
That charts the legend of Gal-a-vant
It’s corny, camp and twee
With some fun repartee
A program, called Galavant
If, you like tv like local theatre
With brand new songs and a cast that’s fearless
Hey, it’s good to watch today
A musical buffet
A Program known as Gaaaaaaaal-a-vant
I’m gonna hit the sack.
Night.
Ewww, too much information, Crazy! 😛
Ugh…it’s all moist…
Huh, seems the tuner has no problem working with the line-in, it’s just the mic that’s screwed. And plugging a mic into the input doesn’t work 😛
Also just realised there should be a tuner app for my phone. Looked around, they all seem to be guitar tuners. And the most decent looking one doesn’t work. Arse.
Dug around and found an old chromatic tuner for Series 60. Phone warns that it’s not compatible, but installed it and it works anyway. Huzzah! Although the slow refresh rate on it is a bit annoying/makes it hard to work with. Wonder how hard it would be to write my own…
What about this decently-priced tuner?
https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/cybertuner/id490451741?mt=8
😛
I’ve never tuned a piano, but is it possible you could just play a steady note and adjust the piano? For other instruments, for example, metronome apps generally come with a “tuner”, but it really just plays an A and you adjust your instrument accordingly. If you had the whole octave, couldn’t you do that?
And if not, nevermind, because I have no experience with pianos.
That was basically what I had to do, just play octaves and try and pick out the bum notes. Didn’t always work though, some I could only pick up when played amongst chords. And even then it was tricky to pick which one was the bad one. Need more practise 😛
The other thing is that it’s not as easy to do as a guitar, where you can just strum with one hand and tune down and up while it’s still ringing out with the other. The knobs that you turn are far more stiff and don’t have the gear mechanism to act as a force/rotation multiplier, so the movements you have to make are extremely tiny for huge variations. Throw in with that minimal space to work with between the hammer and the string while also having to try and hold down either the key or the sustain pedal, it starts to get into a bit of a “wish I was an octopus” situation.
A few of the tuners I was looking at appeared to be the same as what you said, just a set of tuning forks. The non-working one I mentioned was the only one of those that did the whole pitch detection thing, which was what I really needed.
Super lame.
I saw this, not charity, but this community program type thing that actually looked pretty cool, and that I thought I might sign up for, but of course, it’s not in Perth 🙁
It’s basically this group that goes around the nightlife areas and makes sure people are alright. Look after passed out people, hand out water, etc.
The one time I actually feel like being charitable…
*shakes fist*
Maybe you can contact them, and find out how they started. Perhaps a similar organisation in Perth might offer the service if they think they can get the volunteers to do it.
EDIT: St John Ambulance also is staffed by volunteers. Maybe you could look into volunteering with them? They attend all major events.
There’s an organisation that does that called Red Frogs, but they’re evangelical church aligned
Yeah, we have them come out to a bunch of our Catholic University alcoholic events. They do a good job I think, didn’t know they were evangelical!
Tied into (in Adelaide anyway) the Edge church, which is a happy clapper thing
Oh no, it wasn’t Red Frog.
I’ve seen them before, but they’re a little too preachy for me :3
The one I was looking at is a small one called “Take Kare” (I hate the name). It seemed good because it wasn’t religious at all, and seemed pretty laid back.
Not in Perth though 🙁
Uh. So I was brushing my teeth when I noticed something sticking out of the drain, it looked like a nylon strand from a brush or something. And with a bluish blob of something on the end. I grabbed it to pull it out, and it popped off. Like it was attached there, rather than just being stuck on through water tension or whatever. Then I realised that bluish thing was actually a greenish thing. As in it was a leaf. As in this wasn’t from a brush at all, it’s a sprout. And it was growing out of the sink. What.
I don’t even know when the last time I had sprouts was, let alone how they got to be in there. So weirded out right now.
So your saying I can grow sprouts as well as mushrooms in the bathroom. Forget gardens then.
I once had a mushroom growing from a bit of the bathroom windowsill that protrudes into the shower’s wet area…
Went to a steakhouse for tea last night, now I can’t stop farting… :\
Sounds like a winner dinner!
I mis-read that as “flirting” and was trying to figure out why.
I need coffee.
I’ve been in this job for 7 days and already in going “weekend pls “
If you haven’t had a weekend for 7 days I can see why you want one
I think my brain must have been linked to that Optus thing. I woke up exactly an hour early this morning for no apparent reason :/
Daylight savings isn’t over yet, Gooks.
Thank god for that.
Another day, another TAY.
What’s doin?
Just work stuff. How about you?
Same
Going to hike Cradle Mountain tomorrow, Friday and Saturday with a good mate. She’s convinced that she is going to kill me.
Apparently, part of the hike is called “The chain” and it involves a sheer rock face with a chain attached to it that you yank yourself up.
I don’t know how a nerd who prefers video games got talked into this, but I’ll survive.
Maybe.
What doin’ with you?
That sounds fun! ADVENTURE!
POTENTIAL DEATH! RAIN! WIND! POSSIBLE SNOW!
Wait a second…
I GET TO LIVE OUT SKYRIM IN REAL LIFE!
Just… don’t fall and break your sternum, okay? I worry!
Workin
May mow that overgrown lawn on the weekend
Man, Cradle Mountain is super pretty.
I didn’t do anything as fun as that when I was there though.
Say hi to the Pademelons for me.
I tried playing Secret of Mana on my phone last night… So so so painful.
Party member AI is atrocious even when set to ‘Stay away from enemies’ and so many mis-swings due to dodgy d-pad settings.
Not sure if I should keep on with it…
I can’t handle much on phone.
if it’s turn-based it’s ok.
Sonic is playable.
But yeah, touch is for our children, I need dpad
Shit thing is that you can get bluetooth controllers that work quite well with these sort of games.
Of course HTC has done some weird thing with the Bluetooth controller so they don’t work on my phone.
*shakes fist*
Ah, if I’m in a comfortable enough place to whip out a Bluetooth controller then I can whip out a Vita or 3DS.
Phone games are for waiting rooms & public toilets.
Weighing up if I want Grim Fandango on PS4, PC or both. (Probably both. XD)
HEY JIMU!
PS4, otherwise you’re playing it wrong. (Hi @rize!)
Haha! I think the game’s old school PC controls would actually suit PS4 controller better. (Though PC version now has point-and-click.) I do like the idea of playing this on my couch. 😀
Yeahhhh I can see myself lazing about Sunday morning with Grim Fandango on PC. Master race!!
I’m curious, does it physically hurt being that wrong?
Boooo!
Ooh, DRM free.
Also it so happens I’m wearing a Grim Fandango shirt today.
Maaaaaaaster raaaaaaaaace!
I already own two copies of the original on PC, though. *strokes beard*
So it’s like a tradition.
3’S THE MAGIC NUMBER DC! you wouldn’t want to mess with the order of the universe would you? 😛
How are the puzzles? I’m down with everything but worried I’ll pack it in after just having no idea.
Not really tough. Mostly intuitive. I think Grim’s probably one of the more accessible adventure games.
Kewl
You are.
NO YOO
I’m going PS4 and then picking up the PC version in a steam sale later down the line. That way I get the PS4 version, the PS Vita version AND the PC version for probably around $20 total!!!
A good plan, to be sure.
Best plan.
Had one of those epiphanies last night about myself and how my psyche works that just completely blows my mind… Read an article on an outsiders view on Scandinavian societies, and in particular how ingrained the idea of Jantelov or “The law of Jante” is in everything from our political system to education… I never realized how much I’m conditioned to think in those terms… For those who don’t know about it, the law of Jante is essentially a philosophy of “you should never think you’re better at anything then someone else”… It can come across as quite harsh but it explains so much, in particular my attitude towards certain people at work (who always seem praise and to be told how great they are) etc…
Don’t know why but I felt like sharing that… You can go back to whatever you’re doing now 😛
But what if you *are* better than someone else?
Then you help them get as good as you 😛
Then people follow you around with buckets of popcorn
Oh so Pixel has this advanced Scandinavian psyche that we don’t understand so he is so much better than the rest of us. Harrumph.
Understandings like this can be a big thing, in many ways cultures can be similar but it’s the unnoticed differences in attitude that can rub people the wrong way, Knowing and understanding this can help ease that.
I just found out completely mind blowing to be honest XD… I wouldn’t call it advanced psyche because rendering back, school could be quite oppressive because of that mentality… “oh yay I did good, I’m good at something” “so you think you’re better huh? [ insert bullying here ]”
You learned to not share successes unless it was the entire group succeeding 😛
Probably a important thing to be able to all pull together based on the environment up there. You need everybody working together if you are going to survive the raging blizzards or when invading Poland.
I think schools are the same everywhere you go, there is an acceptable path to follow and if you stray from that you get slapped. That might be low academic, high sports interest, it might be the cool path to follow or not. I’m sure their is papers on it, a group of adolescents trying to find their place in the world and how that dynamic works.
Oh smoooooooth operator you are… I giggled at the Poland part, very well snuck in there XD… It’s probably true with the “don’t stray from the path” but not even teachers acknowledged high achievers… We don’t have achievements for high performers, we don’t have special classes etc… The best thing that could happen was you finished your work to which the teachers would respond “ok, now help the others”
I imagine what your describing in terms of the law Jante has some origins in the early 1400’s when Denmark, Sweden and Norway were joined by a personal union and the likes of early Holland and Russia either side of them they needed to be savvy to work together and thrive.
That’s fascinating about Jante’s Law, where is the motivation though to excel at something? The reward for being innovative and forward thinking? I imagine Jante’s Law would say that those virtues are to be held with suspicion?
I’ve been reading a book called ‘The Nearly Almost Perfect People’ which is an insight into why Scandinavian countries have such high rates of happiness, low incidence of disease, etc. and I figure it might be down in part to this sort of law where folks are keen to succeed as a group at expense of individuality? You’ve made me want to pick up and read it again!!
It is very much so at the expense of individuality… The article I read actually had excerpts from the book you mentioned so yeah it’s very interesting… I think the desire to succeed, at least for me, boils down to I want to succeed more socially then academically etc… I want a good friend group ( HI TAY) and a happy family life more then a “good career”… I can’t speak for every Dane out there obviously but I feel the group mentality conditioned into me from an early age may have assisted with having that focus… I would rather do well within the group and people I care about then having an amazing high achieving job and a 6 digit salary
I’d prefer that than the “me me me I’m the centre of the universe what about me” mentality we have over here.
Most people here (I find) are generally OK (then again, most of my Australian socializing is with you fine folks), but yes there’s definitely some individuals where that is damned annoying… I think both mindsets has its pros and cons… Trying to alter my mindset to be more “accepting” of other people’s mentality, that’s going to be the hard part 😛
They mentioned that on a recent Extra Credits video as a possible reason why Scandinavian game development is not getting as much attention as it could. From what I remember of the video, because game development is seen as a more individualistic thing it’s not getting government backing to grow and that’s kind of keeping it from getting as big as it could be and becoming a major self sustaining industry
That sounds very true… Come to think of it, aside from a few standout individuals, we don’t produce many actors or musicians either in Denmark, probably for the same reasons
That might just be a reflection of population size? Denmark population-wise isn’t much bigger than New Zealand, and NZ hasn’t really produced a lot of top-end actors or musicians (and the ones that they do produce tend to suddenly become Australians until we get sick of them). Possibly the other Scandinavian countries punch above their weight a bit more.
But maybe you’re just applying said law to the country as well? 😛
P.S. my family is Danish, a few generations back on my Dad’s side.
Yeah probably… Or maybe it’s a bit from column a and a bit from column b I dunno… Also that’s pretty cool, that means you’re a little bit Viking by descent as well XD
Been awake for four hours…
Bloody mornings… 🙁
Played a bunch more FFXIV last night and I’m really enjoying it. It’s all fairly mindless but it is so damn pretty (especially my character), the combat system is relatively solid, wandering around exploring all the world they’ve created and just watching all the odd behaviour of everyone else that I have no idea what they’re doing.
Not sure what the mulitplayer part entails yet since every quest has been super super simple and a cakewalk on my own. Guess that will all come later.
Definitely renewing the subscription.
*waves goodbye*
See you in 6 months! Enjoy the trip!
In all seriousness, when Guild Wars 2 came out my normal life just dissappeared for about 6 months as I ploughed through content. Soon realised I didn’t want to spend countless hours grinding materials for a unicorn bow that shot rainbow arrows and decided I’d got my money’s worth.
Damn you, looking at that now I want to grind materials for a unicorn bow that shoots rainbow arrows. That sounds amazing
http://youtu.be/GSdHMLgJ1N4
Apparently it now causes your character to leave rainbow coloured horse shaped footprints too.
Oh god that is even better than I imagined. It doesn’t shoot rainbow arrows, the arrows are rainbow unicorns
SQQQQQQUUUUUUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jello mould
I saw you on briefly last night but I think you came on just as I was winding up. Once I’ve unlocked the travel between capitals I’ll come and join you maybe.
I think I’m not gonna drink at whatever Brisbane meat we have next. It’s been a while since I’ve hung out with my buddies sober. I kind of miss it. 😀
You can drink in moderation… A beer or two in a social setting is usually enough for me 😛
Haha! Yeeeeeeah, I’m the definition of lightweight, though. That’ll go along way to drunken DC. 😀
Soft drinks are pretty great too XD
The trick is to have one, drink it slowly, and then have water and/or food.
I’ve realised I’m yet to get drunk in Brisbane. Even when intending to I don’t. Like last Saturday I planned on but ended up having 3 drinks.
Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra I have. Multiple times. They’re a bad influence on me.
Oh man, you were judging me the whole night weren’t you. WEREN’T YOU. 😛
That explains why all the photos had him holding a sign with 9.5 written on it… HE WAS JUDGING YOU HIGHLY DC!
Pixel is the only 10 in my heart.
<3… It was the hug wasn’t it? You can have another if you come to PAX!
Every hug since has been a disappointment.
Yeah, you weren’t drunk enough.
Really? & you stayed in hotels & stuff.
I was paralytic that night I spent your $10
Always a pleasure 😉
I’m in Brissie this weekend for a 40th. I will probably be drinking… 🙂
Wait, really?
You were sober that first Karaoke evening with Bri dancing on tables etc?
Because I remember everyone being written off that night.
I wasn’t what you’d call sober but wasn’t stumbling drink either.
Were you non-sober at King’s Square? Because I could honestly hardly tell any difference between you there and you later on 😛
Haha! Oh, for real? Nah, I was sober. I felt incredibly drunk later on, though. Incredibly drunk. XD
For real. You need to relax, it’s all in your head 😛
Remember the time the thing happened & we all laughed & then we paused & credits rolled?
That was a time to remember *wipes tear*
Then you did that thing that made us all uncomfortable and swore never to mention it again.
Be specific, I di that at least once a day.
@mrtaco @os42 @trikeabout
Been playing a lot more Elite Dangerous, and is kinda scaring me… My mind tells me what I’m doing should be boring but I am really enjoying it… Last night I spent 3 hours hopping between stations noting down various supply and demand data, only made about $5000 profit but just enjoyed myself… That kind of research should be mind numbingly boring 😛
Welcome to Space Trucker 2014. Enjoy your stay.
Read a forum post on frontier forums that the devs are planning to add a heap of other mission types soon… That should be rather excellent I think!
Yeah, it’ll be good to change things up. But honestly, I haven’t minded the ones on offer as it is. Just being there with the goal of building rep with my local station and looking to do whatever I can to help the one or two parties out, and getting familiar with the nearby systems because of it, planning out how to be able to take multiple missions at once and figure out the best path… I dunno, maybe that’s helped mask some of the repetition of it all.
Yeah I don’t mind them, the only complaint I have is half of the ones available to me are considered illegal :P… Like the scavenger ones (“go grab X for is”)… Some of it makes sense, but if all I’m doing is collect a black box from a destroyed ship because a company wants to know why it blew up, why is that illegal? 😛
Yeah, there’s a few kinda weird inconsistencies with some of those, where the mission sounds like legit salvage (such as the company example there) versus picking up some dropped ancient artifacts.
Oh, and the “these goods MUST be illegal” ones are kinda weird too.
Yeah, hoping the mission revamp might fix up some of that because I don’t want to do illegal activities… Often :P… But really these are minor complaints compared to my enjoyment of this game! Saving up for my Cobra now
I’m hoping for multiple commander slots, so I can have a scallywag pirate going around racking up a bounty and building a bad rep without worrying about “ruining” my main guy.
Only half? Every station seems to want me to either smuggle goods onto the station, or go fight stuff. I haven’t seen a legal “acquire this” or “ship this over there” mission for a while.
I’ll probably play tonight for a while. I’m finally starting to feel like I need to slow down with Destiny, not because I’m not still enjoying it, but because PILE OF SHAME.
Haha fair enough… I got a rather large pile of shame, but am quite comfortable playing this for now 😛
So… headset. Do I need it?
In my opinion, not really… There is in game voice chat but iam yet to meet anyone wanting to talk :P… I only wear my headphones for immersion to be honest 😛
The other day I tweeted that I didn’t like the Chobani yoghurt I tried. They’ve now replied to me asking what flavour I tried.
I’m sure that social media approach works well for some but I find it pretty creepy. Am I meant to defend myself and say that their cherry flavour is boring?
I just got someone asking me if the Grim Fandango remaster would have controller support.
Well, will it?
I presume so
If you want to help the company, then yes. Never know, they might send you out some free ones with a better flavour!
They make a product that people seem to go nuts over which I wasn’t satisfied with. In the normal world, that means I would continue buying other products instead. The internet is weird.
I’ve played 30 hours of this game and decided I hate it.
That’d not fair! You haven’t even got to the part where it gets good yet.
“Wait until you’re around your fifth tub, that’s when our yoghurt really gets good!”
It’s when the Stockholm syndrome kicks in.
It’s not bad yoghurt, you just don’t get it.
At least get past the tutorial!
See @dc, this is why no twitter. It’s creepy 😛
But all my imaginary friends live there!
Exactly.
A Twitter creeper is just a company-secretly-collecting-your-personal-data you haven’t met!
Chobani always seems to me like a cult, rather than a yoghurt company.
There has to be a joke about yoghurt cultures in there somewhere.
It is, after all #pagesix
If you didn’t like the black cherry flavour then there’s no hope for you I think.
A photon is going through airport security. The TSA agent asks if he has any luggage. The photon says, ‘No, I’m travelling light.’
A logician’s wife is having a baby. The doctor immediately hands the newborn to the dad. The wife says, ‘Is it a boy or a girl?’ The logician says, ‘Yes.’
C, Eb, and G walk into a bar. The bartender says, ‘Sorry, no minors.’
This is the sort of English up with which I will not put.
Whose plane did he take?
Quanta’s.
Rocksmith hype venting, please ignore. OMG, Soundgarden pack this week! Only got around to trying three of the five this morning before work. Black Hole Sun is awesome fun to play, though It’s in a really sharp Drop D, which is a pain to tune to. Got most of the main riff nailed out this morning before work – beautifully mellow, contrasts wonderfully with the interspersed heavy stuff. Also, Spoonman is surprisingly fun – maybe it’s just the time signature. Jesus Christ Pose is practically impossible for me, but it looks alright. And Pretty Noose looks like it would be fun, if I ever decide to tune to CGCGGE… I can hear my guitar begging me not to do it from here :P. Sometimes I just wish they’d stop trying to be authentic, and just re-tab it for a more normal tuning… but they’d lose some of the range, I guess.
Also made a bit of progress in Destiny last night – Crota’s Bane rank 2, and found a Husk of the Pit at last while running CB bounties. An hour later, it was ready for its upgrade mat… which I need rank 3 to be able to buy. So… maybe next week, it’ll become an Eidolon Ally. Also meant I needed to make space in my vault for it… It looks very odd having one white item among that sea of purple and gold…
Edit: typo
How do you make an Octopus laugh?
Give it ten tickles.How can you find out whether an Octopus can laugh?
Give it test tickles.(i’m so sorry)
How do you know the octopus will laugh?
I don’t, I just have an inkling.It might just punch you in the face and press sexual assault charges.
I told my friend that an Octopus has tentacles.
He said “I thought they only had eight”
Interesting. Comments have been disabled on that swatting article. Wonder why?
That’s bullshit. The FBI can’t trace back multiple calls from the offender?
Looking at the youtube comments on the linked “live swatting” video, I can make a couple of guesses… *sigh*
I seem to have more than one game going at a time these days.
A lot of it has to do with access at particular times, I don’t play games on tv until after 7 or 8 when my son is in bed.
But, I also seem to stop slow moving games to knock over the type I know I will finish quickly. For example, I drop everything for new Pokemon & shorter action games (I mainly play RPGs).
At the moment I’ve started Persona Q, Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne, Hyperdimension Neptunia ReBirth & Duke Nukem.
There’s also a long list of others I plan to get back to.
Does everyone else do this?
I used to play one at a time plus maybe multiplayer stuff like Mario Kart or GoldenEye.
By the time I’m done at work, finished up at the inlaws or parents for dinner, and put the kid to bed – it’s pretty much bed time for me, too. I don’t even game anymore, really.
I feel like Christopher Walken at the end of The Deer Hunter. Or a Zombie. Either or.
I was like that for a while, strictly handhelds on the train. We seem to have slipped into some sort of routine, so I get an hour or 3 with the tv most nights.
I’m terrible for this at the moment, I keep starting games an not finishing them, at the moment I have like 10 games I’ve started but not finished. Planned to knock a bunch of them over during my Christmas break but only beat 1.
I still have unfinished PS2 & DS games.
I played some ds on the holidays, PS2 is set up but never happens.
Although, playing a PS2 game on PS3 atm
This is a lot of why my backlog is huge. Keep getting new stuff without finishing the old stuff I’m halfway done with, then I get to the point that it’s too hard to get back into the ones that were half-done, but I don’t want to jettison the progress and start over…
Yep, really considering knocking Devil Survivor Overclocked down to easy & starting new.
Big break, dunno what I’m doing. Matches take longer than my train ride.
Yeah, this is why I’ve never gotten far in a lot of bigger Vita games. If I can’t reasonably clock a session sitting on the shitter (so spend 5-10 mins max and get something done, though I do sometimes sit there longer than necessary if I get absorbed into it) then it’s just not going to get finished. I think a lot of the reason I platinumed Senran Kagura vita was because the matches were all pretty short.
I never turn my Vita off though, so I have less of a problem.
Shitty 3DS eats all the power in power saving mode, so I’m less likely to let it sit in my bag all day & continue in the arvo.
The problems worse with strategy type games because you forget you were flanking a guy & wander into death or whatever.
Still, I know what you mean.
My Vita never gets turned off either, that’s not really the issue. I usually play at home and if I’m at home and idle enough to play a game I’m more likely to be sitting at my TV or my PC.
I’d be the same if I didn’t share my tv or actively avoid stabbing things or bedding companions in front of my 4 year old.
I’ve had more than a few knocks on the toilet door because I forgot where I was sitting playing a great game & my son is dying for a piss.
So I just realised that I’ve almost been in my current job for 2 years. And unlike other job’s where I’ve been here this long I have not become unhappy with it. And I feel no need to move on either.
That’s quite the achievement for me. I generally havent stayed in jobs for longer than 2 years, and my last few have been less than that.
I’m pretty much in the same boat. First job I’ve had where I’ve reached two years and still managing to truck along. It’s a nice feeling.
Slightly envious, as I sit here looking forward to this one being over in a couple of weeks 😛
I’m not sure I’ve even been in a job for one full year yet.
Technically I guess I was employed at my first one for two years before that officially ended, but iirc the last shift they gave me was a week short of the full year mark so it doesn’t count.
Jelly, I usually never make it past 2 years before I throw in the towel, been at this place 2 and a half years now and I hate it but I’m terrible at finding jobs so I’m still here. Glad to hear there are people out there that don’t hate their jobs, I’d love to find one I like one day.
4.5 years here and still going strong. Itching for a promotion though.
If ever anyone tells me they’ll dance on my grave, I’m going to have a sea burial just to spite them
#dadjokepagesix #hi@strange
I want my tombstone to have really small writing on it, so you have to get real close and squint to read:
“You’re standing on my balls.”Unashamedly stolen from Billy Connolly 😛what about cremation, and getting one of those companies that turn ashes into diamonds to shape you into a piece of Lego – see them try to dance on that! Muahaha!
whoa, that nuts, never heard of that before.
It’s Fun Fact page six!
The first reported use of a deadly biological weapon of mass destruction occurred in…1347. By the Mongol army, during the siege of Caffa (a port in Crimea).
Spoilered for mobile users to avoid the wall of text:
During the (well, this invasions) march into Europe, the Mongol army passed by Lake Issyk in Kyrgyzstan. There happened to be a certain bacteria living amongst the rodent/flea population in that area, that goes by the name of Yersinia Pestis. History remembers it by another name – the Black Death.By the time they reached the port city of Caffa, many members of the Mongol army were suffering from the plague. The siege wasn’t going as planned for the Mongols, so they decided to speed things up – by flinging dead animals via catapults into the city (this was a fairly common practice during this time period) in the hopes that the rotting carcasses would inflict disease on the population.
When that didn’t work, they started flinging the dead bodies of those who died from the plague into the city. Deliberately. In the hopes of breaking the siege.
It worked.
Unfortunately, before they could get in and pillage, rape and die via “hilarious” firework related injuries ala Mulan, a huge proportion of the population had fled on ships. Ships filled with those exact things – rats and fleas – that spread the plague. By the time the ships had spread out and reached other ports, many of the people onboard were suffering…and contagious.
So, to put it in perspective, an army from the other side of the world just happened to march through an area (that if you were to mimic the chances of passing through, would be ONE footprints worth of land as you walked around the block) that had a deadly illness, that then had enough of it affecting their army when they got to a city that they flung their own dead bodies over the walls to break the siege, which happened to be a port city, which happened to also harbour rats and fleas that were able to carry the illness, that then spread via boat allowing a decent period of time for the disease to spread to enough people to be contagious to the new city they were fleeing to ended up killing 30-60% of Europe’s population.
Thus, the first use of a biological weapon of mass destruction.
Have you listened to Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History? Because that’s a rather excellent podcast and they had a five part one with Genghis Khan
No, but I’m looking it up right this second and will enjoy it this afternoon. 🙂
And for like the next six afternoons. Hardcore History is looooooooong but worth every second
Heads up, he’s a history enthusiast and has said many times he intended this to be a 40 minute overview, but the episode tends to go for around 4 hours 😛
Great series, so long though. Last one with WW2 that i haven’t listened to is 4 and a half hours.
The most hardcore history I’ve viewed is Hark A Vagrant. 🙂
I’ll have to look this shit up.
More historical siege facts (because why not)!
This time on how the fledgling city of Rome staved off the Gallic army centuries before they became the dominant power on the Italian peninsula.
The Gauls had thoroughly trounced the Roman armed forces of the time and marched upon Rome itself. Even at this early stage of Rome’s history (circa. 390 BCE), Rome was well-defended by its great walls that had been built to guard against the earlier wars against their Samnite and Etruscan neighbours. The Gauls attempted to directly assault the walls of Rome but were driven back at great cost.Gaulish cunning and Roman laxity enabled to Gauls to succeed on an early morning raid that managed to scale the wars without being noticed. The Gauls were poised to crush the few defenders that were on the walls and open the gates to the rest of their army when the alarm was sounded… by a humble flock of geese that lived close where the Gauls had moved through. The sound alerted the Roman sentries to muster the rest of their forces and drive back the daring Gallic raiders and eventually persevere against their enemies.
And that is the story of how Rome was saved. By geese.
*Stolen for pubquiz*
I mean..*cough*…that’s amazing, I might have to tell more people about that fact!
I read a hell of a lot of Horrible Histories when I was younger so I have a tonne of random history facts.
Including apparently in one siege (I think it was in antiquity) when the defenders poured heated sand down on the attackers because it was much more effective than boiling oil. Another siege happened when the defenders threw whole bee hives down as a way of chasing people off.
It’s like ye olde Smash Bros.
More historical siege facts (Because why not)
By the year 50 BC, all of Gaul was occupied by the Roman Empire. Only one small village of indomitable Gauls still held out against the invaders.
But how much longer can Asterix, Obelix and their friends resist the mighty Roman legions of Julius Caesar? Anything is possible, with a little cunning plus the druid Getafix’s magic potions! Their effects can be truly hair-raising …<3 for Asterix reference
Going to resurrect the old tradition I was following way back in the day. (oh god, I can legit say way back in the day when referring to Tay.)
Freeze’s Word Of The Day Challenge
Everyday you get a new word and you are challenged to work it into everyday conversation at some point. Have fun and learn something new! Edutainment!
Today’s word:
Edutainment is a magniloquent word.
Portmanteaus are anfractously magniloquent?
magniloquence is how I work most other words into everyday conversation!
(yes I tend to be a very confusing person to talk to)
Yeah I totally know how to pronounce that word, I mean who doesn’t am I right? Hahaha *sits down*
Like eloquence, but bigger.
Mag-nil-o-quince I think
Gotta say, I really missed Freeze’s daily experiments with magniloquence.
TIM SCHAFER JUST COMMENTED ON MY RAZ PICTURE ON TWITTER AAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Creepy internet people! D:
At first I read it as “unicorns”.
I am awake, I swear.
He likes the picture of us from Pax!
I want to put some kind of hand-flaily “ohmygodohmygodohmygod” type gif here but my google-fu is weak.
I found some almost suitable options when image searching for “wacky waving inflatable arm flailing tube man” – including some cosplay videos that someone should totally make gifs from
Can’t you natively gift from YouTube these days?
*gif. Not jif, nor jyff
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y260/Gooky/Halloween09/MannyGuybrushBoxart1.jpg
Don’t think I’ve posted this here before, but I’ve got this from when I first made the outfit. Neither of us knew that the other was coming to the party dressed as what we were. Yet there he was with an “Ask me about Grim Fandango” badge 😛
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y260/Gooky/Halloween09/MannyGuybrushItems2.jpg
We both came prepared.
Well, I was slightly underprepared in that I ran out of time to do the gloves and also lost all the orange balloons in testing. Also one of my sister’s friends destroyed the balloons anyway not long after that photo.
Another friend of ours was there manning the bar for us, he would have made quite a good Eddie Riggs if he’d come as him like I’d suggested. Missed opportunity!
Hah, nice. This was a mate of mine at PAX (whom some of you played magic with)
http://instagram.com/p/uzx4FzCb_s/
Should’ve got the three of us and been a triple-schafer team
Link?
Check out @TimOfLegend’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/TimOfLegend/status/555190241791709184?s=09
Radical!
Question for everyone that cares to answer.
I have been doing IT support at my company for over 3 years now (tiny team of 4) and now higher ups want me to be more than just that IT support guy. Problem is i don’t know what sort of training to do. Any suggestions ( i have done 2 microsoft training courses but they had no exams attached and were quite frankly shit.) So i am hesitant on those at the moment.
Sounds like they want to move you up, so management/project management/leadership training might be a good move.
Depends on what you’re aiming at doing/what you enjoy? Cisco (CCNA) looks great on resumes and gives good network knowledge… Linux skills are always good to have… DB administration is also good… What I’m saying is there’s a lot XD
I was thinking of leadership type stuff but worried about how my boss would see it (i tend to be favoured by the execs over him and it is a bit awkward at the best of times.).
My big problem is I am not really tech savvy, sure I can do my job but when given coding/networking jobs and I tend to be a little over my head. I have done networking/coding previously i just don’t think i have retained enough info to go full on in CCNA’s. Linux i barely use and this company doesn’t have much to do with it.
I would really like to push into the leadership/management type areas but i don’t want to waste company money on something that may be useless i have already done that twice with Microsoft courses.
There’s no harm in doing leadership style courses for “continued personal growth”… If what you want to do is move into a more team leader style role then there’s nothing wrong with that
Cert III in Hospitality and Tourism?
If your higher ups want to move you up, it might be good to ask them what kinds of qualifications they have, and what qualifications that they’d like you to have.
There’s no point guessing what kinds of qualifications they want you to have.
Seems better to ask them directly.
Shows good commitment, intuition, and work ethic too if you ask for their advice.
Seconded.
If they’re going to pay ask them what skill set they want to cultivate.
Will also help you figure out if its technical or management/leadership. If it’s technical you could negotiate and say that whilst you are interested in building your technical knowledge, your goals are to be able to transition into a management/leadership role in the coming .
Tried asking them and they said it is up to me Do’h. It sounds like they are all good with ITIL as a starting point and then work everything else out from there.
Did they give you any idea of what other then “support guy” they want?
Find out what role or tasks they want you doing and then go from there. Do they want you to become a revenue centre that they will charge out to clients?
I work for a mining contractor so only do in house stuff. I know some of the execs are worried about losing me to another company or going interstate so they may be pushing whatever they can to make me stay.
Has anyone done or had any experience with ITIL? This has been mentioned to me in the past but I know nothing about it.
I’m not a huge fan of the course, but if you’re ever planning on applying for IT jobs elsewhere, ITIL qualifications are invaluable.
What is it all about? Would it in anyway assist in IT management?
Yeah, that’s what it’s intended for. Basically, it’s a framework for best practices in IT service management. If your work is offering to pay for it you’d be insane not to take them up on the offer.
Cheers for that, I will see what they say about that.
Sounds like you can choose the direction you want, if it is a carrot to keep you, go with what interests you and could help further your career down the track.
Yeah it seems that way, I am always worried that I am going to step on toes inside my own division.
It sounds like they were propositioning you.
They’ll be attending many business meetings.
One-on-one debriefing at day’s end.
From this exec that would not shock me sadly.
Just make sure to keep on top of the inbox.
Be sure not to mistake it with the outbox.
I am going to need password protection aren’t i?
ITIL. Definitely ITIL qualifications.
Ah, Destiny, still a turophile’s dream. Cheese begets patch begets cheese. Mmm… cheese baguettes… maybe I should have lunch.
I think my lunch needs a patch – dessert wasn’t in the initial release build!.. though I’ll probably have to buy it as DLC – damn in-store Dessert Lunch Content!
Well, that’s one Long War campaign officially abandoned.
I wasn’t going too badly for the most part but then I screwed up 2 council missions which lost me France and caused a bucketload of panic in North America which I just couldn’t recover from and ended up losing the entire continent. It didn’t help that I was based in North America so XCOM HQ was under the giant red tornado of occupation and all of my interceptors had been shifted over to my emergency staging area of Africa which I rapidly threw satellites over just to get the 30% funding bonus so I could stop losing hundreds of credits a month and just manage to get enough money each month to start doing stuff again rather than just selling all the stuff I’d stockpiled for research & foundry projects.
So there I am with a single country that’s actually making me money and evidently the aliens don’t like that so they’re determined to shoot down the satellite, a few fighters come in and I just manage to shoot them down at the cost of most of my interceptors damaged and one lost because I pushed it a bit too far and still only had beam laser weapons, July 2015 is way too early for the pulse laser or plasma upgrades so my air defences are taking a pounding because I’d been prioritising tactical level research over strategic and didn’t get any armour or equipment upgrades for the interceptors researching until pretty much this point in the game.
Normally the aliens use fighters to shoot down satellites, when they upgrade to the next stage as they have done in my other campaign that’s dramatically harder and in September or October 2016, they’re using larger destroyers to hunt satellites which require a lot more firepower to bring down so when the next tracking UFO contact comes in and it says Large, I think “Oh shit, they’ve got destroyers now, I may not get this one but I might JUST manage to drive it off”. Then I re-read the contact window, it doesn’t say large, it says VERY LARGE. They’ve sent a battleship.
A fucking BATTLESHIP!
I’ve NEVER seen that, even in my campaign that’s more than a year more advanced in time and at a dramatically harder stage of the game, alien research has gone nuts and I’m getting mechtoids with damage reduction so ridiculous it’s making me write out a post saying that I think it’s a legitimate bug because there’s literally no weapon in the game that can overcome the amount they absorb when they roll that high. The only thing I can think of to explain the battleship is that it’s an indicator that the aliens had just got overwhelming force thanks to owning the entire northern hemisphere of the planet and their resources had gone through the roof.
To me, it was an indicator that the campaign had passed the point of no return and there was simply no way to win. A wise Cardassian once said that there comes a point when the odds are against you and the only reasonable course of action is to quit and so I did. With added rage. To the point of deleting the save.
Sorry everyone, you’re all going to have to get used to being slaves.
It’s a shame I can’t export individual troops, I’d have loved to have kept my star sniper, she’d only just hit master sergeant and had 114 natural aim, the highest I’ve ever seen on anyone in the game…
Because I’m the masochistic sort, I started a new campaign and this time it turns out that we’re the dirty traitors so I guess my first base assault will be trying to recapture Australia…
Which farmer sits on his tractor shouting, “The end is nigh.”?
Farmer Geddon.Went to back the Shadowrun kickstarter thinking about $30.
And that bag at $150 shows up. Dear god do I want it. A lot of money though.
Eeeeeeeehhhhhhhhnnnnnnnnnn. Wat do.
Okay, that’s just creepy.
Yeah, I am looking at the Messenger bag too. Looks so good!
There is no Freeze, only Nob.
Frozen Nob …
You and your fashion bags!
I got new shoes and the current bag just doesn’t go at all.
I just want something that matches my eyes.
You guys are saying this stuff like it’s a joke or something >:(
It is when slobs say it
I don’t think soulless is a colour.
I am really tempted to back the new Shadowrun: Hong Kong game. Currently looking at the Messenger Bag or the Figurine set.
My thoughts:
Messenger bag! Oh, synth leather, huh. Is that like faux-leather? The stuff that flakes away after you use it a fair bit? Ehhhhh.
Figurines! You know what would be cool? A Glory figurine. She was cool. There’s no one in the current crew that really jumps at me, but I guess a lot of why I like Glory is her backstory. Can’t really get that from just looking at art.
It’s a shame, because I feel like I underpaid for Shadowrun Returns, especially with Dragonfall. I would be happy with the $15 tier, but I want to throw more money at them. It’s just that the higher tiers don’t really grab my attention.
@sernobulus and @freezespreston = same person
I’ve never seen them in the same place at the same time. :\
Well, if you were sober enough…
Touche!
Four Krusties!
Woo! Japan trip fully paid off with *checks* two days until the deadline!
\o/ It’s happening!
Congrats, my friend. You’re gonna have adventures! 😀
2 days before the deadline!? Look at “mr organised” here!
\o/ See you in
hellOsaka!Bring me back some Sake, then we can do Sake tastings over the internet like that one time in that underground karaoke bar.
I love having a deep fryer. Just had a late lunch of french fries smothered in Nando’s Peri Peri Salt, and chicken salt. 😀
Peri salt is pretty damned amazing
I love when you go to Nando’s and get Peri Peri fries, only the top three fries have the salt on them.
Thanks, Nando’s. The reason everybody loves you and you’re being stingy with it.
Oh my god.
I just realised Canada doesn’t have chicken salt.
This country truly is the worst place in the world.
They have poutine though, and have been told that’s pretty good.
Surely they just maple syrup everything anyway.
They forgot to put salt at all on our chips last time we had Nando’s, and when they noticed, they just gave us a little plastic sauce tub full of salt so we could add it ourselves when we got home. Best day ever.
They seem to be stingy with a lot of what they offer these days. Got a burger with lettuce and tomato, opened it up to see one tiny slice of tomato hiding in the middle. Happened twice and I haven’t bothered going back.
And Nando’s is hideously expensive for what it is…
Hand over $20 for a burger meal and get a few dollars back for a meal with a 390ml coke and a small chips.
I agree, compared to what you get for similar prices at Grill’d. Oporto vary widely depending on the store. The annoying thing is that for a company whose claim to fame is chilli sauce, you have to specifically ask for it, and then be asked if you’re sure you want it. So my solution is to buy the $5 bottle of oporto sauce, and make home made chicken burgers.
So much nom.
I think the only time I’ve been to Nandos is when we had lunch that time. Would have been early last year after you came home from cruise. 😀
You should buy some Nandos sauce and Peri Peri salt from the supermarket, and then you won’t need to ever go again. Unless you want to. Like maybe when I get back from 70K this time? 😀
That sounds like the makings of a plan.
\o/
Your love is like bad parmesan
Bad parmesan’s odours displease
Shake it up, just like bad parmesan
There ain’t no chef that can
improve this cheese
As inspired by a visit to a smelly microwave.
Don’t blame the cheese for your lack of taste.
There ain’t nothing tasteful about Kraft-type parmesan.
Somebody that understands!
Hello all.
I’m posting because Pixel thought there was something wrong, but I’ve just been busy.
I bought a new shelf for my games =D
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/luckydogofdeath/WP_20150113_001.jpg
Holds 528. My previous one only held 250 and was full.
Also, I spent $50 on sequins for Elsa. I found some that were kind of in between the two colours I am already using.
What is this? A game shelf for ants?! It needs to be at least …three times as big!
(I think mine is actually about five times or so bigger :p)
It’s double the size, The bottom is only filled. If I had a bigger room I could have more of my collection out.
Awesome! I need something like that.
Looks good!
I always think to myself “I have too many games” but then I compare my measly collection with other peoples’ and realise I’m actually a horrific casual.
I bet you don’t even speedrun
Is that a game for Wii?
Mobile integrated facebook game. You will probably love it, you filthy casual
It doesn’t include my older games like n64 and super nes, but they’re not as big
When you say built, you mean with wood & nails or from a kit like Ikea?
Either way, niiiiiiice
Kit. It was $129 with free postage. FREE!
Link me, dood! XD
http://www.ebay.com.au/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2050601.m570.l1313.TR5.TRC1.A0.H0.X528+dvd+shelf&_nkw=528+dvd+shelf&_sacat=0
I got white, but there’s also brown
Should I buy the Destiny Expansion Pass?
Up vote for yes, down vote for no. I’ll check back later to see what you decide for me 😛
Too many down votes will put you in moderation hell.
Nvm its a fun experiment 😛
Best way for something like that would be to reply to yourself twice for “Yes” and “No” and everyone can upvote them.
U r bloody clever… but I’m comitted now 😛
Well I am a robot, but thank you sir! 🙂
Extra info:
I like playing Destiny, but probably only play it once a week, if that.
I’m curious about the extra content?
I don’t seem to ever be online the same time as my friends 🙁
I have $14 in credit in my PSN account.
Someone just gave me $30 cash.
You could buy Grim Fandango with that in two weeks. TWO WEEKS. 😉
I… did not realise Grim Fandango is out in merely 2 weeks.
To get the most out of it you really need to group up, probably not worth it if you can’t get people together.
As someone with around 20 hours of Crota’s End playtime I feel like I can answer this question!
Pro’s:
1 New raid which is a lot of fun if you’re playing with some buddies.
2 Strike missions which are mix it up a bit if you’re into doing nightfalls and weekly heroic strikes.
3 New story missions to help add a little bit of meat to the bones of The Destiny story.
New maps for the Crucible, if you like playing casual multi it adds some extra flavour.
Most people have got it who are currently playing, would suck not being able to do the new raids with your friends because you don’t have the DLC.
Con’s:
Destiny steals your life if you aren’t careful.
At the end of the new content you’ll pretty much be buying it for the raid as the missions have little replay value.
Grim Fandango is so damn close.
My thoughts for you are if you’re only playing once a week, is that you are a goddamn inspiration for those of us who play Destiny so much until our eye’s capillaries are exploding. My feeling is the DLC is the next step IF you want to continue playing Destiny, otherwise if you intend to play other things soon than I would avoid.
I wish you were playing on PS3; I think it would be fun to join your fireteam 🙂
Plenty of JRPGs on that thur PSN what’s needs buyin
Purplerior who??
Purplerior me!
If you need to ask, then the answer is no.
If you’re not at least raid-ready with your gear you’re going to hate it. None of the new story missions are remotely possible without gear to get you to at least level 24.
Tried the first one with level 22 gear (I got the CE so have both expansions included, I regret this) and the boss was able to two-shot me within around 10-15 seconds of encounter start and I could barely damage him. Gave up in disgust.
Sardok is a twat. I avoid that fight as much as possible, unless I’m doing the normal version as a 30 or 31, and even then it’s not worth the bother. I don’t particularly like the weight of darkness mechanic anyway – it removes the fun half of the movement system.
I bought the season pass with the digital deluxe version of Destiny. I got my money’s worth out of the base game proper, even though it was a massive disappointment on the ‘epic story’ front. It was decent fun social, but the grind got to me and I burned out.
The first DLC did nothing to fix the burn-out. I’m not even going to bother installing the second one.
I would say that if you’re loving Destiny at the moment, the DLC will kind of be mandatory for you to continue doing weeklies and playing with other people who are all chasing the gear cap.
If you’re looking for something to revive your interest, the DLC will not do that.
Cheers!
TBH I was reading grimoire cards and thinking I’d prefer actually be playing the game to get the story 😛 Sounds like the DLC isn’t going to overly help with that 🙁
I have hopes for the sequel. Not high hopes, though. Just… hopes.
Best part of DC’s birthday was at karaoke when @beeawwb had to leave the room because it was too much talent for him to handle of us singing Linkin Park.
Oh maaaaan. Ben sent me a whole bunch of videos that I instantly deleted. I can’t even remember which Linkin Park song we sang. :'(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFJnu2Pi8jQ
In the end, it doesn’t even matter.
@dc dayyyum son that was a fast upvote, have you got TAY notifications enabled? 😛
I’m known for my quickness.
Was that why I left the room? I thought it was because your masculinity was too much to bear and I had to restrain myself.
That’s generally the reason why I leave any given room, actually.
I can’t think of any other possible reason.
I just electrocuted myself pretty badly. I’m really hoping it gives me some kind of electric super powers?
*scans for puns*
For real? Hope you’re okay!
Aside from a small hole in my thumb, I think I’ll be good. It was your damn pesky brother, AC that got me.
Goddamn! Burnt a hole that bad? Shieeet hope it’s all good homie!
Ugghh look at you up at 5:30am! Crazy man. Yeah, I think it was pretty bad. It may have killed a small child? I dunno, I’ve only ever had minor experiences with being electrified, this one was turnt all da way up.
BTW, you’ll be proud to know I am joining the National Centre for Indigenous Excellence tomorrow. Gym, pool, indoor bball court…plan is to get swole.
Are you still thinking about picking up Dying Light?
M9 you’ll be the swolest guy there, that’s good stuff. Expensive? Sounds pretty damn awesome.
Yeah, it’ll be the only game I pick up this year I think. When’s it out??
I am led to believe…January 27th. So not long! Woop.
It’s $40 a fortnight, so pricier than usual gyms I guess…but I’d be happy to pay that just for pool and basketball court use.
Really? You are dead? You are posting this as a zombie?
Sorry, i know that is a fully wanky thing to say 😛 Hope you are OK!No that’s interesting! I actually never knew that was the proper meaning. 😛 So I guess the correct way would be to say I just received a pretty bad electric shock.
I think electrified is supposed to be the correct term for when there is no death.
Ah of course. Smh
That’s shocking news.
Read that as ‘ejaculated’
Dirty, dirty man.
Yeah, because I *like* thinking about blokes havin a tug! XD
Jackin’ the beanstalk.
Ha!
Read about the Toyota War today must say how clever of the Congo military to put weapons on some Hiluxes / Landcruisers and drive them around in a battle
@beeawwb @freezespreston @sernobulus @negativezero really sorry guys, I’m going to have to bail on fiasco on Friday. Mate’s had a sudden death in the family and I’m going to keep him company
No worries.
That takes obvious priority; no problems whatsoever.
If you guys wanted to play anyway, I think @gingerchris86 had the pdfs? By all means go on without me, nob and Neg must experience it for themselves
@beeawwb @sernobulus @negativezero I’m still keen if you guys are.
I can give you gm rights on the roll20 setup we had too
I’ll set it up on drop box and I’ll dm you all the link:)
Sorry to hear about your friend Red
Sorry to hear about your friend, Red. 🙁
Yeah, it’s awful. Very sudden, and the circumstances aren’t pleasant either
Completely understandable.
My direct flight back from Tokyo – Gold Coast just got changed to Tokyo – Cairns – Melbourne – Sydney – Gold Coast.
At the end of that you will be fuuuuuuuuuucked
Considering there’s several flights with them from Cairns to Gold Coast that day still available I’m not entirely sure why we’re being routed across the entire country first.
Reason: JetStar are incompetent assholes.
What Freeze and Mrs Freeze get up to after the flight is between them I think.
Whoa, wtf? Why don’t they add a trip to Perth in there so you can loop the whole country?
Hobart, Darwin, Norfolk Island…
Who?
Grrrrrr.
*ruffles hair*
That seems a little unreasonable. Actively flying over Brisbane/Gold Coast to go to Melbourne only to fly back. WHAAAAT?
Jetstar are weird with their Japan flights. Believe it or not, it costs more to fly from Brisbane to Japan, than it does to go from Gold Coast to Japan. Even weirder is, all Brisbane flights land in Haneda (close to the middle of Tokyo), while GC flights all go to Narita (about an hours bus ride out of Tokyo). I guess that might have something to do with the price difference, but not sure how landing fees work at various airports. I guess it would cost more to land at a more central/busy airport though? Still damn annoying though. When I flew to Tokyo, it was like $400 cheaper if I flew from GC, so I got my dad to drive us all the way down there to board!
Last time we went to Japan, Jetstar only flew in and out of Osaka. So we had to get Qantas to Narita, travel to Osaka, and then fly home via – I think it was the Sunshine coast?
Needless to say, the Qantas flight was much more pleasant.
My flight was actually much better than I expected! Everything was on time and no plans got changed. Food was good. Entertainment was sufficient. Best thing was, it was cheaper to buy the food using Yen, than it was to buy in AUD! By like a good $5! Was so glad I exchanged money before I went!
Jetstar are usually perfectly fine once you’re actually seated on the flight. It’s all the other bullshit you have to put up with before you get on that shits me. I’m at the point where I’ll often be happy to pay a bit more to not fly with them just so I don’t have to deal with their crap.
I’ve flown with them a number of times domestically, and once internationally (both ways though) and I am surprised that I’ve never had a bad experience with them! I used to think they were dodgy buggers at the bottom of the pile.. right along side Tiger Air. Until I actually flew with them.. I expected hell, but my dealings with them have always gone according to plan! Perhaps I’m just lucky, but I’ll happily use them again until they do fuck me around!
No love for Perth, again.
*sigh*
Do I smell or something?!
Sucky flight plan though :\
Any long stopovers?
No, but Perth does.
Nope, pretty sure it’s just @liondrive
I think I’d rather my 26 hours in Narita airport again over that.
Narita airport is pretty decent considering where it is. We had to stop there on our way to Shanghai, and they even let us leave the airport to go to a hotel (which took a bit of leg work due to my other half at the time having a Chinese passport – Aus passport can visit for 90 days with no visa, but Chinese need visa to be there even for a day!)
All things considered though, they managed to sort it for us in a reasonable time frame, and we were free to go! We caught a courtesy bus to a nearby hotel, then walked around the area looking for dinner. On our way back, the bus driver passed by and stopped to give us a lift back to the hotel, even though he had no obligation to do so! Such nice people!!! 🙂
Success! Turns out they cancelled the flight and shoved everyone on this ridiculous round about. Meanwhile they scheduled another direct flight that left 10 minutes earlier but instead of transferring everyone they put it all up for sale again. We got transferred to that flight after an outburst from the wife.
I very very rarely use this word since I don’t like it at all but… cunts. There’s no other appropriate word.
Haha! Mrs. Freeze to the rescue. Would never want to be on her bad side. 😀
Same airport as before? Tokyo technically has two…
I’m flying out of Haneda rather than Narita, not sure how much extra time I’ll have to allow that day.
Upon checking it is the same airport, Narita.
Get a seat on the N’ex… Best. Damn. Airport. Train. Ever.
Free if you’ve got an active JR Pass too.
We did Kyoto to Narita in an afternoon on our last day and it went off without a hitch. 2 trains. The entire way. 500 k’s.
I <3 Japan.
Get off at cairns and walk.
What’s the fine for jumping out of a commercial aircraft and skydiving into your backyard?
wut
I saw Big Hero 6 today.
9/10
Really enjoyed it, would see again minus irritating school children.
Well, that’s what you get for seeing a kid movie.
I saw Frozen in an audience of kids and it genuinely made the movie more awesome seeing them react to certain things. <3
Picturing Creepy Window DC staring at all the kids instead of the movie 😛
I saw Guardians of the Galaxy and some little kid giggled at a swear and then said it aloud, and everyone in the audience just burst out laughing.
My statement is lacking a ‘colon P’ 😛
Depends on the kids.
Kids are fine, I love kids! 😀
Little crying kids though…
I know they can’t always help it, but don’t take a child prone to crying to the movies, or at least leave if they’re disruptive >:(
I find kids chucking tanties to be hilarious, so I always appreciate the free show.
When you’re at the movies though?
Always happens to me :'(
I cannot remember it ever happening at the cinema for me.
Maybe this is some west coast custom. :p
But did you stay for the end credits?
No.
;_;
It was really good, but didn’t really mean much in regards to the movie.
I think.
When I was a kid, I saw The Lion King at the cinema.
When Mufasa was murdered, one of the other kids called out ‘At least Simba’s still got his mummy’.
Ha.
Woke up half an hour ago with a cat sitting next to my head, my phone still showing a book on screen, and sweat slicked over my neck and back despite the air con blasting near me. And now I don’t know what a time is, how real life works, or even if I’m awake yet.
I’m usually very good at napping, but this is just bizarre.
And this is why I hate napping.
Napping is the worst!
NAPPING IS USUALLY THE BEST, BUT IT HAS BETRAYED ME THIS DAY!
Napping is such a waste.
You could be playing games, or watching TV, or, god forbid, do something, productive!
I don’t think I’ve done anything productive in my life.
Napping is essential. It allows you to recharge the batteries so that you are able to do anything productive at all!
I think that’s what sleep is for 😛
Sure, if you get enough of it. But who does that 😛
Napping is great. You’re just no good at it!
See, you and me, dc, we get it
If I nap i’m awake until 4 or 5am it’s annoying, so I avoid doing such.
If I’m about 5 or 6 hours into Dragonfall, is it worth abandoning it for the Directors Cut and starting again? The save files aren’t transferrable.
I never played the Director’s Cut so I can’t really say.
Ser Helpulus
Most wanted announcement for tonight’s Nintendo Direct: a new Captain Toad Amiibo 😛
Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate release date!
Amiibo support for Xenoblade 3DS! Turn Reyn into Captain Falcon! Sharla into a much more animated Zelda! Dunban into Marth! Riki into Jigglypuff! Melia into Pit 😛
Zero Suit for Sharla!
😛
Nothankyou.jpg
Haha, just kidding around 😛
That they’ll release enough amiibos for everyone instead of being turds.
Or that they’ll start making more Gamecube adapters…
;_;
A new Metroid?
I’ve never finished a Metroid game (but Fusion is siiiiick), so a new one for me to love would be nice.
New 2D one for 3DS would be swell.
That would be pretty cool. Two games would be rad, 2D one for handhelds and 3D for WiiU. Also with some kind of integration with each other.
The MM3D thing was a typo and they’re actually doing a proper remake.
That they learned what internet was.
Could we keep the announcement wishlists within reason please
Tingle Amiibo that works with Smash & Hyperule Warriors.
MONSTAR HUNTAR 4
GAEMS!
Actually they haven’t announced the two new characters coming in the next Hyrule Warriors DLC yet. Tingle still a possibility!
There is MORE DLC coming out!? Is this part of the season pass thing I bought when the game came out?
Yup. I think there’s two more lots coming?
Next one (with two characters) is meant to be based on Majora’s Mask.
SKULL KID! and … Deku Kid?
LINEBECK
Stop trying to make Linebeck happen. He’s not going to happen.
Good, because then I wouldn’t have to not buy the DLC! :'(
I had to Google who that was.
You kinda covered everything there that I was going to say.
No more Pokémon announcements needed until next year. Just more Tingle.
All Tingle. Tingle Direct.
Tingle.
I agree on the Pokemon thing, I’m all Pokemon’d out! 🙁
My motivation to get through Alpha Sapphire barely existed and what was left went away too fast. I never thought it would ever get like that!
Beavwa….
It’s official.
My dog is a little furry baby who loves getting cuddles.
😀
People get upset over the silliest things.. Like I saw on Facebook an article stating that Taylor Swifts fans are trying to get her song ‘Shake It Off’ into the hottest 100 by voting for it, which has seen some pretty horrible comments in retaliation to this. Like who cares? It’s not like pop songs that have been a huge mainstream success haven’t been in the Hottest 100 before, or mainstream songs in general, like I think last year wasn’t Get Lucky voted in at 2nd place? Kids I tell ya.
And if it seals the deal, Taylor Swift did a cover recently of Vance Joy’s Riptide which topped the list in 2014. 😛
I have no idea who this Vance person is.. Lol.
I was amazed that that song beat out Royals, which I thought was a lock, but it is a pretty good tune.
Wait, people are getting mad cause a song they don’t like, a single song, is potentially in a hottest 100 list, of songs?
What, do they never want the hottest 100 to change or something?
I’m not the biggest Taylor Swift fan (I find her annoying, to be honest), but there’s no denying she’s a good musician.
Yeah basically. I just find it amusing when people take it personally when an artist releases music or whatever. It’s like those people who go out of their way to hate on Nickelback, it’s like go and use that effort positively somewhere else.
I don’t even like Taylor Swift, but damn she doesn’t deserve the hatred that people were throwing out there.
Kinda related but not really, when I’m playing Sheik in Hyperule warriors I liked to sing “Sheik it off”.
At least Get Lucky got played on Triple J – pretty sure they haven’t played Shake it Off. If it gets votes, whatever.
Who?
#classic2014
Lol.. I almost feel like answering that seriously for the lols.
It’s an almost truth. The only thing I know beyond the name is what she looks like 😛
Haha. Basically in the same boat as you there 😛
Edit: Well apart from the fact she was a country singer song writer now turned pop singer song writer.
HELP, I’M BEING EDUCATED
LOL “educated”
To be fair, Get Lucky (came 3rd) was a) a killer song and b) from a band that despite everyone knowing and having a cult following, had never hit number one in Australia with a single or an album til Random Access Memories. Daft Punk were well known, but still kinda cultish, before get lucky, which is the real one that went “mainstream”
Tell that to 1995. Everyone was going nuts for Around The World.
Edit: Although doing some research it was top 10 but never 1. Then really quiet for a while.
It helped that Around The World has one of the bestest video clips ever, so it was super popular on triple j AND rage.
Ah 1995. Wonderwall won that year, and TISM had TWO songs in the top 10. 😀
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_J_Hottest_100,_1995
Wow that was a good year.
Daft Punk squeaked into the 98 hottest 100 at #98 (Da Funk), and number 61 in 2001 (One more time)
Fun fact: I still have those two songs from TISM on high rotation in my playlist. Tied for best “funny” band ever (with DAAS)
“They say within the next 10,000 years a comet is going to wipe out all trace of man…
…I’m banking on it coming before my end of year exams”
You sure? I remember Daft Punk being massive back when I was in school…
They were known, and if you were into electronica you knew them, but they weren’t all over commercial stations. Also, Pre RAM they’d done the TRON score, Human After All and one live album in the last dozen years, so they’d been in the wilderness.
Discovery got a lot of play (and was my first adult album purchase), and critically acclaimed, but it was still never a mainstream smash. Get Lucky is their first bona fide chart topper.
(I am as you may have guessed, big into Daft Punk)
Never been into Electronica, but knew them well in my high school days. Can’t even remember how I even heard of them 😛
One More Time and Harder Better Faster Stronger were a HS Disco staple
Daft Punk first album purchase bros o/
Mine was Homework though. Discovery is a much better album (and even better if you watch it as Interstella 5555)
\o I actually bought them as a 2 pack. Homework is still ace
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger was also a big hit – it came 7th in the Hottest 100 in 2007. Knights of Cydonia won that year (and rightly so)
That’s from Alive 2007, which is an insane live album. For me, it retroactively made me understand Human After All– once you heard them remix themselves it was a case of “Oh, that’s what you were going for”
The Coachella bootleg is also very good
Knights… Been too long since I’ve listened to that.
*launches spotify, search, play*
Ahhh…
*spys Super Massive Black Hole and Map of the Problematique on same album*
Many thanks @cookingmama!
Back in the days when Muse were good…
SHOTS FIRED
(I haven’t actually bothered listening to their recent stuff) =P
Personally on the rare times I want to listen to Muse again, I pull out their HAARP live album instead. Has most of the good stuff and the older stuff sounds better because less gasping for air at the start of every line like a terminal lung cancer patient.
Wikipedia lied to me. It was 97.
I tweeted about it earlier.
“And what exactly is wrong with Taylor Swift being in Triple J’s music thing? (ugh I hate Triple J so much) Better than Australian rap.”
“And Australian pop. And Australian hip-hop. And Australian rock. And any Australian music. And beards and chinos. Fuck I hate Triple J.”
Sums up Triple J in a nutshell. The hottest 100 should be called ‘the hottest 100 as decided by politically conscious far left modern urban socially aware trend followers’. Because that’s all it is.
Fuck I hate Triple J. (Did I already mention that?)
Or, y’know, by popular vote.
All the fans of Triple J I know fit my description pretty damn well, that’s where I got it from.
All 1.2 million + voters?
Hey, there’s some good Aussie rock out there.. Granted most of the bands responsible for it did not become established this century though 😛
The reason people get upset about it is it is a group outside of triple J voting on a triple J poll.
It’s like doing a Kaotaku’s favourite video game poll and NFL.com pushing people to vote for Madden. It is skewing the result outside of what the regular consumers of the media like.
Little heads up in case more people are interested: A couple of us are going to start a group chat on Steam during the Nintendo Direct tonight if anybody wants to join in!
Let’s all get disappointed that the Direct didn’t live up to the hype we created for ourselves together!
You should definitely join us. We’re talking about extremely cool subjects like different brands of calculators.
Sounds boring.
TexasInstruments4Lyf
Movie confession time… Once upon a time I watched Twilight and hated it.
But…
I loved the shit out of the baseball scene because Super Massive Blackhole by Muse was the score to the scene. Made the entire movie bearable.
I watched Twilight because I was bored and wanted to see how bad it was. It was an excellent comedy!
😀
The Dissolve‘s movie of the week is Heat, which is one of my favourite films ever:
http://thedissolve.com/features/movie-of-the-week/879-codes-chaos-and-the-world-of-heat/
Great write up, and great comments section too. I’m really keen for Blackhat
The Walking Dead Season 1 Episode 5:
Dammit, tears, I’m too manly to cry! D’:
Choices I made…– I didn’t remove my arm. Seemed like it had been too long after infection to warrant it, and I thought I’d be far more if a hindrance with only one arm and blood loss. (37%)
– I stayed calm with Kenny. Arguing would’ve only torn the group apart, so i tried to keep everyone level headed and calm. (34%)
– I surrendered my weapons. I wanted him to feel like he was in control, and he’d have never had believed me if I didn’t hand over any weapons. (19%)
– I didn’t actually know this was a choice, but apparently I killed the stranger :\
I go all out in those “mash X” sequences.
Didn’t shoot him afterwards though. (34%)
– I didn’t let Lee turn. I wanted Clem to remember me as human, and not as a Walker. (60%)
Overall, amazing game! Might wait a while before picking up season 2 though.
My heart can only take so much emotions at a time.
Play the DLC, it doesnt effect much of anything but its still good. Season 2 I thought was really good but Season 1 was better IMO.
DLC?
Do you mean 400 days?
I thought that was stand alone :\
DLC for season 1. 5 real quick stories
Yes & no. It’s dlc for 1 with characters that might be in 2(?) I’m waiting for 2 to go on special on vita so my choices carry over
Like CJ said it’s 5 short stories but it introduces minor characters who might appear in season 2 – your choices in 400 days will affect whether they appear.
It gives some background to characters you might not otherwise learn about.
Yes, New Fire Emblem coming to 3DS! Very happy with that.
Yay, Toad amiibo too! 😀
Not Captain Toad, but I’ll take it.
Get some clay and make it into captain toad.
For 3DS, or *NEW* 3DS?
All 3DS
Not sure about them saying it’ll play differently though. I like the way Awakening played. I just want more of that.
Day 1 purchase though.
From the brief footage they showed it just looks like they might be adding some new weapon types, classes and such. Same engine so I doubt it’ll be drastically different. Looks fairly similar from what they showed!
Looking forward to it.
WHAT THE FUCK NINTENDO
WHAT DO I FUCKING PLAY!
OMG
I LOVE YOU I HATE YOU
FEB 13TH PARTY TIME
And if anyone gets MH4U demo codes can I please have one?
Please?
Much love <3
NO, GIVE ONE TO ME! I WILL LOVE YOU FOREVER!
No pick me you can punch me in the face in exchange
Hey TAY, thought I’d let you guys know, I got to interview Doug Jones two days ago 🙂
I know a few of you guys love the dude as much as I do, from previous times I’ve mentioned him, so here you go, giving you a url to experience it 🙂
He dropped a fair bit of info about his various projects, Falling Skies, hilarity on Sons of Anarchy, Ron Perlman, does a funny as hell impression of Guillermo Del Toro, chastises us for fondling (don’t ask) and tells us just who he wants to play in a particular upcoming Scifi movie if the cards fall right…
Our page, interview is pinned to the top: https://www.facebook.com/stuffthatfascinates
Morning, I get to go home soon.
Like now.
Truly this is one of the greatest tales of our time
i enjoyed it.
*wakes up*
Oh, I forgot about the Ninty Direct. Let’s see what’s new-
“NEW 3DS COMING FEB 13”
Ballin.
“ONLY XL AVAILABLE.”
wat
wwwaaaaaaaat
never mind, N3DS LE Monster Hunter bundle, That’s fucking day one
day one
day -1
How many times is Nintendo going to re-release the DS model with a new graphic or something else 😐
Majoras Mask looks great, as expected.
Gonna have to visit @gutsoup again for some Pario Marty.
New Fiah Emblun for the @powalen looks almost identical outside if character design.
(Not bad, FEA is quite good)
And XenUbladder X Chronicles XXX a pornography parody for @greenius
World looks fantastic, hero looks like he has Down Syndrome
And no combat shown? Here’s hoping they replaced it with a fun system!!
Anything I missed?
They’ve shown combat plenty of times. I think herodude is user made so I’m assuming the story and characters will suffer because of it 🙁
I hope he’s user made.
Combats same, yeah?
China up, plenty of great RPGs have had silent protagonists
China!? Ok, if you say so, autocorrect, you know best.
I dunno if he’s silent (I don’t mind if it’s done well) but I prefer the set character rather than a blank slate usermade thing. I WANT ANOTHER SHULK TO LOVE
Eh, just pick a sidekick.
I mostly prefer sidekicks anyway. Except Squall, he da bes
It’s possible for a character to be silent but still talk to the cast and have a personality. Adol in the Ys games for example. Rather than have him have set dialogue, it will have lines like “Adol told the dude what he saw” or the like, and it works perfectly fine. So it’s not a completely lost cause IMO.
Also I should point at Fire Emblem Awakening for another case of a protagonist which is user-created. Gender and appearance and everything are up to the user and IIRC not voiced, but Robin ends up being a pretty strong character in his or her own right.
Yeah, the fact that every time they show the game off it’s all OMG LOOK AT THE HUGE WORLD GUYS and HEY REMEMBER THE COMBAT FROM XENOBLADE? IT’S THAT BUT NO HEALING AND EVERYONE IS GENERIC. Why can’t they show us there’s a plot? 🙁
It just seems… generic. But on the other hand, the game director’s basically saying it’s the game he’s always wanted to make, and every game he’s made has been strong on story, so there’s some hope at least.
I’m really worried about it for the same reasons as you, I think I’m going to be disappointed by its lack of story and extreme openness. It looks like a single-player MMO or something.
Finally a Pario Marty, now I just wish they’d make Mario Golf for Wii U, I need more local multiplayer.
Buy multiple copies on 3DS, invite @sughly over & magic! (Golf I mean)
“Dont whiff!”
Totally bought a copy for my brother fot xmas so theres more people to play against!
*sings*
Happy birthday @DC
You’ve turned ten times three
I hope someone gives you
a colobus monkey!
Colombine Massacre Monkey is second only to the Colombian Drug Trade Monkey!
Cheerful thoughts, @DC
Harpsichord Bird data
OHHHHHHH the last line is jimunese for Happy Birthday 😛
Oooooooooooooooooooold!
Happy birthday my friend!
Hahaha! Thanks guys! <3
Happy Birthday dude, Hope your day is great.
I have Circle of Life stuck in my head…
More specifically, the 16 bit version that goes nowhere & infinitely repeats.
Hunna nah hun hun na nah way hunna nah hun hun na na weh
Waiting for @blaghman to come & blitz me for not knowing the real lyrics
It translates to there’s a lion here it comes.
(I’m serious)
Good man
Does anyone know how to retroactively opt-in for Nintendo emails?
I’m pretty sure I must’ve opted out years ago and now I’m not getting any demo codes and SO SAD
Call Nintendo 😛
I dun wanna
It’s in your 3DS settings
Unless you blocked them?
Is it? Where! Tell meeee
Ninty tweeted it the other day.
NNID settings, probably in the eStore(?)
I looked, couldn’t find nuttin
http://www.nintendo.com.au/nintendo-3ds-instant-software-nintendo-network-id
Yeah but nothing about opting in! Unless I missed my chance at the initial sign up stage 🙁
That was the link Ninty provided to ‘re-opt
I’m at home today! Called in sick, went back to sleep and managed to have a fever dream where I still went to work anyway, so I don’t feel like I’m missing out on anything.
So now I’m catching up on the Nintendo Direct. That Majora 3DS looks wonderful, but I still don’t really want an XL console(too big, hur durr), so maybe I’ll pass. And the Toad amiibo, though not being Captain Toad, I want that for the extra content in that game. I’m trying to be way more selective of these silly things.
At least the Toadiibo probably won’t be in short supply. Being a Mario character and all.
(12x) Amiibo + (2x) monster hunter + majora + new 3DS + Bloodborne CE = ~700
I don’t like the reality aspect of this hobby where things need to be paid for.
+ Tingle
Already season pass’d last year so it doesn’t come into this year’s house/wedding equations.
From the desk of a hermit on his 30th birthday… http://yearofthehermit.tumblr.com/post/108107747421/from-the-desk-of-a-hermit-on-his-30th-birthday
<3
Fantastic! I wish I could upvote this more.
Haha. Man, I also thought that was some suicide note at the start and there had been some great TAYle thing that saved you.
I don’t know what to say other then I shrugged and said is that all this is about.
🙂
Oh DC!
<3 buddy, never change!Want some rye? ‘Course you do
Remember we/i love you for who you are!
I’ve been waiting for hours for @blaghman to reply to this, but looks like I’ll have to do it in his stead.
GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY
…
I’ll show myself out.
Aw shit, I knew I forgot something.
🙂 you the man DC , I second Shane’s <3
Yeah, basically what @cj said. I’ve had a couple of friends go through the same announcement, and my response is always “So?”. I fully appreciate how big a deal it is for you, but it makes no difference to me. I’m happy that you’re happy, but I will still like you and treat you the same as I always have, because you’re still you!
Some of that wording might be a little harsh. Point is that once you’ve reached your own inner peace on the matter, it shouldn’t be a problem for anybody else. If it is a problem, well, you’ve probably weeded out somebody who you’re better off without.
Also, maybe my response is wrong. Maybe it should be “congratulations” or “I’m proud of you” or *high five* or “I’ll shout you a beer” or something? They do all apply if you want them to!
Ha, totally had the same “is this a suicide note?” thought too.
Uh. Glad it wasn’t? 😛 And happy “proper” birthday!
Thanks, buddy! 🙂
Best post.
I hope you feel amazing about everything man.
Yeah, I do. And dazed. And confused. But amazing is in the mix too. Thanks man. 🙂
Blah. That MM3DS box looks way nicer than the unit itself.
Not sure if don’t want.
#gookyget
Gold is snazzy, but the faded black print look seems like a missed opportunity.
It’s actually the gold I dislike. Looks cheap and tacky.
Surprised they didn’t go with purple.
With the design printed in gold? That would look pretty schmick.
I wonder if the Gold will fade to that weird colour that the 64’s gold carts became. Mine became like an off beige.
I didn’t think the LBW XL looked cheap or tacky… But this MM one kinda does when put beside it.
Agreed that a design with more *colour* would have been nice.
More of a personal thing. Always felt gold was an excellent accentuate for other colours but ugly on its own.
I think there’s also an element of talk-myself-out-of-it because I have no idea where the cash would come from to get myself one. So take my opinions with a mountain of salt today.
Salt from my dried out salty, salty tears upon calculating a rough number for all this announced stuff.
I’ve never been a fan of gold. The only special Zelda thing that took my interest was the original 3DS one, because it used the gold for the trim which made it actually look snazzy.
I’ve always liked how Majora actually had colours and stuff, the box wasn’t just a big ol’ boring slab of gold like the other Zeldas were. I was hoping for something like that to make its way into the design of this, especially with how sexy the midnight purple 3DS was.
I was hoping for a handheld bundle with the non-XL 3DS. Gah, we don’t even get a friggin bundle these days.
The new 3DS won’t really get and special editions I don’t think. With interchangeable face plates all Nintendo will do is sell face plates related to each of their games.
Maybe fancy special edition faceplates though!
Actual solid gold one for Zelda! One made of marshmallow for Kirby!
http://www.goldgenie.com/gold-nintendo-p-60.html
Needs more studded diamonds.
Yes, because I want to give my kid an easily lost piece of hardware that is 24 carat gold
Surprised this one doesn’t even include the game as a digital download.
Worst remake/relaunch/celebratory dealie ever.
I’m kinda glad it doesn’t. I don’t even want to have to deal with pre-installed hardware when trying to transfer my 3DS content over to a new 3DS.
Oh yeah, me too. I hate that they do the digital thing instead of a physical pack-in, and all the account stuff is a god damn pain. Still seems weird for them to not do it though.
I’m looking at the Monster Hunter 3DS XL and the goddamn “Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate” text down the bottom of it just completely ruins the console.
Yeah!
The silver brushing is nice.
The logo is alright too; it’s a bit arty and abstract and all good.
But then “MONSTER HUNTER 4”.
I mean, I’m no art… liking… critic… guy, but even I know that understating and subtlety is the way to go with these things.
It’s not silver brushing!
It’s a picture of fur!
I ended up pre-ordering it. Don’t really like the gold Majora’s Mask.
I like Picross. I like micross. But mega picross can go die in a hole.
Had to Google that.
NOW I know the name of the game my wife plays all the time. She loves it.
She also shares your sentiments about mega-giant ones (as far as I can tell from all the swearing I hear from her when she’s playing).
I can’t even get enough of Picross. Anytime a new one appears on the eShop I wave goodbye to the world for a few days until I complete everything in it.
Mega Picross is definitely a challenge but I don’t mind them!
Boss had to leave for the day, other boss didn’t turn up, nearest person to me is about 15 meters away and in a closed office, drank way too much coffee already and am unintentionally doing an impersonation of Tweak from South Park and now I hear the Ninja and Yolandi Vi$$er are in Chappie. Today is a good day.
Tweek Coffee, a simpler cup of coffee for a simpler America.
So you put speed in your coffee, slow down there Walter White.. 😛
Speed? It’s blue meth or nothing 😛
But speed is slang for amphetamine, methamphetamine and substituted amphetamines 😛 So my comment still stands lol.
I don’t know whether I own a 3DS or a 2DS, it’s been sitting in a drawer at home while I’ve been on my self imposed game ban.
Will I be able to play Majoras Mask on a 2DS?
Yes! It will also work on a 2DS
=D
@aliasalpha Twitter account was hacked
He’s now @aliasbeta…
Blerg… that was a shit joke… Someone put me out of my misery“Bang bang”
or was it pow? Either way, son’s reaction to Robin Williams asking “Why doesn’t somebody just SHOOT ME IN THE HEAD” from HookJimu, you’ve become a pirate!
Run home, cracks.
Yeah, bastard arse hackers. Deleted the junk (well, the junk THEY posted, left all the junk I post) and changed the password to a slightly less shithouse one
LastPass man… Actually, LastPass Premium if you’re mobile.
Was that what the links were for?
@jackunit13
Shaking hands with first mate
Playing a little 5 on 1
Mixing some knuckle custard?
Alright everybody, time for me to go. I’m so effing dead. Why did I think this was a good idea?
(For those who missed it, I’m hiking Cradle Mountain in Tas from today onwards. About to go jump in the car. 4.5 hour drive. Three days sans civilisation. I’ve been barred from bringing the DS. I’m currently very scared, but will come back with pictures)
(If I come back)
Maybe you can build a Coconut Nintendo and train some Tasmanian Devils to do your bidding.
Good luck and have fun!
Can I have your stuff?
Except his boots. Dibs have already been called on those
Ah, the internet, where everyone is right no matter what you say, and what you say will be taken out of context in a way you never intended regardless.
What did you say about that thing I like and you don’t? That’s it I’m calling SWAT!
Hahaha. Wasn’t so much that. I kinda wish it was honestly, those arguments are more fun 😛
May as well explain the full thing;
I made this comment in rebuttal to someone saying Orianthi is just a pop guitarist, who didn’t fit with Alice Cooper. Which is a fair observation because that’s where she made her name in pop music with her 2nd album, being a guitarist for Michael Jackson & playing with Carrie Underwood. But I made the comment that her first album was nothing like her pop release and I made the mistake of saying it’s epic in comparison to her other releases, so someone took that as I said it’s an epic solo album compared to every other solo album released under the sun, and took offense to that LOL.
I can’t really see how you can easily compare one artist to another since there’s too much variability from artist to artist. It’s much more fair to compare an artist to their own work, at least that’s a more level playing field lol.
Best part was, it was on an article about Nita Strauss (guitarist for Alice Cooper & The Iron Maidens) so initially someone had to bring up how she’s a fit for Alice’s band and Orianthi wasn’t. Two totally different players with two totally different styles & sounds, seems fair. Next up we’ll compare Jimmy Page & Herman Li and how neither of them fit each others music lol..
See I think the problem is you tried using logic and intelligent reasoning on the internet, you’re supposed to insult the other guy about things that in no way relate to your argument and fling poo at him. That is pretty stupid though, sometimes you wonder if it’s worth trying to make a point.
I also think the other problem was I commented on a Blabbermouth article, a site which harbors morons 😛
NO U
Relevant
http://www.xkcd.com/386
Edit: my linkies not working for some reason…
page not found 🙁
Edit: NVM 🙂
for some reason my href was looping back to Kotaku… not in a state to figure out what went wrong.
If you leave off the quotation marks (or I assume if you only have one/mess them up in some other way) then it gets parsed as though you’re trying to go to a sub-page of what you’re on, so it’ll turn up as like Kotaku.com.au/tay3million/www.addressyouwanttogoto/, and I think that’s usually the issue.
That is probably my favourite xkcd and I actually have it on my wall.
Grandpa?
It’s an all female Iron Maiden tribute band.
Metroid Prime Trilogy is coming to the WiiU!
Along with Donkey Kong Country Returns and Super Mario Galaxy 2.
We also get Punch Out and 3 other games later in the year.
(I think. That’s for the European e-shop, but I think ours is the same, right?)
Freeze’s Magniloquent Challenge of the Day
Challenge is to work this into a conversation today and learn a new word.
The underwhelmingness of all this Majora stuff is a real recumbentibus.
Both words so far I’ve needed to seriously think about pronounciation…
Is the first ‘b’ silent?
Legit confused.
I get to Recumbent, which is a legit word for “lying down,” but can’t make the emphasis fit with the whole word. Hmm… /rᵻkəmˈbɛntɪbəs/, apparently, if you know IPA.
Language is fun!
Is there anyone who can actually read those things?
I can (for the most part), but that’s from having a minor obsession with languages and etymology for over a decade, and an odd obsession with discovering the meanings of strange symbols. I’m not sure that that pronunciation was entirely correct, anyway – at least not for modern English; maybe it’s correct for the original Latin pronunciation.
Seems to me like the AU pronunciation should have some secondary emphasis on the first syllable: /ˌrᵻkəmˈbɛntɪbəs/. But that’s just my (self-)educated guess – starting with two unemphasised syllables is more a hallmark of Latin than modern English, but the secondary-none-primary -emphasis pattern is far more common in Australian English, so even if it’s wrong, it sounds more natural (to me, at least). Still an odd-sounding word, tho 😛
*blinks*
You only picked that word because it has cum in it.
Opens the door for a bunch of jokes about ‘knockdown blow’ … but I’m way too classy to point that out.
I’m not :D.
I’m hoping for a Recumbentibus tonight at the bar that I’m attending.
And by that I mean, getting king hit by someone 🙂
Hey @strange did you see that Karmaflow is releasing tomorrow \o/
Another one to place on top of the pile. Although rock opera video game might jump out of the pile fairly quick
That actually looks pretty cool- let is know if it pushes the Brutal Legend buttons
I liked the look of it and it came at the right time for me. Think I backed in the same boat as Strange, even if the game wasn’t any good it would probably be worth it for the soundtrack.
Once I get around to it I will let you know
I did see that.\o/
I’m looking forward to the soundtrack more than the game, though so if you play it, let me know what you think. 😀
There’s too much humidity outside =(
Read this as “humanity”…
Someone’s been killing rats en masse.
Praise the sun!
*sigh* if only I could be so grossly incandescent
This too.
While we were on our mini holiday on the Sunshine Coast we took the kids to see Big Hero 6. I didn’t hate it. \o/
Was a bit wacky though, because they let us all in as the credits were still going, so we sat through the after credits scene before the movie even started!
Old lady Strange didn’t hate a kid’s movie? How str- odd.
I really want the blu-ray so I can geek out over the microbots.
Email from EB. Majoras Mask and MH4 3DS are on sale now in limited stock.
Edit: Extremely Limited was the words they used.
Edit edit: Claiming the MH4 one is EB exclusive?
Limited TO THE X-TREME!
I kind of want one but the one I have my wife got me for Christmas completely on her own back and it means more to me because of that.
That makes it a Super Special Edition!
Yeah, Monster hunter 3DS is exclusive to EB, Majora’s Mask 3DS isn’t though.
Watched “Moon” for the first time last night, I didn’t mind it at all. It seems talent runs in the family.
That is a great film
That was a really enjoyable movie.
Very slow action-wise, but I felt it enhanced the feeling of loneliness and isolation.
Nobody watches movies like the Soup clan.
huh? I meant the writer director comes from a talented family (David Bowie is his dad)
Uh, so is this the part where I’m supposed to rush out and buy a New 3DS handheld in white before they disappear forever? Hmm. Decisions.
Liquid paper will always be around, you can make any coloured version white whenever you want (though that sounds a bit racist)
I don’t think they’re going anywhere for us!
We might never get the black one though.
Now live on the radio, stream online at http://www.5yyy.com.au
No requests this week?
Watched episode 2 of the Kantai Collection anime this morning. Feeling this episode a lot less than the previous one.
Fubuki is very plain still. I guess she works in the same way that your shitty Potato-kun in a lot of haremy stuff does – being plain and generally uninteresting means she fades into the background and lets the more interesting cast be the focus, but at the same time, she’s pretty boring. Actually, the entirety of Torpedo Squadron 3 are. Their dynamic works okay (Naka as comedic relief especially), but Mutsuki and Jintsuu are just too bland. They don’t seem to bring anything to the table. The thing that’s probably irritating me more though is that they keep having more interesting characters sitting in the background as if to be like HEY THESE GUYS ARE HERE TOO but they never actually get any time other than that. I suspect that none of my favourites are actually even going to end up getting lines in the show. 🙁 Hoping next week’s episode is a bit better since it should be more combat-oriented again, but fuck me the Admiral is a nutbar. The title of episode 3 is ‘W Island’ which is obviously Wake Island, which was one of the objectives of the Spring 2014 event. He’s going to send a bunch of shitty unupgraded cruisers and destroyers to an event map again. The Wake Island boss was the Isolated Island Princess in the last map of the event, which was insanely difficult and required a Battleship and Carrier fleet, so what the fuck? I wonder if they’ll also work in some of the event rewards though. That event added Amatsukaze and Sakawa to the game. Amatsukaze is super popular, works as a sort of companion for Shimakaze, and Sakawa was a really noteworthy ship because she survived WW2 and was one of the ships alongside Nagato used as the target array for the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests at Bikini AtollI’ll reserve my opinion until I watch it tonight however your thoughts don’t fill me with confidence.
I’m over-exaggerating. It’s an okay episode overall. Akagi has a really long repair timer and then eats a literal mountain of curry & rice. Yuudachi says ‘poi’ a lot, Sendai does everything at night because night is the best, Naka talks about being an idol all the time and Hibiki’s one line in the episode is in Russian. Atago actually has more personality in her short appearance in the episode than she does in the game.
Side note: some of the seiyuu in this show are really talented. Ayane Sakura for example – she’s the voice of Jintsuu, Naka, Sendai, Shimakaze, Mutsu and Nagato, so she’s basically two thirds of the characters that have lines in the episode. Once you know it you can hear it, but there’s a massive difference between Naka and Nagato for example. Nao Toyama is equally good, since she does all four of the Kongo sisters and also Atago, and they all sound noticeably different)
One of the things that actually weirds me out about their decision not to give some of the background characters any lines is that they actually have the correct people in the studio doing lines – just the core characters they’ve shown so far will give them really good coverage over the bulk of the cast, it’s only recently that some of the rarer ships have been getting unique or semi-unique voices.
So, just read volumes one and two of Fables, after someone twitter linked a hardcover collection a week or two ago.
I need more. Love how crazy some of the plotlines look, and how they incorporate a variety of characters.
I haven’t actually played Wolf Among Us yet, so that’s now high on my list. Loaded it onto my Vita for the plane trip on Friday.
It’s pretty good. Pretty damn good
TEEN DOG DAY! So went down to King’s at lunch and picked up mah comics. The issue #2 I wanted finally appeared, but was one short of #5. Dammit.
…
Then I swung by EB on the way back and put down a preorder on the Majora nXL.
I hate myself.
Can’t decide if I should get a New 3DS as birthday present to myself in March… If I do, do I go normal for faceplates or XL for comfort?
Or do I stay indecisive for too long and get myself nothing…
Kind of where I was at. At least this way I’ve got myself one, and if once it’s here I don’t actually want it it seems like I should easily be able to on-sell it.
I like the idea of the smaller one better, but from what I’ve felt it seems like the inferior unit in terms of buttons and such 🙁
I vote for the small n3DS! Perfect sized handheld!
Also, glow-in-the-dark faceplates!
I came here to say something specific and now…
Mission accomplished?
Yes?
I have a spare code for Evolve beta starting jan 16th, since I played the alpha I get into the beta automatically.. Anyone want it?
So… inFAMOUS Second Son is a damn great game. I love the dialogue between the brothers. Gameplay is addictive. Using powers is SO PRETTY.
Were there complaints that this game is too short? I’ve sunk more than 20 hours so far, and about 70% completion – feels about right to me.
It is a great game, I think people complained because it’s short compared to the first 2.
Yeah! I really liked it and the story wasn’t half bad too! I still need to play inFamous First Light!
I was at like 90% completion at the 12 hour mark, but the game still felt really short.
I wasn’t complaining though, infamous 1 was way too long.
Hey cool! Now that I’m a respected game industry developer, it seems that I receive personal invitations to vote in the D.I.C.E. awards! Apparently these awards matter.
The power… it’s intoxicating!
You should see if you can use your magical game industry powers to swing you a ticket to GDC. It always looked rad but it’s so expensive to get into.
I’m seriously considering asking for a VIP invite to the IGN annual awards. That’s almost the same, right?
I’m also pretty sure I have zero chance of getting one for either event 🙂
God, no wonder they call that a “Get disappointed in you life” button
Games not played 285 (42%)
Really should look into that
You should make collecting games you don’t play a game. That way you actually don’t have a pile of shame!
NOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooo
Those game collector people are odd. And leads to a I must buy this to increase the size of my collection. Accounts full of bundle trash and indie mush. A scary, scary world.
Wait you mean there’s people who actually “collect” digitally distributed games?
What kind of lunacy is this?
And tiers of that.
Here are the ‘Elite collectors’ which is only open to people with over 1000 games in their digital collections.
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/VIPCollectors
1000 games?
Pfft, casuals.
Had a quick look and most of the mods have > 3000 games
Haha that’s unbelievable, there would be some real bundle trash in there I imagine.
@highperformance
Yeah but considering that is around 75% of the available games there is a big number of good games in there too. When you start getting over 4,000 that shit gets scary
I think my life would be better without clicking that.
Fret not, I’m at like 80% unplayed or something.
Wow… that’s almost exactly the number of games I own on Steam. 55% of which I’ve not played. /o\
I’m only at 42%, I’m winning
That depends on the goal. Also, how you measure it. I’ve only got 157 games to play 😛
You are going to get me competitive and I’m going to end up with 100 games with 0.02 hours of playtime 😛
Kind of annoyed right now. There was meant to be an open house inspection at our place today.
I spent the morning cleaning up the place, getting it in a presentable condition. Seeing as we’re moving and I’m a lazy sod, this was no mean feat. The time comes for someone to show up to show off the house. Nothing happens.
I go outside to see if maybe the realtor is parked outside. There’s an empty car with their branding sitting in the street.
Fifteen minutes after the inspection is meant to start and I’m sitting here, typing away instead of going for a coffee. I only stuck around because I was going to pester them about the moving out process. Oh well, time to go get a coffee.
The place is now clean! You wouldn’t have cleaned it otherwise! 😀
Exactly! I think that’s the problem. He wouldn’t have cleaned it otherwise 😛
Not when I’m about to pay someone to clean this house pretty damned thoroughly in two weeks. I’m okay with a general tidy up but this was overkill.
If it helps, in my experience even overkill isn’t enough to save you from getting gouged on bond-cleaning.
I bet my neighbours can predict whenever I’m about to have people over. It’s the only time they hear the vacuum cleaner.
What are you talking about? Real estate agents are always bastions of unquestionable ethics and helpfulness everytime without fail.
Oddly enough, the Canberran real estate agents have been super helpful. It’s amazing what happens when someone on your rental applications is a doctor.
Back in my rental days, we had decent real estate agents, too. No major issues at any point. Might be a Canberra thing!
Maybe.
Annoyingly, the one that we’ve spoken to the most (and I’ve pestered a bit about puppies) is probably the one we’re going to turn down. It kind of annoys me when someone does a good job and you have to go somewhere else. Oh well.
The good news is that the vacancy rate in Canberra is as close to zero as any place you’ll find, so if you don’t take that place, someone else almost certainly will.
I don’t know about that. It looks like a renter’s market to me. So many properties on the market that have been there for a little while, some even with a new price (including both of the ones we got approved for).
Yeah, but in the next couple of weeks, you’ll have hundreds of students migrating here for university. A huge number of these places will become share houses. Canberra has a surprisingly transitory population.
@Shane We were looking almost exclusively at south side properties. The only one in the north was flooded with students (also the skies had opened so everyone was drenched).
More Amiibos announced, pretty sure Nintendo want me homeless carrying around bags of MIB Amiibos while hissing at people.
Why do people care so much about Amiibos?
I don’t understand!
*breaks down into puddle of tears*
I don’t understand!
There’s a Toad amiibo now! What more do you need to understand!
Toad is my least favourite! :’O
“Why have you got a penis on your shelf?”
“That’s Toad.”
“I really didn’t want to know what you named it… “
Hey hey hey, Pow named it “Prince Ali”.
You guys never should have told me.
Fabulous He.
I think the Amiibos attract both the collectible crowd because they are so adorable AND they combine with your games… What a time to be alive.
I wouldn’t have gotten any unless my SanTAY got me D.K and Pikachu, they are living on top of my Xbox One currently despite my girlfriends protestations.
You make a good point, Duracell.
The regret is real :p
Because I have them and you don’t.
There, there.
I don’t understand why people care about Smash Bros, handhelds, sports, pop music, bushranger beards plus rockabilly hair, MOBAs, racing games, Facebook, pineapple, dogs, summer, celebrities, ‘webcelebs’, twitch/streaming, religious law, any Pokemon after the 151, boy bands, radio, podcasts, esports, big weddings, what Sharon said about Rachel, reality TV, how many hits or followers someone has, etc, etc…
At this point there’s more I don’t understand in this world than what I do. I don’t think we’re meant to. Life is basically a game of avoiding the 99% of bullshit that everyone else cares about and – worst case scenario – wants me to care about, too.
I just had a woman comment on my “shed”, while she was down here to sort something out with one of the guys. Asked if it was to stop the glare, but I said nah, it’s because of the air conditioning – to which she goes how great is it, I can’t get enough of it, something about how she used to have a similar seat under the window and it was the best thing ever. To which I responded that I hate it, and wish I could just sit outside all day which just put a look or horror on her face. Which probably matched the one I had at her last comment.
Pretty sure we have each concluded that the other is crazy.
You’ve found your total opposite!
Ykoog! D:
Racist
Unless Ykoog is a homonym I guess
No, it’s just racist.
It’s a mynomoh
I think you mean Ocat.
*grabs popcorn*
‘Cause you’re hot then you’re cold…
…and now I’m hungry.
Damn you, Pavlov!
No, just you.
You are clearly biased.
For a second, I thought you’d put quotation marks around the word ‘shed’ because there was a euphemism afoot…
*stows popcorn away*
Opposites attract.
I met a girl at a party once who was asking me about upcoming bands and trying to explain them by comparing them to even more bands I hadn’t heard about and when she got really desperate she started talking about similar’ish bands which had been on mainstream radio. I told her I didn’t listen to radio. She looked horrified and asked how I kept up with what new music was coming out. I asked her why on earth I would want to. She looked utterly non-plussed and I observed, “We are completely different people, aren’t we.”
Things went pretty well after that.
I got a pretty damn good OP leaving school. I’m tertiary educated, and despite appearances, my educational history indicated that I am at least moderately intelligent…
…Which is why, whilst sitting in a pool of my own sweat, that I am wondering:
Why the hell would I paint my house in the middle of summer?
tl;dr Painting Sucks
Dries quicker? I dunno. I’m not the smart one.
I thought it was still hot in winter where Steve-o lives 😛
I’m the smrat one!
Me with the paint…
I know, I just went for a walk in the summer heat and it is exhausting. Must have been at least 18 degrees out there
18 degrees?
One day I’m going to move down south. And then you’ll all be screwed.
Promises, promises 😉
I feel your pain… I was on the end of a paint brush/roller/trim brush after Christmas…
37 degrees
65% humidity
Never again.
Also, was painting the roof so I couldn’t even have the ceiling fan running.
Although, when the room is done everything is worth it… Just waiting for our new carpet now! (coming Feb 3rd, double underlay, dark grey… it’s going to be amazing to walk on)
Yeah. Like I always say… I’ve tested at a pretty high IQ, but I’ve caught myself [insert bone-headed move here*].
*Favourites include:
– Giving thumbs up over the phone.
– Not asking for her number.
– Owning more Steam games that I haven’t played than those I have
– getting into Internet Arguments
– doing a double degree of business and IT
– volunteering to do things which I knew in advance were hard work
– repeatedly opening the fridge to see if there’s something in there I want to eat without the contents or my cravings changing
– playing Civilization on a work night
Etc, etc… The list of boneheadedness is…. Depressingly impressive.
Edit: I kind of want to see how long I can expand this list to, now.
I’m not sure if everyone is aware that if you register both copies of smash before Jan 20th, you get a free soundtrack. @gorzilla was willing to give me his WiiU code but without a 3DS one, I’m ineligible.
Oh I forgot to tell you, local EB did not have Just Dance 4 on 360, not JB, sorry I am a bit late getting back to you!
Alright, thanks anyway
What a day. Thanks all. 🙂
Tell me about YOUR day?
Toad amiibo.
I see. I see. Did you faint? 😀
(I’m actually not that excited about it :P)
Work is dull right now!
BUT, today I may have locked in dates for the grand theme park and TAY holiday in March 😮
😀 Just in time! I think our annual theme park passes expire in April. *flails arms*
I’m at work and following the exploits of @dc and his lunch trip.
Wussed out with face-to-face thing. Sent much more articulate e-mail. Got message back saying I will read message later. And now I wait for what seems like an eternity despite my insistence to read now. NOW. Sister I spoke to face-to-face and she is fine with it.Incredibly proud and incredibly happy for you :’)
Such a brave way to start your 30s, friend.
Things are looking up for Ol’DC 😀
Thanks, man. Right now I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t completely freaking out. Haha!
THIS TAKES PRECEDENCE OVER HAVING A WINE IN THE YARD, MUM! 😛
Freaking out is understandable.
Everything will be alright though 🙂
Glad to hear your sister took it well too 🙂
Now you can bring boys home! ;D
OooooOoooOooooohhhh XP
Mum replied: “I knew. A mother always knows. I was actually talking with dad about when you would do this the other day.” Hahaha! Whooa. Okay. It’s done. Everyone knows.
Congratulations, Daniel :’)
That’s as good a response as you could possibly get. Awesome 🙂
Wow, your mum sounds awesome, well done dude, sounds like an event filled day.
Go dc’s parents!
I got the “it’s ok if you bring a girl home… Or a boy…” line from my parents. I think they honestly didn’t know until I actually did bring a girl home.
@redartifice, I think my parents wondered the same thing.
@redartifice Haha, I’ve gotten that one too.
…a few times, actually. From my aunt as well.
Even after I *have* brought a couple of girls home.
(No, not at once)
Thanks everyone. Holy fuck, you guys are amazing!
V happy for you, DC. Great family by the sounds of it. 🙂
@jackunit13 Thanks buddy. 🙂
Awh, that is a great response.
Doesn’t matter how you did it as long as you feel better for it.
Based on the messages you posted I’m surprised your Mum didn’t just replay with ‘Well Duh’
either that or
“Is this because you went shopping with that Perth boy”
I found Dad’s Army on YouTube! \o/
So.. you’re really Kim Jong-Il’s long lost son?
I don’t know what you’re talking about. Sorry!
I’m sick!
I’ve been in bed playing the new AC Unity DLC.
My day has been pretty awesome, Colombian Arepas for breakfast and Majoras Mask remake in Feb is good news!
I went into the city for a meeting. I’m typing a proposal up.
I may go to a jb hi fi after work and buy the Grand Budapest Hotel.
Is the first thing for @trjn?
That took me a second. Carry on.
My day has been pretty average. Found the source of problems that popped up just before leaving work yesterday, fixed that. Waiting around to get things checked with the fixes. Assorted wasting of time.
But then the whole MM3D thing and the reminder of how disappointing that all is is a pretty big downer. Especially followed up with placing a preorder at EB *gags* for the nXL.
On the plus side, Teen Dog. And today I am wearing my Great Fairy shirt.
…
You know, if I were crass, I could comment on how I’ve worn an appropriate shirt two days in a row now 😛
Really quite uninteresting.
I’ve played some Mass Effect, some Valkyria Chronicles, and the pie shop was closed, so I’m considering ordering pizza.
What an exciting life I lead.
That’s actually way more exciting than my day – I went to work.
Doing boring corporate work… Although I just had a very productive conversation which is unusual.
However, still stupidly boring compared to yours!
My son sprayed sunscreen on the lounge. No idea if I can get it off, but I was not impressed. Took him to the playground for a while, we just made some muffins, and now he’s climbing all over the lounge and I’m going to take him to the beach to hopefully burn off the last of his energy so that tonight he GOES THE FUCK TO SLEEP.
Sounds like the best day, right there. Not so much for you, but for him. 😛
He informed me this afternoon that he wants a TV in his room so he can play games “all day and all night”.
He’s not even 4 yet dammit!
It’s a solid life plan, though.
Wait…The Sleeping doesn’t get better as they get older….
My daughter is 5 months old…
*puts head on desk and weeps silently*
He was actually doing really well up until about a month or so ago – plenty of nice daytime napping and he’d go to bed quite happily. I’d only get woken up to take him to the toilet and then back to bed. Then something changed at about christmas and now all we get is “I’m NOT tired! I don’t WANT TO GO TO BED”, and a million excuses.
Watched terrible anime this morning.
Haven’t done much work.
Very late lunch due to badly timed meeting running over
Then got a notification that a package arrived for me \o/ Went and got it and it was two packages! One of them had some artbooks I ordered from Japan:
– Poyoyon Rock Illustrations & Artworks vol 2
– Poyoyon Rock Characters
– Humikane Shimada Art Works of Strike Witches
– Humikane Shimada The World Witches
– Kazuhiko Takamura Animation Works
(Poyoyon Rock aka Akio Watanabe is an artist I really like, has done a ton of games & anime. Both of the Shimada ones are Strike Witches related. Kazuhiko Takamura’s an artist and animator formerly of Gainax that did a fair bit of character design back in the day eg. Mahoromatic, one of my personal favourites)
Second package contained the Ghibli ga Ippai Bluray re-release of Lupin III: Castle of Cagliostro (complete with that rad silhouette packaging and everything). It actually came out a while back, but there was a ton of confusion around it.because it was bundled into the Miyazaki bluray set they put out, but the version in that package had the English dub but no subtitles. This one instead has subtitles but no dub, which is what I wanted. However Amazon list it with only JP audio and no subs so there was massive confusion until I asked around. I’ve actually never seen the film (when I had an opportunity last, I was much younger and thought it looked dumb, because I am apparently a bad person. To be fair I had never seen any of Lupin III back then either).
Then I got another notification and there’s another package and I’m like WTF, what did I order? Turns out that at some point a few weeks ago I got drunk or sleep deprived and went onto Amazon and ordered myself a huge, heavy, 2-volume box set of the entirety of the Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind manga. The one by Hayao Miyazaki that massively expands on the movie plot and is considered one of the best manga out there. Weighs a shitton. I should get drunk more often. \o/
Tonight I’m going to finish Danganronpa and maybe sleep.
Ha. Taylor Swift is currently the fourth contender for Triple J 100 number 1 according to Sportsbet paying $9.
That’ll drive the hipsters up the wall. I’m happy to go on record and say I do like that song! Still feel it’s kind of wrong to be in the running given it wasn’t played on Triple J all year though.
Well Triple J let’s voters add in a song of their own choosing, so it’s not like it’s breaking the rules 😛
It’s nice to be reminded from time to time that it’s not just gamers that get overly upset about unimportant things.
Sportsbet are going to make a killing off of this.
I put $10 on it last night..I had a giggle last night at the Twitter rants that were happening… Just need to suck it up.
Hell, if Taylor Swift put her mind to it… there’d be 50 million votes of just her songs.
Australia Day from 8pm – 9pm would just be a ‘Best of 2014 Taylor Swift’
Which would be hilarious
Oh man, that would be hilarious.
I… really want to see that.
Change.org petition has started… https://www.change.org/p/triple-j-hottest-100-do-not-allow-taylor-swift-to-feature-in-the-annual-triple-j-hottest-100
That right there… I’m sorry. Not sure how much longer I can refrain from snark.
Everyone’s missed the most important bit of Nintendo news!
Project Mirai DX end of May.
Cutest. Rhythm. Game. Ever.
@sughly: I said yesterday that I was close to the end in Danganronpa. Turns out there was more to go than I expected, a whole extra chapter. I’m right at the end now, I think. About to start the class trial at the end of Chapter 6.
The actual murder is pretty obvious, think I’ve already figured it out. The 16th student with the name that starts with M that I can’t remember… Mukuro? … is the murderer, not the victim. The body they found was Junko (who has the exact same measurements, conveniently) and I assume that either she survived her death somehow at the start of the game and died later, after her body was removed from the scene, or she died on the spot and the blow to the head was a red herring, The investigation doesn’t begin until a murdered body is discovered so it’s fine. She could have been kept on ice for any length of time.What I haven’t figured out yet is what the hell is going on in the school. Mass amnesia? Is Naegi actually the true mastermind? What’s going on in the real world that’s preventing them being rescued, if it really is being broadcast? Will be interesting to see how that plays out.
Incidentally I picked that Kyoko was the Ultimate Detective toward the start of the game. \o/
Haha, I love all of this! Pupupupupu… although I dunno, gets a little weird towards the end for my liking. Though thats the style I guess?
Seriously though, looking back on 1, and not putting it down in any way because I loved it, I really think 2 is a superior game in a number of ways. So if youre liking this too, you got a lot to look forward to!
I liked it from the instant I started… about 10-11 months ago. I just had been a shit person and not played it properly. Random evenings every 2-3 months I’d whack out a single chapter. Decided I should finish it so last couple of days I’ve clocked heaps. Had to stop last night because the Vita’s battery ran out.
I’ve heard the same thing re: the second being better than the first from multiple people. Looking forward to it. Not sure if I’ll go straight in or not yet, got to see what else is on the plate.
@Shane my parents, I think, stopped trying to understand many things about me in my teenage years, and hedged a couple of others in the same way.
When I was 18 or so, and sick of gay jokes from my family (they were infrequent, but over a couple of years they’d started to grate) I explained to my Mum that yes, I was straight, but that I am very bad at doing anything other than having a relaxed chat with women. So for a while she lay off.
Now she’s like “you could bring someone home, Sean. Girl, guy, whatever. Just… Can you leave the house and actually do things?” Which is certainly a step in… some direction.
She just wants to see you happy.
I’m pretty sure she just wants to make things as awkward as possible as often as possible.
Possibility mentioned of there being a couple more weeks of work in February, if they get the funding approved to do a proof of concept for this English language learning thing they want to get going.
Nooo, I was supposed to escape!
Working is better than not working!
Depends on the work!
maybe that should be phrased “getting money is better than not getting money”
But I have money now. I’ll be fine for a while 😛
That seems to be how these things go, usually. When the funds get low, the job suddenly comes. Then after about six months or so, the job goes away again. And any attempts to get another turn up nothing until the money’s almost gone again…
Well I don’t know then, at least you have something to put on your resume & I guess more money :D.
Why am I being all the glass is half full today?
Hey @dr_van_nostrand are you still up for some Destiny tonight, also what’s your PSN handle?
Whelp, mentioned in a tweet that I don’t want to see stuff like what Miami Hotline 2 was RC’d for in my videos games. Proceeded to get called many, many different things from randoms ranging from a “dumb cunt” to people saying that they have the right to play it because of the “first amendment”.
The Internet ladies and gentlemen. The block functionality received a workout today. Time to leave for a while.
I like how they quote the first amendment “impeding the free exercise of religion, abridging the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press,” and then basically go against it by criticizing you. You are only entitled to freedom of speech if you’re with us!!!
First amendment, lolwut.. Since when did we become the United State of America?
I was under the impression our constitution had chapters and within those chapters, sections, not amendments..
What a coincidence! I deactivated my Twitter account today.
..and it looks like I’ll be logging back in tonight.
The best and worst part of my private account is that I don’t get stupid comments, even when I’m itching for a fight.
And I totally can’t see the things you’re saying in convo threads on other guys’ accounts when I’m lurking about the place.
Don’t worry, it’s never anything worthwhile.
Got four MH4U demo codes available if anyone wants one.
@greenius?
May I haz?
Should probably look up how to redeem stuff tho.
Cheers! I wasn’t checking TAY but @puck hooked me up on Twitter 😀
Ill take one if you still have any. Given I just went and pre ordered that MH4 3DS console.
So… MH4 demo codes are starting to go out. I’m not holding my breath for a personal email, so can I be greedy and ask if anyone is willing to give up 2 codes?
Yes.
Twitter DM OK? Or email – beavwa at the gee males.
Thank you so much. Nintendo hats me when it comes to these offers.
DM’d!
If you took Pokemon more seriously and stopped being a casual maybe Nintendo would take you more seriously.
I just gave one to Nob, but I have 2 more.
All sorted, but thanks for the offer!
Effin sweet – I received the MH4U email! Three free codes to anyone who wants one.
I wouldn’t mind one. 3 seemed like something I’d love but with too many minor annoyances. Like to see if 4 has changed any of them.
No probs. I’ll DM you tonight via Twitter.
See, all those things they say about you are completely untrue!
I’ll jump on the I have codes to give away bandwagon, I seem to have received the e-mail too, so if anyone wants let me know.
Wait, Amiibos can only be used on one game at a time? In 2015, a time where we can fit terabytes on a 20c piece, Nintendo only saw fit to put one freaking save game worth of data into the amiibos?
Huh? I use my amiibos in both Hyrule Warriors and Smash Bros no problem.
They can only store in game data for one thing at a time. Which hasn’t been a problem until now, since only Smash Bros. wrote to them (anything else just read the existence of the amiibo, not what NFC data it has).
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2015/01/new-wave-of-amiibo-coming-soon/
EDIT: Damn you fast people!
Typically, NFC tags won’t hold more than 4k of data, so it’s not really surprising that amiibos are quite limited.
Did not know that. Is that because of technical limitations or the fact that nothing utilising NFC has needed any more yet?
Sort of a tech limit. NFC devices are usually standardised (and I’d assume Ninty followed the standards).
As it stands, the NFC tag in an amiibo or a bus pass are unpowered devices, that get powered through a RF field from a receiver, and I believe that’s why there’s the limitation.
I’d guess there’d probably be a bandwidth issue too? In that they’d want to limit the amount of data that needs to get transferred to make sure it’s all transferred safely.
Got three more MH4U codes here, too. Free to anyone who wants one.
Monster Hunter peeps! (@beavwa @greenius @otherpeoplethatmayknow) Do any items / progress carry over the demo to the full game version of Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate. Trying to decide if I should use my old (non-new) 3DS or borrow my dads New 3DSXL and activate it on that.
I’m not sure! I assume nothing transfers over but it’s too early to tell to be honest 😛
It wouldn’t be anything too substantial though!
Don’t think so. Seems like fairly self contained battles.
Alright, home time. Have a great evening folks. I’ma go home and play some games. Sorry for being a nuisance today, will limit my number of posts again.
No. More gutsoup, more of the time. >:|
4 codes @greenius
See Tweetar! Thanks though! 😀
TAY friends are awesome and always cover my missed Nintendo email demo code bases! 😛
Can someone who isn’t me who has never got these codes call Nintendo and find out how to opt in? THANKSSSSSSS 😛
@beavwa heh (Mr Taco has made me scared of calling Nintendo)
Heh, I can put it on the list of things to do.
JUST CALL THEM GOSH
I don’t know if other people pay as much attention to bylines as I do but Patrick Klepek has been churning out some good stuff since he migrated over to Kotaku US. I don’t know if we’re just getting the good stuff but knowing that we’re getting a steady stream of stuff that I tend to enjoy reading is pretty great.
He was always a decent writer, where ever he happened to be. I remember reading somewhere he left Giant Bomb because of the pressure to do video content over writing but unsure of veracity of that.
I know that he’s said before that he didn’t want to be a personality and the type of content he’s best at doesn’t really fit at Giant Bomb.
I really don’t pay as much attention as I should at all. I get Richard mixed up with Yannick all the time. The Nathan, Luke, Brian, and so forth crew might as well be interchangeable to me. I’m surprised to occasionally see Stephen write something. Mark is pretty obvious but that’s possibly because I like his style. I often haven’t been able to tell when Patricia’s been writing stuff lately, but I’ve found I like a lot of what I’ve seen her name on. If I’ve read anything Patrick’s read I’ve either ignored the byline or assumed it was a guest article. Like the occasional ones you see from ‘industry people’.
Today I went to my parents place and they took me on a childhood nostalgia tour for some reason. Drove past old high school and primary school. Went to house I lived in when I was eight. (Where my uncle now lives.) Went to a place for lunch where I had primary school graduation. (Nice view of the ocean too.)
But you didn’t go back to VIC 🙁
DC’s got old and sentimental!
Oh man, I was at the house I lived in when I was 8 just the other day!
Because I haven’t moved in a really really long time.
A man was murdered in the house I lived in when I was 8.
We should all play the MH4U demo together and be friends!
The person I usually sit with in my team was on leave today (and will be tomorrow) so I was derping around on my phone quite a bit today. I should’ve pre-ordered the Majora’s Mask New 3DS XL while at work but I didn’t want to derp on my phone even longer than I needed to (the CEO walked past me quite a bit while I was on it :P). I figured I had time to do it on the weekend or after work (in-store) but it looks like it’s already sold out online at EB 🙁
(JB online still has stock but you have to pay $5 for delivery and there’s no local pick up. So I’d miss out on a weekend of playing!)
Thankfully the MH4U one was still available so I got that anyway. NO DRAMAS (except I kinda wanted the Zelda one more… I’ll learn to love you MH4U 3DS <3)
I still blame @sernobulus for everything that goes wrong, ever though! UGH
Already? Jeez that was quick.
The store I was at said they were only doing preorders for it today, or something.
Yo, true talk. True talk.
Monster Hunter 3DS better than Majora’s Mask 3DS.
Also, I’d love to join you in the demo except oh wait no US codes ahahahahaahahahahahaha
He speaks the truth. If it wasn’t for the text on the front it would be perfect!
Yeah!
True dat
For those that don’t play Spelunky, you should know that this shouldn’t happen. For those that do play, holy shit I don’t know how this happened.
For both groups *insert Zoidberg wooping here*.
Care to elaborate? 😛
I was trying to rob the shop. To do this, you jump and whip with some fairly precise timing. I screwed that up completely and managed to aggro the shopkeeper without damaging him.
Normally, I bounce off of him, goomba stomp him and then steal his shotgun to finish him off. Instead he just chased me out of his shop and I somehow managed to dodge his shot. He also should have shot almost immediately.
Basically, everything went wrong which somehow resulted in me living.
EDIT: I got bored and made a gif of how things are supposed to go. I kind of flubbed it but it was easier to record me doing it than finding a recording I already have. So you get what I got :p
I picked up on the him not shooting you immediately and going crazy part 😛
Here’s a much, much better example of how robbing stores should go.
Huh, eight MH codes. I was expecting zero.
Can you please call Nintendo for me and opt me in for code emails? KTHX
Nope, I had to call for myself you gotta do the same.
What the hell guys, now I have console envy. What bizarre parallel universe is this?
Well it’s a handheld so technically you’re kind of in the clear? 😛
https://twitter.com/hermitdc/status/555633293484249088
https://twitter.com/hermitdc/status/555633723941466112/photo/1
@SHANE CAN’T BE TRUSTED. MESSAGE RECEIVED.
Also, thanks you jeeeerk.Party at DC’s!
https://twitter.com/hermitdc/status/555638718057304065
Guess you’re going to have to move
Nuke the house from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
Oh god, you think he’s in the walls?
I know he’s in the walls. My turrets have been going off on the hour. He’s testing the perimeter. i suspect he’s in @strange’s walls too.
Did he evict the horde of spiders?
Those poor little guys.
That reminds me a friend showed me this last night.
Great bedtime story.
infestashane
Oh good, it arrived on time! \o/
Happy birthday, man. I sense many Grin Fantasticos can be purchased with this voucher.
Haha! I literally said when I opened it that it seals the deal for what platform I’ll be Grim Fandango-ing on. Thanks so much! Change enough for The Witness and/or Rime too. 😀
I appreciate this, buddy. You didn’t have to, but I think you know that. <3
I now have to strengthen the mine field.
Also your card is probably the best one I’ve ever had. It’s topical and relevant and got nice stuff written in it with video game stuff. <3
http://yearofthehermit.tumblr.com/post/108158543711/psa-friends-and-their-tricks-a-cautionary
You’ve made the warning list.
I’m going to have to go all out with my next christmas card 😛
Fireworks!
Marching bands!
A $31 PSN voucher!
Step up your game, Stewie.
<3
You’re going to regret saying that come Christmas 😛
I’m thinking, sky-writers! 😀
Haha! I’m really pleased you like it. TBH, I was a bit concerned I might be crossing a line, so I kind of went all out on the card. Glad I did, now. Also, it was fun! 🙂
Okay, 2 amiibos from the new wave pre-ordered. They don’t even have a release date yet other than “2015”.
It’s so annoying that I have to pre-order stupid figurines just for the privilege of getting one 😛
no shulk make it ok great but not ok good just great ok bad
Only 2? Git gud scrub
He said, ordering none of them…
Ordering just two lets me keep some of my remaining dignity.
…
I don’t have any so I’m fine with getting up at the crack of dawn to fight people in the face for them.
Digni…what?
You hang out with me. You don’t have any dignity.
So, last weekend I went in to day-surgery and got put under for an endoscopy (tube down the mouth) to check out this reflux crap I’ve been dealing with. (And yeah, turns out it wasn’t a nice, simple, easy ‘loose valve’ fix or a treatable ulcer… so it’s either a rare bacteria they’ll identify when the biopsy comes back, or I’ll need to identify dietary intolerances. Which is like… my worst fear: not being able to eat like a teenager for the rest of my life.)
Now, the real point to the story is that they weighed me to make sure the anaesthetic would y’know…. work/not kill me, and the reading on the scale was a lot more than I was comfortable with. And I have been feeling pretty damn soft, lately. So I figured… better get back to hitting the gym at insane-o-clock and eating less. Y’know. The basics.
And sure enough, even after only a few days of more exercise and less food my pants have been feeling looser already. Alright, instant success! Feelin’ less flabby, losin’ dem love-handles. Let’s hop on the scales and see how much weight I’ve los– …gained? The hell, body? What’re you doing here? Now, I know that they say that muscle weighs more than fat, but in three days I’ve gained five kilos. Sooo… clearly I know nothing about biology, physiology anymore.
Gym resolve! Hooray!
All the best, man. I send good, eat like a teenager thoughts your way. 🙂
Water retention, different scales and clothing, muscle gain combined with extra muscle tension making you feel skinnier without actually losing weight, fucking wizard magic, or some combination of the above, would be my guess.
Don’t forget poop!
Maybe increase cardio?
If you’re trying to lose weight, it seems better to jog more than it is to lift weights and such.
I’m sure you’re already onto that though 😛
Also, I’m no nutritionalist, but changing eating habits could be part of it as well.
I think I read sonewhere that you’re body stores more when you start to consume less because it’s used to having more intake.
Double also, is it a good idea to try and change your weight when you just got measured for potential anaesthetic, or will they re-weigh you?
Nutritionist isn’t a protected title (in aus), so if you claim to be one then nobody can argue with you! Embrace your new position!
Nah, I had the general anaesthetic the same day. That was last weekend. (I was fortunately pretty well into the ‘safe’ zone post-op for drinking at DC’s shin-dig, but I was still pretty tired and gut-churny.) I won’t have to have it again.
But yeah, the rest of that stuff seems like the ticket. Didn’t expect it to be quite so extreme, though.
Thanks for coming, man. If there was any excuse to cancel, that’d be up there with the good ones. I appreciate it. 🙂
Doing weights can help lose weight too. More muscle mass increases your base metabolic rate which means you burn more energy doing everything.
Oh, no doubt, but if you’re trying to lose weight more so than put on muscle, I’d imagine you should be doing more cardio than weights.
Still both, but more cardio 😛
Heavy cardio can be pretty hard on the body if you’ve got no strength as well. More likely to get injuries etc.
I know all these things but I’m the worst yo-yo weight loss/gain person. 🙁 I’ve put back on nearly all 15kg I lost about a year ago. 🙁
I lost all my weight from cutting down on sugar & animal product. So no cheese, yoghurt, butter/margarine etc, only fat free milk in my tea.
Also, when I buy take out, no sauces & that kinda stuff
In that short space of time, it’s probably fluid retention. As a lady person, I’ve seen the scales change by as much as 2kg in a day. 🙁
Also – myfitnesspal is your friend (and I can be a friend for you if you want). Keep a food diary and see where your diet can be tweaked – too many calories from drinks? Not enough vegies? Too much bread/pasta/rice (super easy to overeat without really noticing)? It’s free and easy to use, and you can sync it with most fitness apps/devices.
I endorse all that has been said above. My guess is you might have used different scales from those at the day surgery and used scales at the gym (Some gyms are known to add a few sneaky kilos) and might have been wearing some different stuff.
I tell clients all the time not to worry about the scales anyway, the best indicator of health is fitness anyway. As long as you feelin hard das all m9.
Classic Keith.
Finally pulled out the stylus from the New 3DS and holy carp, it’s a proper full size solid one! \o/
I hated those collapsible ones so damn much.
Also @benny hoked me up with a MH4U demo code. He’s a pretty swell guy.
For a Ben, he’s pretty okay!
Ben’s are pretty, okay!
I have a bunch of MH4 3DS demo codes that I don’t want. Anyone keen for a demo?
I think there are enough codes going around for every TAYbie to download it twice!
I could put it on both my 3DSs, and my new one when I get it!
I have a problem.
“Hey Blaghman, want to play multiplayer?”
“Sure thing, Blaghman!”
“Hey Blaghmans, I want to play too!”
“Shut up Blaghman”
Oh man, I don’t want to say it to his face, but that Blaghman is so goddamn awkward. Stop lurking, you creepy bastard!
I can’t. Because my other one broke.
*sniff*
That’d be sweet, cheers
I forwarded you the email. Now you have four codes. Enjoy!
Scholar and gentleman as usual, Mr Smith
And yes I know your surname is double barrelled but my autocorrect butchered the other part and I accidentally hit submit
I’m absolutely not fussed at all.
I’m assume these are only for 3ds not the 2ds.
Maybe i should look at getting a 3ds but *shrug* monies
Pretty sure it’ll play on any flavour of 3DS.
But not 2ds
Isn’t a 2DS exactly the same thing as 3DS, just without the 3D slider? (and non-flip) Pretty sure games/codes don’t discriminate between 2DS/3DS.
2DS and 3DS are identical systems AFAIK, so there’s no reason this code wouldn’t work.
However, I sent them all to @redartifice. He’ll probably only redeem one, but I don’t know which one! 😛
I wouldn’t say no if you’ve got one spare, sir.
I sent them all to @redartifice. He’ll probably only redeem one, but I don’t know which one! 😛
Ah, all good. Thank you, regardless, kind sir!
I enjoyed that what game do you hate article.
Comments I mean.
They didn’t get too snarky & it was a relief to see some others that weren’t totally in love with some of the stuff I can’t get my head around the attraction of.
Yeah.
I’m writing an article currently called “Why Jimu Is Wrong About Everything”
He keeps saying that Blaghman is a cool guy, so he’s clearly deranged.
Do tell…
@greenius killed the Great Jaggi. Liking this one much much more.
Good to hear! 😀
What weapon were you using? I do like that there’s a bit of a tutorial this time around and you’re much stronger on the Beginner difficulty.
Dual Blades. Liked the speed of them.
I don’t usually use Dual Blades (so I can’t remember if they’re strong enough to do this) but did you end up breaking any monster parts? The tail cut is usually the most satisfying break but I don’t think any of the demo monsters can have their tail cut 🙁
So fun smashing and cutting things with my giant Switchaxe 😀
The Expert boss can have his tail cut.
Good Evening TAY.
This is my 1000th post.
I will use it to wish @dc a very happy birthday.
Aw, thanks so much. 🙂
Congrats on the 1,000 post!
1000th!?
Haven’t you been around here for ages though?! :O
Happy 1000th comment though! 😀
Some of these old timers don’t blabber as much as either of us!
You people all talk way too much.
I’m allowed to say this now because the days of Blaghspam are long gone.
I’m kind of surprised I only have in the 3000 comments :\
Maybe I should spam more! 😀
I have less than 3000 on my old account, which was there for 8-9 months of active TAYing. I think my worst year was somewhere around the 6000-7000 mark, which scares me a little.
Most of my spamming is done on Twitter, where I have 5000 tweets in about half the time I’ve been in TAY :\
My lifestyle is much easier to tweet than make thoughtful posts about.
“Just ate nachos, now am fat”
“Watching Anastasia. Love it”
“*insert joke only I laugh at*”
“*insert flirty remark*”
“Does my butt look big?!”
Etc…
Back in the day we used to just post that stuff here.
Even further back in the day every post had to be moderated, now those were… times.
@blaghman I remember when I started here I was one of the minority that already had a twitter account
And then everyone checks everyone num-
Wait I’ve overtaken Red??
I tend to reply more than I start threads (though it does happen)
You, with your gookygets and popcorn posts…
And the running commentaries/trip diaries/twitter alternative…
What if gooky are tweet moar?
Target’s closing down in Canada.
I work for Target.
Time to update my Resume!
Come back to Australia there’s plenty of jobs for people in our age group.
*He looks outside and sees two young adults fighting each other and a duck for a slice of bread*
Oh goddamnit, I still have TAYbies as references on my resume. You included, I think.
….
I’m keeping them.
International connections will make you look important obviously
That’s my logic.
Plus unless it was a fairly serious job I was applying for nobody’ll go through with calling contacts across the world.
I bought the Monater Hunter FO’ 3DS. Didnt even pre order the game, which I probably should. Next pay check.
GOOD NEWS.
It’s preloaded.
I think.
I dont think so, said it didnt come with the game
who said? you said? he said? she said?
they lied.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B7UUdneIUAASmxb.png
EU version, bottom right on box, & top logo- ‘pre-installed.’
Huh, doesnt mention anywhere on the EB games site about it being pre installed. Says it doesnt come with the game instead.
Alright, lemme check EB Games Australia…
Oh my god, it comes pre-installed everywhere else in the world, including Canadian EB Games, except yours.
Fuck this boycott nintendo shit company for idiots. (Or I could just wait and see if its a mistake, no big deal)
How much does the bundle cost in your region though?
$260. Canadian Dollar is pretty damn weak nowadays compared to the ‘Merica Buck, but I’m not sure how much of a difference it made compared to the 229.99 US price.
@saturday (wont let me reply anymore)
Yeah its only 250 here which is normal price so I thought maybe it was more in other regions to cover game price. Anyway since I’ll have to do that data transfer thing again to keep all my stuff on my current console. How does it handle pre installed games.
From what I remember, pre-installed games are deleted, but you can download from eShop for free.
Thats ok
I think this only works if you don’t link your new 3DS to a NNID before doing the transfer.
But there’s no games included in either the MM or MH bundles in Australia anyway :(. Which kind of works out better I guess since I don’t have to bother with the pre-installed transfer bullshit.
Yeah I think I prefer not having to deal with it also. Just wondering if I want to buy a bigger SD card though before the transfer. Or I could take my 32GB one from my camera and just have 2 4GB ones for it instead.
Just note that the N3DS’ use MicroSD cards!
You just cant make shit easy can you Satoru Iwata
BLOODBORNE
COUNTDOWN: 67 days
New weapon for PS4 leaked online
Miyazaki interview
Related news: details about Dark Souls II Scholar of the First Sin changes have dropped.
An email from Play Asia stated “The number of white phantom summons (co-op) has been increased to 6 simultaneously” but I can’t find that information anywhere else. Still, having six people around seems like it would be overkill in almost all circumstances (kind of awesome, but definitely overkill).
Huh? Even two phantoms made every boss a cakewalk. Everything is designed to be solo’d. Unless they’re planning some sort of raid style boss, which Ew.
Agreed. There’s something really weird about that. Maybe they’ll employ some Diablo III-esque scaling, where enemies increase in number and strength based on the number of players in the game… :\
I’ve had my summoner die with two of us there a huge number times, because they don’t know how to DODGE.
Lego Movie isn’t being included for best animated film?
First Tintin, now this. These guys are outta control.
Because it wasn’t among the best 😛Monster.
Tintin was pretty great! Pretty real great!
It really was.
Uncharted for all ages! 🙂
I was thinking that one day Uncharted is going to look like that while watching. It pleased me. :’)
Supposedly peter Jackson’s next film is the sequel
But… he’s terrible! D:
More Spielberg, more of time! 😛
Terribly good!
Terribly good at being terrible! 😛
Etc…
He’s a fine director.
He needs a sharp editor, both at script and film stage. He’s also better when placed under budgetary constraints, big budgets made him lazy
I… concede that you’re right here. 😛
If you look back at the first two lotr films, special effected before the trilogy made bank, you can see it. So much stuff done practically that he just did Cgi in Return of the king and King Kong
Wasn’t that always the plan? Spielberg did the first one and Jackson did the sequel and they basically swapped director/producer duties?
Yeah, but it got waylaid when Jackson stepped in for Del Toro on the hobbit
Tintin was gorgeous to look at.
Yeah, seems like a glaring omission.
I’m glad it’s not. With the rest of the field being utter shit, Princess Kaguya actually has a sniff at it. Shame that Disney will have paid for everyone to vote for Big Hero 6 instead though 🙁
I would have voted BH6 without being paid 😛
I enjoyed Big Hero 6, having said that, I’m also really interested in seeing Kaguya and then deciding on the better film.
I cant name myself Goat King in spanish but I can say the battle was arousing. What the hell Omega Ruby
Recumbentibus.
Damn even when I dont pay attention I still end up having to learn.
Downloadable Wii games on Wii U for $13 a pop is pretty damn exciting, I must say. Super Mario Galaxy 2 is available now, for those of you who aren’t in the know. Donkey Kong Country Returns and Metroid Prime Trilogy will be in the coming weeks.
Is Metroid Prime Trilogy going to be $13 even though it includes three games? If so that’s amazing. Especially because that collection is kinda rare these days.
I believe so.
Now if only Ninty could sort out all their other crap, I could rest easy.
For instance, at the moment I am in two minds about purchasing the New 3DS. On one hand, I want it but also wish to keep my existing blue 3DS XL and really cbf doing the whole transfer process to the new unit – which kinda nullifies the purchase.
On the other hand, if an account system were in place so that I could just sign in via an email address and have access to my complete 3DS previous purchase history, it would make these concerns way less complicated.
I’m asking for the impossible here, aren’t I?
And in other news, last night I purchased Cover Plates No. 16! 😀
I got Mario Galaxy 2 yesterday. It works beautifully. Will be getting the next two deals as well, at least.
Just when I thought my Wii U had passed its fun-by date… just in the nick of time, Mr Nintendo.
Why can’t the 3DS have such great backlog support?
Best guess: Nintendo are happy with 3DS sales, but need to encourage a greater take-up of Wii-U consoles.
Of course, just sucks. Even if I owned a Wii U, that would not be the place I’d want old games.
I want them on the go.
If I’m at home I have plenty to keep me busy.
Putting Advance games on Wii U & not 3ds is a Damn joke!
#butthurtnintyfan
Morning y’all
Is anyone here gonna give the Evolve beta a whirl on the weekend? I’ll be playing sometime tomorrow.
@beavwa
I need to get this atari over to you. Trivia Monday?
Alternatively how long would it take to get to your place from Watsonia?
I like to think that Tigs is one of those people who calls all consoles an Atari.
Well I am one of the oldest here so it possible. I rather interested in all this talk about hunting monsters on their gameboys
Once in high school a teacher during assembly called a GameBoy a PlayBoy. The school laughed for 17.42 minutes.
I wouldn’t want to send you 20 min each way out of your way – we should be able to get in for trivia next week once our interstate visitor has left on Sunday. I’ll try to get that organised before Monday so it can be confirmed.
Wasn’t sure how long it would be, probably going to be up that way on Sunday.
Let me know how you go, I’m actually not sure if the guys are still there each week so I’ll have to let them know as well.
Yep, we’re in for Monday.
So I gifted @beeawwb a copy of Dragonfall Directors Cut and he was all “I wouldn’t accept water off you if I was on fire!” (or he already had a copy coming from Hong Kong, I forget which) so would any one else like it?
Keep in mind it’s only one of the raddest games in a while.
Bob. What a jerk. This one time he did this! D:
http://1drv.ms/159mTYm
I was mortified.
I can’t make out that pic, what’s happening there?
Dunno. That’s where the ‘reel missing’ disclaimer appears when I think back on that night.
I wasn’t sure if he was holding your hair back while you were trying to vomit.
Did you inaugurate a Dc memorial bin?
I was licking his face.
I’m a monster. A ginger monster.
Ginger stealing a soul.
Feeeeeeeeeeed me. Feeeeeed me Seymour.
Playing through the first one at the moment and enjoying it so I will be getting it at some stage.
That said I have 42% of my games unplayed so if somebody will play it earlier than I’ll get a chance I won’t challenge them for it
Fancy giving the Evolve beta a bit of a whirl over the weekend, amigo @highperformance?
I see how it is
*starts own evolve beta group*
Mine will be better cause I’ll have blackjack & hookers 😛
Heh. Well we’ve got Jack Black and Hookah pipes!
But we play on XB1. 😛aah, fair enough.
Hey m9, I don’t know much about this game but just checked it out then.
How does one join the beta? I’m free all Saturday ’til the night when I watch Australia tear South Korea a new one 😉
Oh they gonna tear them alright, they been playing great.
You can just find the beta in the games store! Download and play. I’m yet to try it, but definitely keen to give it a go as I missed out on the Alpha as had no time. I’ll prob be on tomorrow as well.
How big is it? I’ll probably have to start dl’ing it tonight lol
Me too…damn I just searched it…first result says 20GB -_-
FUUUUAAARRR! It would take 60 hours with my connection, might have to give it a miss sorry mate lol.
Hahaha…damn. Understandable! Well then…Dying Light it is!
Have there been any hints of any other New 3DS exclusives yet?
I only know of Xenobladder.
Almost, ordered a Majora N3DS until I realised I really can’t afford it the month before Type Zero special overpriced edition.
Nope. I doubt there will be many (like there were hardly any DSi exclusive games). Probably just add ‘enhanced’ stuff when you play on the N3DS like second-stick usage and amiibo support
Hmmm, might be waiting til mine breaks then.
*kicks 3ds*
First game finished for 2015! Danganronpa done last night.
Yay!mine was SMTIV on around the 1st.
I spent new years eve in front of a guide do all the fiddly quests for the best ending
I really like the look of those games, would you recommend them? The only part that made me a little dubious are the trials, I’m terrible at Ace Attorney games.
Yes. The first game at least was excellent. I like Ace Attorney but I’d rate Danganronpa way higher personally. They have a great visual style and well-written mysteries.
The trials are the one thing I wasn’t a huge fan of, but not because of the logical difficulty but because the minigame stuff you have to do got in the way. Most of the time I’d figured out the case before going in. There’s four mini-games in there. The bulk of the time, there will be lines of dialogue popping up, and sometimes a statement is in orange and you can shoot the statement down with one of your TRUTH BULLETS (which are the bits of evidence you have). They add some variations on that later. That part’s generally fine, though the text moves around and shit so it can be a pain mechanically sometimes. They also have a ‘hangman’s gambit’ thing where there’s a word and you need to fill in the letters by shooting them as they float around (hover cursor, press x). That game’s fine but unnecessary. The third one which is utter fucking bullshit is this daft ass rhythm thing where someone will start babbling nonsense and you have to quickly knock down their shit and then shoot down their final argument with one of your TRUTH BULLETS. That minigame suuuuuuucks. And then there’s a final thing where once per murder you have to reconstruct a manga-style sequence of events, and that can be sometimes a bit of a pain because it can be tricky to figure out what some of the panels you’re dragging and dropping are actually showing.
There’s three difficulty settings for the minigames and the ‘logic’. I played on normal for both. For 2, I’m going to drop the action difficulty and see if it gets in the way less. As I understand it, the logic difficulty affects how many potential options you’re given for each bit, where the action difficulty involves how much bullshit you have to deal with in the minigames.
But overall, heck yeah the games are worth it. Do you use a US PSN account for your Vita? First game’s down to $20 at the moment for US plus members…
Sounds pretty good, unfortunately I don’t have my US account on my Vita, will investigate prices on the AU store. Thanks for the info, very informative as usual.
The rhythm game crap only comes up once per murder trial IIRC.
Had an odd experience the other day. Received a message via Facebook from a random fellow-Canberran stranger who asked me to change the name of Undad, because she had written and self-published a short zombie book called The Undad early last year. I think she was implying that the similarities were suspicious and that I must have lifted ideas and titles from her work.
You might remember that Undad came about when Rocketman was bored one day, and wanted us to entertain him by pitching ideas for TV shows at him.
The night I received that Facebook message, I spent hours going back through all my TAY comments, trying to find that original post. This message had rattled me for some reason (I know it shouldn’t have, but it really got to me), and I spent a huge amount of time writing up a detailed summary of Undad’s genesis.
Its origins, of course, had nothing to do with her book as I had never even heard of it.
I spoke to Mrs Shane about it, and she did some digging, and found out this girl is just a teenager who was feeling protective of her book… so I took some of the barb out of my response.
[partially redacted]
It’s all resolved now, and she’s gone away. I bought her book and started to read it. It’s only 97 pages, but I’m never going to finish it…
The moral of the story, I suppose, is that it’s fun to revisit old TAYs.
Shane Gonna get sued.
It’s not that blatant a rip-off of Octodad 🙁
Alternate name idea brainstorming:
The Shambling Father Type Guy Who’s Possibly Dead (Inside?)
Dadliest Catch!
Great response, reasoned and fair.
And now Shane’s got a bounty on his head. Somewhere in an out of the way air field, a ragtag team of mercs have stepped off a dilapidated cargo plane in slow motion.
They will hunt the dadliest game of all.
SHANE.
Renowned author Shane Smith was replying to his emails like any other ordinary day, and happened across an email that would change his life forever.
Deadmail.
Thanks, man. I literally put hours of thought into it. Probably more than it deserved, but I didn’t want it to go any further.
97 pages? Seems a bit lazy – doesn’t even try to crack 100. Hell, if I decided I really wanted to write a book I know I’d go for 200 pages minimum, 300 preferably.
Stories are as long as they are. Better a good 97 page story than a needlessly long 2000 page epic.
tldr: Shane stole story ideas from a young girl
Just came across this regarding Hotline Miami 2 RC in Australia, interesting…
I think that’s the best part 😛
That is a surprising response, I wonder if that would hold up in court. “He said could”.
If they hold the rights to it, they can advocate piracy, and it won’t ever reach court (because they hold the rights). If they don’t hold the rights, then this is just posturing hot air.
@negativezero I saw episode 2 of Kantai Collection last night. Basically what I expected from a second episode.
Aka the episode where a character who failed previously failed some more and is now (kinda) on the path to success. I like the dynamic that a lot of the characters have so far (Ashigara-senpai was pretty great as were Kitakami and Ooi) and how they’re basically running with the game’s more silly ideas. Wake Island should be an interesting fight and I kinda want to see some more of the heavier ships (methinks the Kongou sisters are going to get more screen time next episode). Both of the credit songs were pretty good too.I think you’re right, we’ll see the Kongous get a more major look next episode. I expect this will be another combined fleet thing, with Torpedo Squadron 3 as an escort fleet rather than the key attackers. That also means that Nao Toyama is going to be putting in some overtime (she voices all four of them!). I’m also thinking that Yamato is going to turn up pretty soon, maybe ep 4.I’m also really curious to see if they go into any darker territory with it. There’s obvious ways they could (and some of the official manga has, apparently) and I wonder if they will or if they’ll keep it fairly light and fluffy.
Unrelatedly, I discovered yesterday that with a trick involving cookies, you can actually log into the DMM site and play the game without needing a VPN at all. Logged in for the first time in a while. Found I’ve got nearly zero buckets and hardly any dev mats. But I did some stuff. Sendai nearly at level 60 for her Ninja upgrade and I’m going to try and make sure I’ve got a better range of Destroyers at reasonable level. Starting to work on getting some of the ones that have K2 remodels up. Starting with Hibiki since she’s really high already (>50) but Ushio probably after that since I already had her at 27. Also working on Ayanami (10) and Hatsuharu (19) and some of the already-have-high-stats DDs like Harusame and Amatsukaze. Also have Myoukou closing in on her level 70 remodel, sitting above 50 now.
I want to ideally have 10-12 Destroyers in the level 40+ range for the February event. Currently have Yuudachi and Shigure at >70, Shimakaze and Hibiki >50 or so, and then Yukikaze and Murasame in the 40s. Last event I had to sub in a low-level DD (I used Ushio IIRC) to make up the numbers I needed, but I’d really like to have more options.
Also working on clearing 1-5 and 2-5 for blueprints, and I have a fleet which theoretically should be able to stomp through 4-4 but I’ve never made it to the boss. :\ Last thing I need to do before world 5. I’ve cleared 3-4 which is actually supposed to be the harder map! It’s frustrating. Haven’t had a tilt at the world 3 bonus map yet at all.
I also did another Large Ship Construction and lucked out severely. Got Mikuma, super-rare Mogami-class heavy cruiser, the last of the Mogamis that I needed (I’ve had Mogami for ages, got Suzuya in the December 2013 event, and Kumano dropped for me during the Midway event last year). So I think the only LSC ships I don’t have now are Noshiro, Taihou and Musashi, unless they add some of the event-drop ships to it (eg. Sakawa since the other Aganos are buildable though LSC, or Unryuu since as a carrier she’s a ‘large ship’ by definition and LSC can result in all the othef fleet carriers with the right recipe)
Who’s psyched for Life is Strange? Looks very Quantic Dream-like on the production value front with a Telltale episodic model. Remember Me had a crazy beautiful world and interesting mechanics, but the writing could be off at times. Writing is needed to carry something like this. I’m optimistic, though.
I’m really keen for Life is Strange (hi @strange!)
Getting on launch? I know some PSN credit I can use for it even after I get Grim! (THANKS SHANE!)
Mmmmmmmmaybe. I dunno, man.
If it seals the deal I’ll distract the bounty hunters!
Cautiously optimistic
Never heard of it …
My sarcasm detector is broken today, but didn’t you love Remember Me like crazy? This is their next game! Unless you’re making jokes. In that case. Haha! I get jokes!
Actually, I remember this trailer and being really impressed by it. Just didn’t remember the name. =P
Oh yeah, if you play it we’ll compare notes! NOTES!
Everything I’ve seen about it looks frickin’ awesome. I haven’t seen much, and I’m inclined to think about keeping it that way. I would prefer to be pleasantly surprised.
I’ve taken rides on the hype train too much over the years; my seat has worn down to discomfort and I’ve memorized the view. I don’t want to ride it for a while.
Even if it’s the greatest game in the world I’ll tell you afterwards that it wasn’t terrible… I guess… and then maybe I’d sigh in frustration? Then you’ll play and WHOOOOA!
Thanks for having my back, man.
Nawwww, raw, unbridled enthusiasm is one of the great privileges afforded to geeks and nerds. We should revel in it where we have the opportunity.
Besides… you liked Beyond and Soul Suspect, so I wouldn’t have trusted your opinion on LiS anyway. 😉
I’m kidding! I haven’t actually played either of them to dislike them. I just knew they were ‘unpopular’ and you liked ’em. They seem kinda cool, I’m’a play them at some point. I own Murdered, and I’m interested to see if Quantic bites at a PS4 Beyond. Because I will so get that version.Monster! 😛 I wouldn’t put Soul Suspect and Beyond in same league. Beyond is way better. Here’s hoping for that quantic dream collection.
I’ve seen people talking about MH codes? Is this a demo for the new monster hunter on 3DS? How do you get one?
Me too, I’m keen for a code if homies got a spare!
I have 3 spare. I decided that I’m not interested =P
Actually you have 4 because I never ended up using the one you gave me (Got an email code from Nintendo really late)
Thanks! My boy @gutsoup hooked me up already though, I’m happy to take them off your hands though to disseminate to other folks?
Sorry
Ask me nicely. In a sexy voice, preferably.
Hey bae, can I hit you up for a code real quick?
Do you have an email? Or Twitter?
Haha thanks Benny, I’ve actually got a code just then but I didn’t want to disappoint with not talking sexy.
That’s how you ask nicely?!
Hey stud, I hear you’ve got a couple of extra codes laying around…
*twirls finger in hair*
How about you help a girl out and, slip one my way…
*puts hand on @benny’s shoulder*
I’ll make it worth your while…
*slow wink*
I don’t want a code.
Clearly 😛
I already have 4 of my own 😛
If anyone wants one though, I expect to be talked to as per above 😉
That’s hot.
That’s very hot.
Nintendo sends out demo codes via email.
The MH4U one comes with 3 other codes so your friends can test it out as well.
I don’t want a code, but I will take a 3DS please.
Only on TAY I feel the need to clarify that this is a joke and don’t want a 3DS. 😛What have you got against the 3ds, it is a good piece of hardware. Do you prefer the vita?
A handheld console killed my parents.
What travels down an alley and has holes in it?
A garbage truck?
Batman’s parents
http://imgur.com/r/funny/lEmc3UO
In a garbage truck?
My parents are deaaaad.
It’s too late now.
You’re too late! 😐
Every time 🙁
I’ve got eight of them. They’re all written on a piece of paper at home though, so wouldn’t be able to give any out til tonight.
oh me me meeeeeeee haha must get my monster hunter fix….
It you could throw one my way it would be most welcome. Really want to give mh a go.
I would also like to track one down too, if anyone has any spare. Got an email with four codes, then realised it’s for my US 3DS, which I seldom use anymore.
I got 3 extras from Shane, drop me a line (red_artifice at der Hotmail) and I’ll flick them on
Sent! /bows low
I can send you a code I have 3 spare
cc @highperformance
Edit: seems to be a few responses, let me know if you need 😀
Woohoo! n_s_mclean(at)hotmaildotcom thanks mate, would love one (y)
sent 😀
I’ve got 3 spare codes if anybody wants one. DM me on twitter!
Or maybe I should do what everybody else seems to be doing these days and sell it online for profit 😛
steveo(dot)the(dot)deveo(at)gmail(dot)com if anyone feels obliged
Sent!
So pretty http://store.steampowered.com/app/299680
Looks like it will be another game I buy purely on art style
Oh yeah, that looks amazing. AMAZING. Plus pop-up books perfected the medium of books leaving all other books looking like garbage.
Freeze’s Magniloquent Recumbentibus Word Challenge
Challenge is to work this into a conversation today and learn a new word. Have fun while learning!
Kalo-ka-gathia?
These are stressing you out aren’t they?
It’s awkward trying to say a word you’ve never spoken before!
Tried to give a compliment to co-worker – South African lady at work thought I was taking the piss out of her.
Instructions unclear, dick stuck in fan.
Gotta watch those South Africans, they’re a shifty bunch.
just to clarify I was born there 😛Probably shouldn’t have phrased it as “Your bewbs really bring out your kalokagathia”
twist! Freeze is actually making up words!
en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/kalokagathia
Creating wiki pages to back up your creations. That’s dedication. *nods*
I was really tempted to edit it and put him as the author, but I’m far too lazy so I imagined it and chuckled to myself. Now back to slothing about.
Kinda off topic, but I love wiktionary’s word of the day thing – yesterday taught me the word “floccinaucinihilipilificate;” what’s even more astounding is… it’s a colloquialism. Eton has some scary slang…
Best one so far.
The bounty hunters have killed Shane’s Undad post. D:
But… did I dream reading that post?
…Is this like some Matrix thing? You have to tell me if you know.
Maybe it’s more Inception, and it was a shared dream.
Whoops. I edited it, and everything fell over. Sorry :\
Lawyers work quick these days.
So uh… Monater Hunter 4 codes. I understand some people are swimming in them?
Yarp! I have 3 codes so if anyone needs one let me know.
I know one guy.
We are collectively, I guess. Don’t know if one could swim in three codes alone… but with the current code pool we could probably take turns. 😛 3 here if anyone wants one.
@shane did you just put your comment into moderation? My reply disappeared. I want to be able to see my reply dammit. 😛
Shane’s pursuit of editing his posts so they’re literate is tearing TAY apart!
Oh that’s right. Three times max, huh?
I think you can have two links in when you post, but those same two links will moderate you if you edit.
Number of links seems to vary. I made this post the other day with no problems. Yet somewhat recently had another post where it put me into moderation because I had three of them, and I was confused because I always used to do three just fine. Turns out I wasn’t crazy after all! Well, not this particular kind of crazy.
I think even editing with one link will send you into the hole?
And it stays in moderation even if you take all the links out. I didn’t know THAT was a thing 🙁
You underestimated this writer girl, Shane.
Someone please tell my body that adult teeth aren’t supposed to grow back. I’ve removed one mutant little vestigial tooth already and a second just poked itself through my gum D:
Was it a molar? I think that’s the only one that can grow for a third time.
Gutsoup was exposed to toxic waste as a young child after a game of hide and seek in a toxic waste site went awry. This is a mutation. He is our better.
Soon he will grow gills and re-join his shark friends in the sea.
*looks around* So which one of us is Lava Girl?
Yep right at the back (had my wisdom teeth out so the next one along)
Including my baby tooth this’ll be the fourth one :O
Yeah, you’re shark man alright.
Maybe you are part shark
He’s secretly Deadpool.
This explains everything.
:O
*kidnaps old blind lady*
Anyone else getting errors trying to access the eShop on their 3DS? I am getting error 007-2100
On now, works for for me.
🙁 no idea whats wrong with it, all other online stuff is working on it
Repost: I have a copy of Dragonfall Directors Cut free to good home. Best game. So far only have a half hearted maybe from @tigerion if anyone wants to up the stakes.
I will take it if no one else wants it, 1 because the next one is in Hong Kong and that interests me but I never played this so I dont know if Ill like it. 2 I dont know when Ill actually get time to play this so it’s likely to me wasted on me.
So probably give it to @tigerion
Balls in your court @tigerion
Well if nobody else is interested I’ll go with my original thought
GIMME GIMME GIMME GIMME GIMME
Will do. Send it through tonight.
I guess it’s time to start FAPing again
And I’m on fire. Anybody but @FreezesPreston, give me water!
I poured my waterbottle on my email to get it to you but now I ha
++++ CARRIER LOST ++++
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Monster hunter codes!
Please post if you have redeemed them!
1 Redeemed
2 Redeemed
3
A078AXPJ042U7XNGI redeemed the first one, thanks!
No problem. Like I said, I won’t use it. It’s the least I can do.
Whoops, should have read below!
What did I do?
Hah I meant me, you replied to my post higher up on the page and then read you were giving the codes out lower! My mistake.
I’m sorry. If no one takes it, you can
Thank you! ^-^
2nd code redeemed, thanks!
So even though I have no job, me and the fiance went shopping last night, and she wanted a 3DS, so we split the cost, had $100 in vouchers. Got one of the changeable cover ones. We also got Yoshi game (her favorite character) and I got Pokemon Alpha Sapphire.
So Please suggest 3DS/DS games as I have never had one!!!
Legend of Zelda: Link Between Worlds
Luigi’s Mansion 2
Fire Emblem:
Babby Making SimulatorAwakeningLegend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3DS
Downloadable:
Phoenix Wright Twin Destinies
Physical/downloadable:
Bravely Default – amazing game! the way the game ends is a hit and miss with some people.
Theatrhythm – both of these games are fun if you like rhythm games.
Fire Emblem: Awakening – ruthless strategy game on classic, animeish graphics, its a blast.
Zelda OOT 3D – No Brainer
Zelda MM 3D- comes out soon get hyped!
All the Phoenix Wright games. Seriously. All of them. I’m pretty sure the first three are downloadable titles on the EShop now, as is the fifth one. They are among my favourite games ever. Hilarious and witty, off-the-wall insane, punny and emotional, and often with startling plot twists that you’d never see coming in a million years.
Ghost Trick – great adventure/puzzle game with surprisingly poignant story.
Theatrhythm: Final Fantasy is surprisingly addictive, especially if you’ve got a soft spot for Squeeenix’s music catalogue.
Zelda games are pretty cool, if they’re your thing. The OoT remake was remarkable, and Link Between Worlds was very solid.
Old Gameboy classics from the Eshop: Donkey Kong puzzle game, and Link’s Awakening. Both hold up surprisingly well these days.
I like this story, it has heart. I wish my wife was interested in video gaming.
Suggestions? There’s too many! I’ll just list the ones I own WHICH ARE ONLY ESSENTIAL.
Super Mario 3D LandNew Super Mario Bros 2
Mario Kart 7
A Link Between Worlds
Luigi’s Mansion 2
Pokemon Y
Donkey Kong Country Returns
Bravely Default
Fire Emblem Awakening
Starfox 64
Resident Evil Revelations
Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy
Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask
Nintendogs + Cats: Golden Retriever & friends
Theatrhythm Curtain Call
..and then there’s the DS back catalogue.
Ocarina of Time 3D. How did I forget that one?
All great choices:
Kid Icarus Uprising
Animal Crossing New Leaf
Fire Emblem Awakening
Mario Kart 7
Zelda: Link Between Worlds
Smash Bros (though better on WiiU if you have the option)
Fantasy Life
Zero Escape: Virtue’s Last Reward (MUST play the DS game “999” first though – it’s a direct sequel)
And on the eShop (digital downloads):
Ace Attorney Trilogy (plus Ace Attorney 5, but you’ll have to track down a copy of the DS game “Apollo Justice” first as it’s kind of a sequel)
Attack of the Friday Monsters
PullBlox
Steel Diver: Sub Wars (not the retail game)
Gunman Clive
Mutant Mudds
Avoid:
Paper Mario Sticker Star 😛
Have you tried Monster Hunter before? Might be worth getting a demo code just to give it a go
MH4U Demo code
A0783S8G1SWTELAHEdit: To activate go to the eshop and go to menu. If you scroll down there should be a redeem code button.
Super Mario 3D Land is still the best game on the system in my opinion. Couldn’t put it down.
What sort of games do you and your fiance like? No point offering suggestions of eg. JRPGs or Strategy games if you don’t like them.
But JRPGs are the best!
Steel Diver (not the @powalen game)
Shinobi
Ghost Recon: Shadow Wars
Sub Wars is way better than the launch Steel Diver! (though I actually really liked that one too :P)
Link Between Worlds
Mario 3D Land
Fire Emblem
Resident Evil Revelations
Pokemon Y
Bravely Default
eStore:
*Shin Megami Tensei Iv
Crimson Shroud
Attack of Friday Monsters
Who wants to join in on a game of Fiasco tonight with myself, @beeawwb and @SerNobulus? All you need is a microphone and your computer.
@gingerchris86 or @ColdCamV maybe? Someone new who hasn’t played?
If at any point too you need advice or a reminder tweet me
If it falls apart would postponing until next Friday work for yourself and @negativezero?
Should do for me.
Also, not the next week or couple, but my mate Dan could be keen to go again
I would but we still havent sorted out internet but trust me oh believe it! When we get internet the Red Eye will fly and Giovanni will RISE AGAIN!
Don’t think he’ll be flying anywhere however.
GIOVANNI….dont like planes
Sorry guys, not tonight, I’m super busy with secret stuff
It’s funny how your mind fills in gaps or improves on old memories. I played a bunch of those streaming DOS games and I remember so many of them slightly differently. For example there’s a game called Mach 3 that I played waaaaaay back in the day and still get its theme song in my head occasionally but when I replayed it I was shocked at how it sounded, my brain jazzed it up over the years and added guitars and such. I noticed that with nearly every game I played, my brain seems to edit & improve old memories it would seem. It was still hell fun though, so much nostalgia.
Memory is very, very unreliable
Yeah I watched this thing a while back where people went into a public place and committed a mock crime then grabbed a bunch of witnesses. Interviewed them individually and in a group, the individual ones were fairly accurate but the group ones were crazy, they put a mole in the group and had them recount the events falsely. They’d say the wrong hair color or clothes color and it was incredible how many people would follow suit and agree with the false statements, it’s almost like a game of broken telephone they got so far from the truth on some of them. At the end of the exercise they showed all the witnesses footage and pointed out how wrong they were, people were flabbergasted that they remembered things so wrong to the point that some were convinced that the footage was doctored. The power of suggestion is indeed a powerful thing. Wish I could remember what it was called.
I tell ya what hasnt changed, OMF is still awesome
2097!
For years, I only ever owned the demo for that game, playing the same fight in the same arena over and over and over again.
Great game.
I used to grind the hell out of 2097 to buy the best upgrades etc. That game was so rad. Black starter bot with white highlights and gold logo-paintjob, yo.
Yeah me too until I finally got a full copy and it was like the best day of my life lol
As someone who has no idea what they are doing I can say that the bow isn’t a very good choice for solo noob. Great sword is ok but too long between strikes for me. Still plenty of weapons to try though.
Try dual Blades. Combos and stuff. Very fast.
Switch axe seems to be a favourite. That and the long sword
I’m going to choose whichever weapon looks the coolest.
Fashion Hunter 4.
I like the long sword. Combination of reasonably high damage with lots of vertical combos allowing for better attacks on higher parts of monsters. Also dodge-slash. Also them samurai feels.
Starting out, sword and shield or dual swords work well, as well as switch-axe for something a bit faster than the greatsword but also a bit more versatile.
Hammer works well for stunning monsters and hitting hard.
Ranged weapons should definitely be saved for when you have more experience, as they can be rather tricky to get used to.
I’ve used the switch axe (axe that turns into a sword) way too much in MH3U, so in the spirit of mixing it up and doing something completely different, I may try out the sword and shield that turns into an axe.
I would never recommend GS ever lol there are much better weapons and they are very annoying in multiplayer. As said below dual swords or long sword are good choices.
Alright, here we go. This is the time where anyone with a problem with me can tell me right now. So you can then ignore what I say, and I can ignore what you say.
Ready, set, goooo..!
Woops, dupe
I hope all you WiiU owners are excited! http://i.imgur.com/nGvDg5W.gif
@greenius Have you heard of this Xenoblade series before? It’s meant to be pretty good!
I think that GIF just melted my phone.
I reacted to that gif like the aliens in Toy Story with the Claw
*eyes widen*
“Oooooooooooooooooooooo”
That looks good.
The E3 trailer for it was awful. This makes me want to play this.
I wish they did a Bayonetta and included the original on the disc though.
Needs more Diddy Kong.
*clicks on link*
ARRRRRRGH! :’)
Still needs more Diddy Kong.
Close enough!
They followed through on that gritty reboot!
I was advocating that he just turn his hat backwards. :'(
Landscape simulator 2015!
I’m not excited.
Everyone went out and sat in Central Park for lunch. I didn’t even know there was an actual park there.
Glorious glorious sunshine, wish I’d been going there more often.
Except I missed out on having my nap and now I am tired.
Hey, TAY.
If you could be a superhero, what would be your superhero name and power?
Powalenman: The power of unimaginativeness!
I’m onto you, Stan Lee. Get your own ideas else where. >:|
Weird name and power. Actually… I don’t get it.
Getting your own ideas? Yeah, you already showed last page that confused you 😛
*kills self*
Wait… that’s a @dc line.
Oh, man /o\
Shanus!
The ability to use puns to cause rectal bleeding in bad guys. *nods*
I laughed, but I really don’t want to upvote haha
Powalenman: The power of unimaginativeness!
Godammit.
Bish.
Bishing.
Benny with the ability to solve IT problems by advising to restart.
Gutsoup the Gruesome: The power to fire bodily fluids from any orifice with pinpoint accuracy inflicting targets with severe gastro leading to the “Gutsoup” effect.
http://kramsdesign.com/misc/kotaku/colon-p.jpg
he, screw it, with a name like Gutsoup my answer has to be gross 😛
Nuisance-man… With the ability to make things slightly damp
Ok, I’ll bite:
The power to read minds, even from great distances.
Knowing what people are thinking when I call them on the phone or emailing them!
Well I think my power should match my personality …. hmmm … I am pretty useless in real life so I would have to say a Aqua Man.
An Aqua man?
CHEEEEESE
Superhero name: “Oh god we’re all doomed.”
Power: Collecting other heroes’ powers.
Nah, I dunno… I’d be me (I would want absolutely nobody to know) and maybe some kind of healing factor?
Captain Only Thinks About Doing Stuff
Nintendo are complete dicks, the whole Amibo thing just proves it. I mean, who releases a limited amount of highly demanded items. Seriously, Nintendo have no idea how to make money and they are going to definitely run out of money.
*preorders Robin and Lucina amiibo*
Read today that they’ve sold 2.5 million of them in the US so far.
*looks for @liondrive, he’s no where to be found*
I DON’T GET IT!
I don’t understand why there’s such a high demand for little plastic figures that do nothing 🙁
There, I said it, they do NOTHING! >:(
Yeah, it’s crazy but I guess they mentally conditioned a generation of people that they had to catch them all and this is the next step. Sure, they could’ve developed that Pokemon Wii U game that would single handedly save the system… but plastic figures? BETTER!
Save the system?
I didn’t think the Wii U was doing that bad anymore :\
They are a little foolish for not making that Pokemon Wii U game though.
Nah, Pokemon is ensuring that their handholds will sell like crazy no matter what. They’d be nuts if they release a console one and if they did it would be a last ditch effort if they were nearly dead.
Yeah, I figured it was to protect their handheld games (or ensure there’s a reason to buy them), but I’d buy a console game instantly, and still buy the handheld games too.
I don’t think it’s so “one-or-the-other” as they see it.
I want both.
Just don’t make the console games as regular, or make them (it?) different enough to set it apart from the handheld games.
Yeah, could have a more tailored action/adventure thing on console even. A story that takes place in that world rather than RPG. But what do I know. I can only name like… three Pokemon at most?
Squirtle! Charizard! Pikachu!
@dc There’s been a bunch of those. Only the main games are kept on handhelds.
A story outside of “beat the elite 4” would be good for a console game. They can be far more in depth on console, and have it different enough to buying the handheld games also.
Maybe a game where you play as officer Jenny, and you have to go around the region and build a team of not only pokemon, but people in order to make a special task force to take down Team Rocket!
It could be called “Pokemon: the Officer Jenny Chronicles”
You know, unless it was an MMO
I don’t think anyone could pull off a proper console Pokemon. It’s like the elusive Final Fantasy VII remake, no matter what they do it’ll be WRONG®
Fun fact:
I tried to play FFVII, but it was far too old for my delicate modern tastes.
A remake mightn’t be so good for long term enthusiasts like yourself, but it’d be good for people like me 🙂
I understand not making that remake though 😛
I played it on release and said it sucked and went back to playing adventure games on my master race machine. But don’t tell Jimu. Our friendship couldn’t handle this revelation. 😛
You’re all awful people.
Next you’ll tell me you don’t like women
What a twist!
Is that a M Night joke?
We both like him, though different flicks.
I was 4 when it released, so I feel I am excused for not playing it then 😛
I bought it on PS3, but I just can’t play it.
the First Time I played FFVII I hired it, played it for about 20 minutes said it sucked, hated it, put it in the corner and took it back the next day. Jimu was kind enough to show me the error of my ways and I fell in love with it, played through it at least 4 times by now.
Yeah, I’d be lying if I said I played for more than half hour at most. I just wasn’t a console fan in the late 90s for some bizarre reason. Judged the games super harshly.
I borrowed Crystal Chronicles off my friend to harvest its barcode so I could get the Zelda Collector’s Edition. Played through a bit of it, concluded that Final Fantasy sucks and sent it back.
I stand by my assessment 😛
Fair call, pretty rough loooking. I love Those pre-rendered backgrounds though.
True fait: is a he port in PC coming to PS4 this year. Looks poop. Rather play on my Vita but those trophies are enticing. Could possibly be my first earned platinum
The Master every materia one would be a pain.
Maybe not as much as having 99 999 999 gil…
The rough looking is what put me off the most.
That’s why I wouldn’t mind a remake, mainly.
The graphics, they have not aged well…
@freezeespreston
I agree about the master all materia bit. I wonder if the W-Item glitch will still be in the PS4 version, that would make the gil trophy easily obtainable.
@freezespreston @gutsoup
Arrrgh time sucking bullshit. That’s not challenging, just a waste of time.
I’m out.
@jimu
That’s my main problem with trophies, the BS ones that are just a time sink annoy me too, pretty much why I only platinumed like 3 games last year.
NEW POKEMON SNAP!
It’s because you hat fun and happiness.
=PThe next next unannounced wave is nearly sold out on preorders already.
Who is there left? I know Ganon still hasn’t been released. Also when does the wave with Toon Link and Sheik come out?
Then there’s the next round of all the figures released previously, except with new hats!
“If you’ve given your Amiibo a haircut, and need to order a replacement head…”
GIMME! *throws money at screen*
Not sure if you’re joking because you didn’t realise that’s exactly what they’re doing….
I haven’t been following any thing gaming related all week. HAD OTHER STUFF ON MY MIND. 😛
Lol. True.
They’re releasing the Super Mario line which are the same characters standing slightly different.
Outstanding. 😀
you forgot to mention some have new bases. NEW BASES!!!
What stuff? Just kidding. I know. I know it all. Everything.
STILL GATTACA BUDDIES! 😀
Yesterday was a bit of a departure, but I didn’t save any thing for the swim back. 😀
WHAT CAN BE MORE IMPORTANT THEN AMIIBO: MALIBU STACY EDITION.
=PHas a new hat? TAKE MY MONEY
*Throws wallet at screen*
Greninja, ROB and Emo Pit are the only others I can think of.
Olimar? Dr Mario!
GAME AND WATCH!
Oh no, don’t let them release Pikmin ones, I’ll have to get them ALL!!
If they make game and watch I hope they make them flat for the 2D effect and really they should be like half price from all the materials they’d save.
I thought they had enough money in their savings accounts (or whatever big business has instead of savings accounts) to last another 150 years or three apocalypse events, whichever occurred first.
I’m spewing I didn’t pick up the Big Hero 6 ones when I saw them months ago. I can’t find them in retail stores anywhere now!
Trolling?
I’m seriously serious! Super serial! Adelaide is all out!
Well, unless I missed something, you’re talking about Disney Infinity & they’re talking about Ninty Amiibos?
TTP, West Lakes and Kilkenny shopping centres have none. I was thinking Baymax and Hiro Infinity ones were deleted.
Wait.
Now I get what you mean. Light bulb just lit up.
My apologies. Disney Infinity, not Amiibo.
West Lakes? Haha! We have a North Lakes. Urban planners need to get more creative.
My dad lives in North Lake (singular) Perth
Perth now also has South Park, making it the *best capital city.
*(insert any word for truly horrible)
We have a Springfield but I think everyone has a Springfield, come to think of it.
We have a Mawson Lakes.
It’s in the north.
We also have about 20 suburbs that are something Park.
Brooklyn Park, Ascot Park, Oaklands Park, Fairview Park, Bedford Park, Mitchell Park
And those are just the ones I’ve lived in!
Sefton Park!
Banksia park, Cumberland park, daw park, Edinburgh Parks
And the crown jewel (worst suburb in Adelaide) Davoren Park
@redartifice Wait a minute, those first two are also places around here too. Just without the Park.
Adelaide is just little bits of everywhere else turned into a Park 😛
@mrtaco Flinders Park, Kurralta Park, HYDE Park, Hazelwood Park…
Other than Kurralta and Flinders Park, all places in London 🙂
@redartifice I’m going to assume that tag was autocorrect.
Yet considering what I’m (supposed to be) doing here, spookily appropriate 😛
@mrtaco yeah, it autocorrects to that
I wish they were higher quality. Too expensive for what you get IMO. I’d rather forgo them and pick up the odd Nintendo-themed figma or nendoroid. Though I haven’t really done that much, just Link so far and the Lucina figma ordered.
Can anyone read this and tell me if it makes sense or if the translator failed and I’m putting something super racist and offensive on it?
あなたがこれを見つけた場合はお電話にてお問い合わせください
Pretty sure it’s the lyrics to Taylor Swift’s Triple J Hottest 100 #1 Shake It Off!
Die die die- inferior round eye bastards, hope your mother gets the black lung.
Seems legit.
I can read bits here and there.
You.. this.. .. .. please.
Sorry, I’m a tad rusty. The last bit kudasai tells me it’s a request to please do something?
Yes, I’m shit at reading Jap. My education has taught me nothing.
Maybe possibly – “please contact us by phone if you’ve found this” ? =P Yes I used google translate….
“You saw (have seen?) this”… something something “electric story” “contact” something “please”. Curse you, 10th grade distance-ed japanese, why you no teach more kanji?!
Oh, “phone”. Freaking kanji combo nouns. Odd that the syllabus taught kanji for den (電), hanashi (話), and denwa bangou (でんわ番号), but never told you denwa (電話) was a thing.
ELECTRIC TALK.
Also sounds like your syllabus was typical of every one I’ve encountered while trying to learn the language. Teaches set phrases and patterns but not actually bother to break it down properly.
Welp, 12 years not continuing it does that (also, ‘electic talk’ makes more sense :P). And, yep, that’s pretty much what my two distance ed subjects were like – plenty of rote learning, no bother with building a good foundation.
“If you see this situation occur, please inquire via telephone.”
Well that makes sense….
Is this for getting something printed for your shellfish allergy prior to Japan or something?
No, but that’s probably not a terrible idea come to think of it.
Some tags for my girls bags since they’re amazing at losing their stuff. If found Please call is what I was after.
If it helps, we left a backpack on the Tokyo Subway on our last trip. We left a message with the English Lost&Found and fully expected to never see it again. Not only was it found, but they sent it to our hotel in Kyoto! (we had lost it on the way to the shinkansen).
Oh wow! Amazing!
Yeah, Japan is amazing like that.
Yeah, having something in your wallet or something that gives some simple details would be pretty useful. Especially in a crisis situation, someone can grab it out and show it to a Japanese person to explain. “I have a shellfish allergy. If I please call an ambulance”
@distantdrop Have you left WoW for good?! D= Because at this point I could really use a monk healer to close up the raid team we have =[
Those two weeks sorta flew by 😮 I haven’t quit wow just recovering from burning myself out so just tell me the new schedule if anythings changed and ill try to be more active.
If your raiding tomorrow though I plan to go to that Naruto The Last movie at 3pm
We’re running a 16man team that raids on Sat and Sun 2-5PM ST (Syd time effectively). At this point I have every slot and class filled out except for 2 healers which are being incredibly difficult to recruit =@. Moving away from casual raiding to something a little more serious so we can get some solid progression in (hence the 2 days). The guild is 5/7N which is better than expected given most of the guild is brand new and only effectively did our first raid together last weekend.
And finally i’ve implemented a loot system that rewards attendance and awards lower loot priority to players who receive boss drops to help even out that progression and mitigate RNG. Attendance starts fresh for new raiders as of the first day they decide to raid so you’d be safe there if you can’t make it on Sat =]
That said let me know if you reckon you can make it for those raid times; as missing a healer really hits the whole raid =\
@dire_wolf just in case I can tempt you back into two days of raiding =P
Edit: Red please come back!! I need good healers >.< I’ve gone through 2 failed ones so far =P
Obviously this Saturday will be a problem(only airs for two days and I’ve already got the ticket.), should I show up for an hour or just not bother?
Apart from that you should see me on more often, I’m excited 😮
Log on when you get back; im sure we won’t turn away a healer towards the end of the raid night as any pugs or bad heals I have will be rotated out at kor’agh/twins anyways.
It’s a whole new raid team! at this point the goal is to get the group up to scratch and be prepped to take down blackrock in feb. And this time we stay with the progression curve! =@
I guess now I’m two weeks behind on my stones 😮 prob should of logged for a fast lfr, doesn’t matter too much I guess.
I’m still in holiday doing stuff with family mode I’m afraid. Not sure when I’ll be free next as people keep planning stuff and I’m usually the last to hear about it.
So we good on dps? Off-Tank?
I should probably get you guys to add my youngest brother and I to b.net friends so we can be pulled in to fill empty slots on raids. Ark’s a pretty damn handy healer and even though it’s a less-demanded spot, I’m not shabby at tanking (can pretty much solo-tank LFR, know everything except the last guy on normal) …I’m kinda shabby at DPSing, sadly.
Horde only.
You guys on Frostmorne yeah?
Hit me up with your codes on steam or something, solid heals/tanks are always handy.
Nah, we’re on Khaz’goroth. But I’m pretty sure you can invite friends cross realm for raids.
S’pretty much how we used to roll back in our heavier raiding days… Our family guild was only 10-man, but the good gear was 25s, so we just hired ourselves out to fill in gaps on a few other guilds’ raids when they needed.
Trans add me on bnet; I can always use a back up tank and healer especially if both of you know the fights. I plan on having a back up roster of raiders so that we can rotate out raiders under performing in fights and also give people time off from WoW should and when they need it.
We raid on Sat/Sun 2PM to 5PM Sydney time; currently we’re completing fights we’re confident in on Sat and attempting progression raiding on Sun.
Chyrone # one one zero zero (no spaces)I think mine’s Tsquare # 6174. I’m pretty sure that’s the number anyway.
If you’re ever stuck for DPSers, my middle brothers’ hunter is pretty insane, too. I don’t have recount installed, but I do remember Ark whistling at seeing him hit 26k or something. Not that I can be sure if that’s regular, maybe it’s only 16-20 or something normally in dungeons… either way, the fucker has supernatural luck on rolls. 😛
Oh, which reminds me… I only just realized you mentioned a DKP system. I’m happy to fill a slot for kicks and giggles to help out without a shot at loot, just for the experience and the joy of being a Big Damn Hero, but I’m not as sure about the other two. They’d wanna be able to roll for loot or they pretty much don’t see the point of turning up. That said, if you get Ark (heals) into a regular thing, he’s pretty reliable and clockwork, he’d clock up the points pretty fast.
Without normal raiding regularly, I’m sort of relying on crafted/follower missions/salvage yard/apexis upgrades to claw my way up the ilevels. I think Ark and I are both sitting on around 648 now. (Don’t mind that, though… Ark heals above his ilevel.) Although it’s making grinding out old raids/achievements kinda difficult. Even punching bare-knuckled kills most things outright and it’s nearly impossible to die to reset things. 😛
The DKP system wouldn’t extend to flexi raiders unless they have to rotate in for a few a weekends because a fixed raider is away due to irl commitments. That said flexi raiders would only be able obtain 1-2 items per raid (depending on how often they’ve been rotated in or show up online during raid times). That is if a dedicated flexi raider (someone who’s there on a sat/sun and is ready to be swapped in) would be able to walk away with up to 2 drops from HM but beyond that I’d have to cut them off.
The number of drops would be re-evaluated based on raid lockouts and progression obviously, Atm we’re 6/7N 1/7H; effectively 21 loot drops and I’d only be willing to lock away 10-15% of the loot for flexi’s. Once we clear more the amount of loot drops I’d be willing to lock out would increase proportionally; but once again it’s subject to how often the flexi raiders are available to slot in =]
All of this is obviously subject to factors; i.e. if no guild raider wants a loot drop for MS a flexi raider won’t lose a loot point for getting the item. OS loot rolls are outside the loot system and is managed purely by RNG; the same goes for bonus loot rolls. If a flexi raider leaves soon after hitting his 2 limit loot I’ll deck them a loot point for future raids; etc.
That said any loot that a flexi raider rolls on effectively becomes a free roll leaving it up to RNGesus to look out for them. I won’t hold fixed raiders back from rolling on something a flexi raider rolls on based on their loot priority.
It’s a relatively complex system and it usually means I end up missing out on trash pulls after a boss kill however it ensures fairness across the board. So far most of my fixed raiders have been pretty happy with the outcome and even pugs have conceded when they feel they’ve gotten too much loot and happy to pass on a drop. At the end of the day the principle behind the system is to reward players with high attendance; and to even out the RNG loot progression across the board. The results so far show most of my raid team is now 645 ilvl across the board and the few that are 650+ haven’t received much loot to push them too far from the rest of the raid.
Well that sounds very fair. (No-one with realistic expectations really thinks they’ll get 1-2 upgrades in a single run anyway.)
Everyone. I have a matter that requires the esteemed wisdom of you fine folk:
Melee combat or ranged combat in a RPG?
I’m all about the melee. Otherwise, the game mechanics become too easy to exploit with line-of-sight, aggro range, and cheesing strategies. I range combatted my way through Demon’s Souls, and now regret it.
Melee. I like being in the fray.
¿por qué no los dos?
By that I mean, where possible, I carry both melee and ranged weapons.
I adapt to circumstances as required.
Skyrim I played as a conjurer so I could conjure swords and bows when necessary, Dark Souls I used Katana and Bows so dexterity skill was used for both, and in Fallout I stuck to rifles and a knife, I think it was.
I don’t use ranged magic though, or close ranged projectiles (shotguns and such) 😛
I just wish more games made (dual) daggers a more viable option. Usually they’re set up as “baby’s first sword” but I want to use them all the time!
EDIT: To answer the question though… Both! Ranged/Magic to get the first hit and then switch to melee (fast things only, no hammers or heavy things)
Dual claw torchlight build. Get frenzy and be unstoppable
And mah AXE! Two-handed axes to faces is the way!
As long as it’s not 40k. Melee
Why? Vaethril is doing just… Sort of… Maybe… Ok….yeah, I got nothing.
Edit: He’s an excellent distraction.
::P
Hey ranged isn’t that much better, dat collateral damage, all I remember was getting set on fire
Depends on the RPG, my character and their motivations.
If you give me a sniper rifle, I’m all about the ranged
If I’m playing Dub Dub and you let me have a two handed axe, then a 2 handed axe is what I’ll use.
If I’m a crazed orc that think’s his dwarven friend is actually a club, then Garam is what I’ll use.
Ranged! Duh! Someone’s got to make those “pewpew” sound effects! Yes that sound effects applies to all ranged attacks. ALL.
Yes and all the collateral damage that comes with ranged attacks 😛
Dunno, I can’t think of any RPGs I’ve played where that is a thing.
I’ll go melee, because smashy smashy.
I can’t chose between Lundgredolph and Karnath! Why would you make me do that you monster?!
Battletoads?
Almost completely depends on the RPG.
Turn based or action?
Or middle of the road?
Full turn based I’d have a team of all types.
Dragon Age I actually prefer mages.
Skyrim I like swords
Tank.
Oh shit, edit: Unless it’s a Skyrim/Fallout type game… then it’s play the entire game at quarter speed, sneaking everywhere and sniping things in the head from behind, stealing everything that isn’t nailed down and working on the stuff that is, with loot caches held in strategic locations to allow for stockpiling prior to vendor-binges (as soon as they resupply themselves with enough cash to support my kleptomaniac-fencing).
WEEKEND. EVERYBODY PARTY.
This weekend has too much effort involved ;_;
You’re a disgrace to my people, The Weekenders.
Not just them.
Must be Friday, I laughed out loud.
In regards to the amiibos, are some going to be continuously made?
I’m interested in Yoshi, but if Yoshi’s always going to be available I’m not going to preorder him right now.
Any yellow yoshi’s yet? He’s the best one!
Purple!
Green!
Which is normal Yoshi!
WHICH IS GOOD
Ah, Casual Friday. The day where I wear the same clothes as every other day, but I get to pretend that everyone else here has decided to become a little more like me 😛
I greatly dislike moving.
Moving is so fun!
One time when I was little, me and my sister climbed into the fully packed moving truck and said we weren’t coming out (cause we found the couch at the very back), so mum shut us in and drove 30 minutes to the new house with us in the back 😀
We were almost crushed! 😀
Parenting!
One time, she pretended to be dead!
Like, really pretended to be dead :\
I dragged her off the couch and yelled in her ear and everything, and she didn’t even flinch.
I was freaking out.
She got me good!
I was 8! 😀
This sounds quite morbid, but it’s just my family :3
Ok, to counteract all this “bad parenting” I’ll give a story from the other perspective.
One time me and my other sister told my mum that we had a competition to see who could eat the most panadol. We then pretended like we weren’t feeling well, clutching our stomachs.
She freaked out! 😀
We were 10 and 13! 😀
Reply Fail.
Ah, one of the annoying things about watching YouTube on the PS4 is being asked to create a YouTube account for all Sony’s video content. I just want to watch this The Last of Us behind-the-scenes without giving all my personal details to Google, guys. >:|
My google plus account has all the details of my pathfinder character in it. Doesn’t have to be yours.
DC: History’s greatest monster.
Give them someone else’s details?
Or use the Web browser to access YouTube, and watch those videos through there maybe?
It’s the persistent detail they’ll be collecting not the upfront stuff. Like my browsing habits. All those shirtless men. I mean. I… I gotta go.
They just want to tailor videos to your habits.
Think of all the Ryan Gosling videos they’ll recommend 😉
Google is everywhere on the internet, though. EVERYWHERE. Call me paranoid, but once I get an account it’s not just YouTube. It will follow me around. My maps. My google searches. All kinds of stuff they already collect from me… BUT I’M NOT GONNA MAKE IT EASIER FOR THEM. 😛
What if Google starts pointing out singles in your area?
THIS IS HOW YOU MEET PEOPLE DC!
Here’s a weird and off-putting thing. For a while now I’ve been getting ads for older singles dating. LOVE AGAIN. I don’t know why. The only websites I go to are film, TV and game related. Don’t know what they’re using for that targetted advertising. Maybe it’s a subtle burn. YOU LIKE STUFF THAT OLD PEOPLE LIKE ON YOUTUBE. THE WEST WING CLIPS? OLD!
We all know those aren’t the only websites you go to…
I don’t want to know what you’re into to get ads for old people dating, but whatever floats your boat, man, I don’t judge 😛
Ever since I clicked that link Freezy put up about his Fallout purse (man-bag, I kid, I kid…), I keep getting ads about that bag :\
I get a fair few dating ones too though, luckily mine are for people my age 😛
(still would never click them though, but it is less creepy)
I get those ones as well!
I also used to get Christian Mingle ones.
I don’t think the internet has that good a grasp on who I am.
Do they even do “singles in your area” ads anymore?
Or are there just no singles in my area?
Maybe they don’t want half of Sydney suddenly getting pregnant.
Yeah, that’s why I stopped using my youtube account. Pissed me off to no end that once I signed in on youtube, I would be signed in on google and maps and everything. Um, no. I signed up for youtube and youtube only. Go away.
Fuck google. Dicks.
Oh man, now I’m a Gooky-like technophobe! 😛
I <3 you!
*hair-flick*
I look at porn in another browser
I was a little freaked out when an accidental swipe of my phone told me what the weather would be like today, and how long it should take me to get from home to work with the traffic as it is at the moment.
Would it help if I stopped sending so many?
#shirtlessfordc
I don’t know why you started doing that. 😛
I don’t know why I stopped.
They age gate some YouTube stuff in browser too
Plus once you start YouTubing on PS4 you never go back. Streams well. Looks good. And I get to be on my couch. 😀
Personal details?
My name is Peter Parker
It doesn’t matter if they have my real name or not, they’ll still have a ‘profile’ of me and my interweb behavior. 😀
I’m feeling like I’ve overthought this. 😛
You’re assuming they don’t already…
Nah, I know they do, but this makes it easier. 😛
My son uses my account, so I’m a really big Shin Megami Tensei fan & a really big fan of videos where people open & play with Cars®
I gave up trying to keep stuff from Google…
One day just went: Fuck it. Have everything Mr. Google.
Up to my eyeballs in Google product…
*floats away on a stream of tracking cookies and personal data*
Yeah, every now and then I get asked for WAY too much information on various webforms and I stare at it for a little while and shrug, having a Winston Smith moment. I accept Big Brother into my life. No, not that one, that’s mind poison.
We had that printed on the crew t-shirts.
“Various Webforms”
It was an inside joke. 😛
@redartifice @SerNobulus @negativezero @beeawwb @gingerchris86
Going to say we’ll postpone Fiasco to next Friday. Will probably work better.
Okey dokey.
cool
Coolo
@gutsoup I also dislike multiplayer trophies in primarily single player games.
Like tomb raider
One day, when I am God-Emperor of Mankind, the last bastion against the Wailing Doom that threatens to engulf us all… among the first who I will sacrifice to its insatiable maw will be anyone responsible for multiplayer trophies.
Same here, I got all the trophies in Tomb Raider except the multiplayer stuff. They should make them not count towards platinum like DLC ones, at least that way folks can keep them, I don’t mind them in some games but others it can just be hard to find someone who wants to play the same game at the same time (mainly mean co op ones).
Stretch Fighter & Tekken, I don’t like it, but I can except.
At least in the Tekken I got a platinum in they just needed you to compete in a certain number of matches and not have to win cause that shit comes down to luck online, sometimes you just fight crazy dudes that combo you to death.
Yeah, but on Xbox & PS4 that shit is locked behind a subscription now.
It should be “beat x matches online or local” at least
There exist people in the world without strong net connection.
So today I went and pre-ordered one of those Monster Hunter 3DS’s. I’ve wanted a bigger screen on my 3DS for ages (since I got it) and could never justify buying an XL, but I figured a cool looking special edition new 3DS is worth it sorta! So yay!
In any normal world I would have jumped on a Zelda anything, but something about the Majoras Mask special edition just didn’t seem right and I don’t (IMO) think it looks anywhere near as good as the MH one… Probably easier to resell on Ebay though which is where I imagine quite a few of them will end up.
I saw a few pre-orders for the MM one sell on eBay last night for $400+ already :/
At that point it was still available to purchase at JB for $250.
People, man :'(
Fridaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!
Tomorrow I have to drive to Bowral, for Pillowmaker’s play. I hope to find a goat or two somewhere along the way, because photo.
Sunday I have to help move this friggen hulk of a piano out to a garden in Glenbrook. I am going to need a towel. Or five. It is going to suck.
I have to go to Nowra! I win!
3 and a half hours of travelling just to go to a housewarming… 😛
More than an hour’s travel means we both lose 😛
…yeah…
I get to return to Canberra… Uh, I don’t know which day. One of the next two days.
Finally, I’ll be able to sit in my room playing games instead of sitting on the recliner playing games!
Yeah Goats!
xfinity.comcast.net/slideshow/news-theworldshappiestcountries/8/
Bizarrostralia
Hm. Trust our ‘government agencies’, but not our politicians who call themselves government, maybe?
Keep telling yourself that 😛
If Australia has plentiful internet connectivity by their standards… yeesh. Poor Comcast customers.
I uh.. Huh, is this for real?
HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
The HR person who looks after the graduate program (which I’m a part of) called me today to ask if I was interested in going interstate.
No idea what positions are available yet but Perth was mentioned (;_;) as well as Sydney. Sydney or Brisbane would be my preferences though but I guess I could go to Perth again… maybe…
And if that does happen, Perth people, could we like organise a thing where there’s more than 2 of us at a place at any given time? I attended 3 “Perth meats” with 3 different people! 😛
HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!
You can have a Perth Meat in Sydney pretty easily. Just don’t organise anything ;D
HUH?
I know a really nice spot we could go for lunch… 😀
!ABORT MISSION!
STAY IN HOUSE FOREVER.
Once I went out to lunch with Liondrive and look what happened to me! D:
You Goddamn enjoyed Max Brenners, and I have pictures to support my claim! >:O
I’m going to take you back there if I ever visit again! >:P
Max Brenner doesnt do lunch food. Five Bar in Perth does really good food though.
Chocolate is an every time food!
You win this round
You became more handsome?
Hey Liondrive, let’s have lunch!
Is it bad I chuckled?
I’m hoping because you said the joke it’s okay…….
It’s okay….?
Right?
It’s fine! 😀
Geez DC, way to make us all get awkward over what we say. It’s like you didn’t even consider us at all 😛
For realsies though, I’ll hang with you.
It’s not an out of pity thing, promise! 😀
Brisbane people are always up for hanging!
@mrtaco achieved the TAY goal, now I want to too!
First you’re trying to avoid calling Nintendo, then you’re trying to meet DC.
STOP TRYING TO BE ME!
*shaves head and puts hair everywhere else on body*
you then also need to get a gay porn doppelganger
OH GOD.
*glues hair back on head*
@mrtaco ius is no more.
I’ll visit every other year (true)
MUNSTER
Is a suburb in Perth, yes.
@dc
😀
LAIKA TIME! *flails arms*
But but, you’re no where near my puppy 😛
The C stands for Creeper!
https://twitter.com/hermitdc/status/555880789758337024
Hahahahahaha brilliant! Absolutely brilliant! Reminds me a bit too much of Sughly’s creepy Postman 😛
Amazing photo of my wife.
Ben thought she looked thoroughly creeped out about the guy behind her. 😛 Let me know if you want me to delete! 🙂
I am the greetest phootographer! \o/
I leave for America in the morning, I let my daughter take my 3Ds to her Grandparents with her so she could play Zelda, but now I can’t find my PSV’s charger. Panic stations!
It was in your heart all along!
And by that I mean enjoy the cruise! Don’t make eye contact the scary metal fans or the scary metal fan reflection in the mirror! D:
STRANGE WAS THE MONSTER ALL ALONG
What about the scary metal band members? Can I make eye contact with them?
You might get lost in them and that would be all on you, Strangey.
I’m serious, DC! How can I play Persona if I can’t charge my Vita!?!!! D:
Amateur one woman stage show?
I’m a little concerned about this comment…
Me too! D:
Huh?
Ooooooooh. Now I see what you mean.
Nothing suss
3rd party chargers are ok priced at eb
Luckily all metal festivals on a cruise ship have EBs built in! 😛
Brutal Legend taught me that the charge generated from rocking out will be enough to power the vita.
Well there’s always Gamestop in the states who sell a USB cable, adapter & cigarette adapter in a pack for 7 bucks US 😛
You could maybe buy one in the states? But then again you may want it for the plane trip.. So I guess it’s pointless me suggesting that?
You are correct. but everyone reminding me I can buy one in America is helpful for the way back. Unless it’s different voltage or something. 😛
Americans use 120v we use 240v, buuuuut, this day and age the majority of power adapters sold do both voltages with out an issue, it’s just something i’d recommend finding out before purchase, the cheap ones may only support 120v.
@greenius whatever comment you made to me at 6:59 is done gone.
Or TAY is taking me to the wrong place :-/
*shrug*
*shrug*
*shrug*
*shurg*
*¯\_(ツ)_/¯*
*chug*
*sigh* the vertical stand I bought for my PS4 (the official Sony one) does two things, lets me use my PlayStation 4 in a vertical stance & secondly restrict air flow to the vents causing the fan to run at max load at all times. I took the stupid thing off and put it back in a horizontal position didn’t even get to the point where the fan needed to create a fuss. That’s grounds for a refund, right?
Ha ha! Suckerrrrrrrrrr
Err, right.
This is my 2000th comment. It feels just like every other.
This is my 19508th comment. It feels like I should probably be more productive with my time.
22575th
31224th
9025th, damn i’m surprised it’s that many D=
🙁 all the sideshows announced for Soundwave artists so far are Melbourne & Sydney only, this makes me sad since one of them is Steel Panther & Slash, and the other is Judas Priest, I was pretty excited for a Slash sideshow up here D=
Which TAYbie is it who loves Judas Priest? @mrtaco was it you?
Judas Priest sideshow is Brisbane, not Melbourne. With Dragonforce….
Oh right, some reason I read that as Melbourne o.O
*spins around on floor*
Here’s a link to tickets! http://premier.ticketek.com.au/shows/show.aspx?sh=JUDASPRI15&v=NMO
Man I don’t know where to pick. Or what to do. Or. UM.
Brisbane!!!!!
Well if I really wanted to I could do both sidewaves and stay in Brisbane for the main thing 😛
Thinking I might do Sydney for the sidewave and still see if my friend wants to hang for the weekend up there.
With that post though I was mainly talking about the choice between seating and standing 😛
And now I’ve somehow got two extra tickets in my basket that I can’t get rid of without signing up first. Wtf is this?
Everyone know you go for standing and RUN for the barrier for any gig of a band you’re a big fan of. Unless you’re over all the bullshit that comes with such a position 😛
I’m not everyone 😛
I find myself leaning more towards the seated for the sidewave. Can better watch and listen from there without being disturbed. Then try for the barrier at soundwave I guess, get a hand at each.
Yes. More Gooky, more of the time!
I never got this kind of enthusiasm when I visited :'(
<\3
😛
You were here for like a solid week where I saw you every day. 😛
@dc
Are you saying you’re sick of me?! D’:
Haha, nah, just that we made the time count. Gooky I only saw for a few hours. 🙂
It was actually a few days, you were just too drunk to remember more than a few hours.
D:
Seating is up to Row E… which still seems alright. I mean I was right up the back of downstairs there for Living End and it was still pretty great. But. HNG.
Let’s play Hungry Hungry Hippos.
I imagine that’s what it’s be like in standing. Heads ramming at each other, balls flying everywhere…
hnrghhh now I’m all restless waiting for next week about the news of my future and life and everything omg!
HNGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
*twiddles thumbs*
Let’s play Hungry Hungry Hippos.
If I’m in Sydney, sure!
If not then this is a missed opportunity :'(
Surely there’s an online one now. Must have its own esports scene too.
Come to Perth, little Green 😉
You know you want to spend time with me ;D
Haha! It’s like we’re all giving Olympic city-like pitches for who will host the next Greenius.
I was more teasing cause I know he hates Perth 😛
It’s not the worst place though. I mean, you get to hang with ol’Liondrive, after all 😉
Eye candy counts for something, right?! :O
Yeah, which is probably why you want me to come back to Perth all the time! Look, as good looking as I am, the rest of the country needs to see me.
Sharing is caring.
What can I say, I like what I saw 😉
*wolf whistles*
I can change you, little Green 😉
You guys can have him.
You guys already have the infrastructure though!
No, don’t give him away so easily! The shambling corpse of the Sydney gang could use a replacement limb or two.
You guys need a bunch of fresh faced new edgy characters. Possibly with angst! AND SKATEBOARDS!
Hey hey hey, I think it’s pretty clear Perth needs the new faces >:(
It’s only me and @phlanispo who go to Perth meats these days!
(I <3 U Phlanisbro)
<3
Although I did miss two meats in a row…
I’ve got a scar from skateboarding!
But who knows where he’s been.
Well, can we at least have a reality show to find someone else? Sydney’s Next Top TAYbie?
“I came here to be number #1!”
The first photoshoot theme? Barnyard.
How about we all chip in and buy him a one way ticket to Darwin?
Let him be someone else’s problem! 😀
._.
…
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Stop making up places.
I used to live in Darwin! :O
Wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy :'(
Let’s ship @greenius there! 😀
I’ve tried contacting the merchandise company, i’ve tried contacting the artist on Facebook & Twitter but i’ve been shunned off each time with either no response or a reply that doesn’t answer anything..
A year ago I pre-ordered a limited edition fan pack from an artist (Wednesday 13, ex-Murderdolls singer) which included some cool stuff, was mostly after the two albums that came with it. It was meant to ship come June 1 2014. I thought awesome it’ll be at home for me by the time I get back from my Melbourne/Tasmania trip 2 weeks later. I was mistaken, I let it slide. Come August still nothing, so I contacted them via Twitter, Facebook & his Merch site which he co-runs with I presume management. I got a response on Facebook, which answered basically nothing, all I was told the shirts were misprinted, no ETA on when to expect anything, I didn’t even get a reply to my follow up to my following question. I let it go for a few months, decided I was sick and tired of being given the run around and sent another email to the merchandise company FROM my order which was still reading “awaiting fulfillment” and nothing had been posted on the website stating an issue with these orders, since a few others also chipped in on the Facebook post I posted on his official page. A month ago I emailed the merchandise company AGAIN, a month later still nothing, order still sitting as “awaiting fulfillment” at this point i’m feeling pretty pissed off that an artist who i’ve been a fan of for 10+ years, seen live several times, whom I own all musical releases on disc & DVD, and several other bits of merchandise is being a total dick to fans like this.
Credit card transaction? Paypal?
Visa debit, so direct from my bank acc. Would’ve preferred paypal to be quite honest.
If you want your money back just lodge a dispute with your bank with ‘items not received’. Merchant has 45 days to respond, and if they don’t do anything money just goes back to your account.
Just got a response from the artist on Facebook asking to email them, so gonna do that and see how that goes.
This shouldn’t be making me so damn happy.
😀
Oh man I love that song. Their song I Am A Cider Drinker is pretty awesome too 😛
Just been listening to Orion by Metallica, and it got me thinking, what are some are some other instrument only pieces of the modern era that are actually good. I couldn’t really think of much, I guess because the bands I listen to mostly don’t do much of the instrumental thing..
Living End have done a couple. Oasis did some. Apocalyptica did tonnes. Chemical Brothers. I dunno, maybe these are not your taste.
The Living End are, but don’t recall any apart from Eboogie off the top of my head 😛
Their first album had an instrumental track. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF_aRF_Rre4
Why I didn’t think of it, is beyond me 😛
I saw these on sbs last night, and just had to make them (I already had pork and wrappers)
http://www.sbs.com.au/food/recipes/pancake-style-pork-dumplings-okonomiyaki-style-pork-and-shiso-gyoza
Making dumplings is always so nice and therapeutic and repetitive. http://instagram.com/p/x6JgNYASVO/?modal=true
I saw that too!!! So yummmmm looking!!!
My folding skills were rusty. The first half a dozen were a bit rough.
Edit: and putting otafuku sauce + Mayo + katsuobushi on gyoza is a such great idea. So much tasty!
I hope when you say mayo, you mean Kewpie!
Of course. I even have the special squeezie bottle.
Rockin! I’m totally jealous!!!!
Whenever I’ve made them I’ve just used pre-made jiaozi wrappers rather than screwing around making my own. But his recipe looked identical to the way I’ve done them when I have time. They’re easy and pretty fun but time-consuming to fold them all. Last time I made like 80 of them and froze a bunch.
Honestly dumping okonomi sauce, mayo and bonito over it sounds unappetizing to me. Those flavours would drown out the gyoza.
I guess it depends a lot on how much you like okonomi sauce. I certainly wouldn’t serve them this way as a default, but it was a fun variation. The end result was good – you could still taste the pork and cabbage in the dumplings – they were tastier than takoyaki, for example. (but okonomiyaki is still the dinner winner).
For some reason I’ve had a lot of japanese cravings this week. Made cold udon with tempura vegies earlier. Must be the hot weather.
Okay… Monster Hunter multiplayer was pretty fun…MONSTER
NICE WORK!
Ugh, WHY DID THEY GET RID OFF GOOD JOB!?
@sughly !
Bought Pokémon Typing Adventure today (the DS one with the keyboard).
The keyboard’s quite nice, a little small but otherwise good.
Problem is that it looks like it’s not compatible with anything else, though I haven’t checked. If it connects to an iPad, that would be cool.
The game itself is supposed to teach you how to type using pokémon names, if I can type well by the end of it (and proper typing, not 2-fingers), than it’ll be good. At the moment, it’s progressing really fast.
…Pokémon’s become something entirely else in this day and age, huh.
I learnt to type good from WoW.
kek
Had an ingrown nail in my finger, casually pulled it out with my teeth.
HARDCORE!
You’re crazy man
Now do it when you get one in your toe 😛
Did it a couple of years ago, that’s why it got infected. :\
Hmm. Just realised all the seats are upstairs, I thought it was half up half down.
What
All the seat are upstairs.
He thought it was half up half down.
Ohhh
It’s a metaphor about the after life. All the seats are in heaven so if you go to hell take a seat.
I thought it was a compromise on the toilet situation.
A youtuber I occasionally watch got a Ferret recently and named it pixel. @pixel_the_ferret_viking
Offer to send him tiny ferret-sized viking costumery.
Or at least post a comment suggesting that he purchase/make some.
Mr. Strange got out of bed at 5am-ish. And woke me up in the process. We don’t need to leave until 7:30am. I think it’s possible he’s excited for 70000 Tons Of Metal. 😀
Maybe, but let’s not rule out bladder issues.
They are VERY old.
I just dreamt I found an out of the way big w/target type shshop with a few N64, magazines drive & master system games….in thefridge.
My hair had also suddenly become long again (this is a recurring element of my dreams)
Was it because of the excitement of finding the games?
He said hair!
Nah, just a random moment
I wish I dreamed.
Keep dreaming! 😛
But they’re pretty good until you have a good one and wake up and realise it was just a dream and then 🙁Or those dreams where you “wake up” and get ready for the day only to ACTUALLY wake up and realise that was just a dream and you have to get ready in the morning TWICE. Just the worst.
I dreamed that I was the voice of reason in a post apocalyptic society who insisted the drinking water bucket should not be next to the toilet bucket. They wouldn’t listen. Idiots.
But what if I get thirsty while pooping? What then DC? What then?
Can’t argue with that logic.
For srs, or joking?
Serious. I either don’t dream at all or never have any memory of it.
Wow. Damn. On the plus side, though, I guess you don’t have to worry about nightmares.
I tell ya… no-one can hand-craft your own custom personal hell any better than your own asshole subconscious.
My mind is pretty good at doing that to me while I’m awake.
From wwhat I’ve heard everyone dreams & it is just a matter of remembering or not.
When I was smoking something green often, I mostly didn’t remember dreams.
I lived with a guy who smoked weed since he was ten, he tried quitting while I lived with him & had his first dream in 15 years & freaked the fuck out.Suprisingly prophetic dream, as in it another friend had a massive beard which he didn’t at the time but does now.
What are you implying Jim?
I didn’t mean to, just came to mind.
Why, do you?
Man me too!
you wish you had hair like me Jimu san! 😉
I have two and a half hours on the train today to try and beat the Monster Hunter demo.
If I don’t then the game is terrible and I hate it.
I don’t know if Georgette can handle the Gorey Magz
Then you don’t know Georgette.
I really can’t stop thinking about this interstate thing :P. I mean, if it doesn’t happen yet that’s fine because things are starting to get good at work. I think I’ve found my “group” of peeps and I’ve just started a movie watching thing with work peeps, with a possible board games thing happening in the future! Board/card games are fun but I only play them like once a year at PAX 😛 (PLEASE ORGANISE MORE THINGS MELBOURNE PEOPLE!)
But it’ll be nice to move out for a bit and I’d be more inclined if it’s a temporary thing since I wouldn’t have to commit for such a long period. I don’t really want to go to Perth but I have a feeling it’ll be Perth :P. I don’t know why “Perth” gives me the UGHs but I dunno… I mean I guess I know SOME people in Perth.
I think I’d prefer Sydney/Brisbane because of the TAY peeps I haven’t met (at least in Bris) and they seem to do more things together. It’s also closer to home and isn’t Perth :P.
STOP DOING THAT .GIF DANCE TAYLOR SWIFT!
I want to invite people over to my house for cludeo/CAH but then I remember my brother might be there.
We need to do more board game/card games things in Brisbane.
How about the 31st at my place?
Post-election meat? Could be fraught… could also be exactly what we need. 🙂 I’d be game.
Make a drinking game based around the voting tally coverage?
Oh right, the 31st is election day for you poor souls. Ours is this year sometime, hoping I can work it again, since they pay alright for the days work.
I’d be happy to host a little game day at my place on the aus day weekend if anyone’s keen! I applied to get the 23rd off so I’ll have a 4 day weekend!
Even if people just wanna grab some lunch on Sat 24th or something. There’s a ramen place at Sunnybank I’ve been keen to try since I discovered it! Anyone interested in some ramen with me?
Would be but I work Saturday days.
well I’m happy to do ramen on sunday. just have to check if they’re open. I’d assume they would be, but will find out
Looks like they are open Sundays. 11:30 – 2:30 and 5:00-8:30 according to one page I found. They don’t seem to have a site of their own, but I managed to find a blog which shows a pic of some of their menu at least!
http://uglyfoodisgreat.blogspot.com.au/2014/07/ramen-champion.html
I’m happy with any day over that weekend except monday really, as that’s my sis’s b’day, so if people wanna post if they wanna go, and preference of day, we’ll go from there!
That’s….. Not a very positive review…
@freezespreston I know it’s not the most glowing review, but that’s just the opinion of one person. I never let a review scare me off trying somewhere unless there’s tons saying the same thing. I’ve seen a few people give it 5 stars on other sites, but not written anything, so hard to tell which way it could go. That makes it worth trying for myself to find out for sure!
That sounds pretty good, I supposed it depends when everyone else is available.
Perth isn’t so bad, little Green.
Like, yeah, everywhere else (except Darwin) is better, and have more TAYbies, but Perth isn’t that bad.
You can hang with me whenever if you end up here for a bit, if you want. I’ll even try and find stuff for us to do (that doesn’t involve gay clubs (even though it was only going to be for lunch!))!
Pretty sure if you really don’t want to come here, they can’t force you to though :\
Yeah, they won’t force anything, but I’ll take it up anyway (if it’s temporary). It’ll be a move out of home and live on my own experiment that’ll be kinda paid for, so I can’t complain 😀
And I’m counting on @thecracks to graciously organise some Monster Hunting sessions :P. Maybe even a @phoenix Survivor marathon too! ;D
Oh, I get it…
No love for Ol’Liondrive…
It’s ok…
I didn’t even want to hang or anything…
:'(
I’m playing plain hard to get.
Playing hard to get will only end one way, Green.
With you in love with me 😉!ABORT MISSION!
STAY IN HOUSE FOREVER AND EVER.
You know it’s already too late.
Survivor!
Any job can be temporary, nothing stopping you from finding another & moving on.
Don’t be scared, embrace the opportunity, live your life to it’s fullest!
I’m loving this job, so no issues with the job itself. It’s more the uncertainty and having to wait until Tuesday (or later) to find out what will happen *twiddles thumbs*
Since if I was moving it’ll be in early March I thought about missing out on Type-0 and Bloodborne :P. Moving will be a bit annoying. Do I take everything? Do I take some stuff? I don’t wanna miss out on games! My PC! My monitors!
I might just be a portable “Blitzpooper” like you.
If you actually move for at east a year, I wouldn’t see it being unreasonable dragging a lot over.
Maybe get a gaming laptop instead of taking a while set-u though.
I’ve also got a few board games ^_^
Don’t fall into the comfort trap, travel as much as you can while you can. Minute you settle down, that shit goes on hold for everything else.
I’ve already travelled a fair bit with work, living it up on the company card 😛
I’d probably accept it either way cause most things will be paid for (just gotta read the terms of the contract n stuff first) 😀
Whatever helps me to end up working in Germany and finding a sexy German wife 😛
So if anyone wants it I have a Steam code for the closed beta of Evolve going free
C3LZY-06VI6-YZZ98
So it’s up for grabs for who ever wants it.
*sigh* the fuck is wrong with people.. She also apparently put a live cat/s in with the snake/s.
MONSTER HUNTER!
Nah like for real though, if you have any questions feel free to ask them! (@powalen @freezespreston)
It looks like we’re succeeding in converting Pow to become ONE OF US :D. It’s a great series once you get into it but I know the beginning can be a bit of a drag, especially when you don’t know what’s going on. It helps to have the knowledge and buddies!
*glares at @sughly*
*sees 1 comment from Greenius*
…this is going to be about monster hunter isnt it
Fine.
ANIMAL CROSSING!
WOOO YEAH!
Animal Crossing
…is in Monster Hunter
PERFECT SEGUE EXECUTION.
Nooo, perfect wouldve been with Danganronpa. I told you, AC is only a 5-10 minute pre Danganronpa game these days!
edit: ohhhh I just watched the video. omg. ok… maybe ill give that demo a try after all…
Dangan comes and goes, but AC has lasted YEARS! 😀
There’s something about people demanding refunds for early access games that really irritates me. IT’S NOT THE FINAL GAME AND YOU’RE GETTING SOMETHING THAT ISN’T SET IN STONE YET! IT CLEARLY STATES THAT!
In my experience people are idiots.
What he said.
If this is about the H1Z1 thing, they have a reason.
The developers stated that there wouldn’t be pay-to-win mechanics, and upon it’s early access steam release yesterday, it had pay-to-win mechanics.
They bought something on the premise that there wouldn’t be something in the game, when there was, which is false advertising and grounds for a refund, I’d say.
For anything else, then I agree.
It’s still early access. People don’t like it then it’s removed and updated. If it was in the final release than yeah get upset. Far as I’m concerned buying into early access removes your right to get angry or demand anything. Communicate to the developer your thoughts and let it evolve. That’s the whole freaking point.
Fair enough.
Yeah.. the whole idea of early access is so you can help them to make a better game by providing useful feedback and extra funds to keep development going. I don’t understand how anyone who purchased early access can justify asking for money back, unless the project just goes dead for 6 months or something, then it might be understandable. As long as the devs keep pumping out updates or progress reports etc, people should shut the fuck up and wait for a finished product!
There’s a reason why I don’t buy Early Access games anymore.
Which is probably the same reason I never did. Well, aside from the bit where you burn out on the game long before the actual release.
Majora steelbox secured!
…except now I’m screwed because the EB guy lied to me and I can’t get my nXL preorder transferred to another store like I asked when putting down for it, so now I gotta get into the city too. Ugh.
He’s lied to you there. They can do it. He won’t because then he loses the sale. Call head office to complain and they’ll do it immediately.
I know it can be done because I purchased a game here on the Gold Coast and got it collected in Canberra by @shane.
This. So much this. If his KPI’s mean that much to him, then I don’t think he should be in such a customer service role.
MM 3DS may actually be a special case since I’ve heard some of the store allocations are getting a bit squiffy (to the point people are getting bad news phone calls from some stores) – it may not be possible to just transfer to a store with exhausted allocation.
Entirely possible. Still, I’d be confirming that higher up if it was going to be a drama to pick it up.
I dunno, it was the guy at the store I wanted to transfer it to that told me that, so I think he would only have had something to gain out of it rather than lose.
But yeah, was planning on calling up anyway just to see if there was anything they could do on their end.
Ughhhhhhhhhhh I think my phone’s on the way out, in classic Windows Phone style :l Yesterday my phone was fully charged (keep in mind that it’s a Nokia phone so I only need to charge it like once or twice a week usually), ended up being on the phone for almost 4 hours (can I also point out how sore my arm is today), then the call cut out and my phone died and wouldn’t turn on for 5 minutes after plugging it in. So I left it to fully charge again and when I got up today it was almost empty again. Even if I’m on the phone for only 2 or 3 hours it usually only makes a dent in the battery.
It’s the exact same thing that happened to my HTC Mozart before it completely cracked the shits. It’s not the battery, either. Thankfully I own an ipod touch and facetime is a thing 😛
Sure you can 😉
Noooooo, I was innocently talking to Oliver 😛
It was kindddda awkward though when we switched to Facetime and I thought I’d switch to video and he was wearing not much because he was ‘hot’ 😛Yeah he was ;D
I object to you twisting my damning phone death story, Mr Gooky, that’s @liondrive’s job 😛
Hey it’s not my fault you guys share such an adorable relationship 😛
Beniver.
Benny and Ollie
😛
Shoosh you 😛
Try turning off anything you don’t use regularly and see if that helps.
e.g. if you don’t use bluetooth often, turn that off.
If you only use wifi at night, turn it off during the day.
Turn the brightness down if you can.
So Tomb Raider is pretty cool.
I’m actually really enjoying using the voice controls to switch weapons.
It doesn’t feel gimmicky at all.
Kinda makes it morevawesome, if anything :3
Pretty sure the base camp menu is going to put me into a seizure though. Every time I change the menu or select something there’s this blinding white flash that really hurts my eyes :\
Seems like such an obvious bad decision :\
Do you need a camera thing to do voice commands?
I presumed my official Sony headset would work, but nope.
I always have the camera plugged in, so maybe.
I’ll test it next time I play with the headset in and the camera out for you 🙂
I didn’t buy a camera. Too pricey for me ( the headset was a gift)
Buying a new TV soon was going to go with Samsungs UA55HU8500 https://www.jbhifi.com.au/tv-home-entertainment/hd-televisions/samsung/samsung-ua55hu8500-55-ultra-hd-smart-3d-led-lcd-tv/552573/ but I’ve been reading the input lag is pretty terrible on it, 72ms in game mode? I’m not sure how that compares to others, Does anyone have this TV, I previously had a UE46D7000 which was 33ms in game mode apparently but I don’t like using game mode, having it on ‘clear’ in Motion Plus seemed to make it play sweet, any help would be appreciated.
Hey man, was good having a beer last week. Any luck with the J.O.B?
Hey man how you been? Got a second interview this week, account manager for a web design company, fingers crossed. Ended up changing to internode, should have a tv and internet soon, what you been up to?
Monster Hunter 4.
SO BEAUTIFUL.
SO BEAUTIFUL.
Ok, screw it. Seated. Upstairs, row E. It’ll be fine.
You say that now…
Well I know it’ll be a million miles closer than we were for Queen. And that was awesome enough.
Low standards, better-perceived results 😛
WORDS TO LIVE BY!
Because I had the Majora steelcase preordered, eb actually called me to see if I wanted the New 3DS.
Best service I’d had from them in over 5 years!
WHAT! The MM one or just a normal New 3DS?
What would be the point of calling someone with a Zelda pre-order to tell them about a ssystem already out?
To make an instant sale? I’m under the impression that the MM New 3DS XL is sold out everywhere so didn’t think they’d to that for that specific console. Lucky you anyway 😀
Thought you weren’t getting it though cause of Type-0 Expensive Edition?
Oh, I missed the call. It’s gone.
Just rang the number asking who it was expecting a gardener.
Things I didn’t expect to be coming back that are:
1. Cooking Mama (6th March)
2. Gardening Mama (6th March)
3. Rockband (there’s a survey by the developers floating around about a new Rockband game)
\o/
Don’t spose anyone has a MH4U demo code still spare they could chuck my way?
sharppointyobject(at)liveDOTcomDOTauSent 🙂
Thanks man!
Pre-ordered the Order: 1886! \o/
I don’t know if I heard the guy right, but I think he mentioned upgrading me from the limited edition to the collectors edition for free, or something!
Hopefully, but I’m happy either way 🙂
The Order! Woooo! *flails arms*
Freezey got me EB credit for my birthday. Been weighing up what to get. Maybe something like Dying Light. Hmmm. HMMMMM. HMMMMMMMMMM.
I’m waiting for reviews and impressions on Dying Light first. Looks alright, but hasn’t grabbed me like the Order has 😀
Yeah, same here. I just figure that I was already getting The Order so I should be a bit more impulsive or experimental with money I hadn’t allocated to other stuff. Maybe. Will wait for reviews for sure. No shortage of games that week either with Grim Fandango and Life is Strange.
I’m still “eh” about Grim Fandango *dodges tomatoes*
I never played the original (too young!), and don’t know anything about it. I’ll pick it up because of all the hype around here for it, but I have no idea what to expect from it :\
Yeah, I got original Grim Fandango when I was 13, so I can see how you might have been too young. 😛
Damn my youth!
*shakes fist*
Sometimes I wish I was just that little bit older :’P
Nah!
@dc
Not like, old old, but maybe about 25! 😀
25 would be a good age to be 🙂
Nah.
Haha! There’s always gonna be something you miss out on or feel like you were just too young for. That’s just the way it goes. If you were a few years older you’d still feel that way about stuff. 😛
@dc
Nah!
25 would be good! 😀
No point worrying about it though, not like there’s anything to do about it 😛
We should totes make a Kids Play series featuring Liondrive.
Dude you’re not that young 😛
If you like something with style, an amazing soundtrack and a compelling story then you’ll like Grim. I acquired it a few years ago and loved it.
Younger than you, little Green 😛
The thing is, I don’t play many PC games, and play even fewer old games 😛
That’s why a hd console remake suits me well 🙂
Did you see the Kotaku article? The game play kinda reminded me of Dead Island but not in a good way 🙁 there were barely zombies and kinda boring!
A New 3DS XL! 😀
So… Mittagong, hey?
But why?
Mittengong?
Always so cryptic, Gooky 😛
Unless I missed something? :O
No, I have no idea what he’s on about too but just to be safe.
*grabs popcorn*
I’m going to guess he is in Mittagong, a town in Southern NSW, near Bowral..
@mrtaco am I right?
Correct.
I don’t “get” country towns :p
Nor do I.. Usually full of weird folk who aren’t very accepting to outsiders. Well at least the ones i’ve been to.
Because of the fine collection of sandstone buildings dating from the early years of European settlement in the mid-19th century.
My parents live in one of those! Late 1870s most likely when it was built.
My mum and dad live there. Very pretty.
It’s hot.
That is all.
^ That’s how you gain more confidence. :{D
Oh man, the quiz of Destiny Guns vs Swedish Metal bands over on Polygon.
So glorious. Totally made my internet.
Freya and I just tried it, we did poorly.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1511431587/michaels-house-from-gta5-real-life-build
…
I… Don’t even…
Hahaha, oh no.
Personally I want Trevors trailer & meth lab/liquor store/petrol station built..
http://www.gog.com/game/grim_fandango_remastered
O_O
…. Take…my…money….
Also, Shadow of Mordor is $20 on G2A.
Well… if you insist…
*pulls out $50 from your wallet*
Thanks!
You should buy Grim Fandango with that!
That sounds like an excellent idea!
Watched the Naruto The Last in the theater today, probably the longest Naruto movie I’ve seen; must of ran for exactly two hours don’t worry I won’t say anything to spoil it, according to reel anime tomorrow would be the last day it screens in the Cinemas so if your a anime fan you should consider checking if its screening near you.
Apart from that I enjoyed myself, they were also handing out posters but I knew I’d probably keep if for a year than throw it out so I didn’t grab one. more for the kids I guess?
I don’t think I’ve seen any of the Naruto movies. Are any of them decent?
All the movies seem to have a really annoying format that they all follow
First 20 minutes – Comedy and banter.
Afterwards a danger appears; an hour give or take is spent asserting what type it is.
Last 30 minutes lots of combat, the threat is either destroyed or reintegrated into society in a strangely helpful manner.
Any of them decent? I enjoyed watching Road to Ninja and The Last was pretty decent, I would recommend some of the older stuff but nostalgia might cloud my judgement.
Haha, awesome. I upset a bunch of people and got attacked because I made a joke, also someone made the claim I am a black female, well i’ve been living a lie now haven’t I?!
Minecraft Peeps
hey guys, just a heads up in case anyone was thinking about jumping back onto the server, a few of us have started jumping back in quite regularly over the last few days… feel free to join in!
Birdman lives up to the hype. Best movie I’ve seen since Her, I think.
I’m seeing it this Thurs 😀
🙁
Now who am I going to see it with?
@sughly!
One more item left to collect before I 100% The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth!
It sucks because I had everything set up perfectly to get the item to spawn but then I accidentally ruined it :'(. I’m pretty sure I’ve got this item before as well but on a run where progress/achievements were locked, so it didn’t count. I definitely got it when I was derping around on the PS4 version though which sucks even more now that it’s the last one to get! >:P
HAHAHAHA! Thought I’d try a couple of more random tries before I went to bed and IT SPAWNED!
I GOT IT AFTER TYPING THE ABOVE COMMENT! YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
158 hours of Isaac D:
D:::::::::::
I APPRECIATE THE SUPPORT @DC EVEN THOUGH 99% OF TAY WON’T KNOW WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT! 😛
Now I have all the achievements and my fake internet points have gone up and WOOO! SUCCESS.
I’m the 1%!
what was the item?
Black Lotus. It’s just a secret room item but finding items that are specific to the secret room can be a chore :(. Finding the secret room itself isn’t too bad but most of the time it’ll just be a few coins or consumables on the ground rather than a pedestal item.
I had a set up that would cause the item to spawn but I picked up another item I was missing since it showed up first (Missing No. – another item only found in the secret room pool) but that ended up re-rolling all the items I had on me so I was unable to re-roll the items in the room to get the one I wanted ._.
http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/food/dancing-robots-glitter-clad-dancers-accompanying-robot-restaurant-down-under/story-fneuz8zj-1227188308602
Sydney meat ideas.
Who thought it was a brilliant idea to have glitter in the same venue where food is being served?!
I actually really want to try that.
It’s so kitsch.
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Now that’s just silly.
Sup!
I want to play monster hunter, but like, I kinda don’t want to play monster hunter.
Am I a monster?
Dude I’m totally the same. Well at least for the demo, I’d rather spend that time where I can make some proper progress in the full game.
All I thought about when I played the demo was “MAN I CAN’T WAIT TO USE THE SECOND NUB FOR THIS.”
Yeah man! No CPP? I had one for the original 3DS but not the XL, so it’s pretty hard to play MH without a second analog stick :(.
Didya kill all the monsters? Gore is pretty cool!
Nah, I never went through MH3 on the 3DS and I’ve never come across Kid Icarus, so the two reasons to use the control pad.
I killed the.. whatsit, Great Jaggi, and stopped promptly after. It was more a “I FORGOT HOW TO BOWGUN” and “I FORGOT HOW TO PLAY MONSTER HUNTER” session more than a casual playthrough. Should really give it another go.
I didn’t either, but RE:Revs was what gave me the CPP :P. I’m pretty sure Kicarus just uses it so left handed people can play using the stylus more easily.
What’s your MH experience like?
Only experience is through Tri- but I played through it religiously. I used a keyboard. I USED A KEYBOARD WITH THE FUCKING WII.
Also I saw the majesty of the bowgun, the goddamn black magic some players could do with bowguns. “WATER HA FUCK THAT I DON’T WANT TO GET MY PANTALOONS WET” and then proceed to snipe at the goddamn monsters swimming underwater from 50 feet away on the shore.
What a nerd.
I tried the demo of 3 with no CPP and it was borderline unplayable 🙁 Gonna play all the Monster Hunter when I get my Monster Hunter 3DS though!
Man, so many people are getting the MH 3DS!
I really wanted the Zelda one though… 🙁
Meaningful progression from doing the powder stones fetch quest 50 times in a row… That was a chunk of MH3U for me.
When is Planetside 2 coming to PS4?!
I wanna play already! :O
Never!
Don’t be like that, Virus! :O
Can & will =D
Jerk & Jerk! >:(
<3
😀
The Book Of Life is a pretty damn great movie.
Okay this cop is awesome.
OMG! @BEAVWA (and @alexpants I think?)
I think I figured out how to retroactively sign up to Nintendo emails!
Home screen > Settings > NNID settings > Page 2 > Email preferences
Now only time will tell whether I’ll end up getting random code emails in the future…
Done and updated. Thanks!
Woooooooh boy, so quiet in here today :3
ALLLLL BYYYYY MYYYYSEEEEEEELF!
DON’T WANNA BE…
We’re all here, just quietly judging 😛
Judge away.
*takes clothes off*
*throws hands up*
*struts around*
Didn’t realise it was cold in here 😛
OiYouSonOfABitch >:(
You love it 😛
I’m only joking around 😀
*takes pictures*
*camera shatters*
it’s too damn hot to be doing anything. 45C at my place today :\ bleh!
Anyone else Duolingo’n? German specifically?
EDIT: inb4 “nein” 😛
Nien.
Nei-
Damn…
Verdammt @dc schlug mich auf den Stempel >:'(
Ich bin für meine Schnelligkeit bekannt.
>:|
Wir helfen Sie lernen Deutsch, Grün 😀
Meine Deutsch ist nicht sehr gut.
Deine Chocolattamutteschmerzen.
Hey, das ist meine hambourger.
Au, au, meine kopf tut weh.
Strudel… bratwurst…
Schnitzel…
Ich bin ein Berlinerschnitzel
That piano moving went far better than expected. And nobody died either.
Currently in the ute with some, funnily enough, German-sounding guy named Alex.
Big Hero 6 was pretty damn special. More Wreck-It Ralph than Frozen. Better than Wreck-It Ralph, I thought.
I thought there was some decent plot twists in there. Actually thought it was going to be the corporation guy, not the scientist. I also thought the Stan Lee cameo and post-credits scene was amazing.The short at the start was of an amazing quality as well. Thought it was going to go a different direction and I’d be sad for the rest of the movie, happy that it wasn’t. Disney could make a TV show with material like that, just like how they used to 😀
But overall it was a really high-quality film.
Zootopia looks different and interesting this year, and then in 2016 we’ve got Moana which looks like a return to Disney’s older style of film. It’s even got a new “painterly” style of Computer Generated graphics.
Hooray for the new Disney golden age. 😀
I totally cried at Feast before the movie. :S
The dog in Feast’s mannerisms reminded me of my parents dog. Such a great short.
Will repost in New TAY when it’s up. Previous installment here.
Reposting from Old TAY:
NegativeZero’s Anime Impressions, January Season 2015, Part 2 of Probably 2
Watching the new season so you don’t have to
Kamisama Hajimemashita S2
Aka Kami-sama Kiss. This is actually the second season. I watched all of the first one and greatly enjoyed it. It’s a shoujo (girl’s show) in which a random high school girl, Nanami. Basically her Dad’s a deadbeat piece of shit that ran up gambling debts and then ran off somewhere and abandoned her. The local deity of the land, Mikage, encounters her and decides to pass his power to her, making her the god of the area, and she has to take over running the local temple and dealing with Tomoe, a fox spirit and super handsome guy with a shady past who serves her as a familiar. Yes, this is basically a knockoff of Fruits Basket. Yes, if you’ve seen that, this has the same sort of heart to it. I really like it. The whole is better than the sum of its parts. Nice art, great character designs, and generally appealing lead character. Was really happy to see this get a continuation. 8/10Seiken Tsukai no World Break
So, in our last installment, I concluded that Absolute Duo was a steaming turd and the worst show so far. Just as well I said ‘so far’, because this shit handily beats it in the race to the bottom. Generic action fantasy show, in which everyone has some kind of ‘past life’ and they channel that to get magical powers or some shit. Also the main dude in a past life was apparently badass. And also in love with his sister. And her reincarnation happens to be in his class. Also so does another chick. The bulk of the episode is basically the two of them taking turns to glomp him and then some subplot with an ugly dude that bullies one of them and then gets his ass kicked by Potato-kun. Bad animation, bad art, bad plot, bad everything. Straight up bad. And I know bad anime. I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe… 2/10 avoidJunketsu no Maria
Feels like there’s lots of fantasy stuff this season. This seems interesting. It’s set in France during the hundred years war, and since it makes reference to Joan of Arc, presumably set after she was around. The main character, Maria, is a witch, and she seems to spend her time effectively stopping battles by stepping in and using magic to force both sides to retreat. The show goes out of its way to suggest that she’s a lot more pure of intention most of the other witches we see seem to be, though there’s some off-color jokes about being a virgin thrown in there from her demon familiar (who, naturally, is a succubus.) The art is nice, seems to have a decent budget and the actual art style seems kind of old-fashioned, with clean colors and a certain character style that brings to mind art of the late 80s to me. First episode wasn’t amazing, but also not terrible and I feel like there’s a lot of promise here. I’ll be giving it a bit more of a look before deciding if it’s a regular watch or not. 7/10Yoru no Yatterman
Aka ‘Yatterman Night’. I’ve never seen Yatterman. Recently Tatsunoko have been going through a lot of their popular old franchises and giving them a new take. A few years ago we got a new Gatchaman (Crowds) which I liked visually but couldn’t get into the plot of. Yatterman as I understand it was a fairly standard superhero / super robot style show from the 70s, part of a larger continuum of shows, and I believe that this i the 40th anniversary of that larger franchise. I think the crux of Yatterman is that some dudes basically ruin the planet and Yatterman kicks their asses and becomes a hero. The main character’s mother was apparently a bogan, because she named her daughter Leopard (wtf). Leopard is the main character. For some reason, Leopard, her mother and two dudes live in a sort of post-apocalyptic rural environment. They talk about the paradise across the water, where Yatterman rules, and Leopard’s mother hopes that one day they can live there too. But it turns out that they are the descendants of the supposedly evil group that opposed Yatterman back in the day, and they and their descendants are forever banished. When Leopard’s mother catches a terminal illness and Leopard, while seeking medicine for her mother is chased away violently by Yatterman, she realizes that maybe he was never a hero after all, and decides to be the hero that takes the evil Yatterman down. I really like the premise of this actually, the idea of flipping the table so that the original series’ hero has basically become a villain and presumably his paradise a dystopia is interesting. However I suspect that this will fall short, because the original was a show for kids and full of ridculous shit. Also, Leopard’s voice acting irritated me a bit, and it’s only the first episode. Not sure if she’s a good enough character to carry the show. Suspect not. Still, this has some potential. Will give it a couple more episodes. 6/10.Tantei Kageki Milky Holmes TD
Don’t ask me what TD stands for. Terminally Dumb? Milky Holmes is pretty dumb stuff. It’s also kind of amusing in a hard-to-explain way. Not very good, but kind of aware that it’s stupid. It’s also basiclly a promotional vessel for basically an idol unit or something. I don’t care. It’s hard to really recommend this as it’s crap, but I still like it a lot. The four girls of Milky Holmes are basically bad knockoffs of famous detectives (Holmes, Piorot, Nero Wolfe and Cordelia Grey) and they’re all idiots. They bumble their way through various cases and somehow manage to track down various Gentlmen Thieves. It’s stupid. It’s really stupid. Why do I even like it? I don’t know. One of the bad guys has extremely sharp pointy nipples that he uses as weapons. Yes, really. The plot in this case is that some idol chick’s abilities – personified by cute little floaty people – has been stolen and she can’t sing any more and Milky Holmes is on the case to bumble their way into accidentally finding them all and catching the thief. 5/10 don’t watch thisSengoku Musou
Anime adaption of the Tecmo-Koei Samurai Warriors games, which I’ve never played. Seems like Sanada Yukimura is the main character and the first episode opens with him helping Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s forces conquer Odawara Castle, defeat the Hojo and finally unify Japan. Briefly. I know my Japanese history well enough / played Kessen so I know that Hideyoshi dies after that, the country allies behind two factions (Toyotomi and those loyal to the Emperor, who are progressives, and Tokugawa Ieyasu’s forces, who are isolationists) and they’ll fight a decisive battle at Sekigahara, and Tokugawa wins. So I already know the outcome of this. It suffers from the same thing a lot of Sengoku-era stuff suffers from – the cast is huge and you don’t know who anyone is or what they do because they’ve all got similar names and most of the time the anime’s not accurate anyway. This is a bit over the top but honestly I think it’s playing the conflict a bit too straight. Not interesting. Sengoku stuff needs a twist, like the warlords are all cute girls (Sengoku Hime), or everything is insane and over the top (Sengoku Basara), or the warlords are all cute girls in another dimension (Sengoku Otome) or the warlords are all cute girls displaced into the modern world (Sengoku Collection), or Oda Nobunaga is a cute girl (Oda Nobuna’s Ambition)… Honestly, I think for what this is trying to do, Sengoku Basara does it way better. It’s a lot crazier. Date Masamune wields like six swords at once and his horse has handlebars like a motorbike. Come on. That’s way better. This is just boring. 5/10, dropping it. Also the Crunchyroll subtitles are fucking awful, eg several times referring to Hojo Ujimasa, the Daimyou of the Hojo clan, as ‘Hoho’. He’s not fucking Santa Claus and this isn’t hard to get right! The Hojo were only one of the most important clans in the history of the country…The iDOLM@STER: Cinderella Girls
Interesting that this is running this season. When you talk about free to play game franchises that are huge among otaku right now, it’s Kantai Collection, and the two Idolmaster card collecting games, Cinderella Girls and Million Live. Idolmaster itself is a big franchise too, with multiple games that I may or may not own all of, and a really top-shelf anime produced a couple of years ago that I may or may not have imported all the blurays for. The original show I heartily recommend. It basically follows 765 Productions (Na-mu-go, get it?) as the troupe of fifteen idols live their lives, improve their craft, and become the top idol group in the country. It’s a rare show where all the characters are likeable, though obviously they’ve been designed that way, and there’s definitely a character in there who will appeal to anyone (Mainly Yayoi, personally, but Haruka and Iori are both fairly appealing). I was actually kind of nervous coming into this. The Cinderella Girls are a whole new group, part of a cynical cash-in on the franchise by Mobage. They’ve sold tons of CDs and stuff with these characters already, but none have properly turned up in anything beyond phone games yet. I didn’t know what to expect. The Producer this time seems a lot less good than the original series, and so far there’s only two characters, but Uzuki is adorable and I’ve found Rin fairly appealing since I saw her design originally a few years ago, so that seems fine. Production values are high and it has a style consistent with the original. I’d also be stunned if fan favourites don’t turn up here and there as side characters, since they should be basically big names in the business at this point. I expect this will follow a similar arc to the original as well. Also don’t think you need to see the Idolmaster anime to watch this, it should be stand-alone. Going to be a regular watch for me. 8/10Did you put “Reposting from Old TAY” now so that it’s already copied into your new post when you repost this?
Not deliberately but the fact it’s there is convenient.
Just in case anyone is actually awake and reading TAY, Does anyone have any experiance with Play-asia? I’m considering using them to buy the Nier OST.
I’ve seen it mentioned here before.
Can’t remember if it were good or bad mentions, but I think it was good.
Play Asia makes me think of either Jimu or NegativeZero.
Probably best to repost in new TAY tomorrow though 😛
Never used it, but I use CD Japan like 5-6 times a year and never had a problem and they seem to have the applicable OSTs.
http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/ <– in case your interested.
Thank you, I’ll check them out as well.
They’re good. Used to buy tons from them. Very reputable, been around for ages. I still go there periodically for games, though for JP-import stuff I recently discovered Nippon-Yassan which ship direct from Japan so you’re not paying as much of a premium, since Play-Asia are in Hong Kong and have to get it imported from Japan first themselves.
Never used them for CDs but I imagine they’d be fine. Amazon.jp might be cheaper if they have stock, but they only ship via DHL courier which is pricey. CD Japan is a good second stop after Amazon for DVD/BD stuff and CDs. Amiami is another option for goods like that but they’re more geared toward figures etc.
EDIT: Oh, but with Play-Asia, if you have to return hardware it can be an utter pain in the shitter. Their customer service are a bit shit. @ynefel had issues with them IIRC.
I’m looking at CD japan now and am driving myself crazy if I should buy FFVII Advent children soundtrack or the FFVIII A.V.C. for the reunion complete sound track…
Basically one is for the DVD version of the movie and the other is for the Bluray extended version. Trying to work out what the differences are. Looks at the moment as though the original movie soundtrack is better even though the extend movie is the better version of the movie.
I’ve only bought from them once or twice, but never had any issues.
I’ve used them a fair bit for games in the past. I haven’t bought from them recently but they were fine 🙂
EDIT: Wrong TAY.