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Good Morning Starshine, the Earth says “hello”.
No.
I bring you peace.
I bring you love!
It’s bringing love, don’t let it get away!
Break its legs!
You twinkle above us…we twinkle below
o/
Morning Notty.
What’s the hippy haps in your part of the world?
http://i.imgur.com/Y547Fvp.jpg
OHMIGOD BEST FRIEND
HEY YOU PLAYED AC:U DEAD KINGS YET?
I was going to start playing it later today.
Also hi!
That reminds me, I need to play more of AssUnit, since I haven’t touched it since the patch dropped. Cheers NotoriousauR.
@notoriousr @alexpants
I’ve played like 5 hours of Ass Unity thanks to you two today.
I can’t really complain though, since I’m generally enjoying it.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
Yes! There’s a glitch that breaks the second mission sometimes. So, good luck with that!
Well I played up to the third mission, and it’s okay, I suppose. Just more of the same. But man running around on rooftops is fun!
HAPPY STRAYA DAY!!!
What’s everyone doing on their day off?
Going for a bbq at Lilydale Falls with a bunch of bikers. Beautiful day for it.
I’m waiting for the new episode of TopGear to download. Yep I know I’m a bad person but we’ll what do they expect? It isn’t available on Stan (only up to season 20) and BBC iPlayer is…”inaccessible” here so screw them I’m going piratin’!
Also I may play some more Forza 4 later.
Taking care of Baymax.
I found a kitten last night, and I have called him Baymax.
Potentially going to a mates, to continue the tradition of Australia day at hers with the Hottest 100, not that I care about that, I just like hanging with mates lol.
We should all play iSketch again sometime soon! (if it still exists)
Good morning, TAY!
I spent a lot of time yesterday setting up my new computer for web dev stuff. I barely do anything outside of work anymore so I had to start from scratch… and it took ages. BUT! I’m all set up with my programs and such now. Set up a version control as well for the first time. Maybe I’ll put some of my game saves under version control 😛 Especially the Telltale stuff as a backup.
Also, I finished Catherine yesterday! Pretty good game. Some of those puzzles were hard though. I’ll have to play it again one day and go for an alternate ending. Think maybe I’ll go grab a copy of The Last of Us to try and finish before Majoras Mask
/Monster Huntercome out. Also before this PS3 dies on me too 😛What difficulty did you play on? I played it on easy and even then it was hair tearingly frustrating at multiple times. I blame that game for my receding hairline.
Yeah, easy as well. I’d heard the puzzles were hard and I was really only in it for the story.
what stuff do you use for web dev out of curiousity?
I just went around and got a bunch of free/open-source stuff because I’m a cheapo. We use a lot of the same stuff at work so it all works out!
FileZilla for FTP stuff
HeidiSQL for database stuff
Photoshop CS2 (the one that’s legally free) for image stuff
Brackets for editing (not sure if I like it or not yet – might switch back to Aptana which we use at work)
IIS Manager for IIS stuff so I can work offline
Hosts File Editor because editing the hosts file manually is annoying – makes switching from local and live pretty easy
TortoiseSVN for version control
Um… I think that’s it! Oh, and the “Website IP” extension for Chrome so I can easily check if I’m looking at the live or my local version of a site.
If you’ve got any different recommendations I’d love to hear them!
Cool list! I generally use Git for version control, but that’s just because i love using command line stuff.
Brackets sounds interesting for an editor, I’ve been meaning to check it out. At the moment I use Sublime+emmet, but that was after I used Atom which got a bit too buggy and slow for my liking.
My boss has an irrational dislike of anything Git-related for some reason 😛 I really should’ve tried that out before installing TortoiseSVN, I’ve never actually used it. Ah well!
Emmet looks fantastic though! I’ll definitely look into that if Brackets doesn’t work out.
But he still keeps you around anyway *ba-dum*
Burn.
MONSTER.
HUNTER.
It’s crossed out though.
Apologies.
MONSTER.HUNTER.
MEANWHILE IN CANADA
Nothing.
Nothing happened.
So… It’s more or less the same as here?
I believe this is actually a quote of the entire history of Canada.
That’s a good thing though.
Wait a new TAY on a public holiday, well I never…
Ugh, shouldn’t have drank as much as I did last night.. I’m not hungover just feel seedy, then again it’s already 30°C & 70% humidity and it’s only 10.30 >.
Saints Row IV is kinda … not fun. I’ve only really started the game and done a few main and optional missions and just haven’t found anything that is really fun. The games become less buggy so that’s a good thing … i guess.
Now do you believe me Nob? 😛
I tried saints 3, didn’t think much of it. People said 4 was so much more amazing then 3.
*shrugs* it’s about the same.
Haha, I liked SR3 enough to play through at least twice. SRIV however, I played maybe the first half then just left it, I eventually finished it but didn’t really care after that.
I think that because it’ls relying on such a gimmick of over the top stupidity it gets to the point where i’m all “eh, i’ll go back and have fun in GTA instead”
Ahh, so now you’re experiencing what I went through in Saints Row 2 through 4. Finally, someone to join in my pile of misery.
It’s just like the time I tried The Last of Us and couldn’t get past it’s sub-par gameplay.
Why do you say these hurtful things? :'(
I’m a terrible person, I’m sure we’ve been through this before.
I didn’t want to believe it. I couldn’t.
Get drunk and play with a mate! (hi @rize!) that’s when the game really shines 😛
It’s waaay more fun in co-op.
*cries*
@powalen Apparently JB have had a restock of amiibos, my friend picked up a Link just yesterday as have a couple of others.
Interesting! I’ll have to have a look at lunch tomorrow.
Honestly I don’t even really care anymore though 😛
I need to pick myself up a Marth Amiibo.
Me too. We’ll probably never get them though
Ugh.. I have a problem, I went and created a spreadsheet of all the movies that JB have that I want I ended up with 89 movies & 13 TV shows.. It doesn’t help I already have about 120 movies on disc 😐
Get a VPN for Netflix maybe?
Dependng on what you’re after they would have some of it available.
If you want them on disc though, then that is a problem. Don’t buy too many at the same time then?
Not really into Netflix, I have a meh data cap & my line speed isn’t anything great, it struggles with 480P sometimes on YouTube bleh.
Oh I won’t, most likely my local JB won’t have half of them ever in stock haha.
I’ve been playing Persona 4, and I have no idea how to play it. I’ve just put 4 hours in (just completed the first dungeon) and I don’t know how I’m supposed to be attacking…
Am I supposed to attack with my katana? Or my Persona? Or both? At the moment I’ve been attacking mainly, then occassionally using my Persona’s attack. It doesn’t help that my Persona is underlevelled compared to the other’s in-game.
And what cards am I supposed to get? Key cards? As many new Persona’s as I can?
All my indecision aside, this is a great game. It’s like an ineractive story, but where the game parts excel just as much as the other bits. The dungeon crawling reminds me a lot of Mystery Dungeon, and that’s never a bad thing. I love exploring every floor though, whereas in Mystery Dungeon I couldn’t wait to progress to the next floor.
In the mobile area I’ve been playing this game called “Dragon Island”, imagine pokémon crossed with the 4 types from Avatar: The Last Airbender and then the map of any generic RPG and that’s this game. It’s a lot of fun, although I’ve really only just started.
And in other news I did a blog post about why Star Trek should get a new game now, since all the space sims are making a comeback (written because I’m watching The Original Series now because I got the reboot movies for Christmas) . Commanding the Enterprise would be perfect for that. I pointed out that No Man’s Sky is basically the idea of Star Trek on a smaller scale (in regards to exploring new planets and whatnot), or that a TellTale Star Trek game has the possibility to be awesome, especially since in the episodes I’ve seen, Kirk has made some major decisions regarding his crew anyway.
What other Movie/TV IPs deserve a good game already?
Each character has an equipped physical weapon, split up into Bash, Pierce and Slash types. Personas give you skills/magic, split into elements, Fire, Ice, Electricity, Wind, Light, Dark.
Ideally you hit the enemy with what they’re weak to, out of those 3 physical types or 6 element types, SP willing.
I think those creepy tongue balls at the start of the game are weak to fire, off the top of my head.
You’re randomly given Persona cards after battle, and you fuse them together in the Velvet to create more powerful Personas. You can fuse them whenever you want, whether it’s as soon as you get them, or after a few levels after they’ve learned a few skills. Just try to level up and fuse Personas frequently since Personas are only really useful for a few levels, unless you’re at the late game.
OK, that makes sense. Thanks.
On my first run I just picked a cool Persona early on and stuck with it until I maxed it out. Early on it doesn’t really matter, but eventually when you’ve got a full team you want to start making sure you can use the four main types of attack (Fire, Ice, Elec, Wind) because there are enemies that are immune to all but one type of attack. You’ll want someone who can heal too, but aside from that it’s not super complex. Admittedly I would time it up so I could just grind in the dungeons on my way home from work, so I out leveled a lot of the fights.
i think the best way to play it is to accept that you don’t know how half the stuff works and then just pick things up as they come. You’ll almost certainly screw yourself over a little but unless you’re reading a spoiler filled 100% run guide you’re going to miss things and make mistakes.
Been at work since 6am… Woooo ‘straya day \o/
I thought you were Australian now?
Letting me down, Pixel.
Australia Day is such a non-holiday anyway 😛Had a good time at Lilydale Falls today. Had a bbq and went for a walk. Stopped off at a place that was selling blueberries and bought a kilo for $16 and split it between my parents and I. 10/10 would do again.
For Australia Day I figured I’d fall asleep on the couch and smash my phone, TV’s 3D glasses and crack the back touch pad of the Vita in my sleep.
Plan worked gloriously.
Oh man, how’d you manage that, Freezey?
Sleep-punching? D:
Playing Vita and fell asleep. Had my phone on me and glasses were on top of the couch (not that I’ve ever used them). Must have rolled around a bit in my sleep 🙁
Eeeeep. That sucks, man. 🙁
That’s umm, that’s a bit shit, Freezy. I have nothing else to say, to be honest, that really, really sucks, but it’s not like you can get angry at anyone else, right? :/
Wait, it’s not like the Vita is used for anything other than looking pretty on the shelf, and 3D is for nerds, and a cracked phone screen is a sign of being cool, so honestly, this is a blessing.
K so, my friend wants me to come up to Melbourne for white night I think it was called, and said I should come up for a while so I was thinking of going for a fortnight from the 8th to 22nd/23rd.
My only problem is that the Monster Hunter 3DS comes out on the 14th and I’ve fully paid for it at EB in Hobart. Anyone know if you can like pick it up in another state or anything?
Online orders are handled through a separate system to in-store stuff (I found this out the hard way with my Ass Pirates pre-order, which wasn’t delivered to the store I put in the thingy), but I’ve found EB’s online customer service to be pretty good, so send them an email or use their online fieldy whatever it is thingy and ask if you can have it shifted to where you want, and hope for the best. This far out from release you’ve got decent odds, though the state difference might be a problem
White night sounds like a new age gathering of the Klan…
As for EB, you could go into your local store and explain your situation and ask if it’s possible to transfer it to another store. My advice talk to either the manager or assistant manager about it though. It may be something like having to cancel the pre-order and have it redone though. It can be done, just depends if the manager is a dick or not.. My old manager used to do it, I think she’s even done it for Freeze before.
Hey, if you’re worried about them not holding the stock for you so you have to wait for a second shipment (’cause we all know that happens sometimes, silly game stores) I can pick it up and hold onto it for you.
Downsides: You don’t get to play it in Melbourne and you have to meet me.
I emailed EB and they said they won’t transfer it, so I’ll call EB Hobart and if they won’t hold it I’ll most likely take you up on that 😀 Thanks for the offer!!
Slow TAY day huh.
Any any other TAYbies do the Global Game Jam this weekend? Was great fun as always, the theme was a bit average.
It’s far too long until MH release 🙁
Heh slow day indeed. Probably a few like me who assumed that being a public holiday, there would be no new TAY and have been refreshing the old one all day :\
Finally finished my re-playthrough of Mass Effect, I did every side mission, went to every planet, etc… I went Fem-shep and Renegade, I actually think i enjoyed the game more going Renegade. About 1/2 way through the game I maxed my credits out at 9,999,999. I forgot how pointless money is in Mass Effect. Oh well, onto ME 2!
I just can’t bring myself to renegade. Shep is such a dick.
*throws Blaghs out window*
I’ve had enough of your disingenuous assertions.
I can’t pick a side coz they both dicks, end up going middle of the road dick.
Dickshep.
What a terribly boring day.
Should have drunkenly played AssUnit until you gave up because SOME OF THE MISSIONS ARE FUCKING BULLSHIT.
I much prefered hunting around Empire space for a good place to set up shop.
Thought I had one, but nah. Sux.
Yeah, I really need to work out who I need to buddy up with. I’m chilling in Federation space ATM, but that’s just because I only solo play, and I’ve found a high tech system with a good nav beacon.
Solo? Laaaaame 😛
I think there’s something weird going on with high tech systems. Most of the ones I can find aren’t producing half the things the system map lists them as exporting. Eg, superconductors. Also they’re supposed to produce personal weapons, but the one I used to get them from doesn’t sell them any more nor does the other system I also got them from.
Mainly been searching for a high tech system to at least hang around near, since they’re probably the rarest of the main four types to find. But then finding one that doesn’t suck, and has decent systems nearby… I mean the ideal home base would be close to its star, have a black market and be stocked with most ship upgrades. Then have a decent range of systems around, which also don’t have stations all the way out in the middle of nowhere thousands and thousands of light seconds away.
Have I mentioned that I despise other people?
That said, I now have an A ranked shield for my Sidewinder, so I should probably graduate to multi, since I can probably bail before anyone kills me. >.>
You’d have to find them first. And then once you did, actually interact with them.
I’ve only come across maybe a half a dozen commanders since launch, tops. And not a single one has even said hi. Ran into way more during beta, even got to have some fun battles.
My problem is that I do have a tendency to attack… well, anyone who has a bounty on them.
Bought a monitor second-hand at the Sunday Market yesterday (when else?), $40 for a widescreen 1680*1050, works like a dream, too, couldn’t be more pleased.
On the other hand, I’m looking to buy a capture card to do the console twitching, no such luck at Harvey Norman, they told me to check the local computer store, so that’ll be my Tuesday morning, any recommendations as to what I should get.
I watched the final ep
Every silly step
Of a TV show called Galavaaaant
Sure the gags could be broad
but viewers never bored
Of Gaaaaaaalaavant
Fun! with cameos from some cool actors
Surely it’s better than yet more x factors
Please! A second Season go
Of this cool little show
A TV Show called Gaaaaalaaaavaaaaaaant
@greenius
Drawing… *coughs* …sometime… *splutters* …yeah… *dies*
And now you’ve experienced what happens every time I try to convince him to draw. Bloody Jerkius.
We can just draw without that little green A-hole! 😀
Or at least someone give me a theme or something to draw :3
A penis!
Wait, no, we need something to make you uncomfortable…
A horde of penii!
You’ll regret suggesting this.
I already have an idea in mind…
I wish I knew where my penny tablety whatever was.
I was waiting for you to initiate!
I blame @blaghman
Oh yes, the guy who’s never done it before will initiate it.
Good going, Greenius 😛
A Link Between Worlds soundtrack has been added to Club Ninty’s page! Only 2000 stars too 😀
Crap. I gotta get registering.
I think I have 1900, bugger.
4950 for the UK one though. No idea how to get it though =P
SOUNDTRACK GET! THANK YOU @greenius!
Stupid jerkface Nintendo told me that my Endless Ocean 2 card was expired. IT CAME OUT THE END OF FEBRUARY 2010 YOU JERKS, THERE’S STILL A MONTH LEFT
Also holy shit I have like over 40 cards here to register. Thatsalottapoints.
It can be done. https://twitter.com/Shane_W_Smith/status/559712534995824642/photo/1
*breathes sigh of relief*
I’m going to enjoy your swearing when you hit the second act.
I suspect I’m up to it now.
I took down a Black Captain (ooh, racist), and a woman appeared and asked me to go with her to some other place. I didn’t really want to, so I spent the next hour or so clearing out all the captains.Edit: by the way, am I supposed to be so OP right now? I’ve unlocked the final tier of upgrades, and have all but a couple of the non-story-locked upgrades purchased. Combat had a bit of challenge earlier, but now all I have to do is land five hits, and then I can spam my instakill special moves and clear out thirty orcs and a room full of captains at a time without any trouble.
Yeah, that’s pretty much where I ended up too. And the story abilities… man. You think you’re OP now, wait til you’re remote-control mind-controlling beasts and shit everywhere and setting them loose with runes set up so that focus just falls out of the skies and you’re basically warping around not particularly caring what you do. End up just capturing all the captains and dominating the entire hierarchy because… pokemon?
Awake at 5:30am!
*shoots self*
Michaelangelo is a party dude!
Heroes in a half-shell… turtle power!
Raphael is cool, but rude.
(Gimme a break!)
On train to work. It’s Monday, new TAY 😀 nope, it’s Tuesday, 4 day week 😀 this
weekpageget has started better than expectedI bring you the (second?) last Mum vs. Dragon Age 2 update:
“I inished the Last Straw is that the end of the game? I got credits after that so think it might be??”
Aww, cute. She still has Legacy to play, so I am expecting a rage-y email when she gets to Corypheus.
Aw man. Violin Girl was on the train this morning. Getting on two carriages down from where she used to. What did I do?? 😛
Learn to play cello and duet the rest of the train ride?
Talked about her on the internet.
You Gookyed.
I hate it when I do that.
Homeworld Remaster. Please insert into my face, rotate slowly, lovingly, and tell my friends and family I never liked them anyway.
Once money allows that is definitely on my to-buy list!
Loved 1 and 2, so this should be pretty amazing!
Friend and I still play HW2 on occasion. Usually with Complex mod, makes it heaps better. Still such a good game.
Link Between Worlds soundtrack now on Club Nintendo! 😀
I’m going to save my points for something better.
…this is like one of those Survivor auction challenges. “I can’t spend my points now, what if something better comes!?”
Nintendo’s going to put up a mystery box on the last day which I’ll buy and it’ll be full of mealworms or something 😛
Mystery Box huh? Hmm..
Even a boat!
I think so too
Spent my entire weekend playing copious, unholy amounts of BF4. I have no regrets. (Not entirely true, I’m well tired this morning)
Finished my Phantom Operative assignment yesterday too. 200 kills, and 50 headshots with the compound bow. Not to mention the three bastard assignments that preceded it. Was actually brilliant fun – such a fuck you shooting someone in the face with your bow while they’re frantically spamming you with a DMR.
Mrs Shane and I have picked up the Game of Thrones TV series at last. It’s amazing. I’ve got some memory of the books, and I kind of enjoy having a vague idea what’s coming.
Just started season 3 of the show. Strongly considering breaking our rule and paying full price for the season 4 blu ray when it comes out.
Season 4 was a pretty cool guy.
I buy the blu rays as soon as they come out so I can feel better about my rampant piracy, and tell people “I do support the showrunners, just not Foxtel, who are monopolising the distribution in Australia”.
Played Destiny all weekend. I’m kind of sick of the game (as well I should be, having apparently spent around 7 1/2 days playing it since launch according to the Destiny app) but I am also resistant to the idea of taking a break from it because I want to keep leveling so I’m ready for the next DLC instead of having to play catch-up like I did with The Dark Below.
I saw a thread on reddit this morning that I think perfectly expressed how I feel about Detiny at the moment – the next DLC, House of Wolves, will have to be very good for the game to succeed. Most players still invested are because they bought/received the DLC season pass and therefore have an investment in the future content. If Bungie expect to sell future expansions to the current audience and Destiny 1.5 (the rumoured “Comet”) to a new/upgrading audience, they need to bring something special. Sure, they’ll keep us on the gear treadmill awhile longer and the game is still fun to play, but there’s going to be a point where people are just going to move on, en masse.
I wish I had something else to write here other than my thoughts on Destiny but I did nothing interesting over the weekend.
Uh, let’s see…
… my wife got a promotional email last night from cosmetic store Mecca Maxima last night which hinted at a big announcement today. Part of the banner had a “tearaway” section in a shade of purple associated with Urban Decay, a very popular brand not widely available in Australia. So I have a feeling there might be an impromptu shopping trip this week.
Eh, I got the Ghost Edition and still stopped as soon as I hit 20. Once I realised it wasn’t what I signed up for I ditched it since I personally find my time is far more valuable than money.
The problem I’m having isn’t so much wanting to get the most out of my investment but that because my wife and I play this together it’s hard to approach the idea of using that time to play something else seperately. I enjoy the fact we get to play together, which is why it became the routine.
Agreed on the “HoW will have to be good” front. After finishing most of Eris’ quests in about 2 hours, it felt like the bulk of TDB content was meant to be the raid, which is nowhere near as enjoyable as VoG – puzzles are far more straight-forward (hell, one is almost a classic logic problem), fight strategies are too basic and rigid.
The other thing is HoW will need to be good enough to keep people interested for a long time (if that Comet rumour is true, 6 months – an eternity when you consider Destiny’s only been out for 4). Gear treadmill won’t be enough for most people, bounties don’t have lasting appeal, nor do strikes – it’ll have to be a raid to rival the VoG…
I’ve only really been playing just because I think. It’s become a bit of a chore to log on each day, do the daily on 3 characters, see what Xur has to sell each Friday, complain, play some crucible, complain about op suros/vex weapons, try to raid on hard mode, get annoyed at bugs still in the system/how making it ‘harder’ is to just make things bullet sponges but they’re quick to jump on cheesing when enemies still jump around everywhere and recover full health when you’ve almost killed them.
Tbh, I had more fun trying to mod Skyrim and failing miserably. Like you said though, I’m still invested because I have the season pass. Nothing I’ve seen though suggests there’ll be a great deal of new content. What needs to happen are changing of game mechanics like weapon drops, how you get exotic weapons rather than just buying them off a weekly vendor, old raids being made redundant by new armour as well as easier ways to pick up more missions (of more variety rather than go here, kill x amount of enemies) while you’re in a map.
I reckon they’ll be working on what they originally wanted Destiny to be like after this DLC drops, but then that begs the question, why didn’t they just do that in the first place? If it turns out to be just more of the same though, I won’t be carrying on past year 1, let alone year 10 of their plan for Destiny
I might reinstall for comet. Probably not for House of Wolves.
My main draw to Destiny was an epic not-quite-Halo story with quirky characters. I expected tight, cinematic direction like shown in the E3 demo, concept art that hinted at a theme of futuristic knights (not speeder-flipping dudebros), and the idea of at least a semi-convincing living world of expanded exploration, which turned out to be a handful of bare-bones proto-MMO mechanics with about 100th of the content of normal MMOs, disguised by the FPS perspective.
House of Wolves is not going to be able to fix that, considering that everything they’ve released so far conveys the idea that they launched not thinking there was actually a problem with what they launched. Especially not given that The Dark Below was essentially a map pack and some new weapon skins. Comet might do it, if they somehow pull off a game-dev miracle, given that time-frame, but I strongly suspect I’m looking at this being on the bench til Destiny 2.
Good Morning all,
How are we all?
Grim Fandango should be out
todaytomorrow due to the US being stuck in the past… Prolonged HYPE!Approximately 19 hours, according to Steam. Damn US people.
Oh yeeeeeaaaaaah something something US is so far behind… HYPE momentarily deflated for a tomorrow HYPE!
Hah, yeah! Damn those North Americans, am I right??
*sweats nervously*
Today!!, I better go tell my boss I’m coming down with something *cough*
Yeah was just reminded that GOG is a US site and as such won’t release for another 19 hours… But hey if you put on a convincing show today you should be able to stay home tomorrow 😛
So My weekend was spent doing many things, including Hiking up Mt Kosziuscko. Which was hard.
Whilst up the Top, I proposed to my Partner. He Said Yes!
I had been planning this for a few weeks, and he had no clue.
He also didn’t notice the first time I went down on one Knee – I looked up and he’d turned around taking more photos.
We then went to canberra as part of our holiday, and as part of that I had organised a lovely fancy dinner overlooking the lake 🙂
We then spent our sunday at Cancon (BOARDGAMES!) with Blaghman, Bunny and Freyr. Was lovely catching up with them all. And we found a game that frustrated me, because I didnt get it.
Thats a first for me with boardgames.
How was everyone elses weekend?
Woo congratulations my friend! That is fantastic news!
Thank you, it was a lovely day
Congrats, buddy. Crazy exciting news!
Thanks Buddy, I’m glad I can start telling TAY at least for now 🙂
Marital success! \o/
Congratulations!
Thank you sir!
hahaha shit. Did you stand up and try again or just kneel there awkwardly waiting?
I had to get back up again and follow him around the top bit a little more before trying again.
Typical him, somewhat oblivious at the worst of times.
How’d he react? 😀
Also you left out the part where you taunted poor @trjn. 😛
He said “aww, of course I will, Ask a silly question…” 🙂
Also yes, At dinner we were thinking of a cryptic tweet I could put out there, and we decided on saying I took some life advice from Beyonce. But we decided it wouldnt be complete without #makebunpropose.
Full disclosure – Bun was fine with it – we played games with him the next day and it was lovely
I’m imagining this and laughing. Best.
it really was hillarious.
Love you guys. Congrats!
Thanks Man, Love you too 🙂
Congratulations, man. Really glad it worked out.
Thanks buddy, I’m really excited 🙂
Morning Everybody.
Had a decent long weekend, played a chunk of Bayonetta and really enjoyed it (I previously complained about too many QTEs but there seem to be much less after the first couple of levels which is great). Played Destiny for a couple hours and made ridiculously slow progress, it’s like the game wants to lose players the way the ration out loot. Winsuited around Kyrat for a while in Far Cry, really close to the end now but my OCD won’t let me finish it before I do all the side quests. Finally started Pokemon AS, not too fond of the starters or any early wild ‘mons haven’t picked any I want to raise yet. We also used Christmas gift cards to acquire a flat packed BBQ for really cheap for what it is, put it together and gave it a test run for Australia day and we all ate too much food. Oh and on Saturday a silly kitty almost got itself eaten by my dogs, it strolled into our yard and was swiftly chased up the biggest tree in our yard, poor thing was so freaked out it didn’t budge for a good 12 hours and was repeatedly assaulted by noisy miners, fortunately it made its way home in the middle of the night.
TLDR: I did things and no one cares.
withdrawn shuttup Gutsoup no one cares!
=O Was I tagged in something?! TELL ME NOW!!
Oh sorry, I was having a cry about how the more effort I put into a post the less anyone seems to care. I was thanking you for your acknowledgement. Thank you. (sorry again, yesterday was not a good day and I was an angry jerk)
lol all good man =D I just liked it for the far cry 3 experience you were having; very similar to my own. It’s my damn OCD; makes playing any Ubisoft game eventually devolve into a painful chore…. I spend 6 hours clearing every single collectible; side mission; hunting for pelts just in the SE corner of the map and then burnt myself out >.
yeah, I think that’s what has happened with me and Far Cry, I really loved it but I’m a little burned out, every time I fire it up I’ll do like 2 things, get bored and turn it off, I should just go beat the story and remember it fondly instead of like a chore.
It’s the week of the most important HD re-release of the year!
Heroes of Might and Magic III HD!
Shit! Where did my wallet go?!
*que to scene of Techie’s wallet running home on freshly grown legs*
YOU GET A RE-RELEASE. YOU GET A RE-RELEASE. EVERYONE GETS A RE-RELEASE.
Oh man, completely forgot to pre-order that.
To the internet electronic video emporium!
*opens steam*
One day, when/if I have spare money I’ll be picking that up and playing some good old fashioned hot seat with my wife.
We’ll probably play the game, too.
Hello!
https://twitter.com/DrinkBoxStudios/status/559839399652122624
Haha, these guys are great.
Latest game purchases:
Shin Megami Tensei Digital Devil Saga – PS2 on PS3
Shin Megami Tensei raidou Kuzanoha – PS2 for PS3
Parasite Eve – PSX for PS Vita
Parasite Eve 2 – PSX for PS Vita
So, keeping my fingers on the pulse with all the latest releases XD
Did anyone ever recommend this Resident Evil Remake to you @DC
Pretty adventure gamey what with all the puzzles and meandering in the atmosphere.
Does that make sense @sughly
>question mark
Or two even…
I’ve played Resident Evil for ages back in the day. I preferred the second one. Even at its best that series never really appealed to me, though. Terrible, clunky writing. I hear they fixed the terrible, clunky controls though. 😛 I liked it enough as a kid to appreciate the pulpy, over-the-top horror but not really my thing, alas. 😀
They fixed the writing too unfortunately. No more Master of Unlocking :'(
The actual story is fine b grade horror, which was the aim. The dialogue is worse now that its better.
Before, it was so bad it was good, now it’s just bad.
I was thinking the gameplay though, thought you’d enjoy the puzzles.
Thanks for thinking of me, buddy. 😀
It’s a week of Grim Fandango, Fahrenheit HD and Life is Strange though. Got puzzles covered for now. If it gets cheaper I might check it out, but not for me on launch, alas. The save system and limited inventory space represented the stuff I hated about console gaming in the ’90s, though. 😛
I’d be more inclined to play some of the early Silent Hills. 🙂
Is silent hill 2 easily found on PC?
Latest console versions are poo.
But yeah, no rush, not trying to push, just playing through reminded me the puzzles were the fun bit.
I do like puzzles. 😀
Also, I love the tank controls, something to master that adds to the tension.
Obviously, I’m in the minority with this one. As usual.
Yeah, it’s not really all that different from the Grim Fandango controls, which I didn’t hate. I think if you just fall in love with a game you easily forgive the stuff that others nitpick. 😀
No, no. I enjoy it. It’s one of the few games I could master that @gutsoup couldn’t.
I never had an issue with controls in the way I might find the amount of gunplay in modern games irritating.
Same way turn based RPGs were fun for me straight away but frustrated action gamer types.
I’m with you on the tank controls. Same reason why I liked Dino Crisis (Capcom please) was because it was relatively difficult to avoid the enemies once you decided to fight them.
Same thing with RE4. Finding a location where you could plant your feet and take a stand was pretty key to mastering the game.
It always struck me that, if not for the movies, modern RE games would actually be Dino Crises, as it more fit the direction of the series.
Code Veronica became this forgotten thing discarded in the lust for a bigger fan base.
Which is a supreme shame because Code Veronica was probably the most refined of the older style of RE and, I would argue, had one of the best villains that was a relatively constant threat throughout the game.
It’s kinda bad that they never really used the T-Veronica virus beyond it being a component of the C-virus in RE6. It always struck me as being the most interesting due to it allowing full control to the infected if allowed to incubate properly. That’s why I really enjoyed the Darkside Chronicles side story because it had more Veronica.
I don’t get why the A&B games were never used again after 2. It’s why 2 is so replayable, big shame that it disappeared.
I CV but it was a bit clunkier than 2&3. So it’s third on my list.
I prefer CV for the story and the creepiness of some of the monsters but yeah, 2&3 are iconic for Raccoon City. Mechanically they were pretty much spot on and nailed the atmosphere of a zombie apocalypse. Just a shame that Capcom doesn’t do a RERE2 or RERE3 because that would make them a lot of dollars.
I’m with you jimjim. It’s not even about overlooking flaws, I think the tank controls are all just a part of its appeal really. For me anyway. And yeah, like youve said, writing was intentionally b grade.
After Anna’s Quest your totally making me a Survival Horror JRPG »:-[
The tank controls were fine in the original games. Fixed camera perspectives and stuff. It was part of the design.The problem is they kept them after going to a full third person over-the-shoulder camera in 4. That game in particular feels clunky and like you’re struggling with the controls to make it do simple things.
Though it probably didn’t help me much that I went into it used to dual-stick shooters thanks to a lot of Halo etc. The thing that threw me out the most was that when you aim, the movement stick turns into the aim stick. Had trained myself that that wasn’t what you did and every time I’d pull up a gun my brain would go THUNK and I’d have to stop and think about what I was doing constantly. That ruined my enjoyment I think. Should never have to actively think about the act of pressing buttons in a game.
Yeah, it’s a bit off in 4.
Prerendered fixed BGs for life, yo!
Did you do Eternal Darkness at all?
That always struck me as feeling a lot like an adventure game, just with combat stuff to deal with too. A friend is quite insistent that it has aged terribly though.
Never had a GameCube, but liked the look of that one!
I remember watching my sister play that on Wii and it was pretty alright at the time. Of course, your interpretation of “aged” may vary considerably because I can still go back and play original Playstation games without any issue.
Depends on the game I think. I mean I can still play all my old games with little issue, but some of them do show their age a bit. Stuttery, choppy framerates that you swear used to be liquid smooth… *glances at GoldenEye*
It pretty much is. Adventure game with a gun.
Yeah, & it has easy mode so that’s not an issue anymore
@dc Methinks RERev2 might be more in line with what you’re looking for. Looks to be very much like an actiony-adventure game.
I liked the demo of the first one, but still felt like it was from another, older era of gaming. (And not in a good way.)
This sounds terrible, but I’m really not fond of Japanese game design. (With a few mainly Nintendo and Team Ico exceptions. :P)
That’s why I try to suggest games that might appeal to your delicate palate 🙁
I appreciate that, Jimjim. Hope I’m not coming across as too dickish. Not my intention and am still half asleep. D:
Nah, I just want you to know this is a friendly suggestion
Was looking at it on PSN, though. Watched a bit of a playthrough too. 🙂
Looks like a TLoU knockoff which could be a good or bad thing depending where you’re coming from.
It’s not going to be nearly as emotionally impactful but should be solid if part 1 is anything to go by.
More Barry and more Claire will be enough to get me to buy it. I’m actually going to miss the hilariously ridiculous plot from RERev but I’ve kinda given up on the main numbered games for my RE fix. 6 was all kinds of shite.
I’m getting it as soon as it comes to disk/cart.
I enjoyed part one & the bits they pinch from TLoU will just make it better for me.
also, Claire.
But I can imagine some tlou fans trying it and being disappointed.
Good morning all. Hope everyone had a swell weekend and Australia Day.
For those RPG folk, no Pathfinder this week because of the disruption to our regular Monday and all of my other nights are filled up. We’ll come back in two weeks. Sorry about that everyone.
In other news, I’m trying to play ranked in LoL again. I have no idea why but I’m doing it.
All good, also ranked? Interesting, are you maining Leona or have you switched it up a bit?
I switch it up a bit. I enjoy Leona but I mix around with some jungle and whatever else. I really want to do a super-push Heimerdinger with the Zz’rot Portal item for hilarity but I doubt that’s viable in solo queue.
Leona is my go-to support, played 4 ranked games with her, never lost with her, and she got me to Silver 1 last season :D. I cannot jungle ever, I’m just so bad at it.
I haven’t mastered Zz’rot portal myself either, I’ve been trying it out on Braum and Leona support, but I never properly use it yet. It’s definitely got potential though! it can only be destroyed like a ward, with autoattacks as far as i know. You might have a rough time in ranked as well as it only just reset last week.
Yeah I finished my qualifiers on the weekend and ended up in Silver 3 which sucks. OCE players are absolutely idiotic at times which is frustrating but oh well.
Might run more Blitzcrank or Thresh support as that can help carry a team.
It’s usually the worst during the first few weeks as everyone gets mashed in for one big bloodbath. I’ll be jumping in too but only after a few weeks have passed at least.
I want to play Blitz more but he’s the riskiest of supports, you either kick ass with him or you get nowhere, but in terms of hooking I use Thresh a lot more as his kit has more than just a really strong single trick. If i want to be good at catching people out I go Leona, if I want to block a lot of projectile aoe, I’d go Braum.
Just play teemo
Yeah nah. 😛
Exactly the response I expected.
All good, I have an inspection Thurs I need to clean up for anyway
No worries. We had talked about doing Wednesday and that was going to be super tricky for me this week as I’ve got my Mum & Sister coming for dinner, so was going to be late / not at all anyway. Much better to just push it.
http://au.ign.com/articles/2015/01/26/this-is-the-kfc-double-down-dog-with-chicken-breast-used-as-the-bun
Ow, my arteries.
I like how most fast food places are trying to go healthy menu while KFC is all “yo, we deep fried a fistful of butter and oil. Buy one get 5 free!”
Ironically a regular combo from KFC is slightly lower in calories and cheaper than a comparable amount of food from one of the other major chains. Also they sell wraps as a “healthy” alternative but these are higher in calories than the burgers. The whole KFC instritution is a weird paradox. One thing you can rely on though is that their original recipe chicken is a heart attack waiting to happen. That’s the one constant.
Calories aren’t my enemy as much as cholesterol which I’m sure all meat with cheese dipped in mayo is king of.
Yeah, but one of those boxes is a day’s worth of kilojoules in a single “meal”.
Depends on your calorie requirements. A regular zinger burger meal (assuming a diet drink like Pepsi Max) is around 900 calories whereas unless you’re actively seeking to lose weight you might be supposed to consume been between 1,600 – 2,000 (contingent on gender, current weight, activity level, etc.). If like me your breakfast is ~200 calories and lunch is ~300 calories (assuming you even eat lunch, I often don’t) then a 1,000 calorie meal isn’t going to ruin your day.
I’m not saying it’s good for you, just that given it’s rep it’s not that bad.
I’m not saying a regular meal with pepsi max is going to break your budget. It’s the ones like this: https://kfc.com.au/menu/boxed-meals/zinger-stacker-boxed-meal/
And the fact that the calculations are all based on pepsi max, not regular pepsi/7up/mountaindew makes a big difference too.
Just pointing out that while you can certainly eat a kfc meal now and again, it’s way too easy to overeat if you see their box meals as “good value”, and that’s what they’re hoping you’ll do.
Oh absolutely. Some of the meals they have on offer give you a pretty good amount of food but if you’re going to get one of those it better be all you eat that day. Those boxes are a whopping 1,400+ calories! I stick to the normal combos myself, or at least I do now that I’m lost some weight and know what a sensible amount of food looks like. I got pretty out of control a couple years back.
I agree! I’ve struggled with weight too, and I’ve only managed to get it stable and coming off by calorie counting and keeping a food diary. It’s an eyeopener when you start, especially when you realise how many kilojoules you can just drink in a day.
Just looking at that is causing my arteries to block.
Prediction: Their next invention will be a pizza with a enormous deep fried chicken base.
An ice cream with a deep fried chicken cone instead of a waffle cone.
Triple Down.
I would eat that
chickenpizza.Honestly, I think having Max with me is making me so happy that I’m starting to cry…
:`)
Pepsi Max? It’s the fizz.
Nope:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B8URZsUCYAE8BPD.jpg:large
Pretty damn cute.
Bawww, little fluff ball.
@redartifice
I’ve finally gotten the chance to watch your Fiasco, oh my god the hilarity, especially with the missus coming in thinking it was a real talk show xD
I’m not sure if I’m happy that we played it that well or sad that even at the ridiculous extreme we took it that it’s still plausible…
I don’t think “passable talkback radio host” is ever going on my CV
“Confident and eloquent public speaker”
“Ability to respond to situations in an organised and effective manner”
“Adaptable to time-sensitive issues”
“Experienced at networking”
RPGs – providing you with the life skills you need.
“can rapidly add and subtract, familiar with dice notation “
“Can take on a different persona when dealing with people”
“Can immerse others in a presentation” (Key BS point if trying to get into marketing)
I love Rach, she’s a fantastic person, but she avowedly doesn’t get half the nerd stuff Dan’s into 🙂
Killer, killer player of ticket to ride though
So apparently Urban Decay becomes available at Mecca Maxima starting March 27th. Boy, am I glad that’s bonus month.
Welp, productive long weekend. Destiny and Minecraft – got my warlock to level 32 (at last), scrapped my alt-lock and started a titan, who is currently sitting at level 28 and awaiting me to grind vanguard marks to buy better gear. Very proud that I got my titan’s first level purely by punching things in the face – who needs a rifle when you’ve got these guns? *points to virtual biceps* 😛
Content with my Titan and Warlock, I spent yesterday playing Minecraft – expanded my base, made it look all fancy with Chiselled cobblestone of various types, then remembered I’d intended to make a huge room at the bottom and form a double helix of rooms heading skywards… Four fancy new rooms will now have to be demolished. :'( Did manage to get a start on Applied Energistics, tho – I have a basic computer storage system with 20k storage, powered by a nether-fuelled lava generator (god, that was a pain – spent two hours sailing around looking for a desert for some blaze powder to make the pump and ender tanks; the lengths I go to to avoid fighting blazes). Also laid out my Thaumcraft room (again, will have to be relocated about five blocks up due to forgetting the original plan), and got started on research.
So, yea, productive weekend. Totally. 😛
@popdart5 Steve gave me the shots even more that Carlos’ fake accent
Totally agree there. Terrible character however it was nice that Capcom at least tried to swing a more human element into the story. CV was all about the idea of family and relationships which I thought came across pretty well in everything. So yeah, I can overlook an awful character for the ideas that came through in the story and the other characters.
I liked when
I killed himSomeone is demanding I supply them with paperwork they failed to keep a copy of for a job that was raised 6 months ago or as I like to call it: ” before I started here”.
Look after your own fucking shit, lady.
And on the other end of the spectrum, I have hoarded receipts all the way back to 2003. 😛 The saddest part about that is, going through them just last night, more often than not I have the damn invoices but no longer the purchased product.
I used to do that.
had a box full, threw em all. Now I leave receipts in cases & throw it after a few months (presuming I find them)
Man those quesadillas looked way bigger and more full on the display than they were in the tray. Also they fell apart into a pile of slop. I chose poorly. Curse you, GYG.
Also, mentioned in passing how it’s my last week here. The girls seemed overly shocked and concerned about that. It weirds me out when people care 😛
You should be asking your higher ups for performance reviews, and CV information (or even if there’s any other positions within the company available).
Also, NEVER CURSE GYG! >:(
(fond memories :3)
What for?
AND THEY DESERVED IT. That wasn’t ten bucks worth of food.
For stuff for your resume?
You know, “What did you think of my performance? Is it alright if I cite you as a reference on my CV? Is there any other work within the company that you feel I may be a good fit for?” etc.
Just trying to look out for you :3
(but you provably already have it covered :P)
[Unnecessarily long chain of laughter text]
I don’t have anything covered. Am the most unsavvy of anyone when it comes to anything related to employment. I’ll probably be bumming around at home for the next however many months until the money’s about to run out again, then will somehow miraculously land another job out of nowhere.
I mean, there might be some attempts in the meantime. But nothing will come of any of them.
Faked overreactions are really an invitation. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
*grabs popcorn*
And now Max is sitting in my lap and purring.
Cats, man…. 🙂
EDIT: Kittyget.
And now with video:
Aw man, so damn cute. 😀
MPQ talk
@quiz_b (maybe I got the handle right, maybe I didn’t. Not going to edit this, no ragrets!)
I started replying on the in-game chat, but there’s a lot to say and it’s not the best for long discussion.
Torch, Blade, Cage, Loki, Squirrelgirl.
First, I’d sell Sgirl. I’m still not sure where she fits in the greater scale of things. I know for certain that she’s not game-breakingly OP. She’ll probably end up middle of the field and/or useful for filling niche gaps.
Loki is pure support – none of his abilities deal scaling damage. This means that the only real advantage to leveling him up is for extra health. This does mean that he’s still quite usable without funneling ISO away from your tanks or strikers – this is particularly useful when you’re starting to push into the 2-3* transition.
Cage is still fairly new, and I think most people are still working out where he’ll end up. It seems like he needs at least one of his attack abilities fully covered before it’s worth putting any ISO into him.
Blade seems popular – although I don’t really see much variation in teams anymore, so it’s hard to verify. Blade has faster healing outside of battle, which is very nice for all levels of play. He’s also got an active Purple, which is still highly sought after.
Torch is probably not that great for transition play, since he’s quite frail. He is great at dealing damage though
Ultimately, I think Loki is your best option; his Black power is expensive and reactive, so maybe if it’s that cover you could make an argument for one of the other characters.
Tanking you muchly, you just saved me opening my wallet AGAIN on this game (which is frustrating at the best of times!)
Also, I took a bit of a look at your roster. You’re essentially ready to start the dreaded 2-3* transition, with a lot of your 2*’s near max. I’d definitely recommend maxing Daken and Wolverine, as they have faster healing outside of battle. Also, OBW, since she is probably the second best 2*, and Magneto, since he pairs with Storm so nicely.
There’s not really much to say about defense in PvP, since almost any player team can beat an AI controlled team. Your best defense is to deter people from hitting you at all. FWIW, this is why Ares is considered the best 2* character – he will put out damage, and all it takes is an unlucky cascade before he’s Sundering and Onsalughting like nobody’s business. I’m not going to necessarily suggest that you level Ares, since you don’t have him on your roster at all, but he certainly needs to be mentioned, since you’ll come up against him a lot. In the 3* realm, Patch is a great pick. As you start getting covers for his Yellow it becomes the best true healing in the game. His green can also swing matches, you just need to learn the timing. Hulk is another good pick, since he’s a big ol’ pile of hit points. He represents a much longer match duration, which is highly undesirable in the last hours/minutes of a competition, so you’re more likely to get overlooked.
Grocket has true healing and v. good Strike tiles. 3* Cap is an absolute monster once he gets his red and blue firing – at 5 covers, they can overwrite any tile so he becomes invaluable for PvE plus that Red hits like a truck, which is pretty nice in PvP. Hood with 5 covers in Blue is still probably the best character in the game, that AP steal is amazing.
I’d say those are the characters on your roster to keep in mind, although you pretty much can’t go wrong with any of them. Doc Ock and Beast are the only characters I’d say are worth more selling than keeping right now, although maybe don’t put too much more ISO into Spider-Man. Otherwise, you’re good to go. It seems like they’re about to introduce some changes to PvP progression rewards, and introduce a new PvE mode where you’ll be able to earn a guaranteed 3* cover every X (sources indicate X=5) days.
Oh god is this what it looks like to people who don’t play the game when I post about my adventures with battleship ladies? :O
haha. probably.
I read the first few times you posted, then I realised I was in very high danger of wanting to play and figured that would be bad for my time/wallet. So that’s when I stopped reading them.
P.S. Ask me about Pokémon?
Not a single StreetPass this morning, nor any during a lunch run. What is this.
Me neither!
But I left my 3DS on the charger at home, so I guess it’s not that surprising.
But if it’s at home how do you know you didn’t get any StreetPasses? 😮
Have faith! 😛
The person stealing stuff from your house right now might be stresspassing you! D:
Shhhhh. You’re ruining some key scenes from the Streetpass horror movie I want to make 😛
“My dream is to stabstabstabstabstabSTAB you.”
I’ve thought it all out in my head.
The opening scene is the whole cliche ‘young woman alone in a big house at night’. She locks all the doors and sits down feeling safe. Her 3DS on the coffee table suddenly flashes its green light, she looks behind her, screams and the viewer sees a blood splatter over the 3DS. -TITLE CARD [name to be determined]-
😛
At least you have the opportunity to get streetpasses, in the month I’ve had my 3ds I’ve gotten 3 unique streetpasses, and one of them was my brother
Would anyone mind copying the contents of this FAQ to a word doc & emailing to me?
Site is blocked at work & I can’t read on my phone
http://www.gamefaqs.com/ps/198265-parasite-eve/faqs/13947
I’ll do it. Text me your e-mail address. 🙂
😀
Sent, hopefully to right address. Formatting might be screwy. Haha. Let me know if it is and I can redo it. 😀
All good, thanks!
Hooray!
Cheatu.
Have you tried getting good?
I beat it already back in the day. Just don’t wanna miss the hidden goodies.
Wow so a candidate of mine is having his final interview on Thursday for a relatively senior IT position. He’s going in for 2.5 hours to do 5 back to back meetings with 5 team members…all over a video conference with them based in the US! Pretty intense.
In other news…GTA V story mode in first person is great fun and pretty challenging. Haven’t even met Trevor yet, but looking forward to experiencing him 1st hand.
Yeah… Trevor is without the doubt one of the most memorable game characters I’ve experienced in a long time! I hate him and love him at the same time… >.
Also, just had a Mary’s burger (from the Sydney CBD store) – VARRRY NICE.
Tell me about this “Mary’s burger”.
I hear it’s varrry nice.
Bit too much yeast around the outside.
The main Mary’s Burger place is in Newtown somewhere and from what I’ve heard it’s an ongoing hit. So they’ve brought a takeaway store to the CBD on Castlereagh Street (in between Market and Park.) Roughly $10 for a burger alone, $15 for a combo (fries and drink.) There’s not much choice, basically Beef, Chicken, Veggie and some other one and you can upgrade to double meat or add bacon for $3 each. I just had the standard Mary’s Burger (Beef) combo and oh MAN the burger was nice. If you are craving burger (and find yourself down those ways,) I’d highly recommend it.
Dammit now I am hungry 😛
And double damn it it’s too far away.
Mary’s is v nice.
I tried Burger Porject the other day (located in World Square), it was not as good, but still nice.
Still, Huxtaburger in Melbournia is probably even better.
Will have to try some day.
Need to get around to trying Huxtaburger at some stage
I go past it sometime on the way home but normal try to stay away form Chapel st around dinner time and don’t get that way at lunch.
Might have to have Schnitz for lunch now though
Why did I wear wet sponges on my feet to work today!? Oh wait, those are my shoes.
In other news, I had to go buy some new socks on my lunch break.
What incredibly interesting things are happening with you guys today?
*points finger at Pow* ORIGAMI KILLER! THE SIGNS ARE ALL THERE!
It’s more of a light rain today though.
I finished compiling all the data from a metrics site we use into a single spreadsheet, because the graphs on there are terrible and don’t let you see half the stuff.
My feet are dry.
I got to sort out the playgroup craft cupboard. I’ve also been repeatedly hit with a toy yoshi.
I did this exact thing Friday!
#AthletesFootBuds
Not so much Athletes Foot as ‘Stepped in too many puddles on the way to work’ Foot 😛
Same, I was exaggerating. T_T
I got invited to a work person’s birthday celebrations. Apparently all attendees get one cupcake.
Freaking kids.
https://twitter.com/FreezeSPreston/status/559911541714075648
Oh man. I can’t imagine what you’re going through right now. Hope it all comes good.
On a completely unrelated note to chest cavities, I’ve recently been rewatching the Alien movies.
Just thought I would mention.
When I first clicked the link I didn’t realise there was supposed to be an image (didn’t load) and I too was thinking about Aliens.
That is screwed up.
You should tell her to quit screwing around.
She is screwed.
Nailed it.
I have decided to back the $35 tier for Shadowrun: Hong Kong because it includes a poster of Shadowrun slang.
I will have a poster awkward 80’s/90’s cyberpunk slang and it’ll be the most radical thing ever.
Oh man, now I have to do the same. It’ll be so wizz.
Don’t be stealing my ideas, chummer.
BLOODBOORRRRRNNNNE
Countdown: 56 days
Not much news nowadays. Just this crappy looking laser-etched PS4 console.
And Forbes is predicting it to be one of 2015’s biggest hits. I guess they mean in terms of quality, because I wouldn’t expect a PS4-exclusive niche title to rival COD or GTA in sales.
I don’t know anybody who likes words/logos on special edition things. Why do companies keep doing it?
Mysteries of life.
*cries about MH4U N3DS and wishes he had the MM one*
I forget, was Sony or Namco backing this one?
I don’t know. Google is not helpful in this regard. This article, if its headline is to be believed, cites Namco as being involved: http://www.gamegrep.com/news/76537-e3-2014-from-software-and-namco-debut-bloodborne-on-ps4/
I thought it was mostly Sorny?
Like Demon’s Souls.
Sony’s publishing Bloodborne.
Aww shit dawg!!!
Well, Demon’s Souls was a huge hit despite everything (it sold hundreds of thousands of copies before it was even officially released in the US!), and the Dark Souls games both did very well, so it’s not that much of a stretch.
Oh for sure. It’ll do well and will be a profitable game, I have no doubt about that, but if you’re going to be talking bestselling games of 2015, I’m not convinced that this will make the cut. There are just too many juggernaut franchises out there.
Not a lot of them due this year though is there?
Assassin’s Creed, CoD, FIFA, Madden will all happen this year at least.
Activision have been quiet for a while about CoD sales figures and from personal experience there far less people online with recent entries at least on Playstation.
Fifa and Madden are kind of an entity to themselves. Don’t they say there’s a large percentage of players who play nothing but?
I have no idea how AssCreed is going these days. Haven’t really paid any attention to them lately. They still selling like the dickens?
CoD is in decline but it’s still a sales juggernaut. I feel like Assassin’s Creed is going to be the interesting one. Unity was potentially a franchise-killing flop and they really need to give it a year or two’s rest. I wish they’d give Prince of Persia another go. Maybe a follow-up to the Nolan North PoP that no one but myself and @masha2932 liked?
And me, it’s the best PoP.
@jimu: I don’t know about ‘best PoP’ but it’s certainly up there. Sands of Time was probably a better game overall but the combat sucked crap.
Hey, I loved that PoP. Was great.
(cc. @jimu)
The Shadow and the Flame for life! *Pulls out hipster glasses*
(Two Thrones is the only one I’ve actually finished, so my opinion isn’t worth a lot here)
Nuh uh, is da bes PoP.
I likedddd
Unlike 2014, there is a paltry list of things worth getting excited about in 2015. Witcher 3, Bloodborne, a few nostalgia remakes (Homeworld, Grim Fandango, HOMM3), maybe some indie titles, and apparently FF15 (though I’m still skeptical).
It kinda makes me feel like the whole ‘no buying games in 2015’ thing is a bit of a cheat, in that I apparently picked one of the shittiest years for
gaming‘games I find even remotely interesting’ in a while.Hey action figure collectable people!
In clearing out some old stuff from the house I found an EDIT: boxed (as in, it’s still in original packaging) Akira Clown Biker leader McFarlane Action Figure! (I’m dumping all the info so you know what it is).
It’s this one: http://www.ebay.com/itm/JOKER-3-D-ANIMATION-JAPAN-2-7-5-/121553540293?pt=US_Action_Figures&hash=item1c4d27d4c5 (but that isn’t my auction).
So…who wants it? It’s going in landfill if no-one claims it (I don’t collect figures as my toddler WILL rip the arms off before I can blink).
Further Edit: It’s free – I just want it to go to a good home, where somebody will give it a nice warm room, somewhere to sleep and some food.
Whatever futuristic clown bikie leaders eat.
I also found a bunch of Choose Your Own Adventure books but be buggered if I’m giving THEM away. I think the earliest I’ve got is #37, “War with the Evil Power Master” from 1984.
…what a title.
Man. I used to have nearly the whole collection of CYOA books. I had the first one, which was The Cave of Time or something. Of course, they’re long gone *sadface*
Almost all my favourites were written by R A Montgomery. I have no idea how I remember that.
I’ve still got my Lone Wolf collection, though, and I’ll never let go of that.
Lone Wolf is my shit. I saw there’s been some video game takes on the thing, but I’m scared of getting hurt, so I haven’t looked much closer.
How puzzling, I keep hitting refresh expecting someone to snatch up the clown. Don’t let it go to landfill :'(.
Hey Gang, Dan here.
For those of you who don’t follow me on your social network of choice, here’s what I’m throwing all my money and “talent’ behind in order to get me out of this hum-drum nobody life and into innernette fame and thus innernette lahdeez.
Presenting Pregeist, an ongoing web-series set just before recording that other thing I flog to death, Dan and Karl’s Zeitgeist.
Here’s episode one for your… not enjoyment… tolerance?
http://youtu.be/9ljWbVimeBs
Love,
Dan
I really enjoyed that. Gave me the giggles, and got me some weird looks from colleagues who haven’t jumped on the Zeitgeist bandwagon yet.
Get ’em on board!
Even if it takes threatening their life or that of a loved one. Maybe tie them to a chair, Reservoir Dogs style, and instead of “Stuck In The Middle With You” play the episode where Karl admits to drinking wee.
I’ve tried all that when I wanted them to buy The Lesser Evil.
Sadly, I don’t think it’d work any better if I tried it again…
How does Karl drinking wee help you sell books?
I never studied marketing, so I don’t know the specifics of how it works.
Meh*.
*awesome.You tricky bastard, you!
Really great stuff, Dan. For real. You guys have a good thing going on with Zeitgeist. Excited to see where it goes. 🙂
Thanks man, really appreciate it.
Hehe..
Tak tak tak tak tak tak tak tak tak tak tak tak tak takI really love how clear your recording is and pretty much devoid of dead spaces of silence. Rare to get that even on a lot of “professional” podcasts.
Keep it up.
Oh man, thanks so much. A lot of work went into perfecting all of that so it’s great to know people appreciate it.
I think this after every episode. It’s really well put together.
Your hair was a little unkempt.
You and Karl have different microphones. Why? This needed to be expanded upon.
The piece was a little short. Explore the time you have.
6/10 – A perfunctory first step. You hindered yourself a little here. I look forward to the next iteration.
P.S. See me after class. 😉
My replies below in bold
Your hair was a little unkempt. Don’t worry, that’ll be taken care of in the next episode.
You and Karl have different microphones. Why? Karl has a loud, bassy voice that benefits from a ribbon mic with a cardioid pattern. I have a softer, nasally voice that benefits from the highly directional pattern of a shotgun mic in order to pick up some of the resonance in my chest while reducing vocal bleed from Karl. Also mics are wicked expensive and we had those two just laying around.
The piece was a little short. Explore the time you have. Don’t worry, some will be real short, other’s will be way long and stretch a shitty joke to it’s breaking point.
In other news, I’ve finally reached the final episode of season 1. And while I can’t say you guys didn’t provide ample warning about that story you opened with… dude…
It’s Zeitgeist. What exactly were you expecting?
Clutch or Colony?
It’s a good one.
Oh yes! With the faces!
Your podcast is quite entertaining and very enjoyable but often feels like it doesn’t last long enough and ends a bit abruptly (that’s what she said) so extending the experience can only be a good thing.
The length and sometimes abrupt endings are completely on purpose. Although I do try to end on a punchline. Of sorts.
Gotta keep the audience wanting more. More. MORE! (How do you like it? How do you like it?)
I listen to oodles and oodles of podcasts and their common mistake is going for way too long and ending up spinning their wheels toward the end.
I’d rather have a tight half hour then a tired, strung out, flapping in the breeze hour.
Also talking non-stop and cracking jokes and coming up with topics off the top of your head for fourty minutes is pretty difficult. We could combat this by doing research but, you know, effort.
Just got told there might be a two week extension on my contract, if they can get it. Since they want even more stuff done on this documentation thing. And then there’s the chance that that language program thing might finally get sorted by the time that’s nearing its end.
NO ESCAPE
These are all supportive/sympathy upvotes, right? Like when people post up similarly terrible news?
Schadenfreude.
In my experience getting to keep working and have money is a good thing. 😛
Sure, if you like the job and want to keep it 😛
Government Boy 2000.
Have wasted most of my day looking for invoices for people who were too incompetent to keep copies of their own.
Ooohhh you can do that. Cos I have a cheque deposited late August and no idea what it was for. If you could send me that invoice it would be grand.
Grrrrrr
I was sad yesterday because I went to athlete’s foot and confirmed that I have stupid feet that only like wearing Saucony shoes, and the shoes they had were $240 *sadface*
Today I went on Catch of the Day and bought 2 pairs of the ones I have just worn out for $150 ^_^
Hey TAY, you guys like games right?
My boss has said that I haven’t been pulling my weight in the slacking off to play games department. So I’ve been sent on a quest…
Do you guys know of any decent games on the Xbox 360 that support at least 3 players in some sort of couch co-op (ie. Not competitive)? Even if they’re just ‘okay’ games. Everything we have is only 2 player co-op which makes it hard for me to join in.
All suggestions welcome!
Renegade Ops. It’s like playing Matchbox Cars except with explosions! So fun!
Looks good! I’m not sure if we can do download games though… You don’t need to have an active sub to download games from the store, do you? (I’ve never used a 360, no idea how this all works)
Don’t need a subscription, just an account with some credit. 🙂
How does credit work? Can they just buy this single game?
Oh yeah, totally can do that too! (I think. It’s been ages since I’ve used 360.)
They got rid of the MS points system. you just let them bill your CC.
That’s perfect.
Mareo cart.
Local co-op or online?
Couch co-op. All three of us playing at once on the same TV. Sorry, should have specified.
http://www.co-optimus.com/games.php?system=1&couch=true&countDirection=at%20least&playerCount=3
Oh wow, there’s a website for everything these days huh?
Thanks a bunch.
EDIT; Hm, doesn’t seem to have everything. Maybe it doesn’t count digital games? Samurai Warriors 2 might be good! They seem to like action games so maybe they could get into some Warriors. I’ll look into it more.
– Castles Crashers
– Scott Pilgrim vs the World
– Guitar Hero / Rock Band (more turns, but ‘eh’)
– Left 4 Dead 2 (I think. It may be 2 player splitscreen)
Umm, that’s all I can think of :\
I’m not an Xbox guy :3
Ooh, nice. Didn’t even think of beat-em-ups. Castle/Scott would probably be great.
It would be a whole lot easier if they were retail games though 😛 I’ll have to go ask if we can even do download games…
Scott Pilgrim is great fun with 3 players!
Definitely worth trying to pick up 🙂
Castle Crashers looks pretty fun too 🙂
I second Rock Band/Guitar Hero – those are super fun even if you’re a bit crap or totally awesome – everyone can play the level that suits them.
I dunno if Mashed works on 360. But Mashed.
Can’t seem to find anything about that on 360!
http://www.wikixbox360.com/page/Backwards+Compatibility%2FVGA+Compatibility+List?t=anon
Says it works!
Perfect Dark Arcade (he port of the 64 game, not the prequel Zero)
Bubble Bobble something something – the hd port of the arcade classic!
Sonic Racing & Transformed, I think…
Perfect Dark would’ve been great, but it doesn’t look like it has couch co-op unfortunately.
I’m pretty sure it does.
Really not? Triple check that. Seems odd to remove but leave everything else.
Says it has 2-player online co-op here: http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-AU/Product/Perfect-Dark/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d802584109c2
It’s got all these things, that’s an incomplete list.
2 player co-op refers *only* to the campaign & not the multiplayer.
Listed under “Online Features”
It doesn’t cover local ar all, beluve me, it’s there!
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/516508-perfect-dark-zero/55419399
Fuzion Frenzy 2?
Ha, I remember playing a tonne of Fusion Frenzy on the original Xbox using a demo disc I got from somewhere. Liked that game a bit too much! But never bought the actual game.
Can’t have anything competitive in a work environment though 😛
Second question: Is there a way of checking the Australian prices of 360 digital games without using a 360? Can’t seem to find any prices anywhere…
(Or if someone is feeling generous, could they check the prices for Scott Pilgrim, Castle Crashers and Renegade Ops for me?)
I’m not seeing anything for Scott Pilgrim… did it get pulled off the store at some point?
Castle Crashers is $14.95. Renegade Ops is $9.95.
Taken from the game’s Wikipedia page.
27 days too late. =(
Ah damn. That was my front runner!
Thanks for looking those prices up for me though.
I remember a friend mentioning this. Something along the lines of “we’re finally starting to see the consequences of the digital distribution age”, with a game just being wiped from existence.
I’m pretty sure you can buy and view stuff from the web store:
http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-AU/Product/Castle-Crashers/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d802584108b7
etc.
That’s weird, when I looked earlier I swear there weren’t any prices listed…
I’ve lost it.
Oh man, that one by Halfbrick. Uhmmmm Raskulls?
It’s a big long running race and it’s great.
Diablo 3
Hm, interesting.
I don’t know if they’d go for that sort of game though… Seems a bit too complex. Really just need something pick up and play. I’ll have to think about this one! Thanks.
“Hold A to win” is not complicated 😛
Gears of War 2/3 has a fantastic horde mode. Not entirely sure how many players it supports on the same TV but if you want to shoot some dudes, that’s the way to do it.
Spelunky has co-op but is a fairly unforgiving platformer where you have to restart if you all die (and you will all die, repeatedly). Amazing fun though.
Everything else I can think of is 2 player aside from things like Castle Crashers which are just kind of okay.
Alternatively, ditch the 360 and get BOARD GAMES. I can recommend a lot of co-op, semi-co-op and completely not co-op options there.
Ah, Gears of War would’ve been great! Looks like it’s only 2 players couch co-op though sadly. Thanks though.
A bit of a scattershot of suggestions so make sure to verify that these have local 3 or 4 player modes.
I can’t remember which one but I know at least one of the Sonic All-Star Racing games was fun.
I remember having fun with Heavy Weapon’s local multiplayer but it’s not the most complicated game out there.
Probably a bit too obvious, but Halo 3 has 4-player local co-op for the campaign which is a lot of fun.
SEGA’s The Club has local 4-player if you’re in the mood for something shooty. It wasn’t well received and I’m not sure how well it’s aged, so I would avoid it unless you really like what you see on YouTube.
Perfect Dark Zero was dated before the 360 was even released, but it has 4-player local co-op and oddly enough the multiplayer is dated but it’s dated in a bunch of cool ways. It’s like Goldeneye with bots, big maps, big objectives.
I finished Dragon Age on the weekend and now I’m trying to figure out what to devote my gaming time to next.
I feel like I’m quite close to done with Shadow of Mordor. Need to control all five warchiefs but I hit a huge snag, which is that the warchief I need to control – and I think this is just bad luck RNG when the game started – is a spear-chucker type. And he has 3 bodyguards. They’re all spear dudes too. And then the henchmen of those guys are also spear throwers. Net result is that if I enter open combat with any of them, I’m pincushioned within seconds. If I send my own guys in and try and help from the shadows, they still lose because too many spears. So I’m not sure if I can actually proceed. Will require some more attempts. If I’m really stuck though, then I’ll probably give up.
The remainder of my current pile of shame, not in any real order, but with approx time spent for each listed and time to finish estimate (based on HowLongToBeat.com) is:
– Ar noSurge (I think about 8 hours in, ~60 hour game)
– Danganronpa 2 (maybe 3 hours in, barely into chapter 1, ~32 hour game)
– Infamous Second Son (I think I was about halfway, ~14-15 hour game)
– Tales of Hearts R (not started, ~50 hours)
– Tales of Xillia 2 (not started, ~50 hours)
– Atelier Ayesha Plus (not started, 25-35 hours) (also should do Rorona, Totori, Meruru some time)
– Demon Gaze (not started, 45-50 hours)
– Tears to Tiara II (not started, 75-80 hours)
– Gravity Rush (about halfway, ~15 hours)
– Akiba’s Trip (have to re-start on PS4, ~13-14 hours)
– Neptunia re;birth 1 (not started, ~30 hours)
– Brandish (not started, ~15 hours)
– Trails in the Sky (re-play on PC to prepare for SC, ~50 hours)
– Fault: Milestone One (not started, 6-8 hours)
– FF13 games (third time’s the charm? Starting over on PC, ~50 hours + ~30 hours + ~35 hours just focusing on plot to get them done)
– Drakengard 3 (not started, 25 hours)
– Sunset Overdrive (not started, 15 hours)
– Yakuza 4 (not started, 30-40 hours)
I kind of want to aim to knock out a game every week or two if possible, since I’m still acquiring games faster than I can finish them and it’s distressing. Also thinking if I’m focused on finishing some stuff I’ll be less likely to impulse-buy other games.
Only thing I know of lurking in the near future is FF Type-0 in March.
I browsed your list & I say Shin Megami Tensei Digital Devil Saga.
Or Yakuza 4.
I have Digital Devil Saga somewhere. Years back, the UK publisher (Ghostlight) had a big clearance sale on their PS2 stuff and I picked up Lucifer’s Call, Digital Devil Saga and Digital Devil Saga 2 and I think Shadow Hearts: From the New World for like $5 each. They sent me a bunch of huge posters for some of those games too, which I still have in a tube somewhere. One of them might be a Shin Megami Tensei poster actually. If I can find it maybe you’d want it?
A whole lot. Like you wouldn’t comprehend!
I want all those things! Can I buy em from you??
The games themselves? I’ll have to dig them out and check what I actually have.
You can have the posters.
I nearly bought them all recently before realising I needed the cash for that expensive type 0.
So yes, I’m interested, but no rush 😉
I’ve fallen in love with not just the games, music and art but the entire concept of the Chaos & Law war.
It’s resonating with me on many levels.
If you do FF13, just jump straight into 2. It’s just better in all respects
I know that but I just can’t do it. Can’t skip a chapter. Hard to do it even with Yakuza, but that at least is straight-forward enough that I could watch a summary.
But 13 is a lot of hot wind that says very little.
I’ve never seen the ending of 13 & I just caught up on the way during 2
Please just accept that I don’t want to skip 13 even if it’s a bucket of shit. I know that. I’ve tried to finish it twice before. I just can’t skip it.
I accept.
Been a while since I beat SoM but can’t you go and take out his henchmen individually to make your job easier or better yet get them under your control to backstab him? I remember giving one of my Warchiefs 3 bodyguards and if anyone gave me guff I’d send them in and just peck at them with ranged attacks from the outskirts.
That’s the point: the bodyguards are all spear dudes that have spear dude helpers. I can’t even take them on without getting murderized.
If one or two of them were normal orcs it’d be easy.
I just finished my final achievement on Final Fantasy XIII (about 101 hours). If you’re just playing them for the story the first one should be pretty quick. Plotwise it’s a little rough but I don’t think it’s as bad as people remember (if you’re only playing it now odds are you’re not heartbroken that it’s imperfect). Hope is annoying and there are some stupid bits, but overall I enjoyed it.
You might want to do a little grinding once you get into the open world area (very late in the game) to make life easier, but honestly if you’re playing on the PC just cheat. I’m sure there’s a way to max out your Gil and CP (essentially exp). Even if you just hack a Growth Egg onto your character early on that should be enough of a boost (it gives Double CP to everyone). It’s all fairly linear and rather than having levels you have these upgrade trees to spend CP on that cap out based on where are in the story, so even with infinite CP you’re not going to become over powered to the point where it breaks the game.
I think I might make up a list of my own like this and keep it on my desktop. I’ve been pretty good with spending money on games lately but there’s still a lot sitting here unplayed.
Yeah, being able to cheat it to push through faster was part of why I was thinking of re-trying on PC. I actually got as far as Gran Pulse the first time, but then they announced the Asian release would be JP Dialogue + Eng Subs so I stopped and ordered that, and by the time it arrived I’d moved on. Lost my saves. Then tried to re-start if and it was even worse the second time because I already knew the story beats up to there and the game is just one long linear area after the other filled with battles that take way too long but which you really can’t skip or risk being underleveled.
Great music though.
I tried replaying it before INQUISITION came out because I had such a good time with DA2 I thought maybe 13 would be ok.
Nope 🙁
*why does everyone hate hope? I like him, I hate the stereotypical black guy, vannile & snow.
I just found him sort of annoying and poorly written. They do that thing where his entire motivation and everything that’s meant to make him interesting and give him depth could be resolved by a three second conversation that just sort of never happens. I get that they’re being swept up in the journey and occasionally he was interrupted but it did that soap opera thing where the characters say they want confrontation but they don’t really pursue it and they’re happy to drop the subject completely at the slightest distraction.
Also I understand part of his character is that he grows up on the journey but at the start he’s just an annoying kid. I’m not sure what exactly it was about him, but he killed off any sympathy I had for him right off the bat.
When it’s all said and done I enjoyed FFXIII but I don’t think anybody could play it twice. I don’t consider linear design bad, even for a Final Fantasy game, but for the first ten or so chapters FFXIII is open world filler content injected into an incredibly linear game. Now I know how it plays out it’d be like watching a movie and pausing every two minutes to fight some trash monsters.
Yakuza 4 isn’t that long. I’d vote for Xillia 2 but not for a while. I kinda absolutely hate it because it’s shit but I also kind of want to force myself to get through it because I paid full price for it…
Wouldn’t be any time soon though but I’ll keep you in mind when I NEED a buddy to help me get through it 😛
So you’re saying you want me to force my way through it so that I can be moral support for you when you get around to finishing? 😛 I kind of regretted buying it, honestly. Everything about it seems like a misstep. Obviously was a stopgap comprised of a bunch of assets they’d cut from the first game (which was rushed out for the Tales 15th Anniversary) and to tide people over while they got Zestiria done.
Speaking of which, Zestiria came out last week in Japan. Worldwide release some time in Q2, so probably around April/May. Excitement!
No, I want us to painfully play through it together <3 😛 (it’s so bad)
I still need to play Graces f, Symphonias, finish Vesperia and buy Hearts R. Xillia 2 bummed me out 🙁
I haven’t finished Vesperia. 🙁 I don’t want to get the 360 out for it though. Also I’d have to start over, don’t think I have my saves left (I killed my own progress by stopping for several hours to farm gald at the casino by save-scumming the blackjack minigame)
Vesperia is the one I kept. Was having the most fun.
YAY DOG
Yay dawg, herd u Kirk mudkip
Grim Fandango is out on GOG and Steam. No PS4 yet.
Hey, that means Steam’s estimate this morning was wrong! It lied to me in song!
(Thanks D.C.!)
Boooo 🙁 I want PS4 🙁 Time to teach Anton all about adventure games! Otherwise this wedding may have to be called off
Haha! I’m sure Grim Fandango can win over any one! Hopefully! XD
I’m holding out for PS4 too. I have a mental image of me playing on a couch with a controller.
You’ve betrayed the Adventure Game Master Race, D.C..
We’re all very disappointed in you.
Well, they are, I’m not actually part of the group, because I’m really bad at adventure games.
I bought the original twice on PC. And I’ll be buying this again on PC. Just not first. 😛
Much Disappoint.
Very Betrayed.
But – Massive TV and COUCH!
I just love the fact I can do it with a controller on a nice big TV 🙂
Gonna be good. It’s legit been years and years and years since I’ve played too. Looking forward to just experiencing that world again. Especially Year 2. Ah, Rubacava. <3
Playstation Store updates on Wednesdays.
Yeah, figured that’d be the case. Oh well, atleast I can get Fahrenheit and Grim at the same time hopefully.
Oooh, is Fahrenheit coming to PSN this week, how much?
Countdown finishes tomorrow and it was briefly listed on Amazon for $10 for this week, so here’s hoping. 🙂
Excellent. Gog d’load is the first thing I’ll do when I get home
Fuck, I knew there was something missing from my list 🙁
Robert Allenby is telling so many stories there must be a hole in one somewhere.
#HalfPage6
Bought a 20th Anniversary Optimus Prime new/sealed on eBay for $125! 😀
Is that as in the G1 reissue? I remember seeing one of those in the shops, and left it there because I thought I had my old one at home somewhere. Except it turned out I actually didn’t D:
Yeah, G1. Spewing, I’ve never seen them in shops and the ones I’ve seen on eBay fly for around $300. I was lucky some schmuck didn’t put ’20th anniversary’ in the listing title and as such people searching for one wouldn’t have found it.
I was just lucky I searched Optimus Prime and then proceeded to look through all 1000 listings..
I used to fall into the trap of ‘needing’ to play previous chapters of games before playing the latest but over the years realised that sometimes I was better off jumping in the deep end with the latest installment & working my way backwards.
Apologies for the lack of grammar, @negativezero
I have XIII-2 and Lightning Returns untouched and they will remain untouched forever because I’ve tried several times to finish XIII and I just can’t do it.
This is me exactly. I own three copies of FFXIII and FFXIII-2 but I haven’t finished XIII so I can’t play the supposedly better one.
EDIT: This is also why my copies of Neptunia 2 and Victory go unplayed – haven’t finished the first game – and why I never got to Atelier Totori despite it being the best of its series, because Rorona plays like arse. It’s why I never got around to any of Yakuza, because it came out too late in the PS2’s lineup.
The only time I’ll do it is if we never actually got the original game (eg if the rumors of Sen no Kiseki getting an English release before the 3 intervening games is true, I’ll still bite), if a good new entry point is available (eg start of a new trilogy) or if there’s no real continuity between games so playing out of order makes no difference (eg Legend of Zelda or Final Fantasy or Ys).
If something’s going to reference events from previous games I really want to have played those games. It’s pretty rare that I’d consider going back to an earlier entry.
I own 1&2, finished 2, played 3s demo, was not impresed, won’t be buying it.
You can borrow it if you want, I got it hated the idea of the time limits and shelved it. Managed to push through FFXIII and XIII/2 . Got pladernerms on both too.
Nah, playing PS2 games now.
more fun!
That seems to be something a lot of games forget about, they’re supposed to be fun.
Yep, anytime I find something new I like , I head backwards & play whatever predecessors it has, whether early versions or same developer or whatever
I spent many hours watching someone complete SMT 1&2 on YouTube because they’re too old and are for me.
Currently on a mass ATLUS binge.
US PSN sales & that 10% off were a huge help.
Also have a DS game in the mail that took half a week to register my order & 2 weeks to find & post it.
but it’s in the mail now, which is nice.
I really struggle to do that unless the games are really self-contained. Also it’s super hard to go backwards, since earlier games often play worse.
I seem to be able to do it.
Even when they’re self-contained I struggle. I played the first Assassin’s Creed but then passed on 2, and even though there have supposedly been a heap of points where I could jump back in without missing anything I still feel like there’s too much of a gap between where I am and where I’d need to be to play whichever one is on the shelf.
In theory it’s because I want to play the complete experience without missing chapters, but it’s almost at the point where I’d consider it a psychological defect. I almost physically can’t put the disc in and play them out of order which is bananas.
Are you also a completionist, like if you’re in a game made off the Ubisoft Open World Game Template ™ you have to go and jump off all those radio towers and collect all those flags and feathers and whatever else they’ve scattered around? And you really struggle to skip anything?
I’m like that though I can sometimes restrain myself on the collectables and at least I don’t feel compelled to get all achievements / platinum trophy stuff. I think maybe it’s a certain psychological thing, the structure and way they do stuff makes it hard to ignore. Feel like I have to squeeze every practical drop out of my games or something, skipping bits isn’t allowed because I’m not getting the full game or something.
Yeah. Even back before achievements I’d go for 100% runs. All stars in Mario, all Choas Emeralds in Sonic, all Platinum in Blast Corps, etc. Donkey Kong Country is probably the first game I remember having proper ‘get all the tokens for 100%’ collectables, but even before that I’d find some way to go beyond the main quest. In Super Mario World for instance I realised the level icons changed if you completed reached all the different exits, so I did all of those and my save file text turned blue (or was it yellow…).
In retrospect I think it started out because I would hire games and we had a limited time with them. It was like a race to do as much in the game as possible between picking it up Friday night and dropping it off Sunday night. I couldn’t complete most of them because I was so young and sucky. Then when I grew up a little and started getting skilled enough to beat the games but it stuck with me. I didn’t get new games that often so on week days it was easy to obsess over specific games I owned trying to learn every single thing I could about them because I wanted to keep playing.
I think that just grew as I got older and became a part of the way I process games that I enjoy. Often if I step back I’ll realise I hate the part of the game I’m playing, but I want to enjoy it as much as I did the good parts so it doesn’t register properly that I’m done with the good parts of the game. Like eating bones because I enjoyed the meat so much.
Man, this really makes me wish I had the sort of free time I had when I was little again. =P
Frustrating things that happened to me this weekend: Tried to get into the World of Warships beta through various means, even tried to get @batguy to get me in, to no avail. Then they suddenly opened signups again for the US one and I signed up. And they let me in. At 5am on Monday morning. I spent all day Monday with friends playing board games, then got home and discovered I’d been let in.
Started downloading but it was super slow for some reason and by the time it was downloaded, the beta period was over. 🙁 Missed out on trying it again. 🙁
I’m kind of interested in that. It’s just different enough to grab my attention.
Doesn’t hurt I used to build and paint those plastic model warships as a kid. Also the helicopters. Can’t find them anywhere these days unfortunately.
Well we all know about my weird interests, but I’ve been interested in warships since well before Japan decided they needed to be cuter.
Warship model kits are easy enough to find if you look in the right places. Funnily enough, Japan still produces a lot of them. Obviously they skew toward the IJN ships but I feel like there’s something cultural about building tiny intricately detailed things, and warship models are great for that. Hasegawa I think are supposed to be the best.
As for the game itself, it really looks interesting. They’ve put a lot of thought into not making it play like World of Tanks apparently. Ships have long gun reload times, sluggish response, big turning circles… and tactics are actually pretty similar to reality if people play correctly. Hell, while reading up on the game I discovered something I didn’t know, which is that the Yamato – the biggest, heaviest warship class ever to set sail – had a turning circle of less than 600m at speed, which means she could out-turn even most contemporary destroyers.
Oh well. At least you had a fun day playing board games with your friends, so it’s not all bad!
I received a work email with clearer instructions on how to sign people up on Friday night, but needed VPN access (which I have been trying to wrangle with IT) to access the page with further information. Finally read it yesterday and found out that the address I emailed was for Russian region only, and there’s different organisers for EU, US and Asia. *sigh* So I fired off an email to the Europe guy to get you added in the future. You may not need it now that you got into the other signup, I dunno, but I tried!
Thanks for trying anyway. I’m sure I’ll eventually get to play it.
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(Translation: Hype!)
And finally got around to messaging my friend about Soundwave. Guess I gotta look into coming back up to Brisbane 😛
Look who’s come crawling back! >:|
…
WE MISSED YOU!
*hides from DC in the crowds of scarypeople*
Decepticon? Oh, not that. Carry on.
Anyone buy Grim Fandango on GOG?
It looks like they added more bonuses other than the “HD Wallpaper”, but I’m just wondering whether those 3 making of eps are the same ones that are uploaded on Double Fine’s YouTube page?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNhE7zxJymE etc.
Well that sucks. My favourite Twitter client for Windows does not work anymore and the developer stopped supporting it almost a year ago, there’s nothing else that comes close to it that I like. Sucks, but oh well..
@negativezero @freezespreston
Games what I started late & played backwards.
Onimusha 3 – These are almost stand alone but are the continuing adventures & do reference each other.
Yakuza 4 – Nice movies on the main menu to fill me in
Castlevania Symphony of the Night – Direct sequel with a pisspoor intro that fails to fill in anything.
Metal Gear Solid – direct sequel to MG2, great introductory article in the instructions
Alone in the Dark( recent one) – apparently this is a direct sequel, I dunno how or care why, was great fun!
Devil Summoner Soul Hackers – direct sequel to Devil Summoner, never been localised. I’m fine.
Super Metroid – intro movie explains all you need. Technically I did play the first on NES for at least 20 mins.
Tekken 2 — the argument that it doesn’t matter in a fighter is solid, but I actually really enjoy Tekken’s story & found it fun to go back & see how it was
Then there’s FF or Fallout & all the other stand alone ip
I’m back on the interwaves.
Who’s this guy?
My next door neighbour has gone overseas, and left his cats at home. They’re being fed by someone, but the little one keeps sitting at my back door all night meowing! I go out and give him scratches and pats, and he’s a super purr machine when I do, but damn it’s getting annoying :\
I wish I could let him in to my place just so he can have the human contact he so obviously desires, but at the same time, I don’t want to, else he’ll start thinking he can come in any time. Plus I don’t want to have to watch him like a hawk in case he pees on stuff. Le sigh… He’s SOOOO cute though!
You should let him in 😉
You know you want to 😉
But man, cats are just the worst.
Ended up backing Shadowrun Hong Kong at the $55 tier because source books.
As tempting as the bag was at $150, I just couldn’t justify that money on a “synth leather” (read: vinyl) bag.
I’m tempted by the bag, just because I’m sick of my current bag, and I do love me some Shadowrun.
Working with leather as a job has left me a bit of an elitist snob with it.
My sister would kill me if she saw me toting around a leather bag, and years of using vinyl have left me complacent. 😛
What’s wrong with leather bags?
She just doesn’t like things that say “leather daddy”.
If you’re a vegetarian? The “leather” part.
“The cow died of natural causes”
Solved 😎
The best thing about Hotline Miami has been that it made me aware of the amazing musical subgenre it used (and probably helped popularize honestly). Carpenter Brut EP III is out and it’s pretty rad.
Everything about Hotline Miami is so appealing to me. Music, artistic themes, story themes, storytelling approach, sudden and visceral violence.
It makes me wish I didn’t get so frustrated by its puzzles or demand on reaction times.
That feeling though when you nail the precision needed for some of sequences? So good. Reminds me of some of the insane manoeuvres and reflexes needed for some platformers.
Soundwave ticket ordered. HAPPENING.
Max has his own bed and litter box now. 😀
*Kitty Intensifies*
So, Grim Fandango HD takes an already great game, cleans it up, re-orchestrates it and improves the controls.
They’ve taken one of my favourite games ever and properly remastered it. I’m so happy with it!
With a glowing recommendation like that, I should definitely think about attempting to play through and actually finish it. Maybe. After buying it, I guess.
Gog.Com! Drm free!
Music to my ears!
I should probably use this lull in new games to work though my pile of shame.
Ehhh,
*Goes back to playing Hyrule Warriors*
I approve, those extra maps add a lot of longevity. The third one is a little annoying at times though with all its stupid conditions “all attacks are devastating” is my least favorite. What level have you gotten your main dudes up to?
uhhh level 50ish. I’m still going through the first adventure map. Almost completely revealed all the map. Just 5 or 6 to go.
Yep I play it a lot, got my main 2 at around lvl 105 and everyone else ranges from lvl 60 to around 85, I’ve even got the new Midna up to over 60 already :P. I do play 100% co op though so we’re always leveling 2 at once. I think I’ve just about cleared the first and second maps but not very far into the third (those twilight squares are the worst, need so many mirrors).
I love the ‘all attacks are devastating’ levels! It rewards my cowardly style of play 😛
I just use the bow and shoot everyone from a distance.
Use Zelda and spam tornados. Tap attack, dodge, repeat.
I tend to try and use bows, just annoying when you’re going for an A rank and some little boblin sneaks in an attack that wrecks the whole thing. Have you played the twilight map? It’s got way too many IMO and some levels just seem stupidly hard, I play co op with 2 characters over lvl 100 and we still struggle at times, had no trouble on any of the other maps.
I haven’t actually played any of the DLC yet besides the Cia story chapters!
Burnt myself out by playing too much 😛 I figure at this point I’ll just wait until all the DLC is out and then get stuck back in fresh.
Ooh, you’ll burn yourself out if you try doing all DLC at once, it is extremely repetitive, I guess all the warriors games are pretty repetitive but the DLC stuff is a lot of doing the same thing on the same levels with some different requirements or a different character. I do like that it forces you to use everyone though.
I doubt I’ll ever finish all the DLC anyway. I couldn’t even finish the first non-DLC Adventure map because it was too difficult 😛 HW will be a game that I’ll play in chunks for a long time.
Some of them would be damn near impossible solo, so glad I’ve got a co op partner.
Fun fact Zyzzyx Road starring Katherine Heigl had a US gross of $30.
No there’s nothing missing from there.
You need to watch it and rate it for us! 😀
Man, sometimes brands responding to your tweets can be a bit uncomfortable. Yesterday I tweeted that I didn’t think Onedrive for business was as good as a standard Onedrive account and Microsoft responded with “What makes you say that, Ben?”
Arggghhhh them responding like that makes me feel really guilty 😛 I just thought the web UI of the normal one was more user friendly is all 🙁
You should tell them that.
Feedback is feedback, and it might lead to a better UI on the business version if others agree 😉
I’ll think about it 😛 It’s a lot more powerful, just has a bit of a learning curve.
Also a few years ago I was paid by MS to test things and give feedback and if there’s one thing they didn’t do it was take anything I said on board 😛
It’s worth offering the feedback anyway. Maybe there’s even some feature already in Onedrive to customise the UI, and they’ll be able to help you find it.
#creepytwitter
I keep getting notifications that people have favourited a tweet I’m mentioned in, or worse still, are now following me. WEIRD STRANGER PEOPLE.
Makes me want to reach for the Nuke From Orbit button.
If you ever bitch about Australia Post on twitter they will invariably challenge you too. It’s creepy. Happened 2-3 times to me. I’m just having a sook and no you can’t fix it.
EB called me out once. Made my mumbled excuses and left.
I had that when bitching and moaning about a temporary stop closure fuckup at the gabba busway a month or so back. “Can we get some details?” So now instead of being self-righteously ranty and angry, I’m shifting modes into helpful data-providing. “Where did you try to leave from? When? Which service? Are you aware that the platform is closed due to an event at that time, with an alternate stop?” “Yes, that’s why I went to the alternate stop that the noticeboard advised. PITY NO-ONE TOLD THE GOD DAMN BUS DRIVERS THAT.”
In the end, “Sorry about your experience,” and me resisting the urge to reply, “Yes. Please refer to my first tweet bitching about it.“
Disconnect between BCC & TransLink is fucked.
All you need say.
Pretty much, because they’re private, they don’t give a shit. At least BCC has political reasons to try & solve problems.
Pretty normal then, they just don’t give a shit at all.
The fact they’re not cheap to travel on is even worse. It’s cheaper to drive to & from Brisbane leaving my place than it is to catch public transport 😐
I forgot my umbrella at work yesterday afternoon. This morning it’s bucketing down.
Guess I’m taking a full change of clothes to work today… Times like these I wish I had a car 😛
It’s times like these you learn to live again
It’s times like these you give and give again
Had fun last night. Went out to tea and bowling with my basketball team as a social night. Had quesadillas for tea, which were absolutely awesome, had pork cooked in Coke as one of the ingredients. Bowling was fun, my first ball was a strike, and I scored 122 in one of the games, which is my highest score ever. To top it all off, I didn’t have to pay for bowling, and got shouted a drink as well. 10/10 would do again.
Sounds like a great night. Pork cooked in Coke sounds interesting! What sort of basketball team do you play for?
The Pork was really tasty, tender and well caramelised. I play for a social basketball team called the Winners, which is an ironic name as we only win once in a blue moon. I enjoy playing though, and it’s good exercise.
Nice. Yeah I want to get back in to a league soon once I’m in reasonable shape.
I’m not even in reasonable shape (over 150 kilos) and I’m still playing. If you can find a decent social competition, go for it. I was lucky as a friend of mine invited me to join the team.
Rain rain go away, why’d they cancel my train today.
Sydney just gives up when it rains. Everybody goes completely insane.
All I wanted to do last night was play some Skyward Sword on the WiiU after thinking that I have only ever played it through once (strange for me with Zelda games!). But then I see that there’s no nunchuk with the Wiimote on the controller/charger table! After searching for an hour, accepting that it got lost in the recent move and going to bed frustrated, I realise this morning that I haven’t had a nunchuk since selling the Wii in the middle of last year!
Now all there is to do is grumble under my breath about my poor long term memory while I go buy a new one. /whinge
Got none. Chucked it.
The only one left is remote?
I am so badly dreading the impending hunt for amiibos.
I thought they were already sold out?
Yes. They are definitely all sold out. Nobody should waste their time going out and looking for them because they aren’t there.
Unless you want a Pikachu or Peach, usually all that’s left when I go look for them
Or Mario. Plenty of him around too.
Though I have occasionally seen a DK. And sometimes, a few Luigis. One place even had several Zeldas still. Apparently there’s been a restock of Link recently too, a friend went and grabbed one just the other day.
Even in the US everywhere I went had just one Peach, alone amidst a huge empty shelf. 😀
I just want a megaman to have on my desk 🙁
I wanted the Villager but didn’t even know it was a thing until it was too late. Nintendo are mean. Hopefully they’ll just “vault” them like Disney and their movies and one day we’ll be able to buy the cool ones again.
I’ll never understand Nintendo, develop something that’ll sell like bloody hotcakes, and what do they do? Oh we’ll only limit to this many only… -_-‘
I saw some preowned Amiibos?
Pre-owned things that aren’t games are a weird concept to try and wrap my head around.
I got an email from EB saying my Shulk is on it’s way. This suits my lazy lifestyle.
They are out this Saturday?
Yes. Saturday… >.>
Wait, thursday? I don’t even Nintendo, stop changing release dates for your damn products!
I for one welcome the return of the Thursday release. Saturdays are stupid.
SHHHHHHHH!
*whispers to gooky*
You don’t understand how this works, just when you get used to something Nintendo quickly changes it.
*talks loudly*
So yeah, those Thursday release dates are the worst.
Thursday? More like Worstday.
Gameses!
I’m going to make a new social media platform called “Creepr” for creepy weirdos.
You guys can all sign up for free.
How about just a view-only guest account?
Potential mod right here.
“Creepr”
Endorsed by @mrtaco
Is this for me?
I feel like this is for me.
I’ll join regardless.
I’m still hip and trendy.
Not everything is about you, Lion! Jeez.
It’s not about anybody 😛God dang old books are hard to find. Searched around for a RPG book from about 2005 and it was actually cheaper to request a single, brand new print of it than it was to buy it second-hand. To me that sounds slightly crazy.
Did you try drivethru rpg?
That’s where I ended up getting the brand new version from. Everywhere else I would usually go to for a second-hand version was either sold out or just as expensive as buying new.
What that says to me is that good RPG sourcebooks are things that their owners will buy and hang onto for a long time rather than sell, even if they don’t necessarily play them any more.
I have 7 or 8 D&D 4e sourcebooks. I doubt I’ll play 4e again, but the books are pretty and I’ll occasionally dip into the splatbooks for inspiration
45 days!
Well, technically it’s 50 but I’m starting early because why the hell not?
No, Freeze, it’s 36 days until I come to Brisbane.
No Pow it’s 31 days until *I* come to Brisbane.
30 days until I leave Brisbane for a week!
Where you off to? *is being nosy*
It was a joke.
Aw. I thought you had something planned. Damn.
No it’s only 31 days until *i* come to Brisbane, jeez. It’s not all about you Gooky.
Is so too.
Nah.
Hmm spose I should think about somewhere to stay now I think about it, eh that’s future Virus’ problem.
I should probably start making plans. 😛
Nearly finished Bayonetta last night (hopefully will tonight, I think I have 2 levels to go). It’s pretty great, so much unnecessary cleavage and butts :D. Seems to have taken some ideas from Mario Galaxy (in a good way). Did some cool platforming around little planetoids and floaty bridges.
Also tried Animelab last night, has anyone else used it? ( @negativezero @jimu ) Seems good and works perfectly on my PS4 so that’s a plus, reasonably big library with a lot of complete seasons as well as plenty of recent and ongoing shows.
I watch all my badly dubbed, 80s/90s anime on YouTube now.
All the stuff I love that is in contractual limbo is up there!
Pretty awesome.
It’s more recent stuff on Animelab, ’tis free. maybe checks it out if you get some time. (if any recent anime interests you)
I haven’t liked a new anime in years. It seems the popular direction is the opposite of what I want.
Films there’s been a few I enjoyed. I think part of the problem with any series is the fact they drag them out to fit a certain amount of eps & there’s ALWAYS filler
Have you watched Soul Eater, Gurren Lagann or Attack on Titan. They’re probably the main new ones I like.
Tried Titan, got bored 3 eps in. First ep was great.
Lagan is in my hdd
What’s soul eater like?
Soul Eater is pretty funny, Squeenix had stuff to do with it, the plot is straight out of a game. People attend an academy where they train to fight demons and maintain the balance of light and dark. Students work in pairs one is the Weapon Meister and the other is their weapon (they transform), their goal is to kill and consume 99 demon souls and 1 witch soul so they level up into a better weapon. Even how they get their missions is gamey, they go to a wall full of quests and pick one. Oh the headmaster is Death too, he’s classic, constantly karate chops people in the head for being stupid. Very silly, lots of nosebleeds from sexy ladies and other anime cliches like angry forehead veins and giant heads when people are angry and yelling. Try watching an episode, you’ll know if you like it pretty quick.
Shame you got bored with AoT, I watched it all on my Vita in 2 sittings, got really hooked, it does have a few slow points but it gets back into full swing pretty quick.
I’ll check it out
I don’t use animelab because I prefer to sail the seven seas and then watch my anime via plex. It seems okay but it’s got a number of issues before I’d consider it over Crunchyroll, including the lack of proper apps and the poor back catalogue.
For current shows though, it seems pretty good.
Yeah, mostly current stuff, not much of a back catalogue at all. I tend to sail the seas too but the more ways to get anime into me the better.
Animelab also has the issue that it looks like they’ve got a lot more there than they actually do. You go to watch some of the older stuff and it’s like 1-2 episodes or it’s dub-only. No thanks.
I think it’s just starting to hit its stride though. They’re simulcasting a good amount of current stuff. Just really need to get an app and know whether they’re going to charge a crazy subscription fee.
So…that Ghostbuster casting news…
Melissa McCarthy in the new Ghostbusters movie is such a red flag for me. Her comedy is mostly “HAHA I’M THE FAT ONE!” schtick, which she does in every comedy she’s in. She does have acting chops though. St. Vincent was great because she was playing a dramatic role and not shoe-horned into some kind of terrible comic relief. The rest of the cast I can get behind though, I love Kristen Wiig.
But really, this project should’ve died along with Harold Ramis last year.
*end rant*
EDIT: While on the topic of movies, The Fantastic Four trailer looks generic as hell BUT the cast and team behind the actual movie intrigue me.
1: Miles Teller – Just go watch Whiplash. Really, just go. I’ll wait…
2: Toby Kebbell – He played/mo-capped Koba in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and was the lead in my favourite Black Mirror episode (The Entire History of You). He’s also playing/mo-capping Durotan in the Warcraft movie.
3: Michael B. Jordan – This is just inspired casting.
4: Josh Trank – I didn’t like Chronicle as much as most people, but the dudes got skill.
5: Matthew Vaughn – He’s producing the movie, but he also made X-Men: First Class, wrote Days of Future Past, wrote/directed Kick-Ass and his new movie The Kingsman currently has 100% on RottenTomatoes. He also produced Snatch. and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. Guy has a decent track record.
Man I totally forgot that he died.
🙁
I’m quite prepared to actually watch FF before deciding its quality.
There seems to be extra hate for it.
The problem with the new Ghostbusters movie is they’re basing their casting on having an all female team rather than casting based on comedic skills/acting ability. They should be thinking is this person funny, does this person fit the role, does this person fit the film, rather than what gender they are.
That’s movie’s in a nutshell, though.
All roles should be based on acting talent but it’s rarely the case.
Chris Rock wrote a great essay on the subject:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/top-five-filmmaker-chris-rock-753223
Well, to be fair, the women that they’re looking at for ghostbusters all have a pretty solid comedy rep, and at least two of them have worked together in an ensemble comedy from the same director before. Given the premise of “women ghostbusters” it’s a pretty good list.
Also, if it had just been “get me 4 new ghostbusters” with no consideration of gender, it would have been at least 3 men. Maybe a token woman. I’m actually happy that they’ve looked outside of that.
Oh man, I went in expecting the trailer to be trash but count me in. I love Miles Teller & Micheal B. Jordan. Plus Josh Trank knows how to build a story. And that trailer makes it look like a Spielberg movie. Kids being well smart and tinkering in their garage!? YES PLEASE!!!
I’m very behind the movie and am giving it the benefit of the doubt because of the team behind it. Just thought the trailer was a little generic* (it is a “teaser” trailer though). People seem to be hating on the movie everywhere already though…
*Still better than the Ant-Man teaser.Right!?
That trailer was hot garbage. Have you seen the fan re-edit that just changes the music & title cards?
Makes it a million times more interesting.
http://www.slashfilm.com/ant-man-trailer-fan-edit/
That was actually pretty good haha
*Grunt* Biopsies came back. Appointment with doc and dietician, had.
Slight win: the trigger foods that generate reflux in me are the same as would generate it in anyone, just amplified for me to the point that it’s scarring the eosophagus. The issue is more likely mechanical than any specific intolerance. So, woohoo, no lactose/gluten crap to deal with.
The bad news: while trying out different drugs to reduce the acid levels to something that a normal human being might have, and then stick to that for the rest of my life (thank god those drugs are cheap), the only thing to do to get relief is cut out exacerbating factors.
* Reduce stress and sleep longer durations in a fixed routine with high-quality sleep.
* Reduce caffeine
* Reduce sugar
* Reduce fat
* Reduce alcohol
* Reduce joy in life
Basically, “Get healthy.” Which is essentially as bad as cutting out gluten/lactose. They have the same result: Eat nothing fun. Exactly what I was hoping to avoid with some quick-fix surgery or something. Siiiiiiigh.
I don’t wanna grow up, dammit.
Slightly-related: The news basically matches word for word the advice I got from a friend. I told her,
“Now, I need you to focus: this is your late birthday present.
…You were right.”
I am super-good at gift-giving.
I’m doing it, not so bad. Just drink tea instead of eating snacks or reach for a carrot.
I lost weight, feel better in general, so it’s ok.
Herbal tea for @transientmind, he has to watch his caffeine levels
🙂 for caring!
🙁 for no caffeine.
Curious as to what drugs they had you on. I’ve tried a heap to not much avail until I hit on 40mg doses of Nexium. Suddenly sweet relief (until I forget to take it for a few days).
Tragically I’ve been forced off sweet delicious chilli though. Even with the drugs my body can’t handle it. I may have wept that day I stopped.
Yeah, I was on 40mg Nexium which WAS working for a while, so I tapered off then stopped without any ill effects, but a couple years later, BAM, we’re back! And the Nexium stopped working. So now it’s flavour-hopping time. Next up is Somac, 40mg.
And yeah. Even with something that works, because the reaction is so swift and so certain with beer, that looks like it’s a ‘say goodbye to’ thing.
I’ve been double dosing on the Somac lately since I don’t need a prescription for it. Works okay for me but not as good as the Nexium. Slower to kick in and quicker to fade out.
I got a mate who’s a pharmacist and I’m inclined to go pick his brains about this shit. He’ll probably love it. Most pharmacists I’ve met really hate the cost-of-doing-business bullshit of their entire job consisting of putting labels on scripts and selling diet shakes.
They learn all this medical and biological shit about how drugs interact in the body and they never get to use it.
As someone who is supposed to but struggling very badly with cutting out gluten/lactose: nope. Not as bad. Reduce is an awesome word. 😀
Not having stuff you like is bad. 🙁
So don’t want to do it. Resisting the urge to roll around on the floor, chucking a tanty.
Don’t resist. Definitely throw a tantrum! And then just try and get on with it. When I’m eating how I’m supposed to I feel so much better, both mentally and physically. It’ll be worth it in the end!
@dc @sughly @transientmind @dkzeitgeist @SerNobulus @gutsoup @welbot @virus__
You guys still keen for Saturday night?
For?
/o\
Nerd party at my place.
Ohhh, right, It’s all coming back to me now. Yeah, count me in!
You know I am.
Yeah, I’m keen.
I wasn’t able to commit to this last week, or the @welbot suggestion thanks to other plans I couldn’t get nailed down.
I really hate double-booking.
lol it’s all good man. That kinda fell by the wayside anyway. In part due to me madly trying to find some new shoes for myself, and also trying to get a b’day pressie for my sis. Neither of which ended up happening, but on the plus side, I found some absolutely killer ramen at the new korean grocer down the road from me! It tastes almost exactly the same as the miso ramen from Ajisen! @dkzeitgeist knows what that’s all about! As he would put it.. SAH GHEEEEERD!
Mmmmmmm I dunno, I might be a lame-o and pass on two counts – asian cup, and way too much work now building up
You’re breaking my heart.
Last chance we’ll get to see you for months 🙁
I knowww but for real, I will be working up until the point the match starts, then resuming work as soon as its done. Things getting hectic
Crap, I totally forgot. My girlfriend is dragging me to her sister’s 18th, I’ll have to check what day that’s on.
I don’t have a reason NOT to attend, well if I have it can’t be important. So yeah sure, i’ll come.
I don’t think I ever got back to you about that either, whoops.
As I suspected, I have a family thing on 31st :\ Le sigh. Not sure what time it finishes yet, so probably best to count me out. If things change, I’ll let you know ASAP
Looking unlikely, trying to negotiate with gf to escape this 18th party early enough to come, probably be too late by the time I can get out.
Ugh. Extra two weeks confirmed.
You misspelled ‘yay’. 🙂
Iwannagohooooooooome.
Actually, yesterday I ran into the two girls when on my way out to lunch. Don’t Think I’ve Given A Name To Her said “[Gooky] is leaving!”, leading Not Actually Italian to ask “oh, where are you going?”, which kinda made my brain freeze up and I just went “uh… home?”
Questions are confusing.
\o/ Three Days Grace 5-pack! (Never thought I’d say that :P) Time for some angsty emo Drop-C rock! Also, an opportunity to play the other Drop-C songs I never bother with. Bullet for My Valentine, Godsmack, System of a Down, Alter Bridge…
I’m back and I didn’t miss this week’s Page Six already? What madness!
We’ve been waiting for you to get back 🙂
Aww, you shouldn’t have!
No really, you shouldn’t have. 😛
STRANGEY!
Have a good trip?
Hope you didn’t hurt yourself.
#welcomebackpresent
Well actually I slipped over on the Pool Deck on the last night of the cruise, just before Therion’s second show and bruised the heck out of my right buttock and thigh. Did not work out too well for the 20ish hours of flights I just had…. 😛
Why yes, yes I did. Saw some of Disney World, ate some great food, saw some great bands, hung out with some awesome people, and still managed to get a whole lot of awesome introvert time to myself even on a massive ship full of people. \o/
Well, we did tag you in posts about the @strange
I saw and appreciated that!
You could join in if you want to 😉
Oh man, welcome back!!!
You totally missed my new creative endeavour!
http://youtu.be/9ljWbVimeBs
Think of watching this as my revenge for you going to Disneyworld without me.
I have no idea what that is. There’s some way hairy dude in there with your friend Karl. I’d be jealous if I was you.
Welcome back, Strangey! 😀
I missed you! :O
Really glad you had a good holiday! 😀
Welcome back Strange, I missed you!
Was anybody unexpectedly awesome? Any new bands that took your fancy. Who won the coveted Strange’s band of the cruise award.
Nobody was unexpectedly awesome, music-wise. But we did a tour in Jamaica and had lunch with the bass-player from Cannibal Corpse who was unexpectedly awesome and a super-nice guy.
This year’s line-up was so light on epic bands for me that if they’d all been announced in a timely fashion instead of still 20 bands (and thus 20 chances of awesomeness) to be announced at the time we flew out I wouldn’t have been able to justify the cost and time away from my family. So it was just Therion and Wintersun that I was super-excited for which is pretty terrible out of 60 bands, especially considering there was around 10 bands out of just 40 on the previous cruises that I was excited for. Having said that, Wintersun blew me away. They were amazing and I’m very glad I didn’t miss them.
There was no band this time that the cruise introduced me to that I’ll go on to listen to all year like Sabaton, Haggard, and Therion were on previous cruises, but I did kind of like Threshold. The singer sounds and looks a bit like Russell Allen from Symphony X but is not a douchebag like Russell Allen. I shook his hand when I saw him around later and told him I enjoyed their set and he thanked me profusely (he was always thanking the crowd profusely on stage too, which was nice but a bit odd 😛 ) and then he exclaimed at the awesomeness of my tattoo. 🙂
I might have a person of the cruise instead of a band of the cruise award this time. Violinist from Korpiklaani did a really interesting workshop/talk on paganism and shamanism and I met him afterwards and he was kind of awesome. Still don’t even know his name though. 😛
Edit: Oh. I just remembered I checked out some of Lake Of Tears on the last night and enjoyed them, as well as being intrigued by the fact they had two bagpipe players. I’ll have to listen to them more, now.
I’m seeing a lot of mixed responses about the plot of Tales of Zestiria out of Japan and it’s making me a bit sad since the game looked great.
Apparently there’s an abrupt left turn in the plot when one of the characters joins the party, and a different one that everyone likes is basically forced out by everyone in the game suddenly deciding to be a colossal cockwad toward them. Character leaves the group and never comes back for the remainder of the game. That sounds pretty awful. 🙁Holy crap I hate when RPGs do that.
(Or kill the character for realsies.)This sounds weirder than normal.
The character was supposed to be one of the two leads for the game. Earnest, hard-working and capable, and players really liked her. Apparently what happens is that another girl joins the group about halfway in, and everyone basically turns on the original character and starts bullying her about how the new chick can basically do everything better. So basically character assassination and the writers shitting on her from a great height. And then she’s like “well fuck you guys then”.The thing that’s annoying is that you’re not going to get control over that.
Also the reason people are whinging harder than normal is that Bandai are selling a DLC ‘episode’ where you get to play with that character and follow their part of the story that’s missing from the actual game or whatever. For 1300 Yen, so like $15. That doesn’t sound great at all.
That sounds… terrible. I’m imagining that happening to a character like, say… Estelle in Trails of the Sky. The first thing I’d probably do on encountering it is go look up forums and guides online to figure out what the fuck just happened and how this gets resolved, and on discovering the truth… stop playing and start ranting.
Which is, I expect, exactly what’s happening? Man. Someone had some issues, huh…
Yeah, I’m wondering if there was a writing change during development or something.
It may also turn out to be a storm in a teacup situation as well. Or maybe they’re going to do a sequel with that character or something? Maybe make cast changes when they inevitably port it to PS4?
Some writers got shitted off at each other maybe, internal politics playing out in the script…?
The idea of dramatic DLC changes, an unwritten chapter, though… Kinda reminds me of ME3’s desperate, fan-dreamt ‘indoctrination theory’.
The cries for it came from the wrong place, of course – some desperate desire to see Shepard crowned Space Emperor Supreme and ride off into the sunset and have Turian/Quarian babies.
And the ‘clues’ and ‘signs’ were bullshit reaching. If it HAD been real, those signs would’ve been far sloppier than the devs’ were capable of.
But for a short while before the devs handed out the Word of God nixing the theory, I really hoped that it was true, for all its obvious flaws. I wanted to believe that a developer could – for the first time ever as far as I knew – release a major AAA title with a meta component. Have the indoctrination be real… and then next thing we know, players find some clues, make some changes, have some ARG-style impact, or just some timer goes off somewhere and Shepard is ‘rescued’ from indoctrination. A signal goes out or the clock rolls over and everyone’s game unlocks the REAL final chapter. Best. DLC. Ever.
Would’ve been the ballsiest, coolest, most-easy-to-fuckup move ever… Sadly, it was not to be. The game was merely ‘great’ instead of ‘industry-changing’.
I wish the Indoctrination theory had been actually real, it would have been incredibly clever.
Trying something new, for the next 24 hours, until Noon SA time, tomorrow, I will be taking your TAYlist requests.
Buy Me A Pony – Spiderbait
White Heat, Red Hot – Judas Priest
Get the girl back – Hanson
Taylor Swift
You can have your hottest 100 revenge my dear
Something From Nothing – Foo Fighters
Can I line up a couple if it’s going over 24 hours?
If not use the first one 🙂
I Want It All – Arctic Monkeys
Push Play – Zedd ft. Miriam Bryant
Elasticheart – Sia
Toxic – Britney Spears
The requests are open for 24 hours, it’ll still be the same 2 hour show, I’ll still try to play at least one of your requests, regardless.
Paperback Writer – The Beatles
The Cure – Love song
The Smiths – There is a light and it never goes out
Royksopp – The Girl and the Robot
Monument – Royksopp
Do the Evolution – Pearl Jam
Fly Me to the Moon – Frank Sinatra (stuck in my head thanks to Bayonetta)
Don’t Fear the Reaper – Blue Oyster Cult
Heart of glass – Blondie
Who Farted – The Vaughns
Money for Nothing – Dire Straits
Dance the Kung Fu – Carl Douglas
It’s just ‘Kung Fu Fighting’, you should Refrain From AssumingEDIT: Turns out ‘Dance the Kung Fu’ and ‘Kung Fu Fighting’ are both songs that Carl Douglas sung.
Yeah, after Kung Fu Fighting was a smash hit, Carl Douglas thought he could replicate it. He actually thought ‘the kung fu’ was going to be the new electric slide, and be a dance move that would dominate clubs.
Thanks for all of your requests, lots of great picks.
Thinking up my character for The Strange (hi @strange) and what I’d find most interesting to play would probably be a real dick move for the rest of the group.
Being a reckless, pragmatist that never thinks ahead would be super fun. Shame everyone else would just be cleaning up my messes. Might have to tweak that idea to be less assholish.
In Shadowrun one of characters is a thrill seeker with extreme mood swings. This means that some days if he has a bad idea, he has to do it. It’s fun.
Terrible.
But fun.
Doesn’t the the 2nd word in “I’m a 1, 2 who 3” supposed to be a Vector, Paradox or Spinner?
I haven’t made it to the mechanics bit. Thought I’d try character first and then shape the mechanics around that. Normally, I’d go the other way: make a character through mechanics that seem interesting and then see what characteristics make sense.
Oh right, you worded it super similar to how you present your final character, I got confused for a second. =P
EDIT: Anyway, you should just go whatever you want really. 1/2 of the fun is how party members interact with each other.
It’s pretty much how I play my Pathfinder character, so it works.
My character in Numenera is Foolish which means that he doesn’t really think ahead when he does stuff and relies mostly on dumb luck. That doesn’t really work out too well though as @blaghman copped a face full of plasma energy last session.
Seems like this character might be a little overdone then :p
It depends on how you play it. It’s very easy to veer into dicking over the rest of the party however being an unlikeable jerk who still gives his/her all can be quite satisfying to play.
Also, I like to randomise character creation so I don’t get a chance to pick something. I just roll with whatever I get and see how it works. That above Numenera character is also able to control gravity which being foolish for is a terrible idea.
I also played a Star Wars character that was basically a Trandoshan scrounger living in the dumpster. He tried to determine if everything he came across was potentially edible. Didn’t work well when he licked poisonous moss and was paralysed for about 12 hours on a jungle planet.
You can still be reckless, as long as you’re not working against the party- going off half cocked is an RPG tradition, as is the rest if the party not saving you if you’re being obnoxious
Yeah… like some elf we won’t mention 😛
YamchaDem’nionhmm…anyone know of any freeware outlook duplicate email remover software/addins?
i need to cull 20,000 emails, and it aint happening manually
if it helps, office 2010, x64
Slave?
I believe the PC term is ‘graduate intake’
😀
D:
🙁
http://www.polygon.com/2015/1/27/7921837/grim-fandango-remastered-interview-double-fine-disney-lucasfilm-sony this is a really good article.
This page makes my eyes feel weird.
After going through the list of game releases for 2015, this year is looking like it is going to be a really good year for games! 😀
What takes your fancy LiLo
Ooooh, I’ll write up my list! 😀
My must play / checkout list:
– The Order: 1886
– Grim Fandango
– Uncharted 4
– Metal Gear Solid V
– Bloodborne
– Quantum Break
– Zelda U
– Night in the Woods
– Final Fantasy XV
My interested in list:
– Dying Light
– The Witness
– Rime
– Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture
– Battlefield: Hardline
– Homefront: the Revolution
– Tom Clancy’s the Division
– Xenoblade Chronicles U
– Life is Strange
– Final Fantasy type 0
There’s probably some I’ve missed too! 😀
What the heck is Night in the Woods?
YOU CANNOT AGGRAVATE ME, FREEZY! >:O
Actually, I’m serious, what is Night in the Woods? I’ve not paid attention to it
It’s an upcoming game with an amazing style and soundtrack that oozes charm like crazy! 😀
There’s also a stand-alone game / teaser called Lost Constellation that is pretty great! 😀
I’ll have a look
It’s that new fantasy movie with the guy from Lesbian Vampire Killers, isn’t it?
My must play / checkout list:
– The Order: 1886 – Only seen the first teaser but I’m interested
– Grim Fandango – One of the LA games I missed as a youngun so will check it out as well
– Uncharted 4 – Filth for console peasants
– Metal Gear Solid V – I’ve actually never played a metal gear game
– Bloodborne – *master race sob*
– Quantum Break – Looks good
– Zelda U – Could be ok but reserving judgement
– Night in the Woods – I did enjoy Lesbian Vampire Killers so could be ok
– Final Fantasy XV – I have no time for RPG
My interested in list:
– Dying Light – Rating well and looking interesting. Might do what dead island promised
– The Witness – Haven’t seen much but keen to check out anything by Jonathan blow
– Rime – Oh is that like deadlight. Looks at screenshot. That isn’t like deadlight. Kinda reminds me of brothers
– Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture – Never really done the walking simulator genre, i prob should try it before I poo poo it
– Battlefield: Hardline – Pew pew shooty shooty
– Homefront: the Revolution – Pew pew shooty shooty
– Tom Clancy’s the Division – Probably the game I’m looking forward to most in 2015
– Xenoblade Chronicles U – What is Xenoblade
– Life is Strange – Hi @strange
– Final Fantasy type 0 – I have no time for RPG
How very judgemental of you 😛
Reserving judgement is not judgemental at all. Its the opposite 😛
Also Night in the Woods is not the game I thought it was at all. Huh I actually haven’t seen that before. Interesting
Lesbian vampire killers?
Out of intellectual curiosity, prey tell what this is?No Persona 5? You Munster!
2015 is looking bare as hell, to me. Bloodborne, Final Fantasy 15, Witcher 3, plus a bunch of maybes.
If I were buying games I’d really only be picking up those three and oldgame remakes like Homeworld, Grim Fandango, Heroes of Might and Magic. Six titles total.
My ‘maybes’ would be The Order, Dying Light, and the most dubious look at The Division.
Everything else is a surging tide of ‘meh’.
Oh man, just Batman & Witcher so far for me.
I’ve been burnt by Kojima heaps of times so I know not to get excited about a new Metal Gear until I have it in my hands.
Everything else on your list looks great too, just nothing that looks like a preorder for me.
I rarely preorder anyway, so that’s not an issue 😛
Also, I forgot Silent Hills (hopefully this year), which I really want you to stream!
Did you ever finish P.T?
No effing way, man.
Too scary for me.
Come on! Even that brief P.T streaming of yours was amazing!
You know, before you wussed out 😉
I love scary games but they need to be bearable.
There was something about P.T. that was excruciating.
The repetitiveness and fact that you couldn’t actually do anything got to me.
Far more psychological, I think.
Which metal gear didn’t you like?
I’ve loved them all.
I just doubt it’ll come out this year.
Oh right. Cool.
I thought it would. I have my doubts about Persons 5 & FFXV unless their translating as the develop
Hey @techknight I think I have your GOTY for 2015
http://store.steampowered.com/app/342500
You might be interested as well @tech_knight
Just had a look, all it’s got going for it is the name 😛
You should see this one, a game I’m really enjoying at the moment, still early access but bloody fun
http://store.steampowered.com/app/250110/
Go the aussie devs.
Might check it out but still a bit over twin stick shooters
I don’t do twin stick shooters often, but this one is pretty hectic, and an amazing soundtrack as well
Hello, kittens. Also, hello @strange <3
Did you get a haircut?
I did and it’s horrible. Horrible!
GET A HAIRCUT YOU HIPP-oh …
Is it possible to get a hairuncut? They chopped off too much.
I’ve got glue?
You can always just chop more off.
Maybe if I hang myself upside down for a while it will grow back in time for my trip to Brisbane.
That’s aaaaaaages away. I just did mine on Monday and I’m gonna need another haircut in the time before that happens. Actually probably two 😛
@mrtaco I usually only get a haircut once every 3 months or so 😛
Getting my money’s worth? Or something?
Damn hippie.
hehe, I haven’t been to a hairdresser / Barber in about 16 years, every 3 or 4 years I’ll ask my sister to cut like 2 inches off the end of my hair.
Toupee?
Well there goes your chances with me.
I have a few other cards to play.
I did and it’s the middle of Winter here and has wind chill of -20 and I regret every moment of life that brought me to this point because it’s horrible. Horrible!
Do necks always get this cold?
I miss my little mullet that was forming.
Warmed up all the right places.
We had some good memories together.
Did you put on weight?
Muscle mass.
Urgh.
Everyone always ruining my fun.
I hate the lot of you >:(
I lied, I’ve been pretty much static for a while now.
Sorry 😛
It shows.
Did you just call me fat?
My god @liondrive, you get so bitchy at times
Hahaha, I was talking to @mrtaco, @janexo! 😀
at times?
I’m a mean girl 😉
Always coming and going this one.
You’re doing wonders for my commitment issues.
<3
I’m baaaaaaack because to hell with it <3
Poor @strange isn’t a kitten
Ohh she loves it, she told me so.
I meant that you said hello to all the kittens. And strange as well. Which means you don’t think strange is a kitten. Because otherwise you would have already said hello to her when you said hello kittens. Although I guess that means she could still be a pumpkin.
Ohhhh! Pfft, I am slow on the uptake today.
Hello ALL my kittens. Especially Strange, the pumpkin kitten 😀
http://i.imgur.com/6GEUGPQ.jpg
http://pokebot.everyboty.net/pix/4076.jpg
Worth picking up ‘Thomas Was Alone’ on my XB1 for $12? Can anyone share any positive experiences with it?
Thomas was Alone is great!
Not the most intricate gameplay, but it’s fun, with heaps of charm and character, and the narrator is amazing! 😀
It manages to be quite fun and interesting then ruins it by making you solve the same damn puzzle 10 times before letting you proceed.
Without the narration it would be a very ordinary game, with the narration it’s an emotional journey, I was pretty surprised how attached I grew to a square. Like freeze says it’s a little repetitive but I really enjoyed the dialogue and how much personality they managed to inject into all them shapes.
Watch some gameplay and see if the narration grabs your attention. If it does, $12 is a decent price. If it doesn’t, the game simply isn’t for you.
Great little game. The narration and the music make it, I think – I still listen to the OST, two years later. And, as @gutsoup and @liondrive mentioned, it does an amazing job of character building.
Why didn’t I mention the music, thank you for correcting my hideous mistake :D.
Duplicate comment – see below.
Positive feedback, thanks guys. I think even with seeing that article pop up about discounted EA games, I quite fancy a nice, intimate little game like this. I thought the music may be a strong point and I’m looking forward to that (and the narration.)
It’s a cool little experience. Nothing earth shattering, but it’s got charm and you actually kinda feel for the characters
It’s actually not freezing in here today. Turns out cold weather’s good for something after all.
Gonna pick up my son from school soon. He doesn’t know we’re back. Can’t wait to see his reaction. 😀
“Who’s this guy?”
Oh man.
If any TAYbie EVER gets the dubious honour/terrifying responsibility of babysitting another TAYbie’s kid, that has to be what they coach the kid to say.
I know that having said that I am not automatically disqualified, but I exhort the rest of you to silently heed this call.
Wait the parent needs to coach the kids or the babysitter coaches them for when the parents get back?
The babysitter coaches the kid to greet the returning parent with an unimpressed look, and asking the babysitter, “Who’s this guy?”
He will probably be leaving the school hand in hand with his girlfriend that he has been hiding from you
I’m hoping for a look of horror that his days of ice cream and staying up past his bedtime are over.
His reaction was not quite what I expected. He yelled “MUMMY!”and ran to me. I picked him up and snuggled him and he started sniffling, saying he’d missed me. I expected the first part, but not the second!
:’)
@jimu
You know the way you hated the Persona anime, did you watch the original series with 25 eps or the Golden one with 12 eps?
P.S. Nicole has been playing ungodly amounts, I was surprised she really loves Rise when I told her you could date her she got all excited, she’s tossing up between Marie and Rise I think.
Persona 4 Golden Spoilers
she convinced herself that Teddy was the killer for a while or at least his “other” self, I think she dropped that theory after fighting shadow Teddy and when Teddy grew himself a person. At one point she said “it’s that stupid young cop! he’s always hanging out in weird places………. nah he’s too stupid”. So hard to remain emotionless and not react to anything, I’m trying so hard to not spoil anythingDunno, didn’t get far. Was bored watching what I’d already seen & disgusted by the New bits (detective Nana Chan)
I guessed Yuki as her girl.
I can’t stand rise, she annoys me.
I was so into P4G that it never even occurred to me to guess the killer. I was along for the ride & having a ball!
Yeah, I didn’t hate Rise but she wasn’t in my top contenders, I was really surprised how much she likes her, she keeps saying things like “she’s so cuuuuuute”
Yep, that shits me. And she stands like a bloke.
Only person worse than Rise is Yosuke.
Oh, and Chie, but that goes without saying, amiright?
Told a friend about my latest piece of news, and she got super duper excited and asked for every detail of my plans. (When are you doing a through z? etc… etc…) I’ve been freaking out realising I dont even know what I want at my wedding!
If you need any goats, I know a guy.
You want your bestest bud Blaghs there.
>.>
One day I’ll convince someone to invite me to a wedding where I can get drunk and hit on all the hapless sods there.
We all need goals in life. Don’t you judge me.
If you were around 10 years ago I probably would have invited you to mine.
Man, 13 year old Blaghs at your wedding. Grabbing wine while nobody’s looking, sitting in the corner with a book, but not reading it because then he’d look awkward.
Good times, good times.
Took me a while there to figure out that a ‘through z’ isn’t a thing…
Just look to you username for guidance. Oh wait that is your bucks not your wedding.
Have you guys got a date in mind yet or just a Yes so far. Which is a bloody good start anyway 😉
It is probably something you guys want to discuss before you get to planning because it can be pie in the sky wants and you can disagree without issue. I’m thinking small or I was thinking big. Well only people we really care about, well my family will need to be there, blah blah. If one of you goes into it with specific ideas on what they want that is vastly different it makes planning horrible. So have some casual chats to feel each other out. The good thing about doing that is those chats often lead to you feeling each other out.
But there is a few big things to consider, the rest is mostly incidental or details
Size: Registry office with half a dozen people, Moderate size with friends and family or big bash with everybody
Ceremony: Who do you want to conduct it and where do you want it to happen. I guess you also need to consider how this will work as traditionally groom meets people at the church and the bride turns up and things start. How do you guys want to do this.
Wedding party: Who will you be relying on on the day. Who will be standing with you and with him.
Reception Style: Formal or casual. We did a big sit down 3 course meal at a winery because that was what we wanted. Others prefer catered tasting plates passed around at a garden reception
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Serviette rings: Which style to you prefer and of what material
Not sure if church is viable.
That is the traditional. My point there was that standard will need to be changed so they will need to consider that. Don’t know if there is a normal way of doing it when you have two grooms or if it is personal preference. But that is something that will need to be considered and decided on.
The church not being viable is why the who and where is needed for the ceremony. Did they want a humanist ceremony or a celebrant. And if not a church then they need to decide where.
Was just reading a story on Imgur about someone’s dog (a husky) which got out of their ex-partners yard with their other dog (a lab or retriever idk..) and chased some cows on a near by property not harming any of them, but animal control in that state deemed the Husky a dangerous animal for chasing livestock and is now going to put it down, but not the other dog wtf?
My old dog used to chase sheep on our property all the time, she thought it was funny that they all ran away
At least, until they had lambs, which were too naive to run away. The dog would run at them and then be utterly confused by the fact that these sheep weren’t running
Haha, ah sheep. They can be such derpy animals..
The husky’s a lot closer to a wolf, genetically and behaviourally. That’s probably their reasoning, even if it’s bullshit. That’s tragic. Out of the dog breeds I’d tolerate living with, husky is a strong contender for number 1.
http://www.quickmeme.com/img/23/235ffee81d46032675c2c1a5fdb909e74c42a1934ba972bae1be06d8e7b94ce0.jpg
I pictured you as a Pomeranian kind of guy.
Pretty sure it’d repeat on me.Why I never!Nah. Working dogs, who actually work. Husky, blue heeler, german shepherd, my top three.
Working dog?
So you’re a Corgi kind of guy!
Is… Is that some kind of weird sex thing? I’m not up to speed with the weird slang you hip kids use these days.
Corgi:
Cuddle-orgy. Like an orgy, but without the sex. Just a bunch of people in an extremely comfy pile, cuddling and enjoying the hell out of it.
…I still see you as a Corgi kind of guy.
Nawwwwww alright. Seriously though, the little yappy ones bug me. That’s not what a dog is for.
@transientmind
I think I want a Corgi now!
The dog, not the sex act :\
At least Corgis aren’t really a yappy small dog.
That’s more Chihuahuas and Shitzus.
That Corgi video was adorable! :’D
Pretty sure my dog would collapse at the mere sound of the word “work”.
Hahaha, poor Dutch 😛
You should change it to husky, herding dogs (massive selection), german shepherd.
Switch Blue Heeler for a Kelpie and that’d be my pick of 3, German Shepherds are so awesome, shame about the maintenance you’d need for upkeep on their coat D=
I’m not much of a Blue Heeler fan after our previous one who was not very nice to other dogs and liked to escape, the bugger.
I’m wondering how much of what I read was true, but then again apparently this animal control bloke according to the person who it happened to said he was going to put the dog down even if they took it to court and it was over turned or whatever, which makes him sound like a right prick, but that’s my opinion lol..
But yeah working dogs ftw. I’ve only owned working dogs (well minus our Staffy) most of them were really good dogs.
Was gonna say essentially what @transientmind said. There’s a few factors in the decision and Huskys hunt, as sad as it is.
Fun fact: Mum works for AusPost delivering mail and parcels and if a dog even so much as scratches her she has to report it to her boss and the dog usually gets put down and she thinks it’s the absolute worst part of the job. She certainly doesn’t think they deserve to be put down.
To be quite honest it sounded like because animal control caught that one and the other dog went home that made the decision it was doomed, pretty shitty. But hey, i’ve seen the council here turn a blind eye to dangerous dogs which escape their yard and cause problems in the neighbourhood and take other dogs away because they upset a neighbour who provoked them to bark..
That sounds like it could easily be abused by a vindictive person working for Australia Post though :/
Listening to the HTTYD 2 soundtrack…
Oh gods, yes… 😀
Hmm. I’m in the market for a new executive style office chair, something with a high back, and steel frame & base would be preferable, also is fabric still a thing for executive style office chairs or was that left behind when we exited the 90’s?
So anyone know of any website etc that sells quality stuff, every website i’ve come across on the Gold Coast that sells something I am interested in, i’m looking at $400+ and they only come with Italian Leather, which i’m not a huge fan of especially with a dog that likes to jump up on my lap..
Officeworks & Super Amart failed me for anything remotely decent *shakes fist* and the only one locally I found, with all that they wanted about $450 bucks for said chair :S But then again they get A LOT of government work so that’s probably why they charge an arm & a leg for their stuff….
Freya and I both use these chairs and they’re super comfortable, especially if you’re at your desk a long time. Failing that, I’ve heard good things about Herman Miller chairs. They’re super pricey but you might find a used one on Gumtree for the right price.
Hmm, that looks like a much better built version of a previous chair I had. SO COMFY. Cheers, i’ll have a look into one of them and see what else is around, I forgot Ikea existed lol..
@batguy has a Herman Miller chair and loves it to pieces.
I do have a Hermann Miller chair, but I also only paid $250 for it when a friend’s hedge fund office was downsizing, and then claimed it as a tax deduction because I took it to my office. So that makes it affordable. The $1000+ they cost new is less affordable, though there are worse things to spend your money on given that it’s gonna be used constantly.
Oh man that sounds like a total score on your behalf. I’ll have to have a look around for them as well, maybe when I can get some more permanent employment I can look at a nice good for me chair 😛
Thanks for the help and feedback too by the way!
Man, I watched The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore (Replaced The Colbert Report, for those unfamiliar). Nope. Not watching that again. It seems like a topical news panel show. Discussing vaccination with a crazy mum group lady and an ‘I don’t trust government’ guy doesn’t make for a good comedy show. At all.
Bin it.
Just watched the new Louis CK comedy special
https://louisck.net/purchase/live-at-the-comedy-store
It’s good! Go buy it. GOGOGO
Trying to formulate a plan of attack for amiibo hunting. No one particular method stands out as being better than any other. Stomach-lurching anxiety-inducing indecisiveness go!
Attend your work babe’s birthday celebrations in the morning too!
Why not just ask if people see something you want to pick it up for you over twitter?
Because all the people on twitter are all the people here 😛
Also I’m distrusting of the eyes of anyone who isn’t me. Gotta pick the ones with the least amount of defects >.>
Remember this? So many good times drawing to this tune… :’)
Hey guys, not sure if you know much about Elsa from frozen, but she seems to have snowflake silhouettes hidden in among the glitter. It’s really hard to see and difficult to make accurate. I have a Elsa papercraft but it’s not extremely accurate, should I use that?
Yes.
It has a lot of snowflakes though. I think that’s my only concern. Not sure how many I should/should not use
Nintendo is so stupidly backwards it’s rubbish.
Why the heck can I not buy a game on the Wii U without it downloading to something. I need to buy an external storage drive, I’ve known that for a while, but because it was the last day of the sale today I was going to buy Donkey Kong Country Returns, but couldn’t, because it need me to download it to buy it. Thanks Nintendo, you useless company that can’t figure out how a store works.*
*If someone knows a way to buy without downloding, let me know. I’ll look silly because of my rant, but I didn’t see an option there.
You don’t have any form of USB storage at all, not even something you can temporarily empty out onto your computer? Or other stuff on your Wii U that you can delete and download again later I guess.
Not that I know of…
Would it bepossible to move the stuff on the USB over to a hardrive? I only have a 4GB at the moment which might just make it, but it’s not in reat condition and I’d like to be able to move it to something more reliable.
I can’t download aything else off the Wii U, it’s only 8GB anyway. It’s just frustrating.
Well I think that they format the drive to some proprietary format rather than FAT or NTFS or whatever, but I guess you could always just use a disk imager to pull a copy of it.
Have you got really limited internet or something, so deleting it after purchasing isn’t an option?
yeah, I’ll just delete it later. It resets soon anyway
Why is it so true?
@freezespreston found a sign suitable for your shop 😛
http://i.imgur.com/4BB9nb2.jpg
A mate of mine’s fallen on rough times, so he’s now working for a garbage truck company.
He says the work’s rubbish, but it’s picking up#dadjokepagesix #hi@strange
Just like a clock joke.
It’s about time.
Give it a minute…
And it’ll really tick some people off?
yep, I’m never going to watch this joke for a minute
I knew a clock repairman who had elephantiasis of the limbs. All his working career all he wanted was minute hands
Watch the best Tetris player in the West do the closest thing you can get to beating Tetris.
Seriously fucking impressive.
By the way, he’s the sixth person ever to do this. The game is nearly a decade old.
The Tetris block in AGDQ was so good. It’s definitely one of the highlights.
Is he the first player in the west to get that?
Yup. He met the requirements at AGDQ for this, kind of. You have to meet them 4 out of 7 times and then do it again for the promotional exam (which is the link for those playing at home). So this is just nuts.
The credits bit just blows my mind, I know they’ve got a system for where to place blocks but still, I just can’t believe someone is skilled enough to do that.
HOW THE HELL DOES HE DO THAT :\
I’ve no idea what I just watched other then it was Tetris.
Top level Tetris, the hype is real.
And if Tetris and people chasing high scores in Tetris interests you, then you should watch the doco film “Ecstasy of Order”
OGAWD IMPENDING AMIIBOCALYPSE
SO MANY SHULKS?
Hi TAY. I’m bored so I’ve strayed back here for now. I loaned my car to my mum since hers in getting repairs. That means no Bunnings for me. Peace.
Hi
My son always requests YouTube vids with Cars® toys.
There’s a few that are pretty much reviews which are fine.
But there’s a lot of vids of grown-arse adults playing with toys, doing bad voice overs with voice made sound effects & aren’t too badly edited together.
It’s just…
I don’t like it.
If grown ass men want to play with toy cars I say let them!
The internet is a magical place.
I mean, if he wants to watch that, you’re perfectly capable of doing a live performance, right? Bet you’re better at the sound effects too. 😛
My son always wants to watch Hot Wheels ones. Which are kind of like what you described,only way more awesome, apparently. 😛
I don’t mind too much because it’s his first obsession that he kind of discovered on his own. He started out watching dominoes videos, moved on to marble track videos, and then saw Hot Wheels racing ones in the “suggested” section and once he watched one, he was obsessed. He knows the names of a whole bunch of the cars (I wasn’t even aware they had names, but yeah once you go beyond the ones that are replicas of proper cars they have wacky names like “Spin King”) and even saves up his pocket money to buy Hot Wheels cars and tracks now. He tries out tricks he sees in the videos and then makes up his own combos of tracks and tricks.
Anyone else feel like dying light is just going to be so painfully mediocre, seems like game developers want only to do the bare minimum to make money these days. ( Rockstar excluded )
I thought that was the smallish studio that made Dead island?
I havent been paying much attention but I didnt think they were big enough to be like that
Yeah I loved Dead Island but I had hoped after 4 years and a new generation of hard wear their games would have improved further 🙁
These guys have a strong track record for producing great looking trailers and games that can’t quite measure up (apparently, anyway – I have never played the Dead Island games).
I was bored by Dead island, by I found reports very divisive.
A lot hated it, but those who liked it, loved it.
Brad Gallaway over at Gamecritics.com gave it his Game of the Year and @gutsoup prays at the temple of dead Island :p
So, @liondrive, how about that thunderstorm, huh? It’s been raging for only 8 straight hours.
Thor: “Screw this area in particular” 😛
Nah, that’s just you in Pathfinder.
“fuck this hobgoblin in particular”.
Feels good being the guy dishing out the Yamchas, rather than me being the one Yamcha’d 😛
All of us spellcasters contributed to that particular case of overkill.
Oh hey, hail. That’s new.
It’s still so hot though also! :’O
Worst kind of storm :'(
The bloody storm restricted me to four hours sleep due to very loud cracks of lightning every 10 seconds. Worst kind of storm.
Ok, good thing I went to Target first. Big W didn’t have anything in yet, don’t even know if/when they would. Left Link, Bowser and Sonic behind because quality. Should be able to get them elsewhere. Hopefully :p
They had two of Dedede, Shulk, Ike, Sheik and Lucario, three of Metaknight and Mega Man, four of Sonic and Rosalina, then five or six of Bowser and Toon Link. I think.
Going to have a casual look at lunch for an Ike. I don’t like my chances but I may as well check 😛
By the time I get there I’m expecting to see employees huddled in the corners, terrified.
I’m just hoping it’s like last time and they get a second batch in halfway through the day. At least I’m only looking for the common ones now.
Buy me Shulk pls
Had my first play of Grim Fandango remastered… So damn good! Nostalgia trip all the way… Can’t get used to the point and click though, I’m too used to going over to everything pressing “E” to see if Manny has anything funny to say :P… Keyboard for me!
I cannot wait to get stuck into this tonight 😀
You guys! I totally beat the hardest monster in the Monster Hunter 4 demo last night! https://twitter.com/PowalenAU/status/560399037929512961
It took about five goes (2 in multiplayer, 3 in single player) but I finally got ‘im. That was my main goal before the real game comes out so I got a bit over-excited once I finally did him in 😛
Good job, Georgette.
Good job!
Was that in multi or solo?
Solo.
You guys must’ve been holding me back!
😛
How good is that feeling?!
Finishing one of the last quests for MH3U is one of my greatest gaming achievements. @beavwa knows how hard that damn quest is!
It’s okay.
I’ve only tried once with the lance, won’t be lancing that monster ever again.
Feel like I’ve been living under a rock the last week… Why is life so damn busy sometimes!?
Almost at a point where I need to schedule time in my calendar to scratch my arse.
Hey, Sunny! 😀
Hola!
What’s going on, hombre? 🙂
You back to uni soon?
Nothing too unusual… Just ‘life’ happening – house looks like a bomb’s hit it, work is ramping up, kid is now a ‘terrible-2-year-old’, busy weekends.
Back at uni in March… well back to online study. Fingers crossed work slows a little toward mid-year because I want to pick up extra subjects instead of just doing 1 at a time.
I keep asking myself where the hell did January go?
How’s P to the e.r.t.h?
Sounds like you’ve got a lot on your plate! 😛
Perth is alrighty.
Nothing happening, as per usual.
Excited to go back to uni soon though!
Gonna be fuuuuuuuuun! 😀 😀 😀
Other than that there is literally nothing happening :\
Does anyone have relatives in the UK? I wanted to claim some stuff from club Nintendo UK as I have 4000 points. I’ll pay the extra postage and such
Posed with the question of what condom offers the maximum pleasure, the frog replied: rib it.
Ha, get into work and boss isn’t in today, office is half empty with everyone off in a meeting, basically nobody around to see me slink in late 😛
That said, I did have a “legit” excuse. We did have a power outage yesterday, and I did manage to reset my alarm to AM but the clock itself to PM, so it never fired off. But I think my subconscious knew about this because I set up a backup alarm on my phone.
Nothing to do with amiibo hunting then?
The what now?
@gutsoups
Kind of anime I’m into atm
http://www.veoh.com/watch/v41971489F78WAyJS
Inspired SMT and M Bison from Street FIGHTER
episodes 2-4 if interested
@gutsoup
Bloody typo
Doomed Megalopolis is so old. They don’t make OVAs like that any more. IIRC they porned it up significantly from the book it’s adapted from in order to make it sell better.
EDIT: Also you will never see anything like that in modern anime that appears on streaming sites, as modern stuff is focused to TV. It was an OVA (direct-to-video) series.
Yeeeep,
The first ep is pretty tame. There’s a few shots of legs & cleavage .
the rudest thing is a worm with a cock for face.
Urotsukidoji it ain’t.
It’s more the concept I like, old Japanese fables &/ or myths mixed into a new(ish) story.
Love old magical Yoda type doods,I never see them guys anymore.
Well, that concept is pretty common in anime actually. Just not executed like that.
I know what you mean.
Technically Final Fantasy does it with the summons and weapons even.
Well no, I was meaning more the Japanese myths & fables in a modern setting thing. That’s really common. The thing is it’s usually stuff that involves a generic shounen action / light novel template in its execution. So it can be a bit juvenile in style.
A recent half-decent example off the top of my head would be Tokyo Ravens. That basically pulls together onmyou stuff – shikigami, binding demons/spirits, that sort of thing – into a modern setting. The main issue it has is a downer ambiguous ending and that it suffers from having possibly the most annoying Generic Male Protagonist archetype, the guy who is fucking useless at everything but is still special for some unknown reason and constantly gets in the way of the actually capable female lead, who inexplicably has a huge crush on him. Still, I feel like maybe that show would have some elements that might appeal to you? Don’t go in expecting tits and sex everywhere though.
tits & sex isnt what attracted me to this.
horror would maybe cover it.
That whole set up you described sounds overdone and boring to me.
(Not that Megalopolis isnt, but its been long enough for me).
Not saying that older stuff isnt guilty of this, but new stuff seems to formulaic to me.
Ive been on a what inspired the stuff I like trip for a while now.
Im finding it more interesting to move backwards in time and see where the foundations were built, rather than whats being built on top.
So in a way, Im able to be more forgiving of the shortcomings of old stuff because Im getting something else out of it.
I looked megalopolis up because kato was listed as an inspiration for Raidou Kuzanoha and Ive been watching a lot of Osamu Tezuka because he practically invented every genre in Anime
I also read Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy that is filled with concepts Star Wars …borrowed
Not directly. Asmiov’s stuff influenced all science fiction of the 50s onward.
The biggest influence on Star Wars was Akira Kurosawa’s ‘The Hidden Fortress’. It’s basically a SF remake of that film.
In Foundation there is a planet that is just one big city and they refer to laser guns as blasters.
I know all about Hidden Fortress, but that only really inspired the plot etc.
Many of the concepts are straight out of Foundation.
And yes, Star Wars was inspired by many things including Flash Gordon and any fairy tale you can think of where a backwater hick becomes a knight & saves the princess.
I don’t say this to shit on SW, most everything is a derivative of something.
But my point stands, Foundation was an inspiration for Star Wars and it added a layer of enjoyment to my read, seeing where some of these ideas came from.
Honestly… bluetooth headsets in my office, why the frack is it only one ear?! One loud person in the office and I can’t hear anything on the call, SILENT RAGE CUZ THIS IS AN OFFICE FLOOR I’M IN! >:(
I went to JB and they had 8 pikachus and 8 Mario’s. Went to EB and they had literally no amiibos set up. Went to Big W and they had all the new set. EB and JB have really fallen behind if they are getting beaten by Big W for displaying new stock.
Thing is EB and jb sell all theirs on preorders.
Lucky. One of the guys here had a friend who was out hunting too, he’d hit up another Big W and they didn’t have stock either.
My sister might be heading out to check an out-of-the-way Big W for me, so they could have appeared by then.
I finished Grim Fandango.
Amazing game. Remaster is not as polished as I would’ve liked. It crashed twice and had some graphic glitches. Still an amazing game, though. New character textures are great and so is the lighting. (Not to mention non-tank controls.) My favourite thing about the remaster is the concept art gallery, though. Not often we get new Grim Fandango content, but we get to see concept art of rooms that were cut from the game and plot points that were altered. Crazy insightful and cool. If you’re a fan, I recommend. So weird getting achievements in a LucasArts adventure game too. 🙂
Thanks Shane for the birthday PSN credit that bought me this game. <3
No worries, man. Glad you liked it! I’ll be picking it up the first time it goes beneath $15 in the PSN store ($22.95 is a little more than I want to pay for it, if I’m honest).
Gonna spend the change on Life is Strange. The gift of adventure games. WHAT A GUY! 😛
Edit: Yeah, $22 is a bit pricey, especially since it’s cheaper on GOG and Steam. It’s a fairly modest remaster too. Worth playing if you’re a fan of the original. 🙂
Apparently, an early review of LIS has dropped that wasn’t all that positive. I’m going to wait until it’s out before I decide whether to invest.
I’ve never played the original Grim Fandango.
Oh, really. D: These games tend to be divisive, so heres hoping it’s just someone who doesn’t dig the genre.
US account 😉
Now play with developer commentary!
Nah. XD Next replay probably. Who knows when that will be! I’ve gotten my Grim fix for now!
GreeTAYings all,
Realised it has been an age since I last posted on TAY, so I thought I would pop in and say hi.
Hi.
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Hi DC! Been trying to resist the call of Grim Fandango, thankfully your post above has given me the strength needed to wait until it is on special.
Oh, it’s pretty great. Just not that much greater than original which was already pretty great. 😛
HUUUUUUUUUGOOOOOOOO!
cradled in love!
PIIIIIIIXXXEEEEELLLLLLL!
So need to find a karaoke bar that has that song!
Hells yeah! 😛 duet of the century that’ll be!
Shadow of Mordor has really sunk its hooks deep into me. Strongly considering making a run for my first Platinum trophy with this game.
I like that most of the trophies are either story-based, or reward mucking around with the game’s different mechanics, rather than performing difficult tasks.
Edit: I really like the online component of this game. Diablo 3-type nemesis enemies. Awesome.
One of the main reasons I got the PS4 was for this game, but that damn Diablo 3 just keeps dragging me away from it.
Focus? What’s that?
The next two weeks are going to feel like a month. Or more.
Ha, Super Boss only just got in now. And another kind-of-authority-figure only got in around 10:30. Managed to avoid all of them 😛
Max is an attention whore…
Also, I’ve found myself sniffling a lot…
I think i may have hayfever… 🙁
Also, I feel like I’m losing a lot of interest in playing videogames…
A lot of interest… 🙁
Bioware are offering the tavern songs from DA:I for free download for a limited time
http://www.dragonage.com/en_US/news/inquisition-tavern-songs-giveaway
Includes sheet music and lyrics for those interested in such things. Will be charging for this after the 9th of Feb so if you are interested grab it now
I don’t even know what it is but grabbed it anyway.
It weirds me out when chunky downloads (ie anything with double-digit megabytes or more :P) like this seem to complete within a second. Surely that must be some kind of error.
That’s awesome. Some of those songs are really cool. the Sera one cracks me up every time. 😀
And since we are on the topic of free music, grab the League of legends stuff too
http://promo.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/music-of-league/
Also on itunes or play
So some new XenoUblade/Xenocross/Xenoblade X info has been talked about in Famitsu
Sounds like the online features will be more asynchronous than actual co-op. Something more like Dark Souls’ messages perhaps? Could be interesting. Maybe you’ll be able to affect NPCs/Monsters/Quests in other peoples games?
Can’t say I’m TOO disappointed that it probably won’t be full-on co-op. I liked going through Xenoblade at my own pace.
cc @greenius @negativezero
They mentioned famous voice actors are doing the voice options for the customisable protagonist as well. Maybe might not be so mute after all? Here’s hoping, anyway.
Having a custom voice doesn’t mean they have dialogue. Same way that other games eg MMOs have a ton of voice options for all the grunts and shouts you have. At best, it’d expect it might involve them shouting the attack names.
I’m not surprised by that either – that long chunk of E3 footage clearly had placeholder sounds because the protagonist they created had Shulk’s voice. 🙂 I was quite gratified that last week they confirmed I can actually pick out common voices. Picked out last year that Elma is Houko Kuwashima, and that was confirmed. This time around they’ve hired a lot more big-name actors and actresses that are common in anime and games (the cast in Xenoblade had a few B-tier people like Norio Wakamoto as the villain with the claws who’s name escapes me, but no big names really)
I’m not a big fan of the idea that the battle system’s faster than the first game. I thought the pace on that was great but at times so much was happening that it would get overwhelming. Especially against the idea of no healing. Sure, Carna was completely OP, but at least you knew that you could swap her in for a hard battle and she’d be able to keep everyone up for an extended period.
Yeah, you’re probably right about the shouts. Just being hopeful. Thinking “why bother getting ‘famous’ people if they’re not going to have any proper dialogue” 😛
It looks like Elma is really the main character anyway so with luck the story might not suffer too much if it focuses on you and her being a team (as far as cutscenes go)
I’m okay with that I guess. I’ll just take my Wii U offline and not engage with that shit at all as it has no reason to exist in my single-player RPG. \o/
It makes the decision to have an unvoiced, player-created avatar protagonist even more puzzling though.
My parcel finally arrived at work!
http://i.imgur.com/8JiMihf.jpg?1
As it’s probably hard to readFinal Fantasy VII, VIII, X, VII Advent Children and X-2.
Kids on the slope (Sakamichi no apollo)
Nier Replicant/Gesalt
Nier 15 Nightmares
Puella magi madoka magica
Who’d you end up going with? I think @jimu wanted to buy some OSTs
I need money first!
I listed them all under the spoiler.
I was soooooooooooo tempted to buy the cowboy bebop ones as well but there are 3 or 4 or them and I decided I’d already spent enough. took about 1 week for it to arrive with the EMS option. Most of that time was after it was in Australia. The long weekend didn’t help.
EMS is usually 3-5 working days from pickup.
Source: I have 1-2 deliveries via EMS from Japan every month 😛
Also, most of the square enix ones came with a code for something but I’ve no idea what as I don’t read Japanese.
Was this the stuff you were asking about re: CDJapan?
So, predictably (for a Gameworks title), Dying Light is getting lots of reports of performance problems on AMD cards in particular. Dammit, Nvidia, stop pushing Gameworks – it’s not encouraging me to buy a GeForce card, it’s encouraging me to use my PS4 more.
You’re becoming human again. Baby steps,the Borg cubes we call PCs have strong holds that take time to break but you’ll get there eventually.
The performance problems are reportedly so bad you could almost compare them to PS4 level graphics! *shudders*
Ewww, may as well rub a chili in your eyes.
But I don’t wanna… Being human is… messy.
And got nothing against my PS4, it’s mainly just PC games are cheaper, don’t require changing the disc, and downloading the digital versions won’t count towards my internet usage. Plus, Far Cry 3 at 5760×1080 is amazing – nothing like hang gliding in surround 😛Well, the disc thing is easy. Just go all-digital. That’s what I did for PS4 and Vita and it’s great. Aside from constantly running out of space on the Vita. 64gb isn’t nearly big enough. I think I could come close to filling a 256gb if it existed and I put all the stuff I own via PS+ and purchases onto it.
I have enough problems dealing with my download cap thanks to Youtube – I bought a boxed PS4 copy of AC: Unity because I knew I’d never get a chance to download my PC version from Uplay when it’d take half my month’s downloads in one hit. PS+ puts enough strain on it as it is.
Steam, however, is unmetered, and cheaper than PSN price + download quota packs form iiNet.
Yeah, I moved to Nvidia. Not because I like Nvidia but because they are ass-hats that make some games terrible for AMD users and I wanted to actually be able to play games.
Well it is the way it’s meant to be played
Lol so you’re showing them they’re asshats but swapping over to their product?
From a financial perspective you know you’re only encouraging that kind of behaviour right?
Do you really think they notice one graphics card on their product sale?
Do you think they notice how many people are thinking exactly the same way? One person thinking their concession won’t make a difference = negligible. 10,000 people each thinking their concession won’t make a difference, however, is cash in Nvidia’s pocket.
Yeah, but I didn’t say what 10,000 people swapping graphics cards would do. I said if I personally would swap. In reality me swapping cards back to AMD is going to do nothing.
If there’s a reason behind swapping, it’s unlikely to have been something that won’t have persuaded others to do likewise. Ergo, any one person swapping will likely not be the only person doing so at that time, is all.
Do you really think you’re the only person out there encouraging their behaviour by swapping over?
Edit: While I wish we could separate principles from whats convenient; in dealing with corporations the only vote and opinion that counts are the numbers shortly after a $ sign.
Doesn’t stop people from buying Windows.
Windows goes out of its way to make games relatively unplayable on competing operating systems? Or are you trying to say Microsoft are asshats and people still support them?
While I can’t speak for the rest of the human race; for the most part I prefer Windows over the other alternatives out there and Microsoft haven’t made any other options less attractive for me to consider swapping over to. Also I don’t believe I’ve ever made a statement calling them “asshats” and then purporting to support said asshats.
I just find it ignorant when people claim they don’t like a company in a capitalist society and then choose to throw money after the company in question; then follow this up further by saying it won’t make a difference. If that mentality had any merit whatsoever we might as well retire democracy and capitalism in one fell swoop.
Yea… I’d go Nvidia, except I object to one corporation telling me I can’t use equivalent hardware to its fullest potential because “they say so.” Especially when they also charge a premium for their hardware. Same reason I’d switch to Linux in a heartbeat, if developers gave it more widespread support; gaming is the only reason I still use Windows.
Wouldn’t it be the developers fault for coding it that way?
I’ve heard it’s Nvidia not wanting to share info/tech, which from a business viewpoint is understandable but from a consumer viewpoint is balls
From what I’ve heard, it’s Nvidia making deals with the developers or publishers that are extremely profitable for the devs/pubs, with exclusivity clauses disallowing AMD from participating in the optimisation process until close to or after launch. Nvidia has a history of this, and I can’t understand how they can get away with such blatant and unabashed douchebaggery.
From what I’ve heard, it’s AMD writing drivers and tech that are generally complete balls and nVIDIA having much better developer support and more stable systems.
It also helps that they have a larger chunk of the market due to having better products.
Tune in to http://www.5yyy.com.au to listen live to the show that eventually becomes the Talk Amongst Yourselves TAYlist, now online.
ugh.
For some reason, I can’t seem to transfer files over FTP to my original modded Xbox for some reason.
I’m trying to use Qwix, and it’s worked perfectly in the past, but now it just sits stuck, not making any progress at all.
Lol. Some saw some bloke being dead serious on a new article on another website that cassettes as in those things the original Walkmans used were and still are the best medium for audio quality. I had to laugh. I asked him if they were so good why does vinyl & CD still exist but tapes for the most part were phased out lol.. I mean they’re a medium that degrades with playback every time :/ Vinyl to a degree too, but no where as serious.
Tbh, I’ve never understood the whole ‘sounds better on vinyl’ thing. But yeah, tapes, more trouble than they’re worth. They had 2 things over CDs. They could hold more music using both sides (90 mins for a normal tape 45 min each side compared to 79 mins for a CD) and you can easily re-record over a tape you already have
I’ve found it really depends on how it was recorded and mastered with to begin with I guess.
Even though you can re-write a tape, you’re degrading it every time it passes over the heads, a bit shit in my opinion 😛
Yeah, I didn’t like tapes, CDs somehow get scratched everytime you take them out of the case no matter how careful you are. Vinyl warps. I like MP3s for the quality and simplicity
You’re doing something wrong if your CD’s are scratching every time you remove from the case. I have 15+ year old CD’s that are still in perfect condition lol.. Vinyl will warp if you leave it in the heat and not store it correctly 😛
a lot of my cds that I just sold were still in great nick for 10-15+ years old but had minor scratches on them. A couple though I have no idea how deep scratches got on them. I took good care of my CDs as I do with DVDs and games, most of the time it’s someone else who left them out of their case :@
Those monsters >=[
Last time I lent some CD’s to a mate (Green Day’s discography) they all came back scuffed x.x I ended up giving them all to another friend and re-bought them all at a later date for like 1/4 the original price I paid lol..
Dang it @redartifice. I can’t conceivably write and describe the tentacle helmet from Numenera without feeling like I’m one step away from writing smut.
To be fair, I think every writer is just one step away from writing smut.
It’s true. I write stories about a bunch of men who shoot things out of rockets.
…
Now, even though there’s absolutely no way to turn that dirty, writers will go where the money is.
I like to think that all kinds of ship travel (marine or space) is just so inherently phallic that they have to try and give things feminine descriptors and names to balance out the sheer amount of masculinity.
Except for the Titanic. That’s all masculine
Just go with it. ALL the innuendo.
National Hentai Day was last week.
Just to be clear, that’s 100 per cent in the module I’m running. I can screenshot it if you don’t believe
Oh no I believe you. I also wouldn’t be surprised if it was described a bit more in the Love and Sex book because of the connotations.
I have not purchased that, but I imagine it’s an interesting read.
Chances are it will be better than the terrible Book of Erotic Fantasy from way back. I’ve never read it but the stories I’ve heard make it sound unreal.
Still less creepy than F.A.T.A.L.
Edit: NO ONE GOOGLE THIS AT WORK. IN FACT DONT GOOGLE IT ANYWHERE TRUST ME
*Shudder* no one should ever have the misfortune of reading that, least of all playing it.
I’ve read the accounts of people who have read it. It sounds like one of the most awful things ever committed to print
What the fuck am I reading? Roll to determine Vagina circumference? Anal circumference? -2d10 Body Attractiveness for A cup breasts? Roll for nipper length, areola size, vaginally depth and tear resistance?
Holy fuck do the writers of this thing have problems.
And who the hell rolls d10000000’s?
No Freeze! Why did you let curiosity get the better of you? WHYYYYYYYYY!?!
Seriously though, apparently the writers are just terrible, terrible people with no redeeming qualities whatsoever. Heck you get penalties if you decide to be anyone else but a straight, white, Caucasian male. Not even joking, the book is just blatantly repugnant to anyone sensible.
WHAT DID I TELL YOU
DON’T FUCKING GOOGLE IT
I WAS TRYING TO PROTECT YOU
Isn’t that kind of the point? It’s a helmet with prehensile tentacles on it.
It’s also translucent which makes it pretty odd. It would be funny if we found out it was a mood tentacle and changed colour.
Hot Chip vending machine? My god… What a time to be alive.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-01-28/chip-vending-machine/6052798
Great idea, but who has the time to wait around 2 minutes. Yeah you can say lunch time crowd, but if there’s only one machine and a queue, you’re still better off going to a shop. Reminds me, I wonder if those hot pizza vending machines ever took off
But a vending machine doesn’t judge me for getting hot chips for lunch every single day.
At least I hope it doesn’t.
I looked up a man inside a vending machine so it would judge you and wasn’t expecting this
http://youtu.be/6-HwSfp7S3s
Every where apart from Hungry Jacks, Maccas & KFC. I’ve had to wait like 5-10 mins for hot chips to be cooked since the take away stores don’t usually leave their chips in the bain marie.. Plus the ones who do their chips are usually nasty anyway.
It’s no sweet corn soup in a can though.
Yeah, it’s tasty.
It suuuure was.
Japan?
Yup 😛
I like how some of the machines had a “random” button.
Haha. My mate was telling me about those vending machines when we was over there for his engineering degree, some futuristic shit!
One of the Sa deployments is around the corner from me.
I think I’m now obliged to fact find.
Success! Kinda.
None at EB, no lunchtime shipment at Target. There were a bunch of Bowser, Sonic and Rosalina at JB though. Rosalina’s waist seam is iffy, same goes for the one between Sonic’s mouth and eyes. Found one that didn’t have a bad one, and also had good paint edges on his shoes. Bowser was also troublesome, he has loads of seams and the jaw one is a bit problematic. And nearly all of them had marks on them. Picked one that only had a small black mark on one of his claws near the back, least bad of the bunch. Saw they had an Ike, Lucario, Shulk, Shiek and Toon Link waiting for preorders behind the counter.
Just gotta find me a Toon Link now.
Where did you go, out of interest?
If you say Broadway then I won’t bother even looking 😛
Br….agway? 😛
I asked the Target guy if he knew they’d be getting more in in the middle of the day like last time but… actually I can’t remember if he said no or just that he didn’t know.
Either way, no Kmarts have got their stock in yet so there’s still those to raid I suppose. Just gotta keep the finger on the pulse and try to find out when they’ve gotten them.
So, so glad that I haven’t gotten into the Amiibo thing. Seems like such a huge pain.
i actually considered it briefly when they were talking about the FE ones doing stuff in the new game, but the build quality is just not good enough for me to make space for them.
@SerNobulus @dc @transientmind @dkzeitgeist
Anyone need any transport from train station?
That would be rad. When are peeps going down?
I finish work at 4:30 so sometime after that I would imagine.
Thanks for the offer but I will be driving down.
Hey all.
Having a great, happy day?
This may change that…
Stuck reading the amiibo thread on whirlpool now 😛
Get back to work! *continues browsing TAY*
http://media.giphy.com/media/wkfUnYU3BqCKA/giphy.gif
http://edge.alluremedia.com.au/m/k/2009/06/monkey-island-insult-swordfighting.jpg
Went and had a look around Broadway at lunch anyway.
I finally saw a Link for sale at Target. Amazing 😛 (Didn’t buy it though)
I saw like a dozen of them at Big W this morning. So so many Links.
Also did not buy.
I wonder if it’s possible for Nintendo to put some kind of sales limit on the amiibos. Like, they already have the embargoes that disallow the sale of things before a certain time. But it’d be great if they could add a thing where at least on the first day of sales, it’s strictly one (edit: of each) per customer. Just to stop these fuckwits who literally sweep the entire shelf into their trolley and make off with all of them to resell.
But that doesn’t help Nintendo’s bottom line. It looks better to announce first day sell outs.
I am curious as to whether they really are that insanely popular or if stock is just incredibly low.
They’ll still sell out even if everyone’s only allowed one of each.
I think they are quite popular, but it’s just that combined with the scarcity of the “rare” units (just look at the distribution for one store’s shipment, that’s pretty similar to what I saw this morning) along with the opportunists trying to swoop in and make a quick buck. Wouldn’t be nearly as bad with those guys out of the equation.
Although a few of the people I met this morning talked about buying two of each, one to use and a second to keep sealed up. That ain’t helping.
Is that seriously one Ike? Ugh. Not liking my chances at all now 😛 They’ll probably restock him when Codename Steam comes out though, like they’re planning to do with Marth.
One? There’s like 8 each of Rosalina, Bowser, Toon Link, Sonic and Mega Man. Then there’s 3 of Metaknight, Shulk, and 4 of Ike, Shiek and Lucario.
…are we looking at the same image or is the perspective really throwing me off? It looks like two Ike in that image to me 😛
Ah, Didn’t know there was a second layer under him!
This one? You can see that there’s two rows, right? Along the image’s Y axis. Top and bottom row identical to each other, different characters along the X axis. Then there’s more stacked up towards the camera.
Got confused when you said 4 Ikes haha Didn’t see the second row underneath
@powalen Wait a second you said it looks like one Ike before not two 😛
But yeah, tricky to see what’s underneath. Mainly from looking at the hook holes in the backing cardboard, you can see on the bottom ones it goes dark for the ones that have something underneath and then others are light where there’s nothing. Although some of the light ones line up with the hole on the one underneath, but then you can make out some doubling of the image where the edges of the lower one’s backing board is poking into view. Main thing that bugged me was that I could see four backing plates for Bowser, but the shadow made it look like there was something else underneath the lowest visible one.
…ah, so I did 😛
All I can say is I don’t know brain fingers type bad.
I will need to pick up a Marth when they do that!
When I went to Big W the lady serving me said what was on the shelf is what they have. They had 2 of each the new ones so I had basically bought 1/2 their stock. Luckily I was one of the first customers to buy them but she had been taking calls for the last week asking about them. They are extremely popular but it’s just Nintendo are being Nintendo (see: stupid) and releasing very limited amounts to stock.
That’s also not up to Nintendo but the retailer.
Nintendo have already got their money from the retailer so they don’t care.
Speaking as a retailer if someone wants to come in and buy everything I have, I’m going to take a guaranteed sale of it all now over potential future sales.
I read somewhere earlier that they’d sold almost 6 million worldwide so far, so I guess they are fairly popular despite the low stock. Hard to say whether that is all scalpers or not though 😛
TAYlist for the 29th of January 2015
TAYlist – the TAY Playlist, sponsored by the new 24 hour request periodAngels – Let The Night Roll On
Spiderbait – Buy Me A Pony (Requested by @freezespreston)
Dire Straits – Money For Nothing (Requested by @benny)
Coldplay – Viva La Vida
Frank Sinatra – Fly Me To The Moon (Requested by @gutsoup)
Blondie – Heart Of Glass (Requested by @scree)
Sia – Elastic Heart (Requested by @liondrive)
The Smiths – There Is A Light That Never Goes Out (Requested by @gingerchris86, congrats on the engagement, mate)
Peter Gabriel – Sledgehammer
Carl Douglas – Kung Fu Fighting (Requested by @phlanispo, this was the only Carl Douglas the station had)
Foo Fighters – Something From Nothing (Requested by @virus__)
Goanna – Solid Rock
Blue Oyster Cult – (Don’t Fear) The Reaper (Requested by @gutsoup)
Judas Priest – White Heat, Red Hot (Requested by @mrtaco)
Hooray!
Dear Sir or Madam, would you read my book? … 🙁
@greenius did you find out where you were being posted?
Registered or unregistered? With tracking?
Please be Perth please be Perth please be Perth…
Oh wait, Greenius?
Please don’t be Perth please don’t be Perth please don’t be Perth…
Nonperthius
Should know by mid-Feb or so.
It’ll probably be Perth :P. I said I’d rather prefer a city (put down Syd and Bris as preferences) but I would take Perth over Snowtown. But it looks like one of the Perth guys will be coming down to Melbourne so it kind of makes sense to do a straight swap with him.
So after seeing a photo of myself from a little over a year ago and then looking at myself today, I’ve decided it’s time to pay more attention to what I’ve been eating and start…ugh…exercising again. In August last year I ran the City2Surf in a little under 2hrs (14km). Today I don’t think I could run to the end of the street without having to rest.
So I’m resurrecting the Kotaku AU TAYbies Fitocracy group for a personal challenge in Feb. Not to loose X amount of weight or be able to run X amount of distance, but just to get active again. Anyone who wants to is welcome to join in. It’s not a competition to see who can get the most points or anything like that, but just to be healthy/healthier. Because reasons. Mostly fat reasons.
You beat me and @cookingmama to it. We were about to announce Freeze’s February Fitness Freakout. I can set it up if you need
Logging into Fitocracy and seeing it be months since my last entry was just depressing.
Yeah, I need to start exercising again too, so count me in.
You go, Celerysmith!
Geez, guy. You coulda told me this before I lost twenty kilos. Now my progress is slowed I won’t look nearly as impressive.
Logged into Fitocracy and it’s so damn unintuitive. Really needs a rival website. 😀
If only we knew someone skilled in web design…
Ah well.
I’ve already extended this invite to a few others, but if you need some support, we can be friends on MyFitnessPal. Exercising is important, but keeping a food diary really does make a big difference to losing weight. The database is great, there’s a barcode reader in the app, it syncs with most fitness apps/devices (I also have a fitbit flex) and it’s very motiviating to see other people in your feed checking in and making progress. The more the merrier!
Kantai Collection Anime Episode 4 Thoughts (@popdart5)
Good episode overall, I think. Needed something a bit lighter like this one after the way that episode 3 ended. The Kongou sisters probably have the most personality out of all of the game’s characters and they’ve added a few touches to them that I think really enhances how nutty they all are in fan works and so on.One thing I’m starting to get a little sick of is the way they feel like they have to pull in as many in-game quotes into the dialogue as possible. In some cases it’s not that obvious but especially with Kongo, as a player that uses her a lot (she’s my #2 go-to battleship after Haruna) I’m already kind of sick of all those lines, and I think they basically included every single battle line and secretary line she has in the game somewhere. :\ Hopefully that means they got it out of their system and from now on it’ll be less forced.
Other thoughts: Surprise Nachi & Haguro appearance, with lines. Also it looks like next episode will be focused on Kaga and probably the Cranes, Shoukaku and Zuikaku – the episode title is one of Kaga’s lines, complaining about being compared to Carrier Division 5 (Shoukaku & Zuikaku). After that the only character in the intro that hasn’t been introduced properly is Yamato, I think.
I’ll chime in tomorrow after I get a chance to watch it tonight. For starters though:
I hope they don’t handwave the events of Episode 3 too much and that it has some lasting impact. It’d be nice if they started getting into more serious territory.Also, going to call it and predict that the finale of the season is either going to be the Battle of Midway or a full-scale Abyssal assault on the fleet harbour itself. I kinda want to see a catastrophe afflict the harbour itself just to raise the stakes. Also I really, really want to see a reference to either the Doolittle Raid or Mutsu’s unfortunate sinking.
I suspect you’re probably about right, but I think they’ll avoid re-treading history after a bit, because it doesn’t end well for anyone involved.I’m really wondering when they’ll start talking about Kai-2 upgrades. It’s such a big part of the game, and everyone in Fubuki’s group except Mutsuki has one now. I’m super curious because Yuudachi was my first Kai-2 and she’s a major character. Wondering if there’s going to be a sequence where eg she gets badly damaged and everyone storties without her for some reason and then they’re about to sink and Yuudachi comes flying in with the scarf and everything and rescues everyone.
Unrelatedly, this guy on youtube has been taking bits of the show and recutting them with random inappropriate music, hollywood movie clips and sound bites and all sorts of stuff. The most recent one is amazing:
Gotta say I enjoyed this episode. The Kongou sisters were always iconic and distinctive but I was amused at how crazy they decided to make them. Their introduction was pretty great as well (best stealth ships). Also that their search for Shimakaze and the following battle was kinda ridiculous but in the best way.It was nice to get some resolution for the Kisaragi event too. I like that Nagato is starting to soften a bit and that the higher ships are being a bit more personable. That said, yeah I’m looking forward to the showdown/competition between Akagi/Kaga and Shoukaku/Zuikaku.
I think it’s interesting that we’re seeing a bit more about how name ships are treated what with the other sisters absolutely fawning over Kongou. We already saw a little bit of that with Mutsuki however I wonder how it’s going to play out if they introduce the other Fubuki class destroyers.
It’s probably because I never played enough Kantai but I’m not quite sick of them repeating their lines from the game. Makes it kinda funny to see them slip in a few nods to the game.
The overuse of the lines from the game is probably only going to be something the really hardcore players notice. I’ve got all four Kongou sisters and they’re among my top 15 or so highest-leveled – Haruna at 90, Kongou at 87, Hiei at 86 and Kirishima at 74. They’re my mainstay battleships. So I’ve spent a lot of time with them and I know their lines back-to-front. Haruna’s one of only four ships I have in the 90s.The name ships thing is mainly that the ships of the same class are considered to be sisters, and usually the name ship of the class was the first completed. Kongou is actually very special, because in terms of the ships in the game, she’s actually the oldest of them all. Laid down in 1911 and finished in 1912. The carriers are all at least a decade younger (Houshou was the first IJN carrier and was built in the 1920s) and Fubuki’s design was so revolutionary that when she was introduced she basically obsoleted all the Destroyer and Cruiser designs preceding her, much in the same way that everything changed for Battleships when HMS Dreadnought was launched. The IJN continued to use some of the pre-Fubuki DDs after modernizing them a bit (eg Mutsuki is an older class) but basically any of the destroyers in the game were 1930s onward. Same goes for subs.
Anyway, the others fawning over Kongou is literally just because she’s the big sister, and that’s what you do. It’s all references to their lines in the game. Kongou’s hyper and speaks lots of Engrish. Hiei’s obsessed with Kongou and has abandonment issues (IRL she was unnecessarily scuttled by Yukikaze because a report had gone out that her engine room was destroyed when it hadn’t been). Kirishima has an obsession with battle plans and microphones (the Mic Check thing is a reference to the fact she blew up the fire control and communications systems of USS South Dakota with a lucky hit :P), and Haruna is extremely polite and self-effacing (she was the Emperor’s personal flagship in the 1920s). Side note: their skirt colors
In terms of other classes, I’m not sure they’re putting forward the name ships ahead of the rest of them. Yuudachi is a Shiratsuyu-class but Shiratsuyu (and the rest of the K-On band knockoffs) have only been in background shots. Atago has turned up and had more lines than Takao. Myoukou is the name ship of her class, but Ashigara is the most visible of them. Kitakami and Ooi don’t even mention Kuma in the show – Ooi is more than obsessed with Kitakami, not Kuma. It’s really just a Kongou-class thing, and a lot of that is because of the “One Nao Show”, a radio drama thing they did at one point which starred all four of them and sort of set those personalities down. Referred to as One Nao Show because Nao Toyama voiced every character in the drama (she’s the voice of all four of the Kongou sisters, as well as a ton of others. Very talented)
There are already technically four Fubuki-class destroyers as major characters in the anime – the Akatsuki class was a modified Fubuki, so technically Akatsuki, Hibiki, Inazuma and Ikazuchi are her more advanced sister ships. The bulk of the Fubukis are pretty boring in the game, very generic and not very useful. I could see them maybe bringing in Ayanami (technically like the Akatsukis, the Ayanamis are a more advanced class) since she’s got a Kai-2 in the game that everyone wants to have due to her being amazing. Some of the other Ayanamis have actually got a bit of personality too. Akebono especially – she’s like Kongou’s polar opposite, calls you a shit admiral, tells you not to go anywhere near her, is utterly ungrateful when you give her any new gear and whinges when you send her to do anything. 😛
Hyrule Warriors new DLC trailer! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtuEuyGSz14
Complete Edition when.
Can’t wait for that to come out!
Two manned Crota on normal last night.
*drops mic*
Don’t drop your stuff in here young man.
Get right back here and pick that shit up.
*shameful shuffle back inside*
Sorry, dad.
*hugs*
*silently wanders on stage, picks up mic, puts back in mic stand, wanders off stage, muttering something about “kids these days” and “respecting technology”*
😛 Well done, mate!Amount of work done today: approaching zero. Seriously wishing tomorrow was my last day.
The whole amiibo hunt thing is actually kinda fun, despite the frustrations. Well, with the civil groups I keep ending up with at the shops. Explaining to the bewildered staff just what’s going on. Chatting away with the other hunters, as we wait for the stock to get brought up. Figuring out who wants what, then all nice and civil-like, rifle through them picking out which ones we want and handing them around for others to check out etc. It’s nice. This morning one of the guys who showed up before the store opened recognised and called out to me, turned it was one of the guys from a year or two below me at school. Lent me Metroid on NES back when I first started getting into the series. It was great sharing war stories while counting down the minutes 😛
More interesting than just walking in and out of the store, anyway.
@powalen @greenius @iforgetwho
https://ebgames.com.au/3ds-205990-Nintendo-amiibo-Super-Smash-Bros—Shulk-Character-Figure-Nintendo-3DS
He’s back! In available form!
Oh wait, Pow wanted Ike. Mybad.
Hah, the only one that isn’t back in stock 😛
(also Shulk is already sold out again it seems)
WeLikeIke.wav
(screw you, youtube)
Plenty of Shulk on ebay!
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/221671935280?nav=SEARCH
Only $99! Plus $8 postage!
Ike in stock for $99.95 +$8 p&h
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/331463591812?nav=SEARCH
Ugh a true friend would’ve Tweeted me!
I had a meeting at that time anyway 😛
Good thing I’m not one of those then 😛
http://www.tofugu.com/2014/10/27/wasei-eigo-i-cant-believe-its-not-english/ this is fascinating. Talking about weird Japanese-made ‘english’ words and phrases. Some of them are pretty amazing. ‘Homodachi’ is particularly brilliant.
I can’t keep my eyes open. It’s very difficult to sew if you can’t open your eyes. It’s also very difficult to play Dragon Age. I’m very bored. Which is making it even more difficult to keep my eyes open. 😛
Can’t sleep, clown will eat you?
Haha, yeah maybe I should leave my foot dangling over the edge of the couch so I’m too scared to fall asleep. 😀
Are you concerned the spiders are preparing to break through the wall?
Spose I should stop looking at the eBay thing i’m trying to win since the auction closes in 37 minutes and go start dinner..
What’s the point of buying things 2nd hand on eBay if other people who are interested intend on bidding it UP TO brand new retail price :/
I know right!?
Or the people who bid it over the price of the same item in a buyitnow format…
Yep.. It’s like what’s the point?
I was happy to pay what I initially bid for the item, but when someone bid it up to a price JB Hi-Fi normally has it for on sale (so every few weeks when they have their movie & TV sales) I just couldn’t comprehend why..
Silly Virus…it’s not about value, it’s about WINNING! 😛
Oh.. Damn it, I just KNEW I was doing something wrong.. Thanks @strange 😛
I’ve never played old school Resident Evil.
Do I play the REmake with normal tank controls or the new control scheme?
I hear it’s better to play with tank?
It’s better to play with tank if that’s what you’re used to. Takes a bit of time for it to flow naturally. I’ve been alternating between the two and the new controls are pretty good and a bit more user friendly.
Have you played RE4? If so, tank Leon is pretty identical in how tank controls function in REREmake.
RE4 was my first RE game.
With how much I loved that, I decided to go out and grab a copy of REmake and have a go.
Could. Not. Control 😛 It’s the same control scheme, but it controls completely differently. If that makes any sense at all.
So I’ll be in Melbourne from the 14th-22nd of February 😀
…Is anything happening between then? 😛 (@greenius MH sesh!)
I nominate everyone but me to organise something!
*nothing happens*
Freeze’s February Fitness Freakout!
Because I ran out of R words!
Runs five weeks, and if you’re one of those bastards that weightlifts you’ve got this in the bag
https://www.fitocracy.com/group/14940/?invite_code=92D78
All activities count, and the aim is just to do something– there’s no sheep station at the end of this
Also, add me in Runkeeper if you want to laugh at my awfulness on a treadmill!
I love every time I return to FItocracy after a while, and I go to log in, and I hit the sudden issue that I can’t remember which username/password combo I’ve used, since I don’t like using autofill (some of the time, and for entirely arbitrary reasons).
It all just helps compound the shame.
How do I find you on runkeeper?
Username is redartifice, just connected it to my fb so you should find it. I’ve only just started with it
Think I’m going to buy a fitbit thing to track treadmill stuff.
I’m back, baby! My plan is to just run and not stop. Last night I did 800m in about four minutes but then I had to stop. Overall target? 2.4kms in twelve minutes within the next four weeks.
That’s a pace of 12 km/h or so right? I can comfortably run at ten km/h for a few min, but keeping at a consistent 12 is pretty damn good
FEBRUARY HAS FOUR WEEKS, YOU WEIRDO
FIVE ALSO STARTS WITH F SO MY ALLITERATION IS INTACT
I ALSO REJECT YOUR ARBITRARY DESIGNATION OF “MONTHS”
Actually I thought 4 weeks was a little short so I tacked another week on.
Holy smokes I just wandered into the comment section on Serrels’ story about his preview session with The Witcher 3. Some people are demanding “disclosure”, and others are complaining that he “reviewed” a game when he hadn’t played the first 2. What the hell, internet? When did Kotaku AU comments become so ridiculous?
SEE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU LEAVE US!
Ugh, all comments are becoming ridiculous.
Everyone on Lifehacker or Gizmodo hates the idea of a Foxtel Monopoly. I totally get that.
They only want one streaming service. They’re complaining that they have to subscribe to Stan, Netflix, and other such sites to get all the shows that they want. And when I pointed out that the US has the same thing with HBO Go and Hulu, they said that exclusives hurt the industry.
Nevermind that if there were no other streaming services, one would have a monopoly and rise the price to ridiculous prices and become the new Foxtel. I don’t get it.
GAEMS R SRS BIZNIS!
Wait, @markserrels played The Witcher 3? I DEMAND HE ANSWER THIS LIST OF QUESTIONS!
To be fair, @markserrels actually should play the first two games as they are rad. Especially the second one. One of the best modern RPGs out there with some of the most interesting writing as well. The focus it has on ambiguity and morally grey choices and cascades of consequences leading out of what you choose to do (up to and including changing an entire chunk of the game in the second one) is quite a stark contrast against the saint-or-monster minor-choices-with-minor-consequences approach Bioware uses.
Actually, people seemed more cranky at him for daring to say he didn’t like Dragon Age:I, after not playing the first two. 😛
Oh.
For the record, I didn’t like DA:I as much as the previous two either, and every criticism that Mark laid out for it is 100% accurate.
Stupid Nintendo Things, #2:
Not including a sensor bar with the Wii U. I never had a Wii, discovered today that I couldn’t play DKCR without it. Thanks for making that clear Nintendo.
But it was a pleasant surprise when I saw that the sensor bar was only $15 from EB, as opposed to the $50 I thought it was going to be.
Just light two candles instead.
I thought the WiiU did come with a sensor bar. Mine definitely did.
Same. Looking it up they still should.
Only got the basic version, might that have something to do with it?
@powalen as well
That’s what you get for getting the basic version. She needs premium, dude 😛
but it was sooo expensive. We got the basic Wii U for cheaper than a New 3DS!
After buying an external hardrive and the sensor bar, probably not.
I assume that DKCR uses a wiimote or classic controller? I ask because the gamepad actually has a built in sensor bar. If you don’t need to use it to play the game you could stand it up under your TV as a makeshift sensor bar!
You can use the Wii U gamepad as a sensor bar. It’s got the lights on it. Doesn’t work with some stuff though (eg it won’t work with the Wii Metroid Prime Trilogy that you can download at the moment)
I tried that, but it only worked on the gamepad screen. It wouldn’t work with the TV on.
I don’t have a stand for it anyway, so I might as well spend a bit extra to get the sensor bar.
AMIIBOS
I stopped through the shops on the way to my car on the way home tonight. Passed through Target, they were all cleaned out. Went into Kmart to see if they had had anything yet… and they did. Huh. Some other guy was just ahead of me though, and swept up the rares. I saw he had Big W bags, so asked about how they were stocked, he said they’d only just started putting stuff on the shelves when he got there. And they had stuff that a friend of mine was looking for. Awesome!
Then he said “hey, aren’t you a friend of [mutual friend]’s?” Turns out he met me once at a supanova or something or other ages and ages and ages ago. Weird.
Round up the convo and ask the girl if they have any others. There’s one Toon Link in the cabinet, but he has a bad paint job too. There’s one in the back though, and he’s good! Collection complete! Then I run over to Big W, and get there to find a few things on the shelves, but no sign of the Sheik that was mentioned. I turn around and there’s a guy waiting in line holding a Lucario and Shiek. DAMMIT.
Got chatting with him too, and then he goes “wait, didn’t you used to post on [forum I used to post on]? Gooky, right?” Holy shit what is it with today and amiibos and running into people I know. Already had an old school friend happen this morning.
Anyway, after that I ended up doing a huge circuit to all the Big Ws and Kmarts I could to see who had been cleaned out and who was still waiting on stock. Didn’t get lucky anywhere else, but found a couple that hadn’t gotten theirs yet. Damn my legs are sore now.
I went into Big W and bought Toon Link, Shiek, Shulk and Ike.
THE END
EDIT: okay, okay, there is more to the story.
Went to JB hifi at 9:00am and hurriedly walked to where they have the amiibo’s on display. Almost get crushed by the shear volume of Pikachu amiibo’s that no one wants … NO.ONE. Besides the Pikachus there are a few Marios and nothing else. So I leave the store bruised but not defeated and head for EBGames. Walk into the store and it’s pretty packed. I quickly scan the room for any signs of Amiibos, nope, nothing. Why the hell are there so many people here? Anyway I leave with a hung head in sadness. I needed to cheer myself up with a joke. “Hah, I will check Big W because they are the best at showing new stock”. I laugh at the thought for an hour or so and head over to Big W.
I scan the electronics area, all I can find are terrible Skylander things. Seriously, who would even buy something like that, it’s just a huge waste of money. Nothing around there, oh well, engage sad nob mode. =(
When I leave the aisle something catches my eye, could it be!? Yes! it is! I quickly look around in disbelief like “Am I hallucinating?”. I realised I wasn’t hallucinating and rush over to them. Yup, I found a complete set of wave 3 of amiibos Toon Link! Sheik! Shulk! Ike! The gang’s all there (oh and those other guys). I grab the gang and hug them to my chest and almost skip over in joy to the counter. The lady serving me grins and says “I see you are after the new set”. I nod joyfully … whatever the hell that looks like. She sighs “I’ve been taking calls about these all week, someone has called here every day since Monday asking about them”. After a small chat I leave the store, eyeing everyone off, everyone is my enemy, EVERYONE! Luckily I get to my car without incident and take my prizes home!
THE END! (For reals this time)
I really wanted a Shulk but pretty sure that isn’t going to happen.
Stupid work.
You can buy Pikachu’s if you want. PLEASE! SOMEONE BUY A GODDAMN PIKACHU!
Gah! I hate this uncertainty…
It’s weird when you can’t even plan for simple things like pre-ordering games or things online. Who knows where I’ll be in a couple of months :/. Then there’s stuff I was planning to go to anyway but an interstate move will complicate (PAX, 5 year high school reunion etc.)
Seems like I’m definitely going to end up interstate but I’d really like to know as soon as possible :P. Was stressing out all last week just thinking about …things, but thankfully this week has been better
*twiddles thumbs*
I just enrolled for my courses at uni and have started freaking out. I know how you feel man!
When’s it start? Will I be in Melbourne for the Nob welcome party? 😀
You live with your sister or something, don’t you? I haven’t moved out of home yet so I’ve been thinking about that too. Which is also why I’d rather not move to Snowtown cause it seems a bit too “jumping into the deep end” for me. I think Sydney or Brisbane would be good for me.
(but I’ll probably end up at Perth ;_;)
We can promise atleast one meat if you come to Brisbane! 😛
OOOOOOOOO! Will you be there or will it be another PAX North?
Who can say?
Live at home with parents. So yeah, this whole happenings isn’t so much as jumping in the deep end as being fired out of a cannon into the deep end while wearing cement shoes.
Nah, it’s not that bad. Just having a freak out session tonight, I’ll be fine tomorrow (stupid brain) =P
Yay, freak out buddies! 😛
Haha! First time I left home I went to London. D:
You win this round @dc
*shakes fist in random direction*
Still crazy daunting. Don’t mind me. Was supposed to be an I can sympathize thing and not a one-up thing. XD You’ll do fine, though. It’s an adventure and I’m so damn proud. :’)
haha, nah I know you weren’t trying to one up me. I’m just a jerk and trying to make you feel bad. Thanks for the vote of confidence.
But you lived with two friends!
In a foreign country. 😛
Get a PO box? Or one of those AusPost storage locker thingies where your packages go in them and they text you a code to pick up at your leisure?
I was just watching Cliff Richard – Wired for sound and noticed it kinda looks like he’s going around roller-skating with power ranges.
@redartifice with Grim Fandango
Was it the door latch?YES, fecking thing. Knew what I had to do (card in slot) and knew I had to jam the door, but totally overlooked it until I swept my cursor over the door. Shows my memory of this game isn’t perfectYou playing with point and click controls? How does it feel? Looks pretty intuitive in videos!
I’m switching between 360 controller and point and click- some stuff, like the bone wagon, is just too annoying to do any other way. Also sometimes getting Manny to look at the right thing is fiddly, but We Knew ThisHeroes of Might and Magic III is still as amazing as when I played it when I was 9 years old. (I feel like posting this is going to make some people feel old)
EDIT: Seriously it’s just a perfect HD remake. So many memories of playing hot seat mode with my friends, making and trying to beat maps with each other. So many memories. =’)
Uuuurgh I’m going to have to buy this now aren’t I?
Dont worry its on the list
I’d love to agree, but looking at the screenshots those bars on the left and right of the combat and city screens are really making me cringe. I’m still really enjoying Heroes 3 from GOG with the HD Mod personally. Also apparently you can’t randomise map generation? It’s a shame it’s only the base Heroes 3 and not the expansions too.
I never played the expansions but from what I can tell all it did was add random map generation and another faction.
MAN I loved Heroes of Might and Magic. 2 was my favourite though.
I was only joking about PC version of Dying Light being optimized so poorly that you hove to turn it down so it almost looks like the PS4 version. Then I stumbled over this.
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-w1bUYfm9Lfo/VMl8V0rH-ZI/AAAAAAAAF3I/nFvcZznRUlY/s580/dying-lod.gif
Reply fail 🙁
I was looking forward to this on PS4 as well btw 🙁
If my laptop could run it Id buy it on PC but ill most likely get it on PS4
http://gematsu.com/2015/01/dengeki-bunko-fighting-climax-coming-west-summer holy crap, what terrible decisions are Sega going to need to make to balance this one out?!
“Announcing a new Sonic game!”
“It’s a 2d Sonic game!”
“It’s a micro-transaction based title for the New 3DS where Sonic’s ability to go fast is tied to real world money!”
I feel so dirty up voting this.
Only two story missions to go, and I’ll have platinum’d Shadow of Mordor. A fun game, well worth the time.
Still needing to pick it up. Is it stupid to think it’ll be part of the PS Plus free games at some point 😀
Not stupid at all. I think it’ll be in there eventually, but I very much doubt it’ll be in there before year’s end, though.
It might be stupid. I stupidly never bought The Last Of Us because I thought it would end up in Plus….
BLOODBORRRRRNE
53 days to go!
The news today:
Hnnnggh, damn it. I’m trying to resist this.
Oh, also: The FuturePress Guide is now available to pre-order
And here’s a video about it.
Price comparison for the book. Only one listing (Amazon) so far, but I imagine it’ll pop up in a few new stories in the next few weeks.
Mr. Strange still has some of his bonus moneys left after our trip, so we’re getting this version now instead of the regular. \o/
Friday, you raving dickmen. CAN YOU SMELL IT? Wait. Is it supposed to smell like olives?
Only if you don’t wash it
Who’s got time for that in the morning?
To me olives is the smell of pizza. Usually woodfired.
…how far away is lunch again?
So America redefined broadband as being a minimum of 25Mbps down and 3Mbps up.
*sits patiently waiting for the same thing to happen in Australia*
hmm… or maybe “broadband” just gets officially renamed to “narrowband” in Australia instead. Will be the cheaper option
Our definition is actually more likely to be redefined in the other direction 😛
so more like “baudband” then :p
I’m going to upvote this to mask that I don’t get the joke 😛
never had one of ye olde modems that sounded like they were trying to summon bits via the unholy scripture of the Necronomicon ebook edition? Before we measured transfer speeds in bps, modems were measured by baud – for those of us unfamiliar with the technicalities of data transfer rates it was still good for puns; ie. we measured modems in baud because that’s how we felt waiting for downloads.
I did in fact have one of those! I learned things today. Thanks. 🙂
Broadband: Can load up a website featuring a broad.
Everybody should go try the Codename STEAM demo (on the 3DS eShop now) @sughly @greenius
Looks way better in motion than the screenshots made it look. I’m really digging it now (I thought the graphics were “okay” at best from the screenshots I’d seen before now)
It’s like a combination between the gameplay of XCOM and Valkyria Chronicles, but without the overhead view of the battlefield. That makes it sound worse, but I kinda like it. Makes the areas seem bigger than they are and lets the enemy stay hidden (which plays into the whole Overwatch mechanic). Works really well with the New 3DS as well (lets you use the second stick for camera control rather than the face buttons or touchscreen)
Hopefully the story is decent. Can’t wait! (though we have to wait until May…)
I’ve always found it baffling how handheld games always look so much better on the hardware than in videos/screenshots on PC.
Originally I thought Link Between Worlds looked kinda awful. Early 90s CGI, I called it. Actually playing it though, it looked fantastic. Not sure if the same thing happened with New Yoshi’s Island, which I shared the same sentiments about 😛
Smaller screen, smaller pixels.
Nahhh
What happened to you, Sughly. You used to be cool.
Tricks on you, I was never cool!
Valkyria without the overworld map sounds pretty awful. You really needed that to see where stuff is and how everything fits together tactically as it’s often not obvious from the 3D view.
I think comparing it to Valkyria is doing this game more harm than good. It’s really nothing like it besides the fact that it’s turn-based and third-person (at least, from what I’ve seen in the demo).
Feels like it’s own thing once you start playing. Sounds bad at first but it all just kinda works. I like it.
Okay, I think I’ve managed to detox myself from Destiny, haven’t played since Saturday.
Finished my first game for the Year, Bayonetta, it was pretty awesome but had a few too many quick time events for my liking, all was forgiven though when Bayonetta did her 5 minute post credit sexy dance, I’ll give my Wii U a rest for a little while and move onto Bayo 2.
Almost knocked over Far Cry 4, 4 story missions left, still having fun but getting a bit burnt out hunting collectibles.
All things going accordingly I’ll get stuck into Dragon Age: Inquisition this weekend (finally).
Played a bit of Grim Fandango Remastered (never played before :O) really enjoying it, I’d forgotten how much I missed this kind of game being without a decent pc for years. I have encountered 2 glitches that made me have to reload which is unfortunate because I’m not very far in at all (only in the petrified forest.
How are you all doing? What games are you playing currently, beaten anything recently worth mentioning?
Edit: Also playing Pokemon Alpha Sapphire, they sure crammed a lot of features into this one didn’t they. Can’t wait for my combusken to evolve because currently he resembles a cock and balls with legs and arms 😐 http://pklucario.deviantart.com/art/256-Combusken-362219599
Hey buddy! Grim Fandango! Too bad about the glitches, though. Makes me happy to hear that people who haven’t played before are liking it. 😀
Yeah, great writing. Had to look at a guide for a couple of things already though, games these days really do hold your hand a lot. Glitches aren’t too bad, just have too remember to save more often.
Jeez. Play games, much?
Only things I’ve beaten recently are the Monster Hunter Demo (if that counts) and Catherine.
Was going to get The Last of Us to play next but ended up not. Got plenty of games that I already own that need playing first! Haven’t finished Fantasy Life yet and I’ve got a bunch of eShop games to get through on my 3DS. Not to mention Majoras Mask coming out soon!
Too Many Games.
I’m having that trouble too, so many games not enough time, I’ve avoided DA:I until I got a few others knocked over because I know it’ll be a huge time sink, I have about a dozen games I’m part way through at the moment and need to finish some before I get lost in all of them. I’ve also gotta play through TLOU again, I got the PS4 version for Christmas and haven’t touched it. I need to win a lottery or something so I can focus on what’s important, beating games :P.
I’m trying to ween myself off Destiny too, but the desire to get all 3 characters up to 32 is too much atm. I have my Warlock there, just got my Hunter to 29 yesterday and my Titan is 31. Just gotta go through the raid and get some armour drops.
Other than that, I’m planning (like every year), to actually finish games, starting with games I play every year. FF VII first up on the cards. GTA V will be finished again soon on PS4, Dragon Age I’ve started and got a little way into it but I haven’t been paying attention enough to get into it so I’m going to restart that. I think The Witcher 2 I’ll need to smash out as well in preparation for 3. I need to do up a list of games I actually want to finish. Not sure yet whether ‘finish’ means just completing a game’s story or 100% it though. Might take that on a game by game basis
I’ve managed to get away from Destiny because I can never get into a raid group, so I pretty much am stuck and can’t progress my characters any more. I found I was pretty much just doing the dailies and getting frustrated that I took 2 days to get to lvl 31 and since have been playing for close to a month and made zero progress towards 32. They really shouldn’t restrict the best gear and items required to level up said gear to one raid, makes it impossible for people like me to progress or maybe you know make matchmaking for the raids. I’ve been through Crota’s End once and VOG once, all the dudes I play with are unemployed and do stuff while I’m at work.
I can always wing you a message when we’re planning to raid. Our ‘main’ group has gone onto FF XIV so only really comes on when there’s something new to do. The rest of us are usually up for a raid or two each week but sometimes will find us a man or two short. The only thing is continuous NAT issues so we mostly have to use the fireteam chat rather than party chat. Ho hum
I’m assuming you’re playing on PS4 cos I have you on my friends list 😛
Oh, wow, cannot unsee that resemblance… I always thought Combusken looked silly, but couldn’t place it – just put it down to middle evolutions in general looking like weird, poorly adjusted teenage versions. 😛
Currently playing far too many perpetual games – Minecraft, Destiny, Rocksmith and Elite don’t really “end,” and they’re all timesinks, so I haven’t found time for anything else recently. I have Far Cry 4 sitting, downloaded and waiting, having put about two hours into it. Dragon Age Inquisition’s story beckons with about 40 hours invested. AC: Unity beckons with 12 hours of playtime. Grim Fandango sits downloaded, ready and untouched, alongside Saints Row: Gat out of Hell. Anno 2070 beckons from the depths of my library, pleading for me to drop one of my newer timesinks and return. Lords of the Fallen, likewise.
And Dying Light and Fahrenheit beckon from the store, Bloodbourne and The Witcher 3 loom in the near future, while The Witcher 2 begs me to finish the final chapter… *hyperventilates*
You sound like me, I keep starting games and not finishing them, I’m trying to avoid perpetual games, I keep wanting to play Minecraft but keep telling myself “no go finish something else”. Destiny has been the main one for me, I kept playing it making zero progress but I kept playing.
I get the Minecraft bug every six months or so – usually clears itself up in a month or so. Destiny was the first perpetual game I actually got into – tried others in the past: WoW, GW2, ES:Online… they all bored me to death. Destiny’s gameplay kept me playing, tho. Then got into Elite just after the new year… and within two weeks got the MC bug again. Talk about bad timing…
It’s like I can actually feel my free time steadily being eviscerated by thralls and bludgeoned by Steve’s pickaxe. D:
That said, I’ve only played a couple of strikes this week, with the express purpose of getting marks for a 33-light chest for my 6-day-old Titan. Technically, I should also be concentrating on getting his subclasses levelled (first two rows of each are just about done), but just haven’t found the time this week.
Fahrenheit Remastered on PC looks pretty great and the QTE controls are bit more intuitive when using the mouse. I had to remap my keyboard last time I played this game, don’t think I’ll need to this time. Still a damn pretty looking game too, that now runs natively in wide screen.
I’m bummed that it won’t be released on PS4 :\
Me too. It’s the kind of game that would be better on TV with a controller, I think. :'(
It’s on the PS2. Why would they shun the PS4 for the re-release 🙁
I’m still a firm (blind) believer that there will be a bundle of Quantic Dream games for PS4, and that’s why it’s not available for individual purchase.
I’ll go along with that. *engage blind hope mode*
You know what? I’d buy it again. And again. And again. XD
I’d buy it too. Almost doesn’t matter what they want to charge for it.
PS4 doesn’t have the Emotion Engine.
*sells PS4 immediately*
But… but… sharing is caring, how can the PS4 care without an Emotion Engine?
Went Amiibo hunting earlier today, didn’t need any but with everyone else sharing tales it piqued my interest.
Long story short I found nothing.
I brought a new HDMI cable and preordered Bloodborne and The Order while I was out. so not a total waste of time 😮
I just looked in Kmart here since they didn’t have anything yesterday and it’s a quiet area. Nothing but Pukeachus.
I was in Frankston, definitely not quiet as its the end of the line of the train tracks from the city loop, I could check Karingal out since its more quieter but its already the 30th, probably would of been better to go yesterday.
Edit: Or are the quieter areas worse for Amiibos?
Post 15000: A single word.
And in the middle of whinging about stuff, no less 😛
There’s a fullstop there too. That’s a full blown sentence right there
*edit, I’m just short of 3,000
I’m approaching 30000 and trying to figure out the best way to ring that in.
In before @freezespreston suggests tasteful nudes (taste optional).
I’ve become a one note joke, good for nothing but a cheap and easy laugh.
Not true. You’re good for many cheap and easy laughs.
GAH!
Landlord trying to get another valuation on our place. So stress levels are back to if we are going to get kicked out of our place. Not to mention they somehow seem to think that we can (and should) move all our furniture out of the house for ‘just one day’ so the valuer can see the floors properly
Since being shown at a Nintendo Direct I have not liked the look of Codename STEAM. It looked damn ugly and completely unfun. However, after giving the demo a go I am actually really enjoying it.
So I’m going to do a Friday noon-ish question
What games have you written off from watching the trailer/reading reviews but when you played it found it enjoyable?
Dark Souls.
Catherine.
Theatrythm.
GTA IV: Lost and Damned
…Monster HunterGUYS! HE SAID MONSTER HUNTER!
http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lowu74PQVa1qfaf3r.gif
-Link Between Worlds, I was pretty put-off by at first. It looked so ugly in the trailer.
-Pokemon Y, pretty much because “pokemon? *eyeroll*”
-Ghost Recon: Shadow Wars. I wrote it off because I thought Ghost Recon was just some war shooter thing, meh. Then I found out it was an Advance Wars type game, and had credibility of being “by the XCOM guy!” even though that meant nothing to me at the time and I had to have it explained.
-Dragon Quest Heroes: Rocket Slime. I thought oh, Dragon Quest. RPG. Snore. Don’t care. Then a friend told me about how it was actually good and what it was about, so I picked it up and hey this is awesome. Apparently it’s actually a sequel in other regions, and there’s a third one that was Japan only or on PSP or something.
…that time when your online instructions for using a website have badly scaled images because when you take reference screenshots of the site you don’t realise that Firefox has been automatically scaling everything based on Windows DPI settings…
*grumble*grumble*
conversely – when a random bundle happens to be mostly Steam games you want but don’t have yet! (BundleStars Fully Loaded) – maybe I can unlock a few more vehicles in BlazeRush over the weekend 🙂
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y260/Gooky/3Waves.jpg
Worth it. Though I still don’t want to think about the cost.
And I thought I went overboard when I bought 4 this wave!
You’re the problem!
*have a
I’m blaming you for not getting a Shulk.
Oh hey, Thief is coming to Ps+. I know it took a bit of a shellacking when it came out, but I’m kinda keen for sneaky bastardry atm- if Grim hadn’t dropped this week I was considering a replay of Dishonoured
I’m looking forward to Transistor myself! 🙂
Interesting game.
If you dislike it I will never speak to you again.
What I played (the intro) was enjoyable, while not really being memorable in any way. I assume that the rest of the game followed suit.
Wondering if it would be worth cashing in a bunch of AUD for YEN now before the AUD sinks any further or hold tight for a month and hope it picks up a bit. It’s lost 10% in the last month as it is.
Edit: Financial Get!
Have you thought about one of them travelers cards that locks in a currency at a certain rate and doesn’t fall below that even if the AUD does slip against the nominated currency? Aus Post sell them i’m pretty sure.
I’ve got the Commonwealth ones but it’s converted at current rate when you put the money on it. AUD is at five year low at the moment.
Ah right right.. I got ya.Yeah this dollar being at such a low sucks so much. Ugh. x.x
Five year low against the USD, not against the Yen. It was lower against the Yen this time last year, even.
Had some issues finding a machine that’d take CommBank travel cards… A big of googling over there (thank christ I purchased that International Data Pack) revealed that Japan Post, Seven Bank, AEON Bank and Citibank Japan were machines that’ll take the card.
We only ended up using 2 Japan Post machines – but had tried about 5 others before looking it up.
Source: http://www.mastercard.com/global/atmlocations/ (which has been under maintenance since at least last November… =D )
I’ve mentioned on here before, I took one of those over there (the Commonwealth Bank one, since apparently that was the only one that did Yen or something) and more than half of the things I used it on got charged in USD, so I got hit with a conversion losses for going from JPY to USD each time I bought something, making everything that little bit more expensive. Would’ve been better off just taking it all over in cash.
Yet to find anyone who’s said anything similar though. Can’t remember if any of the others I went with had that problem. Actually some of them just went over again yesterday, for a month or so. Maybe should chase them down…
You need to pay attention to how the currencies are ordered. I believe some cards let you change that.
Ordered as in requested or ordered as in sequenced?
Also ordered where? 😛
Sequenced. Some cards state that Us dollars always come out first, followed by others
It didn’t have any other currencies on it though. It was only loaded up with yen. The places I was using it at were charging me in dollars instead of yen.
Yeah this. I had a few friends go to Europe in 2013 and they got cards they allowed this. My friends dad was rather up with all that which really helped them, sounded like a pretty awesome thing being able to get a certain exchange rate and then not worry about it being worth less and not having to carry as much cash.
Common wisdom is to do about half now, half then, hedge your bets. Either way you lose, but you don’t lose as much.
Just invest all your money into bottle caps. That way if the apocalypse hits you will be rich.
Ser Helpulus
Plus you might get enough caps to win that Nuka-cola competition.
…
I drank so much Nuka-cola. D:
Mr. Strange bought a Nuka Cola shirt when we were in the US and he wore it on the first day of the metal cruise. Lots of band members complimented him on his shirt. 😀
Best wife.
Oh wait, I read that as you bought the shirt. I guess he’s best husband. 😛
Might be worth it. It’s still above 91c at least, but way lower than a month ago when it was above 100 yen to the dollar. But historically speaking it’s usually hovered around the 85-95 mark with a few really bad dips (the GFC knocked it all the way down to 60 when everyone flocked to the Yen because every other currency was poisoned).
The driving force behind it isn’t Australia – Japan issues though, it’s because the US Dollar is strong, the Euro-Yen rate is weak, and there’s still a lot of uncertainty there because they just had an election in December and re-elected Shinzo Abe, and he’s been implementing some economic policies that are controversial.
Also today’s dip in the AUD is because of an incoming rate change by the RBA next week, and because the New Zealand bank has admitted the NZD is massively overvalued right now and probably going to drop out soon.
I was actually thinking about taking some actual cash as well. I don’t know if it’s still the case there now, but when I last visited Japan (admittedly this was about 2004) they were still very much a physical money economy. Putting stuff on plastic was pretty uncommon and a lot of places didn’t really support it very well.
Need to figure this out. Still not sure how much I even need to go away with. I don’t intend to do a huge amount of shopping – I already import a ton of Japanese stuff – but I suspect I’ll end up buying a ton of books and stuff. Also if I see copies of Sakura Taisen on Dreamcast I am buying that shit.
Yeah, I only spent cash in Japan, though I was in a smaller village area for most of my time (that only had one ATM, which was in the post office).
The AUD isnt expected to recover in the first half this year; given you’re travelling to Japan swap to YEN now and it should hold its value better. That said the YEN is a volatile currency in itself so I wouldn’t recommend swapping to it outside of the fact you are travelling to Japan.
I should also state that this isn’t advice in any form; merely an opinion.
If you’re worried, exchange some of it now, and leave some til later? I did that cos the rate was good a few weeks before I was going, but it had been up-up-down-up-down-up for a few weeks. Ended up getting a slightly better rate for the second batch, but had it dropped, at least I wouldn’t have lost out too badly.
So I’m finally moving out tomorrow! But more importantly..Apex 2015 this weekend! I’ve been looking forward to this for weeks now, and it’s gotten me really keen on playing Smash Bros competitively again. Anybody else going to be watching Apex?
I probably will, I don’t follow it as closely as I would like to and usually miss out on watching tournaments.
Ohhhh, you should totes bring an Amiibo down tomorrow for Smash shenanigans.
Maybe a controller for it too…
I need to train one up. Hmmmmmm
I choose you Pikachu!
(said no one ever)
Next month’s PS+ lineup is a collection of really good games
that I already own 🙁Where’s this list of next months thing? Everyone’s talking about it, but it somehow has by passed my radar! D:
I got it by email. Try the eu PlayStation blog
On it. I googled February. Read it and saw Sleeping Dogs.
It soon occurred to me I was looking at Feb 2013. D:
Edit: http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2015/01/29/playstation-plus-february-transistor-yakuza-4-thief-rogue-legacy/
PS4:
– Transistor
– Apotheon (this actually looked kind of cool)
PS3:
– Yakuza 4 (!)
– Thief
PSV:
– Kick and Fennik
– Rogue Legacy (cross buy, so also gets you PS3 and PS4)
Thanks, buddy! 🙂
I watched a trailer for Apotheon, and while I’m not sure whether I’d enjoy the game, it’s got a very striking aesthetic. I’ll be checking out all the games on offer this month. PS+ is pretty great.
Yes. It looks cool.
Gameplay-wise it’s probably at best a bog-standard side-scrolling indie action-platformer.
Yep, I think you’re probably right.
Transistor! \o/ Been waiting for a Steam sale and free time to coincide for that one; now I just need to wait for the latter.
Last state election I had my wisdom teeth out and turned up at voting booth looking like elephant man. Earlier this week my cat latched onto my face, bit me and drew blood. Now I have scratches and cuts and look like a junkie. D: People are gonna judge me tomorrow! :'(
I wish you were still doing Year Of The Hermit 🙁
Why don’t you iron a sleeved shirt and wear some slacks.
You’ll look like a yuppie junkie, their generally more accepted by society =)
Oh, more the Wall Street prescription drugs kind of guy, huh? You’re an ideas man!
He may as well go all out and wear an oversized hoodie, baggy pants worn far too low, and sneakers, and walk around hunched all day, scratching his arms, making quick paranoid glances everywhere.
Look the part, play the part 😛
I already do the quick paranoid glance thing. 😀
We’ll make a junkie out of you yet! 😀
If you want people to not judge you, buy one of the cake stall or sausage sizzle things. People like you when you give them money.
That’s not going to happen! The people in my electorate scare me! Getting out of there as fast as possible! 😛
The people in Brisbane aren’t terrible. Wait, you’re Strathpine area right?
If so, your suspicions are completely justified. I wish you the best of luck tomorrow good sir.
It’s a seat that always comfortably wins by campaigning on the opposite of my beliefs. D:
I haven’t been run out of town with pitchforks… yet…
You’re Toombul, right?
Clayfield actually but close enough. I get the satisfaction of voting out that idiot of a treasurer with his smug face of smugliness.
I miss Clayfield and its convenience.
Strathpine? Pretty sure that’s where I stayed for a week during my last trip to Brisbane back in 09. Or at least maybe that was where we caught the train to, and were somewhere else nearby.
Jimu, Gutsoup and I all live around there.
*adds note to files*
“DO NOT RETURN”
That’s fair. It’s not somewhere I’d recommend tourists to go anyways. 😛
I have chosen the last several polling booths I’ve attended purely on the likelihood of being able to get a democracy sausage.
I have voted at a voting booth in every state and federal election in the last 13 years aside from one state election right after I turned 18, which was because I had to postal vote due to being away.
In exactly 0% of those cases have I consumed a democracy sausage. In exactly 0% of those cases were there even any on offer for me to make a decision. I believe that they are a myth that only applies to the privileged elite, much like democracy itself in this country. 🙁
Hah, peasants.
Did you get it on the democratic white privilege bread along with freedom onions and liberty sauce all on the token white napkin?
Oh god this sounds so racist it wore an Aussie flag as a cape on Australia day whilst sculling goon being pinned to the hills hoist with a game of backyard cricket with the wheelie bin as wicket keeper in the background..
Nah, I had BBQ, the sauce of the oppressed
Actually, my photo of said sausage got lifted and “regrammed ” by channel nine Adelaide. Sure, it had attribution, but regramming so isn’t a thing
BBQ sauce IS liberty sauce. It’s the taste of freedom. Tomato sauce is the taste of imprisonment and the system screwing you over!
😛
What does that make Ketchup?
Worthy of putting on your, pie, snag or burger 😛 Especially if it’s Heinz ketchup, so good.
Wasn’t that the plot of How I met your mother
Use it to ward off people handing out “how to vote in the specific manner we want you to” cards”.
I got one family first numpty off my back at a booth by telling her I liked mosques and sodomy.
just snorted at work… Thank you.
Truth bomb: they were going to judge you anyway. It’s all everyone does.
Us polling booth people judge everyone.. Everyone..
I should’ve signed up for Qld election dang it. Such good money election day money =(
No one will care as long as you have your id and buy all the things at the cake stall and/or sausage sizzle.
So glad I voted last week! I can stay home and laugh at all the people queued up tomorrow!
Sorry to hear about your face though 🙁 Poor fella!
Haha! I might be exaggerating a little! Vicious cat, though. 😛
@popdart5 @redartifice
You know… after Numenera that’s my second RPG character that has some sort of tentacle-type implement in his arsenal (Jarallius has his mechadendrite). All that’s left now is Dem’nion, so I think I need to get the Black Tentacles 4th level spell to complete the hentai RPG circle and create a rift in all three universes 😛
This is when we discover Techie is a secret denizen of R’lyeh and is pushing his pro-Cthulhu beliefs.
Don’t be silly, hahahaha!…
*writes “Popdart knows too much” into his journal*
Oh gods, are we the game masters…Or is the game mastering US
Real life Call of Cthulhu game incoming. Wait, nevermind that’s basically the Strange but less constant oppression and terror.
Dual-class into an Oracle with the Dark Tapestry mystery?
… black tentacles?
*Looks up*
Holy shit. That really is straight out of bad anime porn, isn’t it? I thought the entangle spell was as far as that went.
…
I wonder if it can combo with Unnatural Lust? 😛
Ohhhh my god…
We’ll have to make sure we keep Dem’nion clear of any girl’s schools
hahahaha, he’s got high charisma and being an elf he’s an attractive young boy, he may have to avoid towns entirely 😛
Has to use the tentacles to keep the mobs at bay?
It’s more about his bloodline making him… possibly tempted 😛
Oh my gaaawd why aren’t we talking about Dragon’s Dogma Online because Dragon’s Dogma was a pretty cool guy
The best part about Dragon’s Dogma was when I got to play with Nob’s Bobbies.
Bobbies was the best pawn ever. *nods in agreement with self*
EDIT: Anyway in regards to the actual game. It looks kinda interesting, not sure if I like the idea of it being turned into an MMO because the pawn system was a pretty cool guy but I will give it a go when it’s released.
I’m keen. My main Pawns were my own creation “Destructor” the enormous muscle bound oaf with a deep voice and “Peck” jimu’s creation, he was the complete opposite of mine, really short and a high pitched voice, complimented eachother perfectly. I’ll be keeping a close watch for that one.
https://twitter.com/hermitdc/status/561001641403355136
Life is Strange is available on Australian PSN now. A bit pricey, though. $10 more than it is on Steam. Which I justified cause I had some leftover credit from the credit Shane gave me for my birthday. Thanks again, buddy! 😀 Really felt like playing something on PS4, too! 🙂
Thirty bucks is a bit steep for an episodic game I haven’t even seen a review for, so I’m gonna hold off for now. Hope you enjoy it, man! Let me know what you think!
Yeah, taking a bit of a leap of faith here. Either way, no regrets. I’ll let you know how it is!
Ooh, I thought this was PC only, keep us posted. I’m trying to find more games that aren’t “go here, kill that, collect this, repeat”.
I really need to get a PC soon, consoles seem to be churning out a lot of similar stuff, I need diversity dammit, that’s why I’m not a master racist or console snob.
Yeah, all week I’ve been feeling like playing Fahrenheit on PS4 and then they reveal it’s PC only. *shakes fist* So this plays in a similar way and I’m psyched. 😀
It’s the sort of game I like, but from the gameplay video I watched it doesn’t appear to be particularly well written, so I think I’ll hold off unless peoples general review consensus is that it’s amazing.
I’m actually finding it pretty great. There’s some clunky dialogue and use of cringe worthy teen speak like ‘hella’ but I’m really liking it so far. 🙂
It was kind of funny, I flicked through a review and it complained about some lines, and was like “as a thirty year old man I don’t think teens talk like that.” And it’s like, well, I talk like that some of the time, I know I’m not a teen, but I’m pretty sure I’ve used every single instance of “teenspeak” that was in the game multiple times.
Not with anywhere near that frequency though.
Oh, wait, not the skater chat. But, I skiied with a teenage skater many moons ago, and he did sound like that.
So, now that I think about it, they’re probably just five years off with their teen speak. Do children even speak these days? I assume the youths all communicate via phone telepathy.
DC, I’ve seen you post about this game I think about 50 million times. No amount of mass media advertising will make me wilt against my goal of saving money, no matter how much they pay you man I wont do it.
I WON’T DO IT DAMNIT.
I just went on Steam and bought it, you are an enabler my friend. Plain and simple.Hahaha! You’ve done well. I loved it. I hope you do too, buddy>
Huh, McDonald’s is going to start selling tubs of its Big Mac special sauce next week.
Now we can make big macs that are actually big.
And with beef that isn’t as fatty as theirs \o/
Straws are still free, right?
Reminds me before Epic Meal Time was the brand they are now, they used to go in to their local maccas in Canadaland and get a big soft drink cup of it for their creations on their show, was amusing they could just do that..
Considering Nando’s have been doing that with their Peri-Peri sauce, I’m not surprised.
Now I eagerly await when KFC starts selling its 11 herbs and spices.
Salt, pepper, 9 other herbs & spices. You are most welcome.
INSIDER KNOWLEDGE?!
Shh, don’t tell anyone or they’ll lock me up and torture me CIA style.
Currently having a mental image of you locked in a dark room with one light, tied to a chair and being savagely beaten by Col. Sanders.
and his guards are all in KKK garb, right?
Nobody does chicken like the colonel.
nobody, you little punk
Didn’t the KFC secret recipe leak a couple of years ago?
Well it’s basically been ‘leaked’ for years since they have to publish the nutritional information for it.
To pre-order GTA V for PC or not to, that is the question.. I want the bonus in game cash, but also i’m pre-ordering something that may not work well on my rig D=
Does Smash still have the Tournament Mode like they added to Melee? I can’t even remember if it was in Brawl. I hardly played that one at all.
Not in Wii U version.
Kindalame. I like the idea of doing a mass amiibo tournament, but having to do it manually requires effort.
I think it’s supposed to be added in at some point… who knows when 😀
So I’ve just been invited to a friend’s place tonight where the intention is to battle Pokemon. I could just fight him over Internet but this seems much cooler.
Now should I be a jerk and ask for a gym badge if I beat him? 😛
No, but you’re entitled to half of his money.
Pokemon – Providing a legal way of mugging other people
Mugging people after legalised cockfighting
Nostalgia overload!
A mate told me to listen to a song, it pretty much sums up my childhood. Dude raps about all kinds of stuff I grew up with, cartoons, TV shows, snacks, places. Nostalgia is weird it’s like happiness overshadowed by sadness. 😀 😐 :'( 😀
who is it?
Called a remote supplier in front of a customer to confirm stock of a remote. They said no worries. Customer orders and pays.
Order one through my head office and they respond supplier doesn’t carry them any more.
I wonder if they even bothered asking or if it was too much trouble. Now I’m in an awkward position.
Can you push back on head office, based on the convo you had?
We’re one of those companies where head office can do no wrong and if they somehow do it must be our fault.
Edit: I ordered some medallions for a customer once and they arrived thrown in a box with no packing completely scratched, chipped and unsaleable. Rang head office to complain and they said it was the customers fault for not spending more money.
do they handle your invoicing?
Ayup.
Ergh. That’s buuuuuuuuuuulllllllshiiiit
Hey @janexo!
Hi hi hi hi hi.
*flails arms*
Dear Game Developers:
You know, when I started seeing the appearance of Chromatic Aberration in games that came out last year (and there were undoubtedly ones before then that had it), I cheered. Because it’s a cool effect when lightly used. Brings out the highlights on bright things in Destiny, helped with Alien Isolation’s retro charm. All cool.
But could we like, turn it down now? Lords of the Fallen’s was so bad that I had to turn it off, the intro of AssCreed Liberation HD (which is fairly old now, but shh) felt like it was giving me a headache, and Life is Strange’s would look better at like, 50% strength. This isn’t like Bloom back in 2004. You can’t just shove it in your game. Bandwagons are bad, mmkay?
Good, good, I’m glad we had this chat.
God you’re a fucking nerd, Blaghs.
The which now? I’ve only seen it in terms of distortion correction for games running in Rift mode, haven’t heard of it outside of that.
Okay, worst example? Lords of the Fallen.
Caused by the light spectrum being warped non-uniformly by a lens (I didn’t know there was a correction for Rift mode stuff, I’ll need to look at that).
Tried going into more detail but I was boring even myself…
Uh… what?
Like… what’s the context for that effect? That’s not how the game permanently looks is it? It looks like it’s running in anaglyphic 3D mode, but I forgot to bring my red/cyan glasses with me.
For Rift things it’s not necessary to use it, but because you have the lenses distorting the image it means that things end up slightly off because each of the subpixels are sitting in different positions, so objects can get the whole kind of red shift/blue shift effect going on at the sides. The downside to turning it on is you need to sample the texture three times instead of just one when running the distortion shader, so it could impact performance.
It’s sort of hard to see in the squashed version Photobucket gives you (bastards) so zooming might be required, but this is a screenshot of my test program I used back in college when I enabled it. And questioned the accuracy of my results, because the blue was waaaaay away from the red and green.
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y260/Gooky/Rift/ChromAb1.png
That’s what the edge of the screen looks like, obviously it’s less pronounced (presumably not at all visible) at the centre.
Basically, the effect is creating the error that that filter corrects for, since a single fixed lens is likely to cause the issue, particularly if it has a wide distortion (like that in the Rift).
I also get the effect a lot on my long focus lens (http://i.imgur.com/hCcW7ik.jpg), though that’s mainly because it’s very cheap, and it’s bad at focussing.
So that’s a permanent effect for the whole game, not just some kind of temporary status thing?
That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard of.
Or make it easy to disable. It was fine in Outlast, or any game where the protagonist sees the world through a hand-held camera, but… outside that it seems out of place. Looking at footage of Dying Light makes me glad it’s fairly easy to remove.
Yeah, apparently LotF didn’t add an option to remove it for a few patches, so I’m very glad I picked it up fairly late. And I do like the effect, really, I just think it needs to be toned the shit down.
My legs and arse are so freakin sore. Way too much running around yesterday.
Running…
Sure thing…
Ok, mostly walking.
But there was some running.
Thanks, Nintendo.
Amiibos! Next gen Wii Fit! HOW FAR DOES THIS CONSPIRACY GO!
This far.
No.
this far
Ha. My bank really likes making sure I like being with them and that they are giving me good customer service. Yep, no fees and a free visa debit card, can’t complain there!
Who’s this guy?
Not sure if serious..
I don’t get the reference in your username
Some store clerk at a place I was purchasing goods in exchange for money asked me for my name so he could pop it on the receipt, I spelt it out for him and that’s what he came up with, when I noticed I found it amusing..
Didn’t get anywhere close to my first name, surname he started off okay then went downhill fast. He even repeated each letter back to me as he typed it out and it was correct so I dunno 😛
I went to bed last night at just after 12, and then slept to 4 in the afternoon. I don’t know how that happened. Pretty annoying because I’ve missed out on a day and now I’ll probably be awake all night.
The little I’ve played of Life is Strange so far is amaaaazing. I love it. Better than Telltale for me. Very Quantic Dreamy. (Obviously after saying that, your mileage will vary. :P) Going to play more later when it’s dark.
It’s not perfect, some of the dialogue is clunky (and feels like adult writers trying to talk like teens) but they’ve nailed the atmosphere and sense of place. I’m in love. <3
Overall, I enjoyed it. There were a few quibbles I want ironed out (some sound errors, the lip synch, the way it crashed when I hit print screen, and not that Steam’s loading it right now, but this mirror/portal to another world).
But I give it three and a half stars, looking forward to what happens.
Yeah, I can see some flaws but I’m finding them easy to overlook just cause I really like being in the world. I’m enjoying meeting the ensemble and getting a feel for the place. Like how it gives you time to explore and has things to look at. Gives the world texture. 🙂 I can definitely sense that it’s not a game for everyone. 🙂 Haven’t encountered any glitches yet on PS4. Taking my time though.
Remember Me felt like this beautiful world you could look at but not touch, it’s just nice to be able to interact with EVERYTHING. XD
I accidentally a meme. http://cheezburger.com/8435273728/video-games-another-way-to-use-your-amiibo
I saw that on bookface earlier!
It’s kind of weird.
Not sure if any of you ever listened to Weekend Confirmed, or read his work, but I just found out Andrew Yoon passed away today. Really sad about that – he was a lovely addition to WC with his funny voice and seemed genuinely funny and inspiring.
Oh man, really? I hadn’t seen that news at all, just a cryptic tweet about him from Jeff Cannata that I had no context on, assumed he’d just changed jobs or something. That really sucks.
@dc @transientmind @dkzeitgeist @SerNobulus
Would you guys be keen to hit up The Dirty Bandit Bar for dinner? It’s where I got this http://instagram.com/p/tKc7hBGFsI/
I’m keen. I’ll go where you guys go. Looks amazing, though.
Sounds good.
Actually, never mind. It’s currently closed for renovations.
I see how it is 🙁
Edit: according to their facebook they were closed for a few days back in October last year.. Nothing since then though?
Knew I was forgetting some one D’oh.
I rang them to make a booking and they’re not reopening until next week.
Oh boo 🙁 They suck then!
Got any other good places to get the foods in your locale?
Plans for the weekend:
– Finish Shadow of Mordor
When I last played, which I think was Monday, I felt like I was stuck and just couldn’t figure out a way to turn the last of the captains to my side or kill them and raise a replacement. He has a combination of followers and skills which mean I get murdered in seconds. However it’s hard to tell if the reason I felt stuck was that I suck, or because it was 3am and I was exhausted. So going to give it another tilt, as I’d really like to basically be done with the game and able to move on.– More of Danganronpa 2
I got a bit further in a couple of nights ago, into chapter 2 now. There’s some additions to the trial systems that I absolutely loathe, especially that dumb cut-down-their-remarks bullshit and their godawful rhythm game has gotten even worse. I do like the addition of the thing where you can use evidence to agree with a statement instead of contradict. The cast is growing on me a bit now too. Seems like they’ve put a bit more thought and backstory into a lot of them, where in the first game several were just sort of there and didn’t have any major depth or secrets or anything. This might be an incorrect impression in the end though. But I want to play more.– Continue preparation for the next event in Kantai Collection
I’m currently running on the assumption that the event will be starting next weekend, as they’re on a bi-weekly cycle for updates usually and the last update which added Hatsushimo’s K2 upgrade was last week. The next update will apparently add limited-time valentines lines to several of them, so assuming it goes for two weeks like normal, this would mean it gets turned on a week before valentines and turned off the weekend after, which seems about right. Latest teases from the devs are that the rewards will include a new Carrier that ‘follows Hiryuu’s path’ which has to be an Unryuu-class, probably Amagi but maybe Katsuragi, a new submarine that does not have the ‘I’ designation (speculation is that it could be Ro-500, which was a sized and renamed German U-boat) and a new type of ship, a Practice Cruiser, which seems to suggest the Katori-class cruisers will be implemented.As far as prep goes, I’m currently close to resource cap on fuel and ammo and have good bauxite stores, so that’s good. Instant-repair bucket stockpiles are already up to 96, they’d gotten as low as 4 when I got back into the game a few weeks ago. Another week should see me about the 130-140 mark which should be heaps. I’ve also made a lot of headway toward Kai-2 remodels. Kirishima currently is sitting at 74/75 for her Kai-2, so that should happen during PVP exercises on the weekend. She’s sort of an incidental, I noticed she was close to level so started using her. Myoukou is one of my two focuses, but has a high remodel level (70). Currently at 62, because I’m not using her as flagship for the 50% bonus. If I was, I think she’d be closer. The bulk of my focus has been on Ushio, who’s currently sitting at 57/60. Turns out that the hit-and-miss power leveling technique I’d been using for her which worked well for getting Sendai up to 60 last week isn’t particularly effective for destroyers, and there’s a better way to do it. Going to investigate that this weekend and hopefully finish her off. She’ll be the third Kai-2 Destroyer in my arsenal. I’m also giving some serious thought toward boosting up some of my existing event mainstays, as I feel like I need all my Destroyers above 50, just in case. That’ll mean Shimakaze (47), Hibiki (47), Yukikaze (41) and Murasame (40) need to be run through the same power leveling system and that will take a while. I had been intending to also look toward getting an extra cruiser or destroyer up into the high levels at some point (aside from Hibiki, who prior to deciding to get Ushio ready had been my next goal). Current options are Fubuki, Ayanami, Hatsuharu, Z1 or Z3. Out of them, Hatsuharu is the easiest but also the least useful and Z1/Z3 need blueprints for upgrading, so as a long term goal I’ll probably work on Fubuki, though it does mean seeing a lot of her extremely ugly low-level artwork, or Ayanami. Other options would be to try and push Amatsukaze, Akizuki or Harusame up to high levels – they lack Kai-2 upgrades but they do get artwork changes at Kai, and stats-wise they’re on par with the Kai-2s. I’m not feeling like I’m short on cruisers any more – I have three solid light cruisers and have about four heavy cruisers at good levels, especially if I can finish off Myoukou. From the looks of it though, I’d be well served getting Prinz Eugen (or ‘Pudding’ as I found out she’s been nicknamed recently – prince->purinsu->purin (Japanese creme caramel pudding)) up to a high level because she’s got solid stats and a ton of rare equipment and is also super cute, but I’d have to get her from around 10 up to 45 and I don’t think I have time. Likewise I could also work on Chikuma, Ashigara or Nachi but Ashigara and Nachi need their Kai-2 at 65 to really be worth it, and Chikuma is 70 and a blueprint, plus if I want another aviation cruiser to go with Suzuya and Tone I’d be better with Kumano or Mikuma. I’m also thinking that once Kirishima is at Kai-2, I need to work Bismark up to her 3rd Remodel at 75, though this will require the two blueprints I have in stockpile. Should be able to get a third on the weekend (extra areas reset!), but still…
Finally, also am one more boss fight away from clearing world 4 and finally opening world 5 to run around in. Really want to get there, as I’ve been hoping to get Taigei for a while (she’s become my white whale) and she drops at 5-2 much easier than the world 2 bonus level where I’d been previously hoping to encounter her. I’m going to have to revisit my fleet composition though unfortunately. Got to the boss after easily clearing her 3 times (the pre-boss node is harder than the boss!) and on that 4th go the formation had changed, extra fortresses added and I didn’t have enough air power to get superiority. Came agonizingly close to sinking her in the end – went to night battle and had Yuudachi not taken a hit from her I’d have sunk her, but ended up on 18/150 HP. Very frustrating. So plan is to re-evaluate the fleet, adjust some planes and have another go and hopefully success.
Re: Mordor
My advice:
target his followers separately before you challenge him. He shouldn’t have any loyal bodyguards when you face him down. Kill them, or if you can, turn them. Then use one of your existing warchiefs, and his entourage of bodyguards (of which he should have several also under your control) to attack this new warchief. You probably won’t even have to do anything beyond showing up.Yeah, that’s actually what I tried before I logged off. Couldn’t find two of them and the other one is in the middle of one of those annoying castles.
Like Finish Finish Shadows of Mordor, or are we talking 100%? I finished the game and thought I did OK with doing sidequests and finding stuff.
Nek Minit 39% completion after the story missions end!
Ideally all the story missions and all the forge-the-weapon missions and all the collectables. I’m only 2 artifacts away from having all of them and already found all the weirdo writing things.
Spoil me, what happens with the weirdo writing things?
There’s some dialogue bits and you get an achievement / trophy.
Got off to a good start re: the third thing there.
The better grinding method works crazily well, just have to rotate lots of ships. Turns out I don’t have very many light cruisers at good levels after all, actually considering doing some work with Agano or Yahagi at some point to pad things out a bit.Got Ushio to 60 and Kai-2 already \o/ She was the first ship I ever got as a drop in the game. Sadly, while her stats go up, she doesn’t get any good gear at Kai-2 and her art is a step backwards in cuteness. On the upside she doesn’t get a fright and scream when you enter the base any more.
Also finally got Kirishima to 75 and her Kai-2. Huge whack of resources to upgrade, and holy crap that’s taken a long time. I took a screenshot when I got her because she was my first Kongou-class – December 1, 2013. Holy shit. The reason is that she got her Kai-2 second-last and while I had focused on her initially, I decided to work on Hiei first since she had an actual Kai-2, and the Haruna-Hiei combo worked really well so they got pretty high, then Kongou got her Kai-2 and I worked her up to it after Hiei, then by the time I did that, Haruna’s was out and I had to get her ridiculously high for it, so now it was Kirishima’s turn. Bismarck next for my battleship group.
After getting Ushio up I realized I had sent all my lowbie Destroyers that I wanted to start working on to Kai-2 on expeditions, so I got Amatsukaze from 10 to 20 and her Kai remodel (no Kai-2) so she can start working her way up from there. Gets a high-end steam turbine and a super-rare type-3 SONAR which is very useful, so worth it for that as well. Then I took Hibiki up from 47 to 50, and started work on Murasame. Will get her from 40 to 50, then Yukikaze 41->50, then Shimakaze 47->50, and then I’ll probably look at Fubuki as my long-term goal. In the mean time I’m thinking that Myoukou will take flagship duties for PVP and get the XP bonus, really want to see her to 70 before the event if I can as I realized I don’t really have two high-level high-performance standard Heavy Cruisers – I have Atago and Choukai but they’re below 50, so really only Haguro. Not a good thing going into the event, could be a gap. More likely to still find myself one short on Destroyers, but at least I know I can get one up 5-10 levels pretty fast if that happens. And assuming I finish the plan to get those extra 3 to 50, that’ll at least be 7 prepared. Really would feel happier with an eighth but don’t think there’s time to get them up particularly high. That said, the reason Ushio got my attention when I started back into the game is that I used her in the last event so she got 5-6 levels up on the competition. Seemed to go okay in the combined fleet.
3DS PEOPLE!
@powalen – this was hard to explain on Twitter but this is what I want to do:
At the moment I’m using a 4GB SD card in my 3DS XL. I have a spare 32GB MicroSD card and normal sized SD adapter thing for it, so I’m thinking of doing a PC copy/paste from my current card to the new card and use it for my 3DS XL (although I hear using an adapter can be a bit dodgy and could mess up saves D:)
What I’m wondering is whether I can just straight up pop the SD card from my 3DS XL into the N3DS and then THE END. I saw a vid of the transfer and it seems to delete the data on the receiving 3DS’ SD card but I didn’t see a swap SD card option on a video I saw.
It’s been a few years since I did a transfer myself so I can’t remember if it’s there or not :(. Did you do a SD swap thing? Any peeps know if it’s possible?
I’ll probably just upgrade my SD card anyway, but if something goes wrong and I lose my saves I blame you!
When you transfer it will transfer the SD card while at it. If you want a bigger one put it into the new one first then do the transfer.
I think you can opt out of the wireless SD card transfer and do it all through PC.
Problem is I don’t have the New 3DS yet (waiting for the MH4U one) so I planning on just living with a full SD card for now and then putting in a new (bigger) SD card into the N3DS. But being able to use the new bigger SD card now and then straight away for the N3DS would be ideal.
Apparently there’s some fugly STEAM game’s demo I need to play
See the “Copy via PC” bit http://www.nintendo.com.au/support/index.php?action=help&helpcatID=373
Transfer to the N3DS from an old3DS have a few options this time because of the change from SD to microSD. You probably saw one of the Wireless SD transfer options (which does format the SD after the data is moved to the microSD)
I’ve become addicted to Tecmo Super Bowl 2015…
I should really install those ‘floating’ shelves I bought.. Might then have a place to put my books ha.
Ugh. God damn it.
Haha what a homemaker.
Pfft. Handyman thank you very much.
If we have the technology for floating shelves, surely hoverboards are just around the corner.
Well it is 2015, they have until October 22nd!
@batguy were you at Spawn Point tonight? I thought I maybe saw you but it was kinda dark so I couldn’t tell.
Nope. He was at work (and work beer’o’clock) until lateish today.
That’s what they always tell the little lady when they sneak off to play video games
He doesn’t have to sneak off! In fact, he’ll be in trouble if he *doesn’t* play Captain Toad with a certain small person tomorrow.
Was there with @jackunit13 on Thursday!
Played the free demo of Life is Strange. I can’t decide whether I want to keep going or not. There’s a considerable lack of polish to the dialogue, the character models, the lip synching, the voice acting, and there’s cliches and outdated turns of phrase in abundance… and yet, somehow, it managed to be kind of compelling.
Will probably pick it up if the season pass comes down in price a bit.
It was like, $18 on steam when I bought it (so approximately eleventybillion Australian, given where our dollar is), which is a pretty good price for it, I think.
It’s $29.95 for the season on PSN. I don’t PC game or Steam, so I’ll be waiting for a price drop.
I paid the same as @blaghman and I agree that’s a pretty fair price. (Edit – ninja’d)
I just finished playing the first chapter and I’m pretty happy with it. The lip syncing bugged me but overall pretty good.
At the end, some of the choices it reported I had made were not what I actually did in game though which is odd, but doesn’t really bother me.
It said I let a bird die. I had no idea there was a bird. I’m a monster. 😛I thought I saved the bird but apparently not. And I definitely watered the plant dammit!The cliches kind of appealed to me in a way. It’s very trope-y. I’m not sure if it’s intentional, but I kind of liked the earnest take on it. Felt like every high school story ever told, but not in a bad way. I’m not sure I’m making sense. I didn’t notice the lip syncing until Blaghs mentioned it. *shakes fist* 😛
I just love the style, though. The way the credits were done in that corridor. The attention to detail in the surrounds. The ‘hand drawn’ look of the interface.
@benwhite
I’ve got a notification that doesn’t seem to want to go away.
It’s still showing up, despite already being viewed…
Pretty sure he left Allure 😛
Months and months and months ago. 😛
There used to be a message to contact the remaining dudes in the F12 Chrome console thing but I can’t find it again 😀
I know Rob is one of them!
Aww, he’s the only one I could remember… 🙁
@robhussey
I have one for a reply to a comment on an article that was deleted. Can’t get to the article to view the comment so I guess it’s just stuck there forever. 1 is the new 0.
Wait, didn’t they add a “mark all comments read” function at some point?
Oh, turns out that the button doesn’t work so I can pretend like I knew that it was there all along.
Finished first ep of Life is Strange. A solid 4/5 from me.
Felt more like a television show than any of Telltale’s efforts. Mystery. Nice ensemble of characters. An established setting. Really like it. I’m also a huge fan of being able to look at things in game. Max has plenty to say about everything. There’s moral dilemmas, there’s tough choices to make (literally replayed one scene five times and am still conflicted) and a beautiful art direction.
Then again this type of game style I absolutely love. Up there with my favourite genres. This endorsement comes with disclosure that I’m a Quantic Dream fanboy from way back too.
Next ep is March and I can’t wait!
Which scene? Hiding in the cupboard, or a different one? I figured that all responses were bad, so I hid in the cupboard, and Chloe was like “yeah, you did the smart thing” and then in the next scene berated me for it. MAKE UP YOUR MIND.That’s the scene. First attempt I fumbled at hiding. Second I came out of closet. *cough* Lied for friend. Third I tried to get rid of pot, didn’t leave cupboard. Even though it’s going to come back and haunt Max I ended up saying the pot was mine. I had a photo from Kate and David on campus, though. That shut him up real fast. 🙂 I went with the option where friend reveals gun, though. I feel like that’s important knowledge to have.Basic mechanic spoilers:
I just love the idea that you’re encouraged to replay scenes based on new found knowledge. 🙂Nice. There were some side things I missed, so I’m definitely going to have to replay through it at some point.I liked how it forced you to question morality of changing events. I thought discovering the pregnancy test was important. Girl might be mad at me, but I’ll also be a confidant later on if she needs to talk. It was tough to leave some events unchanged.Oh, also, it made me want some Rube Goldberg style puzzles. That would be rad.Yeah, you saw some potential with getting the tools off the washing machine. Was simple and straight forward, but more puzzley than Telltale’s been in years. 😛Well, Telltale puzzles are usually a matter of whether you want SAD EMOTIONS or OTHER SAD EMOTIONS.Hey guys!!
Missed you all, hope you all had wonderful Christmases and New Years
Last Song Played Game!!! (currently playing actually)
Shells by HEALTH
Also, I found this amazing video, check it out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyh3C1xDT3Y
Hello person I never really see around here! 😀
Hope you had a good Christmas and New Years too 🙂
Last played song:
One for the Road – Arctic Monkeys
Yeah I dropped off the map a while back and stick my nose in where it isn’t wanted from time to time 😀
My YouTube history informs me it was Scott Joplin – The Entertainer.
I had to laugh.. Just saw that Willie Nelson has a signature “herb grinder” the advertorial implies it’s for herbs that you would eat, the hashtags imply otherwise haha.
Argghh…. I can’t find my Gamecube controllers… or my Gamecube… D:
EDIT: Found ’em. 🙂
I kinda forgot that Pure Pwnage was finally doing the movie to end the web series. Not sure how such a show would go over in 2015 with the gaming community, but I remember in 2004 it was the shit. I missed the web series when they got the TV show, which really sucked compared.. Oh well at least my 2 favourite web shows get a come back in 2015!
Started Lords of the Fallen today. Seems pretty solid so far, though it seems extremely forgiving when compared to a Souls game. First boss presented no issues whatsoever.
Threw my amiibo’s into a 20 minute match in Smash 4 against some level 9 CPUs to get them to level 50…
I was playing Halo 4 (MCC) and on that Mammoth mission, half the map just isn’t there and the Mammoth keeps driving on and starts flying before it disappears… So I can’t seem to finish the mission without restarting 🙁
YAY HALO 😛
XBAWX WON! 😛
METAL GEAR RISING 2*.
STRAP IN, WE’RE GOING IN HARD.
*maybe.
What do you mean the Wii U won’t recharge my Pro controller while it’s turned off?
Why couldn’t it just use the same plug as the gamepad.
I know.
That sucks. 🙁
I bought a $4 third party charging stand from EB at one point that piggybacks the power plug, so it charges both the main gamepad and the pro controller without the wii u having to be turned on. Best cheap EB purchase ever.
I initially bought one of those thinking it’d work one my original Wii a few months back, only to end up returning it for a refund…
Now I wish I still had it… 🙁
Buy one of those phone chargers with the removable USB cables. Have one under my couch I can pull out and plug any charger cable into it. Super handy
On my last count I have 9 USB wall chargers that I’ve somehow accumulated over the years without even trying. They’re pretty damn useful though, just find one of them!
I’ve got… one. Which came with my current phone. It is hooked up behind my bed in my room, which is too far to reach from here and a PITA to get to anyway 😛
Max is scratching my 1-UP t-shirt…
He wants to increase his number of lives to 10…
Hi Secret SanTAY! Thank you for my lovely lego present! I’m sorry my local post office is staffed by jerks.
Warning: Australia Post Parcel lockers are a waste of time.
Lies…?
I’ve never had a parcel Locker delivery go wrong in the last 18 months (or more?)
You are lucky then. I’ve only been using it since december. I’ve had 2 snarky letters attached to parcels, one parcel almost lost because it was shoved right at the back of a bottom row locker with another parcel in front, and one sent back to the sender. No thanks.
D=
As in the Post Office is putting the snarky letters on your parcels? Or senders who are clueless?
Ladies at my post office will even leave a parcel in an extra day if pick up expiry is before 9am…
Post office sticking letters on the parcels if they don’t meet the exact conditions for parcel locker terms and conditions.
Sportsball!
We’ve won the Asian Cup! 2-1CARN Straya!!
Looks like Gollum is no longer premier of Queensland…
yeah.. we replaced one dipshit with another!
Went and saw American Sniper. It was certainly a movie.
Fresh refresh material pls
You should Draw Something.
In case it isn’t obvious, I have no idea what I’m doing.Let’s all draw Mara monsters! 😀
Mara the cock-chariot, taking the kids to school.
This image will be available for $23,000 at my private sales in July.
I’mma eat breakfast (lunch?) first, then draw my rendition of Mara too! 😀
Drawing this Mara sketch is making me feel all kinds of gross, Blaghs, hahaha! :O
I just channelled my inner thirteen year old boy, and got it done as quickly as possible.
Blaghman, help me, I’m going way too overboard with this sketch! :O
I tried drawing Manny but then gave up 😀
Greenius stinks.
A good stink or bad stink?
Depends if you like the smell of Greenius’ natural musk.
I do 😉
Now I don’t!
@mrtaco
How’s your Maple Leaf Ragging going? I’ve probably learnt 3/5 of the song now. Just playing/learning for a coupla minutes every now and then.
I’ve just jumped back on now for the first time in a while, actually.
Maple Leaf’s fine, that one seems to be permanently ingrained in my mind no matter how long I leave it for. I was working Kismet last time though, but had too poor a level of concentration to not get frustrated with it so left it for a while. So going’s slow. Still, I’ve got the first two sections more or less memorised, the third (single reprise of the first) isn’t quite sticking but am working on the fourth at the moment.
Well that was retarded.
@greenius
Maybe-date recap!
Started out as just hanging out really. Sitting around talking, getting to know each other a bit better.
We met up at 2pm, then before we knew it it was 8pm already! :O
(good sign though, me thinks)
We decided that we may as well get dinner together since it was a lot later than we had both realized, so I took us to get Pizza and garlic bread (as he said he felt like garlic bread earlier).
Ended up watching TV together for a while afterwards.
He kept moving his hand closer to mine, so we ended up holding hands for a bit, hahaha! (it was super cute)
Then he kissed me on the cheek, hahahahaha! (again, super cute) :3
We ended up falling asleep together watching TV :3
I think it’s safe to say it accidentally ended up as a kind of date :3
Edit: NOOOOOOOOO!!! EMBARRASSING PAGE-GET! :O :O :O :O :O :O :O :O :O
<3 Awww, good date right there. Congrats, Stewie. 🙂
You’re in, son. Go for it
*pssst!*
*I think he likes you*
I hope when he said he felt like garlic bread you said “You don’t look like it”
…unless he does?No, we just made Scott Pilgrim jokes (since we both love Scott Pilgrim :3)
“Bread makes you fat?!”
*sings* Lion’s got a boyfriend!
OooOOOoooOOOooo!
Not yet 😛
Though we’re organising a second date…
*blushes*
PC Parts, does this look OK?
http://au.pcpartpicker.com/p/bXwGwP
(See reply below for more information)
I’ve wanted to build a PC for a while, so I finally decided to get some parts. I already have a monitor, keyboard and mouse, and my educational institution has Windows 7 and 8 available to download, so I’m thinking of just using them.
I’d heard that The Witcher 3 has some beefy specs, so I decided to make sure this PC could run it (I used a reccomended processor and graphics card I found on a website listing the specs needed, as they also had their own specs that were between the minimum and reccomended). Coincidentally, I’d used the processor in an idea I had for an earlier build. My reasoning is that if it can play the Witcher 3, it can probably play most other games at a decent resolution.
I couldn’t find the RAM near me, so I’ve decided to use this one instead.
I also couldn’t find the network adapter, so would this one be OK? (This is what a wifi adapter is, right? I don’t know where to plug it in, does it go on the motherboard or the front of the tower?)
It’s going to be my first time building a PC, and I’m not sure whether I’m going to overclock yet. Additionally, I can live without an SSD. I’m kind of on a budget and I would rather have space compared to speed.
Run, run away from a Seagate HDD!
And I know you said you can live without an SSD, but I’m here to tell you that once you’ve had one you’ll soon realise you shouldn’t have to live without one 😛
What’s wrong with Seagate? I’ve never had a single issue with their drives. Saying that my personal preference is WD..
I’m judging purely off their portable HDD’s but I’ve had 1 that died in a year and know 2 other people who had ones that died just as quick. IMO I think they’re horribly unreliable and when you have brands like WD and Samsung there’s no point in buying a Seagate one.
*pats 6 year old WD Passport*
*pats 12 year old Seagate*
The ol’ 80GB barracuda is still going strong 😛 Not that it gets as much use over the last few months, but still…
I have a 160 & 250gb seagate drives sitting here, still work and would be going on 10 years old 😛
I’ll admit I was purely going for the price and it’s storage.
Have you got any recommendations at a comparable price and storage size?
Keep this in mind… http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2015/01/why-you-should-buy-4-tb-hard-drives-and-skip-the-3-tb-ones/
All I can really suggest is a WD Blue/Black or a Samsung (do they still exist? I can’t find any :S) drive. Not really sure on anything specific for the same price, sorry.
If it’s just for storage and going to be on all the time, a WD Red may be better value since they’re designed exactly for that.
Yeah, just found a comparable WD drive.
Better safe than sorry!
Is there a motherboard you can find that has wifi on board? Also… Do you need wifi? Can you run a length of cat6 from router to box?
nah, the router’s in a completely different room from the PC, so nothing’s going to make it.
I’ll try to find an integrated motherboard though.
Never stopped me… Lived in a townhouse and ran a length of cat5 along a skirting board, up the wall, across a bulk head, upstairs, through the door to my desktop.
Theoretically you can run up to 100m before needing any more equipment.
you can prob save yourself some money on the PSU and go for the EVGA 750w 80+ Bronze at 105… great Psu
also id be going for an intel build (i5 4590 for an extra $20), GigabyteH97M-Gaming-3 (extra $15)
amd cant compare to intels single core performance…. very important in a gaming rig.
also go for internal wireless network card (PCI-E about $20) as itll keep ur usb’s free. just make sure you have a spare port. the mobo i recommended does, and will also allow you to sli 2 x 280 graphic cards if you find over time that one isnt packing enough grunt.
also sacrifice whatever you have to, BUT MAKE SURE YOU GET AN SSD FOR YOUR OS!!! i can not describe the difference….
In other news, this is definitely the most detailed penis-tentacle-spider monster I’ve ever drawn…
Cc @blaghman @greenius @jimu
My inner thirteen year old is so proud of you.
I spent way too long drawing that, thing, and now I feel all kinds of nasty :’O
I blame you! >:(
You were the one who suggested we draw it. I was happy sitting back and doing fan art.
Noice
Looks too much like an actual deep-sea crustacean than a giant dong demon.
8/10.
What the shit did I just stumble upon?
Hahahahaha! It’s from a twitter conversation! 😛
I’m not a weirdo, swearsies! :’O
It was a drawing based off of this monster, which is from a game (Shin Megami Tensei) 😛
@gingerchris86
@liondrive
I liked First Light, too! I didn’t bother maxing out all the Challenge Rooms, but I did everything else in the game, and thought it was pretty good fun.
I thought it was pretty great!
The challenge rooms are a bit ‘eh’, but it’s something to do after you finish.
Gotta get those skill points!
Gotta unlock those unleashed abilities! :O
Not sure why others didn’t like it :\
Hey @dc have you begun watching season 2 of Helix yet?
OH! What do you think about the first season of Helix?
Give it a go, give it a miss?
I’m assuming because you’ve started watching season 02 that you like it then?
I think I’m enjoying the second season more than the first. there’s a lot wrong with the show, but there’s a lot right with it as well. It’s worth giving it a go for at least the first half of the first season to really get a feel for if it’s your kind of thing or not.
Nah, I gave up on that show, alas.
Oh really,I thought you liked it. I kind of hated it at first, but found it really compelling in the end. It’s obviously no Leftovers but still worth watching, I think.
I never got to the end. Just loved the atmosphere and potential but didn’t like what they were doing with it. I might catch up if it’s got a Strange endorsement. 😀
The second season has an outbreak of something different and is set somewhere different if that helps. Same people mostly, though.
@shane Because good things are never allowed to die peacefully, Achievement Hunter made a new heist.
Haha, that was a really good one. Thanks, man.
Haven’t seen it yet, I’m trying to re-watch a few first, but internet troubles have made this a monolithic task.
Ah, Soda water, Portello cordial, and Bacardi Rum…
A fantastic nightcap.
Goodnight, TAY.
Hola mi amigos! It is I Senor Monkey.
It has been a long time between drinks my friends. Anything interesting happen while I was gone?
Also, Dying Light’s a pretty cool guy.
Also also, who’s getting Evolve? *puts hand up*
EDIT:
IF YOU ARE READING THIS, YOU HAVE BEEN TRICKED INTO READING OLD TAY!
FOLLOW THE OTHER WHITE RABBIT!
https://www.kotaku.com.au/2015/02/talk-amongst-yourselves-313/comment-page-4/#comment-3183048
I may have forgotten the ip and stuff I wanted to jump on on the weekend but thought it might of been shut down
You may want to post this in new TAY. =P
doh!