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Be wary everyone – Murray lost last night and @markserrels might be grumpy! I was flicking between the tennis and the cricket – man did England play bad cricket!
We were fine in the first 25 overs of us bowling. Selective memory has forgotten everything after that point so by my reckoning we won the series 😛
That was a very odd tennis final.
That man needs some serious head training. There on a platter to be won when his opponent is ready to collapse, and he makes terrible choices and starts losing break points. Crazy.
BTW, talking about Murray, not @markserrels. I make no comments about the state of Mark’s head and the need for training it.
Good morning everyone *hugs for all*
Morning to you too! Be gentle with the hug though. Woke up this morning and my back is all messed up and hurty 🙁
Off to yoga with you 😛
heh yeah right… i think yoga would kill me right now! Doctors was necessary! Hopefully what he prescribed will take effect soon!
Try this stretch for your lower back (I’m guessing this is where it’s sore?), let your legs lean over and you keep them in the same position for 15 seconds. Repeat 3 times each side for pain relief and range of motion improvement:
http://www.physioadvisor.com.au/assets/256/images/12998256(400×400).jpg
actually it’s a combination of upper and nerve pain in my lower. It used to happen all the time years ago (the lower nerve pain) but when I changed the job I was doing, it eased off and went away. Whatever I pulled in my upper back this morning obviously set off the nerve pain again as well, but thankfully I know what I need to treat it, so went to docs and got me sorted. Just need to take it easy today and not move too much, and I should be right tomorrow. 🙂
Ok so no hard hugs for you. Hope it gets better soon 🙂
I wish for a hug but will infect anyone with my leaking nose
*puts on hazmat suit* “give us a hug!”
That’s all well and good for you, but what about the people around me on the train without hazmats? Actually, half of them sound sick too
It’s how the last of us started 😛
Hugs from all 86 naked gingers?
At the same time like a big group hug? Or are we forming like a line or something?
gigantic big group hug . well, more of a pile really :p
Morning all! Hope your weekends were just the ticket.
I’ve been working on the artbook that comes with Undad pledges of $10 or more. It’s going to be a bit of a monster, I think – somewhere between 250-300 pages in all likelihood.
Anyway, I was thinking about maybe including some sort of Q&A in there, and am inviting you to supply the Q. I may not end up running with it, but if you have any burning Q, feel free to ask me for A.
*scans for entrendre… system error*
In gaming news, I’ve progressed some distance in Lords of the Fallen. I can’t decide what to make of it. The boss battles involve a little more strategy and tactics than I’m used to employing in a Souls game (and some cheap one-hit kills and sudden mobs that are a bit frustrating).
Last boss I faced was the Worshiper, and I died at least six times to his huge explosive attack before I realised that you can take refuge in those archway things. Rather than feeling relieved to have figured it out, I was a bit annoyed by it, to be honest. The idea that you’re supposed to explore an area while a boss is attacking you is kind of absurd.Or maybe I’m just used to a more relaxed boss battle ala Zelda which will highlight any elements I need to prevail in a boss fight, or Souls, which lets me approach any fight in pretty much any way I want.
I’m also not a fan of bosses who periodically summon lesser enemies to swarm you during the battle (though I’ll admit this is a personal preference). This has happened in two out of the three boss fights I’ve been in. It’s often a tacit admission by the developers that the boss by himself is not that formidable an enemy… and I think that’s kind of the case here.
Oh! Also, there’s a new Game of Thrones Telltale chapter dropping tomorrow, I believe. I haven’t played the first one yet – it’ll be good to do the both of them back-to-back!
I haven’t kept up with reviews and don’t actually know what Lords of the Fallen plays like 🙁 I’m guessing though 3rd person action adventure/RPG?
It’s very much inspired by the Demons/Dark Souls games, and plays very similarly in a lot of ways. The boss battles deviate a bit from that, though, and seem to be more of a Dark Souls/Darksiders/Zelda hybrid.
Yes, I’ve got a burning Q for you.
Awesome.
Me too.
Amazing.
Cold still here, horrible and muggy in Brisbane. Stupid February
On the plus side, Sydney was great, Tiger Airways didn’t cancel or crash the plane (despite some dodgy veering left and right on the runway), the Asian Cup was brilliant, great atmosphere and even found myself cheering for the Aussies. It’s a sign I’m ready to take my citizenship test. Also, the people of QLD remembered reason and got rid of Campell Newman 😀
Finally, my room is now free for me to move into as my old housemate moved out. Only had time to move my bed and PC in though. With the A League tonight, no time to continue modding Skyrim :'(
That’s not Maple Leaf Rag!
Neither are you!
Downloaded metroid trilogy off the eshop, game refused to run from my external drive. Moved it to system memory and it ran fine. Changed hard drives and it made no difference. Tried it with smg 2 and had exactly the same problem!
Anyone else? Pretty sure my hardware is fine, it all checks out.
I’m planning on getting it in a few days, but will be using an external drive. Hope it works :\
Try a different USB port? I recall one of the two USB ports on the original Wii console not being compatible with external storage.
How good is it?
HOW GOOD IS IT!?
Even better than the disc version thanks to the faster loading at doors.
Mmmm, mmmm.
Sah gerd.
FOOTBALL.
AMERICAN FOOTBALL. WHAT WITH THE OCEAN EAGLES AND THE SONS OF THE PATRIOTS. IT’S GONNA BE A GLORIOUS GAME OF HANDEGG, FOLKS. IT’S BEEN A TUMULTUOUS ROAD TO THE SUPERB OWL, FOLKS; I THINK THERE WAS SOMETHING ABOUT… TESTICULAR CANCER OR WHATEVER, PEOPLE WERE TALKING ABOUT CHECKING OUT BALLS A LOT. GONNA BE INTERESTING, FOLKS, RIVER PENGUINS ARE SET TO TAKE THE CROWN AGAIN AND BE THE FIRST TWO-IN-A-ROW CHAMPIONS, SINCE, I DUNNO, 1987 OR SOME SHIT, I DIDN’T CHECK. FOR THE LA-LI-LU-LE-LO SIDE WE GOT TOM BRADY, WHO’S YUNNO, TOM BRADY, HE’S BEEN A ALRIGHT GUY FOR A WHILE BUT I THINK A SUPERB OWL WIN WOULD BE A VERY GOOD NOTCH ON HIS BELT. AND THEN FOR THE STREAM DODOS WE GOT “I’M HERE SO I WON’T GET FINED” AND I’VE HEARD OF RICHARD SHERMAN, THAT’S CERTAINLY A NAME.
….
FUCK IT, LET’S JUST WATCH THE HALFTIME SHOW AND THE COMMERCIALS.
THIS HAS BEEN A GUIDE TO FOOTBALL WITH SATURDAY. SUNDAY. WHATEVER THE FUCK.
Isn’t the superbowl just a reason to spend the day drinking beer and eating buffalo wings?
Also, The Puppy Bowl 😀
Puppy…Bowl?
HOLY GOOD LORD YES.
http://imgur.com/gallery/1LcnFUk
I have just died and gone to heaven.
Welcome, brother.
And? The real football grand final of your choice is just a reason to drink beer and have a BBQ and cry when your team loses/wins.
EDIT: Who am I kidding. It’s not just that. Depending on who’s playing, it’s also a matter of life or death.
There needs to be a reason to do that?
LET’S PLAY SOME FRIGGIN’ SPORTS BAAAAAAAALLLLLL.
ps – This is one of my favourite posts ever <3
Finally, the plot to Metal Gear makes sense, they were talking about owls, superb ones at that.
A month later and I am STILL THINKING ABOUT THIS POST. Bless you, @saturday
Just discovered the entirety of Hogan’s Heroes on YouTube. I haven’t yet finished with Dad’s Army, but it’s good to have something to watch when I’m done with it 😀
Hooogaaaannn!
😀
Bought my dad all of the seasons on DVD for his birthday a couple of years ago.
I SEE NOTHING, I KNOW NOTHING…!
Both are hilarious.
Hola Tay
Had a busy Saturday, quiet Sunday. On Saturday went up to Gawler to help a mate with his DIY patio, we had to take panels off the roof to install strengthening braces for the structure. After a long day up and down ladders (and me sunburning the back of my knees which is not fun) we went into the city to the Curious Squire, a James Squire owned pub, and then to see American Sniper, which was… ok, I guess, but I’m not sure I can recommend.
Yesterday I did pretty much nothing other than rewatch the Grand Budapest Hotel, which is still probably my favourite film from the last 12 months
A Monday morning question: I went to a branded pub, what other brands or concepts need to be a pub?
Kotaku AU Pub, the only pub that has more average customers during the weekdays than the weekends.
Where the bartender always greets you with “want some rye? Course ya do!”
Counter Meals Available:
Porridge
Oats
Also popcorn
And tears.
I’ve developed a rotten headcold because of glorious Melbourne’s shitty weather. Summer, my arse.
To balance it out though, I appear to have solved my PS4’s noise problems. I had it in the cabinet under my tv (doors always open and there’s a gap at the back of the cabinet too) on it’s side, which I’d thought would have been enough ventilation, but I was playing Never Alone on the weekend and was getting periods of noise with that too, so I moved it out of the cabinet onto a small side table and placed it flat.
Extensive playing of Dragon Age: Inquisition yesterday, the usual main culprit with this noisiness, has indicated that it seems to be no longer a problem, although I won’t say for sure until I get to Skyhold where it was usually the worst.
So I am guessing between the change of the way it’s sitting (which implies vibration??) and getting it out to have even more ventilation, fingers crossed this shouldn’t be an issue anymore.
Oh! My PS3 did that on the old setup & was extra loud with DVD.
New cabinet fixed that.
My PS3 is super noisy on its side and quiet when lying flat. Probably something simple like the fans go out of balance and vibrate when it’s standing up.
Students are back at school today, which means I actually have to do some work.
Urgh.
Roads. Urgh.
Where we’re going, we don’t need roads
On board the train, everyone.
Hatched a 6 IV Pokémon over the weekend.
This is my first perfect ‘mon. I’ve usually stopped at 5; I was just lucky to have the last two stats roll perfect at the same time.
This does mean that I have a few 4 and 5 IV Adamant, Huge Power, Marill with both Aqua Jet and Belly Drum available for trade for any Pokéfriends. No shinies were hatched, unfortunately.
Wouldn’t mind one at all! I’ve got a few nice breeding rejects to trade, including a few 6IV Buneary with 3 egg moves (managed to somehow get a 6IV one from the GTS so it’s just been pumping out 6IV babies like it’s nothing :P)
#proudfather
DON’T STOP NOW
Edit: ooh, yellow shiny. Maybe I could grab one to try for a shiny.
Yeah, Marill/Azumarill has a top tier shiny.
Europe’s new VAT started yesterday and the Europeans are not to happy..
Though our exchange rate is at 0.79AUD to 1USD, where’s there’s is 1.13Euro to 1USD. They had it pretty good this Far.
Morning puppies! Yesterday I got a little older, but more importantly, got way cooler, because I learned how to ride a motorcycle 😀
Happy birthday, Cool Jane!
Happy Birthday Jane!
Happy birthday!
Also, total badass with a motorcycle
Have you hassled some shopkeepers yet?
That’s the next lesson.
Happy birthday for yesterday, Jane. Unless you got older figuratively from some psychologically scarring trial by fire experience instead of birthday. Either way, sounds like an eventful weekend!
Yay for puppies, birthdays and motorcycles! \o/
Sounds like a great birthday. Happy belated Birthday o Queen of puppies and pumpkins! 😀
Puppies are the bomb!
Also happy birthday! and congratulations on now becoming a temporary Australian citizen with your new cool chick status!
Oh god. I’ve seen this show a few times, and I really like, it, but please – I do not understand the name! I’ve tried looking it up online, but it just goes over my head. Little help?
Haha. It’s actually from a clerk at Godfrey’s who misinterpreted my name when he asked for it to put on the receipt.. My name isn’t close to it, but you get that LOL. I even spelt it to him and he some how got this from it..
My first name is Marc and my surname starts with Ch but that’s as good as he got lol..
Oh! hahaha… no, I meant Temporary Australian! But that is a cute story too ;D
Oh LOL.
Ah it’s just a saying my mates who ride bikes say. Since most motorists are oblivious to motorcyclists. Thus earning them the title ‘Temporary Australian Citizen’
Ohhhh right! Thank you! There’s a tv show with the same name.
Oh right hahaha. Got ya 😛
When I started riding motorbikes I was told Ambulance drivers refer to us a donors.
Bappy Hirthday Jane. Was that your gift from somebody?
From me 😀
The best presents
http://youtu.be/BaX40f0r-ns
Weekend report. Stayed out a bit on Friday, meeting up with Wingman who was also in the city. We went and checked out Spawn Point, it was pretty cool. They had Smash set up on the projector, jumped in on some 5-7p battles. Came second for the first couple, then once I was more in the groove started to dominate. Probably because there wasn’t anyone else particularly decent playing 😛
The NES controllers they had set up on an emulator were horrid. Crappy Chinese knockoffs, knew something was wrong when I picked them up and thought “wait these are way too light”. All sorts of minor ergonomic issues that I never really noticed on the originals until I had these for comparison, such as the A and B buttons normally sitting above the surface of the controller when fully depressed. Whereas these ones were pretty much flush, but still not necessarily bridging the contacts. Super awkward to press. Also they stuck, not popping back up again. And there was something weird going on with the Left button, it would sometimes just keep acting like it was pressed. Made it very hard to SMB. Otherwise though, seemed like a pretty cool place. Would hang out again.
Saturday was mostly at home. Started out odd though. Woke up from a dream about Sketchbook (nothin suss), which is weird enough in itself because dreams about people I know are rare enough as it is. But then to have one of her? Now, when all that mess is basically over and I haven’t even seen her since May and have been thinking about plenty of other things instead? And then on top of that, the rest of the dream was made up of stuff that was clearly directly influenced by things that had just happened during the day. Obviously my brain hates me. Jerk.
Played some more Smash, chipping away at a few more challenges. Though mostly just getting frustrated and pissed off at it, because I suck at the game. Also was in a crappy mood, you know the ones where every little thing is irritating including any sound being made anywhere by anyone. Wasn’t great 😛 Ended up going out to meet Wingman and her boyfriend for dinner, then hung out there for like an hour afterwards trying to figure out what to do next. Neither of us had any idea so eventually we just decided to go home. And proceeded to talk more, on skypechat 😛
Sunday, felt pretty crappy from another bad night’s sleep. No notable dreams this time thankfully. Unless I just forgot them. I was supposed to be meeting up with a Canberra friend at some time in the afternoon, but he’s terrible at organising anything and hadn’t mentioned any specific plans or even contact details so I stayed at home and played some piano for a change. That was nice.
Then returned to Smash and got all pissed off again 😛 Fucking Crazy Orders…
To be fair, original NES and SNES controllers were not ergonomic at all.
Exactly. These things managed to plunge below even that 😛
Supa Bawl!
Go Patriots!
I grabbed a month of Foxtel Play for my PS4 because I was so bored while recovering from jetlag and then being sick (plus, we get to watch movies as a family for less than the usual cost of an arm and a leg :P).
When I got back from taking my son to school this morning (which was all kinds of disastrous but that’s a much longer story….) I grabbed my breakfast and flopped down in front of the TV ready to relax and watch some terrible “reality” show or wacky documentary: PSN down for “maintenance”. Arghhhhhh!
Aww man…looks like more than just a maintenance thing. Could be another moronic attack. I want my Foxtel dammit, my head hurts too much to play anything. 🙁
Can you access it from a foxtel site instead?
Apparently, but it’s all rather awkward.
PSA: Don’t say Gooky’s name loudly at a Japanese restaurant with waitress in ear shot. :'(
D:
I always thought “Mr Taco” had a better ring to it anyway.
But I’m curious… what happened? Does “Gooky” mean something we don’t know about?
And by “we” I mean “I” 😛
Erm, techy, it has the word “gook” in it which is a bad word.
Oh just googled it… :/ yeah I see what you mean
So does snigger, and it’s not a bad word!
That might be so but I wouldn’t want to be sayign something was niggery
You might say it’s a bit nippy though.
I long for a world where people don’t know which words are racial epithets.
I remember playing some online game with some Americans in it, one of whom used the word ‘beaner’. I actually stopped to ask the guys, “Hey fellas, I assume that’s not something positive, but what does it mean? I’ve never heard that one before.”
There was an uncomfortable silence for a while, as sheepish Americans tried to explain that Mexicans are called ‘beaners’ because they… eat beans. No, there’s nothing wrong with eating beans specifically. Well, it’s bad because… they’re Mexican? As opposed to… American?
In the end everyone got quite civil after the embarrassment of trying to explain local racism to a foreigner.
Gook is a racial epithet. Quite a nasty word.
Gooky, however, is a homonym. Apparently.
And also a name I will never be using to refer to him ever again.
It is forever inscribed.
Call him Gooby instead, please.
I actually do have a friend that calls me Goob…
VLAD, IS THAT YOU??
No, but holy shit, my to-be business partner’s name is Vlad….
It’s all connected. All of it.
*makes “I’ve got my eye on you” gesture*
I have questions about soon to be business, but probs too personal to ask here. 😛
I expect you to become an investor then!
Gee, not even going to take me out to dinner first? 😛
Though I guess I do have all this jobmoney sitting here doing nothing…
Oh gods no. Did you just have a bad time?
TAYbies cringed until waitress left, then laughed at me. I buried head in hands and freaked out. I also fully accepted that my meal would probably be spat in by the kitchen staff. (Still good eating. :P)
Did she react to it at all?
She was walking away at the time, so no idea. Some think she might not have heard. I think working on the Gold Coast has built up her tolerance to shrugging off this kind of stuff. (Even if it was accidental in my case. :P)
Does anyone even use that word, anyway? I honestly can’t think of any time I’ve heard it that wasn’t coming from a Vietnam veteran in a TV show/movie. And like with Techy, seems to be plenty of people around who aren’t even aware of its existence.
I have heard it shouted at a friend on a bus at 3am, which was awful unpleasant, especially as it was essentially accompanied by rape threats.
I’ve seen it on what appeared to be relatively-recent train-carriage graffiti. Last time I heard it used was in the early 2000s by some punk kids on a bus, to an older couple.
I was a younger, angrier man, then. So we exchanged some ‘words’ on the subject of its propriety.
Either way, it’s not as dead as it should be yet.
YES and I say this as a halfie.
I must just live in a good area 😛
Although come to think of it there is supposed to be quite a high concentration of Vietnamese around here. Hm.
Also now I feel compelled to ask if you are more “go” or “ok”.
What do Japanese restaurants have against Tacos?!!
OooOOooOOoooh, @mrtaco. They were talking about you!
Another classic @dc moment. =P
I’ll do what I want!
Haha, that was amusing.. But saying that, I think the old couple across from us were more offended when one of us started talking about Nazi’s.. I think I offended them most when we were talking about their uniforms and I said it’s not their fault they had the cooler looking stuff..
It’s one of the few things you actually have to hand it to them for. Those were some sharp uniforms.
They really were. Some of their emblems are pretty cool looking too.
LUCAS!
*gasp*
That’s why I still call @mrtaco Mr Taco… you white people are crazy 😛
Who you callin’ white? 😛
I’m olive. That makes me more green than you!
Just play it off as if that is Gooky’s real name.
“So, as I was saying, Mr Phillip Gookey, the sashimi is quite good.”
Who says it isn’t? 😛
It could be Gookeem Takofski instead.
I spent the first half of the week without internet, so I missed the first half of TAY. Since I insist on either reading every single page of TAY or none, I decided to skip TAY for that week. I hope I was missed.
I watched Babe for the first time in 8 years. I had to use a VCR for the first time in 7 years. I got kind of nostalgic about the whole thing. I used to record TV shows and movies all the time. Then my VCR died, and there was little chance of me buying a new VCR in 2007.
Anyway, I watched Babe. Whilst it’s hardly a good film, there is a level of wholesomeness to it that hasn’t been matched since. Everything in the first half whizzes by too fast. It’s almost like the movie was originally 140 minutes, and they cut it down to 90. The second half is very good though. There’s a shocking disparity in quality between the first and second half that it seems they had two different directors.
I finished Sypro the Dragon for the first time. Screw you, child me who could only afford the demo! Good game. Annoyingly, I finished on 98% with just one level where I just couldn’t find everything.
The boss battles throughout the game were completely horrible, though. It basically amounts to ‘chase a dude until you win’ every time.
Yeah the boss battles sucked in 1 but I absolutely loved playing Spyro 🙂
It almost became a Sierra adventure game in that you needed to get into the developer’s insane mindset to figure out how you were supposed to find all the gems. A couple of times, I played the game with my cousin and my sister watching, and we would try to theorise were we had to look. I remember Dry Canyon from the Peace Keepers world was particularly difficult. I also spent about 6 hours in Cliff Town before giving up and checking a guide. Bloody cauldrons.
But yeah, good game. I’m going to have to check a guide to figure out how to collect everything in Haunted Towers, but I’m pretty much finished. Not sure whether I should trawl eBay for Spyro 2, or whether I should go straight to Spyro 3: Year of the Dragon, since I already have it.
Spyro 2 and 3 are both really really good. 2 has cool little cut scenes before and after each level, and 3 has skate boarding and yeti boxing.
That means you missed the most important post.
http://youtu.be/9ljWbVimeBs
Oh yeah, and I finally watched ‘Frozen’. I was outvoted by the family.
It was worse than I’d expected it to be. I like that its main story is not about romance, but that was it. You all told me the songs were awesome but you all lied! Those are the worst songs ever to appear in a Disney movie EVER. Urgh.
Another victim of over-hype? D:
(I haven’t watched it yet either)
More like over-exposure. But even if I saw it on release day I still would have hated it.
And I here I was thinking my parents were just weird. I haven’t seen it yet but they told me they hated it
If you want a good Disney movie, go and see Big Hero 6.
I saw that when we were on holidays with the kids before going to the US. I enjoyed the heck out of it. 😀
I gotta see that, that looked so darn adorable.
Yeah, it’s not a great film at all. I didn’t mind it the first time I saw it, but once was certainly enough. It definitely doesn’t deserve the insane level of acclaim it’s received.
The song Let It Go is a meaningless hot mess that is so unbelievably out of place in the story that I can’t even stand thinking about it.
I think part of the problem was that was ‘supposed’ to be her becoming the villain.
So the letting it go was letting go of family, love, restraint and compassion and becoming cold like ice.
Once they changed it it kinda got a bit odd. That said I do like the movie, I thought is was well done, the ending works and it has some fun points.
I feel sorry for you D= I still don’t get the hype/appeal over it 😛 We sell these Frozen branded lollipop rings at the Salvo’s and the kids go crazy for them when they come in with their mum and their mum is all *sigh* not Frozen AGAIN..
Glad it’s not just me then. I’ve watched it once and have no desire to do so again. (Olaf was cute, that was the highlight).
Lego movie anyday,
It’s definitely a movie that people trumpet as better than it really is. I managed to watch it before people went insane for Frozen love, and I’m very lucky.
At it’s core, the movie is incredibly flawed. The script was completely re-written very late into production, and it shows.
I still haven’t seen the film or been exposed to the music. Winning \o/
Much jealousy. 😛
I listened to Let It Go on youtube to see what the fuss was all about. I didn’t get it. Seemed like a Disney Song(tm) set to modern music. Kinda ‘pop’y. Shrug? I was willing to accept that there was probably significant emotional attachment invested by the disenfranchised who could relate to its message and its role within the film.
Damn. I guess I should get my arse in to gear and get today’s things done. Which means, paying the power bill, seeing the bank about a new debit card (the chip is failing to read in most eftpos AGAIN & about a refund from a merchant who screwed me over), see the manager at BWS about getting on the books and pay those bastards, Telstra.. Busy day apparently D=
#justadultthings
Sad things is I enjoy these adult things. I think i’m broken 😐
I might also take the dog for a walk up to meet mum after she finishes work at where she is volunteering since it’s not hot today.
In other news, I can’t stop thinking about Life is Strange. I really loved it. I fully expect this to be another game people will make fun of Quantic Dream-style, but I don’t care. It’s something special. <3
Trailer looked pretty rad. Got an ‘indie scrapbook’ aesthetic/vibe from it, and the supernatural twist looked very interesting. Particularly the storm. Had me thinking, “Oh god, this is what happens when you time-travel, isn’t it… I bet I get blamed for this.”
Maybe literal butterfly effect. “I regret putting that butterfly on the otherside of the planet. Flapping its wings into storm.” 😛
Morning all, hope everyone had a good weekend.
I got my democracy on on Saturday however walking down to vote ended up in me getting sunburnt. At least I snagged the last democracy sausage but they were out of freedom bread, patriot sauce, and liberty onions but oh well. I’m happy at the final result however the future could be very interesting with a potential hung parliament.
I also played a RPG yesterday but that’s hardly original. 😛 If any of you think I’m a mean GM, the guy who was running it yesterday threw a Lictor at what are effectively rank 1 Imperial Guardsmen. So yeah, we just legged it and let the NPCs handle it/die horribly.
A LICTOR AT RANK 1s? Geez I’m surprised you managed to run away!
I won’t complain about you being a rough GM again… then again… you have one shot me twice now in Pathfinder, felt good being the one dishing out the one shotting this time 😛
Well, running away is debatable. One of the players lost a leg because HOLY SHIT LICTOR and we only managed to evacuate by shoving past the NPCs and figuratively throwing them under a bus.
Also one of the players is a psyker and we have the sneaking suspicion that the Nids have keyed onto his psychic signature. So yeah, it’s more than likely that we’re being hunted.
Still throwing tyranids at you so early it’s like he wants you guys to wipe as fast as possible, maybe as some sort of twisted “That was really the prologue” bit
Yeah, unfortunately the GM of that game has a history of doing stuff like that (ridiculously unbalanced encounters and what not). I try to scale things along with the players which hopefully presents enough challenge to make things interesting.
Just on the Pathfinder side, yeah I do feel bad that two of the critical hits that I’ve rolled so far have been against the same person. On the flip side though, it just seems to be a theme that runs in games where something happens that just muppets whoever didn’t praise the RNG gods. You, @sernobulus in the 40K game, even some of my own stuff have just failed at presenting any sort of challenge to players.
In the game I played yesterday, my character failed another fear check (third one so far in two sessions) and puked my guts out as I screamed in terror (second time I’ve gotten that shock result). So yeah, sometimes the dice just want a character to be known for doing a certain thing, even if it’s bad.
Yep, passed out after running around screaming while on fire in the middle of a fight just made picturing it bloody hilarious, while everyone was firing at each other there’s just Jarallius running around like a fireball screaming “WHY WON’T SOMEONE HELP PUT ME OUT!”. xD
I’m just an unlucky person with dice, and it’s been like that for as long as I can remember 😛
I think the last time we truly beat a hard challenge with absolute ease was that Insideus Choir boss encounter in Numenera, we took out his ferocious pet with 2-3 hard hits and same with the guy himself, but again there always is the Raller Cay incident xD
I think we only hit Raller Kay once or twice in that entire fight. Heck, I think we injured ourselves more than we hurt him. XD
But yeah, sometimes people do just alpha-strike the boss or critical hit on the first attack (see those Ogres vs Dem’nion :P). Or times when the enemy tries to flee and is just completely annihilated by everyone (that poor, poor Hobgoblin).
Related to that, RPG story-time from a friend’s game, if you’re at all curious. Played in 40K Deathwatch. Basically a hilarious example of destroying a villain outright/derailing a campaign.
As the Ordo Xenos, they were directed to eliminate a renegade human noble who had been dealing with Orks that were fighting local Imperial forces and had basically been smuggling Imperial equipment, specifically rejuvenat, wholesale and crippling the local planet’s economy. The marines were warned that the renegade noble had holed up in his mansion/fortress on the outskirts of a major city and there were signs that he might have been actively courting Chaos with manufacturing of Spook and other psychic drugs.The marines managed to infiltrate rather successfully and made their way to a room underneath where the noble had bunkered down. So, rather than storm his fortified location, they gathered their ordinance and heavy weapons together, planted two melta bombs underneath the room above and prepared to breach the hole with jump packs and meltaguns. In short, the melta bombs alone completely destroyed the noble (who apparently was running around in power armour and pumped full of regular and psychic drugs) and most of his retinue and the marines wasted whatever defenders remained in the next ten seconds. It did also destroy whatever evidence would have completely incriminated the man but oh well.
Where things get interesting is when the marines proceed to purge the rest of the fortress. They were clearing the outer areas when the last of the renegade forces began super-jacking themselves on drugs and one of them transformed into a Chaos spawn. The spawn was destroyed through heavy ordinance and psychic powers however, the librarian triggered psychic phenomena with his last salvo (rolled a 66) and then triggered perils of the warp. And then rolled something like an 85 or something that summoned a full-blown daemon prince that was determined to kill the librarian. The kicker was, this daemon prince was apparently the same daemon prince that had been influencing the Chaos drugs and worship and the GM later told me that he planned to introduce the daemon prince in about five sessions after.
So the big bad evil daemon prince proceeded to wreck everyone and everything and any remaining humans in the area (or even in the next kilometre, the daemon was huge) were nearly instantly reduced to insane messes. The librarian had to burn two fate points to survive, one to avoid instant decapitation and the other was when he tried to jump-pack away from the big scary daemon prince, lost control, spiraled down into the ground where he got impaled by the spire of a building, and had his primary heart ripped out by the daemon prince. Thankfully, that was enough for the daemon prince to fade back into the Warp.
As the GM of that game apparently said to the players, “There goes whatever game and story I had planned for the next month. Come back later and stop wrecking my shit.”
Love a democracy sausage sandwich. Even better if there’s a democracy cake stall with scones. I have to wait until March to get mine, but I’ve been assured that my son’s preschool does a very good cakestall, so I think I’ll be helping out with that!
I waited until too late in the day to head down and vote so I very nearly missed out on a democracy sausage. It seems they hit their peak around 10 am or so with the cake stalls as well as everything was sold out when I arrived at 1:30.
Ugh. Rained all last night so all the washing that was on the line did not dry like intended. Dang it.
On the subject of politics:
\o/I’m an election wonk. Love looking at the process and seeing the way results come in. It’s like sports with consequences.
With that in mind, and as a neutral observer from Victoria, the last 2 QLD elections have been amazing viewing – from the utter utter drubbing doled out to Labor 3 years ago to the most amazing comeback this time round… and if it weren’t for PUP existing now, it would have been even worse for the LNP.
ABC coverage fantastic as always.
I honestly don’t think PUP was that big of a factor. Quite a lot of the anti-Nationals votes were actually going towards KAP, the ABC coverage just didn’t show it.
Amusingly, both drastic results were (partially) over the same thing: asset sales. Bligh tried it and got destroyed. Newman tried it under the guise of asset leasing and got destroyed. It’s pretty clear that it’s a toxic policy in Queensland.
Sure, there are other factors but it’s fun to see a party not learn from the mistakes their predecessors made. I could probably go on about Sir Joh right now but that might be a little much.
Not a huge factor I agree, but they split the protest vote and if they weren’t there it might have given Labor a couple more seats and a clear majority.
Absolutely agree with the rest of your post. Selling a safe and productive asset for a bit of short-term cash flow is looking like a really unpopular idea (as it should be, it’s daft).
Which is why the LNP was telling people to just vote 1 while the rest of the parties were saying to number all of the boxes.
Preferences play a huge part in this and it’s much harder to split the protest vote with them in play.
I just wish I’d put money on it. The sportsbet odds were so long on the current results that I’d have made a fucking fortune.
A decent handful of people did right before the election and shortened the odds to something that was still ridiculous.
I think my friend put five bucks on it at 9:1 odds.
Kinda surprised he didn’t put more on, actually. He’s pretty big on the labor.
Do you think Tony Abbot’s gaffes had any effect on the results?
Of course. Branding has a huge part to play in our politics and when the face of the brand does something colossally stupid, everyone under that brand is affected.
@doc_what is going to win next year’s Oscar for best director/producer/supporting actor/special effects/musical score/catering. You heard it here first, folks.
Best catering Oscar is the most prestigious of them all!
We’re here to honour those who are master’s in their craft… services.
I’ll take my comedy writing cheque now, please.
I beat the end boss of Parasite Eve on the first try on Sunday then managed to die during a run from its bleeding corpse scene by turning left instead of right.
Then it took me 5 more attempts to beat it as I lost patience & made silly decisions over & over.
It’s done now & I’ve started PE2.
Also, I beat a particularly tricky boss in Digital Devil Saga by grinding levels & learning more powerful spells. Hussain!
I made my way all the way through the underground part in RERERE & was crushed near the end. My confidence far outweighs my skill in that game.
Morning all!
Thanks to burning a bit too much mobile data watching the last Nintendo direct on the train, I’ve been without mobile internet for about a week, and it just reset yesterday.
Did seem to help me be more productive at work for that week though.
So… Got my next shiny legendary – azelf. Total now:
Cresselia 420 resetsLatias 470 resets
Azelf 1600 resets
I think I have a problem… I just keep doing it. I’m already well into working on the next one. At one point I timed myself to see the difference between an old and New 3DS. Old was 8 resets in 5 minutes. Swapped the cart to the New, and no legendary. Guess it detects a 3DS change as messing with the system clock, and messing with the clock disappears all the legendaries (until the E4 is re-beaten?).
Eh, either way, just went with the Old for the lot. I’ll let someone else add up the numbers for how long that’s been.
During this process I also put my finger on what really bothered me about X/Y. Here’s a breakdown of the legendaries across generations:
Gen1: Stationary trio, final stationary big nasty
Gen2: Roaming trio, version specific big ‘uns
Gen3: Roaming version specific little ‘un, stationary trio, story mandated version specific big ‘un, final stationary big nasty
Gen4: Mixed stationary / roaming trio, story mandated version specific big ‘un, final stationary big nasty, 2x stationary big misc, party dependent big misc
Gen5: Stationary trio, story mandated version specific big ‘un, final stationary big nasty, version specific roamer, party dependent big stationary
Gen 6: Story mandated version specific, final slug … thing. What more do you want? Fuck you, have a recycled gen 1 trio member that has mandatory escape sequences before you can catch it.
I think about this stuff too much. That 5 year break I took from Pokémon was probably a good thing.
Yep, Y felt a tad empty in a few areas.
really hoping for a third version next year with added extras like legendaries & battle frontier & all that.
Maybe even add in that world map thing, that’d be ace.
For all the great features in ORAS, it stil was too gen IIIish.
Gen 6 fell so short on the new legendary roster. No new trio. No roamers. No party prerequisites.
Nothing actually worth raising a team to go out hunting. ORAS has really highlighted this for me.
Edit: legendary, not shiny. I seem to be slightly shiny obsessed. Shiny.
The first game I played to completion was Platinum, it was full of post game fun!
B&W2 had heaps of post game stuff too.
I felt like all others have been lacking
While we’re talking about Super Bowl, SUPER BOWL FOOD
Apparently you are supposed to have an overwhelming amount of dips and stuff.
GUACAMUMMUS (Guacamole hummus… hummamole?)
4 roasted garlic cloves
Can o’ chickpeas
2 tablespoons tahini
2 avacados (or more!)
Salt, to taste.
(1) Lemon juice and lemon zest, to taste.
Blend all that deliciousness together, slap it into a bowl, grab some crunchy stuff as an excuse not to just spoon the mixture in your mouth, and then sit down and turn on the TV.
Then realise you live in Canada, where a lot of people still don’t care about Gridiron, accept that you have no social life, and then put Aliens on.
Last step optional but highly recommended.
Mmm… guacamelee.
Hmm, I like my hummus tangy and my guacamole onions and tomatoey. I’m not going to cross the streams.
Did you end up grabbing Digital Devil Saga?
Yeah, but I’ve been playing a lot of RPGs lately. Thought I might take a little break and play something different before I got fatigued.
Somehow ended up playing Mass Effect 3. Go figure.
Whoops!
I’ve had RERERE to break it up but it inspired me to buy the parasite ever which are both genres…
You know what would be cool? Jurassic Park: Isolation.
Alien: Isolation, but set in Jurassic Park with raptors stalking you.
I wish The Stomping Land was actually a thing.
Yessss. Jurassic Park: Trespasser from the ’90s was a cool idea way ahead of its time.
It’s one of the properties that I want to see remade living up to its potential, instead of being totally wasted on a hilarious glitchfest.
The best lets play ever made was of Trespasser. By a guy called Research Indicates, really really good. Goes through the whole game and gives a history of its development and stuff. I’d recommend checking it out.
Can raptors use vents though?
If a dog can, I don’t see why not!
*dinosaur leaps down from vent*
“Clever girl!”
They can open doors, they don’t need no vents.
Hope you know the UNIX system!
Yeah but that would mean you have a safe spot to hide unlike Alien Isolation, it’ll still be scary to play but not by much, unless there’s more than one you have to avoid, which there most likely will be.
Dood, raptors
Everyone knows the best way to defeat raptors is with gymnastics
and in third person!
So basically a Dino Crisis reboot?
Don’t do that to me.
Keen
So keen. But it won’t happen 🙁
Not with that attitude!
Capcom are silly, this year is prime dino time!
I want a sequel that ignores 3
yesssssss
Just got a response to my venue query for impending wedding reception
“I assume you would be wanting exclusive use of the venue for a formal dining kind of event? With cocktails on arrival? And a couple of stunning male aerial acts? And dancing til late?”
It’s like he knows what I want without asking if I like drinking and Cabaret performances!
Are the aerial acts stunning or are the males stunning?
Why can’t it be both?
to be fair, I find anything Aerial Stunning and I generally dont have enough time to see if I like the performers body (male or female) I just get lured in by the fact that they are doing aerial stunts 🙂
I missed the start of this, but in terms of “married” how are you achieving that? Are you doing it in “every sense but legal” or are you going o/s or what?
Anton’s British, so if the laws aren’t in place in time then we can get married at the consulate here in sydney 🙂
Ah, excellent!
obviously it wouldnt be recognised here, but would be recognised once it is legal 🙂
Ridiculous that it’s 2015 and you have to have a contingency plan like that 🙁
Hmm. All the characters in Life is Strange is very well voiced and acted, even more so considering the somewhat clunky written dialogue they’re given.
Except the main character. Jeez she’s awful. Sounds decidedly amateurish.
It was the constant use of hella that bothered me. Hope you’re enjoying the game! 🙂
Do they use the word “hella” a lot?!
This game appeals to me and my need to hold onto youthful expressions.
Must. Resist. Buying.
They don’t wear their bags like I wear my bag. I hate them.
You’re such a Victoria. 😛
I’m pretty sure he lives in Queensland.
Ugh. UGH.
Blergh.
After my inFamous binge, I looked up potential InFamous powers and DLC, and now I want a new inFamous game :'(
They had concepts for ‘glass, wire, and paper’ powers, but they all got cut :’O
Glass would’ve been so cool, wire looked alright too, and paper was so pretty!
Bring out an expansion pack! :’O
You didn’t do the paper trail?
In the middle of it, but you only get a jacket at the end of it, not paper power.
Big dissapointment, considering paper was so pretty! :'(
Yeah do the paper trail mission. It takes a bit of effort but it is good.
Did they, did they get…papercut?
It was set in the stone age.
Random Infamous rant –
What I liked about the conduit powers in all the infamous games and you see it a lot more in second son is that they’re inspired by materials only found in abundance in modern settings.
It just showed a bit of thought went into looking at potential powers given that conduits only started getting their powers after the “event” in the first game. It’s like all the conduits absorbed the traits of nearby materials/resources and Desmond the natural next step acted as a conduit for the newest resource in the game’s setting i.e. other conduits.
What’s your favourite power btw? =D For some reason I just kept getting drawn back into smoke….
I like TV (don’t really understand it though. Like, what exactly is it?), but I can’t go back to Delsin after playing as Fetch :O
Her Neon powers are so well refined that she’s so much more fun to play as.
Delsin now feels like a Jack-of-all-trades with his powers, where Fetch feels like a master of her single power.
My favourite is still ice from inFamous 2 though :3
From my playthrough I understood it as the ability to take digital materials and re-craft it into a physical manifestation of your choosing, Deslin’s powers get the video game theme since that was the original conduit’s base theme. I figured out the physical manifestation case because depending on which kind of karma you decide to go as you get a visually distinctive set of abilities with TV i.e. demonic or angelic.
Neon was mine. I loved the unlimited running/hold sprint to climb buildings. I also liked the power to immobilise enemies and get karmic rewards!
Ah Neon as evil is so much fun as well =P Bit more of a pain since you don’t get the slow motion from Good karma however it turns enemy kills into little grenade explosions =P
Anyone having connection problems with PSN? I’m gonna assuming the yanks are causing increased traffic cos of the handegg competition going on over there that seems to be popular
Is down
Maintenance atm.
It’s supposedly another attack. I’m cranky because I subscribed to Foxtel Play for this month just so I could watch mindless TV today while I’m still recuperating and it needs PSN to work. So I’m very bored.
Sorry i haven’t been on much guys. Been busy sewing on all the sequins.
Drug slang!
But, the world on sequins is so shiny
Misread that as spewing.
I have been spewing on sequins? That would make life a lot easier
Spewing up sequins.
You’ve been sew busy?
Terrible
And poking me with more pins 🙂
Sorry
*scree theme music plays*
Is that left shoulder going to be fine with that pin coming out or do we need to do that again next time?
Should be fine. I’m just worrying about accidentally sewing the shoulder together
How’s things, gang?
Hah my mother always referred to her students as “gang”
Maybe they all were in gangs! Was she the teacher in Dangerous Minds?
Head of the Blood’s mentor program.
It’s where @redartifice gets his name.
I wish my teacher was the teacher in Dangerous Minds.
That was an awful film.
Everyone knows that the inspirational teacher genre peaked with Edward James Olmos in Stand and Deliver
Still not as good as “ooh a finger man! I can do fingers too! Six times nine! Fifty four!”
I found Coach Carter to be an interesting departure within the genre. He’s like a teacher, except he’s a coach! Innovative.
Groovy, Fred.
XD
You wanna Scooby snax© ?
Hello TAYbies.
Week off work and mainly in bed/on sofa last week though sickness so I did not TAY. Some of my Destiny compadres got to hear the sound of my choking lungs. I’m sure it was delightful.
I was well enough by Friday to sneak down to the velodrome for a couple of hours of the National Championships – got to see Anna Meares win again – damn she’s good – and was sitting next to Kaarle McCulloch’s nan and mum so got to see Kaarle’s silver medal up close when she came to sit in the stands after her racing was over for the night. Pretty cool!
Saturday went back to watch Jack Bobridge’s crack at the Hour Record. So exciting when he was up on the target pace, but his efforts in the Tour Down Under, and possibly an adrenaline jolt when a thunderstick rolled down the banking missing his front wheel, left him falling off the required pace during the last few minutes of the hour, and he set the second best distance in the event (beating Jens Voigt’s then record distance set last September, but just 500m short of Matthias Brandle’s mark set in October. 51.852km is the distance to beat if you’re feeling spry…
How was the humidity at the track. With the rain I was worried that it would be a slow track for him. Was considering going but things at home didn’t allow. Saw the result and was shattered for him. So close.
Time to throw the support behind Rohan.
They had the heaters running and the track was a good temp as far as I could tell – maybe a drier day would have made the difference, maybe the more climate-controlled Hisense would have been better… Who knows. I don’t think he’ll have another go anytime soon, especially as the mark is likely to go out further with Wiggo and Fab (and possibly Tony Martin) indicating they’re going to have a go in the next 12 months. We’ll see. He’s probably not peaked yet, he’s only 25!
Yep, Rohans developing into a good road rider, showed some real maturity during TDU. Aussie cycling’s in great shape and there are 2 or 3 great GC potentials being developed.
Isn’t Rohan going for the hour record it in a month or so? I haven’t heard anything about Fab going for it. Know Wiggo is keen but the other pom has cancelled/postponed his attempt.
Ritchie is looking in good form so hopefully he can stay healthy and give the Giro a good kick this year. And bllody OGE has the couple of poms who are looking good. Sheesh, what is the world coming to when I have to support the English during a stage race/GT.
Hadn’t heard Rohan was going for it. Eeeeeenteresting. Exciting times with the new rules, and a sensible move at last by the UCI after their “Defend Eddie at all costs” mentality of the 90s.
hehehe Aussie team at least. Looking forward to the Giro this year.
Just checked and looks like it is this Sunday he is going for it
In Switzerland, and live on SBS!
Hi all! Hope everyone had a good weekend! Mine was very lazy… A few Destiny strikes, but mostly Minecraft.
Did get the heroic strikes done for all three characters (a bunch of fun on my Warlock, and a frustrating mess on everything else – turns out a 32 sunsinger on a solar burn strike is pretty much unstoppable XD), so 24 coins in the vault; then realised I need another 1500 rep to be able to buy the armour piece I need to get my titan to 31. I have complete bounties I was saving to level that new gear, but even that will only get me a third of the way. So, I picked up the Don’t Touch Mes from Xur (holy crap, does that look like a bad roll, but meh – I’m a collector, not a min-maxer) and updated my Ice Breaker to the 331 version, and called it a day.Spent the rest of the weekend playing Minecraft. My quarry was causing a huge amount of lag, so swapped it out for an ender-quarry, which it pretty much eliminated the issue… at the cost of a butt-tonne of resources, time, and lag-induced frustration. Following that, I did a bunch of Thaumcraft research, and am really hurting for research points and essentia. The warp is starting to get interesting, too – starting to hear whispers every now and then (they seem friendly, if a little ominous :P)… and I’m pretty sure flux build-up is causing the near-daily thunderstorms… I should really find a way to deal with that at some point. 😛 Upside is I finally have a pendant and ring of runic shielding – my first bits of thaumcraft armour!Also built a neat little Zombie grinder. There’s something satisfying about having zombies slain by sword-wielding automatons fuelled by zombie brains and sugar. The spawner does use a lot of power, tho, so will need to look into what’s needed for a reactor… Then again, I don’t need to leave it on – I’ve got two tanks filled with XP from it, and about eight stacks of brains (not to mention various pieces of broken armour), so I should be good for a while.Gah, so much to do!
Ahh the joys of a fully maxed out Ice Breaker <3
Ah the joys of needing to re-max the blasted thing. 😛 Hopefully this week will have an easy nightfall…
This week’s was fun! Maximum burn!
Heheh. Was doing Nightfall last night. We had Omnigul down to about 20%, my comrades had bot died being a bit silly and in un-revivable position (WHAT ARE YOU DOING ON OMNIGUL’S GANTRY IN NIGHTFALL?????) so jumped to orbit and rejoined while I stayed safe… then as they both ran back in an exploding thrall popped right behind us and took us all out. D’oh. D’OH.
I’d already done it all all 3 characters and was just running it out of the goodness of my heart…
Wow… ouch.
My hunter had a hell of a time on the Heroic – got Omnigul down to under 5% about four times, kept dying to “trying to use golden gun and failing”. 😛 There was much screaming of minced oaths at the ceiling, that day. Doubly annoying as I’d just got my sunsinger through the whole thing in 20 minutes with no problems.
It’s weird – the first time I ran it with my Titan in a 3-team, we smashed her on the first wave. Reckon we had the right combo of arc and solar, grenades and rockets and just smashed it. Haven’t got even close to that fast since. 🙂
Also bit of sad news really from overnight;
It’s with great regret and a heavy heart that I have to post we have lost a true character of Destiny. Last night at approximately 22.15 WST, Crota, of the Hive family, passed away suddenly.
Early reports indicate he was the victim of some form of sword incident and a level 32 Titan was involved in a heated discussion with the big man. Too early of course to tell what exactly occurred but there were five other guardians in the area at the time that will no doubt shed more ‘light’ into what has occurred. Some Knight and Thrall family members were seen grieving as they left the scene and have requested that we all respect their privacy during this tough time.
This may be the second time he has officially* died in as many weeks according to my research.
*He may have technically flat lined due to somebody pulling a plug/cable several times but these were never recorded as official deaths and he even came back stronger after outside medical intervention from powers above.
Ends release
Glorious, and beautifully written.
So… loot? 😀
Me; another Hunger of Crota rocket. One for each character now.
Some friends were lucky enough to get their third piece of raid armour. One got the Warlock helmet which looks great. I was one of few 32 so had to stick with it to beat the big man. Next time somebody else can have a go and I’ll run my alt Hunter to get her some armour. 😀
Damn I want those primary weapons though!!!! We are nowhere near good enough to complete hard mode but. Only social players with average skills.
You are on the EcksBocks?
I need one more piece on my Titan and Warlock and 2 more bits on my Hunter. Maybe the RNG will smile upon me this week.
Sorry mate, always happy to help anyone as I love this game. But I’m on Pee-Ess-Fore.
Tuesday is Destiny Day as you know so good luck and I hope the RNG smiles upon thee this week!
Ah, I am also on the rhomboid wonder! Same name as here. Regular Nightfalling, and some hilariously bad raiding on offer. 🙂
Also, Wednesday is Destiny Day this week as the missus is seeing Sarah McLachlan so I have the house to myself all evening.
Done. Keep an eye out for bigharro99 friend request!
Looking forward to some comedy. 😀
Haven’t played Destiny in almost two months. I really enjoyed the game, but kind of got bored with it, and decided I really needed to get into some of the other games I had bought.
Nnngh… my eye…
Listening to old school Arctic Monkeys. Particularly like No Buses and 505
All weekend goals achieved!
Shadow of Mordor: Finished!
100% completion. Didn’t bother with achievements and stuff since a lot of them are fiddly as heck, but did all the survival & hunting, all story missions, all the collectables and challenge missions. Good game but has some really annoying flaws, like the respawn rate on guys being way too high, and some combinations of enemy powers making them straight up impossible. Turned out that the guy I was struggling against was a spear-thrower that had his damaged amped up so high he could one-hit kill me, but he would then refuse the killing blow and retreat. Pain in the ass. Had one of my other guys kill him and then it was all smooth sailing. Plot in the game is complete arse though.Danganronpa 2: Continued! At the start of chapter 4 now.
I’m still not convinced this is the better of the two games. They’ve added way too many superfluous annoying minigames during the trials, and several times so far I’ve had the Ace Attorney issue, where I know exactly what’s going on but I can’t figure out what it wants me to use with what in order to advance a specific sequence, either because of ambiguity or because it wants me to make the connection from A to B when I’ve already mentally jumped all the way to F. Also they managed to sweep in in chapter 3 and kill all the remainder of the cast I actually found interesting.Kantai Collection: Goals Achieved
Got Ushio to Kai-2 – the first ship I ever obtained in the game after my starter finally got her due. Artwork is a step backward though, looks weird and crosseyed where the old one was cute. Also got Kirishima to Kai-2 finally – she was the first Kongo-class battleship to drop for me, way back in December 2013! I’ve also started raising my main destroyer group up so they’re all at least level 50 – got Hibiki and Murasame there already, starting on Yukikaze (currently 42) and then Shimakaze will be a quick grind (48 at the moment). Myoukou also getting close to 70 now, hit 65 last night. I also ground Amatsukaze up to 20 so she can fill a few gaps (and also because she has a rare SONAR at remodel). Not sure what my goal will be after getting my spare destroyers to 50 will be. Myoukou and also Bismark are slowly putting on levels as I go so don’t need to focus yet. I could work on Hibiki’s last 20 levels and then sell her to the Russians, but the benefit to doing that is pretty low. I could start on one of the four remaining DDs that have a Kai-2 upgrade (probably Hatsuharu because she only needs 60) or I could do Akizuki, Harukaze or Amatsukaze to 50 to pad things out. Alternatively I could focus on another Cruiser, either get Isuzu to 50 for her Kai-2 or Jintsuu to 60 for hers. Would probably lean Jintsuu due to better art. I’m also thinking when Myoukou is done, my next heavy cruiser to work on has to be Prinz Eugen. I could spend time on Ashigara or Nachi now they have their upgrades, but Prinz gets awesome guns. Also cuteness.Shadow of Mordor:
I think I was lucky in the early game to find an Epic rune that gave me extra Last Chances when I got one-shotted. Those spearchuckers and archers were pretty tough before I got that rune.Can confidently say if I was at the Life is Strange school I would not want to be friends with any of these people.
Goddamn kids.
Get off my lawn.
*shakes fist*
I’m still (basically) a kid…
I thought we were friends :'(
*throws out friendship bracelet for Freeze*
You’re an old man by this point, Priondive, just accept it.
You’re older than I am, you sack of wrinkles! >:(
Both you grandpas need to take a nap. @blaghman @liondrive
Haha! Warren seems nice enough in a best friend who’s in love with oblivious friend kind of way!Ugh. Don’t think I can play much more of this.
Which is a serious shame. The story is interesting. The acting is mostly well done. It’s written well. The core mechanic is REALLY cool and was having a blast messing with it. The art style is unique and looks fantastic.
But the characters, ugh. Even the teachers are all pretentious douchebags. This world is genuinely my nightmare. Just…
Ugh.
I felt like that tone was kind of intentional. Overly progressive, ‘liberal’ academy of sorts for gifted students. Breeding ground for superiority complexes. Just screams of pretentious in that alone and is part of what makes Max an outsider.
There’s not much you can do if you just can’t tolerate that, though. 😀
Can’t say you didn’t try either. 🙂 That one teacher? Yeah, total d-bag! XD
If they added a “Punch In Smug Face” button this would be game of the year for every year.
The characters will probably deepen the more time we spend with them.
Have you finished yet? (Only read after you’ve finished. If you can finish, that is! XD)
I get the feeling Warren, Max and Chloe will be their own little gang of outsiders. Us against the world.Also, atleast play until you’re off-campus, which won’t be too long. 🙂
I do want to finish it. Just had to take a break when:
Supposed good guy Evan. I ask to see his photos and he makes me answer an obscure question then refuses to show his photo to amateurs when you get it wrong. I mean, I get why it’s there as a way to throw in the rewind mechanic but holy shit guy, you are the worst kind of person.Haha! It’s really funny. We’re on the same page and both agree their shit people. Just not a deal breaker! 😀 My high school experience was full of shit people, including me! 😛
That guy was such a prick. Just to spite him I looked up the answer. I wasn’t going to give him the satisfaction of a rewind.That’s something I liked too. Deciding when to use rewind or when to let something stand. Social interactions like that where someone treats someone badly I just leave. I’m saving the time travel for moments of consequence. (I guessed the right answer for that, though. XD)I got that vibe from the demo. Sad to see that it persists :\
It’s funny, though. I got these same feelings whenever Rory was in a school environment in Gilmore Girls. It’s the same thing to me.
Oh, god. Those school scenes in Gilmore Girls were painful to watch. Really painful. Rory herself was a great character, but the school just seemed so… I don’t know… wrong.
Haha! My argument to persuade you to play just backfired! 😛
But yeah, totally agree that this school IS pretentious and the people are dicks to each other. I just thought it accurately represented the high school experience. 😀
I don’t know what you’re talking about, highschool was lovely 😛
Liked high school club… ASSEMBLE!
You go too complex with your arguments. I stick with “I like it. You should try it. So there!”. 😛
Haha! I want to acknowledge the problems, though. I feel like people see me as a bit of a caricature whenever games like these are mentioned. All defensive like. Want people to know that I know they ain’t perfect but still like it. And they should play. So there. 😛
And then get secretly sad that all the critical tweets have upvotes and all my praise has none. XD
It’s a genuinely good game with a personally aggravating setting. Individual mileage with the setting will vary.
@freezespreston: <3
Don’t worry – I’ll still play the game. Sticking with my plan to wait for the price to come down a little 🙂
Derp, I replied to my own comment.
cc @dc
I’m going to make muffins just so I can eat the batter.
I’m going to make apple and oat ones so the kids think I’m awesome for making something for their lunchboxes but really I just want to eat cake batter. I blame the Cake Batter flavoured lip balm I bought in America. 😛
Surely the tagline has to be ‘Better on the lips, than on your hips!’
I’m definitely not judging you either, I did this with a box of Reeses cookie mix my friend sent me from Chicago two weeks ago 🙂
Isn’t that the whole point of being an adult? You can go to make a cake but then just eat the batter instead if you want.
Also make a Milo with as many spoonfuls of the stuff as you damn well please.
As long as you’re paying for the Milo yourself, though. I don’t buy Milo because I can’t afford for the one tin to disappear in just two drinks. 😛
Don’t keep it in the pantry, lock it in your safe? 😛
I actually used to have to put a padlock on the pantry so all the snacks didn’t disappear. 😛
I’ve always held the opinion that cake batter is actually better than cake. Licking the beaters has always been better than eating the cake itself… with the possible exception of the icing.
In fact, I think I’m going to just make a bowl of cake batter sometime soon.
You’re all crazy. Crazy!
I agree with you Pow. Don’t they know you are meant to freeze the batter before eating it
I’ve never understood people who DON’T lick the beaters/spoons/bowl. And like… just put them in the sink. To be washed. WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?
Needless to say, whenever Mum’s making something in the kitchen I’m always sure to hover around and collect whatever I can.
@jocon @distantdrop BRF Hype!!!
I’ve just been reading up on the fights for Gruul and Oregorger and while it seems both have a mechanic in place we’re going to have to get used to I reckon we can easily down the first 3 bosses on our first try!! =D Also can you guys make it on Friday? If we get enough peeps it’d be ideal to try and down the heroic bosses we’ve managed to kill so far?
Don’t forget for our butcher kill we pugged a tank and a extremely geared ranged dps, might want to keep that in mind when you throw us against him again.
As for Friday I already signed up, and I believe I saw Jo decline? but i guess if we were to pug heroic he’d prob reconsider =/
Yes yes I know butcher was by the skin of our teeth together with the help of a 658 druid however the druid only pulled an overall 21k dps. As ranged at that ilvl he should’ve been contributing at least 23-24k as stand still RDPS.
In regards to this weekend I know its not ideal to do heroic outside our raid times but I’m extremely intent of getting AOTC: Blackhand for the guild. We’ve missed one curve; lets make sure we beat the next. So probably for this week and the next both raid nights are going to go to BRF progression raids. Additonally staying ahead of the curve has the added benefit of boosting recruitment and I’d like to pad the ranks now with flexible raiders to step in when the dedicated raiders are unable to make raid night. Possibly even get an officer to start a second raid group that just runs the flexi’s (10 man) once or twice a week… I’d probably be able to help out in that group with an alt as well.
https://twitter.com/Nethaera/status/555439890255450112
Looks like prob be staying around until 6.2 I’m guessing, still time for 7/7 H HM
AOTC value might die with this expansion.
any AOTC value will die if earned post major patch. However the appeal is having gets you instant invites into pugs and a guild that has it will have an easier time recruiting =]
Edit: Also slight change of plans this weekend we’ll be attempting Gruul, Oregorger and Blast Furnace on Sat. Beastlord and Frans on Sun along with some HM heroic
Blast furnace? that’s an interesting choice… you must either want to complete the slag works wing or you must think the encounter plays on some of our strengths.. I don’t mind either way it is a tier boss after all.
I’m not going to lie… it looks like an interesting fight and will probably put the guild through the grinder =P But I’ll be damned if we don’t try! First phase seems simple enough; however I think the 2nd and 3rd phase are going to be the most interesting.
That said co-ordinating the bombs is going to be really interesting…. That said it would be nice if we could down a tier boss on launch weekend. It’ll be good preparation for the Blackhand fight given we haven’t done a multi phase fight with the guild so far since we skipped Imperator. And Tectus isn’t really multi tiered so much as you just deal with more of him in each phase.
Have not read up yet.
Might be able to make it friday. Let me know if you need me particularly.
Also yeah AOTC Imp not going yet. But We would still need to up our game to take both him and H Blackhand out in time. We are mad behind.
Keen to try tho, even if it means an additional raid day.
0 interest in taking on AOTC Imp to be honest; I wouldn’t even consider it until we cleared BRF on normal. That said start reading up on the fights even though some are mechanically simple there’s quite a few fights we will be attempting to its a lot of mechanics to take on board. So far Blast Furnace and Operator seem to be the most complex of the ones I’ve read and I’ve yet to strategize for Operator. However not sure if Flamebender and Hansz and Fransz are complex as well.
Cool. Care more about aotc Blackhand so I’ll just roll with your plan.
So this weekend is Grull, Oregorgor, Furnace, Hans/Franz? We looking to start early?
Also, is Don working on the Flasks? Does not look like it has been stocked up.
Wind’s the supplies officer; he was willing to take on the responsibility and the role. Don was umming and ahhring about it. We have greater flasks in tab 2 for this weekend’s raid so we should be set.
Learn the fights for Gruul, Oregorger, Beastlord and Operator for Sat. We’ll be doing Fransz, Flamebender and Blast Furnace on Sunday.
New England 21 – Seattle 24 Q4 7:45 remaining.
Hi TAY.
HOW’S THINGS?
THERE IS STUDENT PEOPLE CREATURES HERE AT WORK. I DONT LIKE THIS.
I’d much rather be at home playing Dragon Age. played like…. 45hrs of the single player stuff & I’m digging it. party members aren’t as immediately likeable as they were in Origins, though.
also done another… 70 or so hours in the multiplayer. that’s fun. its also making me keen for BioWare’s Shadow Realms thing. if its anywhere near as good, it’ll be… good.
AAANYWAY…. ummm…. *runs off*
Students? SET EVERYTHING ON FIRE JUST TO BE SAFE!
IT’S ALREADY BEEN DONE, NOB
IN OTHER NEWS, I’M NOW LOOKING FOR A NEW JOB.
Here, take this one. I don’t want it.
Did… Did Abbott seriously just tell the National Press Club that it was their job not to run with anything contrary to him?
How about a Cluedo like game? Political-do…. (I’m terrible at this naming new games thing)
Name the leader, when they take it and their weapon (policy on offer)
My entry: Bishop, this Thursday, emissions targets
Kristina Keneally:
Oh snap! Shots fired!
😛
He’s withdrawn himself from all future Knighthood decisions.
As a contender to get one? D:
I’d love to see him try and knight himself.
The reaction would be hilarious 😛
Hey guys, some moron just posted in old TAY. I’ll post it here so we can all ridicule and berate him.
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*
What a putz! *ahem*
Minecraft
Never really played much besides basics in the game. However finally remembered my account details and have been playing the last few days on the Tekkit modpack, and the Big Dig modpack with my cousin. Whats everyones suggestions for good modpacks? Also is the minecraft Tay server still going?
I think so, not sure of the details though. Also I’m fairly certain it’s running the base game, no mods.
I’ve been a fan of Direwolf’s FTB packs since about 1.4 – usually has a nice variety; I normally start a new single-player instance a couple times a year, and pick a few mods at random to focus on.
I just played off my Majora’s Mask tin!
$80!
Also, there is so many extra MM N3DSs my local eb have signs up.
I wish I were rich! Or Type 0 was a different date.
Sell em on the ebays!
I hope my JB copy is secure, sounds like it could be! I don’t really care though since the edition isn’t that good but…
FUCK
JIMU I STILL WANT THAT MM 3DS!
T_T
It is. You’ll just have to wait til March is all.
I want one too but FF>Zelda (shots fired!).
Also, still unsure what good a N3DS will do me.
I’m sure Game Freak will use it as an excuse to drop gen 7 in a year or 2. That said, the functionality added by DSi in gen 5, I’m unsure if I actually ever used it.
Still, such a busy time, gonna actually have to hold off on buying RE Revelations 2 til April because I just can’t afford it!
Maybe that’ll work out, maybe they’ll get their shit together & have a release date for the Vita port, in case I want that version.
Infinifactory – I just saw an animated gif that made me want this game – it looks like a 3D SpaceChem and I’ve spent way too many hours mucking around in SpaceChem.
Dug a little further and found it on steam.
It’s by the same developers as SpaceChem \o/
It’s early access /o\
I don’t quite understand why it’s early access.
Edit: not an animated gig, autocorrect
Early Access is just a safety net that all non-huge developers seem to be marking there game so if anyone has any complaint about it they can say “Nope, it’s Early Access”.
Basically money now, bug fixing later?
Early Access 101
What I took away from Superb Owl 49!
Tomorrowland is going to be AWESOME!
Also I’m so on board with Jurassic World!
Jurassic World looks sooo good..
And the Patriots won! \O/I had a pretty solid weekend. My sister got engaged! 🙂 They’re such lovely dorks.
Tonight’s podcast episode is a quiz hosted by yours truly (who is about to have a heart attack over the damn thing) and I’ve been preparing questions like a madman but I still think I’ve missed some interesting/funny stuff to ask. So, if anyone has any suggestions…general sorts of questions (though if somebody wants to get ridiculously specific with a question for the lulz that might be fun too), it’d be a big help and probably calm me down a bit. Nerves of steel, I have not.
Congrats Girl Alex!
THAT’S NOT A QUESTION
What is the atomic weight of Bolognium?
Woo! Go AlexisAndHerSkirt!
QUESTIONS!
What…is your name?
What…is your quest?
What…is your favourite colour?
What…is the capital of Assyria?
What…is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?
I dunno…
Maybe I should have said the words ‘video game related’ somewhere in there with the word ‘quiz’…
What was the first video game to allow the player the use of a chainsaw as a weapon?
DoomThis did get asked at my pub quiz. Most everyone got it right.I have more if you want.
What game ended up as – literally – acres of landfill (or conversely, how many programmers programmed the game that ended up as landfill) – ET and 1
Title themes – I’ve done Halo (easily got by most) and Skryim (got by about half).
Which of the major console game companies (Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo and Sega) has the most entries in the top 10 highest selling games of all time? Nintendo with 6.
What is Nintendo’s highest selling game of all time? Wii Sports.
I love you.
squee
ily you too man.
The Morrowind theme was better than the Skyrim theme.
In fact, everything about Morrowind is just better.
Even the graphics
Which game popularised the use of bloom in 2004 after the developers published their method (it was in a magazine, can’t remember which one)?
Tron 2.0.
What term is used to describe the method of giving an object point a position, and animating relevant parts so that your point is correctly positioned?
Inverse Kinematics.
Pangaea Soft’s 3D platformer/shooter Otto Matic was based on what style of cinema?
1950s Alien Invasion films
… Hey, I never said I’d give you practical questions that they’d be able to answer!
Well, that’s their fault for not knowing.
Hate the inevitable ‘what do you do?’ question from any one new I meet and then the silence after I tell them. (No matter the spin I put on it. :P)
All fuel motivating me to make some changes.
Speaking of changes! How goes the Fitocracy challenge?
Note to self: Next month, ask DC what he does.
Close up magic!
Hah, I would love that answer. Especially if as you said it you pulled a bouquet out of thin air or something.
Or a live Dove! That would be even better.
I’m gonna learn how to do this!
It’s not hard. Sourcing the bird is hard.
…yes I actually used to do magic on stage. More of a card man, but have done the bird stuff.
…no I’m not telling you as that isn’t allowed under the oath of magicians (not making this shit up).
However, Google. Especially Google the Magic Cafe.
I’d say the most difficult bit is stuffing the bird down your pants.
No, The most difficult part is explaining to the police why you have a bird down your pants when they stop you on the way to the show
I’ve added a reminder to my phone.
FITICRACY IS GOING INCREDIBLY WELL. I CANNOT BELEIVE THE RESULTS I AM SEEING. YES-SIREE, I’M GETTING FIT. I’M TOTALLY PARTAKING IN PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES.
-this lie was proudly brought to you by the number 35-
Ehhh, just follow it up with what you have done. It’s what I do because answering “driving vans” is boring and (by the amount complaining people do) saying I work for aus post is likely to get me kicked in the junk.
I don’t even like it when I do have something “proper” to respond with.
Good thing I hardly ever meet anyone new.
[/waitthatsnotgoodatall]
Yeah, this. It’s almost as bad to have a job you don’t believe in. I dislike telling people I’m a public servant, and most people aren’t really interested enough to hear the whole thing about how it just pays the bills and I write books on the side etc
I think the only positive thing about a long term stint of unemployment is never judging any one on their jobs ever. I feel atleast this is something good I can take away from it. 😛
Nah, you can still judge people. The other year I met a qualified glass-blower. I thought that was pretty much the coolest thing ever.
Well, it helps that you were right.
I do stuff and I have this problem.
I haven’t done any exercise today, but I’ve started the better eating portion!
Weet-Bix for breakfast! Turkey and salad roll for lunch!
Myfitnesspal! Do it! It will help you to eat less without accidentally starving yourself.
This. I don’t use it anymore, but knowledge is power and understanding where all your calories come from makes it much easier to make sensible decisions about what goes in to your body.
I ran one kilometre last night in about four and a half minutes. But then I was completely worn out and had to stop. It’s a start.
Yessss. Sounds like you didn’t save any thing for the run back.
I’m a degenerate.
Niiiice, that’s a good 1km pace. Keep it up!
You got my curious about distances. Looks like my walk home from the station is about 1.2km. That walk takes me about 15min to do. No idea how far I’ve made it running though, so no point of comparison. Other than the one where it was probably more like half way where I had to stop and switch to walking 😛
Bad, left my fitbit at home so @cookingmama is going to beat me today.
A powerful enemy was made today! ;D
[redacted]
I ate half a kilo of lasagne and a wheel of brie for lunch. It was a challenge indeed, and I prevailed. It’s a lot of digestion, for sure… so how many points is that worth on Fitocracy?
I also had lasagne! TWINS!
I’d say you’d be right up there in the hundreds, alongside Liondrive. Well done!
Don’t talk about my points >:'(
Why not? Were they faked?
I ran my fat arse off last night and scored a measly 66 points. Then I look up and see you’ve pulled 650.
That’s why I don’t like the whole point thing! :’O
Makes me feel bad, since weights get you more points 🙁
Also makes me feel super vain, working out to get muscles.
Eh, I was just being an arse. Don’t sweat it. Though my comments did come off as kind of harsh so apologies for that.
Hahahaha, you weren’t being an arse, or harsh 😛
I just don’t like the whole points thing after the last fitocracy challenge :S
FTFY
Doesn’t he already have one of those?
I didn’t run yesterday as the backs of my knees are sunburnt and I was climbing ladders all Saturday . Tonight I will PUSH THROUGH THE PAIN
I am currently a stay at home mum. I always get asked the same thing. When are you going back to work, are you having more kids. A: none of your business.
Gonna be honest,I kind of wanted to ask you that sort of question when we met face to face, but I was afraid it would come out condescending or forced, which is the opposite of what I want out of my curiosity.
Good story Blaghs. Good story.
Actually, I would have been happy to tell you. People assume that being a stay at home mum is boring, but I love it. Beats working 😉
People think that? If I had the option to be a stay at home Dad I would
You mention that you don’t work and they look at you with a “what do you *do* all day” sort of look. And sometimes it’s hard to answer, because “eating fish fingers with my 3 year old while we chat about captain toad”, or “I made rainbow spaghetti and took it to playgroup, where we sang Dingle Dangle Scarecrow again” doesn’t sound important.
The problem is I worry a lot. If I ask “you have a degree, right?” which is based on what you’ve previously mentioned, and I think I’m correct, but it sounds denigrating no matter how I put it. If I ask you “so what do you do, aside from looking after the squirt,” it sounds like I’m insulting the work you put into looking after your child, rather than just imitating the way my uncle speaks.
And so forth. As such, it’s better to stay quiet.
Questions are ok, just be polite! I did things before I had my son, so it’s fine to ask – the answer is: I have an Engineering/Science degree, plus a graduate diploma in Education, which makes me a High School maths teacher. I did that for 4 years before my son arrived, and I’ll get back to it eventually.
See, it’s nice to know that, and I’m sure you’re happy to pass that on, but whenever I phrased that in my head in ended up sounding like “You look after a child? HAHAHAHA, way to throw away your life” which is not exactly what I had in mind (more the complete opposite, and I think you know me well enough to know that no spite is meant).
As it stands, you have an utterly adorable child, and I was curious as to whether you had any plans once said child was old enough to be independentish, but not curious enough to ask what you wanted to do with him right now, and oh god sentences are tricky.
I actually ran into someone this morning and had to answer that question. Sometimes it’s no easier with a job. ‘Yeah, I…uh…advertising.’
That just conjures images of Don Draper and smoothness. XD
Well. Apart from the delivery.
Just call yourself a security consultant.
If they really press just say you’re under some non-disclosure agreements.
MAKE THEM THINK YOU ARE AN ASSASSIN.
I worked for a defence industry organisation. I was under NDA for some things, and the rest were exceedigly dull.
Housemates were convinced I was a spy
I had housemates whose friends were convinced I was a spy, too… but mostly because I kept very strange hours. Nowhere near as cool as being able to claim NDA/defence work.
“I scan files. It is exactly as boring as it sounds.”
And terribly. I slept in, so I didn’t exercise this morning.
Fitocracy is happening. Started couch to 5k again.
I don’t even know how to describe what I do.
“Uh… Business-y stuff”
Respond to ‘what do you do?’ with:
http://www.gifsforum.com/post/Barney-Stinson-haha-please-54495cdc207ba
People who play/played 40K and know stuffs, I need your help.
I’ve acquired some Eldar miniatures and I’m putting together an army list of stuff I want to buy. Are Dark Reapers + Jetbikes a solid base for an army or should I try for something different?
I have a very, very small idea of what I’m doing.
I wouldn’t be able to help, sorry.
I’m personally going to one day get a Necron army but that won’t be for a long time
Wrote about 10 paragraphs out espousing all the combinations that worked very well for me against all the Space Marines that all my friends played and then realised the game is completely different now than 10 years ago so deleted it all and write this apology instead.
Yes
#Helping
While I might’ve been able to help you when it came to the Tau; Space Marines; Chaos Marines; Imperial Guard or Necrons for that matter. Have literally no idea about Dark Eldar or Eldar =P Pretty sketchy on Tyranids and Orks as well actually….. You can tell I have a certain type that I’m drawn too xD
‘Nids could typically go with a core of big bads with some shock soldiers to bolster them, or to go screamy flaily zerg rush tactics with swarms of ‘gaunts and ‘stealers.
Never really payed attention to Eldar or Dark Eldar.
Its been years since I played but I’d say build an army you think sounds fun to play as, play a few games see how it goes and adjust accordingly. I used to build 750 point armies as a starting point and go from there.
You wont have numbers with a bike army but youll have speed and extra saves (assuming you still get them in the current rules)
Forgot how tasty Tiny Teddy’s are.
Bought a variety bag yesterday. Mum likes honey, I like chocolate
I feel like Tiny Teddy’s are teaching our kids terrible lessons. Back in my day we were never taught to eat people we just met.
How’s that diet going?
@freezespreston apparently South Park only had 10 episodes for season 18, so I guess we were both wrong in thinking there were more to come for season 18 =(
Did Channel $even change channels for the broadcast midway through the Superb Owl??
Is this not one of the great “You shall not………………….’s” of modern television programming?
They do that all the time
Yeah, they do it constantly throughout the tennis.
Bright side is that at least they don’t stop broadcasting altogether when the news comes on!
RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGE. One of my employees just spoiled the Super Bowl for me. I’ve been avoiding all social media until I can get home and watch the game and she just dropped it in to conversation.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH.
You’ll pay for this come pay review time. “Spoiled Super Bowl 49. -1%”
Not really.I wondered if the score posted on previous page was going to do this as well! D:
TAY / Kotaku was inclusive of my social media ban. I avoid any possible site at which I could see the score. E.g. they may have done an article on Kotaku comparing the real result to the Tecmo Bowl result.
But now that I know, I can be here.
*waves* Hey Bob!
SEE! KOTAKU JUST DID. THE SCORE IS ON THE FRONT PAGE. I WAS RIGHT! (for once)
I saw! Amaaaazing!
To be honest though, I can never keep gossip about a Superb Owl to myself.
YOLO.
You obviously like owls.So you’ve got a job opening at your company now?
Because I don’t care about the Superb Owl, (I love sport, but I think American Football is boring) I watched Mega Shark v Mecha Shark instead. Such a dumb movie, but entertaining enough. Christopher Judge is in it, and it’s partially set in Sydney. Not the worst movie I’ve ever seen. 4/10, probably wouldn’t watch again.
Good god new Word is infuriating. Everything is hidden all over the place, how the hell are you supposed to find anything?
Mind you, “new” to me probably means anything that came after Word 97. I was going to check what version this was, but then I realised there was no File menu to select Help -> About from like I normally would, so I couldn’t even do that.
*punches wall, goes back to .txt files in NP++*
http://www.addintools.com/documents/word/where-about.html
But if I was going there to find out which version I have, and then need to know the version to choose… *head explodes*
you could easily tell which you have by looking at the pics. they all look very different with the exception of 2007 and 2010. They’re the only ones that look kind of similar
Yeah, I figured out from that that it was 07. And then in doing so, did not need to find About any more 😛
But looking at those instructions… jesus.
I know what you mean. No idea why they decided to go and change everything so drastically. It is rather annoying, especially when you have to support the apps, and people have different versions. Much better if they just stick to one standard method of getting to options etc.
Freebie Google Drive for me. Has all the basics I need, and all my docs are saved in the cloud. Else, LibreOffice? There’s no need to go out and get the latest Office every year anymore, really.
I dunno, it’s just what it’s set up with here at work. Most of the stuff we’ve done ourselves has been on google docs, but I’m working on some things that were on the file server here. It is all bleh.
As a heavy user of MS Office the ribbon is the best thing to happen to the suite.
When I fired up Win8.1 for the first time and noticed it had made its way onto the OS i cheered a little.
Although… If you don’t need any of the fancy stuff .txt is awesome.
So apparently one of the most enduring fantasies is to go back to high school and do it again. Using what you know now, you could take advantage of more opportunities, avoid nasty situations, and make inroads with old flames.
Monday afternoon morality quiz: if it became possible to relive your teenage years with your current knowledge, would it count as paedophilia to hook up with a fellow student?
Why would you want to go back to high school with an adults brain? I’ve seen teenagers in hindsight! I don’t want to go back to that!
Yeah, i think Freeze’s Life is Strange posts prove that going back to high school would be infuriating. 😛
Exactly my thinking. I don’t understand why it’s such a pervasive fantasy :\
I think lots of people are conditioned to think that high school era is the best years of your life. That’s just sad, though.
They WERE! I was a golden GOD! I could do no wrong! Even when I did wrong! Charming, roguish, popular, intelligent, learning new things, involved in every possible cultural/physical activity, fit, happy, healthy… Those were fantastic years. Truly outstanding. And if I had my time again, I’m sure I could even improve on that.
So what’s the difference to now? 😛
Well, I would use my current knowledge to make more money than I did, then, setting me up even better.
Also, I’m getting old and fat and haven’t been learning new things. Time for a change!
My wife, a High School teacher, actually tells students “These are not the best years of your life. Your 20’s rock hard. You’re young enough that you can still avoid a lot of responsibility and yet you generally have enough money to do stupid things, like buy lots of video games and/or get drunk a lot.
High school sucks by comparison.”
The students are actually happy to hear that.
You mean people presenting a hagiography of their own high school years?
It’s part of the idea that “life was simpler then.” you had a regimented routine, you could fit into a social hierarchy, and you were a hormonal teen so emotions were heightened.
The mind papers over the humdrum and the crap bits
Which is the same reason the who paleo lifestyle thing is so popular with people now. It was a simplier time before all the nasty process crap and fast food and evil chemicals in our food.
Just gloss over the 24 year average life span and constant struggle for survival
Paleo is strange, but I’m pretty sure that unlike many fad diets it’s reasonably harmless
I don’t see it, no. I think my tastes have shifted since I was a teenager so the people I would have pursued then had I had the confidence aren’t the ones I’d pursue now.
Well, theres maybe one I’d handle differently.
And what if part of the knowledge you took back into high school was the kind of adults they eventually became…?
I probably still wouldn’t, but I’d act rather than what I did, which was ignore her affections.
At the time I didn’t have the emotional tools to deal with it, and was probably cruel.
Perhaps, but who would believe you that it is?
It’s more an ethical question than a legal one 😛
Well then, it all depends on who you see when you look into the mirror.
You guys know about my high school past, if that technology existed, I’d destroy it
1. Acquire technology
2. Spend 1 year in lock down MMA training facility
3. Use technology
4. Have a very different school experience
I don’t even want to go back to my 20s, let alone high school. Pretty happy with life in my 30s. Also, I was home schooled from grade 7 to 10, so not many fellow students.
I’d like to go back purely to actually apply myself and do some assignments to go through a useful tertiary education when I had the time instead of wasting my adolescence with nothing but drinking and partying.
Everything else, nah. I’m happy with where it ended up besides the career thing.
As for the moral question, as the law states and biologically, no. Ethically, Jesus Christ man, have you spent any time around teenagers? Why would you want to do that?
Because it would stop them talking for a while?Because you’ve made it a morality quiz, I’ll apply one of the more simple ethical frameworks over it – if you can do it, so can everyone else.
Picture that end result. Kinda defeating the purpose of the exercise, but also cleanly addressing your question with a no result.
That aside, the next question I’d ask is whether these reality instances exist in their own parallel bubble (that ceases to exist once you exit) or do the repercussions of your actions echo forward on your own timeline?
Maybe.
Circumvent the moral quandary by using your supernaturally-attained advantage to seduce your hot teachers instead.
But then are they committing paedophilia? Moral quandary!
Yeah, but their moral quandary, not yours.
…Apart from the fact that you’ve helped them commit a crime.
I may not have fully thought this throughbutseriously, you should’ve seen my music teacher. And drama teacher. And physics teacher. And one of the other classes’ English teacher…
From all the news stories that keep popping up, it would appear that it doesn’t take superior knowledge to pull that one off these days.
@Shane I think I prefer Transientmind’s idea as opposed to getting with old flames. I’m sure we all have stories about the time we stuffed things up royally though with the hottest girl in school. Mine feels like it was yesterday, it’s so fresh :'(
I’d use it to take better opportunities in buying games and such that would become ridiculously hard to get a hold of/stupidly expensive in the not too far future.
As for the main question… I didn’t really have any of that, no old flames to return to etc because I had extremely minimal interaction with girls then. To fix that would require forging all new relationships out of nowhere, which would basically leave me exactly where I am now. The only girls I had an interest in towards the end there were both taken, and I still got to take one of them to my formal which was a fantastic night. I guess if I did it again, I’d get myself a haircut before that night, but otherwise there’s little else that can be done then 😛
Still, if I were to do it again and it continued, there’d be a few changes to make once the uni years hit… thankfully no morality questions included 😛
Actually wait.
I didn’t find any gits attractive in high school. I was always attending other schools parties
Anyone know when exactly the battlefield hardline beta is gonna be open in Australia? I know it says feb 3, but with timezones and stuff I’m getting so confused.
I’m not sure, I imagine it’s a 12am job like most of the other games I’ve seen for Beta openings!
No cake batter for me. Apparently the person who usually does the shopping is sick(me) and the stand-in (Mr. Strange) forgot to grab the staples. D:
Thank goodness PSN is back. I’ve been soothing my hungry soul with shows about US BBQ competitions.
Everyone knows cookie dough is better than cake batter anyway 😛
*eyenarrows* I don’t know why being publicly wrong about everything is such a favourite pastime for you young people. I mean, I know you’re trolling with such obvious things like that, why not try for something more subtly wrong?
I’m not saying cake batter is bad, just that cookie dough is better, because it is 😉
There’s something about cookie dough that us just so good!
Cake is better than cookies though 😛
Cookies are better than cake. Cake batter is better than cookie dough. Except the dough of the first biscuits I ever learned how to make, which have custard powder in them. That dough is as good as cake batter. But just that one.
I’ll allow a possible exception for sugar-cookies. When golden crispy, those things are damn delicious in a way their mixture never could be.
Cake batter > Cookie batter? But Cookies > Cake?
What i-… what if… if you made cookies out of cake batter…
Wow, you old people sure do like to be wrong, don’t you? 😛
Cookie dough might be more portable in wrapped-log form, but the flavour of cake-batter is superior. I need, like… a shaker of cake-batter.
I can just imagine taking one to the gym. “Your protein shake’s pretty thick, dude.”
“Yeah. It’s all the sugar, flour, and butter.”
“I think you’re defeating the purpose of gym.”
“No, gym is the only way I can actually justify drinking this thing. The purpose of gym is to offset deliciousness.”
No no no you’re ALL doing it wrong!
I give you; Caramel Slice
Hard, crumbly base = Cookie bottom
Caramel and Chocolate caked upon one another = Cake
Por que los dos?
You’d like my Super Pods.
Butternut snap biscuits molded into a muffin tray, filled with caramel (sweetened condensed milk, brown sugar and butter), topped with chocolate.
How do you mold them into a tray?
On second thought, maybe I’m better off not knowing lol.
Microwave them, then flatten with a rolling pin. Just be careful not to burn the biscuits.
I don’t think I want to know what kind of cake you put staples in.
One that you don’t want to go anywhere.
It’s stationery.
Day 1 of child rearing without the wife for *checks watch* 8 hours and counting.
I have done three loads of washing, four loads of dishwashing, I have folded clothes, put them away, wiped benches, weeded a giant patch of sand. I’ve tracked down who stocks the hard to get anti-allergy detergent, spoken to a furniture store and finalised my claim with Centrelink.
My son loves me because he has had any fruit he wants, a couple of jelly snakes (he prefers green ones, note to self: get paternity test sometime this week). He’s played in the garden for hours, and is now watching the Wiggles on the TV with a cup of milk.
I have played a few bouts of Injustice with my new controller I bought for the PC. I’m training myself to get used to controllers before I launch into the big’un: Dark Souls.
However, I waved the white flag at the stupid flat pack wheelbarrow I bought. You know what shouldn’t be hard? Building a wheelbarrow. You know what is hard? BUILDING A GORAM WHEELBARROW WHERE THE INSTRUCTIONS LITERALLY SAY “For fortune in future, save and not destroy these in struction”
Quiz_B’s question of the day: If every superhero, from any stable, had a level playing field like they do in Injustice, who would win?
Or, just tell me why Batman would win.Holy hell, how did you manage all that with your kid around?!
a) I made lots of things into a game for him – getting me pegs, holding screws etc. etc.
b) Like working in a new job, you work really hard for a couple weeks before you end up just lazing about on the Internet. I give myself a week before we are both in pajamas’s for most of the day.
Yeah, I guess I did have to start “work” while still feeling like my uterus was being ripped out every time I stood up…. 😛
I upvoted you out of sympathy.
Ouch.
: /
To be fair, he’s got a messed up sternum. 😛
Ditto.
Evil Superman would win. This has all proven to be too much trouble and the peaceful future of humanity is in jeopardy. Eyebeam laz0rz for everybody.
The Phantom. Dude takes punishment like a champ and does all of batman’s tricks without the gadgets
And he has a badass alternate name.
The Ghost Who Walks.
Badass. Right there.
Man who cannot die
Aquaman
I have grown to hate Aquaman with a burning passion in Injustice.
Fish man is OP.
I grew to love him thanks to playing the Brave and the Bold game.
Then continued to love him in Injustice because of it 😛
Yeah sure, Superman punches you into outer space.
Yeah sure, Batman hits you with the Batmobile.
Aquaman drowns you, stabs you with a trident then feeds your pathetic arse to a shark.
So OP. Except when I play him. He’s balanced then.
I just realised that I had one of those oven bake cookie logs still in the fridge…
I wonder if I could melt some of those choc chips and inject them into the dough somehow…
Give it to someone as a gift, and just buy one that comes with choc-chips!
Oh sweet lord save me. I missed one of Jr’s shoulders when giving him sunscreen.
I know that look. Blisters are likely.
I’mmadeadman.
Oh fudge! Is there any way you can hide it? Like put a t-shirt on him and make sure you’re the one in charge of dressing and bathing him for a while?
Sounds like someone has experience in covering up a child’s injury from their significant other 😛
More like someone’s had experience with their SO attempting to cover up an injury. 😛
Yeah, your husband 😛
It’s okay, he’s still young. Soon his baby shoulders will fall off and his adult ones will grow in.
Biology with Pow!
Now, the official thingies on it state that it does nothing, but this is one case where I’ll go with personal experience (of a whole group of people, so it was probably just a group placebo effect): Steroid Cream is a pretty cool guy for sunburn.
(Plus it makes your testicles shrink, and who doesn’t want that?)
Get the moisturizer/after sun cream on it now
If possible fill a bucket with it and just drop him in
Ouchies, shoulders are the worst. One time I left my shirt off for the day whilst at the beach with no sunscreen. You know the rest. Second degree burns, blistering and painful nights of no sleep. I wore Acticoat dressings for weeks. That’s worst case scenario, though. I’m sure the little guy is fine huh?
Just explain that it’s your first day on the job and some mistakes are bound to happen. At least it’s only minor external physical damage! Plus, y’know… The trauma, when it actually starts to hurt.
One of the coworkers was talking the other day about how they had to take their infant to the doctor…. Apparently she had a particularly painful bowel movement, didn’t understand what was going on or that ‘that just happens sometimes’, and instead just decided she wasn’t going to do that ever again. And thus, stopped pooping.
Pretty sure he said something along the lines of, “Nothing can ever fully prepare you for everything you’ll encounter raising a kid. Nothing.“
o.0
Well I’ll keep that in mind, considering I’m the nappy changer around here now.
…man, kids are just weird. Freakin’ non humans.
Today was my first day of TAFE. It it truly a momentous occasion. Today is the day I am no longer a high school student, but a pupil of my destiny, where I get to study what I want. The automatic doors of the building opened before me. I took in the cool of the air conditioner and the irksome crackling of the light fixture. It all begins tod-
-Wait, what? The timetable was changed of the last minute and I wasn’t notified? So I don’t have a class today? Well, uh, I guess I’ll do some study in the library. Damn, these books aren’t really what I need at the moment. I’ll go on the computers and access the student resources. Wait, shit, they haven’t given me the login details.
Uhh… I guess I’ll go home then.
Okay, fine, today isn’t my first day of TAFE, but something momentous happened anyway. I tried Hello Panda biscuit snacks for the first time. They’re okay.
Congrats on taking first tentative steps into the world! 😀
Wait…. That last bit…..
Panda’s… “okay”
You… I… Nope. Not even going to try.
*throws hands up and walks away munching on Choc Panda’s*
It was stawberry Hello Pandas. Does that change anything?
What are you studying?
The arts? If so you could be JUST LIKE ME HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHahahahahahahahaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh -cries hysterically-
I will be studying a Certificate III in Information, Digital Media and Technology. (Network Administration) I’m not awesome enough for arts program.
This has made me so mad. Especially coupled with the ridiculously boring homework he’s been set like “draw a picture of three things that end in “at””. It reminds me of when I first moved to Queensland and was horrified to find that in grade 2 they were still doing the same stuff my daughter had learned in Kinder. After her first term in grade 2 they moved her up to grade 3 .
Academically, my son could start grade 2, or even 3 right now and be fine, but emotionally and physically he’s not ready. Seriously thinking I may have to home school him.
🙁 Ah, that’s so damn frustrating.
I got my eldest to read the first chapter of a Matthew Reilly book to me and she did it relatively effortlessly. School is still sending her home with books like “The cat sat on the bed.” We asked if we could push forward a few levels so she isn’t bored and frustrated as she is currently and turns out schools like to keep everyone at the same level these days.
Damn. My eldest kid starts kindy tomorrow and can already read Matilda. :\
These are examples of good parenting.
Wonder how much of it is due to parents complaining when they find out their kid isn’t particularly smart?
I mean, my eldest is pretty smart but my youngest, while sharp as a tack at reading people, can be pretty bone headed at times and doesn’t show a lot of interest in books or learning. I don’t believe the other kids in her class should be held back because she’s uninterested.
Your daughter knows how to fist bump. She’s a prodigy!
It wasn’t like this in NSW. When my daughter started Kindy already reading, and doing maths stuff in her head they catered for her. And when she started grade 1, they followed on fromKindy,instead of going back to the start. Hopefully the ACT is more like NSW.
The trick there is to nurture her love of reading at home… and send her to school with books so once she finishes the assigned work she’s got something to read.
Source: My childhood.
I started doing that in high school especially when it came to reading book in class
I was always well ahead on reading.
I’m still pretty omnivorous with the written word, though I read a bunch of comics too
I did that through most of my math classes. Ten minutes to do exercises = two or three minutes to finish the work and then a chapter of LotR or Sword of Truth. Learnt very quickly it was a bad idea to just move on to the next set of problems or read ahead in the textbook – just left me seeming rude when I stuck my head back in my novel when the teacher tried to teach the next topic.
Edit: High school, obv.
That’s awful. I remember when I was in grade 1 they had to send me to all the older kids’ classes for books, and in grade 2 they sent me to a grade 6 class for English. It was terrifying,but at least not boring.
And this, my friends, is why I’m a secondary teacher.
Far less airy-fairy stuff, more of the useful stuff, with differentiation based upon ability.
Sometimes I’ll make kids do work that they can already do while others catch up, but mainly that’s so I can actually make sure they know what they’re doing rather than just think they know what they’re doing.
Also less pants-pooping.
But punk teenagers!
Some are punks, most kids are fine, and sometimes you meet kids who are simply awesome people. Plus, everyone is allowed to have a bad day now and then.
Shit, I didn’t realize you were a teacher. Much respect. A whole hell of a lot of my family teaches… People have no idea. No. Idea. How much work it is.
In New Zealand we don’t have prep, in fact you don’t even start your first year of school at the start of the year. You start on your 5th birthday, and atleast at the school I went to grades 1-3 are all taught together in mixed classrooms. But then I spent most of my school in PNG and things tried to kill me.
My Mum experienced something similar. She’d taught me to read by pre-school which meant I spent most of Grade 1 and 2 sitting in the reading corner while the other kids learned the alphabet and other rudimentary bullshit.
What was “rudimentary bullshit” for you was crucial learning for other kids. The ones with parents who couldn’t read, the ones who didn’t speak English, the ones with learning disabilities like dyslexia who just couldn’t get it, no matter how many times they tried. If you found it easy, count yourself lucky. Plenty of other aren’t as fortunate, and schools have to cater for everyone. Unfortunately that means some kids need a lot more attention than others just to get the basics in place.
Yeah, ‘bullshit’ is probably too strong a word for my casual use of it, and ‘remedial’ probably inaccurate when considered relative to where a kid ‘should’ be at that age.
It does, however, convey the feeling of frustration, disdain, and mind-numbing boredom at the time, about just how far behind the teaching was and there was nothing for them to do with me. But lie on cushions, all day. Boohoo, I know… but seriously, it gets old, fast.
Not really sure kid-me was particularly unfair in feeling that, either. It seems like something is wrong with the system if there’s nothing to do with a kid who’s sitting in the corner reading Rald Dahl novels while the rest of the class is working on getting the shape of letters right in the latter half of the alphabet. What’s that kid there for? Free daycare?
That’s not so much ‘catering to everyone’, just the slow.
I’d argue for a greater breadth of academic options based on aptitude and skill levels instead of just age, but I wouldn’t hold my breath… A lot of parents would HATE the idea. Even now, you would not believe how loudly parents will complain to keep their kids out of remedial classes they sorely need, just to avoid the stigma.
It’s like they consider it a personal insult and source of shame to be ignored or hidden instead of an opportunity for more focused, personalized learning to catch up.
Perhaps more helpfully: Mum eventually decided there wasn’t really a lot of point in getting frustrated at how pedestrian the work is to make sure the other kids don’t fall behind. She ended up buying some advanced learning programs to keep my maths and science and other general knowledge ahead, and I turned my in-school focus to socializing and reading for leisure.
There’s actually a hell of a lot of fun to be had in finding home-educational materials which are challenging and interesting at the same time. There’s some crap out there, but there are some real gems, too. I really loved a lot of those books/exercises. Fondly remembered to this day.
But for my money, I’d reckon it’s still worth keeping him in the school for the social aspects. Just gotta find a way to deal with the boredom. Sometimes they run advanced groups for stuff… I got to participate in a few of those, even in the public school system.
Reminds me of my first year of school as well. My Mum’s a former teacher, and so my first few years before starting school were basically 1:1 time with a teacher all day, every day. I was reading on my own by the time I was four. Note that primary school starts at 5 in New Zealand, there’s no prep year.
First year of school we’re doing these dreadfully boring, simple books and I just couldn’t understand why that was interesting. I was reading stuff at home that was probably 2-3 years more advanced by then.
Parent-teacher interviews that year, my Teacher informs my mother that I needed to read more at home to practice because I was bad at reading…
I posted this in Weekend TAY, but I thought I’d post it again here.
I’m building a PC, and I have two different models: AMD and Intel. Aim is to be able to play the Witcher 3, cause if it can do that, it can do anything basically. After posting on several different forums, which told me that some games run 30-40% worse on AMD, I decided to do an Intel version as well (which ended up being cheaper).
AMD PC: http://au.pcpartpicker.com/p/mbhDK8 ($1247)
Intel PC: http://au.pcpartpicker.com/p/LhtxNG ($1243)
In regards to wifi cards, I got a Raspberry Pi a while back, and it came with an adapter. Would that adapter be able to work with the PC?
I have a monitor, keyboard, and mouse already, and my educational institution has Windows 7 and 8 available to download, so I don’t need to spend the money on them either.
Suggestions welcome, especially on the case. I think it looks cool, but I’m only choosing it because it looks cool, is quiet, and has cable management. If there’s a similar case for approximately the same price that you think is better, I’d be happy to hear it.
Also suggestions for anything else welcome, or which build I should use.
I’d swap out the motherboard for a Z97 there’s some good ones out there, but you’re looking at $130+ For one with good features.
Other than that, I would highly suggest you change the cooler to something like a liquid cooler (cooler master Nepton are pretty sweet right now) if you’re going to go the route with the k series i5, since that will allow you to overclock it and get the best performance from it.
Other than that, you will greatly benefit from an SSD. Samsung 840 series would be good, they’re a generation old, but still a great SSD especially for the $$ if you wanted to spend more i’d suggest the 850 Pro they’re basically the best SSD in terms of performance for your dollar at the moment followed by the new Intel 730 series.
As for wifi, I know nothing there honestly. I’d personally go for a PCI card though so it’s not taking up a USB slot and it’s then a bit more out of the way. But what ever is easier for you I say!
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I’m not pushing this at all, but I just came up with this as an idea of what I am talking about there, and it’s about $240 than what you did with the Intel build, and with that one you’ll get the extra stuff I mentioned maybe correcting.
On top of that;
-I swapped the PSU for a silverstone 80+ gold fully modular 550W, 30 bucks cheaper than the one you had, whilst Antec is good, I find them a bit over priced at times.
-RAM, the Kingston fury series is good (I favour kingston) and is a little cheaper for a 1600mhz 8gb kit.
-I also changed the case, NZXT had a phantom in red and they’re pretty decent for cable management and airflow it was also cheaper.
I can’t comment on the AMD build since I really know nothing about AMD, some personal experiences i’ve had has made me stay away from their CPU’s & GPU’s.
Thanks for this, I’ll have a look through it more in-depth later.
With overclocking, would it reduce the lifespan of the CPU by much? It’d probably be a while before I can upgrade the CPU, so I don’t want it dying after a year.
I forgot to mention in this post that I don’t need an SSD, but I’ll look into it since everyone’s suggesting it. I was after space more than speed, but I should probably get an SSD as well.
I’ll probably get a PCI wifi card, that’s probably what I want. They’re cheap as well.
The case looks nice, but I’ll probably go with a black if they have it. That red looks a little too stand-outish for me.
If it’s OK to ask, what bad experiences did you have with AMD?
Sorry for all the questions, it’s my first time building a PC.
No worries. I suggest if you want a more indepth look at all that, hitting up Linus Tech Tips on YouTube and possibly their forum. He knows his stuff, and is a good place to learn what would be a good solid build for your money!
Nah. It may reduce it’s life span. But I’m gonna guess you’re not planning on using the same computer and components for 10 year or more ha.
SSD for operating system and a few programs maybe even one or two games. Then something like a WD red or green for mass storage since those green WD drives only spin at 5,400 RPM which is slow where as a normal hard drive meant for say an OS they spin at 7,200 RPM that being the WD Blues for example.
Yep, totally would go that over USB. Even better if you can get a motherboard with built in WiFi but that would appear to either be on ITX motherboards or very expensive X99 motherboards.
Haha, I saw you picked a red case and new NZXT had a nice red one so yeah 😛 But Fractal Design as mentioned by @sunsoar77 have some really nice cases. Would recommend checking them out!
Yeah, just never had a worthy experience with them. Would be about 9 years ago I think I last actively sought out an AMD board (when 64-bit just started becoming more of a thing) it was the last time I bought AMD since I had nothing but issues with it. It never seemed as responsive as my Pentium 4 I had at the time which was quite a few years older than it. Also another AMD dual core I had a few years later was really meh compared to my Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 which in its defense was a damn fine CPU, especially coupled with my 8800GTS.
S’all good. It’s been a while since I built a PC. Looking at putting together a new one this year. Half tempted to go for 4k just because heh… Would be good on the design front of things I guess ha.
@jajabinks2: I have to disagree on the suggestion of a water cooling loop for the CPU. It’s not worth it.
The main reasons you would want to use a water cooling loop are performance and noise levels. In both cases, you’ll find that the integrated liquid cooling systems from Corsair et al. move the same amount of heat as a good heat sink. Additionally, you can get quieter coolers. Additionally with air cooling there’s zero chance that a seal might break and spill liquid through your machine.
I’d suggest looking at a Noctua cooler.
If you say so. I’d rather have the heat extracted straight out the back of the case, rather than added to rest of the heat in the case especially from what the GPU is going to generate. Less heat in the case is better for all components in there 😉
I don’t get the paranoia there with the “oh the seal might break” err what the hell were you doing to it to cause that is my question… The coolers run insanely quiet as it stands. The pumps & fans on quality brand ones are so quiet it’s about an invalid argument.
Assuming you’re talking about a closed-loop cooler, the head is still inside the case – you’ve just put a giant radiator on the edge of it instead of a big fan & heatsink in the middle. And you’ve lost and intake or exhaust fan mount in the process. Works out the same.
The noise info might not be accurate now, but it was a 12-18 months or so ago when I was looking at this last. Experts did the comparisons and found all the watercooling loops to come out short in terms of cooling performance to noise.
And *any* water cooling loop can leak. It doesn’t mean you necessarily did anything wrong. Stuff sometimes isn’t made right and just breaks. Seals break down. Rubber hoses perish. It can happen. Much less likely than building your own liquid cooling system but it can happen.
Well. Most of them now have an exhaust fan on the backside and another fan on the front of the rad pushing air through it. So not really. I mean i’m currently sitting at 42 degrees on the stock air cooling (i5 2500) and my mate with his Corsair H90 (which is 3 years old now) will be keeping his i7 whatever in either the low 30’s or high 20’s and that’s idle. They do a fantastic job. I was never really sold on them, but after what i’ve been seeing and reading in the last year they’ve really been worth the investment.
It’d be no louder than the PSU/GPU at idle, and saying that now all those you’ll find some brands the fans don’t kick in until over a certain temp because passive airflow and the heat sinks are that efficient.
You want a plain-ish case I recently got the Fractal Design Define R4 and can recommend it. Bigger than I expected but very happy with it. http://www.fractal-design.com/home/product/cases/define-series/define-r4-black-pearl
Also – I put off getting an SSD till my most recent refresh in October last year and now I can’t believe I waited so long. I crack the shits with my laptop now with how damn slow the thing starts and its less than a year old! My only regret now was only getting a 128gb drive.
Also… be wary of the PC building bug… you do it once and realise how easy it is, then all of a sudden you want to start replacing parts left and right. Good times! 🙂
This makes me a happy person. 😀
Whoaaaa Metroid Prime Trilogy on Wii U has better load times?! Why didn’t anyone tell me ;_;
Hopefully it’s still on sale… I’ve got the disc version but I just saw a comparison vid and the disc load times are pretty gross!
I hope Super Mario Galaxy 2 and Donkey Kong Country Returns didn’t have any other benefits, otherwise I’ve missed out :(. Anyone know if they did?
(Wouldn’t have known if it wasn’t for your comment @cubits. CHAMP!)
A$13 until the end of this working week! 😀
I went downstairs earlier to have a look if it was still on sale, but then I got distracted and ended up playing piano for like 30 minutes before suddenly remembering why I went downstairs… 😛 😀
Purchased! Looks likes I didn’t have enough free space on the Wii U, so goodbye W101! (bleh)
MONSTERIUS
Is there a comparison to the Cube versions, or just Wii?
Probs, but the random YouTube vid I saw was a Wii comparison (MP3)
I think I found one!
Hmm. So trilogy via homebrew is best? 😛
Apparently! But that’s naughty and I’m a good egg 🙂
No it’s not.
Ugh, GoodEggius
Bud, it’s so good.
When I tell people my wrist hurts because I’ve been playing the Metroid Prime they don’t believe me for some reason.
Numenera: Tales of the Ninth World – Twenty-Fourth Session Recap (21st January 2015) starring:
– Blaghs aka @blaghman the tough Glaive who masters weaponry,
– Elandar Kintan aka @popdart5 the foolish Nano who controls gravity.
– Scrappa aka @tech_knight the mechanical Jack who talks to machines, and
– Storyteller aka @redartifice the awesome GM who weaves tales.
Unfortunately absent:
– Nova aka @novacascade the stealthy Jack who explores dark places.
Uturi’s Pit was supposedly the resting place of the ancient Queen Stalliset, ruler of a vast and powerful empire that crumbled upon her death. It is here that the party hoped to find the Impossible Blade, a tool that could be used to cure Phetys of his affliction. However, in the depths of the Pit, the party is braving the myriad of traps and puzzles that have hindered them thus far. They continue to delve further into the Pit so as to find the vault of Queen Stalliset, where they might find other treasures and valuables along with the Impossible Blade.
Read more at http://taynumenera.tumblr.com/.
MPQ talk
Well season X worked out quite well for me with 3 heroic 10 packs (1 from progression, 2 as final result). Of course now I have a huge number of covers and need to decide who to lose or sell
Got a few useful ones in the 1st pack (A hulk, a spidey as well as storm mohawk which I spent HP to unlock a slot for as well as a Daredevil)
Now I’ve opened the last 2 packs and as far as 3* goes I got
– Storm mohawk Green x 2 *
– Luke Cage Red
– Gamora Black & green *
– Mystique black
– Rocket and Groot Green *
Also have the first of the 3 devil dinosaur covers from progression rewards.
Thoughts so far (* have been unlocked)
I already have a couple of Gamora covers so use those
Storm will bring me up to 3 covers and to date all storms have been great, not sure about mohawk but assume so
Think I sell Luke Cage and Mystique
Might as well use the R&G as I already have them unlocked.
I have max covers for Storm classic, ares and human torch but haven’t spent any ISO on them.
I also have a single cover of Captain Marvel and Thor modern in the 3* ranks. As well as sentry with 2 yellows)
So I think selling Human torch for Devil dino makes sense.
What do you guys think
I think I’m jealous of your 3*’s.
Do you think they’ll ever introduce inter-alliance trading? Because I’d be #1 moocher.
I wish they would. Haven’t had it with 3* yet but when I was trying to get my 2 * covers and getting the only ones that you have 5 of and having to sell them was annoying. Would be happy to hand them off.
Well the scary part is I think my Devil dino is the rewards for a year of days that you have played the game
Never sell luke cage.
He’s a Hero for Hire, not for sale.
Wise words. So you are saying I need to sacrifice Ares. A bold strategy indeed.
This is a bit all over the place because I started typing before you posted, then adjusted on the fly. But just go with it. Spoilered for space saving.
Devil Dino
Let’s get this addressed first. He’s rare – only available as the daily rewards after 1 year and in the Anniversary cover packs (which will come around again in September). But he’s also a joke character. He actually can serve a slight purpose as a deterrent in PvP, due to his high health pool and the cheap-cost, long-animation purple ability. However he’s basically got nothing to offer for offense or PvE utility. If you do dedicate a roster slot for him, be aware that there’s almost no situation where using ISO on him is a good idea.Daredevil
DD got a bit of an overhaul recently; although he’s still a little too situational for the top tier.His damage output was raised significantly on his Red ability. It’s now much easier to stun the enemy you want, rather than relying on luck, and getting extra AP back for matching it yourself can be quite handy for keeping someone stun-locked. I’m not so much of a fan of the new purple – it’s completely reactive, since it requires enemy tiles to be in play. Still, an active purple ability is a bit of a rarity and it means he combos well with Patch (he’ll clear away the enemy Strike tiles from Berserker Rage).
He doesn’t have any bulk, nor healing factor, so you’ll need to be prepared to use health packs on him. The closest comparison would be 3* Captain America – Daredevil is essentially Cap “lite”. Cap’s Red and Blue operate fairly similarly (stun/damage, then shelter a friendly tile for a few turns and you’ll get to do it again).
Still, I’ve gone and maxed DD myself and I think he’s quite fun to play., so he’s not all bad.
The Rest
Let me know the specifics on what you get from the reward packs. But based off your roster:Sell Captain Marvel. She doesn’t have enough damage output, and her trick is taking damage to fuel abilities.
I would normally suggest to sell 3* Storm as well, however with her covers being rewarded in the Divine Champions event at the moment, she’ll probably be required for an upcoming event in the very near future. Hold onto her until then, and then sell.
Squirrel Girl, Gamora. Maybe sell? I’m really not sure about SG anymore. I don’t think I really have a place for her, but I also think I’ve already gone past the point where I’d have a need for her. Gamora is a bit meh. Basically, there are a bunch of other characters who do Red, Green, Black better than her. Her Black is a fantastic skill, but you need at least 4 covers in it and she needs to be levelled up so that her icon is on as many tiles as you can get.
Patch, Blade, Cap Rogers, Thor, Hulk, Hood. Keep, keep, keep. These guys will all serve you well. As you get more covers, Patch+Hulk will let you push higher in PvP. 3* Cap is a beast in PvE. The Hood with 5 in Blue is pretty much the best character in the game still. I’d even say it’s worth buying that last cover if you have the HP to spare. With it, Hood combos with anyone.
Reward pack contents
Grocket seems pretty nice for transition play. I still have barely any covers myself, but his Yellow is True Healing, so he has good sustain, and the strength on his Strike tiles from blue is fantastic. His green is not so great on damage per AP cost, but it does provide some board disruption, which is always nice.Cage and Mystique are considered to be 2 of the better characters released recently (somewhere in the range of “lower top-tier” or “upper mid-tier”). However a single cover in each isn’t going to get you very far, so it may be best just to sell.
current 2*’s
You’ve already got a nice selection of 2*’s available, so selling Torch is not going to hurt you. Stormneto, the pairing of Classic Storm and Magneto, is considered the fastest team in the 2* tier, although it’s quite squishy. Keep or Sell storm at your own discretion. On the other hand, Ares is, by far, the best 2* character in the game. He continues to threaten high into the the 2-3* transition because he is essentially “guaranteed damage”. Part of the secret to succeeding in PvP during 2-3* transition is not so much about earning points, but keeping points. There will be lots of times where the best team you can put up is the loaner featured 3* and two of your max levelled 2* characters. That’s not going to be threatening to players with maxed 3* (or 4*) characters, but they will move past you quickly on the ladder. Most of the players that will be targeting you are other players in the same tier as you. 3* characters do not become stronger than 2* characters until after level 102, so a team of half covered/levelled 3*’s is a much juicier target. And, of course, a team of squishy 2*’s is still a nice looking target towards the end of an event where players might need a few points to hit the next reward tier. This is where Ares dominates. He’s got a lot of health, like Thor, which is a great deterrent already, but he’s also got a cheap ability in his Green, which deals a fair bit of damage, and then a still relatively cheap ability in his Yellow which deals huge damage. (Also his red deals damage to each member of the opposite team.) Now the recoil damage is probably what made you think twice about levelling him. The beauty of leaving Ares on defence is that no matter how many player try to hit you, your defensive team always starts at full health – so the AI doesn’t care about self preservation and will Sunder away. Essentially Ares is a sign that says “you will walk away from this fight with some damage on your team” – a few un/lucky cascade and Ares will go to town and no think twice about it. Paired with OBW, you can even net yourself some defensive victorys thanks to those cascades.Did I miss anything?
Yeah kinda missed the boat on Ares as I wasn’t sure about that lose health thing but mostly because I already had multiple covers for both Thor and Wolverine before I got an Ares. So didn’t want to be spending ISO on another green, yellow, red focused character.
Might ditch Captain Marvel of Daredevil and Torch for Devil Dino (because dino)
Thanks for the info on him, happy to use a slot to have a dino on my team.
Will hold on to Cage and myst for the moment, in case I get another cover in the next few days
Fair enough. Thor makes for a fairly good 2nd fiddle to Ares. He’s beefy and pairs well with OBW, since her AP steal helps accelerate his slow abilities.
Mohawk Storm is really not great, but having a chunk of covers makes it difficult to stick her straight into the sell pile. She does offer good utility one her Green and Black abilities.
Good call on Cage and Mystique. If you do manage to grab an extra Cage cover and want to keep him, it might be worth swapping Colossus out. The two fill very similar roles, and Cage does a slightly better job of it.
Colossus will never leave my team.
<3
I don’t think it is worth spending ISO on Ares now, better to save it for my 3* transition?
Yeah. If I remember, you’ve got 4 or 5 2* fully leveled. That’s plenty.
OBW + Thor will get you through a lot. Magneto is a pretty decent for fueling Blue.
It seems that the currently favoured strategy is to bring 3*’s to L94 until you have enough covers/ISO to max 2-3 at once. This is supposed to keep scaling in PvE lower. IMO, PvP is a much better option for gaining 3* covers, so what I did was pick 1 character and just put all the ISO I earned into them until they were maxed. Once you’ve got your first 166, you’ll find that you can push further/last longer in PvP, which will net you better rewards + more ISO, which can be used to level up your next 3*. And the cycle continues. Since I don’t recall seeing any 13 covered 3*’s, you might want to stick to the first method for now?
None at 13 covers yet, hulk is max at 8 or 9 I think. Spidey is probably up there with that as well.
Currently I’ve just been soft capping all my 3* as I get covers.
Okay, so Fitocracy. I have now developed a new problem whilst trying to get fit.
About an hour after every 1km run I do at nights, I’m suddenly super hungry. Despite having a full dinner say merely three hours earlier, everything I then see on TV or online looks extremely delicious. The sad part is my Nike app says I’ve only burned about 100 calories doing my five minute run, and consuming fifteen cashews adds 100 calories. Um WTF.
That scrumptious-looking six-inch Subway Italian BMT with jalapenos is 375 calories. Is my math correct here, or am I overlooking something?
How do I combat this? Do I need to combat this?
That’s easy, you just need to run the 10 km to the subway and then you can eat 2 of them
Although to actually answer you want to try and do longer runs, even if you are doing them slower. Sounds like you are near enough sprinting a quick km and that’s it. You need to give your body time to get your heart rate up and then keep it at that elevated level for longer. That is when you will really start working on your calories.
As for the hunger one tip is what cookingmama said below, make sure you are hydrated. After a run often people can misinterpret thirst as hunger.
I think you might be right, I need to slow down to get farther.
Nuts are insanely high in energy.
Also Subway run their figures on no cheese or sauce and minimal salads.
Haha thanks for the good news.
Wow. I did not realize they do that.
It is the unfortunate reality that yes, exercise doesn’t really mean that you get to eat whatever you want. It’s quite depressing when you walk for half an hour and you’ve only burned the equivalent of two scotch fingers. That’s why you have to watch what you eat carefully, especially if you want to lose weight. It’s very easy to underestimate what you eat, and overestimate what you do.
Do you use a heart rate monitor when you run? They give you a more accurate calorie estimate, especially if you’re unfit – your heart rate takes longer to get up to a high level as you get fitter (which also means you burn less calories as you improve, and have to exercise harder or longer for the same effect…).
Yes, exercise can make you hungry – first thing is to make sure that you’re tracking your calories through the whole day – you might find that you’re not eating enough, or that you’re not eating enough of the sort of food that keeps you filled up – low GI carbs, fibre and protein. It might not be the run making your hungry but a blood sugar crash if you haven’t eaten enough through the day.
Next, make sure you’re well hydrated – you don’t need to drink 3L a day, but make sure you have a good drink after your run (even though 1km is a very short run). A glass of water or low fat milk might be better than eating a snack.
Does any of that help?
Yes that does help, much to consider, thank you.
Also, 5 minutes seems pretty short
It is very short indeed but it’s all the running I can muster without break.
I have just started a couch-to-5K program. Most of them use intervals of running and walking to get you up to speed and able to do longer distances. You should try it. Got me from jogging 200m and dying to jogging 2km comfortably. I’m doing it again to get more speed in my running.
Sounds perfect. I need that comfortable 2.4kms.
PM me on twitter if you want to swap ideas 🙂
There’s also fitocracy groups focused on that too
Also also, the city to bay has a good beginner runner program: http://www.city-bay.org.au/pdf/beginner.pdf
Wingman was struggling to think of the name of a song, and couldn’t think of anything to google to help. I told her she should try and figure out the notes to tell me, or just sing it and send a recording or something. Nothing happened, so I end up just calling her and making her sing it.
Barely got half a second of it out of her and I was just like WHAT. NO. WHAT. NO. NO. *hangup*
Am now back on skype berating her as a failnerd for not recognising the cantina theme song, which I have even played for her previously 😛
HAHAHAHAHA ok maybe I shouldn’t tell her that I posted about it.
#gookyget
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/231451667359?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649
Might get one of these on Friday for Smash 4….
http://www.play-asia.com/gamecube-controller-adapter-for-wii-u-pc-usb-paOS-13-49-en-70-8h2n.html
Not sure if these guys are any cheaper with shipping, but could be worth checking out?
That’s why I’m going with the eBay one, as I’m worried that Play-Asia will be expensive with their shipping options.
Tiny Teddies are poisoning the youth. Turning them into murderers and sociopaths. With every bite, the children delve deeper into the pits of hell.
They’re pretty good. I’m not sure why I stopped eating them until now.
Morning all, Im on day 2 of my month of 12 hour shifts and I already wish I was dead. Staying up playing vidya games and watching youtube till 12ish when you have to get up at 4:30 is probably not the best idea but after 5 years I’ve given up telling myself Im gonna get better at going to bed.
I’m in shock over Monty’s passing. I was hoping that he’d come to Pax Aus and I could get my DVD’s signed. Now it will never happen. Not sure what’s going to happen to RWBY, but I was entranced ever since I saw the trailers playing at Pax Aus 2013.
Im assuming RT will at least finish the season. Never got into RWBY but I appreciated Monty’s work.
They had finished season 2. They were working on season 3.
Im sure it’ll come out, but depending on if he left anything in regards to where the series was going will probably affect what happens after that.
He had a team he worked closely with, so i imagine that they’ll know where it’s going. I think they’ll try to keep it as close to Monty’s vision as possible.
I do hope they continue it – I feel like RWBY was pretty much Monty’s dream project and it’s his legacy now.
If they were already into production then a lot of the details would likely be nailed down already. Should be possible to finish the season at least. Beyond that might be trickier though.
I’m really shocked too, he was still young, my thoughts go out to his family, friends and RT coworkers 🙁
33. Finally was able to do something he wanted. At least he got RWBY off the ground. Just…really shocked.
I don’t really know much about RT except Red vs Blue and RWBY (even that I have only watched like 6 eps) but still, it’s sad for someone that young to pass.
Dammit. My user account expired, guess nobody decided to extend that when they extended my contract.
I don’t know any of my passwords for things. Curse the irony of “Remember me” 😛
I have accounts where I just reset the password each time and they generate me a new temp one.
@mrtaco Is this you? You had the jaw move when you talked as well, right?
https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/10959531_804037589676021_8560115600890706482_n.jpg?oh=4243b8369ad4589a216a3b12fc382b13&oe=55558CC3&__gda__=1432499274_f1fc1bb7356e1fc3751a1884eb6b58ef
Yes, yes it is.
Damn thing never seems to align properly in any of the pictures. I swear I had that problem fixed at one stage 😛
You have fans
Blade Butler Shout out to this guy that was dressed as Manny Calavera from Grim Fandango at Pas Aus 2014.
I’m sorry if I seemed over excited to take your picture
Matt Allwood Haha I remember getting a photo of this guy on Friday!
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Blade Butler Yeah I was there on the friday
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Cameron Chameran Worrall That’s pretty damn good
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Helena Evans Even has the Robert Frost balloon !
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Matt Allwood It was amazing, he had it so the jaw moved when he talked.
Eww, attention 😛
To be fair, it was pretty frigging awesome at Pax 2013, where I bailed him up for a photo and made the connection like 3 weeks later after gooky started taying 🙂
I’m getting more and more weirded out at just how “everywhere” I seem to be.
Hello doctor, I’m ready for the procedure now.
http://i.imgur.com/jiND5a3.gif
Oh man, you can get that covered by Medicare? Wow, that’s going to save me a ton of money!
Good, good, just take a seat and I’ll be there with you shortly.
Now what were you here for again? *Gets Google ready*
I remember the kneebone is connected to the legbone from med school, just need to refresh up on a couple of other things………….I’ve got this though don’t you worry.
*cracks open third beer*
Ahhhhh, I needed that. What…………..what are you here for again? C’mon man…….I can do this!
*swig*
I’m glad my health insurance covers the best.
No expenth thpared…………………….*passes out*
@gorzilla gets into work instantly starts calling me a drunk
And?
He isn’t a drunk.
He’s a druggo.
We spend all this time to try and make a reputation and now it is ruined. ='(
Ive only had 1 this week… so far. Tomorrow night,
Yesterday afternoon I wound up driving behind a pair of Teslas. The rear one was being driven by an old lady, who seemed quite afraid of the traffic on the other side of the road. Was sticking very far to the left.
But then I guess if I were driving a car that expensive I’d be kinda terrified of everything forever.
Ooh I want one!
I just wanna try one.
Also if it gets scared it might electrocute it’s owner. (Those are the electric cars from the paypal guy right?)
Great security system on them though, someone gets too close and they get zapped … I think I’ve played too much Red Alert.
My eldest started kindy today.
Sunrise, sunset, sunrise, sunset, the cat’s in the cradle and the silver spoon, yes, we have no bananas *sobs*
I hear that, no bananas left this morning at my house either.
I presume thanks to the financial year split as opposed to the actual year split for school kids (in qld anyway), my son will be more Luke Ace Rimmer for the same reason he was like he was.
Or he’ll be like I was, bored & disruptive.
I dun wan Wurk
How’s gameses?
GAEMS! \o/
That’s about all I’ve got, right now I am looking up and applying to rental places in Melbourne. I will probably get bored and play Metroid Prime / Hyperule Warriors
So you are moving to melbourne?
Yup!
😀
Welcome to the best city in Melbourne!
Dying Light good. Time I dont have to play games, also at work.
Me play olden time games, me play more hd remakes for next two months (FF&MM).
Me play new game April (RE)
Witcher 3
Nope, I died too much in 2 to have any fun. 🙁
Is Dying Light worth grabbing when the disc is belatedly released? (Thanks a lot Liberals for my copper wire still rotting in the ground btw).
I played both Dead Islands so is this as similar as they say and a big step up or more of the same? So far from early reviews etc I’m still thinking……’meh’.
Most reviews I’ve seen have said that if you liked Dead Island, you will have a similar or slightly more positive view of Dying Light. I really liked Dead Island, so I’ll pick it up I think!
It was only an 11GB download, which I was surprised by. Of course 11GB might be a bigger percentage of you downloads then mine.
Thanks guys. And 11GB is a lot less than I thought it would be.
Now we have the PS4 hard drive size to consider. It never stops!! Geez! When will these tough life changing challenges ever end!!??
Hooray, account reactivated!
All my precious, beautiful settings, back they way they’re supposed to be.
Had my first extended Twitter conversation with a stranger who randomly butted in.
Kind of weird.
Turned out to be Alanah Pearce.
She seemed nice.
Still, weirded me out. Always saw Twitter as just a place to talk to you guys and never thought about everyone else seeing what I’m writing.
Who?
Tech/game journo. Got harassed by GamerGate mob, found out some identities, found out they were teenagers and went to their parents.
Oh, I think I did hear that story *crawls back under rock*
Remember when @jacksonwryan and Alanah went to EB Expo for Xbox? 😀
I did not.
But in the comments…
Hah, twitter is a public street. While you may be chatting quietly on the corner with us, people walking past can stick their ear in
That’s the part that gets me. Well, I know pretty much anywhere on the internet is a public street, but things like Twitter etc are the big main roads that has *everyone* go past.
I prefer sticking to the back streets, like TAY 😛
PRIVATE ACCOUNT MUFUGGERS!
So speaking to me is like having a phone conversation, where people listening in miss half of it.
And they can’t hear my hate speech.
So, so much hate speech.
TAY RPG 40K Rogue Trader tonight at 7:30pm AEST and 8:30pm AEDT. Starring:
@freezespreston @rize @tech_knight @sernobulus @gingerchris86
It’s been a while since we last played but stuff shall happen. Orks, Eldar, Harlequins, Dark Eldar, Kroot, and a mystery ship make things potentially very interesting.
Will Nob survive the night?
I’m taking bets on how soon I die!
Depends how soon we run into something like a sick and dying gretchin or an infant kroot.
You think I will survive that long? I’m so incompetent I will probably trip over a pebble and decapitate myself with my chainsword.
Should start up a bingo sheet for RPGs.
Will *blank* survive the night?
Will a Gretchin/Goblin be thrown across the room?
Will *blank* completely and utterly destroy anything they fight?
Will *blank* be lit on fire due to collateral damage?
Yay! I’m looking forward to this!
Sounds fun
Sitting on my living room floor right now… surrounded by…
A double mattress and ensemble, chest of drawers, my couch covered in bed slats, 4 drawers from under my bed stacked behind me…
My kitchen has a queen bed frame and mattress sitting against the table, a change table, a ladder, a kids wardrobe…
I can’t see my TV, computer is packed up… so I’m stuck with laptop… Game suggestions please?
Oh – I’m also getting new carpet today!
If the game doesn’t include an epic pillow fort then I will be greatly disappointed
Oh hey, the last Club Nintendo rewards are out-
HORY SHIET
YEAH. I’M SURE THEY’RE FUCKING GREAT, CANADA.
What’s the link to our shitty store so I can add disappointment to my list of negative feelings today.
http://stars.nintendo-europe.com/?locale=en_AU
At least we got that LBW soundtrack, looks sweet.
Is that it? Are we not getting aN update?
I like games, not stuff with games drawn on.
Ours doesn’t sell games, that’s a US thing. And possibly JP.
I can’t put my finger on it, but for some reason I really want to play Game of War.
But thats the best part, with a tablet/smart phone. You can put your finger on it.
What kind of boob would want to keep abreast of that game? Something wrong with your melon.
You’re right, I’m being a right tit at the moment.
Who’s the left tit…?
ATT: MINECRAFTERS!
@sernobulus @steve-o_the_deve-o @rize @coldcamv @beavwa @zapz @gorzilla @scree @pixel_the_ferret_viking @sunsoar77 @gutsoup and any others i may have missed! (sorry!)
Just wanted to get an expression of interest on the MC Server. There’s only about 4 of us still active on the server, and wanted to get an idea if anyone is planning on jumping back on.
Trying to decide whether to:
A) Leave it the way it is
B) Leave it in Melbourne, switch to a smaller server (current setup caters for up to 45, would be switching to a 10 player server with less ram at half the price)
C) Move the server to a Gigabit US server (still lag free in AU the servers are blazingly fast). This option would leave the server player limit at 45, have more RAM and would only be a fraction slower, at a third of the cost. (unnoticeable)
D) If no one intends on jumping back on I will be moving the server to my home server and running it from there if its just going to be 4 people.
Been running the server for about 2 years now, and its been un-populated for the past 14 months. Its just a waste spending $20-odd a month if no one is planning on using it!
I don’t really have any plans to use it any time soon. Move away!
I can’t really promise that I will log in sometime in the future so whatever is cheaper for you I suppose.
Up to you, I’ve been away from Minecraft for a while now so I don’t mind.
I have been too busy working on cosplay to play but may be interested in going back at some point in the future. I don’t think moving it is a bad thing if it helps you
Yeah, I’m out of my Minecraft phase at the moment so I have/had no plans to jump back in anytime soon. Thanks for hosting for as long as it lasted though!
Hey all. My muscles feel terrible after having helped my cousin movie yesterday. She owned some pretty heavy furniture. Also I forgot to wear suncream and the back of my neck got pretty burned.
Her new place is really nice though, and only a 5 minute drive from her old place so we were able to get everything moved on that one day. She got the place for pretty cheap too, which is nice. It’s a bit weird though because no one seems to want to live in the area. I mean the town in general, not just where her place is. There are for sale signs everywhere, even though there’s nothing wrong with the town. It’s a bit rural, but there are a lot of stores and schools and stuff, and it’s only about a half hour drive from some really nice beaches.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2015/02/i-cant-stop-buying-ridiculous-keyboards/
I can relate to this all too well 😛
In fact the whole article pretty much mirrors my fascination with weird gaming peripherals.
i just bought the Tesoro Durandal Ultimate eSports Edition mechanical keyboard… then i spent 2 hours plucking every key out so i can install dampener o-rings to them
but the keyboard feels MAGICAL. Love the Cherry MX Red switches. Theres something really magical about the clicketty MX Blue switches though… kind of disappointed i didnt have them…
the Tesoro stuff, in my opinion is fantastic, and the pricing is unbelievable.
I’ve been wanting to grab a mechanical keyboard for a while now. Just have no idea which switches to go with etc.
I know there’s a place just at Silverwater which sells them, should head there at some point to check them out.
if you like the clicking, go for the MX Blue switches. if you want something les clicky, go for the MX Red. You can also use dampening o-rings to reduce the noise…
http://www.wasdkeyboards.com/index.php/products/keyboard-accessories/cherry-mx-rubber-o-ring-switch-dampeners-125pcs.html
Yeah, I’ve read a bunch of things about them. But even videos don’t really tell you the difference in terms of sound, they all seem just about the same. Really need some hands-on time, to suss out the feel and everything.
Basically,
Blue= Very noticeable unmistakeable clicking sound
Red= very quiet clicking… can be missed…
to be honest there is something very satisfying about the clicking…. although people prefer the red cause they are quieter, i prefer the blue…
i bought the red as i had goine off what everyone else was saying, but i bough a blue one on saturday for my friends bday (we had a lan on sat!) and i was soooo jealous!
got him the Tesoro Lobera Supreme with blue switches for $109, has gone up a bit since sat, but still on special at $135 (RRP is $169)
I probably prefer the click too. I’ve been using an old clacky thing at home for ages, would always get complaints from people that my typing is so loud. Even though it’s just a rubber dome thing (with a whole load of broken domes). Silent keyboards annoy me. Also laptop style ones. Also ones that screw around with the standard layout of things. Also.
also not sure if intentional but it sounds like he’s talking about his sexual relationship with the keyboard…
namely these parts:
… i have a dirty, mind i know…
I got a Razer Tartarus for Elite (not enough room on the desk for joystick and keyboard, so the Tartarus was ideal – a small half-keyboard with remappable keys, an 8-way thumbstick and two thumb-buttons)… now I use it for most games, even with my mouse. So comfortable.
I mapped all my binds to the joystick, got it entirely keyboard-free 😛 Save for chat. But that never happens.
I found the joystick buttons kinda awkward – could only really use half of them comfortably. With the Tartarus, I’ve got just about everything I want at my fingertips, without having to take my right hand off the stick, or move my left hand at all – hell, my left thumb alone controls lateral and vertical thrust via the 8-way thumbstick, and the FSD and boosters on the auxiliary thumb buttons… and all menu navigation on top of that…
Only thing I can’t get working comfortably is the galaxy map, for some reason I’ve had some trouble getting that to work properly – still use the mouse for that, and a full keyboard for destination lookup. Oh, and chat, I guess, but I still stick to single player, so haven’t used it yet. 😛
I forget, what stick have you got again?
I’ve got pretty much everything set up for a single hand position too, the only thing I jump to the other side for is landing gear/scoop/silent running etc. Things I don’t need to use too frequently or in the middle of a whole bunch of other things. Otherwise the menu operation, power distribution, boost/FA are all controlled by the left hand keys. Orientation/FSD/targeting/lateral thrusters/weapons are all done with the right hand.
I see a lot of people talking about having problems with the galaxy map controls, I don’t get it. I’ve got it pretty much the same as controlling my ship – orientation with the stick (though no need for roll here), lateral translation with my lateral thrust hat, vertical displacement with the twist axis, zoom with the left and right stick buttons. It’s pretty easy.
T-16000m. I don’t like taking my hands off the stick, and prefer having it on the right where I’d normally have my mouse, which means the 6 buttons on the right are basically unreachable, and using the 6 left buttons with either hand is super awkward. Plus, I don’t really like using the thruster slider… wish it had a deadzone or lock positions or something like the x52s have – would make it far more user-friendly. 😛
Yaw/pitch/roll on the joystick, targeting and weapon selection on the top buttons, power distribution on the HAT switch; landing gear, lights, engines, menu operation and system and nav shortcuts, forward/backward thrust, on the Tartarus finger keys (plus others I’m forgetting, and still have maybe 8 or 10 keys left unused). But yea, literally the only thing I need the keyboard and mouse for is actual typing, and using the galaxy/system maps. Will give the Joystick controls for galaxy map another try… I’ll just clone my ship control scheme and see if that works, I guess. Cutting out the mouse means one less peripheral, at least.
I have such a bad mood today.
really bitter.
Where’s all the happy?
I think the husky playing in leaves must’ve taken it, since his video has started doing the rounds again.
I find some excess happy can usually be harvested by visiting dailysquee, though efficiency has dropped since their last redesign where ads tend to sap up to 30% of the happy depending on load times.
Are these animal pics? I am immune.
Buy a Happy Meal…?
Now you want me to get a tummy ache?
You guise are the wurst
I can sext you some nudes, if that’ll cheer you up? (no testicles)
This relationship is going in some weird and exciting directions! 😀
I’m ok, thanks. Just glad you weren’t spoded
I’m glad too, Jimu.
I’m glad too :’O
Feel free to ignore my Thaumcraft muttering.
Spent most of last night researching and then automating my essentia storage. By which I mean spending hours crafting 48 essentia filters (having to wander round a set of nodes to refill my wand after every three, cos these things are freaking expensive), five minutes to set up the system, then realising I needed buffers, not filters. ie. A four hour brain fart that cost me most of my evening, most of my silverwood logs and a couple of stacks of gold ingots. *facepalm*
So, three stacks of essentia tubes, 48 levers, 48 stone blocks, a butt-tonne of glass phials and an hour of fiddling and scouring the internet later… and finally got everything up and running. Put a Zombie brain in the furnace, and… YES!!! Corpus and humanus in the correct jars! Pop in a Zombie head to test how it handles a missing jar… woot, same result, with spiritus going to my overflow jar. Now to figure out how to deal with the overflow when the jar it would otherwise go to fills up…
The further I get in this mod, the more I think I should find a better place to live – I keep needing more room, and a giant cobblestone cube isn’t very wizardly. 😛 My original plan for a helical tower seemed cool in theory, but having it partly built demonstrates that it is incredibly impractical. Will need to think on that…
TL;DR: This is why the first thing I always do in modded minecraft is automate mining. I can afford to lose a couple of stacks of gold ingots… more annoyed at the wasted silverwood, tbh.
Is it sad that I want this?
http://www.incrediblethings.com/food/this-toaster-toasts-your-selfie-onto-bread/
MY GOD… i could become a MILLIONAIRE selling jesus and virgin mary toasties to IDIOTS!!!
\o/
It’s only $75…
That ain’t bad. I’d buy that, and I don’t even eat toast.
Can I get one with your face on it instead?
@spaghett’s last song played game!
I can change – LCD soundsystem
Rather Be – Clean Bandit ft. Jess Glynne
It ate my link :3
Something from the Starfox 64 OST, but I fell asleep & don’t remember which track.
Oh no wait, that was the night before.
Last night was Shenmue OST.
Tiny masterpiece of evil – league of legends soundtrack
More than words – Extreme. Watching a Rocksmith stream showing this week’s DLC… power ballads!!! \o/ So looking forward to playing it!
The Woodpile – Frightened Rabbit
Mindbender by KVN, awesome hardstyle (is that still a genre)
He is my preffered hardstyle artist (or is it hardcore) but I only have two of his tracks from like various artist mixes from 2005
Also HI RED 😀
Slightly NSFW. http://i.imgur.com/2o8rTeA.jpg
oh page get why
Because EA.Slightly?
Depends where you work?
NSFW if you have a very strict policy. Many places don’t overly care about low quality animated images of implied sexual acts
Very tame by our office standards.
Haha. My computer screen needs a clean, but when I opened this image, on the fourth picture, there was dirt on the screen precisely in the right place to make a smiley face on the ‘giver.’
Julie Bishop asked to rule out leadership challenge by multiple sources including Abbott face to face.
She refuses to everytime.
So how much time is left on that clock?
3..2…1…1….1….
…
Blood in the water, sharks circling. It’s really a competition between the sharks at the moment.
Betting sites are taking odds on who will challenge and for what and when
Not long. She’s probably the best choice at this point
Can you imagine if Morrison took over?
*shudders*
Oh Canada, our home and native land ~
She’ll challenge, take over.
Labor will do the whole “unstable government!” bit that Abbott did last time.
Bishop becomes the Gillard of 2015
Labor win the next election on the back of that
New PM is again terrible and someone again challenges, again takes over
Rinse and repeat forever? 😛
For. Ever.
I guess Bill Shorten started a trend 😛
The only hope they’d have to break the cycle is:
1. Get Abbott to resign due to some urgent family illness or similar bullshit concocted reason
2. Insert new leader, promising all the things the party previously didn’t, like marriage equality, not trampling refugee human rights, et.
3. CALL A SNAP ELECTION to say that the voting public still has the final say in choosing this leader
P.S. if they copy this idea and it actually works, I’m terribly, terribly sorry.
You realise that for the second point, we might end up with someone like Scott Morrison who would double down on all of that stuff? He’s exactly the sort that could fall over the line if there’s roughly equal support behind Bishop (basically the Rudd of the Liberals but without the charisma) and Turnbull (also basically the Rudd but with a leather jacket). Morrison and Pyne sit firmly in Tony’s corner and if they know the jig is up, they might push for the only minister that’s been “successful” with their portfolio: Morrison.
Politics is scary when you pay attention.
Oh, and a snap election won’t work. Newman tried that.
I’m suggesting that a snap election would be a ‘voter trust’ tool to lever in a new leader without backing down on all the leaders are voted for, not a revolving door like labour thing.
Newman just tried a snap election hoping to catch the opponents off guard. Might have worked if it included steps 1 and 2 – it was mainly Newman that everyone hated, and they might have kept power without him.
Gillard kind of did that in 2010. It didn’t have any real impact on perception. If you change leaders, people are going to think it’s all backroom bickering.
Labor really needs a fucking reform agenda, and if they’re smart they’ll start selling it now. I noticed they’ve had Wayne Swan out talking about income inequality, and I think that’s a solid start.
What I hope they don’t do is take another fucking lurch to the right in an attempt to “claim the middle.” better is to sell your message and shift where the middle lies.
I still feel like Albo is the sort of person who would lead with that style. Shorten prefers to secure what he thinks works and will just try to please the middle. Fortunately for him, the middle isn’t happy with the current lurch to the right (or at the least, the way we’ve been dragged there) so the tactic is kind of working.
A reactive pull to the left from Labor would actually be a really interesting thing to see right now. Shame it will never happen.
Oh and Swan is visible right now because he plays well in Queensland.
What about Tanya Wheelbarrow with a P?
Or would they be saving her as a hard counter for Bishop?
Her husband got done for drug trafficking a while ago. You thought having a hairdresser as a partner was bad, that’s nothing compared to what Tanya would cop as the party leader.
She’d be amazing though, just too much personal baggage.
Hmm, I dunno, he’s a senior public servant and has a pretty good redemption story. I doubt that it’ll preclude plibersek.
It’s what took her out of the running in the last leadership battle.
I suspect they’ve gone with Shorten while the party is in opposition. He’s bland and won’t attract too much attention while they sort their shit out. Bring on Albo for an election – he has the “everyman” quality they need in a Labor leader, he’s savvy, he’s popular with the grassroots members.
It’s weird having Shorten front and center when he’s been a powerbroker the entire time that he was in office (and some time before). Albo is easily more popular but Shorten is the one the caucus likes.
I don’t think they’ll swap. Labor is trying to re-establish themselves as stable and have promised to keep Shorten until the next election. He’s bland but maybe that’s the strategy.
I’m probably outing myself as a filthy lefty, but as far as I’m concerned, Labor is already in the ‘middle’, and Australia doesn’t actually have a ‘left’.
We do, they just all come with caveats that make people not want to vote for them.
They still haven’t passed the 2014 budget have they? At what point does that turn into a supply issue and require us to go back to the polls?
They have not. And the 2015 budget is due in May.
Core funding and tax collection along with general government expenditure has been passed I believe. Just all the extra things they wanted to tack on have been refused.
So it’s unlikely to be a supply issue because they’ve separated the core stuff from all of their idiotic additions.
That’s actually kind of a shame.
Very few mature animations listed on today’s off topic.
Shitload of Disney & copycats.
Probably a percentage game. A large number of people will not watch dubbed/subbed stuff or don’t download things. So the pool of people who have seen the more mature titles is smaller. Then it needs to be their favourite.
Of the mature films listed that I have seen, none of them are as good as the ‘all ages’ ones that I voted for (Personally opinion)
I like the Disney stuff, it’s really good at doing what it does. But, I dunno, I need more than a reused fable.
There is some legitimate brain bending stuff out there & people prefer a light hearted adventure?
Does not compute.
There is a bunch of nostalgia associated with it as well.
When people are talking about favourites generally it will be light hearted adventure stuff rather than something deeper and more brain bending. More people will have star wars on the top 5 favourite films than district 9. And more people will have district 9 than moon.
But even the mature films listed i wouldn’t call overly brain bending. Multiple votes for ninja scroll but that is just violent young adult fluff IMO.
I agree, I love ninjas scroll but it dumb.
Mature doesn’t equal quality. Those Disney movies are generally exceptionally made films.
You know that’s not what I meant.
I expected to see a bigger range of choices. Of course I expect Disney etc, no argument, they are quality.
And I expected it to lean toward that demographic being the stuff with more marketing& designed to appeal to a bigger audience.
But this is your fave of all time.
I expected more of a 75/25 split in favour of Disney not 95/5.
What other animation is there outside of Disney though? Especially if you don’t anime.
I can’t really think of any.
Dreamworks 😛
*grin*
Or is that smirk?
Why would you not anime?
*shrug* Never really had anything to do with it. I watched a couple of things on SBS way back when (as in about a decade ago), but otherwise our paths just don’t cross at all. Especially these days, where I’m barely watching TV at all and only catch movies if they’re on at the cinemas and I happen to end up going. Which isn’t all that often.
There’s also all the Fox ones.
Yoram Gross a local animator of some fame* did a fantastic animation called Go to Hell that I think everyone should watch.
*Dot & the Kangaroo, Blinky Bill etc.
there are so many strange & delightful European animated find that I’m not suprised anyone has seen.
@doc_what help me out here
*helps*
Rankin & Bass? Though technically they’re owned by Dreamworks now 🙁 Don Bluth produced a ton of good animated films back in the day.
Modern stuff? There’s Blue Sky Studios, who did the Ice Age films for Fox among other things. Also don’t forget Animal Logic in Sydney, the Happy Feet / Lego Movie guys. Sony Pictures have done a few animated films too.
Either never heard of them or assumed they all fell under the Disney banner in one way or another 😛
Think I always figured Animal Logic were kind of guns-for-hire type guys that make stuff for whoever. Clearly I don’t deal much with animation.
@sughly says http://www.cartoonbrew.com
I’m a flat-out nerd through and through, and I’ve only seen two or three anime movies in my life, and none of them left enough of a mark to make my all-time fave list.
I think 95/5 is probably about right if my experience is reasonably representative…
Can you do me a favour & go watch Akira, Ghost in the Shell & Innocence, please?
I’ve seen Ghost in the Shell. That’s one of the two or three! \o/
And you didn’t think that highly of it? Wow.
I honestly don’t think that highly of Ghost in the Shell either. Or Akira. They’re interesting films and stunning animation in the GitS case, but I always found them pretty dry and not very memorable outside of specific things (like GitS’ soundtracks). Personally need a bit more character in my films than those particular examples have.
They’re not bad films in any way, just not personally films I found that memorable.
Just… make sure it’s original Ghost in the Shell, not the 2.0 edition where he went back and George Lucased in a bunch of low-budget early-00s CG.
Innocence is worth it just for the scene with Batou and his dog. The animation on that animal is fucking incredible.
That dog, maaaaaaan. What a scene.
You know what that says to me? It says you simply haven’t watched the right anime films.
Yeah, anime is just as varied as any other media.
I think it’s similar to how when you mention comic books, people think super hero.
I think that’s probably true. I’m not passing any kind of judgement on the form – I’ll freely admit that I haven’t seen enough of it.
Should I make a list? I can make a list. I like making lists.
I lost interest in anime, really. Sorting the wheat from the chaff got annoying and I decided I just wasn’t into it enough.
I don’t watch much at all anymore.
But there are still some classics that sit up there in my top ten of film.
I liked some of what I saw, but at the end of the day it was watch 25 episodes of a series in the hope I may enjoy it or get into other media. I chose that.
Us anime veterans have what we call the three episode test. If you’re not interested after episode 1, drop it. Otherwise, you give it three. There’s a bunch of shows that will start really well and then immediately drop the ball, animation budget got spent on the opening or the plot just never comes together or whatever. Worst case you drop it after 3 episodes and you’ve wasted maybe an hour all up. On the other hand, if something held you for 3 episodes it’ll probably hold you through a cour (13 weeks worth) or longer.
Never ever ever listen to the assholes who say “it gets awesome later on, trust me, you just have to push through the first .” They’re wrong. Most TV anime nowadays is a single cour, so 3 episodes is 23% of the show assuming it runs all 13 weeks. If you’re bored after watching a quarter of the show, you’re probably not going to ever not be bored. There are some rare exceptions (one that comes to mind immediately is the first season of Nanoha, where the first four episodes are generic magical girl bullshit, but then the antagonist arrives and it becomes a commentary on American foreign policy – making friends through the use of superior firepower) but they’re called exceptions for a reason.
TV animation is very much like that. Every season there’s maybe 30 new TV shows, and maybe 1-2 are going to be reasonable, and a further 4-5 good if you fall in their niche, and then a bunch of varying levels of terrible.
Theatrical stuff though? Not counting stuff that ties into TV franchises, theatrical anime is a lot less hit & miss.
Yeah, and I had no yardstick to measure it by, when for example American genre tv I could easily find opinions on.
I also found that I had to concentrate while watching more with subs- I couldn’t watch anime while I did other things.
Subs are something you’ve got to practice at, yeah. I can’t do something like do the ironing while watching anime either unless I’m really awake. I can understand the bulk of the dialogue if I try, but anime has a lot of visual language which you miss out on and that makes it unsuited for anything where you can’t watch the screen.
Japan.
Is this like how the ‘World Series’ baseball is just the US?
What do you mean ‘just‘ the US?
Well, North America. Canada’s basically an afterthought most of the time.
No, I mean the implication that America is anything but the world.
Of course there’s more to America than the US & Canada. There’s also Mexico!
Alright, yesterday was a fluke. I’m going to go into today’s TAF class ready and firing to learn! All I had to do was wait outside the classroom.Yep, just wait outside the the classroom. Yeah… where the hell is the lecturer. The rest of the students wait around the classroom, aimless without the guidance of the lecturer. Realising it’s going to be a long wait, I pulled out my Game Boy Colour and started playing Pokemon Puzzle Challenge, because that’s what being an adult is all about.
After half an hour, a student eventually volunteered as tribute to track the lecturer down. After a while, an admin returned to say that because the timetable had been messed with so much, the lecturer didn’t even know what days he was expected to come to work. A fair amount of grumbling about student fees ensued, The first class was cancelled, but the second class at 1pm still appeared to be running. A few people, including me, where annoyed that this meant they had to stick around for the next 3 hours, as there wasn’t enough time to go home and back.
So here I am, waiting for the next class. Yep, a very momentous day.
That’s some quality education right there.
Better get used to it. That’s pretty much how every institution you’ll deal with for the rest of your life runs.
Welcome to on campus tertiary education.
So so many hours of waiting… This is where you hope there is a decent pub nearby or Uni bar equivalent.
Second this. This is where you chat to the people you got introduced to and work with in your tutorials. (Ice-breaking already done for you!)
That sucks.
So Elder Scrolls Online coming to consoles in June, free to play.
Tell me about it.
for instance, if I never give them a cent more, what can’t I do?
No? Any idea if I’ll need plus now that its free to play?
You’ll need Plus. Just won’t have to give Bethesda extra on top.
*scratches chin*
I recall saying most of the stuff you pay for is cosmetic (shiny looking armour/dyes) and an experience boost. Plus if you pay you get access to any new areas before everyone else does. So I think you shouldn’t miss out on anything story wise.
EDIT: I got the feel they were going to do something similar to what they did on SWTOR which while didn’t really stop you from playing did have some annoying limitations.
Cool, cheers.
Will add it to my maybe list.
Don’t really wanna pay for plus, cos I’m cheap.
Yeah, I’m hoping it’s a tad less restrictive and nagging than SWTOR’s F2P version.
SWTOR doesn’t play like F2P+benefits, it’s more like a free trial with nag-screens every time you try to do anything and wheel clamps on not just exp, but also your skills and action bars and inventory and which items you can equip and all kinds of new and interesting ways you didn’t realize people could find to annoy you until you finally give in and buy a subscription and it suddenly becomes more civilized.
NOT like Neverwinter, which sees your expenditure, looks at it, then continues asking you for more. Forever. It is a gaping maw of microtransaction-nagging which is never, ever, ever satisfied. “HEY THESE PEOPLE OPENED SOME LOCKBOXES AND GOT COOL SHIT DON’T YOU WISH YOU HAD SOME COOL SHIT YOU SHOULD OPEN SOME FUCKING LOCKBOXES YO” up in the middle of your damn screen every few minutes, which cannot be turned off.
It’s like someone gave the uncompiled files for a sweet MMORPG to a bunch of gold spammers. The part that always killed me was that the items weren’t even pretending to be good value. It still blows my mind that I have friends who brought the biggest pre-order possible were being hit up for cash before the game was even open to the public. That’s how far your money went there. Other games at least treat you like a King for five minutes but Neverwinter just kicks right back into ‘buy something or get the fuck out’ mode the instant the transaction finishes.
Oh man, I could rant for days about Neverwinter…
DC Universe Online has something similar to SWTOR. For free you can log in and play, with limits on characters and which power sets/weapons can be used. It nags at you a bunch and it’s at best a really generous demo. You can buy bits and pieces of the game as DLC, and if you spend $10 it upgrades your account to make it less obnoxious. If you choose to you can pay a subscription fee and then it works like a standard pay to play MMO. There are some extra things you can purchase on top of the subscription but they’re not required (and they give you ‘free’ special currency every month, so you can buy the extra stuff over time without spending additional money). Although they’ve been running on that model for years so there have been times that they’ve pushed the limits of what’s fair. Some things that should just be unlimited with a subscription are instead sold on the store, and some things that should be account wide are purchased individually for each character.
I think the most important part is that when you activate the subscription or throw money into the DLC you’re not paying to get past a wall. So many F2P games have two options, spend nothing and drive with no wheels or spend money and teleport to the end of the race. Back on Neverwinter when I hit end-game there was plenty to do, but everything I looked at had a giant sign that said ‘if you want to skip this just slip me some AD’. It’s hard to work towards a goal when the goal itself is telling you that it’s just bullshit you’d probably rather spend $10 to skip.
only 3 more hours to go! \o/
@freezespreston: what did you end up deciding on re: preparing funds for Japan? I need to get my ass into gear and do something similar before the value of our dollar bottoms out further.
Literally as you posted that… http://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=AUD&to=JPY&view=12h
Decided to wait a week or two to see which way it was trending. RBA just cut the interest rate so see if that has any longer term effects. We haven’t got all of the money together yet so couldn’t do one big swap anyway so probably do it in bits and pieces until a spike comes along.
Jeez. Cycling through all the currencies against ours and the AUD took a nose dive about 30 mins ago.
This is basically why I asked.
I’m also interested in what method you decided to use. I’ve done zero investigation.
Travel Money card from Commonwealth. Used them before in other countries and they work well. Will just have to remember to take cash out when we can since there’s only a few places like Japan Post will accept it over there. Apparently a problem for cards in general over there since ATM’s are set up for their own systems. But I don’t really feel like carrying all cash at once and fuck travellers cheques.
Sounds like something I should investigate further. I know they have issues with ATMs and paying via card is uncommon but I feel similarly to you about carrying large amounts of cash.
They work in enough places that it will rarely be a problem, just have to remember to get some cash when you can being the issue.
Be warned that not many ATMs took my VISA debit card while I was there.
Pretty much the only ones I saw that did were at the Citibank branch in Osaka, and apparently the ones at 7Eleven stores work also.
Also check your bank’s exchange rate. Gave me a better deal withdrawing cash from a Citibank ATM than I got at the airport or saw at a couple of other exchange places.
Can I buy your smt PS2 collection, @negativezero ??
I have to see what I actually have and that involves going to my storage unit and rifling through all my games. Though I guess I could just retrieve all the containers and take them to my place for a bit.
Oh, have you actually got stuffed stored away from home?
I thought it was more of a pop out to the garage/ into the spare room type dealt.
Nope, it’s in a proper self-storage unit that’s about 20 mins drive away from home so I tend not to go there very often, wait until I have multiple things to get/store while I’m there.
My sister expressed interest in my 360 / PS3 collection as well and I’m thinking it’d be good to actually catalogue what I have, so I might get it all. Was going to head over that way anyway (out where my mum lives) so might have time to hit it up today but no promises.
Yeah, no rush. More wondering if you were interested in parting with them or not.
I’m not particularly attached to them, never played them so not special to me or anything. I only picked them up because they were niche RPGs that weren’t in my PS2 collection.
I missed a lot of the late PS2 era because it’s when I met my wife & did a lot of travel.
It was all ds & psp for me then.
@popdart5
Going to be working late-ish tonight so I won’t get home until 8:30ish at the earliest. Feel free to write me into the story with something like “someone in the party sneezes causing Vaethril to become seriously wounded”.
Fixed
All good. I still need to figure out some way to bring in Kharaga and Amarach from their absence so a momentary vow of silence won’t be any trouble at all. 😛
Any of you guys miss out on the Wind Waker Link Nendoroid and wish they hadn’t?
GSC are re-releasing him in June. Preorders are up: http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10270558
HNNNG
Following a series of conversations over the last couple of days, I was almost set to grab life by the horns this morning and make an attempt at talking to Violin Girl. Things were looking up, she got on the usual carriage this time, but went and sat downstairs. And went to get off at my stop… but moved up to exit at the other end of the carriage. Foiled.
Not-so-secretly glad I got to avoid doing anything in the end 😛 Remains to be seen whether Thursday is still a thing or not, or whether next Tuesday is the last chance to jump face-first into the deep end.
http://tinyurl.com/kv2ezl2
Just print and hand over. No words necessary. Don’t even have to look her in the eye.
Classy.
It’s been a few weeks since I’ve been on here, good to see that some things never change…
That is kind of the point of this, actually. Things need to change 😛
But change won’t happen unless you make it. Unfortunately.
I use eftpos, change is a thing of the past
Only just realised the Killzone Shadowfall OST is out. Came out in September too. While far from my favorite game in the series, it had an incredible soundtrack and I was so upset it hadn’t come out, even 6-8 months after release. Kind of forgot about it. Best surprise, and it’s as good as I remember.
http://youtu.be/5Rvd5OVeWUI
My iPod runneth over, and my new Audio Technica ATH-M50x headphones are lapping it up. Helps I’m on afternoon shift this week working from home. I have my soundtrack.
Oh, and http://youtu.be/vCMFGB03-Mo
@jocon @distantdrop Even more BRF hype!!
Ok so I’ve already formulated strategies for Gruul, Ore, Blast Furnace and Beastlord… guys is it just me or do these fights seem ridiculously easy? I mean Blast Furnace is a little complex but for a multi phase fight it doesn’t even come close to Imperator. I feel like we can aim to down 7 bosses this weekend and aim for Blackhand on normal the next weekend… even before the first LFR wing comes out!
Straight off the bat Ore, Gruul and Beastlord seem very mechanically simple… akin to Kargath and Butcher. Anyways I’m going to leave Flamebender and Franz strategy making for tomorrow =D Much excite!! I reckon we got this.
Found something out bittersweet a few hours ago, brf and 6.1 arnt tied according to blue posts on MMO-Champion so no stage 4 loot and catch up 660 mechanics this week possibly not until weeks to come.
Which is the downside.. upside for me though is I get a little stay of execution before the mana tea nerf =)
Screw the stage 4 loot and 660 catch up stuff; I needed the buff to Ele shamans!! WHY BLIZZ WHY?!? Also Operator looks to be a bitch of a fight from a RL point of view….
Beard really thick, moustache getting in food and mouth all the time. Dont know if I want to keep growing it or trim it back down short again.
How the hell do you actually START a job application?
I’ve got most of the content done but the beginning is something that just eludes me for some reason. “I want to apply for (JOB) as listed on (WEBSITE)” which I’ve been using in the past now feels excessively redundant upon a re-read since I’d probably not be writing if I wasn’t applying for the job and since I have to apply through the website that’s not worth putting down either.
Still do it. A lot of companies may have several job openings listed at once and they love the data on where the advertising is working.
Sure it feels redundant but a quick line at the beginning helps make things clear and they’re just going to skim over it anyhow.
GIFF MONEYS NAO
The whole job search process seems like nothing but an exercise in self-defeat.
All my sympathies.
There’s so much more to it.
There’s self-loathing, self-doubting, self-aggrandising followed by more self-doubting, self-night-touching… It can go on for a while.
HAHAHAHA YES
Figured out how to make formulae that would check for invalid greco-latin squares! NO MORE ERROR COMPLAINTS FROM USERS!
Just when I thought this spreadsheet couldn’t get any more ridiculous.
*nods*
Wow, they sure have changed Warframe a lot since the last time I played :\
Like, a lot a lot.
Oh? What was it like when you last played?
I last played (on PS4) just befor Zephyr was released.
Bunch of new Warframes, locations and weapons, and the UI has been drastically overhauled to the point where it isn’t recognisable.
You can tell it’s still a PC game though.
Ohhhhhhhh. Yeah. Yeah, there were some changes alright.
It’s so different! :O
A lot better, but so different! :O
There doesn’t seem to be too many PS4 players though :S
You play Warframe, yeah?
Who’s your main?
Yeah, I play it in occasional multi-month binges. Main varies on what I wanna level up. Excalibur prime has always been my favourite, but Loki Prime is a beast if you fully tweak the maximum possible duration out of invisibility. It’s like being invincible, so I do that plenty. Nekros and Frost get a heavy workout depending on what I’m doing and who I’m running with. Frost is the indisputable king of defense missions – plant a tweaked-out snowglobe on the objective and win. If you’re farming, like survival missions, Nekros is the best character to have in the party.
Aww, that’s right, you play on PC though.
I was gonna say we should play sometime, but don’t worry about it 😛
Also, Oberon and Nyx for lyfe!
Trying to get my hands on Mesa though too, purely cause she is the prettiest Warframe :3
Ohyeah, Oberon is pretty damn sweet. That 4th ability when buffed is fantastic for combining with a frost or a Nekros. Mag and Nyx have some pretty sweet grouping-up abilities that let the Oberon really amplify the smackdown. Oberon’s first ability’s pure shit, though.
I’d play it on PS4 but at this point they don’t allow for progress between PC and PS4 accounts to share. You can create a copy of your PC account to paste onto the PS4 servers, but from that point on they are treated as separate. Really sucks.
@novacascade @transientmind @freezespreston @negativezero @blaghman
So what are peoples recommended method of spending money for japan? Pre-paid viza? Convert a pile of cash beforehand?
Also recommendations for what to take?
I’m trying to figure out some of this as well.
EDIT: Thinking of getting a prepaid visa and locking in some cash at the current exchange rate in case it drops out badly, and also taking maybe 30-40k yen in cash as well. Don’t think I’d feel safe with anything more than that in the pocket but it’ll mean any minor expenses in the first day or two are covered.
I was really lazy. I just used my debit card at an ATM to get money out, then used cash for everything.
Probably not recommended (I never did check out how much extra that cost me, but since I did it for one and a half months in multiple different countries, I assume it was a lot), but it works in a pinch.
That’s what I did also.
Disregard, apparently there’s a lot of issues with Mastercard/Maestro in Japan. Not super widely accepted even in normal places.
Disregard.
So no go on the 28 degrees as well?
I don’t know 🙁
This is giving me a headache.
ehh, i’ll just go the commonwealth card you mentioned in the above post
Hmm, the 28 Degrees card has a lot of positive word of mouth. Might be worth checking out.
I’ve been considering one of those for a while, so if any of you end up getting it I’ll be interested to hear about it!
Ahhh. This arrived today from my friend in England. Holy shit. Best. Birthday. Present. Ever. Well I guess if she surprised me with a visit that would be better, but nonetheless!
So that’s 5 signatures and a personal happy birthday from Corey Taylor, Jim Root, Chris Fehn, Sid Wilson & Shawn ‘Clown’ Crahan of Slipknot. Which is so fucking cool.
I feel very spoiled.
SNACKTAKU
VENDING MACHINE HOT CHIPS
So, last week some reputable news outlets including the ABC and News.com.au showed a hot chip vending machine, apparently new on the market from a Perth company. They’ve rolled out prototypes in Perth and Adelaide, and one of those happened to be at a servo just around the corner from me.
Thus begins my account of culinary discovery.
https://twitter.com/redartifice/status/562509216577900544
So, the machine is pretty simple. you post in $4, and it begins a timer. As you approach this glowing monument to heart disease, you can smell a sort of oily smell, though it’s not unpleasant. Bolted to the side of the machine was a jar of chicken salt packets, but more on that in a minute
the timer goes for 2 minutes and 45 seconds, which in the scheme of hot chips isn’t long, but in the scheme of parked in front of a guy at a servo is a little long. I actually apologised to a dude, but at least I could point to the timer and tell him I wouldn’t be long. After two and a half minutes I heard the first mechanical noise I’d heard from the device, as a plastic cup whirred out of sight for a second before returning full of french fries.
https://twitter.com/redartifice/status/562506906946662400
So, first up, that’s what these are. French Fries, not thick cut chips, which is fine. I drove away from the servo and two minutes later was at home, though I made sure to try a couple of them fresh. Temperature wise they were pretty good, and were freshly cooked, though a little underdone in my opinion- only a few had started to get that real golden brown colour that I associate with good chips. They were of a pretty uniform size and shape, which is apparently part of the process (means they cook evenly) and tasted…OK
the machine spits them out unsalted, and while I’m not necessarily a huge advocate for salt on chips these needed it. I should have grabbed a chicken salt packet to top them while they were hot. they also had a slightly weird aftertaste- I don’t know if I’m conditioned by other outlet’s chips, but the oil in them was maybe a different sort (the internet tells me Bran Oil). a little clinical in taste.
As an experiment, they were fine, not unpleasant, but I’m not convinced I would go again. the time factor in a servo is a little important, and waiting for nearly 3 minutes is a bit annoying. The portion I got was not much, probably a maccas small-to-medium, and for $4 I could have got a large maccas fries…or gone two minutes down the road to a Yiros place and got a decent bag of proper chips. At a remote servo or at 2am after drinking though, they’d be acceptable. But still need to be cheaper.
FINAL RATING: 3 SHIGGYS OUT OF Mju
cc @powalen @dc @cakesmith
I had one of these machines at a local pool some ten years ago.
#HipsterPants
Yeah, there have been others. story is it’s a new model or something: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-01-28/chip-vending-machine/6052798
Ah.
As a little kid as the time, this machine was the greatest thing ever. Coincidentally, I was rather fat at the time.
#Alexandhispantsthataregettingabittootightinthewaist
Disturbingly accurate description of me right now, too…
Join the fitocracy challenge! we’re only on day 3!
https://www.fitocracy.com/group/14940/?challenge
Oooh, Last Week Tonight returns on Sunday. Huzzah!
I am sick of trying to source materials because Australia never has what I need.
Why can’t I find a blue 50cm invisible zip?! (I did finally find one on ebay from NSW but it took me weeks to find)
Duh, because YKK don’t do a 50cm (or 51cm/20″, as the industry seems to prefer inches) ‘conceal’ range zipper but they still have the competition so beat that their results flood search engines making it super hard to find non-YKK zips. Instead you want to search for other brands specifically. Vizzy Zips do one, but I found Birch 51cm dark navy and blue invisible ones on eBay.
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/BIRCH-ZIPPER-ZIP-51CM-20-INVISIBLE-CLOSED-END-PICK-COLOR-/201079747219?pt=AU_Sewing&var=&hash=item2ed1497293
I don’t know anything about zippers other than YKK is written on all my jean zippers. I just can’t walk past a ‘I can’t find this in Australia’ comment without jumping over to Google to see if I can either find it locally or source it in bulk and sell on eBay for some drinking money.Yeah, I was after light blue. Lincraft and spotlight sell navy, royal and extremely light blue. Nothing in between.
Also, cause YKK actually invented the zip it’s the biggest brand.
Ahh. It did seem like all the brands offered the same dozen colours, which now I think about it must leave a lot of holes when trying to colour match to the near infinite colour range of fabric.
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/251316107031?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT
This is probably the closest blue I can find. Birch aren’t a very good brand in my opinion.
Heh, if they didn’t lay them out together and write light blue on it I would have called that white. Can you stain the lighter one or bleech the darker one, then take the zip off, strip the paint off in a cup of Dettol and then give it a new paint job?
The zips are polyester, otherwise known as “a pain in the arse to dye”. Also as zips are used with motion, the paint will chip. The light blue in spotlight was worse. it was blue tinted white.
I bought a 50cm invisible zip from Spotlight….
Yes, they have them, but the colour range for blue seems very limited.
Started watching Samurai Champloo last night.
It is awesome.
NUMENERA: TALES OF THE NINTH WORLD
A proper dungeon crawl! How Quaint!
TOMORROW 7:30 SA TIME
cc @tech_knight @blaghman @popdart5 @novacascade
THE STRANGE (@strange?): THE SERIES
Kicks off next wednesday! let me know if you have any character questions, and if you could, let the others know roughly what you’re looking at (perhaps here) just so I don’t have an entire party of gunslinging vectors! Variety is the spice of life and the cornerstone of an RPG group that’s not hamstrung the second I ask them to make an intellect roll!
NEXT WEDNESDAY 7:30 SA TIME
cc @trjn @gingerchris86 @beeawwb @freezespreston @quiz_b @sernobulus @blaghman
OOH PAGE SIX GET
What’s the internal temperature of a Taun Taun?
Luke warm #dadjokepagesix #hi @strangeDon’t forget the Strange character options are coming out soonish so that might be something to consider.
Alas, April.
Ah didn’t see that release date. You might also consider allowing some of the Numenera stuff to transfer over as they released a small-scale conversion book to do that.
Also Red, it might require a bit of a work around however you could always open up the rules to players picking a Numenera Jack and working that in as another character type to choose from. Kinda gives a fourth option to the warrior/bard/magician dynamic that the Strange set up.
Hmm, I’m not sure a jack is really all that far from a spinner.
My main criticism of the strange, that will be remedied with the class book, is that the number of foci per recursion is low. The base classes are ok I think, and descriptors matter across recursions, but the foci are where I’m more likely to throw some numenera in
To me at least, the Spinner is far more dedicated to talking through situations and being skilled through interacting with people whereas the Jack is far more a case of “can be good at a little bit of everything”. Plus the abilities and stuff feel different enough to make them distinct however I’ll stop butting into a game I’m not even playing yet.
Definitely agree with you about the lack of foci. I think the core rulebook of both Numenera and the Strange only has about 20 foci each however Numenera now has something like 50 due to the expanded books. Considering the Strange actually allows you to change your foci, it’s kinda disappointing that there’s not more there but it’s relatively easy to transfer stuff across (controls bugs/swarms would be easy to do for instance).
The thing about vanilla numenera too is that you can pick any of those foci at the start- depending on where you start in the strange, you can only pick from eight or so.
Because I’m going to run this campaign as a serial, if someone wants to change between “episodes” they’ll be able to- bring online a new character, or alter a current one
You forgot “Hi @strange!” It’s especially important on page 6.
I was thinking a Clever Paradox who Entertains, though the adjective’s questionable at the moment.
I do need to email you because I have an idea that’s amazing and dumb.
I am literally looking through it right now. Should have a character with a back story to you shortly.
It’s a Spinner. Trying to build it to my liking.
I’m also going with a Spinner although somehow I think there won’t be much overlap between us.
I think you might have to find a way for me to smoothly exit the story/kill me off in a blaze of glory.
I’m so far behind on whats been happening and I always seem to have stuff on Wednesday nights.
I have really enjoyed it though so if things calm down I’ll definitely see about jumping back in
I’m happy for you to drop in when you can
Intelligent Paradox that Conducts Weird Science.
For anyone wondering, I’ve settled on a Skeptical Spinner who Operates Undercover as my Strange character.
He’s a conspiracy wonk private eye called John (it’s a mononym). While he’s fantastic at obtaining information through deception and the odd bit of sleight of hand, he tends to filter everything through a rather… skewed filter. He found out about The Strange after uncovering a government conspiracy to conceal it. Now that he’s actually uncovered a conspiracy, John (it’s a mononym) now worked his way into The Estate to uncover the conspiracy behind the conspiracy.I’m going to enjoy tormenting you.
EDIT: Also, brilliant back story building. Puts mine to shame.
I totally just stole Question from DC comics because I thought it’d be fun to play in this setting.
I was thinking a Clever Spinner who Works the System.
EDIT: Hmm, might think of a different character (probably a vector) because we already have a few Spinners and Paradox
Punchy McPuncherface the Third?
Nah, I’ll save you from having to roll a punchy again. I’ll go with punchy this time.
I wasn’t going to go punchy anyway. Vectors don’t need to be punchy. Besides @trjn pretty much took the character idea I was going to go with. =P
Yay for coming up with a totally original idea that was also stolen from a comic book character and also thought of by other people in the same group!
The problem with Vectors (and their equivalent in Numenera) is that you sort of have to work to find something fun to do with them, since in most cases their options boil down to “hit it” or “hit it harder.”
Granted, a lot of this game will probably be talking, so it’s not that hard to make it fun in that sense (I enjoyed “getting” a joke two minutes after it was said immensely, and was giggling to myself when I had the idea because I’M AN ADULT), but still.
That approach did get you fan mail, which is still hilarious
I’m definitely getting a vibe that at least one of use shouldn’t treat Might as a dump stat.
Ok, since @sernobulus is going a Spinner, I’m going with:
A Tough Vector who Looks for Trouble.
And the heavens shall tremble at his name.
Bazza.If you go punchy I will go shooty vector. =P
Fun fact: when I was considering making a chaotic neutral Vector, his name was going to be Kev. Short for Vladmir Kevlovski but he was a complete bogan.
I’m going to have so much fun with this.
Conversely, you guys are going to get so annoyed with me.
wat’choo lookin’ at, cock?
First one, then t’other… then t’other.
My character is a Wide eyed Paradox who is licensed to carry
My thoughts were similar to Bunny’s in that I took a character I liked because I thought it would be fun to play in this setting. In this case Constantine
Wide eyed? or Sharp eyed?
Oops, yeah – Sharp Eyed
Very preliminary thinking but I’m looking at A Graceful Vector who Lives in the Wilderness
Alternatively an Appealing Spinner who Works Miracles. Messiah complex, anybody?
Well, I’ve gone through and cleaned out all my Club Nintendo surveys that I’d had stocked up.
Now I have 4450 Stars to spend! …hopefully they actually offer something new for us before Club Nintendo closes down (or worse, offer something I really want for 4500 Stars :P)
FYI for people doing the same thing: Don’t forget to check the Games page on the Club website. You can register the digital games you’ve bought for stars there as well.
I bought my first ever Club Nintendo thing (LBW Soundtrack)!
I still have a pile of codes to add just in case they add anything.
Should do it now before they announce anything. The site will get hammered with people desperately redeeming their long-forgotten codes when/if they do 😛
Ehh, I’m not hugely fussed.
You say that now!
That’s actually a good idea…
Laterrrrrrrrr
Surprised the LBW soundtrack lasted as long as it did. Seems to have disappeared some time today though, it was there this morning.
I was surprised too! Everyone probably burnt their points on the MK8 t-shirt 😛
4450! Think of all the things you can buy from Club NIntendo Australia like
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Give me a minute or two I will come up with something.
“Sonic Team’s newest Sonic the Hedgehog game is coming to Android and iOS this spring. Dubbed Sonic Runners, the free-to-play mobile game will be a 2D side-scrolling runner with stages that can be played in a minute or two, according to Sonic Team’s Takashi Iizuka.”
“Sonic Runners’ first teaser trailer doesn’t show any footage of Sonic Team’s new game. But it does prominently feature Sonic the Hedgehog’s 2D side-scrolling adventures over the years,” (also known as “banking on Nostalgia”)
So apparently the only thing my joke the other day got wrong was the platform. :/
You and your predictions are now banned from the following topics
Star Wars
Mirror’s Edge
The Elder Scrolls
The Witcher
Batman
Superman
In fact, all Superheroes
Double Fine
Uncharted
Borderlands
I can go with a safe one.
“Double Fine’s next game will be financially mismanaged.”
Oh, wait, while I’m here, “the next Borderlands will still be an utterly rote shooter where your enjoyment will hinge on how funny you find dick jokes.”
YOU ARE THE WORST PERSON
THE FUCKING WORST
NEXT TIME I SEE YOU BLAGHS I’MMA YELL AT YOU SOME MORE
You dislike Borderlands almost as much as I dislike The Last of Us … ALMOST.
It sits in the same pile as Saint’s Row, where I buy all the games, and yet still don’t get them, and spend the entire games wondering when they get fun (Tales from the Borderlands however, is excellent).
I don’t know why I do this to myself.
As much as I dislike Bens?
I don’t know if there’s that much hat in the world.
hey, Borderlands isn’t just dick jokes. It also has a single joke about a horse and characters that yell.
Is it wrong of me to think that an auto-running 2D Sonic would totally work on mobile with touch controls?
I’d probably prefer that to console Sonic, honestly 😛
Yeah, I actually think it’s a fine fit, assuming the level design ain’t bad, and the micro-transactions aren’t bullshit.
The problem is that the best auto-running game for phones has already been made, and so nothing can compete with Rayman Jungle Run.
Except for maybe Rayman Fiesta Run!
😛
Yes
TAY RPG 40K Rogue Trader completed for another night. Starring:
@freezespreston @tech_knight @rize @sernobulus @gingerchris86
GM Summary: Greenskins are fun as usual and now the group has some new fwends. <3
Watch here.
How many times did I die? 2 …. 3 …?
Zero!
Must be a filler episode.
I Pecked out a gretchen’s Tongue!
I’m hoping I can make a friend in Oila’ the TechOrk 😛
And a fact that was missed in this, @gingerchris86 has a new pet Gretchen… after biting out its tongue!
I think Oila’ likes you 🙂
Aw, I may end up feeling a momentary twinge of guilt when I put a rocket in his face now.
I was waiting for you to let a rocket go in the middle of the orcs last night 😛
I so wanted to but I had a feeling we were outnumbered enough to get the party wiped.
Spoken like a true Eldar then. 😛
Woo! New Characters
I like him, an Ork that’s evolved to create a machine spirit of his own. I’m actually going to try to make him into a potential ally cuz he seemed reeally decked out with a horrifying arsenal.
Oila the Cybork actually. 😛
The cast of Greenskins that the group has met:
– Krulldrag the Boss Kaptin
– Oila the Cybork
– Muffles the tongue-less Gretchin
It’ll be interesting when you meet some of the other colourful characters. 😛
I had no idea Cyborks were a thing O_O
We’ve discovered that Max, the new kitten, is a girl. 🙂
Maxene!
I hate when people use up the “special” ingredients. Eg when having tacos, people who decide they don’t want any more tacos. But they’ll happily break up and munch on the taco shells instead, while others are still going. Or with burritos, eating the extra plain tortillas.
And in this case, going and eating the extra slices of pineapple for the hamburgers, even though there’s still two buns there to be used with the rest of the leftovers. JERK MOVE.
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/feb/03/spongebob-movie-sponge-out-of-water-first-look-review
The new Spongebob movie sounds like an acid trip and I couldn’t be more excited for it 😀 It’s been over 10 years now since I saw the first one the day it came out and I’m still just as much of a fan!
Btw this is an official poster: http://i.imgur.com/p5B07qt.jpg
The last remaining bit of child like innocence Spongebob had is completely gone 😛
I really want to see that. I enjoy watching Spongebob occasionally, and I’m always surprised at how intelligent some of the jokes are.
March for Australia?! 🙁
School holidays, gotta make dat bank. It’s The Lego Movie all over again..
Squeeeeeeeeee, he texted late at night! 😀 😀 😀
That means he was thinking of me, yeah?
I hope that means he was thinking of me!!! X3
*wolf whistle**lion growl*
Morning everyone
Morning!
Morning you
Up for the replay at Old Trafford, United vs United and we’ve already hit the post 😀
Cambridge showed a lot of heart. Was good to see.
First leg was amazing, second leg we should’ve played more openly rather than trying to keep them out. We did that in the second half and created a few half chances.
More importantly, 1.5(ish) mill in the bank 😀
Ok the last hour of works has gone by both in a flash and taken forever. Now Im just confused and worried. Like I swear I just did that job but the logs say it was an hour ago and and hour ago feel likes 3 hours ago and I wasnt even at work then.
take a deep breath, I’m sure it will be fine 🙂
What the actual f&$# , came into work after having 2 sick days and get told my role is redundant. Commencing immediately. Time to start job hunting. Blessing in disguise cause I hate it here anyway, just really unexpected.
Sorry to hear that man. thats happened to me before too.
Thanks man, it’s weird but at least I didn’t get fired so it won’t be a stain on my record, plus redundancy payout is stopping me from freaking out yet.
The hell. Is it a proper redundancy with severance or are you just getting booted?
Yeah, getting a payout so I’m not in too much trouble yet. It was weird to get no notice and told to leave immediately though.
Sucks man, good luck with the search
Thanks I’ma need it, haven’t had to look for a job in ages, just getting a resume together is going to be a bit of effort.
Happy to proofread anything you want to run by me
I may take you up on that, I haven’t updated my resume in like 7 years. Thank you.
Happened to a friend of mine a few weeks ago, just suddenly made redundant, no warning or anything. Really sucks man, sorry to hear that
The no warning was what shocked me, kinda glad to leave the place.
Aw man, that’s not great news. Sorry to hear this. Here’s hoping something better is on your horizon.
Thanks buddy, I’m hoping it’s just an opportunity to have a fresh start. The prospect of job hunting is a little scary.
Ugh, I’ve had that happen. Sucks. They not to let it get to you. Just see it as the opportunity to get into something you’ll like.
Thanks dude, I’m trying to see it as a positive, at least I never have to deal with the jerks I worked with anymore so things are already looking up.
I thought you were payroll?
Yep, I was. Sorta suspected they’d do this a while ago cause they hired a new person who learned half my role but nothing came of it, that was months back. I think they planned it for a while, pretty sure they just didn’t like me much and “redundancy” was just a way of getting me out. Oh well I disliked it so time to move on I guess.
Who’ll do the other half?
Not my problem. They’ll realize just how much I did over the coming weeks. Funny the two people who would have made the decision have very little to do with me and no idea of what I did.
Classy, but of that goes on over here.
People get retired or given reduncies because some bigwig want to cut costs somewhere then 6 months later they’re forced to rehire new staff.
Looks good on the books though & that’s all that matters.
Dammit. Unexpected Wednesday appearance of Violin Girl. Strike two, flaked out again.
Looked like she was drawing a picture of a dolphin or something in a painting app on her tablet.
Could of walked over and been all. I like how you draw those fins, doll.
As you can see I am a master at this.
“That is one nice blowhole.”
“Like a dolphin, I can hold my breath for a really long time.”
My ex’s call me The Dolphin, because in bed, I’m all flippers.
“I like how you paint with porpoiseful strokes.”
Impress her with your wide array of beach ball tricks
Ok so next time you see her you need to really try and engage with her interests, try a funny anecdote and subtly flirt, for instance:
“This one time in the 60s they tried to teach a dolphin to speak by having a woman live with it in a partially flooded house except when it reached sexual maturity it became aggressive towards her so the scientists running the experiment got her to drop acid with the dolphin and give it handjobs to see if it would become more receptive to the teaching and what I’m trying to say is that I really like you and I’m willing to wear a costume.”
Smooooooth.
If I can arrange it, I may be coming to Brisbane on the 17th of July. Liverpool are playing Brisbane Roar on their Australian tour, and as I missed the last game in Melbourne, I really want to see them. So, here’s hoping I can manage to get up there.
Err…I’ll probably be in Tasmania then. D:
It’ll be like Wife Swap, but with TAY members!
I’d watch that.
Mr @strange may be a little concerned that his wife has been swapped with a giant beardy Tasmanian.
I’m not that tall, only about 170 cm.
Sorry, I made a guess, I was wrong.
You’re shorter than me!
It’s not guaranteed that I’ll be going to Brisbane. It’s heavily dependent on whether I can arrange my finances in time, and how quickly the tickets sell out and various other factors.
I’ll be off work as it’s mine & my son’s birthdays that week, but my dad will be in town.
I should be able to meet up.
Dunno if I’m doing birthday things or not. Was very sick last year at that time :-/
Roar member here so I get access to the pre-sale. I might have a few people wanting to get in on my awesomeness at securing tickets, but I might be able to grab a ticket at the same time for you if you want? This is dependent on there not being some stupid ‘2 tickets per member’ limit or something though
Ooh, sounds great, but put me at the bottom of the list as I’m not even sure whether I can afford to go yet.
TWENTY DAYS TO GO
No it’s 38.
No it’s 24.
No this is Patrick.
Nooooo, that’s impossible!
CJ!
On the train this morning, I killed a major boss, then died on a horse & had to do it all again.
As long as you weren’t driving the train
Jesus, where the hell do you live?!
The farm where Big Boss retired.
Two young boys were whispering outside the church after hearing a scary sermon on the devil.
The first one said, “Satan sounds awful. Do you think he’s real?”
The second boy said, “I don’t know, but remember how Santa Claus turned out? It’s probably just your dad.”
what do you call 2 Mexicans playing basketball……
juan on juanWhat do you give to a sick pig?
OinkmentWhat do you call cattle with a sense of humor?
Laughing stock.Why do sea-gulls fly over the sea?
Because if they flew over the bay they would be bagels!A man walked into a bar.
Ouch.
Why do bees have sticky hair?
Because they use honeycombs!I love that you do this page. 🙂
@shane
Just read the first issue of undad. Really enjoyed it. Not a fan of the artstyle, but that’s not really your fault. Plus it’s my personal opinion. Otherwise, was disappointed when it ended.
You’ll be pleased to know that every issue will have a different art style! \o/
The Mind Games of comics
I guessed as much. I just didn’t like the daughter or Mother. Couldn’t help but be bothered.
Just saw this pop up…I got a laugh. (Spoilered cz length.)
An African lumberjack is interviewing for a job at a major logging company. The foreman decides to take a practical route and hands the lumberjack an axe.“Take a couple swings at that tree over there.” The foreman said.
The lumberjack walks over to the tree and fells it in a single chop.
“Holy smokes, you’ve got quite the arm! You’re absolutely hired, but I need to know what you can do. Try your hand at this tree over here.” The foreman points out a much larger tree.
One, two swings and the tree crashes to the ground.
“That’s incredible!” Cried the foreman. “Wherever did you learn to chop like that?!”
“In the Sahara Forest.” Replied the lumberjack.
“Don’t you mean the Sahara Desert?” Asked the foreman.
“That’s why I’m here.”
The Mountain living up to his name.
http://instagram.com/p/yh1dLDgLmC/
😐 wow… Fuck..
He’s the same age as me! That makes me sad
He’s 5 and a half years younger than me, which makes me wonder what I’m doing with my life …
He’s nearly the same age as my sister! That is kinda weird.
I could do that. If I completely changed my way of life and copied him in everyway.
Mike Tyson was recently ask by a Buddhist monk if it was possible to think the unthinkable
Be responded Of course
With an ithebergHeeeeeyyyy TAY, Did ya miss me?
* crickets *
Excellent! How are we all?
Just had my 2 RDOs after having worked the weekend and I was way more productive then I’d like… Also garden work is freaking hard and I don’t care for it 😛
I’m really tempted to pick up the Star Wars humble bundle but there’s really only 1 game I’m after cause I own all the others XD
So here we are. Will Abbot make it to the end of the week? Will he make the end of the day? Will elections have to be done on a yearly basis from now on?
Sounds like Freeze is preparing to challenge Strange for leader of the Brisbane TAYbies!
Vote 1 Freeze because… Uh….. Um….
C’mon! I’ll be your best friend?
You have my vote, but Im a foreigner so I cant vote.
You let me sample nice bourbon & whiskey, got my vote already.
Wait, what?! I was never the leader! Stop sneakily making other people the leader, DC…we all know it’s you who’s the real leader anyway. 😀
Apparently Turnbull is calling MPs to ask for their support.
We should just have a single, constant election based on social media hashtags. Whoever has the most positive hashtags is the PM for as long as they stay trending.
#Tay4PrimeMinister
*phone rings* Hi Mr. Paterson! Congratulations you’re the new Prime Minis…. Oops, never mind. Hope you enjoyed your tenure!
God damn autocorrect. http://rt.com/uk/227179-spelling-mistake-companies-house/
Be nice to grammar nazis. They could save you millions.
So there’s Rise of the Tomb Raider details in Game Informer for March.
Sounds like they’re putting a greater emphasis on puzzles and bringing back what they describe as ‘nested’ puzzles from the earlier TR games. Which sounds awesome because that was the only part of the reboot I wished they’d had more of.Yeah, that sounds pretty damn great to me.
The only thing that’s keeping my hype down for this game is the Xbox One timed exclusive thing, otherwise it’d be up there with the most arm flailing hyped games of this year. 🙂
It’s the chief reason I decided to bite and buy an Xbox One in December when I got a good deal through the company.
I think I’ll hold out for Quantum Break, but Sunset Overdrive and Tomb Raider certainly make it more appealing.
Quantum Break was the other main reason. Sunset Overdrive not being shit is a bonus.
So far I’ve played games for about 10 minutes on the system though. And it was AssCreed NoFace Edition 🙁
Little bit miffed about the timed business, but I’ll live.
Tomb Raider was a solid shooter/adventure and I felt like the overall premises was wonderful – the collectibles and raidable tombs were well-integrated. If you treat it as an origin story and ignore the older games (easily done by me since I haven’t played them) it all made sense.
But there absolutely needs to be more tombs and puzzles and whatnot in the next instalment. Looking forward to it.
It was probably my game of the year in… 2013? When it released. Fantastic reboot. And I say that as someone that played all the older games to some degree. I used to find them frustrating to play though, platforming required way too much precision and they were hard to control and very demanding.
Though I see some fans of the earlier games whinging about the way Crystal Dynamics tightened up the platforming especially, I felt like it actually made the game more fun.
Further stuff from GI:
They’re talking about ‘hubs’ and night and day cycles and animals reacting to the time of day the environment itself being the main antagonist and stuff and that all sounds rad and makes me hope that maybe the game will be more Metroidvania-like. The reboot felt a lot like it wanted to be Arkham Asylum but stopped just short of it. If they go all the way it’d be rad.<‘/s>The main thing I wonder about is whether they’ll be able to capture the atmosphere of the reboot. I loved that feel that the game had, the isolation and the kicking through the decaying remains of a lost civilization and then all the random shanty-towns and facilities and shipwrecks and everything that had washed up. Also the constant stormy weather. It felt really cool. I also liked that you felt vulnerable, and that feeling of progression you got as you became more and more capable and experienced. Don’t know if the sequel can nail that.
Less doods more ligers!
Absolutely. Great origins story. More puzzles please, both platforming/environment and mental puzzles – the action was great, but Lara needs to show her smarts too. The 4 or so tombs were very good, so lots more of that along with the bow and gun action and the great writing and I’ll be a happy little Tomb Raider.
I’m certainly enjoying the comics run at the moment also.
I vote for Freeze as prime minister. As long as I can be minister of Nbn and raptor defence.
2 gets in a row? Who am I, @mrtaco?
You’re Red.
See if you can cut costs and incorporate the two into one system.
We could teach gymnastics via the internet, that’d reduce costs
I was thinking Tesla coils every 15m on every road in the country and run the internet on Ethernet over power.
Logic is flawless.
As minister of raptor defence, issue each person with a vuvuzela – as everyone knows, raptors are immediately stunned at the first annoying thrum. Of course, to avoid personal abuse of vuvuzelas issued in accordance with s16 of the Raptor Defence and Ministerial Slush Fund Act (2015), any non-raptor related incidences of vuvuzela are now criminalised and will be met with a fine of $10,000 (payable to the Raptor Defence Minister Trust) and/or death penalty.
Vuvuzelas? There are two ways to defeat raptors. Gymnastics and tire irons.
You don’t have any evidence that vuvuzelas don’t subdue raptors, but plenty of evidence unauthorised vuvuzelas use should be penalised. Make the right choice, minister.
I feel vuvuzelas lay outside of this portfolio and are a matter for the states.
Raptors are a national concern.
I have my trusty raptor skull right here.
Random blowing through the hoot-hole cavity (that’s the technical term) & any idiot can be fluent in raptorese.
Or your money back!
I suppose you also have a rock that prevents tiger attacks.
I might, if only I could recall the reference
Buy this rock that keeps away tigers!
Does it work?
Do you see any tigers around?
NBN back on track, but all computers interfacing with it have to switch to IRIX and run Fsn?
#Vote1Shiggy
I have yet to see the costings on @shiggyninty’s raptor proposals.
@novacascade @transientmind @freezespreston @negativezero @blaghman
Moar questions!
How bout phones? Own on roaming charges? Cheapo prepaid sim/dumbphone? Not really needed?
That’s an easy one!
Near 100% of the time if you feel you need one a cheap arse prepaid is the best option. Roaming charges are ridiculous.
Heh. I had no idea on either this, or dealing with currency.
I honestly was going to just wing it and if it turned out more expensive, ‘so be it’.
Me and my friends found ourselves to be quite reliant on the one guy who bought a SIM for use over there, and another who was using roaming on his. We all thought there’d be wifi hotspots in abundance so it should be fine, but no 😛
The best part for me was that I got in earlier than all the others, and the only line of communication with them was via facebook. And the only free hotspot I could find to connect to was at McDonalds. One of the ones set up for 3DS. So I couldn’t use my phone there, just my 3DS. And Nintendo’s browser on there doesn’t let you use special characters in the password field, so I couldn’t log in. So instead I complained about it via 3D Letterbox and hoped that maybe they could see those messages.
Thankfully it worked out ok in the end 😛
In Japan I just used my own phone, from memory (I had a travel so for other parts of my trip, but I think Japan was my normal one). Since there’s an abundance of free Wi-Fi it really just depends on whether you use your phone for phone things or not (I never call and rarely text, so it worked fine).
Yeah, that’s how I tweet from Taiwan
So just using own phone and communicating with each other via twitter on free wifi would be basically free?
Sounds good.
Seriously, where did you find the free wifi? The only ones we could find had these screens covered in moon runes and randomly ticking checkboxes and clicking buttons didn’t seem to grant us sudden magical internets, they all looked like they required some kind of purchased account.
Well, I was either in Nozawa, where I didn’t check, or Tokyo, where all the major train stations had it.
I have no idea on this at all. I guess probably should look into it? I think the days have passed where Japan ran on a different cellular band to the rest of the world, and most modern smartphones will interface fine, but don’t know how terrible roaming charges would be.
On research, roaming average $1/Min for made and received calls (you pay when someone calls you :S) 50c-$1 per SMS sent and $1/MB with data.
About normal then.
Which is to stay staggeringly expensive.
Vodafone have a “deal” where it’s $5/day on top of your normal bill for unlimited everything.
So 3 weeks would be near $200 depending on normal bill.
The problem is that you’d be with Vodaphail.
Also compared to buying a phone with $20 credit for $30 like we always have done overseas it’s insanely expensive.
I used a prepaid data-only sim.
Sitting at work watching cameras waiting for the popo to turn up and bust these kids puffin on the ganja
CJ is their Orwellian nightmare!
I read the start of that book!
I’ve seen the movie!
Well I didnt get to see the cops kill some kids, who have disappeared. But atleast I got to watch a man take a piss on someones house on another street.
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/for-sale-on-gumtree-sydneys-monorail-20150203-134rhe.html
Hmm, only 3k you say?
We should all chip-in so we can experience the Mono-meat of 2012 over and over again!
…actually, let’s not.
Yeah, I wasn’t there so it was a terrible meat, right?
Right?
I wasnt there either so probably.
It was a great Meat! Riding the monorail was just not the highlight half of us thought it would be 😛
Ya’ll were in the sucky carriage is all.
The best part was when we were sitting there checking our Streetpasses of each other, but not actually talking to one another.
So basically it was like every other meat?
But with the additional regret of spending money on a defunct transport system!
Convert into house, rebuild track.
Convert it into a bar?
I hear those things are awfully loud.
A bar where no-one can talk!
gaming bar.
It’s quite talkative at Spawn Point.
It flies as softly as a cloud
Is there any chance the drinks could end?
not on your life my taco friend
What about those braindead slobs?
They’ll have their junk kicked by a clog.
Also I dunno about you guys, but I got some really weird recommendations at the bottom of that monorail story.
You know it’s all based on your browsing history….
My browsing history primarily consists of TAY.
Makes sense, I guess.
@tech_knight
I have hurt myself so much sewing the plates onto the morph suit. I keep getting jabbed by the pins! No blood yet though, but a few deep ones.
🙁 don’t work yourself too hard on this
I’m already worried about us being behind.
SO MUCH TO DO! Speaking of which, I will need you hip measurement for the cod piece.
I’ll get that tonight
I sent you a picture text. I’m worried about the gap, but if you’re okay with it, I will deal.
That gap might not be so obvious while I wear it so we’ll have to see until I’m there next time to make a proper assessment of it.
I am worried that I didn’t stretch it right while sewing it. We’ll have to wait and see, I guess. One arm done, one to go.
well that did look really difficult to get right considering that everything is meant to be very close together :/
We won’t know until you’re wearing it.
Lord Blackadder codpiece?
Sorry, no.
Do it anyway?
If I have time?
Techie gun look fierce.
More like I still have heaps to do. My own cosplay is still sitting there being ignored.
Scare the clergy with the Black Russian.
That’s what it was called! Could not for the life of me remember.
How could you forget a name like ‘The Black Russian’?!
Welcome to Talk Amongst Yourselves, AKA ‘TAY’.
Speaking of which, I will need your hip measurement for the cod piece.
Should I be honoured or concerned?
Yes.
So proud 🙂
Misread as lip measurement. D:
Whoa, Elite 1.1 beta release. Huuuge list of patch notes. Some interesting/cool/THANK GOD THEY FINALLY GOT TO THIS stuff that I spotted in there:
Full list is like… ten times that size.
So… bad piloting is an offence punishable by death? eep! Also, landing pad numbering consistency! \o/
*looks over rest*
That woulda been handy when I was starting out. 😛
Well, that was already the case with trespass warnings etc. But in this case “hit” means “with weapons” 😛
IE sloppy triggerwork won’t get you accidentally wanted and hunted down!
Aww… …wait, I’m a trader… I flee in the face of danger, as fast as my little FSD will carry me… why am I disappointed stations won’t attack me if I cause accidental property damage? 😛
Interesting, just saw something about trade being “nuked”. Some kind of tweak to make supply and demand actually work now, seems a lot of traders are crying foul 😛
Fowl! Bloody ducks, always ruining things. 😛
More seriously, D:
It looks like it means publicly advertised trade routes will quickly deplete, so it will encourage traders to not share profitable routes, which means tools like elitetradingtool will go the way of the dodo, as no-one will be willing to update the information for fear of their trade routes depleting… ergo, a lot of traders will have to do proper system research and learn how the economy works (something I’ve admittedly been a little remiss in, myself :P). Lots of potential for griefing, there… but also potential for something akin to EVE’s trading guilds to spring up… a meta-economy trading trade routes…
…not sure how I feel about that – it’ll mean being a lone trader will be much, much harder. I hope I’m just overthinking things…
Can’t wait for this to come out… Wait, yes I can actually… Already sunk way too many hours into this! This update is cause me to keep going 😛
It seems like in this fancy beta mode, they’ve got all ships and upgrades available at Dalton Gateway. And all ships are going for 100cr apiece.
PARTY MODE ENGAGE
Haha that’s fantastic… There should be a “test drive” function so you can try before you buy I reckon… I know you can change flight characteristics quite alot through upgrading but I would still like to be able to kick the tyres of a potential purchase 😛
Yeah, I’d love for there to be some kind of “combat sim” where you can more or less have deathmatch games against other pilots without having to worry about your credit balance or bounties or rep or anything like that. Just something to get in a bit more PvP, have some more human interactions. Maybe they could have it as some kind of in-world tournament, even time-limited or something…
I hope the aggro change includes security. I nearly blew up once because I clipped a security ship while trying to destroy an Anaconda.
Admittedly my real mistake was thinking “I can probably still take the ship and avoid the security.”
I had one or two instances where I hit a security vessel and they turned hostile. They were mostly interested in the anaconda we were chasing, though I did get a few hits from them. Probably helps that I’m currently sporting mirrored surface armour and most NPCs attack with lasers, but I managed to finish the job and even scoop up some dropped cargo before getting out of there.
Elite dangerous or Star citizen
Convince me
BOTH! \o/
Elite exists now. Star Citizen might exist someday.
😎
Holy shit. Jordan responded to ISIS demanding the release of that female attempted suicide bomber by hanging her.
Christ, they’re not fucking around
That’s intense, I didn’t know Jordan hung folks. I wonder what the fallout will be, I can’t think of a time when that sort of retaliation has occurred.
Well, Isis did burn a Jordanian pilot alive.
I don’t approve of capital punishment though.
The problem with the eye for an eye philosophy is that sooner or later everyone ends up blind.
They’ve executed 2 of their hostages apparently. I guess because we’re from a Westernised culture that kind of eye for an eye response isn’t the norm so it’s more surprising, but it’ll be interesting to see what fallout there is from it.
On one hand, I feel like it’s justified, on another I feel like it’s dealing with a delicate situation using a sledgehammer. Mind you, America’s response to terrorist attacks has been to retaliate with force under the guise of ‘freedom’ so it’s not that different I guess
Reading more into it, she’d been on death row in Jordan since 2005
I expect flak for this but. Good.
Considering that the Jordanians were trying to barter the release of the female suicide bomber for the release of their pilot with IS while IS had already killed him weeks ago, can’t say I feel any sympathy for her either.
1 she was a terrorist. 2 her death was a hell of a lot more humane then his.
If they’d complied it would probably have just emboldened them and made more of those sorts of abductions happen. Jordan’s probably hoping that that sort of response will dissuade ISIS from even trying it again.
Question: Would a female suicide bomber still get 72 virgins? Seems like 72 guys awkwardly fumbling for 40 seconds then apologising for the next hour isn’t much of a reward…
And I thought Dr. Cox was brutal…
😛
\o/ short listed for a job.. So I *may* get an interview, neat.
Good luck man! 🙂
Thanks dude!
http://www.sbs.com.au/comedy/article/2015/02/04/julia-gillard-rushed-hospital-after-overdosing-schadenfreude
Oh wow.. A neighbour was loudly complaining to a friend of theirs today that our dog Chilli is a vicious animal and is aggressive toward everyone. I am pretty sure their grandchildren and children have hurt more people and animals combined (Chilli included) than Chilli has ever seen in her life…
Get Chilli to live up to the rumours!!
Some people just don’t have enough going on in their life; nothing more destructive than an idle human mind.
But here that gets dogs put down without question from the council… Saw it happen to the neighbours dog, all they needed was to get enough neighbours to get on their side. Don’t wish to explore that route..
That’s ridiculous – they don’t even get a professional to evaluate the dog? Down here there’s a dangerous dogs law, where if people complain the council sends a professional over and if they agree, the owner has to have a sign up, extra fencing etc. Don’t just put an animal down because some people had a whinge.
As far as i’m aware it’s the dog rangers decision, they give you the option of moving the dog to somewhere totally different no where in the region or have it put down.. Unless it’s been a serious problem then dog gets put down regardless.
Woah, just happened earlier today and someone got footage of it. Terrifying.
Damn
That taxi is so damn (un?)lucky.
Holy moly you guys! Remember how I was all mental over Oregon Trail again last year? A friend just sent me this kickstarter link – https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/schellgames/orion-trail
It’s pretty much Oregon Trail in spaaaaaace 😀 😀 😀
I played The Oregon Trail in primary school. The school’s Apple IIs had either Oregon Trail or Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego, but the latter was too hard for most of my classmates so it was Oregon Trail or nothing.
It’s a good game but as an educational piece, it’s not exactly highly relevant to kids in New Zealand, so not entirely sure why we had it.
We had Carmen San Diego, Loom and some tank game (Spectre? Maybe? Is that a game?)
Last two weren’t particularly educational.
Spectre was indeed a game. Twice, according to wikipedia. You probably had the old Apple II game. When I think of that name though, I think of something quite different.
It was a really fast action game with a sort of Tron-inspired style. Vector or filled polygon graphics, 1st person view normally. You drove around a world that was black and had white-dotted grids and it had random cubes and planes scattered about. Had to collect all the flags and shoot the red (and later yellow) prism dudes to continue.
I played the shit out of that game as a kid. It was bundled with a lot of Macs but we got it not long after it released, from a software retailer in San Francisco when we visited there for a holiday in the early 90s.
The big notable thing about it was that it also supported network play, both over LAN and AppleTalk. One of the first games like that. I used to go to a Mac center when I was a kid, my Mum enrolled me to do a course in HyperCard programming but I was too young to really get it (not the teachers’ fault) but after we were done with the class everyone would hang out and play networked games, especially Spectre, Bolo (a rad top-down game where you controlled a tank around a battlefield that had pillboxes and stuff) and Minotaur (one of Bungie’s first games)
Later on they made Spectre VR, which added a bunch of enemy types and new weapon types which made it an even more fun multiplayer game. I’d imagine if I’d still been going to classes at that place a few years later it would have been displaced with Marathon, since by that point it was basically a deathmatch FPS, you needed to aim and everything because one of the powerups let you fly.
That’s the one!
My school had Kewala’s Typing Adventure.
Fuck that game.
Admittedly, I only really hated it because I was utterly woeful at typing, and couldn’t get past the second area in the allotted time, but shut up.
Also, backed. 🙂
High five!
Tonight’s pasta bake contains wagon wheels and teddybears. Been a while since I bought pasta it seems…
ummm what?! wagon wheels and teddybears? with pasta? what is this madness?! :0
No, I mean the pasta is shaped like wagon wheels and teddy bears. I normally have penne pasta in the cupboard, but not today!
We’ve got Hello Kitty pasta in the cupboard. Made Bolognaise from it once.
Aw I thought you’d made a dessert pasta bake.
ahhh very cool! nothing wrong with fancy shapes! if anything, it makes it more exciting! 🙂
No No No, I didn’t want this clarification
imma big boi biznz man now. buying coffee in the morning n stuffs! 🙂
:P. I don’t usually drink coffee but figured I’d just buy one at work today. I heard cappuccinos were good “beginner coffees” so I got that and it was alright. Not sure if I felt the “keeping you awake” feeling or not but it seems to have done its job? Workmate shouted it for me too since it was my first one 😛 (YAY FREEBIES)
I also randomly stumbled upon The Big Fat Quiz Of The Year on YouTube. It’s basically the same bunch of UK comedians who are always on quiz shows, doing another quiz show! Funny stuff :D. Apparently there’s 18 of them so… 16 more to go 😀
I only ever drink coffee from a cafe if somebody else pay for it. So expensive 😛 Good coffee is good though!
The problem with good coffee is that when you’re used to it, it’s hard to go back to bad coffee.
Ugh, BusinessManius
I usually buy the expensive lunches too! Not today though, just ate some Maggi cuppa noodles 🙁
Totes bought a Powerade though.
Oh! Look at Mr IAmSoRichICanBuyPoweradesForLunchius over here
I’ve been thinking strange thoughts. Thoughts about a game. A game that plays like Ys II with the silly bump combat and the spells and stuff.
There is nothing else quite like that game, except maybe for Ys III but apparently it sucks. 🙁
So maybe I should make one.
Do it!
Max has grown completely attached to me…
And she’s snuggling on my shoulder…
This kitten, I swear…
:`)
Also, is the Metroid Prime Trilogy worth it for $13?
Dude… of course it is!
Better load times too 😀
(not that I’ve played the Wii U version yet but I have MP1, 3 and the Trilogy, and 3 amazing games for $13 is a STEAL)
Nah. Better off jumping on ebay and buying the three games separately.
Yes because Metroid Prime is one of if not the best game of the generation and plaform.
No because AFAIK you have to play with motion controls and fuck that.
Yes because pointer controls are rad, and don’t count as motion controls.
Woah, Monty Oum just passed away. Shit. That’s terrible.
He passed on the first of February.
I didn’t hear about it until today. It’s really quite sad. RWBY was taking off, he looked like he was going places.
Uh.. So I got a text at 7 to call Employment Plus (the job “providers” I see) by today. Thing was I got the text AFTER they closed, what the fuck?
Automated stuff up?
I dunno. It seemed pretty specific.. Maybe their system decided to not send it until later.. They also use the same number to text from as EB Games do sometimes I found out heh.
Tonight I went for another run but slowed my pace right down to see if I could go further than 1km or five minutes max. Turns out I can! I slowed my pace from about 4:30 right down to 6:00 per one kilometre and easily did four laps of my local soccer pitch! Total time 8:42. Woo!
In fact when I ended it after four, I realised I felt great and could have pressed on for another three laps. My target is 2.4km and I’ve calculated that to be about seven or so laps of the oval. Next run it is then.. Pretty damn excited. 😀
Nice work! Why is 2.4km an important distance?
Military entry standard. I’ve said too much!
I thought it was just a shuttle run for entry, then 2.4 once you’re in.
11.18 these days?
Edit: cut 30 seconds, I’m ooolllllldddd now
Yeah, you’re correct. I found out this week that it is indeed 2.4 once you’re in but I set myself the goal and any additional fitness workouts should be beneficial to me anyway.
That makes sense – it just seemed an odd distance, because it’s not a race distance. You can run fast already, a bit of interval training to increase your stamina and you’ll be smashing a sub-20min 5km in no time!
How’d you check your pace?
I still can’t seem to find a consistent running pace :P. I either go to fast then give up and walk the rest or go pretty slowly for a while then end up going so slow it’s basically walking pace anyway. According to my running app (Runtastic) I’m getting about 7-8 minutes as an average pace whenever I go for my 5-7km runs (which are mostly walking)
I use the Nike+ app on my phone and then sit down and sync and analyse the data on PC afterwards. It’s pretty cool, shows me useful data. The only thing I’m missing is a heart rate monitor.
You should grab runkeeper too, it’s what I’ve just started on and it auto syncs to fitocracy. You can use both in tandem.
Hey that’s my pace! Hello fellow tortoise! I’ve just started couch-to-5k again to try and up my pace to under 7min/km (or better, around 6). Treadmill running is good for regulating your pace, as well as running with a pacing partner (some people are very good at it).
I do intervals of 10 kmh/7kmh on my treadmill (plus a warm up and cool down at a slower paces), usually 6 minutes each, so that’s a top pace of 6:00 and a slower of about 7, but the average over an hour jog is about 9 minutes
I’ve been stuck at 40min for my 5km parkrun for the last month or so. I wasn’t getting out to do short runs during the week and they make such a difference. My PB is just over 36min, and I really want to be running between 30 and 35 minutes. That slightly quicker pace makes 10km so much easier to do, and if I’m going to fork out precious $ for a fun run, I want to do at least 10km!
Much better way to do it.
You’ll find that 2.4 is a really short jog as well, you’ll blow past that in no time. should be about six laps, and once you do it for a few weeks you’ll probably do double or triple that.
I’m getting back into the routine, but an easy run for me atm (on a treadmill, so not 100% comparable) is 6.5-7 km, and I got to that point last time within a month.
Also also, if you want to gamify it a bit, my Brother lost a bit of weight with this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sixtostart.zombiesrun&hl=en
It’s pretty cool
Ugh, google chrome has decided not only is it going to run extremely slowly, but it’s also going to cut off all my songs on Pandora. I’m getting maybe a 1/3 or a 1/2 of a song before it moves onto the next one.
Have you tried punching it?
I want to. I really, really want to.
The Pandora app started doing something like that to me.
So I uninstalled it.
I was using the web version
The blame may not be entirely with chrome.
That’s true, but Chrome was also running very slow last night
Today I bought the 1st season DVDs of Hogan’s Heroes from eBay. Grand total: $8 inc post.
Today, therefore, was a pretty good day.
NUMENERA: TALES OF THE NINTH WORLD
Slime baaaaaaaaad
Thanks for playing!
cc @tech_knight @popdart5 @blaghman
also, forgot to say, there’s a kickstarter atm for an official Numenera short film! they’ve made a pretty cool teaser for it :
videos/118569020
Neato!
The Legendary gem you get from Greed in Diablo 3 is pretty ridiculous. Past hour of playing I’ve made about 5 million gold.
Errgh. Backed Exploding Kittens. What am I doing?
$5.2 million dollars for a card game…. And it’s only halfway done…
I dunno what you’re doing, have a look at Tiny Epic Galaxies instead
The Oatmeal has gone in an annoying self-aggrandizing/preachy direction the last year or so since the whole Funnyjunk lawsuit and I don’t really want to encourage him, plus I don’t know if this card game is actually going to be any good, but I’m still strongly tempted to back it in case it’s good. I need more casual card/party games for friends.
Yeeep. I stopped reading his site after it became nothing but Mantis Shrimp and Tesla. But if I’m honest with myself he’s still funny and the game looks simple enough to be a quick fun game to pull out occasionally.
That’s the thing, he’s still funny when it’s not Tesla/Mantis Shrimp/HEY LOOK AT ME I RUN MARATHONS BUT DON’T WANT TO MAKE A BIG DEAL OUT OF IT.
Also “exploding kittens” reeks of “internet random” but that doesn’t mean the game is going to be bad.
So yeah, I’ll probably back it. It ends just after pay day so I’ll probably set aside the funds to back at the $35 tier then.
Be aware there’s $20 shipping to Australia that isn’t included so $35 is really $55.
I am aware, but thanks for the heads up anyway.
You could try Superfight or Funemployed. They both kind of work on the same principal as Cards Against Humanity.
In Superfight, two players play a character card and a power card, then get a random power card off of the deck. They then bicker over who would win in a fight and the remaining players choose. Some of the power cards are hugely crippling but some of the crippling ones are handy power-ups for certain characters (nobody wants a drunk 100 story tall Goku but drunk Jackie Chan? That’ll work).
Funemployed is a bit trickier to find, I don’t know if it’s even out yet. There’s a job card and everyone has a hand of characteristics like “British Accent” that they can frantically draw and discard until time is up. Once the time is up, they have to apply for the job, selling their characteristics as positives.
Drunken Master is an amazing movie.
My own self imposed rule is to only back a kickstarter thingo if it’s almost certain to come out and not if it’s still got a fair way to go.
Semi-related note, I haven’t even booted up Wasteland 2 yet
One of my biggest problems with Kickstarter is that people don’t seem to do with the money they get when they go over.
This is a relatively simple card game. The biggest cost for them (now) is shipping the game out to all the backers. I almost wish that you could cap the amount of money raised through Kickstarter.
This is why I tend towards kickstarters that are basically just “we neeed $X for printing and shipping costs, we’re basically using kickstarter as a pre-order management service” rather than “HOW BIG WILL THIS PROJECT BE? ONLY THE COLLECTIVE WALLETS OF THE INTERNET CAN DECIDE!!!1”
You’d think at over $5 million they could absorb the shipping costs…
The guy has already made internet millions from his site. Not trying to begrudge him any of his creative endeavours, but he didn’t need to raise money to make this game.
Edit: my point isn’t that he shouldn’t have used Kickstarter. My point is that value for backers is probably not his top priority.
$5.2 million for a card game seems kind of expensive… maybe you should have backed a lower tier :\
Got a message a couple of hours ago saying to come outside and one of my friends and a bunch of other people I know from college in 2013 were outside and they dragged me to a few nightclubs and filled me with vodka and red bulls which is great but I’m not going to sleep tonight 😛
They were all pretty well drunk at the time and I can’t say I was expecting to get groped and kissed by my friend but oh well, I think me and other friends have done worse!
So yeah! Apparently going to play board games tomorrow and go out for tea with a few people, then going to see other Oliver on Friday cos he finally found a place so hopefully I can move out of here in the next week before going to Melbourne, and then on Saturday going to a house party and going out afterwards! Busy few days ahead which is good.
That’s more socialising than I like to do in a year
Being groped and kissed by a drunken friend is more socialising than I want to do EVER.
Maybe avoid Ginger Chris then.
Yeah it’s a bit weird when you’re completely sober, I’ll give it that 😛
April.
“Sean at work, pt. 63: You’d think he’d have learnt by now”
We’ve got a new Nurse at work, and she actually appeared today, so the boss was introducing her to everyone. So as they’re walking over I’m thinking “alright Sean, time to act like the charming and witty individual you are. Just be cool.”
Boss walks over, introduces her, so I make a slight choking noise, turn that into a very quiet whine as I stare at the floor, before giggling slightly at my own ineptitude.
Fucking nailed it.
I’m not sure if this is worse than that time I introduced myself by walking into a cabinet.
At least they’re both concise and quickly get the point across?
If the point is that I’m an idiot, I’m not sure I want to get it across.
It’s just the band-aid approach, get it over and done with as soon as you can 😛
I constantly seem to be choking whenever I go to talk after a long period of not doing so. Throats are stupid.
Are you a Sims character? 😛
Perfect meet-cute. You’ll be telling your children about it in 15 years when she’s dead and you finally reveal you’ve secretly harboured a crush on their “aunt” all this time.
Saw “Kingsman: The Secret Service” last night with @alexpants.
It’s the most fun I’ve had watching a movie since “Guardians of the Galaxy”. Basically does to spy movies what Kick-Ass did for superhero movies.
That church scene…
Oooo I saw a trailer for it and (like multiple other films) completely forgot about it. That’s one positive review though so I might have to venture out and see this 😀
So it’s a good movie after all? The advertisements make it look like the most generic and uninspiring spy movie ever.
New Anthrax studio album tease and Dolph Lundgren at Supanova. Today I’ve woken up to 2 great announcements. Headache lingers for a 3rd day though. I can get by that with Skyrim Let’s Plays
Also really wanting to go see Jason & The Argonauts at Goma cinema (for people in Brisbane) next week. A couple of days before (monthly) payday though so even $9 is pushing it right now 🙁 it is one of my most favourite films ever though so I’m sure I’ll get there somehow 😀
Link if any other Brisbane TAYbies are keen. A lot of films have already been shown though but still some great ones coming up like Unforgiven, Mad Max, Army of Darkness & all 3 extended versions of LOTR
http://www.qagoma.qld.gov.au/cinematheque/current/myths_and_legends?refer=homepageBANNER
I’d be so down if it was a print.
I’ve seen it so many times digitally I can’t justify seeing it again unless it’s an actual, factual 35mm print. -adjusts glasses, flicks fringe-
THAT DYNAMATION THOUGH!!!
Did you see the first thing PJ bought with LOTR money was one of the skeletons?
Ooh. Interesting. Shown my wife a few Harryhausen films and she took an odd (for her) liking to them, Clash of the Titans is one of her favourite movies. Could be keen.
I was gutted I found out about this after Clash had been on 🙁 I tried watching the remake and turned it off after 15-20 minutes
Love that kinda stuff, see what I can do
So… I’m currently finishing out the third of the gen 4 trio of shiny legendaries.
I may have enjoyed planning out the necessary team members for dominating and catching the remaining ones more than I should.
Results so far:
Caught – Latias, Azelf, Mesprit, Cresselia* (previous game)
In progress – Uxie
Remaining – Entei, Raikou, Suicune, Ho-oh, Regirock, Regice, Registeel, Regigigas* (can’t go for this next), Heatran, Dialga, Giratina, Cobalion, Terrakion, Virizion, Reshiram, Kyurem, Tornadus, Landorus.
Which one should I catch next?
Edit: no autocorrect, regice is not device
Ho-oh has a pretty neat shiny.
Yeah, I’ve already started prepping this one. Couldn’t use flash fire in case I eat the punishment at the wrong time, going to tank the fire attacks with soak, water veil and thick fat.
The Johto beasts were all given away in shiny form during gen 4, although they’re all pretty boring.
@powalen is right about Ho-oh. Additionally, Virizion has a pretty neat looking shiny.
Also, are you using a Legendary-hunter Gallade?
I was going to be able to cover most of them with an azumarill / bronzong combo. Going to use a few additional specialists like jigglypuff for giratina and something with sap sipper for virizion.
Gallade was more important when half of the legendaries were roaming.
He can carry Mean Look, Hypnosis, Swords Dance and False Swipe. Then it’s just a case of overleveling him a bit. 2x Swords Dance is more than enough for dealing with Steel/Rock typing, leaving only Giratina as someone that needs a specialist. Since Mean Look isn’t required, you could replace that with something like Psycho Cut or Leaf Blade – although both of these have have a higher crit chance, so you’d need to be careful.
My level 100 aegislash does the swiping duty pretty fast, most of the battle is something to cause sleep (often with zoom lens for extra accuracy) with either full immunity or not effective tanking while I throw premier balls.
Gallade does lose a bit of usefulness when you’re not chasing roamers. I remember my main roamer hunt in platinum ended up being individual swipes, then block and tank with bronzong to catch.
Why premier balls?
Because I Can.
I catch them with deliberately terrible premier balls because I think they look better than standard pokéballs.
Guess it just puts a few more underlines on the stupidity of what I do.
I like dusk because I mostly play at night & I like the colour scheme.
I’ve used the odd premier to mix things up.
Huh so turns out Firefly is s rather excellent OST to listen to while noodling around in Elite…
Also went out in a limb and bought the Bayonetta pack for the Wii U because I’ve heard good things (and the Potaku guys raved about it), might be a nice deviation from trading in Elite 😛
Hyponetta! Bayohypa! Hypohypa!
They’re pretty great games.
I honestly have no idea what I’m getting myself into aside from I like the art style and I know it’s an action game 😛
The only advice I’ll give is just don’t worry too much about scores the first time you play. You’ll probably be getting Stone awards (the lowest rank) a lot of the time in the first game but don’t be discouraged! Just have fun.
I got a single platinum in a battle, and felt like a golden god. Followed it up with… Bronze? Was sobering.
I might be alone in this but I think I prefer the Crota’s End raid in Destiny to the Vault of Glass. The Vault is definitely the more interesting lore-wise, the fights and puzzles are tricky and impressively designed, and require more teamwork – but thanks to Bungie hotfixing everything in sight because someone found that if you stand on a certain pixel the enemies might 1 time in 1,000,000 not be able to shoot you ot whatever, there’s a huge potential for it to simply break and become unplayable.
Crota’s End was a lot less complex which I understand for some people makes it less interesting or too easy, but the fact it mostly works will keep me going back to it whereas the Vault is too long and drawn out with too much potential for failure out of the hands of the players so I’m not interested in replaying it (even though I really want the Vex Mythoclast).
Crota’s End is something I will happily do multiple times to get all the raid gear, and I hope the key raid of the next DLC will be similar.
I agree and I love the teamwork in getting across the bridge. The first time we did that was one of life’s great gaming moments.
Simple but effective is what I get from Crota Raid compared to VoG.
Also I reckon my friends and I have maybe one attempt in us to do VoG on hard but even if we get through it (which we certainly won’t) I know I won’t get Vex Myth. Nobody is bothered about doing VoG at the moment.
The one time we did VoG (on normal mode, mind you) one guy in our group for the Universal remote from a chest then Gjallarhorn when we dropped Atheon. My wife got nothing but shards and the Chatterwhite shader. I got a chestpiece (redundant by the new vendor gear) and Hezen’s Revenge (still a pretty respectable rocket launcher even though it has old stats).
Obviously she’s glad we did the raid but she feels very cheated. Crota’s End on the other hand gave her Light of the Abyss, a fusion rifle with a ridonkulously low charge time she’s been cleaning up with in the crucible.
Both raids have some really interesting things going for them.
The puzzles in Crota’s End are more incorporated into the encounters themselves (“Lantern Forest” and the Bridge crossing), where as Vault’s best puzzles (IMO) were the non-combat encounters of Gorgon’s Labyrinth and the “Mega Man” vanishing blocks.
I think we only once had a problem with Atheon become broken and undamageable, whereas we have been foiled countless times on Crota due to the intricate split second precision required for juggling Crota’s shields and swordbearer – multiple times, each member of the raid has seen Crota behaving in a different way (shield regenerated, shield broke, starting to kneel, shooting at the swordbearer).
Right now, I still prefer Vault. I feel that CE is a little short – it probably could have used a better encounter after the Bridge and before the Deathsinger (as it is, you either run down the corridor and get a chest, or you don’t). The other option would have been to put something after crossing the threshold of light (after the Lantern Forest) and before reaching the Bridge – currently you just kind of spawn in to one side, and it’s not really explained.
Still, I think I’m happy that the raids have kept their challenge at a consistent level. My biggest fear after VoG was that raids would be dumbed down to be more “accessible”.
Seconded. Both have their merits and faults, but I think VoG suits my playstyle far more – CE is enjoyable in its atmosphere and the sheer chaos of that initial gauntlet, but the rest is intellectually underwhelming. The bridge is a great time when doing it legit, but cheesing is far too easy, and far more likely to succeed, so no-one bothers with the legit method. The Thrallway is just… short. It’s a 20 second mad dash to a chest, that may or may not be accessible. Deathsinger… is neat in concept, but once figured out, the only challenge comes from everything being a damage sponge (those Hallowed Knights… ugh), ie. cliche artificial difficulty. And Crota… timing is too tight, and six people could give three different descriptions of what he’s doing – “Shield is orange!” “No, it’s Blue!” “No, he’s kneeling,” “Why did he one shot me from kneeling?” etc. And boomers that respawn so quickly that I spend most of my time staring down the scope of my Ice Breaker.
VoG was a puzzle from start to finish. “The green goo is a buff!” Twenty wipes later… “Hmm… maybe it’s actually what’s killing us…” The Gorgon’s maze was amazing the first time, and still pretty fun on hard mode. Gatekeeper is complex and requires coordination, but we control the timing, which makes it really fun (as opposed to Crota, where everything seems to be on timers). Atheon is probably the least interesting encounters of the VoG, and it still blows Crota out of the water, because it means everyone has to adapt to the hands they’re dealt – got teleported? Right, we need to know who’s taking the relic, so the other two can start working on the adds. Detained? Start planning to deal with supplicants. Someone died? Time to adapt. Everyone has a sense of purpose in that fight, at all time.
Well, I’m playing Resident Evil 2 again.
This time I’m blaming the angle of the Sun blinding me on the train.
It doesn’t matter as much in RE2 because I’ve memorised everything.
Wait, Majora’s Mask comes out on Valentine’s Day? Are they trying to end relationships?
Only in Termina.
My store is doing a midnight launch.
My city store, wish I’d remembered Ninty release shit on fucking Saturday & ordered it at my local shopping centre instead
I am in this situation as well.
Except the game is at a local store and the nXL in the city. God dammit.
Do you not have an old 3DS?
If you do, I see little problem.
The problem is I have preorders to collect in two distant places on the one day.
Just grab theN3DS on Monday?
I thought they only hold them for 48 hours?
Also I won’t have a job on the Monday so it’s equally inconvenient to do it then. Possibly even moreso.
Thought you had a week? Guy told me Monday was fine when I played it off.
They only hold for 48 hours? Serious? What the hell do they do with it if you’ve paid it off and can’t get in to get it on release day?
When we took orders at Angus and Robertson, we held books for customers indefinitely, and they hadn’t even been paid for at the time.
@jimu I dunno if they’ve changed things, these are the first preorders I’ve made in years upon years.
@shane Well then they wouldn’t hold it any more, so if someone else came in and wanted to buy a copy and the only one left is the one that was set aside for you, they’d be able to take it.
@mrtaco, that is a deeply shitty business practice.
@Shane @mrtaco
It’s up to the individual stores to decide what to do.
All it takes us a phone call & a valid reason & they’ll help you out 🙂
@shane I spoke to my local and they’re holding Bloodbourne Nightmare Edition for three weeks for me.
Ooh, wonder if my store will do a midnight launch as well.
But games are for nerds and nerds are lonely basement-dweller types therefore should be unaffected, right?
My marriage hinges on whether or not Majora’s Mask is the gift I receive. That’s what you were talking about, right? 😛
I’ve been dragging my feet on my Titan the past week or so – needing 1500 rep to be able to buy the gear I needed for 31 seemed extremely daunting… and I’d been saving about 7x 5k XP bounties to cash in when I got the new gear, so I’d be able to level it quickly.
Last night, I realised I was only 2 light away from hitting level 30 – precisely how much I’d gain by putting the last upgrade on my Glasshouse… I hadn’t made much progress since Saturday, and was feeling pretty demoralised (1500 rep would be 4-6 weekly strikes, 60 playlist strikes, or about 100-150 patrol missions – choice between slow progress or tedious progress -_-;), so I figured – why am I saving these bounties when it feels like it’ll take weeks to get the rep I need? I can always do more bounties later.
I put that exotic shard in my helm, cashed in all my Vanguard bounties and did the nightfall as a fresh level 30. At the end of the nightfall, Aksor fell in a shower of cinders, and the notification that I got a legendary weapon was overshadowed by that wonderful notification across the bottom of my screen: “Vanguard rank 2” \o/ (I think @trikeabout thought I was being enthusiastic about the legendary scout rifle :P). Level 31, here I come!
Ah, that makes more sense…
😛 Don’t get me wrong, it’s the highest damage non-exotic scout rifle I have, so I’m sure it’ll be useful. But having the prospect of grinding for another week or two completely eliminated was far more uplifting 😀 Congrats on your helm, btw – I hear it’s pretty neat.
How’d the raid go last night?
Yeah, helm looks good.
Good giggle. Bit of cheesing, bit of general mucking about and exploration. Got same gauntlets I’ve already got but with better stats… 🙂
I now just need a raid chest piece for my Titan to get up to 32 after picking up the legs last night. I also finally grabbed Thunderlord which I’m chuffed with as that’s one of the few exotics I haven’t gotten yet.
Getting my hunter up to 32 is going to be a pain though. Currently at 29 and seems like an age to get it leveled up 🙁
I got kinda lucky with my titan – had the gear from random drops to get it to 27 immediately, including Glasshouse and some 33 light boots. The gloves from Eris’ quest meant I just needed a better chestpiece to hit 31, but it was a matter of getting the rep to buy them that took the longest (also, plasteel… so much plasteel…). My hunter was sitting around 27 (iirc) for a long time, tho, but luckily she had enough vanguard rep and marks saved up when Eris arrived to be able to get the pieces she needed for 31 within a few days.
Getting either of them to 32 will be a pain, tho – not sure when I’ll next get a chance to raid, let alone do it enough to get the gear, not to mention the radiant mats for six pieces of gear.
You playing on PS4? Add me if so and hit me up when you can raid. We usually have 3-4 people wanting or willing to jump in and help out 🙂
My Warlock is already 32, focusing on my titan now though so hopefully it won’t take too long. Fingers crossed I can finish off Crota tonight or tomorrow and get that chest piece 😀
Yep, PS4. Will do – my regular raiding group is in disarray atm due to people moving and waiting on internet installation. Also have a warlock at 32, as of a couple of weeks ago. o/
I’ve been slacking a bit lately – no regular raiding group for a couple of weeks meant very little peer pressure; that and my titan’s rep situation kinda got me down. Will now be on most nights for an hour or so around reset, tho, running bounties to level this new chestpiece on my titan. FR sent. 😀
Schedule-wise, I’m always up for a raid – anytime after 7:30pm-ish (Syd) suits me fine, tho not keen on weekend raids – they seem to be at their most glitchy then. We tried CE Hard mode on a Friday night once… was damn near impossible due to lag – hard enough to have the whole team stay connected long enough to get through the gauntlet, and those that could stay connected would warp all over the place – maybe because the rest of the internet was checking Xur’s inventory at the time. 😛 But, yea – even if I’m not “”online” on PSN, I get messages on the mobile app, so feel free to message me and I’ll hop on.
As well as serious raid attempts, we do have a weekly cheese party just to fit in drops., normally after nightfalling.
Nightfall tonight. 🙂
Add me too. Usually around.
@redartifice Had a look at some of the more expanded stuff for Numenera and I’ve come to really appreciate the ways that they’ve mixed in the different abilities and allow for some interpretation of what and how you do stuff, rather than a blanket “this is how this ability works and looks at all times and that’s that.” It really reinforces the idea that strange, future technology can mix and match in different ways to be essentially magic.
I basically found out that Elandar could potentially mind control something by altering gravity and applying pressure to different points of someone’s brain. Much more interesting than just “I cast a spell and have mind controlled someone”. I hope the Strange works well for you in that regard because the possibilities of the recursions and how stuff works is awesome.
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Damn Gigabyte and Nvidia…
Trying to get my shitty pain in the arse GTX970 G1 gaming card replaced with the 980 G1 (happy to pay the difference), but the amount of back and forth bullshit is utterly insane.
Couldnt give a flying %&*^% about the whole 3.5gb + 0.5gb fiasco (even though in all fairness, i chose the 970 over the 980 due to how ridiculously close it was to the 980 in terms of specs, which proved to be false) but the performance im having with the 970 is abysmal. And this is my 2nd card, both tested in 3 different pc setups.
Duke Nukem 3D Megaton edition is unplayable for &^$(&* sake!!!!
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I had this really weird dream that @dkzeitgeist was chasing me around and was trying to eat me…
I should stop rewatching Hannibal.
Dream?
“Eat” *wiiiiiiiiiiink*
Just walked 5.7 km in an hour and forty minutes. Haven’t walked that far in a long time. My legs are killing me, and I’m sweating like a pig, but I really enjoyed it. I saw a seal and a peacock chick (peachick?). It was nice to go for a walk for no apparent reason other than the fact it was a nice day and I needed the exercise.
This intrigued me, so I went to Google/Wikipedia:
Yes, a baby peafowl can be called a peachick. Peafowl is a common name used to refer to everything within the Pavo or Afropavo genus. The full classification is Animal, Chordata, Aves, Galliformes, Phasianidae, Phasianidae, Pavo/Afropavo. We use individually gendered names for the male (Peacock) and female (Peahen) of the species.
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It’s a Galliforme! That means it’s probably descendant from the Gallimimus! Modern day dinosaur!
What Pow said.
In that my brain just instantly shuts down whenever it tries to read animal classification stuff, generally the non-common names or whatever. Too many weird unfamiliar words it doesn’t know how to process.
HELP!
I just receieved wifey’s birthday present… a large, beautiful, expensive print…
Need help with framing – anyone have any experience with custom framing or questions I should be asking if I goto a store?
Nope.
If it’s a pricey print, then take it to a framing store and get it done properly. Then get someone to hang it properly
@sunsoar77: this. A good frame is necessary for a good piece of artwork, especially if the artwork was expensive.
Not personally, I remember my sister getting something framed it was expensive.
Get someone drunk, really drunk, and make them drink until they pass out. Chloroform them for good measure. Then put their fingerprints all over everything ever.
Dump them and the body in a very busy morning alley, then moonwalk away.
Would not recommend hiring a third party to do the framing for you, as there is the risk of surveillance or blackmail, almost completely negating the benefits of framing someone else for your deeds.
I was just going to say POW DID IT but it looks like Bish has got everything covered.
I love that every time a Kotaku article features anything speedrun related, the haters crawl out of the woodwork with all of their “glitches bad” “play it right” BS. Some people like playing a game and breaking it to pieces in the process, why you gotta shit all over them for playing a game while, god forbid, having fun.
I had fun once. It was awful.
I had to move to Canada and live in the miserable snow to get the aftertaste out of my mouth.
http://gematsu.com/2015/02/esrb-rates-hyperdevotion-noire-pc Woo, more Neptunia games on more platforms so I can buy them all and never play them \o/
Yep, you were right.
ReBirth has some solid gameplay systems but the wander around making boob jokes excuse for a plot is poo.
Yep. It’s a shame because it looks so nice. The translation on re;birth looks much better too, shame they still kept NISA’s terrible terminology (eg. obviously didn’t want to upset the bible belt by referring to the major characters as Goddesses, but ‘CPU’ is the sort of replacement that someone with a limited understanding of technology like my mother would come up with).
I’ll keep trucking through but every time I hit a boss it requires some grinding.
and re-registered to work the coming NSW state election \o/
Really tired today, I’m lucky it’s… 1:30? Aaaaaaaaaaaack.
*dances into TAY*
*laughs at @bish & his hilarious comments*
*inspired by his comments, moonwalks out*
*trips & falls backwards out the door*
*hits head on the concrete floor outside*
*serious damage done*
(Yes, I’m bored)
I can’t take you seriously.
But my moonwalk is a legit moonwalk!
Is it weekend yet.
Alas no.
Let’s give this Tay thread a kick up the arse.
A Thursday arvo question: video game character you’d elect as a pm?
The line block from tetris.
Pfft, that guy just shows up at the last minute thinking he can take the glory for all the hard work done by everyone else.
Now the T-block, there’s a guy who can get things done.
Vote 1 Square Block!
He’s a bit of a one-note wonder isn’t he?
J block for a brighter future
Laguna Loire. He seems like a pretty chill leader. Plus technologically advanced culture.
The seculsionist side could be problematic however.
Yuna from FFX. For a little more compassion in the world.
Samus. As in proper Samus, not Team Ninja’s fanfic version of her. Doesn’t say anything unless necessary, does what needs to be done.
Alternatively, Waluigi. Because.
Sept 12th 2016: Prime Minister Waluigi takes the stand at the UN Climate Summit, clears his throat and farts into Ban Ki Moon’s face. He then giggles and leaves by smashing through a wall.
Wakka
Because I think he’s an idiot, just like all pollies
Bowser, he’d rule with an iron fist… though I fear for the plumbing industry when he gets into power
Link.
Failing that, Zelda.
Mecha Hitler.
no? hmm, I guess there must be some downside to having gattling guns instead of hands. Also the whole Hitler thing.
How about Naked Snake from MGS 3, he ended up getting some experience at running a country, right?
oh, not so good?
ok, ok, third time’s the charm.
Tingle?Customer asks for a remote. Grab it out for her. She complains that it’s blue, she wants black. Apologise and explain that’s the only colour it comes in. Cue red-faced screaming profanity laden frothing meltdown, threatening to call the police and have me arrested, finding my family and making them pay and burning down my store with me in it until security turns up and drags her away.
I’m not even mad, that was amazing.
It’s like some people never evolved from the emotional maturity of a 4 year old.
Don’t insult 4 year olds!
O_o
Your shirt probably set her off.
Call the police? Officer, he won’t sell me a remote in blue, arrest that man
TAYlist for the 5th of February 2015
TAYlist – the TAY Playlist, sponsored by the new 24 hour request period – currently unavailableWhigfield – Sexy Eyes
Hoodoo Gurus – Like Wow — Wipeout
Police – Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
Shaggy – Habibi (I Need Your Love)
Panic! At The Disco – But It’s Better If You Do
Paramore – Ain’t It Fun
Unique Li – Break My Stride
Colbie Caillat – Bubbly
Mike & The Mechanics – Silent Running
Crowded House – Everything Is Good For You
Powderfinger – Burn Your Name
Sia – Elastic Heart
Aerosmith – I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing
Goanna – Solid Rock
Kool & The Game – Get Down On It
Ooh ooh, aah aah, sexy eyes
I’m gonna take you to paradise!
Jeez it’s been a while since I heard that one.
Been a while since I’ve heard Break My Stride.
Filter – Hey, man, nice shot
Noticed a label on the side of the toilet here at work. “Full flush: 4.5L, Half flush: 3L”
Psyduck.gif?
I have no idea what this post is about, other than another Gookyget, but the maths on that label is making my brain feel a little bit sad.
That’s pretty much it 😛
Half Flush 3 confirmed.
Two half-flushes using more than a full-flush…
What is this madness?
1.5L / 3L of water runthrough, 1.5L to fill again.
That makes entirely too much sense… Are you a plumber?
Yeah, no one likes a smartarse 😛
I do.
Not enough water displaced with a 2.25L to remove all the pee?
My toilet if you just tap the half-flush button doesn’t push through everything, have to press & hold or use the full flush. Kind of defeats the purpose.
They use a sub-tank so holding down the half flush button won’t ever release the full tank (it will leave the main hatch open as it fills, but the little bit of additional water coming in from the pipe isn’t enough to really do anything). You press the half and it releases the just the water in the sub-tank. If you press full you open up an additional port which pours the full outer tank into the sub-tank, which then continues to flow from the sub-tank into the toilet itself. Your problem with the half flush being too weak is that if you you press the half button for half a second it doesn’t have enough time to release the full tank. I’m guessing the way the full button’s release mechanism is structured the increased pressure of the water running through is enough to hold it all open until it’s empty.
Crack open the tank on your toilet and check it out. As gross as toilets are they’re actually quite brilliantly designed. The idea of using something that floats to close the valve when the water level rises high enough is genius. Truly mankind’s greatest achievement.
Man you really know your shit
…ters
Oooohhhhhh. Professional beard trim.
Surprise the Mrs with a man-zillian while you’re at it.
Surprise?
If that doesn’t surprise her, maybe try pejazzling?
I just googled that. It’s more amazing than I expected.
@beavwa
SHINY.
I… uhh…
I have four videos I’ve uploaded to YouTube in total apparently. Here’s one of them.
Yeah, I don’t know either.
Kantai Collection (game) random thoughts and meandering discussion follows. No one cares so you can just skip this post.
Winter event starts tomorrow and lasts for two weeks. There’s a scant few details so far, but apparently it’s related to the defense of Truk / US Operation Hailstorm. Which is kind of odd because Hailstorm wasn’t really that successful for such a big operation with a badass name, only some destroyers and light cruisers were sunk.Anyway, they’re calling it a medium-sized event which presumably means 4 maps like the previous event. We also know one of the drops will be a new Submarine, this time a proper one unlike Maruyu (who is an Imperial Army troop transport that sort of kind of can submerge). Additionally it seems she’ll be a foreign ship, so speculation is that we’re looking at RO-500, which began life as U-511 in the Kreigsmarine before being transferred to Japan in a technology exchange. So far all the Kreigsmarine ships in the game have been illustrated by Humikane Shimada – assuming this is true for RO-500 as well I want.
The other thing we know is they’re adding a new type of ship, a ‘Practice Cruiser’ which can only be the Katori-class (probably Katori itself). No idea what this will end up meaning gameplay-wise but I’m hoping she’ll work like repair ship Akashi, except instead of repairing ships when set as flagship, she slowly increases their XP over time.
We also know that there will be a new Unryuu-class Carrier, probably Amagi but maybe Katsuragi. I hope if it is Amagi, she has some references to Akagi – Amagi was the name of a planned class of four battlecruisers, but the Washington Naval Convention stopped their construction so Akagi and Amagi were converted to Carriers mid-construction and the other two of the class were cancelled. Then the Kanto Earthquake damaged Amagi so badly she had to be scrapped and the tear-down of scrapped Tosa-class battlecruiser Kaga was stopped and instead Kaga was rebuilt as a carrier instead.
The final thing we’ve found out is that it sounds like we’re getting another split event, where your opening fleet can’t participate with the rest. The issue is they’ve announced that the first map is going to be an anti-sub map. That means destroyers and cruisers. I only have two reasonable-level cruisers and another couple that are mid-level. I spent a while getting my 7 Destroyers to 50+ over the last week, but if I have to devote 4 of them to anti-sub duties then I’m not sure I’ll have enough left. My original plan at this point was to go back to getting Hibiki up to 70, then swap over and get one of Fubuki, Hatsuharu or Ayanami to their Kai-2 (70/60/70 respectively). Now I’m thinking that was a dumb plan, and I need an 8th destroyer at good level range and stats. So looks like Akizuki (who isn’t a good combat DD, but has very high anti-air and anti-sub stats, equal second with Ushio-Kai2 and only 2 points behind the best (Verniy, Hibiki’s Russian level 70 version). Trouble is, I don’t know if I have time to get her from ~18 or so to 40+ tonight without digging into my instant-repair bucket reserve that I think isn’t going to be anywhere near big enough…
I thought I was well prepared for this event. Turns out I’m not. 🙁
Side note: maybe I should stream / record something during the event?
oooo – The Prodigy are doing a side-show at Luna Park! I might have to get a ticket tomorrow.
You’ve I seen them live, good stuff!
I’ve, autocorrect, I’ve, slight difference
All your I’ve are belong to us
I haven’t heard anything out of the prodigy since they released Omen. Are they still any good, or does it sound very samey samey? Such fond memories from way back in the day, tripping on acid in the back seat of a friends car on our way to the Gold Coast, with my first ever listening of Jilted Generation giving the speakers the workout of a lifetime! That album will forever be special to me! 🙂
They have a new album called The Day Is My Enemy that’s about to be released, although I haven’t heard much from it. First single is called Nasty. They’re touring with the Future Music Festival – as far as I can see this show at Luna Park is the only side show they’re doing.
Ok this is dumb. Out of nowhere, an afternoon appearance of Violin Girl. It’s almost like someone somewhere is trying to give me a sign or something 😛
Oh well. Three strikes and you’re out, isn’t it?
(oh hey looks like I don’t know how to hit the Submit button…)
You can’t strike if you aren’t playing. Don’t use your reluctance to get off the bench as an excuse to stay there. Trust me, I’m great at spending all my time focusing on working up enough courage to do something tomorrow rather than biting the bullet and doing it today. =P
Go do it now. Not when you have everything worked out or another time.
I want you to just stand up and go and do it right now
My dog now comes equipped with saddle bags! I had a couple of kids today ask me if she was a police dog haha. Ah kids.
So is she?
Haha.
Clearly she’s an undercover cop dog.
Infiltrating the case of the lost doggie treats.
Naaaarc!
Cop Dog! Ruff on crime
Specialist in barkotics.
Super cute! 😀
Puppy!
She’s over 2 years old now =O
Totes still a puppy tho!
All dogs are puppies! =P
Omg she looks so cuddly!! I want to cuddle her! Your neighbours are inbred idiots who probably run around with a magnifying glass killing ants all day =,=
Well I do refer to them often as inbred pieces of shit 😛
Your dog is cosplaying a Torchlight 2 pet right now and it’s amazing 😛
Really adorable
Haha, I did not know this 😛
It’s a little late considering one is coming out for the next gen and the other has been obsolete for a long time, but does anyone want a download code for Borderlands 2 or Call of Duty Black Ops II (separate codes, both on the 360)? Free to good home.
Just had venison for dinner, slow roasted in a red wine marinade. Was so good.
Have you ever tried a red wine & chocolate sauce? Takes it to a whole new level
Nope. That sounds pretty amazing. I better not tell dad such a thing exists, he’d be all over such an exquisite sounding thing 😛
That sounds like a very good reason to tell your Dad it exists
Haha..
Told my sister that I’d like it if she didn’t have her boyfriend around for one day sometime next week (which is fair, cause he’s around 24/7, and said I can tell her if I’d rather him not be around), cause depending on how said impending date goes, I might bring someone home, and now I’m being bombarded with questions.
“what does he do?”
“where did you meet?”
“how old is he?”
“are you boyfriends?”
“are you potential boyfriends?”
Etc.
The downside of living with family.
I’m never this nosey about her relationships >:3
I stopped talking to an ex-gf because all she’d ever talk about was me seeing other people.
Was fucking irritating.
I haven’t met my little brother’s boyfriend yet, and he’s been around for a while 🙁
@benj
Whenya coming up here again? MH weekend til like end of Feb or something?
Let’s do something Melbourne peeps! *waits for someone who knows the city better than me to do something*. I don’t know of anything on either 😛
I’ll be there from the 14th-22nd, but not free on the 21st/22nd 😛
So yeah Melbourne people, organise something!! 😀
Please help, have recently got naked adsl2+ with internode, plugged in my consoles today, NAT type strict for xbox one, I have tried all the port forwarding, turned off IPv6, turned firewall off nothing works, I get a Teredo IP address error under test multiplayer connection when i hold RT LT RB LB under detailed NAT information i get Your network is behind a firewall (or not connected), another thing that seems completely wrong under advanced settings my Primary DNS is ‘fd00::3681:c4ff:feb3:c0eb’ I have powered down the router and xbox multiple times I have even reset factory settings on the xbox, does anyone have any ideas? I seem to be connecting around 13mpbs and can download things ok, but its still strict NAT.
Hello! I see you around normal Kotaku quite often! Nice to see you in TAY! 😀
Can’t help with your problem myself, but best of luck figuring it out! Might be better going to a Microsoft / Xbox One specific forum if no one hear can help, or contacting their help centres directly.
There’ll be some solution to it.
Sorry I couldn’t help! 🙁
Cheers man losing my mind over it ay, have googled allot no luck yet.
If there’s nothing online about it, might be best to call Microsofts help centres :\
There’ll be a solution 🙂
I don’t know much about this at all but I’ve had success with setting up a DMZ on the router if that’s something different to what you’re doing.
What is a DMZ
http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-1891521/dmz-configure-router.html
I will definitely try that cheers man
gutted, that didnt work either
Nightmare. 🙁
Hope you’re settling in well though?
Hey man yea driving me bonkers ay, I get a bit obsessive with stuff like this just cant relax or do anything else till its fixed, think I may have a fix found apparently my router teredo filter can’t be turned off without this like hack file??!? problem is the tutorial video is in german.
Yea mate pretty settled now loving it, got internet other week, got TV other day and started work this week for a web design company in Richmond so everything going pretty well, met up with @highperformance few weeks back went for a beer, will have to do it again soon.
How about you, how you been?
Sounds like you’re part of the furniture around there already. Great stuff, man and well done on the job, that’s a result.
Been good, work is going well and signed back up to a gym/leisure centre type complex recently so trying to get in a decent shape which I’m enjoying. In a bit of rut gaming wise though. I’ve restarted GTA V story in first-person which is pretty fun…but definitely keen on something new.
@jackunit13 I have plenty to catch up gaming wise, just got Dying Light which was meant to be doing coop tonight hopefully can get the NAT thing sorted. I have been really slack with gym in last few weeks, hoping to get back into a routine next week now have job etc sorted.
Hey mate, was actually going to text you during this week to apologize for never getting back to you about the Tennis. I ended up working on the online gym thing I’ve been telling you about which has consumed my life at the moment. I caught up with @jackunit13 for a beer last week which was pretty cool (I beat him in Mario Kart 64 which was a highlight, yeahhhhhhh).
I’m keen for a beer in the next fortnight though, otherwise if your gym is two person I should come down one weekend and lift heavy with you (y).
@jackunit13 Dying light is worth checking out, so good coop, also the hardline beta is out if your into that.
@highperformance Hey man it was the UFC not the tennis haha, All good, yea its a 2 player gym!
Cool, you made it across the ditch. 🙂
That primary DNS is IPv6. So if you’ve turned off IPv6…
Internode DNS should be 192.231.203.132 & 192.231.203.3
If you’re still having issues, holler. Happy to help, it’s what I do.
Also happy to meet up for a beer anytime (especially if there’s rugby involved… 😉 ). ONE WEEK TO SUPER RUGBY YAAAAAYYYYYYYYYY.
Hey man yep made it! wooh
I tried manually changing the Primary DNS and it stays as ‘fd00::3681:c4ff:feb3:c0eb’ what does that mean anyway? I tried to google it and found nothing.
Got a few things to try when I get home and will let ya know how I get on.
Cool man sounds good, don’t know allot of people here yet so be good to catch up.
fd00::3681:c4ff:feb3:c0eb is an IPv6 internet address, but a trace route doesn’t resolve to anything so it could be an internal address… haven’t spent much time with IPv6 so my IP-fu is weak.
Sounds like there are a few things going on, and it’s probably best to go back to first principles – set up the router, set up wired internet access through the router, then create the wireless network (I’m assuming you’ve been given some sort of all-in-one modem/router/wifi device?). Then set up your XBone with a static IP on the wired (or wireless, but i like my console wired…) network. Then do port forwarding on the router to forward whatever ports the XBone/XboxLive needs to function to the IP address that you know the XBone is using.
http://portforward.com/english/applications/port_forwarding/Xbox_One/ might help.
Then hopefully PROFIT. Or get a PS4 and swear a lot when you have exactly the same problem.
And no worries, as a not-so-recent immigrant I do know how handy it is to get some intros, and I work in the CBD. You can find me on the twitter and PM me… I’m pretty consistent with my handle.
I always set up everything wired, except laptops etc, I have smart TV, Xbox and ps4 all wired, could that be causing problems, I’ve never had to deal with ADSL before so all this port forwarding stuff is new to me, I followed the port forward steps, dont know how to set static IP, I have a few more things to try when I get home. What is PROFIT?
I see you’re got it working, but I’ll answer anyway…
Port forwarding is not an ADSL thing, it’s a firewall thing – your private network at home is segregated from the public internet, and port forwarding allows you to create connections to private devices without opening your whole network to the internet, which is bad….
As for PROFIT, I was alluding to the old
Step 1
Step 2
???
Profit!
🙂
so is turning of IPv6 causing the DNS to be weird? Should I have IPv6 on or off, I have read to turn it off?
I was confused as to why, if you turned IPv6 off, it was still using an IPv6 address. Odd.
hey man, found this site, http://en.avm.de/nc/service/fritzbox/fritzbox-7272/knowledge-base/publication/show/1439_Cannot-play-online-games-with-Xbox-One/ clicked few buttons and its now open and working perfectly, 1 thing though when I plug the ps4 and smart tv in my connection drops from 13mps to like 5mps is that normal? whats your gamertag?
Sounds like there’s a fair bit of overhead. I see what’s going on now.
No gamertag, PSN only. Same as here. 🙂
Aight I’ll add ya on PSN though I don’t play it much, waiting for some exclusives.
UNCHARTED 4!!!
@trikeabout I’m so getting The Order:1886, possibly Bloodborne.
Persona 5 ttrailer
http://www.siliconera.com/home/2015-02-05-persona-5-trailer-shows-gameplay-footage-characters#1
That says link not found!
It was giving me trouble, thanks
Final Fantasy Type 0 trailer with a little XV
http://www.siliconera.com/2015/02/05/yes-final-fantasy-xv-demo-will-available-day-type-0-hd/
I’m pretty excited, what a year this’ll be, if P5 actually gets to the West (in a way in which my Aussie PS4 plays it)
So much Purseowner news! I hope we get P5 soon.
Glad I didn’t buy a Vita yet, I’ll be buying the P4D Vita package 😀
Bonus! I’m terrible at rhythm games
Apotheon.
Played for about ninety minutes and then uninstalled it. It was okay, but not my kind of game. @negativezero, it was pretty much exactly what we expected it would be.
Yeah that seems to be the thing. Love the look of the game, and concept of the pottery come to life type thing. But actual gameplay seems to twitchy for me
Longest week ever.
One down, one to go.
Till what?
Til I escape this arctic hellhole!
Hopefully. Hmm, maybe I should figure out how to say no if they try and get me to stay on longer.
Well that’s exciting! What’s next? Sorry if you’ve already spread the word; I’ve been bad at keeping up lately.
Next is spending some time trying to fix up a number of things that have been neglected over the past year or so. Starting with my absolute pigsty of a room, which has been reduced to a narrow T-shaped path that allows me to get to from the door to my bed/wardrobe and the bathroom.
After that though… no friggen idea 😛 If past patterns are anything to go by, just float around not doing much of anything/getting anywhere despite any efforts that may or may not happen, until money’s on the verge of running out then something will fall into my lap and occupy me for another half a year or so.
Calling Ninty!
Oh shit I’ll actually have to, if I’m gonna use this nXL to retrieve my lost 3DS data.
Morning peaches! I have my second moto lesson tomorrow 😀 And I think I’m going to splash out and buy myself a helmet too. Not that I have a bike yet, but I will probably just sit on my sofa and wear it while I play video games in the meantime.
Safety first, Jane! *decisive nod*
Get a Camo helmet with G.I. Jane on it!
Like this?
http://youtu.be/k85mRPqvMbE
D: D: D:
Bit of a bad experience with Albion Online.
Purchased the cheapest founders pack to give it a go, $50 Us or roughly $65 Aus. Played for a few hours and while it is very reminiscent of Ultima Online it is not for me. Went to get a refund to find out that once you have logged in they will not give refunds… Silly me assumed it would be like a lot of pre purchase Alphas and that within a certain time frame you could get a refund like Everquest Landmark for example. It was actually mentioned in the terms and conditions so silly me for not reading them i guess. Now stuck with an account for a game I do not like, sigh.
Though it is worth a look for fans of UO. If anyone wants to take it off my hands for a reduced price…
I went to film school in the real Albion.
Nearly got beaten up by a bunch of footy players leaving the brothel next door one night.
Got to suffer for your art… of lurking outside brothels come nightfall!
I used to live just up the road, near the bikie club that burned down under mysterious circumstances
@negativezero Latest Kantai Collection episode was pretty good.
Pretty light-hearted episode but I think it’s good that they’ve fleshed out some of the other characters a bit more. Your theory that the Admiral is incompetent, drunk, or just plain crazy seems to be gaining traction in the actual story though which I find hilarious even though I used to run fleets in a similar composition to that.I’m liking that they’re slipping in more references to actual military stuff that happened. I had to go and google it but Operation FS was a planned mission to capture New Caledonia, Samoa, and Fiji and thus isolate Australia. And of course the Battle of the Curry Sea will clearly be the Battle of the Java Sea. Should hopefully be a good episode and might actually not focus on Fubuki for a change.
It might just be because I haven’t watched an anime as it has aired in a long time but the quality of Kantai has surprised me. Everything is really well done and it’s far, far better than what I would have expected from a supposed anime cash-in on a popular game.
It’s a better-than-average TV adaption really. I liked the episode a lot too.
While that fleet composition initially looked crazy, especially Fubuki as flagship, I stopped and thought about it a bit and I was like “holy shit, I’ve used basically this exact formation for PVP”. You put the low-level destroyer you want to level up into the flagship slot because they get 50% bonus, then put in 1-2 carriers for air cover, torpedo cruisers for clearing enemy ships before shelling commences, and a battleship for that extra punch during shelling.I also laughed a bit when Mutsuki was assigned to fleet 4. Fleet 4 is almost guaranteed to be an expedition fleet, and the Mutsukis are all fucking terrible destroyers that happen to have very low resource consumption so they’re commonly sent on expeditions and never used in actual sorties.
I still think the admiral’s insane though because what the fuck is he even doing? Every episode I see the other three main Shiratsuyu-class Destroyers just sitting around. Fair enough on Shiratsuyu and Murasame I guess, they’re average, but the guy’s not bothering to level up Yuudachi and Shigure. They have low remodel levels (55 on Yuudachi and 60 on Shigure) and extremely good stats at Kai-2, plus they have great artwork and contrasting personalities. But he’s working on Blandy McBlanderson Fubuki instead.
Next week’s episode might be the Java Sea as you said. Also, the next episode is almost guaranteed to be focused on the Akatsuki sisters – Inazuma ends most of her sentences with ‘nano desu’ and yells that every time you enter battle with her as flagship. That makes me think it’s probably the 2nd Battle of the Java Sea, because all four of them were involved in that – allied forces basically got stuck in a pincer between two fleets. If it’s that battle then you’d also expect to see all four of the Myoukou sisters involved (Allied fleet basically got stuck in a pincer between two Japanese fleets, one with Nachi and Haguro and the other with Myoukou and Ashigara. Inazuma was credited with finishing off the biggest of the allied ships in the area, HMS Exeter. She also rescued something like 400 sailors from Exeter and USS Pope sunk in the battle and her battle lines make reference to it, so I wonder if they’re going to somehow work that into the plot?
Also that appearance by Maya (I think that was her) with Mutsuki surprised me as it was her first speaking appearance. Might be nice to have maybe an episode or two looking at different characters although giving some screen-time to Shoukaku and Zuikaku was pretty cool. Have to admit I laughed at the flight-deck chest insult from Ooi.If it turns out to be Java Sea, might actually have an episode focusing on Yuudachi as she was in that battle as well. But yeah, certainly would be cool to see the Myoukou and Akatsuki sisters in action. I think we’ve already seen all of the Myoukou sisters except for Nachi I think?
Still have a sneaking suspicion that the finale will be Midway or the aftermath of Midway. We’ve had one battle named episode so far (W Island aka Wake Island) which was episode 3 and episode 6 will be another battle episode. Aside from the other skirmishes so far which seem to be mainly just light battles in generic locations (although the Kongou sisters seemed to be stuff like Rabaul and New Britain with maybe a hint of Guadalcanal), the episode-focused battles do seem to try and mimic actual stuff. I’m betting that episode 9 will be Coral Sea and 12 will be Midway.
Nachi’s been in there too. One or two episodes back. Speaking part, too. She’s the one with the crazy long side ponytail. I think all four of them were in the one scene.I don’t remember seeing Maya. Did you mean Mogami? Red uniform? Also kind of sad they blew the Flight Deck joke at this point, since that means it’s even less likely that Ryuujou will turn up (there’s a running joke about her being self-conscious about having the flattest deck :P).
Not sure why they decided to make Ooi such a bitch. It’s not out of character but it’s a bit of a stretch. It is pretty funny though.
If it does go to the Coral Sea and Midway, don’t expect it to play out like history. Last year’s big mid-year event was Midway. In fact, it was a split operation. First 2 maps were the Aleutian Islands assault and the second set was Midway.
Technically I think that that opening episode with the battle with the 1st & 2nd Carrier Divisions taking down the Anchorage Hime was supposed to be Pearl Harbour as well. They just didn’t actually call that out.
Good call on that, didn’t even think about Pearl Harbour in the first episode but I can definitely see it now.And yeah, couldn’t remember the name correctly but it was definitely Mogami. My bad. Even if we never see some of the one-shot characters again it’s cool that they’re at least making an effort to give everyone some screen-time.
Also thinking if they go to Midway they’re going to need to give Soryuu and Hiryuu some time and some lines. Hiryuu especially, since unlike the other three historically she actually performed well in the battle – had more fighters up, dodging all the initial dive bombing attacks and was able to send bombers that crippled Yorktown (which was later torpedoed and sunk by a submarine while under tow back to Pearl).Midway’s a fascinating battle actually. There’s a couple of points in the conflict where if things had gone slightly differently, the outcome would have been completely reversed. And in the end it was basically a battle that was won because of codebreaking prior to the engagement.
Ooh, Avenue Q’s coming back.
Fuck yeah. Musical meat? Musical meat.
Love me some Avenue Q. Watching my mother’s face was nearly as good as watching the show!
@pupp3tmast3r
Feels like I’m being trolled =/ remember how I mentioned I got those 685 gloves/socketed for 18k today I got 670 gloves with a socket in my cache; mine are still theoretically a minor upgrade still hurts knowing i could of saved myself.
Been reading up lots of tanks mechanics, monk utility and tips for each encounter in HM and BRF just in case I ever do become a OT 😮 I’m not as use to my Brewmaster keybinds as I am to my Mistweavers but that’ll smooth out in time.
Hahaha ah well the loot gods have always been fickle!
In regards to BM tanking there is one option… Sat, don and devil are joining us tonight and if Noum doesn’t log on I’m going to assume he’s not here on Sunday; so would you consider going tanking at some point towards the end of raids tonight? This will give you the chance to get used to the BM side of things and effectively prep you for tomorrow or Sunday. Also in HM today make sure you let me know when you need a tanking drop; I’m giving your OS and our new warlock gear priority over everyone else at this point.
Also giving noum a warning and putting him back on probation due to the way he’s gone about letting me know he can’t make it; and I’m implementing a new set of attendance guidelines people follow or risk being kicked out of the raid group. This lack of communication BS is pissing me off.
Unless were doing heroic only thing I’d probably need is one trinket? apart from that pvp off pieces trumps anything generally offered in HM norm. told you before I could probably pull off 660 OS.
BRF loot will probably be debated if you OS over anyone’s MS you’d probably get some pissed tanks if you give bonus armor stuff to a new tank. don’t bite a bullet to feed me OS.
Correction I’m giving you loot priority only in HM; BRF goes back to normal looting systems =P
After 16 years and roughly 30 playthroughs of FFVIII I’ve only just realised Squall is Laguna’s son.
I’ve never felt more ashamed of my own stupidity in my life. How did I miss that? Over and over no less?
I only just realised yesterday that Alan Cumming was Boris in GoldenEye, when overhearing someone making passing mention of the movie and the actor’s name (but not the character).
Spoilers! Kidding, I’ve played that one a few times as well and I never knew that either. Is there some obvious revelation that I missed?
I mean, their last names are different as far as I know? Loire and Leonhart. Maybe I’m just not remembering the plot specifics very well.
It’s never outright stated, just a bunch of background and incidental stuff that heavily implies it.
Quickly browsing finalfantasy.wikia it states Laguna’s age of 27 in flashbacks and 44 in the main story. The difference of which, is exactly Squall’s age of 17. An interesting observation, I guess?
If you chat to Laguna’s mates in Esther, or maybe while their on the Ragnarok actually…
Anyway, one of them says something like “you look just like him”
there’s also the fact Squall’s older sister is Ellone
The real question I always wondered about was whether Rinoa and Squall are related? They kind of hint that Laguna was her actual father as well, since her mother was Laguna’s romantic interest and everything.
I don’t think they are. Rinoa is 17, same as Squall, so unless Laguna was running out on Raine to bang Julia while in that town I don’t think it works.
Risotto with ricotta and peas for punch, this time with mint added into it for something a little different. Pretty damn good.
Best of all, there’s a chunk of outer parmesan floating around in here somewhere. Yum.
…apparently there was another and I just found it. Today just got a whole lot better 😛
You were good until you mentioned mint.
Not a fan in general? Or just this particular pairing?
Reminds him too much of work
In general. Don’t really like the flavour.
PSA: beware spider webs when walking. Unless you enjoy spending the rest of the day detatching small pieces of web and dessicated insects from your face. As I am currently doing. :S At least the spider was absent when I destroyed his netting…
Did you do the spider dance when you walked into it?
I… don’t know what that is… but google points me to this. So, no.
Similar to this.
http://i.imgur.com/tRvhhKi.gif
So… less “interpretive dance”, more “hip-hop choreography”? Still, no, then.
It was only a small web – kinda glad something’s finally attacking the cloud of small flies (fruit flies or drain flies or something) that seems to persist around that stretch of the path.
Ah yes, it’s spider season. Orb weavers and St Andrews crosses everywhere round here.
Our orb weavers seem to have disappeared. We were getting tonnes of SACs too for a while, but haven’t seen any around in a while.
Now all we’ve got are all these weird flat black beetle things that never really used to be around. Oh and all the redbacks.
@jocon @distantdrop unnnggggghhhh more BRF hype!!
I reckon we have a really solid shot with Gruul, Oregorger, Beastlord and Operator! We’ll probably hit a learning curve on Ore and Operator but mechanics wise once we get comfortable we should have the gear and stats to comfortably pull it off.
What dyu guys reckon we should do with the absentees we seem to be suffering on a weekly basis? Brun while initially at 100% attendance has now turned tentative for 2/3 raid nights this weekend and missed all of last weekend. Noum who has only recently joined us (2 weekends so far) is awol this week. I’ve already told Korrlan he’ll be kicked out if he misses one more raid weekend especially a launch weekend; but how do we prevent future gaps in attendance? It’s literally happening each weekend now =@
Edit: =O Pageget! YEAHHHH it’s about time =P
Lol
I really don’t know I’ve never experienced this every guild I’ve been in since vanilla the opposite usually happens, people usually fight and complain about raid spots, attendance was never an issue.
I guess at the end of the day you just need to draw the line of the expectations you have for the guild, if its members don’t respect that.. something has to be done.
Which unfortunately brings you back to the recruitment phase again =/
Yeah I’m going to put an ultimatum out this weekend and later today evening. The good raiders are there pretty much at 90% or higher frequency and I guess attendance is a good way to weed out the shitheads.
If you can’t make a raid weekend let the RL know via mail or whisper and make sure they respond so you know they’ve got the message. Alternatively if we go through one more weekend without 100% attendance I’m going to recruit spares and everyone with the lowest raid attendance will get replaced. At this point it’s Korrlan; Brundock; Railgun; Noumenon and Ox.
And I’m going to have to go back to recruting as soon as we clear 7/10H for BRF so we can get ready for Mythic attempts anyways…
You’re right; if we want to be serious we need a stable, reliable team. So I guess people who cannot do that, yeah bench em from the core team and find replacements. Not boot them but just say “look, we need reliable to progress and you are not being that. So we gonna have to demote you to sub and fill your spot till you can be.”
Maybe see if we can smash out as many bosses as possible this weekend, even of we have to go into overtime, and use it as a draw for another recruitment drive.
Send me a spiel, I’ll do some spamming.
Dragon Age: Inquisition. (Possible spoilers relating to Blackwall.)
I can’t find Blackwall. I have the last Warden Relic to give to him, but he’s disappeared in a weird, possibly bugged way.I know at some point he’s supposed to leave, but this isn’t that, because I can still add him to my party, and the game has his head icon and location on the map in the stables still, but he’s not actually there.
There’s no letter on the table?Nope. Like I said, he’s still available for missions. I’m pretty thorough with my searching,anyway. Sometimes he’s upstairs or out chopping wood, but he’s just not there, even though the game seems to think he is. I think I might reload in case it was a bug.Oooh, just making sure. Sorry Straaaaangey. Maybe he’s got a girlfriend! D:
he was upstairs in the stable for me onceYeah, he’s been upstairs, and also outside chopping wood before,but he’s just…not there. It’s wacky.
Crisis averted. More Blackwall spoilers….
I reloaded and he was right where the game said he was. I then triggered the quest where he leaves. I judged him at Skyhold and told him the Wardens would decide his fate after the Corypheus thing was done. I hate moments like this, when you’re not sure what, if any, is the right choice. It’s paralysing!Was completely blindsided by that subplot. I liked how it coloured all my future interactions with him for the rest of the game.Yeah, he certainly didn’t seem as stuffy or boring after that, either!So, the system I use are work for 95% of my job is down.
*twiddles thumbs*
Anybody watching the new season of Helix?
I’m liking it! I like how it’s really different from the first season, but at the same time really similar. It’s cool. Seems like they’ve found a formula they can use to have completely fresh seasons but still keep enough of the running themes to tie it all together.
I’m watching it! I think I like it better than the first.
Mild spoilers for the setting, locations, etc. (no specific episode/story stuff)
It’s the setting, right? It is for me 😛 The setting is way better than the first. More interesting to look at at least. I like that it’s basically the same as the first season, but with new characters and a new disease. Feels new but the same. Hard to describe 😛No, you described it perfectly. That’s exactly it!
Wind Waker Link Nendoroid getting a restock if anyone is interested…
Missed him last time and while I was in Japan! Not this time!
Fee shipping here: https://otakumode.com/shop/534769b7241349b91d000104
With the dollar going the way it is, might be a little cheaper to go with somewhere like AmiAmi even though shipping isn’t free.
HobbySearch or AmiAmi or HLJ would be a better bet. Get it straight from Japan, not via a US reseller.
I rediscovered that I have 4D Snake on my hard drive here. And am now caught up reading over the code for it.
I recognise some of these words.
Trying to be a brave adult is hard 🙁 I feel so horrible asking to break the lease. I have a tendency of taking EVERYTHING personally and ugh 🙁 I feel so bad. Waiting for the lady who owns the place to get back to me.
And Ben gets reported to RTA and is never able to secure rent again.
A few weeks ago, I bought the Ultimate Matrix blu ray collection for $20 at my local second-hand joint. The first movie was amazing to watch – it’s a very strong all-round, kitchen-sink type movie that succeeds to a reasonable degree at everything it sets out to do. Enough to justify the purchase on its own.
Which is lucky, I suppose, because the second movie is a hot, runny mess that offends all the senses and sensibilities at every turn. It’s an utter disgrace of a sequel. Even worse than I remember it being. I don’t think I’ll bother to rewatch the third one.
I prefer the 2nd.
The 90sness of the first hurts.
Really? I think the first one feels timeless.
It’s also a much stronger film from a scriptwriting and directing standpoint… and oddly, the CGI actually looks better. (And, thankfully, much fewer green vagina explosions)
I don’t think I like them all that much but prefer the big Multi Smith fight scene in 2.
I fucking loathe the orgy.
Right on. Was discussing this with someone recently. First film was groundbreaking at the time and totally holds up. Love it.
2nd’s over-reliance on CGI is just one of it’s many flaws.
Was just thinking earlier today it’d been a while since seeing you around here.
GET OUT OF MY BRAIN.
😉
The second was an antisocial 14 year old masturbating onto an SD card. Was a horrid mess.
I’ve been reading old reviews for the movie online – it got a much better reception than it deserved… :\
You what?!
You’re just trolling, right? No one actually liked that film…
Why does anything I say ever=r suprise anyone anymore?
I like what you all hate. The end.
The third is a turd
T-t-third third third, third is a turd.
Tiz
That lobby scene.. yeah the whole first film is incredible.
Can you remove all metallic objects you’re carrying? Keys, loose change-… Holy shit!
I still remember the story about how one of the scenes (might be the lobby scene) actually used up something like 80% of the pyrotechnical supplies that were in Australia at the time. Was mind-blowing that something even got made here.
A record broken only a few years later when Farscape The Peacekeeper Wars used up ALL the pyrotechnics. Apparently, we didn’t learn our lesson from the Matrix 😛
Well looks like Tony has until Tuesday @freezespreston
Be interesting to see what happens. Not that I really think it’s going to change much except a reduction in gaffes and a greater chance of LNP re-election but most potential challengers have continually ruled it out, let’s see if that holds and it’s purely Bishop or Turnbull steps up.
I just want Bob Katter to crash the meeting, kick in the door and explain why he is the best person to lead the country as PM.
I think Bishop or Turnbull will take it using the excuse “The PM had my full support but once the motion of no confidence passed without my support I accepted the nomination that the party put forward” or what ever the correct “I didn’t stab him in the back” phrase is in vogue
“While one does not seek the office, one has pledged oneself to the service of one’s country. If one’s friends were to persuade one that was the best way one could serve, one might have to accept the responsibility whatever one’s own private wishes might be.”
-Source
The correct way to say it hasn’t changed in thirty years.
Brilliant show.
Thanks, @doc_what XD
Ooh, that Besiege alpha is available via Humble, Steam-free. Tempted to grab it now.
I watched a video on the character creator in Dragonball Xenoverse (almost wrote Xenoblade) and now I’m kinda hyped! Looks very cool. cc @alexpants
I do wish there were options for changing the height/weight though (fingers crossed that’s been added since the video was uploaded – I think it was from a beta?). I had visions of creating a Saiyan that looked as much like me as possible but you can’t change away from the superdooperbuff body type. I guess it’s close enough…
😛
Okay, so I just read something that said once you unlock all the correct clothing options you can create a character that looks exactly like Launch.
In! I’ve wanted her in one of the fighting games since forever.
Do you remember who looked like a Saiyan and wasn’t super buff?
Yamcha remembers. D;
I’m pretty keen on this.
Up until you reach super saiyan 3 then it won’t matter how you made your face look it’ll look next to identical. I mean seriously, your eyes are green and you even lose your eyebrows along with a mandatory hairstyle change to “ridiculously long”.
I always wanted to create a majin, myself – growing up, Kid Buu was the best villain of the series (*dodges rotten produce*) 😛 He was a tiny pink blob of pure chaos, it was amazing. Kinda wish they’d add a slim variant to the male majin race options… On the upside, the female majins look awesome.
Bit sad that there doesn’t seem to be an Android ‘race’ though. That’s what I’d really want to go for!
Well that turned me off this completely 😛
I think I’m gonna play as a Majin since it’s the most unique of all the ideas – no matter how you customise a Saiyan or Namekian just looks too generic to me. But I’m super hype for the game. Anything that’s Dragonball and actually does something a bit different is aces!
So last night I went over out to a movie night, and we decided to watch the Kazakh film Zhauzhürek myng bala (also known as Myn Bala).
This version didn’t have subtitles, so we were relying on one of the group to translate (and give historical background, snide comments, and so forth). It was great, so far as I know, the movie is about Batman, Cheekbones Batman, and Badarse as they fight against the Mongols.
Also, it had some gorramn amazing hats. It gets 12 Shiggys and fifty seven Bishes.
Had Pho for lunch
I’m stuffed
Big lunches phorever! \o/
Oh hey there’s a wedding going on outside the window.
Wonder what other distractions I can find, surely haven’t had enough yet.
You sure it’s not just your own wedding and you just don’t know it yet?
Hey then I could get cake…
I figure your wedding needs to serve just a giant popcorn bucket
Buckets of the stuff stationed at every table, in case of sudden drama.
*inevitable
http://www.sbs.com.au/comedy/article/2015/02/05/who-will-be-our-new-pm
That last entry. Tears.
Photo they chose is amazing as well.
Time for a beer, TAYbies. See you all at the pub! *whoosh*
*gazes longingly out window*
Well I still need to drive my van for work for 4 more hours but if you say so …
Which pub?
Kingsman: The Secret Service is a great movie. Matthew Vaughn has done a really great job yet again. I went into the movie not really knowing what to expect, and it blew me away. Colin Firth is great, outBonded any of the Bonds except for Craig and Connery. Michael Caine plays the stiff upper lipped Englishman with his usual aplomb, and Taron Egerton is pretty great as Eggsy. Also enjoyed Samuel L. Jackson chewing the scenery as the villain. I like it better than Wanted, which was a pretty cool movie. If you can handle lots of violence and swearing, I recommend it.
Eggsy? Ahhh, so it is an adaption of Millar’s comic (The Secret Service), I wasn’t sure.
Comic was decent for Millar’s dumb shocker stuff. Nice message about stepping up and not being a dick.
Having read about the comic, there’s not a lot of similarities between the two. But it is a really great comic book movie. There’s some pretty shocking brutality in some scenes, although that’s probably to be expected from a Millar adaptation.
The comic was about:
A poor kid, with a slacker pot smoking mum with an abusive boyfriend that is saved by his ‘classy’ uncle.Goes to secret spy school & the students stop a plot by an evil fanboy who kidnaps Mark Hammil & other nerdy stars to help rebuild his new world after he kills of 90% of the population or something silly.
I just dug the strong message throughout that you don’t have to be a product of your upbringing.
Without that, it would have been one of Millar’s misses. With, it’s borderline.
The way they star in the movie poster is dressed reminds me of a character Michael Cain used to play that was deliberately doing things differently to Bond.
I can’t remember the names of the movies, but they seem to have incorporated that a bit.
I will watch & see.
Well, I’m not quite winning the Fitocracy challenge, BUT I’ve completed week 1 of couch-to-5k. Three short runs on the treadmill, and a weights day.
I really hope it translates into a quicker parkrun tomorrow morning. 🙂
I really need to stop being a lazy bum and do Couch to 5k. I always used to be awful at distance running but I suspect that it’d be super effective at making me lose weight.
Join in with me! I can help you pick a program (they’re all pretty similar, it’s just about picking an app/platform that works for you)
I’d have to do it manually. Don’t have the necessary accouterments to use a phone, and I have a windows phone anyway so it’s a moot point since all the couch-to-5k apps are shitty (I’ve looked)
I think that’s just Windows Phone 😛
Unfortunately true. The hardware’s great but the apps are not. 🙁
You can listen to music, right? There is a couch to 5k podcast. The intervals are programmed into the music. Google Podrunner Intervals. You can download the mp3s individually if you don’t have a suitable podcasting app.
Just having a look around for you – there are a few options that should work well. One is Endomondo. I use it on my android phone, and if you upgrade to the premium version ($30 for 12 months) you can generate training plans (which is exactly what I’ve done for this round of c25k). Endomondo syncs with Myfitnesspal too, which is very helpful if you want to manage your nutrition at the same time.
I’ve found that specific “c25k” apps can be a bit crap, but a more general running app often has c25k options built in, but can offer other benefits like tracking your HR and providing running routes in your area.
This article: http://www.windowscentral.com/top-rated-windows-phone-running-apps
looks at some of the popular ones.
I’ll look into it. Also need to get some decent headphones and some kind of strap or something for my phone (because pocket is a non-starter when exercising with one, from experience)
The best options for running are either an armband (like the tunebelt at rebel) or a waistbelt like the spi-belt or flipbelt. You want one that fits tightly and won’t flap about.
Leaning armband, especially if I decide to also use it at the gym since I like to do stuff like rowing where something at the waist would get in the way.
What do you use for headphones? I’m thinking earbuds would fall out a lot and be a pain.
I have a pair of these, but not sure how easy it is to buy them: http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/audio/headphones/headphones/sports-headphones/philips-shq5200-10-headphones-orange-grey-21328902-pdt.html
There’s no “winning” in the fitocracy challenge! :’O
It’s all just supposed to be motivational, right? :'(
Good work on the progress though! 🙂
Thanks 🙂
Edit: You’re absolutely right – it’s all about motivation!
Can I have some motivation? Yet to do anything :S
Always so exhausted from work.
If you get fitter, you’ll feel less exhausted?
Considering the challenge is “Freeze’s February Fitness Freakout” you should probably do something 😉
Guilt’s a good motivator, right?
You have your garmin, right – so how about you just start aiming to get a certain number of steps every day – feels less like “I have to do a workout” and more like “I’ve been sitting too long, I’ll walk an extra 5 minutes to get lunch from up the road today.”
The Link Between Worlds Club Ninty OST is pretty nice!
*tosses it aside without listening to it*
*pirates MP#s and listens to Catherine OST instead*
I changed my email on Kotaku and I think it changed my gravatar. Oddly enough, it’s just a similar one I’ve used in the past.
Oh and now my comments are going into moderation. Guess changing your email changes makes you lose whatever status that gets your comments auto-approved.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-02-06-sunless-sea-review
Holy crap, 10/10. Eurogamer hardly ever gives perfect scores in their reviews. I already thought this game looked pretty interesting but now I’m off to buy it.
… and it appears to have disappeared from Steam. Weird.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/304650/
Maybe preferences to hide early access stuff. Although how you give a 10/10 for early access is a bit odd
It’s supposed to come out of early access today.
Soooo I’m moving out on Sunday. I think it worked out okay.
Today has been stressful. Really fucking stressful :S I walked for 3 hours after emailing the landlord to talk about it. Turns out the sun does quite a bit of damage in 3 hours, coincidentally.
That may have have been the best episode of Archer in a while, even though they’re all good.
So has anyone organised any friend codes list for MH4 players?
April 29th for Xenoblade X in Japan!
:O
SO SOON!
You’ve heard it here first: We’ll get the game in June or July! That’s my bet!
Depends if they had to wait until the JP version to be done to start localizing or not. If they did, then there’s a shitton of text in a game this big, plus a ton of testing. I’d say November.
They’ve said previously that localisation was well under way. That’s what the guess was relying on anyway.
Super disappointed to hear it’s an online multiplayer game after all. I was worried it would be the case but they started talking about async stuff and everything and I was hoping something more Dark Soulsy in the MP stuff. Alas.
Hype completely deflated. Seeing so many red flags that I’m not even sure I’ll buy it at launch, every detail suggests it’s not the follow-up to Xenoblade I wanted. 🙁
You already have a Wii U, so we know you’re probably going to buy it anyway 😛
Isn’t better to have more play options to allow more people to enjoy the game? I don’t mind the option of having multiplayer in games.
The issue is that all the other stuff they’ve done – faceless nameless voiceless protagonist etc. – is in service to the multiplayer.
I want a single-player JRPG. Xenoblade was the best JRPG of the generation, and I want another Xenoblade. I don’t want Xenoblade X Monster Hunter (or, if I did, I wouldn’t want it on a home console)
Today has been one of THOSE days. The doctors lost a referral I needed so I could get a blood test, the mechanics forgot to order a part they knew they needed to repair our car, I spent the day at work fixing others’ errors, the new BR drive I bought for my computer doesn’t work, and my PS4 decided to start recording trophies against a different game from the one I was playing.
Dear world, please get your shit together. I’m going to bed, with the expectation that you will become more competent by morning.
Can’t stop trying to build a walker in Besiege.
Got two legs that kinda seem like they’re working well. But need others/extra actions for support. Wish we could set the pistons to be inverted, and only contract on triggering.
Hahaha, went simple and made the most retarded little gallopy thing. Totally uncontrollable but hilarious to try.
qwopsiege?
Pretty much what I’ve had in mind while trying to make anything 😛
All I’ve learned from watching other people’s creations, is that I am not very creative.
I have the same problem designing ships in KSP.
You mean creations like this piece of art?
Yes me also.
Test post, please ignore.
No.
So, Evolve looks…interesting…
I played it back in Alpha it wasn’t as fun as it looked in my opinion. Sounded awesome playing as a monster against 4 other players, yeah nah they annihilate you way too fast every time and the players seemed pretty hard to kill so bleh!
It’s so-so.
If you’ve got a group of five I’d reckon it’d be way more fun but fighting randoms with randoms makes for some pretty dull tactics.
@mrtaco
Oh… apparently my Wii U does have space for The Wonderful 101! I’m redownloading it now (still probably won’t ever replay it though ;D)
Stillmonsterius.
I was semi responsible for something monstrous on Friday and I felt so bad :'(
What was her name?
[Redacted]! We went out for lunch and forgot to invite her and she saw us all at the restaurant when she went to buy her own food D’:
Oooh!
*popcorn*
No, dumplings!
What are some kewl co-op games we can play? I wouldn’t mind reducing that pile of shame 😀
Finished Danganronpa 2 last night. Can’t understand why everyone seems to think it’s better than the first one.
The addition and expansion of the fucking atrocious minigames in the trials makes getting through the (fairly interesting) plot an absolute chore. Dropping their difficulty changes practically nothing, either. The stupid cut-their-argument thing was absolutely the worst, since you’re expected to slam direction buttons rapidly but stop if there’s orange text – and the background’s orange. Additionally no way to go into the menus and check the facts, and only a few seconds to read the text, select the right counter – if you even can figure out what it is – and cut it. And woe if you actually smash the line accidentally…I only once had an issue in the first game where I couldn’t figure out what it wanted me to do to continue the plot, but I’d be roadblocked 4-5 times a trial and had multiple cases where I was using the right thing on something that seemed to be the correct line, only for it to actually want you to do it with a different line that didn’t seem to fit as well. It also had multiple cases where it expected you to remember details about a piece of evidence that weren’t written down on the entry for it, and also remember things mentioned in passing several chapters beforehand. Multiple times I was like “how was I supposed to remember that?” or “how could anyone figure that one out”. In all cases, I knew exactly what was going on in each trial, but not how to tell the game that. It’s pretty clear the writers got into the assumption that because they knew all the details, everyone must remember stuff from 10-15 hours earlier in the game. Nope.
Also outside of Nagito & Chiaki, the cast plain sucked. A whole bunch of unremarkable and unmemorable mooks that felt like b-sides for the original cast. It’s pretty telling that for the climax of the game they had to bring part of the proper cast back. Additionally it felt like the instant anyone in the cast showed any interesting traits, they got killed off.
The plot itself is okay, and I certainly don’t think it was a bad game, but it was way less good than it should have been.
More graphics
I am now trying to make a plane in Besieged. It is not going well 😛
I managed to create a… a thing.
That flew.
And dropped bombs, sort of at command.
And it could almost fly in the direction I pointed it. Sort of. Ish.
I’m surprised no one has made a giant penis in that game yet. Then again, I haven’t really bothered looking
It’s amazing how realistic you can make them with pistons and hinges.
Not that I’d know, of course.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2015/02/besiege-players-have-built-some-amazing-penises/
Huh? Apparently The Binding of Isaac is getting more DLC. Like, the original Binding of Isaac. Weird!
Haha wow, if you fly too high when your parts ice up and the whole thing just breaks. Cool touch.
BUT DAMMIT IT WAS A SUCCESSFUL FLIGHT TIL THEN
http://imgur.com/a/sa3gC
Ok now what 😛
Make one that breaks up into smaller planes that break up into smaller again planes that then all kamikaze into their target.
That’s actually kinda what ended up happening during testing of the next one.
http://imgur.com/a/ekkZt
So not only did I manage to knock a minute and a half off my last parkrun time this morning, but I got parkrunner of the month too! I get a singlet to keep and wear always.
\o/
Now to fix the ouchiness in my heel 🙁
Kantai Collection Event Update: Because I’m sure everyone cares 😛
No ship lockout \o/. Also this time they’ve implemented a selectable difficulty rather than tying it to your HQ level, which is awesome. Rewards vary depending on difficulty – you get more equipment and rarer drops on higher difficulty, though the event ships all drop.Five event maps. Rewards German sub U-511 for clearing Map 3 (and she updates to RO-500 and gets a tan and 500% cuteness upgrade \o/), Katori for Map 4 and Amagi for Map 5. The fourth new ship, Asashimo, is a random drop from various nodes in the event maps.
Cleared E1 pretty quick – did it on medium difficulty because my Anti-sub fleet average level was only around 55 and not enough good sonars to go around, so wasn’t confident. Also the only diff was some improvement materials for upgrading gear, so not worth the hassle. Nothing of note dropped.
Currently on E2 and trying to do it on hard, because hard mode rewards a new battleship gun. Prototype 51cm gun that was designed to be fitted onto the A-150 ‘Super Yamato’ class that was designed but never laid down (after the Coral Sea and Midway, the IJN realized they needed carriers instead). Only Yamato and Musashi can actually use the gun, but I’ve had a lot of trouble getting the 46cm guns to drop (only have 4 and 2 came from Yamato herself) so having the 51cm would be a good substitute.
So far have had seven attempts, killed the boss twice. Halfway into the map, there’s a node with two enemy battleships and they keep wrecking my carriers enough that I have to turn back, or damaging them enough that I have to turn back after fighting the node after. It’s driving me crazy. Need to sink the boss seven times to advance. May have to drop the difficulty and start over, though I know this is doable with some patience. So far I’ve had Agano drop twice, which is nice since her 15.2cm guns are excellent and unbuildable. Boss drops so far were Naganami (rare destroyer, but I’ve got her) and Akigumo (rare destroyer which I didn’t have because she’s been avoiding me for years!).
Probably will run the 3rd map on Medium, just to guarantee I get U-511. If I make it to 4 and 5 I’ll be running them lower difficulty as well, willing to even drop to easy if it means getting Amagi easily. Her art’s pretty nice (not sure about the Kai art though…) and I would just like to have a new carrier to break the monotony of using the big four. But U-511 is my main prize.
A few good runs and I’m 1 more go at E2 away from clearing it.
I’m going to need to take a 2-3 hour break as I’ve churned through about 4k resources and 30 buckets and I want to run extra support expeditions for the last go in case it gets harder.Found that the formation that was suggested online originally was pretty flawed. Swapped out my torpedo cruiser for a light carrier so running a fleet of 1 destroyer, 2 battleships, 1 light carrier and 2 fleet carriers and it took a quicker route and got through easily. Didn’t even need a night battle to beat the boss, and no one damaged past medium (most importantly, none of the carriers got hit – Hiryuu and Soryuu if hit into critical damage have repair timers of around 22-24 hours, which is why the buckets are so important).
3rd map is apparently a combined fleet map, and challenging it on hard requires less clears (only 4) than on medium (7) so I might actually just go that way. Combined fleet is often easier to finish, though harder on resources.
Drops so far haven’t been spectacular, though I did get Kiyoshimo who was one of the event-only destroyers I missed out on a while back. Makes me wonder if Isokaze or Unryuu are drops during the event as well.
Also it really really likes giving me Agano. Four of her so far.
E2 cleared. E3 next. Once the 8-hour timer on my carrier repairs is up, at least.
I am still really interested in Kantia collection but I can’t be bothered using proxies and what not to pretend I’m from Japan.
I hope the vita version is good and international.
You don’t need to use a proxy any more. Can use firebug or similar to set some cookies so DMM thinks you’re in Japan and that’ll work fine.
Nintendo should release their back catalogue on smartphones?
Lol. They barely even do it on their own platforms.
Hahaha I managed to make a ballista that fires a 14x2x2 log. Can’t believe it works 😛
Well, sometimes it does. Most of the time it just rips itself apart. That seems to be a common running theme.
http://imgur.com/a/lCIUA
Argh, holy shit, the Game of Thrones game (Ep 1).
Probably not spoilers, but just one big goddamned D:Right at the end? I know right? Only episode 1. Either they blew their wad early or they got some big plans.I’ve been feeling so washed out lately, but don’t know why.
Something also feels, off (different?), but I can’t put my finger on what it is…
It’s bumming me out.
Is it gas?
No… (I don’t think)
It feels like someone is angry at me?
I have no idea who though, or what for what reason, but I can’t shake this feeling. You know how you can tell when someone is angry at you? That’s the closest I can place it.
I’m pretty sure one of my friends has been avoiding me too, like I’m the plague or something, which isn’t helping this peculiar feeling I have…
It’s probably gas.
Never coming here with my problems ever again
-______-
Finally bought Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker…
If there ever was a reason for off-tv play, this would have to be it…
I’m loving the game so far… 😀
This is my transforming tank.
http://i.imgur.com/im65PM0.jpg
When you press the transform button it promptly curls into a ball and gives up.
http://i.imgur.com/X5YkTY9.jpg
Vous ne serez jamais me battre , je me suis déjà battu!
I just tried to scroll around by right clicking and dragging.
I’m smart
…and went and did it again right after posting that.
Successful trebuchet!
http://imgur.com/a/IxksU
WIth awesome range!
http://i.imgur.com/MpZjXen.gif
I need medical advice TAY.
I’ve got something stuck in my eye. It’s just a piece of dirt or something, nothing huge but it’s right smack dab in the middle of the eye in front of the iris. It’s been there a couple of days. It’s only causing enough irritation in that I’m aware of it’s presence though I’m pretty sure that eye is noticeably blurrier then it should be.
All the blinking in the world doesn’t dislodge it. Rinsing it out with water didn’t help either. I’m assuming the next step is to see a professional but I’m not sure where I go. My first thought is my optometrist but I associate them with diagnosing things and less with the actual treatment of things so I’m not sure if I should book in at a regular doctor.
Is it gas?
it’s probably gas.
Perhaps go and see a pharmacist and see if they can recommend some kind of something that might flush it out. If they don’t have anything they should at least be able to point you in the right direction!
I’d definitely be visiting a GP for something like that. Probably just needs to be flushed out properly but it’s your eye and eyes are super important so I wouldn’t leave it. It might not be something in it.
I went with the doctors appointment option. Going in tomorrow morning ot find out if it’s just gas or if it need my eye removed.
I’ve had a headache all weekend 🙁
Is it gas?
Yeah
I was messaging the guy I’m interested in last night at 10:30pm, just talking, when he said he was really craving chocolate icecream.
Trying to be sweet, I said if he were in Perth then I would’ve gone and dropped some off for him (since he was supposed to be away till today).
Turns out he came back early, so I had to hold up to that promise, hahaha!
I made sure to look fine when I bought the icecream around for him though, and totally scored some major romantic points I think 😀 :* 😀
Chocolate ice cream delivery service, you say?
Take note, @perthius.
There will be no romantic points awarded regardless of how fine he’s looking! >:|
What if I tell you how fine you’re looking when I bring you icecream? 😉
With Greenius I recommend wearing Crotchless, ankle revealing pants.
He just can’t control himself around them.
My weakness! D:
Moot point. I’m always looking fine *flex*
Just the way I like’em 😉
I know a nice place we can go to dinner when you get here.
Just you, me, and my good friend Rufie 😉
*moves to Snowtown*
*moves to Snowtown*
ALL ABOARD!
That extra carriage made the framerate drive itself right into the ground, can only “use” it with just the engine >_>It was probably just gas.
Just pre-ordered the superspecial version of Bloodborne at EB so I can pick it up on release day. Well, Mr.Strange did. For me. To make up for screwing up bigtime on both Dark Souls 2 and Dragon Age:Inquisition. 😛
Even better, he used his special work bonus credit card that’s in US dollars so it only cost $140 Australian. \o/
I HAVE MADE
A MOTHERFUCKING DRAGON
AND IT IS MAJESTIC AND GLORIOUS
I need to figure out how to get video going.
That is fantastic.
Yay new refresh material!
Dear @greenius
*refresh*
Greenius stanks.
He’s got gas.
I smell like roses!
(that have died years ago)
Because of the gas?
Yeahhh, roses really smell like poo-poo-oo
Has anyone else seen this ad? It amused the heck out of me
Ahhh, this ol’ classic
So much better than the Australian one. So dry.
See you guys in new TAY.
EDIT: I was joking. =P