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Morning all! How were your weekends?
I played Life is Strange and really enjoyed it. Technology-wise, it is far ahead of Telltale Games. Speaking of, I started GoT Episode 2 and am liking that so far. I also tried The Vanishing of Ethan Carter but it still crashes my GPU…
My weekend was fun, but really full-on! I’m still a little exhausted. I moved out about two weeks ago but went back to my parents place to play tennis with friends on Saturday, then went back to my new place for a housewarming. Took 1.5 hours to drive there because of awful traffic due to the One Direction concert, haha. Slept at 4am, got woken up at 8am because my friend wanted me to come to his place on Sunday for a day full of Smash Bros. I was way too tired to actually play well at all.
Morning all!
I played episode 2 of Game of Thrones yesterday – it was pretty good, but overall, didn’t have the impact of episode 1.
I really like how tough and nuanced the choices are – it feels like a genuine addition to the GoT universe.I don’t think things are going very well for my Forresters. I somehow managed to screw up the engagement between Rodrick and Elaena, I’ve lost the entirety of the Ironwood, and Mira has murdered a Lannister guard to protect a coal boy who might or might not be connected to Varys. Mira has also managed to annoy her best friend Sera more often than not, so I have no idea what’s going to happen with that relationship if Sera is put to the test. I also managed to piss off everybody at the Wall, except possibly Jon Snow. \o/Thank God it’s a Telltale game, and therefore it’s likely that my poor choices will have limited impact overall.FINALLY! A trailer for our buddy cop film! Enjoy! 😀
http://youtu.be/fV2OIq3_pPI
Chief Mashaa!
Serrels and Mashaaa. Best cameos.
Ups for bad 80’s trailers!
Cameo? Mashaaaaaa is third billing!
wow how did you get Simon Pegg to do a cameo?
Blackmail.
I knew I was holding onto that VHS player for a reason.
Will there be a red carpet premier?
Bought the new 3ds yesterday there crappy transfer system doesn’t work the only thing it transferred over was my network id
Bummer.
I had no problems when I transferred all my stuff to my New 3DS from my older XL – I set it to wirelessly transfer everything directly between the two, and it worked fine.
I did the wireless thing to I had to redownload all my games and there was no save data to any of Em meaning have to start luigis mansio and zelda again
What a gross, muggy day.
Is it g…
Nah. 😛
It’s probably greenius.
I cant hear you inside this air conditioned work room. Though the cicadas sure are loud to be heard all the way in here…
Had a pretty great day yesterday. After church, I went to the beach with the church youth and young adults group. I didn’t go in the water but it was still nice to stand on the sand and watch people enjoying themselves. When we’d finished at the beach, we headed back into town to get some chips for tea. We walked to a nearby park to eat them and sat at the skate park. A couple of minutes later, a lady came to the skate park with her two boys. She sat down near me, and I was thinking ‘You look familiar.’ Turned out to be a friend of mine who I’d known for 25 years or so, but hadn’t seen for 16 years. Just goes to show how small a world Tasmania is.
man i love tassie… good chance ill be heading back down there for another week in november!
Morning TAY, getting smashed at work currently which is a good thing. University Orientation kicks off today, so it doesn’t stop!
First stop on my tour of Straya is North Sydney today and tomorrow, followed by Ballarat on Wednesday.
Morning apples of my eye!
Guess who has a dislocated finger and totally took a spill on her second moto lesson? *Disfiguredly points at self* THIS GIRL.
Why are you pointing at that guy over there?
who me? im a dude!
That’s the spirit.
When you came off did you try and play it all cool and Fonz like though?
When I came off – well, actually when I was pinned under – I frantically hit the horn to let another rider know I needed help. And then I stared up at the driver of the SVU behind me who was honking his horn at me, but you know, not getting out to help or anything.
In related news; I now know that I can heft 160 kilos of metal off myself in a pinch.
Jeez 🙁 that’s not good to hear! Amazing the jackass in the vehicle behind didn’t try and run you over.
I do not understand the mentality of the SUV driver who honks their horn at someone obviously in distress. The fuck? Were you planning on maybe, I dunno… helping resolve the problem someone has instead of bitching about how inconvenient it is that you have to wait a minute in lazy-ass comfort?
It’s a funny story, I was actually telling DC on the train the other day back from Freeze’s… I had something similar happen to me a couple years back when there was a really huge, vicious storm ravaging Brisbane. I’d been high-way driving with de-mister, windscreen wipers, high-beams, radio etc on full and a car that had an alternator too small for it (as yet undiscovered), so was killing my battery pretty effectively. I conked out in Red Hill, just after turning off the really major road (Musgrave?) onto where the side-streets started. The rain was absolutely driving down and my battery was so dead I couldn’t even put on hazard lights. I had to go grab a chick from the vet clinic I’d stalled next to, and get her to steer the car while I pushed it off the road by myself. Meanwhile, there’s a queue of impatient cars behind me, and some fucking SUV honks their fucking horn at me.
Here I am, drenched from head to foot, in driving rain, pushing a car by myself – so it’s pretty god damn obvious that the car’s broken down – and this PRICK is beeping their horn at me. Not getting out to help, not waiting patiently while someone makes measurable, visible progress in moving a car off the road, so they can see exactly how long they have left to wait… no. No, they’re so put out by having to wait a minute in cosy, air-conditioned, DRY comfort, that they feel the need to hurry me up with a honk.
I’ve only been that angry a few times in my life. I stopped pushing the car, drew myself up to my full height, turned around gradually, and standing in the light of their headlights, glared directly at the vehicle where I figured (but couldn’t see) the driver’s eyes would be. Holding that murderous glare, I raised a hand slowly, deliberately, to give them them the finger, by way of challenge. In that moment I sincerely hoped they would get out of their vehicle or honk their horn again so I would have an excuse. Desperately wanted them to just give me an excuse.
They did not.
But still. Who the fuck sees someone enduring that kind of shitty situation, and beeps at them? And that’s just pushing a car in the rain, not being TRAPPED UNDER A VEHICLE. You could’ve been hurt for all they knew!
People can be such pricks.
Common thread here is SUV. Might even have been the same person! In fact, I’m sure of it.
Clearly they didn’t learn their lesson.
*cracks knuckles*
Janey. You get their rego?
Burned into my memory. Let’s do this. *Rides off into the sunset, doesn’t crash*
Well, I was more thinking of making a report to police.
Even if you’ve got no evidence for them to use officially, the cops do still take an interest in reports of bad behaviour.
Once I was walking down some side-streets near my home and while I was crossing an intersection, a car came around the corner trying to turn where I was walking. It’s hard to describe, but it’s like they were trying to use the car to nudge me into hurrying up, revving the engine and playing some fucked up game of pedestrian-vs-vehicle chicken. Now, I don’t dawdle – I was moving a fair and reasonable pace. They actually clipped my backpack after I’d walked what they deemed far enough for them to squeeze through.
I took the rego, gave the local cops a call, they looked it up and we compared vehicle models. I asked if there was anything they could do, and they said:
“Not officially, but we will send some of the boys around to have a word, give ’em a bit of a scare. Sometimes puttin’ the fear in ’em’s good enough.”
An incredibly candid officer, that was. He actually told me the address of the vehicle’s rego, which he really probably shouldn’t have (and which I didn’t do anything with)… I think possibly out of surprise, because the vehicle was registered to an address on the same street I’d been crossing. Driver must’ve been in a hurry to get home.
So, y’know. Worth a call.
…They might slip up and give you an address. 😛
Your story makes me so mad.
The other day there was a car broken down in the intersection near my house and I was a little disappointed I couldn’t get out to help because they already had enough people that more would have just been in the way.
Ohyeah I was mad. Almost prepared to go to jail over it, at the time. Guess you don’t have to be IN a car to get road rage.
Funny about the desire to get out and help. There’s actually a question about that in the military psych evaluation which I’m reminded of. For a large part, the questions are complete no-brainers, like, “Do you ever hear voices?” or, “If you’re standing on the edge of a cliff, have you ever felt the urge to jump off?” With multiple choice answers of yes, no, or ‘depends’. I remember being asked to explain my, ‘depends’ answer to the question, “If you saw an accident, would you go to help?”
I’m guessing they were just looking for ‘yes’, but when asked to explain my answer, I elaborated, “Normally I would, but it depends if there are people there already. There’s no point in me getting in the way of professionals, and if there’s anyone already assisting who has a phone, has called authorities, and is practicing first aid with the situation under control, the best option is not to add more cooks to the kitchen.”
“But you’d help if there wasn’t anyone else on the scene?”
“Oh, of course. I have my senior first aid and some emergency experience. But I’m not interested in butting in where not needed – all the matters is the job gets done.”
Apparently that was an acceptable answer.
Oops. Editfail. You get the asshole’s rego?
I think we all know the truth, it was some kind of bikie gang initiation.
D: Owwwwwch! Thank goodness you’re okay except your finger (and possibly your pride), though. *hugasaurus*
A mate of mine was a motorbike courier and said it’s well-known in the industry that it’s not about ‘if’ you take a spill, but when. Looks like you got yours out of the way early! :}
That’s how I’m viewing it!
I’m going to buy a bike and practice in my own neighbourhood (with my licensed brother) until I get confident enough to go back and take the assessment. I know I can do it. I just need time.
Wait, you need a license for those things?
Hope my sister’s been keeping mine up to date.
Haha, yeah! You can ride with your RE license and L plates as long as you have a licensed bike rider with you – they can be on the back of the bike, on their own, in a car or even running along beside you.
(a brother license :P)
Ohhhh.
hahahah, you!
I have never been on a motorcycle and gotten off with everything I got on with.
I read that sentence in an entirely different way to what (I assume) you intended and it’s rather disturbing. No you can’t use my bike.
One free seat on the bus, an aisle seat almost entirely occupied by some little guy sprawled out and pretending to sleep. He ‘woke’ a little when I muscled my way into occupying 50% of the aisle seat, and pretended not to notice when I decided that sitting with my legs in the aisle was no longer viable and said, “Excuse me,” with some gentle shoves.
Right then. I HAVE NO SHAME you selfish little punk. Let the war of commuter thigh/ass contact commence!
…
I dedicate my victory to all the people who have wanted a seat but not wanted half a seat and thus had none.
Because what’s a Monday morning without distracting yourself with imaginary conflict?
that always annoys the crap out of me with public transport. that and watching some jerk take up one seat, and place their bag on the other, whilst everyone else has to stand.
If you’re British: “Excuse me is anyone sitting here?” roughly translates as “If you don’t move your bag now, I will end you.”
Scorched earth
Amusingly the Australian analogue to that is, “Are you alright, mate?” Such an innocuous phrase, so easily laden with latent menace; a prelude to hostilities.
Glorious victory!
http://youtu.be/-YCN-a0NsNk
Fighting the good fight, sir. Even if there’s seats free, I’ll challenge any fucker pulling that crap on PT.
*salute* Transientmind, key representative of our glorious master race and the most interesting man on TAY.
also, polehuggers. i mean it’s fine if you are on a carriage were the seats are taken but few are standing, but some jerk always wants to wrap themselves around the pole on busy train so nobody else can hang onto it.
I kind of do this. I have no natural balance, so I need to rest my entire weight on the pole to avoid being flung off.
EDIT: The one time I didn’t do this half my body flung off the pole, and only my hand clutching the pole remained. Because of the way my weight was divided between the pole and the part not on the pole, I was swung around. And around. My body did three loops around the pole before my leg gave out and I collapsed on the floor.
Morning all! how we doing?
had a pretty busy weekend doing…. not much…. had a movie night with friends on saturday which was ok considering the stinking hot weather… then i slept in till midday sunday \o/
I find it very difficult to even begin telling people that i really, really dislike movies… which is my primary reason for disliking movie nights. Movies usually bore the hell out of me. I would say there would be on average about 10 movies a year at max that strike the right cord with me and I actually look forward to watching. other than that, my brain just goes numb and switches off, which is great if i want to catch some Z’s….
There are quite a few TV shows that i do enjoy watching (Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, The Following, Bones, The 100, + a fair few others), but even with them, i need to keep myself busy doing something whilst watching them, whether its having dinner, or working on something.
Scrapped work on my adventure game i was working on (for the moment) and begun working on another mobile game (ios/android). I’m actually able to use some of the art assets ive already finished, as i have set a goal of actually releasing something this year. The adventure game keeps getting sidetracked till i finally get the story at a point im happy with… i spent a lot of time working on art assets and not so much on getting the story to a point where i can start piecing it all together…
Also a friendly reminder to people, when you are working on something important, remember to SAVE YOUR WORK IN STAGES. i have a bad habit of not saving till ive finished working for the day, and either a program crashes, and i lose everything, or something else.
in the latest moment of stupidity, i was working on a 3D model of a duck, finished it, sliced it in half, mirrored (symmetry) it to duplicate it on the other side, and then collapsed the symmetry modifier and saved. 5 minutes later, i realized that i merged the two halves too close together and the feet are joined, as well as several of the details in the head are now non existent because of the merge… as it was my one and only save, i have royally screwed the model and have to fix it :/
WEEKENDS! YEAH!
Watched Birdman, amazing.
Played some Hearthstone. Went up 8 ranks and then down 4 while messing around with a control deck variant. Fuck the meta.
Midnight Tabletop with @freezespreston, @rize and @sernobulus is a hell of a lot of fun.
Watched Big Hero 6, again. Still awesome.
Played some Halo with @alexpants. Awesome.
Played some Titanfall with @rize. Also awesome. Horde mode is ace, and challenging.
Played some Dragon Age: Inquisition multiplayer with Pyrean, @blaghman and @rize. This was also awesome.
Awesome.
Titanfall on PC??? WHERE WAS MY INVITE???
We actually went to, but you were away on Origin 🙁
damn it, it must be that automated bullshit… i dont think ive ever changed my status on steam/origin.. EVER…
give me a yell next time, would love to get some more titanfall action in…
I put a thing on Twitter but had forgotten who to tag…
Birdman, yesssss.
Titanfall on PC? Horde mode? No invite?
*crying*
Had to play tennis and get drunk for work on Friday night, which (although I had a pretty good time) set me up for feeling sore and apparently getting really sick over the weekend. So of course I bounce back and feel great this morning, after spending all weekend blowing my nose and feeling miserable.
Oddly a number of my work colleagues seem slightly under the weather this morning, I wonder if they had similar weekends or it took them longer to come down with whatever this bug is.
I really need to try and play something other than Destiny for awhile. It’s still 3 months until the next DLC and apart from the possibility of doing raids to obtain and level up raid gear, there’s no point into continuing to play it hours upon hours each week and burning myself out.
Hey @rize, @cakesmith, @sernobulus, @blaghman, @rocketman, @aliasalpha remember when JC2 MP used to be a thing? It probably should be again! So I propose “And Suddenly a Behring”-Monday tonight… If anyone is interested?
http://i.imgur.com/wgnBOHP.png
I raise your 1 Behring with… 4 BEHRINGS STRAPPED TOGETHER
This is why I need to upload my screenshots instead of just having them sit on my PC.
Does that mean you’re in tonight? 😛
Depends. I have a Titanfall/Dragon Age: Inquisition itch at the moment after the weekend.
Also Just Cause 2 MP has never agreed with my PC for some reason. So many crashes. Even on a completely new PC.
Huh strange, okay fair enough, guess I was really just gauging interest 😛
Still interested! The more people, the more interested 😛
@cakesmith righto I’ll keep you updated!
I’m interested, but I have Pathfinder on tonight. Also, I need to fit HoMM3, Titanfall, DA3, Scarf Warriors, Warframe and Starbound in amongst all this…
I’m working late all this week (possibly in the future too) so I wont get home until 9pm (10pm DST) which means I probably won’t be able to join you. =(
I’m on call until 12 pm tonight so it’s possible it could still be going on 😛 (if I can get anyone together at all XD)
I’ve never actually installed the mod. Actually, come to think of it, I’m not sure I’ve got the game installed
BLOOOOOOOODBOOOORRRRRRRRRRNE
Time until release: 43 days
There’s a bunch of news that dropped over the weekend. Get this in you.
Apparently, the graphics are going to be even better than we’ve seen in videos so far. Sounds like marketingspeak to me, but what do I know. Also, there’s very firm confirmation that the game will not be released on PC (even stronger than the Dark Souls 2 denial :P).
Making Bloodborne Part 1: Souls Evolved. IGN video.
Bloodborne will have shields after all.
Aw man, looks like I’m not playing it any time soon then.
Guess I’ll just have to finally play Dark Souls 1 instead…
It’s not that surprising – it looks to be under the same exclusivity deal as Demon’s Souls was.
No PC release? Damn! Now I won’t get to play this game for a good number of years :P… Looked good too
I’m getting overhyped now that I have a pre-order. I should also be finished with Dragon Age by then so I’ll be more than ready for something new and awesome to sink my teeth into.
The Souls game are the only games I’ve ever really worried about defense and shields in, even in fighting games I don’t defend much. So I’m surprised how worried I am that shield turtling and standing back and waiting don’t seem to be good ideas in Bloodborne.
As for the no-PC thing, seems like a proper exclusive finally. Which means it will hopefully be the first game to really show us what the PS4 is capable of.
I still can’t decide which version of the game to get. I definitely want the artbook, because those are always awesome for FROM games. But I’m not entirely sure whether it’s worth an extra $70 for the book-shaped box and some red ink.
I really don’t think it necessarily is worth all that extra moneys. Nice to have, but not really justifiably “worth it”. Souls games are games we both play though, so theoretically paying double is okay because we certainly get our moneys worth out of hours used to play it. So yeah, get Mrs. Shane to play it too. 😀
We were just lucky in that Mr. Strange still had US$200ish left on his work bonus card after our trip (which was basically “free” money to begin with), plus with the US dollar being strong it worked out around $140 AU for the superspecial edition. Otherwise we would have just got the regular version. Plus, it’s my Valentine’s Day present too, so there’s that….
I gotta confess… as a habitual turtler, I kind of have doubts about the potentially unsubtle nudges towards a faster, more mobile playstyle. If it’s anything like Souls, that may well translate into fake difficulty. Ie: Faster actions equals more potential for brutally punishing mistakes; unforced errors. It seemed like it has the potential to feel a little cheap. Probably a baseless fear. Hopefully.
I think there’s something to this. We’ve seen that the game will be encouraging players to move quickly, as enemies will patrol constantly and dynamically, and we’ve also seen that enemies hide and ambush the player deliberately.
There doesn’t seem to be an obvious play style that can adequately protect against both those things, which means that players will be in for punishment whether they play conservatively or aggressively.
I mean, I have some faith. Once I grokked the style of Dark Souls, I eventually fell in love with how tight their controls are. You only have to play things which seem surface-level similar like Lords of the Fallen or Bound by Flame to see how masterful the designers have been on that front.
It’s potentially just different, is all. I’m hoping it’ll retain the signature smoothness and responsiveness that makes the action feel tricky-but-fair.
One of the things I really loved about Dark Souls was that so much of the game was about walking carefully through these massive, awe-inspiring environments with sometimes only one or two opponents. And even though you could see them well in advance and take your time in approaching, it didn’t make a damn difference how carefully you approached them if you didn’t have the skills to take them out in a straight fight. I kind of feel like DS2 diminished that somewhat by shifting the focus from solitary, formidable foes, to overwhelming you with smaller, weaker foes and ambushes.
There’s a definite difference in attitude between the game that has to ambush you or outnumber you, versus the game that stands there with an unimpressed look on its face and an attitude of, “Well? I’m waiting. Take your shot, little man.”
I get what you’re saying, but for my part, I think Dark Souls and Dark Souls II had pretty similar approaches to combat. I know this is a minority opinion, but I thought Dark Souls was equally unfair at times (with ambushes or numerical disadvantage).
After playing some of Lords of the Fallen, I do agree with you 100% about the superior, well thought out game design of FROM games, though. I’m still dead keen for Bloodborne – I’m just concerned that it’ll humiliate me many times before I get the hang of it 🙂
Go on. You’ll be disappointed if it doesn’t.
Souls vets experienced disappointment at the hands of DS2 because they didn’t get to experience the same humbling learning experience that they did the first time, the gradual dawning of mastery.
You want this. You want to be humbled. 😉
I have three small children. I am humbled regularly and repeatedly on a daily basis. I crave mastery. MASTERY.
Hah. I must be projecting, then. I crave mastery too… although more ‘mastery earned’, not inherited.
I’m the same, but I’d be almost as happy (and considerably more relieved) to have already ‘earned my wings’ in Dark Souls games and just go straight to domination… 😛
You’ve played XCOM as well haven’t you? It sounds like you’re into that kind of thing…
I didn’t find XCOM all that tough, tbh… at least, after I gave up on Ironman mode 😛
They’ll probably up the mobility of your character, let you dodge easier and punish you less for missing an attack. I mean, the boss design at least will need to be different.
Personally I never finished Dark Souls (O&S is too hard for me 🙁 ) but I played an agile character and used light armor. Picking off guys from afar with a bow and preferring to dodge around most enemies rather than block. The shield was nice to have but I really only used it to block archers.
(Which incidentally is probably why I have so many issues getting roadblocked in the game, since I have shit reflexes and would take hits a lot because I didn’t block stuff I should have 🙁 )
From what I’ve seen so far, mobility is indeed way up (at least in comparison to medium/heavy armoured characters in Souls games), hits seem to do less damage (though can be quickly chained for massive carnage against you), and there seems to be a health recovery mechanic for each successful hit you land in retaliation.
I think my entire weekend was spent building things in Besiege then spamming Weekend TAY about them. Pretty cool game, it’ll be great once some of the kinks and such are ironed out. Would be nice if we could choose what faces bind to what parts.
Remembered about the robot restaurant last night, turns out tickets had appeared in the meantime and already all gotten snapped up. Dammit.
Got caught up in some traffic this morning, this poor girl was trying to parallel park but had totally messed it up, which everyone stuck queued up behind her. Very much looked like she wanted to curl up and disappear when I went past, kinda wanted to pass on the trick I got taught but didn’t really want to hold up traffic myself so just gave a sympathetic smile instead 😛
Then ended up running into a school friend on the train, one I ran into at climbing a couple of months back. Turns out it’s his last week too, then he’s off to some Silicon Valley startup. Fancy. Talked 3DS for most of the trip.
Oh yeah, FINAL WEEK! WOO!
Remember when I was all like “Canada!” and you guys were like “Hey!” and I all was, like, “Eh!” and then then nothing happened?
Good times.
I helped a Canadian backpacker lady on the bus today, and had to resist saying “Say hi to Bish and Saturday for me!” when we parted ways. 😛
Oh, you met Sandra? She’s a bitch, I’m glad you didn’t say that.
Canadian backpackers seem to be a minority. Only ever met the other one, and although we were bros we had to split due to him prancing off to thailand. Forgot his name, too. Only ever referred to him as his hometown: Calgary.
I miss him.
Man, that’s weird. I met quite a few when I was doing the harvest trail. And a couple recently in jobs I wouldn’t have thought of as typical ‘backpacker jobs’, like the Canadian removalist who helped with my last move, and a pizza delivery driver.
I always assumed Saturday….. Sunday?? what…
was your home town.
Morning all. It was my Grandpa’s 85th birthday yesterday. Unfortunately I couldn’t go see him because I had a bad migraine. I’ll try catch up with him some other time this week though.
Got my first platinum trophy on Playstation. It was for Infamous: First Light so it’s not the most impressive of feats given that it was for an expansion rather than a full game and it wasn’t like their were any particularly hard trophies, just a lot of grinding. Still, I’m glad I have at least one.
Those challenge rooms were pretty tough. A platinum in that game is pretty impressive in my book.
In comparison, my Shadow of Mordor platinum was really very simple to get, and is the only one I’ve got so far.
My only platinum is Dark Souls. Inspired by the efforts of Shane and Freeze.
My only platinum is in Sleeping Dogs Malibu Stacey Edition
Oh, forgot to mention. When I 100% First Light Fetch said something along the lines of “if you keep playing the game anymore I’ll start to think you’re stalking me”, which was a cool little touch.
I’m between jobs. About to go and face the evil of EB to trade a bunch of games in the faint hope of being able to afford a copy of Civilization Beyond Earth for the lovely wife for Valentine’s Day.
Wish me luck.
After 4 brutal weeks of having a crappy replacement phone following my S4’s death, I was able to upgrade my contract on Saturday. Picked up the Note 4 and I am in all the loves with it.
In other news, One Finger Death Punch (on Android) is the best game I have played in 2015!
My weekend consisted of a game of star trek attack wing, being ill and grumpy on saturday, and being hot and grumpy yesterday. Also included taking photos to celebrate the engagement and a game of cards against humanity. I may have laughed so hard I had a nose bleed.
arrrrrrrrgggggghhhhhhhhh… This GTX970 is annoying the living crap out of me. Trying to get MSY/Gigabyte to authorize a return on it as ive gone through one unit with extreme microstutter that ended up frying, to a replacement which also microstutters like crazy…
definitely not my pc causing the stutter, as i have tried it on two other builds with the same results. not sure if it has anything to do with the whole 3.5gb+0.5gb saga with the 970’s at the moment, but i’ve jumped onto that bandwagon if it helps get this return done. i basically just want to spend the extra cash and grab the 980…
it feels like im staring at most older games through a zoetrope, that constant stutter… i cant even play duke nukem 3d megaton edition smoothly…
Gigabyte is being a pain about it. I opened another support ticket, that went as follows:
Me; Hi gigabyte… serious microstuttering… blablabla examples blablabla… here is my card details, serial number, purchase details and a scan of my receipt
Gigabyte: The GTX970 is a great card with no issues
Me: again, i am experiencing severe issues… here is my card details, serial number, purchase details and a scan of my receipt again.
Gigabyte: sorry for your frustration. please send a copy of receipt.
Me; Here is a copy of my receipt AGAIN, for the 3rd time. Serial number is xxxxxxxxx. it is also noted on the receipt.
Gigabyte: Thank you for the receipt. What is the serial number on the card.
me: *facepalm* SNXXXXXXXXX as per my previous 4 messages and as noted on the receipt, also attached again.
Gigabyte: thank you for the details. we appreciate you are having problems. if you could please provide a copy of your receipt, we can look at how we can resolve this matter for you.
ARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
the most annoying part of this ordeal is that it takes them two working days to respond to each ticket each time. so this is baout 2 weeks of convo.
Err shouldn’t consumer law here protect you and allow you to either get a replacement or a refund because the product is faulty?
yup it does,
as per one of my responses to gigabyte, stating an extract of said laws. My claim would also be covered by the ACL that regulates misrepresentation of goods or services thanks to nvidia’s backflip on the actual specs of the 970
It should be the retailer’s responsibility to fix or replace it under consumer law, not the manufacturer…
yeah i get that, but for some reason, gigabyte seems to be handling these details directly, whilst msy simply “dont want to know about it”.
should i not be able to resolve this through GB at some point this week, i will be taking it up with msy under the ACL, not gigabyte.
Yeah, MSY can’t just fob it off to the manufacturer. They should be taking it from you & replacing and then handling the RMA bullshit themselves.
As I explained this on the nvidia forums, we should technically be going with the return process as follows
1. Customer Returns Card to Retailer ->
2. Retailer Refunds Card based on fault ->
3. Retailer Returns Card to Card Manufacturer ->
4. Card Manufacturer refunds card to Retailer based on fault ->
5. Card Manufacturer to seek compensation directly from nvidia.
Yes, that’s the process that should be followed. So many hardware retailers think they can fob you off to the manufacturer though. It’s pretty crap. Stuff like that is why I haven’t bothered to use MSY for a long time, but honestly I’m not sure that PCCG would be any better and I know that CPL aren’t. Though that said, when the PSU in my NAS died, PCCG handled getting it fixed under warranty for me, I didn’t have to talk to QNAP… Took 3 months to get fixed though. 🙁
im just hoping not to go down that path, as id be waiting 3 months + for resolution, and escalation.
Good morning all. Another day and all that jazz. Hope everything is good.
Weekend RPG Storytime for those who are interested. This time with 40K Dark Heresy with me as GM:
The party had cornered the chief cultist down in the Deep Hive of a city where he had taken refuge inside an ancient radioactive containment chamber (basically where they stored spent plutonium rods and such). Of course, they were keen to crack that nut and kill him because the cultist was a Nurglite psyker who may/may not have been empowering himself through the radiation. They spent a day preparing to acquire rad/void suits and anti-rad drugs to get them through when things started going haywire and something big and daemonic tore its way out of the actual Deep Hive itself and cleaved through the protective dome of city. The daemon then tore off into the sky and flew off towards a nearby train line. Yeah, the Nurglite psyker summoned a Rot Fly of Nurgle at the group.But then I was kind/logical and said that the local PDF did have Valkyries available and they blasted the crap out of the Rot Fly with Hellstrike missiles. Also for good measure they destroyed the track of the train line because the Rot Fly had been suckling/infecting an entire 40K-sized passenger train of people of approximately 1,000 people that was heading to a separate city. The Rot Fly did manage to close into and latch onto the players’ Valkyrie and tried to feast on the tasty, tasty human flesh inside however liberal application of psychic and actual fire put paid to that.
They then flew down to the gargantuan sized breach in the hull of the Hive City and deployed in their rad-protective gear to hunt down the psyker once and for all. When they got there however, the rad chamber had been completely torn open with debris everywhere and they don’t know if he ran away or hid elsewhere. What they did find though was a huge mutated chaos spawn that was part-way through fully transforming. It was fortunate that they found it when they did because otherwise it quite possibly could have torn them to shreds. As it was though, liberal application of psychic fire and mono-bladed weapons made mincemeat of the thing that was basically twisting and mutating as they were fighting it.
Now the group is likely to head off to a nearby Forge World as there was evidence of corruption there. Unfortunately they’re going to find the Mechanicus officials to be completely unhelpful. >:D
Spoiler for the above story if you at all want to keep it unknown for future storytime.
The Nurglite psyker didn’t actually mutate into the chaos spawn but escaped the Hive City in the pandemonium that resulted from the Rot Fly. For his actions, the psyker was rewarded with a Mark of Nurgle which makes him incredibly powerful and is going to pose a pretty severe problem when the party encounters him again. Especially as he has also been granted the boon of being able to inflict Nurgle’s Rot on people which is very, very effective on mere mortals.NEW 3DSXL / Majora’s Mask / Good job! simulator
SO MUCH HYPE! *shaking intensifies*
I cant wait to pick mine up Saturday morning before work and then spend the next 8 days at work on 12 hour rotations unable to use it!!
Hooray! I get double street passes! except I’ll be in New Zealand.
NICE WORK* SIMULATOR!
@powalen
SO TASTY SIMULATOR
Busy weekend for me… Decided to modify (read: Cut the crap out of) my desk to make it more comfortable for gaming… The result is a desk that surround you more so everything is easily accessible (particularly my HOTAS) and awesome! Had to buy a 2 arm monitor stand to have my monitors high enough and at the right angles but side from that I used all the original materials and it’s so much better!… Them I just played a crap toon of grim fandango? And for some reason I can’t explain started replaying Wind Waker HD… SUCH A GOOD GAME!
HOTAS, eh?
Shiny.
X-55 Rhino 😀 Christmas present from the missus
Very shiny.
Much jelly.
Oh I need to do this. I had one of those hovering monitor stands at work and it was brilliant. Not only easy to get in the right spot, but also gives you extra desk space underneath.
Exactly! It’s pretty damn amazing… Picked one up for $69 and works fantastically! Well worth the price of admission
Why is that Battlefield article stickied? Sure, it’s neat but it’s not some super important thing.
Apparently a lot of people are really excited for it? I dunno. I don’t get the hype.
Apparently, it was a mistake.
Man, I had such a fun not last night. I woke up about 1 o’clock in the midst of a massive panic attack. I ended up calling Nurse on call (My go-to number for when I have issues calming down) because I didn’t really understand why I woke up having the panic attack. The nurse calmed me down and I was able to get to sleep after a while.
@tech_knight learning how to use pepakura atm \o/
Does that mean you got it working?
Not yet. I’m just checking the tutorials for now. I’ll crack maya 2014 later today and test it
Was it gas?
If only. It was a lot worse then gas
I’m going to assume that Pepakura is some kind of spice.
detailed 3D model viewer essentially
Papercraft maker actually.
Yeah that one!
I prefer to think of it as some kind of spice. =P
You’re thinking of paprika
Yes my armour will be made of paprika… I wanted it to be a surprise…. 🙁
Spicy!
Would it be weird if I licked you at PAX?
22 DAYS – Until I get some time off work.
24 DAYS – Until the Brisbane people I haven’t met are incredibly let down by my arrival.
29 DAYS – Until I have to go back to work…
Getting a bit excited though. Everything is all booked, over the weekend I went and got a luggage bag to use. It’s all too real!
TIL Pow’s arrivals are ‘disappointing’.
The more you know.
You knew that already.
You’re welcome 😛
I want to be a part of cool Brisbane trips :'(
I think I’ve lost all my 3DS and DS games. I kept them in a little plastic container, and that’s gone missing. Hope it turns up – I already miss my copies of the Ace Attorney series.
Oh my glob.
Horrible.
I hope you find them, Shane.
Thanks, man. I appreciate it.
Hey Gang,
Don’t forget, every second Monday is Pregeist day!!!
Stroke my freshly trimmed head when this week, I unveil my new hair do to a supportive and courteous Karl.
http://youtu.be/myvIiXXjy68
Stick around until after the credits.
Do you script/plan these to a greater degree than the podcast itself? It has a slightly different feel (not rehearsed, but kind of more polished), and I’m really digging it. You guys have genuinely good comedic timing.
This one was completely scripted, that’s why it’s a little more… unnatural?
We’ve started writing them as we do them, so we workshop it until we shoot it and it’s given us a nice inbetween of Zeitgeist style conversation that actually has a point and jokes to hit.
You’ll see what I mean in the next one, which is my favourite.
Guys I need your advice. You see I got this friend named… @joeyjojo, junior, Shabadoo.
That’s the worst name I’ve ever heard.
advice: head straight to births, deaths, and marriages, and file a “change your legal name” request.
Advice to @joeyjojo : Don’t Do what Donny Don’t Does.
I knew it. All that doom & gloom about Ghibli closing was bullshit caused by people mistranslating stuff. Ghibli is still open but they’re not working on anything specific at the moment. Instead trying to figure out what movie to make next.
Which is code for ‘Miyazaki & Anno to do a new Nausicaa film but Anno’s currently busy finishing off the final Evangelion rebuild so we’re waiting for him to be free’In unrelated anime / manga news, it looks like the Golgo 13 manga is going to finish. It’s only been running for 47 years…
Speaking of Golgo, I was shown this whilst in Japan, and found it chuckle-worthy.
Hope everyone had a great weekend! Mine was spent in Minecraft… decided to look for a better place for my base. A chronicle.
Clearing the area took far longer than I expected, not the least because every night I was attacked by witches, concussion creepers, and wither cats (who two-shot me through my runic shielding D:), but mostly because it turns out fillers are far slower at clearing stone than they were back in the Tekkit days in 1.2… or maybe just more power hungry.Still need to clear out the rest of the circular area I marked out, and move across my AE and essentia systems… and my tree farm… and my mob farm… *sigh*… but so far, progressing nicely.
Lol.. Metal Injection is claiming The Grammy’s ‘trolled’ everyone by giving Tenacious D a Grammy for ‘Best Metal Performance’. I fail to see how that’s trolling since their song is one of Dio’s and it’s a good performance.
Edit: This is what they said in their ‘article’
Come on it’s a Dio song they covered for his tribute album. It’s hardly a joke song and they pulled it off rather well I thought.
Sounds like they are having a tantrum because the people they wanted to win didn’t.
So standard awards operating procedure then?
That or they’re trying to be cool & hate on the Grammy’s because it’s the “cool” thing to do apparently. No one was hating on them when they decided on AC/DC to perform this year heh.
I think the problem people have is that it’s a cover….
Yeah, that’s one issue i’ve seen people having. But to be fair it wasn’t the only cover nominated. It was a pretty lame selection this year for that category, the two Dio songs might’ve been the best picks lol..
Well saying that maybe Mastadon is better, but I can’t comment since I don’t think i’ve ever listened to them 😛
Should’ve been Priest for Dragonaut 😛
Or Halls of Valhalla maybe…
They weren’t nominated though? 😛
Hey @trikeabout did you see the result for Dennis
Beat the record by as much as Bobridge missed it by. Will be interesting to see how it holds up to Wiggo, I’m really hoping that he fails and doesn’t even beat Jens’ record. But that is just due to his style of GT racing, can’t stand him after that.
I did see the result! Although I forgot to watch it last night. 🙁 Good new mark.
And I think you’ll probably be disappointed – it’s going to fall a few more times in quick order before we see people fail regularly. I think it’ll probably settle out at around 54-something, maybe even 55 in another year and then it’ll stop tumbling. The current track pursuit bikes aren’t so different from the monocoque bikes Rominger and Boardman were using, and the specialist distance TT riders in their 30s should be able to hit close to the absolute record.
Exciting times!
I don’t mind if it falls in quick succession and get up to the 55 mark quickly.
I just want Wiggins to go to hard trying to smash the record that he cracks badly 45 minutes in. or falls off his bike, that would be even funnier.
*shudder* No crashing. 🙁
Men’s final in the Keirin at the Nationals a tyre let go. Very loud and very hard crash, 2 down and one didn’t get up for quite some time.
Crashes in a group on the track are always nasty. Well a crash in any pack is bad, such a horrible nasty sound.
Can I at least hope that when he starts he slips out of the pedal and whacks his family jewels on his stem
Huh. $1.50 cheeseburgers at McDonald’s today.
Thats good value for money on the calories.
They’ve got ads up around Sydney at the moment that are just close-ups of McDonalds food. No logos/slogans/etc.
Was thinking that it’s kind of weird how brainwashed we are that we can identify an ad for a Big Mac based on an extreme close-up and no branding at all. 😛
Morning/Afternoon all!! Not much happening at work, its after 12 so shift half over and almost time to go get more coffee.
Today I’m kinda helping (not really) with a break and enter that happened on the weekend, its alright no ones yelling at me and I all the questions and stuff being asked I can actually answer. Still, wish I was in bed. Ill got to sleep before 11 tonight, (he knowingly lied to himself)
So for those interested in my current life with the whole moving to Melbourne thing.
I got a late offer from the Brisbane campus which I am considering taking. It would take the stress out of finding a job, finding a place, etc… Melbourne would be nice but I am just not sure if it is possible to plan out in a couple of weeks. Also will actually let me sleep at night instead of the whole not being able to sleep due to stress thing I’ve been going through for the last couple of weeks. I miss sleep …
If it were me, I’d take the one I didn’t have to move for 😛
That is, if it’s basically the same thing!
Oh dear. Don’t make a decision while sleep-deprived. Your judgement will be way off. Best to stick with the decision you made back when you were well-rested… even if that decision was the one that caused you to lose sleep
#HELPING
My honest opinion is that if the offer is comparable to what you were planning to do in Melbourne, take it.
Melbourne’s not the cheapest city to live in and when you start studying, it might be better for you not to have a whole bunch of new things like new house,new state, new job, new friends to have to deal with on top of learning new things.
Studying is when you need stability, when you’re finished studying there’ll be plenty of time for adventures like moving interstate.
Captain Toad, and Mr. Driller 2…
I love my Wii U…
😀
Morning errbody hows every little thing?
My weekend was good had a job interview on Friday for a real estate sales position which I think went well. Then we went to the dog beach and moni went crazy in the water swimming everywhere which is a first.
On Saturday Cathryn’s friend came over and we went to the beach again it was packed! We watched movies and I played some red dead that night.
Sunday was a relaxing day of more red dead and playing project x zone.
All in all a good weekend. A Monday question what really grinds your gears about video games
Good luck with the job
Game trailers and promotions that are counter to the genre style of play. Top down with trailers zoomed right in making it look like a 3rd person action game. Remember me pitched as a story driven stealth game rather than an action brawler.
@negativezero
What are your first impressions of sunless sea?
It’s interesting. Lots of text. Very little hand-holding to tell you how to play. What it reminds me of a fair bit is Escape Velocity on the Mac, but I doubt anyone has played that.
Writing and atmosphere are fantastic. Wasn’t enough narrative stuff and it’s a bit too open to really hold my attention – I like something a bit more structured. However if I was a different sort of person, I could see it being absolutely engrossing. I reckon a lot of people here will love it – if you got into FTL or anything like that it’s a must-look.
Cheers.
How suited is it to small session gaming, being able yo jump on for 30 minutes or even less. It’s only my wishlist and I’ll probably get around to it at some stage.
I’m not sure honestly. You probably could make a voyage and just put into a port after a few minutes I guess. But it’s not nicely segmented and not something you can just stop at any point and then resume, it only saves when you put into port. Actually I think you can save anywhere but it stops you using some of the systems if you do that, considers it effectively reducing the difficulty – what’s supposed to happen is that if you die, you start a new character that inherits the will of the previous one.
Neg’s right, though any port will do and you’re rarely more than a minute away from any particular port.
If you’ve never played Fallen London, I highly recommend it as a companion for lore and flavour and fun. It’s a great little storylet-based web-browser text game. Delicious theme and setting. I’ve been a fan for a long time.
Morning all!
That is all.
Posted at 1:21pm, what is this morning madness!
Its morning for some!!!
Morning for normal people! You crazy people living in the future…………..
Hopefully the robots aren’t becoming self aware where you live.
*looks over shoulder at robot overlords* No.
*winks*…………….I understand………………………Nothing to worry about at all.
Finished Danganronpa 2 and decided my next conquest will be Tales of Hearts R.
Started yesterday evening and then suddenly it was 4am. It’s definitely a Tales game. Combat’s good, though not as good as Graces. Plot is a bit simplistic, probably a result of its origin as a DS game. There’s also a bunch of animated cutscenes which are in a more square aspect ratio than the Vita’s screen, obviously holdovers from the DS version as well. I guess stuff was animated for that aspect and they didn’t re-do the animation for the port. It looks fine though.
Opening movie seems to have been stripped of a proper opening tune. The music sounded like BGM. They’ve been doing that for a while, either stripping the vocals or just replacing the opening track. I think Tales of Vesperia might have been the last time they actually had a full vocal opening which sucks since the opening tunes have been a staple thing for Tales since its inception (I still think that the fact that Tales of Phantasia has a full digital vocal opening tune on the SNES is one of the most impressive technical feats in games ever).
The localization is really good in terms of detail, but it’s really clear that they localized the game with the intent to dub it. Lines are changed and expanded to read a lot better in English, but a lot of the time isn’t a direct translation of what’s said in Japanese. I’m fine with that since so far I haven’t hit any Xenoblade or Ni no Kuni-level things where stuff is wildly different – the intent of the lines is the same, just the wording is more natural. But the jarring thing is the change of character’s names for no discernible reason. If it was dubbed we’d never really have noticed that Shing Meteoryte had become Kor Meteor, but with the game being sub-only (which overall I’m super happy with) it’s quite odd to hear people talking to Shing but have the subtitles say Kor. The other odd thing is that no one else in the core cast has had a name change (so far at least), just Kor and his grandfather. I don’t get it. Was Shing some kind of racial slur or something? I could understand the change if there was an obvious reason (eg Tales of Symphonia changing Genius to Genus and Refill to Raine, because the JP names are English words and look stupid).
One thing I really like: Cooking is back in its proper form! Cook stuff from the menu, different characters have foods they’re good or bad at making, and many of the recipies are gained by finding various Wonder Chefs hiding as objects in the world. I really missed the cooking stuff in Graces and Xillia.
Aside from those minor gripes, I’m enjoying it a lot so far. How Long To Beat suggests I’m looking at spending maybe 40-50 hours on it to get the bulk of it done.
HIDDEN WONDER CHEF!
I know I was like OH MY GOD COULD IT BE? And then the giant wierd thing with the chef hat turned into a wonder chef and taught me to make Mabo Tofu and I was like \o/
I want to play a Tales game that isn’t Xillia 2 🙁
I’m telling you about one and you can play it anywhere until your Vita runs out of charge.
Evenin’ folks. I had an amazingly productive weekend (well, Friday-Sunday, because who works Fridays, right?) in terms of doing things that achieve nothing. I picked up Grow Home and Darkest Dungeon, and managed to “finish” Grow Home. It’s good fun. Pick it up in the next Steam sale. Darkest Dungeon is a mean ol’ thing, bit in a mostly good way. Took me like five attempts to finish the tutorial without someone dying, but that was mostly because I misread my abilities.
I’ve also played a bunch of Dying Light, which is a fun, decent 7/10 progression of what Dead Island did.
I also started Persona 4 again, which is just as fantastic as the first time (so hype for P5).
Oh, and I read what’s been released so far of the new Ms. Marvel, which is brilliant, and started reading new 52 Batgirl, which is also worthy of a superlative.
Dying Light coop!! Vault off of everyone!
Posted at 1:40pm, what is this evening insanity!
P5 hype!
Our TV didn’t want to pick up any channels. Turns out the problem was the antenna cable. Normally this isn’t a problem because we have a spare cable. The spare cable is 2m long. The cable we were trying to use is 20m long. The TV is more than 2m from the antenna point.
Dangit, does this mean that I have to put on pants?
I’m afraid to as as to which antenna we’re talking about, considering your pantsless state.
2m long though.
The T stands for tripod.
@jocon @distantdrop
…… Should we have a weekday raid night? I CANT TAKE THE WAITING DAMMIT! Must kill more bosses…..
Patience my young padawan
You can ask the other raiders and see if its possible, at the very least we could probably convince them to do brack and tectus? 5/7 would be a real nice place to leave our highmaul progression before we sink into BRF.
I’m actually been thinking about zoning into our lockout and seeing where the blast furnace is, I assume you access it via a elevator at the mid crossroad section? i saw a bunch of creatures below so I just figured that’s how.
Red….. Oh red…. Everyone know you just jump down and have a shammy reincarnate and mass ress everyone. DUH!
To add an element of difficulty to this raid Blizz have basically put attempts for Blast Furnace on the 20min cd that reincarnation has. Oh well!
Haha, I thought you could not do weekdays.
We could probably wrange an informal pug with whoever is on, no guild loot tables or pressure.
But I’m always game.
So here’s the consensus so far; Devil, Railgun, Boggle are in for a weekday raid. Don is flexi at best saying if he logs on he’ll come otherwise if he isn’t assume he isnt coming. Commitments to the mrs and I think he’s already stretched thin for the weekends. @distantdrop you game?
We’re looking at Wednesday evenings between 7,30-10PM ST. Time frame will vary (less not more) and the day will be primarily to clear the easy boss fights we need gear from like Heroic HM and Gruul. Oregorger and progression attempts will be left for the weekend!
I’m always have my nights available, so no issue, is the date you chosen optimal? hopefully we should attempt to have as few upgrades leave the guild as possible =/
Well following last saturday reforming to this core group meant we’d be looking at raiding as a hardcore guild would. Effectively this translates to us doing Wednesday runs only if we have 9/10 attendance. Anything less and I’d cancel the weekday raid.
I’d rather have 10 committed people geared up than 16 raiders who keep rotating in and out when they feel like it. Also once we get more progression under our belt I can resume recruiting some hardcore progression raiders.
I’d just be concerned about leaving people out that we recruited on the premise of weekend raiding. Especially if we are doing stuff before the regular time.
If we are gonna do a weekday, that not everyone can attend cause that’s not what we originally said, make it after out usual run. That way it’s a bonus for those that can, not a “everybody else misses out on the first few bosses cause we changed our minds” run.
Just to reiterate, cause I feel strongly about this:
If this will, at all, create a situation where an otherwise happy and reliable core raider, like Don and Saa, is relegated to flexi and misses out, even for just a few bosses.
Do. Not. Do. It.
A happy and consistent team is far more important than a head start on loot and progression. Remember how hard it was to get this team together. Don’t create a situation that makes one of them feel they are being left out due to a backflip in policy.
But if it’s just gearing up others on old content that peeps who can’t make it don’t care about, then cool.
TAY RPG Pathfinder tonight at 7:30pm AEST, 8pm ACDT, and 8:30pm AEDT. Starring:
@redartifice @tech_knight @freezespreston @sernobulus @negativezero @beeawwb @rize
One super-electrified Hobgoblin lies dead in the field while your caravan train full of fish has stopped on the road. What do you do?
Run away with the wagons yelling “so long and thanks for all the fish”?
Only if we can stop in at The Domain of the King Bar & Grill
Only if they serve Roast Raptor.
Seems perfectly normal
Once again I will be finishing late. Hopefully this week will be the last.
Well, it’s already cooked….
We should actually probably do what @dc would do and circle the wagons.
I wonder how long my new 3DSXL, Majora’s Mask and Monster Hunter will keep me away from Hyperule Warriors. I kinda want to know if you can check the amount of time you’ve spent in a game on the WiiU but also don’t really want to.
Just had a fun time in DA:Inquisition where I read one of the journals found on an old rotting corpse and followed all the clues to treasure. There were a whole bunch of clues and I only had to check the internet once. Although I immediately felt like a dunce and wished I hadn’t. 😛
Edit: Oh, also…I’ve now hit the 100 hour playtime mark and I’m still having fun.
According to Origin I spent about 120 hours playing the game. Enjoyed all of it.
ahoy there Pokéfriends! Also anyone that wants to chime in anyway!
After hatching the right Marill, I’ve finally trained and leveled it successfully. It’s pretty great. I’m currently using a hard offense Belly Drum set, although there’s also a popular Special Wall set using Assault Vest which is very tempting.
So now I’m trying to work out what’s next to fill out a team. Lightning Rod Manectric seems like a good partner, although its Mega loses LR for Intimidate, which is still a strong ability, but I’ll want to have scouted all electric attacks before I activate it. Alternatively, I could probably fit SF Nidoking on the team, and switch in on predicted electric attacks. Nido has supergood type coverage and can safely switch in on anything that’s going to threaten Azumarill. And now that I’m discussing it, why not both? Nido means that I’m using Earth Power, not EQ, and I can also safely run Discharge on Manectric. I was also thinking that Lightscreen/Reflect + Wish from something like Espeon could be good for recover health and increasing bulk if I need to swap out after drumming.
That leaves me without any hazards or hazard removal, although they’re less common in doubles anyway, right?
It’s 4v4 in Doubles, right?
Maybe something with Heal Bell/Aromatherapy to get rid of any burns?
EDIT: I kinda want to see you use Jynx with Heal Bell/Lovely Kiss, honestly 😛
yup, 4v4.
I was considering coming up with an Aromatherapy build for Sawsbuck. It’s one of my favourite looking Pokemon, even though its pretty poor. (Mega-Sawsbuck when?)
It does get Sap Sipper, so that could come in handy now that Contrary Serperior has been released.
Ok, after a really brief skim over its movepool, I think I can put some kind of support set together. Maybe something like
Aromatherapy
Light Screen/Worry Seed
Leech Seed/Horn Leech
Wild Charge
You going to be able to handle a mega metagross? Those are going to be overly common…
If I’ve already set up, then a +6 from either Waterfall or Superpower is a guaranteed OHKO on Mega-gross. However the set-up means I’ve halved my health with Drum. Mega-Manectric can OHKO with Overheat (and outspeeds Gross), plus Intimidate means that Gross cannot OHKO Azumarill if Overheat misses (90% accuracy). It’s probably more of a mind game. Azumarill will shrug off EQ from Gross, but it threatens Manectric. However I could Mega for the Intimidate debuff and then use Volt Switch.
You know, what, nevermind. Your mind games question made me run the numbers:
A bellydrum Aqua Jet will deal 77 – 91% to Mega Metagross.
Volt Switch from Mega-Man deals 33.7 – 39.9%.
If Metagross is in the opening pair, then I’ll need to switch Azumarill out. If Azumarill gets to belly drum first, then it’s lights out for
Grosseveryone.Middle of a discussion at work with @gorzilla when he just says “Penis is delicious”
Now there’s soft muffled vibration sounds coming from his desk, says its the speakers playing up again.
I would like to point out that the comment was perfectly appropriate in context.
NegativeZero’s Kantai Collection Event Update.
Cleared the first two maps fairly easily, though the second one was a bit of a pain before I hit the right fleet configuration. Third map was kicking my ass though. I tried to do it on hard, but couldn’t get to the boss – the pre-boss node has a Battleship Princess – 400 HP, massively powerful and would invariably blow a hole in someone and force a retreat. The actual boss herself was fine and I was able to sink her on the one time I made it there, but even with both support expeditions I only made it to the boss one time in five. So gave up, dropped difficulty to easy. Meant missing out on a second one of U-511’s special rockets which will probably come back to haunt me next event since they seem to be designed for shelling installations, but E3 is a combined fleet map so it was sucking my resources down like crazy.Even on easy, it was a pain. The lower difficulties required more kills to clear. Had a couple of aborted runs even despite everything thanks to that fucking battleship princess. But in the end I cleared it and with it, cleared the main event and got my first major prize – German submarine U-511. I was unprepared for the cute overload. She’s all super quiet and hesitant because she doesn’t speak much Japanese yet. At level 50 she upgrades and is renamed to RO-500, gets the standard school swimsuit of all the other subs and basically looks primed to knock Iku off her pedestal as best sub. Incidentally, when I killed the boss her voice changed from the usual crazy abyssal sound to a normal sounding cruiser. Kind of looked like a combo of Naka and Agano (who both sank at Truk, which this event is based around) and sounded like Naka as well… hmm.
Next up, I’m looking at E4. The reward is Katori, a new cruiser type that apparently increases XP gain in PVP, though she has to be set as flagship so that might kind of not be that useful. But I still want. Had a few goes at it at hard difficulty but couldn’t clear the boss, an Aircraft Carrier Demon. Additionally I found I get sent a crazy route with the fleet I tried (Haruna, Kongou, Yuudachi, Shigure, Hiryuu, Soryuu). Need a slow battleship to get through a quicker route and my only slow battleship at high level is Yamato who sucks up ammunition like no-one’s business. This should be a wake-up call for me for after the event, I need to spend some time getting Nagato and Mutsu up to the point I can use them. I’d never bothered before because the Kongous and Bismark perform similarly and use less resources, but Nagato’s consumption is about 2/3 what Yamato uses. On the other hand, Yamato can use the crazy 51cm gun I got in the event and she hits amazingly hard.
E4 has some nice drops, but the main boss drop I’m interested in is Unryuu, who drops even on Easy, so I dropped the difficulty. Two clears and then one almost-clear (fucking Haruna missed her shot in night battle and couldn’t finish…) so I’ve got the boss to 50% health. 2-3 sorties and I’ll have it cleared.
Plan is to run E5 in Easy as well. I only want Amagi. There’s a few destroyers who won’t drop because of me pulling back on the difficulty, but if I want I can go back to E2 to farm the new Destroyer for the event. Additionally I can farm E4 for Unryuu if she doesn’t drop for me. But my main goal at this point is to clear the whole event and then we’ll think about farming the extra two I want. I have heard that Isokaze, one of the most sought-after destroyers, is a drop on E5 but possibly only in hard mode, and the hard mode for E5 is insane so no thanks.
Resource-wise I’ve used about 10k fuel and ammo so far, have about 12-13k left and actively running expeditions to supplement it. About 70 buckets used, but also gained some through quests so reserves which started at 130 are at 75. Should be enough to clear the event, especially since I have until the 20th. Mainly wanting to get done early and start farming for drops though.
Speaking of drops, so far the event has dropped Agano five times for me. 4 times in E2 and then 1 in E3. Very annoying because sister-ship Noshiro is also a drop from the same nodes and I haven’t got her at all yet.
Had a few great quality drops but the only new additions to my fleet aside from U-511 have been destroyers: Akigumo (who I have been trying to get for ages and ages, but never managed – now I’ve had her drop twice!) and Kiyoshimo (who was a random drop in the Midway event last year and I missed out on her due to only getting as far as the fourth map of six during that).
Current ships I am missing list:
– Taihou (Large Ship Construction only)
– Unryuu (E4 drop in this event – wouldn’t be surprised if she’s buildable soon)
– Musashi (LSC)
– Noshiro (Drop in event, LSC)
– Sakawa (World 6-2 drop)
– Hatsukaze (World 3-3 drop)
– Yamagumo (World 3-5 drop)
– Isokaze (May be obtainable, maybe not – depends on whether she drops in E5 all the time or just in hard)
– Nowaki (Unobtainable AFAIK)
– Asagumo (Might be a drop in event, need to check)
– Asashimo (Event drop)
– Taigei (many worlds drop)
– Katori (event reward)
– Amagi (event reward)
Not too bad 🙂
Didn’t intend to page get with this 🙁
What is the point in getting multiple drops of the same ship.
Do you just scrap for resources or can you use the 2nd drop to upgrade the primary ship. Or is it just pointless.
Depends. In Agano’s case, she’s super rare (was a reward during the same event Yamato was added to the game, only available normally through large ship crafting) and her 15.2cm main gun used to be the gun of choice for light cruisers at the top-end because they have a lot of accuracy boosts. But they changed the stats on the easier-to-obtain 15.5cm gun so that it’s basically better, so not much point. I’ve been stripping her gear and then using her as remodeling scrap.
In general, most of them once you have one, there’s no point keeping more of them because you have limited slots and they’re better used to modernize your other ships (you basically turn them into stat bonuses, up to a cap). You can also only use one of a given name in a fleet, so eg. can’t have a single fleet with four Yamatos (but could have a Yamato in each of your four fleets if you were insane)
In some cases, they’re worth leveling up a bit before using as modernization, eg Isuzu remodels at level 12 (very low, most light cruisers are at 20-25) and her remodeled form has +5 anti-air and she comes with a radar which is useful early on too. Others it’s worth leveling up because they get some rare or unobtainable gear, eg Akitsumarus are worth holding and leveling to 25 because her level 25 form has Autogyros and Spotter Planes that are amazingly powerful for anti-submarine warfare on Aviation Battleships and Light Carriers. Amatsukaze’s worth it because her level 20 remodel comes with a prototype engine that increases evasion massively. Akashi if you manage to get a second one is worth taking to Kai because she’ll give you extra repair cranes allowing her to repair more ships at once.
Also in some cases you might keep doubles just because it’s useful, eg there’s only 5 combat subs (6 now with U-511), one is only available via large ship construction (I-401), I-8 is insanely rare (I’ve had two so far), I-19 and I-58 are also very hard to get. Also, aside from I-168, all the subs remodel to Submarine Aircraft Carriers and that makes them cost twice as much to repair and refuel, but they’re also more powerful that way. Extra subs means you can have some un-remodeled subs to run through World 2-4 cheaply (a lot of the daily & weekly quests can be efficiently finished by a sub fleet), and extras to rotate when grinding certain maps.
Update: E4 cleared \o/
Took one extra go to what I planned for, the formation changed at the end and I needed a bit more air power, took too much damage on the boss and didn’t have enough left to knock her out, left on 13 HP. Sparkled everyone and added 2nd support fleet and absolutely stomped the boss, barely took any damage. Cost a ton of fuel and ammo to add the extra fleet though. Also crap drops for the last 3 runs – I-58, I-58, I-19. 🙁 No Unryuu. Will be back again maybe after E5 cleared.
My parents both suck :l
They came to help me move yesterday, which is great (sorta), but their assumptions for why I was moving out?
“I thought when too many Asians started to move in you wouldn’t like it”
“I don’t think I could cope with living with Asians and Indians either”
The ONLY reason they thought I wanted to move out was because there’s Asians living there. Nevermind everything I actually said to them. It’s small. Expensive. I feel trapped. Lonely etc etc. Nup. Asians.
Then we went to Fantastic Furniture because I needed a desk. A gay guy came over to help us. He was great. Helpful and friendly and everything. Mums take? As soon as he’s not looking start doing gay people impressions and looking at me expecting me to find it hilarious.
Fuck.
On a happy note thought, I’ve moved out into a huge place and have a huge room and my housemate is pretty awesome and we both have friends in common who come over and I finally feel happy again, so to me it’s a win and with any luck the past 2 months can be erased from memory 🙂 Don’t have internet yet so I came down to uni but I went hunting and hidden behind one of the couches are the 2 NBN boxes so I’ll get awesome speeds again whenever iinet get around to connecting us too 😀
What a homonym.
And what racists, gooky
and then @dc has horrible flashbacks to January 31st, 2015, being seated out front of a tepenyaki restaurant on the southern end of the Gold Coast thinking the waitress miss heard what he said and thought he was racist and then ordered the chefs to spit in his food.
When all in all, it was only the old couple across the way who gave us dirty looks, no one else.
Takes one to know one!
You’re living with Oliver II now aren’t you? 😛
Yeah 😛 And omg they both have so much in common, it’s so weird. They both know all the same people, come from the same general area, love the same things, even have the same pair of shoes! They’ve never met but Oliver I worked out he’s familiar with who Oliver II is.
But do they Xenoblade? 😀
Oliver I doesn’t, no idea about Oliver II 😛
Hooray for good times in the end 🙂
http://time.com/3697015/sports-illustrated-swimsuit-edition-plus-size-model-robyn-lawley/
Wait…. That’s plus size?
If I am to believe the internet anything about a size 0 in the US is a ‘plus size’ stupid really.
Edit: she’s a size 12? Damn. Coulda fooled me.
US size 12 is equivalent to somewhere between a 14 and 16 here. But yeah, anyone in the fashion world who has curves and is not straight up and down is considered “plus size”. Mainly because it’s more work to design for curves than it is for no curves….
Ah right. US sizing always confuses me. Well sizes in general confuse me 😛
So basically if you’re “hard work” to design clothes for you’re plus size, someone somewhere obviously thought that was logical I guess :/
Further complicating matters is that dress sizes actually change over time.
Fairly dubious when your ‘plus size’ model is 2 sizes below the average
In fairness, rampant obesity has skewed the average upwards.
I’ve never been attracted to a rake of a woman so most models or ‘supermodels’ really bring out no reaction in me other than ‘she needs to eat more and stick her fingers down her throat less’. Stereotyping on my behalf I know, but that’s the initial reaction for me. If she’s a ‘plus size’ model though, plus size means a much more healthy looking woman in my eyes
Also, if anyone was wondering.
The doctor got the thing out of my eye and now I have eye drops that work their way to my throat via the tear ducts and they taste terrible!
Nothing serious then? That’s good.
I don’t think so. They eye is still a bit blurry(er then usual) but he said there was a dent left by the dirt/grit/whatever that should heal over the next couple of days so hopefully my vision goes back to it’s original level of crappy short-sitedness.
You should’ve asked for a bionic eye
ELITE.
I have begun. Who else is playing and how do I find you…? 🙂
@mrtaco @blaghman and … Others?
@pixel_the_ferret_viking too, I think.
I was previously holed up in Suyarang, but have since moved on to… somewhere I forget the name of. Been a little while since I played.
Presume you’re MRTACO?
I’m Trikeabout, obviously. Add me peeps!
No I am Gooky 😛
No, this is Patrick.
Then who’s flying the plane?
Dammit. No wonder mrtaco ignored me. 🙂
I’ll add you once I get home… Currently noodling around near Vodyanes trying to get in sweet with the Imps :P… I want my Clipper dammit!
I restarted at the weekend, redid the tutorials. Doing some milk runs, easy trades in safe systems to get the hang of navigation and learn the controls. Started in a Cobra MkIII with scanners, and fitted a fuel scoop. Aim to upgrade weapons a bit and toughen her up a bit, and head out into the blackness…
That’s pretty much my plan with the clipper once I get her… Save up enough cash to pay for an expedition, biggest FSD, fuel scoop and discovery scanner, then head out into unfamiliar territory… Should be pretty amazing, though I still have a lot of South ahead of me to secure my ship first 😛
’cause I backed early doors, I had the option to start with a cobra with a system and surface scanner and a few more credits, enough to jump in as a (probably quite vulnerable!) explorer. I started at the pilot’s federation Founders World. Pretty safe place to learn the ropes. Sorry, it’s a secret. 😉
I’m hanging onto my cargo bays for now as trading is easy while I work my way up in confidence, but I’ll refit as I get out to the edge with auto-repair and so on.
Seems like there’s a LOT of content yet to come, but as I’ve not scratched the surface yet, I’m happy so far. Is pretty. Stars look great. Gas giants don’t look quite right yet, but there’s an update for them in 1.1 I think.
There’s definitely a lot of content still yet to be added, but I’m one of those that’s good at making good experiences out of nothing 😛 so I have plenty to do even without more fleshed out content
\o/ The Walking Dead resumed today & Better Call Saul debuted as well.
Sounds like a fun job, sign me up!
Honestly just sounds like living in the tropics.
Haha. Darwin specifically.
That description could apply to anywhere on this continent.
So, I started a new diet (keto aka “low carb high fat”) on Jan 1 (why I decided to start a diet when I was hungover and just wanting a cheeseburger I will never understand…) and it’s been going well so far, I’m almost 10kg down since December, but It’s been reinforced today how bafflingly awesome the food can be.
Essentially, my lunch today was 2 big macs, with no bun and a large coke zero (no chips of course), and this fit within my daily macros perfectly… I’m still stunned.
I’ve tried Keto and when it’s working it’s pretty good, but good god is it awful if you ever get knocked off it. That 2-3 day oh my god where did my energy go feeling.
Had a training day at work today. I thought it was going to be an overview of what department was responsible for what, in an effort to help us understand where we have to send certain issues when they arise. Turns out it was just an overview of the products/services we offer, which I did like 2 weeks training on when I started. Total waste of a day really. In both a good and a bad way though. Good in the sense I got paid to sit and do nothing all day, bad in the sense that it was already stuff I knew. Also nobody changed my schedule to match the training, so my day was set as 8-4, but training was from 9-5. Luckily the guy running the course was well cool about stuff, and when I explained that this was well below my existing knowledge, he was happy for me to leave an hour early, so w00t! (Actually only ended up being a 10 min early mark since I was scheduled to finish at 4, but it’s amazing how much difference 10mins makes when you’re getting out of the city! 15mins home rather than 40!)
https://www.fanfiction.net/Dharma-Greg-and-Criminal-Minds-Crossovers/1375/2362/
Because of course there is.
The Straight Outta Compton movie about NWA has piqued my interest. Looks like it might be good.
agreed, watched the trailer last night, looks interesting
FREEZE’S FITNESS FREAKOUT
PROGRESS AS AT 09/02/2015
1 @Liondrive 2,570
2 @Bish 2,111
3 @Redartifice 1,424
4 PikaKnight 1,150 (Who is this?)
5 @CookingMama 1,044
6 @ontargett 525
7 @benny 299
8 @Freya 196
9 @Beavwa 98
I’LL GET YOU BISH! I’LL CATCH UP! YOU’LL SEE
(prob won’t)
I… should really log my exercise for the last three days, shouldn’t I?
That would probably be a smart thing to do.
I should probably do some exercise in the first place.
Well, not to put too fine a point on it, but it is named after you…
Those points are from one 3km walk one morning. I keep meaning to log everything else the pedometer shows day to day but eh.
HI @strange !
How’s Xenoblade? :P. Getting a N3DS? Getting Xenoblade again? XENOXENOXENOXENO
Going to watch Survivor this time? 😀
The gimmick for this season of Survivor sounds so bad though (I’ll still watch it…)
They’re going to run out of “groups” to make teams out of soon. I’m half expecting next season to be Survivor: White vs Black 😛
But they’ve done that before!
Whites vs Blacks vs Asians vs Hispanics 😛
Then everyone complained and they quickly broke it up. It was actually an amazing season 😀
@sughly !
Wait, really? Haha
“What’s something that they’d NEVER do?” I asked myself while writing my comment.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivor:_Cook_Islands
Genuinely one of the best seasons ever. Srsly!
@f4ction !
Quadriplegic Vs Able Bodied.
It’s kinda happened before! Some bitchy ghetto bitch pushed over a girl with one leg so that she could get a slight advantage 😛 🙁
Actually green’s right, that was easily one of my favourite seasons. Asians were the underdogs and completely rocked it!
Just like in real life!
😛
Watch it @powalen !
Wasn’t there a comedy skit done with that theme?
Where @dc at?
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CAPTAIN TOADERS: are the bonus levels worth playing? Is the “bonus book” the last set of levels?
Yes and Yes.
Even if I still haven’t finished the last bloody challenge. *shakes fist angrily*
the bonus levels are among the best in the game.
Was thinking that earlier. WHERE’S DC?
Meh, I liked the Super Mario 3D World levels besides that they were pretty … “meh”.
I really want a N3DS. I’ll probably get one for my birthday. In which case I’ll definitely grab Xenoblade again.
Probably not going to watch Survivor. I’ve been too busy to watch much stuffs recently and can’t see it changing anytime soon. I look forward to watching it vicariously via all your TAY posts though. 😀
Yay friends! 😀
Max has decided that my lap is the most comfortable bed for her…
She’s completely stretched out, and purring…
This kitten… :3
Somebody is smitten
Don’t get bitten.
Buying heirloom tomato seeds online…
Whats happening to me?
Realising that the supermarket ones just don’t cut it and you’re wanting to start growing tasty tasty things?
TAY RPG Pathfinder completed for another night. Starring:
@redartifice @tech_knight @freezespreston @sernobulus @negativezero @beeawwb @rize
GM Summary: On the road *bu dum dum*. Also, Narshak has a pet and it’s only a little horny. 😛
I was seriously considering intimidating it.
I still haven’t had a chance to use that Unnatural Lust spell…
Shouldve cast it on mother rhino
Is that considered a charm? Mind affecting?
Think cupid’s arrow but instead of love it’s lust.
“enchantment (compulsion) [emotion, mind-affecting]”
Depending on some decisions I need to make, it may not work. I need to read more though.
Compulsion, yes.
Next time you and the kitty start fighting better watch out. 😛
Man, reading about some of the changes they’ve made to Majora’s Mask… it’s starting to almost sound like a George Lucas Edition.
I know 🙁
I want my swimming n skipping and ice arrows and boooo
And completely draining the atmosphere of gloom and grit for all this vibrant whatevenisthis.
64 version remains best version 😛
Well, some might argue the VC one is since it lets you use the GCN controller without the glitchiness of the GCN version, but hey.
So… Rogue Legacy.
That’s kind of a compelling and addictive game.
oh yes
I think I’m done with it now, 41 hours of playtime in
I’m going to tentatively suggest that I won’t last that long with it, but it’s surprisingly good.
I’m pretty sure that is what I would have said early on as well.
Although it did become the go to quick game form the Missus and I so that would have bumped the hours.
Ended up completing the game, completing NG+, and getting all achievements not requiring the remix bosses
Painfully difficult that game, I played maybe 4 hours worth but I like the premise of it. I just end playing Europa Universalis if I’m gaming on my PC lol
So Better Call Saul, I see the potential. Just i’m not really sure it’ll get there, I hope it does. Amusing enough it kept my attention though I must say. I would like to know what year it’s set.. I can sort of work out from the mobile phones and other tech early 2000’s would make sense, somewhere around 2002/2003.
But Top Gear tonight so good. Then again every episode so far this series has been amazing.
I recorded Top Gear, was going to watch it last night, but found out that the new series of Black Sails had started so I watched that instead.
Whilst Black Sails is good (I should really finished season 1) Top Gear is better always 😛
Wasn’t in the mood for Top Gear at that point in time. I love Black Sails, and it’s great to see a couple of Aussie actors in one of my favourite shows. I also love the theme music, and it’s my current earworm.
Still awake…
Bed seems like a good idea right now…
…
Goodnight.
The man who made my sandwich this morning (thank you for being open before 5:45!!) cut it into triangles. It was like being a kid again.
Also he was doing coffee which would of been nice to know earlier. One its a lot closer to work and two its probably better then maccas coffee.
Anyone have a N3DS XL and a normal 3DS XL? Are they roughly the same size?
Just wondering whether I can still use the case I have. Cheerioooo
New Nintendo 3DS XL:
Width: 160 mm (6.3 in)
Height: 93.5 mm (3.68 in)
Depth: 21.5 mm (0.85 in)
Nintendo 3DS XL:
Width: 156 mm (6.1 in)
Height: 93 mm (3.7 in)
Depth: 22 mm (0.87 in)
Cheers! 🙂
I have both. They are much the same size but slightly different shapes, so as long as your case isn’t too form-fitting it should be fine!
So tired. I didn’t sleep well at all last night. too much stress about venues.
The venue I had pretty much decided I want are concerned that I dont have enough people to make the venue feel lively. Luckily they have suggested a smaller venue (that they also own) for me to look at.
They haven’t said no explicitly and they have given me options, but I’d just worked out what I wanted and now I might not get to have it due to size. 🙁
Which has in turn made me question what I actually want. 🙁
*facedesk*
You need to get the complete wedding experience. This is part of it, unfortunately :\
All the best sorting it out, though.
thanks man, I don’t think it will be too bad in the end. plus I have more thoughts now on entertainment. Lets see if the impossible is possible 🙂
Just go up to them, and be like “Blaghs will be at the party”. They’ll know what that means.
*Winks*
*Rides skateboard into the sunset, doing sick tricks all the while*
Ugh. Strike four.
Shut up, brain.
*popcorn*
The saddest popcorn.
Like, that 2/3 full box you see left behind on the seat as you leave.
So did you actually strike out this time or just totally fail to say hello again
The latter. If it went bad that’d be like a foul ball or something wouldn’t it? I dunno, metaphors are hard 😛
Basically, the scenario was about as perfect as it could be. Didn’t seem to be any signs of “don’t bother me”, timing was good, things were fairly well spaced out with the crowd, pretty much nothing standing in my way at all… other than the fact I just couldn’t manage to get out of my own head.
#OhGooky
So how about them games?
Blatant post to push us over to the new page…SUCCESS \O/
Alright chumps, this is just a post to get you Brisbane people to
plan our holiday for ushelp us out in our time of need.Our accomodation/flights have been booked and locked in by the wonderful, amazing, handsome, awe-inspiring, magical, ever-lasting, guys-want-to-be-him, girls-want-to-be-with-him @cakesmith. Also @alexpants offered moral support!
We’ll be arriving in Brisbane on Wed 4th March and leaving on Sun 8th March.
Our schedule so far is:
Wed 4th: Arrive at about 2:15pm
Thu 5th: Movieworld* (Day), ??? (Night)
Fri 6th: Wet n Wild* (Day), ??? (Night)
Sat 7th: ??? (Day/Night)
Sun 8th: Leave at about 12:30pm
(* We may swap these days around depending on the weather/Brispeople’s availability)
What I’d like is some ideas on stuff to do to fill those ??? places. We’d like to fit in as many Meats as possible, so something we can do with you Brisbane people would be great! Basically just some suggestions on what to do.
Of course, you’re all welcome to join us in the theme parks as well (just let us know!)
@beardymcmuttonchops @beeawwb @cufcfan616 @dc @dkzeitgeist @freezespreston @gutsoup @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @sernobulus @strange @sughly @transientmind @welbot @weresmurf @virus__
Thanks, all.
I can do stuff Thursday night, Friday night, and Saturday any time. Would love to do the me parks but work gets in the way. 🙁
Just quit. Problem solved. Sure it creates other problems, but work being in the way won’t be!
I got 99 problems but a job ain’t one.
Identical post to @beeawwb Also, it’s the week before (monthly) payday so I’ll be a scrooge with whatever happens
Movieworld over Dreamworld?
Hmm. Interesting. *scribbles notes*
I know very little about Dreamworld…
I blame having worked for Village Roadshow Evil Incorporate ConglomerateDreamworld rides are bigger, better and more of them.
But Movieworld is the better “theme” park.
IT ALL DEPENDS WHAT YOU WANT!!!
Face it Dan, you’re just a square.
Face it Dan, you’re just a
squarelittle lesbian.Fixed it for you @dkzeitgeist
Also Wet n Wild over Dreamworld.
(I didn’t think your annual pass things covered Dreamworld. Not that it was even voted for when we were deciding anyway :P)
Wet N Wild is rad. White Water World kind of sucks.
Yeah, if you buy the 3 theme park pass it only covers Wet & Wild, Movie World & Seaworld. Which raises the question. Why you no go to Seaworld? It isn’t a complete rip unless you have young children, I swear.
EDIT: Personally I prefer Dreamworld over all the other theme parks.
I personally remember Sea World being a bit boring. Although I was 5 at the time.
Sea World is all about seeing the shows. So as a kid it is great as an adult … not so much.
EDIT: Also my post before was mostly sarcasm. =P
Well, even as a 5 year old I found it boring haha.
Did you hat fun when you were a kid?
@sernobulus
No, just dolphins apparently.
Movie World has coasters. GOOD coasters. The old Lethal Weapon (now rebranded as Arkham Asylum) was one of the best coasters I’ve ridden – not that big or fast but high g and a great layout (and a precursor to the Cylon coaster at Universal Studios SNG which is fantastic).
Dreamworld reminded me of Australia’s Wonderland that we had in Sydney years ago. Haven’t been to the new wet’n’wild yet.
I’ve been to QLD twice, both times visiting with my dad, and we did Movie World and Wet n Wild both times, Seaworld once. I don’t think we ever hit up Dreamworld.
Movie World was my favourite. Police Academy stunt show and Gremlins ride ftw.
Both gone.
Part of me just died.
Four words; SCOOBY DOO SPOOKY COASTER.
Aka, the best ride everrrrrrrrrrrr. EVERRRRRRR.
Hmmm, seeing as I am actually going to be living in Queensland when this happens now I might take the Thursday off and join you for Movieworld.
I’m up for…stuffs on Saturday or Saturday night, but not Theme Parks. Especially if not Dreamworld. Movieworld is boring.
Also, getting Bris people to give you ideas of what to do will be difficult if recent meet “organisation” is anything to go by. 😛
Was just hoping for some ideas because none of us know the area outside of “QLD = theme parks” 😛
Such an old lady.
Please do a Brisbane CBD dinner on the Friday 😀
I hear @dc is a master of meat plannings.
Cool, thanks for the reminder I won’t be around to see you guys, appreciate it *thumbs up*
Wait, who are you? Have we met?
I’m not sure if I’ll be available on those dates but if I am, I’ll be wherever you want me, however you want me.
“Let me just check my diary” *opens up completely blank diary* “Hmmm… yeah, looks tight…”
-in reality just puts hands together and opens as if miming opening a book-
I will be there.
Admittedly I’m leaving it a little vague as to what exactly I’ll be there for, but I’ll be there for something (sans theme parks because work) 😀
Or maybe I won’t be at anything.
Who knows!
I like mystery :3
“Who’s this guy?” etc.
lol
I’d be happy to meet on Valley for dinner on Friday after I finish work. Possibly Saturday, but Friday would ultimately be best since I’ll already be there!
@jocon @distantdrop Yeah I hear you on that; which is why it’s completely optional and up to the raiders to decide if they can or cant make it. I’ll take a roll call on Sunday at the end of the raid to see how many people can make it for Wed; anything less than 9/10 attendance and we’ll can the weekday raid for that week.
In regards to this week Don and Musashi can’t make it on Saturday; which is why I moved the core raid to Friday evening. However shortly after doing that Don said he can’t make Friday as well =P However Musashi can. At this point in time I’ll see how we go with calendar responses; if more people are unable to make Fri over Sat then we might either call it this Saturday or look at pugging (not the preferred option personally).
The other thing I wanted to get ahead of because a few peeps have whispered me over the past couple of weeks during loot allocations is the loot priority table. This is starting to get tedious at best and I want to put it to rest ASAP (before set pieces come into play). This weekend I’ll give all raiders an update as to where their loot drops are at; following this people can keep track of it themselves if they should so wish. However I’ll still be going off mine and double checking it at the end of every raid weekend on TS with everyone; that will be the only time to raise conflict with the numbers (of the bosses we’ve just killed). If people make a big fuss outside this time frame I’ll just take us all back to personal loot. Everyone is happy with the loot numbers right up until they can’t get an item they want.
Just FYI Jo you’re on 5 (1 below me I’m on 6) and Red you’re on 3.
No worries.
Ahh loot contention. Bane of groups everywhere. Seems pretty fair so far but there will be arguments no matter what.
The 18th I probs won’t be able to make it, 28th I definitely won’t. Other than that I should be there unless you hear otherwise.
Till late march anyway.
So I checked the oregorger kill infographics…. and at our group ilvl of 658 the wipe rate was 98,9%…. So effectively we shouldn’t have been able to kill him at the groups ilvl =,=
maybe they didn’t have overpowered monk mitigation =)
Actually its goes to reinforce the point I was trying to make in moving us on from the fight. Other guilds are now 7/10 or 9/10N while we arent even 3/10.
We didn’t have the group ilvl required to do oregorger and I shouldn’t have let the group say otherwise.. At the end of the day it is about progression unless every single raider can guarantee a 100% attendance rate for the remainder of the year. The reasoning being progression is the only way I can recruit solid and dedicated raiders so we have people to rotate into when needed.
Even this weekend Musashi and Don are effectively out of commission except for Sunday and saat might be as well. So last Sunday when we did have a full group we decided to just do one boss for 5 hours; this is not to say it was great to actually kill him and personally I thought it was a massive achievement but the end result is we are now effectively behind the curve.
@jocon If I can round up 7 people tonight I say we do beastlord before reset; we would lose out on the loot for this lockout anyways but this way at least part of the group will get gear and exposure to a boss.
Yeah man, I’m in.
I was gonna try pugging anyway, but I hate solo Q.
7/10? the way I see it we could probably down hanzok and beastlord easily enough, flamebender I’m not sure since we might not have the heals for it and operator would take some time to learn, after that is the last 3 tier bosses and blackhand which should all take 40+ wipes to perfect.
realistically, is it remotely possible for us to be on curve unless we had 10 dedicated people doing this 4 times a week?
@pupp3tmast3r
Yeah I agree with red, while we might have been able to make more progress if we moved on, 7/10 is beyond us atm.
We have to do ore sometime and now we have it solid, can move on and work on another boss till we have that down pat.
It has brought that core team together heaps too.
@pupp3tmast3r
Also those guilds that are 7 or 9/10n were probably all 6/7h in Highmaul too remember, and would have the gear to just smash brf normal.
We are coming from behind and are gonna be behind for a while.
But if we can keep pulling above our weight like we did on Sunday, and people stick with it, we should be able to catch up a bit.
@distantdrop Even with red’s assumption of Hansgar and Beastlord that’s 3/10. Both Flamebender and Operator are easier than ore as well because their mechanics are traditional; ore’s rolling was a brand new mechanic. Ore took us 5 hours; being conservative beastlord + hans would’ve taken us 3. 2hours left to work on operator or flamebender. Or even better killed Heroic Brack/Tectus.
Look I agree it was a good team building effort and it was a good experience but those are short term results; however that does absolutely nothing when my raiders can’t show up and I have no back ups. I can’t get solid back ups without better progression. So what would either of you have me do on that front? Once again the whole team is happy to give me an opinion on which boss to tackle however that feeds into my ability to recruit.
@pupp3tmast3r
In terms of difficulty I definitely believe the logical choice would be Hanzok > Beastlord > Flamebender > Operator
In terms of the 1st three tier bosses after were 6/10, pick any, all 3 of them will take us through the wringer. you said you liked the idea of blast furnace you might as well.
What they lacked was dedication.
I bet everyone else was all “waaah, we wiped 20 times in a row, this is stupid, blizzard is stupid”
Where as we got back up, and tried even harder, 5 hours and 40 wipes in.
that all depends if the infographics include 100% wipe rate logs? if they don’t then the above scenario wouldn’t be included.
tbh I just want to see and experience the new content, loot can come later! find me any group of ten or more raiders who show up to every brf raid and I’m happy.
Easier said than done right? lol
Second day of the week. Second day I forgot to bring my lunch that for once I actually made on the weekend. There’s only so many cupasoups I can have for lunches this week. I guess I’ll lose some weight though. I’ll just slowly get more hazy and faint as the week goes along due to a lack of proper sustenance
I forgot to stop for my breakfast this morning. Kinda zoned out and came back 2km down the road. But then I found a place right next to my work that was doing sammiches, only cost $4.
I find the sunrice box rice/noodle dishes are pretty good.
As only as you stay away from the rice noodle coconut chicken one. Avoid that on pain of
deathunpleasantness.So I watched Birdman last night aswell as Kingsmen and both were awesome! However I realised just how different Cathryn and my tastes are when it comes to movies. We both loved Kingsmen but when it came to Birdman she found it slow, boring and dragging alot. However her two favourite movies are The Best Offer and Dallas Buyers Club which, while I liked, felt like they dragged in spots and got boring quick especially The Best Offer. Its weird huh
I still don’t know what to make of Birdman.
I enjoyed it, I’m glad I saw it. Something I would of studied in High School. Dont think Ill ever watch it again.
Loved it! So, so good!
I’m not going to watch it any more.
Sweet.
I saw Kingsman yesterday too and really liked it.
My thoughts were that it’s Matthew Vaughn’s best action with his worst storytelling.
Not that it’s bad but I watched Kick-Ass again last night and the way that movie is told is so good.
Also, as with all of his movies, it could’ve been about 20mins shorter.
Birdman on the other hand I could’ve watched forever.
Agreed, granted he could of made some of the action scenes abit less quick jump from shot to shot because in some of those fights I got lost
mainly the bar fightBirdman at first I was like hmm it seems alright then by the end I was like “No wonder people were saying this is the best movie of 2014”
“Your foods making me hungry” – CJ
“What?” – Gorzilla
“Your foods making me hungry” – CJ
“Oh. Makes more sense then, then I stole from Jimmy Hendrix” – Gorzilla
Huh. It’s black Friday this week.
What an ominous day to end things on 😛
It’s also my daughter’s fifth birthday. I’ll be hiding under my bed. :\
Hah. My eldest’s birthday is on next month’s black Friday.
Are you going to try and convince her that it means she’s a witch?
I kinda figure if I had kids that I would be tempted to mess with their heads some, but absolutely terrified that some of it might stick.
Well, she was born on Friday 13th so possibly she is…
Also messing with their heads is the best part of being a parent 😛
Eldest came out once, she would have been 3 or 4, crying about there being a monster under her bed. I laughed at her and told her there was nothing. She wouldn’t believe me so I went into her room and stuck my arm under the bed and told her “see, nothing there.” she started to relax so I suddenly started screaming and acted like I was being pulled under the bed.
It did take us two weeks to get her to sleep in her own bed again…
Best.
There are ways of telling whether she is a witch. We’ll need a large set of scales and a duck…
I’ll get the plum sauce.
And we get another one in 4 weeks time (but it’s the day before my birthday).
Ah, you have no idea how refreshing it is to hear someone refer to Friday the 13th as Black Friday… cursed Americanisation of the western world…
EDIT: Also there’s a third one in November. Unlucky year, I guess 😛
The which now?
I am unaware of this cultural whatsit 😛
That’s alright, neither are they. Apparently the only acceptable way to consume another culture is by beating it over the head with hollywood first.
Oh man, anyone play that Hardline Beta?
I thought I was gonna hate it but Hotwire is a great twist on Conquest.
For those who didn’t play it it’s Conquest (hold the zone) except the zones are cars that you need to drive at a certain speed in order to reduce the opposing teams tickets.
It’s basically Speed the video game and it’s amazing.
Plus it feels like Bad Company in that it doesn’t seem to take itself too seriously. Something that 3 & 4 did to their detriment.
All in all, more cops and robbers games, plx.
Ive been avoiding it but its sounding more and more like something I need to check out. I do love me some BF especially Bad Company 2
Cops and robbers has more appeal to me than Murrica vs THE WORLD, for sure.
I loved 1942 when I had tonnes of time to play it in netcafes, but I’m just getting too old (slow reaction times) and too casual to spend the time to ‘git gud’ and really enjoy multiplayer PVP these days.
I… I play CoD and BF for their campaigns, now. Yeah. I know, right?
Wait whoa whoa whoa WHOA… they have campaigns?!
BF3 and BF4’s campaigns were fantastic. Like a brilliant over the top Baysplosion action movie. I’m all about the BF multiplayer, but get a big kick out of the campaigns too.
I was excited for BFH already – the Beta has just made the hype even more real. Agreed on Hotwire – tearing around in those cars at full speed while people are doing their damndest to blow you the fuck up. Ace fun.
The music in the cars is great too – holding a point as Cops, and the Crims rock up in a giant SUV with a minigun on the roof with Latino rap music blaring and a batshit gunfight ensues.
Oh man, yes, YES! The music is great.
WOOP! WOOP! That’s the sound of the pohlice!
I just went and checked out nearby FLGS. It’s definitely a MtG/Warhammer den that sells board games. That’s okay, it’s still kind of neat.
It’s funny that the two main options here used to be major franchises and are now independent. The Games Capital used to be Mind Games and Three D6 used to be Good Games. I wonder by the big names (relatively) backed out of Canberra? Did they know I was coming? If they did, Games Capital must have known before I did.
Oh, I also set up a new WordPress blog. It will probably be terrible and rarely updated but I’ve considered doing something and that counts. Probably. Well, it really doesn’t.
You forgot to link us to the blog. You have a lot to learn about TAY self-promotion.
I didn’t forget. I’m going to link once I actually bother writing content. No point driving people to a test post. At least, no point right now.
But how are we supposed to subscribe in advance of new content? I don’t like it 🙁
Have you considered witchcraft? I don’t know if it’d help in this specific instance but surely it can’t hurt.
Nothing can ever go wrong with witchcraft.
Yeah, now go visit my blog. http://www.blaghmanneverupdatesanything.wordpress.communism
My two major FLGS stores that I try and frequent are Ace Comics and occasionally Good Game however I’m angling more for RPGs than Board Games and quantity is severely lacking in the regard. I’ve actually found Gametraders to be more useful lately and it’s nice that they’ve reinvented themselves from just being old video games galore store.
Yeah, I went into a gametraders for the first time in ages on Sunday and it was full of warhammer and magic cards, which was cool
I had plans to come down to Melbourne in April to exhibit at Supanova, but events have conspired against me, and I can no longer make it. I’ve cancelled my table, and have received credit against some future event.
Sorry, folks. Maybe next year.
Sorry to hear man, you should come down anyway for some R&R! \o/
F5.
Hope you have headphones or a good set of speakers… QOTSA ftw
No one has recommended The Lesser Evil on the Off-Topic post, so I went ahead and did it.
#TrustWordOfMouth
@distantdrop @jocon Ok new thread! Look I agree we’re punching above our weight class which is great and once again I think we have a great group of dedicated raiders. However even the most dedicated raiders will only make 90% attendance. Let’s also remember that Don, Saat and Railgun share the same social calendar. Given we now run a 10man team this effectively means we can’t raid properly on progression when they’re out.
Finally the other downside is 10man teams have no breathing room for mechanics. Every single person needs to be on par in terms of skill and awareness. This means that guilds running 13-16man teams will clear the same content we do at a faster rate because the scaling is actually to their benefit as opposed to against.
This brings me back to the fact we need to pick our bosses and throw in the towel when needed. Now I will be ecstatic to agree with both of you under one condition. You find me someone or volunteer to be the new recruiting officer. Then I’m happy to spend however many hours needed on a single boss and I promise you won’t hear a peep out of me. What you guys don’t get is I enjoyed Sunday; it was great having the whole team being dedicated and working together and accomplishing something. However if I want to keep that going long term I need to take recruitment into account.
To summarize if we go ahead with the mentality we had on Sunday everyone needs to accept we will be pugging pretty frequently. Because expecting 100% attendance from 10 people over 2 raid days every single weekend probably has a lifetime expectancy of 3-4 weeks. However if we want to avoid pugs we need to recruit which will only draw in good raider if we can advertise our progression =\
No one ever sounds like they’re having fun in these games.
Tis hardcore raiding! the fun comes from progression =P not the setting up part!
I must have sounded the same when I was planning my all-achievements run in Dark Souls. Still thoroughly enjoyed the process, though.
I laughed
Problem with pugs is if you wipe a few times, they leave. we’ll spend more time waiting on attempts than doing them.
Didn’t we also pug a healer on Saturdays attempts on oregorger? i think they left after the second wipe.
I think we have a huge problem, only way out of it would be to recruit people with 90% attendance and pray to god we can at least achieve 2 tanks and 3 healers for the full duration of each raid weekend. and encourage the tanks and healers to have off specs to limit their chance of being left out.
There’s a lot of problems with pugs but lets not open that can of worms shall we =P
In regards to recruiting how would you recommend I proceed? 3 weeks of spamming trade for a healer has turned up 0 leads; heck even getting a RDPS was a challenge and he’s become flaky already! With our current progression we’re only going to attract a certain calibre of players wind; and unfortunately progression isnt about which boss you killed but how many you managed to kill.
I feel you man, must feel like your running a one man show right? I use to raid lead at the start of Cataclysm recruitment was between moderate to difficult I guess, problem I had though was it seemed like everyone I recruited was terrible at the game and super casual, I would constantly ponder why they even joined the guild in the first place.
If you think you know what it’ll take to keep this guild progressive than do it, I can’t give you advice I guess, I’ve failed before.
Lol I don’t much care about the one man show part; to an extent I enjoy the responsibility and the rewards it reaps. You know how you guys feel like you’ve accomplished something at the end of a tough boss? Magnify that like 10 times and that’s the satisfaction the RL gets knowing he brought the group together to make that happen. (I had like the most convoluted pathing diagrams for Oregorger
So in that sense it’s definitely worthwhile; however the pain is keeping that momentum going with new raiders to rotate in to. I’ve got to look at the bigger picture for the raid group; while I don’t mean to say I’m not open to opinions from my officers i.e. you, jocon and don; at the end of the day I’ve got to keep an eye on the raid group over a 6 month period as opposed to what we can accomplish on a weekend.
I hear you man.
Kinda annoying that you have probably recruited enough people to fill a 20 man if half of them rocked up consistently.
Run it how you think you need to: you have a way better handle on this than anyone and you have done good so far. I’ll follow your lead and do what you ask as best I’m able.
Quantity over quality for bosses then, and continued recruitment. Chuck me a spiel and I’ll spam it in chat when I am on, but I won’t be able to/up for sitting there for hours at a time doing nothing but 🙁
But I’ll continue to chuck my crappy suggestions your way till you tell me to stfu in the hope something might be helpful.
Maybe you could see how flexible out core team is on raiding days and play it week by week depending on when everyone is available.
Also maybe, if we have a bunch of flexi people hanging around, and the core is mostly geared, make the Highmaul runs priority slots for them to try and keep their gear up so they can fill in. Assuming they have not gotten sulky and don’t play anymore.
Also, I guess what is your goal for us?
Is it to be a competitive, top guild? AOTC Blackhand? Just beat BRF on heroic?
Only 3 guilds out of hundreds have killed Mythic Imperator on Barthilas, I think being competitive or a top guild is out of the question.
AOTC blackhand and heroic clear is the same thing as well =/ you don’t get aotc on normal.
I sorta meant eventually but your right, if not AOTC then it’s irrelevant and we would have moved on.
How long roughly do you reckon we have to do AOTC? What’s the usual gap between major content releases?
Usually until the next major content patch that can be anywhere from three months to a year, blizzard are really inconsistent with content length.
Edit: That being said I think its safe to say 4-6 months.*
While ideally I’d like to take this guild Mythic; we have the foundation for it, looking at the current pace I think we can only use BRF as a stabilising patch; i.e. hit it hard now that it’s out and aim for heroic completion in 2-3 months. Go Mythic for the next set of content and if we complete heroic BRF even if its behind the curve we can still use it as a bonus for recruitment.
In regards to the flexi people yeah I’ve already got that in play in the form of alt/pug runs once a week or once a fortnight (not sure I’m up for another once a week raid). That said there’s a reason these raiders are on flexi. Ox, Siz, Korr and I guess even Fox now lack the commitment to see a raid through. Ox only joins in when he thinks we’ll down a boss in 3-4 tries (he’s repeatedly left if we wipe too frequently). Siz has never been able to commit to a time frame and korr is on his game sometimes and completely off on the others. There’s no point gearing up sub-standard flexi raiders as even if they stepped in as a back up they would effectively bring the group down =\
At this point I’d settle for inexperienced but capable and dedicated raiders; e.g. Boggle. He was sub standard DPS when he first started; he takes longer than the rest of the raid to adjust to mechanics but the dude is dedicated and he makes solid progress. If it costs us 2-3 extra tries on a boss I’d rather that than someone leaving after 6-7 attempts.
My next recruitment hurdle I guess is how to recruit hardcore raiders when I don’t have a spot for them =\ I can effectively only bring in one more MDPS and after that we’re going to need another healer and dps to round out the group.
Well, if you intend to go mythic for the next set of content, not this, then worry about recruitment for it after BRF and before said content. So ding AOTC in 3 months or whatever, then at around about 4 start looking to form a 20 man for the next raid if it’s coming out in 6 or so.
As far as BRF progress goes, you want a 14/15ish man team? Bout 3 to heal for each healer you said, so a 4th healer and 3-4 dps?
The healer is the hard part, so maybe keep looking for one and then find dps to fill it out once you do. You could, depending on when you find them, rotate some of your more geared players out on some of the raids they mostly have gear for (if they are willing) so the newbs can get geared up and experience raiding with the team, until you have enough solids to take everyone all the time.
Or just accept that you will have to pug a couple dps for a while.
14-17 would be ideal; with some dps have healing and tanking OS’s so that if a healer or tank went out for a weekend we wouldnt need to drop the number of people we could take in.
In regards to recruiting for mythic; I’d probably start once we were 4/10H on BRF so that we could get used to co-ordinating in a 20man environment (more people in tougher fights means so much more can go wrong when even one person doesn’t carry their weight). And then look at jumping straight into mythic with the next tier of content.
I guess the best thing that’s come of this new content is weeding out the raiders from the casuals. That said I agree with the only thing to look for now is to get a healer in and trial them out for a few weeks and see how they hold up. Ugh back to spamming trade; I swear to god recruiting is the most depressing activity in WoW!
Haha, how do you even answer that? Question Time is great today. Guardian is calling it Troll Tuesday.
I’m imagining Labor has mountains and mountains of material to go to town with on Abbott. It is delicious payback for everything he went on about in Opposition.
And the Coalition are throwing out the “At least we never did x whilst in Parliament; If this mob gets elected, they’ll do x again!”…
Fuck, I hate politics…
It’s not just Labor. Here’s Turnbull while all but poking Abbott in the chest while saying it:
When the hosts on reality TV shows are making lame jokes about federal politics you know the whole system is a joke.
Saw a great quote of Tony’s on News.com.au…
So, how’s Tuesday for you guys?
Slow.
*F5*
Same bullshit.
Having a massive head-desk-head-desk-head-desk-head-desk day.
The sheer stupidity of some people is astonishing.
Example – completing a random audit of someone elses work, they need to inspect 5 business days of reporting for certain transactions and record findings. Apparently they checked 22/1 through 27/1. There’s a Saturday, Sunday and a public holiday in there… If you’re going fib and say you did something… Can you at least make sure it’s actually possible you did it.
Good morning meeting
Afternoon so so
Found out the store I needed to go to closes at 3pm. I found this out at 3:20pm
Caught a girl I like at work on a bad day 🙁 oh well.
This final hour is going very slow
Not your fault, keep persisting!
Really slow day, less then 80mins till home time though so that’s nice.
It’s so slooooow ugh.
@redartifice what do you need from me for tomorrow?
Very little. Got your character ready?
Basic outline. I don’t like to commit too much and prefer to let the character evolve naturally.
That’s fine, no problem, but are they mechanically ready to go?
The strange is pretty freeform anyway.
Tomorrow we’ll prob spend the first half hour/hour introing the system and then kick off, you should be fine
Wait, what’s happening tomorrow?
The Strange
Wait, that’s tomorrow? I hadn’t heard anything since you were talking about it like 2-3 weeks ago… 🙁
I don’t have you on my list of names? Did you respond in the thread I put up here?
AFAIK I did on a couple.
Too late now, can’t make it. 🙁
I’m sorry man.
They way I’ve got it set up, in episodes, is designed so people can rotate in and out, so when we get to episode 2 of the series (so once these guys finish the first adventure) I’ll post it up here so you can jump in.
Does that start tomorrow? I will be working late tomorrow so I may have to sit out. =(
7:30 SA time. How late is late?
9pm QLD time, 8:45pm earliest.
Hmm, might be a little unfeasible. you should be OK to jump in on the second session though
Depends, I haven’t been told from work if I will continue on the night shift but they have a tendency not to tell me things until the night before.
I need an old priest and a young priest.
Slow afternoon… so I’ll ask for help… again… The TAY hivemind is great for this stuff. 🙂
Looking to finally get a bigger monitor and move on from my 8 year old, 19″, 1440 x 900 resolution screen.
Criteria:
Spend – $150 to $300
Size – 24″ max (my ikea desk won’t fit anything bigger)
Features – height adjustable and tilt.
Any recommendations?
Edit: Huh… that’s not a bullet list… doesn’t like ul/il tags… hmph.
There’s a million and one options for that size. Different resolutions, different prices..
http://www.umart.com.au/umart1/pro/Products-details.phtml?id=10&id2=143&bid=5&sid=198430 something like that on the upper end of the price range (Dell are always a bit more expensive, so you could find more features in other brands)
$315 which is a touch over your max, but close enough I reckon. Picture wise it would be stunning, but if you want it for gaming, you could probably find one that does 3d for close to that price too in a different brand.
Something like this might suit if you don’t care about 3d perhaps.
http://www.umart.com.au/umart1/pro/Products-details.phtml?id=10&id2=143&bid=5&sid=189052 Sure it’s not IPS, but if you’re not doing graphical work, it doesn’t matter so much. For $219, it’s pretty decent, and has special features to enhance gaming. As I said, plenty of options around though.
SPIDEY GONNA BE AN AVENGER YEAH
I feel bad though because it’s Civil War.
Is spidey pro or anti slaves?
Hey, hey, hey superhero registration isn’t about ‘slavery’, it’s about accepting responsibility for your actions and acknowledging consequences. There is NOTHING wrong with insisting that people who want to use their powers for the public good actually go through some training and assessment to make sure it is actually for the public good, and not just misguided personal satisfaction or naive, often ignorant and ill-informed opinions on what’s for the public good.
Better they’re controlled by the government because no government ever in history has been about misguided personal satisfaction or naive, often ignorant and ill-informed opinions on what’s for the public good.
*woosh*
Exactly! It’s not absolute power being controlled by a person, it’s being controlled by the people. In this case… ‘we, the people‘.
*beams blithely*
ఠ_ఠ
In all seriousness, I didn’t realize they were covering Civil War. This is going to be fascinating. Not just to see which side they take, but also the discussions that’ll come out of it on Facebook.
I swear, political discussions about the role of superheroes in civilized society will ruin friendships. Mark my words.
#IronmansAJerk
NO U
You take that back, Freeze! You take that back!
YOUR SIDE MADE AN INSANE CLONE OF THOR THAT KILLED GOLIATH AND IMPRISONS PEOPLE WITHOUT TRIAL
YOUR ARGUMENT IS INVALID
Well. I, uh, er… which is to say, that’s more an argument of implementation, isn’t it?
Sony realised they’d make more money from licencing Spidey back to Marvel than on their own films? 😛
That’s… evil.
That’s… Sony!
How long until GTA V drops on PC?
According to Steam..
MH4U and MM3D are $48 each at Target! 😀
Awesome.
Now if only I had money.
If only there was a target in my town, or if the EB here would price match them 🙁
Woo, got my goat gear! Also Link Between Worlds soundtrack!
Have they started sending out Smash CDs yet? I haven’t got anything!
IIRC it’s not supposed to be out til like March or something. It was in the T&Cs, didn’t you read them? Gosh 😛
Pfffffffft last I read was Q1 but my work has weird financial years and it’s halfway through Q2 and I don’t know what’s what anymore HELP
But I live like 5 mins away from the Ninty HQ so I always get Club Nintendo stuff really quickly. I’ll holler whenever it arrives I guess!
The girl from work I usually go running with apparently can’t run anymore because running is really bad for her knee injury. I’m guessing it would be bad to immediately replace her with someone else? 😛
Anyone know any running babes I can run with? 😀
Me?
If I’m in Brisbane, sure!
Probably end up in Perth though and Liondrive ain’t a babe (he gross)
It’s those mustard pants he insists on wearing.
Please, I wouldn’t jog with you anyway.
And FYI, I look like this while jogging.
You missed out on a show.
Phew, luckily I don’t want to see that!
(no pants pls)
(just kidding, pls put on extra pants)
Go swimming instead. It’s low impact.
I can’t swim! 😛
Wait… For reals or just not very good?
Well not very good but I don’t really go into the water to try :P. I’m pretty sure I can flat/badly backstroke and I wouldn’t mind properly learning and doing laps and stuff but just never got around to it (any rich TAYbies with pools? :P)
+ it was the best excuse during high school PE. I got a whole lane to myself with flippers and a kickboard while every other sucker was stuck doing laps 🙂
We can go to the beach! And I can teach you to swim! And you can admire my speedo!
I was planning to surf n stuff maybe if I perth’d
Surfing in Perth isn’t that great.
I can take you down the coast though to my home town area.
Some of the best surfing spots in the entire world 😉
Running/swimming babe may appreciate the effort. Good opportunity to give it a go.
Depending on her knee injury, she might be able to do cycling.
Do you parkrun?
I didn’t even know it was a thing! (so no :P)
Is that the thing you did the best in and got a free singlet? :D. I love freebies!
I got “parkrunner of the month” – it’s an encouragement award more than anything else. I got it for consistent attendance and also volunteering, which was nice, because I really wasn’t expecting it 🙂
http://www.parkrun.com.au
Once you have a parkrun barcode, you can run at any parkrun in australia and get your result emailed to you, which might be a good thing considering you travel around a bit.
Then walk or jog with her.
Problem solved.
To be honest our “run” is a super light jog which is basically walking pace since her knee kept acting up whenever we went. It was more a social chatty thing anyway 😛
Hopefully running babe 2 will actually run!
I got the inFamous bug a bit, and saw that there were not one, not two, but three power ideas they tossed aside! :O
They were Paper, Wire, and Glass.
Wire sounds pretty lame (but the concept designs were stunning), but paper and glass would’ve been so cool!
I can see how glass may have been difficult, but it would’ve been sweet 🙁
There’s still a chance they’ll be released, since Sucker Punch said they’d work on more DLC if First Light sold well, but after not releasing Paper power I’m hesitant :S
Really want a fresh inFamous now though :S
OK, so tell me… when the final boss was making their speeches about why they did what they did and what would happen if you won… did you kinda see their point at all?
I saw their point completely, and I kind of even agreed with her. I thiught the good choice was going to be to help her.
She had a long term plan, you could tell, then stupid Delsin ruined it all >:3
I know, right?!
That idiot took a gamble on the lives and futures of an entire ‘race’ (species? Are conduits still ‘human’?) of people, based purely on the idea of other being good and decent and not scared when they have every reason to be. And the game just candy-coats the decision as a good one because despite all rationality and historic precedent, we needed to have a morally unambiguous happily-ever-after. BAH!
Anyone planning to play MH4U online on the weekend? Or is it going to neglected and everyone will be playing Majories Masks? 🙁
@powalen are you actually gonna buy MH4U at launch? 😀
Neither. They’re just gonna sit on the shelf.
I might .. maybe!
Yes I will be buying Majoras Mask.
What’s that? Some kind of indie game?
Buy it. 48 target price.
Like most Nintendo things lately, release day undercutting prices may be the best price it’ll be for at least 12-18 months.
Going to be getting it but dunno about online – might have to get enough single player progress for a week or so before doing multi (if MH3U is anything to go by)
I’m kinda in the same boat. I always finished the single player hunt of a monster before attempting it online. I just kinda want to play any multiplayer stuff while I’m still in Melbourne and it’s possibly easier to do so (depending on where I end up)
I have put my relationship in jeopardy by purchasing Majoras Mask and intend to pick up on Valentines Day, yes 😛
GOOD JOB!
Nice work! in the demo 🙁
Doesn’t sound as good as Good job! though!
ohhh me, I will be on, but I may end up spending the whole weekend just stockpiling resources, can never have too many mega potions
@greenius
has that price for MM and MH4U at Target been confirmed? Last I heard that was just rumours going around
Vooks has a bargain roundup article which links to a Whirlpool thread (which I didn’t read), but it also linked to this pic from a Target catalogue http://i.imgur.com/vGJKyRR.jpg
Yeah I saw it on the Vooks roundup thing when it was first put up but it had something like (not confirmed) next to the price.
Too hot to sleep…
Too many mosquitoes…
🙁
EDIT: And now I’m awake…. 🙁
*Morning conversations with Mum*
Because apparently the only interesting things that happen to me relate to my ineptitude, or my mother.
At Breakfast:
Mum: “So Sean, what are you getting your girlfriend for Valentine’s Day?”
Me: “It is way too early for me to answer that with something witty.”
*5 seconds pass*
“Wait, wait, I’ve got it, ask me again.”
*she sighs, re-asks the question*
“Oh, the usual. Flowers, chocolates, promises I don’t intend to keep.”
*She sighs even harder, and walks off*
As we get out of the driveway:
Mum: “Am I going to have to accept that you’ll never drive?”
Me: “Yeah, pretty much.”
“But what about when you’re married with kids?”
“I’ll use a catapult.”
“Sorry, what?”
“I’ll build a catapult, load everyone in, and fire us where we need to go.”
“OK. I take back what I said about marriage and children.”
After something on the radio was talking about hitting children:
Mum: “…I know that you need to draw a line, but just sometimes, a smack was what worked.”
Me: “So I can start blaming you hitting me for all of my… oddities?”
“Oh come on, your father’s responsible for at least…”
“Two thirds?”
“I was going to say 70%.”
we really should have said hi to your mother when we dropped you home that time 😛
She accused me of telling you to drive up right next to her just to creep her out. She sometimes forgets that I’m driven by laziness, not malice.
You are on a roll today! Those are all classic.
More wit in one day than I’ve exhibited all week.
Example of failure: I related Freeze’s ‘monster under the bed trauma’ story to my Mum and was saying it was the coolest thing ever…
Mum: *eyeroll* “Such a male attitude.”
Me: “I think you’ve mistaken ‘male’ for ‘awesome’. But it’s an understandable mistake – they’re practically synonyms.”
Mum: “Ugh.”
(Which is, to be fair, the appropriate response.)
I feel like I should be collating all these conversations. I’m sure there’s a way to make money off them.
I mean, share them with the world. >.>
No fifth chance. Game over.
Also it totally feels like a Thursday. Why isn’t it Thursday.
because it’s hump day!
There has to be more chances, otherwise Powalen never gets to eat popcorn again. You can’t do this to Powalen.
Man, you’re nearly as bad as me at this, and I’m too chickenshit to ask a girl out via a dating site.
But I agree with you about the day. This week feels looooooooooong.
Or am I worse, since I’m too chickenshit to even sign up to a dating site 😛
I only did so because I was into my third bottle of wine.
It’s not a bad idea, I used one, once. It took a friend badgering me into doing it so that I could find something ‘more long term’ instead of pointless flings.
I set up a few dates, nothing really clicked, I got back together with Kel (which, frankly, is probably why nothing clicked – I’ve held a torch for that girl pretty high), so it was brief. But I guess with enough persistence it’d probably work pretty well. After all, that’s how my middle-brother met his boyfriend and they’ve been together over ten years now.
Tell us if you do use one, I’m sure you’ll get some tips.
I dated a girl last year from a site. Site was fine, but I broke it off because I wasn’t into her. probably should push it a bit harder and try do something else on that front
Dating sites are how I met my Fiance 🙂
They do work, but equally I remember being really scared getting into it.
I met Bun on Kotaku! I now classify Kotaku as a dating site.
Probably for the best. Just ignore that one and ask out randoms you find interesting the moment you see ’em. Compliment a dude on his gaming t-shirt, that kinda thing. It’ll get you over the anxiety of being forward in public.
Probably for the best in that she likely would have ended up turning out to be like 19 or something 😛
That’s kinda the thing though. I don’t really have any problems in doing that kind of thing when there is no intent behind it, even just this week at climbing bantering with the girl at the counter, sympathising that she’s been branded wearing a badge that reads “newbie” beneath her name. Or the other week striking up conversation with people all over the place during all that amiibo hunting. I guess that’s the difference between having intent and thinking about it/planning beforehand, versus a spontaneous quip on the spot.
I hear if you catch the train without pants you’ll get the attention of and meet some sexy people in uniforms.
I catch the train without him all the time and it’s yet to happen 🙁
So are you Brisbabes and visitors doing a little meat March 6th? The Friday night? If so, I will come 😀
:O
Wait, I get it. The Brisbane folk are all “let’s meat” and you’re all “nah” but the Sydney folk are all “we should meat in Brisbane” and you’re all “count me in”.
We’re not good enough on our lonesome :'(
D: nooooo
Just I… I… 3
(No, seriously, my social situation was just difficult before, but is getting better now!)
Glad to hear you are coming out the other side of bad situations
Not being able to go out occasionally when you would like is a bad place to be
Step aside. This is how it’s done.
See you in
BrisbaneSydney 2, Jane!New Sydney.
Because the old one gor kind of crappy and broken down.
It was like that already.
edit lame joke is lame.
Aw, I mean, it wasn’t my best but you didn’t have to be so harsh. *cries forever*
lol lol, ok ok, i had completely missed the “6th” part after March (March 6th) and my lame joke was somewhere along the lines of “i wonder what the physical requirements of attending little meat march would be!
#growupzed
Jane is coming to a meat!? It must be some kind of bikie gang scheme. I’m on to you. *glares*
Oh shit we’re all gonna be done under the anti-associations laws D=
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31YGHNMWKKL.jpg
http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090720154942/scrubs/images/2/2a/Thewolverines.jpg
Dammit. Missed by a week.
I blame Pow.
I like this ‘Brisbabes’ moniker. It pleases me. Is very appropriate.
I dunno. I see it and all I can think is
Well now you’ve ruined it. I hope you’re happy.
…Ugh. I know you’re happy.
Being me is the gift that keeps on giving.
hahaha lol! was looking into purchasing a space sim like Star Citizen/Elite dangerous and ran into this:
http://rs1img.memecdn.com/wallet-warriors-12-year-old-wallet-warriors-everywhere_o_3629899.webp
although not exactly relevant with the free option, it does highlight what spending the extra funds you got from selling your mother in law gets you!
You can sell your mother in law?
I don’t think I’d get much but still…
might need to get clever with your marketing strategy, but its possible!
My routine for the past fortnight.
Be unable to fall asleep until 5am.
Watch police procedurals that I’ve already seen to pass the time.
Cry everytime a distressed child is on screen.
Go into a panic spiral about if I’m a good parent or a failure.
Finally exhaust myself and fall asleep.
Wake up at 7am.
Go to work.
Repeat.
Pretty sure I’m broken by this point :/
Uhm… play Heavy Rain?
You got any holiday time coming up?
Yeah, I’m going to an exotic locale with this good looking and charming fella I met on the internet.
I approve of your life choices
Sounds dreamy.
Shame about the creepy animu weaboo that’s going to be following you both around on that trip though… 😛
@transientmind isn’t that bad.
Awh, you keep up the glowing praise like that, the quality of my tortured gothic works on Deviantart is going to take a serious hit.
I’ll pay you back with a discount on my usual fanart commission. What animal is your fursona and which Naruto ninja clan are they a member of? I’m best at Uzumaki uniforms but you seem like a Sunagakure.
Yes.
Actually speaking of that trip, have you (or @transientmind or @novacascade) received any documentation or anything? Last I corresponded with them, they needed my passport details to release everything, but haven’t seen anything since then…
I think I got a re-confirmation of the costs and a receipt for final payment, but not a lot after that. Last thing they asked for was confirmation of insurance, and our flight details there and back. I didn’t have the specifics on those, so I got my brother to send it over.
Which, now that I think about, I need to check that he did.
I had nova book my flights for me as well because I couldn’t be fucked doing it myself, so don’t have anything on that beyond the fact they’re booked. I think that might have been what the passport was needed for though.
Will email on Friday if I haven’t seen anything. Also really need to get my A into G and get the currency situation figured out.
They asked for passport and flight details and that was the last I heard.
Cool, sounds like we’re on the same page then.
I was talking with the organiser here at work today. Our JR passes were getting issued today and she was going to send everything to Tegan next week. Tegan will probably check everything over again and be sending it out by the end of the month 🙂
CC @freezespreston @transientmind @jocon
I can only play Heavy Rain now (after having played it multiple times before), if I pretend that everyone in that game – children and adults – are mildly retarded. Makes it SOOOO much more funny. I should not laugh at that game as much as I do.
(Sorry @DC )
D:
You win a ‘horrible person’ award, undoing all the good work (that Bawb already undid) with your Brisbabes label. You leave Heavy Rain alone!
JAAAAAAAAASOOOONNNN.
Hahahaha <3
SHAUN!
SHAUN!
SHAAAAAAAAAAAUN!
A friend brought up that video just last night, had me in stitches all over again.
You’re ALL horrible. Those were deep, intense moments of genuine feeling!
Monsters. Monsters, all of you.
I’ve been struggling the last few nights myself actually. Minus the whole parenting concerns.
Something in the air in Queensland perhaps?
Report any and all sightings of Phil Collins in QLD immediately.
I had to Google that as I had no idea who that is. You and your old music.
Also, preemptively saying “Get off your own damn lawn old man!”
My wife recently got a Fitbit which tells her how she’s sleeping, confirming what we already knew: she sleeps extremely poorly. I swear she’s started sleeping worse because she agonises over how poorly she’s sleeping. As a result, my sleep is being interrupted more and more.
*hits head on wall*
*passes out*
*wakes up in hospital two weeks later*
Aaaah, I needed that.
I have the opposite – my fitbit tells me that I sleep like an absolute log unless I get woken up by my small person.
Yeah, it’s kinda a self fulfilling prophecy. I’m finding this time around of owning it for a second time I get ‘steps’ for typing and writing :S haha
Mine gets confused and goes to sleep when I push the shopping trolley over bumpy ground :S
This has been me recently, except swap police procedural for video games and/or bad anime.
Are you okay?
*hugs*
I hope you sleep better tonight!
Just think about what you might do when the kids are having trouble settling down for sleep – a bath before bed, some quiet time with a book, turn off the lights and screens, listen to some relaxing music and a nice milky drink or relaxing tea.
So, my Twitter account has been locked for no apparent reason. I haven’t done anything wrong. The only thing that I can think of is that I tried to tweet to 4 people at once. Twitter has flagged that as an automated tweet and now I can’t tweet. I unlocked the account, but it got locked again 10 minutes later. Is there anything I can do?
Looking at my Twitter feed it happened to a bunch of people, so I’d say it’s an issue on Twitter’s side.
You’ll get an email with a link to fix it, or they’ll text you a code.
Yeah, I did that but the account got locked again 10 minutes later. I know I haven’t done anything wrong, but it’s really annoying that I’m being punished.
Don’t worry, you’re not being punished. There’s apparently a lock-out bug happening with the web version. Practically every second person is being locked out.
And I can tweet again!!!!! That was annoying.
tried changing your password? maybe its been compromised.
Edit: didnt read wall of text above.
Twitter’s been blocking the accounts of anyone implanted with a microchip by the secret evil robot overlords as a preemptive measure.
Hey don’t look at me, I don’t even use twitter
It is bugging me an absurd amount that I fluffed the Killer7 line last night, and can’t do anything about it.
Never touching twitter again.
the who in the what now?
I got some stuff, then got overexcited.
You can delete tweets and repost with correct wording. I do this
regularlynever.It feels like it’s too late for that now.
…
*deletes everything*
It’s the only way to be sure.
oh man that is amazeballs! congrats man! that poor goat… :O
You’ll be back.
If there’s another competition that necessitates it 😛
Free gaems!
I got Borderlands Pre-Sequal from Sony Australia… Still havent played it.
how did u get a free game from sony???? WHAT WITCHCRAFT IS THIS?!?!?
ooooooohhhh…
Google Chrome finally on my work machine… Kotaku finally renders properly and I can check up/down votes.
In other news…
Actually… No other news, carry on.
The joys of reading upvotes <3
Got to work this morning, discovered the cap on my favourite pen had snapped at the top of the cap. Great start to the day. 🙁
I’m not too worried, tho – the same thing happened last July; contacted the manufacturer and they sent me a replacement cap within a few days. Still, it’s kinda irritating.
I just noticed a similar thing on my favourite pen the other day too. Though it’s the top of the clippy bit that’s snapped, thankfully it hasn’t come right off. It’s probably because it’s… I don’t even know, maybe nearing a decade old and I often take to holding it in my mouth by hooking my lip under the clip. Thankfully I’ve got a whole bunch of them in a drawer at home for replacement parts… which is a good thing, since they don’t make them any more ;_;
my main writing pen at home (too scared to take it outside!) is a 1964 parker fountain pen that belonged to my grandfather.
Mine is a ~2002-4 Bic 3-in-1. Can’t remember when I started using it, but I’m pretty sure something on that first one broke and I moved on to a second one some time around early uni, faaaaairly sure this is the same one now. Been ages since changing the ink too. I don’t write much 😛
I like it because it’s extremely handy, and the twist top is much easier to change with a quick flick of the thumb than something like a Bic 4. Also writes way better than those things ever did, never had it clog up on me or anything like that.
Mainly though it’s a good size/shape/weight to mindlessly spin in my fingers while I’m concentrating on something 😛
Uni Jetstream 101 0.7mm – Red/Black/Blue.
Have about 5 of each colour in my drawer.
Blue/Red/Pacer for me.
Handy as hell, but they seem to have replaced it with blue/red/stylus for some reason 🙁
The old Pacer! Forgot I use them too… a pair for my uni work. For quickly getting ideas or charts onto paper nothing beats graphite.
I get people use touch screens way more now, but a stylus? Really? Unless your some overpaid exec I can’t imagine a situation where and everyday person would need to be swapping from red/blue ink to touch?
Parker Urban Lacque Blue.
Also have a Parker Sonnet for when I want to be fancy.
Favourite is one I have a ANZAC pen I have made from a .303 round with wood trimmings.
Parker made some really good pens around that era. I’m the same with my Eversharp Symphony (c. early ’50s, I think) – my best flex nib, so much fun to use, but I’m paranoid about it getting lost, so it stays at home. :3
KFC Fire Double Down Maxx.
http://www.huffpost.com/us/entry/6652564
Getting a 404 with that link.
good lord
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/10/kfc-fire-double-down-maxx-burning_n_6652564.html
Looks like it’s got orange dorito’s crumbing hahaha.
That would be pretty tasty…
Honestly it’s nothing special. Well I don’t think so, I never find adding dorito’s or any flavoured corn chip to the crumbing gives it anything extra special..
That’s because Doritos are crap, I was thinking a better corn chip (eg. Mission).
Eh, any i’ve used whether it be aldi, coles, dorito’s, cc’s all just as disappointing.
Where’d the heat go?
:\
Over here, fuck the desert.
I forgot how to spell here for like 3 minutes, fuck this.Who wants to make a TAYlist request, now’s the time, requests will be open until noon SA time, tomorrow.
5 6 7 8 – Steps
Victim of Changes – Judas Priest
We’ve Got The Beat – The Go-Gos
Fleetwood Mac – GypsyActually you know what? Phil Collins – In The Air Tonight, because screw you @popdart5
Paperback Writer – The Beatles
Can I request a couple again?
I’m going to request a couple again :3
(you can chose which, if any, get played)
Hung Up – Madonna
Afterlife – Arcade Fire
Shot at the Night – the Killers
Zombie – the Cranberries
Thinking About You – Calvin Harris ft. Ayah Marar
1 out of 5.
It’s a start…
Which one is the one?
They’re all good songs 😛
Zombie, obviously.
I hate you. Well, more I hate that song, but I hate you by association.
This guy gets it. Not like that @beeawwb guy.
Yeah, I hate that guy! Let’s lynch him!
We only have two Arcade Fire songs in the computer, one of them is Abraham’s Daughter and the other one is too long for regular radio play, sorry mang. Your other choices are far more likely to be played.
That’s alrighty!
My requests are usually a little unlikely to be stocked, I think, which is why I’ve taken to requesting a couple at a time :3
Gives me more chances that one gets played 😀
That reminds me. American Pie! Don Mclean!
I was young when I left home – Bob Dylan
If not,
Reptilia- the strokes
RUSH
Err whatever is going, most of their stuff is good.
Hot Chip – I feel Better
Rise against – Swing Life away
Something by Dire Straits.
Brothers in Arms, maybe, or Romeo and Juliet if you don’t want a depressing song.
Or Twisting By The Pool if you want …. what the hell was that?
It’s for if you want to be so cool, twisting by the ( just uh twisting by the) pool.
DANCE. To the Eurobeat.
Move on up – Curtis Mayfield
Pony – Ginuwine
And Requests are now closed, thanks to all for the song requests.
Hey everybody, just letting you know that I’m not dead. Being a stay at home dad means I’m actually busier than at work!
I’ve gone and gotten the pictures from my Cradle Mountain walk – I’ve put the captions in there, to save you all a giant wall of text.
http://imgur.com/a/xUcoj
Also, I got my first streetpass this morning which is like “AAAAaaargh” awesome because I’ve been carrying around this 3ds for two weeks and haven’t got one! (Stupid Hobart).
If anybody would like to add me, my friend code is 2638-2586-9393.
Now I just gotta figure out how to get the DS to connect to the wi-fi so I can trade Pokemon with myself from Black 2. Stupid Onyix and Cadabra needing trades to evolve…
Anyways, I’m around, kids not dead, I’m not dead, everything is good. Looking forward to talking with adults tonight on the Strange with Red et. al.
Also: Spidey in Civil War? They gotta do the Captain America speech in there somewhere. No, I’m not linking it so those who don’t know about that speech can go in fresh and be moved. Probably one of the best pieces of comic writing, certainly in my top 3 of speeches if you ignore Frank M.’s work (Watchmen etc.)
Added, my code is 4098-5334-9430
I knew you were there, Quizmaster… I felt your spirit watching over us, upvoting.
Does anyone else think it would’ve been much better if they hadn’t’ve announced Spidey being available for Marvel films but for when Civil War comes out: BAM. People would’ve freaked. I’m deliberately not reading as much as possible about upcoming films (in general, not just the Marvel films), but even I have a broad idea of what’s going to happen now thanks to how much information has been released. There’s little in the way of surprise in films anymore as everyone feels the need to hype up their work as much as possible. I think it was a trailer for Ted 2 we watched the other day and we were thinking ‘this is the whole film into 2-3 minutes, what’s the point of watching it now?’
I would like to be surprised more, hyped less. In most things. Movies, games, whatever.
Edit: I’d much rather hear from a friend, “Holy shit you guys! You have to get in on this shit!” then go get in on that shit because the fucking thing is out and yes, I can get it on it now, than hear from the Internet hype machine, “Holy shit you guys! You have to get in on this shit for the next two fucking years until you’re so damn sick of it and know everything about it before it even comes out!” At that point, actually purchasing something is just some archaic formality.
Ah the days before the internet. I haven’t watched the trailer for Star Wars yet, but I’ve seen it all.
People are theorising his unmasking is gonna be the reveal of Miles Morales which means they’d need to ignore ALL casting news about every Marvel movie until it happens.
I’d love it if there was a massive surprise.
Like it’s the post credits sting for Avengers 2, Spider-man is standing in front of a mirror. He’s looking over his costume. “Who am I? I’m Spider-man!” -pause- “Nah.” he takes off his mask to reveal Paul Rudd. “That’s a dumb name.” He looks down at the window sill and sees an ant crawling across it.
And that’s literally all they ever use the rights to Spider-man for.
That one, shitty throwaway joke.
It should be a short film of the day in the life of the spider who bit young Mr Parker
I’m going to be super controversial: I hate spider-man. Absolutely can’t stand the fucker in anything, be it films or cartoons or comics. I actually liked the fact that Sony had him and he couldn’t turn up and ruin Disney’s Marvel Universe with his gary stu bullshit.
The Shocker: Legit is a great example of everything wrong with Spider-man as a character and how to fix it. You should read it.
Or I could just not read it since I honestly don’t care if Spider-man is salvageable or not due to the issue where I can’t fucking stand the asshole.
Also I don’t really do comics much at all.
Cool.
Such a biiiiiiiiiitch.
It’s a pretty good story, I started on it when he linked it in here previously and was up all night completely transfixed. It’s not a comic at all, just a straight out written story. And is all about/written from the perspective of The Shocker, who also cannot fucking stand the asshole either so maybe you’ll find him even more relatable 😛
http://forgotten.faithweb.com/MaxLandis/legit00.htm
Well worth checking out.
There are hundreds of other comics / manga / graphic novels I’d want to read before I even considered touching a Spider-man one, even if it was supposedly better than normal.
EDIT: And for reference, I hardly own any manga or comics, and probably last read one seriously 2-3 years ago. It’s not my thing.
I think the only ones I’ve read were a couple of X-men ones that came in an Easter showbag back when I was about five or so. I don’t get ’em either 😛
I periodically read manga, but usually untranslated and because it’s a good way to practice reading and see where my gaps in understanding are, rather than because I’m going out of my way to read it.
Which games/systems are you trying to trade between? Can’t remember if you actually have a DS or you’re just abbreviating 3DS as “DS” 😛
If it’s a DS, it cannot connect to the Internet at all anymore. Nintendo shut down the WiFi Connection (what the Wii/DS used) a while back.
You can still trade locally though if you have two DS’ (or a DS and a 3DS), using a Wireless or Infrared connection between two of the DS games (DPPt/HGSS/BW/B2W2).
It’s an actual DS.
Ok, so first: YAY no more messing about with the connecting to the internet through a weird protocol (WAP, wasn’t it?) rather than straightforward wi-fi. YAY that I can connect via infrared (about to go try it now).
BOO that I didn’t know this and spent the better part of two hours the other day trying to get it to work.
Hello finally being able to evolve Poke’s through trading. 🙂
Nope. Not gonna happen. It can only trade between x&Y to ORAS.
So to get my pokemon off one, onto the other, requires some apps from the eShop – which won’t make them evolve when trading.
🙁
Hm? What games are you trying to trade between? Black 2 and what?
Omega Ruby. Apparently, without X or Y, it ain’t gonna happen.
I only wanted the trading to evolve pokemon, not to necessarily complete a pokedex or anything.
So the goal is to get the evolved guys back to Black 2, right? I would suggest transferring them up to Omega Ruby and then trading online with one of us TAYbies to evolve them, but then they’d be stuck in Omega Ruby as you can’t transfer ‘backwards’.
Ah well.
If you don’t want to replace them, go find an item called “Eviolite” in Castelia City and give it to your Onix or Kadabra. That item raises Defence/Special Defence of not-fully-evolved Pokes.
Eviolite Onix actually has the highest Defence stat in the whole game, if I remember correctly 😛
General rule of thumb – you can only trade between games of the same generation.
You can transfer to bring those precious ‘mons intact on a one way trip into a later generation game.
If you have 2 gen 4 or gen 5 DS games, wireless trading will work fine between a DS and a 3DS.
More like top of Handsome’s peak, amirite
Frank M(iller)? Watchmen? Uhhh…
…oops.
I blame a toddler clambering over me wanting me to read him the story about the confused baby rooster for the fourth time.
I sometimes focus too much on the “doodle-doo” because I’m a) puerile and b) bored to death of reading about a baby rooster that has identity issues.
Wombats can jump!? So glad I got on Tay today.
Mistyped Minecraft in google search as ‘Minceraft’.
Giggled.
Day continued without further event.
Being sick has meant I sure did get a lot of Dragon Age played!
Finished up a lot of collections and most quests in all the areas and spoken to my companions a bazillion times to get all their quests done and see a hell of a great deal of fun stuff. Except Solas. Why does he never talk or do anything interesting? It’s especially annoying seeing as he’s my character’s romantic interest. (I’m playing a female elf, so it just kind of made sense. Pretty much everyone is way more interesting, though. Which is a waste because his character had the potential to be the most interesting due to his experiences. )
Oh, and I’ve been hunting Dragons. They’re so pretty!
If it wasn’t for Iron Bull and Sera’s glee I’d leave all the dragons alone, but those two are my favourites and it’s awesome to see them have so much fun. 😀“What’s that thing you shouted, while we were fighting?”
“Oh that… heh.”
Yeah, “sick” eh Strange? 😉
Found a gamecube controller for $20. 😀
THE STRANGE (@STRANGE?) THE SERIES
730 tonight SA Time!
What will the first assignment be for our new operatives to The Estate? What’s a cypher and why do I want it? Who is Carter Strange?
A new adventure begins!
Cc @freezespreston @beeawwb @quiz_b @blaghman @gingerchris86 @sernobulus @trjn
You streaming this one Red?
Yep yep
Not trying to pressure you guys but you should totally have codenames.
Shotgun “Popdart”!
I’m going to do my absolute best to make it tonight, but if I’m not able to I may just hold off until the next “Season” to bring Viktor in to the fold.
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/9S6i_xLUlkM/hqdefault.jpg
More like this: http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/02/19/article-2562815-1BA170EE00000578-927_634x886.jpg
I’m going to be a no show. Hopefully the next “episode” I will be able to join.
No problem
So excited for this 🙂
Also, I have just emailed everyone (but @blaghman, he knows why) a starting cypher, let us know if it hasn’t come through
I’m special!
a cover that makes me happy 🙂
http://www.moshcam.com/hot-chip/enmore-theatre-1420.aspx#/11-everywhere-fleetwood-mac
Looks like EB isn’t selling the Nightmare Edition of Bloodborne anymore. That made my decision a bit easier 🙂
PREPARE TO EMPTY THY WALLETS PEOPLE!!! ITS MID-WEEK STEAM SALE TIME!!!!
http://store.steampowered.com/sale/mystery_midweek/
Joke’s on them, I already own all the good games in that sale and I paid more than the sale pri… wait… 🙁
Meh. Problem with Steam sales is eventually you’ve got everything they put on sale over and over again and you realise there’s nothing for you.
Think I only got one or two games last time.
This is a big part of why no-game 2015.
You are a better man than I. *Opens wallet, sells soul to GabeN*
Ha. Queensland Police Services social media person is at it again..
http://i.imgur.com/xVi0O2Q.png
Ow…
My groin muscles…
🙁
Just read this review for sunless sea. http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198029363860/recommended/304650/
It certainly is something. Think this will be something I get once a few more title disappear from my pineapple and I have more time
And the comments are full of people having a sook about it not being a proper review. Fuck people.
O_o
That warmup, you must need to be in perfect shape to perform that
Freya and I have put in some applications to adopt a puppy from RSPCA. There was a litter of eight. In less than a week, four of them have been adopted but the two that we played with today were definitely worth trying to get. We probably won’t get them though, there are a handful of other people who have also applied for them before us.
Anyhow, we were trying to think of a new name for the puppies. At the moment, they’re called Katniss and Primrose (which oddly enough is the reverse of their personalities after reading up on the Wiki).
Freya doesn’t like the name Artemis but then the next name I suggested was too good for a puppy. We may have accidentally stumbled on a potential name for our first child. Oops.
What breed are they?
Mixed. Very, very mixed.
They’re part of a litter that was found a month back. There’s definitely some German Shepherd in there (one of them looks 90% GSD while the other less than 20%), probably some Kelpie and definitely a few others.
I might be misremembering but I think mixed breeds generally tend to not suffer genetic disorders nearly so much as purer bred dogs. I’m probably getting that wrong though.
Good on you two for looking to adopt. It always feels bad to hear about the pounds that have to turn away stray dogs because they’re at full capacity.
It’s a general biology thing: a broader gene pool tends to be stronger.
And yeah, we were (are?) always planning to adopt a puppy from RSPCA or a foster care organisation. It’d be nice to go through the pound but because we’re renting, it’s a little difficult to get everything lined up quickly. If the body corporate was looser with their requirements, things would be much easier.
Naw you’re not getting it wrong, like @Trjn said, it’s a gene pool thing. Like purebred French Bulldogs are often a hot mess of genetic defects for example.
Awesome, sounds like an interesting mix!
Artemis is a cat name, didn’t you watch Sailor Moon?
I watched Young Justice.
Colonel Woofs.
Pregnant Paws.
The Dog Formerly Known As Fido.
I’m disappointed, I thought you were going to keep at this for a while.
A bunch of customers came in and ruined everything.
Sif!
Howabout #makebunpropose as a puppy name?
; DROP TABLE *
My uncle used to name all his pets after philosophers, but I think that names like Aristotle work better for cats.
Philosopher’s names are pretty great. It means we could use this to beckon them.
So my sister maintains a list of prospective dog names for an occasion such as this:
– Methuselah
– Neville
– Pedro
– Napoleon
– Drumstick
– Chicken
– Yoplait
– Toby
– Tazzy
– Cardigan
– Paddington
– Marmalade
– Francisco
– Ghengis
– Goliath
– Maximus Aurelius
– Atlas
– Speedo
– Donkey
– Diddy
– Sonic
– Link
– Pipsqueak
– Chester
– Tiptop
– Bath
– Frisky
– Ferdinand
– Siegfried
– Freud
– Bob
– Norris
– Smee
– Rufio
– Bieber
– Jackpot
– Strudel
– Mento
– Ted
– Lima
– Cloud
– Musket
– Whoopwhoop
– Biscuit
– Crab
– Sebastian
– Triton
– Spandex
– Spud
– Cactus
– Mormon
– Whipper
– Patrick
– Helga
– Puku
– Haka
– Fred
– Tank
– Bison
– Tukie tukie
– Toucan
– Craig
– Coco
– Schweppes
– Polka
– Table
– Henry VIII
– Squat
– Bigfoot
– Little foot
– Peetree
– Spike
– Ducky
– Homer
– Odysseus
– Bilbo
– Rumpelstiltskin
– Mr. Rump
– Melon
– Pip
– Doug
– Barrel
– Baggins
– Wilbur
– Gus gus
– Casper
– Elvis
– Meatloaf
– Hedgehog
– Taco
– Texas
– Mufasa
– Dodecahedron
– Digger
– Pretzel
– Gaston
– Domino
– Goat
– Llama
– Penguin
– Ketchup
– Pingu
– Tuna
– Puzzle
– Cuppa
– Cake
– Meringue
– Lamington
– Pecan
– Lincoln
– Dogothy
– Xerxes
– Moses
– Zerubbabel
– Barley
– Bali
– Cracker
– Stallone
– Sylvester
– Arnie
– The Pan
– Pidgeon
– Chester Copperpot
You’re welcome.
I believe that the thinking is that the names need to be evocative of something, fun to say, or fiendishly clever (eg calling your dog Bath)
PUPPIES
Call one Saddie, and one Massie.
It’s not short for Sadism and Masochism, promise…
I realised the other day my printer has a favourite song.
YMCK.#here’shopingpage6
Best gookyget
My ancestors should never have sold their dairy farm, it was a real cash cow
#dadjokepagesix #hi@strange
Why did the toilet paper roll down the hill?
To get to the bottom.
This joke has been courtesy of my seven year old.
Well, that’s one thing I can cross off my bucket list:
– Broke Google ✓
We recently moved all our work email stuff to Gmail. When I was configuring mine I did something that causes my email to think that it’s sending emails that the other people in the office are sending. So my “Sent Mail” folder is full of stuff I didn’t send.
Close to 5 hours on the phone with Google support over the past two days and nobody knows how to fix it. They still don’t know.
Tomorrow’s headline: “Local man ruins everything”
My gmail addresses have managed to fuck up and send replies meant to be from my professional address from my personal address. It is kind of terrible. I don’t know how it has done it, but it’s now happened multiple times.
This has happened to me several times as well recently. I think they broke something. It’s quite annoying.
GOOGLE COLLAPSES: GLOBAL ECONOMIC RUIN PREDICTED TO FOLLOW. GODDAMN POWALEN.
“One man brought down Gmail. You won’t believe how he did it! Google hates him!”
“7 Ways to get out of work for 5 hours”
It’s likely the way they’ve setup the accounts. I’m a member of polycount, and have an email address with them, and when they transferred everything to google, it did something strange with the grouping of accounts. I was seeing emails sent to and from other people. I can’t remember if it was a distribution list issue, or a grouping issue under the account admin login, but it was only fixable by the guy who initiated the domain/email host transfer. Hopefully you weren’t the one who started it all, or it might be difficult 😉
My work one does this. We use Google apps.
Do you have an alias that is shared with other people through a Google group? ie support@company.com as well as your powalen@company.com
I get emails in my sent box that are from anyone who uses the shared address.
I was going to suggest the same, although I would have thought Google support would have checked that first.
Having spent time doing second level support, I wouldn’t expect them to dress themselves in the morning without escalating.
I assume Google is the same.
“Local man ruins everything” is the greatest headline ever. Also greatest book title and tomb stone inscription.
What the hell? Vita memory card seems to have just randomly wiped itself. All my saves and downloaded games are gone.
That’s not a very good joke.
Pretty funny to me.
Shakespeare also did comedies.
Saves aren’t backed up on PS+? :/
o.O
Dude, that sucks.
WOO! Got my Xiaomi Mi Band. Seems to be pretty accurate in counting steps 😀
Best cheapo activity tracker!
I thought that’s what the pokewalker was for.
Mine ran out of batteries :(. RIP whatever Pokemon I had in there
Why not replace the battery?
Because Pokewalkers are so 2000 and late
o.O what are they late for?
What have you got against the number 2000?
Stop making up words!
It can track sleep and show me phone notifications too 😀
So what you are saying is it watches you sleep. Sounds like a creep!
How is it? Does it measure pulse, too?
It’s awesome! It doesn’t do any of that fancy stuff but the main draw of it is its price tag. At $20 it’s a steal compared to the other basic activity trackers (Fitbit Flex etc.)
Supposedly lasts 20-40 days on a full charge too.
Mmm yeah, I was looking at the Fitbit Flex, but now..
I mean I don’t know much about the Flex but it’s just steps and sleep stuff as well isn’t it? I’ve seen a few articles comparing the two and the Mi Band has come out on top mainly because of the price tag and battery life.
I was interested in the Flex too but wasn’t willing to pay $80 or so. $20 is perfect for the features I wanted.
Wow there’s a Sharknado 3 coming..
Never knew there was a number 2
It was pretty good 😛
You generally do those in the toilet.
The Strange: The Series: http://youtu.be/nK2dkCzC7-U
HAHAHA Freeze sounds like a Russian Milton xD
Didn’t Freeze play a Milton in our last Fiasco?
FREEZE REALLY IS MILTON.
Ok, I had no idea what was going on there or why we were doing anything.
To be honest though, I think I’ll keep it that way. Figure my character is barely aware of his surroundings at the best of times.
Basically, the estate (a secret NGO protecting the planet from weird extraplanar shit) had discovered weird things turning up in that market, and you lot were to investigate, find the source, and if they were bringing in dangerous things shut it down.
And I got a new pet!
I have my chinchilla…
And a jar of salsa!
Uh sure. And…
THE STRANGE: THE SERIES
EPISODE 1: PART 1
http://youtu.be/nK2dkCzC7-U
Session highlights
– Viktor (@beeawwb) has apparently slept with everyone’s mothers. Even Chief operative Lawrence Keaton’s, and his mother has been dead for 20 years. BTW, that butterfly sword is fine as a med weapon.
– Captain Terrific (@blaghman) is appalled he has to get to places via van instead of flying
– I dunno what Dr Von Norschweiler did to that Chinchilla. I kinda don’t want to (@freezespreston)
– Mango and raspberry frozen yoghurt may or may not be sinister (@trjn)
– Firefly Season 2 sounds like good viewing (@quiz_b)
– Johannes may find a use for creepy doll’s head thing at some point (@gingerchris86)
Thanks for playing guys!
PS. Forgot to say, have 2 xp each for starters
It’s uhh, it’s Captain Brilliant, thank you.
Captain Terrific lived up to his initials and was killed in the Nuclear Medicine wing of Metroville General Hospital.
You know what? I have that written correctly in my notes here and just bollixed it up there. sorry.
That’s okay, I feel like it enhances his charm as a Z grade superhero if even the GM can’t remember his name. 😛
I may have a personal goal to have a completely bizarre and esoteric inventory by the end of the game.
I sleep with your mother too. Whatever it take.
I’ve just realised who Viktor is shaping up to be in my head. Only… darker. And more sweary.
http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130530185516/simpsons/images/7/76/Little_Girl_in_the_Big_Ten_16.JPG
Rogue Legacy (late to the party edition)
Took out two bosses tonight. The forest area was a bit of a walkover, after all the grinding I’ve had to do in the castle area. Vampirism made the second boss a complete joke.It’s pretty cool, I’ve been playing it a bit.
I HAVE DONE IT
SCREW THE DRAGON
THIS IS WAY COOLER
http://imgur.com/B8pj9y5
WHAT HAVE YOU DONE @POWALEN?
http://www.digitaljournal.com/technology/google-s-eric-schmidt-predicts-end-of-internet/article/424389
Internet ruined everything ruined
5am…
What’s the difference between a dog and a near-sighted gynocologist?
Nothing, they both have wet noses.Happy Birthday @mythamphetamine! You share your b’day with Abraham Lincoln and my dad! He’s 65 today!! :0 Truly a birthing day of legends! 😉
I didn’t realise @mythamphetamine was so old!
#It’sPageSixAfterAll
lol classic Shane! Don’t ever change! 😉
But my clothes will start to smell 🙁
Booooo!
*upvotes anyway*
>:|
Happy Birthday @mythamphetamine
Is you dad Abraham Licoln?
Have you ever seen them in the same room together?
Actually no, but he’s a dead ringer for Johnny Cash!
Yesterday I woke up to an email from a lady in California who said she found me via Instagram and loved following my work.
Today I woke up to an email from a lady in Atlanta asking if I was going to be at Quiltcon.
Why are people talking to me? Eek!
Hi, Strange!
Because you’re awesome? Also Hi Strange!
Hiiiiiiii!
Remember us when you’re famous.
Guten tag, taybes!
Today is German food day at work. I made apple and cherry strudel, which I will not eat myself, but I am very excited about the Bretzels in the kitchen right now 😀
Mmmmmmm…..mettwurst…
I too am celebrating a German day… by watching Hogan’s Heroes at work.
Unfortunately, have hit the point where the quality of the show declined steeply (start of season 3), so might be giving it up soon.My kitten, Max, has decided to snuggle, and my dog Molly decided to join her…
@jocon @distantdrop Raid day hype (for tomorrow)!! I think I’m addicted to progression raiding… this does not bode well for the other aspects of my life >.
What the deal with sizforsam anyways? he’s 5/10 yet still hasn’t gotten his 2nd tier ring =/ seems like he wants to raid with everyone except us.
Yeah pretty sure he’s been looking for another raiding guild; which is I’m hesitant to bring him in for core raids. He can just hang back as a casual imo.
That said grrr 5/10 already!! =@ *throws arms up in air*
God a part of me just wants to toss in the towel and get carried by a higher level group =,=
Told you before hanzok and beastmaster are easy in comparison to oregorger.
Downside is their both in completely different wings, lotsa trash =/
I know they’re easier!! We just never left flipping oregorger last weekend! =P
Grrrrr so stupid he’s not even that good a warlock!
Eh, pugs probably just want a lock in for stones and summons.
Next easiest class to find groups this side of a healer I imagine.
Yeah, co-op and a good challenge are my favorite things in gaming.
I’m having a blast.
http://omnomnomify.com/
You guys, this has been making me laugh non-stop for 10 minutes, using it on boring corporate sites. So dumb, I love it.
Ooh, looks like Interstellar’s still showing at Imax on Saturday. Might go along after picking up my nXL, make the trip to the city worthwhile. Considering getting a second pair of climbing shoes too, since my current ones seem to need a resole and who knows how long that’ll take.
30mins to an hour.
Or 4-9 weeks.
Yeah, no. I usually do them in about 20 minutes. Cycle shoes are the longest with the clips and they take about 40.
I dunno, the place the climbing centre sends them to is usually pretty backed up. Last time I sent some in it took 6 weeks for them to come back. And that put me off sending them in again so much that I got huge holes in the toes instead 😛
Someone was saying something about another place that only took two weeks, but I forget where that was.
Uh, you do realise what I do for a living right? Take it to a Mister Minit and they’ll have it done by the time you have lunch.
I don’t know anything, so as far as I knew the special climbing shoes that came from the special climbing place had to be given to the climbing place to send off to the other special climbing place to get the special soles instead of just going to a regular shoe place 😛
Come to think of it, I’m not even sure the Mister Minits that I used to pass by are even still there any more. Hmm.
Dear Fitocracy,
Forgive me. I didn’t mean to eat those four Wagon Wheels and two hot cross buns this morning but they were just there and no one else was watching. The best before date guilt tripped me – they would have expired by the 24th! So like, twelve days from now, yes I know. I don’t want to look at the calorie count, so I won’t. I’ll just persist harder tonight during my run.
Your sorta fit pal,
Benny.
In serious news, the running has been going well.
Persistance has been the biggest key and during my last run I slow jogged five laps or 1.75kms in just over ten minutes. but had to stop due to a sharp cramp/knot stabbing me in the back. Pretty happy with that considering just a few weeks back I was killing myself after a mere 0.7km, 1km max.
I’m sooo close to that 2.4kms now.. Just two more laps.
Nice job mate! Keep it up and you’ll be running a half-marathon :).
This is the way I started, I couldn’t run 500 m without stopping at first and now I’m aiming to do a full marathon in October this year. Keep it up!
A full! How exciting, and good luck!
Thanks, it’s tough going running long distance and I don’t find it particularly fun but I just wanna do one and then i’ll retire and go back to shorter distances 😀
The furthest I’ve ever done is 15km (City to Surf), so with a bit of training I know I can complete a half. Problem is just getting a consistent level of training happening (I have interruptions I can’t avoid). This year I’m going to try and focus on getting my speed up to a 6min/km pace (my holy grail is a five30 – 5km in 30 min)
Good job 🙂
It’s all about consistency, if you keep doing it, you get faster and can go longer. This also applies to running 😉
They laughed when I said I wanted to be a comedian – they’re not laughing now.
Why do bears have hairy coats?
Fur protection.Why did the A go to the bathroom and come out as an E?
Because he had a vowel movement.Do you know where you can get chicken broth in bulk?
The stock market.What did celery say when he broke up with his girlfriend?
She wasn’t right for me, so I really don’t carrot all.“I hate oyings.”
“What is an oying?”
“This joke.”
Fantastic.
So yesterday, I went to court to attend my divorce finalization 🙁
Not something I ever want to do again. Today, I start over again at the old age of 33. Now need to save up for a house, build up my savings again from 0 and focus on my son. Here’s hoping for a better life going forward!
Not so fantastic.
But a fresh start could be the best thing that ever happened to you. Here’s hoping for that! *clink*
33 is a good age to start over. Old enough to not make the same mistakes again, and hopefully old enough to know yourself a bit better so you can go after what you really want.
*hugs* on the divorce. It’s a sucky thing, but sometimes the best thing in the long run.
At least it’s over and done with now. On and up from here haggis!!
Thanks guys, last year was definitely the worst of my life but I came through it OK. Now, I can focus on the future and the most important part of that is my son. Cheers!
New pen cap is en route. Say what you will about TWSBI’s build quality, but their customer service is second to none. Now, to watch as it makes the trip from Taiwan to Sydney by tomorrow, and takes AusPost two weeks to deliver it. :3
There’s been a lot of talk in my social media feeds about crowdfunded projects with long timeframes that have extended periods of radio silence, and make backers jittery in the process.
I’ve been wary of falling into that mode from the start with Undad (given that six months is a longer-than-usual timeframe for delivery of a book), and am endeavouring to post updates on Kickstarter at least once per fortnight, even if it’s just to say that things are still progressing.
It’s occurred to me, though, that I may be going too far the other way, and annoying people with a constant stream of unwanted communication in their inbox.
I leave it to you. Time to have your say:
When you back a project, how often do you want to hear from the creators? If there’s nothing of real substance in an update, would you rather not get it at all, or is it better that communication is still open?
I’ve got so many Kickstarter projects backed that half the time I end up deleting the updates without reading. The exception is for projects I really care about, so I read yours. Honest.
I don’t think anyone is worried about books. Books and board/card games have a pretty good record. It’s more the over promising technology related stuff that appears to be struggling.
Must just be my circles. I’ve spent the last hour reading about people complaining about long periods of silence for successful comic projects 😛
Oh hey it’s that guy who won’t shut up 😛
I don’t really mind. I’m happy to ignore a project until it eventually comes around, the occasional update to let us know things are still rolling is good but for the most part I take the assumption that it’ll all work out in the end.
You paid for the exclusive updates, so I’m emailing you every week on top of all the updates. Sorry, man. You’ve got it worst of all.
For the record, you can opt out of those exclusive emails. My own parents did just that.
(In fact, you’re the only person actually receiving them at the moment… though I am archiving them for when the remaining moneybagsbackers fill in their surveys!)
I hereby declare myself president of the cool club. No Bens allowed.
Not even one.
If I’m being completely honest… I don’t usually give your (or any other Kickstarter) update emails more than a quick skim-read for keywords like “new reward info” or “everything has exploded, no book anymore!” 😛
I figure people who want the info will appreciate the updates, people who don’t care won’t care either way.
I don’t mind if people don’t read my hard-won words. I’m used to that. As long as I’m not actively annoying people, I’m good!
I’ve stopped reading your updates because they’re getting spoilery. 😛
But yeah, I think a middle ground is best. Not as often as you update, but not leaving it so long that people forget all about your project. although that could be kind of cool, when it just shows up on your doorstep and you go “Oh yeah, I forgot about this! Thanks, past me!”. Or is that just an #oldladystrange thing? 😀
Spoilers! Uh oh. I didn’t think I’d spilled much that wasn’t in the body of the Kickstarter page… but maybe I have inadvertently done so. Sorry!
I’m at I think >40 projects backed so far and only about 8 have delivered everything, so I get a cascade of updates, sometimes more than 5 a day. I generally don’t read them, just skim and only read carefully if it looks like I need to. I’d probably not read most of your updates, no offense intended.
How can anyone ever have unwanted communication from you in their inbox? I would love to receive things from your outbox to my inbox *slow wink*
Do any other TAYbies think posts should have numbers to the side?
It would make waiting much easier, and we’d get less posts asking if it’s the next page yet.
Does it really matter?
It’d stop the mass-posting we sometimes get at the end of pages, so yeah.
I think it would be far more useful* to have numbers of posts against each poster, so we know where we stand in the hierarchy.
* though still not really very useful at allUpvote/Downvote tracker.
You shut your trap, 31.
Could you imagine the strategising, the bargaining, the backroom shenanigans of the upwardly mobile? It makes my brain hurt just thinking about it.
When you play the game of votes, you win or… you lose.
It’s called Reddit.
Wonderful idea, Mr. 29986, sir.
All hail our great and powerful overlord,
@dcMr. 40929.You dare tag the Elite? Typical <5K-er.
Sorry, sir. 🙁
<5K – The new n00b.
< 1k – the n00b boot polisher.
Need a shoe shine, sir?
That’s rich from a <20ker 😛
The 6056 dude abides.
You going to change that each post? Or just never post again?
Each post?
Damn, I was hoping for never post again. >:(
ily <3I’m still trying to work out what to do for my 30,000.
Streak.
He does that every 100 posts, I don’t know what Shane you’re watching.
Streak… whilst on fire? *shrug*
Now you’re on the trolley
I’m naked right now, in fact.
Under my clothes, anyway.29999… here goes.
30k?!
I’m barely over 9000 posts here.
Cue DBZ jokes.
Again, it’d promote mass-posting.
Not what I’m after.
What is so wrong with mass posting? TAY is pretty dead these days compared to previous years’ paces….
I agree with strange. We havent had adults only page 18 in a long while.
Tell me about it :'(
The world is a better place without Erotic Eighteen.
Now I’m tempted to write pow slashfic…:P
You think we haven’t done it before?
Powalen pulled his hand down, caressing Pants’ leg as he went. Pants’ body shuddered lightly, and Pow paused.
“It’s alright,” Pow said gently, “we can take this slow, I know you wanted it to be special.”
“It’s not that,” whispered Pants, “it’s just that, well, I brought along some help.”
With a smash the door broke open, to reveal Cakesmith wearing naught but a cowboy hat, and it wasn’t on his head.
Good luck besting Powalen’s Prehistoric Paradise: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/53265444/1/Powalens-Prehistoric-Paradise
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The only thing I can talk about is my mother, and it’s getting too Freudian for my liking. I WISH I WAS INTERESTING ENOUGH TO HAVE THINGS TO SAY!
Tell your mother that the reason you don’t have a girlfriend is because none of them measure up to her.
She’ll stop asking the question quick enough. There’ll be others, but not that one.
I agree with this. It’s been REALLY quiet around here the last few months.
Early year slow period?
I’m sorry. I’ve been really snowed under at work.
I mean like spamming, (i.e., posting just to get to the next page).
I know exactly what you mean. And what is so wrong with it? I don’t actually think numbers would help with your problem with it, either. It might make people spam more at the end of a page if they more easily knew exactly how many posts were left on the page….
That’s because we mostly all have twitter. I have twenty two notifications there from the past hour alone
At 18069, I’m feeling rather apprehensive about this.
Just a young, fledgeling, 1500 odd. Jesus Christ, I have a long way to go.
The Council on Foreign Relations, a US based public policy think tank has released a piece on their thoughts on Tony Abbott.
It’s not exactly what you call a glowing report…
http://blogs.cfr.org/asia/2015/02/05/tony-abbott-has-to-go/
Good to know the Americans are still making fun of us for electing a complete buffoon.
They’re probably relieved to see another country hold a free election and wind up with someone as dangerous and ridiculous as GW was.
Ha yeah.
Ouch
Oh god I started reading the comments. Why did I read the comments? 🙁
Haha, I just read them. Those first few are interesting. The language used, it’s written more like a press release than someone talking,listing off his achievements and personal virtues. Wonder if they came from his office or a pr team?
The first one is an absolute wanker and it goes downhill from there.
I was reading the comments thinking just this…
The comments seem to pull punches at the content of the article but seem to echo LNP rehtoric “stop the boats” etc.
Althought I thought this one was an absolute pearler…
Guys, guys! Apparently we have leftwing media!
Rupert Murdoch won’t like that!
My favourite is the one who calls him a good person. This right after he flat out said he felt no guilt whatsover over the Forgotten Children report. What a good human being!
I just don’t get it.. A bunch of people I know whom I have on Facebook are constantly complaining about Kanye West and how he should just bugger off and being in general very hateful toward him over the whole thing that happened at The Grammy’s. God damn it, if you want something to vanish out of existence you don’t keep talking about it making it relevant. Plus who cares what he says or does, he’s not going to care, if anything he’ll embrace and upset those who hate him even more lol.
That is almost always the problem. 😛
Not almost. Always.
Facebook is what proves John Gabriels Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory wrong. Anonymity isn’t what makes people be awful, they’re far too happy to do it with their name, city and their photo there for all to see.
Yep. I submit that it’s the inability to be immediately and physically* held accountable for your actions that turns people into dickwads.
* i.e. by being punched, gagged or lynchedWhy don’t you say that to my face!
I remember playing a game ages ago called Kingdom of Loathing. There was a guild I really wanted to be part of, can’t remember the name of it now, but I applied and was rejected.
I asked why I was rejected and told I didn’t meet the 20 minute rule. “20 minute rule?” I asked.
Apparently it’s a rule put in place by that guild leader. If he can’t jump in his car, drive to your house and punch you in the face for being an arsehole within 20 minutes, you don’t get in the guild.
Sometimes I wish I could hire people to go punch dickwads on the internet for me.
This would solve so many problems.
Well, the theory states that anonymity can turn a normal person into a fuckwad, though not that it’s the only thing that can do so. Nor that these people are normal to begin with 😛
Just look at YouTube comments 😛
No thanks.
I do find them good entertainment, especially those who decide everyone who cannot; spell, use an apostrophe, full stop, etc correctly deserves a grammar lesson lol..
I think it’s more so they think a lot of the time “Oh they’re my friends so they must have the same opinion as me so I’ll receive no backlash since they have to dislike the same things as me”
Well that’s how it seems with some I know..
@dc
http://i.imgur.com/S8G4QZY.jpg
😛
What happened to that guy anyway.
HI DC!
He broke 40,000 and instantly became waaaay too good for us plebes.
I dunno! He sometimes Instagrams. Come back @dc it’s boring without your up votes & input to our mindless drivel!
I encountered my first complete failure in TAFE today. First thing is that I slept in. I was supposed to wake up around about 6am in order to catch the bus and two sets of trains in order to get to TAFE. So I was delivered quite a shock when I woke up and the clock said 7:20. So I rushed to get ready quickly and managed to get on my bus. A series of transport problems, including trains being too full and needing to use the toilet at the train station, made me even later.
I rocked up to class 20 minutes late, right in the middle of the lecturer’s speech about the theory of everything. Because I missed the first 20 minutes of the speech, the next 20 minutes were spent in confused silence trying to figure out what the hell the lecturer was talking about. Once the speech ended, I realised how incredibly tired I was. I could barely keep my eyes open. Desperate measures had to be taken. I had to go get a coffee.
There are many reasons I don’t drink coffee. It causes a stomach ache like no other, and will send me into a cycle of endless pooping. I reserve coffee drinking for the most extreme cirumstances like these. There was one effect of coffee that I had not experienced until today; paranoia.
I became terrified that I was doing everything wrong, that I was trying to work on the wrong task in the wrong order, that I was falling massively behind. It was a truly terrifying experience that I never want to go through again. Make no mistake – that was definitely not anxiety, it was legitimate paranoia. This impeded me from working for a good 45 minutes. Eventually I the effects of the coffee started to wear off. The paranoia started to subside, and was replaced by the relaxing familiarity of general anxiety. I was back to being tired, but I could at least keep my eyes open. Right around this time, I managed to get the attention of the lecturer to ask what I was actually meant to be doing. Turns out my paranoia was at least somewhat founded, as I discovered I was doing the wrong task all along.
I had to read a thing, and then do a thing. I couldn’t get past the first step. Every time I read a sentence, I would either forget it immediately or be so caught up in worrying over how far behind I was that I would have to read it again. This continued for another hour until I got past the first paragraph. I’m not an expert on such matters, but I suspect that is not efficient working.
I kind of gave up by this point. With every fibre of my being, I wanted to be at home, go to bed, and start anew. Today just wasn’t my day, I said to myself. But that was not an option. I was falling behind further by the minute. I stopped myself from crying at the whole situation, which I consider my most impressive victory of the day.
So now the class is over, and I’m here in the library trying to jot down my experiences in the hopes that it relieves stress. And it kind of has. But the big question is where I go from here. Today is the day where I only have one session, which means the second half of the day is supposed to be dedicated to study. Do I stay, and attempt to do the same thing that I have failed repeatedly at all day, or do I write the day off, go home, go to bed early and hope it never happens again?
I suppose the big thing I need to figure out is whether the coffee actually caused the paranoia. Coffee kind of f**ks me up physically, I know this. I would not be surprised at all if it causes mental issues at all. And the fact that the ‘stay awake’ effect of the coffee and the paranoia subsided at exactly the same time seems like a good bit of evidence. But is that even possible? I dunno, all I can do right now is type away.
Okay, I’ve waffled for way to long. I’m going to hit send. I’m just stalling otherwise.
Protips: set your alarm, and have a nice tall glass of OJ next time. *writes illegible prescription*
Pharmacist: I can’t make this out. It either says orange juice or methamphetamine. Screw it, we’ll give him both.
Correction: @mythamphetamine – the ultimate pick-me-up.
OJ = Obnoxious Jokes?
The very best cure for whatever ails you.
I set three alarms for myself, one after the other. It wasn’t enough. I’m not sure how OJ Simpson in a glass is going to help, but the threat of death might wake me.
Oh man, I had anxiety like this when I was at film school. No real solution either, it just takes time to adjust.
If I could suggest one thing it’d be grab some exercise whenever you can. Really helps with relaxation and balancing out.
Don’t worry as you remember studying is all about not paying attention, getting the notes online, doing essays and what have you the night before (that’s when you use your coffee card), and do last years exam over and over again because they never change the questions except for changing the odd word around.
If you want to actually be top of your class though, yeah, study is good. Can’t help you there. My student years were filled with watching the Simpsons DVDs over and over again. I AM SO SMART. I AM SO SMART. SMRT
You’re welcome for me being so helpful and full of adviceIt can only get better? Hey man, we’ve all been there. Nothing at school prepares you for this shit.
On the plus side, as long as you communicate with lecturers (without being a too-frequent pest), your mistakes are honest errors, and you’re earnest… you’ll probably get helped along.
They kind of expect you to screw up a bit when you’re a freshman.
Congrats for not packing it in. If I have any advice about tertiary education that doesn’t involve unconscionable vices, it’s to always turn up. Even if you’ve missed a session or are incredibly late, even if it then means waiting hours between your sessions, the time can be better spent. It gets you in a routine, it gives you an opportunity to catch tutors/lecturers in their wrap-up, to meet up with the people you know from your tutorials/practicals and compare notes or get their overview, and most importantly, it puts you in the ‘learning’ headspace. Because if you stayed at home, you wouldn’t be in that headspace. So yeah. Always rock up.
You did the right thing, good on you.
I don’t know if I just managed to slip into exactly the right course (especially compared to my friends, who always seemed to be so loaded down with work and stuff) but I found uni to be totally cruisy. Especially compared to school.
Well. I found it pretty cruisey after a little while as well, but that’s mostly because I stopped bloody going.
There was drinking, womanizing, piracy and college-network counter-striking to do. Between that and the eternal quest for free internet porn, I had a jam-packed schedule that simply had no room for attending classes.
…Apart from panicked freak-out sessions completing assignments overnight in the 24hr computer rooms the night before deadlines, munching down giant, vending-machine choc-chip cookies.
The first time around, anyway.
I completely did uni wrong. There was no drinking, no womanising, no piracy, no gaming over the network… literally just train in, go to classes, usually lunch with the guys, afternoon classes, train home. To this day I still have no idea what the big deal over “O week” is, I have zero memory of it even being a thing other than just another portion of the year when there seem to be more people around than usual. Which did seem to happen every now and then, so it wasn’t all that out of the ordinary.
I guess nobody got around to telling me how you’re supposed to do it 😛
o.O;
‘O week’ is the hugest deal! All the student union reps are out handing out the discount cards that you’ll over-use and abuse for the rest of the year and go around to grab a second or third round of to scalp to late-comers for pizza money! Various clubs host parties with tonnes of drinking to convince you to sign up, though I missed a bunch of those myself thanks to Unreal Tournament.
Definitely doing it wrong. You’re not there for an education, you’re there to make terribly poor life decisions.
So in the end perhaps I made the poorest life decision of all? 😛
Pretty typical of me though, to be totally clueless about anything like that. Especially not having any friends around who might be more knowledgeable on things and having to just find my own way. Also I think my particular campus probably wasn’t the greatest one for that sort of thing. I mean sure, while half the students were all arts students (they’re supposed to be the fun socialising type, right? As opposed to the other half which were all computing nerds) from memory there were only two “clubs” there at all – anime club and the bible studies group. Neither held any appeal to me 😛
In my experience, the arts campus had all the really popular and frankly most attractive students. The IT/engineering campus had the nerds… the IT side were more awkward and introspective, the engineering more… well. Insane fucking party animals who brewed their own beer and were bad, bad, bad influences.
In my experience.
@transientmind We had a few classes shared with some engineering students. They had a superiority complex so we pretty much all hated each other 😛
Replying here because I can.
Hands up as one of those Engineering party animals who made bad choices (ok, not THAT many bad choices – I think I fell asleep in Physics only once), and we didn’t brew our own beer, we just mixed the most horrifying punch of all time.
But the Engineering Revue was one of my favourite bits of uni – bad singing and acting, even worse jokes, and the best damn set design ever. (We would lease our props to the other revues)
When I started, everyone was assigned to random groups for O-week and I was like “so you want me to meet up with random strangers who probably won’t even be in my course after a few weeks and spend all week drinking in bars? No thanks.” I don’t think I ever even met the people that were in that group.
Have next to zero contact with anyone that I met at University which is a shame because I got on pretty well with my honors group. We just didn’t properly exchange contact details at the end. We did, however, go see Doom in the cinemas as a group right after handing in our theses, and then proceed to rag on it throughout the film (we were the only people in the theater).
I remember that day well because on the way there I purchased Xenosaga Episode II. Poor life decisions all the way. 🙁
I think “wrong” is too absolute a term. By all accounts, I did it “wrong”: I lived in student accommodation, five minutes walk from campus, with 5 other students, and the most I saw of a party was telling the others to try to be considerate about the noise after midnight. Always on time for classes, always paid attention and took notes, lunch with friends, then home for half an hour to do the assigned work to prep for the lab sessions, and spent the rest of the day gaming/reading/surfing the web… It was heaven. *stares wistfully off into the distance*
From what I’ve heard, living in student accommodation is also another method of doing it right.
I am firmly convinced that I did University completely wrong. I went to almost all my classes, paid attention, never went out, barely had any friends and there was no womanizing and almost zero booze.
I just went home after classes were done and played video games and watched anime.
We totally would have been friends.
You mean we’re not?! My whole life is a lie
I feel like I did it right enough in my first year, and fairly wrong in the second 😛 I’m trying to right that ship again this year though. I don’t have you-know-who to chill with this year which took up most of my free time, so back to first year antics 😛
Edit: I even got to almost all of my classes last year! And got HD’s on most things! Wtf?!
What a nerd.
Let’s bash him
Tip: the reason that tertiary study feels so stressful when you start is because your brain is adjusting to the fact that you are required to learn how to find things out for yourself, rather than being spoon-fed the facts like in primary and secondary school.
Coffee won’t help if you’re dead tired. It’s a stimulant and will help you obtain and maintain alertness faster, blowing the cobwebs out so to speak, but if you’re mentally and physically exhausted then it’s going to just make you exhausted and hopped up on caffeine. It’s not a replacement for sleep.
Aw. Lady has set up a casual lease selling clothes and jewellery she has made herself next to my shop. While setting up the shop she was talking to a customer and someone has come along and swiped the bag of jewellery, taking half the value of her stock.
She’s closed up the clothes racks together, covered them in a sheet and is under it crying her eyes out. I feel so bad for her. People are the worst.
That’s horrible 🙁
Why don’t you just give it back?
Ah god dammit… I’ve seen some of those set up in other shopping centres as well. Jewellery and accessories and stuff… usually slightly older women, mums whose kids have started going to school now, sometimes older. Looking bored as hell and sometimes nervous. And you can tell they’ve made the stuff by hand and worked so hard on it and this is their shot at financial independence and they’ve gone to all this trouble but no-one’s biting, and their dream is gurgling down the drain before it even began and it wasn’t even that big a dream, and I just… oh god. And someone does THAT? Why? WHY?
Why do people have to hurt? It’s not fair. 🙁
I wonder if all the shopping centers have as many asshole clientele as you seem to encounter, or if your particular one is some kind of magnet for shitheels?
From what I’ve heard mine isn’t all that bad.
That’s kind of depressing.
TAYlist for the 11th of February 2015
TAYlist – the TAY Playlist, sponsored by 2pm appointments cutting my show shortSteps – 5-6-7-8 (Requested by @FreezeSPreston)
Go Gos – We Got The Beat (Requested by @cufcfan616)
David Bowie – Modern Love
Passenger – Let Her Go
The Magician ft. Years & Years – Sunlight
All Time Low – I Feel Like Dancing
Alice Deejay – Better Off Alone
Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder – Ebony And Ivory
Rush – Beneath, Between & Behind (Requested by @virus__)
Ginuwine – Pony (Requested by @highperformance)
John Farnham – Chain Reaction
Dom McLean – American Pie (Requested by @transientmind)
Yolanda Be Cool & DCUP – Sugar Man (How about that Pulp Fiction reference)
Phil Collins – In The Air Tonight (Requested by @beeawwb)
Angels – Coming Down
Dire Straits – Brothers In Arms (Requested by @blaghman)
Cranberries – Zombie (Requested by @liondrive)
Curtis Mayfield – Move On Up (Requested by @smurfydog, couldn’t stick around to hear this one, I’ll be sure to put it on later)
Oh my god, you didn’t! I was joking about that because you shut down a song based on play length!
…On the plus side, it’s still a solid choice. 🙂
4 minute radio version, also I love the song, I couldn’t not play it.
Dear sir or madam, will you read my book? It took me years to write, will you take a look? *breaks down crying*
Maybe if you spent more time writing your book and less time writing Kickstarter updates… >:D
YOU SEE THAT @popdart5 ? That’s what that song is. A radio classic.
*cough*
Seconded.
Way to hold onto your memories old-timer. 😛
What?
Thank you for my request, it’s a sexy song and I felt it appropriate.
Next list needs some Huey Lewis.
Power of Love.
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I’m off to a terrible start.But I want the SLIGHTLY LESSER THEN THE LESSER EVIL edition. Do you have one in stock?
Got you covered, man. Here’s part one of The Lesser Evil. It bears the unofficial title of “The”
You dirty fucking liar, see if I ever buy one you your tomes of lies
againever.Maybe, when I have more than the pittance I have right nowWhat part was a lie? The coupon is legit. IT’S LEGIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT 🙁
What a terrible Idea. I’m absolutely not going to buy that.
Because I already own an autographed copy \o/YOU’RE CATCHING UP D; !
I’m at 31493 now. There was a time when I was king…
>:| @dc
ily <3
I’m sure there was once a time when I was king, or at least close to it. Many, many moons ago.
Credit where it’s due to the Stan support guys.
Had an issue using my Chromecast where I couldnt skip forward/back through a stream without it falling over and starting from 0:00 again.
Fired off an email, had one back to clarify the issue, and have since recieved an update saying they’re working on it and an email just now saying it’s been resolved (in a little under 4 business days).
Will be interesting to see if it’s a “we’re new so pull out all the stops to impress” or if the customer service will just fall by the way side a little down the track.
Ooh, I was gonna ask if anyone had tried Stan with a Chromecast yet! I’ve been seriously considering doing that but I have no idea if Stan even has stuff I’d like, let alone if it works well.
Edit: So yeah, how is Stan? And how is Stan with the Chromecast?
I use it with mine, and it’s generally pretty good. Watched a fair few cooking shows on it. Enjoying it a lot:)
It works well… enough…
Positives (for me) so far
– Enough content for now to justify the subscription. Although that is pending what Netflix throws in the mix. I’ve not watched alot of the stuff on here so there’s plenty to keep me and the Mrs occupied.
– Stream quality is top notch. I connect at 8Mbps and HD streams have worked with zero stuttering or artefacts and only 10 – 20 seconds of ‘fetching’ before a streams start.
– Chromecast support out of the box – load it up on browser tab then cast, or start stream and cast. If it didn’t have Chromecast support I wouldn’t have bothered.
Annoyances
– Search function is… hopeless… for lack of a better word. You’re better off browsing for content (few articles around with some more details that are worth a read).
– Android support is a bit thin. Can’t get the app on my HTC One (M7) despite running 4.4.3 which is on par with supported devices… but I am aware that HTC Sense does do some things differently to other ‘skins’ so could be that.
– Chromecast requires ‘casting’ device to remain online/active – which flys in the face of what the Chromecast can do. I use my laptop mostly, and I can’t drop the lid once a stream starts, I need to move mouse/tap touchpad every 10 minutes or so to stop it from ‘sleeping’ (i could change power settings but that’s a whole lot of hassle).
I find it works better with the iPad – in the ipad it doesnt play video on the ipad at the same time.
@gingerchris86 @sunsoar77 Thanks, guys! Seriously thinking of checking it out. 🙂
1 month free… you need to chuck in credit card and they do $1 authorisation check. But you can cancel immediately and still try it for a month.
Yeah that’s why I wanted to try it. I don’t actually have a Chromecast yet,but considering I was about to drop $55 for a month of Foxtel Play, I thought maybe I’d buy a Chromecast instead and check out Stan. Then if I don’t like Stan I can still use the Chromecast for other stuff, so the money seems better spent than just on Foxtel.
That’s the thing I’m finding incredibly interesting about Stan. It seems to have all the indicators of cashing into the buzz of streaming TV on your computer but it’s actually backed up by quality (quantity is probably only lacking because of the existing licensing arrangements with Foxtel). It’ll be interesting to see where things go from here.
Oooh! Cool stuff.
Is this Besiege?
I’ve been patiently biding my time over when to get it…
God damn it. Found a deodorant I like (last week) and now Coles has it labelled ‘reduced to clear’ well that sucks.
Every time I find a deodorant I like it gets removed 🙁 First the orange Adidas one and now the green dove one :l It’s already gone at WW and on clearance at Coles.
You stay away from my chocolate Lynx!
No, YOU stay away from MY chocolate Lynx! It’s mine, I tells ya!
ill fite u
At least it’ll smell like a rumble in the Cadbury factory.
Ladies *eyebrow wiggle*
That dark temptation one? As much as I can’t stand Lnyx stuff, that and gold temptation actually smell okay and I do indeed have a can of both 😛
What’s gold temptation? Haven’t heard of that one.
And yeah, I’m no Lynx fan either. Only ever liked this one, and Dimension before it (which did get discontinued, back in the late 00s). Wouldn’t know what to do if it disappeared.
It’s pretty damn similar to dark tempation, just has more spice undertones than chocolate 😛
Huh, sounds like my kinda thing. Dimension was a similar kind of spice type dealie, might have to check this one out.
So rude!
that happens to me with shampoo and conditioner for me… every damn time I find one I like, they stop making it!!!! Grrrrrr!
Same here! – really annoying when it’s a specific anti-dandruff mix or the like too! >.<
though my current shampoo/conditioner set? ALDIs! – works a treat and actually designed properly as a set (the runny shampoo is upright and the thicker conditioner is the upside-down one so you don’t have to keep balancing them the wrong way around to avoid wastage, and the bottles have yin/yang curves so they fit together nicely on the shelf)
Growing up, (through my teen years anyway) Pert 2in1 was the ONLY stuff that would actually make my hair feel clean. Gradually places stopped stocking my particular “version” (like oily/dry etc.) til one day nobody stocked it any more. Whenever I did see any variant of it after that, I would buy as much as I could!
Eventually I tried a whole bunch of others, and found one that worked well enough, and sure enough, 2 months later, they stopped stocking it :\ That went on for like 4 or 5 more tries before I caved and spent some more money on Head and Shoulders 2in1 (not the dandruff one cos it’s crazy bullshit expensive,, but ‘normal’) but it’s still so much more expensive than what I used to use. Still, at least they seem to stock it everywhere a year down the track! As long as it doesn’t go up in price too much, I’ll keep using it cos it works almost as well as the Pert I used to use, and that’s a blessing!
Finally got around to watching Mad as Hell on iView…
Loving it so far…
😀
Economic girly man.
It’s the only thing I watch on broadcast TV. Love it.
I think I’ve influenced the ordering quantities at King’s. Usually when I go to pick up Teen Dog for me and my friends I end up clearing them out entirely, but this time they had maybe three or four extra copies. Hooray? 😛
@benny yo! Now that I’m not at work and not on my phone, I can explain the Xiaomi Mi Band a bit more. Any specific questions?
In terms of features it has step and sleep tracking, an alarm, and phone notifications (if you download a different version of the app). Other “physical” features is it being IP67 (dust and water resistant up to 1m). It also has pretty LED lights :P. It doesn’t have a display so you’ll have to look at the app for most information but its basic feature is that the 3 lights will light up depending on how close you are to achieving your set goal for steps. eg. a goal of 9000 steps a day will mean 1 light = 3000 steps, 3 lights = 9000 steps (goal achieved) etc.
I don’t know how other activity trackers work but this one doesn’t need your phone to be around 24/7. It’ll just sync up to your phone whenever you want it too and I think I read somewhere it can store up to 10 days worth of data without syncing. I guess ideally you’d want to leave the app and Bluetooth on so that it can constantly sync but I just open the app and enable Bluetooth for a bit every couple of hours so it can sync.
Step stuff seems to be pretty accurate and it doesn’t seem to pick up every slight movement. I think it did count some steps when I was driving and playing the piano but typing on a keyboard doesn’t seem to affect it :P. Tried out the sleep stuff last night and it seems… okay. I can’t comment on the accuracy of the light sleep/deep sleep cycles but I did wake up more than once during the night (just remained in bed) and it only said I woke up once. Still not bad for it to detect it at all though :D. There’s no button to enable a “sleep mode” or anything and it just does it automatically which is handy.
I did set an alarm to try and wake me up this morning but my normal phone alarm is the one that woke me up. It’s pretty basic :P. Phone notifications work well though and you can set custom vibrations, flashes and LED colours for each app like blue for Twitter etc.
Overall it’s so awesomes for the price ($20 MAN!)
Huh, that’s cool, might pick one up just to try out the whole fitness band thing
Yeah! I’m interested in the whole activity tracker band thing too but didn’t want to pay a premium price for the well known brands. Only problem is that it’s not sold (official) in Western markets so you’ll have to buy it online.
It’s about $20 from those Chinese retailers (mine took about 3 weeks to arrive from Banggood) but I saw a deal for $30 from an Australian site (that ships from Sydney).
http://www.banggood.com/Original-Xiaomi-Miband-Bluetooth-Smart-Bracelet-For-Mobile-Phone-p-937201.html
Wow under $19 now :P. Even cheaper!
“bang good” dotcom? :\
I know, it looks so bad 😛
But I’d rather it than bang bad hurr hurr!
*leer and wink*
Definitely one to check from home… Noway I’m going near that on a work machine.
I bought my Ocarina from them, it arrived at some point, and worked as advertised.
*Blaghs Reviews, they do shit all*
I bought that ceramic ocarina from there too! Thought it would be significantly better than my plastic one but they sound exactly the same. Ugh.
I got one also. Actually I got two, one for Wingman. She’s a Zelda nut, it was a perfect present.
But yeah, I thought it had a slightly better quality sound, but the tuning on it wasn’t as good as the STL one. My ceramic Songbird ocarina is better than either of them, but doesn’t have as large a range.
Found it on dealextreme, will probably go through them as there’s some other stuff I want to pick up
Thanks for the write up, much appreciated.
Sorry I have been dead.
Welcome to the land of the living.
Not until Elsa is finished.
This mission in Besiege is giving me the irrits…
You just have to reach the insignia, but every time I either hit a mine, or get destroyed by a damn sheep!
Arrgh!
D:
Okay, so I just made a pissy two-block, four-wheeled thing. and it ended up working…
Game of the year!
\o/
Turkey is considering banning Minecraft because of it’s violent content and deptictions of violence against women.
Wut.
But… I thought there aren’t any women in Minecraft unless you mod them in? Or that ‘Steve’ was declared to be intentionally gender-neutral. Unless things have changed in the years since I’ve played it.
‘Steve’ was joined by ‘Alex’ a few updates ago (I think that was her name) who has thinner arms and a different default texture.
Huh. Cool. 🙂
Well. Cool that it’s available, not cool that Turkey is weird.
What song did Elvis sing as he landed in the volcano?
Hunka Hunka Burning Flesh.The fact that I don’t have a uniform for TAFE means that I wear my everyday clothes. The problem is that I can’t wear the same shirt for a week straight like I normally do without people noticing. Damn you, higher education! Why won’t you let me be a slob?
Sounds like someone needs, A SHOPPING SPREE! 😀 😀 😀
Hey! I have like…
*counts*
Five shirts..! Take that!
I can’t count all my shirts accurately, since they’re scattered everywhere, but I have 30 hanging up.
Add about 8 on the clothes line, 15-ish at the bottom of my wardrobe, at least 5 at the top of my wardrobe, the 3 on my floor, and the 2 in my washing hamper, and I have 63 shirts.
Hmm, I could go 9 weeks without washing shirts…
Or up to 18 weeks if they’re ok to wear twice!
YOU’RE SICK, GOOKY!
Fully 😎
Since back when I started college a few years ago I started cycling my shirts, so over two weeks I’d wear one each day I was out and stack them on my shelf, on the third week I’d reverse the pile and go through them again and this time put them in the wash as I was done with them. Help prevent them getting all worn out and pilly from excessive washing 😛
The system works. Except when I have a day of excessive activity and the shirt stinks, then it goes straight into the basket. Besides, it’s saving water too!
When I first did TAFE I wore the same blue hoodie for the entire first year. Combined with the fact that all my pants look the same I ended up giving myself a sort of unofficial uniform.
Just go on threadless and order a bunch of t-shirts.
Been there, done that, got the …
Wait. I didn’t think this through.
You bastard. I just wasted all morning looking at t-shirts that I will never buy. Then I started looking at Skyrim t-shirts on RedBubble. I WANT THEM SO MUCH.
It’s a pity that I will never spend more than $10 on a shirt. BUT I WANT IT SO MUCH.
Threadless do sales. Often.
I don’t know what my t-shirt size is relative to American sizes, (I have trouble figuring out what my size is in Australian sizes as it is) so I don’t want to take the risk on a shirt being too big. Plus, I don’t think RedBubble takes debit cards, so I’m shit out of luck.
Is it a visa debit?They accept credit, debit and paypal.
Threadless size chart: https://www.threadless.com/sizechart/modal/type,guys
Not trying to twist your arm, just saying it’s entirely doable 🙂
Huh, Australian and American sizes are the same. Since women’s size 0 in America is a size 12 here, I expected there to be crazy levels of fat-shaming in the American measurements. This is definitely doable.
…except I don’t have a Visa debit card. I have a standard ANZ savings account debit card. But at least one hurdle has been avoided.
One day, you will be mine.
EDIT: Ah, shit. Redbubble use different sizes.
On casual dress days at work and any time I don’t need, I wear one of a few dozen black shirts and blue jeans. Takes all the hassle out of laundry and making wardrobe decisions.
Give it a month and you’ll be amazed at just how slobbish you can be.
Damn…the cricket doesn’t start until tomorrow…
Also, there’s a lot of rain today… :/
Dunno if anyone cares but… The Division has been confirmed for a 2015 release! Along with R6:Siege.
I really want to be excited for The Division, but I’m worried it’ll end up feeling like a typical by the numbers Ubisoft game.
I also really want to be excited about it, but I’m predicting sparse content relying on player interaction as its own form of content. Cue PVP focus.
What are the betting odds it has towers that you need to climb? $0.30?
*ominous stony tone*
Community service announcement: If you’re my friend on Facebook (as you should be – you get “awesome” pictures of my kid and me attending sporting events!), you probably received a friend request from a guy named Simon Tebb today. I’m assuming you don’t know him because I didn’t go to school with any of you. You should probably ignore/unfriend him. I figure either his account has been hacked, or he gave his account permissions to a dodgy site.
I was going to ask you about that. Seemed weird.
Thanks for the warning. I was wondering.
Murdered Soul Suspect, A$2.99 Steam key via the Square Enix store.
God damn it, I can’t register to get it *sigh*
I could send you my code if you like? Then I’ll just buy another maybe later tonight.
Also it should let you just sign in with your Steam account instead of registering.
tried that as well
Think I had a half completed account from Tomb raider and it is getting confused
I’ll try later when I’m not at work
So I dont know if anyone here would be interested. But a pretty interesting game came out on early access this morning.
Now before you go “Eww, early access!” – this game feels very polished for an early access game.
Its an Economic RTS called Offworld Trading Company – It’s developed by a co-developer of civ 3 and lead developer of civ 4 . I’ve played a couple of games, and if you like RTS’s but don’t like the over emphasis on military (like me) I think you’ll like it.
Have a look and if you get it, let me know, I’ll play it with you!
http://www.offworldgame.com/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/271240/
I like everything you just said, I just don’t $36 like what you just said at this point
Happy Friday the 13th TAY
Let me just test the moderation thing.
ETA: Bless u Mark Serrels.
It’ll probably be on Kotaku AU later today, but I felt I need to share this now:
http://kotaku.com/the-pizza-party-where-everyone-got-fired-1685455125
That last story… I just… I couldn’t imagine my family paying that kind of price for my chosen profession.
That last one is terrible 🙁
D:
After the very first layoff, I would be questioning my chosen profession. That’s just me.
Unfortunately anyone serious about working for a game company has accepted that lay off are inevitable, because sadly they are, you can hope to get a string of projects but unless its a very small and already successful studio you have to accept that the job will finish with the project. The only plan is to do as good a job as possible to make the project successful so you can go to the next interview showing off a successful game.
I couldn’t even finish the last one, too sad, I gave up on even entertaining the thought of working in the industry for these reasons. I’d love to put my education towards working on large scale games but I also want some stability in life and the games industry is just not where you will find it.
I stopped reading after the tennants burnt their house down. So much bad luck.
Unfortunately in any profession there’s no such thing as a permanent position anymore, even if you’re employed full time. I’ve been through redundancies and a company going into administration (on the same day I signed a full time contract but I got severance as a result of that), so each time we’re all called into a meeting my heart starts going. Long gone are the days you could stay in one company your whole career, but the video games industry is even quicker in moving people around due to the nature of the industry
Stuff like this makes me appreciate just how lucky I am to have been working for the same company for essentially my entire working life.
Holy shit.
Come now, why is my comment awaiting moderation, I thought we were well past this, Kotaku. Do we need to talk? Is there something you need to tell me?
Guys, come on. The day’s gonna go slow enough as it is, let alone without anything in here to distract me.
I’ll just leave this open in a tab in the background.
Even though my PC pumps sound out the inbuilt speaker.
@negativezero Latest Kantai Collection episode.
Well all of my expectations for this episode were shot out of the water. Good thing too as this was probably my favourite episode so far if only for the silliness. I did appreciate an episode not focused on Fubuki and the Akatsuki sisters were pretty darn great. The little references to the game all throughout this episode were pretty great too.We’re halfway through the season now and I have no idea where we are going to end up. Maybe a battle next week but I can see more general naval district shenanigans on the horizon. Mutsu is probably my favourite character at this point because she is a perfect foil for Nagato’s super serious nature. We still haven’t seen Yamato yet but I imagine she would be introduced sometime soon (I expect an absolute whirlwind of jokes about Hotel Yamato and her luxurious lifestyle).
You’re ahead of me for once. I’ve been spending all my time playing the game itself. Still struggling to clear E-5 and get my Amagi. Boss isn’t hard, the problem is actually reliably getting to her. Only managed it twice out of eight attempts which isn’t fantastic. Might have hit on a way to get there which is less prone to forcing me to turn back this morning though so hoping things improve. Another week left of the event at least but I’d like to head back to E-2 to farm Asashimo and E-4 for Unryuu.
Funny you should mention the Yamato Hotel – I actually used her in the event and she’s as fucking amazing as always, blowing the crap out of everything. The only reason I hardly ever field her is she’s so damn expensive to run.
Honestly, I think the anime’s going to end up being pretty much fluff throughout. Maybe a few serious bits here and there but mainly fairly silly. That’s basically what I expected going in as well. Also I think they’ll leave it open for a second season where they can introduce more ships. The show’s probably been in development for 18+ months and the characters would have been set down back then, so new favourites that have been added to the game since then like Amatsukaze or the Subs & Taigei or the Germans. I suspect that if they were doing things now, they’d have had a different core cast as well, less one-person-does-fifteen-voices issues as they’ve diversified the vocals a lot since the game launched.
I wouldn’t mind a second season a some point but yeah, so far the episodes range from fairly serious moments to out-and-out silliness. Just getting a bit of mood whiplash at times considering the setting and the antagonists can get pretty dark.
I read parts of the Kantai 4-koma a while back and that’s pretty much what the anime has ended up being. Mostly just a silly story with minor serious elements. But I’m totally okay with this.
Yeah, I’m pretty sure it’s heavily derived from that Fubuki 4-koma. Because otherwise why would you even focus on Fubuki, the blandest member of the blandest Destroyer class?
I’ve done the three eps of Kancolle and I’m probably giving up. (Yeah, right on that cliffhanger, I know.)
I think the show is almost exclusively for the purposes of giving fans of the game an opportunity to see their favourite girls in motion and saying slash-bait things to each other. (I mean for fuck’s sake, we’re never going to see the Admiral, are we? Because HE IS YOU!)
Not getting a sense of the world outside these cliques, any hints at an over-arching story or plot, just a string of loosely-connected incidents and events on the protagonist girl’s journey of exploring her new career. It just doesn’t seem to stand on its own.
It’s fan-service pure and simple in the same way that Girls und Panzer was. Paper-thin story that gives military history fanatics and anime fans exactly what they want. It succeeds in what it does but yeah, for those who don’t have at least a passing interest in either the game or the history, it’s not going to be as enjoyable.
Yeah, I have to say I’m a little bit sad they didn’t put some world-building into it. The closest contemporary that it has is probably the Strike Witches franchise, but that had enormous amounts of care put into crafting a detailed world, so while the bulk of it is similarly silly shenanigans interspersed with action sequences, it feels like its world has more substance.
It probably doesn’t help much that they’ve got a gigantic cast to work with and only 13x24mins to do everything in. Fairly limiting in terms of what world building they can do since the focus is, as you say, on the shipgirls themselves. Sadly I’ve yet to see my favourite girls in motion at all. 🙁 Mai Waifu is just a backdrop and Yamato is only in the OP.
Also bear in mind that, while they can reference the historical facts of the ships themselves, things get a lot hairier when referencing actual combat operations and so on. The Japanese Empire got up to some stuff that they’re not very proud of in places where the show is produced and/or sold. Kadokawa have been very careful not to let too much real life bleed over to the game, so you’ll get an event that’s ‘Operation W’ for example, but they go out of their way not to mention that you’re bombing Wake Island – the Wake Island Base is the ‘Isolated Island Oni’ (aka Hoppo-chan). They also never mention that the Abyssal fleet is basically the US Navy, you’re just left to figure that out based on the fact that their gun calibers are in inches. 😛 So yeah, they make reference to historical things, but always obliquely and more of a wink and a nod. And that probably makes any world-building much harder.
I think the reason they didn’t have the Admiral as a character is because of the lack of interaction. You give them orders and they go do it. Contrast with the Idolmaster, where the Producer is basically the same thing, but there’s long sequences in those games where you talk to the characters, answer and ask questions and interact with them. So when they did the anime adaption they did it really well – first episode is all first-person perspective and Producer doesn’t actually say anything, but then at the end it pulls out and he’s an actual character.
Also the fact is that if the Admiral was a proper character then it just wouldn’t work. He’d have to be the protagonist and stuff, and I can’t see a way you could make that as compelling since it’s not like he’d go on sorties or anything himself, he’d just watch and give orders and periodically get glomped by Kongou. That would be terrible. Much better off with Blandy McBlanderstroyer Fubuki as the protagonist, because she’s earnest and hard-working and utterly unremarkable so she can act as the sort of everyman contrast and point of reference to the rest of them. It just works better.
Besides, the Admiral in the KC anime is probably a drug addict. Can’t explain some of his decisions otherwise.
Gotta say, watching the latest Shirobako has definitely put the Kancolle anime in a different context for me.
I’m so behind on that show. Last I watched was 3-4 eps back, when they just got the contract to adapt a manga series that looked like the outcome of an orgy between Area 88, Strike Witches and Stratos 4.
They’ve started really getting into the issues around dealing with an established IP. It’s pretty damn fascinating to me.
By the way re the end of Ep 3
it’s not a cliffhanger. That actually happened. Played out exactly as it did to the real life Kisaragi tooFinally watched it. Great episode IMO. I think the Akatsuki sisters could have carried the show better than Fubuki does, even.
The girls all getting creeped out when Yuubari starts banging a hammer was pretty amusing. The sound it makes is the sound that happens when you scrap a ship and oh boy have I scrapped a lot of Akatsuki-class over my playing career.
Next episode I suspect they’ll go back to being a bit more serious.
Woooow that Supernova article…
The proposal I’ve been working on for a month goes in today \o/
Nice!
Who are you marrying? 😛
Apparently, the State Government.
Mazel tov!
For the dowry will you get a submarine, the spaceships of the sea?
Asian mail-order submarine?
I hope you didn’t have to move a piano for it.
awha?
It’s a big wooden thing with a row of white buttons that produce tones when pressed. Very heavy and very cumbersome to move around the place.
I am aware of the concept of piano, thankyou. I have no idea how it is relevant to this discussion.
Smartarse.
🙂
Dammit, can’t find the thingy. About a month ago, when I had to tune and help move a piano for a friend who was proposing to his girlfriend. Reference. Dealie.
I picked the wrong day to stop sniffing glue.
So, Max has begun chasing her own tail…
Also, she’s beginning to claw everything, even though we got a scratching post for her…
:\
I’ve been trying to use a collapsible storage cube lid to try and let her get it out of her system…
Does she use the scratching post?
Maybe get another one and put it next to the things she claws the most to try and encourage her to scratch that, then if/when she does, gradually move it away to the place where you want to keep it?
And put catnip on the scratching post to attract her away from the things he doesn’t want scratched?
She’s using it now… and she’s gone straight back to the cube lid.
😀
Ahaha of course she has! CATS.
@crazyguy1990 you should periodically go over and scratch your fingernails on the post while she’s watching. That will tell her that the post is actually yours, and thereby make the cat covet it greatly.
100% this.
So we rescued a little rainbow lorikeet yesterday, little guy had his tail feathers ripped out probably by another bird, fairly young probably only learnt to fly very recently. Chirpy little bugger and my dog thinks it’s fascinating she’s fixated on this strange animal.
I was avoiding Dragon Age yesterday because I need to get some work done. But I’ve realised that where I’ve stopped it is a dangerous place to stop, in that it’s in the middle of a not particularly fun section. So if I don’t go back to playing it soon I might never finish the game.
The temple with Morrigan where I’m doing the stupid ritual instead of just jumping straight down the hole like Iron Bull wanted me to. Ugh.The Arbor Wilds/Temple is probably my favourite section of the whole game. I found myself actually enjoying the puzzles there. Please tell me you brought Solas with you to the Temple.I always bring him for the main missions. 🙂That area is legit some of the prettiest in the whole game.
To be fair, the game gave you a choice.
Pfft, what choice? I always do both wherever possible so I don’t miss any loot! 😛
In this case, with my character being a devout Elf it felt kind of necessary to do the rituals…but I’m still gonna jump down the hole when I’m done because jumping down holes is fun.You guys ever watch Mathewmatosis? He does extremely indepth reviews of games (sometimes an hour long) and makes a lot of fantastic and interesting points on level design etc., He ripped apart Dark Souls 2 and Bioshock Infinite but it never felt like he was just doing it to be controversial (unlike certain websites).
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb_sF2m3-2azOqeNEdMwQPw
certain websites? which websites?
Gamespot has had its moments
See, I can’t comment on Dark Souls 2, but I felt like Bioshock Infinite was a shooter made by someone who didn’t want to make a shooter.
The story, worldbuilding, and visuals of that game were spectacular. The shooting was utterly rote.
Oh, I was referring to sites posting negative reviews to be controversial in general, wasn’t making reference to Gamespots review of BI or DS2 specifically (I don’t think I’ve read them). I do recall them posting some reviews with far lower scores than other sites and it never truly felt justified.
He’s not really my cup of tea. The critiques I’ve seen, apart from sounding like he’s obviously reading his essays (note: I’m not criticising writing out what you say beforehand, but he just doesn’t make it sound natural at all – he uses that same pitch pattern that makes 95% of news presenters interchangeable, and annoys the hell out of me whenever and wherever I hear it), his arguments are presented rapidfire, with no pause to let the viewer stop and consider the arguments he’s making. Especially in his DS2 critique, it felt like he was more concerned with voicing his opinion than promoting discussion.
That said, if he stopped doing youtube and started publishing the written critiques that he obviously already has on hand when recording the videos, I’d be a huge fan. It’s his delivery that dissuades me from watching more of his videos.
Yes, I even base my reviews off his style somewhat.
My left palm seems to have significantly more and deeper creases than my right.
Weird.
Somewhere an old fortune teller is shaking her head.
You know how engagement/wedding rings are on the left hand because it’s supposedly linked your heart? Apparently your left palm adds a new crease every time you fail to ask out a person you’re interested in. 😛
I did not know that, but you’ve got me convinced 😛
…
*starts counting to verify*
So that’s why my left hand is that of an old man.
*lefty-five*
So you’re a “lefty” huh? Bold choice!
Assuming that’s a dirty joke 😛
But I’m actually a righty, which makes it seem all the weirder. Would’ve thought my dominant hand would be the one with more.
Dude! It’s me! Everything is a dirty joke 😀
Man, that MH4 review’s got me hyped for the game, thinking about all the time I spent with Tri.
Which is a nice change, since I have a friend who (sorry if this is offensive but I can’t think of any better way to put it) just gets absolutely *autistic* about it. Like, endlessly spiels about the game, nonstop talking about every possible little minute detail that’s coming out of Japan and what weapons have had something or other done to their stats, telling us how we should go after this particular build and how we’re playing it wrong and blah blah blah blah OH MY GOD STOP ALREADY. It actively makes me hate the game, which is annoying since I used to actually like it once upon a time.
One of those friends who’s great IRL but I seem to absolutely hate online…
@greenius?
Unless he is naked soloed the march of victory in TriU he should concentrate on his own game lol.
After many years of playing MMO’s I have acquired the useful ability of ignoring those people. I don’t mind people that talk about game mechanics and such but the second you start criticizing someone else’s play because they aren’t using a “cookie cutter” build you move to the “dick head” person list.
I’d love to ignore him, but the group skypechat we have just gets completely flooded out by him (especially since Enter is his Full Stop) so it’s kinda hard to. Or impossible.
Dammit if it were the old chat I would’ve been able to just kick him 😛
We spent last night looking up trailers. The hype.
It’ll be nice for both of us to start at the same time on this one instead of the year+ head start I had on MH3U.
So I was just told it’s “funny” and a “joke” to ruin someone’s life because they have a different outlook to life as you. This is why we can’t have nice things and just get along >=[
IT’S JUST A PRANK BRO, HERE’S THE CAMERA. WANT ME TO SHOW YOU THE EXACT MOMENT YOUR DREAMS DIED?
Oh yeah that’s right.. It’s a prank and all pranks are harmless and never scarred or hurt anyone totally forgot that, thanks Kermi 😛
“If you look closely you can actually pinpoint the exact moment his heart breaks in two.”
Anyone who thinks doxxing is a prank is an utter tossbag.
My thoughts exactly.
Ugh. Those who partake in such are disgusting people and don’t need encouragement from anyone.
Well to be fair they were talking about doxxing people who are placing babies lives at risk because some random celebrities tell them they should.
If I had a way of knowing who wasn’t vaccinated I wouldn’t allow them anywhere near my daughter, certainly not while she hasn’t completed her vaccinations program and isn’t protected from horrible things that can kill or cripple her
Totally fair and extremely reasonable. Those people are fucking scary. But the people who seemed to start this doxxing trend think they’re doing no harm and are hard done by and anyone who seems to agree with it is giving them their approval to do it :/ But the way I see it there are other ways to get a message across to these anti-vaccine fuckwits, instead of doing something one group do to whoever upsets them for irrational reasons.
Yeah, I can get a bit irrational when faced with that, but you are right
Although no idea how you can get it across to the people in that thread. They are the kind who think that swatting is harmless fun as well
@renne the reason you’re suddenly in moderation is because of the downvotes in the supanova article.
Which, for the record, I think you’re receiving unfairly.
Thank you. Yeah, it turned out that was the case & I followed it up with the glorious Mark Serrels on twitter and he sorted it out for me. What a nice man.
It’s always the same group of people down voting everyone in every article even tangentially related to GamerGate.
and they like to pretend it’s not a hate movement.
“Gamergate isn’t a hate movement, and I don’t see why we need to distance ourselves from trolls using the #Gamergate name when threatening and commiting unethical acts against gaming journalists. That’s completely unrelated to our movement… *doxxes you* Mr. Smith of 123 Fake Street.”
*sends threatening emails to your family to keep you from saying mean stuff about me*
“Actually, it’s a about ethics in gaming journalism.”
*masturbates onto a printout of the FemFreq logo and posts pictures on 8chan*
“Anita isn’t even a journalist or dev, why is she involving herself in the debate?”
Dammit! I was hoping my last name would never be revealed because of how common and easy it is to remember. Now nobody will ever forget my name!
Last played song game thingo!
Rip The Stitch – Team Cybergeist
George Smiley – Alberto Iglesias
Ever since I saw Kingsman I’ve been keen to rewatch Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, and this is the theme from it
Metallica – Enter Sandman
Oh f yes.
Nyan Cat 10 hours HD 1080p
1.5 hours down…
Why you do this to yourself is beyond me 😛
Freeze did it.
Pfft. He didn’t hold a gun to your head making you though. You totally did it voluntarily 😛
You don’t know that!
Good man. *takes gun from Virus’ head*
Oh that was a gun? 😛
Austrian Death Machine – Pumping and Humping
Doobie Brothers – It Keeps You Running
Inmate 4859 – Sabaton. Jeezus, that is a sad story…
The Spire from the Monument Valley soundtrack.
Dethklok – I Tamper with the Evidence at the Murder Site of Odin
You guys should check our that Dan and Karls Zeitgeist thing.
I drew a thing.
They’re alright too, I s’pose.
D&K zeitgeist is the greetest! I tend to reserves the listening for my drive home on Friday nights… It’s good to start the weekend with a laugh!
I save it for my Monday commute to work. Desperately clinging to that last sliver of weekend before getting to the office.
Mate, get ready.
If You Are The One features prominently this week.
TELL YOUR FRIENDS!!!
Especially the one’s who work in radio!
Well, @lucifer9783 works in radio
#helping
One day til the cricket world cup…
Anyone going to any of the matches?
Cricket, eh? That’s a form of sportsball, isn’t it…
I’ll be following but don’t have tickets to any of the matches
Like @tigerion, following it but no tickets.
New rule. No Reading the comments ever… *needs more happy’s*
But… TAY is comments!
TAY is different, The people in TAY are nice to eachother
Here’s a comment for you to read.
I’ll read your comment.
W00t! One more hour til the weekend! (the perks of working in a Jewish office – early finish Fridays!)
then friends’ birthday parties and general sociableness with fellow reclusive introverts :3
Ooh and I think my copy of Smash Up arrived so I can add that to the activities alongside Gamma World and Mag Blast and BlazeRush and Spelunky…
Huh. I love learning new things. I knew that Jewish Sabbath (Shabbat?) was on a Saturday but had no idea that the “day” starts at sunset.
That’s one of those pieces of information I knew but would never be able to regurgitate on command
FRIDAY FITNESS
(this should now be a thing)
So, given we’re now 13 days into the latest fitocracy challenge, how are we all feeling? I went for a run yesterday outside (I usually run on my treadmill) and thought I was doing rubbish, but when I looked back at my pace I actually did pretty OK, I was travelling faster than I thought I was. I’m going to try and mix it up with an outdoor run once a week
I may do a light treadmill session tonight, but I’m giving plasma tomorrow and it’s going to be stinking hot all weekend, so I probably won’t do a session over the next two days. You guys?
I’m running 30km a day in 2 hours.
You’ll, uh, just have to take my word for it. Logging stuff in fitocracy is specifically forbidden by my religion. You can’t prove I didn’t.
I had to walk outside in -25 degree winds to get to the gym.
And then when I came back I ate a half bag of Doritos.
Found out my Gym’s being shut down and my trainer is probably going to move to a new one that’s even further away from me than the current one (which already takes me 25-30 mins in traffic to get to in the mornings and seriously saps my desire to bother). 🙁
My Christmas present just showed up, with a box of wine.
IT’S A JOURNEY SCARF RING!
JOURNEY!
I’m aware that Journey isn’t a board game.that looks awesome 🙂
It really is. Slightly chunky and I’m not used to wearing jewellery to begin with, but I think I can learn.
expect to be playing with it without realising!
It’s already been on every finger it can fit on. Right now, the weirdest thing is getting used to the way my fingers kind of brush against it while typing.
But yes, fidgeting will definitely be involved. Lots of fidgeting. It’s what I do.
the weirest part for me is driving and my ring clanging on the gearstick.
That is an incredibly awesome ring.
You should get a journey scarf.
I hear those things are pretty great.
Jerkbag.
So at the farewell lunch I was asked if I was coming back to the office after.
I didn’t even know not coming back was an option. Dammit guys, way to keep me in the know 😛
I am moving to Sydney.
There will be a going away drinking evening where I will attempt to burn all my bridges next Saturday, 21st Feb, at my favourite watering hole The End.
All are invited.
I know that coincides with another planned evening but feel free to come to mine after.
It’s gonna be a big one.
🙁
The real question is, then, what does this mean for zeitgeist?
You won’t even notice.
May god have mercy on us all.
Now at 4.25 hours of Nyan Cat.
You’re insane, you know that right?
Well if I wasn’t before…
Also I’ve never actually listened to/seen the actual Nyan Cat before. Even now, all I can hear is a faint drum beat. And what sounds like an accordion of some description.
I remember attempting 10 hours of Badger Badger… I lasted 5 hours before I couldn’t take it anymore
18 minutes to go :p
Got our internet connected today! It didn’t take 4 months like last time!
We’ve also been showing people round because we need a third housemate and I’d be lying if I didn’t say all the girls that have come round are incredibly attractive and they should all move in :3
*grabs popcorn*
Interesting tactic.
*takes note*
But how will you invite them in and explain the place without talking to them
I will write up signs.
Duh.
*points to his bedroom*
*suggestive eyebrow wiggle*
Ernie.jpg
-repost- kind of.
Hi Gang, Dan here.
Something major is happening. Something that will shock you to your very core. Something that will fundamentally change how you live your life.
I, Your Hero, Dan, am moving away from Brisbane.
At the start of March I will be in Sydney, raising the value of some of our most pristine landmarks, like the Opera House, Sydney Harbour Bridge and the beach where they shoot Home and Away, with my presence.
I hear you murmuring “But Dan, who will lead us into the unknown now? Your unique voice, our once guiding light, will be extinguished. How will we go on?”
“Oh my sweet”, I will reply, gently caressing your hair and looking into your eyes welling with tears. “Don’t you see? You’ve had the power to be Your Hero all along. Inside your own heart.” And then I place my palm over your face and whisper “Now close your eyes for the transformation” as the strychnine laced lime cordial takes hold.
So if you see me on the streets of Brisbane in the next two weeks, no doubt tagging City Hall with a misspelled “Penus”, say hello and goodbye. Then get out my face, I’m tagging here.
Love,
Dan
P.S. There are farewell drinks planned for next Saturday, 21st, at The End. Bring a strong disposition. I intend to ruin some friendships.
*cheesy announcer voice*
Could this spell the end of Dan & Karl Zeitgeist!?
Nah.
Good! Also good luck with whatever crazy get rich quick scheme you got going down there! I will hopefully be able to make the Saturday drinks.
Can’t wait to get stuck in at the emu farm.
When are the arrival drinks?
@benny I admire your commitment to this number thing.
@jocon @distantdrop 6.45PM start peeps! I think seed will only be on by 7.15 so lets get in there and clear some trash!
And yeah BRF today as Don’s coming for tonight’s raid, guess we’ll be having a conversation with beastlord; operator and hansz!
God damn it eb, don’t message me the day before a release, I got excited thinking we had a street date break
Hahaha, I just had the same reaction/thought. “YOU MEAN I DON’T HAVE TO COME INTO THE CITY TOMO- oh dammit.”
I want my MH now damn it 🙁
Don’t blame EB. It’s stupid out of touch grandpa Nintendo who thinks it’s a good idea to release new games on a weekend…
It’s raining… and thundering…
🙁
here too, but inside my heart.
here too, but inside my head. It won’t stop.
here too, but inside my stomach. That burger didn’t go very far
There’s a joke on there about bums and farting but I’m too classy to make it
How bad is it?
The front edge just starting to come through here now
Just got some of the loudest, sharpest thunder directly above that I’ve ever heard.
So Julie Bishop thinks that Aussies will boycott Bali if the convicted drug smugglers are executed
I don’t see it
Either our collective minds will forget about it in a couple of months
Or more importantly the kind of people who head towards Bali as a destination of choice are probably the same ones saying why would we get involved, hang the criminals.
Nah mate, but like, they did the crime in Indonesia, not Bali. Bali’s fine mate, it’s Straya, right?
I’m still of the mind that if Australia’s political leadership wasn’t such a joke and constantly in-fighting, then they could quite easily get those poor guys bought back to Australia.
They don’t deserve the death penalty over something so small.
Especially after 10 years imprisonment.
I really don’t think there’s much the government could do (Albo even said that in this matter, he thinks the Libs have done everything they can). They broke the law in Indonesia, and they’re being punished under Indonesian law. I don’t support the penalty they face, but that they weren’t executed years ago is a sign of the work the government’s put in.
The shit thing is (and I’m no expert, so this is personal opinion… when isn’t it?) it was the Australia Federal Police that gave the Indonesian authorities the heads up they were coming through Indonesia on their way to Australia.
Surely the AFP would have been aware of the approximate amount of drugs they were smuggling and would have known they’d get the death penalty as a result.
Why not pick them up in Australia, convict them to maximum sentences available, but have them alive?
Agree with not deserving death penalty… however it was 8kg of heroin.
I want to know what made them think smuggling heroin was a good idea…
Money and hope that they could help their families
Threats made against the same families once they were on the hook
Highly trained recruiters convincing them there is no danger
If they thought there was no danger with such a dangerous drug like heroin, well they’re idiots..
10 years imprisonment as well as both of them being rehabilitated too. One of them is a pastor for crying out loud. They don’t deserve to die.
Ugh. Don’t old people bang on and on about how rude young people are and that?
At least when I go somewhere and have to deal with a young person they’re usually nice enough if you’re nice to them. However I just went to the bus place to book a ticket to the airport tomorrow and there was an old lady at the desk. I walked in, she looked up, started typing and with the most blatant ‘i hate you, fuck off’ face was just like ‘did you want something?’
Old people only think that young people are rude and disrespectful because they treat young people like shit anyway.
Look at this kid, thinks he can tell me what to do. How rude.
Look at this kid, talking about how rude this other kid is.
How rude.
My experience every time I went to my old post office.
Anyone know the best way to improve general internet speed in a household? Recently it has really dropped off, especially in peak hours. I think our current router may not be good enough,
as we have about 12 internet devices in the household. Would the best option be to get a heavy duty router? Any suggestions?
Also would a powerline adapter be a decent method of getting internet to my ps4?
Cheers guys.
Hi people, how’ve you been?
I finished Dying Light, it was pretty fun.
Anyone here pick up Evolve? I’ve been enjoying it.
I just finished Dying Light!
I have nothing to add. It was a decent game. I had fun.
Hi Gutsoup! How are you (I’m good, thank you)? Since you just upvoted my comment and I am DEATHLY BORED I figured I might as well keep talking to myself via you! Man, how good are potatoes? Fuckin’ rad, that’s how. *rolls off the shelf, flails on the ground*
^ isn’t Gutsoup.
Hot chips are awesome because they are potato spawn.
Oh man, the spawn of potato are amazing.
I really wish I had a date for tomorrow, just so I could show off my cooking skills, particularly with something potato based.
This is the downside of sucking at talking to people,.
Picked up 2 potato scallops and a serve of chips for lunch…
What’s your goto homemade potato based dish?
I love Gnocchi but it’s a time consuming bitch to organise.
Well, I don’t mind just baking potatoes in their skins, or cutting them into little delicious cubes (that are again, baked), and I made Gnocchi for the first time in January and it was great (though a bitch to clean).
I had 3 massive baked potatoes for dinner last night smothered in fixings, ‘taters are rad.
My Dad’s Taswegian, so I know all about the joys of baked potatoes. Amazing things, they are.
Six hours of Nyan.
Clearly, you don’t suffer from insanity – you revel in it.
We haven’t met, have we? 😛
Hey, I’m not judging – it’s been my approach to it since I was five. If you’re going to be mad anyway, why not have fun with it? :3
FREEDOM TIME
SO LONG, STINK TOWN
(6.5hr of Nyan)
HEY! I don’t stink that ba-*smells armpit*-oh, nevermind
Random thought:
I can’t help but think that Madman’s AnimeLab is never going to be a truly competitive anime streaming site, and the reason is they have a massive conflict of interest. Unlike Netflix or Crunchyroll or Hulu or anyone like that, primarily Madman are a video distribution company. They make their money selling DVDs. Stuff on AnimeLab is available for free. It’s ad-supported so they’re not doing it as a charity, but still, what’s the incentive to them as a company to put up older shows, or continue to have available an entire series once it’s available to purchase for a while? Having that available to stream end-to-end in high quality for free over the internet is surely going to undercut the sales they rely on to survive? To wit, a lot of the older shows they have up for streaming are a few early episodes and the rest aren’t available. I can’t see that changing. I also can’t see them continuing to offer a large back catalogue of 1-2 year old shows for the same reason. They’re currently crowing all over twitter about how they ‘listened’ and now Naruto is available to stream. That show’s likely one of the biggest cash cows in their stable, though. And naturally, when you look into it, they’re streaming 25 episodes. Of a 280-episode show that has a currently-running sequel that’s about to hit 400 episodes. I somehow doubt that they’ll ever stream it all, because why would they? They stand to make more by having half of it available and requiring you to go buy it to see the rest.
I actually think their service is really good, and I want to see it succeed, but it’s never going to get my interest over a streamer like Crunchyroll without a much larger catalogue and I can’t see them getting to that point as long as AnimeLab is being run by Madman. The only way they could compete is to force CR to block streaming of all their new shows to Australians, though I’d think that’d force as many people to piracy or region unblockers as it would to alternative streaming (and I suspect they’re doing it already since a lot more of CR’s streams this season are blocked for AU than normal)
Hmmm! Looks like I won’t be moving interstate after all. I was kinda keen on the idea of living in a random city I have no idea about, but that’ll have to wait 😛
Melbourne TAY people should do stuff more often!
Benfest 2015 will be happening soon (ugh)
Just admit you were keen to live near me 😉
Why do you think I’m staying!
😛
Because you know you’ll never be with me, so you’re pre-empting the heartbreak and rejection by not even trying.
Feel free to arrange something.
If I wasn’t lazy I would have had some sort of meat-like occasion at my new place but it never eventuated and now I’ve been there for like 4 months so housewarming is a bad excuse.
HOUSEWARMING AT NEGS! 21ST OF FEBRUARY. DONE (>.>, that was going to be left as is, but it looked like a hideous mutant when it was in brackets by itself).
Bring like, some alcohol, or maybe a packet of chips or something? I dunno. I’m usually too busy being an old lady in the kitchen to notice what happens at my meats. <.<
@negativezero this is happening.
Are boardgames involved?
I guess it could happen actually. Board games would probably be involved since there’s sweet fuck all else to do.
MONSTER HUNTER
Don’t have and won’t be getting.
We’ll be playing it and you can just sit there 😛
Mostly we get drunk and say HORRIBLE things about you. Really nasty stuff.
I deserve whatever you say.
Weird, that’s what happens at the Brisbane meats also.
So that’s why you were all so silent at the mini meat I went to!
*Weeps for hours*
Melbourne TAY people should do stuff more often!… but on that note how does one go about appending themselves to the meat-list? – I once stumbled upon a contact spreadsheet but I think that was more due to a sequence of awkward url redirects as I haven’t been able to find it since
tinyurl.com/taynames (spreadsheet for names and gaming IDs) – anyone can edit this
http://www.taytags.com/ – ask @powalen if you want to be added! (PS. it looks like @freezespreston isn’t everywhere now :P).
Most of the time it’s just copy/paste the relevant tags and ask if people are interested in catching up, watching a movie etc. I think we’re spread out quite a bit geographically in Melb so we don’t really do any big gatherings (unless they totally do and I’m just not invited :'( ). PAX Aus always has stuff though!
Woo Benfest 2015 gets underway today! What r we gonna do Greenius, what r we gonna do?!
😛
Well my recent self organised activities with TAYbies have included watching a movie and going to the museum 😛 (@liondrive @powalen)
But since I’ve seen the Melb museum recently and I dunno if there’s any movies out worth seeing, I don’t think that’ll happen again :P. I can only really do stuff on the weekend since the city is far for me to get to and isn’t really convenient.
Probably just get a group of us together and have lunch/dinner? Maybe gamble? :D. I seriously don’t know the city and where all the cool places are so I’d be relying on others for suggestions. When do you leave?
I leave at like 2 on Sunday 22nd. I’d be free on Saturday morning/afternoon but not night if lunch and gambling works 😛
According to @blaghman Feb 21st is Neg’s housewarming 😛
It’s true, the word of drunken Blaghs is law. >.>
Well if you wanna meet up (and play Monster Hunter :P) lemme know when you would be free and I’ll organise something/get my friend to tell me what’s where. Apparently I’m in Brunswick if that means anything 😛
Did anyone who bought the MM N3DS from JB receive theirs today? I didn’t buy it because I figured it would arrive on Monday but I’ll be sad if I missed out on an opportunity on getting it a day earlier 😛
I’m still kinda sad I “missed” out on the MM N3DS and I’ll forever hate the st00pid words on the MH4U N3DS :D.
Words > Uggo colour scheme.
I like the cullaz
Can anyone explain the modding system? I see people having whole conversations and yet my posts don’t even go through moderation within 3 hours.
Not really, ti’s a bit of a black box
Having multiple links in a post is a no no, it can be done sometimes but try to keep to a single link
If any posts of your s have been ‘naughty’ and got reported then that is a big flag
otherwise if you get downvote bombed somewhere or even across the site on multiple posts that can put you into temporary moderation limbo
Edit: Also I see you are a fairly new commenter it might just take a while. Oh and when something goes into moderation it needs to wait until some of the guys gets around to approving it, it’s a manual system for getting out of moderation
Thanks for the info, hopefully they go through faster in the future. Pretty sure I haven’t had any of my comments reported.
THE RETREAT TO THE HERMIT CAVE HAS BEGUN
…shit, I actually have to venture out tomorrow. And on Singles Awareness Day of all days too!
Just ask out every single female you see. Ignore restrictions like “age” or whatever.
Trust me, it’s a winning strategy. You’ll be overwhelmed with whatever it is that attractive men are overwhelmed with. For me it’s rejection, but you’ll be fine.
Wait. Every single female?
Or every single female?
Every single female.
I knew I should have clarified, but I couldn’t be bothered. 😛
But Monster Hunter and Gooky’s walk into JB and pre-order Majora’s Mask pin edition and somehow get it even though it supposedly sold out everywhere day!
*Collect preorder
Also gotta renew my licence, it expires on Monday.
I was supposed to say something about that being your strategy that I copied and somehow worked (well… whether it actually does or not I don’t know, but they took my money :P) and that’s what I’d be doing tomorrow too.
Ah, gotcha. Badwordius 😛
I have no idea how JB preorders work, like whether you can just rock up and grab one once you flash your papers or you need to get your specifically allocated one or what. Hopefully the former, or at least just rocking up there early enough will mean I can get one before they have any idea what’s supposed to be happening.
Well I’m assuming they wouldn’t have taken pre-orders if they sold out but… *shrug*
I’m sure I’ll post about what happens while I wait for my 3DS transfer to happen *twiddles thumbs*
Except JB doesn’t guarantee preorders, apparently. So if they run out they’ll put an order in for more, or something. But then that order may never get filled. So I’ve heard, anyway, from a friend who works there/has had indefinite preorders on things before.
Thanks for ruining everything!
;_;
@greenius JB, you’ve done it again!
Ugh…
Why do I feel so shitty?
🙁
Ran out of toilet paper?
Thanks for the offer of the key @benny but I got it worked out
For those who missed the bottom of the other page murdered soul suspect is 3 bucks on the square-enix site https://store.eu.square-enix.com/apac_au/games/pc-windows-download/Murdered-Soul-Suspect.php
Picked up a bunch of cheap gear today at the Lifeline Bookfair.
360 gamez:
Spesh Maureen $4
Dragon’s Dogma Dark Arisen $4
Metro 2033 Special Edition $4
Child of Eden $4
Dead Space 2 $4
And just in case I ever feel like replaying them:
Red Dead Redemption $4
Mass Effect $4
Mass Effect 3 $4
I also picked up some Murakami novels, Garcia Marquez… and I found a copy of Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman that was signed by the author for $3.
Also found some Micallef P(r)ogra(m)(m)(e) DVDs for $5 apiece and picked up the Godfather trilogy on DVD for $10 (a shameful gap in my popular culture experience is about to be filled).
Not a bad haul.
My favourite part of the day was seeing an entire section of the bookfair overflowing with discarded copies of Fifty Shades books. Movie notwithstanding, I can’t say I’m sorry to see the end of this ridiculous and poorly-written rape-celebration fad.
Oh dear. Surprise breakup, how does support mode. Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
Oooooh, gossip!
Who, what happend, when?
SPILL IT!
Friends, broke up, just a little while before that post.
Drunk TAY, yeeewwww!
Am not.
Page 6 saves the day!
#pageupsidedown6
Yay…
Singles AwarenessValentine’s Day…:`(
*solidarity fist-bump*
MH MM day, fool!
I have had many ciders and vodka & lemonades, I have seen multiple boobs at the gentlemen’s club, I have Maccas and am watching a Let’s Play Skyrim series…I am content.
Good day to you all
My hype must’ve been too much to handle because my body decided to wake up at 6:30am. So now I’ve been derping around waiting for the stores to open at 9am :P. Ugh!
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/182908 free razors apparently! I’ve used the Hydro 3 and 5 and they’re good! I’ll probably go buy one of those “expensiver” ones now since it’ll technically be free with the cashback 😀
I’ve been up since 7!
But that’s because I forgot to turn off my alarm, which went off at 5:30, so I had a MAD sleep in.
Good haul today! Got Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate and the MH4U N3DS XL, MM3D Special Edition and a free Schick Razor with some trimmer thing on the end of it 😛
@mrtaco your strategy worked! This edition totally isn’t worth $80 though so ihy >:| 😛
Yeah, I was hoping that in the confusion I’d be able to get JB to pricematch target’s 48 but oh well 😛
I’ve been thinking of trying out Dollar Shave Club, they seem pretty good, especially if they’re sponsoring one of the tech channels I sub to on YouTube..
Also having supposedly top quality razors delivered to your door for a fraction of the cost of the other top quality brands seems handy.
Oh! Apparently “HARDBALL” gets you the first month of dollar shave club free? I saw some comment on the deal I linked above. Hopefully it works!
Ooh awesome! Cheers!
I just signed up. Code works!
http://au.dollarshaveclub.com/ref/index/r/19nl/1snc71e/s/tx/cx/1/ (here’s a referral if you haven’t signed up already – apparently that gets me another month free :P)
I think that worked.. The code worked though!
Shame they don’t stock the other goodies that the North American one does D=
Looks like it worked! Thanks 😀
I saw a random YouTube vid earlier and they had a bunch of extra things in the package. I wasn’t sure if those were thrown in, or if he bought them but they looked good! I guess we’ll find out soon enough whether we’ll get those same goodies (hopefully!)
Oh awesome, ha!
There’s a shaving balm and these wipes called one wipe charlies (they’re for your rear apparently) that they have in the states, doesn’t seem like they have either here, cause the shaving balm sounded pretty awesome.
Pffft I became a man and bought one of these: http://www.straightrazordesigns.com/bmz_cache/7/75681b3423b9ddc26ce5c5e0225b85c2.image.750×432.jpg
Mostly cos everything else has a habit of ripping my face to shreds and if I get lazy and don’t shave for a while (which happens all the time) it’s a nightmare trying to shave my chin with anything else, but they’re cool too! (and blades are like… 10c)
I don’t think I can justify a double edged razor for my 12 chin hairs
Fair enough 😛
http://www.vooks.net/nintendo-australia-and-eb-games-sending-skull-kid-figures-to-top-zelda-fans-in-eb-world/
God damn. Apparently if you’re level 2, preordered the special edition and the console, then you got it.
Could’ve got one if they hadn’t sold out of preorders for the game ;_;
I am very sad now that I didn’t preorder the game.
C’est la vie.
So this is weird… Facebook tells me I sent someone a friend request, a certain someone who decided I was a worthless piece of shit about 2 years ago and decided I wasn’t worth their effort anymore, I accepted that and moved on since I was over their shit. But open Facebook this morning and it’s all “Caitlin has accepted your friend request” first up I do not recall EVER sending her a friend request and secondly last I knew I was blocked so I really don’t care. So i’m wondering how the hell has this happened?
You’ve been sleep-friending again.
I fail to see how since I forgot she existed until it popped up on my phone this morning and was all “wtf?” lol
HEY GUYS I GOT A NEW 3DS
….
guys you uh, don’t look all that impressed
Maybe it’s just the lighting.
It’s uh, because it’s cold.
#ohcanada
Wait, there’s another new one? Suppose it’s been a while since the last revision came out….
Yeah it’s been about 3 months, hey?
Monster Hunter send Majora’s Mask get! My local EB actually price matched Target for a change, let the hunting begin.
Also I don’t think I have any bodies FC.
tinyurl.com/taynames !
Let us know when you’ve added us so we can add you back (silly Nintendo friend system)
Added my code to the list, and added you. That’s a lot of friend codes
I can’t see a piat? 😛
If you added me then I guess you can just post your friend code here and I’ll add you 😀
I’m definitely on there but 4656—6337—3102
Did a search for that code and it’s not there :P. I couldn’t find your name before but I only just realised you must’ve put on a filter for the 3DS friend codes. I see your name now but the 3DS friend code cell is blank
Ah I must not of saved it, I will have a look tonight
Also don’t forget to download the version 1.1 update from the eshop
Huzzah! I’m going to pick them up when I could be bothered walking into the shop next to mine. They priced matched Target for me yesterday already.
Added your FC btw
Well that sucks. Slipknot has gone and removed a heap of their t-shirt range from their merch site, now there’s only about 10 designs instead of like 40+ like before =( Either way 40% off merch weekend woo! Buy the tour shirts before Soundwave for less than half price, yeah!
Whoa! The 3DS System Transfer only took about 10 minutes this time :O. I think I saved a bunch of time by setting up the MicroSD card a while ago so it was as easy as just taking it out of the adapter in the 3DS XL and putting it into the N3DS XL (thanks @powalen!)
Taking off the back panel in the N3DS XL is a bit annoying though. Ended up accidentally turning on the system a couple of times because the plate kept hitting the power button 🙁
Mine’s sitting at like 6%.
GO LITTLE GUY, GO!
27%
C’mon, this is like playing the PS3 all over again!
Hate to say I told you so.
…wait, no I don’t. Told you so!
You actually did tell me. Thanks bubba <3
PS. I might play the Codename FUGS demo soon!
Halfway down. Got my new licence, got a half price discount because I’m a good driver, ended up with a decent photo on it for a change, got monster hunter, got majora.
Next step, citystuff.
Remember to get the free MH4U DLC! It’s a whole bunch of items that’ll help out early on 😀 (nothing you can’t make yourself but it’ll save you the time/money getting the materials yourself)
?
You download the patch from the eshop, it’s a free patch/dlc
And then in one if the in-game menus (I think you can access it from the main menu but the cat in your house also takes you there) you can download the DLC which gives your character the items.
Went and picked up my MH4 3DS and also got the game from Target ($48)! 😀 It’s pretty.
And also holy balls the 3d effect is actually kinda impressive now. It’s what I was hoping for the first time round.
Cricket time! \o/
So is it just me, or are any other Far Cry 4 players so sick of hearing Rabi Ray Rana’s voice that they want to beat him to death?
Was just thinking this the other day, I thought to myself I need to progress the story so I don’t hear again about how I rode an elephant..
So those Giants in perth atm.
They look pretty good.
30 more min before it wakes up and well there are a lot of people.
So today I spent over five hundred bucks. Good times.
Managed to have exactly enough time to get to Newtown, drop off Teen Dog at my friend’s place, bus to the city because OH HEY TRACKWORK AGAIN BIG SURPRISE THERE and pick up my nXL from EB, swing by Mountain Designs and grab a new pair of Miuras, then get to Imax just before the movie started.
I had a pretty good seat, just left of the middle of the cinema. And right next to the worst people. Asian couple, kept chattering to each other all throughout the movie. He was constantly “wat da fuq”ing to everything, and reading out any word that appeared on screen, and laughing at everything that wasn’t even funny. And her phone went off. Ugh.
Also, during the bookcase tesseract bit the picture cut out and then after a while the sound stopped an the ceiling stars came on. We got told there was some kind of malfunction, back as soon as possible, etc. They actually did get it back up and running pretty quickly, but it killed the mood a bit 😛
Still, it was pretty great. I was sitting there mouth-agape all over again. Just as good the second time around.
Guh. Majora 3DS is gloss. Yuck.
Gloss? MH WOO!
What, the MH nXL is matte?
Ohhhhhh I thought you were talking about the game and had no idea what you meant by the game was gloss(y) :P. Then “MH WOO!” was just me being all WOOO! for MH because it’s awesome.
The MH4U N3DS is glossy too though but you can’t really see the fingerprints because of its design 😀
It’s not a matter of seeing fingerprints. I can’t even see the outside when I’m using it.
It just feels awful.
Honestly, the gold is way less fugs than I was expecting, so I’m really happy.
Yeah, it’s not that bad to look at.
Not enjoying how it is to feel though. Gonna spend some time with MH4 on it to see how I like it. Not looking great though, so far the 3XL is clearly superior.
Given I’m moving from a Pokemon Y themed XL, this feels, err, pretty much exactly the same to me.
Yeah, my friend had one of those. Felt gross too.
Prior to that I had a launch 3DS.
Guess what?
It felt exactly the same, but smaller. 😛
So did I. Guess what, it totally didn’t 😛
In fact I just went and got it out to check again. Firstly, HOLY CRAP I FORGOT WHAT THIS IS LIKE IT’S SO TINY.
Secondly, it totally doesn’t feel anything like the others. They just feel permanently greasy, this doesn’t.
I’ll agree on the size thing, but if your newer products are feeling greasy you might want to look at the state of your skin. 😛
Just picked up my original 3DS and it kinda feels the same but it’s bit rougher and grippier. Still my least favourite of the 3DS family though the black 3DS is a fingerprint magnet (UGH). I do like the N3DS XL though but I have a couple of small issues in the build quality with mine and it’s kinda ugh 🙁
The top screen can move slightly left/right at the hinges (like the original 3DS did) and it’s annoying. There’s also a slight dent on the top of the touchscreen. It doesn’t affect the screen itself but the plastic bit ontop of it so you can see it kind of warping when it’s under light :/
I don’t wanna call Nintendo and I doubt they’d do anything to sort out these minor things so I’ll just live with it 😛 🙁
@greenius Mine’s got that hinge thing too, think it’s part of the design. Annoying. Never really noticed it on any of the others though, it seems more prominent here.
My blue one is glossy too.
I’m not a fan. Prefer the old XL finish. Build quality is better though.
SO MANY DEAD MONSTERS.
Monsterius.
I prefer monstrosity.
Oh yeah.
That is out now.
*woof woof*
That looks like it translates into *i will by it for you buddy* ;-P
Also
*wiggle wiggle*I paryu the hardest, all types don’t conorae 😉
Drunk TAY!
Ahh I was thinking it was code or a secret language.
All I can hear is truck horns….
Bloody nickempoops…
I hate waking up in the heart. Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh
KA-LI-MA!
Waking up in the heart sounds messy.
looks messy too if you’ve seen those episodes of Adventure Time
Is TAY always this quite on a Sunday?
TAY is always super quiet on the weekend :S
Those Giants in Perth were creepy looking, I reckon :\
When I saw the little girl stand and walk I started to think about attack on Titan.
It was interesting to see them moving.
Also had a good day with the other half and tiny (A.K.A the daughter)
So went and saw the Giants yesterday. It was a good day.
Aside from all the people.
So what is everyone up to?
Playing Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate and then not playing Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate.
How does it compair to monster hunter 3?
Same sort of thing but feels a bit different because of the new features. It’s a lot more vertical orientated since there’s climbing and mounting monsters. There’s also no underwater/swimming this time around.
Still just as good and addictive though. I think I’ve played like 12 hours already :P. Doesn’t feel as good on a small handheld compared to console/TV but that’s more of a personal preference I guess.
It’s really noob friendly though and there’s lots of tutorials and explanations for things.
Suck it, gobul!
Lagiacrus was kewl as tho
Awesome, as a noob and seeing the hype it makes me want to get it.
Get it while it’s at cheapo launch price! 😀
Well that is good. Will have to save up and get it.
I like that there is no swimming.
Could not stand underwater battles.
Hehe
Working, intermittently longing to pick up my new Majoras Mask lol.
Awesome.
Wish I had the money to grab that right now.
So there is 16 weeks till the event.
I really need to get a second job before that.
the event?
Peanut pops out of the other half.
Aka the event.
ahhh coool! figured it must be either that or a wedding! 🙂
Hey guys. Now that I have a charger for my Vita, i’ve realised i have a portable ps1 machine. What are some of people’s must have ps1 games?
My Vita is stuffed with Final Fantasy games.
I need to get them on my vita
I just remembered I have FF VIII on my PSP.
yesssssss
I’m playing through that at the moment!
I’m in the first mission where you have half an hour to flee dollet. Apparently.
So long since I played this
What would you suggest for a newcomer to the series?
They’re all unrelated unless they share the same Roman numeral number (didn’t start happening until X) or they’re spin-offs, so there’s no real entry point to the series just better and worse games. Personally I love FFVIII but FFVII is a fan favourite that sort of defined it’s era of JRPGs. So much of that fan love is nostalgia though so it can be a little tricky to recommend it.
They’re also split into three groups. FFI-VI, which are classic NES/SNES JRPGs. Then FFVII-FFIX which are very PS1. They use the same turn based battle system but the worlds are all pre-rendered with a lot of great soundtracks and cut scenes. They still use the text box for dialogue. Then FFX and onward are sort of trying to move away from turn-based JRPGs without moving away. They’re good but they’re all sort of conflicted. That group also includes two MMOs (FFXII and FFXIV).
If I had to recommend one of the ones you can play on the Vita I’d probably go with FFV or FFVI. They’re probably the most portable friendly of the Final Fantasy games. That said read the summaries for the plots of each of the games and just pick whichever sounds the most interesting. The PSOne games are all pretty good and all they’re all self contained.
I’ve been playing theatrhythm curtain call. I love rhythm games so i don’t care that I have no emotional attachment to the music. Thanks for the advice
Crash Team Racing (Mario Kart for Playstation)
Azure Dreams (Pokemon meets Roguelike)
Final Fantasy 7/8/9
Point Blank
Point blank isn’t available. I already have tomba
Azure Dreams was so damn good! Even if the English version was really really REALLY badly translated.
Bad translations don’t bother me
Metal Gear Solid
Spyro
Alundra
Pa rappa the rappa (spelling?)
Vagrant Story
R-r-r-r-riiiiiiige Racer!!!
Upvote for Spyro.
Of those games, spyro, alundra, Vagrant story and Ridge racer are available
Alundra is a great, but tough game. I needed a guide when I was 15 with a handful of puzzles plus trying to secure some of the weapons.
Vagrant story is a great Squaresoft RPG outing… I don’t think i ever finished it and keep meaning to get it on PS3…
Chrono Cross
Front Mission 3
Chrono cross isn’t available. I already checked for that one
I have Vagrant Story, MGS and Final Fantasy 5-9.