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Catching up with Person of Interest. Season 4 Episode 13 so far – WOW this season has exploded. Loving every episode.
I did that recently and I am really loving this season!.
POI is incredible… always hanging for the next one. 14 is the latest one, not as fast paced as the other ones but a tad more character development on John’s part.
If-Then-Else was a fantastic episode. Really showed a bit of ‘Human Development’ on the machines side. Really enjoying the flashbacks the show has with Harold trying to teach the machine empathy, then running all of the simulations.
oh yeah that part is amazing…
Man I love that show. Absolutely no idea what part we’re up to, we just watch it off the TV. Always really enjoy when these sort of formulaic type shows start out small and then slowly expand the scope of its universe and really start turning things up.
I’m sitting here at work waiting for my (work) PC to boot-up and thought I’d flick through Kotaku TAY. That lasted about 2 seconds, and then I started thinking about Tom Cruise’s teeth (you know, the one that’s perfectly aligned with the centre of his face?). It’s true … once you’ve seen it you can’t unsee it.
It’s now going to dominate my entire day. 😐
I am going to make a concerted effort NOT to google that…
Oh, do, it’s hilarious.
you’re welcome 🙂
No, no, no, no, no. Will not.
Be strong, @morkai
picture of a kitty…. 🙂
I’ve been rickrolled enough times in my life not to fall for that one.
Morning! How was all of your weekends? I hit the beach a couple of times but not much else. I did finish GoT Episode 2 which I thought was a bit disappointing – but did get into Nuclear Throne for the first time. Man that game is fun.
I quite enjoyed episode 2 of GoT. It didn’t reach the heights of the first one, and I felt this one was largely setting up for future events, but I really liked seeing how all the decisions played out, and the subtlety of the consequences from episode 1.
Even though intellectually I know I’m being railroaded to a foregone conclusion, the decisions offered are so grey and have the appearance of being so risky, that I can’t help but agonise over every little thing I say in this game.
This weekend I worked 24 hours and slept 10. On the plus side the first 3 hours of today have gone fast so hopefully soon bed. Hope everyone else had a fun weekend.
I got my new 3DS (monater hunter one) and Monater hunter 4. I have touched neither and they sat on the floor of my car for 2 days.
Oh wait I forgot, I paid to be locked in a room with two women and get stabbed.
Pics or it didn’t…actually screw the pics, I just want the story!
No, no, you don’t want a CJ story. Live with the suspense, it’s much more satisfying.
I get it
Rogue Legacy update:
Up to the final boss. It’s a tough battle, but not too outrageous. Only one thing annoyed me about it, and that was that I happened to be standing over to the right the first time I killed Johann (1st stage) and the Fountain spawned on top of my character and killed him with contact before the game even let me resume control. That was a bit unfair, I thought. I think I might do some grinding for better stats before I tackle this boss for real, though it might be fun to be sub-level 100 when I beat the game.Oh man, I still can’t bear the first boss!
The first boss actually took me the longest. Just focus on leveling and unlocking more classes/abilities and equipment
Oh, yeah. I am. Just suprised how quickly he’s progressed. I assume you got it from plus, @Shane ?
Yup!
I got the flame ring thing and just stood next to the first boss and whacked him until he died. Seemed to work OK
Anyone use or know of any grips for the New Nintendo 3DS XL? It’s so hard to search for online :P, stupid “New” in the title!
*shakes fist at New IPad and New 3DS lines*
I have both those things
I saw this the other day.
http://imaginglabo.web.fc2.com/new3DSLL-kakutyou.html
BLOODBORNE:
A very brief look at the stats of the starting classes.
36 days, wastes of skin…
This is my 50 Shades of Grey
I had one of those weekends where I got up early every day, had to go and and do things and see people, and had very little leisure time before going to bed, exhausted.
Next weekend, putting my foot down: staying home and playing video games. Because in two weeks we have another event-filled weekend involving doing things. Ugh.
Hear hear, brother. I’ve not had a solid day of nothing but video games in so long. Granted, it’s because I’ve been trying to be a human being and be social and do good things in my life, but frig it, now I need some game time. What are you going to play?
eeeewwwwwwww 😛
I hear dat.
I love my friends, I really do, and time spent with them is far from ‘wasted’, but oh my god I desperately need solitary time to recharge.
The joys of being an introvert
I am so glad I learnt that’s what that was a few years ago. Makes it so much easier to recognise and manage.
Know it makes it so much easier to work with. Go out, have a good time but know that uses up social energy. Spend some alone time to recharge that energy.
How was everyone’s weekends?
I finally won a game of Attack Wing!
Which is funny considering this was the start. (I was dominion, against Romulan, Borg Federation and Klingon!
https://twitter.com/gingerchris86/status/566533028176867328 (the Start)
https://twitter.com/gingerchris86/status/566549147038121984 (the Middle)
https://twitter.com/gingerchris86/status/566573690163171330 (Finished! I WIN YAYYYYYYYY)
Needs more dragons.
Gotta admit, I want the DND one, but I don’t need to spend money on another flightpath game
I have managed to avoid all of them- no-one I’d play it with.
Did have a bunch of D&D minis, but they were to use for D&D, not for the miniatures game.
Hola Tay
How were your weekends? I went and gave blood on Saturday morning, then went to a mate’s place to play video and board games in the afternoon. Sunday I woke up feeling rubbish as it was quite hot, so I barely moved until the cool change came in.
A monday morning question: Festivals! It’s Fringe time here, though I’ve not managed to get to anything yet. Which festivals do you like in your city?
Not much of a festival person, but the Great Australian Beer festival is on in Geelong this weekend, and it looks pretty interesting.
In The Bin short film festival used to be fun but nowadays it’s more about people getting drunk and ignoring the movies.
Gold Coast is a barren cultural wasteland. Biggest festivals they have is things like Stereosonic. If you can’t get drunk, high, laid or in a fight this city isn’t interested in it.
Steroidsonic!
Anything that involves food, particularly multicultural food.
I think the only festival I bother with is Soundwave. And at this rate by 2018 all that will be left is Sydney & Melbourne, since Adelaide is next on the chopping block for poor ticket sales, and Brisbane gets rather shunned with everything else regarding the festival bleh.
I don’t believe I am a go-out enough person to be familiar with these “festivals” 😛
I love the Sydney Festival. Vivid is out of control (so crowded you cannot move). I also like the CNY celebrations, the dragon boat races in Darling Harbour are pretty special.
So that’s why!
http://i.imgur.com/1LuhM9E
Morning, TAY.
My weekend was filled with looking after my kitty, and playing Captain Toad.
Captain Toad is soooo cute. I need to keep playing it.
Read that as looking for, was sad. Reread was happy.
Okay, but for reals: Big Hero 6
– Hiro is a arrogant little turd for 75% of the movie, until CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT MOMENT (it’s subtle like that)– Tadashi’s uni friends are never given any moments to be explored as characters. Spunky chick, brainy chick, scaredy-brawny black guy and Shaggy. “Tadashi was our best friend.” And that’s it? You get more insight into Aunt Cass from her little snippets.
– For a movie about mourning and loss, the characters sure do have a quick turnaround time.
– Something doesn’t sit right with James Cromwell’s villainous motivations. Can’t quite put my finger on it… maybe the fact that he’s happy to murder everyone, and he’s never really given any time for any insight? Like, I get that his daughter was presumed dead, but it’s a pretty massive shift from “He used to be such a good man” to be a-okay with killing all five of your most talented university students, a 14 year old, and creating a massive wormhole in the middle of a city kind of guy. At least Syndrome was a sociopath, weapons designer and had 15 odd years of resentment.
Super slick animation though.
I mean, don’t get me wrong, I know I’m an emotionless bean and things that are supposed to have that extra punch don’t affect me (haha Up), but I think Mark’s got a valid point when he says it lacks “heart”.
It’s also a kid’s film and most kids wouldn’t think about half that stuff, they just want the 40cm Baymax action figure by the end of the film. 😀
Which is where the best “kids” movies (Read: WALL-E) get it so right by thinking about the details that adults (and pedants) are concerned with.
I found Big Hero 6 fun. I connected more emotionally with the short at the beginning (Feast) but I found it to be an enjoyable blend of Superhero and Disney Animated. It was exactly what I didn’t know I was expecting out of a Marvel+Disney animated feature, for good or for bad.
My biggest issue with Big Hero 6
When they’re trying to track down ol’ Kabuki fuhllah and they just decide to boost Baymax’s medical scanner to scan every single private citizen in order to find one guy. Sets a very worrying example for kids that it’s okay to give up your privacy for “the greater good” and persistent surveillance.Really didn’t sit well with me at all.
Huh. It’s perhaps more worrying that I didn’t even register that it was an issue. But I can just see 16 y/o Hiro having Baymax track down that hottie on the tram who winked at him because… greater good.Aunt Cass is awesome.
Well I finally snapped on the weekend. Mum suggested that I make pizza for tea which I’d not done for a fair while but said she’d put the dough on, the crappy old breadmaker we’ve been using for years is at best a vague and confusing piece of junk and instead of pizza dough, it ended up making a distinctly inedible loaf of bread. So whilst I was having the distinctly non-pizza like emergency backup sausages I loaded up a browser and looked at replacements then yesterday went out and dropped $200 on a fancy new one that actually doesn’t suck! In fact, it so doesn’t suck that it has special trays for cooking bread rolls, it can make cakes and, most weirdly of all, it can make jam…
My Xcom Long War campaign is getting scary, I’ve just finished the hyperwave beacon and am scanning for the overseer UFO which is supposed to be one of the hardest ships in the entire game to kill. I’ve got a full continent stacked with firestorms, 3 plasma armed with one emp and a pair of fusion lances so the weaponry is grand but my real concern is defence, I’ve only got 2 dodge modules so if that bastard hits any of my ships I could be in for some serious hurt. Then once I get it down, I’ve got the ultimate challenge; I’m going to try and mind control an ethereal so I can get Rift before using the gollop chamber. My plan is to have at least 2 psykers with the power for the temple ship so I can alternate it during hard fights, preferably having 3 with it if I have the time, I’ve got at least 3 troops (all the hero characters, they make great psykers) with a base will that’s getting close to the minimum that’s worth trying it with. Shit’s getting tough…
Is it the breville one? I’ve got one of those, it’s an excellent machine 🙂
Big silver one with a sawblade looking thing for the cake paddle? That’s the one. Have you made jam yet? The recipes in the book don’t mention water which would instinctively seem to be a kind of important thing, does it just use the juice from the fruit?
Yeah thats the one 😀
Haven’t tried jam, I normally just do that in a pan ( I find that easier)
Possible that it is just using the juices from the fruit… I’ll have to have a look when I get home 🙂
’emergency backup sausages’ makes me giggle ;p
Jam isnt a kind of bread. Take machine back and sue for false advertising.
My guess is that since you often use jam with bread, they’d get away on a technicality. Cake also isn’t a bread but banana bread is a kind of cake (though inedible and poison since it contains bananas) so they’d get off with that technicality too. The cheeky buggers have thought of everything!
Hellllo taybes! Lovely exhausting weekend in Melbourne – always nice to remind myself that there is a whole city who are happy to patiently queue for food (I had the besssssst ice cream of my life!). I also got to do some shopping and bought lots of books and some clothes and yay.
ALSO, I put down a deposit for my first motorcycle and I’m super chuffed 😀
You didn’t go to Messina did you? Best icecream or BEST icecream.
I’m going for the first time tonight!
I went to Messina as well, but I wasn’t that impressed by theirs? The BEST ice cream was from Pidapipó on Lygon.
Wait you came to visit but didn’t come to visit 🙁
also vroom vroom
It was a very quick trip to see work friends and family. Sorrrrrry!
Ugh, Monday again? Monday is a jerk… where’s my coffee… *wanders off*
I slept for 9 hours last night and woke up feeling worse than when I went to bed, I just wanted to sleep another 9 hours. Stupid overnight weather.
I did that, too! I have no idea why.
On the plus side, the dream was a technicolour epic.
Same thing with the dreams here too!
Glancing though and I saw technicolor and thought you were talking about puking. My Dad and Uncles often use the term ‘technicolor yawn’ to describe the act…
Hah. I probably should’ve capitalized and used the trademarked spelling to refer more properly to the branded cinematic process.
Woo, won some e-reader cards.
Uh… stayed up til half past 7 playing friggen Monster Hunter. I’ll try this whole “consciousness” thing again later.
Haven’t even open my monster hunter case yet.
So… how’s the whole ‘No Work’ thing going? 😛
*yawn*
Pretty good.
Lol that definitely sounds like MH, I’ve only got like 7 hours in but will definitely hit it hard tonight.
Workfoo.
“Hey, I need you to do this thing.”
“Blergh. I’d really rather not do the the thing. I hate it. That’s more Transient’s wheelhouse.”
“Yeah, Transient’d be great at it, but it’s outside his role.”
“Hey now, I don’t mind doing the thing. It sounds like a ball, really.”
“See? He wants to do the thing, let Transient do the thing.”
“I really can’t. He’s not high enough. It’s some hierarchy rank crap.”
“You’re kidding me.”
“I wish.”
“Heh. Should promote me just to do the thing, then.”
“Yeah, looks like I’ll have to.”
“Eh? In all seriousness, I was joking.”
“I wasn’t. You already do most of the role anyway, you should get paid for it at the right level. There’s too much of that happens around this place and it pisses me off. Yeah. I’m putting in for it now.”
Hooray?
Upvote I think. Considering they said you should get paid for it that’s a good thing. Promotion for more responsibility and work with pay sucks but that sounds good.
Certainly considering it sounds like you get to do more stuff you enjoy/don’t hate doing.
Yeah, it’s some stuff I’d really have a ball with, but they can’t entrust that kind of client-relations activity to someone of my low station. It’s hardly any more work, I’m already doing most of the role anyway. The money’s not really a factor either. It’d be a token increase, it’s more about the ‘rank’.
Congrats!
Aside – I despise that there needs to be a ‘rank’… Same with my role, was doing far and above what was expected but took 18 months before I’d made the case enough times to get the position. Also got same token increase in salary and now everyone thinks I earn twice as much as them.
Hate office politics sometimes.
Well that’s certainly good stuff, well done mate! Nice bit of manipulation there, especially the bit where you tried to play out that you were joking, very cunning!
Today I have to figure out how I’m going to construct this Hot Wheels themed birthday cake I’m imagining for my son. Birthday cakes never work out as well as I imagine them, so I have to mentally prepare myself for failure as well. 😛
Nailed it.
I was looking a full race car themed kids part the other day. So very cool but so much work.
If I have time I’m going to be the worst at kids parties. Make all the things., hire all the things, decorate all the things. Although it will probably come down to being just the cake 🙂
My almost six year old has never had a party, and my 14 year old has only had two. I’m a terrible parent….
Worst parent ever 😛
Just make this one a party he will always remember and then you never need to do it again
Or is this just a cake without a party?
Just the cake. 😛
My wifey makes and decorates cakes, so heres some tips from her:
if you are making figurines, and arent very experienced with handling fondant, get some Moulding Chocolate. a lot easier to work with. like playdoh.
if you are making a car shaped cake, and are going to cover it in fondant, roll it out VERY THIN onto a fondant mat and flipthe mat onto the cake. lifting off a thin sheet of fondant will tear it, and having a thin piece, will allow you to apply it much more easily around the overal shape of the car.
im sure shed be happy to answer any questions!
Thanks for the tips, Zetrox’s lovely lady!
I’m pretty experienced in cake decorating, but tips from an expert are always welcome. If I mess up I’ll definitely tag you to ask what I did wrong! 😀
then stop procrastinating and get baking!!!! stop doubting yourself!
Just set some tyres on fire and say “They’re wheels, they’re hot. What more do you want! Bloody kids, get off my lawn!”
Best idea. 😀
Could you not just make a circular cake and decorate it like a wheel? Seems simpler than attempting to make a car or something.
Rather than making a car, why not make a track and put some hot wheels cars on it?
EDIT: Rectangular track, green icing with coconut sprinkles to look like grass. Use licorice allsorts to lay out the track – pull them apart and use the black layers for the tarmac and the white layers for the lane markings. Maybe edge it with some cream frosting and candles.
Then clean up some hot wheels cars and put them on the track. Would be effective and in-theme and also not hugely hard to make.
I think my fourth birthday had one of those. If I remember correctly it was a figure eight with a little over/under bridge at the intersection (which in retrospect should have been for an eight year old, but it had a big four on it or something). I’m not sure how she actually did it though so I’m pretty useless as far as the construction side goes.
That’s the plan. 😀
I’m planning a cake in the shape of a 6 with a track on top of it, and buying his favourite Hot Wheels car he doesn’t have yet to put on top as an extra birthday present.
You really only need the track to be made out of fondant, so you could cover the cake in much tastier frosting (I made a white chocolate cream cheese frosting for Batboy – delicious!) and then just assemble the track on top.
methinks liquorice allsorts might not be the best for track – maybe granular chocolate sprinkles so you can lay it out easily like tarmac? Dust some icing sugar for track markings? You could use something like raw sugar and lifesavers for sand and tyre barriers…
You could also rig up sour straps as barricades for a whole lot of jellybaby spectators to stand behind (I actually did that some years back for a Wrestlemania cake).
Also if you wanted edible cars you could use ‘fun size’ chocolate bars sitting on musk stick axles through aniseed ring wheels, maybe using something with a pliable top layer like mars bars so you could dig out a bit of cockpit space to stick a jellybaby driver. If you wanted to start getting fiddly you could probably use wafers for fins and spoilers too!
Trick with wheels that I learnt during the last couple of weeks (I’ve been experimenting with baking, don’t ask) – round cake tin, bake the cake, slice it in half, have half the wheels coming out of the tray. Non functional, but kids don’t care, it has WHEELS!
As for the car bit: nope. No clue.
Ok. Picture this. A functional Hot Wheels track, which is the birthday present, assembled around a valley of smaller single serve cakes made up to be like hills and buildings and junk so you don’t have to cut up some complex cake just to serve it. In the middle there are two three tier cakes made up to look like mountains with holes bored into the sides that the track runs through them with a badass jump between them and over the flaming death that is the birthday candles. Inside those mountain cakes? Very illegal fireworks rigged to detonate as the car makes it through, bathing the kids in cake chunks while they carry you off chanting your name.
Also it’s an ice cream cake because I’m hungry.
I love all of this! Legendary. 😀
It’s gonna have a loop-the-loop, right?
If I don’t mess it up…yes.
Jealous.
Tickets for Liverpool vs Brisbane & Adelaide went on pre-sale today. $96.85 to sit in the Brisbane section (1 section out of how many?). For a friendly match. $100 including fees. For a friendly. Erm, yeah, I’m not the target audience to see a cash grab exhibition match. Liverpool fans over here are excited as hell, who wouldn’t be for the chance to see their team, but for me? Meh, not too fussed about missing out on it
Yeah I’m not a fan of the cash grab games in post/pre-season. Even if Arsenal came over I wouldn’t spend the money to travel to the east coast and watch the B team play.
I have in the past paid to go see them play at home in north London, soaking up the match day atmosphere and watch the first team play in a competitive match that has meaning.
Still you can understand the club’s point of view too. Especially with the number of fans (=$$$) in Asia for the big boys.
Morning, TAY.
I think I’m too dumb for Majora’s Mask. Even with all the improvements I couldn’t figure out what to do (and I’ve played this game before!)
Ended up wandering around for multiple three-day sets trying to work out how to get out of Clock Town. Turns out if you actually talk to one of the guards blocking the gates he just lets you through… Embarrassing…
Still fun though. I wish we could get a new Zelda with a similar creepy, ‘Horror-lite’ vibe.
Also: Two weeks until I’m on holidays! \o/
@strange @greenius
I think it was you two who were discussing the chromecast. Did you end up getting one and if so how is it. We were planning on trying to get netflix but the cost to get it setup is a bit more than my budget will allow (Stupid tax). So figuring we might give that a go and look at Stan or Presto (probably Stan)
Anybody else used a chromecast?
Mate of mine has one, loves it. He uses it quite a bit to cast his tablet screen to the tele, for radio streaming and occasionally browsing
I haven’t got it yet, but I will in a couple of months. When I went to deactivate my Foxtel PS4 account after the free trial Foxtel was all depressed I was breaking up with them and after asking if I was sure three times, it offered $25 off for the next two months, so I’ll keep poor depressed Foxtel until then and check out what the Chromecast and Stan or Presto can do for me later.
It’s one of those times where my laziness paid off because the deal is that I can’t change my package from what I was using during the trial period, and when I started my trial period I wasn’t aware I’d get the first two weeks free so I only unlocked the channels I wanted, and then when I found out I’d get the first two weeks free I kept meaning to upgrade to get everything for that trial period but never got around to it. And now I’m glad I didn’t because then the $25 off wouldn’t have been a viable option. Yay for laziness and forgetfulness! 😛
Edit, Oh and it was Sunsoar and Ginger Chris who were talking about the Chromecast with me,I believe.
Have Chromecast. Love it. Gets used every other night at least.
Hooks in with Plex really well. Use the iOS/Android app to queue and manage content.
Stan support out of the box – works well, although minor gripe that device that starts stream needs to stay online (ie. can’t drop the lid on a laptop, or let your PC hibernate)
AnimeLab integration is great too.
Wife and I use it with Youtube for “Friday-vlog-night” to catch up on our favourites on the big screen.
Not tried it with Netflix so can’t say how well it would work with VPN/DNS solutions. The Chromecast should really ‘take over’ the fetching activities so it may need a tweak or two.
Thanks for the info. I figure even if we don’t end up subscribing to stan or similar the youtube stream is probably worth it anyway.
There is something liberating about watching YouTube on the big screen.
Some of the vlogs we watch can clock in at 20 minutes each. We back up 3 or 4 in the queue and it’s like watching content in a mini episodic format. And the 15 second ads are skippable after 5 seconds! 🙂
I use the Apple TV purely coz it’s cheap and the rest of the house is a prisoner to iDevices.
I’m assuming it’s exactly the same.
StreamToMe lets you play anything from Mac to big screen and all apps like Netflix/Stan/Crackle/YouTube do the same from iPad to big screen.
Plus all the apps on the AppleTV are set to US of A.
Like @sunsoar77 we do the ‘YouTube Friday Night Fails’ when friends come over and chuck it up on the big screen. So if Chromecast is anything like the Apple TV which I think it is then it’s definitely worthwhile.
Now if only we could please get decent internet speeds for upload and download. For the love of GOD SOMEBODY!!! I have $$$, need fibre!!! PLEEEEASE!!!!
*crickets chirping*
Thanks Mr Turnbull!
It wasn’t me but YAY INCLUSION! 😛
So i’m meant to enroll at TAFE for a course, yet when I ring the local TAFE no one answers and I just get stuck in their silly “someone will be with you soon” message crap for ages. So I decided i’d just enroll online. Nope. Don’t know my username and there’s no way to retrieve that, even though it says it will be on my latest invoice from TAFE which was my RCG which I did in October last year :/
The first part is to book a counselling session, a one on one, where you are enrolled and THEN you can get online and do all the things.
It might be a little bit late though, I had my session in January and classes started last week.
Err.. But I previously enrolled online, just I have forgotten what my username was, and apparently Firefox did not cache that..
The course i’m looking at started back on the 3rd so 2 weeks ago here. Not my fault, it’s the stupid employment agency I go to, all of a sudden last week said I had to do TAFE or have my ‘benefits’ cut off because I am not working. Well to be fair, the job market is shit and they haven’t once helped me with employment.
Reading that The Order:1886 main story is only 5 hours long, is full of QTE cutscenes and the game can be platinumed in about 9.
I am disappoint, considering it’s a full priced game.
This report states 5.5 hours for a bare-bones no-death playthrough, which few players will achieve. http://www.dualshockers.com/2015/02/15/heres-how-quickly-you-can-beat-the-order-1886-if-you-skip-all-you-can-and-never-die/
It also says that the first playthrough for the guy who platinumed it was 9 hours, but if I’m reading it right, it doesn’t say that he got all the trophies in that time…
Still pretty short, but there you have it.
Yeah, that’s the exact article I was reading along with this Reddit thread:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/2vzb6g/in_light_of_the_order_1886s_short_playtime_and/
But yeah, for a full priced ($100) game, I personally think it’s hard to justify purchasing a game at that price that is that length and reportedly has little replayability.
Also this from another thread
http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/2vybg8/order_1886_playtime_details_from_youtubers_play/
I agree with you. Unless it’s the goddamned best game of all time, that length is very hard to justify. Sadly, I suspect that we’re going to see a lot more of this in this generation, as innovation shifts to the indie market, development budgets tighten, and graphic fidelity becomes the new measure of greatness in AAA.
What do you mean “new” measure of greatness? That’s been the primary measure of greatness since the start of the last console generation and a major measure of it since there was more than 16 colours
True, and the previous gen was a tipping point where story began losing out to spectacle. This gen, though, I think, will all but complete that topple.
Well this actually sounds more like the focus is totally on the story. With that number of cut scenes it sounds like a very linear story with gameplay only to push the story forward.
The lack of replayability comes from having experienced the story, which is the core of the game.
It certainly has the potential, the eighth console generation may well be remembered in history as the analogue of someone jangling their keys in front of a baby saying “look at the shiny shiny!”
Doesn’t a platinum mean you got all the trophies though? I thought that was the point of it, kind of that annoying “Achievement for getting all the achievements” thing.
But yeah, a short story isn’t too encouraging. If it’s a really GOOD one and exactly as long as it needs to be without overstaying its welcome then it might be okay but if there’s even the slightest bit of padding or just lots of crappy dialogue… yeah it’d have to be exceptional to be worth paying full price for something rather short
But a first playthrough doesn’t necessarily come with all achievements. The article said the first guy who platinumed it took 9 hours on his first playthrough. He might have had to play the game 8 times to get the platinum, but the first run through the game took him 9 hours.
Ooh right I get you, 9 hours to finish but not necessarily 9 hours to platinum
Oh man, I know I’m in the minority here but that length sounds perfect.
To be honest and “get real” or “rap with the youth” for a second, full price these days doesn’t mean $100. If you’re savvy you can probably grab this for under $70. Sure it’s RRP is $100 but when was the last time you paid RRP for anything?
I guess it comes down to perceived value. I once did a job for a TV network that was a DVD collection of their kids show. It was about 15 x 5 minute episodes, so just over an hour of content. That amount of content fits easily on a single DVD but they had me create a 3 disc set, each in their own full sized DVD case so that when they charged the $45 for it people wouldn’t feel ripped off by only taking home 1 DVD case.
I guess it comes down to what you perceive to be “worth” $100. 6 hours of “entertainment” or 6 hours of “gameplay”.
And lets be honest, game’s are getting way too long anyway. Remember how Assassins Creed is always harping on about how long their games are but it’s just all filler? Perceived value.
I agree with you. One of the best games I’ve played recently has been Enslaved.
Main story was about 10-12 hours I think and that still took me a couple of weeks. The story was solid, I was always moving forward and never felt like I was just grinding or doing filler
I really don’t mind a good game with good cast that’s on the short side – Uncharted games aren’t that long, and Tomb Raider 2013 could be single-player 100% complete in 10 – 11 hours.
And you’ve reminded me to finish Enslaved…
I’m all for games that are long as they need to be. Padding out a seven hour game to 20+ hours with filler doesn’t add value. It just makes the game worse while appealing to a small subset of gamers that are obsessed with the length of games. They’re basically size queens. Size queens don’t have to be your audience. Size queens are over.
That being said, a 5 hour game that is mostly cutscenes just doesn’t seem like a lot of game at all. I was perfectly happy with Mirror’s Edge being short because they did a lot in that time. Same goes for Portal (although that was never a full priced game).
I’m surprised that people are surprised. Was no-one paying attention to the thing? It was always going to be a disaster as soon as the resolution and framerate was announced. It was clear from the get-go that they were making a graphical showpiece, and nothing else. Set to 1920×800 so they had to render less. Dark lighting so they only have to render the bit that the lantern is pointing at. Bad framerate so they can make the tiny bit that is actually rendered look good. Then they made excuses for the framerate, saying it was for ‘cinematic effect.’
Graphics aren’t everything. Give me good atmosphere and feel over high resolution bollocks any day
It was more that they were sacrificing things to make better graphics that was the issue. I apologise if my wording made it seem like I cared about the graphics.
My critisism of the resolution is that it isn’t in 16:9, meaning there were gigantic black bars on the ends of the screen,
That’s a stylistic choice though, nothing to do with the rendering of the engine
I’m sorry, but I have trouble believing that. Sorry.
You think rendering in 2:35 is much different from rendering in 16:9?
Dang clients calling while Im making myself coffee, I was 15 seconds late, 15!!, to inversion and extraction.
This is the most important page get.
Coffee Job?
😛
Used too, now I work in security. alarm monitoring. Still make coffee for myself though, good old Aeropress is awesome for work.
So I had a food adventure last night. Cooked so much satay stir fry that it almost didn’t fit in my wok (and it’s a big wok) despite the fact that I live by myself. On the other hand, pretty sure I now have leftovers for the rest of the week. \o/
Game-wise, weekend was pretty chill. Got my beta invite for Heroes of the Storm which I found to be pretty fun as a distraction from more serious MOBAs like LoL and DOTA. I kept getting a vibe from Heroes that made me feel like I was playing Diablo 3 which was pretty cool.
We should be excessive-amount-of-food buddies.
Alright then, let the excessive food pow-wow commence. “Hi, I’m Popdart and I have an excessive amount of food.
I cook family-sized meals and eat them in three servings.”
I just spent 6 hours making pulled pork, and now that it’s dinner time, I realise I have nothing to make it into a proper “meal”, so here it am with 1.5kgs of honey balsamic pulled pork, eating it from a mixing bowl with a spoon.
My life is a tragedy.
I see the most epic of meat shits in your future.
Mail some to me, Ill gladly share this burden. (or a recipe that I’d probably never used but would like to see w/e)
Pork shoulder
Garlic
1/2 onion
1/2 cup of balsamic vinegar
1/2 cup of honey
2 cups of vegetable or chicken stock
1/4 cup hoisin sauce
1/4 cup blackberry jam
Apparently if you have a slowcooker, you just slam it all in the pot and let it run for 8 hours or something.
I don’t have one though, so I get my casserole pot, sautee the garlic and onions for a bit, then put all the liquid in. Mix it up, put the pork in and into the oven (pot covered; I like to put a layer of foil under the lid too, keeps the moisture in better) at anywhere between 130-150 Celsius. Waltz off and do whatever for 6 hours. Feel free to check every two hours to make sure there’s enough liquid, I guess.
Come back, pull the meat out. Strain the liquid and put it on the stove to reduce, meanwhile you can shred the meat up. Should be nice and moist and falling apart. Once the liquid has been reduced, put in some cornstarch slurry to thicken it up, let it boil for a bit, then throw the meat back in and balsamic honey pulled pork!
Last bit is tricky. I nailed the sauce: meat ratio on my first try but haven’t replicated it since. This batch I had 2 cups of useable liquid once I pulled the meat out. I boiled it down a little, maybe 1.5 cups (got impatient) then whisked in my slurry (2 tablespoons cornstarch, quarter cup of water mixed together) and found the sauce was too weak and thin. Might need to up the initial amount of balsamic vinegar and honey, and add in a extra bit of cornstarch at the end. Might just be me though.
Seriously people? “Pulled pork”?
It’s been an hour and no one has said ANYTHING?? I’m disappointed in you all…
Sorry, I was too busy pulling my pork…
Yeah, I was too busy porking to pull on it.
Pork. The one you love.
Yo!
Gabba Gabba?
Don’t bite your friends, don’t bite your friends
I’ll tell you what I want, what I really really want?
Who’s the monster now, posting that? What’s in your hea-ad? In your heeeeaaaaad?
I am immune to your zombification.
Zom beh zom beh zom bahbah baaaaaaaaah
I wanna I wanna I wanna I really really wanna…
Lying in the couch in my underpants eating cheesesticks and watching Keeping Up Appearances.
You can tell I’m employed full time with a wife and children.
How else would you have access to cheesesticks? 😛
Keeping Up Appearances is pretty great though.
Sheridan?
You should totally cosplay as Onslow at the next PAX… sounds like you’re already half way there 😛
You’re unemployed now?
Your cheesesticks eat underpants?
That’s… not good…
Hi all! Hope everyone had a good weekend. Spent most of the weekend playing Minecraft (again – surely it’s run its course by now?!).
Decided to start looking into Forbidden Magic (a Thaumcraft/Botania/Blood Magic compatibility mod), seeing as I had kinda stalled in Thaumcraft (apparently, I need to get more insane before the Eldritch tech tree will unlock), and was already dipping into Botania on the side… so I started doing a little bit of Blood Magic… and now I’ve killed five withers and several demons. Used four nether stars to finish off the blood altar at tier five, and the last one to make myself some wings. You know how in Dragon Age, when people start doing blood magic, they go crazy with power, and always end up getting slaughtered by demons? Pretty accurate description of my weekend. :3
Anyone know how to keep a kitten from attacking computer cables?
Don’t get a kitten?
My guess would be bundle and hide them
Yeah but if you hide the kittens how will you know when they kitten?
Wait…
Apparently a good kitten training tool is a spray bottle filled with water that you spray immediately on them when they’re doing something naughty. But I doubt that’s a good solution near computer cables…. 😛
I’ve heard water mixed in with vinegar works pretty well. Something about the smell I think.
I’ve got carpet in in the room… would spraying the mix on the carpet in front of the cables work better?
Post a guard dog nearby.
Spike traps might work.
Leave the cables in a pool of water.
Edit: forgot #HELPING
Maybe something like cable sleeving would help, if nothing else it might help protect the cables a bit
Lemon. They hate the smell of citrus.
Another trick for keeping them away from areas you don’t want them on is double-sided tape. The sticky bits apparently feel gross to kitty paws so they’ll usually avoid areas with it. Good for keeping them off benches and tables.
Spray bottle with water or a water pistol is good too. See them where they’re not meant to be or doing something wrong? Loud noise and a spray of water.
Provide alternative super fun. Also, cats don’t like citrus and rubbing a bit of lemon juice around areas you want to keep litteh away from can work.
I’ve never had cats chew cables.
Wipe the cables with a drop of citronella or eucalyptus. Kitty won’t like the stinky cables.
Tweet from Working Dog
Did we know that Utopia is returning? Is this news? It feels like news! \o/
Good news!
I got around to watching Orange Is The New Black. So it’s pretty good, only 2 episodes into season 2, which seems okay so far, time will tell.
MONSTER HUNTER
Anyone playing Monster Hunter 4 on an original 3DS? Are there any performance issues or anything and does it need the circle pad pro? (does the circle pad pro work with it?) I was gonna upgrade to a new XL but the sudden loss of income has forced me to reconsider.
I don’t think there are any performance issues. More like improvements on the N3DS (apparently better textures, etc).
Pretty sure you can use the circle pad add-on with it too (in fact the N3DS just gets picked as if it is an old3DS + circle pad add-on in all games that support it)
sweet, sounds good to me. I’m gonna hunt all the monsters 😀
Me!
Loading times are perfectly reasonable, no lagginess, no framedrops, no noticeable issues at all.
CPP is nice, but not necessary. Only additional benefit you get with CPP is smoother camera control, but that’s about it. Without the CPP, the D-pad and the touchscreen still work for camera.
Thank you, will pick it up tomorrow I think.
Performs exactly like 3U did
Afternoon all!
hope everyone had a great weekend!
had a pretty cool weekend myself!
Friday evening was spent in its entirety making Halloumi cheese from scratch… Its been a few years since i last did it but, SUCCESS!
Tastes absolutely delicious… have kept half for fresh eating, other half will be for aging (40 days).
Saturday, went shopping with the missus. bought her a bracelet. almost impossible for her to make up her mind!
grabbed our V-day tradition of exactly 2 racks of pork bbq ribs and 1 garlic pizza, and returned home where we binge watched season 1 of How to get away with murder.
after words she gave me a V-day present! a Raspberry Pi 2 Board!!! whats even more impressive is that she found this place where the wife and hubby sell them from home… best gift ever 🙂
spent sunday setting up my raspberry with RetroPie, and Kodi… performance is amazing…everything up to and including PSX era runs flawlessly, n64 performance is really good but depending on game.
one thing i noticed is that the pi boards have serious mouse input lag… doesnt exist with keyboard/controller, but mouse has input lag… may need to see if that can be fixed.
You made haloumi?! Nice work!
oh it is divine! its my equivalent of salt! it goes in ANYTHING. especially burgers!
My mother has been complaining all year about how she doesn’t have money and has had to sell things to get by. Now she’s gone and bought a new $3,000 TV. I just… I don’t…
My dad does a slightly similar thing. Lost his job at the start of the year and is concerned about how he can afford stuff as he lost a lot of money in the GFC. Buys expensive new furniture despite the fact that he has two very young kids.
50 months interest free with no deposit and no repayments does wierd things to peoples brains.
If you don’t pay it off… in 4 years you’re left with a TV worth a few hundred bucks and $3000 accruing interest at 28.95% p.a. compounding monthly.
*hands up* Me! Me, I did this!
My parents always cried poor as I was growing up.
Yet somehow afforded Austar/Foxtel, a trashpak collected every month for the garden, takeaway every second night, lots of expensive meat (roasts and steak)…
Took me a long time to realise that the perception you are poor can be completely different to actually being poor.
Is your dad Joe Hocking?
The Age of Entitlement is OVER!
But you can buy it off us for a lot of money.
Or a well placed scholarship or two.
Yeah, Mr. Strange’s definition of “broke” is having under a certain amount (I don’t even know the amount, I just know it’s more than I usually have in my bank account! 😛 ) of money in his everyday bank account. Drives me nuts, especially the first time he was going on and on about being broke: I went without lunch for a week because I seriously thought we couldn’t afford it, only for him to tell me afterwards that we’d had more than enough money to feed me for the week despite him being “broke”. 😛
oh thats just harsh o_0
Jeeez. I hope you made him make you extra awesome lunches with bacon on bacon the following week to make up for it.
Dammit, I really should have! What a missed opportunity.
You should bring it up years after the fact. If Greece can do it with Germany and WW2 reparations…
lol yeah, cant believe thats only getting coverage now… fact is, greece has been bringing it up for the last 30 years…..
I’m very similar, I hate to have less than a few weeks pay in the bank. It’s mainly emergency money on hand, really, but I could never live week to week.
To be fair, I’ve been saying to Bun for the last few weeks that we’re broke. He has like, double figures in his bank account while I have four…but then again, all of our bills come out of my account so we don’t have a backup.
Balance too low for comfort due to too much moving? Moving always used to hit me pretty hard in the hip-pocket, no matter where to or from, it always just seems to cost so damn much.
Also no matter how well I planned or how anal-retentive and tight-assed I was about bringing things over like cleaning products etc, the new place always seemed to need something else different to the old place, whether it’s a broom, mop and bucket, ant-killer or a door-mat, take-out food for a few days while you don’t have proper groceries in the fridge because they don’t travel well…
On the plus side, I learned how to survive on $20/fortnight’s groceries, so it’s not like four figures are necessary to have in reserve. Apart from mobile/internet bills, power, gas, rego, fuel, services, health/motor insurance, gym, union fees, and all that jazz. *buries head in sympathy for past-self*
Yep. Moving costs are always ridiculous, despite how anal you end up being about the whole thing. And on top of that, bond from our old place hasn’t come through yet, car rego was due at the same time, my new job hasn’t managed to pay me yet, my old job hasn’t paid out my leave yet…
The four figures is equal to 1 month’s rent plus utilities (also due to come out soon) plus groceries for that month. It’s more that I need that barrier to feel safe enough that maybe we’ll get some income in that period of time.
When I was working, having under $1000 in my normal account was “broke”. More precisely, that was hitting my buffer and the signal to be a little more cautious until the next paycheck. How much was in my savings account at the time was irrelevant because the entire point of it was to never touch it.
Good Job! \o/
New Monster Hunter is pretty good. Nearly got the hang of using the Glaive – both of its attacks are really precise/straight, so it’s easy to land just to the side of your target. Even the Long Sword has a relatively easy swipe that you can use if you need to adjust. Also, don’t forget to level up your Kinsect – the Glaive becomes quite powerful even without upgrading the weapon, and once you can get the Kinsect buffs, it becomes a lot easier to use.
It might be because the Glaive is stronger than I realise, but it’s a lot harder to break Great Jaggi’s head – I end up killing him too quickly. And now I’ve moved so far beyond Jaggi gear, but I still want to complete the set.
There was a mission between 3* and 4* quests that I didn’t like being a forced mission, and I can see it turning a lot of newbies away from the game.
My starter Palico has mostly done more harm than good (knocking monsters back while I’m in mid swing so I miss the hit), but I’ve finally started recruiting more and now I have a healer, so that’s good.
The G. Jaggi’s frill has been toughened up to force mounting, if you mount once and focus his head you should get it, 2 mounts and it’s almost a guarantee
What’s the easiest way to mount? I keep trying to do it by luring them near walls and jumping off those, but most of the time I end up jumping right over them since the arc is so weird and they keep moving around. Even moreso if I go to the top of the wall and try jump off there, so hard to aim from up there. And even when I do line it up well, it seems to only work sometimes, others they’ll just get a hit from my weapon then I’ll land. And usually get cleaned up.
Easiest way is to us the ridges rather than walls, you don’t need to jump off a wall to mount you just need to jump. So using the small ridges most areas have has worked best for me, I also haven’t had much luck using walls for mounting
And you need to have your weapon stowed, right? Then run off the ledge and do an attack in the air, that’s the only way? I seem to have even more trouble off the ridges, the attack’s even less likely to trigger a mount.
Yeah have your weapon away, run off ledge swing in the air. I’ve been using dual blades almost exclusively at the moment and they have been fine for it, I haven’t tried it with anything else yet.
I had a run through each of the weapons on an expedition each last night, the insect glaive seemed decent. Kinda weird though. Not sure I entirely figured out how it works. What’s the deal with the kinsect leveling thing? Also that random colour change it has.
I’ve landed on charge blade as my weapon of choice. Seems to be going well. Actually, both those weapons were the only ones that let me manage to kill a velocidrome, therefore they must be superior 😛 I was having trouble breaking the jaggi frill too, even while concentrating all the hits on his head. Got a set of velociprey armour now, hopefully that should stave off some death for a while. Unlikely though.
Talking about basarios yeah? I just did it then, would of been a time when it would of had me taking them game back to EB, that’s a damn harsh quest
Nah I was talking about the Gore Magala attacking the ship. Super restrictive space to move in, with a bunch of stuff on the ground which can block your movement. Plus having to manually load harpoons, plus virus.
Oh, i thought basarios was much worse than that lol the gore magala was a bit of a bitch of an area but it went down fairly easily
Ah, I have been putting off the Bas fight, since he deflects Glaive hits. I was just going to go in with a Hammer.
Hint:
mount him twice to break his chest plate, which makes using sharp weapons a lot easierI’ve been worried about our old cat walking through the gap in the banister upstairs, it happened, and she fell about two metres.
Fortunately, she seems unfazed, though we may have to put something up to prevent a re-occurrence.
I suggest a splash pool with a team of robotic judges and a laser sensor trigger on a DSLR camera. That way when she falls you’ll be able to capture the moment of her triumphant high dive. She lands safely in the water, you achieve instant Internet stardom.
Win-win!
instant internet stardom and a 10 from the russian judge
Urgh, unemployment sucks. I’m gonna talk about some games I’ve completed.
Alien: Isolation. Really good game with good atmosphere. A bit disappointed in the story, it’s the typical Weyland-Yutani are being dicks plotline. The game could have also cut a few chapters.
Thing is though is that I didn’t actually find it scary. I don’t know what everybody is talking about saying it’s the scariest game of last year. Maybe because I rarely died from the Alien and was smart about avoiding it. Looking up videos I see a lot of people attempting to outrun it. Are you friggen serious?
As for the ‘cheap’ A.I. I found it to be rather fair. There were only a few moments I thought were bad. One was getting stabbed by the Alien during a cutscene, another was getting stabbed during a welding animation that was way too long and I couldn’t cancel it. Also, there’s this moment when you enter ‘Sanctuary’ that I died a lot on because of how badly designed it was.
Valiant Hearts. Pretty good game that hits you at the end. Although I found the puzzles a little too easy.
Phoenix Wright: Dual Destinies. It’s Phoenix Wright, you get what you paid for. It’s a huge improvement over Apollo Justice, although I wish there were still some red herring characters. You always know who the killer is.
Resident Evil HD. Still holds up and I forgot how much thinking I had to do in the game. Accidentally discovered that Yawn gets killed by 3 acid rounds and the spider boss gets killed in 2 flame rounds. Although I discovered a glitched where the serum for Richard doesn’t spawn and I had to reload my save file. Only lost 30 seconds but it was still annoying.
The new movement controls did make the game slightly easier.
Original DOOM 1 and DOOM 2. Man these games were really were designed back in the day (although the textures in the first game really repeat themselves). I played them as a kid but always used cheats, it was nice to complete them legitimately and enjoyed exploring the levels for secrets. Although I was annoyed that the item collection percentage score doesn’t count unless you actually use the item.
Currently playing Thief. As someone who never played the franchise I’m actually enjoying the game.
Hope y’all took spare underwear into work today.
Started playing Dark Souls 2 again over the weekend, picking up where I left off (which was about half way through the game). Figure I should finish it before Bloodborne comes out. Just got up to Shrine of Amana. Those mages are just the worst.
They used to be worse. Much, much worse.
How so?
Fired faster, did more damage, tracked better. 🙂
Well then, I’m glad to be facing them post nerf.
Their shots used to home in like mothertruckers. They would follow you around corners. You would roll through the shot, only to have it turn around behind you, and hit you in the back. IT REDUCED ALL PLAYERS TO DUST! (It was a bit shit, but not that bad, really)
Also, their aggro range was pretty much equal to the draw distance, so you’d have high damage near-undodgeable missiles shot at you before you could see what was shooting them. Fun times…
My current Dark Souls 2 strategy is, “999 arrows only cost 30,000 souls…”
I cheesed a LOT of DS2 with arrows, but generally mostly the multiplayer. Invasions are for finding somewhere impossibly difficult to get to in an environmentally-hazardous area and shooting someone with high-impact arrows to make them fall off things. Also, summoning friends and letting them do all the fighting. Because fuck you, invader. Fuck you. I’m trying to get some shit DONE here.
Heh, my first time getting invaded in DS2, they waited in the next area with the enemies I needed to clear next.
So I went all the way back to the start of the area, parked myself in a narrow tunnel, and waited.
And waited. And kept waiting until they got bored and met me on my terms.
Because it’s two distinct things – I’m either doing the single player thing, or multi. Don’t fuck with my single player progress. I am infinitely more patient than you.
I used to love hiding just to mess with invaders in DS1.
Ohyeah, I did that once! In DS1, the Artorias content. That foresty area after you talk to the giant mushroom, before the bridge. I timed it. An invader chased around for over twenty minutes looking for me. Never found me, eventually left. Like… maybe ten minutes later, he invaded again. I just ran back to the same spot and waited. He only hunted for like… ten minutes that time.
Hahaha, I spent a good 45 minutes hiding from an invader in the sewers of Dark Souls 1 :3
I angled my camera so I could see him running past, but he couldn’t see me hiding around this little corner 😀
Then I found the best PvP build, and never had any more problems :3
(Uchigatana + Power Within + Darkmoon Blade)
Don’t get me wrong, I didn’t hide because I couldn’t fight, I’m just not a very nice person and set out to waste as much of their time as I could.
Poison arrows + luck. Gavlan was my hero at that point 😛 But yes, they used to be far worse.
Do I need a Vita? Y/N
Thanks for your time.
If you have to ask, then the answer is no….
I like my
VitaPersona 4 Golden machineDid you find your 3DS? Y/N.
Your answer may influence my answer.
I’ve still got the console itself, which has the Theatrhythm cartridge, and Dual Destinies. All my other games are MIA.
Then MltY.
Maybe leaning towards Yes.
N
Need? No.
But if you want a portable to never play because it has no games, then the Vita is the damn prettiest paperweight available (I really like mine, but it rarely gets used since I don’t tend to play PS1 games, or weird Japanese RPGs that aren’t Persona).
I don’t have a Vita and I think I’m actually excited for the Vita Persona Dancing game.
This sensation confuses and scares me.
Ehhhhhhhh probably not.
I got one and play the shit out of games but if I’m honest I only play a few games on it.
If you’ve got a lengthy commute though and wanna play some great indies on it then go for it.
Otherwise I wouldn’t worry about it.
I absolutely love my Vita, but it’s a very polarizing system. The big question is whether it’ll have enough games on it that you can’t play elsewhere or that are simply superior on the system that you really want to play.
It’s also very dependent on how you feel about Japanese games, since the bulk of the exclusives are more niche Japanese releases.
What sort of games do you like enough to go out of your way for them?
I blew the dust off my PSP last night after @freezespreston reminded me of its function as a Final Fantasy VIII machine.
I still really like it as a piece of hardware, and the games on it are still really good. Stuff like Dissidia, Lumines, Peace Walker and the Resistance game that was on it are all still pretty cool
I still keep mine around for Final Fantasy VII: Crysis Core.
I never got to that one, was always on the list.
Same.
Can I have a puppy yet?
We applied for two puppies last week from the RSPCA. One was adopted out on the weekend. I called to see what was happening with the other this morning. It turns out that we’re now second in line (we were originally third and I was hoping that the people that adopted the other puppies there applied for ours, pushing us up the queue) and the first person in line had missed the mandatory information session that you have to go to before you take the dog home.
RSPCA got in touch with them this morning and it turns out they thought they were taking the dog home on Saturday. RSPCA won’t hold the dog that long, so if they’re unable to go this week we get a puppy.
We find out tomorrow.
Also, the puppy is currently called Katniss. That’s a terrible name for a dog. We need a new name.
Snowy for male or Sandy for female. If Labrador.
Female mongrel that looks fairly German Shepherdy.
Name it Rex and teach it to help solve crimes.
Dope-pup Mcbark
Dawg.
Turner.
Cus’ he turns food into poop.I thought Hooch was the dog
Hooch is crazy.
Huh got my wires a bit crossed, ignore! 😛
Our last 3 dogs were Shari (golden lab) Smudge (Black lab) and the current one is Lucca (Golden lab)
We were tossing up between Laika and Kiara for our first one… Sif is a popular name from back home (my childhood puppy was called Sif)… Our philosophy is usually use the name from something you like (E.g. Norse mythology: Sif, Odin etc)…
Edit – also good luck with the pup! Hope you get it… How old is she?
Freyja!
It is quite a popular name as well, I knew at least 3 dogs with that name… Tyr, Tor and Loke as well
10 weeks and while I like the name Sif, Freya has ruled it out.
Haha Boooooo-urns! Oh well… Also 10 weeks is a fantastic age to start bonding… Just remember that having a puppy at that age is like a Shakespeare play… “It is the best of times and it is the worst of times” 😛
both of ours were that age when we got them… Totally worth it
Laika, the name of the first dog to die in space? 😛
Well it wasn’t what we were thinking of at the time to be honest :P… But yes our oldest dog is called Laika 😛
Laika & The Cosmonauts?
*facepalm*
New ministers and their portfolios announced. Everything is changing. Oh god. So much… so much. Some of these changes undo changes we literally only finished implementing a week ago. They’re going to spend MILLIONS on this. Millions. Urrrrrgh.
Of course, I did say that this is what was going to happen, well before the election, but some things you really just want to be wrong about, y’know?
*head-desk*
In fairness, nobody realistically expected Labor to win. You should have had another three years to get ready for this.
Why is everyone in the entire fucking world – be they politicians, government or private sector – so horribly fucking averse to putting, “Didn’t fix shit that wasn’t broken,” on their god damn resumes? Change this! Change that! Change is always good even when it’s bad!
X was handled by the previous government and all of their failings belong to them. Y is handled by our government and we took all the successes of X to claim as our own.
On the plus side, you can at least hope for some new hires to comes along in the next 18 months.
Who’s the minister in charge of wasting money? Oh and the minister in charge of overseeing inquiries into previous ministers in charge of overseeing inquiries into previous ministers in charge of overseeing inquiries?
Weekend! Rugby WIN. Cricket LOSE.
Gaming content: played Elite for quite a while over the weekend. Really starting to get the hang of flitting about now. Saving up for Asp. Will outfit Asp then bugger off into darkness.
Harmless, Mostly Penniless, Mostly Aimless. 🙂
Mostly Harmless, Dealer and Mostly Aimless here :P… Saving up for an Imp Clipper here… Nearly saved up enough money for my first type 6, then money should really start rolling in… I technically have enough money for it now, but I don’t want to sell my Cobra, I like that ship way too much 😛
Oh, forgot to add: Proud knight of the imperial navy as of last night as well 😛
FOR THE EMPEROR!
Friend me. Very lonely out there. 😉 Or let me know your elite name…
I like my Cobra too. I did get caught by some Competent pirate while taking a shortcut across an anarchic system. Hull to 5%… eep! Managed to manage shields and engines just long enough to escape and limp into civilisation but that was a bit hairy and cost me nearly half my dosh. Exploration is a handy little top up for cash even at the start of the game as there are plenty of poorly explored systems in the core regions. Have you tried mining yet?
IMPERIAL SCUM!!! Proudly neutral at the mo…
Have tried mining, I have an Adder kitted out just for mining :P… Easy money early on but the repetiveness makes it not that much fun for longer periods of time… Good deviation from trade running though
NegativeZero’s Kantai Collection Update
Logged in on Friday night with the intention to continue to plug away at the final event map. Running easy difficulty because Medium+ was just too hard. The issue I was running into was that prior to the boss, there is a pre-boss node on the map which is insane. Armored Carrier Princess, the previous map’s boss, lurked in that map’s pre-boss node and she’s easily capable of smashing one ship to critical damage in one attack. Making matters worse, about 60% of the time she would appear alongside two Wo-class Carriers, meaning an insane air attack.My first few attempts, I was attempting with two light carriers (Chitose & Chiyoda) because they could easily field enough fighters to gain air superiority, allowing them to shoot down many of the Hime’s planes, reducing her attack power somewhat and making her easier to dodge. Additionally with Air Superiority you can use floatplanes for artillery spotting, allowing the Battleships to double-attack. It’s pretty important. However the issue I was hitting was that the two light carriers are very fragile. At around 45 HP and fairly low armor, they only needed to take a glancing blow from a battleship or cruiser to be put out of commission.
Trouble was that this is a combined fleet map. Combined fleet requires you to devote the ships of both fleets 1 and 2 to the map. Fleet 2 is an escort for fleet 1, and the combined fleet can be configured as a Fast Response fleet (up to 4 carriers + heavy cruisers & battleships in 1st fleet) or a Surface Attack fleet (up to 4 battleships + up to 2 light carriers or 1 fleet carrier). Surface was the best approach for the map, because surface fleets have two shelling phases for the 1st fleet and then 1 final round for the escorts, where Fast Response has the escorts fight first, and an escort fleet of destroyers and light cruisers would get torn to pieces on the way through – the very first node had the Cruiser Demon boss from the 3rd map in the event.
I needed to get to 200 air power to guarantee Air Superiority against the pre-boss configuration with the Wo-class Carriers. Because I haven’t leveled up my Fusou or Yamashiro to Kai-2, I couldn’t use a good Aviation Battleship (the pair aren’t a good idea for main fleets in their normal forms, and I don’t have Ise or Hyuuga at high enough levels to use them) so I hunted around and finally found a configuration which would give me 206 air power, enough to get superiority assuming I didn’t lose too many fighters to AA guns on the way through. To achieve this I was using Tone Kai-2 and Kaga, Tone with 2 slots devoted to floatplanes and Kaga completely loaded with Reppu, meaning she couldn’t actually attack anything and was only there to provide a deck for fighters. Incidentally if I hadn’t gotten the 601st Squadron Reppu from an earlier event map I wouldn’t have been able to do this at all. I now understand why everyone uses Kaga – her Aircraft slots easily make her the best carrier in situations like this and I need to focus on leveling her up a lot further.
Anyway, used this configuration on Thursday and Friday Morning and managed to get through to the boss. The boss itself in Easy was very easy, since if you’ve gotten there there’s no risk to anyone. Damaged her heavily in the day then finished her off in night battle most of the time.
So Friday night, everyone’s sparkly and ready to go. I get through to the pre-boss. Air Superiority. She fires and knocks Kaga to 1 HP. Should not have happened. Quit the game in disgust.
Came back to it on Saturday and did some extra research. Turns out that I never understood Morale properly. At 50+, they start to sparkle, which means they have high morale. However it’s not until their morale hits 53+ that they get an evasion bonus. So obviously my Kaga had been < 53 going in. Trouble is that the morale value isn’t surfaced anywhere in the UI beyond the sparkle. So I discovered KanColleViewer, a program that sits on top of the game, hooks some of the UI and surfaces extra info eg Morale values. Very useful. Started playing with that. Spent about 2 hours ensuring that everyone – my main fleet & escorts plus both of the support fleets – were all at or above 53 morale. First attempt at the map was an incredible success, through to the boss. But only barely sank her in the Night battle segment, with Ooi saving the day with a 300-damage double-attack to finish proceedings.
The issue was that my battleships were just not hitting. They’d fire on Destroyers and just do scratch damage, fire at cruisers and straight up miss. One battle, I had an enemy destroyer tank 7 battleship salvos before being hit. Some research showed that a lot of other players attempting the higher difficulties were running Fast Battleships with surprisingly low-caliber guns. 41cm Prototype Triple, 35.6cm Dazzle, Bismarck’s 38cm… I’d been running all four of my Kongous (managed to get Kirishima up to Kai-2 right before the event began) using a combo of a 46cm and a 41cm gun. A while back, they added an ‘overweight’ penalty to main guns, where you would suffer a loss of accuracy if running a gun that was heavier than the ship was designed for, so eg running a 20.3cm gun on a light cruiser or a 46cm gun on a Kongou. However numbers had shown that this really only became an issue with three guns equipped, and the combo of 46cm & 41cm or 2x46cm on a Kongou usually was fine. On a hunch, though, I decided to swap out the guns, re-equipping my four Kongous with paired 41cm guns. I thought maybe the overweight penalty was being heavily amplified in combined fleets. Turns out that was the case. Suddenly my battleships were wrecking motherfuckers like you’d expect.
By the end of Saturday, I’d sunk the boss an extra 3 times from 4 attempts, the only retreat caused when I lost one too many aircraft on the way through, failed to get air superiority, and Kirishima was critically hit by a bomber.
Sunday played out even better. My resources were getting pretty low but I continued the same tack: run short expeditions while making sure everyone was high morale, then run a sortie. Funny side-note on morale: what this boils down to is sending the ship through the first world in the game where they wreck everyone and get MVP twice. The safest approach is to throw two level 1 destroyers in with them to draw fire away (non-flagship gets targeted more often). World 1-1 is always two battles and almost always drops a new destroyer from each. Some scummy admirals will literally run those poor level 1 destroyers until they sink and then replace them, but I can’t do that. Instead I’d get 1-2 runs with them and then use them for modernization scrap. But the funny element of this is that basically being sent into battle with newbies and watching them be shot to pieces and then turned into a +1 torpedo stat is a boost for morale! Also funny note; every time I sent Yukikaze in, the other two destroyers with her would be critically damaged coming out. Every time. This is appropriate: Yukikaze was one of the few IJN destroyers to survive WW2, considered a ‘lucky’ ship… unless you were on a different ship assigned to her battle groups, because she was regarded as the Grim Reaper due to multiple engagements where she was the lone survivor and everyone else sank with massive losses.
Anyway, had one run in the early afternoon, got my 6th kill. Then the 7th kill went really poorly, with several ships hit to mid-damage in the pre-boss. 10pm, resources dwindling, but the end was in sight. Luckily I wasn’t running in Medium or Hard, where the Last Dance with the Battleship Water Demon involves her powering up even further and summoning a bunch of other bosses to her mode, making it a complete crapshoot because her sinking or not would depend on whether your secondary fleet targeted her in the night battle. Easy was much easier – no power up, just changed to add 2 extra battleships and a cruiser in place of 1 carrier and 2 destroyers. However given how loving the RNG had been toward me, I knew what I was in for: retreat at the pre-boss node.
That’s not what happened. Node A, against the Cruiser Demon (side note: the Cruiser Demon is very clearly designed to be a combination of Naka and Agano, who both sank at Truk. It’s pretty telling that she’s got no legs and from the waist down is all machiney bits – Naka was blown in half by a torpedo). Support expedition activates, shells in. 3 ships sunk. I-19, Kitakami and Ooi torpedo salvo takes out 2 more. Just the Cruiser Demon left. She did a chip attack on Hiei, but my 4 battleships proceeded to focus fire on her, but not take her out. Then it’s the escort fleet’s turn, and the Cruiser Demon is still only lightly damaged. If she survives to the second torpedo phase this is going to be a retreat. Kitakami hits her to mid-damage, but she fires back, knocking Yuudachi to half health. Fuck. Even if she survived, that probably meant losing her on a subsequent node and having to retreat. The shelling continues and then Ooi pulls one out of nowhere, double-attacking for 150 damage and taking it out.
Second node, as usual 3 battleships, though I got the harder formation where one of the Rus is replaced with a Ta-class flagship. Support expedition activates again, shells in, destroyers are taken out. Torpedo salvo takes the Rus to critical and clears the cruiser. Then fire is exchanged between the battleships and this time Haruna is MVP, taking out the Ta-class with a cut-in that did enough damage to kill her three times. “This is going way too well,” I thought. “So I guess I’m going to be forced to retreat by the Armored Carrier in the pre-boss node”.
Pre-boss fight. 2xWo-class carrier formation, but I’ve still got 202 Air Power so secure superiority. Support expedition fires in again, which is rad. They take out a Destroyer and both of the Wos. Torpedo salvo fires, and the only things left are a cruiser and the Armored Carrier. Carrier sends out planes to dive-bomb Haruna, but she dodges like a champ, then fires a pinpoint shot at the remaining cruiser. Then the remaining battleships line up and fire on the Carrier Demon. She’s at half health and won’t be able to fire back. Then Tone, right down the bottom, activates and again does a double-attack for insane damage and blows the carrier away. Didn’t even need the second shelling phase. Perfect victory. No one took damage!
Proceed to the Final boss. Cleared most of her escorts pretty quickly – one of the escort Battleships taken out with torpedoes, support expedition cleaned out things nicely. Battleship Water Demon hits a few of my battleships but nothing too critical and by this stage it doesn’t matter. Escort fleet has their shelling phase, can’t really hurt her much since they’re just destroyers and cruisers. 150 HP left. Feeling okay, but worried that RNG is going to fuck me by leaving it on 17HP or something. She fires and smashes Sendai pretty hard, but not critical. Night battle time. Yuudachi was the one carrying my flares, but she got hit down to orange so expected those not to activate. Sendai also had my searchlight. Both activate. Kitakami fails to do a cut-in attack and only fires a normal torpedo, but it hits the boss down to 50 HP. Sendai chipped in another 20, and then Shigure (mai waifu) takes a break from the Furious Mixing she’s been doing all event (they changed out her normal art for one where she’s wearing an apron and holding a mixing bowl, making hand-made chocolates for valentines) and does a 250-damage double-attack.
The victory is bittersweet though. Increasingly I feel like Kadokawa are going with the ‘Abyssal Ships are Shipgirls infected with something’ route, because when you get the final kill on some bosses, they have lines where they start talking whistfully and as the line goes the downward pitch shift and reverb fades off and you heard them talking normally. The Cruiser Demon when I beat her in E3 remembered who she was previously, and the Battleship Water Demon in E5 that I’d just killed made a reference to bright light. If you look at where the battle ended up (west of Truk where E1-E3 happened), and then take that into account along with the general design it leads you toward a terrible conclusion: Nagato 🙁 In her normal lines, Nagato makes reference to remembering a bright flash and then nothing, referencing the fact she was part of the target array for the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests.
But on the upside, Amagi! And event cleared! I hadn’t even realized that Amagi is voiced by Yui Horie, so that’s an even nicer bonus. Shame she’s got less planes than a Light Carrier until you get her to level 50 and throw a blueprint on her, and not sure if I like her remodel art as much, but whatever.
Now I need to go back to E4 and farm it in the hope of getting Unryuu as a drop. E4 boss also has a chance apparently to drop Asashimo, who is this event’s random drop-only ship, along with Asagumo and Yamagumo, both of whom I can’t get anywhere else right now. If I get some success with Unryuu I’ll be heading back to E2 for easier Asashimo farming, and also consider E1 for the possibility of a second Akashi for her repair cranes or Taigei because cute.
This is actually the first time I’ve finished a proper event. The only other one I completed was the Arpeggio of Blue Steel crossover event in December 2013, and that was only IIRC 3 maps and only rewarded I-401 (though I got a bunch of rare ships drop from it too). I hope this selectable difficulty mechanic stays for the next events, as it actually made it possible for me to finish stuff. Previously it’s been gated based on your HQ level, and mine being 95 would have meant I’d be forced to do it in Hard and I’d probably still be stuck on E3 trying to get my ultracute german sub.
I’ve also noticed several week points in my ship lineup to address for next event:
– lack of Yamashiro & Fusou Kai-2 means I don’t have any good BBVs at high levels. To fix, will get at least Yamashiro to 80 for Kai-2
– lack of any high-level slow BBs except for Yamato. I really needed two (or at least, I needed the option not to have to use Yamato since she has a prodigious appetite for ammo). I have Nagato and Mutsu but both are only level 30. Need at least 70.
– lack of options with aviation cruisers. I have two (and potentially 4 more), but Suzuya is kind of shit. Really need Chikuma Kai-2 to match Tone, if only for her planes.
– lack of Anti-Air cut-ins. I only have one gun capable of it. Need to get Akizuki to the level 60+ range so she can be used in sorties as she can do the cut-in without special gear, plus getting her to her first remodel at 40 means getting a second 10cm+FD gun so that would mean 3 AACI-capable destroyers. Also Akizuki’s voice is cute
– lack of useable-level Prinz Eugen. She’s the best heavy cruiser in the game except maybe for Haguro and has some amazing gear. I need her up at a good level.
– lack of another high-level Destroyer to work with Yuudachi and Shigure. I only have Ushio Kai-2 at 62, no one else. Need to get Hibiki to 70 and then sell her to the Russians, and then one of Fubuki, Ayanami or Hatsushimo – provided no one else gets a Kai-2 – to 70 as well. Probably Fubuki.
Nice work on completing the event
Unexpected, actually. I honestly thought I’d be spending all week on it. Now I have until Friday to so some farming.
Always nice. Similar to trying to complete gauntlet in MPQ, the RNG can screw you and wipe out a team and then either use your limited health packs to try again or wait for a couple of hours.
But if the RNG goes in your favour can get twice as much done in the time than you thought
Yeah, though the issue is resources more than anything. I’ve still got lots of instant-repair buckets left (ended up burning through about 90-100 but gained back about 40 while playing) but hardly any fuel and ammo, and those regen so slowly you’re out for a good few days if you run out unless you religiously run expeditions and reset them constantly throughout the day & night. Unlike a lot of F2P games you can’t microtransaction to get more resources, at least not efficiently (you can but they’re ultra expensive for not very much, like about $5 for enough ammo to replenish a sortie fleet once, maybe not even once if you had Yamato in there, she’s that hungry)
Gaming shame: I never beat Majora’s Mask on N64.
Even though I obtained the Fierce Deity mask.
Huh.
What’s your current gaming shame?
Final Fantasy X on PS2. Last I remember I was at Chapter 11 of 13. I should really hurry and finish the end game before my memory card goes kaput.
Also, Metroid Fusion. I cannot beat the final boss – I’m literally fifteen minutes from the end.
I stopped at the final boss of metroid prime. Other top contender is having all the sidequests done for final sequence support in new Vegas, but never finished it.
Honourable mentions to my abandoned human revolution save most of the way through, and my significant progress on ni no kuni that’s taking an extended hiatus.
I decided to stay at home and play Enter The Matrix instead of losing my virginity.
I never got past the second level in Black.
I never finished OoT or MM on the N64
MAGIC TALK
I’m doing a commander night in a couple of weeks (Commander being a really cool variant where you pick one legendary creature as your “commander” and then build the deck around them). I’ve been fiddling with one deck since before PAX last year, that I think is pretty cool…
But I’ve almost abandoned tinkering with it entirely in favour of one built around Talrand, Sky Summoner
http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=253701
This guy.
All the one or two mana bullshit in my box of cards.
A billion drakes.
Victory.
Could be fun to add an Obelisk of Urd naming Drake as well.
Oh gods you could convoke that out using the tokens
That’s going on the wishlist.
So do you automatically get your commander in your hand to start or something.
They start the game in the “command zone” (Face up in front of you) and you can cast them from there. If they’d go to the graveyard or be exiled, you can put them back in the command zone and recast them for 2 colourless mana more (so Talrand would cost 4 + Blue +Blue)
There’s also rules where each card in the deck other than basic land must be unique, and each card must match the commander’s colour identity (so all the cards in this deck must be blue or colourless)
Maybe some of these? Assuming you had the upkeep available.
http://magiccards.info/query?q=%21Pact+of+Negation
I looked at that, I’m more leaning towards counters and other spells that replace themselves- It’s not the mana that’s the issue, it’s having enough fuel in your hand to power out a bunch of drakes early.
There’s two modes you can go with this, either rapid drake accumulation so as to overwhelm the board early, or acting as “the sheriff” and countering everything that’s too disruptive.
Yeah, I think the way I’d be looking at it is taking advantage of the “Flying” portion of things early game. Spam out a bunch of drakes and slam through poor defences. Maybe.
DAMMIT RED, I’M OUT OF THE GAME. STOP TRYING TO DRAG ME BACK IN!
The first step is admitting we have a problem. The second step is recognising we need external help. The third step is turning to those who have struggled with this before us…….. *rocking slowly back and forth*
FWIW, so far I have spent a grand total of about $4 on this deck. $3 for the commander, a couple of random blue junk packs from a FLGS, and all the blue shit in my draft scraps box.
I’ll lend you an EDH deck at PAX this year and we can play. I think @freezespreston bought a commander deck last year too?
I ditched my carefully databased and organised 2593 cards the last (final?) time I gave Magic up. It’s not a money thing, although I’m sure I can make an argument to myself in that direction. It’s just knowing how obsessive I can get with certain things, especially Magic with an unhealthy dose of statistics and planning and spreadsheets. 😛
I’m not trying to drag you back in, but if you want a fun casual game at PAX I’m keen. The conspiracy draft we did last year was a lot of fun.
Other than the odd cards I’m picking up for this format, my rule is pretty much don’t crack packs outside of a draft, and don’t play standard- I’m not interested in a wallet based arms race, or sitting in the dark deckbrewing, I want to play magic and I want it based on skill. I’ve been doing the prereleases for this reason- sealed is much more interesting as everyone’s on the same level
Yeah, I know you’re not. I’m just being silly with it.
Hive Mind + Pact of Negation is a win condition is this super rad Modern Deck I saw played on stream the other day.
Also, this guy is just begging to be used in a Storm deck. It’s a shame you can’t throw in red because then you’d have some seriously nutty stuff to work with.
But yeah, a whole bunch of cantrips, cheap control and a couple of fun combo tools (or maybe something janky but fun like Future Sight) could make for some good times.
See, I want to play it for fun, in a multiplayer format.
Anything too stupid and I’ll just get hated out
Commander is too inconsistent to be able to pull these shenanigans off often enough to get hated out. It’s one of those things where if it works, everyone else whould just be in awe and when it doesn’t, oh well.
Oh god I can’t bowgun for shit in monster hunter
and yet I’m sticking with it
anyway life is normal. I saw a cat in my apartment, I was all like “this is not my cat,” then the cat walked off unto the balcony and I assume it flew back to space to it’s home.
Why are you sunday now
Life goes on day at a time, mate. Who knows what the next day’ll bring? Tuesday? Wednesday? Hell, even Thursday?
You can’t just go around making up days!
Wait, can you?
Don’t tell me you’ve not heard of Mauiday, named after the hawaiian folk hero and ancient chief. Or Chouquettoday, named after the french pastry.
does that mean fellatioday is a thing?
It is now.
I’m using a bow. Found out that for capturing a monster you can’t use Sleep Coating when the monster falls in the trap, only Tranq bomb / Tranq bullets.
EDIT: I actually kind of feel bad for the dinosaur I was catching.
*unloads 10 arrows into stunned monsters face*
“NOTHINGS HAPPENING!”
*continues firing arrows into monsters face*
Oh man, so I actually gotta try to aim now when I shoot monsters in traps? Despicable. Horrible. 9/10.
Still haven’t had a chance to play or even charge new 3DS
Hurry the fuck up and play so I can play with somebody so I can feel better about my horrid MH skills.
Hey, if you want to co-op and feel better about yourself, that’s what I’m here for.
Currently using the charge blade so holy crap don’t come anywhere within range of me or else I’ll probably accidentally axe you in the face.
*axedentally
I used to use switch-axe and send my friends flying all the time online. Good to know I can keep up the tradition with my new weapon of choice.
Solo bowgunning? You’re brave lol I would suggest building up some sort of melee weapon, you will eventually crack the shits relying on the AI to keep you safe, but get gud at bowguns for MP and you will be praised loudly
3 hours to go!!!! Im so excited to sleep!!
This happened yesterday.
https://twitter.com/FreezeSPreston/status/566737810552418304
It’s all downhill from here.
Impressive!
You’re a braver man than I.
Posting that in public…
😉 Kudos though, geez.
So Mrs Tigs is heading out to trivia tonight which means I’m allowed to cook human food.
Not sure what I want to do but thinking maybe some chicken mignon. Also maybe just a nice simple con carne with all the things I normally leave out (like flavour)
Ooohhhhh maybe even dessert, a fruit pie or something. Damn I wish they sold them single serve
Edit: or fish. Hmmmm now that is a thought. This is the problem I have so many options I end up with choice paralysis and have something simple and boring
Everything is sold single-serve if you’re hungry enough.
Mmmmm I really do enjoy those single-serve KFC buckets they do… But pricey at $40 but you know!
This is like when I buy three pizzas so that I’ll have leftovers, and end up with one extended shameful meal.
Thanks
BishPowGo something simple but delicious. The con carne sounds lovely.
Make/order something outrageously spicy… Vindaloo or Jungle Curry?
Whenever I have to cook for myself…
1. Fill half a bowl with pasta andcover with water
3. Microwave, high, 10 minutes
4. Drain pasta and put back in bowl
5. Grate far too much cheese onto pasta
6. Stir briefly.
7. If cheese not melted enough, microwave for a further 45 seconds on high.
8. Feel wonderful for length of meal.
9. Feel guilty when wife asks what I had for dinner.
Wanna cheat a little bit more on that?
Buy some Pesto. One jar is about $4.50, but makes about 6 servings worth. And it stores in the fridge.
So when your wife asks, you can say “I had pasta, cheese, and tonnes of other things.”
“Like What?”
“Oh, basil, a touch of garlic, some pine nuts…”
(She doesn’t need to know that there’s about 3 different cheeses in Pesto).
I normally do a curry or something if I’m cooking or myself.
A little harder now as I generally share my dinner with the little one. Ended up having chicken mignon which turned out quite nice
This will be the longest week of my life.
My contract has not been extended (and they were pretty shit about the whole thing)
Now I have to sit here, somewhere I really don’t want to be, doing pretty much nothing for 4 more days.
Going postal is looking more and more inviting.
BTW… Hi everyone. I haven’t been around much lately.
Sorry to hear, man. Hope you manage to line something else up!
Not yet but I had an interview last week with the promise of a follow up… just hasn’t been confirmed yet. Fingers crossed
Sale coming up for Xbox One from the 18th. There’s stuff for 360 too but nobody caught the prices before they tore the test pages down. If you have Gold:
Wicked Weekend Offers
Halo: The Master Chief Collection – $40
Killer Instinct Complete Collection – $66
Shadow of Mordor Season Pass – $20
The Walking Dead: Season 1 and Season 2 – $26
Ultimate Offers
Alien Isolation – $40
Alien Isolation Season Pass – $16
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare – $67
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Digital Pro – $112
The Crew – $67
The Crew Gold Edition – $87
Destiny – $67
Destiny Digital Guardian Edition – $87
Fantasia: Music Evolved – $30
Forza Motorsport 5 – $42
Lara Croft Temple of Osiris & Season Pass – $15
Shadow of Mordor – $60
Monopoly Family Fun Pack – $27
Telltale Games Collection – $77
Trials Fusion Deluxe Edition – $12
Trials Fusion Season Pass – $10
Watch_Dogs – $40
Ultimate Value Deals
Angry Birds Star Wars – $10
Costume Quest 2 – $7
Kinect Sports Rivals – $14
Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris – $11
Lords of the Fallen – $15
NBA Live 15 – $15
Sniper Elite 3 – $20
Styx: Master of Shadows – $10
Some decent deals there! I wish PSN would put Telltale games on sale – I’d buy The Walking Dead again!
Also, that’s a great price for Lords of the Fallen. I paid $47 for it (which was admittedly too much) quite recently.
$15 is a steal for LoTF. Sniper Elite 3 is good for that price too. Actually a whole bunch of alright deals.
Angry Birds Star Wars might be worth checking out for $10. I wanted it but when I checked it out at launch was the price of a full retail game!
Cool bananas, I might go check it out. $10 seems decent indeed. I was going to avoid Trials for anger management reasons, but for that price…
I never thought removing protection from an Excel workbook would be quite that easy…
http://datapigtechnologies.com/blog/index.php/hack-into-a-protected-excel-2007-or-2010-workbook/
Full disclosure: I’m the owner/user of the workbook in question, it was passworded by the person who I was helping build it. 12 months later they don’t know the password.
Not 100% but i think you can just open it using open office as well and it will ignore the protection
Edit: Might lose some advanced features if it’s a complex spreadsheet
As I understand it Excel workbook passwords are one of the most unsecure things out there. Barely worth the time to type one. There’s a free add-in (search Straxx Excel password) that will remove “Protect Sheet” passwords from any Excel file from 97 upwards, and from what I’ve seen it basically just brute forces based on a binary string of characters. Something about the way the password hashes are generated, I don’t really understand the technical details. I just know it works.
yeah I know – we usually only use them on public facing documents to stop staff changing a ‘no’ to a ‘yes’ when they haven’t done something. Cheeky buggers.
Haha, yep, I hear that. I use a standard 2 character password that’s freely available to anybody who asks for it. Just there to keep them honest.
Can I have the password?
™Lies, that’s only one character!
It’s all a subterfuge! Or is it! Maybe I’m lying now to throw you off the trail! Where will it end!?
Probably a DMCA violation and highly illegal in the US, though. 😛
Woo, no work!
So, interesting weekend. Friday night went from WOO, NO MORE WORK! to staying up late in support mode for a friend who had just broken up from a long-term relationship. Which doubly sucked because I had to get up early the next morning.
First, had to run over to one JB to pick up MM3D preorder, grabbed MH4 while I was there and spent an eternity trying to get them to match Target, since it was further up the centre than I thought and also it seems like nobody else had been there to pick up their stuff yet so I had to provide proof of the match. Then run around the corner to the RTA to get my licence renewed. Glad I had my 3DS with me, managed to get some stuff done during the wait 😛 It went pretty well – first I got told “you’ve been a good driver, so we’re giving your a discount. Half price”. Awesome! IN YOUR FACE EVERYONE WHO HAS EVER SAID OTHERWISE ABOUT MY DRIVING! It’s official now! Second, then I went to have my picture taken it turned out someone had moved the camera to point straight up at the ceiling, and it took the lady a while to adjust it and get it facing the right way. So thanks to the ongoing laughter I managed to get a picture where I *don’t* look like a terrorist for once. Victory!
Stopped home for a quick bite to eat, then continued on towards the city. Made a detour via Newtown, since I had something to drop off at a friend’s place there. But then it turned out there were no trains because trackwork (JESUS CHRIST THERE ARE NEVER ANY TRAINS ON THE WEEKEND) so that was one super slow bus trip into the city. Went by EB, picked up my Majora nXL, went around the corner to Mountain Designs and quickly grabbed a new pair of climbing shoes, then back out and around another corner and down the road to Imax. Got there just in time, about ten to 2 right before Interstellar was due to start. I was still there mouth agape all over again, it’s just as awesome the second time around 😛 Great seat too, almost dead centre. Although I was stuck next to the worst people. Chattering all throughout the movie, an unsilenced phone that went off, laughing at things that weren’t funny, reading out every word that appeared on screen, wtfing at any slight surprise or even a few non-surprises. Ugh. Still, didn’t say anything. Even though I wanted to, several times.
Ended up pretty tired that night, so didn’t really make much headway on MH4. Got called out for a late night pickup of my sister and her friends, so that helped shake off the tireds for a bit. Got up late on Sunday, to find my aunt and uncle down for lunch. I was mostly zombie mode, but eventually went out and joined. Thankfully didn’t get as much of a third degree about work and stuff as I thought I would, so that was nice. Otherwise spent the rest of the day playing Monster Hunter, and raging at it because FUCK THAT STUPID FLYING BEETLE ALWAYS CHIMING IN ON EVERYTHING AND FUCKING UP MY SHIT. I forgot how much I hate this game 😛
Later that night was interesting though. Found out that the breakup had since been reversed, so that was good. The other was a little closer to home.Mum thought that the reason for the lunch visit that day was for them to talk about how they’re thinking of moving over to WA for a while. That wasn’t it though. It turns out my aunt had been sitting on a secret for the last few years, something she’s only been able to bring up recently but hasn’t really found the right time for.
It turns out that a few years ago, she accidentally found out from a patient she was treating (who was an old neighbour from their childhood) that she and my mum were adopted by my grandparents. They didn’t want her to tell anyone, though apparently all the extended family’s known and it’s pretty much just us who didn’t. I… still kinda don’t know what to make of it. It’s weird.
Shit.
You’re obviously lost royalty. Find your paternal grandparents and then find their unmarked graves off the coast of sweden then murder their assassins and claim your right to the throne ASAP.
All those e-mails that we thought were spam… why did we keep trashing them??
You had e-mails seemingly sent from the prince of Nigeria.. but what you didn’t know is that they were addressed to the prince of Nigeria!
BEST PLOT TWIST
5 MICHELIN STARS
ROGER EBERT APPROVED
TWO GRAMMYS
Thanks to 50 Shades of Grey I finished the main story in Hyrule Warriors.
I assume it involves Tingle?
😛
Sexiest 50 Shades of Grey story ever 11/10
Lost Property report filed for my phone!
I hope it’s been turned in (since I’m 99% sure I left it in a taxi), so with any luck it’ll turn up 🙂
Pretty sure it won’t though, but I’ll give it to the end of the week before buying a new one.
Not super bummed about it or anything. It was my fault, and a silly accident, so it could be worse 😛
Oh, and @beeawwb
what’s in your he-ad, in your heeeeeeaad, zombie, zombie, zomb-eh-eh-eh…When phone comes back, or you get a new one, install ‘Where’s My Droid’. Upgrade to premium to get access to ‘Commander’ functions.
Havent had to use it for a genuinely lost phone, but making it ring when it’s on silent and buried under a mountain of kids toys is very handy.
I tried that “Where’s my Xperia?” feature, but could,’t remember which details I put into it :3
I have a lot of emails, and a lot of passwords…
Also, it’s definitely out of battery anyway, so wouldn’t even work if I did remember the details :3
That’s where a function called GPS Flare on Where’s My Droid is amazing…
Sends email to nominated address with GPS location when battery hits certain percentage.
So many other handy functions;
– Uninstallation protection – prevents app from being uninstalled and sends an email if it’s attempted
– Can hide app from app drawer – becomes accessible by dialling specific sequence in phone dialler.
– Get a notification if SIM is changed
– Hides incoming SMS’s that contain your ‘alert’ words so theif doesn’t know you’ve requested location.
Plus the usual remote location/lock/wipe/camera/ring functions.
Edit: Also, password manager – go get lastpass or similar.
Hmm, if i can’t find it by the end of the week, I’l have to call up Optus and get them to erase the sim-card for me actually…
Thanks for reminding me, Sunny! 😀
Also get them to IMEI block the phone… useless on all Australian networks.
I don’t know why I clicked that.
Because you secretly love it? 😉
I once lost my phone in a taxi (because I was looking out for my super drunk boyfriend at the time) But they found it and I got it back! so all is not lost in that instance!
I’m hoping I lost it in a taxi :S
I remember vividly having it right before getting into the taxi, but not having it right after the taxi ride…
Hopefully it gets handed in :3
Headline: “Stan considering a Wolf Creek spinoff for Australian Streamers”
My brain’s immediate interpretation: “Stan threatening to maroon in outback, hunt down and brutally murder Australian streamers”
The musical?
20mins aww yeah!!
Haha. The things you randomly find when clicking through random YouTube sidebar chains.
Nice skydive @mrtaco.
Link or it didn’t happen 😛
It has his full real name so I’m somewhat loathe to post the link.
Pan. T. Dropper?
Thanks.
How in the fuck.
Was looking at Red Bull extreme sport videos and got into skydiving and was all “Hey, that name looks familiar” and holy crap it was you.
Hmm. Well, so long as it didn’t actually have any links to any of my stuff…
Sent you the link to your phone.
Inquisition: I’m fairly certain I’m only a mission or two from the end.
(Possible spoilers for Mass Effect and Dragon Age romances….
Why do I always choose the least satisfying romances in these games?! With Mass Effect, my FemShep was with Alenko in the first game, and stayed faithful to him in the second game, resisting the charms of all the new companions. It wasn’t worth it. The Shep/Alenko relationship was rather boring, and besides the letter in ME2 and the butt-watching at the start of ME3 there was no real…flavour in the relationship. And then in Inquisition my character chose Solas, because she was an elf so she could, and he’s really interesting, and quite obviously hiding something big (I can guess but I don’t want to say anything further on the matter in case I prompt spoilery discussion), but the relationship took forever to “mature” and there were hardly any extra scenes between them. All the other characters had a lot more extra scenes with the Inquisitor and I imagine their relationships were way more fun. After the first time I saw the end of the Solas relationship I got mad and reloaded and romanced Cullen instead which was all kinds of fun (and quite frankly, what that man needed 😛 ), but I realised my Inquisitor was perfectly suited to pine after Solas so I reloaded again. So my Inquisitor is stuck all alone, pining after a guy who probably isn’t exactly what he says he is…and wasn’t even very fun anyway. 😛Oh, and I killed all the Dragons.
Felt really bad on the last two I took down. They were both asleep, so it’s not like I was defending myself, like with the others. Plus, I had Cole with me for those, so of course he starts telling me how the dragons were feeling….By this point in the game, I’ve grown very attached to most of my companions. So many little extra moments back at Skyhold, as well as all the extra field dialogue, making most of them pretty fleshed out by now.
I missed all romances in my first play of Origins, but I feel it fit my character.
Try as I might in ME2 the first time, my fem shep stayed true to her me1 romance.
I lost that save and
romanced Thane the second time. I really really like him & what happens in 3 is quite good. <\s>Romanced Sera in INQUISITION, it was hilarious.
she dumped my arse though because I was an Elf and wouldn’t abandon my heritage. I jumped in the sack with Cullen & yes, what you said 😀The third bubble is possible sera romance spoiler. Html hats me :p
Origins:
My Warden romanced Alistair, and then broke up with him when he had to be the King (she was an elf), but it worked out perfectly because she sacrificed herself killing the Archdemon.Mass Effect:
The second time I played through, FemShep romanced Thane, and yeah it was a really nice relationship, even though it was sad.Inquisition:
LOVE Sera! She’s awesome. I always go and sit on the roof with her whenever I can. And her prank mission/scene was pretty funny. That’s part of my problem with the Solas relationship…I get to spend loads of time with all my friends, but not with him. I understand its part of his story that he’s being mysterious and holding back but I still think a few more scenes with him would have worked better.Puppy proofing the fence with chicken wire, tent pegs, a broken Ikea bookshelf and duct tape. What could possibly go wrong?
Use dog wire. Dog will chew through chicken wire
It’s 1mm thick. By the time they can get through that, they’re too big to get through the gaps it’s blocking.
It’s the metal not the thickness. Chicken wire is very soft.
Guess I’ll have to hedge my bets by keeping an eye on them and using the spray bottle if they start going at it.
You say that now.
You can get specialist dog wire from a farm shop or probably bunnings
Bunnings has it. I got chicken wire because it’s flexible and I could use it to cover the ground in front of the fence to prevent digging.
Chances are the pup will learn to pull it up and out of the way.
Source: My determined Husky escapist.
Solution: Dog wire, cut it into lengths between 400 and 500mm wide. Dig trench in front of fence, 200mm deep, 300mm wide. Attach (ie. wire loops holding it in place) dog wire to bottom of fence, run it down into trench, fold it so it runs along bottom of trench. Back fill with soil previously removed. Dog will dig to go under fence, hit wire and can’t go down any further. Some dogs will try dig a little further back looking for edge to pull up. Which is why you run it back, they hit more wire and give up.
Similar to this… except the folded back bit is buried: http://www.waratahfencing.com.au/Building-A-Fence/Fence-Construction-Tips/~/media/Images/Waratah/Product/Fence-Wire/Prefabricated/Stocksafe-T/StocksafeT119015-with-60x4x14.ashx
Or you get the dog well trained and it isn’t an escapist!
Yeah…we’re renters.
Disregard that then!
There is another alternative that you can take with you as you move. My folks use it for their dogs and it works perfectly.
http://www.sureguard.com.au/dog_electric_fence.html
It’s a little pricey to set up and requires a little upkeep to check for boundary breakages, monitor batteries etc. but would be perfect for rentals.
You even allowed pets?
We can’t really dig out around the fence, so I’ve folded 200mm of chicken wire in front of it, secured with tent pegs and buried it slightly in the tanbark. Stuck some boards behind the chicken wire, secured the boards to the fence with a lot of duct tape and the chicken wire to the boards with more duct tape.
Saw the most adorable collar for Max this afternoon…, didn’t end up buying it on account of me being poor as hell… 🙁
I’ve installed Windows 8.1 on a shiny new SSD.
I am consumed by blinding rage every minute or so.
How did they ever get this past playtesting without losing a lab or two to violence and the flame?
Everytime I try to update to 8.1 it freaks out and catastrophically fails.
Well I’m in the process of freaking out and catastrophically failing, too. Installing some software that came with the SSD caused the whole thing to fail to load on restart with no error screen. I’d barely finished installing all the other drivers and shit to get to the point where I would even START thinking about setting a restore point.
And the UI choices are baffling. Who the fuck thought full-screen-everything was a good idea? Or auto-hiding all vital window management buttons? Or rainbow coloured everything? Or hidden functions based on where you move your mouse? AND OH MY GOD WHOEVER THOUGHT IT WAS A GOOD IDEA TO EMULATE TOUCHPAD SWIPING WITH A MOUSE I WILL FIND YOU. I WILL HUNT YOU AND I WILL FIND YOU AND WHAT I WILL DO WILL MAKE MAN BEAST AND GOD ALIKE TREMBLE WITH FEAR AND AWE
I desperately want someone who was involved to sit with me as I encounter every new frustration and have them explain their design decisions to my satisfaction with failure meaning I take another of their fingers.
This is the OS I’m about to have to use at work. ‘Apoplectic’ will be a good word to describe the rage the old-timers are going to experience.
…
I’ll admit it is quite speedy, though.
You do get used to it… slowly.
I had to use it on my laptop for 8 months while desktop was out of action. I don’t have a touch screen and once I got my head around desktop/start space, figured out how to boot to desktop… Most of my worries went away. It’s functional, if not entirely pleasant.
Painful thing for me is we use XP at work, Win 7 on desktop at home and 8.1 on laptop. Remember where the hell everything is across 3 distinct generations of windows makes my brain hurt in peculiar ways.
Yes, I am currently constructing space of comfort, thanks to Chrome and Steam and ‘Desktop’. This is aided by Windows having a theme of corvid pictures (such pretty birds) which fixed the horrific pastels that were plaguing all my windows with some nice, neutral grey. I have some desktop icons, some favourite programs, my browser and drivers are loaded… I’m nesting.
It’s still mildly rage-inducing whenever something pops into a metro app that demands all of my attention AND MY SCREEN, but if I can uninstall as much of those/all if possible, and find a way to make the ‘start’ button not occupy the entire fucking screen, then I’ll be in a much happier place.
…I do still want some one-on-one time with the UI designer and no witnesses however. I’m thinking we’ll play a game that revolves around asking about different things on the screen and whenever the answer is, “Well that’s really more for touch-screens,” when talking about an OS installed on my desktop, I get to take a shot. With a nailgun.Windows 8 should have had separate builds for Desktops/Laptops and Tablet devices.
It’s funny cos he says what we’re all thinking.
Do yourself a favour, install Windows 10 instead and have a play with that.
That was the original plan, but the warnings on signing up to that program were quite dire, so I got cold feet.
The impending release (and free upgrade) of 10 is the reason I even bothered with 8 at all… I needed to install an OS, but rather than replacing my lost copy of 7, I figured I’d just grab 8 in anticipation of 10 and get familiar with the future. But yeah, the annoyances synonymous with ‘future’ are unwelcome in what is supposed to be my digital home and workplace.
I have instead focused on bending 8 to my will and the results are starting to look pretty good.
Through the installation of 3rd-party programs and some command-line hacks I have finally managed to get things to something more reasonable. No logon screen, desktop by default, all frustrating ‘apps’ uninstalled, swipe-functions and screen-corner-menu-ambushes disabled, a custom-shell start menu that doesn’t demand all my screen real estate in the same manner that a person might demand all my attention BY SHOUTING AT ME. (I can hear people just fine without them yelling, and I can navigate a shortcut menu just fine without it needing to occupy the entire fucking screen. Who in god’s name thought that was a good idea?)
Unrelated: You’re a champion, 6074. That really is impressive.
This was my experience when I first updated. Now it’s only a daily occurrence.
Okay… I’m off to bed…
G’night.
Morning all, last day of day shift for the week. Which means I get 28 hours between this shift and my next one tomorrow. Thats a whole day and then some, also no more tech questions that I dont know how to answer!!
Won free tickets & went to see Jupiter Ascending last night.
Not going to blow any minds, definitely your stock standard Space Opera.
But much better than what I’ve heard. I enjoyed it.
Spoiler full review:
Mila Kunis cleans toilets then some Greys® come to kill her on behalf of some crazy space royalty.She is saved by an albino werewolf on silver surfer’s rollerblades played by Channing Tatum who is both an odd choice for an albino and a wolfman but man does he rock dem hover-blades.
Something about bees.
They meet Seen Been, surprisingly he survives.
They go to space and visit Coruscant as well as that fire planet from the end of Revenge of the Sith only with storms.
At one point they re-enact that scene from Final Fantasy X where Tidus saves Yuna from marrying Seymour.
Lots of cool borrowed & reworked ideas much like Harry Potter does with mythology & Star Wars does with sci fi & Japanese cinema.
Doona Bae doesn’t get much screentime @sughly will be disappointed.
Oh! I like the world that was established, was interesting, would like some sequels please.
Sean Bean survives?*universe implodes*Sounds like pretty much the worst movie ever
I had no idea who that was, but turns out Ive seen her in Cloud Atlas
Also turns out youre missing out on a bunch of amazing films she is super great in
I’ve seen the ring that she’s probably not in!
Do yourself a huge favour and watch The Host (Korean obvs, not lameo US). Then track down Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, then Linda, Linda, Linda, then As One, then Air Doll, and then if you still want to see more (which obvs you will) Saving my hubby/Take care of my cat/Barking dogs never bite
Man, that sucks. At least I’ve got that Netflix series to look forward to I suppose.
#doonabaefanclub4lyf
Her hair is pretty awesome though
Calling it now, she’ll have a bigger part in the sequel if they can get the $$$$
@sughly
Spoilersss
Nope
Good morning everyone.
The heat is gone for now, whooo!
Still working on all the cosplays. Started doing exercise and trying not to eat such crappy food too. Still napping. I was cutting them down, but I was sick over the weekend and ended up sleeping like 12 hours.
So yesterday, got into work at 8:10am, left work at 9:30pm, got home at 10:30pm, ate dinner and went to bed. Unsurprisingly I feel like absolute shit this morning.
Good morning everyone how are we?
I spent part of last night playing with a PUPPY!
So I’m good.
Jelly :'(
PUPPY http://instagram.com/p/zKLqfcibyR/
Puppy or Harbinger?
Looks like something’s assuming direct control.
Also, adorable 🙂
@redartifice, does alignment play much of a part in The Strange? Wondering if it would be problematic if I modelled Norschweiler after Mengele more than Einstein.
There’s no mechanical effect to alignment
There is, however, the question of why Mengele would ally himself with The Estate, and how far the other PCs – including Captain Brilliant (@blaghman) and Bazza (@quiz_b) who are relatively good characters- would tolerate such a figure. Those are RP concerns though, and if you want to play it that way that’s cool.
Same reason the US took in all those Nazi scientists?
So they could make explodey things explode even bigger and also shoot the explosions at Russia without leaving home?
Sure, have him on the inside kicking out rather than the outside kicking in.
Which raises the question of why they tolerate Viktor.
Dear fronds,
If you have a pre-order for the GoT season 4 Blu Ray with JB, I recommend you pick it up immediately. Like, now.
I picked mine up for a grand total of $36.98, which is a full 30% cheaper than the stickered price. It’s bound to be a computer snafu which will be rectified soon.
Also, no one seemed to know which HBO titles were part of the 50% off deal, so I got season 2 of the Newsroom for just $10 more. Again, likely an error that will be corrected soon.
PANCAKE DAY \o/
Yes! I made mini pancakes (not pikelets) for the kids at Playgroup this morning with a little bit of corn in them – tasty!
We are doing savoury pancakes with bolagnase sauce for dinner
D:
This is why parents are monsters! Ruining good pancakes with corn…. 😛
But they were delicious! Not as chunky as corn fritters, just little pops of sweetness in the plain buttery pancake.
I’m sure they were super delicious! I’m just a weirdo who hates corn. 😛
Oh, and apparently pancakes with corn in them are perfection with crispy bacon and pure maple syrup….
Hmm I wonder how creamed corn would go in such a batter as a replacement for the milk or at least substituting some of the milk for it.
KippersPancakes for breakfast? Is itSt Swithin’s DayShrove Tuesday already?Well that explains why they were raving on about pancakes on the radio today…
There aren’t enough hours in the day for me to play the amount of Monster Hunter I need.
You should stay home and play it for your holidays.
#KeepQldBenFree
I’m semi unemployed and this is still true
Gotta say that my daily 45 minute train trips have started disappearing in the blink of an eye.
New page repost. This PSA was brought to you by the letters G, O, and T, and the numbers 4, and 36.98.
Are you aware you have planes flying north taking off to the south, that doesnt seam very efficient.
You’re right that does seam odd, but Im just a security alarm monitor I have nothing to do with any planes.
Wrong answer. Take their name and number and promise them you’ll pass it along. Trust me, it’s way quicker 😛
Also, opportunities for prank calls abound, should you get bored later on.
Or when people call wanting to buy something they saw on TV, take their details and acquire money
TAY RPG 40K Rogue Trader on tonight from 7:30pm AEST and 8:30pm AEDT. Starring:
@freezespreston @rize @tech_knight @sernobulus @gingerchris86
The party is playing pied piper to a perilous pack of peons aka Gretchin (alliteration is tricky). There is a psychic shock in the Underhive that has concerned Amarach. Jinkies! What will the gang find this time?
Notable Gretchin include:
– Muffles the tongue-less Grot
– Snazz the booming bomber grenade-vest Grot
Once again I will be working late. Hopefully I will be working a reasonable shift starting next week.
Hopefully the hell has passed at work and I’ll make it
Completely unrelated for once this mission ends I swear but would shoving a shuriken pistol in a
gretchinsrandom hypothetical characters mouth while they are unprepared and unsuspecting be an automatic critical?That depends. Chances are even without a critical the shuriken pistol would just puree the head. If the hypothetical situation comes up, I’ll determine the quantity of the meaty chunks that are left.
I’ll do this, with my Gretchin *lights a grenade on Snazz’s belt and throws Snazz at the enemy*
Oh my god that would be amazing!
It might kill everyone including us in the blast… or it might cause a gigantic cave-in and kill everyone including us 😛
Even better!
Look I know you being appointed as a diplomatic intermediary with the Dark Eldar was very ill-advised but come on, don’t kill all of us just to get yourself out of that responsibility 😛
Well with that many gretchen, there’s an opportunityto collect more tongues!
Awwww, Muffles is an awesome name
Oh hey, we’re doing phone screen protectors now.
For $40….
Plastic is very expensive to make
Tempered glass.
Oh
The same price I paid for a smartphone.
Hey is that phone any good? I got one for free. I’ve always used Android since smart phones became a thing, the prospect of converting to windows scares old hermit Gutsoup.
Edit: My current phone is on it’s way out, screen shattered lock button busted in (I can sometimes jam a coin in there to unlock the phone) and sometimes the sound goes crazy and sounds like someone is beating a robot to death with a synthesiser.
I really only picked it up because it was cheap and I want to test out Windows Phone, especially when the new update hits. I won’t use it as an everyday phone, but I don’t see why others can’t – it does all the basics. Sure beats using a phone with a busted screen, I guess?
Honestly if it’s say Phantom glass screen protectors then it’s well worth the 40 bucks since they’re made with the latest version of Gorilla glass..
So I want to give wifey 3 clues about her birthday present over coming days (yesterday was day 1)
So far so good… however the last one due tomorrow should be a spin on the artist – where she’s from (Melbourne) and that she’s an artist.
Either text or image… thought of running with a shot of the ‘art trams’ but I think thats a bit obvious. Anyone have any ideas?
Today’s clue – A surname.
What is the present?
Maybe google popular or well known Melbourne graffiti and send her a picture? of that?
Melbourne has heaps of sanctioned graffiti areas, after all.
Large art print: http://jessiebreakwell.com.au/shop/#!/~/product/category=9516432&id=40030270
Asked for it for Christmas but didnt have enough time to sort out $’s
So first clue was an image of african grasslands – zebra’s natural habitat.
2nd clue – artist surname
3rd clue – that it’s an artist from melbourne.
Also, as much fun as it is… I don’t want to give it away and spoil the surprise. Hence the obscure references.
I wasn’t sure if you meant “artist” as in painting artist, or musician artist, so wasn’t sure what to suggest as a clue 😛
A picture of graffiti would definitely give it away, haha!
That’s a pretty cool print though! Your wife has good taste!
PSA
Better Call Saul is on Swedish Netflix at the same time as the US release.
Unlucky we’re not able to access killer–uncompromising drama. Common problem in Australia, though.
Are you trying to tell us you’re having constipation issues?
Sure.
Subliminal messages?!
Clever, though a simple Chrome extension negates the need for that.
Assuming you want to watch TV in a browser window on your PC, sure.
Haha, full-screen works. Tablet in bed, preferably.
Well I can watch Netflix on my PS4 while sprawled on my couch OR on my laptop in bed OR on my desktop. Winning. \o/
Hey, as long as it can full-screen… I just duplicate my desktop across two screens, one being the monitor and the other being the TV I have hooked up via HDMI, and I can switch the audio to the TV, too. Works out pretty well for me. 🙂
I think I might be a little overpowered for my current level in Monster Hunter.
This is good.
You can never have too much power.
But you can wind up with too much responsibility though. Screw that.
I don’t know if the start of this game is just super easy but I haven’t really had any trouble with anything so far. Georgette has her fair share of kills too, surprisingly.
I choose to believe the game is really hard and I’m just spectacular.
EDIT: Bernadette was my ZombiU cricket bat, not my Monster Hunter bug! Duh.
I think monster health has been lowered for offline compared to 3 and 3U
Had Salad for lunch, will ruin this later buy drinking heavily tonight.
You don’t make friends with salad. You do make friends with drinking. Good to see balance in the Force.
I do believe in a balanced diet.
Okay @dogman, I couldn’t get that epic cake image out of my head so I’ve gone and bought a new Hot Wheels track that will go through the cake now. There will be no explosion, though! 😛
have it land in a bowl of something to make an explosion
Haha, that would be awesome, but I bought this track, and the car goes back to the start. It does “explode” the roof off that building though, so I guess that’s something? 😀
Take a video of it when you’re done!
You need an elaborate rube goldberg machine where the roof popping off starts a chain reaction that sets off fireworks or something. Diet Coke & Mentos explosion?
Haha. That’s brilliant. You’re the best parent ever.
I wish I could stop biting when the trolls go fishing
Job hunting is a pain in the fucking ass, everything is Facebook integration this, and stupid online applications that. Not to mention the worst state for unemployment at the moment, this is the worst.
And don’t even get me started on my supposed bartending job, Jesus, that’s turned into a nightmare.
I hear you. I’d give you my job … but only when I’ve got another I can slide on into, myself.
Start building submarines.
Too soon man, too soon.
I hear you, Haven’t had to job hunt in like 9 years, I hate it so much.
I hear ya man.. Apparently the region I live in has one of the highest unemployment rates nationwide. Despite having retail skills in electronics, alcohol & general retail it’s hard to find anywhere that’s either hiring or wanting someone with that skill set.
http://mikatan.goodsmile.info/en/2015/02/16/hobby-makers-joint-figure-exhibition-winter-2015-part-2/ that Link scale figure looks awesome, and the Fire Emblem Awakening Cordelia/Tiamo (her name was changed in the localization – in fact most of the characters had name changes) will definitely need to be mine.
Cordelia is a better name
It is, in terms of the fact that it’s an actual name someone would have, but I don’t agree that it’s necessarily better because it loses some subtlety in a broader context. A lot of the original names were designed to reflect something about the character and also to tie into their kids’, like there’s a theme. Some of them were a bit punny too. Some of that gets lost a bit in the localization, though they did a really good job choosing replacement names.
Cordelia gets her name from the character in Shakespeare’s King Lear – a character that’s unable to profess her love, a reference to the fact she’s in love with Chrom but unable to confess it in the game (she’s one of the only female characters that can’t be paired with him). Her Japanese name, ‘ti amo’, means “I love you” in Italian. And then there’s the fact that her daughter’s name fits with her own in a particularly cheesy way. Severa in the Japanese version was Serena (Italian, serene / tranquil). It’s a huge shame they changed it, because it’s a big part of her character. It reflects her mother’s wishes for her daughter and their strained relationship since she ended up becoming a mercenary so there’s a really interesting juxtaposition there between the name she was given and the way she ended up living. The two together are basically Love & Peace, which was the cheesy theme I mentioned. You miss out on all that stuff entirely with the localized names. Cordelia is a good choice because of the reference to the Shakespeare character, but beyond that not so much. Severa is a completely different name with a different meaning and I still don’t know why they changed it.
So yeah, I’m of two minds about it. Many of them didn’t get the same level of thought. Nowi for example was ノノ (Nono) in Japanese, and her daughter Nah was ンン (Nn). Same implied ‘no’ in the names, but I think even there there’s some subtlety lost in the symmetry of their names.
Some of the characters’ names are unchanged too, or have changes that change to an actual name that sounds really close to the Japanese one (Serge to Cherche for example, or Smia to Sumia because that’s how it’s said anyway, just was written stupidly in the JP release).
Hey folks! Been taking a bit of a TAY break, but just wanted to check in and say that I miss you all! <3 I’m still pretty active on Twitter at @hermitdc, feel free to add me if we’re not pals already!
I’m still attending meats and the like too, so hope it hasn’t seemed like I’ve vanished. Why, though?
Not avoiding any one and not mad at any one. Just felt like something had to give on the productivity front so I could finish something I’m working on. It was either going to be TAY or Twitter. I chose TAY cause most of you guys are on Twitter as well as the extended world. Also it might sound a little weird, but I’m going through a phase where I’m not enjoying reading about games as much as I used to. I’m annoyed at the peculiar (and contradictory) mix of drama and negativity and cynicism and apathy surrounding game writing. I feel like I take it a bit too seriously and it angers up the blood far more than I should let it. I love games as much as ever and you guys too, just haven’t felt like being fully submerged in gaming culture and that’s basically what Kotaku’s all about. I also spend so much time here. So much. Unhealthy levels.
Hope that’s not all whiny-like. Just trying to explain absence a bit. *decisive nod*
Only mentioning it cause more than a few people have been concerned about me. 🙂
Pfft, as if we discuss games in TAY.
What are games?
I think they’re those things with like a board and stuff that complete nerds play. Like scrabble and stuff.
What nerds! Who’d wanna nerd out like that…
Come to Sydney meat tonight!! Its only an hour away by plane. I mean, its just gonna be me drinking alone and its not a meat at all but… come anyway!
Maybe somebody should start up a Happy Games site, like the Happy News sites around. The only articles are positive and uplifting ones.
…I was going to insert a joke here, but I kinda wish this was a thing.
Kotaku. Come for the Tay. Stay for the Tay. Don’t leave the Tay. Ever. There’s wolves and sharks out there.
I hear ya on the productivity thing! But I do love that when I’m feeling uninspired, or have been too productive, TAY is here for that. 😀
I hate that I’ve been talking about Dragon Age and romances and you haven’t been around to talk with me, though. 😛 Can’t say spoilery stuffs on Twitter!
You can DM me any time, Strangey! 😀 Be warned I’ll probably go on tangents about Dorian’s facial hair and why he needs to shave and how I can change him. 😛
Better yet, we can discuss it when we finally have our Nando’s meet! (Doesn’t actually have to be Nando’s, I can totally pack us a lunch because I’m a cheapskate…. 😛 )
Ok, now that I’ve finally finished Dark Souls 2, I can write up all the things I disliked about it!
Major mood killers:
Uninspired designs
Nothing stood out as, “woah, this is cool!”. Not one thing. No particularly cool looking weapons or armor, no cool enemy designs, and there were no boss fights where I was left thinking, “Ok, that was awesome”.I guess the coolest Boss battle that I can think of would’ve been… I dunno. Maybe the Executioners Chariot? There was lots of squandered potential, lets put it that way.
The Lost Sinner could have been so cool. The Rotten could have been so cool. the Old Iron King could have been so cool.
Sense of unfairness
While Dark Souls 1 was tough but fair, Dark Souls 2 felt a lot more like the actual difficulty was faked. Enemies themselves weren’t so hard to defeat. Enemy placement on the other hand was at the point where they seemed to be placed where they were, just to kill people.“I’m going to open this door, and oop, now I’m mobbed by enemies”
“I’m going to go into this thin corridor, and oop, now there’s somehow enemies behind me, even though I was just there”
“I’m going to walk past this wall, and oop, a monster broke the wall down and is now eating me”
etc.
Status effects
Why is there so much poison, everywhere? Every area had something that could poison you.And curse! There was so much stuff that could curse you too! Another cheap feeling of feigned difficulty was the over reliance on poison and curse.
I hated the Gutter, the Black Gulch, and Earthen Peek. They weren’t cool places. They were pretty shit places.
Abysmal area connectivity
I’m going to go up from the top of Earthen Peak to be taken to a castle that is drowning in lava, in the sky? Wait, where am I? I went up, right? Maybe I went through a black hole, or something…Ok, So, I’m at Heides Tower of Flame, so now I’m going to go down. Woah, I should be well below sea level by now. This’ll be cool wherever I end up! Wait, I’m at No Mans Wharf? I’m well below sea level by now, so why am I at the sea?
This doesn’t make any sense…
Pretty much the whole time all I could think, in every aspect, was that Dark Souls 1 did it so much better.
You can’t even compare the two.
The Moon Butterfly Armour though.
#FashionSouls
I can’t disagree with any of this.
In defence of a game I refuse to play:
Why should a fantasy be restricted by real world physics?
When the firsts world was so well connected that it was ridiculous how meticulous the designs and layout must have been, and how long the planning must have taken just to achieve such an incredibly inter-connected world, it was such a huge step back to have areas that defy all logic in the second. It breaks the mood so badly.
The first had areas where you were like, “Oh my God, I didn’t realize that I could get to _________ from here! That’s so cool!”. You’d think Dark Souls 2 would at least have each connecting area be seemless, since they are pretty much straight line paths from starting area to finishing area, but they didn’t even get that right…
Oh yeah, don’t see that enough anymore.
All these Metroidvania wannabes that don’t do it at all 🙁
There’s “realism” and then there’s “verisimilitude”
No commercial video game does realism, other than the real simulatory flight sims and racing games
Verisimilitude, however, implies that it has an internal logic, which is core to all storytelling.
I reckon what @Liondrive is saying is it was lacking in the latter.
Stuff like this is why I never bothered to play my copy. The general feeling I was getting was that the B team made a sequel following a cargo cult mentality and not actually understanding what made the previous game special. Also fundamentally misunderstanding that the appeal of Dark Souls isn’t that it’s frustrating and hard, it’s that it encourages you to learn & improve.
That’s pretty much exactly how it plays.
They took the main aspects from Dark Souls and tried to make a game out of it, seemingly without putting the effort into it, and without understanding the driving functions behind the Souls games.
It definitely lost out on all aspects of what made Dark Souls so great (Tough but fair enemies, intriguing lore, outstanding designs, originality and personality, a world that feels like a world).
It’s a pretty bad game. I do not understand how it reviewed so well… :\
About to pack up and head off to host the monthly quiz. Thanks to Krams, B-ob and Jimu for helping with one of the categories. 🙂
We should be page sixing tomorrow, so expect some random facts from me this week.
I’m not 100% sure, but I think the Nintendo fanbois are telling me Final Fantasy XV sucks because the graphics aren’t up to PS4 standard.
What bizzaro universe have I stepped into today?
Next thing you know, I’ll watch a movie where Sean Bean survives!
I’d be really pumped/actually interested if at the end of the FF15 trailer it said Platinum Games
also
http://filmschoolrejects.com/features/7-movies-sean-bean-doesnt-die.php
Wha? Where did that come from? Why platinum??
I watched the trailer and was like, yeah that looks fun but the combat will probably be no where near as fun as it looks. I think I’d also just finished MGS rising again so that probably had something to do with it.
You’re in luck because one comes out on Thursday.
http://youtu.be/ZoCyL_Pqzu8
was actually a joke because I saw it last night but nobody would get it except maybe @Shane & then he’d probably not laugh but I’d know & be amused & mission accomplishedHow was it?
I’ve heard nothing but bad things.
Well it’s no Prometheus.
Ha ha! I liked both, I liked Prometheus a lot more. It’s very family friendly, borrows many ideas(kinda like the matrix…)
I went in worried & came out satisfied.
I loved the world they built, this is an average introduction & I look forward to better bunch of sequels.
I dunno why people hate it.
Oh, I also like matrix 2 & the prequel trilogy
Aw, spoilers.
FF15 is one of 3 (and possibly only 2 if I can muster the willpower) exceptions I’m allowing for 2015 game purchases.
This is happening. This is happening so hard.
Yeah, but as a Wii U purist, let me tell you that it looks like a joke & you should sell your anything without a Ninty logo & get Mario Kart because it’s not looking good enough to be a PS4 game.
Also, you like remakes or something.
>Vague insult
Btw, did you watch the latest Persona 5 vid?
Noooo? Really though, am I going to be able to play it without having played 1-4?
Oh yeah, like FF each game is stand alone
Monster Hunter 4 get! Also got a circle pad pro for $8.
I want a cheap circle pad pro.
Bloddy stupid MH, you should get the far superior Shin Megami Tensei IV
I got mine at EB Strathpine, was pre owned but cheap is cheap.
I’ve never seen Tensei IV anywhere.
Because it’s digital only
That explains that.
My sister finished P4G, maxed out a shitload of social links, got all the endings, got the extra dungeon and ski trip. 175 hours, she really went for it. It’s her new favourite game 😀
Wow. I played about 70 hours…
yeah mine clocked in at 75 hours. She went nuts, got all playable characters to lvl 99, nearly made all the creatures with fusion, read all the books, she really liked it.
I really liked it too but my reaction was to play more ATLUS rpgs
I’m trying to remember what the CCPro controls were in Tri. It’s weird, that game was the launch point for the CCP and kind of “necessitated” its existence… and Capcom are the ones that brought about the CPP as well, making fantastic use of it in Revelations (though iirc it was created for MH3). Yet here now, playing MH4 on the nXL, essentially emulating a CPP, it seems to make very little use of it at all. Both the extra shoulder buttons do exactly the same thing as the normal shoulder buttons, and instead they’ve put a whole bunch of other buttons on the screen instead. What’s the point of supporting the thing if you’re not even going to use it?
Stupid useless bastards.
That’s weird, I got the CPP just for MH4. I tend to reach for a second thumb stick instinctively when playing 3d games on my DS so at least now I won’t have stray thumb syndrome.
Thank God you don’t have to use the CCP, I hated the damn thing, it makes playing uncomfortable and the placement of the stick only gives the same level of control as on screen
Oh I’m not saying for a requirement. Me, I think the thing’s brilliant. Made Revelations all the better. But they’re just not even making use of it when they’re trying to.
I absolutely *hate* the touch-screen being used as a dumping ground for extra buttons. It’s fine if you’re already playing a touch screen based game (eg Hunters, where you were already using it as an analogue aim control), but here… no. Sure, give extra options on there to act as shortcuts or whatever, but don’t lock essential controls there. They’ve got an option to swap the Start button between Menu and Kick. But if you switch it to Kick, it switches Select as well. What the fuck is that? “Oh we’re running out of buttons, but we’re going to duplicate functions across three separate buttons”.
I don’t understand how Capcom managed to get where they are.
Go! has been having a bit of a 80’s teen movie run and it’s been great. Pretty In Pink, Ferris Bueller, The Breakfast Club.
Think this Thursday (maybe) is Sixteen Candles. Free to air can still be pretty good.
Watched Breakfast club in highschool. Society and Culture. Dont remember why.
I had to watch it in High School too. I didn’t particularly care for it, but I remember one girl in class loved the shit out of it.
I had to watch it in school too. The only problem was that the volume was really low and there were no subtitles. So I missed crucial plot points. The nerdy kid was talking about he was bad at woodwork, then he says some stuff I couldn’t hear, then everyone gets high and starts dancing and everyone hooks up.Seems like a legit movie based on that impression.
I find the alternative channels have some of the best TV content tbh.
Buuuuuuuut, why should I watch it on FTA when I’ve got the DVDs?
Soon there will be whiskey.
Soon I shall wiz on my key.
I dont see to what purpose, but thats really exciting to hear mang.
I’ll join you!
Here, listen to this while ye’ be drinkin’
Snacktaku!
I don’t know how this works, so I’ll wing the layout…
Garlic Bread / Bruschetta Sandwiches:
Ingredients:
– Bread
– Butter
– Crushed Garlic
– Red Onion
– Cherry Tomatoes
– Tomato Paste
– Rosmary (optional)
Dice Rosmary, and put into a mug with butter and garlic. Melt in microwave and stir.
Coat top and bottom of sandwich bread with melted garlic butter.
Layer tomato paste, diced red onion, cherry tomatoes, and cheese on bottom piece of bread.
Make into a sandwhich and grill upside down.
Flip over halfway through, put more cheese on top, and continue grilling.
Enjoy!
Replace the rosemary for some fresh basil and it’d be boss 😛
I just scrounged around with what was in my fridge 😛
That, and I love Rosemary! 😀
Haha, fair enough. I think it’s a bit of an odd combination of flavours with the rosemary though 😛
It was pretty much a Bruschetta sandwich!
It was really good :3
Might have to make it more often! 😀
I assume you’d have to eat it quickly or the tomatoes would ruin the bread. Also, no balsamic in your bruschetta? For shame.
Why is it when I try to lose weight, I always seem to gain it? I’m just trying to lose 5kgs by exercising a bit more and by eating a little healthier.
What are you doing for exercise, and how long have you been exercising for?
a combination of gentle walking, yoga, muscle exercises and aerobic workouts. I’ve been using wiiFit U and Just dance 4 for the workout routines. It’s also a much better scale then Mums. Mums scale said I was 68 Kilos. WiiFit U said it was 61kilos.
missed how long. on and off for about a week or two. I was unwell for 3 days over the weekend and wasn’t able to exercise due to heartburn.
Sounds like a fair bit of cardio. Any kind of muscle / resistance exercises you can incorporate? They’re supposed to help boost metabolism (which is what you want to help with weight loss).
Situps, Pushups, and Squats are good for at home resistance workouts.
Also, drink plenty of water.
Not just when exercising, but throughout the entire day.
Coffee is pretty good for metabolism, as is spicy foods (such as chili).
How long have you been at it though?
Not really long. I did some jack knifes today. Fuck, I hate them.
Well, keep it up 🙂
Don’t expect results immediately.
The longer you work at it, the more results you’ll see 🙂
You should try burpees 😉
cc @cookingmama
What is that even?
Pushup, standup, starjump, repeat. My martial arts class used to do them occasionally, especially at gradings.
@os42 Oh, I’m terrible at push ups. =/
Oh god, I dreaded gradings… higher belts would get more difficult variations for the pushup part. Clapping-pushup burpees for blue belts and up… D:
There are (probably more common) simpler versions without the pushup – I think my instructors used the pushup versions for the added upper body exercise, as we never did both pushups and burpees in the same session. Definitely a good workout, tho.
@os42 Thank you! So how many exactly should I do? Should I stop doing cardio? So many questions.
Umm… I’m not really an expert on the fitness side of things – I trained for the focus and discipline it brought, and stopped training in ’09, so I can only tell you what I remember. I remember our gradings did fairly intense, fast workouts (by comparison to our normal sessions, at least) before actually getting to the martial arts syllabus side of things… kinda hesitant to recommend it as (aside from my last actual grading being way back in ’07) the stretches/pushups/burpees/etc was all to warm us up for the technical stuff, on top of testing endurance and focus. Not sure how it’d adapt to a full everyday workout – the exercises are good, but number of reps and sets would need tweaking to suit a regular routine.
Spoilered for wall.
But in general, a grading session started with warm up exercises (both muscle-loosening and flexibility training varieties), then punching drills for focus, then basic kicking drills (six basic kicks, 10 each left and right) to warm up, then either push-up or burpee sets (10 reps per set) alternated with straight stomach crunch* sets (10 reps per set). If we did pushups, the number of sets of each varied by belt, but generally it was 2** sets of [10 pushups (2 second reps), 10 crunches (1s reps)] for yellow belts and below, 3 for green and below, 5 for everyone else. Burpees were generally 1 set of [10 pushup-burpees (4s or 5s reps), 10 crunches (1s reps)] for whites, 2 for greens and below, 3 for blues and below, 4 for everyone else (at the end of which, almost everyone was pretty much falling over). Sometimes there’d be a short 2 minute jog around the dojang, if people weren’t falling over by that point. Then we’d do a 60 second meditation to calm down, before moving onto the syllabus proper – patterns and more advanced kicks, with each belt dropping out as they finished their part of the syllabus.Not going to give an estimate on how long you should spend, either; both because I don’t remember how the time was distributed, myself, and that you’d be training for different reasons. I do remember that at my last grading, I finished my syllabus stuff about 70 minutes in; but I reckon that was maybe 2/3 syllabus stuff, and we spent maybe twice as long stretching as doing the cardio work.*Mostly for cardio, in the gradings. Slower variants were used in general sessions, some had twists, bringing elbow to opposite knee, alternating left and right, and sets alternating with straight crunches instead of pushups.**This was eight years ago. I remember that it was always 10 reps per set when alternating between exercises, or 20 reps per set with a short rest between, but the number of sets I’m less sure about. The given numbers would be a minimum at a grading, I think.Gonna stop there – the more I type, the less sure I am of the details – as I said, I never did it for the fitness side of things, so just kinda went with the flow in that respect, took each set as it came; and my last grading was nearly eight years ago.
tl;dr: Not sure if they count as cardio, but five minutes straight of burpees and crunches had everyone but the black belts (and some of the more dedicated red belts) ready to collapse, without fail. :3
@os42
I will start at 10 reps and increase by 5 when 10 gets too easy
Cos yo git Hardcore ripped yo.
It’s muscle. You’re getting ripped. Soon you’ll have a six pack and massive guns.
highly doubt it
*flex*
Woah, that muscle is so hard!
*sniggers*
Haha I came across this site called Is This Band Metal? and some of the descriptions under the answers is quite amusing.
Example I put in Bon Jovi and it came back with;
then I decided to see what they said for Alestorm if they were even in their data base and it came back with;
I’m having too much fun here, AC/DC scraped in because of Phil Rudd’s recent wrong doings.
Done dirt cheap?
I think that was the joke at the time when it was made public he tried to pay someone to do some dodgy shit.
Lol Dethklok is just a gif of them thrashing
Oh god doing Creed is amazing and misspelling nickleback
Numenera: Tales of the Ninth World – Twenty-Fifth Session Recap (4th February 2015) starring:
– Blaghs aka @blaghman the tough Glaive who masters weaponry,
– Elandar Kintan aka @popdart5 the foolish Nano who controls gravity.
– Scrappa aka @tech_knight the mechanical Jack who talks to machines, and
– Storyteller aka @redartifice the awesome GM who weaves tales.
And saying farewell to:
– Nova aka @novacascade the stealthy Jack who explores dark places.
Nova had stayed behind in Uxphon as the group ventured into the Cloudcrystal Skyfields in search of the Impossible Blade. He volunteered to wait for any sign of Ranger and Russef who had gone to try and track down Phetys whose condition as a host of the Devona parasite worsened after his encounters with the Insidious Choir. Blaghs, Scrappa, and the newly-joined Elandar began their journey while Nova waited patiently for word of his friends.
Read more at http://taynumenera.tumblr.com/.
Hey guys, I need a favour. I usually buy the collector’s editions of the guides for the Zelda games. I have all the others. However, I wasn’t aware Majora’s mask was out so soon and I seem to have missed out on the guide. Has anyone seen any?
Didn’t spot any in the usual promo spot for such things when I was in EB today, all they seemed to be pimping was the Evolve guide. But then again they may have only had a few and sold them..
Edit: All EB seem to have is this i’m guessing that’s not what you’re talking about?
I have my fingers crossed. Otherwise NZ hasn’t sold them yet, so I may have to try there
All the best!
that’s the normal edition
Ah right. I err knew that 😛
EB had preorders for it for $40 a few weeks back.
About $40 at BookDepo and Amazon too (cheaper if you combine shipping with stuff)
As I said, I wasn’t aware of it being released so soon. I might look into it if the NZ stuff falls through.
Hey Scree, I walked into my local EB at lunch and they took down a preorder for this. Said something about how they received another shipment, due end of March.
See if you can do the same at your local, otherwise I have a preorder here with your name on it. 😀
Are you serious? GT said that they weren’t going to make any more. I wanna cry. This is why I love you guys. How much and how do I send it to you?
No rush, I’ll wait until 27th March and then pick it up. If you haven’t got your own copy by then, I’ll mail it to you. So now you have a few options, and hopefully, one less worry!
All good, I got it ^^
So it turns out the lorikeet we rescued the other day would appear to be a runner. Which means it will never grow its flight feathers meaning it will never fly, this being due to it having contracted Psittacine beak and feather disease. Which also means it can never be released back into the wild or be around any other bird due to risk of infecting them 🙁
Guess it was one Virus you didn’t want to give him…
*Puts on Sunglasses*
That was bad and you should feel bad 😛
@greenius: so I know you were half joking about meat at my place on Saturday, but I can’t do it anyway due to having some other engagements, but actually seriously thinking about doing something weekend after that (27th). Board games will be played. Melbourne TAY welcome. Will tag everyone and stuff once things are more definite.
I could do 28/1st!
Yeah, 28th. That Saturday. I read calendars good.
@beavwa @budgieishere @chuloopa @coldcamv @crazyguy1990 @f4ction @jordi @negativezero @pixel_the_ferret_viking @scree @smurfydog @tech_knight @tigerion @tofu @zetrox2k
@benj is down in Melbourne so we should probably do something… maybe…?
Would anyone be free this weekend? I’m not sure what things are on in the city but we can always walk ‘n talk!
Sure, I’m up for it if @tech_knight doesn’t mind me not working on his cosplay for a day
Works for me!
I could probably do something. Just depends on what you’re doing!
I don’t know things in the city so I was hoping someone else could suggest something 😛
Food, movie, gambling are easy options?
I’m just a simple Geelong boy, ideas ain’t my thing either.
None of my friends want to go gambling with me 🙁
But yeah a movie and food or gambling or something sounds good. As long as it’s on Saturday, and we’re done by 7 😛 I usually operate on a figure it out as we go basis but we can walk and talk!
I walk and talked on so many occasions in Perth!
EDIT: And I’m thinking Sat too. Probably wouldn’t be too late for me either since city and trains and bleh
So wanna meet up in the City on Saturday arvo then? Go for lunch or something? 😛 (maybe 1 or so)
*taking control*
Probs! Depends on what the others are keen on. Unlike Perth, it looks like multiple Melbourne TAY people can be seen at the same time 😀
Perth TAYbies have a strict one-on-one policy.
It makes spending time together so much more, intimate.
We could do the usual, meat up and then go to Yoyogi’s for lunch
As someone who isn’t a fan of Japanese food and eats it just to be courteous, this gets a “I’ll pass” from me. But I’m the minority so might just join you guys until you do lunch or something.
We can go somewhere else. It’s not set in stone.
Steaks!
Aren’t steaks expensive?
Oooo I want steak!
Your gambling addiction is getting seriously out of hand, little Green 😛
I gamble like once every 2 years :P. You didn’t want to gamble with me :'(
I’m far too competitive for gambling.
I will lose all my money if I go to a Casino.
I wouldn’t stop trying to win, and it would not be a pretty sight.
I’ll bet you $5 that you don’t lose all your money
Chase Ben out of Melbourne Meat?
I cant do this Saturday as having friends over and staying the night.
Also @scree @f4ction @benj plus anyone else this Saturday is White Night Melbourne so the city will be packed majority of the day/night to see the lights so just a heads up
White night is why I have to be gone by 7 😛 going to pubs with friends then into the city
Doubtful, I’m going to Highpoint on Friday night, and will most likely be chillig over the weekend…
I live near Highpoint! =D
If it’s Saturday I can’t go, I’m on recall that day.
Chalk us up as a definite maybe!
Damn – would be good but I’m full up this weekend.
Also, HAI GAIS!
HEIGH
Howdy stranger
Sorry can’t do this weekend, working for all of it :/
Saturday’s no good for me, family lunch & afternoon. Sunday’s fine though?
Going to be at a wedding overseas sorry not sorry
BOARDGAMES would also work. Not just because I’ve been buying boardgames of late. SHIFTY EYES.
Where aboots? I think @negativezero was thinking boardgames at his place the week after though? (don’t think @benj will be in town for that though)
Somewhere! Woooo! I’m doing boardgames with friends at home next weekend myself
am i friend 2? : – )
TAY RPG 40K Rogue Trader completed for another night. Starring:
@freezespreston @tech_knight @rize @sernobulus @gingerchris86
GM Summary: Paranoia is an appropriate method of dealing with nasties.
I’m surprised those Mandrakes were willing to talk to us after we threw a grenade into their room.
Also – Smart Kroot is smart
Rogue Legacy: beaten. Hurrah!
Total play time according to game: 12:29. Heroes fallen in battle: 89.
Or an average of 1 death every 8 minutes and 25 seconds.
Hurrah!
I’ll probably never beat it due to being shit at it. Currently Level 90 and trying to beat The Maya.
It’s a pretty tough game, for sure!
My strategy was horribly exploitative:
Send a hero with massive health and vampirism up the wazoo exploring until finding the boss room. Allow him/her to die in combat, and then roll a character with more boss-appropriate gear and get the architect to lock down the castle. Then I could just warp straight to the boss room everytime, and I’d just send wave after wave of guys in until one prevailed. 89 generations of losers fell in combat before I took down the final boss.Exploitative nothing, I’m pretty sure that’s the whoooole point of the legacy/architect mechanic. Otherwise that game is a dirty, dirty whore.
Oops I fell into a monster hole, sat down at 7pm then suddenly it’s past 11pm. Gore magala is a bit of a push over, can’t wait to get out of the lower Hunter ranks for online. So many greedy people and clown suits.
That’s not going to change in H/G Rank 😛
well there isnt free items in high rank so that wont annoy me as much and well hopefully most people arent getting to high in clown suits lol
Please clarify ‘greedy people’ and ‘clown suits’.
Are there literal clown suits available?
And by greedy, do you mean only farming specific things as fast as possible?
People who take multiple stacks of the free items before a multiplayer hunt and clown suits are people wearing armour pieces from 2-3 different sets that give you no skill benefits.
Oh, people don’t like others wearing different sets? I should probably hold off going online with strangers for a while.
Lol it totally sounds like an elitist jerk thing on my part, but honestly I don’t refuse to play with people like that, it just confuses me sometimes, like I saw a guy with a piece from a different set in each slot.
Wearing mismatched sets is necessary in some cases to reach certain skills and that’s fine, but honestly the set you start with its better than not having another full set
http://i.imgur.com/HpvIJXF.jpg
This is the result of a clown suit and should be avoided
Huh, spent 25 hours with MH4 so far.
Seems like a good time to switch over to Revelations for a while, to properly see how the nXL goes. But pretty sure I’m going to just stick with the 3XL, it’s a much better machine from what I can tell.
Wish I could’ve grabbed a CPPXL during that EB sale the other month, they seem to be pretty impossible to find now. All out of stock everywhere.
What a nerd! What have you done so far?
Just did the Khezu mission. That guy’s a bastard, just refused to die. Also I had to eat like a million steaks. Also potions. And steaks. And rations.
Huh, why so slow? Have you been farming/playing multi?
Because I am slow, duh.
Also, lots of dying. Also I went and did a whole stack of expeditions trying out each of the weapons so I could pick which one I liked. Also with the first few hours I was super tired and making very little progress while also half watching TV.
😛
I’m at about 21 hours and just triple carted on the first 6 star quest. Did some online with Pooalen last night as well (JOIN US!)
Also, which weapon did you pick and why is it Switch Axe? 😀
Switch axe was what I used in Tri I think, for the most part. But this time I’ve gone with charge blade because I need the shield 😛
So an axe that transforms into a sword to a sword that transforms into an axe! 😛
Arrg, I’ve been pulled into a Facebook debate about the merit of Fireman Sam as a TV show. Apparently, it’s a ridiculous show because it’s the same few people getting into trouble every week.
It’s not like every other TV show in the history of the world operates on a different principle, but I’m trying not to take it further, because I suspect that it wasn’t the show itself that sparked the debate, but the notion that a father should publicly voice an opinion regarding anything to do with his kids.
I never liked Fireman Sam when I was a kid. Found the guy too smug hahahaha Postman Pat was superior, but I grew up on a diet of Thomas The Tank Engine (I loved it when I found out a month or two back that someone had uploaded the entire original series into a 2 hour Youtube video) and a lot of the older English stuff like The Clangers, Bagpuss, The Magic Roundabout.
Bangers and Mash, Bananaman, Super Ted, The Raggy Dolls, Duckula…
All our children’s TV (at least of those of a certain age) was from the UK here too.
So many of those shows are really depressing when you think about them.
No?
You don’t think Raggy Dolls is the most bleak thing?
Just to be whoever you are is no disgrace!
I used to think Thomas ran on the burning bodies of fare evaders…
“No ticket” http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view4/4118067/no-ticket-o.gif
aaawww man, I haven’t thought about bangers and mash in years and years
Fireman Sam had a reboot in about 2008. The new version is far superior (very unusual for a reboot, I know, but I do rate this new version very highly). Tried to watch a DVD of retro Sam with my son, and it was just awful 😛
What the horrible CGI is superior? It felt awful to me 😛
I pass no judgement on the aesthetics. I mean the writing, voice acting, music, and direction are all much better than they used to be (as a matter of taste, I prefer the current animation to the stop motion that used to exist, but I’ve never been a stop-motion fan, so take that for what it’s worth)
Monster!
Ha, I saw that. Her main concern seemed to be that it’s writing is targeted towards small children and not adults. Kids don’t like something new and fresh everytime. They like repitition of the familiar and routine.
Her main concern about a children’s television programme was that it was written for children.
Huh. What’s your friendship here? Anything you can cut from your life without too much pain?
We work on the same floor. So complete severance is impossible. But have been steadily and incrementally increasing the social distance between us for a while now.
I have to agree, it’s pretty ridiculous seeing it as an adult, you just want murder Norman for being a useless little prick and slap his mother for raising such a turd. Also new fireman Sam really seems to lack heart
It seems silly, but the 1 hour special The Great Fire of Pontypandy was what convinced me that the show had some merit. They used the extra time really well, building tension, telling a decent character-based story with strong arcs and development, and inserting some genuinely emotional moments. It’s no HBO production-values, of course, but for a show aimed at very young kids, it was surprisingly strong.
I think I wanted to murder Norman for being a useless little prick as a child too 😛
I really liked FIreman Sam as a kid. It had a great opening theme.
I think it still does. They reworked it a bit, and he’s no longer an inventor in his spare time – I think it’s probably even better now.
Meh, Fireman Sam is not great, but not the worst (Grandpa in my Pocket is awful, despite some great actors). I’m just grateful that I get to be a parent and have ABC4Kids available. No ads, no junk food, age appropriate shows and some of it is genuinely awesome stuff that I like watching as much as my son. I love Peppa Pig, Ben and Holly, Peg+Cat and we’ve been dancing around the living room to Lah Lah’s Big Live Band 🙂
Morning kittens!
Did any of you dude Brisbabes happen to catch a northern train on Monday, and be wearing a red check shirt? I ask because I was sat next to this fellow and he was browsing Kotaku on his smartphone, which in itself is not too unusual, but he was spending a lot of time reading the comments on articles, and really, who does that unless you have salt in the game?
North train, red check shirt, reading Kotaku… sounds like a handsome @dc maybe.
I haven’t left my house since Friday, shamefully. 😛 (Though totally am tonight. Seeing Wicked. *flails arms*)
Awwwww 🙁
Did you see those terrible ads for Wicked on tv? Barffff. But have fun!
Nah, I rarely watch live TV. I always make sure I have a commercial fast forwarding buffer. 😛
Thank god. They were the worst, cheesiest, grossest ads. I don’t even like musicals and I could have made a better commercial for it.
I know what that handsome fella looks like, and it was not our dear @DC
I was actually trying to sneak a peek at the guy’s phone screen to see if he was logged into Kotaku, hahah.
#creepyjane
HE TOOK HIS OWN PHOTO EVERY DAY FOR A YEAR. Of course I know what he looks like :0
Ok, but how about the guy whose phone you were trying to sneak a closer look at? 😛
I only play handhelds on my Caboolture train….I’m out!
Northern train? Check. Monday? Check. Red check shirt? Grey is the most colourful thing in my wardrobe. One day I’ll be noticed…one day…
Nowt me. I bus instead of train, and I never wear red. Or check.
Dabbled in some online Monster Hunter with Greeno last night. It was surprisingly easy! I don’t think we had much trouble with anything (surely this is going to change eventually and I’ll be crying). My favourite was fighting the Kecha monkey thing. Green stayed on the floor and I climbed on top of the vines to whack its hands/tail so it would fall down. Teamwork!
Also this morning I went a little further in the story. Spoilers for what happens after you re-build the ship in the lava cave:
That Gore magala fight on the boat was horrible 😛 Nowhere to run, constantly being poisoned. Was terrible. Ended up “killing” it on my last life while poisoned. Hopefully there are no more close-quarters fights like this.The Expeditions are my favourite part of the game so far. Most fun missions!
Don’t stress about gore’s blight, if you stay on the offensive you get a attack buff, if it gets to max it’s not all that bad either.
50% off stacks of pancakes at the Pancake Manor yesterday for Pancake Day? Great success. Why’s it only Wednesday though?
I had the worst timing on my luck in Shadowrun last night. The group met up in game, and as we were chatting the wall blew up behind us and took out nine of my ten health (the only time I rolled well was to turn a half dead henchman to goo, and at a later point I rolled four 1s, off four dice, which made a computer blow up in my hands).
My GM is mean.
Last night I managed to roll under a 32/100 roll to pass a fear check, rolled under a 28/100 to pass a silent move check, perfectly threw a grenade through a small hole in a door, blew out a deamonette that took a swing at me which I easily dodged then drew my side arm and fired full auto, hitting all five shots with a confirmed critical in there, shredding it to pieces.
RNGesus was smiling upon me last night.
Last night was pretty crazy for good rolls
smart
arsekroot indeedMy first chance at using my lasgun and I screw up 😛
Ouch. Out of curiosity, what edition of Shadowrun are you playing? I’ve always liked the look of the game but parts of it seem unnecessarily complex at times.
Fifth. I think it definitely appears more complex than it really is. Most of the time you’re making the same rolls (awareness, dodge, defend, attack, let’s not talk about magic), so once you’ve got those down it’s usually just a matter of the GM deciding how much of a dick they want to be.
That said, it does get rather silly, since if I put edge into my sniper rifle roll, I’m dealing with up to twenty dice (I also get to roll again for any sixes I get, so it can do a lot of damage).
Dang that’s a lot of dice. Just keeping track of that many, let alone doing some of the harder rolls, would be pretty tricky. It’s just as you say though in that once you get past the initial learning curve things start to become old hat. It’s the same with pretty much any game.
Of course, I say this, but every time our GM is like “roll perception” there’s this awkward pause, and he has to remind us what we’re rolling. It’s a little sad that we’re still like this 8 months down the line.
Edit: And it’s worth noting (that in fourth and fifth ed), if you don’t know, that you only need to pay attention to the 5s & 6s to judge successes (no. of them = no. of hits), and the 1s to make sure you haven’t glitched (If more than half your roll is 1s then you glitch, and if you don’t have any successes you get a critical glitch).
Memorising every rule in a RPG is a monumental task that only the most dedicated player would do. I try and remember the most important ones but I generally let things slide when I GM. Considering Shadowrun has a reputation for a huge amount of dice-rolling and some seriously in-depth stuff (I’ve heard magic and hacking requires spreadsheets to keep track of dice), I wouldn’t be surprised if I would have to refresh on rules every time I played.
One of our party is a dual magic type, and the only reason we get through this stuff with any speed is because both the player and the GM have been playing together for a coupla years. From memory (And this is almost certainly completely wrong), you need to choose a force (which I think increases the number of dice you roll) and roll it, so you can put it at force three, roll and only get two successes, depending on the spell that either will make it a force two spell, or be used as the hit roll for the force 3, or something weird (I don’t do magic).
You then roll for drain (which I think is based both on the force of the spell, and how many other spells you’re using), and that can hit your stun pool if you fail, I think.
Then the opponent gets to roll to defend, which could either be a dodge roll against a projectile, a perception roll against illusions, a strength + intuition roll (I think) for avoiding levitation (same roll is used for shrugging off grapples, and bolas, and stuff like that), and you have to work out damage after that.
I shoot things with my gun. That is what I do. I am very good at shooting people with my gun, assuming they are far away. This magic stuff scares me.
So I feel that I should inform you all that this is a thing. http://axecop.com/
It is delightfully silly and I may have stayed up until 1am last night reading it.
There’s axecop Munchkin
One of the classes is “Baby”
There’s also a TV show.
We had our own knockoff called Commander Video Games on kotaku for a while that I successfully ruined
SHAMELESS PLUG TIME
My brother is in 3 shows (that I know of) at the ADELAIDE FRINGE
First up, he’s once again playing Derek the Handkerchief in Mr Snotbottom and the Curse of the Stinky Silly Zombie Babies.
Y’know, for kids. Father is so proud.
http://www.adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/mr-snotbottom-and-the-curse-of-the-stinky-silly-zombie-babies/8160307e-6cd6-43cc-bbe2-4ebffd146898
At the opposite end of the age spectrum, he’s hosting the Bazinga! Nerdlesque show.
His comment on last year’s show, as he watched someone dressed as Misty pole dance, was that it was sexually confusing. A mate of mine who went said it was pretty good.
I’m not judging
http://www.adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/bazinga-nerdlesque-nights/9e0268d6-65b9-4afd-95bb-079153e0918b
And finally, his solo show is Angus Hodge: Slow Death of the Spirit Animal
This year he’s got a primo venue at the Rhino room, which is right in the heart of Rundle Street and has the full might of AdelaideComedy.com behind him, which is sweet, but also expensive.
Go see it so he can pay his phone bill
http://www.adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/angus-hodge-slow-death-of-the-spirit-animal/eec5b1dc-909b-4fb5-aa86-a1b947ce894c
He’ll also turn up in assorted other bits and pieces, late room spots, guest spots, other compilation shows.
The kids show and his solo show are also coming to Melbourne for the comedy festival, so if you can’t see him in Adelaide, go there! I think @beavwa went last year and enjoyed himself?
Yes
#IDARB is free on Games with Gold. It’s amazing.
If you guys could do anything right now, what would it be? (Like, a realistic thing, I mean, not anything anything, otherwise I’d be trying to get around the world in 80 days with Phineas Fog).
I want to go home, make some prawn and spring onion dumplings, and then crawl under a blanket and watch Tron: Legacy and Wall•E. I have a case of the sleepy sads.
I kinda just want to go home and play Monster Hunter, honestly 😛 Small dreams…
Stupid game! Who thought it was a good idea to introduce me to this series. I dislike you all!Actually, I also really just want to hurry up and go on holidays already. Excitement has been steadily building.
in the realistic stakes, I have been jonesing to play board games/Magic for the last 3 weeks. I would love to just go board game with friends, pull them all out of work and flick cards around.
I may have to go draft sometime this week just to get my fix in before the 28th.
I want to write something long-form and actually finish it for once. I get a case of the ‘too many ideas at once and I want to make them all happen’ something fierce and I always tend to jump ship to something new before I’m done.
I wish I was at home, with a nice cold bottle of coffee milk, and my 3DS ready for me with Majora’s Mask.
Wait, that’s exactly what I’m doing right now. Brilliant!
*Continues refreshing webpages and not actually playing games*
Travelling somewhere exploring places I’ve never seen before.
Always gotta one up the rest of us, dontcha.
Hey, you asked what I’d rather be doing. Screw sitting at home. I do far too much of that. When I’m out experiencing new things I stop stressing about stupid shit and worrying about what’s in the news and just enjoy what I’m doing.
Be like @dc and not leave home for like, a full week.
It’s funny you should say that, cause I’m desperate to get the fuck outta here and do stuff. 😛
But you’re seeing my favourite musical tonight! That’s doing something!
Hopefully we can gush about it afterwards. I need more people to gush to about musicals.
Yeah, go home
Oh wait, that could be taken the wrong way.
Yeah, I’d like to go home too…
Lock myself in the den and write for a week/fortnight/month/year without a break.
It would appear that everyone just wants to go home. Except for Freeze. Weirdo.
Home’s boring.
Rustle up a large chunk of cash and pay a bunch of tradies to fix all the small and large jobs piling up at my place.
Can’t stand driving down my drive and seeing the patchy grass full of dog holes… Pull up under carport and see the grass in the corner is now roughly 6 feet in the air and probably killing the shrubs we’re trying to grow as a hedge… Seeing the spears of bamboo shooting out of the folliage nearly 7 meters into the air waving in the wind like bad tentacle anime…
Just don’t have the energy after everything else to get on top of it…
/endsadrant
Change the prawns for pork and that sounds like a great plan actually.
Me? I’d rather be sat at home giving my cat attention as he seemed to be extra needy yesterday, and then watching a few Simpsons DVDs followed by a decent Skyrim session. Also cheese & crackers
10/10
Go home and play video games. Fuck work.
Go home, take off half my clothes, and try to figure out which video game I feel like playing. It hasn’t actually been many, lately.
Escape my head and make good on my goal. Oh wait, realistic 😛
Play more Monster Hunter.
Actually play video games. All I seem to play these days is Pokemon Yellow, Pokemon Puzzle Challenge, Skirmish mode of Supreme Commander, AFL Live 2, (right at the end of my sixth season!) and… something else.
I just want to dig into a single player campaign for once without giving up. I’ve attempted to play Always Sometimes Monsters, Dead Space 2, and Binary Domain, but I gave up for no real reason at all.
NUMENERA: TALES OF THE NINTH WORLD
What’s
in the box, man, what’s in the box?behind the door, man?TONIGHT 7:30 SA TIME
cc @blaghman @popdart5 @tech_knight
On a side note, I’m waiting for someone either in MCG or using the cypher system in general to create a superhero RPG. It would fit ridiculously well with the system that it would be criminal if no one did it.
Uh, my twitter feed is blowing up about gamer identity and how they can be dick to each other talking about mainstream media attention like something big just happened.
All I can find is today’s Cracked article. Cracked isn’t that influential is it?
I seriously still think Cracked is like, the MAD magazine of the internet.
I saw a storm raging when I first checked this morning and went eh, too hard to find out what it’s all about. I *think* the new crack with all the pressure seeping out is somewhere between devs and media. Or that’s another storm.
My point is I’m too lazy to bother finding out. Up until last year most internet shitstorms generally died out within a few days.
I haven’t read Cracked for some time. I liked the occasional list article (reading the good ones aloud to my wife was part of our nightly routine) but it became a bit buzzfeed-y and I haven’t been there in a couple of years.
They’ve picked up a bit lately. Felix Clay is freaking hilarious. Still nowhere near the Swaim/Seanbaby/Bucholz glory days although Bucholz still does the occasional article.
I might revisit. Something to do on the iPad while passively absorbing TV.
Some of the older articles used to be really well written and well researched. Now it’s a case of ‘what haven’t we done yet? Look some stuff up on wiki, write some poorly constructed sentences about it’. That’s just my view on it though, the stuff they put up these days doesn’t appeal to me anymore. I definitely get the Buzzfeed vibe though
Thinking about it, the amount of websites I frequently visit have diminished so much in the last year or two. Everything seems to be more blog-ish or based around social media. I’m getting old. Kids and their internets these days
In totally humdrum and not exciting news at all, we’re getting a puppy tomorrow!
Congratulations. Puppies are great, and they remain great when they grow up too. Dogs are just all round awesome.
Yaaaaaaaaay!
PUPPY
Baldrick?
Freya won’t let me call her Baldrick, even though she came up with the name.
What’s the current name then?
RSPCA named the entire litter after Hunger Games characters. She’s Katniss but we think that they got Katniss’s and Primrose’s names the wrong way around.
The only other real candidate we have is Rosemary. Mostly because Rosemary is the only living thing we’ve had that I haven’t managed to kill (goddamned basil, stay alive so I can eat you!). It’s an okay name but kind of meh.
Freya should never have suggested Baldrick. It’s just too good of a name.
See you tomorrow, Bunbun!
Welcome to dog ownership. Prepare to spend silly amounts of money on things to spoil your dog like I do.
A mutt or a breed? Either way, yayayayay puppy 😀
Very, very mutt. Very, very adorable.
I wanna see sooooo many photos.
I’m sure we can provide those
Aw, DAMNIT. I just bought Tales and GoT a couple of weeks ago. Could’ve gotten them all for a comparable price 🙁
http://au.ign.com/articles/2015/02/17/the-telltale-games-collection-now-available-on-ps4
Wait, so how much is it now?
$44 for the whole bundle if you’re a US PS+ member.
Edit: US price, of course. So around $60 AU ish. Not bad for five full Telltale seasons.
Oh, I *AM* a US PS+ member. Hmmm.
So… turns out Don’t Touch Mes are extremely
overpoweredeffective in the first part of Crota’s End… Went in last night intending to just grab the chest and be done with it, accidentally made it to the bridge plate… figured, “I have one rocket and some sniper ammo, might as well have a go.” Fourth raid drop for my hunter, third piece of raid gear… third set of gloves that I’ll never wear because I have Don’t Touch Mes. #forever31 😛Tried to share the loot, but apparently chests despawn and loot only drops once, not when each person traverses the light… Shoulda known better, really. Was kinda neat to just wander the abyss unhindered, tho…
Yeah, thanks for the invite! Even though there was no lovely lovely loot, it was really cool to wander around the lamp area with no Weight and no nasties, was a really cool way to learn the area a bit better!
How’d your nightfalling go?
I spent a pleasant couple of hours doing some trading and exploring around the fringes of my home system in Elite, upped my cargo bays and am saving for better scanners and a better fuel scoop, and then I’m going to do an expedition. I have a destination in mind. 🙂
Oh god… Omnigul with no burn is painful. We made it through first try with a couple of close calls, but it still took us over an hour, I reckon… and those yellow knife-wielding Fallen captains are still the bane of my existence. That said, Abyss Defiant’s wizard blind is extremely useful in that last room, and Song of Ir Yut turned out to be very handy with the “penetrate knight shields” perk. “Oh, you’re gonna turtle and regen some health? I think not” *pulls out large machine-gun, sprays arc-bullets in general direction* >:D
I really should play Elite more… haven’t played much since I got my Cobra. It’s relaxing, but it’s so hard to find the time these days. Destiny begs a few hours a day, work and commute another 8-9 on weekdays, and the rest is in small pieces dotted throughout the day. And Minecraft consumes my weekends… 🙁
That’s why I got so handy with the “beam” grenades, the Titan’s lightning grenade and void beam are both amazing if you stick them to a vertical right behind the knight… Will have to have a crack tonight.
It’s always good fun playing with those two guys though, done many hours of strikes with both of them. Shame 4 into 3 doesn’t go, but I didn’t mind at all – Elite is the first game I’ve played properly since Destiny came out 😮
Hot damn, how good would it be to be a designer who named that stuff.
“Okay Steve, I flipped through your design brief about your proposed weapon set. There’s some really great ideas in here like Don’t Touch Me, but I have some concerns…”
About what?
“Well, I mean, let’s go through the rest of these. Don’t Talk To Me Either”
*Nods*
“… Bob Stole My Lunch?”
Metaphor for the disappointing and angry finale of swelling anticipation of a perceived ultimate, yet lacklustre gun.
“Mm… Erica’s a hoe?”
The common rifle that everyone’s had a go with at some point or another.
“Uh, If You Tell Me About Your Life Know That I Don’t Care?”
It represents the ultimate futility of the firefight.
“Steve. I Pissed In Tom’s Water Bottle. What.”
It brings a new set of diverse effects and flavours into the fight.
I have NO idea what game this all stems from, but I am trying very hard to suppress my giggles right now and am failing.
So close. I failed at Tom’s Water Bottle.
Apparently the loot drop triggers and enemies despawn when you get close to the light, you don’t actually have to cross the threshold. People have started exploring and mapping the abyss in greater detail.
I sharded my Don’t Touch Me’s after deciding I was unlikely to ever roll as my Hunter (who I hardlyp lay on to begin with) without my Archlyophage Symbiote or Lucky Raspberry, but now I regret it. They seem to be a fairly common drop though.
Yep, that’s what I did. Hence why the poor fellas I invited got no loot… 🙁
It’s alright, if you can steam through that easy, let’s do the first bit on hard tonight… 😀
I woulda done that last night, but my hunter hasn’t unlocked hard mode yet… keen for those double drops. I think you need to finish it on normal to access it? Only beaten Crota twice, once on my (now defunct) Warlock, and once on my Titan, so only my Titan can access hard mode. 🙁 But I’m up for it if you are 😀
I’m a little concerned about getting hit by 33s as a 30… can’t quite hit 31 with the Don’t Touch Mes on, [yet…] One or two shots from a trall might kill me (unsure, never tried it), so while the Don’t Touch Mes wouldn’t be entirely useless, the thralls do tend to attack in packs, so I usually take a couple of hits before the stealth actually stops them attacking. Might try a dry run as a 27 in normal mode if I jump on before you, to get a feel for how hard they’ll hit – I think I’ve got gear that’ll let me do that.
Took a fun excursion through the roof space of our house last night. Kinda like a dark, stuffy, constricting playground.
Now I’m itchy from the insulation fibres.
And all the spider eggs.
I found a mouse!
It was all like “whoa, some dude’s here in my space! I don’t know where to run because this is where I normally run to, not from.”
In unrelated news, I need to buy some mouse traps…
Fibre glass insulation?
Yeah, I think so.
Ouch. That’s gonna be no fun to stop itching..
If you have to get in there again next time put talcum/baby powder over your arms and other exposed bits of skin, it apparently helps cut down the fibres getting into your skin according to panel beaters.
Had some magical stuff I got introduced to in Malaysia after my first run in with prickly heat. Can’t remember what it was – maybe tiger balm?
Eh, either way this isn’t so bad compared with prickly heat. That was painful.
Tiger Balm is all burny though D=
I try to imagine it’s my own personal Batcave. Filled with cobwebs and spiders instead of bats.
I remember those days. I do not miss those days. Calamine lotion and lots of it 😀
@pupp3tmast3r
I won’t lie.. I’m very interested in running a gold challenge mode team… I’m willing to supply swiftness potions.. health pots.. flasks.. dps potions too interested parties and should help improve the skills of some of our members.
I know its not your idea to spend time doing this but if you got on board it would be much easier to convince others =/ I know everbloom is the hardest one so that would make it the first choice since there’s no point going 7/8 if you cant do the hardest.
Yes I do realize their hard as shit.
@jocon Heads up to you as well I guess if you were to ever be interested.
I wont lie to you Red…. I have next to 0 interest in running a gold challenge mode run or even putting in the effort to organizing one =P The rewards are negligible bragging rights and some pretty cool cosmetic items but that’s it. Sure I’d like to do it at some point but my hands are full if not overflowing with just getting us some solid BRF and H HM progress.
If you want to go ahead and pull peeps together outside the raid days/nights by all means feel free to do so, if I’m free I’ll jump on for a few tries; however I do need to be completely candid. There isn’t a single person in our raid team at the moment I would take in to a challenge mode (myself included). Going off our charts from the last two weeks the highest performance based on ilvl is about at 67-72% efficiency and I think that was you and railgun. We have a good group; but not one nearly efficient and competent enough to take on CM Gold.
There are raiders out there acting on 70-85% efficiency on fights while half our raid doesn’t even pop potions on each attempt. I don’t know if you guys noticed but there some clear cracks last week when we did Heroic HM without Don, Saat was healing at 1% efficiency for her ilvl and devil was at 34% (the average raid group efficiency is about 40%). Boggle has a habit of getting slack on his dps and musashi dies far too frequently in the BRF fights.
The best members of our group are yourself, trench, don and railgun (so you’d be one short of a CM group). I’m barely holding 50% efficiency in fights. However go ahead and give it a try however I think we have a long way to go on skill level before we can do CM Gold.
That’s… disconcerting to hear I guess.
Maybe I should just work on building a Min/Max set and see if any PUGs want to take a chance on me, thanks anyways you’ve given me something to think about.
also 6.1 dated for Feb 24 😮
Yeeah.
Are you getting those stats from mr robot? Can I check it out?
Yeah just search for fallen guardians on askmrrrobot (i make the logs public), if you had the addon installed it’ll have your performance break down; if not like recount it relies on neighboring players.
I’d be interested in giving it a crack, but I doubt my level of skill is up to it.
Also I gather team comp is quite important, would hunter even be on the list of best to take?
Almost 95% of teams use a blood dk or several dks however those are record breaking comps, all we want is gold and you can achieve that with a cookie cutter comp or bread crumb comp its all a matter of difficulty and skill.
But yeah hunters are strong, warlocks, dks, rogues, warrior dps, ele shamans also.
If you ever feel like you might be lacking making a CM set always helps just find your two strongest secondaries and stack them on every piece, doesn’t matter if its 630 or 685 all gear will be reduced to 630 – also tertiary and gems don’t count, so only worry about the barebones.
Edit: To give you an idea how tough itll be, picture doing brf in 650 gear, and trying to speed run at the same time.
Gah, probably should not have scrapped all my old gear.
I’ll give it a shot, let me know.
I’m willing to tank or heal it.. however upon reflection I think it might be tough to convince anyone else to come upon realizing the commitment it takes.
Only thing we can do is create Min/Max sets and over time see if we can find interested parties.. I don’t see anything in the near future. All I can do is ask the group after Saturday’s raid; if I can fill all 5 roles.. than rock and roll I guess.
I was struck down with a migraine yesterday afternoon around 1pm. Ended up going home at 2:30 cos I felt so rubbish. Worst of it was over today, but still got that day after hangover feeling :\
Got to work, and my team leader walked past and said good morning, and then turned around to do a double take at me. He walked over, and asked if I was feeling alright, and I explained that it was the residual effects etc, but I wanted to be there for the training session we have today (it’s specific to my team.)
I thought the training was on this morning from like 9-10 or 10-11, so figured I’d be there for it, and then go if I felt rubbish. Turns out it’s at 2:30 this afternoon. :\
My team leader looked at me and said “I admire your enthusiasm, but go home.. you look like shit! All puffed up like you’ve been stung by a bee or something!”
So here I am. Home again. I still can’t believe there’s work places out there that actually care about their staff! I’ve never been lucky enough to be managed by a person who actually gives a toss about their staff before! Still feels like a dream!
Hopefully there’ll be some booklets/papers given out at the training today, and one of my team mates can grab me a copy. Given it’s only an hour long training session, and by the sounds of it, a product overview (which I should already know) I’m hopefully not gonna miss out on too much. Have training for the better part of all day tomorrow too, and that’s the stuff I really don’t want to miss, so hopefully I’ll be looking and feeling better by then!
Job’s going well then I take it? 🙂 It’s great how a work that actually cares for you can put a spring in your step
yeah has been going well indeed! I got some awesome compliments from other staff members the other day, which was totally unexpected. One was from one of the service delivery managers, commenting on the great job I did with a particular ticket, and the other came from one of the members of the team I’m training with at the moment. He said he wants to swap me for one of the people on his team! I’ll be moving upstairs 1 floor in a week or two to start work on our own Suncorp specific team, so I wont be near the general incident management guys any more. They look after a whole slew of high paying customers (like 100+) and manage all their incidents and updates etc, where as I’ll be dedicated to Suncorp once the training is over. The guy that made the comment clearly thinks I’m doing a good job, as he said he wants to get me to replace one of the guys that’s been there for over 10 yrs! Have to say I was rather chuffed with that! 😉
Makes all the difference. I’m super keen on parent bosses instead of career driven bosses.
So much better to say the boy is ill & have the boss understand than stare at you blankly (over the phone :p)
Yeah. A migraine leaves me feeling pretty hung-over the next day, but functional.
Yeah I was functional to a point! I am having a bit of trouble reading at times, as it takes my eyes a while to focus on text today, and I might have been ok to stay longer, but they dropped a high severity ticket to log in my dropbox this morning, and not only have I never logged any tickets above a sev3 before, but it was for a customer I wasn’t familiar with, and for an issue I’d never had to log tickets for before, so it really did my head in! Had I been at normal levels of functionality, it would have been ok, but I really don’t think the stress of trying to cram all that info in to my head in this state did much good for me. By the time I was done, I had missed my scheduled morning break by 30 mins, and as I went down the lift to go and have a smoke outside, the dropping motion of the lift going down made me want to spew so bad!
Machine Head ‘Evening With’ tour announced and Brisbane date is on my birthday (and a Saturday as well) 😀
Tickets just sold out. Good news though, there’s 20 thousand tickets available on ebay starting at 42 million dollars.
well, that’s cheaper than buying tickets online and paying the handling fee to print them off at home 😀
Also @strange Blind Guardian gigs in Sydney and Melbourne announced today if you weren’t aready aware
Yup. Aware. Stupid Sydney and Melbourne.
Actually knew about them beforehand (and that there’d be no Brisbane) firsthand from one of the Blind Guardian guitarists on 70K.
If you can make it to Sydney or Melbourne though, it’ll be worth it if their sets on 70K are anything to go by….
That’s awesome, I’m so there
Hmmm. Japan Post is trying to buy Toll with plans to let it run pretty independently and leave it’s structure intact. It’s amazing how many companies here are owned by Japanese interests but seem to have very little input from them on the running of them. Not a lot of companies have that much seeming trust.
egads.. I wonder if that means there’s change on the horizon for us at work? Toll are one of our “sensitive customers”.. ie, they pay a shit load of money to us to get stuff fixed fast. There’s usually enough changes and updates throughout the year to keep us on our toes at the best of times, let alone when they get bought out.
When I first picked up playing saxophone back at school, I learned pretty quick to tune it. If you pick up the violin, it’s the same deal.
I had a friend pick up the piano, and she got a hernia
#dadjokepagesix #hi@strangeHaving played saxophone for about six years across primary and high school… TIL you can tune a saxophone. Also why almost everyone else in the school band sounded out of tune, apparently. :3
Of course you can. Once the instrument is warmed up you adjust how far the mouthpiece is down the cork, and listen to the beat frequencies off of a tuned B flat or E flat depending on which type of sax.
I just always figured it was intrinsic to the instrument, and required physical adjustments by a technician to alter – there didn’t seem to be much room to change anything that would vary the pitch on my alto; changing how far the mouthpiece is over the cork never occurred to me. And it makes me wonder why none of the three sax teachers I had over the years ever bothered to teach me something so elementary.
Yeah, that’s a bit shit.
It’s a very small adjustment that makes the music sound so much better. The number of times I’ve heard performers who are even just slightly discordant is way too many.
Wooooow. That’s like… one of the first things you should’ve been taught? And for the bandmaster to not pick up on it and get you guys to tune up at the start of practise or something, geez.
Yeah, in our school’s Stage Band we always had the music teacher/conductor go for a walk in front of everyone’s instrument with a tuner (easier with a smaller stage band than a concert band). We were kind of expected to already be pretty well in tune, though.
Page six once again, eh? Have I got a joke for you!
Quel est le point commun entre un prof à la retraite et un Tampax?
Ils sortent tous les deux du corps enseignant
HON HON HON HON HON HON
Say chowdah, frenchy.
Shaudere.
I’ll kill you, I’ll kill you all! Especially those of you in the jury!!
*gasp!*
I don’t get it..
Der Richter zum Angeklagten: “Sie sind beschuldigt, Ihren Nachbarn unter Schimpfworten in den Wald getrieben und dort ganz fürchterlich verprügelt zu haben. Sind Sie da nicht ein bisschen zu weit gegangen, Angeklagter?”
Antwort: “Ja, das stimmt, Herr Richter! Ich hätte es schon vorher auf der Wiese tun sollen!”
#SeiteSechs
German humour is often really hilarious, despite its reputation
Wenn ist das Nunstruck git und Slotermeyer? Ja! … Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput.
*dies*
I don’t know any French so I’m going to take a stab at translating this joke.
Q) Why does a teacher usually retire with Tampax?
A) It’s organised by two groups.
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
How did I do?
Two guys walked into a bar
The third stepped over it.
Hi @strange #pagesixforever
\o/
Soundwave Timetables just got released. I like the no clashes bit for me again, 4th year in a row with no clashes, aw yeah.
Wait, they go from bottom to top?
Weird.
Every festival time table i’ve encountered does 😛
Admittedly it’s probably been a good decade or so since I last saw one, but I’m pretty sure they went top-to-bottom like any normal piece of writing 😛
Lol.
Every time table i’ve seen for a Festival has the headline/closing act for that stage at the top of the page, and the opening act for the day at the bottom. Even in 2000 Big Day Out used that method 😛
It just makes sense to have the big name draw card for those stages at the very top.
Then howcome I went straight to the bottom to look for the big names, smartguy? 😛
You’re living in an alternate reality where everything is upside down I guess 😛
We just call it “Australia”.
@scree The collectors edition is back up.
Thank you
Hey Gang,
Reminder there will be copious amounts of drinks at The End in West End from 6pm this Saturday as a last hurrah for Your Hero, Dan.
All are welcome and all are expected.
I know a few of you are already heading to Matt’s birthday but we’ll still be going strong once you guys finish up so if you’re up to it, head on over.
Love,
Dan
no!
Ok.
Fine.
I’ll be there, but later cause of other thingy!
I’m not sure I can do either anymore. I had to pay my rego this week, so I’m a lot shorter on funds than I thought I’d be, cos for some stupid reason, it wouldn’t let me pay my rego using my credit card. Had to b-pay it, which means I’m $350+ short of where I would have been otherwise. Still, will see how I go.
Will you be doing any first hurrah for Our Hero Dan drinks in Sydney?
I suppose the onus should be on us to welcome you by inviting you somewhere, but, um.
That’s not how Sydney operates and you know it.
Oh god, it’s so true.
*twiddles thumbs*
Nothing organised as yet but give me a week or two to get settled and then it’s on.
As long as it’s not the weekend I run away to Brisbane, sweeeet.
I really want to go to this, as well as the birthday thing but I almost certainly can’t make the birthday thing, and I’m only a 15% chance of being able to make it to this. 🙁
That’s probably for the best.
I don’t need you to see me cry.
It’ll give you false hope that I have emotions.
NegativeZero’s Kantai Collection Update You Can Probably Skip
As I recounted in Monday TAY, I cleared the event on the weekend and received my Amagi. Resources running a bit low and instant-repair buckets looking okay, I decided that I should try my hand at getting some of the rares from the event maps.I’d already lost the chance to get one of them. Isokaze, one of the most desirable Destroyers in the game because she’s a status symbol – reward from the crazy hard last map in the Midway event last year – was a drop in the last map here, but only on Medium and Hard difficulties and only possible if you sank all the ships in the boss node, and once you’ve cleared it that boss node contains three bosses. So fuck that. I cleared it on easy anyway.
In terms of desirable rares that drop somewhere in the events, there’s still a few I don’t have. Taigei, my white whale, is a drop in the first map, as is repair ship Akashi (who I already have, but a second is necessary to get extra crane equipment which allow her to repair more ships at once). Destroyer Hatsukaze somehow has avoided me though I can probably farm her in the normal maps easy enough. Yamagumo is in a normal map I can’t currently clear. Asagumo was a random drop in a previous event and is unobtainable otherwise, and Asashimo is this event’s random drop. Agano-class cruiser Noshiro has been avoiding me (drops in the same spots that her sister-ship Agano drops at the same rate, but I got six Aganos while clearing that map and no sign of Noshiro). But the real prize drop for the event is Unryuu.
Unryuu is the lead ship of her class that also includes Amagi, the reward for the final map in this event. She’s needed for some quests which unlock some 601st-squadron aircraft which are very useful (especially the fighters) and I wanted her. Additionally, she dropped from the 4th map boss on all difficulties. So farming time.
Monday night I jumped on and ran through to the E4 boss twice, using a different fleet to the one I’d cleared the map with. By deliberately not taking any carriers you’re able to go a southern route that skirts the harder fights on the way and goes straight to the boss. The boss still wrecks everyone but it’s okay as long as enough survive to the night battle phase where your heavy cruisers and destroyers will blow her to bits. My two clears dropped another Souryuu and Nagato. Not great but good scrap for modernization.
Yesterday morning I ran the same thing again another 4 times, but RNG was out to troll me. Light carriers all in a row. Additionally running battleships is a strain on repair buckets and resources (my Kongou when hit to critical HP can take up to 22 hours to repair without an instant-repair to use). So last night after doing a few more runs where I continued to get shit drops, I decided to try an alternative strategy. Swapped out the two battleships for Aviation Cruisers. Less resource-heavy, harder to actually beat the boss.
It worked, and worked well. But fuck me was it nerve-wracking. A few times I thought I was going to get an A-rank clear only for the stars to align and Yukikaze to fire out a 400-damage torpedo or Myoukou get in a critical shot on the very last hit to take the boss out. Exacerbating the issue is that I only have the two aviation cruisers. Tone Kai-2 is awesome, but my other one is Suzuya who is only level 43 and is vastly inferior. But she ended up performing admirably during my farming sorties. Still, nothing was dropping. Went to bed.
This morning I jumped on and ran through once. Another Souryuu. Then I barely had time for it but I decided to push through for a second run. It was heart-in-mouth stuff. Get there easily, but Suzuya was already lightly damaged when I got to the boss. Air attack phase, get an Anti-Air cut-in attack from Shigure but doesn’t take out the boss’ evil takoyaki aircraft, and they drop torpedoes and knock Suzuya and Tone below 50% and Yukikaze to only 3 HP. Shelling continues and we’re whittling things down, but the boss and one of her escorts, a Ru-class battleship, are still standing. Boss hits Shigure to 50%, then Haguro to 20%. Smoke clears and the boss is still there on about 320/350 HP, and the Ru-class is still there, nearly dead but not dead enough. Decide to go to night battle anyway.
Despite being critically damaged and unable to participate in the fight, Haguro still manages to fire off her flares and light up the battlefield. Shigure double-taps the boss for about 60 damage, then Suzuya hits her for another 50 or so. “I’m not going to clear it” I think. Yukikaze and Haguro are too damaged to participate in a night battle, only have Tone and Myoukou left. Tone fires and blows the Ru-class up, and it’s just down to Myoukou, with the boss still at around 200HP. Game then hitches up for a second and I’m like OH MY GOD. I’d set up Myoukou with two guns and an extra torpedo, so she has a small chance (very low) to perform a high-damage torpedo cut-in attack. And that activates. Hits the boss for 300 damage. Sunk.
Then look what dropped. Apparently 0.67% chance of this happening at all. Took 11 runs to get. Lucky! And off a run like that was the icing on the cake.
Now I need to figure out what to do next. My options are to head back to E2, which I cleared on hard. E2 has a chance at Noshiro, Hatsukaze, Asagumo and Asashimo, but clearing on an S-Rank will be expensive and time-consuming. The other option is to head to E1, which is a Destroyer & Cruiser-only map focused on anti-sub warfare which would be easy to farm but only has chances at Taigei and an extra Akashi. I’m probably going to try E2. Taigei is available in multiple normal places and I’m on the verge of opening up world 5 in the normal game where she drops more readily, plus I already have 1 Akashi so shouldn’t be greedy (plus there’s a good chance she doesn’t drop if you already have her – that’s how she worked in the bonus map for world 2)
Won $14 in Saturday’s $20mil lotto… \o/
Spent $17 on ticket… /o\
What the fuck- I run a lotto?
I AIN’T GOT $20 MILLION TO GIVE AWAY YOU GREEDY FUCKS
Obviously. You only gave him $14 back on his $17 investment.
What are you, a bank?
My employer is… and that seems about right. 😉
Fun Fact Page Six!
Did you know the earliest meme known to man is the SATOR Square?
(Hope the formatting works here)
Its a square with the words Sator, Arepo, Tenet, Opera, Rotas written on it like so:
SATOR
AREPO
TENET
OPERA
ROTAS
It roughly translates to “The Farmer Arepo works a plough”.
It has been found from Pompeii to England to Syria – essentially, people thought it clever enough to spread it around and put it as a block in various buildings (mainly churches). It qualifies as a meme due to this.
What’s so special about it? It’s a squared palindrome. From top left to bottom right, in rows, you can read Sator Arepo Tenet Opera Rotas. From top left reading down in columns, it reads the same. From the bottom right, reading backwards in rows, it’s the same. From the bottom right, reading upwards in columns, it’s the same.
Pretty sure it’s not a meme until it’s been superimposed on an image in white Impact.
http://imgur.com/si1W6O6
Two fun facts:
– Magic squares, the numerical equivalent, go all the way back to at least 650 BC in China
– Terry Pratchett, renowned smartarse, called the town square in Ankh Morpork “Sator Square”
*foreheadsmack*
Oh my god. I love that man.
And did you know (I’m assuming you did, Stan), that the term Meme was coined by no other than everyone’s least favourite Atheist, Richard Dawkins? Based on the Greek word mimeme (which means to imitate), it was shortened to remind you of the word gene. For whereas a gene is a piece of information passed down in what I hope is a rather obvious manner, a meme is something that is passed on person to person through methods of communication.
That WAS another question from last night!
I also asked the other questions various people supplied me.
And I also asked who was the rapper in the Yo Dawg meme.
…I actually had one person last night say I should do a “You Don’t Know Jack” style video game based off my quizzes. That was a huge compliment, as they were my favorite games for a while there in my teenaged years.
Something I find interesting with memes, is that they’ve ended up developing in a way Dawkins likely never anticipated. That is, he considered a meme to be a static piece of knowledge that was beneficial (in some manner) and spread. So the ability to create an arch is a meme, since it was passed on between groups and is really useful for building, well, buildings. The SATOR square is something that people found interesting enough to pass on in the same way, and so it is a meme.
But the meaning of meme has, in its own way, “evolved” to allow for the shifting and changing that memes undergo (if an altered version of something is even funnier than the original (for example), it will “outlive” the original by being spread more), which resembles an abstract form of evolution (which is not that dissimilar to how languages change, but that’s something for another day). It’s like a really boring version of Inception that only Biology nuts find interesting.
So in a way, the term meme has evolved to mean what meme now means which allows for evolution of memes.
My head hurts.
meme
It’s pronounced meh meh.
I suppose you think it’s Jyf, too.
Monster.
@redartifice who says that? It’s obviously guy-ef.
But in saying that, isn’t the way that Memes evolve now on the internet in their own fashion teaching people how to be funnier? Meme A is funnier than Meme B, which means the difference between the two is how you become funnier – and humour is something that is beneficial for social interaction.
So, in a way, the term meme has evolved to mean what meme now means which allows for the evolution of memes which means that the memes that evolve into other memes are actually fulfilling the definition of the term meme.
…help me Basil, I’ve gone cross-eyed.
I fell onto my bottom and it hurt.
I bought the shit out of the first batch of YDKJ games that hit Steam. Apparently there are even more up there now.
I don’t know why I get so irritated when people spell lose as loose. There is no other mistake that gets to me as much.
The confusion is interesting. I once saw someone write “Let lose the dogs of war” which essentially means the opposite of what they intended
They’re all such lose cannons. Bunch of loosers.
I’ve noticed around the Internet lately that people keep saying “a good value” instead of just “good value”. Eg. “That seems like a good value to me.”
Not that I’m irritated by it or anything, but it’s weird 😛
(Also likely that the phrase is completely correct and I’m the dumb one. Wouldn’t be the first time!)
If you’re talking about the number of beers to consume on any given evening. Okay.
It’s not if you’re talking about the ratio of price to features. Not okay.
You know what annoys me? People who mispronounce route (root), or rout (I have no idea how to quickly indicate how it’s pronounced, but it’s rout. Wait, it’s like grout, but without the g. Fucking nailed it, Blaghs).
Because there’s a big difference between routing your enemy, and rooting your enemy.
Coupe.
Man, making stupid errors is such a fox pass.
That’s American English vs UK English.
Which is why you have a ‘Router’ (said like ‘Rowt-er’) and not a ‘Rooter’. The device is used to route your data to its destination.
I am groot?
I know it’s an American thing, and I’m perfectly happy to admit to a lack of internal consistency here, but in this case, they are wrong.
Don’t loose your head over it.
The one I hate is when people say they could care less instead of couldn’t care less.
I can think of none other more eye-twitch-inducing then[sic] this, personally. Unless it’s particularly obscene, in which case it’s hilarious. “I would rather [obscene act, usually involving self-mutilation or bestiality] then agree with your point.” “Umm… I fail to see how that’s relevant, but if it helps you see reason, whatever floats your boat, I guess.”
Edit: Couldn’t leave it, had to sic it.
I can understand why you would get angry at it. It’s a “loose loose situation”.
So many things like these. I can’t remember them all. Today, though… it’s ‘would of’.
“I wish I would of…”
Counter-point:
“Yeah, rocks. Y’know: R, O, X.”
“That’s not how you spell ‘rocks’.”
“Yeah? What’s r.o.x. spell, then?”
Personal pet peeves:
– Their vs there vs they’re
– It’s vs its
– ‘per say’ instead of ‘per se’
– incorrect usage of the semicolon
– Affect vs effect
– Grammer.
Oh, youse mean that It’s versed its?
I have a friend who is constantly saying how this and that is “aweful”. I think most of the time it’s just because it’s in the phone dictionary so now just keeps getting punched out, but it still bugs me 😛
Also I hate when people write “yer” as a form of “yeah”.
Oh! Addicting instead of addictive! And another that seems to be more of an American thing, when they use “spit” as the past tense instead of “spat”.
My pet hate is “devine”. I don’t like the commentator either.
One time I was in IRC chat and some guy propositioned a girl to cyber (because it was 1998 and that was a thing). She rejected him and he responded “your loose”, which drew a confused response from the girl, who wasn’t clear why she was being attacked with implications of promiscuity over rejecting his advances.
He of course meant “your loss”, which made slightly more sense.
Of course these days with negging and whatnot it’s pretty common for a guy to call a girl a slut for refusing to sleep with him, because the intricacies of the English language are slowly being buried under the sands of time.
Would of, should of. AAAAARGGGGGHHHHH.
Would’ve, should’ve. 🙂
My lecturer did that on the first day and I didn’t want to bring it up.
So I did end up trying out Resi Revelations on the new 3DS, to see how it fares as a Circle Pad Pro.
Horrendous.
While that stick is fine for things like nudging around the camera in Monster Hunter (or, presumably, popping off a quick smash attack in Smash), it absolutely sucks as a primary control input, replacing a secondary circle pad. Both from the lack of precision and from the lack of space you have to actually operate it, half the time I could barely turn in some directions because my thumb was stuck mashing against the surrounding plastic (particularly the raised edge next to the touch screen) rather than the stick itself. And then, that game mainly uses the ZL and ZR triggers when you’re playing with the CPP controls. Those things are pretty unusable on the New, you either have to hook your fingers up and around the other shoulder buttons, or kind of go up from underneath the unit instead. Both of which don’t make for a very comfortable holding position if you want to use the circle pad or face buttons at all. Bleh.
Nintendo you get a C-, try harder next time.
They just didn’t expect to cater to someone with such tiny little girl hands.
I can’t imagine how someone stuck with a pair of those would cope with this 😛
Really well, actually. Aside from the fact that the nubbin is utterly rubbish, the New 3DS XL sits quite well in my hands, and it’s easy to hit the ZR/ZL buttons.
What game is that in? I mean they’re not overly terrible for infrequent use as a secondary button, but primary use… ugh.
Majora’s Mask.
If I wanted the camera to stare either at the sky, or the floor, I would have pointed it EITHER AT THE SKY OR THE FLOOR, NOT TO THE FUCKING SIDE YOU STUPID NUBBIN.
I’ve resorted to putting my finger on the opposite side of the button to where I want to, and forcing it into the side, rather than trying to have it rest on top of the nub.
Wait I’m confused now. Are we talking about the stick, or the Z buttons? What are the buttons used for in MM?
Oh, sorry, I was talking about the nubbin.
I’ve never needed to use the Z-buttons, since they function identically to the normal triggers, but they’re easily accessible if I want them when I rest my hand on the thing.
Nintendo absolutely fucking sucks at ergonomics and I have found every iteration of the 3DS incredibly uncomfortable to hold and use for any extended period. XL is terrible, what with the volume knob in an easily-bumped position by the pad of your knuckle and the way the corner of the unit digs into your hands and the general lack of anything to grip properly.
It’s one of the chief reasons I hate playing games on the system, It just sucks to hold in my hands.
Haha, meanwhile I’m sitting here thinking the XL’s the greatest piece of hardware they’ve released since the Phat, comfortable and ergonomic as can be. Opinions, hey? 😛
Still haven’t managed to figure out how you bump the volume slider at all.
The fleshy part of my hand at the base of my thumb bumps it constantly when I’m using the circle pad. I guess I have fat hands.
I think I’m gonna need a picture or something, the only way I can figure that one is if I try using the circle pad with the joint of my thumb instead of the pad.
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y260/Gooky/HowDoYouCirclePad.jpg
Left: How I hold it when I play
Right: Only way I can touch the volume slider and circle pad at once with two parts of my thumb 😛
I have hand wrapped around the side of the thing to hold it, especially with stylus-based games which is when I notice it happening the most. You’re balancing it on your fingers only.
EDIT: I have no idea how you could comfortably hold the thing in that grip for more than about ten minutes without your fingers getting sore.
EDIT EDIT: Also I never have my finger resting on the shoulder button either, unless it’s a game I need that for – and if it is I probably don’t get the issue with them. Put your index finger underneath and hold onto it and see if your hand isn’t touching or close to touching pretty close to the volume roller.
Haha, it’s primarily balanced between my middle fingers (extending underneath to just inside the touch screen in the middle) and the base of my thumbs, which rest on top of the lower corners of the machine. I generally keep my index fingers resting in front of the shoulder buttons like that regardless of whether they get used or not (not that I can think of many games that don’t use them), since resting the top cover on them like that gives me another point to distribute some weight and creates a better balance by shifting the pivot point forward more.
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y260/Gooky/NoShoulder.jpg
This is how I hold it when not using the shoulder button, with the index finger going underneath.
Also the Phat DS was a piece of shit half-baked beta project for the DS Lite which was actually good hardware. Still had the ergonomics of a brick though.
Lite was actually terrible all round apart from the brighter screen 😛
That whole ghosting issue was pretty bad too. Forget the details of that one.
So my no new games in 2015 until I complete my pile of shame is going well!
*glances sideways at An Item Shops Tale, Omega Ruby, A 3DS and now Hand of Fate*
*glances at the pile of shame, which hasn’t reduced by one game – literally*
…I need somebody to stage an intervention.
I think I’ve finished… 4 games this year now? Let’s not talk about how many I’ve bought.
I think that’s more than me D:
You should get Attack of the Friday Monsters *nod*
Elsewhere on kotaku
😉
Felt tired, went and had a nap…
Max soon joined me…
Now she’s laying on my arm, purring…
TALK AMONGST YOURSELVES ON KOTAKU AUSTRALIA
GODDAMNIT THE THINGS I DO BECAUSE YOU TELL ME TO TIGS.
*unzips …*
*sighs*
Show me on the doll where @tigerion made you touch yourself.
NUMENERA TALES OF THE NINTH WORLD
Elandar (@popdart5): Sold his soul
Scrappa (@tech_knight): trashed something expensive looking
Blaghs (@blaghman) Cut off elandars head, and slapped himself with his own hand
Thanks for playing!
Worth it!
It’s time for … “Nob’s Super Happy Fun Work Adventure of Happiness”
*jingle plays*
Last Night (Wednesday)
*Boss calls me after I finish my shift.*Boss: Hey! Just calling you to remind you that you’re working at ‘Depot A’ (where I am actually employed to work) tomorrow.
Me: Uhhh, I was told I am working at Depot B until the end of the week
Boss: Huh? No I’m sure I told everyone that you’re working here
Me: Everyone but me
Boss: Oh, I hoped someone would pass the message on to you.
(The sad thing is that this is a common thing)
Me: *rolls eyes*
Boss: Okay, that’s all good. Just work at Depot B tomorrow and come here Thursday
Me: Yeah, sounds good.
Boss: Oh wait nearly forgot. I need you to start at 7am. Bye
Me: *O_O*
The following night (tonight)
*I finish the first half of my run and begin to unload my van and my Boss while I am at Depot B pulls up beside me in his car as he is leaving.*Interim Boss: Hey! I talked to your boss and we came to an agreement.
Me (While trying to quickly unload heavy boxes in my van because I have 15 minutes until I do the 2nd half of my shift): Oh?
Interim Boss: Yeah, you work the morning at Depot A and come over here in the afternoon
Me: Uhhh, I’m not sure, it’s not exactly a short travel time from my place to both of the depots
Interim Boss: Yeah, sorry to ask you but I don’t really have anyone else that can do this on short notice.
Me: Uhhhhh, I guess that okay b-*I get interrupted by screech of tyres as Interim Boss speeds off*.
Me: *O_O*
That’s not happy, fun OR a jungle!
YOU PROMISED ME A JUNGLE.
I don’t know what you mean!
(I’m going to blame auto-correct)
Those egg transporting quests, man…
… :/
They’re the best!
I ended up getting frustrated with the one where you steal the Rathian’s eggs so I ended up killing it. I’M A MONSTER …
HUNTERDidn’t realise you could kill it until I read some comment online. I just abandoned the quest mid-way because ceeeebs. I’m too tired for this shit! 😛
Killed my first MH4U Elder Dragon earlier :D. So awesomes! Died 3 times on it earlier and had already died 2 times in my 2nd attempt and was very close to failing the quest again. You’re gonna love doing that quest!
My very first mystery charm… +7 transport, amazing luck
Heh
I was wondering what the point of picking them up was, I need to get further. Also did everyone pick up their Mario or Luigi outfit for their cat, I read it has a time limit.
I think it’s until March 14 to get the free DLC times automatically. I’m assuming you can farm the items normally in game but I’m not sure
I read the Super Mushrooms can’t be found but they’ll give us more later to make the other outfit. I’m completely new to the series so I have a lot to learn. Having fun so far. Question about co op, do I take anything from single player into multi or do you start from scratch?
Same character. Quest progression is new though
@shane, okay, your way of playing Rogue Legacy is MUCH easier.
Ugh, just took down 2 bosses in under 15 minutes. I kind of hate you right now.
Never mind. I should have seen that from final boss…
SORRY, MAN!
I’m curious: how were you playing it prior to this?
Every child starts from scratch to find the boss room.
Woah, hardcore mode. Very Demon’s-Soulsian of you.
More I didn’t know there was any other way.
I spent 15 minutes trying to build a machine to push two boulders to a certain spot in Besiege.
Two minutes in, one of the steering wheels fall off.
I go into a minor panic, consider restarting. decide “screw it, let’s keep going…”
Eight minutes after that, I, with the concentration and control of a highly-skilled brain surgeon, maneuver a three-wheeled piece of junk, guiding two boulders to their respective spots.
Five minutes later, I’ve completed the level, and what feels like hours of struggle has achieved a minor victory!
\o/
I fucking love this game. 😀
30 hours into MH and I am half way through HR3, has been very easy so far, feels like health pools have been lowered significantly. But then that may just be because I played 3U completely solo so forget how quickly a full team can take down the suckers. RNGesus was with me when my very first carve of a Rathian (it’s tail) was a plate, and getting a very good transport charm, I feel like this game might actually be kind to me for a change.
Probably won’t see high rank till the weekend and I should make some more single player progress.
Happy Cyclone Day for the Queenslanders. I’ve picked the right day to wear a thin white shirt and to let someonr else use my umbrella so they can get to a couple of interviews nice and dry.
If you wanna see a wandering CUFCfan616 dressed for a local wet shirt competition come to Milton at about 4 😀
So Tales From the Borderlands is really good. Extremely funny. Halfway through ch 1 so far, and loving it.
*Disclaimer* I’m not a fan of the core Borderlands games.
Second half is much stronger than the first. I’m looking forward to the rest of it. More so than Game of Thrones (which I feel is the weakest series so far).
Well, now I just want to go home and play it.
Playing it right now. Just got the first trophy, and yeah it is pretty funny. Kind of expected that though being a Borderlands game and all.
Oh, and by the way.
HI EVERYBODY!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/18/christina-bond-shoots-self-gun-bra_n_6707468.html
U S A! U S A!
Is there a more American way to die?
Maybe the solution over there is more guns. They’ll probably all shoot themselves within a year.
Mauled by a Bald Eagle while standing atop mount Rushmore playing the Star Spangled Banner on the Tuba dressed in a Denver Broncos jersey and wearing cowboy boots?
While eating a burger.
It’d have to be a sousaphone.
I think we can make a game out of this.
Extreme obesity.
Shot for being not-white.
By the police.
Shot for being a minority
That was so dark the LAPD beat it then proceeded to shoot it.
Happy Lunar New Year!
I am hoping this year brings me some extra luck – not only was I born in the year of the Sheep/Goat, but I’m also an Aries!
Hello, fellow Sheep.
#sheeple
And Now i have Doctor horrible stuck in my head
I bring you pain, the kind you can’t suffer quietly.
Sheeple are best people
There’s been people banging drums and gongs outside in the courtyard of our building for the last hour or so and it’s making it impossible to work 🙁
EDIT: Also Pig > Sheep. And you know I’m right, because bacon.
Are you saying that the only good pig is a dead and salted one? 😛
Even a dead pig is tastier than a dead sheep.
Ooh, I dunno. I think I’d generally go lamb over pork. Especially for a meal. Bacon/prosciutto/ham is generally kind of an extra for the dish, whereas a plate of lamb cutlets is the dish itself.
I tend to agree with this. But on the other hand, pork belly is amazing, and can only be rivalled by a proper roast lamb. And also, bacon is the only breakfast meat I’m interested in! So, I suppose context is important.
I keep forgetting that pork belly is a thing.
Lamb on a spit is one of the finest of meats.
Rooster and Leo.
There’s a joke in there…
Something about a cock with a mane?
And now for a morning with Tech Knight:
*reads through morning emails, sees one from an application support team*
“Hi, the below credentials you provided to us for site X is no longer working”
*below are the credentials I provided them weeks ago, except with the username spelled wrong*
*thinking to myself* “Hmm.. okay, maybe a typo on his part, I’ll try that account now and see if it is a problem”
*Password works, no issues or delays*
“…”*sighs and hits reply*
We received a help desk ticket one time asking us to please fix the pop-up sprinklers.
Yesterday one of our guys came to me with a woman who had been through multiple hours of support with two of our officers trying to log into our inventory system. She was adamant that she was correctly typing the MULTIPLE passwords that had been generated, to the point of actually sounding out each letter as she typed it, over the phone, one-finger typing.
I actually ended up impersonating her in the system.
Mis-typed password.
Hours. HOURS.
It’s a catch 22 really. Email is not a secure way of giving passwords out, especially externally, but it’s the only real way of getting the correct password across without having to repeat yourself. then there’s the phone being the more preferred way for passwords to be given out from a security standpoint as verbal is not documented anywhere with potential to be stolen or sniffed up, (Unless the end user decides to write it out, never get rid of it or change the password) however with how shitty phone sound quality usually is, it’s really difficult to get the password across 100% accurately in one go.
Awesome Motley Crue have announced their Australian tour for May with Alice Cooper as support.
The idea of Alice Cooper as “support” for Motley Crue is just all kinds of wrong. Should be the other way around, it’s like if The Rolling Stones supported One Direction. 😛
You know Mötley Crue have sold double the amount of albums than Alice Cooper?
Also One Direction have broken just about every music chart record there is.
No accounting for taste 😛
Well to be fair, Motley Crue is on their “final tour” which is the end of their touring career as they keep stating and all this other shit. Last time Alice was here he couldn’t even sell out a 6,000 seat arena 🙁 Where as Motley Crue sold out The Entertainment Centre last time with KISS on a co-headline tour, and time before that Riverstage with Doc Neeson & Bret Michaels.
Edit: Also, that analogy with The Stones & One Direction isn’t a very good one, they’re two different styles of music for a start.
At least Alice & The Crue are both rock bands who both have a similar style of music and both rely heavily on a stage show live. Maybe The Stones supporting Guns N’ Roses is a better one. Since GNR is still massively popular despite what the minority think 😛
As a small-time comics creator, I rely on staying in the good graces of conventions to get my books out there.
But even with that disclaimer, I gotta say that right now, Supanova is conducting themselves in a way I take issue with.
https://twitter.com/SupanovaExpo/status/568179966598209536
It’s getting harder to be okay with supporting events like this. There are some pretty ugly attitudes underpinning their organisation.
Oz Comic-Con has put the prices of their tables up by 60%, and now this… I think it might be a sign to get out of this game, look at other avenues to get ahead.
Oh good, #Gamergate has started to weigh in.
Argggh, I wish life was more like Mass Effect. If I make the paragon decision to favour my morals over my chosen career, I’d like things to turn out well with a heap of XP and a bit wad of cash. Unfortunately, if I do that, I’ll probably just tank my relationships with these organisations and my writing career will die a sad, withering, pathetic death.
It’s not a twitter discussion about gaming issues without GamerGate painting the walls in Bristol 7.
Are there other writers’/arts festivals and things that you can attend?
Sort of, but graphic novels aren’t really seen as all that legit in those kind of circles.
What were Supanova’s first tweets replying to? I can’t seem to load the very first tweet in the chain to get some context.
EDIT: Ah, nevermind. They were replying to this article. No idea why it wouldn’t load on Desktop twitter for me. Had to hunt it down on my phone 😛
Ahh, it looks like the conversation chain has moved it all down.
BrKeogh put up this tweet: https://twitter.com/BRKeogh/status/568039141667024896
This was Supanova’s response: https://twitter.com/SupanovaExpo/status/568175926015438848
And things just declined from there.
And slow typing gets me again. 😛
Thanks anyway! You too, Strange.
Have to have attended to have a valid opinion? Fuck that.
I’ve never been to supanova and I never will go to supanova. It always seemed a bit shit, but now they’ve guaranteed I’ll never consider attending as long as people running it have that sort of attitude.
They were in response to this article: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-02-18/keogh-like-it-or-not-supanova-popular-culture-is-political/6128572 and asking when he attended Supanova….
The thing that bugs me about it is this:
Regardless of the efficacy of Brendan’s argument, the debate was immediately made personal by Supanova, who declined to address the issue, and instead immediately began to question Brendan’s integrity.
Playing the man, not the ball, is a deplorable tactic for anyone to employ in a debate, but for an organisation to do something like this is profoundly upsetting.
And, entirely unsurprisingly, this response opened the floodgates and became a microcosm of the issue that Brendan was discussing all along:
https://twitter.com/ToKnowIsToBe/status/568188586538999808
https://twitter.com/WishiwasArcher/status/568189700709568512
Although Supanova did provide a more courteous tweet acknowledging the argument (though still not commenting further), the damage was done. The entire issue had become a maelstrom of personal attacks.
UGH. So damn ugly. I hate being associated with this kind of thing, as both a gamer and participant in comics culture. I find it very upsetting.
For the most part, I try to utterly ignore the entire thing and a few lapses in judgement notwithstanding, refuse to even acknowledge the participants, discussion, or issue.
Obviously it’s not for everyone or for every situation, but I’ve been taking a stance of not playing the ‘last sane man’ card, making arguments that bring attention to those who don’t deserve the attention (seriously, without my friends replying to or refuting tweets by assholes, I would never see those tweets – I think maybe the world would be better if that exposure hadn’t been given).
It’s the only way I can think of to deny that bullshit any power – denying it the oxygen.
Some shit does NOT deserve attention, does not deserve the acknowledgement of being taken seriously any more than crackpots claiming illuminati lizard man conspiracies. ‘Gamergate’ is one such thing.
It’s not a gamer thing. It’s not a gaming thing. It’s an asshole thing, looking for legitimacy.
They might WANT to associate it with my thing – gaming – but it’s not. They do not have my permission, they do not have my acknowledgement.
Those people don’t speak for gamers any more than 4chan speaks for the internet.
And I KNOW there are people who are incapable of what they see as ‘standing by not doing anything about injustice’ when it’s so close to home, but… it’s the fucking internet. If you start, you will never stop. Ever. EVER.
“So I should just LET people say horrible things, stand by and let them go uncorrected?”
Yes? Because you don’t win. Nobody wins. Ever. There is no winning.
xkcd.com/386/
I really don’t think Edmund Burke’s quote: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing,” applies to the Internet.
If only because I just can’t help but feel that the act of fighting of it does more to help the fuckery than hurt it.
It’d be like if the PM announced on national TV that they categorically deny that members of parliament have been using the departmental network for browsing porn.
It doesn’t matter how insignificant or utterly without credibility that accusation was, now fucking every man and their dog is trying to find out who made the accusation and what their source was and why it got attention. When the CORRECT move is far more likely to completely ignore some random internet fuckwit’s facebook-post accusation.
***
It is to sigh.
Maybe I’m wrong! It’s quite possible! I’ve never seen any manual for how to deal with this crap that ever made any sense to me. And situations are always different…
But I’m not seeing much right in anything about this bullshit, either.
Sure, I understand this. Don’t engage with internet idiots re: internet idiocy. That’s fine.
But supporting the convention by paying for an exhibiting table is a step above that. Offering implicit support in the hope that I will one day become an honoured guest is another step above that. That’s the stuff I’m wrestling with at the moment.
I think the worst thing for me, honestly, is that I’m actually scared to even consider engaging in the conversation on public channels like twitter.
While I do have one layer of pseudonym insulation, I’m under no illusion as to how easy it would be to join the dots back to who I am and where I work. All it takes from there is one irrational fuckwit to take it upon themselves to fuck with what I do for a living just ‘for the lols’, which is an unacceptable risk when it comes to things like mortgages and families.
So even if something worth discussing came up on one side or the other, I just can’t justify the risk of saying *anything*.
I assumed roughly what the contents of the article were yesterday when the whole twitter shitfight exploded, but now that it’s a conversation here I figured I’d read it and yep, about what I expected.
You could try regular markets, or maybe even craft markets. Might gain you a wider audience than people who attend pop culture events….
Something to consider, for sure.
Are you still locked in for April or looking shaky?
Uh, not that, uh, I’d be like, uh, sad or anything. Nosiree.
http://i.imgur.com/wrKLB.jpg
Locked in. Flights are booked, table’s booked. I’ll be doing this one for sure. Also locked in for Sydney in June. Will be giving all parties some cool-down time and rethinking things after those shows, though.
Edit: Which answer would have made you sad?
It’s this one, right? The one where it turns out that I’m coming after all.
Supanova chose this morning to email me confirming my bookings. *sarcastic thumbs up*
Probably stressing exhibitors are going to start pulling out. This close would be a bit of a disaster if it ends up half empty.
I kind of doubt that this is a big enough issue for that… but you might be right.
Not likely to happen no but still would be that nagging worry that might make you want to confirm. Like you heat something knocked over in the kitchen at night and you know damn well it was the cat as you heard the bells but you check anyway.
COME TO PERTH!
It’d cost me around $800 just to fly to Perth and back. Even if Perth was my most lucrative show by a factor of two, it just can’t be done on my budget 😛
Ah poop 🙁
Maybe someday i’ll meet the ever so charming Shane 😉
Hey everyone. Quick question. Has anyone played Silent hill book of memories on Vita?
I have it. But have yet to play it.
I should really fix that that and play it at some point. But to busy playing persona 4 golden again
I’ve plugged 99% invisible before, it’s probably my favourite podcast.
Latest ep is all about pulling the plug on The Sims Online: http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/game-over/
The only time I feel like my procrastination problem really is a problem is when I procrastinate because I’m scared to do something. It’s like it’s enabling my pervasive fear of the unknown. And 9 times out of 10 I find if I’m scared of doing something because I think it will be difficult, it’s never anywhere near as difficult as I feared.
So I’m shutting my laptop, blasting some Pathfinder, and ignoring my natural instincts to fear and procrastinate. Let’s get this epic birthday cake done!
Just make a backup cake! If decorating the first one fails, you get to eat delicious cake before working on the next one. If it works out, you’ve got a delicious spare cake to eat! It’s win-win!
#PowTips
#RespondToPowWithHashtagsDayApparently
Just remember, if it all fails, I’ve NEVER seen a kid say no to a cupcake 🙂
If it doesn’t work, mash it up, serve with ice cream covered in marshmallows and chocolate chips and guarantee you he won’t be unhappy in the slightest.
@f4ction – sorry i missed your message man. the body ran out of fuel and just crashed and burned by 7pm after a 3 week pattern of only getting 3hrs of sleep per night. finally caught up with me. left everything running.
to answer your question, this is what i was working on
Oh I haven’t checked my countdown timer for a while… Only 22 days! 3 weeks!
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
*runs in circles making aeroplane noises*
Open wide, here comes the Freeeeezey-plane! Zoooooom
I was a passenger jet then I saw this and now I’m a fighter jet.
http://instagram.com/p/zQwEQ0qhBq/
Neill Blomkamp just made my day.
Oh fark! Nice!
Shit. Got to get my stuff together fast.
Close enough for me to have anxiety dreams about it. Yay.
Does it help if I said that the 3 weeks is until I go on leave and it’s 4 until we head off?
Also, you okay?
Yeah, I’m good. Thanks. I’ve got the feeling I could wake up in a public park in a foreign country with no recollection of how I got there and I’d still probably be freaked out but essentially OK. Centrered, at least.
Nah, I think it’s probably the subconscious nagging at me. I can safely ignore it, I’m good at that.
I had an anxiety dream about a holiday last night, and I’m not even going! :\
I want to see Wicked again. And again. And again. Just amazing. I loved it.
Surpassed my expectations which were pretty high already.
Haven’t seen the musical. The book was OK.
Was really close to the stage too.
We should do a Tay radio play performance of it.
@blaghman
It’s fun to write #DefyingBrevity
… I’ll show myself out.
havent been to a theatrical thingy for a long while… last one i went to was probably dirty dancing… got some amazing tickets that a ticketek girl sold me for cash that she was given, right in the dress circle.
It’s so good, hey?
I saw it a few years ago and was blown away.
Yeah, man. Loved it. And this might be the Disney nerd in me but I kept thinking the sets had a Disneyland level of detail to them. So many subtle touches. Arrrgh, so good.
We have a puppy!
She’s just trying to get settled in this shiny new environment. For the most part, that means finding a nice corner to gnaw on some bark. I think she’s definitely a chewer.
There’s this great spray you can get that makes things taste bad for dogs. It’s the only thing that saved our chair and table legs from being termited away by our puppy.
pepper spray! \o/
Aghhh the link won’t work. Curiosity is killing me. WHAT SORTA PUPPY?
Murderous curiosity usually targets cats. Just sayin’
The puppy chewed the link.
Try now. She’s a very German Shepherd looking mongrel.
Wow, she’s almost cartoonish cute. As someone mentioned on Twitter, she looks like gonna be a biiig girl.
Yeah. We weren’t planning on getting a big dog but look at her!
Nice clickable link there 😛
LIES!!!
Chewing is just a general puppy thing as they get their teeth and everything.
Our dog when we got him as a puppy chewed a hole in the wall and also ate out the area of one of our couches underneath the seat cushions. We came in and he was asleep, buried inside the couch with just his head poking out.
Awwwww!
Top tip for when she starts teething… Frozen water bottles! Works wonders and they love it! Worked for both of our pups
Definitely stealing that tip. She’s already tried to chew the table, the coffee table, my laptop charger, the bbq and the gas bottle for the bbq.
EDIT: She’s already 10 weeks and has all her teeth. So I’m sure the worst of that is over but I’m still going to encourage her to chew the right things.
At the 15 – 20 week mark the adult teeth will start coming in, that’s when the frozen bottles are particularly magic 😛
My dog ate the door, so it’s best not to let it get out of hand.
Replacement pen cap get! Was half right – one day to get from Taiwan to Sydney, but only five days to get from Sydney to… well, Sydney. AusPost has outdone themselves… wasn’t expecting it to arrive until next week. 😛
Still can’t get through to a person at the local TAFE. What’s the point in having phones if no one is willing to answer them?
I always thought the idea of having a phone was to ignore it when it makes a noise.
Apparently this is so. Oh well.
I’ve noticed this problem with some government departments and real estate property managers, too.
(Edit: And if we ever needed further proof that our assumptions are guided by our experiences: I was standing in a real estate office once, waiting, and in front of my very eyes, witnessed TWICE property managers fobbing off renters who were looking for them, with a disgusted, “Ugh. Tell them I’m out on a display showing.” So now when a receptionist tells me a property manager isn’t answering their phone or is unavailable, I just assume they’re a complete prick.)
If ever I’m in the renting boat again, I’ll be sure to reply, “That’s fine. I’ll just wait on the line. It’s just a local call, and I have a LOT of DVDs here.”
Edit: actually, that’s not true. I’ll just go to their office.
Heh. That’s my thought, too. Stand there, don’t leave until someone agrees to get the shit resolved.
“Yeah, I know Melissa usually has to handle this property, but that’s OK, I don’t mind if you get someone else to do it, but I do mind that it isn’t getting done.”
Sounds like you’ve hit the nail on the head there 😛
Great work by Big this morning (ze cat.) At 5am he runs on to the bed, jumps over me and then up to the TV shelf. There’s only a tiny space for him to fit and he never goes there so immediately, I bolt up and realise he is on the prowl for something. Shine my phone around the wall near him and right in the corner of the roof, a massive cockroach is trying to hide.
We work together to coax the guy out of his poor hiding spot and I knock him down for Big to have a little play with, before meeting a highly compressed demise.
Best cat. \o/
Well, apparently I’m amazing at long war: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=394722118
27% chance, the first time I’ve ever seen a percentage above 0 for any psi power on an ethereal and I got it on my first try. The single hardest individual psi power in the entire game to do and bam, first go.
Not only that but I did it forgetting I had a smoke grenade that could have boosted her willpower even higher but, pfft, who needs it? Annette Durand, best psyker ever.
The best bit was there was a second ethereal later in the same ship and this time I remembered the smoke grenade and got a 37% chance. Again, got him first try! http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=394753790
RNGesus was truly kind to me this day…
I am in awe – no sarcasm – that is amazing.
Considering it was nearly 2am when I did it, I had to show enormous restraint to not shout with joy.
With that much luck in one mission, I fully expect a base assault with nothing but sectopods as reprisal
That happens? My experience with XCOM was that if the chances were sub-70%, the game would just laugh at you and send fresh waves of enemies to slaughter your high-level characters.
Well that’s pretty common too although given that the late game in long war is rather unbalanced in places, it has to make some allowances to let you hit stupidly low percentage shots because that’s often all it gives you.
The main difference between the standard game & long war is that the majority of the cheating has been removed, both for and against the player so the aliens don’t cheat for hitting you on high difficulty and the game doesn’t cheat for you to make it easier. The downside of that is that when there’s a few little tweaks to difficulty here and there and then they all appear on the one enemy, your best trooper with 100 aim will have a 30% chance at best to hit a flying heavy floater because it’s got a ridiculously high defence thanks to all of it’s perks combined. I’m writing a feedback novel for the devs at the moment explaining exactly how that’s a bad idea but they’re changing some of how they do it in the next beta so hopefully it already won’t be as bad.
It’s time for my own little jingle fun story times.
*Quiz_B’s Ineptitude with Technology Time*
For the last month, my computer hasn’t been working and I’ve been working off my wife’s laptop. I’ve barely been able to run games – in fact, not at all pretty much. This all started after I took my desktop to the quiz and ran the powerpoint off it.
I’ve been saving up to replace the Video card, because while the card had power, there was no signal from the card to the monitor. I bought all new cables today – hdmi, d-sub and vga. Plugged them ALL in for a process of elimination to figure out whether it was cables, connectors, or the card itself.
Then, suddenly, the answer came at me out of the blue.
Well, I’d friggin well made the output from the integrated graphics card to the projector the primary friggin monitor and then not friggin set it back to normal before I’d powered down, hadn’t I? So the computer has been working fine, just since I’d ONLY got one monitor plugged in at home, it wasn’t detecting anything because the friggin cord wasn’t in the friggin Integrated graphics card output on the m-board friggin friggin friggin.I suck donkey balls so hard that Oglaf should do a comic about me.*Quiz_B’s Ineptitude with Technology*
AND to further jam this point home: I accidentally posted this story in the *Pants were shat* article, because I forgot to check which window was open.
All intellect tasks involving technology are now modified one step in your disadvantage.
So difficulty 8 tasks to figure out the unix system? 😛
It’s Unix, I know this.
Yeah cuz she rolled a natural 20 after spending the effort to bring it down to difficulty 6 🙂
says Mr. “Difficulty 7? lololololololol try 3”
Well new cables are always good… Could you do with a video card upgrade anyway? Maybe you could just pretend you don’t know and use this as an excuse
Inability to turn this into a win is just further evidence of ineptitude!
Aww damnit, I’ve already told the wife I fixed it. 🙁
@greenius Was going to ask, how is the Mi band going? prob going to order one next week
Very well!
Cc @benny
*does roly-poly*
*jumps up into star shape*
~~~4000 COMMENTS~~~
*goes back to bed*
A somersault?
Gratz on the 4k though
THEY’RE CALLED ROLY-POLY! >:O
At least, I’ve always called them roly-polys :3
A roly-poly is a jam filled cake isn’t it?
Liondrive, it seems we are facing a crisis in that we are using WA-only language. Stay close, we can survive this together. Soon they will realise how wrong they are.
Oh, so because I call it a somersault, I’m the weird one?
It’s the Yiros/Kebab thing all over again… 🙁
I thought in order to be a somersault, it had to be done in the air? I thought roly-polys were somersaults on the ground.
YES! EXACTLY!
It’s when you do an overhead roll on the ground. A very stupid looking roll (especially when you’re over 6 foot)
I’ve had some pretty severe lower back pain all day. As you can imagine, this is a hindrance while training a puppy. I also can’t grab panadol because it’s in the ensuite and going in there will wake up Freya. I do not want to wake up Freya, she did not get to go to sleep until much, much later than planned (night shifts kind of suck).
I’m only 27! Old man Bun is sad.
Teach the puppy to give you a massage!
I’m still working on “don’t pee there”.
Probably best not to confuse the 2, lest “massage my back” become “pee there”
Exactly. She’s only young. Right now I’m just focusing on boundaries (don’t jump on the couch, stay on the tiles) and toilet training.
She was pretty overwhelmed when I took her for a walk earlier. Loud noises seem to be a problem, particularly cars driving nearby.
poor puppy 🙁
Does anyone remember The Suffering? That remake article got me thinking and out of all the games I can think of that would benefit from increased budget and more powerful modern hardware that one has the most potential to be completely amazing if handled right.
I really enjoyed that game is what I’m saying. ‘Twas creepy.
Meanwhile, I now want to go hunt down an old light-gun cabinet so I can play Point Blank for hours, guns akimbo, like I used to as a drifter… without spending all of my wage.
@virus__
One question for the site isthisbandmetal.com: How is AC/DC metal but not Alice in Chains?
Also, I typed in Metallica and I felt the website just looking at me weird, you know like in a one raised eyebrow kinda way? I stopped for a sec and thought, ‘Yeah, I don’t know why I even typed that one in, either.’ Silly me.
Did you see its answer?
Metallica is a metal band.Seriously? (okay, Lulu isn’t)
Yeah I did see the answer, that seriously part is what made me think silly me. Though I am yet to listen to Lulu … and probably won’t ever anyway.
If you ever decide to, the live performances are okay. The studio versions on the other hand are awful.
Honestly it would’ve been way better had Metallica just released their instrumental section of it all and left Lou Reed’s gibberish out of it along with Hetfields table appearance.
Possibly because they comes from Seattle in the early 90’s when Nirvana, Soundgarden were becoming known as well, and they all borrowed from other styles of music and created a new and different sound, that being Grunge. Whilst AIC aren’t the definition of Grunge like I guess Nirvana are, they aren’t really a Metal band either.
AC/DC aren’t but the site is all about having a bit of fun 😛 They clearly said that AC/DC weren’t metal but Phil Rudds dirty deeds makes them honorary metal lol.
Amusing site.
Nickelback is not a metal band. Not even a little.
Evanescence is a metal band. (Really?)
Babymetal is a metal band. They’re also a J-pop band and chocolate enthusiasts.
Godsmack is not a metal band. They stand alone. (Wait… but Evanescence is?)
Korn is a metal band. I don’t care how many shifts you did at the cemetery Jonathan.
Tool is not a metal band. Too much tabla.
A Perfect Circle is not a metal band. Tool>A Perfect Circle>Puscifer
…Alright, I’ll bite.
Puscifer is not in the system. Tsh. Disappointing lack of follow-through.
I’m surprised by some of those answers. And disappointed by all the ones that just say yes/no. I want teh funnies, dangit.
TAYlist for the 18th of February 2015
TAYlist – the TAY Playlist, sponsored by <24 hours notice for last night’s announcers meetingACDC – Money Talks
ALT & The Lost Civilization – Tequila
Killing Heidi – Calm Down
Cassette Kids – Spin
1927 – Propaganda Machine
Smash Mouth – I’m A Believer
Party Boys – He’s Gonna Step On You Again
Jet – Let It Rip
Inner Circle – Sweat (La La La Long)
Script – No Good in Goodbye
Cutting Crew – I Just Died In Your Arms Tonight
Sorry for the short list, forgot to put up a post for requests, too busy crashing castles
I don’t know any of these songs! 😀
Um..
Dead serious…
I know some of the bands, but none of these songs are ringing any bells… 😀
Have you ever watched Shrek?
Oh, yes!
Don’t know which song on that list is from that, but I’d probably know that one!
I’m super bad with song names :3
I requested Inner Circle – Sweat off you once a long time ago so I’ll consider that a win.
…it’s Thursday already?
Some big Star Wars VII spoilers have just dropped, so be extra wary in your internet travels, fellow Jedi.
No, I’m not going to tell you what.Forget it.Naughty! *hand smack*DAMNED TEASE.
*waves hand* You will tell me your spoilers.
The weak-willed will click spoiler tags despite their better judgement and be filled with regret.
Regret leads to suffering. Suffering leads to anger. Anger leads to bitching at people on the Internet.
Their journey to the Dark Side will be complete… and they will be mine.
There is no light side or dark side in the realm of the machines, you’re all meatbags anyway 😛
#HK47forever
@greenius Oh and also I chose charge blade because it doesn’t have any important actions mapped to the “kick” button. It just duplicates what’s achieved by R+X when in sword+shield mode and A+X (I think?) in axe mode, so I don’t have to worry about a stupid fucking touch screen button while trying to fight.
Ooh, I need to give the charge blade a go. Probably time for a new weapon after about 400 hours with the switch axe now.
Neither does switch axe 😛
Doesn’t it? I thought one of the moves was bound to that thing. Unless maybe I’m thinking of another weapon.
Either way, my main point of measure was “which one will get me through an expedition”, and the charge blade and insect glaive were the only ones I managed to fell a velocidrome with, so they won.
X+A (upswing) is the one assigned to the “kick” button so it’s nothing unique either. I don’t think anything is unique to it, it’s just shortcuts (but I don’t use the other weapons enough to confirm this).
I love the SA because it’s powerful and fast 😀
@mrtaco @beavwa Bug Stick is best stick
Me forging ahead without better gear is not helping me to want to not switch axe.
Did the Gore Magala hunt recently with gear that I made back in the first round of village missions, barely survived that fight. I can see that I’m going to need to grind some better gear soon.
I need to farm Najarala and Gore. So I’d be keen to do that online
@SerNobulus @Powalen
I can’t remember the name of the armour that I want. Arzoros? Or maybe that’s just the last armour I remember…
I need a website that shows me what all the armour actually looks like 😛
So i’m now in the process of hopefully changing from Employment Plus to Tursa.. Walked in to Tursa today to ask them do I inquire there or what, not meant to but when the lady asked why I wanted to transfer she gave me the form to fill out and faxed it all for me to Employment Plus for me!
And she also said there’s a job in their data base for me if i’m successful. That being an IT Traineeship.
I don’t want to sound like a prick, but if I go to an employment agency its also their responsibility to help me look for work, which they didn’t seem very interested in doing. Since I have been with Employment Plus they have pointed me toward ONE job and that was only about 2 weeks ago, but it wasn’t even something in my skill set or could do successfully :/ There was one other job they told me about but the employment consultant I see decided the bloke in question was an asshole and decided not to go through with it, which pissed me off because it was a job I was looking for and one I have a strong skill set in >.<
It’s just been getting to me having to deal with this and being told if I don’t uphold my end of the deal i’ll be reprimanded heavily yet they haven’t held up theirs :/
Sorry to hear, man, but from what I understand, that’s an entirely normal employment agency experience.
Not from what others I know have experienced with Nortec or Tursa here :/
But those I know who have been with Employment Plus it’s that, especially the few i’ve known who have had to deal with this employment consultant he’s the same to them. There’s a few there who think they hold superiority over those who go there to seek help to find gainful employment. Then there’s the others who are great to deal with and try to help, god how I wish I was allowed to stay with one of them but I had no say in that matter apparently.
The other thing was he actually threatened to remove me from my volunteer job if I didn’t do what he said. It’s something I do in my own time, it’s not work for the dole, it’s something I do to better myself and my skill set by staying active in a retail/customer service environment.
I got my first employment agency job offer about 2 months ago, 5 years after I signed up.
Hell yeah, progress! Dumbasses. The system is so broken and probably to a point corrupt, it’s fucked.
When you’re unemployed, a JobNetwork employment agency is just a formality to get a centrelink payment. Nothing more. If you ACTUALLY want to get a job, you apply to every god damn agency who will take your details and give you a preliminary interview.
None of the job-finding materials tell you this, but relying on one agency is a mug’s game. Don’t do it.
Hmm, well the way it seems to work for me is I have to be one particular mob who report back to Centrelink about me etc.. I wasn’t even offered the idea of being with employment agency #1 whilst also being a client with job agency #2
Shits too fucken confusing, and no one wishes to be straight with me when I ask questions. Which you think they would since they only get paid from the gov’t now when they land us a job, not if I got myself a job, but if they got me a job through their connections apparently.
That’s why you go with the others and leave your JobNetwork mob out of it. You just tick the boxes you have to with those guys just to get your cheque, then look elsewhere to REALLY get some work.
You just rock up to all those other places like Skilled or Randstad or Manpower or whoever, and just don’t tell them about the centrelink stuff, just “Here’s my resume, I want a job.” Book a preliminary interview (if they don’t do that, it’s a bad sign about the agency’s professionalism). Get a typing test or whatever.
You can – and probably should – sign up with as many as you can think of, because they ALL have different connections and different contracts with various groups. It’s easy to think there’s no jobs out there when in reality they’re all just hidden behind agencies you’re not signed up with.
Larger corporations typically only hire their temps through a small number of recruitment agencies. If you’re looking for something more permanent, you look more at the various careers sites like seek or careerone or government/corporate websites for their HR sections.
The last ‘how to find a job’ course I reviewed while I was working for (I believe now-defunct) CHR was basically along the lines of, “Don’t turn up high, and wear closed shoes.” Not, “Shop around between providers to make sure you can take a shotgun-scatter approach to job applications.”
Cast a wider net, catch more.
Why does today feel ridiculously slow?
Also, I’m trying to cut back on my videogame purchases…
Correlation… causation?!
Nah, that’s more to do with laziness…
I have plenty of games, but lose interest in some of them quickly.
I’m playing Besiege at the moment, though, $8 makes it worth the money. 😀
EliteDangerous:
Heading out into the Black tonight in my Cobra. I’ve upgraded my fuel scoop. I’m at the edge of inhabited space. I have a direction in mind. I’ll see how far I can get before it gets lonely or my ship is stuffed and I have to limp home… 🙂
One thing that would be awesome would be the ability to use mining lasers and refinery to provide materials to a repair module. Make it too heavy or impractical for a combat vessel or trader, but viable for an explorer…
Harmless, Mostly Penniless, Mostly Aimless.
My Elite Dangerous Adventures: Tried to open the launcher, it said I needed to update the launcher. Fuck that noise, back into the pile with you, game.
LOL.
Just do the update. It’ll take bloody ages to sync the game files the first time too so if you set it off now, it’ll be ready when you’ve finished 2 other games…
WHY CAN’T THE LAUNCHER UPDATE ITSELF? ISN’T THAT THE POINT OF A LAUNCHER, TO HANDLE UPDATES? ARRGGGHHH. *Weeps*
Well yes. Hopefully they’ll fix that in an update… 😉
FFXIV on the PS4 has updates to the game and also a separate launcher that requires it’s own updates that you can’t background download.
*headdesk*
@trikeabout isn’t kidding about that sync. I got Elite before Christmas and it wasn’t until early/mid-January that it actually finished.
Precisely why I synched Elite to my laptop while at uni, and copied the files to my desktop to play it. The files are portable – seems to be a straight up synch – so it’s really simple to do, unlike some other systems. *stares daggers at Uplay*
Wow, really? None of mine have ever taken any more than I think half an hour tops, and those were right on the moment of release .
That’s probably why. Regular updates take no time at all, it’s just that first, massive synch.
Ooooohhh GLHF! Purchased my first Type 6 last night on my venture to get the Clipper… Although with the magnificent view in the type 6 (dat cockpit!) I’m tempted to kit it out exploration XD… also with nearly 100t cargo capacity money is rolling in quickly now :P… Just need that imperial rank to go up 😛
First Cobra deep black expedition last night. 960LY from Sol. Discovered some new systems. I have a particular direction in mind, but I’m heading back to the populated systems to get the best scanner I can fit just so I don’t need to fly RIGHT UP TO STARS to “discover” them, and to cash in some data. Reckon my explorer rank might go up a notch when I sell this data.
Harmless, Peddler, Mostly Aimless.
I’ve been on and off with playing Pokemon Yellow for a while. I want to play one of the games of my childhood, but the design decisions that bugged me as a kid infuriate me today. No item holding, no EXP bar, a disorganised item bag, no easy way to tell how much stats have been raised by after a level-up, special attack and defense being the same stat, the psychic type being incredibly OP, no select key item binding, forcing you to open up the pokemon list in order to use an HM, and the downright terrible pacing (my biggest problem with the game) kind of make the experience just that little bit unbearable. But I’m fully committed to it now.
The idea for this playthrough is that I’m doing things I didn’t do as a kid, or did on my first playthrough and never did again. So I will be using Lapras and Hitmonlee for once. I’m going to trade a Clefairy for a Mr Mime with that guy hidden behind a tree next to Viridian City. I’m going to use nicknames for once. I chose to give everyone regal nicknames. I’m not going to use all the starter Pokemon they just hand out like candy.
So I present to you Boris and his travelling parade of fancy Pokemon:
Copernicus the Butterfree, Benedict the Wigglytuff, Selwood the Diglett, Lady Sofia the Sandslash, a Hitmonlee that I am totally going to call Reginald, a Lapras that I will definitely call Anastasia, a Mr Mime named Miles and a Tauros named Giles, and finally, Conrad the Pikachu. I’d get rid of him if the Pikachu sprite that walks behind you wasn’t so cute. He is 20 levels below all my other Pokemon, so I’m not all that concerned about using him in battle.
…Considering I have to play all my old Pokemon games with self-imposed limitations just to make them interesting, I should probably buy the new ones, huh?
Huh… I shoved Pikachu in a box at the first opportunity when I started Yellow, and have kept him out of my team in every game since. Had no problems with him in Red – my Raichu helped me beat the Elite Four the first time. But that new “anime” voice… *cringe*
He’s good to have around as a HM Slave until you get through Rock Tunnel. But the sprite that walks behind you is too damn awesome. I’ll wait until I run out of space in my team.
Whelp, that’s Dark Souls 2 finished off. I think I was a bit over leveled at the end there judging by how fast the end bosses went down. Still fun though.
Nashandra was a bit of a joke really. Throne Watchers were a pain but mostly due to Dark Souls 2’s mobbing mentality.
I HATED Nashandras cursing >:(
Her herself was fine, but so much cursing!
Hahaha. Man. The cursing got me good the first time.
Seriously, I ended up beating Nashandra as a summoned Sunbro maybe two dozen times as soon as I got to Castle Drangleic, thus spoilering the final fight of the game WELL before I was done. That was a little anticlimactic.
But sunbros and other phantoms don’t get cursed, just damaged. So I was NOT expecting it the first time I fought Nashandra in my own game.
I ruined that fight for myself, but in a different way.
After I got Thingyface’s Key or whatever it was that was needed to get there, I went over to the throne room, beat the watchers, and then there was nothing to do there, since I didn’t have all the pieces of whatever.
So when I went back there 4 hours later Nashandra was just all “‘sup, been standing here for a while…”
Ohhhh yeah, totally did that, too.
I did a summon to derp around before trying ‘the boss’ there, helped in a nashandra fight, then went into my own and went huh, different boss. Wat. Beat them then thought, now what?
Still kinda missed the story stuff that says why it’s all in the same room.
Never really bothered me so much. DS1 was so much worse with cursing in that YOU IMMEDIATELY DIED!
Plus in the early days Purging Stones were nearly non existent and you had to get to Ingward somehow with half to 1/16 max health which was bbuuuuuullllssshhhiiittt.
So glad they fixed that up.
I died for hours before I realised I should use different items. Cursbite ring + Ring of Binding + effigy surplus sorted her out within a few attempts of that lightbulb moment.
Oh god… spent so long just turtling and waiting for an opportunity to strike. Finally got the watcher down, and started working more confidently on the Defender. When the he revived the watcher… I kinda died a little.Also, *high five*
THURSDAY TAY ADRENALIN SHOT
So, how’s things? what’s your current project?
I’m working on a board game prototype, but I found another game that does something very similar, so I need to work out a different mechanic. I thought I was so clever until I found the other game 🙁
I’m trying to write a novella-ish length story.
Except that based on my previous attempts to hit an approximate word count, it will either end up as a very short story, or a 36 book epic.
Well, okay, most likely it will never go anywhere because even though I have a document filled with ideas, it’s not like I’ve actually written a single word of the damn thing. Because pshhhhhhhhhhhhh, who does that?
Boardgame concept: Unbewusste Arschloch!
A 2 foot long board with 100 shots of schnapps. First one unconscious wins.
Never do a Centurion with spirits.
Or with beer.
Just, don’t so a centurion. stupid idea.
I attempted it with beer once. Never been sicker.
Anyone doing it with spirits is a madman.
Never with pure spirits, but people at uni used to mix up punch and do it.
People used to try before pub crawls. More than one got put to bed at 4pm before even getting to the first pub
A friend of mine tried to talk me into drinking a Tsunami (sake, beer, whisky, and something else all mixed in the same drink). Good thing I didn’t because they were out like a light after their second.
I’ve drunk my fair share of dumb cocktails, but that just sounds awful.
I’m writing a TV pilot that can be scaled into a web series if necessary.
Nice. What’s the premise?
First real attempt at character focused drama without a sci-fi or fantasy hook. Most grounded thing I’ve ever written. Not talking specifics yet, but it’s a change!
In today’s episode: Henry wakes up and makes breakfast. He has an agonising decision to make over bacon or ham.
He goes with ham.Next week: Watch Henry drive to work and deal with a red light that seems to be taking slightly longer than usual to change in the gripping season finale!
This is why I don’t write things.
You’re right, that’s a terrible idea
*mental note: steal his idea*
SPOILERS!
So dramatic, or dramedy?
Romcom
*canned laughter*
Multi angle and laughtrack I believe.
I’ve actually thought about doing an over-the-top sitcom parody that’s incredibly dark and off-putting with laughter over everything. 😛
@dc I’d watch that.
Dramedy. Australian accent sounds melodramatic when attempting the heavy stuff, so keeping it light.
Seinfeld meets TAY
What is the deal with Page Gets?
Trying to hold what shred of sanity I have left at least until my first week of uni (which is next week)
Hey, uni bros!
Mine starts next week too!
Are we the same person?
Could be…
Could be, indeed…
LIONDRIVE SAYS WHAT!
Nah, one of youse is cooler!
(BUT WHICH ONE)
Greenius, please, don’t get the poor boys hopes up like that, it’s cruel.
I’m using Tomodachi Life to make a musical where my sister and her fiance are stalked by Voldemort. I’m quite seriously tempted to go all out with this and give it to them as their wedding present, because my sister insisted she wants me to get them something completely stupid as opposed to practical stuff, which I’m totally down for.
Catch all the animal balls in castle crashers, then unlock all the characters (save for Hatty, don’t have BBT), then weapons after that.
Maybe grind out the rest of the achievements afterwards.
Apparently it’s to try and drown myself in Monster Hunter.
Still breathing, so I guess it isn’t going too well so far. That said, I’ve seen 6am pretty much every morning this week. Often 7.
Impasse, my world that I was going to turn into a book until I realised I am not a good writer and that world-building is more fun than writing, is going fairly decently.
Since everything I write won’t make sense until I explain the concept, the gist is that in the 1940’s the USA elections are won by a militant guy who transforms the US into a militant utopia. Hitler doesn’t invade Russia, and the US constantly pumps money and resources into the Manhattan Project, meaning they have about 11 nukes by the time Pearl Harbour happened. The USA beats Japan with copious nukes, and Hitler takes over most of Europe not controlled by Russia and Great Britain. Canada, Australia, and various Commonwealth countries secede from the Commonwealth and partner with the US. A few years later, Russia and the US team up to take down Germany. The US takes over Europe. The militant leader from before decides Aushwitz is a totally cool idea and shoud remain opened. Divides Europe into a bunch of territories to control them better. So you have sectors called Norweden and Franco-Spain and the like. At some point, Russia and all the former Commonwealth nations become US territories due to economic problems or fear of nukes or whatever. Haven’t put much thought into that part of the timeline.
The US invests heavily in space travel, and a colony is put on Mars eventually. Due poorly tested electronics, attempts at terraforming fail, and the colony dies. The government hides this by saying that the colony gained independence and it was agreed that they would cease contact.
Fast forward to the 2040’s. The third governor of Norweden is ousted for laundering money and doing nothing to quash the rebellion. new governor aims to fix all the problems of the previous governor, namely reble activity.
Knowing that their game will soon be up, the rebels go for one big play. A fleet of colony-size spacecraft are being transported through Norweden en route to a facility in Iceland. The rebels steal the fleet of spaecraft, holding it for ransom. When the US ignores ransom demands and elects for a military-grade response, the rebel leader makes the executive decision to launch the spacecraft with his rebels with on them.
Once in space, the rebels realise they cannot go back to Earth without being taken down by Anti-Aircraft. Since the colony ships are already loaded with terraforming equipment and everything else needed to form a colony, it decided that the crew will travel space, colonising the first habitable planet outside Earth’s solar system they see.
After just a few years of travel, a planet that looks like it might be habitable is spotted. All six spaecraft mysteriously drift apart independat of the crew’s will, and comms die between them. All six land on a completely different part of the planet, ready to form a colony. Welcome to Impasse.
This took way longer to write than I wanted to. I just wanted to introduce the concept!
Since I first posted the concept on TAY, I’ve added to the world a bit. I’m working on a bestiary, I’ve started work on designing what a map of Europe’s territiories in the 2040’s would look like, I’ve started work on the numerous stories contained within the universe. I’ve created some basic framework for characters. I’m trying to work out how some of the continents would work with resource allocation. I’ve drawn a map of what at least one of the continents look like, which is a start. I’ve designed flags for most nations. I’m trying to work out the political landscape of one of the countries. At some point I need to establish a basis of technology in the 2040’s. (Gigantic spaceships exist, but mobile phones don’t) I should start work on currencies soon. I also need to work out historical innacuracies in the lore. Why do Russia and the US become best buds?
Stupid italics.
UNDAD!
PS for no reason: I’d love to make a Lesser Evil board game, but have no idea where to start 😛
Well, depends what sort of game you’re after. Big game, small game, war game?
Yup, probably!
Sorry, I guess that might have sounded a bit dismissive or something. It’s just that someone here suggested it about a year ago, and it’s an idea that keeps on swirling around (although it’s yet to assume any kind of concrete form)…
Well, the thing about a board game that’s attached to a property, is “what’s the hook ”
You could do a diplomacy based wargame with some sort of tubinj based resource management element, but I fear the theme is a little dense.
I’d probably want to do something a little different. Although The Lesser Evil has a backdrop of war, etc, I’d be far more interested in a TLE game that put its people first. First idea that comes to mind is that each player controls a single character, each with different traits, skills, allegiances, and possible allegiances, and they try to survive (individually and/or in partnerships) and influence the outcome of a war much bigger than them, which occurs semi-randomly in big destructive ways all around them as turns progress.
I’d look at RPGs. Have you ever played a role-playing game?
NOPE. I’m a total newbie at most things that are fun.
@shane well, I’d start there, and I’d also have a look at the Pathfinder card game and the Game of Thrones game.
On two separate occasions have I constructed what I’ve thought to be extremely original game designs to only have them been done either just before I came up with the idea or shortly after. Frustrating.
@popdart5: this week’s Kantai Collection episode is interesting.
It’s the Battle of the Coral Sea, replayed exactly. They set out on Operation MO, sending out several support fleets and everything, but not knowing there’s Abyssal carriers around. Fubuki’s fleet is sent out, with Kaga replaced by Shoukaku, but the enemy somehow has intercepted their codes and knows they’re coming (this happened in real life) and there’s two Wo-class carriers in wait for them.There’s a bit where they report that Souhou was bombed and is on fire. 🙁 IRL Shouhou sank in this engagement. She hasn’t gotten any proper screentime but Shouhou was my first carrier in the game so made me a bit sad.
Shoukaku and Zuikaku together destroy one carrier (presumably this was Lexington) but Shoukaku is badly damaged when they unexpectedly encounter a second carrier, which they damage. Blow a hole in her face too, it’s kind of creepy. Presumably this is meant to be Yorktown – it was a Flagship-level Wo-class carrier, damaged in the engagement but it got away. IRL Yorktown went back to Pearl for repairs that should have taken a month, but because the IJN codes were broken they knew the next major offensive was going to be against Midway, so they worked around the clock, repaired Yorktown in 3 days and sent her to Midway. In fact, the IJN thought they had sunk both Yorktown and Lexington and believed the only carriers at Midway would be Enterprise and Hornet, and had they realized Yorktown was operational, Midway probably would have gone differently.
It also means if the anime continues to stick to history, that Wo-class is going to come back. And then everyone is going to die. 🙁
On the upside, Yamato next week, finally.
Haven’t watched yet so I’ll have to reserve my opinions until then.
That said though, that’s going to be very interesting to see. Now I’m thinking that they might save Midway for the finale and do a bit of a timeline remodel and throw in Guadalcanal action. Which would be sad because then some of the Kongou class gets sunk as does Jintsuu (which got completely annihilated in the night action fighting when it activated its floodlights).But yeah, Midway, if they do show it, will destroy so many waifus and probably fly in the face of so many people so I don’t know if producers/directors would want to go down that path. Maybe they might focus instead on the Aleutian conquest and follow Ooi and Kitakami around for a bit. Who knows though. We might even see a repurposed Doolittle Raid or other bombing run on the Harbour to really drive the war scenario. It’s really hard to pick how the series wants to portray itself.
Yamato should be cool though. Kinda want to see Nagato and Mutsu go out into combat (or even Yamato replace Nagato as the primary commander) but I’ll wait and see.
If they went with Midway as it actually happened it’d be kind of a hilarious ‘fuck you’ to all the fans of the game. Can you imagine how shell-shocked they’d all be if they did Midway and the Solomons back to back?They can’t go to Guadalcanal before Midway as long as Fubuki is the main character. Of the original Destroyer Division 6 from the start of the anime, only Naka survived the Solomons. All five of the others including Fubuki were sunk there.
Also they can’t go to Guadalcanal until Mutsu has had a chance to drop a match on herself and spontaneously combust. 😛
Yamato’s the last major character appearing in the opening that hasn’t had any screen time yet. Going to be interesting to see how she’s handled. If they don’t have a scene where she sits down for lunch with Akagi, and Akagi gets one of those enormous bowls of rice and then Yamato gets like five of them, I’ll be disappointed. The meme about Akagi eating all your resources is kind of true, but she costs maybe a tenth as much to run. Fully replenishing Yamato’s ammo consumes roughly an entire day’s worth of ammo regeneration.
Unrelatedly, through the event that’s been running I’ve been using Shigure, who has a valentines-day alternative artwork where she’s mixing chocolate in a bowl, right? I thought nothing of it. Used her in all five event maps, she was probably the most valuable member of the team throughout.
Turns out maybe that wasn’t chocolate in that bowl.
I enjoyed this episode. Was pretty good with the action and the story where there’s now a grudging respect between Carrier Groups 1 and 5. Fan-shipping of Kaga and Akagi is given some screentime which I thought was pretty funny.Plot-wise, if they can confirm that their codes have been broken, maybe other historically representative fights will be shown a bit differently. Midway would be very interesting with no code-breaking by the Abyssal USA.
That’s a good point actually. Midway was a disaster for Japan because of two things: an extra carrier being present that they thought they had sunk or put out of commission, and the fact that their codes were broken so the US knew that Midway was the next target and so the dispersal of all the surface forces ended up working against them because the US knew they were coming. Had they known that the codes were broken they’d have had cruisers at least as escorts for the carrier group. IJN tactics were that cruisers did the bulk of the recon work, the fleet carriers didn’t have recon groups.I’m actually more interested in how their codes were broken. They’ve really been pushing the Abyssals-are-infected-shipgirls angle in the game recently (current event has bosses that look like Agano, Kaga and Nagato), and their depiction in the anime is that they’re kind of bland, emotionless and unfeeling monsters and that even that human-ish appearance might just be a shell based on the way that Abyssal-Yorktown’s face sort of cracked away around her eye and it was just a glowy yellow eye and a hollow blackness underneath.
But the idea that they can break codes suggests intelligence and suggests that communication might even be possible. So much potential. Don’t know if they’ll follow through.
Well damn. Was chatting to the assistant manager at the EB I used to work at and looks like he won’t be the new manager of the store, after being acting manager last four months. All I can say is if that is so then they’ve made a terrible decision not to promote him, and it will be their loss.
Rumour has it Ani is coming back.
That Skywalker kid?
Worst EB games ever, ruins the original stores.
Man, I feel sorry for him. He would have been so excited to be in freaking Star Wars and nerd outrage has turned him into a bitter angry man. Very little of it was his fault too.
I asked Lucas about that, he said as manager highly unlikely, he said maybe as a casual but be nothing more. She did quit Foxtel though, apparently they were extremely shit to work for. Would be awesome if she did come back though. Then again I haven’t missed her calling everyone bro 😛
George Lucas?
No comment? 😛
So, in Virtual Sailor 7, you can pilot a boat.
A boat that shoots missiles, and has a machine gun.
You can use these to sink other boats.
Where has this been all my life?
Can’t be bothered only tagging people who responded 😛
@beavwa @budgieishere @chuloopa @coldcamv @crazyguy1990 @f4ction @jordi @negativezero @pixel_the_ferret_viking @scree @smurfydog @tech_knight @tigerion @tofu @zetrox2k @benj ooh just realised @miketarno isn’t on the list!
Seems like Sunday (22nd) works best for everyone? I was thinking afternoon-evening kind of dealio (not too late!) since most of us will have work on Monday etc.(ignore that!)No idea what to do though but walk and talk, food (STEAKS!), casino, movie, boardgames were mentioned.
Meet in the city on Saturday? Things? WHO’S KEEN?!
If it’s Sunday I can’t do it. Public transport is too unreliable on Sunday’s. Buses only run once an hour, so if I miss the bus it’s a long walk home.
I’m leaving at 2 on Sunday 🙁 Can only really do Sat.
Haha oh… I thought you were leaving on the 1st. Ok guess it’s Sat then! Anything you want to do? Worst case it’ll just be us two and MH 😛
Haha I’m happy to meet up and play MH 😛 Or steak and casino! I walked past the casino area and was salivating over the meat and wine shop…
(But MH is good too 😛 Still meet up in the city at 1 or something?)
Saturday I can do, but I probably won’t stay past 3. Buses tend to dwindle then.
If it’s only going to be a few people, Mum wants to go to the immigration museum , I might just meet up, say hi, have a quick chat and head off.
@powalen didn’t want to go to that 🙁
I don’t understand.
He didn’t want to go to the immigration museum.
What is this you speak of? I can’t do Sunday either. Got an assignment due on Monday so my entire weekend will be spent on that. 🙁
Good games on Bourke? has a selection of games you can play for free
Working Saturday so depending on what is happening and what time I finish I might be able to drop by on the way home
Blergh, super confused…
Not intending to bring my problems here, but need to vent a bit.
With regards to that date that I was supposed to go on a whiles back.
The guy is very wishy-washy about hanging out. We got off to a (really) good start, and we both were keen to see each other again, but now I dunno.
I’m keen to see him again, and I try to organize stuff occasionally, but he never really gives me any feedback on hanging out, yet we still talk a fair bit.
The dinner and movies were cancelled due to personal issues, then he always seems to be too busy to hangout, or always has other plans, which is fine, but he never suggests any alternative times.
If I wanted to see a guy and he asked me to hangout, I’d say yes if I could. If I were busy, I’d suggest a different time. Seems like the thing to do, no?
I even asked him if he actually wanted to see me again (because he is so indecisive about hanging out), saying that I asked because it is hard to tell if he actually wants to or not, pretty much giving him an out if he wasn’t interested, but he said he really does want to hangout again.
I said great, but every time I try to plan something he’s busy, so it’d be better if he let’s me know when he’s free to hangout, rather than me blindly guessing…
Super confused…
I feel like I’m being played a little bit…
I’ll give him till the end of next week.
Hate to say it but think it’s time to give up and move on. If he was genuinely interested he’d make time but as if is he’s just keeping you as a fall back by the sounds of it.
Sucks but waiting for something that’s not going to happen is worse.
Yeah, that’s what I figured too, to be honest.
Just kinda sucks, ya’know?
It’s a jerk move. Selfish narcissistic jerk move that’s all too common.
Eh, I’ll give him a piece of my mind next time he messages me and let him know I’m not one to mess around with 😉
That’ll cheer me up, and terrify him, which’ll cheer me up more! 😀
I’ve had that freeze-out shit happen a couple times with women… For women, that kind of behaviour means with near-certainty that it is over. For guys… guh. I wish I could offer advice (sort of), but that is not my forte. Sometimes dudes are just uncommunicative, y’know? But it sounds like non-interest, to me. Or… low-interest, anyway.
People get weird about telling you they’re not interested though, and sometimes may even be conflicted about it themselves. Like they think they SHOULD be more interested than they are and don’t know why they aren’t and think it’ll pass… but when you’re enthusiastic about your crush, you make time to be with them.
Without the enthusiasm – especially when things are fresh and new – what’s the point?
Plus I guess if you want to think the worst of people, getting frozen out is also something people do when they just want to have a low-maintenance backup on standby while waiting for their first preference to come around or during dry spells. But thinking like that makes me mad. You don’t deserve to be the backup. You’re not a fucking pen-pal.
That’s why I am, or was, confused.
I asked if he was interested and he said he was.
I gave him a definitive way out, which he didn’t take.
He continues to message me first, and show this sort of hesitant interest.
Part of me thinks he just doesn’t know what he wants, but I’m tired of playing this game.
It’s fine though. I’m a master of cutting people out of my life 😉
I hope it doesn’t show around these parts, but you don’t play these kinds of games with ol’Stewie and get out of it cleanly. I have a mean streak.
Some people like to cut people out cleanly so there’s no hard feelings.
I cut people out as messily as you can so they know not to ever talk to me again.
eep
Call me sadistic, but my conscience is clear.
I’ll give him a fair fight and let / make him explain himself first, see what he has to say.
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/19/best-video-games-beginners
Not sure I’d recommend Civ V or The Talos Principle for gaming newbies.
See I think civ is ok. Playing on settler difficulty and it is basically impossible to lose
Recommending spelunky to somebody trying to learn how to use a gamepad seems a massive jump.
Not sure about GTA as I haven’t 5 yet. Originally not sure of papers please but i guess it is easy to understand and the controls are simple
@benj oh yeah, what’s that car thingy you want to see? F1 Grand Prix?
I’m actually going to the Australian one in March or whatever 😛
Dunno about a Singapore car meat though…
I honestly never thought of coming next month for it haha. Lucky bastard 😛
I think they do practice laps or something the day before? I’ll be going on Saturday.
I dunno, someone from work said it’s good to go at least once so that’s what we’re doing.
Yeah, practice Friday and early Saturday, qualifying Saturday and race Sunday. And yeah you do have to go at least once! Have fun 🙂
I won’t, just to spite you!
Meanie 😛
Don’t know if this has been posted, but it deserves attention because holy shit this is good cosplay: http://imgur.com/gallery/Ki4JN
I’d almost go so far as to consider that an SA-X costume. Pretty awesome.
Oh wow. My college friend who moved to Canada is apparently now engaged over there 😮
God dammit what is it with people and getting married these days 😛
Citizenship’s in foreign countries. That’s what!
almost time to shoot things in the face in destiny.
So in my hunt for a second job I applied for a nightfil job at Coles.
I did not get an interview.
Well that is kind of depressing.
Can’t get a job doing nightfil at Coles *sigh*
Don’t worry, both Coles & Woolworths demand that their employees hold a doctorate in at least something to such tasks as fill shelves or serve customers.
I know your pain i’ve been knocked back multiple times by both Coles & Woolworths (who I have worked for in the past) for nightfill, cashier, general team member etc.. It’s a joke.
Woolworths is not doing nightfil close by other wise I would have tried there as well.
I did put in for a job doing nightfil at the local iga just waiting to hear back now.
Just a shame that with my trade I only have a year and a half. While every place that is after my trade wants people with a minimum of 3 years post trade.
Might have to also try going for a forklift driver at a mine site. Only problem with that is I would miss a lot of family stuff when peanut pops out.
Seems like now is the time to get into the mines, before the bubble bursts, right?
Get half-tempted to myself, sometimes.
Right now depends on what sort of mine you are at or trying to get into.
Due to what I heard on the news the other day in regards to iron ore prices.
Also the mention that the boom has crashed.
If anything I would try and get into construction and that would be because every week you do in construction some money gets put aside as a bonus for when construction is finished you get that paid out to you.
That night fill application I did years ago was probably the most bullshit interview process I’ve ever attempted. Dreamworld follows in second place.
Just finished Tales From The Borderlands Ep 1. Amazing. Most entertaining Telltale game I’ve played in terms of humour and exciting action set pieces.
Favourite part (no spoilers):
Got to the end, credits roll, I hit a button to skip them…
“Telltale Games will remember that.”
Yeah, that was great.
The whole thing was great. Definitely my favourite Borderlands game, to nobody’s surprise.
They somehow managed to round out a satisfying arc in just one episode. I’m kinda surprised.
Wolf left me fucking hungry at the end of its first ep, but it really was an appetizer compared to Borderlands.
I have that sitting there on my PS4 just have to play it.
Gotta admit, I wasn’t too sure about it, because Borderlands was never really my thing. But this is such a solid, solid game. Hilarious, fast-paced, just awesome throughout.
In my list of 2015 games that pleasantly surprised me, I think this one tops the list (so far, anyway).
Will have to give it a shot.
I myself enjoyed the borderlands games. Might have to make a break away from destiny and work my way through it.
Y’know what I hate most about Tales from the Borderlands?
Its shorthand reference of ‘Tales’ gets my hopes up every time I see it mentioned and think people are talking about my favourite JRPG series, only to have my hopes crushed and dismembered by the weight of reality and my own inability to add anything to the conversation.
So yeah, uhh, happy Friday!
It is a pretty damned great game! And I’m super stoked for episode 2, can’t come fast enough…
I am a huge fan of the other borderlands games though so it’s interesting to see you enjoying it so much despite not liking the others…
I didn’t get very far into Borderlands, admittedly, but it was the gameplay that turned me off more than the world/setting, etc.
And Telltale always do such a good job of introducing their licenced worlds to be accessible to the uninitiated!
Borderlands’ “random for random’s sake” humour always put me off, so I’ve been on the fence about trying Tales… I keep seeing comments from people who don’t like the core games, but love Tales, but never say why. What’s the humour like in Tales?
It’s solid, character-based humour. The focus is squarely on Telltale-created characters. I didn’t find the humour or characters all that random (with maybe one or two NPC exceptions), because in Telltale games you need to have some idea how they think so you can answer them properly.
There’s some optional world-stuff which was amusing but weird, and I think some existing characters had some cameos, but it was all background.
Honestly, I don’t like random for random’s sake either, but I loved this.
Hmm… might have to pick it up, then. Thanks for the more fleshed out answer. I keep seeing comments/hearing people say “even if you don’t like the core games, you’ll enjoy this”… or “I didn’t like the core games, but enjoyed Tales”… but they never elaborate. I can never tell which aspect(s) of the core games they didn’t like – the gameplay, the story, the humour, the characters… and it seemed Telltale was likely to borrow everything but the core gameplay for Tales, so I kept my distance.
I can’t say for sure, because I’m not that familiar with Borderlands, but this felt like a Telltale game first and foremost. Its sense of humour is far more front-and-centre here than it was in Walking Dead and Fables and Game of Thrones (for obvious reasons), but I didn’t find it off-putting or random in nature.
Make sure you get a good price when you pick it up. It was $18 for the season a couple of weeks ago on PSN. No reason to assume that won’t happen again.
Yea, I can get it for US$20 from GMG at the moment, but it went down to US$6.24 during the christmas sales. I’m in no rush at the moment, so I’m fine with waiting for a good deal. I’ve got plenty to play in the meantime.
So that rouge legacy.
Every so often I have a half decent run only to get killed by a picture.
Fun times.
Great game, though. Great, great game.
I’m at a point where I’m just doing farming runs for gold to keep leveling myself before I beat the final boss and end it. Yet still having a blast.
I did that, too. Got health up to 25 or so, armour up to 15, attack up to about 10, then took a barbarian in there with almost 700 health.
Did you know Grace runes delevel bosses? AND that the barbarian can FUS RO DAH away the fountain projectiles? *wink, nudge*Almost 700? I may be over doing it. He has almost 1000 in mine…
I’m getting about 15k-20k gold per run at the moment and just pouring gold into health and attack. Just enjoying the random exploration at this point, clearing rooms and seeing how much of the place I can clear before I stuff up one to many times.
Weirdly it’s making me want to play Demon’s Souls for some reason.
I got the same feeling, actually. I’m thinking I might just give up trying to sell my dying PS3, plug it back in, and just play PS3 exclusives on it until it dies for good. Starting with Demon’s Souls.
I approve of this plan, and would even go so far as to say I enthusiastically encourage it!
I am in the process of doing that for the giant eye thing atm
I did that for most of my 3 playthroughs
Eventually I couldn’t compensate for my lack of skill with more levelling 🙁
If you suspect it’s an evil picture, pause the game. It’ll show a health callout under itHuh. Would you believe I never thought of that. I just went around whacking everything.
Confirmed: Shane likes spending long lazy evenings whacking it.
See previously provided Twitter advice for further confirmation.
Ugh… bedtime.
Goodnight.
Goodnight, Crazy :*
Good what ever the current time and day is everyone. Only 2 more shifts till my next “day off.” Ive always had a terrible sleep pattern and body clock but having to change it 3 times in the space of a week is starting to get to me. Gotta change it once more for 2 shifts starting monday. Thankfully I have 3 days off next week to do nothing and I cant wait.
I keep thinking its march and I cant find enough time for fun cause sleep when not work. Trying to learn how to play Monster Hunter atm, its actually really good for pick up and play, go out do quest done ported back to town pat pet pig sleep on bed save. Took awhile to find a weapon I liked, too much choice, but playing with the Bug Stick. Nice mix of range and mobility and the buffs are awesome.
Its like, I could climb that cliff and try to jump on its back. Or I could get drugged up on white essence and pole vault into orbit.
POLE VAULT!
Yeah but theres a big blade on the end of mine
that just makes the video more cringeworthy! \o/
i HATE fisting. I can just never get it anatomically correct…
Risky click.
I take it this isn’t for any game stuff, given the poly count and limb topology?
game stuff. prerendered pseudo 3d graphics… most likely will be cel shading
Rathalos capture mission iis the cuntiest thing ever and it’s a miracle my 3DS is in one piece. At least half a dozen failures, just accidentally killed it, was forced to kill it another time because the first trap didn’t go off and just disappeared, and the second worked but he decided he didn’t feel like acknowledging the tranq bombs.
*grits teeth*
Capture guru skill is your friend. I think it comes from ‘perception’.
So I decided to ignore you all and bought a Vita.
I did think about it a lot, and the reasons in favour of purchase are numerous:
* Scree mentioned it was a portable PS1 console, and I’m keen for that
* I wanted a second controller for PS4 for when I have a friend over (if I ever get a friend)
* I do like the idea of remote play when someone else is using the telly
* I can finally play portable Dark Souls games. F*** yeah. Bloodborne, too!
* I imagine there are probably some okay exclusives…? *crickets*
Comes with Uncharted and FFX, so that’s a good start. Also comes with two memory cards, which I understand is necessary for account/region switching…?
Vita folk – is the Australian store good enough for the old PS1-era classics, or is a US account pretty much mandated?
Depends if you want Chrono Cross or not….
Pretty much, but if you have 2 memeory cards, you can set one up for the australian store and one for the US store.
There is a lot of vita games, but you will have to buy online. If you want Persona 4, it’s no longer available in stores. Same with a lot of the older Vita games. There’s only a few of the most current games available. My suggestion is check the vita section of online sites.
http://www.ozgameshop.com/playstation-vita-games
Thanks. Still plenty of second-hand copies of P4 on eBay.
What is Persona anyway? Off to Google!
Part dungeon crawler, part dating sim, all awesome.
Wait, that’s what Persona is? Now I’m interested!
It’s based on a yearly time line. It’s also part time management as the day is usually split into 3 parts. Morning, afternoon and nighttime. During these times you can upgrade your skills, works on your relationships, earn money or enter the dungeon. There is a different dungeon each month, so you have a month to complete it.
Upgrading your skills makes it easier to upgrade your relationships. Upgrading your relationship allows you to upgrade your cards, which allows you to summon powerful monsters that you use in the dungeon. It also has amazing characters and a well told story.
Oh and the music is pretty spiffy too.
Iiiiiiiiiiiiinteresting.
Do I want Chrono Cross?
Did you play Chrono trigger? Because I would suggest you play that first. It’s available on the DS
I’ve got it (or at least, I did before I lost all my DS games), and played it, and beat it for the first time… more than fifteen years after I first played it! 🙂
Chrono cross is the spiritual sequel of chrono trigger that deals in multiple dimensions rather then time travel. It’s considered to not be as good as Chrono trigger, but still pretty good. It’s not available on the Aus PSN but Tomba 1 and 2 are.
The cake happened.
Pretty much everything went wrong. 😛
I couldn’t for the life of me find either of the cake pans I’d planned to use, so ended up using a circular cake, with a soccer ball shaped one on top to appear mountain-like. Despite this cyclone, the weather was still way too hot and humid for working with fondant easily so I had to greatly simplify the design. Took me forever to cut out the little white letters on top of the ‘Hot Wheels’ logo!
And then I was afraid the cake would sink into the tunnel I’d cut while we were out (we went bowling. I got four gutter balls in a row. But then I finished with a strike so it’s okay. ), so I had to assemble it all in a mad rush in about five minutes when we got home. As it was, the car only just made it through due to the cake slowly caving in.
But it was a damn tasty cake! Apple and salted caramel.
And most importantly, my son was gobsmacked. He stood there with his mouth open from the second he saw it, all the way through the Happy Birthday song. And his face when he saw the car go through the cake was priceless. I’m so depressed I missed it on the video, though. It looks like the button double pressed in my rush, so we have a second of just before we uncovered his eyes, and a second of just after the car went through. D’oh!
P.S. @dogman you’re a legend. Thank you so much for the idea of a car going through the cake, it was perfect.
Made my day. If you ever need any other stupid baking ideas let me know. I’m currently kicking around plans for some sort of doomsday device/home made Easter Egg…
Oh, and I have no super important things to do today for the first time all year. \o/
To celebrate, I’m going to finish Dragon Age: Inquisition. And maybe start it again. Guilt free game playing is the bestest. 😀
Goodnight, have a good day everyone and don’t get blown away Brisbane TAY.
Tbh i’d be more concerned for those TAYbies in FNQ like Rockets & Steveo and the others.
Yeah, it’s just a little rainy here in Brisbane (CBD) literally nothing spectacular or even a tiny bit worrying right now.
I’m not worried. *adjusts collar*
https://twitter.com/hermitdc/status/568542720551038976
You’ll be right. You look a good 12 or more foot off the ground there 😛
Downstairs is another story, but it’ll be an inconvenience at most. All the valuables are upstairs. 😛
As long as you’re safe tbh.
I’ll be amazed if we get any flooding here out of all this, then again that also depends on when high tide is.. Living next to the river might not be the best thing at times like this I guess ha.
Yeah, my suburb is extremely flat. Really doesn’t take much for it to creep up. *shakes fist*
My bro is riled he’s had to cancel his romantic birthday trip with his girl to Airlie Beach.
Ugh. Flat places & a little bit of water makes for a massive problem. Remember to wear your Flood Pants your feet will get soaked but your cuffs will stay bone dry!
Holy moly! Stay safe x
Thanks Jane! We didn’t flood in 2011 but we’ve come close lots of times. Always foreboding to see the water creep closer. :S
There’s a new lake next to my youngest’s school. Was a pony ranch yesterday.
Also with my house backing onto a tidal creek any heavy rain is worrying.
and yet its just a tad damp over here. Even though the wind last night removed mum & dad’s TV antenna from the side of the house lol.
Yeah, looks like the cyclone’s probably going to finish up somewhere at the top end of Wide Bay. Reckon it’ll be Mackay/Fitzroy regions that get proper fucked by the storm direct (think Townsville down to Gladstone). Wide Bay and North will probably get flooding from the related heavy rains (possibly Far North, but they’re probably more likely to cop it from the NT cyclone).
We checked in with Community Recovery yesterday to make sure they had everything they needed in anticipation of a disaster cleanup, and they seem pretty confident they’re not going to have to deal with Brisbane much. They’re pretty on top of it. Last I saw, SES hasn’t made a call for internal volunteers yet, which is always a good sign.
I’m guessing the arms of the cyclone’ll just fling a few storms Brisbane ways. A couple of the leafier suburbs will lose power overnight or another day more thanks to falling trees hitting power lines. The ‘usual suspects’ – poorly-situated roads – are already being either locked down (or prepped for it) in anticipation of the flooding they get from even the slightest drizzle’s stormwater runoff. (There are some major flood-proofing infrastructure changes needed in some places.) Anyone in areas affected by tides is probably going to get a bit wet if the runoff combines with a tidal surge – that was the main concern for yesterday and even moreso today and the weekend. (Er… sorry Freeze.)
Reckon/hope it’ll get ‘a bit wet’ in Brisbane, but not much more than that.
Heh. Though an American friend was asking about it and I said, “Yeah, we might get a bit of weather out of it,” and she groaned and complained, “Oh god. Whenever Australians say ‘a bit of weather’ or ‘it’s a bit wet’, you can never tell if that means showers or wrath-of-God floods! Eskimos have 50 words for snow, what’s wrong with you people!?” “Shrug? She’ll be right.” “Augh!”Wouldn’t know it to hear the news talk about it, though. Some outlets are going for a serious beat-up for the sake of drama.
The more cynical-minded might suspect that our shiny, newly-minted Premier’s probably salivating at the chance to make ‘strong leader during crisis’ poll gains, too.
Hahahaha your friend’s dismay is beautiful.
Americans are the
worst.Best.Blurst?
Blurst/West.
Overheard conversation yesterday in CBD branh between staff member and manager.
“Do we need to come to work tomorrow?”
“…”
“Well do we?”
“…… Yes!”
“But there’s a cyclone!”
*facepalm*
Manager turns and walks off leaving staff still unsure if they need to come in.
“The only reason anyone won’t be coming in is if their home is flooded out and the roads get closed,” the manager advised.
“Oh no! I really hope my neck of the woods doesn’t get flooded!” the employees all cried, while hopping onto the Internet to check every five minutes in the hope that their neck of the woods could be claimed as flooded.
Hmm that reminds me I need some torch batteries, should probably also charge the battery pack for my phone and iPod since it has a radio in it. Unlikely we will see any serious issues though.
It’s a bit wet out…
[Viktor]Your mother is a bit wet out. [/Viktor]
Edit: Damn, my tags didn’t save.
Hah. Everyone is trying to jam up down in the basement car park. Even though there’s signs up specifically warning the pumps have overloaded and stopped working and the basement will more than likely flood.
But hey, they won’t get wet getting out of their car…
Guys, guys, guys, guys!
Potential new Rock Band game. GET EXCITE!
Is it that musical shooter one? Because if it is BOO
Yeah it’s “Call of D-Flat”
Minim of Honor
Battlefalsetto
Halow notes
Battleflute: Bad Crecendo 2
Really!? About time they released a new set. I am glad it’s Rock Band because that was the superior version.
YOU TAKE THAT BACK.
Rock band: superior game
Guitar hero: superior instruments
Rock Band 1, maybe. Rock Band 2/3 had MUCH better instruments.
Rock Band 1 instruments were crap.
I wasn’t overly a fan of the Les Paul ones, but the WT controller was pretty damn good. 6’s was good too and a pretty cool design, but I think its strummer wasn’t quite as good as the previous one.
It’s not official yet, but – http://www.gamespot.com/articles/new-rock-band-in-development-for-xbox-one-ps4-repo/1100-6425398/
If this doesn’t work out I am blaming you personally.
So it looks like we aren’t hiring a junior at my work any more. Apparently none of the applicants were really on-point enough to justify the position, so they’re going to re-visit it later.
It’s a shame, I was kinda looking forward to it as well! Like anticipating a new little brother/sister that I can take under my wing 😛 (Also the whole “I don’t have any work-friends” thing)
Ah well. Maybe in a few months!
The boss dropped the bombshell ten minutes ago that we’re getting a student on work experience.
Who starts monday
Fingers crossed they’re one of those spunky teens you see in movies!
With their punk hairstyle and no-good attitude, they’ll shake up the workplace in this comedy that’s fun for the whole family!
Stuffy manager in white shirt looking at reports: “Her unconventional style has tripled our profits this quarter by attracting a whole new market we would never have considered!”
Other stuffy manager in salmon shirt: “Well, you know what we have to do…”
*cut to the entire office being outfitted with slides, ball pits and funky art installations because money grows on trees*
COMING THIS SUMMER: TEEN CEO AT THE BUSINESS OFFICE
STARRING A GIRL WHO IS JUST LIKE AUBREY PLAZA BUT CHEAPER
30 years old so you don’t have to feel bad fantasising about a teenager?
In my mind, all teenagers are played by Ryan Gosling or Jake Gyllenhaal or Chris Evans.
I feel like I’d love to have a work-experience kid (he says as someone who has never had a work-experience kid)
I like to impart some of my old man bitterness on the kids we get at work.
You just make these off-hand comments like “Yeah, university was pretty cool, but once I hit 22 it was all downhill from there” and then they’re all like “Wait, I’m 22 right now??? What happens?” but you’re just unresponsive while you look off into the distance thinking about the good times and then they wander off thinking some great tragedy is going to befall them in the next year or so.
Good times.
Heh. 25-26 is when it all starts to fall apart in regards to your gut, though. Can’t drink as heavily as you used to, can’t wolf down entire McDonalds dinner boxes without feeling like crap after… And things start aching for no particular reason other than you slept on it wrong, like your neck or back or shoulders.
Should have just hired me. Not that I know what you or your workplace do.
Aww man. This weather is totally the best for:
a) staying home and snuggling on the sofa, eating leftover fried rice and rewatching The Prestige
b) wearing my badass new denim jacket that I totally love
c) locking myself in my home office and writing another 2500 words
It is NOT good for:
a) Test riding motorcycles
Guess what my primary plan for tomorrow was?
Wearing a denim jacket while test riding motorcycles?
Correct! Bonus points for accurately combining answers.
Is it bad that I have a copy of The Prestige but haven’t watched it yet?
Fairly
Oof it’s so good! Please do watch it.
Writing words sounds like a great pick.
I will also do that 😀
Damn. Just looking at the trending hashtags relating to the currently cyclone situation in Queelsnad on Twitter at the moment and damn, it’s really eerie seeing a supermarket barren of groceries and such..
Ouch, a cyclone right in the Queelsnads…
That’s gotta hurt…
How odd spell check did not pick that one up. Oh well, it stays 😛
Possibly because there’s a “Virus” on the computer… 😛
Nah 😛
Queelsnads ahahahahahaha Sounds like a Star Trek barkeep.
Someone from Coles forgot to put the stock order in time, they’re like that till tuesdie
Stupid automated computer ordering systems, letting everyone down!
Disappointing to hear about The Order. Still interested but probably not until it’s sub $50, which doesn’t sound like it will take long.
At least it’s short.
I’ll admit, I was semi-interested without knowing much about it (the theme and setting sounds fantastic), but on seeing some gameplay (developer diaries, not the leak), I got a lot less excited.
Thing is… I’m not really sure what I was expecting, y’know? Seems unfair.
I’m not sure there’s anyone who CAN make my dream Victorian-era/secret-world open-world exploration-meets-detective-mystery game with Mass Effect-quality dialogue and character development, Heavy Rainesque plot branching for rolling with good/bad consequences, a Dishonoredish approach to combat engagement options, and Dark Soulsily deliberate control responsiveness.
Quit your job and chase your passion project.
Live free of chains!
Be you!
Unfortunately since my kickstarter only raised triple what I was asking, (which was only a quarter of what I actually needed), and my second kickstarter barely scraped through and made people say things which hurt my feelings and set development back six months, I’ll probably have to switch to pixel art and alter some of the features that were carefully-worded to let me get out of them while making people think they would happen.
Plot branching still sort of branches… about about as much as a palm tree. We could probably say the same about the skill ‘tree’. The open world is certainly… open. If only because I couldn’t code in any doors. Think of the multiple load screens as a kind of virtual door. It’s a metaphor, very poetic, self-aware, ironic commentary on game development, making this game more of a parody, really, and thus immune to criticism. And thanks to some improved… ‘efficiencies’ in combat systems, I can at least say it’s responsive to what you want to do. As long as what you want to do is hit the attack button.
Early Access hasn’t brought in the numbers we really needed it to, so the last beta is actually going to get a bit of a code adjustment (mostly internal documentation comments) and will be re-launched as final, in order to get another five minutes of front-page real estate on the Steam store.
Big thanks to everyone who liked, subscribed, and supported the greenlight, support for Pipe Dream Victoria has ended, but please look forward to hearing big things from our upcoming Kickstarter for the sequel.
Too real.
That was so well written I was like… Wait, what? Who are you?
I love this industry so much, but examining it so closely means being unfortunately familiar with a lot of its flaws. I still love it, though.
It’s funny actually, take away a lot of the controversial bullshit from both sides and the pattern is reminding me a lot of Aliens: Colonial Marines. Promising licence / setting ground down to generic man shooter by development woes.
Sounds like everyone would have been celebrating that it was better than Ryse if it was out at launch alongside Ryse, and not 15 months later when proper exclusives like Bloodborne are around the corner.
Owch. “Well, he doesn’t look too bad compared to Steve Buscemi… oh my god, is that Brad Pitt? Get out of the way, nobody.”
You’re ON FIRE TODAY.
The flooding’ll help with that.
Anyone go see Jupiter Ascending & hate it?
I would live to discuss 😀
Also, if you liked it too. We can have an agreeasation
Thinking of seeing it this weekend.
😀
Just go in with lowered expectations & you’ll be fine.
I read the synopsis and then hounded people with texts about it:
“Guys, Channing Tatum is half dog man in this movie. And he has rocket boots.”
“Sean Bean is in this movie!”
“Guys, Sean Bean plays a half-bee man. NAMED STINGER.”
“Guys, someone paid $176M for this to be made and I’m really upset about that.”
I honestly can’t tell if you’re for or against it.
I think it’s ridiculous.
Yes. But are you for or against?
Oh, well, I think it sounds totally dumb and I’m not going to pay to watch it anytime ever, but I also would not download it for free. BUT I could see why people would get their panties in a twist about it (gross, why did I use that term).
So, against.
Well, I knew very little about it going in. Just the main plot vaguely & I was worried it would be shit.
And although I won’t be defending it with the effort I did Prometheus, I ended up enjoying it & hoping for sequels.
I’m just interested, not having a go, but where do you draw the line on silly?
Isn’t star wars silly too?
Oh dude, no I’m not offended by things, go nuts.
Um, silly – like, yes Star Wars is silly (as is Star Trek), but in such a loving way – like it’s dumb (sarlac pit and Salacious Crumb – of course it’s silly!) but the story is told in such earnest and with heart. Other things – like this movie – just seem to want to take themselves really seriously when they have no right? Or they try too hard to be like, “Look how funny we are!”
Silly movies I really enjoy are most Disney live action things, like National Treasure and Tron Legacy and things like that, you know?
I absolutely adore Tron Legacy, but can’t stand National Treasure.
Interesting
The above message is obviously for @janexo
It reminds of the day I heard two different opinions on the Silver surfer, one hated it , one loved it.
They both said: ” Its a silver guy on a surf board in space”
Like Jimu intimated… I think those are all excellent reasons both for and against. 🙂
I don’t go to the pictures much, so my question is: does Sean Bean’s character die?
Spoilers
no, it was a nice changeThank you for the spoiler!
You’re very welcome
Just got an email from some site I think I joined something to do with locations or some shit. Anyway had to laugh at this email they sent.
The Americans! Underrated TV show! Everyone should be watching! It’s about a married couple in the 1980s who are KGB agents in deep cover pretending to be Americans. It’s all about old school spy craft grounded in a beautifully complex character story. You’ll be morally conflicted all the time, with this complicated like of people who are technically bad guys. Also has one of the greatest opening themes evah.
Ahh, I so wanted to like that show. But I really couldn’t hack the first 2 or 3 episodes I watched 🙁 Maybe i’ll watch it again when it’s cheap on blu-ray 😛
Eh, they set the tone nicely. If you’re not feeling it by then, you probably never will alas.
I guess that worked for some people.. The pilot got me at how long it was and felt it didn’t need to be that long was off putting :/
What’s the boob/explosion per minute ratio?
Lots of boobs. Very little explosions.
It’s especially refreshing in the age of NCIS and CSI, where forensics and computers and CCTV are used to solve crimes. It’s nice to see old school stuff and dated tech. Lots of leg work and costumes.
КGЬ CSI SДУS LЗT’S ЭИHДЙCЗ IT.
This, absolutely. Also, Felicity has good hair now.
I used to love Felicity. I… errr… have the DVDs. 😛
In a bad mood today so everyone is getting their pet tags done in Comic Sans.
You monster!
I never ever drink hot drinks, but I’m trying it for once and I just snorted it out my nose, sooooo thanks 😀
Wait.
Never?
Not even hot leaf juice?
Maybe sometimes I’ll have hot chocolate, but even that’s rare.
Many here would call you heathen.
I know I know! I don’t drink tea or coffee or beer. I am the worst.
So you’re basically mainlining coke, right?
sssssssssshutuppppp
Sound like my wife.
SHE SOUNDS AWESOME.
@janexo: She’s one of my favourite people! 😀
If it helps… that’s what I do, too. 😉
Beer is a hot drink?
*takes note*
I judge you a little for the tea but not coffee or beer, because I can relate to that. Don’t drink wine either. I am a spirits kind of person.
And now, scarred for life. Perhaps literally, depending on the temperature.
“Oh wow, where’d you get that burn scar?”
*fiery glare* “COMIC SANS. Now, where’s that layout you wanted me to review?”
“I, uh… have to make some adjustments.”
“Also, why are you looking up my nose”
I was thinking of something like a spray-induced scar-moustache, but yours is funnier. 🙂
It’s times like this that I remember that I laugh like a super villain.
<3 you. I don’t drink hot drinks and everyone gives me shit about it (the amount of flak I’d get about it when I did night shift was crazy).
I’ll take 3!
Comic SAAAAAAAAANS
Confirmed: Freeze is the Antichrist.
I wonder how many people that were cheering Sherri Tenpenny being denied over here are now defending Baldwin. Notice his supporters go to great lengths to ignore the fact he’s an antivaxxer.
OF COURSE HE IS.
Holy fuck that guy just gets worse and worse.
What the hell is a Baldwin & a Sherri Tenpenny? Does it have anything to do with Tenpenny Tower in Fallout 3?
… Seriously?
Yes, I have no fucking idea who you are referring to, probably don’t want to I guess. The part about Fallout 3 was a joke, if you need that clarified >_>
I know something of the Baldwin stuff, but I don’t know jack about any Tenpenny.
Like Virus, I think I will be happier if I simply close my eyes and think of Fallout 3 any time I hear it mentioned.
Tenpenny tower was my first thought too. SO MAD PROPS TO YOU
Haha. It’s the only logical answer!!
Sherri Tenpenny: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-01-29/american-anti-vaccination-campaigner-cancels-speaking-tour/6053852
Adam Baldwin: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2015/02/many-in-the-comic-book-community-are-now-boycotting-supanova
Oh right.. Those two, I didn’t know their names tbh. I haven’t paid close attention to either. As far as I am concerned having an archaic view that like makes you a total moron and shouldn’t be allowed to spread misinformation like that.
I thought people where talking about the actor until now. Thank you comments on the article!
(I never thought I’d say that)
Note to self: pay someone to ask Adam Baldwin at Supanova about his beliefs re: vaccination.
To anyone who dislikes how animated GIFs negatively impact readability: I made a thing.
It hides gifs in articles and adds a “toggle” link to show each gif on demand. It’s not tidy or clean code, and it’s completely unstyled, but it does what I wanted, and only took a few minutes to write, so I’m not too bothered. Anyone who uses Tampermonkey in Chrome should be able to add it without difficulty by copying it to a new script; and according to Tampermonkey, Firefox+Greasemonkey users should be able to do the same, tho I’ve not tested this myself.I would love you to pieces except I can’t install Tampermonkey since my version of Chrome is Version 30.0.1599.66 which isn’t WebStore compatible, and updates are disabled by our administrators so I can’t upgrade to allow access to the WebStore. :'(
Bookmarklet version. 😛 Make a bookmark, change the url to the “javascript:…” linked (including the “javascript:” bit), it’ll do the same thing (same code, just minified/compressed). Only difference is that this version needs to be manually triggered via the bookmarklet…
Marry me.
Wow, I got an email back from a locally run business this morning about a job applied for saying they got my application and a thank you for taking the time to apply and they will be in contact with me if I meet their requirements. That’s more than any other locally run business has done that I have applied for in recent. Amazing.
In typical puppy fashion, Alice is following me everywhere. She’s also a light sleeper. So I can’t use her nap times to do things that are much easier without a puppy in tow.
Also, running outside with a treat in hand when I see her pooping sure is something.
You didn’t call it Baldrick?
Email just recieved… I’m the only ‘To’ and there are 3 ‘CC’ one being a mid level manager.
“You helped sort out access to our internal social network last week (I did by calling the service desk for them.) I can’t access my account on my iPhone. I’m getting error… blah blah blah”
Seriously… It’s a service for 10,000 people… You think me, the peon, bootlicking shit kicker has any friggen idea what your error code means!?
We pay another company an exorbitant amount of money to provide support… CALL THEM FIRST!
Had to bite my tongue big time and somehow politely reply-all that there is no way I can resolve your problem nor can I provide support for that system to anyone else in your general vicinity
Just ruined my day… I’m going for lunch.
Gotta love those.
“DEAR MORONS. I HAVE A PROBLEM THAT IS OBVIOUSLY YOUR FAULT AND I HAVE CC’D IN YOUR BOSS MY BOSS, OUR BOSSES BOSSES AND GOD HIMSELF SO THAT YOU KNOW THAT EVERYONE IS GOING TO BE WATCHING YOUR RESPONSE VERY CLOSELY.
– Signed, melodramatic nitwit.”
“Dear Melodramatic nitwit. I have determined the source of our ‘error’, and it turns out to be something you asked for. I’ve attached a copy of you asking for it. I’m happy to change things to anything else you’d like as well, because that’s what we do here. As a courtesy, I have not copied in bosses, boss’ bosses or god, because that might be a little embarrassing for you. If they ask you how that panned out, it will allow you the opportunity to spin things in such a way that you salvage some of your reputation. Aren’t I nice? Let’s all try being nice.
– Signed, smugly self-righteous asshole faking an innocent look.”
“Dear SSRAFAIL, that… would be fantastic, thank you.
– Signed, sheepishly penitent.”
Scene 2. INT: Office.
SHEEPISH PENITANT leans back in his chair, not looking at all sheepish. His boss, GOD, comes over to his desk.
GOD:
So how did all that pan out?
SHEEPISH PENITANT:
Turned out to be Transient’s fault all along. I’m making him fix it now.
GOD:
Good.
Sheepish Penitant puts his feet on the desk as GOD leaves the building.
SHEEPISH PENITANT:
Hahaha, Transient, you fool.
It’s honestly what I expect.
So… you Bcc’d the bosses in, just to cover yourself?
YOU’RE A CRAFTY ONE.
No, I just decide to be satisfied with providing high level of service without playing the politics or exploitation.
Soooo… the opposite of clever or crafty!
I’m sure the request for support from Melodramatic nitwit was result of God asking him to try using his phone.
ANARCHY MOVIE HYPE.
Ed Harris (in a biker jacket, shooting things) as the lead role in a modern-take-on-old-story movie based on a work by Shakespeare that I’d never heard of but now need to go to my multi-thousand-page Shakespeare bible to go read. (Cymbeline)
(Seriously, bible. You know those really ultra-old bibles/dictionaries/oldbooks that have pages so thin you swear you can practically see through them and are afraid to touch? I have one of those for the complete – annotated – works of Shakespeare. It’s glorious.)
SO HYPE. THERE IS NO WAY THIS CAN BE BAD.
I’ve got the complete Shakespeare in a beautiful old gilded book that very nearly fits in my jeans pocket. It’s awesome.
Jet Li kicking peoples spines in half while smart arse flirting with Aaliyah in a modern retelling of a Shakespearean play.
How could that be bad?
Love that film.
I thought I did until I caught it randomly on TV again recently.
I imagine I’d feel the same. It was one of the first DVDs my family ever owned as I think it came as part of the DVD player package. I’d just want to skip through to certain scenes if I watched it now (club fight, football game, final fight) and would probably struggle with the cringe factor of everything else.
*woosh*
I KNOW RIGHT?! That movie was the best, and introduced me to Aaliyah! Which broke my heart when she died… her movie character was just so similar to an ex that I forged a strong emotional attachment.
Nothing. Can. Possibly. Go. Wrong.
Everytime you do that woosh I’m never sure if it’s aimed at me or what you’re about to say…
*paranoid unsure fry. jpg*
Oh, no, it’s me blithely ignoring what you’re getting at and powering on with deliberately undaunted enthusiasm. 🙂
(Edit: I’ve done it twice, and I’m pretty sure elicited the same uncertainty every time… I think someone else must be using it as an insult or something elsewhere, and far more prolific. I’ll be more specific in future.)
Oh I’m 99.9% sure it is that, just that small part that wonders if I missed something.
‘O’ was intense. Also, Julia Stiles was totally one of my childhood crushes.
5 links in a post? This can be done?! SORCERY
It can be done, but you… may not wish to pay the price.
It is high.
Misread as licking people’s spines. My brain went to a really strange place for a moment there.
Tossed a dead Huntsman onto the footpath, am now seeing 100 ants converge on its carcass.
O_O
Nature is brutal.
*Does same in Brisbane*
watches carcass become part of the gutter flotsam charging down a street partially submerged.
It’s the ciiiircclllllleee of liiiiiifffffffffeeeeeeeeeee
Inappropriate Cyclone Songs
Johnny Cash – Five Feet High and Rising.
Who’ll Stop the Rain – CCR
For when the first news report comes in saying people are missing and have possibly been swept up by the cyclone.
AC/DC – Thunderstruck
The Audreys – When The Flood Comes
Supertramp – It’s Raining Again
When it rains, it pours – 50 Cent
Garbage – Only Happy When it Rains
Just when you think it’s starting to let up… Here comes the rain again – Eurythmics
Anything by Wet Wet Wet
Just got sent home from work! :0
All the other members of my team went home due to flooding getting worse (so they could attempt to actually get home before flooding stopped them) and I was the only one left. Team leader of the dept I’m training with told me to get out! Can’t argue with that! Only downside is, got charged extra for parking cos I book as early bird, and if I leave before 2:30, I have to pay full day rate. No way I was gonna hang around in the Valley in this weather for an hour and a half to two hours though. Early weekend ahoy!
Fixed the problem of the parking fee! One phone call to Secure Parking, explained that I was forced to leave work, and they reverse the early exit fee! SCORE!
Noice!
I can’t see that word without thinking of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQnYi3z56RE – doesn’t stop me using it, though.
Now that my weekend is a goa, time for more fun and exciting topics!
Any TAYbies playing the Carmageddon Reincarnation beta that was released last weekend?
Last weekend? Then what the hell have I been playing!?
Yeah the beta was patched in to the early access version last sunday (valentines day in US)
I really should read my backer updates. 😛
Steam auto updated mine. Was done when I woke up on Sunday.. good thing too, cos I think it was like a 10GB update! It’s actually looking like a full blown game now though! Career mode and multiplayer are active at long last!!!
Yeah, that’s what I mean. I know mine auto-updated in Steam because I saw it in my download queue, and I know I got an update from Stainless telling me what that update actually was, but I didn’t read it. Might have to fire it up.
🙂 well worth it! Playing no longer feels pointless! You have progression and unlocks and upgrades and stuff! New event types too!! So very cool! 🙂
BLOOOOOOODBOOOOOORRRRRRNE
33 days to go, wastes of skin
STORY trailer has been released in the last twenty-four hours.
But the big news: I’m getting this. It comes bundled with a console skin, which I’m 99% sure I don’t want, but it’s still the best price for this version that’s out there.
That’d be an awesome and highly covetable skin if the cover of the game wasn’t so generic.
Agreed! Oh well.
I’m glad I got this version. I really couldn’t justify $70 more for the tin and ink and bell.
Man, you’re right, that is a pre-tty bland piece of cover art.
I went with the Nightmare edition as I’m a sucker for notebooks. I’ve been carrying around the DA:I one in my bag even though I have no damn use for it. But it’s so nice.
Also have one that came with my PC copy of Diablo 3 that I refuse to write in since its all so pretty.
@greenius Can i get your number? If Mum and I are around when you guys meat up, we’ll come say hello. I’m trying to stuff as much into my Saturday as possible =P
Can you give it to me over direct message on twitter. I’ll give you mine
Ok, will DM! I thought we had each other’s number but I forgot you got a new phone 😛
Not because I wanted to. =P
Finished Inquisition. Well, I finished it a couple of hours ago, but then started it again straightaway.
Spoilers for endy battle:
The first time I tried fighting Corypheus, I got his health down to the point where the cutscene of the dragons kicks in and instead of the cutscene it was a black screen with the loading symbol. For three minutes. And battle noises and cries. Just when I thought it was stuck and I’d have to restart the PS4, it stopped loading, and I was suddenly next to Corypheus, who had almost no health left and was just standing there without fighting back. Wacky. And extremely not cool for a final boss fight. So I reloaded, and saw the cutscene with the Dragons fighting, and got to fight the Red Lyrium Dragon, and defeat Coryphybutt properly.Spoilers for after endy stuffs:
Haha, Solas. I’d guessed he was probably an old god possessing a body like Flemeth/Mythal during that convo with Flemeth at Mythal’s Altar, but I didn’t guess he was actually the Dread Wolf Fenris. It’s pretty awesome, and now I’m very glad my Inquisitor is pining away over him because it’s funny, and might make the next game very interesting if things carry over properly.I very much liked every one of my companions in this game except for Vivienne, but I had her in my party a bit because she’s a badass in a fight. So with this new game, I chose to be a Mage so I won’t need to have her in party much. 😛
Vivienne is one of the few characters who actively shits me, if only because she’s so short with everything. I thought we could get along from early conversations and a general vague agreement with her philosophy for the future of the Circle, but she just… rubbed me the wrong way. So much.
My response to Vivienne is always “CALL ME “MY DEAR” AGAIN, I DARE YOU.” She’s so patronising, why can’t you push her off the balcony.
Hahaha, that gave me a much needed laugh. 😀
Next Dreamfall Chapters episode is March 10. (As amazing as the first part was, this is a series that doesn’t lend itself to episodes. Just feels like it has been split up into parts and won’t be better for it.) Loved the first chapter, though. I just want more. MORE. MOOOOORE.
So I was up til about 10 playing Monster Hunter this morning.
Someone please come and take it away from me.
Sigh, of course 😛
I’ve never pulled an all-nighter playing video games. I always zonk out at 1am or so 😛
I contracted severe “one-more-turnitis” with both Civ 2 and Civ 4. Been a long time since those though. Although I was playing some silly puzzle game til 4am a few weeks back.
I do that with Picross. One more picross. One more picross. Just one more.
Same with Listverse lists.
I took a week off when Dark Souls 2 was released and clocked 90 hours by the end of that week.
Closest I have ever come to a full on gaming addiction was during my Honours year when I had a diagnosed sleep condition and Lumines II.
It was…not a healthy time.
Crusader Kings has kept me up waaaaay too late a few times
I really need to devote some time to some YouTube tutorials or something with that game. It seems like something I’d love but it’s just so incredibly dense it’s hard to know what you’re supposed to be doing.
Start as the Earl of Munster at the original start date (1066), he has a nice niche of Ireland that’s not too complex.
And look up Quill18 on Youtube, he got me in to EUIV and his Crusader Kings guides are apparently just as good
Also also, I’d be keen for multiplayer with any configuration of TAY people, even if we comp stomp, as I talk you through some mechanics.
I wouldn’t mind doing that.
Well, I know @tigerion, @transientmind, @mawt, @coldcamv and @rize all have it.
I’m keen, but a weekend afternoon would probably be better.
Sunday preferably.
Stupid work.
I would be keen but even just be something I try and stream rather than play. Don’t get any significant time to sit and play at the moment.
I’m more likely to EU4 multi than CK2.
I tried CK2 once, I watched/read all the tutorials and still had no clue what to do..I want to learn but im scared
I’ve done all nighters with WoW expansions when I used to play it.
Good job! \o/
Nice work!
(boo I hate how they changed it 🙁 )
How many hours is that now? I reached HR online last night and took down gore SP today
Dunno, I only found the 25hr mark because I stopped playing to switch over from nXL to 3XL. Haven’t stopped playing yet, I just close the lid whenever I’m taking a break.
Considering I did about 10 hours last night alone, presumably it’d be approaching the 40 mark if not having passed it by now 😛
Where are you up to?
Uhhhhhhhhh I just did the mission with the Goldar-looking electric lion. Oh wait, then I did the frenzy Tigrex mission. And am now attempting the Rathalos capture mission, which is being an absolute pain in the bastard and is going to send me insane. Already made at least 10 attempts by now, surely. Mostly just get killed three times, but a couple of times now I’ve also killed it instead of capturing (one was necessary since the capture didn’t take).
Zinogre!
@piat time isn’t really a good indicator of where you are though. Last time I checked with Tacos was when he was around that 25 hour mark, but he was way behind me in the single player.
I’m at around 27 hours at the moment and I’m about to do a 7 star quest. Haven’t played online much either but I’m on HR2.
TACOS – you using a CPP for the 3DS XL or weird touch screen camera thing?
My CPP is for regular 3DS, XL one doesn’t seem to be available anywhere around here any more 🙁
Not using the touch screen thing though. I’ve changed the target cam options so that it doesn’t change the elevation when targeting a monster, I generally get away with using just L to operate the camera. If adjustments need to be made, I use the d-pad.
the elevation lock option is a god send, especially against ian and los.
You’re using the normal 3DS CPP on a 3DS XL? D:
How are you managing that? Must be some crazy grip or something 😛
@greenius No CPP, just the 3XL on its own. Just plain ol’ regular gaming grip.
Madness.
oh I know, I’m at 30 hours and haven’t really gotten all that far from farming for various sets. It’s just interesting to see how many hours people are putting into the game.
I feel like I went through more equipment variations in Tri. This one, I pretty much got myself a Velociprey armour set as soon as expeditions opened up, and haven’t really seen anything worth changing to since. Weapon upgraded… twice I think? Through to Kaiser Blade. Got my eye on one set of armour that needs a whole tonne of bumblepumpkins so that’ll take a while to get, and the next upgrade for my weapon requires carbolite ore or something which I haven’t come across yet.
After spending all of the last two days obsessing over Alice, I get a phone call from the real estate agent saying that the owner has changed her mind about letting us have her.
Going to go back and forth and try to get her back onside. The worst part is that there’s no chance of a response until next week. Not a great thing to hear on Friday afternoon. Now I’m just going to spend the whole weekend being anxious. Fuck.
http://www.findlaw.com.au/articles/73/pets.aspx
That’s Victoria.
I’m sure it’s probably similar here in Canberra but right now my best option is to just try and change her mind back.
Or vomiting. Vomiting seems really good right now.
http://www.tenantsact.org.au/FAQRetrieve.aspx?ID=36461
No pets clause has to be specifically added and agreed to in the rental agreement in ACT and can’t be just thrown out there as a condition. Check the agreement you signed?
Was under the impression that “(2) The owners corporation must not unreasonably withhold its approval of the keeping of an animal on a lot or the common property.”
edit: Derp, I don’t know why I gave you the NSW code.
ACT Strata guidelines if you’re in a Strata tenancy…
“51A Animals—owners corporation’s consent
(1) A unit owner may keep an animal, or allow an animal to be kept, within the unit or the common property only with the consent of the owners corporation.
(2) The owners corporation may give consent under this section with or without conditions.
(3) However, the owners corporation’s consent must not be unreasonably withheld.”
In addition to 1: there was a court case where a woman had her pets disallowed by the body corporate but appealed and basically made it so that body corporate basically cannot reasonably deny a pet. You basically have to have a flock of racing pidgeons or a dog that’s declared dangerous.
I’m pretty confident that we’re on okay legal ground here. I say that based purely off of random things I read online. That’s less comforting.
Like I said on Twitter though, I don’t want to get the owner offside. I’d much rather convince her that it’s okay for us to have Alice than win the right to keep her.
Yeah, that’s true. The last thing you want is it to come lease renewal time and the owner decides “Nah, they were mean to me. I’m going to not renew.”
This really sucks.
Have you considered a flock of racing pigeons?
Did they give the ok to have a pet before you got Alice? If so, I don’t think a court would hold you responsible. Especially if you did the right thing by checking, then after approval, paid for the pet, only to have them change their mind. You could sue them for the cost of the pet and any other stuff you bought then. Unless it was only like 2 hours after saying it’s ok. How fast was their mind changed? A week? less?
We told them that we wanted a dog before we got the place. More than a week ago, we told the real estate agents that we had put in an application for Alice and her sister, with as many details as we could give.
On Monday, I wrote a letter to the body corporate on behalf of the owner asking for their approval for her. This had more information but nothing particularly new. On Wednesday (maybe?), I was told the owner was going to sign the letter but had some reservations. Mostly that she didn’t think that the body corporate would approve a dog this size.
Now, at 4:30 on a Friday, I get the call saying that the owner isn’t sure about Alice. Specifically that the owner would be more comfortable with a smaller, dog that was “outside of the puppy age”. I’ve asked for specifics and offered to let the owner meet Alice.
I’m also going to do some research to confirm that we’re on strong legal footing here. Then I’ll do up an email to the real estate agent along the lines of:
We believe that we are within our rights to keep Alice on this property and that the body corporate cannot reasonably decline our application to keep her.
However, it would be disrespectful to keep a pet that the owner does not approve of. We’re currently undergoing basic training for Alice and the RSPCA have a pet behaviourist who said to contact her regarding any training or behaviour issues when we adopted Alice.
What assurances can we make that Alice will be comfortable on this property and that her behaviour will be acceptable?
I am currently looking for work and will be devoting my attention to properly training Alice. Similarly [Freya] is working week on, week off at the [work] so she will be available every alternate week during these formative months.
Etc etc.
If they approve a pet, they approve a pet, right? They can’t then be like “but only if it’s this old/size/colour/etc”??
@renne I’m fairly sure that they have to specify before, not after. The whole thing is a tricky mess. I think we’re in the clear but things are much, much better if we can get the owner to agree with us instead of showing them that we can get away with it.
So apparently a shark has washed up on a beach in Queensland from Cyclone Marcia.. Sharknado was not a work of fiction after all D=
@virus__
My Dollar Shave Club Executive Razor came today. Probably won’t use it for another 3 years but uh… it looks good! 😛
Still waiting on mine =( any clue where they posted it from?
Oh whoops… I threw out the envelope :/
Haha. I guess mine will show up Monday. I kinda expected them to show up a bit faster than they did though lol.
Hey guys! I don’t know the city and can’t organise things but here we go!
@benj @scree @tigerion @f4ction @tofu @beavwa @princesspipster
If no one else rocks up I guess I’ll be meeting Benji somewhere in the city at around 1pm on Saturday! I’m flexible with times though (not sure about Banjo) I’m thinking lunch (any recommendations?) and then who knows what! (CASINO CASINO CASINO)
BENJO I’ll Twitter DM you my number.
But what daaaay?
I’m bad at things!
Selling out to Bens. Thought you were stronger than that Greeny.
Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
I thought we were eating at the casino?
Are we? 😛
I didn’t set any plans so I’m down for whatever*
EDIT: *within reason 😛
Ugh, Greeniuses.
Greeneses!
Greeniusi!
*Greenii
Add that to the list of spelling pet peeves, when people incorrectly pluralise non -us words (usually in more “serious” context, rather than just messing around) with -i. But worse still, when they use -ii 😛
Is the Greeniusi anything like the Batusi?
Well, there are a few restaurants at the casino. Mum and I usually go to Margo’s. @tech_knight came with us a few times.
Wooooo my first meat 😛 anywhere in particular you wanna meet up? Maybe around flinders street station or something? And will you be wearing green? 😛
I should be there around 1 though 🙂
I thought about wearing whatever but then I realised I kind of have to wear green 😛
And yeah I guess! Honestly have no idea how far that is from the casino but I think it’s within reasonable walking distance? (yay for Google maps)
Yeah it’s just a bit down the road I think.
(PS you don’t have to wear green if you don’t want to :P)
Can’t disappoint my fans!
Dam right.
Wait you have fans 😛
Ow… my butthole…
Spicy Chicken burger with Jalapenos was a bad idea for lunch… D:
Just watched “I give It A Year”. Ugh. Just ugh.
What would you give it?
I was going to say “And if you gave it a year, how do you think you’d feel about it?”
But yours is better.
An ugh or two.
From the sound of things, a bullet.
I have never heard of it. It is a tv show or a movie?
It’s a movie. But don’t watch it. Ugh. So much ugh!
…
You can always hope that he chucked a Blaghman, and forgot to turn the GoPro on before doing anything.
(In all seriousness, he’s likely only going to use the camera for cases where there’s real dickishness involved, so the odds of anything happening from that video are extremely low, so I’d recommend not worrying about it)
YES
MOTHERFLIPPING YES
AFTER A BILLION ATTEMPTS I FINALLY KILLED THAT NU-MAGALA
Honestly spent at least ten minutes of my second life just running around the arena, trying to let my health regen so I could potion up the rest of it while he ran around in dragon rage mode. Only to get smacked down again any time I even tried to get close enough to hit him again. Then used the last of my potions up and thought I was done. Thank god for the subquest supply drop.
: D Shagaru Magala?
I nearly died on my second attempt but it was so satisfying to kill!
I am pretty sure this was at least my dozenth attempt. Probably more.
Whhhaaaaaaattttt
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/nintendo-amiibo-wii-u-x-29-full-set-ike-shulk-falcon-/261772010191
Bargain! 😛
I’ll take three.
It look stupidly high but it is ‘only’ about a 300 % of the rrp. Still huge but for an in demand and out of stick item not totally unreasonable
Ultimate For Hunter, Mon!
Had a good session with @powalen and @sernobulus ! HR3 now and I’ve nearly got some decent enough gear. Still need like 4 Beaks from Najarala though :(. THEY’RE JUST NOT DROPPING!
You guys going to play any today? I’d like to give multi a go. I sent you a friend request too.
I plan to! I’ll definitely be playing tomorrow though.
I’m going out during the day though but I should be back in the evening.
Cool, gives me time to get further.
@sernobulus @greenius @powalen @mrtaco What weapon do you guys use?
I started on a long sword but found it slow so I moved onto dual blades, got bored and switched to the insect glaive, I’m really enjoying it, very fast and mounting enemies anywhere is useful. plus those buffs seem to make a difference.
Do you guys talk while playing?
Switch Axe represent!
We tried setting up voice chat on PC but I can’t figure out a way to connect a headset and get sound to come out of my computer :P. I don’t have a standalone mic and don’t want to wear the headset since I wouldn’t be able to hear the game.
Unfortunately there’s no in-game chat this time around too :(. So Pow and I have just been typing on Steam as we play (which gets the job done).
I use insect glaive.
Pole vault is rad!
You can do the same thing with the lance, I think.
Don’t think so, Trollalen!
@greenius Oh really? I heard somewhere that it could.
I’m pretty sure the Insect Glaive is the only weapon with a “jump”. If the Lance is anything like it is in previous games it’s just a big slow pokey stick
@greenius
This says they can jump! http://www.siliconera.com/2012/09/14/how-jump-attacks-will-revolutionize-the-hunt-in-monster-hunter-4/
Saw a vid a huh… I guess so 😛
Apparently it’s super annoying in online though cause it trips up everyone so uh… don’t lance it up! 😛
Using the Bow
Charge blade, all the way.
I couldn’t even last a week without a phone…
I am weak…
Buuuuuuut…
MY NEW PHONE IS SO PURPLE, AND BEAUTIFUL, AND I LOVE IT!
\o/ new phone. What phone did you get?
I got an Xperia Z2! In purple!
I used to have a Z1, but lost it, and a Z3 was a bit too expensive for me :3
Holy s**t, you guys, Helix is fantastic!
I haven’t been this enthralled with a show since the Leftovers! 😀
Second season is even better, I think!
Ooooooh, intriguing!
I’ll check it out! 😀
Max is quite the biter.
She just loves my hands, for some reason…
Is your kitty teething?
Ah politically incorrect Sesame Street is the best.
http://imgur.com/gallery/bqOIs
Got The Order 1886 yesterday, haven’t had a chance to play it yet. But I have this feeling from what I have heard i’ll probably take it back next week and not regret the decision like I did with Watch_Dogs at launch. Which I actually picked up the other day for 20 bucks from EB. I feel I wasn’t ripped off this time.
I would say give it a go and then decide if you should take it back. You never know. You may enjoy it*
(* knows nothing about it and has only read it is a short game)
I will i’m installing it now. Shall see what I think about it!
Claims to have the most realistic combat shooter ever created.
This is the screenshot
http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/107900/ss_946cac57652c207b10e98a063c3cb50ffebaa2a7.1920×1080.jpg?t=1383786322
*headdesk*
Does she want ticks? Because that’s how you get ticks.
What is with that elbow?
If that’s real why aren’t there nipples flying about the place in that image?
@liondrive I won money!
2 e z
Whatever were you playing, and did you lose money over all? 😛
Roulette. Ben J lost his money tehehe
Poor Ben J, he’s the one on holiday and he’s losing his money thanks to you! :O
It was only $20 😛
POOR BEN J! :’O
Current MH time: 56 hours.
I didn’t start til late last saturday night, so I’m pretty much on track to match my “60 hours in the first week” I did with Tri 😛
Heh… I was doing like 8 hours a day of 3 Ultimate when that first came out :P. No idea why I never “caught the bug” with Tri though.
Really, I thought you were a fan?
Genius. I’m dying here.
Played a little bit of The Order 1886 this afternoon. Okay so it’s not bad, but the over the shoulder 3rd person play style is not something I like, and it’s letter boxed, I don’t like this. So there is two great big bars top & bottom.
Centered third person would be so much easier, there’s already been a bunch of times that the characters head or shoulder has obstructed the camera view and got me hurt D=
It is a very pretty game though I will grant it that.
Also i’ve encountered more cut scene than actual game play I reckon, bleh.
I love the source video of this being used for gaming stuff all the time now… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FV-u5tvQC34
note – I am not making any judgement calls on the game itself as I haven’t played it. I just love these videos.
Haha. Like I want to like it, but cut scenes every few minutes are god damn annoying. At one point it was every 30 seconds, ugh. I think i’ll return it Monday for a refund. It’s not a $90 game that’s for sure.
Yeah, everyone seems to be saying it’s a bargain bin game. Shame, I had high hopes given the theme.
Yeah. Such a shame, oh well maybe their next game will improve on all the downsides to this?
A lot of people are saying it’s a rental only. Might want to do that and save a lot of money.
Yeah basically. Just wait for a pre-owned copy to be 20 bucks in the next EB sale haha.
Just did my first phone backup in six months.
Number of messages have roughly doubled in that time, the previous having built up since March 2013. Interesting.
Last time I checked I had over 20,000 texts between myself and one friend over about an 8 month period. That was sometime in 2013. I hate to think what it would be at now, especially since for most of 2013 we texted most days and continuously too.
Geez. I only had about 6.5k in total.
Just got the thing to move all messages older than six months over to the computer. Apparently that came to 5281, totaling 3.44MB. Took the better part of an hour to get through 😛
I know right? Haha.. iMessage is awesome 😛
I’ll have to take your word for it 😛
I’m working with Nokia Suite. Only ever used it for full backups, never had to do any data manipulation with it before. Kinda just winging it and hoping I don’t break anything.
Went shopping today.
Picked up a Legend of Zelda T-Shirt for $15 instead of $25, and got a white Gamecube controller for Smash.
Also bought FIFA Street on Xbox. \o/
I’m going shopping tomorrow! I found this lovely sweater that is to die for!
Going to buy a nice button up to go with it too! 🙂
This is definitely the gay-est I’ve ever sounded…
Don’t forget underwear.
You never know when you’ll new new undies.
Oooh, good idea!
Perfect for if there is a little money left on my voucher actually!
Well, that, or socks!
I’ve been eyeing off this really pretty pair of pink socks! :3
My eldest (just turned five) had her second ever try of a video game today. She’s not a competitive Mario Kart racer yet, but she’s picking up the basics much quicker than I could have ever expected her to. Certainly quicker than I picked up the basics of gaming back when I was her age (for example, I spent days on the “Enter Name” screen in Legend of Zelda, believing that to be the entire game).
Some highlights from today’s events:
* “Oh, someone bumped into me. Who was it? I didn’t see. Daddy, you said Donkey Kong was very rude. It was probably him, then, wasn’t it?”
* Every time she went off-road: “I’m taking a shortcut!”
* “Do you want to get back on the road, sweet?”
“No, I’m busy driving in these flowers.”
* We spent twenty minutes just sitting stationary next to each other, hitting the horn button and making each other’s avatars jump.
* “Oh, I got the bullet item AGAIN? When am I going to get a lightning bolt?!”
* “Oh, I’m first! I’m FIRST!! Oh, now I’m second. Now eighth. Daddy, where are you? Oh, you’re ninth. Okay.”
* This note after we packed it up.
My cousin Thomas always calls the Bullet Bills “Pity Bullets”, and he passed on that term to our five year old cousin Jack, so we get to hear him excitedly say “Oh, I got a Pity Bullet!”
Mareo cart! \o/
I like the bit about driving in the flowers. Ours spent a whole race bumping into cows 🙂
Just watched Ender’s Game. It was…not bad. I’ve never read the books though, because Orson Scott Card.
Also just watched the last episode of the documentary series ‘Dead Famous DNA’. I love the gravitas in the narrator’s voice.
Definitely getting my money’s worth out of this month’s Foxtel subscription.
I watched Enders Game and thought it was pretty good. Not great, but pretty good.
Then I found out about this Orson Scott fellow, and felt a little bad that I didn’t mind the movie… :S
Ender’s Game is a case where I’m happy to completely separate the author from the work. I love the books Ender’s Game and Speaker for the Dead, they are really really good books.
Orson Scott Card, however, is a fuckwit.
I recommend everyone torrents those two books, so that they can experience them (don’t buy them, he’s a dickwad). Not any of his other books though. They get all religious and preachy and shit, which is understandable given they were written by a shitkicker.
Whew, just went through and reduced the number of photos on my phone by about a thousand, mostly just taking out duplicates and stuff. Hopefully should run a little better now.
So many feels, looking through everything from the last two years.
But what about your MH4U update!?
I need me some novacrystals.
I just did s. Magala caravan and it was pitiful, I didn’t even go through my free supplies
As in you destroyed it (so quickly you didn’t have chance to use the supply items), or it destroyed you (so quickly you didn’t have a chance to use the supply items)?
That’s kinda why I always do single player stuff first before doing online. I don’t want to be super overpowered so I like fighting things solo at the level I should be at 😀
I destroyed it, and none of my gear is anything you can’t obtain before him in offline alone
What gear is that?
@mrtaco Tetsucarbra armour and the gore magala dual blades
What do you reckon the likelihood of someone being HR50 and jumping into HR4 quests being legit
I don’t see anything not legit about it! Could be helping a friend?
Seemed like a complete random because it was my gathering hall, I don’t even know the sort of hours you’d have to put in to get that rank plus the full set of gear he was using at this stage, just wondering if there was people hacking the game
Ah fair enough. Wouldn’t take too long actually of they just focused on the key quests in online. 50-100 maybe?
I’m doing the twin frenzied tigrex mission, and keep getting absolutely raped by the second one, every god damn time. So so much rage.
So for anyone interested or cares, it looks like Theme Hospital is currently the “On the House” Special on Origin… this might be old news, but i only just found out today XD…
TIME TO GET MY BLOATY HEAD SYNDROME ON!
Free games are always welcome! Cheers for the tip off!
Refresh mats pls
Here you go
Refreshing!
Hmmm….
Ice one, Giz…
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2015/02/is-this-even-possible/
Caught up with Orange Is The New Black last night, such a good show. I want more now damn it, I don’t wanna wait!
@jocon
After today’s drama I decided to hold off asking peeps if anyone was interested in gold cm, I’ll let you know if anything changes apart from that I’m gonna wait for things to sort themselves out.
Yeah, fair call.
Hope none of you guys were fans of Star Ocean or Valkyrie Profile or Phantasy Star Nova, or anything else by tri-Ace becuse they got acquired by a mobile publisher, so expect them to ruin your memories with awful phone games any day now. 🙁
To be fair, you can still have fun. There’s just a weekly micro-transaction to unlock the “fun” mechanic
Phone games are designed so that they’re just barely fun, but if you pay you can have slightly more fun.
Apparently Max can fit in my arm rest on the couch…
http://i.imgur.com/Noy8rth.jpg
Spent some money at EB today, which I haven’t done for quite some time – their current sale is less of the usual ongoing minor discounts and more of their rarer respectable stock clearances, which tend to be pretty good if you have a smaller store in your area. In this case I checked out Forest Hill after Chadstone had been picked clean of what I was specifically after, and ended up with Civ V Complete for $35, Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris Gold Edition for $35 (might not be worth the $50 considering the reviews, but at that price I’m happy since it includes the DLC and some nice physical collectors edition extras), and The Evil Within limited edition with the nice lenticular cover art that I didn’t even know was available for PC for $28.
There’s some other good stuff I spotted like Banner Saga for $8 and things like Bioshock Infinite for under $20 for a change, some of the newer RPGs like the latest Divinity for under $30, as well as $8-$12 for lots of indie platformers that got fancy retail boxes. I think there were even some leftover XCOM Complete boxes for $18, and the odd straggler like Beyond Good & Evil and Botanicula at $4 apiece (also Pac-Man ghost salt & pepper shakers for $4).
hey so I’ve been playing dying light lately this is one of my vids https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSuMy3PgECM
I don’t understand this Daharerneuhun Moran mission at all. A little direction would be nice, Mr Game.
You didn’t fight Jhen Mohran in Tri?
Did you kill Darren Moran yet? If not I can type an E Z strategy, but it’s so tedious 😛
I think I did like once. It was only an online thing wasn’t it? Or at least it wasn’t part of the game before you hit the credits. And still, I shouldn’t had to have done it there to work out this one. Here’s pasta of the rant I sent back to Annoying Friend who did his condescending “lol git gud” speech:
In other news, that electric unicorn is a prick. HOLD STILL SO I CAN SHOOT YOU.
Overlord is $1.24 on Steam…
But, I’m worried that if I buy it, I won’t play it…
:\
Overlord is pretty great, if you’ve never played it before.
I’d like to thank all of you for being here for me. It means a lot, it really does.
*That’s* what we’re here for?
Because this wasn’t supposed to be here >.>Ok, of the nearly 2200 pictures and videos I moved back to my phone, I’ve kept only a little under 300 on there. Good job, me.
…is that the time?
Awake…and sweaty… 🙁
Awake…and not sweaty… 😀
I’ve been at work for under two minutes and I’ve already checked out for the week.
Don’t lie, you nostalgia’d hard. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88y4ttqaW6U