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Morning all!
Transistor is a pretty fun game. Free this month for PS+. I’m enjoying it. The variety of tactics and abilities is very cool. I’m especially enjoying the challenge rooms that force me to learn exactly what these powers are capable of.
In other news, it’s only 30 days until Bloodborne!
Here’s a pretty cool new gameplay video focusing on bosses and mini-bosses.
I really liked transistor. it’s a cool guy 🙂
How was your weekend Mr Shane?
Not too bad, thanks. This was probably the highlight, I think.
How was yours?
That sounds awesome 🙂
Mine was good, its the start of mardigras season so many alcohols were consumed. I’m getting too old for all this partying though
Morning! I tried to load up Dark Souls to get back in the game until Bloodborne (since I’m not super great at those sorts of games), but it refuses to launch, even after validating content. Sadface.
What is the error you are getting if any? I had it up and running a couple of months ago without any issues plus had the hd texture pack mod running as well…
No error unfortunately – it just doesn’t load. Might snoop around the internet today to see if there’s anything. Or, with two ‘eds being better than one, we might be able to solve it!
Hmmm always a bit hard when there’s no error. Mine was running off steam so maybe that’s the difference. If the reinstall fails maybe try running it in compatibility mode by right clicking on the executable and setting a specific os. Otherwise check out the dark souls nexus webpage maybe they have some info on it. (www.nexusmods.com/dark souls)
Aw damn, that stinks. Are you playing the PC version? They recently switched from GFWL to Steam, I think. I don’t know if that necessitates a complete reinstall or not, but it might be worth looking into…?
Yeah the PC version with DSFix. I needed to update the client as a beta to move off GFWL so it might just be “beta” issues. Will delete and re-install tonight I think. Meanwhile I got Lords of the Fallen cheap on X1 so there’s that while I wait for DS to download!
Dude, so ready for Bloodborne.
So ready.
Had a pretty great weekend. Saturday I had my weigh in, and I’ve lost another 1.5 kilos. The rest of the day was spent watching sport and playing PS4, which is always a good day. Yesterday was better though. It’s my friend Trent’s birthday today, so we had the party yesterday. We went bowling, and I managed to win the first game in the group I was playing in. Then we went to City Park and had pizza for tea. It was a costume party, and while I didn’t dress up, there was some good costumes. Trent dressed as Booker De Witt, another mate dressed as Napoleon Dynamite (really nailed it) and another guy dressed as Starburns from Community (also nailed it). More weekends like that please.
Sounds like a great weekend, and congrats on the weight loss! I’ve avoided the scales after being not as good as possible the last couple of weeks.
I haven’t really been all that good. I’m still eating stuff I shouldn’t, although I am trying to keep myself under 1800 calories per day. Using My Fitness Pal helps me do that, it’s a really good calorie counter (with barcode scanner!). Weight loss is never easy but always worthwhile.
Thanks for the tip! It may take a while but we can get there!
This weekend I worked cause thats all I do at the moment (OMG TOMORROW IS LAST DAY THEN 3 DAYS OFF SO EXCITED)
Managed to go see The Kingsman last night, good movie go see it. Then when I came home there was cheesecake and I finally got to that Stone and Wood Garden Ale I put in the fridge a week ago and Played some Monater Hunter, did first expedition. Solid 6 hour weekend.
Kingsman is fantastic.
The church scene is fucking gold.Yeah, I liked the opening with the scotch as well. Also that evil secretary woman was hawt as hell.
I love the speeches this angry guy gives at the start of all the Twisted Sister music videos.
Worlds best over-actor, bar none
and by all I mean the two I just watched.
So my weekend was consumed by the start of mardi gras, however I did by a new boardgame for Anton – http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/132531/roll-galaxy So we spent a few hours playing it multiple times. Spoiler alert – it’s really good 🙂
Festivals! Board games! Quality time! Weekending done right.
Yeah you would go to Mardi Gras
I went to a science talk at the observatory and then went drinking, it was hosted by a drag queen and was a good night. It was less mardi gras than most of the mardi gras things. 🙂
Sounds a’ight. Where’d ya end up drinking?
Lowenbrau 🙂
So my little girl started school this year, and she’s starting to learn to read. Each week she brings home some new words to learn. I, a, Mum, Dad, to, it, the….
One of the words she was learning this past week was “we”. When she read it to me, it went like:
Her: “‘We’…Oh, like the Wii U!”
Me: “Uhh…well…kind of…”
No even like the original Wii?
She’s too young to remember that 😛
As the youngest Sydney TAYbie, I too learnt to ready and type cause of video games.
Homeworld Remastered this week. My body is ready. Lubricated, sweaty and ready.
Also got into KanColle on Saturday as well. Now to figure out how on earth I play it! @negativezero
Prepare to waste many, many hours of your life looking after girls that are representations of WWII warships.
Looking forward to it! My first go at the lottery as well, got in on the second refresh on Saturday’s draw. Got some guides I need to run through, but avoided it for most of the weekend – was busy with Iron Banner on Destiny.
Need to pick a VPN to use regularly as well, choosing a different VPN seems to trigger DMM’s suspicious activity and subsequent password reset. Which makes sense. I’m using the SoftEther VPN client – do you use the same thing?
When I played I used a free VPN called TunnelBear. It wasn’t particularly fast and I was limited to only about 500 MB but it served pretty well considering I didn’t use a VPN for anything else. I wouldn’t recommend using it but from what I recall TB wasn’t exactly expensive either if you feel like paying for it.
I’m sure Neg can give you all the tips and tricks but I found http://kancolle.wikia.com/wiki/Kancolle_Wiki to be pretty much all I needed. Gives you the layout for what enemies to expect from certain maps to how different formations work and what amounts of material you need to construct certain ships.
You don’t need to use a VPN any more. You can set some cookies to spoof DMM’s regioning system and make it think you’re in Japan:
http://kancolle.wikia.com/wiki/Tutorial:_Proxy_Connection#Option_3:_Editing_DMM_Cookie.27s_Region_Flag
Even better, use KanColleViewer which is basically a shell with an IE window in it which loads the game, and it can do the region trick for you and also surfaces a lot of extra information from the game in a better way, including some hidden stats like morale.
I assume you got in and logged in and everything? Which did you pick as your starter? My terrible secret is that I picked Murakumo and then forgot she was my first ship after a while and then deleted her when I had to purge a bunch of common, low-level destroyers to make room. 🙁
It’s not a hard game to play but it does throw a lot at you at once. Some tips:
– On sorties, if a shipgirl is hit to Red, you must not advance to the next node with her. Going into the night battle segment of the same fight is fine, but if you advance to the next node with a shipgirl in the red, she can be sunk. A sunk ship is gone forever. All equipment, all experience, all your affection and everything is just gone. This is the only way a shipgirl can sink. They must be hit down into the red zone and then you have to advance with them in that condition. This means it’s 100% your fault if it happens and it should never happen.
– Your first focus needs to be unlocking Fleet #2 and Expeditions. To do that you need to do some Fleet Composition (Green) quests up to Quest A4 which requires you to have six ships in the first fleet.
– Expedition #1 requires 2 ships only. #2 requires 4. #4 requires 4, and one needs to be a cruiser. These three expeditions pull in a high amount of fuel and ammo.
– Unlocking Fleet #3 requires you to have Sendai, Jintsuu and Naka. They will come to you eventually, don’t stress. Jintsuu and Naka are generally easy – Naka is like a bad rash, honestly. Sendai’s a bit harder to get early on as she’s significantly rarer. All three are absolutely fantastic cruisers at high levels so you should hang onto them.
– Unlocking Fleet #4 requires you to have Kongou, Hiei, Haruna and Kirishima. You’re most likely going to start seeing them toward the end of World 2 or somewhere in World 3. Don’t stress, they’ll come to you eventually. They’re rare drops but you’ll get sick of them dropping all over the place eventually.
– There is a quest early on to sink an aircraft carrier. The first carriers appear in IIRC the third map of World 1. This quest rewards Akagi who is arguably the 2nd best carrier in the game (Kaga is the best). You will most likely get Akagi before you can afford to run her regularly, she has a prodigious appetite. So be careful.
– Early on you have no ships and so you effectively will end up with higher construction luck, because there’s very few drops you don’t already have. Don’t do large ship construction as it’s intended for people up much higher levels, but doing a few Battleship or Carrier constructions might pay off.
– Best common destroyers long-term (these all drop from the first map): Hatsuharu, Hibiki, Hatsushimo, Ushio, Fubuki, Ayanami, Yuudachi, Shigure. All of them have 2nd Remodel upgrades at level 50-70 which make them good value. The Mutsuki class destroyers (names ending in zuki/tsuki, except for Yayoi, but you won’t have a chance to get Yayoi for a while) are worth hanging onto a set of because they have very low resource consumption making them ideal for expeditions.
– Best common cruisers long-term are Isuzu, Sendai, Jintsuu and Naka for their remodels (Isuzu is great for anti-sub operations, the Sendais are just great in general). You’re unlikely to see them early on, but Kiso, Kitakami and Ooi are must-haves as well, as all three can become torpedo cruisers which give you a pre-emptive attack. Kitakami and Ooi upgrade to torpedo cruiser at 10, where Kiso is at 70, so Kiso is more of a long-term prospect. Yura is also worth hanging onto as she has really solid all-around stats for a cruiser and higher than average anti-sub.
– Generally, all the heavy cruisers are good. The best Heavy Cruisers are the Myoukou (Myoukou, Haguro, Nachi, Ashigara) and Takao (Takao, Atago, Choukai, Maya) classes. The Myoukous all have 2nd remodels at 65 (70 for Myoukou) and are generally amazing. The Takaos don’t have 2nd remodels but are competitive stats-wise anyway. Furutaka and Kinugasa have 2nd remodels but they’re not great cruisers. Mogami might drop for you somewhere early on, probably your first aviation cruiser and you will need her for clearing world 4 (unless by that stage you have Tone or Chikuma at level 70+).
– Ideally if you can you should run all 12 of your PVP exercises every day. Even if you lose, you gain lots of XP. The higher-level the opponent the better. Remember the ship you designate as fleet flagship will get 50% more XP than the rest.
– Focus on clearing World 1. Don’t worry about events or anything (the current event ends today anyway). Don’t waste too many resources doing construction. If you do decide you want to spend a bigger amount on construction – 250/130/200/30 (Fuel/Ammo/Steel/Bauxite) is Destroyers & Cruisers with a small chance for Submarines (I-168, I-58, I-8) and also a chance at rare destroyers Yukikaze or Shimakaze. 400/100/600/30 for Battleships (but don’t be upset when you get a heavy cruiser instead, happens a lot). 300/30/400/300 for Carriers (most likely to produce a light carrier).
– Despite what I said up there about the ‘best’ ships, pick the ones you like! Especially as your main flagship / secretary. Sometimes necessity will dictate you level up a ship you don’t especially like but most of the time the stats matter less until you’re getting into higher-level play.
– Remember drops are random and the RNG goddess is fickle. The more you want it the more she’ll try and stop you having it.
Awesome – thanks for the info, again!
I picked Fubuki, because I didn’t realise as I was starting the game it was actually asking me what starter I wanted. Which is a little disappointing, but oh well. I figured out the red/heavy damage thing early because I read up on damage conditions and fatigue, etc – so I haven’t lost anyone yet.
I’m unlocking second fleet and expeditions now, and just worked out what the quests are as well.
The crafting, remodelling, etc stuff is a little lost on me at the moment, I’ll have to do some reading. Crafting especially.
EDIT: Trying KanColleViewer, but getting the region error, despite setting the region cookie and clearing IE cache from KCV’s buttons. Will investigate further, looks like a great way to play. Thanks again!
EDIT EDIT: Nevermind, had to login to DMM and set it to Japanese from KCV!
Don’t bother crafting equipment yet, you won’t get anything.
All the starter ships are common drops so you didn’t really miss out, and Fubuki is probably the best starter at the moment because she has a Kai-2 remodel at level 70 that has a bunch of rare, uncraftable gear. She’s just super bland.
Crafting ships is easy. You spend a bunch of resources and depending on the combo you put in, certain ships have higher or lower probability of being built. There’s no way to guarantee what you’ll get though. Could put 999 of everything in and still get Naka. The combinations that work are on the wiki. There’s also large ship construction which accessed via a button on the build interface, but that requires you to put 1500+ resources in so it’s very expensive and will wipe your resources out for several days as a low-level admiral.
Still, it’s worth it a few times when you’re starting out because if you manage to get a rare Battleship or Carrier early it can help you get through the starting worlds quite quickly. Even low-end BBs like Fusou and Yamashiro are worth it.
My reply went to moderation for some reason 🙁
*waits impatiently*
EDIT: Update: I was using the SoftEther VPN because that’s what was recommended in the guide, but I since switched to my usual VPN I use for sailing the seven seas, and that works fine.
I’ve figured out how to run sorties, resupply, repair and do all the basic stuff too.
Its only got one link so I can’t get it out of mod hell by removing them. Mainly was giving some tips and pointing out you don’t need a VPN at all.
oh, cool? no vpn?
Yeah, there’s some cookies you can set that spoof DMM into thinking you’re in Japan.
Cool, I’ll wait for your moderated reply. Cheers!
Will have to just wait and hope that @markserrels notices.
I wonder if it’s something weird to do with the link or what.
This is the link:
http://kancolle.wikia.com/wiki/Tutorial:_Proxy_Connection#Option_3:_Editing_DMM_Cookie.27s_Region_Flag
@negativezero
Nice! That’s the page I got the proxy instructions from, but didn’t notice that. Seems I can access KanColle without a VPN. It’s under maintenance though. Are there implications for accessing it from a flash enabled browser on iOS? Wondering if it’d be risky, ie: incurring ban wrath or something.
Thanks for the info, it’s appreciated.
My wife and I bought an Apple TV and signed up for Stan last weekend, so consequently all we’ve done for the last week is watch Underbelly and Star Trek. We’re halfway through the original series and apparently Deep Space 9 will be added well before we’re done with The Next Generation.
It doesn’t have everything and some shows they only have the first season or two, but I would assume those later seasons will be added at some point. I know I certainly can’t make do with only 2 seasons of Spongebob Squarepants, am I right?
Subscribe to Stan. It’s the opposite of terrible.
#hailcorporate #sponsoredpost
As an employee of nine network of australia I am obliged to say YAY SATAN! I mean *cough* STAN!!!
Correct me if I’m wrong, but the following seems logical, right? If I have proven my identity to Centrelink, and I have proven my relationship to my son to Centrelink, and I have proven that I am married to my wife to Centrelink, and she has proven her identity to Centrelink previously, and she has proven that she is the mother of our son to Centrelink previously, and has proven to Centrelink that we a married previously, AND I was told on the phone by a Centrelink worker that this is fine and counts as proving my partners identity, it should be fine, right? Right?
…nope.
I would be surprised to find a Government Department more incompetent than good ol’ C-link. Now my parenting payment has been completely cancelled and I have to start over, including taking a toddler into their offices for a huge long wait – again. Good on ya, you pack of faceless knobs who find any excuse to cause pain and suffering to your supposed ‘clients’.
Sympathies. =( Centrelink is just the fucking worst. Like it’s not soul destroying enough needing their help or being unemployed in the first place, then they seem to do everything in their power to make it even more painful for you.
I’m sure they do it on purpose as a form of encouragement to get a job.
I see where you went wrong here, you put the concept of logic and Centrelink in the same thought, never do this
Hi everybody! How were your weekends?
Worked pretty much all weekend, came home last night, and after putting my son to bed he tells me that I’m the best dad in the galaxy. Don’t know what I did to deserve that, but it made me feel pretty darn great.
In other news, The Order 1886 is a pretty cool guy, sure it’s got a lot of QTE’s and cut-scenes, but I’m having a great time with it, really digging the story so far, hopefully get it finished today.
My son tells me I’m “a daddy in the whole wide world”. I know what he means, but the literal interpretation is a little deflating 😛
Order:1886 was awesome fun. I actually really enjoy that sort of game – just enough gunplay and running around to liven things up, but also very story-driven and ‘cinematic’ with the cutscenes. Also, it’s awesome how the cutscenes almost seamlessly blend into the gameplay sections.
Hola Tay
Too fucking hot this weekend. Evacuated my hot unit for my parent’s air-conditioned place, where PUPPY
https://instagram.com/p/zYav6tCbzb/?modal=true
https://instagram.com/p/zWVjSWCb3M/?modal=true
On Sunday played Ticket to Ride and Iota, then came back to my (slightly cooler) unit. Finally got some reading done too.
A Monday morning question: Best animal in a video game?
Dogmeat.
That canine saved my hide far more than any other animal, ever, or even character, ever, in Fallout(s).
Jake in Dog’s Life. He was great. I only played the demo, but that was a pretty fun and unique game.
Rathalos or Tigrex from Monster Hunter. Rathalos is just a cool looking beast, the quintessential hunt for me. TIgrex was the first monster I hunted that took me a couple of days of trying off and on the first time I encountered him (MHFU, from memory), and I shat bricks the first time I actually dropped one.
BTW, I’mma say Agro from Shadow of the Colossus
GOD YES! Love that game.
I was going to say this. A huge part of what makes Shadow of the Colossus so powerful as an experience is that horse.
Dog in Fable II perhaps?
This is probably part of why @dc thinks I’m a monster, but I didn’t like that dog. I found it annoying. Don’t bark at treasure chests, I like to find them on my own, dammit!
MONSTER.
The Mabari Hound companion in Dragon Age Origins was kind of awesome.
I thought that hound was adorable. So vicious in battles but then you’re back at your camp and it just looks at you and rolls on its back when you choose to pet it.
Missile, Ghost Trick.
*wipes tear from eye*
I don’t know… Shadowmere?
Oh good god, why is the first client of the day always an idiot? This woman has me on her speakerphone and it typing too loudly to fill the silence, ughhh. Also, she is dumb and should have her internet licence revoked. And probably also her pen licence.
Good morning taybes <3
What do you do?
She’s in charge of internet licences so don’t mess with her! 😛
But my pen licence is safe right?
Medical software development.
This one time I html’d in a highschool computing class.
Gotta start somewhere. Although, when I was in high school, we learned to type on electric typewriters.
You went to highschool in the future??
Monster Hunter is the reason I’m anti-social.
Society is the reason I’m anti-social.
I worked in hospitality and got over it
Therefore, Monster Hunter is Society?
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i call bullshit! MH is the very reason you are socialising at this very moment! your post directly contradicts itself!
It has been expressed that MH multi progress should be a local cooperative activity in our house. The gore magala hunt was interesting with only two hunters in HR1 gear…
The challenge is fun at least.
I did the Gore Magala multi urgent the other day as only two hunters. I was still in HR1 gear, but I think my friend had higher gear (he was HR4 at the time).
Fun fight.
I’m up to the first major gameplay decision in Dragon Age: Inquisition again. I’m going to choose the opposite to my first playthrough, even though I’m morally opposed to it. I don’t often do this in games, it feels all kinds of wrong.
it happens to me on second playthroughs some times. i keep telling myself ill do things differently see how the events will unfold, and end up playing the game same way as the first time because i morally object to the other decisions laid out.
This happened when I tried a Paragon playthrough of ME3. It just felt… wrong. The whole way through.
You think that’s bad? My wife has an ME3 playthrough where she shot Mordin.
O_O…
And she’s still your wife?
I have discussed this with her and I believe she feels genuine remorse for her actions.
Mordin was always my favorite. Probably the only character I’d voluntarily go and see on the Normandy just to talk to him.
Oh man…companions are berating me for my decision. Shut up, I agree with you, dammit! 😛
I have to roleplay a character to be able to do this. They have to have motive for me to do it, not just “cos I want to see what happens”!
so i started The ORder 1886 last night.. i played about half an hour of it… i say played as i actually kept dozing off while playing it… literally. i may/may not have missed some pivotal plot points…
yeah, i dont know if im going to be able to sit through the rest of it.
heres what ive done so far. personally dont think there is any point in spoiler tagging it as its basically, “i moved a bit, killed some shit and done” but i figured id tag it anyway for the diehard folk. no plot points revealed.:
Escaped the prison, killed some dudes. killed 2 lycans, chased the third through the streets. killed him with as seriously OP weapon. discovered that pressing R1 whilst equipped with the shotgun unleashes a non lethal kamehameha wave on some poor bastard the practically scares the shit out of them (wtf is that???), ran into another comrade, Lafayette, who i just massively cock-blocked (not cool man), and checked out Nikola Teslas “amazing” invention… (hint: its just your everyday shitty sniper rifle edit: oh he also makes a shitty device to overload a power circuit), at that point i fell asleep and woke up about 5-10 minutes later, my character waiting for me to move….…and at that point, i switched the fucker off…. so disappointed. was really looking forward to this game. Looks perty though! Very perty. i also perfectly agree that 60fps would have ruined the games aesthetic…
im normally a fan of QTE’s when done right, but seriously WTF. no less than about 30 qte’s in 30 min.
I’ve probably sat through an equal amount of cut scenes thus far as I have sat there playing the game. The fact I can’t skip them makes it even worse at times :/ At one point I was playing for all of 30 seconds then I encountered ANOTHER cut scene, like why..
Good morning all. Hope you are all well and that no one got blown away/flooded out by the rain in Queensland. Weekend was pretty relaxed with not much going on aside from catching up with family and staying relatively dry. Played some Heroes of the Storm which was pretty fun although, as in all MOBAs, some people are just absolutely terrible. Still a fun game but yeah, can’t spend hours of my time playing it.
Yeah I hear it all the time, Heroes of the Storm is the absolute worst for Solo Queue because the way the gameplay is designed it’s completely impossible to carry a game like you could in DOTA2 or LoL since there are no items and everyone levels with you. The game is centered on teamwork and objectives so a full team of 5 friends can have an absolute ball with this game.
Mechanically, HotS ticks a lot of boxes because the mechanics are very flashy and things feel a lot more fun when activating abilities (Diablo is basically Alistair which I thought was hilarious). But yeah, people either don’t seem to quite understand that no laning is required and some champions are dedicated to doing one sort of thing only and are pretty crap at anything else, moreso than either LoL or Dota.
I agree, there is no laning phase, which I think is a huge boon and will be more accessible to players that are LoL/DoTA experienced and those that wanted to see what all the fuss is about. But you’re right the lack of farming to buy items (Since there are no items) turn it into a curse as well, the character you pick, everyone knows what that hero is good for with very little room for flexibility, which I guess makes team comp planning maybe more restricted than DOTA or even LoL in terms of what each character can do. Basically everyone is a LoL-equivalent of an AD carry, you only have one way that character can go in terms of build (You can but it’s far from ideal), though in Heroes you don’t even have the option. Sure there might be a short “level-up” process where some heroes are able to skirmish very well starting at level X, but it’s not a 10-15 last hitting fest that the other MOBAs do.
A reasonably detailed look at the upcoming PS4 re-release for Dark Souls 2. Dammit, FROM, now I need to find some more money for you. Anyone want to buy a kidney?
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2015-hands-on-with-dark-souls-2-on-ps4
Not sure about this. Biggest problem with DS2 was it’s tendency to eschew interesting challenge and design in favor of throwing mobs at you and this just seems like making the problem worse.
I’m not sure either. The article suggests that it’s to offset the addition of more co-op slots, but it’s gonna be a bit of an irritating proposition for solo players.
D’: Why must games keep doing this? “Sure, you could do it solo… but we’re balancing everything around co-op, so … good luck with that. *snigger*”
New idea for myself to attempt this week: All online articles I read END AT THE LAST WORD OF THE ARTICLE. There is nothing further down. Click back or close the window. Nothing to see here.
Happiness levels increase exponentially. Even being select about what articles you click on can boost said happiness levels even further.
Good luck!
But Freeze, there are people who are wrong. On the Internet!
Oh yeah, don’t know if it interests any of you but apparently one of the voice options for your main character in Dragon Ball Xenoverse is Takahata from TeamFourStar. And yes, the voice is Ghost Nappa.
HAHAHAHA Awesome!
If there’s something strange
in your neighbourhood
guess who it is
GHOST NAPPA!
I just finished Thief. I had a few problems but overall I enjoyed it and thought it was ok. Coming from someone who never played the series.
@jocon @distantdrop Ok peeps first off I owe both of you an apology for yesterday; my patience and my head were at their limits from real life drama and I didn’t have the mentality to properly raid lead. Hence a lot of raging and general lack of a fuse of any kind on my part.
To my next issue don and rail have both requested I sit back for the coming weekend and let them RL; as they aren’t too impressed by my performance from the last few weeks (i.e. bringing pugs in, losing my cool, not letting the raid get stuck on a boss for a few weeks and having pugs carry us). While I was caught off guard yesterday (mostly cos I just couldn’t bring myself to care) my rl stuff is now sorted and I’m back at a 100%. I’m bringing this to you two first and taking it to other raiders later today and I’m putting this to an end once and for all.
Raiders can either follow my lead or they can’t; to date I would like to think I’ve set a somewhat decent example and I’ve never asked anything of my raiders that I can’t/won’t rise to accomplish myself. So my question is simple, are you willing to follow my lead or are you not? I can only let my performance to date stand in my defence.
However should you decide to stand by me you should know from here on out; I refuse to have this conversation repeatedly; with every decision I make being questioned, and everyone having an opinion as to what the guild should be doing.
To be honest I just want to raid and we’ve reached a progression point where alternatives arn’t really an easier option Brack>Kromog>Blast Furnace>Iron Council all these bosses we’re going to be stuck on, that’s the whole point of tier bosses.
As for operator, I must admit we cheesed that kill, and you also had every right to bring in pugs I honestly believe we would of wiped on him all night, we simply didn’t have the output.
Which draws the question, do we go wipetastic holding our convictions or pug our shortcomings… how exactly do you tell people to ‘do better’.
We need to find a fast fix out of this 10 man tuning and strict demands with a surge of recruitment or fix it with a pug.. because we for the most parts outgear normal brf, what the hell are we going to do for heroic.
Whoever raid leads makes little to no difference you like to point us in the right direction and if shit doesn’t workout we try something else, rail and don obviously want to bat heads until progression is made as a guild only.
In terms of who I follow I WILL NOT OBJECT TO YOUR’S OR DON’S LEADERSHIP however I do wish to have some input I believe my experience deserves me that right. however if you believe it borderlines on harassment and subverting let me know.
I’m well aware we’ve run out of alternatives; to be completely honest we’re probably ready to try the easier heroic fights like frans and gruul. I also have no issue spending time (most likely considerable amounts of it) on the remaining fights we have in normal as all those fights are ridiculously challenging either in terms of mechanics; duration or just setting a high skill bar.
At the end of the day I have no interest in staying on a fight for 5 hours tweaking little things when the larger problem stares me in the face like with operator; where we just didn’t have the aoe dps for it. Comparing the 50k pally on operator and flamebender you could see most of our dps were up to scratch (with room for improvement) from a single target perspective. I just didn’t see us improving enough to pull of 30% worth of damage.
However all of this is irrelevant to the underlying problem; I can’t take the guild or raid group in any direction unless the raiders agree that this is the direction to go in. If people prefer don’s idea of doing content purely with a 10man team and keeping it in guild and prefer his/rails leading style then I will step down. However they can also take on the added responsibility of keeping a full roster and managing raid timings/attendance and progression.
It is worth noting raid leading is not just pointing a group in the right direction; it’s keeping an eye on all mechanics in play, in fights like twins/operator that means keeping an eye on the arena for the whole raid. It’s knowing which classes/roles are failing on their respective mechanics and amending the strategy accordingly to suit the raid composition. It’s keeping all the personalities that come into play in check and knowing which raiders need a push to get their full potential out. It’s things like telling everyone to calm down with strategies and centralizing what the raid is going to do.
So how exactly does this choice get made, because if if things go the way their going now I assume Don, Devil, Saatyne and Railgun might decide to go their own way? is there no compromise in this? however if you give up on analysis and recruiting duties it might be a slow death.
I really think dude this ultimatum needs more fleshing out.
What this is red; is me being at the end of my tether in returning to this issue.
This weekend I went through what was one of the most stressful and exhausting periods in my life in almost 2 years. I stepped down on Saturday as I didn’t want it to spread out to the guild and in retrospect I should’ve stayed out yesterday however I came on because I didn’t want to be left alone with my thoughts anymore.
However what I am faced with while I was metaphorically down was the proverbial kick in the guts from the guild I spent countless hours trying to put together and have expended even more effort in making sure everyone’s satisfied with. So now that I’ve stepped out of my shitty situation and I take a look at something I poured a lot of myself into bringing to fruition only to have it kick me when I’m down; well let me tell you I am fucking pissed. If all I have to show for bringing this group of people together to tackle raid content with is a kick when I’m down well you can see why I am eager to clear where I stand once and for all.
I don’t even need any bloody gear from the content we’re doing anymore! I haven’t needed it for almost 2 weeks; yet I’m still there to make sure we do it! Because I’d rather kill bosses with a group of people I’m comfortable with than a group of random idiots; however now my group of friends has just made this whole experience a lot harder for me to enjoy.
What my ultimatum is this. From day 1 I have strived and fought to bring this group up and to take it further. I have as I’m sure you and Jo will attest to put quite a bit of myself in building us up. Will you continue to trust in my lead and advise me as we move forward or is it time for a change?
This doesn’t mean don/rail and group are to leave; this does however mean if I continue to RL based on the outcome I will not debate when to pug; who to kill and who gets loot or what direction this guild goes in. I will debate strategies/mechanics and points of improvement.
If the choice was mine I would definitely want to see you continue leading I’m just a little scared of the consequences of losing every healer we have.
If you want me hold my tongue on direction I can accommodate that’s only fair, maybe that’s probably why my guild I co-GM’d with on frostmane failed, I was far to neutral and unforgiving, the contradictions was to unstable.
You also need to feel at home with your own guild, perhaps we need to focus on community and a focused direction that we all embrace which doesn’t hinder the GM.
You and Don’s convictions need to be parallel.
You’ve earnt my trust.. I just might be a little to slow to see it. or simply forget about it, if the ultimatum holds I will work on being more accommodating your needs and hopefully also defending them.
You have done good so far. You’ve built the guild from a loose group of puggers to an effective, if undersized, prog team. I’ll follow as I have. But part of leading is listening to your team.So I’ll give you my 2c here and henceforth stfu and just do what I am asked.
We cannot catch up to the other prog guilds. Ever. We are too far behind.
So what is the goal you have for us? We are not in the race, so I would not stress too much about how fast we are moving.
The first couple of weekends of BRF where we were just 10 manning it were the most enjoyable raiding thus far. Even 5 hours of Oregorger lead to the most satisfying boss kill ever.
On the face of it I’d agree with Don that that’s what I want to do. I just want to raid, as a guild.
But you, and Red, might be right. Maybe we are about to hit a wall we just cannot get over with the team we have.
But I keep thinking of out first Oregorger kill: yes it took us a session and a half to get down, but now we know it so well, as a team, that we have him on farm, can beat him in 3 or so tries and quickly move on.
And you guys made that happen: analyzing and theorycrafting and testing and communicating. Maybe we can do the same with the other bosses.
Or maybe not. In which case it’s recruit or pug. But recruiting is a big hurdle for us and pugging is an unfun, short-term solution.
But also as Red said; if Don bails we might as well pack up and play something else. And he was getting pretty pissed at the pugging.
Maybe consider what he is saying and throw him a bone.
Imo, give Don and Rail what they want for a couple of weekends. Let us find out if we truly have hit a wall our 10 man style cannot overcome.
In the meantime, start up recruiting again. And start low – 650 ilvl at most.
As Red said, peeps at 660+ are all doing heroics. They aint gonna join us when they can join one of a dozen 6/10+ H BRF guilds that are recruiting every day.
So target the lower level peeps that those guilds won’t take.
But tis your call.
2c over.
I can’t make this coming Saturday due to rl commitments.
Also 20/March – ~5/April I will be away on Japan trip and will not be able to attend.
Also probably a Saturday for that landscaping I mentioned but I’ll let you know when I tee that up.
Apart from that I’ll be there and will see if I can lift my game any.
@pupp3tmast3r
tl:dr – I kinda agree with Don on the pugs but what the hell do I know about prog raiding.
I respect what you have done thus far and will follow your lead quietly henceforth.
ps: I hope your rl situation gets better soon man.
+1
Sorry about all this poor timing of all this kronos, me and jo would never want to compound your existing problems and I’m sure Don didn’t purposely intend for this timing you both simply reached your limits at the same time. coincidental if you can believe that. I simple don’t understand why he chose to do it near the end of a raid I guess when your passionate about something proper courtesy goes out the door.
For people who don’t know, I work for a company that deals with hotel reservation software. This means I get to see some interesting things from time to time. Mostly guest remarks in the reservation itself. Found one today that made me laugh:
As if you wouldnt want to stay in room 8.
I hope they were put in room 8
Uni! 😀
Uni! D:
Uni! 😀
Uni! D:
Uni! 😀
Man, what an emotional roller coaster!
Needs more O_o and /o\
I know what you mean.
So, judging by the 15 minute wait for coffee… semester’s started? Bloody students…
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2015/02/talk-amongst-yourselves-316/comment-page-1/#comment-3218176
I’ll clarify: “bloody students at a certain Sydney uni’s cafe.” No offence meant to any students not queueing for coffee at said uni cafe. 😛
What coffee?
Damn, just missed getting more StreetPasses.
The rain ruined all my plans, how was everyone else’s weekend?
Read plans as pants. Was a much better story.
It almost did. Hot & sunny Sunday fooled me into hanging my work pants outside.
Sudden storm almost ruined my pants plans for the week.
Monster Hunter peeps, where we at? I’m still milling about at HR 1 in multi but I’m hoping to remedy that today maybe with @bish. Otherwise, I’ve just finished up HR2, but I’ve still gotta trudge through that story quest, and it’s a doozy. I’m having a blast only using the bowgun, and I admit the only concession I’ll make is when I’m doing arena quests or if I see a heavy bowgun that I really like. 😛
Also, yeah, canada, nothing happening, etc.
Bogan, son. It’s pronounced heavy bogan.
(I’ll let you do your own Google image search.)
surprisingly more tame than if one does a regular image search on bogan.
Equal amount of mullets, however.
We at here.
Greenius helped me get to Rank 4 last night (more like ‘helped me not be so bored during that horrible quest’).
But I did get to level-up my Bug Stick yesterday. So now I’ve got an orange butterfly on my arm. It’s as great as it sounds.
Just finished rathalos armour in single player, bumped the multi up to HR3 over the weekend.
I went on an expidition
Slow start, because I’ve been busy. Just ran into my first Tetsucabra over the weekend, and almost got him, but he hits like a truck and I was still trying to learn his behaviour. The quest was for Goldenfish, but I saw Tetsu and decided it was on.
I actually like him – he’s like a cross between an angry frog and a dog.
I’m definitely enjoying the variety of monster types in this one.
I’m interested to see some of the new stuff. Tetsu made me smile. Still waiting for my first Rathalos and Tigrex. They’re like old friends. =)
This being my first MH, everything is new stuff!
Pow, redeemed.
\o/
I think I’m nearly up to tigrex… That’ll be a first time for me since I only started at Tri.
He was the first monster I had real trouble with in MHFU. I learnt the hard way to stay the fuck out of his way when he’s enraged. He tears around like an angry truck and hits just as hard. Might’ve seemed harder because that was my first real foray into MH though – I assume his behaviour is still the same, too.
It’s cool learning those spots to be in for any given monster – getting in and doing damage in the middle of a chaotic melee, and emerging without a scratch.
Other half started finding those spots by the second gore magala fight and was a lot happier than the first hunt.
I love that even when you know how to play the game, a new monster can still beat the tar out of you, just because you haven’t learn how they work yet. I’m decent with a LS, and Tetsu still got me. There’s also the environment you’re fighting them in too – that can play a big part. Small or enclosed versus big and open, it all contributes.
It might just be because I’m used to him, but Tigrex seems tame compared to Magala.
Even a Frenzied Tigrex gave me less hassle than Frenzied Gore Magala.
This could also be due to comparative gear level for each fight. I was almost certainly undergeared for the first Magala fight, but I had a huge gear advantage for the Frenzied Tigrex and Shagaru Magala fights.
Tigrex is cake with Thunder weapons, though. I didn’t know that at the time, and took far too long to kill him.
@ynefel I have a thunder weapon and was still getting smashed by the pair of them the other night ;_;
Also I totally don’t understand how element stuff works so I ignore it and just smash until dead regardless.
I really dig the design of most of the new monsters. Zamtrios and Najarala are currently competing for favourite.
Toad shark has such a versatile range, all the way from ‘pretty scary’ to ‘now you’re just being silly’
haha.
After I switched back to Glaive he wasn’t so hard, since it’s very easy to get each essence quickly for the triple buff. He’s still got enough “forms” to make me change tactics between each.
Tactics?
Pffft. Switch axe. Apply axe to monster. Repeat until dead (or flashing for capture).
Gotta say though, the running and jumping and air attack stuff has been so fun for our old rathian/rathalos friends.
Especially taking a tail clean off with a big leaping air slash, felt awesome.
Najarala pissed me off so much. Stupid infinite-ranged death machine.
I just killed the electric unicorn. It was the first one I’ve actually kinda felt bad about killing, I mean it was just kinda like “hey we heard there’s an electric unicorn in the woods. Bring me its head.” “But he’s just chilling out there, do I have to? Aw.”
Then found that there’s a new charge blade available to be forged, and I have enough Dylan Moran materials to make it. But it’s a little bit of a downgrade from my current one, so I dunno. Also I’m now only five novacrystals and five hercudromes short of being able to craft a new set of armour. Wish I could figure out where the hell I got my first three hercudromes, they showed up in one mission and I haven’t been able to work out which one it was to go back and farm some more.
Up to HR3 online now, HR2 offline.
Using the bow. Very fun so far.
Tomb Raider, still fun. Love it.
The Order, struggling to connect with main characters. No strong feelings.
I recently picked up the Definitive Edition for PS4. Looking forward to playing through it again.
More appropriate clothing, shiny hair. Good.
-cavmanjimu
I’m playing through Definitive Edition as well. Plays really great on PS4 and if you’re using headset the voice controls can be useful. (Though my sister thinks I’m crazy screaming out STEALTH! GUNS!)
What about the coveralls & hair????
I haven’t been changing her clothes. I figure Lara has more important things to worry about! (Also, liked the original ones. <3)
*leaves*
The alternate costumes are neat but they don’t suffer wear and tear through the story like her regular clothing which, as silly as it sounds, kind of breaks the immersion. Crystal Dynamics’ fault for making Lara take such a friggin beating I guess. Anyway, better to play with them when you’re doing free-roam/collectible hunting in the post-game.
I re-finished the story a couple of months back after picking up the Definitive Edition on my Xbone when the digital version was on sale and promised myself I would try and get all of the achievements, but then I remembered that there’s multipalyer onces. Even though I have Xbox Live Gold again, I doubt there’s going to be that much of a community still playing that those achievements are still going to be obtainiable without a huuuge time investment.
I think it’s time to shelve Tomb Raider, though if I can tear myself away from Destiny I might actually find all the collectibles this time before deleting it from the hard drive.
Oh man, voice controls are great!
Only thing is trying to find out the voice commands can be annoying :S
“GRENADE! EXPLOSION! EXPLODE? FIRE FIRE? BOOM ARROWS?! Goddamn I’ll just press the buttons…”
The main character reminds me of this guy from Dawn of War 2
Fun start to the week: just got back from the Dentist 🙁
Wrote out a reply, about to hit submit then realised how incredibly dark it was and thought better of it.
True story.
You want dark?
It took me about twenty years to get past the deep-seated fear of the dentist that was instilled in me from a very young age. Unlike Australia, in New Zealand dental care is covered under their medicare equivalent. Schools had a dental nurse and you had to go for a dental check-up at least once a year. When your name was called you’d walk, by yourself, to the clinic they’d have. Everything done on the cheap, mind you, so no high-power drills like you’d get in a modern dentist. Just the low-power ones that vibrate your teeth make that horrible grinding sound. The dental nurses all hated children and seemed like they enjoyed making them suffer. The anesthetic would dull the pain, but not take it away, and because they used shitty low-powered drills you felt it all and it took longer than it should have as well, so by the end the anesthetic would be wearing off.
One school I went to the clinic was right up the back of the school by the entrance, away from everything else. It was the ‘murder house’ and there were stories about not going too close during lunch because if you were close to the top of her list, the dental nurse would grab you during the break. Distinctly remember her laughing to herself while she had a fucking drill in my mouth.
I still remember my time at primary school where we had one of those which was basically a caravan and the guy in there was taking one of the screw tightening spanners covered (I use that term loosely) with cloth on my loose tooth to try and pull it out, I refused with great resistance, obviously. Fracking monsters, those meatbags, the lot of ’em
I once ran away from the waiting room of the school dentist.
True story.
Went to Dan’s going away dealy on Saturday. Was fuuuuun. It was good seeing the guys again! <3
https://twitter.com/hermitdc/status/569048444813180928
https://twitter.com/hermitdc/status/569064015688630272
I MISS DAN ALREADY! WE ALL BEAR HUGGED IT OUT! Good times!
Wish I could make it.
Also I realized next month that most of the Brisbane TAYbies will be overseas or out of state. D:
You n me, beers *hard stare*
Where’s Dan going?
Sydney. For gooood.
Or evil.
Probably evil.
Pic was a bit dark so I brightened it and cleared it up for you guys http://kramsdesign.com/misc/kotaku/B-W4qZECcAA4R-c.jpg
More people should be upvoting this.
Wonderful.
I am bitterly jealous. The weather was too bad for our original plans on Saturday, and I was hoping that meant I could go, but then it was too bad to attempt public transport. 🙁
Everyone thought the same as you. City was a ghost town. Bar was pretty empty!
Freeze and I got Mexican food before hand. You would’ve liked it! D:
Was there a meat Saturday?
Awh. @dkzeitgeist will be missed. It’s always good to hear his enthusiastic voice at a meat.
I had dramas Saturday, but it’s probably just as well I missed out… I’m not sure how to handle hugging.
best community review eversssss
People who bought it: “not that bad”
People who didn’t: “I heard it’s shit”
Me: some nonsense, chatting with @sughly
So thanks everyone 😀
Imagine if it had been a launch title…
Universal acceptance?
(I have no idea) 😀
Pretty much, yeah.
Put it alongside knack and ryse, and yeah…
I think it would’ve gone over better if was a launch title and around the 60-70 dollar price range.
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
2 steps forward, 1 step back
Just had a salesperson resign and they are really needed. Going to cause a massive cashflow hit and make things a big struggle again. Gah!!!!!!
Really feeling like punching something right now
Times like that I try to take a 10-15 minute walk around the block, as soon as you get a chance for a break. Good to step away and cool off.
Good advice, I think I will
And the moment I went outside it started to rain. Pretty much summed up my day right there
Yeah, I’m in the office and just noticed it got reeeaaaally dark out.
Fired up Demons’ Souls. Was parrying always this ridonkulously easy in it? Like, you can parry so late that you still take the hit and lose all the health but the parry is successful anyway.
That’s some good parry
Call another security control room
“Hello this is *other company name here* Chris speaking”
“Hi its… also Chris, from *comapny i work for*”
I hate calling people that have my name, give it back.
I hope this is not Chris’s blood
It usually is.
Not even lunch & I’m bored & yawning
D’oh!
@greenius my dollar shave club gear came today, top tier is really nice. Should last me 2 months this amount of razors haha.
I’ve been thinking about Dollar Shave Club, I’m becoming more amenable to paying a monthly fee for a service as opposed to just buying things lately. What’s the pricing like?
10 bucks for a 4 pack of 6 blade razors
7 bucks for a 4 pack of 4 blade razors
4 bucks for a 5 pack of 2 blade razors
The handle seems pretty sturdy and the build quality of the razor head seems pretty nice also the 5 blade featurs a nifty little trimmer in the top of it!
Also if you use my refer link I can get a free month, also if you use the code
HARDBALL
you can get your first month free 😀Edit: it’s 6 blades not 5 on the 10 dollar one, whoops.
I think I saw the free month code expired in mid Feb, but hopefully not!
Oh D= well I hope not.
So that’s the AUD pricing? I had considered signing up but I could only see the US pricing and wasn’t sure if we’d get slapped with shipping and exchange rate issues. I should probably like, check it from home instead of work where I’m on a US server.
Yep AUD, and it includes postage. Just a shame we don’t get the other shaving stuff the US version gets though. The shaving balm sounded pretty sweet.
Oh, so we can’t choose to add that in for an extra price, it’s only the razors that are available locally?
Yeah sadly. Even the Canadians get short shafted on that, they also only get the razors.
Hmm. That might keep me from jumping in for now. But I’ll take a closer look when I get home tonight.
1) Stop shaving
2) Have beard
3) Be awesome because of beard
4) ???
5) Profit
I have a beard, I find it meh most of the time cause I sweat like a motherfucker 😛
TAY RPG Pathfinder on tonight at 7:30pm AEST, 8pm ACDT, and 8:30pm AEDT. Starring:
@redartifice @tech_knight @freezespreston @sernobulus @negativezero @beeawwb @rize
The caravan of courage and fish is nearing Newfort, the halfway point on their journey to the northern city of Vinks.
Ugh. Oldness.
Moist…
…happy birthday?
Shhhhh 😛
Happy Birthday!
…
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!
I thought you were looking particularly old today! Happy birthday!
What if Gooky ar get older?
HAPPY BORTHDAY
Ugh, I am completely shit at Lords of the Fallen. Trying to play it like a Souls game AND IT’S NOT A SOULS GAME!
Patience seems to be the key here.
On the other hand, it’s so much easier to exploit in some ways. A lot of different enemies have very specific boundaries of patrol that they can be kited back to.
I’m shit at it, too, by the way. And I’m not sure I want to invest the time to get much better, because I’m not really enjoying the grind that much.
The bosses suck. They have way too much health and the fights become boring less than halfway through.
I got as far as the giant one which spits poison everywhere before I had to do something else, and I didn’t get back to it.
I’ve been meaning to get back to it.
Not only that, but they can be kind of unfairly punishing, too, with small windows of opportunity for attacks/counterattacks, and they hit like a truck.
HI TAY.
HOWS STUFF WITH YOU LOT? FUCKING RAD, I HOPE.
I had an eventful weekend. played a whole heap of Hand of Fate. that’s an amazingly cool game. such a great concept. also played a bit of Far Cry 4. very pretty.
did a family dinner thing on Friday night. so much fancy Italian foods & wine. it was pretty amazing.
went out for lawn bowls on Saturday. any sport you can do whilst holding a beer is a good sport in my book. then there was tasty foods & beers in the city with a whole bunch of friends. spent most of the night talking shit with the elusive Anonymous Pessimist.
started uni today. haven’t actually done anything for it yet, but whatever. I’m totally a law student now.
I also turned 30 on saturday. so there’s that.
so yeah…
So old! Welcome!
Congrats on the uni thing too!
Oh man don’t get me started on Hand of Fate. Bought it Friday (or Thursday), downloaded during the day, started it…
Played about…20 hours?
Stupid tokens and Devil’s Wagers and Devil’s Carnivals and…and I absolutely love the game and the originality of it and the art and the narrators voice can narrate any sexy dream I may have in future and it would make it 400x sexier.
*cough*
I mean, cool game. Bro.
Edit: Also, happy birthday! May the narrator from Hand of Fate narrate YOUR sexy dreams. I mean…cool that you had a Birthday. Bro.
Happy birthday for saturday!
No, for @35.
I couldn’t be bothered doing anything at all this weekend so I sat and watched movies on Netflix while idly grinding in Kantai Collection on my laptop (didn’t get anything good 🙁 ).
Films I watched:
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
Went in expecting this to be typical Tom Clancy neocon bullshit. It was okay though. Still not entirely sure why he had to go to Russia and everything to begin with though, aside from plot convenience.K-19 The Widowmaker
After the previous one I kind of wanted to watch The Hunt for Red October which I’ve not ever seen beginning to end, but have seen enough of to know what happens in it. So I went for BASED ON A TRUE STORY K-19 instead. Okay film. Enjoyed it. Wouldn’t watch again. The thing that annoyed me the most was that it couldn’t figure out what accents it wanted. Was everyone supposed to be Russian or not? Harrison Ford spent half the movie sounding American and Liam Neeson fared better but dropped out of often enough to be mildy distracting.Ragnarok
This was surprisingly good. Norwegian film, basically a fairly standard people-go-into-the-unknown-and-get-hunted-by-a-monster thing. Not that special but it was an okay watch. I don’t think I’d ever heard Norwegian spoken before, either. Was quite surprised at how much overlap in vocabulary and grammar it has with English, though in retrospect that should have been obvious.Centurion
This one was pretty bad. Standard action film with lots of unnecessary gore and violence and a plot that barely even made sense plus a bunch of throw-away characters, several of which were complete assholes and impossible to get particularly attached to. Had some good action choreography but other than that wouldn’t recommend.Iron Sky
Generally completely fucking terrible, though it did have a few amusing moments. I can’t believe I wasted my time watching this crap.GI-JOE: Retaliation
I don’t know why everyone seems to be so down on these films. They’re utterly fucking stupid and over the top and campy and they’re very aware of it. Ninjas and explosions and The Rock with a Minigun and terrible bad one-liners and references to all those rad 80s toys. It’s a terrible film, but I found it immensely entertaining regardless.I too enjoyed GI Joe Retaliation. Especially since the price of admission was 0 (thanks Kotaku or Gizmodo or whoever it was) 😛
You wanna talk about disconcerting overlaps with English, Japanese freaks me out on a regular basis. Nevermind that anything scientific drops non-Japanese (French? English? Kilometre? Percent?) terms in there, that at least is understandable, but some of the words are disconcertingly similar. Like ‘orenji’ for ‘orange’. Was the original Japanese word for orange deemed to be just a bit too shit to keep, or did two vastly dissimilar languages concurrently come up with some absurdly similar words for the one thing?
Oranges were imported. Japan has a bunch of local citrus – Mikan, Yuzu, Dekopon, Satsuma etc and those all have Japanese names.
A ton of Japanese is imported words. Anything pastry-related for example? Almost guaranteed to be French in origin. Bread is ‘pan’ for example, from French ‘pain’. Cream puffs? Shoe kureimu from Choux à la crème.
Hell, even ‘anime’ is an imported term. It’s French. They use ‘cour’ for talking about seasons of TV as well, also a French term.
I haven’t seen any of the GI-Joe movies. They look stupid but if they are stupid fun I might have to check them out
They’re utterly dumb and ridiculous and are not good movies, but I found both of them incredibly entertaining because of that. Basically flat-out action, terrible one-liners and tons of explosions. Plus they take all the stupid shit from the cartoons and toys and stuff and run with it in a very self-aware manner.
Watched Gone Girl last night with Ms. Jack, and I think we may watch Nightcrawler tonight. I liked Gone Girl, but I think I’ll like Nightcrawler more.
#mondaythoughts
I watched GG for the first time last night with Mrs Bob. Are you Mrs Bob now?
Was full on. Really enjoyed it though.
Yes.
Eeeeexcellent.
Gone Girl was fine, but it’s far from Fincher’s best (ie it’s not Zodiac)
I never realised what an amazing repertoire he had until looking him up just now. Haven’t seen Zodiac, will have to watch.
What weapons is everyone using in Monster Hunter??
Using the bug stick myself, but the charge blade was fun when I did the quest for it.
Switch axe. Because I’m too lazy to learn a new weapon while also charging ahead under geared and relying on MH3U experience to keep me alive.
Everyone is using the Insect Gliave because it’s shiny and new.
I just wanted a big bug sitting on my arm.
Why climb a cliff and drop down on the monster when you can just pole vault onto it.
Bow!
Like normal bow? I dont understand that weapon at all. Normal bowgun was probably my fave of the 3 range but it was boring. Hammer I found surprisingly enjoyable.
Normal bow, much more interesting then the Bowgun. Very hard to master.
Charge blade because it’s cool and I figured I’d need a shield. Even if I kinda forget to use it most of the time.
Love the animations on it, if I get sick of bug stick I’m probably gonna swap to it.
LS, always and forever. I’m enormously stubborn, and my LS purity penchant is often to my detriment when there are better suited weapons for the job. But goddamn the LS is good. Get in there, go to town. No blocking, no safeties – and pulling off a massive combo and knocking a monster on it’s arse is incredibly satisfying.
Hunting bow.
Enjoying the flexibility of the different coatings.
Not enjoying the poverty of being a gunner class.
According to Frontier, 53 people have visited Sagittarius A*… That’s not my destination…
Harmless, Peddler, Scout.
That is surprisingly small. I would’ve thought it’d at least be in the triple figures.
23kLY from Sol… it’s a bit of a trek. That number will go up as more people start expeditions, and some of the pending treks make it there.
Was reading yesterday, one bloke was about 6kLY away, in a Sidewinder… 😀
Sounds like a champ. Sidewinder’s all you need.
I’ve got a “rogue’s gallery” of the nearly two dozen elite anacondas I’ve taken down in my Sidey. Dunno why you’d want any other ship 😛
Mostly Harmless, Dealer, Mostly Aimless. I really should start playing again… need to find the time.
Well if you didn’t keep me up ’til 1am on Destiny… :-p
Ended up watching a whole heap of films over the weekend. Hercules (The Rock one), Pompeii, Robocop (the reboot), 300: Rise of an Empire and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.
Dawn was excellent. Hercules, Pompeii and Rise of an Empire were all okay. Pompeii was probably the better of the three. It was basically a TV version of Gladiator. Robocop was surprisingly enjoyable. Given the generally poor reception people seem to have given it I wasn’t expecting much, but I ended up liking it.
Is that the first of the ape moives? I caught it on TV in China, was good, had chimps.
Second one. Both of them are great.
A lot of the people whinging about RoboCop ruining the franchise forget that RoboCop 3 did that already.
Robocop 2014 is the second best Robocop movie ever made.
I thought Pompeii was absolute arse.
It could’ve been so much more than just a TV version of Gladiator. The story of it is so remarkable and yet they Pearl Habour’d it and turned it into a story about how a volcano exploding got in the way of love.
But that’s just me.
‘Pearl Harbour’d’ is an unexpectedly evocative verb.
And entirely accurate.
Its basicly 4 oclock, 2 hours till home time \o/
Hahaha, they got me a bluray player. Pretty much just because they got me the Evil Dead Anthology (incredibly cool unexpected get!) and we don’t have a bluray player in the house. Even though I’ve somehow ended up with four of them now 😛
Also my sister got me a whole stack of Nintendo music books. She does good present.
Finally got a new wallet too. I think the last one was a 21st present, and currently has a strategically folded piece of cardboard to prevent coins from falling out the burst seam on the side. I’ve been fussy about replacement wallets in the past, because they didn’t have all the features I need in one. So apparently my sister stole my wallet to be able to figure out what a good replacement would be. See previous point 😛
Is there anything you can’t do with cardboard?
Not so long as I also have double-sided tape and/or velcro with me.
Don’t you have PS3, PS4 or XB1? They all play blu-rays lol.
Also is this a parting gift from the people you worked with at the ABC? If so that’s pretty awesome!
Why would I have any of those? 😛
And no, from my family. Because old. All I got from the ABC was a card, but even that was pretty nice. Didn’t think they’d have so much to fill it out with.
I dunno, was a poor assumption on my behalf 😛
Oh right, haha. Makes more sense 😛
Well that was different. There was a live performance of Everything Is Awesome from The Lego Movie at The Oscars.. The break dancing workers in fluro is great.
http://www.theverge.com/2015/2/22/8088497/academy-awards-2015-everything-is-awesome-lego-movie
I’m constantly baffled by how many people seemingly ignore how sinister that song is…
They only hear the chorus, not the wickedly biting verses.
From Demon’s Souls to Lords of the Fallen to Bound By Flame.
Such variety today!
And such declining quality. (Actually Lords of the Fallen isn’t meant to be too bad).
How does Bound by Flame play?
It looks interesting, but I’ve never seen anything on it.
For my money it’s so much lower-rent than the videos made it out to be. Something about the way the characters/actors interact with the scenery is very… late-90s/early-00s.
It seems like a valiant effort at something struggling to be a different, better game, but failing.
Like an old PS2 brawler like Total War: Spartan.
I’m kind of digging it in an old throwback that has no place in modern gaming way.
I disliked it, I respect that it tried some different things but at the end of the day it’s a video game and I got no enjoyment out of it. I wouldn’t really recommend it unless you can try it for free first. (did it get a physical release?)
Yeah, I’m pretty sure it did. I see a few copies at my local second-hand place every time I go in there.
God I wish I had a cat. Stupid renting.
http://imgur.com/gallery/N9eZrMK
@shane @beardymcmuttonchops
Sorry to bother you both but I really love stories that seem to be several small stories that end up being part of a bigger thing. A great example of this is the anime and light novel Durarara.
Do either of you, (or any other taybies) have any suggestions on how to write something like that? Because I really have no clue where to start. The only idea I have is to maybe work backwards.
Not a bother at all, Scree.
I’ve learned two things in these last two books I’ve written.
Metro 7, I went into it without a clear picture of where I wanted to go. I just had these concepts floating around my head. SPACE MARINES! SCARY MONSTERS! BINARY STAR SYSTEM! My destination wasn’t apparent. It took me 5 years to write the damn thing because I didn’t have a roadmap to follow.
Carnifex, I had a roadmap. The plot is all done. And between November 2014 and now the first draft is almost finished. Although it has deviated a little from the initial plot map, the destination remains the same. Leave yourself some wiggle room.
Between Metro 7 and Carnifex I reduced the first draft write time from 4 years to 4 months, and I think it’s really helped keep the momentum going with Carnifex.
If you have a final destination you want your story to get to, make sure all the threads feed toward that destination. I know it sounds daft, but my virtual cork board and plot outlines on Scrivener have been a lifesaver this time around. You can do worse than plotting all the threads out on an actual cork board. Or a visual art diary or similar.
Write as much as you can as often as you can. Don’t worry about whether it’ll all make the final cut, because it’s better to have too much information than not enough.
I know I have always been interested in making a incredibly story based game on an abandoned town. But I want there to be the inhabitants stories and that they all tie into why everyone just suddenly left. So I kind of wanted it to be like everyone just up and left. That’s all I really have so far.
Just out of curiosity have you played Vanishing of Ethan Carter? It has a similar kind of theme (Bunch of small stories that make up the overarching plot)
No, I haven’t
There’s nothing creepier than a small town where everyone has their own secrets.
They’re all a bunch of murderers?
Another question. I’m great at having vague ideas but I never know how to fully flesh them out.
Murder is one of the most predictable secrets. Try and make each and every secret worse than murder!
rape? Um…Child molestation? Uhhh…PUPPY KICKING?!
Pineapple pizzas.
Subvert the cliche!
Scree! Those are my absolute favourite types of stories! Ever.
Have you seen Baccano? I think you’d really like it!
Me too. I tried to watch it, but I just couldn’t after watching Durarara. I think with Durarara’s supernatural element, it was just a more natural pick for me.
Baccano does have a supernatural element though?
I didn’t get that far into it. Sorry
Really think you might have missed out. Shame it didn’t click for you, it’s much better than Durarara IMO.
I can try again, but yeah, I’m not sure why
It’s worth getting far enough in that the shit starts hitting the fan and you begin to get flashback bits. All the characters are interconnected and there’s heaps of history between them all. The first few episodes especially the first are quite awkward and it takes a while to get into it, where I think DRRR has a great opening episode that introduces the whole cast nicely and then kind of got a bit slow (I recently re-watched it all to get ready for the new season, which I’ve barely watched)
I don’t know much about this form, but here’s how I’d approach it.
Start with one character. Write a story featuring them. As short or long as it has to be. If you’re looking to expand the world beyond that, find some unanswered questions in the story that your character won’t be able to tackle, and write about them from another perspective.
Repeat.
Then when you get to the end, mix all the stories up so it looks like you’re a total savant genius instead of someone who just followed logical threads through to their conclusion.
Shouldn’t a little more planning go into it?
As I said above, I am good at coming up with vague ideas and am unable to flesh them out
Honestly, it’s up to you. I like to start with a scene, a character, something zoomed in really close, and figure out exactly what I should be focusing on from that. This is how I ensure that my characters feel as real as possible.
But yeah, you can start with your setting or plot if you want, definitely.
Edit: the main benefit of my approach is that you end up with a short story as the first product, rather than a planning document… and that’s really good for motivation (even if the planning document is the second thing you produce, and you end up not using the short story at all).
To be honest, I don’t even know where to start. All I really have is a vague idea and a bit of a setting. I keep going back to @beardymcmuttonchops advice about secrets, but I don’t really know what to do with that either. I keep coming back to either a cult, or something to do with radiation and then removing it.
You could have it all: post-apocalyptic cult worships unexploded nuclear bomb, have short lifespans, occasional mutations. That should be enough to start with.
Now write a story about a young cancer-ridden mother with one normal kid, and one deformed kid, and her heartbreaking and harrowing attempt to get them free from this cult.
Like I said, you don’t have to use the story in the end, but one thing you will find (and I pretty much guarantee this) is that if you sit down and just start writing something – anything – the ideas will start flowing much more easily.
You can’t make links between stories that don’t exist yet. That comes later, maybe even last.
Thanks. This really does help a lot. I may start carrying around a small notebook for writing while I’m out.
As an aside, it’s kind of hilarious and disturbing just how different the advice was from @beardymcmuttonchops and myself. I guess this just goes to show that there’s no one path to creating something – everyone beats their own way through the undergrowth.
Also, I just realised that I’m hoping to put together a book of this nature in the near future:
Teased here
Lamented here.
I’m terrible at getting things past the conception stage.
Best of luck with your endeavors though!
@transientmind
http://www.bungyjapan.com/en/
You know we have to do this right? Face your fears.
Ahhhh mongrel… I never should’ve said anything!
Can’t we face the other fear, and rig up an elaborate hoax like The Game?
Actually nowait, let’s do the bungie thing.
You better do it in a kimono like the image on the website
I resent the implication that my book is a scam.
Oh… you’re talking about that excellent Michael Douglas movie?
I won’t pretend I’m not disappointed, but carry on.
That’s a loooooooooong way away from most of the attractions in Japan. Like on a different Island to the mainland even! Did you intend on going there already? Cos if not, that’s a whole lot of travel just to take a leap!
As a further thought, if you are going to make the journey all the way down there, you should definitely make a stop off at Sanrio Harmony Land while you’re out that way! It’s in Oita, which is just a little North East of Kumamoto!
Damn! I knew I shoulda bought my 3DS to this conference thing. I came here early and now I’m just derping around since the person I came with is apparently studying (wat a nerd)
At least we all get our own rooms this time. Not badddd
How do you leave the house without a handheld?
“Hey, does anyone know who put up this union-meeting poster in the foyer?”
“Oh, you’d like to know wouldn’t you! Put that back, it’s authorized to be there!”
“No, it fell down. I’m just asking so whoever put it up can put it back, like… properly this time.”
“OR, you pulled it down so you could ask who put it up.”
“I’m… not even management. Besides, I think at this point it’s becoming pretty clear who put it up.”
*defiant glare*
“OK, well, I’m going to go put the poster over here, and if someone HAPPENS to pick it up, they can go put it back on the wall… and maybe use blu-tac instead of stickytape, this time.”
“…”
“There’s some over on the noticeboard, in case you were wondering.”
*head-desk*
FIGHT THE FAT CATS
L’esprit de l’escalier: “I’m IN the union!”
I love that phrase and always forget the name for it.
Finally geting around to watching Patema Inverted.
MPQ Talk
addressing concerns raised by @welbot, but equally important to anyone struggling with the new daily missions. Spoilered to save on space for everyone.
First and foremost, it’s good to understand what purpose Deadpool’s Daily Quest is supposed to serve. It’s a supplement to regular play designed to help ease transition. If you’re in the 2* phase, it’s not just going to give you free 3* covers – although the Taco Tokens have much nicer drop rates, and the added bonus of maybe getting a lucky booster of Hero Points. If you’ve started the 2-3* transition, you get the opportunity to add a cover to a hero which you have already started. In 3* and beyond, you may want to fine tune or respec your 3*, otherwise it’s going get sold for ISO, but completing all missions each day nets you 4000 ISO, which is nearly 2 levels for a cover capped 3*, or 1 extra level for a 4*.First up, the 1* required mission. This mission is straight forward 2 goons and a single 2* character. Get Juggernaut for this. He’s got a ton of health, you can Headbutt the opposing hero, and then just try to match away any countdown tiles. Dmg recoil from Headbutt should not be an issue – he’s got pretty fast healing outside of battle, and you can use 2* heroes for the other nodes.
2* Survival. This has got a level range of 20-50, so any 2* characters that you’ve got maxed should cruise through this one.
2* Final node (vs 3x 3* characters). It looks like these enemies average level 72. 2*’s still out damage 3*’s at that level, so you shouldn’t have too much trouble with this. The first two missions are as close to freebies as you’re going to get. The third shouldn’t be too much hassle, but it could make you stop and think about your matches depending on your roster. All done, these three missions give you 1500 ISO and a Taco Token.
The remaining two missions are certainly trickier. If you’ve only got a single cover on the required character, then that mission could mean you’re effectively playing 2 v 3. In which case you need to swing the balance back in your favour. The enemy team is 2*’s averaging level 62, so bringing your max level 2*’s is going to help. Go with power couples. 2* Stormneto is crazy fast damage – collect purple to fuel Mags Polarity Shift, try and make some match 5’s when you generate blue, and then use Wind Storm, targeting the beefiest opponent so that they are stunned. You can easily make this a 3-turn mission. OBW+Wolverine for strike tiles+espionage, or OBW+Ares/Thor for just big hits.
Lastly we come to THE survival node. This is listed as level range 99-132, so even your maxed 2*’s are punching above their weight; although not as much as you might think, since 3*’s don’t get stronger than 2’s until about level 112. Here’s where there’s a lot more strategy involved. Since the survival waves are in the pattern goons, characters, goons, characters, the general idea is to use the goon waves to generate AP, and then blow through the character waves as fast as possible. The real trick is making the goon waves last exactly as long as you want them to. You want to try and take little-to-no damage from goons. OBW pays huge dividends. Recon to steal AP, Anti-grav device to increase enemy countdowns, and Espionage for more stealing and double dipping on damage. This is finally a chance for 2* Captain America to shine – at max level both his red and blue can overwrite any tile, and return nearly the same AP once their cooldown ends. He’s a little slow to get started, but once you’re on a roll, you should be able to avoid a lot/all damage. Thor also really shines – since he’s a slow character as well, however you’re essentially fighting 4 missions back-to-back, so his “late game” really kicks in around the middle somewhere. Yellow does big damage and generates green for his AoE. You can still use Team Ups from 3* characters, so you might want to consider Ms Marvel (she is tanky and has an activatable Black ability which is nice, but on the whole not too great for offence).
My only real issue is like yesterdays mission when they put someone like Black Panther in the last wave. Unless I get a free turn on the last turn of the minions before the final wave, the computer smashes me with everything they have before I even get a chance to have a turn. I’ve been saving a lot of gems to use in the last wave, the problem is, I don’t get the chance to use them! 😉
I had the same thing. Think I needed to get a few OBW AP steals in before I hit that last wave.
I was stocked up on AP but so were they and that first turn took out my BW and put the other 2 right down.
Also didn’t help that I always forget about my team ups
I didn’t have the option of team ups unfortunately. I haven’t had any for a while.. got lots of boosts though, but they do stuff all to protect you from getting your arse raped! 😉
Max is asleep.
She’s resting on my arm right now.
🙂
TAY RPG Pathfinder finished for another night. Starring:
@redartifice @tech_knight @freezespreston @sernobulus @negativezero @beeawwb @rize
GM Summary: Tonight was Troll Night. I should know, I was the two biggest trolls.
Last time I try to Errol Flynn.
My ribs…
Oh, Errol. I would give everything; just to be like him.
Stupid work. Wish I hadn’t missed it.
How’s Al Gore doing?
He’s fine. Possibly could’ve been used to gore some trolls but oh well.
TGIF!!
Morning everyone
It’s Friday? *checks calendar*
BRB, just gotta notify my boss I’m taking the next two days off.
Im having the next 3. Cant wait.
GUYS
IT IS JUDAS PRIEST DAY
*SPINS ON FLOOR*
YES IN CAPITALS
WTF AM I DOING BEING CONSCIOUS SO EARLY IT’S NOT LIKE I’M STILL AWAKE BECAUSE OF MONSTER HUNTER OR SOMETHING
Oh yeah, that’s right. Judas Priest and Dragonforce day on Thursday. Better remind my parents they’re hanging out with the kids that night!
They can’t. They’re going to see Judas Priest and Dragonforce.
I’m jealous of you (and @mrtaco) getting to see Judas Priest and Dragonforce, but then I remember I’m seeing Foo Fighters and Rise Against on Monday, and it’s all good.
Nvidia finally fessed up to why my GTX970 would run fine, then suddenly run slowly, apparently only the first 3.5GB of the card’s memory runs at full speed, and the last 512MB runs much more slowly.
This was driving me nuts when using it in Davinci Resolve which maxes out the ram on the pair of 970s I am running.
I’m sending them back and getting 980s.
Seriously, who gimps a card like that and doesn’t tell anyone??
This is relevant to what you’re saying, wooo!
Never gets old
Well, there’s a good reason for me to skip the 970 and go straight to the 980. Thanks, enabler friend!
What, really? Who the fuck designs a card like that? That makes it next to useless, as well as unpredictable.
Exactly.
Yup, its a pile of shit alright, was reading about this the other week
Damn that Bloodborne comp is harsh.
Second place sounds better than first.
It’s disappointing me terribly that all of my fears sit in the existential realm, as opposed to the more mundane. Being a mild adrenaline junkie sort of ruins most “normal” fears.
I will psych myself up and face the buzzing hordes if I need to
Oh, I dunno. If you’re subtle like me and have this crippling fear of tropical islands…
Oh man, I tried to play Stranded Deep but the ocean and my fear of it meant I had to stay on the first island I saw.
Trick is to pretend your greatest wish is your greatest fear. Like your greatest fear is meeting your idols in case they don’t live up to your expectations. It’s all about spin. 😀
eh, I don’t think that makes for good youtubage,
If it was just “tell us your fear creatively” I reckon that’d fly, but for this I figure they want something a little more engaging
Dammit, I knew if I put a 😀 instead of a 😛 people wouldn’t know I wasn’t giving a serious answer….
I knew! (Probably because the expression I pull when I’m being silly, and so I’ve always seen that emoticon as a cheeky grin)
Yeah, the winner will be which one has the best potential for creating a promo reel.
Second place still has all the prizes of first minus the advertising participation, so that’s probably for the best creative story entry.
* best potential for creating a promo reel without falling afoul of insurance or legal liability issues.
Ooh, another good reason to give me second instead of first – my face is too ugly for advertising and promotional purposes.
My greatest wish IS my greatest fear.
Also, if I won second, do you want the tickets? I can’t afford a Sydney trip.
If you got second I’d happily take that PS4 and Bloodborne CE off your hands.
If I gave away a PS4 my wife would divorce me for wasting money.
If I hate bloodborne I’ll give it away after having a shot.
If I won a copy of the game I’d probably give it away, since I’m already buying the CE for the sake of CE, since I have no PS4 to play it on.
I’ll take it 😛
Done*
(*I have to win first, but it’s yours if I get one of the normal copies)
@beavwa
Cheers! As someone who never wins stuff I think this greatly improves my chances of ‘winning’ (in my eyes it would be a technical win, shhhh)
I’d love them, but I’m not sure if I can afford it either! Thanks for the offer though. 🙂
Oh yeah I totally fear and am terrified of meeting Emma Watson… yes really! 😛
Yep, my prize seems nice but dunno how I’d handle the pressure :-/
My fears:
Heights, spiders, and that fucking evil robot on the cover of Queen’s album News of the World.
That fucking robot scared the crap out of me as a kid. I had the biggest sense of vindication when I watched the Family Guy episode where Stewie is also scare of the fucking robot.
Also apparently Seth MacFarlane felt the same: https://twitter.com/SethMacFarlane/status/179041826903310337
Dear wastes of skin,
I share, for your consumption, BLOODBORNE – the making of (part 2).
One month and one day to go….
I have never played a Dark Souls / Demon Souls game but I really want to give Bloodborne a try.
Morning taybes <3
I haven’t picked up my motorbike yet, but I totally already joined the Polecats – my wifebeater came in the mail yesterday 😀
Also, with the Invader ZIM news, all I want to do is go home, dig out my imported boxset (bought from Underworld Realm, for any Brisbabes who might remember that place!) of the DVDs and hook up my old CRT to binge through it. Aww yess.
+1 for the Full Throttle reference.
Just don’t spend forever, like I did, kicking random bits of wall.
Ever since I was a kid, I would find myself sometimes muttering, “I don’t have anything”, or “I’m not putting my lips on that” due to Ben’s replies when randomly clicking stuff in the wheel and environment.
Whenever I smell asphalt I think of Maureen!
That is one of the best lines my ten year old self would ever commit to memory.
Hah, when I was ten about the only video game line I had was “Wololo”
Aiy-yi-yoooo.
Priest spam was the best.
“Join the army, they said.”
“See the WORLD, they said.”
“I’d rather be sailing.”
So many Warcraft II quotes committed to memory.
“Stop your incessant clicking”
STOP POKING MEEEEE!
And now… source! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=by8AZX9dyiw
Yes! Invader Zim rocks. I’m gonna have to dig up my DVD of it too and re watch it.
.hack//sign was terrible but its soundtrack is really good.
It wasn’t terrible (try .hack//ROOTs for terrible), mainly had some really bad pacing issues.
But yeah, the soundtrack was amazing. I’d still rate it as Kajiura’s best work.
How goes everybody on this sunny Tuesday?
I’m okay. How are you?
Yeah, not bad. Bored. But not bad.
Weirdly I’m finding myself really enjoying Bound by Flame. It’s not a good game by any stretch. But it’s not bad either. It’s competent at what it does without excelling at anything turning it into a rather bland fantasy brawler with super cliched character but I’m having fun with its uncomplicated and straightforward game play and narrative.
Meanwhile I think I’ve given up on Lords of the Fallen. I beat three Lords yesterday. The chunky armoured guy with a shield, the chunky armoured guy with a shield and the chunky armoured guy with a shield. Man it was fun getting to them all, fighting through all the chunky armoured guys with shields. And that miniboss, the chunky armoured guy with the shield, damn. And why do all the bosses have so much goddamn health with so little openings to hit them and do so little damage to you. The fights are just long boring slogs with the biggest danger being falling asleep. So much of the game showed amazing potential completely ruined by being so badly designed.
Games? Hah!
I’ve not played more than an hour of video games in the past two weeks. Worst gamer.
Best board gamer/RPGer/card gamer?
I’ve done a bit of that, yeah 🙂
I’d do more of that but a google search for Gold Coast FLGS only brings up results for Indian dentists on the Gold Coast.
Brisbane is not much better. There are a few but they’re either scattered around in the outer suburbs or they’ve developed a very secluded and “No outsiders allowed” feel to them.
I haven’t actually been into justice for weeks, it’s been all with friends.
Might go in on Saturday morning after I give blood.
Oh man, wait until you meet the chunky guys with shields who seemingly have no opening whatsoever. Boy was lumbering away from them fun.
I think I came across one of those. Look like body is made from lava, recover from their swings faster than you can attack and chase you for ages when trying to run away?
That’s when you kite them with magic and run away. Then when they lose interest, you approach and do it again. It only takes 20 minutes! \o/
I think I’m putting it on my ‘done with this’ pile as well. Shame. I really wanted to enjoy it.
I love the part with
the chunky armoured guy with the shieldReally? I preferred the part with
the chunky armoured guy with the shieldSubmitted my fear to that comp. C’mon second place or nothing!!
I don’t know, going to the launch would be pretty cool. And an excuse for me to go to Sydney and see Kotaku people. Any result or nothing!
Depends what day the launch is. Im in Hong Kong from the 25th
Ooh which part?
Hong Kong side, Staying in Soho. Going for the Rugby Sevens. Cant wait, went last year it was awesome.
THE STRANGE (@strange?): THE SERIES
Episode 1 Part 2
7:30 Wednesday SA Time
The Party has a name: Tom Mallard. But who is he? Does the estate know anything? And will Viktor have slept with his mother? Who knows?
@beeawwb @blaghman @freezespreston @quiz_b @gingerchris86 @trjn
I said I needed a monkey not a duck. I’m surrounded by imbeciles making my life difficult and holding back true greatness.
U wot mate? U called me a wot mate?
Viktor sleep with all your mothers. Because your mothers is whore. I said it. What you going to do about that?
Given how all the other characters have reacted, probably nothing.
Excellent! Would you mind filling out this questionnaire please? It would be fascinating to study how the specimen I injected my mother with changes upon sexual transmission. Please don’t mind the burning and the chewing sound coming from within your skull and if you would keep a journal of any physiological changes.
I’ve plugged my PS3 back in. Left it on for a couple of hours, no worrying noises. Turns out all it needed was a couple of years to rest up. It might even last me long enough to play some of the exclusives I never got a chance to play.
On my list:
Heavy Rain (owned)
MGS4 (owned)
Beyond Two Souls (not owned)
ICO/SOTC re-release (not owned)
Demon’s Souls (replay, owned)
The Uncharted trilogy (replay, but not owned)
Any others I should be making room for? Anyone planning to jettison some old games that I can pick up for cheap (I’m happy to beat any EB trade offer! :P) or looking to swap for some 360 games?
Should be getting my Vita in the next day or two as well. Looks like I’ve well and truly jumped ship to Sony. How did that even happen?
Journey?
Technically, that’s coming to PS4 😉
I should probably give you my beyond two souls, had a great time but don’t see e playing again.
Yeah, I seem to be very Sony centric.
realised recently I’ve owned all their consoles & handhelds not including odd stuff like Net Yaroze.
Beyond: Two Souls! So great! Only thing stopping me from another playthrough is rumours of a PS4 remaster. XD
QUANTIC DREAM BUNDLE!
IT’LL HAPPEN!
cc @shane
Damn, that would be awesome.
IT’LL HAPPEN!
I need to do this soon too. It may be sped along by the pretty staggering array of PS3 games turning up on PS+ now. (No, I’m not counting them as purchases, I already bought my subscription dammit!)
You can take a bunch from my place if you want when you come up.
IT’S A TRAP!
REMEMBER HE’S GOT A SHANE EFFIGY!
Who needs an effigy when you’ll have the real thing?
I’ve been diligently preparing myself for weeks.
I’ll be sure to leave something of equal value behind.
My virtueDamn, I just jettisoned uncharted 1 and 2 when I got monster hunter, would have happily sent them your way instead.
I needed to do *some* trading to get the bonus credit that they offered.
It’s all good. I appreciate the thought!
I could get them for <$10 each anyway on the way home from work, so it’s not a big thing at all.
I literally have a pile of PS3 games that I was going to get rid of when we moved. I’ll get a list and if you want any, you can swing by.
I’m a guy who is pretty forgiving with games. I liked Murdered: Soul Suspect and I can usually find the fun if there’s any to be found, but I’m struggling with The Order.
Here are some thoughts I posted on Twitter: The Order reminds me of when a parent gives their toddler a controller so they can pretend they’re playing too. The illusion of helping. All we’re trusted to do is walk from one cutscene to another. The environments look stunning, but it feels empty and soulless. There’s nothing to do in any of them. You can look but you can’t touch. Even when you can pick up an item to examine it, there’s no point. There’s no dialogue. You’re instructed to tilt objects from side to side for absolutely no reason at all. :\
I feel like I’m being negative and cynical about this game, but I can’t help it. :'(
So many moments of potential awesome and fragments of a good game here. Frustrating.
Play Dying Light, There’s light and sometimes you die.
Haha! I’m not fond of huge sandbox games like that. I was looking forward to The Order because it was so story focused, something that usually works for me.
Its not that big, actually it gets small as the game goes on. The game has a story I think, somewhere, i forget.
Nah, game ain’t fun it ain’t fun. Nothing cynical about that.
Certainly didn’t help that I’ve just finished the completely polished and definition of fun Tomb Raider.
RISE OF THE TOMB RAIDER!
If I could afford an Xbone there’s a good chance I’d buy one for just that! (Even though I know that’s what they want me to do with this exclusivity deal. :P)
I won’t buy it until it goes multi-plat. The exclusivity deal is bullshit.
“I wouldn’t say that,” he said. “If you look at Tomb Raider, it’s been around for 20 years, so I do think that Tomb Raider would still be around [without Microsoft].”
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/rise-of-the-tomb-raider-dev-talks-xbox-exclusivity/1100-6425471/
I’d say that Tomb Raider arguably wouldn’t exist without PlayStation.
Oh well. At least we get Uncharted 4…
UNCHARTED 4! *flails arms*
It’s the main reason I bought an Xbone. I got a bunch of games with it and literally have played nothing on the system aside from about 15 minutes of Assassin’s Creed No Faces Edition.
GAMES PLAYED THIS YEAR ([*] for finished, [+] for finished with)
[*]Diablo III
[*]The Last of Us
[*]Swapper
[*]Octodad
[*]Infamous: Second Son
[*]Infamous: First Light
[*]Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor
[*]Game of Thrones: Iron from Ice
[*]Game of Thrones: The Lost Lords
[*]Rogue Legacy
[*]Tales of the Borderlands 1
Transistor (in progress)
[+]Fez
[+]Surgeon Simulator
[+]Apotheon
[+]Lords of the Fallen
With?
Didn’t complete, have no intention to continue playing.
I gave up on fez too, I was having fun but got lost? I knew where I was & could return to where I came from but had no idea where it wanted me to go.
I collected lots of cubes & opened doors that led nowhere.
Same here, man. I was having difficulty figuring out where to go. Also, the game was starting to hint that there might be need for me to do maths to figure out coded puzzles, and I just noped on out of there.
Stoopid maffs
Not completed but had enough and not going to play any more
Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker
The Swapper
Grim Fandango Remastered
Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition
In-progress episodic games:
Life is Strange
Game of Thrones
You’re doing well, man! That’s some list!
I’m the worst at disciplined writing 😛
I’ve finished Rogue Legacy, First Light and I actually finished Diablo 3, not just pretending to to pad my score 😛
Games finished this year:
– Tomb Raider
– Dark Souls 2
– The Swapper
– inFamous: Second Son
– inFamous: First Light
– The Walking Dead season 1 (is that one, or five games?)
– Wolfenstein: the New Order
I feel like I’m forgetting something… Oh well!
Almost finished the Order: 1886, then I’ll work on my PS+ backlog 🙂
I’m not sure how to record the episodic games. I’m choosing to give myself an advantage by multi-counting them because I’ve played each episode prior to the release of the next. *nods*
My list:
[*] Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor
[*] Dragon Age Inquisition
[*] Danganronpa
[*] Danganronpa 2
[-] Sunless Sea
[-] Infamous: Second Son
[ ] Tales of Hearts R
About 30 hours into Hearts now. Didn’t get much time with it over the last week or so because I was busy collecting battleship ladies but hoping to knock out the rest of it this week. Then I have no idea what I’ll do next.
Games finished this year:
Shin Megami Tensei IV
Parasite Eve
So, after over 100 episodes of Potaku, we’re finally getting some actual industry professionals on the podcast!
Nic Watt (No relation) And Bruce Thompson from local dev/publisher Nnooo.
So anyone got any questions for the guys about their games or the local dev/publishing scene?
(Please give us some good questions to make us seem less terrible!)
Open with where on the Bristol scale was their last bowel movement to really set the tone.
Nooo, if they do that, we won’t be able to tell the difference between Potaku and Dan and Karl’s Zeitgeist.
Potageist.
I’d listen.
Speaking of no relations, i assume, I sometimes have to call a guy in Canberra with last name Watt and a thick Scottish accent.
He’s my brother. Tell him I said hi.
If either of them do concept art / graphic design, can you ask them what the best approach to getting into the industry is?
I did the concept art for the latest Nnooo game “Blast ’em Bunnies” 😛
My advice would be: Post dragonball doodles on the Miiverse. That’s how I got the gig.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BBhMWpECcAEh38I.jpg:large
But seriously, the best way to get started is to have work you can show them. A professional looking portfolio will always do the job.
I will definitely ask them what they look for though 😀
Oh and always keep it classy!
https://twitter.com/Doc_What/status/370332085996634114
Trying to decide if it’s worth buying a halfway decent camera to take on holiday or just to use the camera on my phone.
A good camera is probably wasted on where you’ll mostly be posting it, if it’s instagram/twitter/etc. Good for framing and shit after the fact, but comes with the hazard of having to sort through and cull hundreds of duds and agonize over the shortlist to the point that you never actually get around to it.
If you use your phone camera, for the love of John Oliver, empty it before you go.
Really depends on what kind of photos you want to take. The effort of lugging around a DSLR can often outweigh the convenience of a cameraphone photo. Remember: The best shot is the one you actually take.
I thought the best one was the one you imagined, and your camera does a poor imitation at best. But I never took photography, so I could be wrong about that. (I’m drawing on a combination of writing experience and low self-esteem.)
I know you’re joking, but I’ll still expand on the point.
Let’s say I’ve got my camera, filter glass, tripod. All that fun stuff. And I’m walking along and see a gorgeous sunset. I whip out my phone and take a quick snap. It’s not as good as it could be, but it’s still a shot. Then I unpack my tripod, set up the camera, plug in the trigger, screw on the filters, line everything up and now 5 minutes have passed and so has the moment. All that equipment is no substitute for being ready for the shot when the shot is ready for you.
My camera is good at taking fast shots. And realistically, those are the only shots it can do that my phone can’t. Everything else is just icing, but it’s the cake that matters.
Now I want cake.
What phone are you taking and what is halfway decent for you?
Your photo’s will only be as good the camera you have with you at the time. So does your phone have a set of features your happy with. Or do you want more features/functions?
I have an Olympus XZ-1 that is basically a point and shoot on steroids. Has everything I need and more… That being said my wife is outgrowing it, so next stop will be a compact mirrorless for her.
I have an Xperia Z2 for a phone and was looking at something like a Sony RX100 or similar.
That RX100 is a neat bit of kit.
Would definitely recommend taking something like that on your trip… Just what Red said below… For showing off the trip a good compact will give results miles ahead of a good phone.
I used both on my last two trips, and I’m glad I did. Phone for the quick snap look where I am, actual camera for the I want to get this up on my wall or actually show where I’ve been photos.
My camera isn’t a DSLR, it’s a $300 or so decent digital one. Not too much to lug around, decent quality. That’s what I’d look at. Other people on my last trip also had the waterproof rugged cameras which are cool too
This is what I was thinking.
I’m hitting similar issues. I have a DSLR (an old Canon 550D) but the battery is completely dead in it so need to buy a new one. And it’s big and heavy and bulky and also I’m a moron who knows nothing about photography so the pics I take with it are generally shit and I can’t use the viewfinder in it because I can barely see out of my dominant eye any more, even with glasses on – the glasses correct my ability to see with both eyes, but the improvement they add to my right eye is pretty small.
Yeah, I was thinking a DSLR would be way too much for me and what I need it for. If I was more competent…
I was thinking I might go get a decent point & shoot, but I have a Lumia 930 and the camera in it is supposed to be fairly competitive with a point & shoot as it is.
Will probably either take my DSLR & get a battery replacement, or replace the body with a mirrorless. Issue is that the Canon mirrorless apparently aren’t very good but if I went with anything else I wouldn’t be able to use my lenses.
The problem I’ve found with phone cameras is that yes, they are capable of some brilliant quality shots (the Z2 has a 20MP camera with a host of features) they tend to struggle quite badly if the light isn’t perfect whereas a point and shoot will generally give much better results in those instances.
Yeah, the lens is too small usually to handle all conditions as well.
I have a little Canon powershot D10
Small enough to fit in your pocket (not overly comfortably) and at 12 megapixels can give good shots. Small zoom, sturdy and waterproof I found it has been great.
Keep in your backpack or whatever when in transit and then slip into your pocket when you are going into somewhere that you know you will want shots of.
If the slogan on this wrapper is correct, you cant top the taste of twirl. So then why does Cadbury make other flavours.
These are the pressing issues at work I must face.
Maybe the other flavours are there so people can slum it for a while, and then rediscover and appreciate Twirl all over again. *nods*
But a twirl is just a flake in chocolate, but you can also buy flake in chocolate. Its just a single stick instead of two.
“Just”? “JUST”!!???
Yes
No
Can you guys
rankrate Ys: Memories of Celceta for me, please?I saw a copy for $34 today, and I’m unsure whether I really want to spend that much. On the other hand, it’s not available for cheaper anywhere else right now…
I could also get this game for $24.95 on PSN at the moment, but that means I’m locked in and can’t onsell the game if I don’t like it. HMMMMMMM
Seven.
Rank it how?
Ys II > Ys Seven > Ys Celceta > Ys Origin > Oath in Felghana > Ys VI > Ys I > Ys V
IMO it’s one of the top 10 games on the Vita. Maybe top 5.
Or do you want an actual description? Have you played any Ys games before? Familiar with the franchise at all?
I am not familiar with it, beyond knowing it’s an RPG. So would you say it’s worth the aforementioned price? Anything you can tell me, really, to endorse it or deride it. Thanks!
I already have Persona 4 Golden – how does this compare? Are they similar enough games that owning just one will do?
To preface: I paid a ton extra to import the Ys Celceta Silver Annersary CE from the US because it was celebrating 25 years of the franchise and came with a 3 CD soundtrack. So I paid way more than $35 for it. 🙂
For starters, ‘Ys’ is said basically the same way as you say the ‘eas’ in ‘easy’. 🙂 Ys started as a NEC PC-8801 game in 1988. Ys II came out a few months later and improved on it in every way. The pair of games are really two halves of the one story. Ported into heaps of places. Subsequently they made Ys III: Wanderers from Ys, which got localized releases too. Then they licensed out Ys IV to two different companies who made two separate Ys games – Dawn of Ys, and Mask of the Sun. Ys V falcom pulled back in house and it was absolutely awful and killed the franchise for nearly a decade. They tested the waters with Ys VI: Ark of Napishtim, which was the first in the series to pull it to 3D, then they expanded on that game’s system by building Ys Origin, set hundreds of years before the first game, and remaking Ys III as Oath in Felghana. Then they made Ys Seven for PSP, which changed things up a fair bit. Celceta is built off Ys Seven’s style. The early games in the series are often compared to the Legend of Zelda, though they’re far more actiony.
Chronologically, the sequence is Origin, I & II, Celceta, Felghana, V, Napishtim, Seven. Aside from Origin, they all follow the exploits of Adol Christin, a red-headed swordsman and adventurer. Ys opens with Adol as a boy travelling to a land that has been cut off from the outside by a huge storm, and he is shipwrecked and washes up on the beach. This is a recurring theme in the series actually, just about every game starts with him unconscious somewhere.
The conceit of Celceta is that it’s set after he becomes a hero in Ys II, and the game’s meta-story is about how Adol became the famous adventurer he is in the subsequent games. Celceta is a ‘sea of trees’. A vast jungle on the edge of the Romn Empire that is unexplored and unmapped. The game opens with Adol stumbling out of the jungle into a town on the outskirts, terribly injured and near death. Something happened to him in there, but he doesn’t remember anything. His memories have been scattered. Teaming up with his associate Duran and various other characters he meets along the way, he retraces his steps and regains his memories, unraveling the mystery of the jungle as he goes.
Gameplay-wise it’s a fun, fast hack & slash game. You have a party of three, control one character directly and the other two are AI-controlled. You can swap between them at any time, even during combat. Each character has one of three different weapon types: Piercing, Slashing and Striking, and different enemies are weak or strong to different attack types. You also have special attacks and get gear upgrades as you play and so on.
Basically what it ends up being is like a JRPG lite. You get a JRPG storyline but you can play through the whole game in like 20 hours or so. It’s got a lot of depth to it. Also amazingly good soundtrack, though that’s a given for all of Falcom’s stuff. Ys Seven has a more ‘epic’ JRPG plot and Celceta’s is more personal, going into Adol’s history as a child and stuff. The amnesia thing is a terrible trope but it’s handled really well in the game. Good solid cast of characters, some nice twists and turns and generally I loved playing it.
Saw your edit just now. Celceta has next to nothing in common with Persona. One is an average turn-based dungeon crawler JRPG combined with a time management game, the other is an action game with light RPG mechanics and a classic JRPG-ish story.
I own this, and the other Ys games. I have not played them.
#helping
We are gud at helping each other o/
You should fix that.
I should.
I started playing the first game on Vita.
I can’t recall if the PSP version was like the PC one or not. I think it’s basically the same content. The first two games have three versions – the original, then Ys I & II Eternal which was around the 32-bit era and upgraded the visuals and music, and then Ys I & II Complete which had a further visual and music was upgraded to stuff recorded by the Falcom Sound Team band. The Steam version lets you swap between the versions of the music and visuals, not sure if the PSP one did.
FYI, the first game is kind of average. Tips:
– You can get a free sword by talking to everyone in the starting town and then talking to the guard dude again. IIRC he gives you the Talwar, which is the first sword upgrade and saves you grinding out a chunk of gold.
– Save often. You can save anywhere. It’s an oldschool PC game originally so it doesn’t have save points or checkpoints or anything. You save often or you’re going to lose progress.
– It doesn’t really tell you where to go. If you find yourself in an area where you’re maybe able to take out one enemy with some effort but they take off a lot of your health, you’re in the wrong place. First time I played it I was told to go to some town and it mentioned a mine and I went into a cave area thinking I was in the right place and monsters tore me three new assholes and I hadn’t saved and lost like 2 hours and stopped playing the game in disgust, took ages to get around to trying it again properly.
– The leveling up is carefully balanced such that if you’re too high level relative to the enemies you kill, you get almost zero XP, and it tapers off pretty fast. Means that by the end of an area you should have leveled up to the point you’re hitting diminishing returns on the enemies there, and also if you’re under-leveled for some reason you’ll catch up fast. It’s an elegant system that makes the whole thing feel really nicely balanced.
– When you meet Feena, it’s possible to ‘measure’ her. You measure monsters etc. by bumping into them, but Feena follows you around a few steps behind so she’s not possible to bump into except there’s one particular dead-end corridor you can go into and then basically trap her there and bump away. For extra creepy, put the Mask of Eyes on so she’s invisible. In the Steam version there’s an achievement for this. You can also do it with one of the characters in Ys II and in Oath in Felghana so it’s kind of a running joke.
– In that same sequence, with some particular items that when used stop the enemies moving for a bit, you can actually level Feena up by making her bump through enemies.
– Toward the end of the game, before you enter Darm Tower you must have all the Silver gear, which is the second from the top gear quality. You can’t beat the final boss without silver gear (well, you can, but it’s nearly impossible), and once you enter the tower you’re stuck there. The silver sword is hard to get.
You need to visit Reah a few times until there’s a sequence where she plays the opening tune on her harmonica, and then visit both of the Rodea Trees on the map. The tree gives you the sword. The reason it’s there is in Ys Origin. 🙂With a guide you can knock out Ys 1 in like 5-6 hours, it’s quite short. It’s worth pushing through it fast because Ys II is miles and miles better.
I considered buying it once but then decided I needed to be more responsible with spending on games. I think it was during a steam sales hangover.
I think I’ll probably end up doing the same, unless the consensus falls in favour of this being a once-in-a-lifetime purchase.
I can’t be bothered reading what the others have said (sorry Neg, I’m just tired :P) but Celceta was my first Ys game and I enjoyed it! I think Kotaku had an article before its launch and after watching the some trailer there was just something about it that “clicked” with me and the next thing I knew, I impulse purchased the collector’s edition off OGS.
It’s nothing amazingly spectacular omgimustplaythis, but it’s damn fun and probably a worthwhile purchase at $25. It can get pretty repetitive at times but thankfully the whole game is fairly shortish. Story/characters are meh but it’s more about the gameplay!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Tw_O_fEFPk (I think this was the trailer)
Another thing I mentioned but bears repeating: That Soundtrack.
This is the field music for the first zone. Just a normal area.
And Celceta doesn’t even have the best music in the series. Falcom’s music should be as iconic as stuff like Final Fantasy, but hardly anyone’s even heard it. 🙁
Honestly though, if you wanted to sample Ys and aren’t averse to digital, Ys Seven on PSP is probably available for a song in comparison to $34, and it’s a marginally better experience if you don’t mind the lower res. Ys I & II are best on the PC. I don’t think you go for Steam though? If you did I’d totally gift you one of the Ys games. I really really like the series so like to evangelize it a bit.
Thanks, man. I appreciate it. You’re talking me into it.
I only really got into the series a few years ago. Played bits and pieces of the series (tried Origins and Seven but didn’t like them!). It didn’t click until I put some effort in and finished I & II which I picked up on PC when they released on Steam and decided to sit down with a guide and put the effort in, reasoning that if there can be eight games in the series it can’t be terrible. Since then I’ve played & finished them all except V (which was SNES and apparently crap and also never properly translated) and VI (which I got a little way into but it’s kind of regressive compared to the subsequent games made on the engine, and also there were rumors of a proper translation coming to Steam instead of the crap Konami PS2 release).
They’re releasing a new Ys this year on PS4 & Vita! No details yet but it looks like it won’t be called Ys Eight, probably has a subtitle instead, and it’s set in between V and VI. Should be awesome, plus Xseed have been doing a great job localizing the games since they got the rights so it should actually come out in English some time. \o/
Having a good day today! My project at work is going totally smoothly for a change, got praised by my boss, gearing up for my holiday soon.
Everything’s coming up Pow! Hope you guys are good too.
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So, after over 100 episodes of Potaku, we’re finally getting some actual industry professionals on the podcast!
Nic Watt (No relation) And Bruce Thompson from local dev/publisher Nnooo.
So anyone got any questions for the guys about their games or the local dev/publishing scene?
(Please give us some good questions to make us seem less terrible!)
Make sure you ask them what they’re working on now #helping
But then after they answer, remind them that they’re not working at all right now – they’re on a podcast #doublehelping
What are their favourite/least favourite trends in game design? Not necessarily monetisation strategies, but more about the games themselves
Can you give a rundown of what they do in the industry?
Me? Or is that a question I should ask them?
That one’s for you. I’d be curious to ask about some details of what they do once I know the role i.e. artist, dev, design, QA, marketing, those sorts of things. Although for some Indies it can be a matter of ‘all of the above’
http://www.nnooo.com/
Developer/publisher.
If you don’t know the answer, you should ask them. It might help direct the rest of the discussion #stillhelping
Ask them why they’re not making my favourite game
But Link to the Past has already been made.
You spelt Symphony of the Night wrong
L.I.N.K.T.O.T.H.E.P.A.S.T?
F.I.N.A.L. F.A.N.T.A.S.Y. V.I.I.
A brief reminder to Undad backers:
If you haven’t filled in your survey, please do it soon. I want to start working on the dedication page for the book, so everything is ready to go for publication. There’s only a handful (okay, a little more than a handful) of pages still outstanding at the moment, and after a quick once-over scrub, it’ll be going straight to the printers.
If all goes well, I’ll be unveiling it at Supanova Gold Coast.
So get your surveys in! Please.
Also, thanks.
Yep. That’ll do. That’s it.
Sincerely.
Really looking forward to seeing how it all turns out!
Yeah, this is actually one of those rare treats I’m actually looking forward to.
Kind of enjoying it. I don’t generally look forward to much, or very often.
Thanks!
You edited out the bit where you said you hate me, didn’t you.
No…
Actually, yes.Hi!
Hey, you know what The Beatles say.
Messrs K. and H. assure the publicTheir production will be second to none.
And of course Henry the Horse dances the waltz.
True pillars of wisdom. I will remember them always.
I didn’t back it!
Because I spent WAY too much money at Christmas \o/
WAY. TOO. MUCH.
An excuse I can forgive. Unlike the nearly seven billion people who didn’t back it and DIDN’T EVEN TRY TO EXPLAIN WHY. >:(
What jerks!
It does mean that there are 7 billion Christmas cards you don’t have to send. The savings alone would fund another graphic novel.
I don’t send Christmas cards (I do this instead).
But I would really like to fund another graphic novel, so maybe I’ll make plans to send seven billion Christmas cards… and then cancel them!
I might do the same for my next film. Also, poor countries could do this.
Shane, we just ended world hunger.
I don’t know about you, but I think this has been a very productive day.
Pretty sure I filled in the survey. I think.
You’re all set, man. If you’ve gotten some rewards from me (you should have gotten all the digital books and Undad #1, IIRC), you’re up to date with rewards.
What survey?
I’ll shoot you an email.
Alright
PSA: Wearing a wrist brace for an extended period of time makes my hand smell like feet.
Oh yeah, me too. I’ve had to leave mine off because I keep forgetting to wash it. It’s probably gone mouldy by now, now that I think of it.
I learned this in high school. Also doing anything to mask the smell will just make said smell 10,000 times worse.
Don’t pick your nose or you’ll barf.
Papa Roach 3-pack… yay for more angsty rock, I guess. Kinda hard not to chuckle when listening to the lyrics, considering I first heard them thanks to Weird Al’s Angry White Boy Polka, and can’t really separate them from that song. Oh well, at least Last Resort has a neat riff. 😛
Fuck couriers.
Trying to track down a parcel for my mother-in-law. It was addressed to Forster, but apparently delivering it to a post office an hour away is close enough.
Mama! I didn’t know you swore! :O
This changes all preconceived notions I had of you…
She’s a mother. Of course she swears.
What, you thought I was all tea and cupcakes?
…no…
…yes…
…umm, I dunno…
*flop-sweat*
Ok, I kinda did :3
Everyone swears when they burn themselves. Not me though. Probably
I usually go, “Argh, fffmmmmppphhhhh (sucking in air through closed lips), aaaahhhhh”.
I do my bestest to avoid swearing :3
I don’t usually swear when I burn myself.
Burned myself enough times over the years.
Actually I’m amazed that I never really learned my lesson, and kept touching hot shit…
Yeah I grabbed the steam wand every day as a barrista
Once grabbed a chemistry practical sample out of the oven at uni and burnt myself. Rather than use the hand that had the PPE on, I used my unprotected hand. Because I’m a moron.
Reminds me…
When I was fresh into high school, our school had the bright idea of doing ‘services’ on Friday afternoons. For some that meant volunteering at the RSPCA (they thought it would be petting kittens and puppies… it was mostly cleaning out shit and hefting storeroom supplies). For others that meant mini-SES-training, the Art Services group ended up building backstage structures and set-pieces, and the group I joined… visited the old folks’ home.
I don’t know who was responsible for the idea, but whether it was self-selection or teacher-driven social engineering, the group who ended up visiting the old folks’ home were the school’s rogues and brigands. Those skirting the edge of expulsion, the regular detention crowd.
…And me.
I strongly suspect that the irreverent, juvenile nature of our group of delinquents is probably what brought out the… best? Worst? Something ‘different’ in our charges. The old people seemed to feed off our delight in their free and casual use of swears, subverting our expectations of ‘prim and proper nannas’ with glee.
We listened with rapt fascination as we got told the worst stories of the unsavory things they’d got up to in their youth, and gruesome stories of the wars. A group of horrible children and horrible elders, thoroughly enjoying the freedom of being horrible. Some of the ladies liked to pretend that we were gigolos.
An afternoon tea spread was always put out by the home, and some of the residents hoarded away bottles of various types of soda for us to take away and drink on the way back.
Meanwhile, the RSPCA kids were covered in animal shit, hollow-eyed from too much exposure to animal sadness, and the ACES crews were slogging their guts out in the heat clearing reclaimed bushland as foundations for obstacle courses and camp-sites or doing road-side litter-cleaning.
There seemed to be something fundamentally unjust about how much fun the worst-behaved students in the school were having while everyone else worked their asses of. Not that we were complaining.
…There was a point to this reminiscing. I forget what it is. People who seem ‘proper’ like a good old swear every now and then? Oh, and that life isn’t fair and good things will happen to bad people.
#mostinterestingmanonTAY
How can you hate couriers when Captain Bamboo exists?
Now to ruin the joke by explaining it: Captain Bamboo is a custom courier in Dota 2.
Thank you for explaining it, because I would never have got the reference!
Llama Llama is the best courier for the record.
Is that Forster NSW? My parents moved there a little while ago and run a cafe there, seems to be in a postal system hole, everything we send back and forth takes longer than it should, Express post is like 3 days to anywhere from there so my folks were informed at the post office.
Yes. Parcel was addressed for Forster and somehow got left at the post office at Pacific Palms. So helpful!
OK @gutsoup, I have to ask, which café in Forster? Always on the lookout for good café lunches in Forster to take Grandma to.
It’s called Chilli Jam, the portions are very generous, nice little cozy spot. You can tell them Shaun sent you and they’ll look after you 🙂
Watching the live updates from the Gillian Triggs hearing is kind of gross. Any semblance of a shred of respect I had for the current government is pretty quickly evaporating. If my seven year old starting doing what they’re doing she would get an extremely stern talking to yet here are out leaders doing exactly that.
It’s utterly absurd.
It saddens me that it reminds me so much of me and my sister when we were little.
Me: You did it.
Her: Nahhh. You did.
Me: No. You did.
Her: No. You did.
Me: No. You did.
Her: No. You did.
Me: No. You did.
Her: No. You did.
Me: No. You did.
Her: No. You did.
Me: No. You did.
Her: MUUUUMMMMM!!!
Edit: “it” meaning parliment for the last… 7 years?
There was a great tweet by a friend of mine who works for the greens that sums it up in all its tragedy.
https://twitter.com/renailemay/status/570074791387860992
SOON
The apocalypse?
PRIESTOCALYPSE
Well I got a “result” from my bank about my disputed transaction with Wednesday 13’s merchandise company about never fulfilling a pre-order and dodging my inquiries about it. They said since it has been more than 4 months since the transaction was made they believe I am breaching their ‘Deposit Product Terms & Conditions Clause’ and because of that will not reimburse me my lost money because the merchant failed to deliver the goods on the pre-order date or a refund or even communicate back. Given the pre-order was meant to be filled almost 7 months later I can’t act on that until then anyway. I’m, mostly pissed off because the merchant in question has not only done this to me but many other fans and have no issued a refund like had been indicated.
What also annoyed me was, the teller I dealt with at the bank seemed disinterested and couldn’t comprehend it was a pre-order that was to be filled at a much later date and that I had tried to get in contact with the merchant because I wanted my damn goods.
Oh well, i’ll just ring the customer relations number they have here and talk to someone who may comprehend what has happened and why I am disputing it.
Huh, just got an email from Supanova spruiking this year’s events and listing all their guests.
Adam Baldwin isn’t listed. Interesting.
Also holy shit Dolph Lundgren? I may for the first time ever and probably ly the last consider paying to see someone.
There’s no ‘ad’ in ‘contractual obligation’
Dolph is fucking awesome. I also love that he’s really really smart as well as action-hero superstar material.
Man I’ve been sitting on Page 3 for like 2 hours wondering why it was so quiet.
I did that too, a while ago.
Gearbox has sent me two emails this afternoon saying Homeworld Remastered arrives this Wednesday. I’m happy your excited gearbox but I have no idea what that is.
You’re… you’re kidding, right? About the long-awaited remaster of the world’s greatest space RTS?
They’re remaking StarCraft?
>:(
Company of Heroes?’
oh wait space…. Dawn of War 2?!
ಠ_ಠ
MONSTERS. ALL OF YOU.
You too, @freezespreston. (Although Sins is actually pretty good, and Dawn of War 1 was too, which is why I know CJ’s taking the piss when he says DoW2 because urrrrgh esporty crap)
Don’t worry, I’m on your side.
*stares anxiously at CE order page “Not yet dispatched”*
Nah. Dow 2 is way better then one. Dow 1 is all numbers and bad path finding.
DoW2 was all MOBA-wannabe small-squad micromanagement esports bullshit, no base-building and massive armies! Worst. DoW. Ever. The series peaked at Dark Crusade.
Yeah but the massive army’s were just numbers, attack move done. I agree DoW2 suffered from a linear tech tree but base building is overrated. DoW2 was fresh and interesting and loosing a unit was a big deal. Even as the only Tyranid player in the entire world. (still more common then ork players) That said Retribution ruined the multiplayer. Stupid imperial guard sentinals.
Who the hell plays multiplayer? That’s not the point of Dawn of War or RTSes in general! 😛
AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!
DoW Dark Crusade had a cool single player. DoW 2 Chaos Rising is the best single player campaign the series has had.
Sins of a Solar Empire?
(I may be upvoting all these comments, but I do love me some Homeworld)
I know what it is but never played it and have zero interest in the remake and I don’t know how gearbox got my email address 🙁
Did you get Tales from the Borderlands at PAX?
No.
I actually don’t know what it is either and when they announced it at PAX Aus and everyone else was clapping I was just like mmm okay? *shrug*
Apparently I’m getting a free copy from them though for that PAX Aus thing a coupla years back 😛
I got one and hit that unsubscribe button with the speed of a thousand startled gazelles.
Same. Completely blank expression ensues.
http://ballerinamafia.net/index.php?pid=20110620
Ha, just got linked this.
As I’m sitting here wearing my Castlevania shirt 😛
I think I’ve had this shirt since I was in highschool. Its got squiggles on it, dont own any cool gaming shirts.
Back from my mini conference thing!
I ate and drank too much :P. Bleh. It was totally FREE though SO I GOTTA EAT AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE
I’m kinda sad to be leaving Healthcare and moving to another division. I want as much benefits and conferences as possible! :'(
EDIT: Oh and I was talking to some Perth management dudes and they asked for me to come back :P. Doubt it’ll happen though because I’m needed back in VIC. Was also talking to some New Zealand peoples and they seem keen to have more people on board too. I also doubt that’ll happen but of course I wouldn’t mind another free “holiday” 😀
Greedius 😛
or is that Gluttonius?
I am confuse.
Where in New Zealand are they? Makes a big difference as to whether it’s worth trying to wrangle a placement over there.
About 15 mins out from Auckland
15 mins from Auckland CBD I assume you mean (it’s actually a fairly big city). Auckland’s a really nice place to live. Good climate, never stupidly cold but rarely gets above the 30 degree mark, great beaches on the northern side of the city. When I lived there I was just a kid, and my school was in a really snobby area so for half the year every Friday we’d go down to the boat shed they owned that was on the shore of the big lake nearby and spend all morning sailing yachts. We also had a really nice house for a while when living there that was only 5 mins walk from Milford Beach which was one of the nicest beaches on the North Shore.
Only problem is that Aucklanders aren’t very friendly and the rest of the country kind of hates them. 😛
I just typed the office address into Google Maps and “Auckland” 😛
They used to do grad rotations there but not anymore :(.
Haha, so apparently my local EB have already had a few return The Order 1886, with total disappointment. At least i’m not alone I guess.
Just going to throw this out there, @blaghman is super rad.
After adopting Alice, I’ve been exhausted and stressed out. I’ve been eating terribly and have visibly lost weight. Freya is on nights at the moment, which is always disruptive, so I’ve basically been all on my own this week. Throw in a puppy that gets very vocal when left alone and the steaming pile of shit that is the situation with the home owner rescinding permission to have Alice and you can imagine that I’m not in the best mental shape right now.
Anyhow, Blaghs has come over twice this week to help out. Sure it’s for purely selfish reasons, so he can play with the puppy, but it has been a massive help for me. He’s puppy sat when I had to go to Bunnings and do groceries and today he gave me a chance to catch up on some precious, precious sleep.
Oh, I’ve also tricked him into doing manual labour by erecting part of the puppy fence and got him to play Android: Netrunner with me.
All in all, really massive things for me.
If Kudos was still a thing, he’d have it on lock this week. And I say that as someone who thought it was a bit of a circlejerk.
I hear he’s a jerk who only drops by to get Puppy Pics.
Or for more Puppy Pics.
(I feel exhausted after today, and I didn’t actually do ANYTHING)
That’s not true at all. You lost at Netrunner three times.
I think it’s a safe bet that if you ever want to win a game, play me at Netrunner.
I am to Netrunner what GingerChris is to Splendor.
I don’t think it’s possible for anyone to be as bad at a game as @gingerchris86 is at Splendor.
Anyhow, I’m probably going to try putting together some decks with all my cards. Might get something a little more consistent than the starter decks. CJ managed to beat me the last time I did that, so who knows, you might have half a chance.
@blaghman @trjn I’ll have you both know that I have won, twice. Every other time i have played awfully and threatened to burn it with fire however :p
You can understand why I have my doubts.
About the successes, not the threats. I’ve witnessed the threats.
Well next time we are in the same space I’ll try again 🙂
Thank you so much for helping Bun and I out. We really appreciate it. I’ll mention it to your dad the next time I fail to review a patient he wants me to 😛
Blaghs is a pretty rad dude.
Early days of puppy owning can be stressful, but it does get better.
Hope things turn out well re: home owner.
I’ll be doing much better once I start getting better sleep. Only getting a couple of disrupted hours a night and a few half naps during the day has really kicked my ass. Freya has just finished her first night shift, so that means there’s going to be more time where I can go get a nap or even some real sleep.
Today I made like a dozen new friends.
They were all dogs, I’m not good with people :P.
(did a day of dog washing for moneyz)
Yeah but at least dogs are always happy to keep you company & see you (unless they have been extremely naughty). People really vary sadly =(
Yeah dogs are easy, they either like you or don’t.
Yep. Then there’s the dogs which are just assholes who hate everyone, they must have the cat gene in them haha 😛
Mans best friend!
You guys! Maximum Choppage on ABC2 is great!
It was pretty cool. Also, Georgina Haig!
Ah damn, I missed it. It’ll be on iView I suppose. I’ll check it out tomorrow.
Definitely on iview. It was even better than I was expecting 🙂
I don’t even know what TAY thread is current. Whatever. I’ll leave this here for nostalgia reasons. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88y4ttqaW6U
Welcome (again?) Zombie Jesus!
You just kinda jump in with TAY. There is no real current thread. Everyone around here tends to keep up with it alright (except little @phlanispo, who is usually a couple of days behind :P)
Something was said, not good.
What was it? Don’t yell at Phlanispo? Nah, that’s okay.
Hahaha, I was just saying that you usually fall behind on TAY was all, and that you try to catch up on the weekend (usually :P)
Yeah, I kind of knew that, I was just making an extremely poor attempt at a Simpsons reference. It would have made more sense if I posted it all at once. Original dialogue.
I just realised how late I replied to this. I am slow.
What was it… slow! They called you slow!
If there are two TAYs, it’s always the second one on the most commented that is current.
Thanks!
THAT WAS AMAZING
I CAN DIE HAPPY NOW
So. Dragonforce were pretty good. I’ve always heard people say that their live gigs suck, they can’t even play their own songs, etc. I didn’t really get that impression at all, but then I guess I’m not overly familiar with them so who knows 😛 Kinda wish the vocals could’ve been a little louder, but hey.
Priest… I was expecting it to be mostly stuff from Redeemer, but there was actually a whole tonne of older stuff in there. So awesome.
Spoilering the setlist in case people still want to be surprised on Thursday or whatever 😛
DragonautDevil’s Child
Metal Gods
Victim of Changes
Halls of Valhalla
Love Bites
March of the Damned
Turbo Lover
Redeemer of Souls
Beyond the Realms of Death
Jawbreaker
Breaking the Law
Hell Bent For Leather
You’ve Got Another Thing Coming
Living After Midnight
Defenders of the Faith
Can’t wait for Saturday.
Dragonforce have improved a lot over the last 6 or 7 years. Back in ’07 they were apparently rubbish, but by ’09 they’d started to improve a lot.
Did you have your Castlevania shirt on?
Yes. I think they accepted me as one of their own, I blended right in with the sea of black.
Ehhh, @saturday is okay … I guess.
I don’t really like him.
It’s because he’s from Canada isn’t it?
What happened to TAY?
It’s Wednesday and it’s not on page 15 yet.
I blame Twitter.
Those kid’s and their darned twitter accounts!
I think it’s because not much is going on?
I don’t know but it works for me. I’ve missed so much online, only having a few pages of TAY to catch up on is pretty good.
All the old guard disappeared off to Twitter or god knows where else for some reason 🙁
What assholes.
@distantdrop @jocon A little more raiding tonight peeps? Maybe an hour? Do heroic Gruul again =P
And did you guys hear what the pugs said about running a 10man group? lol
“Woof” ?
I don’t really like the way they set up the new profession plans, I have to either wait for a inordinate amount of time for it to show up or try visiting others garrisons.. what a a pain.
Don’t like the new blood elf’s models to.. the complexion looks way to glassy in lieu of a better word to describe it… have to wear a helmet to cover the shame!
I do realize these have nothing to do with what you asked. they are important points however!
But yeah I think its a good idea, 6.1 has hit so lots of the raiders will log on to feel out the new changes, should be able to round up quite a few.
We’ll just get a rotation of visits going within guildies who log on regularly.
And way to comment completely on a tangent red =P Who even cares about the new models?!
So lets try and pug another heroic group today, also I’m thinking of being more selective on what bosses we kill, i.e. skipping oregorger and possibly gruul on normal if no one needs gear from them and start working on Blast Furnace. This way we get the bosses that drop tier gear on farm and skip the idiots who drop trash.
Oregorger and Gruul need to die for that wooden gate to open for blast furnace =/ you also cant fall off the ledge i’ve tried.
….. I hate this raid.
just tell members who struggle on oregorger to run lfr and practice his movements, we still have members who rely on the raid leader/following people to avoid him, give or take a week we should have him on 1 shot.
I’m sure you’ve noticed our melee dps and tanks have mastered that fight.. we mostly spread out and break boxes to speed up the phase.
Maybe, I’d like to get stuck into the couple of new quests first off. Get the ball rolling on that legendary follower.
And yeah, even the pugs thought it was the 10 man holding us back.
I believe Garona is obtainable after Chapter 3, I believe were all a good 2-3 months away from getting her.
Yeah which is nice to hear we’ve got the skillset required and its numbers holding us back; but on the flipside its the fucking numbers holding us back!! *cries*
God just one healer would be a godsend at this point so we can fill out the remaining dps spots.
I’ve been advertising for 650 ilvl but I think what’s holding us back partly is our raid timings and secondly if I advertise too low an ilvl the experienced raiders will skip over the ad all together thinking we’re too lowbie for them.
Skip the ilvl part then. I have seen numerous other guild ads without it.
Telltale games are making a TV show?
http://www.avclub.com/article/telltale-finally-just-make-its-own-tv-show-s-also–215713?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_campaign=Default:1:Default
Sounds pretty interesting actually. Would be cool if they do some sort of parallel-world story so the game/show can affect each other without sharing the same set of characters.
Not sure how the game would be able to affect the show. Unless they shoot scenes multiple times for each possible choice? Changing the game depending on if you watched the show first sounds like an interesting idea though.
Looking forward to hearing more! Hopefully it happens.
“The idea is for Telltale to create its own TV/video game hybrid series, where a new episode of the show would always be released along with a new episode of the game.”
So months between each TV episode?
Something is wrong. I’m really enjoying Bound by Flame. Everyone is telling me it’s terrible and it is currently sitting on an average of 4/10. Yet I’m enjoying it more than 90% of recent games I’ve played in the past year.
I think the games cycle has officially broken me.
Edit: I’m getting so much more from this $18 game than the $250 I spent on Destiny…
No, you are engaging in badwrongfun and must discontinue it immediately.
Relevant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPK3nU2746U
Are you suggesting that your opinion is different to the consensus established by the reviewers which exist only to dictate our taste in games to us?!
I know. I’m a monster.
Funnily enough, I usually find Destructoid reviews to line up pretty well with my tastes and they gave it a 7/10, further confirming I should keep checking there.
I always used to find that for most western-developed stuff Eurogamer tended to cleave pretty close to how I felt about most games, but they decided to stop putting scores on stuff. 🙁
I tend to like niche stuff too, and that doesn’t help. Well, theoretically I do. I tend to buy them and not play them a lot.
Yeah, I find Destructoid pretty decently lines up with my tastes, too.
It’s why I continue to follow Jim Sterling after he left there.
I’m probably the only person here who is actually looking forward to Monday. I’ll be going to Hobart to see Foo Fighters and Rise Against. I still can’t believe both those bands are coming to Tasmania. The tickets sold out really quickly, and I wasn’t able to buy one, but my friend wasn’t able to go, so he gave me his ticket. I haven’t been this excited for anything in quite a while.
Aw man. You’re going to be so disappointed when you realise you misread and it’s the Fuu Fingers and Rice Again.
Maybe it’s Mr T’s band the Fool Pitiers?
Food Filers and @rize Ugh
I watched their Austin City Limits episode the other night. Daves voice does not handle the new material live very well it seems :/ That or it’s the fact he’s trying to dance whilst performing and it takes it away from him 😛
I hope it’s just that he’s trying to dance. I’ve seen the set list for their most recent shows, and it looks good.
He couldn’t keep still it was like he was on a mix of caffeine and amphetamines he was so hyped up hahaha.
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiit. You’re coming down here?
Oh man let me shout you lunch/coffee somewhere. Please?
Not that I’m lonely or anything. The extent of my conversations during the day tend to focus on poo, children’s TV and how much my little guy likes oranges. It’s getting so bad, I’m tempted to introduce him to Mario…
I’d have to talk to my parents, as they’re driving me down. Not even sure when I’m getting to Hobart. If it can be arranged, that would be great though.
I wanna see Rise Against so bad, didn’t book tickets though unfortunately 😛
Haha, someone had a great deal of fun choosing the pictures for that foreskin article on Gizmodo!
Yeah, there’s no way I’m clicking that at work.
It’s actually SFW, and an interesting read.
Hahaha, I was just thinking exactly that.
Urgh, curiosity overcame my self imposed comments ban. Made it to the first comment before I regretted that.
Old man rant about nothing important incoming:
Man, I was not a fan of that Power Rangers short at all.
Not everything needs to have a gritty reboot. The “Power Rangers” stuff felt incredible shoe-horned in. As @trjn pointed out on Twitter, replace the Power Rangers costumes with judge costumes from the latest Judge Dredd movie (surprisingly produced by the same guy) and it still works. I’d say it would’ve worked better.
The fact that they used Power Rangers seemed like a cheap way of world building by using an established universe and trying to bank on 90s nostalgia. Sure, it was well shot and produced. Even the acting was alright and I will take any opportunity to appreciate Katee Sackhoff.
Material doesn’t need to grow with its audience. Mortal Kombat worked because the games were already violent (and the short worked better than the serious which grounded it too much in reality).
Now if they went the Speed Racer route…
I really liked Speed Racer, as stupid as it was. Probably because the first time I saw it was while I was tipsy and in a weird theatre in Toronto with a bunch of deaf kids.
I love it!
I am reminded of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZAiLTsvzbI for some reason.
Fugg yeah, Speed Racer.
Visually amazing but it has the Wachowski problem of being a bit of a bloated mess.
And fuck Dawsons robot leg.
That sound whenever he moved was super annoying.
Best movie to check your TV colour balance.
Is that the Wachowski film where humans are being harvested as a resource?
You’re gonna have to be more specific.
I have no problem with gritty reboots when it’s a fan film.
I generally have no issues with them…as long as it suits the material. In this case, it didn’t.
But isn’t that part of the fun of doing a fan film? Taking the source material and fucking with it?
As long as it just stays as this short, I’m okay with it.
Plus it’s nice to see Dawson getting “work”
I mean, Joey chose Pacey over him. No wonder he’s doing gritty stuff.
Yeah, I agree. Because fuck Power Rangers. Voltron is where it’s at. >:(
Yeah. I don’t think it’s bad exactly but I’m not a fan of it. It took me a while to nail it down but I think it’s that it doesn’t want to capture the spirit of the show at all. It’s interesting to look at, like realistic Pokemon or punk Super Mario Bros, but it seems purely visual. There’s doesn’t appear to be any deeper creative inspiration or reason. It’s just the original sets and costumes ran through a gritty filter.
Like @doc_what says though I don’t have a problem with it because it’s just a fan film.
I finished The Order 1886 last night. Wow, the ending was just bad. I was finding the plot alright up until the end. Oh well. The graphics were really nice & the gun selection was cool even if I did find myself wanting to use the combo rifle the Knights use as standard more than anything else and a six shooter pistol. They were easily the most versatile and powerful normal guns in the game I found. The thermite rifle & arc lance were pretty rad though 😛 Albeit kinda annoying to use at times.
Downside, very linear game, not much room for exploring sadly, cut scenes were not skippable, too many cut scenes as well. I also really disliked the black bars, if you’re gonna advertise it as 1080P on the back of the case it better be 1080P not something like 900P with whacking huge black bars top & bottom of the screen >=[
Still wouldn’t recommend it as a must have game. It’s more of a pick it up pre owned for cheap or brand new cheap.
So overall a bit meh?
Yeah sadly. I didn’t really like the ending, that was just really meh over all.
I’m waiting for it to hit $30-40 US. I’m not worried about length but for a one-off experience it sounds like it’s just generally not good enough to pay full price for.
Yeah defs not a 90+ dollar game for the ‘limited edition’ which included a skin & a steel book.
All this Foo Fighters talk is making me think of FRESH POTS.
Yes.
Yes. Yes. Yes.
YES!
TAY ADRENALIN SHOT
PITCH YOUR GRITTY REBOOT
It is the far future.
Society has collapsed, leaving behind only scattered tribes ruled by warlords
Roads were destroyed
There is now only rail, patrolled by bandits and savage tribes. Each society must rely on its cadre of death dealing engines
The free people have one last hope. One engine to protect them
A TANK engine
THOMAS
SUMMER 2016
Rated R for RAILROADS
In the near future, a hard hitting cop is wrongly convicted of the brutal murder of a society heiress and is sent to a prison island complex where the prisoners are left to roam free and fend for themselves. Ruled by a motorcycle gang “The Sisters” he must fight his way to freedom.
THIS SUMMER.
*bwaaaah*
Inside.
*bwaaaah*’
Wants.
*bwaaaah*
Out.
*bwaaaah*
Redemption: Shank or be Shanked.
The future.
Earth is now home to the Alien utopia known as The Spot. Outside human society has collapsed leading to a bloody, chaotic existence.
A young girl, a victim of unspeakable violence, dies reaching for her one friend. His eyes reflecting the horror he witnessed, his fur speckled with blood. The broken robotic teddy bear can do nothing but watch, and record all he sees.
Eventually the toy is discarded only to be happened upon by a rogue alien scientist exiled the the outer regions who repairs and augments the mechanical creature.
He is now savior for the people.
A redeemer of his creators sins.
A Super Ted!
A dark room. It looks like an apartment, at least it started as one. There’s sirens and yelling from the street. This isn’t a good part of town. Hell, it’s not even the bad part of town. This is the bottom of the barrel, down on your luck, last stop before the end part of town.
A tattered, torn and beaten arm chair faces a wall. A gloved hand reaches from the chair to the side table. To the revolver. The glove was white once, but it looks like it’s been through hell.
CLACK. The hand flicks the revolver open. It’s empty. It loads a bullet into the chamber. Then another.
Eyes, black and tired watch the glove from the recesses of the chair. They flick from the chamber to the wall. From the bullets to the clippings. From death to death.
The articles paint a bloody picture. Violence is sweeping LA. Cops are being gunned down and kidnapped. The Hollywood PD had a bomb planted in it’s basement.
“That was a close one.” The mouth grins. But the grin gives way to a scowl, the sharpened teeth clenched.
ZZZZZZZZZZ CLACK! The hand spins the chamber and snaps it back into the gun. The scowl weakens and disappears, replaced by nothing.
The figure rises from the chair, it’s orange, matted hair stands out against the crisp, clean blue of the uniform.
The hand holsters the revolver and moves to a rabbit’s foot hanging around the figure’s neck.
It grasps the foot and the dark eyes well. They close.
“Fall Apart…”
The eyes snap open. The hollow blackness is gone replaced by a mad, burning purpose. The eye’s of insanity.
The eyes of Bonkers.
THE FUTURE
The environment is in chaos. Greedy megacorporations exploit the natural resources of the planet, leaving people to starve.
One cell of multiethnic ecoterrorists plan to change all of that
They have created the unthinkable
A living, sentient bioweapon
More powerful than nature
PLANET
POWERS COMBINE HOLIDAY 2017
A man with a hood over his head is being led through a south African slum by several armed men. They find a dilapidated shack and shove him inside. There they move aside a board to reveal a steel door. They knock twice, then once, then four times. A small panel slides aside and a gun barrel sticks put aiming at the man knocking. The man responds “Valhalla’ and the gun retracts and the door opens.
The men push the hooded man down a dimly lit set of stairs until they reach a room at the bottom, surrounded by heavily armed men and shove the man into a chair and remove the hood. In front of him sits a large, muscular woman with a mohawk and covered in tattoos. One of her legs is missing from the knee down, replaced with a crudely made prosthetic from iron reinforcing bars. Next to her sits an ugly scarred dwarf, ears have been clipped to a point and nose has been smashed in and destroyed, lending him an almost feline appearance. The dwarf lights a cigar and takes a long drag.
“I hear you have a problem.”
The woman leans forward.
“A big problem.”
Smash to title.
PEG + CAT
The far future.
Society has collapsed everywhere in the world. There is no longer any interconnectiveness. There is no longer any mass communication, nor telephones, nor Internet – even the radio is silent.
A post-apocalyptic wasteland stretches as far as the eye can see. Burnt to ashes by nuclear war from thousands of years ago, humankind – or what is left of it – has barely reached the middle ages of technology again. The crippling of the human race has left an almighty power vacuum at the top of the food chain, and those creatures we once called “animals” have mutated and evolved. Some are even able to shift their shape and looks on will, to mimic the animals of old.
Slowly, vegetation has begun to grow back. Slowly, agriculture is developed. But the desert is always there, always looming – the large expanse of sand and wind and sun that will quickly kill even the hardiest creature.
Having been left to their own devices, the supercomputers of the world have slowly gained sentience. Their original mission – to ensure the survival of their country, their people – still stands. Whilst the ruling elite of all countries are as long gone as the arbitrary lines on a map that showed where the country was and was not, these computers still take an active and sometimes interventionist interest in their people.
Humans, animals – they worship these computers as gods.
But, as always, there is trouble. Be it from internal strife, warring bands of bandits, or external war, something is always needing to be quelled, to be suppressed, to be fixed, to be done.
One of the great god computers has slowly degraded over the millenia of running the country it is programmed to nurse. It has identified some circuit boards it needs – but they are on the other side of the country, through the desert, through the lawless areas. It needs a champion – a being that can journey and find these ‘holy scriptures’, a being hardy enough to survive almost anything, to be almost immortal. Driven to the point of arrogance. Able to live – and thrive – in the desert. Able to bring other powerful beings either to his side, or overcome them.
The computer needs a champion.
It turns to the old technology secreted upon the highest mountain in the land and there it blends DNA to create the ultimate, immortal champion.
A spark of lightning finishes the process, and the egg cracks open as the champion explodes out.
COMING THIS FALL
A CHAMPION IS BORN THAT MAY NEVER DIE.
HIS NAME IS:
MONKEY
Oh man, they should totally do a post apocalyptic “gritty” Journey to the West.
I’d be Enslaved to my screen.
*cough*
*stares at feet*
*mumbles* I’m sorry.
You know what? I never played that game. I’m reading the wiki now.
Holy crap, I plagiarized without realising it.
“I swear, I swear, I don’t know where it is!”
The thief struggles against his bindings but they’re tight. His three captors have done this before.
“We don’t believe you.”
“Look, I was just told to rob the place. We took all the stuff we grabbed and gave it to Flint. That’s all I know, I swear. Please.”
A cigarette burns in the darkness and illuminates a red baseball cap, flanked by two hulking figures. One clad in a green, immaculately pressed shirt, the other in a Seahawk’s jersey.
Another drag on the cigarette. Another plea from the thief.
From nowhere a fist slams into his face, shattering his cheek. His mask loses it’s grip, the eye socket it rested so comfortably against now nothing more than mashed bone and cartilage.
Another hit. Another plea.
“Blease. S… sdop… I tolb you eberything.”
The baseball bat makes short work of his wrist. The blood smears into the black and white lining of his shirt.
He pleads. The brothers attack.
He pleads with himself to pass out. To not wake up.
“Hugh. Stop. Unca’s here.”
He tries to see through the mangled mess that was his eyes.
The pin striped suit. The cane. The top hat.
He pleads that it’s not him.
A chair is scraped against the hard concrete floor of The Bin.
His voice, with it’s scottish accent, echoes and bounces around the empty vault.
“Let me tell you a tale, my dear Beagle Boy.”
Kicking off the Duckburg Cinematic Universe?
You’d probably need to do separate origin movies for both Gizmoduck and Darkwing before you brought them together as a superteam though.
TaleSpin would be the next planned movie as Baloo is Unca’s contact to the supplier.
BRED FOR INTELLIGENCE
BRED FOR VICIOUSNESS
NOW HE’S HUNTING YOU
IF YOU SEE SPOT, RUN
He can’t see me.
I’m okay.
He can’t see me.
I’m okay.
He can’t see me.
“CHRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIS!”
I’m okay.
“CHRIS! YOU LITTLE FUCKER!”
He can’t see me.
I’m okay.
“CHRIS WHEN I FIND YOU!”
He can’t see me.
You’re okay.
He can’t see you.
You’re okay.
“FINE! FUCKING DIE OUT HERE YOU LITTLE SHIT!”
I gotta get up.
He can’t see you.
I gotta get going.
You’re okay.
I’m gonna see a friend of mine.
There’s a bear in there
starving, angry and strong
And a chair as well
With straps and a blood channel in the seat
There are people with games
they play with your head
And stories to tell
ALL LIES
Open wide, come inside
You’ll never leave
It’s “Play” “School”
“There’s a bear in there. Oh, and a chair as well.”
I nod in agreement. I enquire about his clientele.
“Oh we get people with games, stories to tell.”
He leads me deeper, past more cells with square, circle and triangle windows. Past more screams. Past more shouted orders of “Open wide”
“Come inside.”
He snaps me back. His latex, gloved hand motioning to the empty chair across from his.
I ask him what it’s called.
“Play School.”
This is the place.
I’ll find you.
The Bear we keep for some of clientele with special proclivities.
The chair? We tie you to it, if that’s your kink
We have all sorts of games to get you in the mood.
And we tell stories, but we keep our clients utmost discretion.
Open wide. It’ll feel good
Come inside.
It’s time for you to play
It’s time for you to be schooled.
“50 Shades 2”
This made me laugh more than it should have.
Got the email I was dreading. The real estate agent spoke to the home owner at length and the owner has stuck with rejecting Alice.
We were initially given permission to adopt a dog, pending body corporate approval. At every step of the process, I kept the real estate agent informed. After adopting Alice, the owner changed her mind and rescinded permission on Friday afternoon. The owner feels that the unit is too small for Alice and that the body corporate will reject the application to let us keep her.
On Sunday, I sent the real estate agent a lengthy email explaining everything and basically appealing that Alice would be fine in a house this size and what we were going to do in order to train her etc.
It wasn’t enough. The owner has not changed her mind.
Now we have to really work out what our rights are here, what we can do if we want to dig in our heels and if we really want to.
Alice is amazing and I’ll feel like a complete asshole for surrendering her back to the RSPCA. Renting sucks.
*hugs* Sincerely hope it all works out for you three.
http://www.tenantsact.org.au/contactUs/Tenants-Advice-Service
The email came through at 11:34. I saw it close to noon. Will have to call another day. Thanks.
Seriously, fuck ’em.
I cannot stress this strongly enough.
You’ve taken every reasonable step through this whole process, and they cannot withhold reasonable consent – if they think they have good enough reason, they can take it to ACAT, and unless they get something upheld there they have no ground to stand on.
Stonewall them with ‘ACAT’.
No more negotiation. The lease is signed, the terms were agreed then, nothing changes.
*Not legal advice but unless the lease states ‘no pets’, then you’ve done your bit. The owner is looking for less hassle by denying a dog, so make them deal with the full hassle of the tribunal.
Edit: I’m actually getting a little worked up about this.
Alice is Your Dog now. The owner / real estate should understand now that getting rid of her is not an option – she was part and parcel of your rental agreement. If they can’t get that through their skulls, then invite them to document and send what they believe to be reasonable grounds to rescind their permission, followed by a Notice to Remedy. At which point it will be challenged and overturned at ACAT.
Unless they want to put their documentation where their mouth is (and real estates HATE documentation, because they don’t make money having to actually *work* on properties where their cut is already fixed and paid up front), then there’s nothing more to be said.
Stand your ground and the real estate will want the owner to back off, since they’ll always go the path of least resistance.
The only wrinkle would be if the body corporate rejects it.
Fucking body corporates. 99% of the time they’re pain in the ass retirees with a far too high opinion of themselves and not enough to do.
Like seriously. Fuck them. There’s very few organisations I hate as much as them. Had to deal with them constantly as a locksmith and I’ll reiterate, Fuck them. Petty, power hungry dick waving, small minded, empty lived douchebags.
Uh, that came out a little more vehement than I originally intended.
The message was loud and clear.
It’s completely true though.
ACT law actually states that the body corp is not party to the rental agreement, so I stick by “Fuck ’em”
That’s why it’s two separate things:
1) Is keeping Alice breaking the rental agreement?
2) Getting approval from the body corporate to keep Alice in the complex.
1) Only if there have been specific clauses added. Even then, being in breach doesn’t break the lease and leave you homeless – all they can do is formally request that the breach be remedied. Failing to comply with several notices to remedy can eventually lead down the path of obtaining eviction notices, but that is a very lengthy process – they can’t just say “you have a dog, get out”.
Most likely they’ll choose not to renew the lease after it expires (which happens at the best of times to perfect tenants), but that’s 12(?) months away…
2) If they say no you can challenge it at ACAT, but they also have no say in your lease so even a ” no” and no further action will change nothing
1. No – you had approval at the time you signed the lease, and you made it clear your intention to have a pet.
2. They can’t refuse without reasonable grounds (like trying to keep a dog in an apartment, or if the dog is unreasonably noisy or dangerous to other residents in the complex).
http://www.tenantsact.org.au/FAQRetrieve.aspx?ID=36461&A=SearchResult&SearchID=44168647&ObjectID=36461&ObjectType=9
So much this. Reminds me of the body corporate at Sorrento where my uncle owned a place. They were cunts and made the mistake of not allowing a owner to have a dog when others had them, it was a Maltese or something like that. Cost the body corporate a lot in legal fees (somewhere like 25 grand) and years fighting it, to only lose the case in the end and by then the dog died. So they spent all this time, money & effort in court and in the end it was all over a dead dog. They’re a joke of an idea and are never there to help the owner or renter. Only there to help themselves and steal money from the owners apparently.
I’ve never had to deal with a body corporate for any length of time… but it sounds terrible.
Add my 2c… Lady at my work bought her townhouse and had to deal with body corp for her dog. Managed to get it through after an absolute shit storm and decided to get onto the committee to try and bring some sense to the whole thing.
As a member of the commitee she has access to full financials and raised a question about why the maintenance managers needed a $5,000 ride on mower when there is approximately 200m2 of grass in the entire complex. Most of it about as wide as a push mower. Body corp. company buried her question in paperwork and refuses to provide a clear answer 18 months later.
Her next question, the communal pool, that no-one uses, why did we pay $25,000 to have the pool deck re-tiled when there was absolutlely nothing wrong with existing tiles?
Her next question, the maintenance managers are meant to take care of the ‘public facing’ gardens in front of each lot. Why are all the plants dead? Can I get new plants? She got new plants… They were put into the ground in their plastic pots.
I think they’re all the same.
So whose brother was the maintenance guy?
If Nepotism wasn’t involved I’d be stunned.
Well, as they say, Nepotism, like charity, begins at home.
DISCLAIMER: ENTIRELY AMATEUR AND POTENTIALLY DAMAGING LEGAL ADVICE:
Even if you are completely in the wrong, talk means nothing. What they say has no weight or legal jurisdiction until they officially serve a Notice to Remedy. At that point, you are well within your rights to then raise an Application for the Resolution of a Dispute at ACAT. Only then if ACAT upholds the notice to remedy do you then have to start thinking about alternative options.
This buys you at least a month or two until you have to stress. If you make it clear that this is the only course of events that can make you think about removing the dog from the property, they will most likely not want to bother with the effort.
As it stands right now, I think my biggest concern should not be where I stand legally but what’s best for Alice.
If we fight this, it’s going to be a lot of hassle and heartache all while dealing with training her. It’s going to be tough and probably lengthy. At the end of it, if we lose then we’ll either have to move and find a place that is willing to let us have her (which is not necessarily going to be easy) or surrender her (which is going to be excruciating for us and it will be much harder for the RSPCA to adopt her back out). Of course, if we win then everything is sunshine and rainbows until we have to move and potentially deal with all of this again while house hunting.
This entire situation is terrible. It might just be easiest to end it sooner, have some heartbreak and try again. I know it sounds defeatist and that everyone has really been helpful and help argue for our side. This is going to be a tough decision whichever way we go.
Edit: phone posted half done comment and crashed. Retrying below.
I saw your original half comment :p
I normally don’t post much for these reasons but petty minded pricks fucking with people’s lives like this really shits me up the wall… :p
I hate to sound harsh, but even with the full sunshine / rainbows approval now, you’re still very likely going to have to move again during this dog’s lifetime, regardless of this particular speed bump. Renting is unstable and life changes.
So if you consider moving inevitable, what have you got to lose if you fight to keep Alice now?
Make this your ‘reasonable’ option B – offer up that if no agreement can be reached, you will agree to the owner terminating the lease early provided that the real estate helps you find a suitable replacement and that the owner pays your moving costs at that stage.
You entered this lease in good faith and they are fucking with your life for the sake of being petty.
Edit: damn on screen keyboard keeps disappearing so I press post instead of the next key…
I appreciate the advice. I really do.
We’ve had Alice for almost a week. It’s going to completely suck if we have to give her up, I’m already in a bit of a state. But it’s only a week. We can surrender her while she’s still young and it will be much easier for RSPCA to adopt her out.
I’ve spoken with the real estate agent and I don’t think the owner is being petty. They own several large dogs that they don’t keep at their house because of various reasons. I think it’s a case of they wouldn’t own Alice here so they don’t think we should. It’s not unreasonable and I’m now seeing if the opinion of a dog training will help convince her otherwise.
The biggest wrinkle is the body corporate. The owner and her mother are on the body corporate (all of the home owners are) and a dog this size has not been approved so far. All of the other dogs that have been approved in the past are small. There are no restrictions in place that I know of but again, it’ll be a big fight.
Sure, real estate agents don’t want there to be a big fight, the owner definitely doesn’t but maybe I don’t either. I don’t know if I can commit to something like that when I’m not sure how it will turn out. Everything I’ve read looks like I’ll probably come out okay but this is all based on reading FAQs and random websites.
Well, let me know if you want me to channel my Powers of Grumpy at anything that can help. (I’ve previously had very good outcomes through applying them to the (Victorian) Residential Tenancies Act, Domestic Building Contracts Act and Energy Retail Code – I have a lot of fun with this last one)
Either way, it’s a bit of a shitty and stressful situation. All the best for deciding what’s best for you.
It won’t come to a big fight – Just be calm, and state your rights, and get advice from the tenancy tribunal to back you up. Once they realise that a) you’re not a couple of kids they can intimidate with threats and b) if they want to push it they’ll have to take it to the tribunal, they’ll back off. Make sure you pay your rent on time, and have the place tidy at inspection time. That’s all you’re obligated to do.
If anything, take this process as the opportunity to make sure you’re across ALL your rights as tenants in the ACT. For example, your landlord is only entitled to 2 inspections in 12 months (just in case she tries to spring any “surprise” or “follow up” inspections”). You might have to plan to move again in 12 months, but in the meantime, if you pay your rent and keep the place clean, there’s nothing for the landlord to complain about, and I’m sure your neighbours will love seeing Alice’s happy little face in the neighbourhood.
We are still going to seek advice and see what we can do. I haven’t given up but I still need to get my head around the possibility of not keeping her.
D: I am so so sorry. I hate house owners who don’t allow pets – what a bunch of assholes.
Dude.
Really feeling for you.
I can’t offer any useful advice, but I can offer my sympathies and virtual hugs.
So sweaty…
🙁
So this is probably one of the neatest ideas to re-engineer a practise, especially one like bee keeping. Which can’t be fun 😛
That is cool.
Won’t need that $10 beekeeping suit after all 😛
Totally 😛
Still, bees. NOPENOPENOPENOPENOPE
Native bees are rad, they don’t have stingers 😀
Didn’t you read my entry for the Bloodborne comp?! NOPENOPENOPENOPE
Nope, sorry D=
@liondrive history has taught me that Perth meats must be arranged a gazillion years before the actual event to prevent confusion. So what’s your plan for this clubbing thing? I don’t even know what a club is. It’s some kind of disco thing, right?
http://bit.ly/1D9hBGe
Club: noun – a heavy stick with a thick end, used as a weapon.
Discotek!
Crrrrryyyyyyyiiiinnngggg at the discotheque!
Next time I’m forced against my will to visit family. We meat.
Cc @liondrive
Of course I’m gonna hang with you again, Jimmy!
Our time together in Brisbane was tragically short :'(
Oh, you actually want to go clubbing?!
GREAT!
It’ll have to happen after your birthday, and I’ll be honest, it depends on my uni schedule, so I can’t give you a date this far in advance on my end unfortunately :S
We can even just go to a bar or pub or something if you wanna? 🙂
Oh, no pressure!
You can say “Thanks, but no thanks” if you don’t wanna go 😛
Or just leave Perth and never return! 😀
We don’t take kindly to tourists anyway! 😛
I may as well. There’s a very good chance I won’t like it, (I hate music and people) but it’s something I should do once in my life, going after my 18th seems fitting, and it’s probably better to do it with someone that knows what they’re doing. Plus, I haven’t caught up with you in a while.
When you first pitched the idea to me, I was kind of terrified of the prospect, and too polite to refuse. Six months after hearing the idea, I have been desensitized more than anything.,
I’mma make you drunk TAY post 😉
Best influence! 😀
I know that regardless of my age, my mother is going to pick me up by 8:30pm.
Don’t think the clubs will be open yet. 😛
THE COURT IS OPEN AT 6PM!!! 😀
@phlanispo
It’ll literally just be you and me there, and it’ll look like we’re on a date (especially cause its a gay club), but sppppppppttttttt!!!
*smacks Phlanispos behind*
*runs off*
(a prelude to our drunken night)
Clubs? Ewwwwwww.
Bar or pub definitely seems like the better idea. Clubbing seems like kind of a run before you walk sort of thing.
Ooooooh, phlanisbro!
I’m at the club I’m gonna take you to right now! :* :*
I’ll totally be your wingman to help you hit on guys. I mean, I won’t make a conscious effort to do or contribute anything, but my mere presence will make you look 56% more attractive.
I’ll be your wingman too, little Phlanisbuddy, don’t you worry 😉
Have the last few weeks shed light on an appropriate timeslot?
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So, after over 100 episodes of Potaku, we’re finally getting some actual industry professionals on the podcast!
Nic Watt (No relation) And Bruce Thompson from local dev/publisher Nnooo. – http://www.nnooo.com/
So anyone got any questions for the guys about their games or the local dev/publishing scene?
We record in a few hours so please help!
What support would they like to see from government (any government) to support the local industry?
C.H.R.O.N.O. T.R.I.G.G.E.R.
That’s not really a question, more a statement.
Possible answers to this, which is obviously a question, include “Yes”, “Very Yes”, and “OMG, YES! YES! A THOUSAND TIMES, YES!”
R.E.S.I.D.E.N.T. E.V.I.L. 2.
(Doc knows)
Ask them if they’ve heard of “up-dog”… *sniggers*
I’d like to know about what it’s like to try and market their games, how they go about it, if they have any hard data on success in advertisements, that sort of thing. But I am way too lazy to format a question here properly, so if you can extrapolate something, that’d be rad.
This is actually a REALLY good question.
I love that you posted this only 5 minutes after the interview ended.
(Not that you’d know that)
Hahahahahaha. Fucking brilliant.
I continue to amaze myself.
Optus ‘customer service’ still horribly bad. I left because they were terrible 4 years ago or so. $90 unlimited cable broadband, I’m interested. Talk to someone on online chat, I’m going to guess by his lack of understanding of my questions, he wasn’t on this continent
It’s apt that Khezu is basically a penis with wings, because it is a dick if you’re a melee character, and can go suck a bag of dicks.
Khezu is weird. I think it’s unsettling because there is no music at all. A bug?
It has no eyes! Music starts when a monster sees you!
But you can’t target a monster until it sees you, and you can target Khezu!
I always took it as the monster sensing you rather than seeing you given how khezu tracks by smell
*checks countdown app*
Holy snapping duckshit 16 days!
7 days!
Three days!
Wait what?
EDIT: Are you counting down to Japan? Because I make it 23 days… are you going early?
16 days until I start 6 weeks leave.
21 until I leave for Japan.
Ah. I was getting worried there.
So, I just learnt something very dangerous.
If you have the ingredients around the place, brownies are ridiculously easy to make.
My waistline is not going to forgive me.
(Recipe I used: http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/18222/chocolate+brownies?ref=collections,brownie-recipes)
I made Gingernut biscuits the other week.
I think I had to buy…2 things? Super simple
Ginger and nuts?
Cheesecake.
Cheese… and cake…?
Cheese… cake…?
I refuse to try out my Gingernut recipe for two reasons. One, I fear that it will be far too easy. Two, I worry that I’ll end up with something that resembles Canberran Gingernuts, and that’s just a travesty (Queensland TAYbies, if you ever want to be in my good books, give me Gingernuts from your part of the country).
There’s a regional difference?
For Arnott’s, yes. For anyone else? Probably not.
The Queensland ones are darker, thinner, and they have a decent snap. The ones here feel like you’re trying to gnaw your way through a ginger tasting brick. They’re an affront to my personal taste in bikkies.
Arnott’s Gingernuts are ass. Griffin’s are where it’s at. Chip a tooth in those motherfuckers.
Will a @gingerchris86 suffice?
Why did I click that? Dammit.
Also… Stupidly soft and chewy cookies in 20 minutes.
I add 3 heaped teaspoons of cocoa powder with flours and choc chips are half dark chocolate half white chocolate.
#helping #notreally
Just remembered… I took some of these to work a while back and my boss accused me of buying cookies from a shop and putting them in tupperware to bring in.
That is an awesome complisult.
“These are so good, there’s no way YOU made them.”
Complisult… where has this word been all my life?!
Best biscuit recipe.
That’s the one I modified for my caramel pretzel cookies.
Please share your modification… I’m ready to make another batch after reading all this today.
I need to start doing that adult thing where you have food in the house that isn’t necessarily for eating on that day.
You know what else?
You can make single serves in a coffee cup in the microwave and they’re delicious.
That knowledge nearly ruined me.
Feel super guilty about having to “sail the high seas” in order to get the software I need for uni 🙁
Need Adobe InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop, which I would much rather have purchased, but expensive 🙁
Surely there is student edition you can get hold of that are a fraction of the retail price?
They normally come with happily ignorable license conditions such as: “only use whilst a full time student”, “cannot be used for commerical work” etc.
What about Adobe’s subscription thing? They do student pricing…
cc @sunsoar77
Hmm, I’ll look into them, but the lecturer actually encouraged the swashbuckling ways, since it is so expensive :S
I need it immediately also anyway.
Hopefully I can find a cheap version though, quell my guilt a bit :S
http://www.adobe.com/au/creativecloud/buy/students.html
@os42 mentioned the subscription thing… which I’d heard they had swapped their pricing over too a while back.
You can go direct to Adobe and get full product set for $15 p/mth or $180 for the year. Although… It’s pretty clear that the pricing is an intro offer for the first year.
After some digging, the normal price is $50 p/mth with a 12 month commitment or $600 p.a. they have a month-by-month plan but its $75 a month(!)
Fuck… those normal rates are extortionate.
PS: Yes I’m a bit bored at work… oh, there is work to do… I just don’t want to do it.
It’s a pretty good price for students, but I’ll be honest, I don’t like the idea of renting software :S
I’d rather own it out right if I could…
Might be the best option though.
Jeezus, didn’t see the “price is for first year only” part. Guess that’s why the lecturer recommended the high seas… it’s a more long-term solution if you’re going to be using the tools for most of your degree.
Back before Adobe fucked up the Creative Suite, as a student you could get the suite for a few hundred bucks with valid student ID from participating retailers JB Hi-Fi was one of them. You could see if that’s still a thing maybe?
Your lecturer needs to update his “how to look cool in front of students” knowledge.
The Adobe suite is ridiculously affordable for everyone now, thanks to CC.
My lecturer is a 27 year old woman…
SEXIST! STEREOTYPING!
😛
That is a headspin.
Uh, the age bit. Not the woman bit 😛
Pretty sure she said 27 😛
Wouldn’t be much older, at any rate.
She’s one of those masters students who teaches as their study, I think.
She’s really cool though, and knows a heap 🙂
My sister’s currently struggling with trying to find a working version of that so she can do a few things for some friends. Doesn’t sound to be going so well 😛
I actually own a copy of Photoshop… I barely use it. I wonder if there’s sharing of licences.
Question Supanova or Oz Comicon which would be best to go to? Especially with kids.
In Perth as well.
Not sure about Perth, but at least in Brisbane I’ve found Oz Comic Con to be a tad more kid friendly than Supanova. There was even a kid’s activity section at OCC last year.
Edited to add: I actually prefer not to take my kids because at least one of them is backpack height and man do they get hit in the face a lot with backpacks at conventions!
Yeah, apart from cosplayers, there wasn’t much for kids at Sydney Supanova last year. And that was with a 7 year old. Meanwhile, I managed a full 3 days with my 3 year old at PAX. I might try OCC in Syd later this year.
Perth represent!
I’m not much help, however. I’ve been to one Supanova, and zero Oz Comicons.
By-and-large, they seem to be pretty packed over here, depending on venues, but generally child friendly.
As for which to go to, check out the list of guests from each, and see if there’s anyone that you really really want to see.
Then there’s always the por que no los dos route.
Cheers everyone, I think my eldest wants Supanova UE to the power rangers that are going, but I think both would just be happy to watch the cosplayers. My wife and I are thinking of tackling OCC without them just to get a loose feel for what SN may be like.
And yeah Perth represent (hope none of family in Tassie read this.)
Went to Uni orientation day today. Reminded me a lot of PAX at first. People everywhere, talks going on in theatres, booths set up around the place and a lot of me just walking around not really knowing what to do with myself.
I needed some help with my enrolment and picking subjects, since the site to do it was all screwy and no help at all. Eventually asked some of the student help people who were positioned everywhere what to do about it, and they said I’d have to come in tomorrow for an enrolment help session. Then I went and got my student card and tried to get my concession card (which first had me making a trip to Safeway to get coloured photos taken at a photobooth before I could hand in the form). By doing that I found out I wasn’t enrolled properly. I’m meant to be full time but I was only part time because I only had 3 subjects listed in semester 1 instead of 4. I had to go to another office and talk to some help people there. The guy there then sent me to yet another office because one of the subjects I was meant to be enrolled in I couldn’t because it was already full, so they needed a person to force an enrolment of me into the subject. Further, if I didn’t enrol in that one specific subject in semester 1 it meant that a whole heap of subjects wouldn’t be available to me in semester 2.
I went to this other person and got enrolled in the subject. Then they had to unenrol me in other subjects and enrol me in different ones because apparantly there’s a bunch of required subjects you’re supposed to be enrolled into in semester 1 and one of the subjects I’d enrolled into wasn’t something I should be able to do yet. None of this information is really given to you on the site students are meant to use when choosing subjects. You get a list of subjects with boxes next to them you can check and then you hit enrol at the bottom. There’s nothing that says whether a subject is semester 1 or 2 or 3. You can enrol in certain subjects you shouldn’t be able to enrol into. Some subjects that are required in a certain semester or else you’re basically screwed for future semester are listed as full and there’s absolutely nothing you can do about it. The whole thing is just a mess. That’s one major problem with Swinburne. They want you to do all your stuff online, but their website just isn’t very good. You’re pretty much required to go an talk with actually people to get stuff done, but then they tend to bounce you around a lot. Also their customer service when not in person consists of email them an inquiry and getting a link to an FAQ back or calling up and speaking to someone who can barely speak english.
I got everything fixed in the end. And now to further my ranting a bit, the photobooth I used to get the pictures I needed was terrible. It only took $1 and $2 coins and $5 and $10 notes. I selected what I wanted and it cost $11. I put a $10 note in, then found I had no $1 coins, which was my bad for not checking first. There was zero way to get the machine to give me my $10 back, and it wouldn’t accept my $20 note. I asked a guy if he had a spare $1, which he didn’t. In the end I got him to just watch the booth for me to make sure no one took my $10 while I ran to the Safeway checkout and changed my $20 for some smaller change. All this because I needed to get a concession card since my healthcare card that I’d tried to renew never arrived and I got no message about it being rejected so I guess it might have just gotten lost in the mail.
Sorry for all the ranting. I’ve just been walking around all day in the hot weather trying to cut my way through a lot of terribly designed systems. I guess the upside is all the walking between offices really helped me learn the campus well.
Yep, that sounds like uni 🙂
I study with Swinburne but via OUA!
I’ve found the course info less than easy to navigate… however eventually it just ‘clicked’ and made sense.
Although for a course that is delivered 100% online I’ve struck some unit conveners and tutors that are stuck in the digital dark age.
Good luck sorting everything out – once you’re settled into a routine your next task is to make yourself a regular at the uni bar. To the point at which the staff know your drink of choice and have a seat waiting for you at the bar. 🙂
How the fuck is it 2015 and we still can’t buy bags of skittles which are JUST the red ones – ie: the only ones anyone actually likes?
Or a packet of JUST the cherry Starbursts.
Right? I wonder if there’s actually like some big happy corporate family in charge of making these decisions and they have all the research data to do it, but because they care more about peoples feelings and family than profits, they don’t do it, because Bill and Sarah are in charge of the areas that would get cut, and it wouldn’t be fair to them…
Yeah. Yeah, I’m gonna believe that’s why they do this to us.
I remember years ago seeing a thing on deviantart where they laid out the contents of a packet of them in graph form, showing how flavour ranking was inversely proportional to the quantity. Completely unable to find it now though.
…eww. They say “cherry,” but they mean “cherry-flavoured cough syrup”.
This!! Artificial cherry is the BLURST! It’s almost as bad as those maraschino cherries! BLEAH!
Those things are all delicious and you are both monsters.
Cherry starburst are the worst flavour. Worst.
Are you a lemonbro?
Strawberry.
Probably the best of the wrong choices
http://www.theprofessors.com.au/products/single-colour-skittles-red-500g-bag.html
DO NOT WORRY BUDGIE BOTTOM!
This the third version of your comment I’ve seen and I’m still confused. I probably don’t want an explanation of “budgie bottom”, do I?
I thought you were supposed to be old, Lady Strange?
I had totally forgotten Peter Moon was a thing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whatever_Happened_to_That_Guy%3F
The red ones are awful!
Hmmm…maybe I could make money by buying a bunch of packets of skittles, eating all the good ones, and then packaging all the yucky red ones back into the one packet….
Skittles “Suckers”! Not cos you suck them, but cos anyone who’s crazy enough to purchase a pack full of ick is a sucker! 😉
You misspelt “lemon”.
Does flavour even matter when you’re shovelling handfuls of them into your mouth at a time?
Surprisingly, yes.
Oh, it totally does! One horrible flavour can ruin the whole mouthful.
It’s like these fruity fizz lollies I got for christmas. A giant packet of them. They’re mostly fruit tingle-type flavours, except for the green ones. The green ones taste like a cross between mint toothpaste and musk sticks. They don’t work with the flavour profile at all and make your whole mouthful taste awful. So in order to eat them in the best way, ie: scarfing whole handfuls at a time, you need to first make sure there are no green ones in your hand, which ruins the fun of eating them.
…Mint and musk… How is such an abomination possible?
For skittles, not really, because all the flavours are nice. However for something like, say Jellybeans, yes because the second you taste the licorice one the entire mouthful is ruined.
Don’t be stupid, Nobs.
Nobody eats the black jellybeans.
Nobody.
…there’s jellybeans other than black ones?
I do.
Kids these days have no idea…
Racist.
😛Red and purple skittles, thank you very much.
+1 unless it is the tropical skittles then I will have all of them. What is up with M&Ms adding flavors to the shells now? I had the toffee apple ones the other day and yeah good in theory but the chocolate kills the flavor.
Upon estimating that I got my first gameboy around 1993, I was struck by a sudden thought – how many people here are younger than my gameboy?
Same age 😉
I doubt you got it before late January so I guess I’m older.
GET OFF MY LAWN YOUNG WHIPPERSNAPPERS
I’m being conservative because I can’t remember if it was December ’92 or December ’93…
I’m fairly certain I was younger than that when I got mine. Swear I was six or seven which would have been 90 or 91.
I could be completely wrong. When was it even released?
Europe was late 1990, but I have no idea if Aus was considered part of Europe back then.
I’m pegging it in based on getting wario land with birthday money in ’94, and that was my first big game purchase ever after I’d got the gameboy from my cool aunty on a previous birthday (probably 1 year earlier, but ‘unno)
Younger than 1993 jeez that makes me feel old. Bad enough I have to scroll further down when making online accounts for my birth year now.
FUCKKKKKKKKKKKKK!
Please help me tax paying peoples! I think I forgot to tick the “claim the tax free threshold” box when I started working since I assumed that was only if you were earning less than 18k a year, NOT claiming for the first 18k ._. (pretty sure I claimed it when doing a cheapo casual job)
I just checked with someone else in my job position (another graduate) since we’re supposed to be all on the same pay, and it looks like they’re getting more than me. Is this easy to address? Can I claim the threshold retroactively? I’ll speak with payroll at work tomorrow but I don’t know if it’s a company dealio or a government one.
I’m sure I’m not “losing” money as I believe I can get it back after claiming tax each year (…right?), but I’m just not gaining it earlier (which I’d prefer for whatever little bit of interest I could’ve earnt). FUCK! It’s a pretty significant amount too :/
Please help! Thank you <3
I encountered a similar issue when I was working at EB and Dan Murphy’s I was employed with EB first but I didn’t have work for a few weeks and then Dan Murphy’s job came along with basically full time hours. I ended up re-submitting a new tax form for EB to correct that mistake, so it might be something as easy as that?
But best to speak to payroll I dare say, they’ll have the answers hopefully.
Hate to be the bearer of bad news… But you won’t see a cent of that until tax return time.
There is a way to kind of see it sooner… But you need to request your employer to deduct a specific amount of tax each pay that would be less than the normal amount. The plan being that by the time you get to 30th June you’ve paid the right amount of PAYG withholding tax for the gross amount of salary you’ve earnt. it’s risky because if you go under then you’ll have to PAY at tax time.
Disclaimer: I do all my own tax and have a corporate HR team to query when I have a question.
Also… If you go down that path and want it right you’re probably going to have to pay someone… Unless you have a buddy that is an accountant.
And who doesn’t have a buddy that’s an accountant!
Talk to Payroll
If you’ve been paying more than you should, that’s OK. Worse comes to worse, claim the threshold for the rest of the year and get a sweet tax return. It’s when you’ve been paying less than that you get in strife
Yeah, I’ve definitely been paying more.
If they can’t fix anything yet then I guess I’ll just wait until the next financial year and hopefully they can address it then.
So apparently my mate knows where Slipknot is staying on the Gold Coast at the moment.. Why he knows this is a mystery in itself.
Aww man, everyone’s out on the town and I’m stuck here because I had to get up at 7:30 and I’m dead tired and I have to get up at 7 tomorrow and I still have to come up with a list of questions to ask my project team’s client on Friday. I wanna go out 🙁
But yeah project started today! I really wanted to work with a big financial services company but only 2 other people wanted to and they want 5-7 in a group 🙁 I spent like 20 minutes talking to the manager beforehand and everything and he was giving me advice about business analysis jobs so I was kinda cut that nobody else saw the thrill of working on a superannuation project 😛 We’re working with a Tasmanian NFP company which is okay too, but there’s probably no job opportunity coming out of it.
But anyways, me and a girl in our group are trialling her as project manager and me as BA for the first 3 weeks and seeing how that works, and if she isn’t liking being PM I’ll take over that. I think it should work well though!
Ugh… Project Management. The boring stuff…
I’m a little biased at this point in my career, but I’ve happily told my current PM what I think of his job…
Everyone kept on saying at the start of last year how much I’d hate PM and how dull and boring it is, and most people in the class despised it but I quite liked it tbh 😛
Hey, what’s wrong with working for not-for-profits?
(I’ve spent the last 5 years working for them 🙂 )
Project management is an essential skill, but it can be dull as dishwater.
Haha nothing wrong with it, just wanted to work on a project closer to an industry I want to work in I guess 😛 Saying that working with who I am working with is probably going to be a much easier endeavour.
PAGE SIX GET
What is a mummy’s favourite kind of coffee?
De-coffin-ated! #dadjokepagesix #hi@strangeTHE STRANGE: THE SERIES
Episode 1 Part 2
The party investigated the house of Tom Mallard
– @quiz_b got a couple of sneaky beers in
– @freezespreston hacked his wifi like a pro
– @beeawwb tangled with the head of the estate over sleeping with mothers
– @blaghman got hurt and then killed a mummy dead…er
– @gingerchris86 taught a valuable lesson in gun safety
Next time: Will the party continue to investigate the house, or will they activate the secret recursion key in the basement? Will Johannes work out what’s with his creepy clay doll? What has @trjn been up to this whole time? And what does the octopus tentacle taste like with Habanero sauce? Tune in for Part 3!
Thanks for playing guys!
Replay video here (soon): http://youtu.be/bWMbD2_7BoA
I will blow the f*** up of this place, man. You will see.
Hi!
Second post! (first on bloodborne comp)
This community and website is great. I’m a 5 or more kotaku visits a day kinda guy for the last 3 or 4 years. But never post. I know. Boo on me.
Anyway back to watching, waiting, hiding in the dark. Just wanted to say be proud of who you are because you are great.
Hey-o!
Many people that post on TAY started off lurking. Anyways good work for posting twice! Hopefully the beginning of many many posts?
Well on a rare occasion I would put a guest post up. But maybe! 🙂
Paper sharks?
That seems unwieldy in an aquatic environment.
You’re right. Perhaps I should be waterproofpaper sharks.
Then the shark kinda becomes null
Paper landsharks?
Paper Sharks watching and hiding in the dark sounds pretty creepy! 😛
Also, hello!
It could be, strange
It could be strange
Hi!
Hey new person! Welcome aboard. Tell us stuff about yourself. Get yourself added to http://powalen.com/tags/ in the right state if you want to participate in meets. And add your details to http://tinyurl.com/taynames for multiplayer gaming shenanigans.
I also hope you participate in the customary welcoming ritual. We used to have an Oar of Thorns, but we decided it wasn’t as humiliating as owning one of my books.
(coupon code TAY20 for 20% off, or LESSER30000 for 90% off one ebook)Want some rye? Course ya do!
I don’t knead it
Edit: gee moderating is taking a while
Got my Vita today. Only game I’ve played on it so far is Thomas Was Alone. That was a good bit of fun. Completed it. Battery held out well.
Should play a PS4 game on it! Just because you can! TOMB RAIDER! TOOOOOMB RAIDER!
It’s tempting, gotta admit. I’ll do it tomorrow.
What games did you get with for it so far?
It came with Final Fantasy X, Uncharted, Persona 4 Golden, and Assassin’s Creed Liberation. I’ve also bought digital copies of Gravity Rush, Thomas Was Alone, and the first two seasons of The Walking Dead, which are well overdue for a replay. Also got this month’s PS+ games: Rogue Legacy (though I already completed this on PS4) and Fennick and Kick, which looks okay.
That’s a pretty solid lineup. When you get sick of those, you should try Hotline Miami on it, it’s like the perfect device for that game. Shame the AU release of the sequel isn’t happening.
I didn’t like Hotline Miami, actually (played PS4 version). Not my cup of tea at all.
Dude, Hotline Miami on Vita is the best way to play it, period. So gud.
G’night, folks!
Woo, audio recovered!
Turns out there were two songs in there I forgot about 😛
@freezespreston, @beeawwb ,@blaghman, @gingerchris86, @redartifice.
Sorry about bailing last night. Turns out my dog of 14 years was having a stroke. Things didn’t end very well, and within an hour a difficult decision was made.
Everybody else: Hug your damn dogs/cats/ferrets/birds/ants today and tell them you love them.
That’s horrible. ='(
Sending all the good thoughts your way.
I am certain no one can blame you for that. It is so terrifying when a dog has a stroke, or when anything has a stroke for that matter.
Aw man, that’s awful.
Aw no. 🙁 Really sorry to hear that. It really sucks when it’s so sudden, but there’s some comfort in knowing it wasn’t prolonged. Hope you’re holding up okay.
So sorry to hear that, my condolences to you. 🙁
Thats awful man, really sorry to hear that.
So sorry, my friend. 🙁
:'(
I really don’t know what to say. Hope you’re dealing with it okay.
Sending you my best, man.
Holy shit, who was it that was talking about a gritty Ducktales reboot yesterday?
http://www.ew.com/article/2015/02/25/disney-reboot-ducktales-disney-xd-2017?hootPostID=c1921cbc3e57026beb9057c2050b75cc
We don’t know the strength we wield.
Yaaaaay, got my first full paycheck from my job.
Boooooo, all of those outstanding bills
Why are you booing them if they’re outstanding?
#page6
Like the Scarecrow who won an award.
Outstanding in his field
“I was saying Boo-urns…”
I know that feeling. Although I think my work finally got themselves sorted and are paying me into the right bank account so HOPEFULLY outstanding bills will become less of an issue soon.
Heh, for me it’s the 4 months of unemployment. Good news is, I kept up with the rent, insurances, and credit card payments the whole time so it’s not too bad.
Have to do new tyres and a car service ASAP though
Hey @transientmind this is that dumb thing I got…
http://i61.tinypic.com/35d3loh.jpg
http://i61.tinypic.com/28bv2j7.jpg
Awesoooome!
<3
HI FLOOR! MAKE MEEEE A SANDWICH!
Gir is awesome! ’nuff saidOh Man, those are awesome!
It’s me! I was the turkey all along!
I saw Rikki Simons at Supanova in Brisbane in 2013. I had never seen Invader Zim, but I needed somewhere to hide away from the crowds. The scary, scary crowds. Seemed a nice guy who loved what he did. (Saw Joe Flanigan from Stargate Atlantis too. So short.)
One time on the way to work I saw a girl with dog-suit GIR one one calf and robot GIR on the other. I then felt like a total creep when I realised I had inadvertantly followed her past my building.
You should’ve just said hi and asked if you could take a closer look! You could’ve got a better look and maybe a fun conversation. 🙂
In my experience, people with really cool ink have been pretty flattered and keen to show off their pieces if you ask politely and seem genuinely interested. I mean, obviously it’s not always guaranteed, everyone has bad days or maybe some hang-ups, but in general I think a lot of people consider their ink to be something a personal statement or (an expensive, time-consuming, and painful to get) point of pride. …Also, I don’t know for sure, but I suspect people also prefer that to sidelong glances and ‘trying not to stare’ stares.
I do it every now and then when I see some amazing work I really want to appreciate up close. Never had someone look annoyed or refuse.
I also did that recently when I saw a chick in the valley who had these pretty cool-looking stockings which look like cats toward the feet, with a tail that goes up the leg – I thought that was pretty cool. It could just be that I’m socially-retarded, because I’m not sure if stockings are something you’re ‘meant to’ compliment people on. She seemed pretty chuffed to show them off, though; did a little modelling spin for me.
Oh yeah, I think for the most part people with ink, especially a lot of large, bold, visible pieces, they don’t mind if people look, so I don’t tend to be shy about looking at them.
It was mainly just the implication of me following some random person while staring at their legs, not noticing I’d missed my “stop”, so to speak. 😛
Well… yes. Creeper. 🙂
This is why you ask to look! Officially sanctioned staring (with potential twirling) instead of, uh… that.
I once saw a girl walking through Flinders St station with a Gir backpack. I rounded on her with an overly enthusiastic ‘WURRDIDYOUGITTHATFROM’ and on reflection I think there was an implied ‘please don’t hurt me’ with the offered information.
I social good.
Wheeeeeeeheeeheeeeee! GIR is the bestest.
Awh, and you got the best of both worlds with dogsuit AND bot-head. Very nice.
For years I had a custom dancing dog-suit-gir animation as my avatar anywhere and everywhere. Sadly I lost it when Livejournal (YEAH, I HAD ONE OF THOSE, DON’T JUDGE ME) decided to go ‘free’ or whatever and restricted the number of usericons someone could have.
Tragic. I’ll have to remake that one day. It was the cutest little animation.
Thank you 😀 Also, I had livejournal for years and years and years too 😉
I want to re-buy Invader ZIM on iTunes but I’m super confused; you can buy each volume (there’s three) for $15 each. Or there’s the “whole collection” which is $50. Both have the full 27 episodes. Whattttttt.
Probably get both and have the compiled version stored somewhere (like under the tire iron in your car) for emergencies. Like, you hear someone hasn’t seen Zim before.
<_<
My ex tried to get me into it a bit. Didn’t really seem to do it for me, I just thought that Gir was super creepy 😛
He IS creepy! “The knowledge.. it fills me! IT IS NEAT.”
Zim’s strength is its creepiness. You must embrace it.
You really are the anti-me. Hate the cold, love the heat, plays Nintendo, hates Steam…
Hmm. Which is the hero, and which is the villain?
Gaz is the hero. Human(including alien) stupidity is the villain.
Ohhh, you meant between us? Me. I am the villain. Obviously. But like all the best villains, I have the best motivation and reasoning.
Oh man, I found all my old Vasquez comix the other day.
Re-read I Feel Sick and Filler Bunny.
So good.
Those were my early days of non-mainstream comic books and that made me extra-weird in my small town, haha.
Uncharted Golden Abyss is a very, very pretty game. The dialogue so far has been pretty good too, with some amusing banter.
So many controls, though! It uses all of them: two thumbsticks, four face buttons, a d-pad, two shoulder buttons, and two touchpads!
Just wait until you get to the section that’s controlled entirely by your eye-blinks!
That’s… that’s a joke though, right? Because I remember some people talking about handheld games that make you talk to them or blow on them and stroke them and… yeah, that’s starting to sound a bit odd, and batting eyelashes would just be the icing on the creepy cake.
You may or may not be able to blow into the mic to cause a gust of wind to cause skirts to flutter upward in certain modes in Senran Kagura…
3DS makes you blow into the mic in Ace Attorney. You literally cannot progress in those games if you’re not willing to shake the console, blow into it, and generally look like a tool on public transport.
But then, those games make you look like a tool anyway, what with the tears of laughter… so, whatever.
Yes. I cannot remember which game it was, but I was playing a puzzler in public and like, blowing into the mic and opening and closing the lid and moving all around with the gyroscope. People next to me in the food court were teasing me but I honestly did not give a shit at the time.
Ah, Launch titles.
Remember how every PS3 launch title used the sixaxis?
It took me so effing long to put two and two together with Heavenly Sword, where you had to hurl shit using six axis.
Oh man, I love Ninja Theory, but hated the controls in that game. More Enslaved, less Heavenly Sword. 😛
Hellblade seems a nice compromise.
It’s like they made it with a mandate that every single function the system could have had to be used. So you get shit like the return of awful gyro balance beam stuff from Uncharted 1 that I simply couldn’t do. I stopped playing after they put one of them in where you had to quickly get across one – and I absolutely can’t do gyro controls, they break my brain – and then there’s a firefight starting as you’re crossing. 🙁 I also found that the game was unplayably hard in combat because it requires the same level of headshot precision as Uncharted 3, but the sticks on the vita don’t have enough throw to be sensitive enough to have that level of precision. Didn’t get very far in with it before I decided I hated it. The fact it came out quite close to Uncharted 3 which I absolutely fucking hated didn’t help it much either I think. Was very disappointed by it.
Yeah, shooting is pretty tricky, I noticed. Hoping I can get used to it. And I can’t do the balancing either. We’ll see if I make it to the end!
I’m put in mind of a parent who is standing over their children demanding, “I don’t wanna hear it! No, no, and no! I put too much effort and too much money into this god damn pool/trampoline/motion-control gimmick, I don’t care if you want to do something else, you are going to GET IN THERE AND USE IT, and you will be HAPPY and we will have CHERISHED FAMILY MEMORIES.”
It’s a very pretty game for a handheld. Blew me away the first time I fired it up on my shiny new Vita. Great game too, just a bit excessive on the touchscreen controls – but launch title ‘HEY NEW FEATURE, IT’S AWESOME! USE IT, AD NAUSEUM, TRUST ME, YOU’LL LOVE IT.’ syndrome. Definitely worth playing though.
I’m still in the very early stages of the game, but I’m digging it so far.
I’m a little sad to say the only thing I remember about GA are the parchment puzzles. Very cool use of the rear camera, imo, even if there were times it needed the light of a thousand suns to work properly. I think I ended up grabbing my phone and using a torch app to blind the Vita for most of them…
That game goes on forever.
The worst bits are the rowing portions. Get ready.
Thanks for the warning.
What does a Mexican put under his carpet?
Underlay underlay underlayWhat did the first pancake say to the second?
I’m batter than you…I went out with a girl called Simile, I don’t know what I metaphor.
I went on a two week holiday to the south of France.
It was Toulon.
A pirate walks into a bar with a ship’s wheel on his belt buckle.
Bartender: What’s that on your belt?
Pirate: Arrr, It’s drivin’ me nuts!
Me: Doctor you’ve got to help me, I’m addicted to Twitter.
Doctor: I don’t follow you.
This is your best for this week
Underlay?
My computer sings, it’s a Dell.
I saw a good one for the World of Warcraft fans*.
“What do you call a Gilnean church?”
“Worgenized religion.”
*I saw it on a google search result after someone in /trade last night asked to be cheered up. For some reason I thought googling ‘WoW Dad Jokes’ would give me what I needed to cheer up this person.
I shaved so my facial hair will be at the exact right levels of scruffy for next week. Anyone else do that? 😀
Yep, I definitely used to. But I was cultivating a bum fluff beard, so it didn’t actually work as well as I’d hoped.
But I always remember that scene in Six Feet Under where David has stopped shaving because he has a date that night, and Nate informs him that unfortunately, his scruffy appeal will peak at noon the next day 😛
I used to.
I’ve given up caring about my appearance though. Which should probably be worrying.
You’ve transcended vanity!
Or I got even fatter and gave up on life.
One of the two.
NO! >:|
Don’t make me take another shitty selfie to try and prove my point.
I usually shave when I’m told I look like a hobo again… Something tells me I should take more care of how I look but eh, effort
I had drinks with Dan and friends last Saturday and Karl’s brother has this majestic beard that I put my hand through while in line for the bathrooms. (I WAS DRUNK, OKAY?) Makes me wonder if I can grow a beard half as good! *looks into distance all haunted like*
Aw man! I still look like a scraggy Chinese hairless when I try to grow my beard 🙁
I look like a 14 y/o mexican boy who wants to be in a baadd porno.
That’s my approach.
That being said, I’m a few days past peak ho-bun.
Of course not!
…yesI also wash my clothes so they are the right levels of clean before I wear them.
Ah, the crazy things we do.
What a strange and off-putting young man!
I shave on Monday mornings then let myself become scruffy over the course of the week, usually cleaning up my neck on Wednesday/Thursday. I think it gives me a certain business-casual distinguishedness. It probably doesn’t, but I think it does, and I figure the principle of “fake it til you make it” has served me pretty well so far.
I thought I had a meeting today, so I’m clean shaven.
Meeting cancelled. I’m smooth skinned for nothing!
I should clarify
BEARD IS STILL INTACT
The chin real estate around it is clean.
All the time… Usually don’t shave on Friday’s so I have a nice stubble happening by Saturday arvo if we’re meeting friends.
Not too much because I don’t want to look like a sloth, but not clean shaved… Who has time for weekend shaving when you can sleep in?!
Sloths are adorable! There’s nothing wrong with emulating their majesticness!
So so majestic: http://youtu.be/ES32UFlPOUA
There is also an R Kelly Version: http://youtu.be/ba7rRfKIHxUAny creature that looks like it’s straight from Jim Henson’s creature shop or Flight of the Navigator is adorable! 😛
What’s next week?
Pow, Alex and Pants are in town for the week, which means potential for meats!
Ah, that’s right.
I knew I was forgetting something :3
Worst stalker.
I’ve just lost interest in you.
Once I got your toenail clippings, I kinda felt complete.
Well, my shrine to you is complete.
D:
*gasp*
He used my real name!
EDIT: I don’t care 😛
I was referring to Alex Pants. The ‘and’ was for extra dramatics. You’re coming too? 😛
Well, not anymore 🙁
I only shave Monday & Wednesday. Leaves me clean shaven most of the week & growing stubble on casual Friday. By the weekend I have appropriate stubble.
Oh yeah, I definitely used to do that (before getting over my fear of BEING A MAN and embracing my inner beardiness). My middle brother and his boyfriend and I would compare notes on when we were at optimal handsome-scruffiness and adjust our schedules to suit.
Then I discovered that after a while of not replacing my razor blades, my razor dulled to the point that it was so ineffective that attempting to use it actually resulted in a 5 o’clock shadow. I treasured that razor, because it meant daily shaving still yielded optimal stubble.
That razor is the holy grail. A prophecy foretold in the scriptures!
Always. Two days in advance seems to be the right amount of time.
I guess it’s similar to the way I wash my hair the day before I have to go somewhere because my hair is too fluffy on the first day, and just right on the second.
I do that too! Shampoo the day before, usually just wash with water on the day I got to go somewhere. 😛
Hahaha, I used to do that too for the same reasons.
Once upon a time…
Shave? What’s that? I’m currently doing the yeard (year of beard). No trimming. No shaving aside from cheeks and lower neck.
No touching the damn beard.
Scruffy? I left scruffy behind last month. I’m currently at Hobo heading warp speed to Pirate.
I expect an invite to ZZ Top by November.
PICTURES! PIIIIIICTURES!
Oh good, another one of those days where I’m wearing headphones for over an hour before I realise that I haven’t switched my music on. /o\
Worst part is you were singing along the entire time too.
4’33 is really fucking catchy.
I routinely walk through the city with headphones in but nothing playing. I can hear my surrounds and pretend I don’t hear people who want me to sign things!
Yeah, but that’s deliberate.
I’ve recently quit snacking in an attempt to keep weight from getting out of control, and I’m a little concerned that my brain is trying to get back at me by making me look as stupid as possible as often as it can.
See, it’s weird, I’ve never been a huge snacker. The odd pack of chips or something, but I’ve never had a snackfood stash in my desk drawers unlike what seems to be the majority of people I’ve ever worked with.
An arvo coke or Iced Coffee though…
Your coke habit is getting out of hand!
Unless he plays for the Titans he should be fine.
I was never a huge snacker, but I have VERY poor portion control impulses. If I buy a bag of chips, it’s gone in one sitting. A bag of M&Ms, gone in one sitting. A wheel of brie, one sitting. An apple pie, I’ll go back for more and more until it’s gone. That sort of thing.
And the last few months, it’s been a nearly-everyday thing… and now I think about it, there may be some correlation with the passing of my dog in November.
I handle things from the opposite direction. I pretty much have to force myself to eat. Well, sometimes I do.
Having a desk drawers full of Pocky, fun size Snickers, Tiny Teddies and muesli bars is pretty rad.
I wonder if there’s any way to split the difference between our two approaches so that I’m eating enough and you’re not eating too much.
I hope there is, because I really, REALLY miss snacking 🙁
Video games do that to me.
If I’m REALLY into a video game and get a long enough session going, I will entirely forget to eat or drink. And sometimes sleep, depending on if I have work.
I call it the ‘obsession diet’. It’s probably the primary reason behind my middle-brother’s skinny build – I’ll ask him what he had for dinner last night and he’ll guess, “Uhm… a packet of chips?”
I blame office life.
If there isn’t a morning tea celebrating some shit then some mum will bring in cake she baked last night.
People actually offer to buy me snacks at times.
I just refuse everything now & bore them with my healthy excuses til they fuck off.
I do that sometimes driving to work. Me driving without music is exceedingly unusual. I usually notice when I’m almost at work, and then realise I’m either really tired, or been deep in thought about something for the whole drive and not noticed.
Arriving at your destination without remembering anything about the drive whatsoever is one of the more terrifying experiences I can recall.
Yes, this so much. I tried to explain to someone how terrifying it is ages back, but they didn’t understand. I mean, because I do the same drive, to and from, 5 times a week – I think it’s an autopilot task for my brain tbh. But still, it’s a little odd to think I drove 2 tonnes of metal at 100km/h hurtling down the Monash Freeway for a good 15 minutes with thousands and thousands of other road users and have almost zero recollection of it.
“What? Everyone does that.”
“THAT’S WHAT’S SCARY ABOUT IT.”
*imagines a populated motorway with thousands of zombified motorists not paying a single jot of attention to the task at hand*
*ceases driving*
I was just thinking who would do that, then I realised I had an earphone in for the last hour with no music.
@distantdrop @jocon Peeps after the hugely successful pug last night interested in a heroic Hansz and Fransz later tonight? probably earlier than yest though; perhaps 7-8.30?
If its a good group maybe do Flame Bender as well?, the fights basically the same as Gruul.. lotsa heals and tank swaps if both those are checked its basically a free kill.
IF =P we’ll see how many guildies we get in; for a fight like flamebender the more guildies the better. Hansz and fransz is just dont stand in shit and spread out basically.
Also Iron Maidens looks to be a bitch of a fight…. I think blast furnace might actually be the easiest out of the 4 remaining fights which is insane >.
perhaps we can treat it a lot like we did our Atheon portal team? send the most reliable people/less likely to mess up to do the boat dancing eventually over time the rest will learn to handle the cluster of abilities the shipyard throws at us
Yeah given we run a 10man team it seems all the dps except one will be going across; and given all the boat phases are movement heavy it’ll end up being Boggle who stays behind as he’s stationary. We’ll have to cycle healers per phase so as to prevent any of them from ooming on raid heals. Lets focus on BF first I guess though and we also have heroic IMP to kill.
yeah this 10 man situation is starting to really be a massive encumbrance… #behindthecurveproblems. not to mention kromog might be impossible for us.. 600k shields? how to hell do we break that within 15 seconds.
Frustrating
Yeah there’s no way I can dish out 600k in 15 seconds; at my current dps of about 23-24k I can do about 450k with ideal procs. So yeah…. it’s fucked.
I need to recruit that extra healer… also I want us to try you soaking the inferno slices by yourself this week on Gruul. Seed will use groups; you will use all your cd’s + healer cd’s
Can i take 4 in a row? i honestly reckon guard + dampen with fort extra on the 3rd the first 3 and zen med the 4th is doable.
Let me do it 😮 trust me it’ll be entertaining. seedy will prob reroll if i pull it off.
Edit: actually forget that.. with seedy with that many stacks of overwhelming blows he’ll be a dead man.
No can do, got stuff on.
All good!
Edit: Means I can free-roll on mail items =P not gonna invite any other mail users!! MUAHAHAH
What should I eat for lunch today?
Crispy pork fried noodles, or some sort of delicious savoury muffin, or soup.
Where’s good in the cbd for crispy pork fried noodles?
Man, I miss going to uni… a bunch of the exchange students in my classes always knew the BEST hole-in-the-wall places to eat. They’d take you there and be talking in foreign to the staff and stuff, and without knowing what you were getting, you would then be served the most god damn delicious food on the earth at stupidly low prices.
I go back looking for some of those places years later, and none of them are there anymore.
Kind of like those wandering shops from fantasy stories that disappear after the hero acquires the cursed item of dubious destiny and tries to return it. Only instead of magical macguffins, it’s just really, really good chinese food.
***
I realize none of this helps you. Uhm… In the CBD, I recommend King of Kings Chinese at the George St end of the mall (near where Hooters… was?) for their crispy beef. Across the other side of the mall near the bank building up some stairs in a hole-in-the-wall type location was a Chinese place that does a $5 lunch of absurdly huge noodle and rice dishes.
Same. Not that I attended uni.
I will have a wander later.
Something alive.
(Just watched Old Boy)
Never seen it.
When do you actually vacate the city?
Tomorrow.
Like my ex-wife, I’ll be a distant memory.
Oh well.
Good luck & all that!
Thanks man!
A bit late on this train, but I just got around to watching Birdman.
Oh man, the long takes, the use of diegetic background music, the whole meta narrative, that fucking casting. Brilliant. Super duper wanky, like, oh man, so wanky, but so good.
Yesssss. The long takes and West Wing-style walk and talks! AMAAAAZING!
I should probably get around to seeing that. This weekend!
There WILL be a quiz.
Is the answer “Birdman”?
…
Yes.
WHO TOLD.
*Puts pen down*
Well thanks, Pow. I was really getting into writing this one.
Jeeeeez.
I hate musicals and theatre (unpopular here, I know), but I really really enjoyed it. When they opened with that Raymond Carver poem (that I actually knew!), I was stoked. Also, the street drummer, hoo boy.
…wait. Birdman is a musical?
No, but it’s about the theatre. The wanky, wanky, lovely theatre.
Ehh, there’s a whole bunch of people here who don’t like musicals.
Or well, there was when I last brought it up as a question, which now that I’ve thought about it was probably near the end of 2010 and holy shit I’m old.
But nobody likes to mention it anymore because I shouted obscenities at them via the internet until they all decided that it was less effort to lie to my face repeatedly. Or something.
Musicals are cool.
Many of them are not made into good films.
Oh yeah, like @blaghman said, put me in the ‘hates musicals’ category.
Whenever I road trip with my middle brother there is an intense, invisible war going on over the amount of musicals soundtracks we are exposed to. He LOVES them, and thinks that playing songs to me (which are utterly meaningless out of context and utterly devoid of the sentimenal value that actually enjoying the show gives them) will show me what I’m missing.
He is mistaken. Such exposure only drives my vindictive creativity as I imagine ways to exact my revenge.
I don’t mind musicals, but would never subject someone to that on a road trip.
A road trip is sacred. You don’t sully them with show tunes. D:
When I go on trips with my sister it’s ALL SHOW TUNES ALL THE TIME.
But we have an agreement there, so it’s fine.
Mine would be all Arcade Fire, all of the time.
Which I understand might be someone else’s idea of hell. 😛
My father thought Arcade Fire was “too rock-y” when I road tripped with him.
Ummmmm…
I can think of one song of theirs that I’d call ‘rock’ and even then, it felt like a parody or homage to the real thing. 😛
@dc weirdest part is, he’s into rock music. I think it was more “This is not my music” than anything.
Now, see, what everyone knows is that road trip music is meant to be the eclectic but cool shit you used to listen to from the 00s in uni and first jobs, newer stuff that is from the same bands and usually not quite as good, some stuff you like that the other person hasn’t heard yet but you really hope they like too, and some of the amazing classics from the 90s, about half of which will give you a chuckle to listen to again, but after a while you both decide, “Yeah, OK actually it wasn’t that great and it’s starting to wear on me. NEXT!”
Yessss! I would road trip with this guy! (And be completely useless at navigating and not driving. :P)
Oh, you mean those songs I got into in 2010 at uni and my first job (there were no songs, by the way, all the music I heard back then sucked)? 😛
There is nothing shameful about my love for Tori Amos from those days at all.
Wanky? Nah, wanking is self congratulatory.
It gave me an excuse to use the term “diegetic background music”. By itself that’s enough to classify it as wanky.
I haven’t heard the term diegetic since film school.
The only reason I remember it (learned it in year 9 Media, promptly forgot it) is because a friend of mine uses the handle “Non Diegetic Sound”.
A lecturer went on and on about it and then in the tute someone mentioned it to our tutor who actually made films. She looked blankly. “I’ve never heard that word before.”
We all agreed it was far too wanky. 😛
I think it’s great to remember the concept, because playing with it can be a lot of fun (just look at Birdman), but yeah, totally wanky. Which I’m okay with, because I’m a bit of a tosspot.
Words to be inscribed on the Blaghs statue!
I know if because of Buffy (The Body)
Also The Wire
Jesus Christ. That episode… I don’t know Buffy well enough to know the names of episodes at all, I haven’t seen the series for years and only watched it through once. But that episode… That episode I remember the name of.
@transientmind very few shows experiment with themselves the way Buffy did.
I kinda cannonballed the entire series (including Angel, with some weird fan-recommended viewing orders where the seasons were concurrent) with multiple hour viewings every night for weeks.
The high-speed evolution was amazing.
I am not at all surprised that Buffy fans are the reason tvtropes.org exists.
@transientmind I went through all of it in my second year at uni, though I started with Firefly… probably nearly exactly 9 years ago today (definitely watched it over my second O’week)
I consider Firefly one of TV’s greatest tragedies. The potential that show had… unfulfilled and squandered with Serenity. You can never go back. That moment was a snapshot in time, a nexus of talent and timing, and once it was lost, it was lost forever.
You can’t stop the signal… but you’re only broadcasting the same, precious, short thing.
@redartifice, there are precious few shows that are willing to experiment with format. Buffy was one. Scrubs (to a limited degree) was another. For my money, though, I believe M*A*S*H did it best, and did it longest (and was possibly among the first). They did a dreams episode, a real-time clock-ticking episode, a POV episode, basically if they could shoehorn a stylistic idea into a wartime dramedy, they went for it.
Okay, so just rewatched The Body. My eyes are leaking.
Man, I dunno about eye-leaking from The Body. I had more… I dunno. Gut-clenched and emotionally-scoured. Just empty and stunned.
I disagree.
that is all.
I consider guitar solos swanky because they’d sound the same without the rest of the band.
Movies require massive amounts of team work, so unless the whole thing is a love letter to themselves, I can’t apply it.
Showing off for showing offs sake is swanky but I felt birdman transcended wankiness by delivering a strong, important, self-aware message about both sides of the fence in the entertainment industry.
Hello, old chums.
Hey friend 😀
Hey guy! How’s gaems?
This guy! THIS GUY!
I missed you. :’)
Hello bae! Thanks guy, I’ve been so busy with this job it’s meant I’ve not played a video game in earnest for a month, I struggle to read an article a day here at the best of times 🙁
Secretly I stayed away to see if anyone would tag me to say they missed me 😉 *looks at no notifications* sob.Hope all is well guy!
I thought about you and why you weren’t posting, but had no reason to tag you. 😛
I am well! Good to see you back!
Hey hey! How you been?
Hey mate, thought of you last night when I was eating a 6 dollar plate of Karaage Squid lol. You have opened my eyes to something greater my friend. How are you travelling? Everything well I trust??
Up and down mainly, I’m close to settlement now on my apartment, however I’m still not feeling better about myself as a whole, still feeling shitty a lot sadly.
That sucks to hear, we should go grab a beer again sometime soon maybe we could show @blackdahlianz a good time in Melbourne so we can unwind. God knows I’d love a stiff drink lol.
sounds good, I got family over from NZ this weekend, let me know.
Oh great, now we’re dog food?! 😛
If dog food was a metaphor for friends, why would we not all be premium brand? :p
So Dragon Quest Heroes is getting localized. Yay I guess? I’ve got zero attachment to the Dragon Quest franchise personally…
I can’t wait to play as Vegeta!
I’d actually be fairly interested in a decent DBZ musou…
Just annihilating hordes of Saibamen and mini Cells would make me irrepairably happy.
King Kai teaching your main character limit breaks 😛
Chasing Gregory and Bubbles around King Kai’s place!
I’m keen
Yeah, I thought it sounded like you’d be excited for it.
I still didn’t get Celceta. Wish I got it instead of bloody Neptunia
I’m pretty sure I warned you. 🙁
So my mate who some how happened to know where Slipknot was staying in Surfers Paradise ended up finding Jim & Mick from the band. As envious as I am, but my first thought was just leave the poor guys alone they’re on downtime between shows and probably just want to relax and see a bit of the country, not having fans follow them :/
Aww… Dropbox’s Space Race promo is finally ending next week… Time to start deleting stuff so I can keep using it. I guess I don’t need all those obsolete Minecraft saves, anyway…
HOMEWORLD REMASTERED TODAY.
*faceplosion*
Slightly riled up that the pre-load still left half the game to download today. *shakes fist*
Looks spectacular, though!
Yeah I woke up and was gonna give it a quick go before work, after finishing the preload last night.
‘3.3GB downloading?’ FFFFUUUUUUUUU
Man this week is dragging. Thankfully I’ve got a half day of work tomorrow so early weekend woo! Then onto something like 15 hours of RPGing over the weekend. 😀
Thursday question for all of you: favourite enemy or boss in a game? Can be a main villain or just a henchman if you prefer. Personally I really enjoy beating up robots or other mechs in any game. That said, I love games that are just a procession of boss fight after boss fight (Shadow of the Colossus, Madworld, No More Heroes) because the bosses are usually so very, very good.
:'(
Suddenly everything that happens to you in our pathfinder games makes sense!
And Warhammer 40K, I went from full hp to being blinded, AND set on fire to the point of 2 points away from death in a single battle… and that was through collateral damage from one of our own guys 😛
The Butcher in Diablo.
Oh wow, I remember the first time I encountered him. Wasn’t expecting it, crapped my pants, ran away, still got killed.
Same… then when I came back I always kited him to some stairs, got him stuck and just ranged him.
The only guy that made me turn off a game and never turn it back on, ever
Sovereign in Mass Effect. That amazing saw-wave reverb they added to his voice and the lines that it delivers when it’s revealed were incredible. “You exist because we allow it, and you will end because we demand it.”
Shame they turned out to just be really big robots lead by a space kid. 🙁 I wonder what they’d been originally planning for them back then before Bioware decided to go stupid?
Others that come to mind: not actually technically an enemy, but kind of is – I always thought that Kreia in Knights of the Old Republic II was an incredibly interesting character. But that whole game has exemplary character writing.
Sachiko, the antagonist in Corpse Party, freaks the shit out of me. Not necessarily an amazing character but I’m now extremely wary around little girls armed with scissors.
I actually really like the Bioshock bad guys, Andrew Ryan, Fontaine and Comstock. Whilst you don’t necessarily fight them, I am drawn to characters like that with charisma.
I’m guessing the majority of you folks don’t watch Looking, a HBO show about gay dudes in San Francisco but you might be interested in this weeks ep. One of the characters dressed up as Gordon Freeman to a Halloween party. A reference I didn’t expect to see. It was an amazing cosplay too. Someone on the writing staff is a fan.
http://www.hbo.com/looking#/looking/episodes/2/14-looking-for-gordon-freeman/
(There’s a picture as the backdrop in this link.)
Hm? Better, or worse than Queer As Folk? (US version.)
For the years that was running, that was the soap opera indulgence that my brother and I would gossip about.
I never watched QAF, but if you’ve seen the show Girls it’s not unlike that. Realistic characters. Grounded story arcs. Not issue of the week or structured around very special episodes. A lot of the characters are unlikable and jerks, but that’s half the appeal. Feels very real. More drama than soap,
I strongly recommend you check out the American version of QAF. Some of the best TV performances I’ve seen, powerful stories, and THE best soundtrack of any show ever. It’s a little bit 00s in places, and can get a little graphic, but it’s compelling stuff with great directing, acting, production values, cinematography… everything. It’s smooth as.
And in turn, I’d recommended Looking to you or atleast your brother! 😛
Season two trailer sets the show’s tone nicely. (There’s spoilers for s1, though.)
If he spoke ever in that party I’m going to be pissed off 😛
Weird thing about the episode is how they knew their stuff about this character. One even mentioned to the other that Patrick chose to dress up as a character that has no real character. That people project themselves on. Very well done.
Well at least it’s not someone like Ezio the guy is dressing up as, I would find it a bit jarring to be talking to a character that’s moving at 30 FPS
Respecting the material is important.
One of the reasons I actually liked Big Bang Theory (for at least the first two seasons anyway – I stopped watching after, expecting a Dharma & Greg-like humour trajectory) was its respect for the material. I know people criticize a perceived two-faced affection for geekdom by pointing out that the majority of the jokes are basically holding up people being normal (in geekland) and calling out, “NEERRRRRRRRRD! LOL” but one of the surprisingly uncommon things it did right was respecting the material.
Any other TV show needs to deal with handling an in-universe celebrity or piece of fiction (movie, tv, book, game, whatever), they’ll make up some pandering bullshit, or pretend to refer to the real thing but get all the details wrong in order to fit the plot and make the jokes work. Big Bang? Nope. They want to talk about Superman vs Batman, they’ll fucking talk about Superman vs Batman. It doesn’t matter what game or comic or scientific theorem they referred to, they used the actual shit to talk about it, and from an informed viewpoint. If they made a joke about The One Ring, they usually didn’t then hold up TV-land’s cheat-sheets for the non-geek audience to say, “Oh so you know, this is a Lord of the Rings reference,” they just expected you to fucking get it. And even as a geek and science nerd, I’d occasionally be delighted in surprise at hearing some pretty esoteric references.
If for nothing else, I would like other shows to follow BBT’s lead in that respect.
This. I try and explain it to my mum everytime she changes channel but I’m met with a stern ‘I’m not watching this stupid shit’.
The channel then proceeds to be filled by A&E’s Gypsy Sisters or Say Yes to The Dress.
*recoils violently in disgust*
I’ve heard good things about this show.
I like it. The characters can be infuriating at time, but only because they mess up so much. Season two is better than season one, which was pretty good.
If I hadn’t read your blurb I would’ve continued thinking it was a Half Life live action series 😛 Not just some dude dressed as Gordon lol
Oh, so that’s what ‘Looking’ is about. I’ve noticed it on Foxtel but the descriptions only have episode descriptions (which I avoid because spoilers), not whole show descriptions.
Yeah, basically just three friends in San Francisco who happen to be gay. It’s more just about their specific day-to-day lives and drama, rather than representing all the gays everywhere.
Sounds better than I thought it would be, I might check it out. 🙂
Sounds like a gay Seinfeld!
Our internal ticketing system generated a reference for me which finished with the five digits 55550.
Of course, the rational human being that I am, I immediately started submitting tickets like crazy to try and secure for myself the hallowed 55555.
Tragedy: someone else got it. It is not at all weird that I resent them for this.
Back in my days at Telstra doing data entry we used to make a game out of reference numbers. Palindromes or otherwise interesting references would get printed out and hung on our desks. You could always tell when a palindrome was approaching because the sounds of frantic typing would suddenly increase.
Telstra’s corporate systems reference numbers have been ten digits starting with 10xxxxxxxx for years. They started approaching 1099 etc, not long ago, and I used to joke that I hoped they were having a party for 11xxxetc.
…I really hope they did have one.
I was counting down for ages, looking forward to support ticket 2000 in our system.
Ended up being deleted because a client submitted the same thing twice for 1999 and 2000.
D:
If it helps, just think of it as a Y2K bug? 🙂
I think I possibly doubled the amount of actual game time played on my PS4 last night. Played DoA5 Last Round for over 4 hours. Suddenly it was 1am.
Aside from higher resolution and constant 60fps, I’m not sure that much really changed from the PS3 version of Ultimate. I played through the entire story mode – which was identical – and then jumped into versus against the CPU for about 50 rounds with Marie Rose to try her out. Actually had only intended to play 5 or so rounds and then try the other characters added since I last played, but was finding her really fun to use so just kept going. I don’t think she’ll ultimately displace my mains (I mainly used Kasumi & Ein in DoA2, and Hitomi & Kasumi in 3 & 4) but pretty fun.
Also made the mistake of poking around on some forums about the game and holy shit, I’d hate to work for Team Ninja. Everyone whinging about how disgusting all those giant boobs flopping all over the place are and how everyone playing with those characters must be a pervert, so they add a character with a more modest size and everyone starts whinging about how disgusting it is that she doesn’t have giant boobs and how everyone playing with that character must be a pervert…
The boobs are the best bit
Yeah but it’d be nice to have some natural variation not just the spectrum from enormous to ridiculous.
Oh man, every body type in every game is very same-same.
Not too many artists or modellers bothering with diversity.
Yeah but that’s generally so they can use the same rigging for animations, same clothing etc. Fighting games are completely different, since each character has their own animations, costumes etc. so there’s a lot less need to reuse stuff.
Oh sure, games have a legitimate work/money excuse but look at most anime & comics. No reason they couldn’t mix things up more.
Guys like Tezuka, although more cartoony in style, actually put a lot of effort into different shaped heads & bodies.
Obviously Ghibli are good for it too, you really believe it when they say old mate watched a little girl carefully during his holiday before animating Sen in Spirited Away.
I guess Tekken do a range of types. Street Fighter, not nearly as much.
Mortal Kombat is the laziest fighter in this regard. Even the women are built like trucks with giant plastic blobs taped on.
Mortal Kombat’s character modelers need to figure out how to make someone that isn’t ugly as fuck before they start tackling diversity issues.
Ha! True.
Scorpion is a handsome fellow
No wolf
https://twitter.com/AmznMovieRevws/status/544993581891465216
I just @mrtaco’ed twice in a row
In the movies defence, it had a real lion so it gets an automatic 5/5.
I’m yet to see it.
Not a bad movie if you have 3 hours to kill and have an interest in the life of a piece of shit wall street broker who stole a lot of money from everyone he could, did more drugs than Charlie Sheen could imagine, fucked up his life and all those around him and thought he was untouchable.
Goodfellas only white collar crime.
Not nearly as charming as Goodfellas, but still a fun show of decadent excess.
Charming?
Yeah! Goodfellas was brutal but it was still charming in parts – like when they’re preparing that meal in prison; slicing the garlic with a razor blade just so.
Sure, ok. Personally didn’t consider either charming. Great, great films though.
Alright you magnificent culinary extraordinaires. I need some food ideas.
My Mum somehow caught wind that I took an extra couple of days off next week before this Brisbane trip (I may have told her…) and also somehow got the idea to make the trip up to visit me (I may have suggested the idea…), so I ended up tasked with making lunch (I may have volunteered…)
What’s good to make for lunch these days?
Banh Mi/Cold rolls
Super effective either way
Oh, food!
One of my only loves! :’D
When I think “lunch”, I think “sandwiches”.
BL(A)Ts are always popular, as are Club sandwiches, etc.
Otherwise there’s salads (not gross salads, but the good salads). Pasta Salad, Potato Salad, Chicken Salad, yadda yadda yadda.
You should make sandwiches and a pasta salad and go out on a picnic somewhere, like the beach, or a park! Make sure to take a drink though too! 😀
I’m much better with dinner than I am lunch.
Lunch is the main food I rarely eat :S
Picnic with my Mum? What do you think I am? I nice, thoughtful, caring son? HA.
When here, what’s happening on Friday night? 3DS?
We have no plans for Friday night/Saturday day+night outside of “do something with TAYbies”
We’ll probably put up a big post tomorrow to finalise everything!
There are a couple of super simple salads you can bust out.
One I’ve been making is a chicken pesto salad. It might sound complicated but it should take less than half an hour total prep time.
To serve two, you’ll need:
Marinade/Dressing:
1 tablespoon pesto
1 tablespoon wholegrain mustard
1 lemon
Olive oil (at least 2 teaspoons but more depending on how oily the pesto is)
Salad:
1 large chicken breast,
Cherry tomatoes,
Something leafy (I use red cos lettuce),
A block of mozzarella cheese,
Red onion.
To make the marinade just combine all the dressing ingredients and give it a really good mix.
Slice up the chicken into stir-fry sized strips (you can also slice it into four thin-ish slices if you want to grill the chicken) and marinate in the dressing. Leave about a tablespoon of dressing for the salad.
After at least 4 hours (overnight is easiest if you’re doing this for lunch), fry or grill the chicken (medium heat, might take two batches to fry it all without crowding the pan). While that’s happening: rip up the lettuce, half the cherry tomatoes, make some cubes of mozzarella and slice up some red onion. The amount is entirely up to you but I go with one head of red cos, a large handful of cherry tomatoes, a large handful of cheese and about quarter of an onion.
Add the chicken and juices to the salad. Thin out the marinade with some olive oil so that it looks like a dressing and add it.
Toss and serve.
For bonus points, have some warm bread with it. Tiger loaf or something soft, white and crusty tends to be best.
Crispy Chicken Pita Pockets (or wraps… or soft tacos)
Pack of pita bread/pita pockets (or mini wraps.. or soft tacos)
Old El Paso Crispy Chicken Mix
Cos Lettuce, shredded
Small tin of corn kernels, drained and rinsed
Tomato, diced (for bonus deliciousness buy one of the tomato medley packs – they’re pricey but taste waaayyy better)
Capsicum, diced
Cucumber, diced
Cheese, grated (we use feta)
Tomato salsa (any of the taco ones work well, or the half jar of corn chip dip you have in the fridge)
1. Make chicken per instructions on Crispy Chicken mix.
2. Toss all salad ingredients together with a dash of extra virgin olive oil, season with salt and pepper. Note, you can add/remove all sorts of stuff to salad – we sometimes add fresh herbs, onion, beetroot
3. Warm up your bread to packet instructions.
4. Present it all in nice bowls/boards/plates
I love this dish for casual lunches because it forces everyone to get their own food and talk around the table/picnic rug as they are preparing. Plus it’s a good fun fresh food.
Edit: It’s also easy to scale up and down depending on how many your preparing for. 🙂
Okay! Now we’re talking my language! (link to image) Let me know if any of these take your fancy and I’ll include the recipe!
Mexican Lime Salsa Pork Chops – http://static1.squarespace.com/static/52a474b4e4b0d82de8bb5240/t/54195586e4b0d19eacc2e007/1410946439867/?format=750w
American Mary Mushroom Nachos> http://static1.squarespace.com/static/52a474b4e4b0d82de8bb5240/t/535a48b7e4b02b21785915a9/1398425785833/?format=750w
Sesame Honey Soy Pork – http://static1.squarespace.com/static/52a474b4e4b0d82de8bb5240/t/54195611e4b05b26fa31960a/1410946579617/?format=750w
Lime Fennel Fish – http://static1.squarespace.com/static/52a474b4e4b0d82de8bb5240/t/53d4bed5e4b0489a552b3b2f/1406451430557/image.jpg?format=750w
Panko Calamari and Grilled Mango Salad – http://static1.squarespace.com/static/52a474b4e4b0d82de8bb5240/t/52d3b82be4b041b61494e344/1422898944206/image.jpg?format=750w
And what about dessert?
Ridiculous Mint Choc Brownies – http://static1.squarespace.com/static/52a474b4e4b0d82de8bb5240/t/53074537e4b0df697ffa4a88/1392985400745/mintbrownies.JPG?format=750w
Infamous Choc Pudding – http://static1.squarespace.com/static/52a474b4e4b0d82de8bb5240/t/532d64ade4b0ff70f47a02ff/1395483823640/?format=750w
Pear Gallettes – http://static1.squarespace.com/static/52a474b4e4b0d82de8bb5240/t/52bf8773e4b09bff06029026/1388283771845/image.jpg?format=500w
I made all this stuff, by the way. I’m not just ganking it from some sucker’s website.
Panko Calamari & Mango salad? You are a culinary genius, I can imagine the flavours going together soooooo well.
It’s so good when the weather is hot.
Woah, you weren’t lying!
I replied with some recipes and links and it’s awaiting moderation, so check back soon!
A nice salad is always good, or a fancy sandwich. Fritters are easy and really delicious too.
http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/14237/classic+turkey+club+sandwich
http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/20533/maple+roasted+pumpkin+and+chicken+salad
http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/20998/sweet+corn+fritters+with+avocado+salsa
If you have a nice bakery nearby, maybe a buy quiche or pie and a serve with a bit of green salad. If you don’t feel like cooking, just find a nice cafe nearby that does a good sandwich or all-day breakfast and coffee.
Stealing that pumpkin salad recipe.
Also, if you feel like going for a little adventure, you can always take your mum out to a sushi train, or yum cha, or fish and chips on the beach.
Beach fish and chips, one of life’s little pleasures! You’ve inspired me to have fish and chips at the park this weekend!
ASDkjshdfliuhaoeuhglsjkfsbqpdknasfd. None of the login or password reset info is being accepted, apparently it’s all incorrect EVEN THOUGH IT’S NOT. And there’s no listing for the phone number to call up for support. Everything is stupid. And useless.
Call Nintendo.
That tell us damnit is cool. It’s really making me think what is my favourites with a lot of things. I also think I did too many lists, but it’s so much fun D=
So JB are having yet ANOTHER buy 2 get 1 free with Blu-Rays..
Seems to be an alright list, I can already see a dozen movies I want dang it.
Looks like I need to go to JB on the weekend.
Aren’t I the best at depriving you of money!
If I can get to JB while I’m in Hobart, I will. Sucks not having one in Launceston (and we were supposed to get one before the end of last year).
That upset me not having a JB in Launceston, likewise you guys don’t have Dan Murphy’s that sucks equally as much!
I still have unopened blu rays laying around from previous sales they’ve had.
That’s how you do it!
I don’t watch movies much. *looks through first few pages* Yep, not missing much. *next page* *next page* […] *next page* *sees entire Millenium trilogy* *verifies not horrible American 2011 version*
It’s alright, I wasn’t overly attached to my wallet, anyway. *sighs* *buys*
I had no idea it was available in a trilogy pack, I went and bought them individually lol. and there’s only The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo so far in English, but never fear they are making The Girl Who Played With Fire & The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets Nest, but I think 2016 is the closest we will see the next one.
I thought US version was okay, but I still didn’t think it was anywhere as good as the original Swedish one, which I had seen multiple times before I even watched the English one. I also didn’t like that Daniel Craig’s character had a Swedish last name and an English accent, that was just so stupid. I also found it’s for those who refuse to watch foreign language movies and have to read subtitles heh.
There’s a trilogy pack? 😛 Oh well, it’s cheaper to buy individually with the 3-for-2 deal, anyway. And, yea, the US one wasn’t as bad as I made it out to be, but compared to the Swedish version… no contest.
Haha yeah, it was 40 bucks in the last sale. Then again I bought the trilogy in a buy 2 get 1 free, so yeah hahaha.
I get what you mean though, I too agree. My friend who recommended the trilogy to me she shared the same opinion, that the US one is okay. But it’s not a film to recommend over the original.
Only one in the office this arvo.
:'(
Risky Business.
Just sayin’.
Oh dear god… Even the idea of taking my pants off at work is making me feel uncomfortable.
The music makes it less awkward. Trust me.
Trust me.
Edit: Yeah, I’m lazy. Take your pick.I was tempted to append an asterisk.
*Trust me: never ever trust anyone who says ‘trust me’.
Other resisted edits include:
“I really can’t see why you would find that uncomfortable.
That probably says more about me than it does you.”
I have most of Diablo III (which I love) to finish, yet I still can’t bring myself to stop playing Dragon Age:Inquisition. I’m beginning to realise it’s because I’m not ready to be done with these characters yet.
I played the heck out of Origins, but because I liked the world, not the gameplay or even the characters. It all felt a bit empty to me. I thought the second game was better in that respect. It injected a bit of soul and life into the people, but the world was empty. The third game seems to have balanced the best of the two, but unfortunately only from around halfway through the game. So for the first part of the game, I thought most of my companions (and my character) were boring, and only really had just fully come to know them when the game ended. It’s nice to play again, enjoying my time with them right from the start.
Perfect time for an expansion pack! *glares at BioWare*
Uh oh! I’ve got to go to an all-boys high school tomorrow to do website training for work.
Going to have to dodge no-good punks all day! I’ll have to wear my most intimidating shirt or something. Get a face tattoo. Scrub off the geekiness before they catch me.
Wear your sportsball shirt. All the kids will think you’re cool, because sports, OR, the intense sunlight bouncing off that most fluorescent of oranges will repel them all.
http://www.siliconera.com/2015/02/24/tokyo-xanadu-sounds-like-falcom-action-rpg-touch-persona/ this is sounding really rad. Ys / Nayuta-inspired action RPG gameplay with a modern setting and Persona-style elements? Yes please.
Yes please
All I want to do is write Top 5 lists now.
1. @jimu
2. Everybody else
3. ?
4. ?
5. ?
*cries*
I’m sorry Chris, but Jimu is my soul mate :*
(Jimu: but it’s ribbed!)
Well… that I can understand.
I approve
Here’s my list:
1. PS4
2. PS3
3. 360
4. Wii-U
5. Having sex.
I don’t know what games you’ve been playing but they must be pretty good then.
Top 5 things you have ever spent money on?
😛You would put a Wii-U in the top 100 in a list like that? 😛
Finished the Order: 1886 the other day.
I thought it was great!
Yes, it was very linear, and took a while to really get going, but I thought it was pretty solid overall!
I liked the way they handled gameplay, and even though there was a fair few QTEs, I thought it was fitting with the blending of narrative and gameplay that they were trying to achieve.
Obviously for the inevitable sequel I’d like to see gameplay be far more open, and a more diverse range of enemies (which was heavily hinted at as the focus of the sequel) but as a first attempt at a new IP, I really enjoyed it!
Though I wanna play as Lafayette 🙁
Never have I been so captivated by a video game character! :*
I haven’t heard much about the game which I thought strange, I wish I had a ps4 to play it on! I need to find some new friends to steal from me thinks..
Baw.
yeah I got that one to 🙁
Should not have read this article at work.
BRB, coffee time
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/australia-food-blog/2015/feb/24/cold-brew-how-to-avoid-coffee-confusion-amid-the-profusion
Yup, you should not have read this article :p
Seriously though, cold drip is the shit. It’s almost like wine with how wanky you can get over certain flavours (sure, you can do that with espresso too but cold drip is made almost exclusively by hipsters so it’s much more prone to it).
I’ve made cold press in a plunger in my fridge before.
Worked well, but I spilled half the fucking plunger over my kitchen which dampened my enthusiasm. Might be time to revisit it, but I want a coffee grinder so I can moderate the size of the grains.
I’ve heard that you can make your own teabag type setup to help do it, although it’s still going to be a lot cruder than the proper filter setup. A coffee grinder is still 100% needed though.
Only ones I could find when I was looking were pricey electronic ones, though I didn’t do my online or coffee-specialist-store due diligence. I like Doctorow’s method here for simplicity though
http://boingboing.net/2011/11/14/howto-attain-radical-hotel-roo.html
Yeah, a proper filter setup is pricey. A quick search turns up this and it’s about the only style I’d consider.
Grinders are cheap as hell though.
Most importantly, I need an aeropress. Those things are such a no brainer for simple home coffee options.
You can filter in a plunger for cold press.
I’m doing my daily multiple coffees in a Vietnamese filter. Other than being a bit grainy at the bottom of the cup I’m finding they work pretty well
I know. If I was going to do a quick and dirty attempt, I would but I think I’ll end up just using an aeropress for 90% of my home coffee needs. Eventually.
Argh. Just caught myself with the bowl I ate lunch in, about to lick it clean. Right here in the office.
I miss snacks 🙁
Chew some gum.
Just don’t let yourself get to the point where co-workers are transforming into ice cream cones and chicken drumsticks before your eyes.
Noooo, I can do this. I can break the irongrip that sugar and saturated fats have over me.
It’s gotta be like smoking, right? Just hold on long enough, and the cravings start to decline.
A couple of the more perspicacious coworkers like to take note of when I’m ‘smoking’ my pen, as apparently the only useful indicator of my stress levels, with a rough catalogue of the types of stress and corresponding smoker’s gestures.
Apparently some habits never die.
I only smoked for about three weeks but I’ve always chewed pens.
Maybe start drinking more water? 😛 I don’t really get snacky at work because of the amount of water I guzzle.
I’m a regular in the office bathroom though. The toilets and I are on first-name terms.
I get to do the walk of shame past the reception desk and all the patients whenever I have to use the bathroom, and when you’re peeing six times in a day, that can be problematic!
You need to invest in a large, discrete jug.
Better yet, fill urine-sample bottles throughout the day and supplement your income in the side alley after work.
Pop down to centrelink any day of the week and i’m sure someone out front needs to buy clean piss.
Why on earth would you do that to someone you’re on first-name terms with?
Just don’t call me anything other than ‘Pow’ next week or it might trigger some sort of automatic response.
I think you’d be in more trouble than @transientmind if that happened.
Unless you’re… wearing ‘tena for men’…
*cringe*
Okay Ben.
Yeah, one thing I’m good at is that. I have at least 2L every work day.
Games with Gold is getting better every month. March gives Xbox One users Rayman Legends (potentially a great game to get gf involved) and Xbox 360 users Bioshock:Infinite and Tomb Raider. Wish I still had a working 360 grrr. Soon XB1 will hopefully start getting some big release names such as Ryse, DR3, Forza, etc.
And in April, we get DOUBLE the amount of content…so two XB1 games and 4 360.
Woo, Brisflights booked! Finally 😛
When you flying? Planning on meating folks or just doing other things this time?
In tomorrow morning, out Monday morning. All I’ve got planned is Soundwave, dunno what’s outside of that 😛
Gotta message my friend to let him know what’s going on. He’s letting me crash at his place, but dunno when I’m meeting up with him or anything.
Flight gets in around 11 so if anyone wants to meet up for lunch then I’m up for that.
Mazel tov! Who’s the lucky boy?
I am.
@SPAGHETT’S Last Song Played Game!
The Society of the Crossed Keys – Alexandre Desplat
Do I Wanna Know? (Cover) – Chvrches
The last song from Dr Horrible’s sing-along-blog.
“Everything you ever”
Now the nightmare’s reeeeeal!
“And I won’t feeeeeeeeeeel… a thing.”
I had many mixed feelings about that show.
The empty Universal backlot they use for the action sequence bugs me. It’s not dressed properly and looks like a backlot. Geeeez, it’s like they shot this on an incredibly low budget or something. 😛
Ohyeah, it definitely felt pretty low-budget, but I always pegged that as part of the charm. Like as if all the bit-parts and extras were all cast/crew friends/family or long-time Whedonites. A personal amateur project worked on by a bunch of professionals for less than they’re worth, much like Felicia’s work, The Guild. (Which I loved. It was far less morally troubling to me than Dr Horrible. Sympathizing with a creepy stalker with serious socialization issues is a bit weird.)
Oh yeah, completely agree on the collaborative, indie feel of it.
And also the creepy stalker part.
Steely Dan – Gaucho
Everyone by Adema 😀
Hey! Spaghett! How’s life?
Great man, and you?
Here Come the Vultures – Delain
Just discovered these guys today by accident, really like what I’ve heard thus far.
Has anyone played Xenoverse yet ? thoughts ?
@greenius?
That’s not Xenoblade!
No, Mom, you idiot! I have “Xenoblade”, and “Xenoverse”, and “Xenosaga”, stupid.
@powalen, @cakesmith, @alexpants: What days are you doing stuff in Bris? THINGS! Refined the schedule yet? (Mostly thinking of the big gathering on Friday or Sat or whatever!)
Talking at the moment! We’ll put up another big tagging post tonight/tomorrow!
Sweet! No probs! Depending where you wanna go in city, we might have to make reservations or something early next week. (Or wing it.)
I guess this means I should probably check my emails…
I want to go to that place what where you always take a photo while you’re waiting around.
The skyline shot? Done! That’s the Cultural Centre at South Bank. (Where all the touristy stuff is surrounded.) There’s also Rocking Horse on the Mall. That’s where all the other touristy stuff is surrounded.
Are bum-bags required? Sensible hats?
Cork hats.
http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NTAwWDUwMA==/z/8mQAAMXQNOZRDqrx/$(KGrHqZHJEEFENhjU-iSBRDqr)f3M!~~60_35.JPG
:O You guys didn’t do this when I was in Brisbane on Wednesday, I see how it is… 🙁
Hah, nah I have been spending a lot of time in Brissy lately so I’d be keen for a Meat one time when I’m there and not getting off the plane at 6am lol
The key is telling us you’ll be in town and not guilting us afterwards. 😛
The lack of people, or at least discussion, around here lately is bumming me out.
We used to be up to double digit pages by now…
Everyone’s on Twitter, though. TAY’s just migrated.
I don’t like it.
I don’t mind twitter, but it’s no TAY.
My interest in twitter has been decreasing lately anyway.
I prefer Twitter, to be honest. My interest in TAY has been decreasing. D:
Eh, to each their own.
I don’t mind twitter, but I don’t like how you can’t really have much of a conversation there due to character limits, and how conversations can be so fast paced with people replying.
I’ve been kicked out of my own conversations numerous times cause people kept replying too fast for me to jump in or keep up :S
It also highlights how mundane I am, which is kinda disheartening, haha!
Also, I’m gonna put it out there, but it always seems like everyone is trying to out funny each other on twitter.
I like actual discussions, and proper talking.
There’s definitely a place for both of them. 🙂
I just can understand the migration. Especially in the light of GamerGate and controversy after controversy. Makes me weary about going to gaming sites.
Twitter is a GG minefield. Which is why I’m hardly around there anymore. I have no idea why anyone would migrate away from TAY due to GG and controversy, the only person I’ve noticed sympathetic to GG around here is Phlaiman.
But there’s way more than video game stuff on Twitter. It wasn’t GG that made me post less, just a feeling that I needed to distance myself from this gaming culture. Plus I can block people and mute people and bury my head in the sand. 😛
@dc To be fair, there’s hardly any gaming stuff on TAY. 😛
I get that you feel like you might want to distance yourself from “gaming culture”, I’ve been there myself. Especially when the Quinn thing exploded. But then I realised if I did that it would be letting the people like GG morons and people who believe anything they say win. It would be giving them exactly what they wanted: a far less diverse “gaming culture”. Fuck them. I’m not letting them take ownership of my pastime or the culture surrounding it.
That’s a good point.
…Or you could just beat me to the point more succinctly and concisely.
Ironically, in almost as few characters as would fit in a tweet. 😛
I’m hesitant to critique something you like in case it offends, and I often casually toss out a lot of exaggeratedly emotive or evocative vocabulary, which can lend an impression of passion that isn’t indicative of my actual academic interest.
So, if you don’t mind a more academic tone:
I find an interesting irony in your reasoning re: culture, in that I’ve seen tonnes more gamergate shit on twitter than here, which is a good part of why I avoid it. Not necessarily people on the wrong ‘side’ of it, but the people who I DO want to follow who get unfortunately dragged into arguments with assholes or insist on saying, “OMG, can you believe this guy said this stupid thing, somewhere you’d normally never see it?!” and the stupid thing didn’t make it into my feed thanks to my curation, but the otherwise cool person responding to it sure did, so now I’ve seen it anyway.Twitter culture feels uglier to me than ‘gaming culture’, in my opinion, which isn’t helped by the fact that any time someone brings up something ugly in gaming culture, you can bet that most of the time it was something someone tweeted anyway… But aside from that, you’ve also got ease of and temptation to retweet every pithy bit of social commentary they agree with or disagree with, without actually being able to add their own quotes to it or elaborate except in a follow-up tweet which may or may not have already been buried in dozens of other tweets in between… and there won’t be any meaningful discussion around it either, it’s just “I agree/disagree with this. Like/dislike/ignore?” as if the retweet’s message were self-evident. (If it even makes sense when it stands on its own, as opposed to being a sound-bite-worthy sample of an ongoing conversation with people you weren’t following and don’t care about, so now you have to do your homework to understand what the hell anyone’s talking about.)
The brief-by-necessity language of twitter is not a friend to nuance. That sentence alone would damn near be one tweet – the entire ‘culture’ is, owing to its restrictions, a culture lacking in depth.
Plus the social tools are seriously frustrating. Curating isn’t as easy as all that…
If you post in TAY, you’re a TAYbie, you belong there because that’s where you go to do that. You don’t have to keep track of who’s who and have advance knowledge to add them to a list in order to see what they’re saying, and TAY doesn’t have the problem of then also exposing you to any other unrelated conversation those people have elsewhere.
And tagging isn’t easier, it’s HARDER, because every person you try to involve in the discussion cuts away at how much you can actually discuss, based on how many characters are in their damned name. Try tagging the Bristaybies for an event coming up – by the time you’ve posted everyone’s handle, there’s no room for the actual message. That’s IF you were able to get all the tags into one tweet. (And if you have notifications set up on Kotaku, you do actually still get an email just like from twitter, when someone tags you, which eliminates email notification as an advantage.) Objectively, I can’t see much benefit to Twitter at all, except that some people are using it who aren’t using TAY – which isn’t a benefit as much as a circumstance – and it’s easier to get to on a phone (thanks for shitty mobile site coding, Kotaku).
It is to shrug. Litany of my not that significant that I’m not signed up to it objections aside, I don’t think there’s much problem with any kind of segmentation.
They serve different purposes to me. To my inexpert, outsider eye, twitter seems mostly to be for cute one-liners, pictures, event/product/service-promotion, complaining to or praising companies, meet-up fine-tuning (“I’m at the place, where are you?”), light status updates, (“At the place with @peeps!” Peeps: “Did you just tag me while I’m sitting next to you?”), and late-night/daytime couch bite-size philosophy.
Some of it I would like to see and miss thanks to the hyperactivity of the system, the rest I don’t care about, so twitter holds no appeal to me. If that stuff were on TAY, it’d probably be too fast for me anyway. Hell, sometimes, depending one workloads, TAY can be too fast, too!
You can critique things I like, I won’t get offended. I agree with most of your points too.
Twitter is the natural environment of the bon mot
Really? I hate Twitter.
Twitter moves too fast, doesn’t nest comments as neatly, is TERRIBLE for at-a-glance viewing, and is full of other peoples’ bullshit. A LOT more political etc, too.
Twitter is only as good as the followers you curate.
I don’t think there’s any thing wrong with TAY, though. (Don’t get me wrong.) Just where I’m at in life right now I find Twitter more convenient and less time consuming. Also very helpful that I can find my uni friends there too and people outside of gaming.
Twitter’s comment threading is annoying as fuck too. Makes it impossible to keep track of conversations sometimes.
Different Twitter clients handle threading differently. I haven’t used the official one in some time and have no issues following conversations.
What do you use? The official one drives me up the wall.
@transientmind Mostly Tweetdeck although I just have an old version of the official client on my laptop because it doesn’t have anything fancy and is sleek enough for my needs.
On phone, I’m trying to find a new one because Plume was too battery intensive and everything recommended isn’t available any more.
Oof. Hadn’t even thought of battery. Thanks.
I have a Windows Phone 🙁
Which is why primarily I have it open in a browser tab at work. Not really any alternative ways to engage with twitter in a browser except for the twitter site itself, which means inescapable shitty threading 🙁
Twitter sucks for most things TAY is good at.
But people are actually using Twitter where they would use TAY before. It’s the difference between refreshing here with no new responses for hours or getting content from the faces you know in a different, maybe inferior medium. But yeah, I know what you mean. 🙂
I tend to post stuff in both places but TAY gets more idle bullshit. I could post more in here too if it was necessary.
That’s true. You’re not going to get meat write-ups on Twitter or longer form writing. :'(
But what good is Twitter? Where’s the 1200 word discussions on mise en scene in Japanese Cinema?
Oh right, we never had those here anyway. Nevermind.
And we still have epic rambles about Buffy the Vampire Slayer there. It’s easier to share photos. It’s easier to tag someone. (And they get a notification on their phone instead of relying on checking in on gaming sites.) Also it’s better for when video game culture interest shifts. I mentioned I’m not too keen on gaming culture at the moment last week, so it felt very strange to go to a video gaming site just to talk to my pals. These things change, though. Right now Twitter is where it’s at for me! 😀
Also all the lapsed TAYbies are on Twitter. It’s nice to see those guys! :’)
Downside is that due to its length, it’s hard to get a proper conversation going, not just disparate rambling.
I still appreciate the fact that I can make comments on episodes as I’m watching them and get a response from you though, that bit is super handy.
Also lack of spoiler space too. Would’ve been helpful discussing upcoming events last night. 😀
BUT IT WOULD HAVE BEEN TOO TEMPTING. IT IS TAKING ALL OF MY WILLPOWER NOT TO LOOK UP SPOILERS.
ALSO, JUST FINISHED EPISODE 10 (Into the Woods), AND OH GOD THAT ENDING.
Good speech from Xander though. Two good speeches, actually.
Don’t spoil. You got good stuff coming up that’s all the better not knowing what’s about to go down!
@dc
I KNOW I SHOULDN’T, BUT IT’S HARD (phrasing). I USUALLY SPOIL THINGS FOR MYSELF, SINCE THE JOURNEY IS 98% OF THE FUN.
Hey, I’ve attempted to kickstart like 6 discussions in the last few pages.
I’M TRYING DAMMIT DO YOU THINK I WANT TO BE DOING REAL WORK?
That gritty reboot thread was pretty great.
That was a lot of fun.
I think PLANET has legs.
But what good will they do if it’s just floating around in space?
#notenoughpage6
Kick Mars, that jerk.
Remember I’m usually behind though by 2 hours 😛
I miss out on a large chunk of morning talk 😛
GET UP EARLIER YOU SLACKER
THERE’S TAYIN’ TO BE DONE
Also, yeah, what do you want to see here?
It’s not that I want to see anything, it just seems to me that TAY is declining, which is bumming me out cause I like TAY :'(
It’s happened before and usually recovers. Old faces transition away, new faces fill the void. It’s the circle of TAY.
From the day we arrive, on the TAY-net
Blinking, step into the suuuuun…
There’s more to say than can ever be said, more to game than can ever be won…
as @dc said, a lot of the old conversation that used to happen here is now on twitter.
When I started here, I was in the minority of people who had a twitter account (My twitter account would be starting school this year)
I only have a Twitter account because of TAY, so it’s a weird natural evolution. XD
I seem to remember you needing a lot of arm twisting to get a twitter account.
I did. Which makes my peer pressuring of @mrtaco confounding. 😛
Kool-aid’ll do that to ya.
I remember the glory days of 25-30 pages.
#OldManCake
I think this is the most comments on TAY ever. http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/03/talk-amongst-yourselves-164/#comments
Page 2 by 10:30 on a Monday.
The old days indeed.
I was just having a flick through it. It’s interesting to see so many familiar faces but also people who used to post heaps that don’t anymore (Pez, Batgirl, Harli, Rocketman etc)
I kind of miss those days.
It’s weird, though. I remember when I first started posting I felt like such an outsider. There was this tight knit community that I wasn’t really a part of. Now I feel like there’s a different tight knit community I am a part of and wonder if newbies feel like I did when I arrived. *random musings*
I lurked for so long. So very, very long. It definitely felt weird when I started posting. Especially because I knew a lot about everyone due to the lurking.
EDIT: It’s also funny that I now consider a few people on here/there some of my closest friends.
GAAAAAAAAAAYIt’s the same here, man.
Some of the core Brisbane group know me better than any one.
I found it very hard to jump on to the TAY train when it moved that quick. Eventually I just did. You kind of had to be really assertive in the old days.
That’s a lot of what stopped me jumping on board. (There’s far too much to take in here, more to find than can ever be found)
That’s my problem with Twitter too!
It’s so much more personal.
I don’t know most of you guys that we’ll.
Makes trying to jump into conversations weird :3
When I started posting I thought you were in charge!
Ahh, the bad ol’ days of unemployed Blaghs. May they never be repeated.
The days when I hated my job and didn’t give a shit so was just on the Internet all day…
Was also a pre-Sydney Cakesmith. Fun fact for you.
Haha! It’s funny, though. Usually once a year we have one of these state of TAY conversations. It’s a good thing. Allows people to speak up if they’re having problems. For a while I thought TAY was getting way too negative, but that’s passed now for the most part.
NO YOU ARE
Except for this negative post… :3
Ah, I like to think I’m not a negative guy but call me out if I am. I also think people can post about problems without feeling a need to censor it with an always on smile. It was just persistent negativity for a while. It was just an observation and I feel like sometimes its good to point these things out.
I was talking about my negative post, if you weren’t aware 😛
I thought you were talking about me. I got sad. Same point applies though. You’re allowed to be not 100% happy as long as every single one of your posts isn’t like that. 😛 (Which they’re not!)
I could tell from your reply that you thought I meant you, but I meant my core negative post 😛
That’s my bad for a lack of clarification :S
Yours wasn’t negative at all, just an observation really 😛
Oh, and sorry for making you sad!
Let’s hug it out!
*hugs*
😀
Well the split of TAY and Twitter to be honest has been making me feel more disconnected with everyone. I never will get or want a twitter account (What TransientMind said really hits the nail on the head in terms of why). I’m only in occasional contact with Scree for the cosplay, and the RPG guys when we’re actually playing through hangouts, that’s about it these days. I can never be bothered to go onto TS anymore either cuz usually the others are all playing something else that I don’t play and it ends in just me sitting there in the channel saying nothing. You might have noticed I don’t comment much these days either, cuz I’ve really got nothing to really contribute in these discussions.
Start your own discussions! Post your thoughts. Most of us that are still here will read it all even if we don’t necessarily respond.
Like the Negzero Kancolle update! 🙂
No one reads those
I often do! Not all of them and sometimes I skim the stuff that makes no sense to me.
I much prefer TAY to twitter.
I don’t like the split very much either myself. I only really have Twitter because that’s where most people are these days. Kinda sucks when you’re not a huge fan of twitter though.
I think I’ve slowly started to become less active on both, cause TAY has been feeling kinda dead lately, but I have nothing interesting to put on twitter either :S
TAY has always fluctuated in activity. It’s not going anywhere.
All I want to talk about is Dragon Age and nobody wants to talk about it with me! 😛
I noticed further down the page you mentioned that the lack of TAY talk made you stay away a bit. Maybe more people are thinking like that, too? So if everyone who was hesitant to post because of a lack of other people’s posts actually started some discussions, TAY might be pretty lively. 😀
I’ve been playing a bunch of Dragon Age Multiplayer lately!
But that doesn’t really help, since I’d imagine you want to talk about the single player. 😛
I’ve been tempted to try the multiplayer but, well, you know. People.
How is it, though? What does it actually consist of?
It’s fun with four people but it can get very repetitive. You basically go through the same mini-dungeons and hear the same bits of dialogue repeatedly and there’s only a little variation, but the gameplay is fairly solid and it’s a nice way to explore character types different to the one you use in single player, because you can easily switch out roles between games.
I’ve played more of it than I have the singleplayer. I think the simplicity of it is quite appealing for me. 😛
Sounds interesting. Maybe I’ll get drunk and give it a go one day!
I read your Dragon Age posts, but can’t contribute cause I haven’t played it! :O
It sounds fascinating, but I’ve never played any of them, so don’t really think I can jumping to the third instalment :S
You should play all the Dragon Age games. At least for the romances. Some of them are pretty fun.
We will talk Dragon Age in person soon.
That sounds vaguely ominous.
I am guilty of speaking with upvotes.
I do it frequently to indicate that I have read and approve this message.
I’m always willing to Xenotalk! 😛
I LOVE DRAGON AGE AND I UPVOTE ALL OF YOUR DRAGON AGE POSTS
It’s like that time facebook ruined forums forever by stealing all the everyone.
I pine for the old internet 😛
New internet is awesome, though. Even for stuff like YouTube alone.
How great is YouTube, guys? Pretty great!
Also new internet gifs are better than the old internet flashy siren/under construction ones! 😛
05-09 was prime internet time for me. So Youtube was a thing. Although at the same time, I kinda miss how Flash animations were the best way to get any form of sound or video anywhere 😛
What I don’t miss is the jerks who would hide a single-pixel, music-playing flash video somewhere on the page.
Woo, Web 2.0.
I remember, back in year 11, we had a test in ITM, and one of the questions was “What is Web 2.0, and what are three examples of it.”
Half the class got it wrong because we assumed it was some wankfest.
This post has triggered lots of conversation. 😛
Bro, TAY was pretty dead by the time you joined. It used to be cray cray
This is the only TAY I know though.
You forget I haven’t been here that long (retrospectively).
Ok I get the message, more posts!
@sernobulus @greenius @powalen @mrtaco and any other Monster Hunters
What rank are you guys in the Gathering hall and Village? I wanna see how far behind I am. I did just finish and upgrade my Arc armor set, took a bit to get Shagalu Magala bits but it does look cool.
I don’t know what that means.
Oh sorry I thought you were playing it.
I am.
I don’t know what the Hunter Assembly Village is 😛
Oh sorry I meant what hunter rank are you in the Village and in the Gathering Hall (online bit).
Ah. Um.
I’m up to the mission where you have to kill the giant enemy crab. And he is a bastard and I can’t do it. Haven’t even touched online.
Is that the queen Seltas? Just realized the place I was talking about is called the Gathering Hall not assembly, derp. I’m Up to HR3 online and Rank 6 Village missions,
It’s the 6 Star Urgent/first 7 Star quest (Daiymo Hermitaur or something)
Yeah what Greenius said 😛
Tried wasting time on other missions, hoping to get some other materials up since it seems like my ones aren’t up to scratch. But I need five novacrystals for the armour I’ve got my eye on, and I can’t get them til after I’ve beat this mission. Tried some alternative weapons, but no love there either. Beating my head against a wall.
@mrtaco I just beat that crab dude a little while ago, what weapon are you using? I just bounce around like crazy with my insect glaive,
I’m a charge blade guy. I found out he was weak to thunder, which my current blade just so happens to be, so I used the discharge thing on that and kept super close to him so he actually had a fair bit of trouble hitting me. Also got really lucky in that he went for area 2 early on, which is probably the best area to take him on, what with that ridge atop the dune there. Best spot to take him, both being able to hide from attacks and being able to just the jump to spring him.
My main problem was that he’s just so damn fast and has such huge range on his moves, so many times I’d trigger an action and the very moment after I’d done it, he’d go and do something like bury himself underground then spring up from beneath me before I had a chance to move, or other similar “haha you’re dead now” bullshit like that water cannon.
How long have you been playing? I’m at about 54 hours and I’ve done all the Village/Caravan quests I’ve had unlocked (some of the 6 star+ ones are locked until you progress further in online) up to 7 star.
Guild/Online is HR4. I’ve mostly done just the “key” quests necessary to progress further.
Have you been playing Guild stuff solo? It’s not really efficient to solo them as monsters will have more health (possibly deal more damage?) in multiplayer quests compared to single ones. If I recall they aren’t scaled down either and will be just as strong whether you fight it solo, or with 4 people, so it’s just more tedious to fight solo 🙁
Yeah put in around 50 hours, Just got up to LVL 7 in the village and have one quest to do online to get to HR4 (the urgent one). I’ve solo’d most of what I’ve played, keep getting on teams that get killed more than 3 times so we fail. Had a couple good runs online though.
My TAFE’s cafeteria sells the best chips ever. The chips are covered in salt, sugar, oregano, pepper, rosemary and other assorted herbs and spices. It’s the beeeest.
That sounds amazing.
I’m not a huge fan of the traditional ‘hot chip’. There was one place in Bundaberg called ‘busy bee’ which was ostensibly a fish-n-chips shop, but had lunchtime and post-work queues around the block to get a single serve of their beer-battered, quadruple-friend crunchy-as-fuck extra-salted chips.
I like crunchy chips drowned in gravy. Mmmmmmm. Gravy.
Problem with that is, you have to scarf it down super quick, or they wont be very crispy for long!
Not a problem! I’m up for the challenge! 😀
Quadruple-friend chips? That sounds… unique.
No, Quadruple Friendchips. . Like one friendship but four times.
Well now I have to leave it unedited so that yours makes sense. 🙂
Holy crap, I might just have to move back to Perth and attend TAFE!
My uni campus charges money for plastic cutlery …
…
That… is ridiculous.
Did you end up coming to Melbourne?! My uni does that too lol.
Nah Brisbane. Same uni though. =P
Nice! Were you at Market Day on Wednesday? I was there promoting the gym and all things fitness! Also, the cafe has an interesting array of food but the charging for cutlery I suppose stops people like me who forget their cutlery going up and asking for some :p
Is that what all that yelling was about on Wednesday?
Haha the yelling was a guy playing guitar and getting people to cheer for him. There were a bunch of people standing around trying to flog stuff like sports, the gym, student associations, etc.
Let us know if you want to get into the gym, I’ll hook you up!
WHERE!? My knowledge of Perth unis and TAFEs is just Murdoch University since I worked there 😛
Oh wow. Got another fortnight’s worth of pay from work, even though my last payslip came just before my last week there. Woo, unused leave!
Last night was the finale of Parks & Rec, was an awesome episode. Shame though, it’s been pretty good for the last few seasons!
I watched an episode of it on a plane last week just to try, damn that park and recs a pretty cool guy. I think I may have been watching either season 2 (or 5?) and intend to go from the start now.
You can basically skip season 1 since it’s pretty meh and doesn’t follow the formula it does season 2 onwards. But its a good show!
YES
I WIN
SUCK IT, HERMITAUR
Totally bogus though, I *did* break his claw but didn’t get the subquest for it.
Did not!
Did so too!
‘Sup losers?
Miss me?
No?
Oh, I guess you have to want me to miss me.
Huh, You do want me? I knew i… oh. You want me to leave.
* sad Hulk music *
Awww, Freeze
I think I say on behalf of all of us here:
Be careful of the step on the way out.I wondered where you were today… Missed your sharp black repartee.
Edit: found the word I wanted.
There’s a part of you I want.
Oh yeah, feel objectified, biznatch.
It’s my acromions isn’t it? They’re so damn shapely.
Close, but it’s actually your clavicle I’m after.
I missed you, but was playing it cool.
WHERE YOU BEEN, FREEZEY?
Hmm Motley Crue & Alice Cooper tickets start at 112 bucks for the nose bleed section and rapidly increase to 180 bucks for what appears to be front row. Boy do I want front row, because i’m young enough to deal with standing right at the front and being sprayed with fake blood from Alice Coopers set is always a bonus 😛
I figure standing on the floor near the stage there’s a high chance of turning around and seeing some boobs waved in Tommy Lee’s direction
Yeah but they’re all from the ladies you don’t wanna see naked 😛
As long as they weren’t 18 years old when Motley Crue first started 😛
Well most of them will have been that’s the problem haha..
I was about to object to this, seeing as my boobs are still spectacular and I’ll be 40 next year…but the I realised I was only five when their first album came out. 😛
Any chance of you appearing on Mr Strange’s shoulders at Motley Crue? 😛
Hells no! 😛
Could I get on Mr Strange’s shoulders? It’s Tommy Lee’s last chance to see my moobs 😀 hahahahaha
Haha, and you’re nothing like the people i’m talking about. Which is a good thing, I think i’m still mentally scarred from those people D= I made the mistake back around the reunion tour of joining the official Motley Crue forum and then a lot of the female fans were in their late 30’s or early 40’s and were weird, desperate for attention from either Tommy Lee or Nikki Sixx and they were just plain creepy.
What the fuuuuuuck.
Monster dies, I go to carve, but then while doing that it wakes up and from full health instantly kills me. THAT’S BOGUS, MAN!
Gypceros? You fell for its tricks?
Tehehehehe
The purple poison-spewing thingie.
Last life too, with Lucky Cat. Totally thought I had it. I want novacrystals 🙁
Balls it seems my MacBooks keyboard and trackpad died. I am guessing the ribbon cable is shot. For an 8 year old laptop that’s not too bad I guess.
Dragonforce! There was a platform for them to jump off!
Judas Priest! There was a motorbike ridden onstage!
Fun night. First time seeing Dragonforce with this singer, and holy smokes does he ever have a pretty body! Especially in that little black singlet he was wearing…. Ahem! Anyway, they played my favourite song of theirs (Valley Of The Damned) , and while I hate the new album, the three songs they played from it sounded a great deal better live, thankfully. And they finished with ‘Through The Fire And The Flames’ which gave me nightmarish Guitar Hero broken handed flashbacks. 😛
I’ve never seen Judas Priest before, but definitely glad I got to see them because they’re a huge part of metal history, and put on a great show. I have an old lady body though, and someone pushed me(I was in the row behind the people on the barrier) which broke me and I had to go stand up the back, looking for something to lean upon for the rest of the night which would have sucked, except I was standing near the bar, which meant one by one I saw almost all of the guys from Dragonforce go up to the bar. 😀
Oh, that’s a new singer? His voice was pretty amazing. The only songs of theirs I know are thanks to Guitar Hero, and they were the opened and the finisher 😛 Found my fingers instinctively twitching here and there during TTFAF…
Half the audience were probably standing there with their left index finger and thumb touching while their right hand poked the air next to it.
Hi Strange!
Hi Gentleman What! <3
I haven’t been interested in Dragonforce for ages. Still a decent live show but like Children of Bodom if you’ve seen them once, you’re set. My favourite album’s still Sonic Firestorm though. In 2 minds over whether to get there early at Soundwave to check them out again. I might not be checking out the new ‘hot’ singer though 😛 I’m also old though so am probably just going to go for Exodus, Priest and Slipknot on Saturday and Faith No More and Soundgarden on Sunday. 5 bands over 2 days. Nice one Soundwave.
Glad to hear Priest were awesome though 🙂 they’re one of the few bands still around that I’d like to see that I haven’t already.
Regardless of the new singer’s appearance, he seems to be better live than ZP was. Half of the show was classic stuff, too.
And yeah, I was surprised Priest were that good and energetic. For one, most of them are Grandpa age, and also I’ve found a lot of the huge classic era bands just go through the motions these days, so I’m glad Priest didn’t have that attitude.
That’s true, though KK Downing retired a few years ago because he couldn’t keep up with it any more.
I’d love to see them live some day, but I don’t like their material from basically the point they were taken to court over “subliminal messages” in their music.
He a guitarist? (I know next to nothing about Judas Priest.) If so, his replacement was right in front of me and very entertaining. He fit well into the band.
KK Downing and Glenn Tipton, one of the best lead guitar pairings in music history
Priest and Maiden. Two bands that still show up a lot of newer bands for sheer energy. Give me that over 4 blokes on stage standing still and the most movement you see is from the drummer.
Or bloody Tool where Maynard has his back to the audience for practically the whole show.
He was like that during A Perfect Circle, good to know he is consistent through out the bands he is in 😛
I first saw them at Ozzfest back in 2002. Apparently Tool had this ‘amazing’ live show. All I could see was a guitarist and bass player rooted to the spot and a ‘singer’ standing at the back of the stage in darkness for the whole set. I wasn’t a massive Tool fan before then (musical wankery that’s not even that good musically, bit different to say Dream Theatre wankery), but that put me right off them. I just don’t understand why people have a massive obsession over them and everything they (don’t) do.
I’m seeing *counts* 7 bands over 2 days. Half of which I saw at Soundwave in 2012 😛
Well if we also count Snoregarden that’s 8, who I also saw in 2012 lol.
Packing is hard.
From Software’s latest offering:
http://www.siliconera.com/2015/02/26/replay-one-softwares-psone-rpgs-shadow-tower-coming-psn/
@freezespreston @shane @strange
Intriguing! Anyone played this game? What’s it like?
It’s From Software so it’ll be obtuse, poorly explained and have an insane barrier to entry but there will be crazy people out there that like it.
Seriously, if you looked through their entire catalog you’d be right in coming to the conclusion that the Souls games were a fluke.
Or an evolution.
In which case it might be interesting to try some of the other games to see how they progressed.
Ah dammit, I miss the PSOne days. Games were fun and didn’t take themselves to seriously. No DLC either
Join me on Vita where it’s still 1996
I did have a PSP until my cat decided it belonged on the floor and hello cracked screen 🙁 trying to save up for a Vita so I can play classic Final Fantasies and MGS in bed. Wish I’d’ve kept all my PSM demo discs though I still have my PSOne under the TV somewhere
I have a big stack of demos out in the garage, including one with all those home made net yaroze games.
Yeah, vita is great for PSXing, just make sure you go a US account.
For sure. I’ve had a massive craving to play the first Medal Of Honor (sic) for ages now, but it’s not on the PS Store outside of NA 🙁 How I miss WW2 FPSs.
I remember those yaroze games. I remember failing miserably at the example game they had in PSM and then I saw the games people made themselves on the demo discs and just thought, ‘screw you and your creativity and ability’ 😀
That first Medal of Honour is the only one I enjoyed. Didn’t finish it or anything though.
Yeah, demo discs are the best, so few demos these days.
Sign up for US, do it!
http://www.siliconera.com/2015/02/26/tokyo-xanadu-screenshots-show-main-heroine-asuka/
It’s looking pretty good, @negativezero
I like the look of it so far.
Yeah, looks niiiiiiice
It really is.
Apparently the Xanadu part might be just a spiritual thing. The older Xanadu games (original one was Dragon Slayer II: Xanadu in 1985!) were sort of the precursor to Ys and were fantasy setting. They’ve sort of dropped hints that gameplay-wise it’s descended from Nayuta no Kiseki, which played a lot like Ys Origin and Oath in Felghana. And that sounds rad. The development team are all apparently newer members of the company too, the old-timers are stepping back and letting the newer generation handle things.
Seems like a shoe-in for a localization too. XSeed have been doing the right thing with Falcom stuff and there’s several people there that champion the Falcom games so I’d expect that we’ll see it announced at some point. Hopefully less of a wait between JP and US releases than Celceta was.
Fingers crossed
Stupid headache won’t go away.
You drunk some water? Sounds like your brain is dilating!
I can’t figure out the puppy. Yesterday she was so calm and controlled. Today she is jumping on the couch (she’s not allowed there) and biting feet. WHAT HAPPENED PUPPY
Sounds like attention seeking?
The Scientologists got to her?
I wasn’t going to upvote this at first, but well played sir.
*+1*
Puppies gonna pup.
You’re stressed. Dogs are very good at picking up on the mental state of people around them. If you want them to be calm you need to also be calm around them.
But I’m not stressed?
You are.
Poor Trjn seemed to be, last I read. 🙁
Puppy phase. Mine was like that, probably just wants you to use all your energy on her playing and then more of your non-existant energy when you’re worn out from playing 😛
Might also be a good time to look into something like puppy training, help get her trained, which might calm her down a bit.
Gotta say, I’m really enjoying Uncharted: Golden Abyss. A lot. All the reviews I’ve read say that it can’t hold up against the console Uncharted games, but hey, it’s been about four years since I last played one of them, so that comparison’s a non-issue. The touchscreen/gyro gimmicks aren’t as irritating or embarrassing as blowing into the mic in Ace Attorney (except when I have to hold the Vita up to a light source, which means turning to face the sun). The story is serviceable and the characters are definitely enjoyable. It’s not a perfect game by any means, but it feels like Uncharted for sure. And that, in my book, is a very good thing.
I liked it. It felt like more Uncharted on a handheld. How can that be bad!?
That said, I do think it was the weakest game so far. But a weak Uncharted is still better than a lot of games IMO.
This is a much more succinct way of putting it. Exactly how I feel, too!
I felt the same.
I dunno if it was the hand held factor or the fact I was playing it on flights but the length seemed way too long.
Killzone Mercenary is also worth playing too. Lots of fun.
Honestly, I’ve kind of felt the too-long vibe in every Uncharted game. Even when they’re very, very good and heaps of fun, I’ve been ready for the story to end long before it actually does 😛
Tonight I’m going to the Fringe: Yaaaaaaay
It’s Clipsal weekend: nooooooo
Woo, got boarding pass straight off. It’s great when there’s no check-in hassles.
Oh hey they have Power Rangers on. This is weird. They were like pirates? But now they’re not. And now they are again. Also they have mobile phones. And ignition keys. I have no idea what’s going on.
I haven’t watched the English version (and I assume they’ve changed everything from the Japanese version aside from the pirate theme) but Gokaiger is actually amazing.
The basic plot is that there’s some super rad awesome treasure and the rangers are a band of pirates who have come to search for it. The ignition keys (power ranger figures used to transform into different power rangers) are part of the treasure hunt.
It was an excuse to work in as many past sentai into the show as they could. The movie bridging the previous season and Gokaiger was some amazing battle involving every single sentai.
Oh and the 6th ranger is a sentai fanboy.
Short version: they’re the pirated version.
The only Power Rangers I remember were the ones who answered to head-in-a-jar Zordon (or something), and fought putty men every week, and then the Wicked Witch of the West cast down some monster who kicked their asses, and then got huge, and the Power Rangers all said dinosaur names and turned into a big robot with a huge sword. Then there was some weird tacked-on high school stuff at either end of the show to translate the show to a western audience.
Also, apparently there was a sixth Power Ranger added at some point later on (a white one?), but I was out long before that happened.
Pretty sure this was the original original version, but I’m happy to be corrected.
Now they’re pirates? I’m so confused.
Mate, Tommy the Green Ranger became the White Ranger.
That shit is basic.
*hangs head* I have no right to have had a childhood.
Then the Red and Blue ranger adopted a kid who became the Burnt Sienna Ranger who had a contentious rivalry with the Chartreuse Ranger for the affections of the Light Salmon Ranger.
@negativezero Latest Kantai episode. Spoilers and stuff abound.
I’ll be honest, I totally wasn’t expecting a beach episode but somehow having a beach episode with girls that are the personifications/spirits of military naval vessels works. I kinda like how they represented Truk as well considering it was their primary forward operating base in the Pacific (with Vietnam filling in for south-east Asia). Some good relationship building stuff in this episode too. Yamato was far more sweet and kind-hearted than I was expecting but I never got her while playing though so I wouldn’t really know.Next episode should be pretty sweet what with the whole Yuudachi Kai upgrade. Apparently the theory running is that it’s going to incorporate some of the skirmishes around Guadalcanal however, if that’s true, we might see more people getting sunk. Jintsuu went down in a particularly brutal fashion as well so I shall wait and see.
Finally, goddamn Nagato and Mutsu shenanigans. Definitely my favourite characters at the moment although Shoukaku and Zuikaku are starting to grow on me as well. They’ve done really well with the relationships between sister ships so far however I doubt we’ll see any other ships as we’re fast approaching the end of the season.
The reason people are assuming Guadalcanal is that Yuudachi’s Kai-2 upgrade (and also Shigure’s) has elements and lines that reference it. The two of them have hair bits that stick out in their Kai-2 forms that the artist said he deliberately designed to look like dog ears. Shigure is the faithful hound, and Yuudachi is the ferocious hound, reflecting their service records. Yuudachi also gets an eye color change to blood red and her battle lines take on a more sinister tone and her night battle line she declares she’s going to show the enemy the “Nightmare of Solomon” reflecting the fact she was involved in the sinking of multiple ships in the Solomon Islands campaign. Officially 2 destroyers and damaged a cruiser, but unofficially claimed many more ships but no one knew who hit what during a lot of those encounters at night.Incidentally it’s also a Gundam reference. Anavel Gato in Gundam 0083 Stardust Memory was nicknamed the ‘Nightmare of Solomon’. This might be a dumb joke from the development team, because Shigure’s back-mounted guns make her look like a Guncannon. Shigure’s ‘faithful hound’ thing is because she survived almost the entire war, including being the only survivor of the southern force at Leyte Gulf (her hair ornament looks like a broken part of Yamashiro’s) and having been involved in multiple engagements where she was badly damaged but kept fighting. I’m still disappointed she hasn’t been in the show.
And yeah, Yamato is exactly like that in the game. Really nice. Helps that Ayana Taketatsu has a really nice voice as well. I was quite happy that I predicted there’d be a scene where she’s eating with Akagi and ends up consuming even more – the only reason I barely ever use her in the game is because of that prodigious appetite. I did use her for one map in the recent event though and she reminded me how awesome her firepower is. One-shot the boss one time. 🙂
I thought it was kind of funny that Fubuki was worried she’d be clumsy and slow at sea. In fact, the Yamato-class was amazingly agile for its enormous displacement, able to out-turn any contemporary battleship, most cruisers and even some of the less agile destroyers. It was also fast for a slow battleship, able to make 27 knots, faster than the Ise, Fusou and Nagato classes but slower than the Kongous. Still didn’t matter thought, the carrier fleets were much faster and so Yamato and Musashi tended not to be used because of how much fuel they consumed and because they couldn’t effectively work as carrier escorts like the Kongous could.
Even though in my second playthrough I just got to the part of DA:I where it opens up, I somehow feel the need to start again to see how it feels being a male character. I think I might need an intervention. At least there’s only a month-ish until Bloodborne. That might cure me. And begin a whole new obsession. 😀
I don’t think I’ve ever been so engrossed in a game that I’ve gone and started another playthrough immediately after finishing it. Sure I might go check out a few YouTube clips to see what would have been different if I had done X instead of Y but never start again from scratch. I feel I would burn out far too quickly.
There’s only been a few that I’ve done it for. Usually, when I see the ending I’m done, even if I’d planned to go back and get some trophies or finish some quests/collections, and don’t even feel like going back for DLC.
What sort of intervention? Do you need people to make you play more DA:I?
BLOODBORNE (26 days!)
Bloodborne could be the anti-Order-1886, but apparently we’re all really just passing time until Uncharted 4: http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidthier/2015/02/24/could-bloodborne-be-the-anti-order-1886/
Weird-looking hoodies! http://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2015/02/26/bloodborne-merchandise-hoodie-mug/
I hope Bloodborne doesn’t disappoint you guys after all this build up 😛
It better not. It’s by far the most expensive game I’ve bought in ages, and is the main reason I bought my PS4 too.
The writer of that first one could not sound more disinterested in Bloodborne if he tried.
@pupp3tmast3r
Something a little random happened last night around midnight, prooved logged on(remember the possible HPAL guy) asking for a ginvite for his resto shaman he was also going on about reasons for qguiting his old guild.
So you might possibly have a new healer… I guess its up to you to talk to him and see if his a right fit. however I believe he strongly has his eyes set on heroic progression unsure if he’ll have the right attitude. be careful.
Well dude joined on his pally so that he would become a healer if he geared and levelled his pally up and we never heard from him effectively again. Let’s see how he is; if he’s online today I’ll have a chat with him and trial him out.
However from what you’ve said he seems unstable/unreliable just going off how he’s gone about the guild swap; so not really holding my breath at this point.
@jocon Separate issue now; I was thinking of running a chilled out raid group later today either norm HM for alts or some MoP content for Xmogs; you two interested in either?
I’m down for some mythic mop transmog runs, as for N HM unless you bring a ton of guildies on alts or mains I probably won’t be bothered dealing with the stress.
Nooooooo =P I’m sure there’s a few alts running around who wouldnt mind and a few lower guildies. Go level an alt red sheesh!
That said I just want to chill out tonight doing something in a guild group; not entirely up for Mythic MoP cos I doubt we could faceroll the mechanics with the numbers we have and defs not keen on pugging >.
Yeah might be up for MoP transmog runs.
Friday morning question… because I’m chowing down on chocolate at 10:30 in the morning. D=
Favourite chocolate bar?
Me: Violet Crumble.
Cherry Ripe
Summer Roll!
Anything. ANYTHING D:
#NoSnacksDay4
Sorry… I completely forgot about your posts yesterday… My bad!
Haha, it’s all right. I’m listening to Zeitgeist, which is going into chocolate as well. It’s my own fault for over-over-overindulging in the past.
Moro Gold (NZ product)
People used to tell me all the time that Moro and Mars were the same thing and tasted the same. They’re all wrong. 🙁
Lies, all lies.
Anything dark chocolate with raspberry or strawberry pieces in it.
This is literally the topic we open this weeks Zeitgeist with.
http://www.dankarlszeitgeist.com/s06e05/
Coconut ice, iced vovos… this is torture :\
Also, I was Googling the health benefits of sparkling water the other day. It’s a little unnerving just how on-topic this week’s episode is.
And yes, before you ask, I know that it’s you in the bushes outside.
Enlighten me on the benefits of sparkling water?
Call me a skeptic but I can’t imagine water saturated with carbon dioxide would be any better for you…?
I love sparkling water, but not because I think it’s better for me… I just love the bubbles!
Holy shit.
Karl?
Karla – every 3rd weekend at selected venues.
I also find a lot of them have too much sodium in them, which as a result only makes me more thirsty.
It’s not. My wife has been drinking heaps of it, and has been feeling a bit rundown. I wasn’t sure if the carbonation would make it less valuable than drinking ‘real’ water, so I was looking it up.
Spoiler: assuming no other added ingredients, it doesn’t seem to be any different from water in terms of health.
Darrell Lea Rocklea Road (y)
Their glace ginger in dark chocolate is also pretty win 😛
All the answers above (including yours I’m sorry Sunsoar) need more Reeses Buttercups.
I thought we were supposed to be listing good chocolates.
\o/ Soundwave tomorrow! Off to Brisbane later today to stay at a mates for the weekend. Might be available Sunday for a lunch meat if anyone is interested? Won’t have much TAY access over the weekend though, but i’m on Twitter & Instagram as @virus__
I think I’ll be sad that this is probably going to be the only 2 day Soundwave even though the punters kept asking for it, they have responded by complaining that it’s now too expensive to go for 2 days, despite a ticket is the same price as one day last year. But their reasoning having to buy alcohol 2 days in a row along with food and an extra night of accommodation. Given there’s plenty of cheap accommodation in the Brisbane area it seems null & void to me, and you don’t *need* alcohol at a festival. Though the food part I agree, it’s way over priced for what it is, mostly shit 😛
Uhmmmm Langos?
They’re like the best thing about music festivals.
They’re those Hungarian pizza things right? I haven’t seen them in years.
Yeah man, deep fried dough covered in cheese and garlic.
Fucking dynamite.
Every Saturday @ Rocklea Markets.
I love that they try to make it healthy with a ‘salsa’ on top. It’s deep fried bread. Oh, and it’s covered in sour cream and cheese.
Can’t make it there 🙁
Guess I have a project on Sunday.
http://easteuropeanfood.about.com/od/hungarianbreads/r/langos.htm
*print*
The guys who make it at Rocklea have a small bath of cooking oil kept hot on what looks like a converted BBQ…
At Soundwave? Come on, last year they had, Nando’s, Eagle Boys, Subway and other similar over priced and shitty food at Brisbane.
That’s bloody un-Australian.
Damn right!
Pretty sure it would be a very bad idea to even look at that article in case I accidentally see a comment.
I made the dumb mistake of commenting once (as I always seem to do). Got a predictably dickhead response, and I won’t be trying again.
Been trying to learn up bluemaxima on Twitter from the position of a fellow idiot.
Going about as well as expected really.
Don’t worry, I stuck up for you, Shaney! 😀
Thanks, man. But you don’t have to do that. I’m not going to be venturing back in there. I’m kind of getting sick of being downvoted for having a moderate, humanist opinion… not because I care what mouthbreathers think, but mostly because I like being able to post multiple links per post.
As of speaking, you’re currently on 19 upvotes and only 2 downvotes anyway 😛
Say what? I was on -1 (2 up, 3 down) when I checked last.
Well, that’s okay then.
1. @dc
2. @shane
3. @freezespreston
4. @jimu
5. @negativezero
I think.
Worst people on TAY?
Definitely!
I wouldn’t think that I was worse than Jim Jim 🙁
DC and Shane are definitely terrible though.
Worst at gittin gud?
Don’t need to. Already am.
People you’d like to get a hug from?
@greenius too!
I suspected that! But alas, a private profile.
Is it most comments?
What are we? Stupidist?
In a sense, yes.
Most prolific postersSo I was right
I’mma numba 2
Might start playing EU4 again this weekend. Been getting the urge after watching some Civ V a few weeks ago… [side note: anyone else get an urge to play a certain game after watching a let’s play… but not the game you watched? For some reason Civ LPs always make me want to play EU4…] Anyway, saw an update got installed this morning, so went looking for the change notes. Turns out a new expansion got released this morning; how… convenient. I now have an excuse to drop back in :3
Time to brush up on the mechanics… and decide on a starting nation.
Not exactly what you were asking but everytime I play Rogue Legacy I get a strong urge to play Demons Souls. Not Dark or Souls games, Demons specifically. No idea why.
Interesting… pretty much what I was wondering. When you play (or watch someone play, or hear discussion of) a certain game (eg. in my case, Civ V) do you get the urge to play something else? And if so, is it always the same game? In my case, I enjoy watching Civ V more than I enjoy playing it, but it still makes me want to play something, which, of late, has turned into wanting to play EU4; in a similar vein, seeing people play Starcraft or hearing about WCS has reignited my interest in Anno for the past few years.
Watching the first hour or so of a playthrough of The Order made me wonder about this; most times, watching an LP makes me want to play something, even if it’s not the game I watched. After an hour of The Order, I stopped watching and thought “okay, now what?”; had no urge to play anything, really. Which made me start taking note of what certain LPs make me want to play, and realise that I tend to gravitate to specific games when exposed to games that are barely related in any way.
Don’t mind me, just a moment of idle introspection – mental wankery and what have you. 😛
I need to get back to my game with Japanese colonised WA
Although… DB Xenoverse is out now. Dammit, I need a holiday to work through my backlog… it just seems to be getting longer. Do I screw with DB continuity or RL history… hmm.
Hello again Brisbane.
Hi @mrtaco
http://blog.us.playstation.com/2015/02/26/spring-fever-2015-8-weeks-8-new-ps4-games-ps-plus-discounts/
Next 8 weeks will be having a ‘new’ indie / small-scale releases on PS4 and in some cases also PS3 and PSV as well:
– Helldivers (March 3) (PS3/PS4/PSV) (Cross-buy)
– Hotline Miami 2 (March 10) (PS3/PS4/PSV) (Cross-buy)
– Jamestown+ (March 17) (PS4)
– Metal Slug 3 (March 24) (PS3/PS4/PSV) (Cross-buy)
– Axiom Verge (March 31) (PS4) (Vita version later, Cross-buy)
– Bastion (April 7) (PS4) (Vita version later, Cross-buy)
– Titan Souls (April 14) (PS4/PSV) (Cross-buy)
– Shovel Knight (April 21) (PS3/PS4/PSV) (Cross-buy)
Next 8 weeks money was wasted on an overpriced CE of T0 🙁
I’m looking forward to seeing the EU/AU line-up. I’m guessing it won’t be too different. Also, they’re rather late announcing the PS+ free games list for next month (apparently, probably won’t be out today – maybe tomorrow).
PAL should be the same, add +1 day. AU will have a gap on March 10 full of sadness and broken promises 🙁
EDIT: I’m betting the PS+ thing is because they’re trying to figure out if they can do the DriveClub version they promised this month or wait for next…
I got Fire Emblem Awakening yesterday after trying out the demo. I’d previously watched gameplay videos of it and didn’t think the combat system was something I’d enjoy, but I’m actually finding it really fun. I only have one complaint about the game so far, and it isn’t even really a complaint since I find it a bit funny. I gave my character an eyepatch, but because character portraits are just flipped based on what direction they’re facing the eyepatch keeps changing which eye it’s covering. So far most of the time the game’s shown her portrait facing right, so the eyepatch is over her left eye, while on the 3D model it’s always over her right eye.
I found it just a tad too long. I literally took a break just before the last boss.
Best game on the 3DS.
My n3DS purchased with my own money arrived at the parcel locker today.
Now I just need to wait a month till my birthday before my wife will give it to me.
/o\
Fire Emblem, Bravely Default, Luigi’s Mansion 2 and Theatrythm (@freezespreston – thanks!) are on the list for initial game purchases. Have a loooong list of other recommendations waiting.
@beardymcmuttonchops @beeawwb @cufcfan616 @dc @dkzeitgeist @freezespreston @gutsoup @janexo @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @sernobulus @strange @sughly @transientmind @welbot @weresmurf @virus__
Hi Brisbinos,
Less than a week until @cakesmith, @alexpants and I come to town. Let’s properly organise some stuff.
Our schedule:
Wed 4th: Arrive a bit after midday
Thu 5th: Movieworld (let us know if you’d like to come with us)
Fri 6th (Day): Wet n Wild (let us know if you’d like to come with us)
Fri 6th (Night):
No plansBuffalo BarSat 7th (Day): No plans. Suggest something!
Sat 7th (Night): No plans. Suggest something! Dinner? Drinks?
Sun 8th: Leave
I’d like to plan what we are doing on Friday Night and Saturday Day/Night. Any suggestions? We’re up for dinner both nights, plus whatever else. We have no idea what is in Brisbane so please suggest away! Best places to go?
Our hotel is near Central station, if that affects things.
Thanks! Looking forward to meeting you all.
TAKE THEM TO THE END!!!
DO ME PROUD!!!
Every time I do you, it’s proudly.
What is this end that you speak of?
#StopBlueBalls
It’s a bar with porn on VHS.
How about dinner/drinks?
I prefer drinks and dinner
But that’s so much harder
I prefer to drink my dinner.
I drink to forget
Like a true working class man.
*cold chisel flashbacks*
a drink or two on Friday/Saturday night I could do. Preferably Friday because I’m old and like my two days of doing nothing on the weekend 😀
I’m in for Thursday and Friday day/night.
We should go eat dinner at the Buffalo Bar where myself and @dc had those hoagies. We’ve been meaning to sample their proper menu but never had a chance.
Can’t wait to meat Cake, Pants and that other guy, whatshisname.
Greenius?
Sounds good to me!
Friday is sounding best, buffulo wings for all!
I do enjoy eating…
Menu
http://buffalobar.com.au/
Oh my…
I approve of this plan.
So Friday night at Buffalo Bar? Think we’ll need to make reservations?
Do it!
I’ll be bringing some board games for downtimes. So if people just feel like chilling at the hotel, we could totally do that and play some Betrayal at House on the Hill.
Friday night 6th I could totally make dinner in the Valley somewhere. Except I finish at 3pm all next week, so really, anywhere might be ok. If it is gonna be the Valley, I need to know soonish so I can book the appropriate parking though. Saturday I have zero clue what’s happening for me yet.
I will definitely be there for Buffalo Bar! 😀
See you all Monday. I’m off to Brisbane now for Soundwave, i’ll probably post stuff on my Instagram.
The best part about getting the first comment in an article is when someone replies to you so that they can be up top too.
Okay B-Funk, it’s been like, 5 months since you last commented on TAY, people may not even know who you are. No worries, just comment an anecdote of you being really cool, and no one will be none the wiser.
So i went to buy the fantastically named “Under Night In-Birth: EXE Late” yesterday, and i had to wait about 15 minutes for the person at the counter to find the game, as she had no idea what it was and had to ask the other employees what it was while i just stood there awkwardly…
nailed it.
I’ve been murdered
Who’s this guy etc
Reviewing my role responsibilities and designated tasks from Monday onward.
…I’ve made a huge mistake.
That was me 4 months ago.
Just finding my feet now.
Have fun!
heh i felt a bit that way the other day when we were informed that we’re supposed to be multi-skilled so we can take SMO calls as well as IMO calls when we go live on Monday.. reason why I felt that way… haven’t received any training for the SMO stuff, but I don’t feel too terrible, cos neither have the SMO’s! :0 I’m sure this is gonna work out REALLY WELL!!!
Puppy update: The home owner still says no. We need to get in touch with the Tenants’ Union but their phone line is only open for an hour and a half some days, none of those days have been since this came up.
We took her to a relative’s place and the relative’s dog got a little snippy. They managed to catch Alice’s ear and it’s a little torn and bloody but not too serious. She didn’t care at all. She also didn’t care when we cleaned the wound. So that’s nice.
At least she’s kool with you taking care of her 🙂
Looks like the Tenant’s union will call you back if you leave a message, so that’s something. And they’re on twitter too, so you might be able to get into contact or ask a quick Q there.
They’re only open some days for an hour and a half to leave a message. All other times, you just get told to try again when they’re open.
EDIT: Their Twitter only exists to tell people when they’re open 🙁
Your situation makes me very angry for you. You seem much calmer than I would be.
Puppies are amazing at keeping you too tired to be angry.
Current MH playtime – 75:50
@greenius
I think I only just unlocked high rank last night.
Single and multi progress? I’ve finished everything up to 8 star and haven’t unlocked all of 6 star yet.
Uhhh I just unlocked the high rank harvest missions.
I’ve only put 20 hours or so into it…
http://respawn.ninja/class-session-final-fantasy-type-0-hd-hands-preview/
So… this actually looks pretty damn good. I know a lot of folks here are pretty excited for it. Anyone played the PSP version? Does it live up to the hype?
I played a bit. Sort of. I didn’t get very far because they announced the HD release just after I started.
It’s all broken up into short ‘missions’ that seem like they might be a bit light on content. I’ve also heard the PSP version was brutally difficult and that the plot side of things was a bit light and made no sense. On the other hand, I’ve heard others say it’s the best FF since the PS2 era. So who knows?
I am super keen. Played the psp version for a bit before it crapped out (fanslation patch).
I liked what I played and have only ever heard good things 😀
I’ve gone ahead & ordered the $200 version like a true schmuck 😀
Trying to figure out the most acceptable place to sneak in a nap.
We disagree on a lot of things Gooky, but a love of naps redeems you I think!
Does not!
I hate napping.
:O
I always wake up from a nap feeling worse and it fucks with my sleep patterns.
I avoid it as much as humanly possible, and when I can’t avoid it I always feel worse.
My Mrs is the same as you, I’m the opposite.
When I was working graveyard shifts I used to power nap on my 10 min break & it juvenated me.
I hate that I need them. But I love what they do.
*high five*
Awakebro five
o/
You monster.
I have a question for those who use Fitocracy. I want to add an exercise routine that doesn’t require any equipment as I don’t go to a gym and I don’t really have anything. I can’t really find much of an option which is frustrating.
Any tips?
Also scree on there if you want to add me.
Look under bodyweight exercises? THere’s a fair few of those int he database. Failing that, find something close enough and count that.
You’ve really just got to know what the bunnies CALL the exercise you’re doing. If you’re doing something with bodyweight, it should still be in there.
Last I saw, the app has a recommended workouts thing, which includes bodyweight recommendations that have weird names. (Such-and-such ‘blaster’ etc). You can pick and choose from there.
Also, when you go to add a custom workout, you can do a search for ‘body weight’ and all the ones it recognizes will be in there.
what is body weight?
Exercises that use no equipment, just the weight of your body. Like push ups, sit ups, chin ups.
Thank you!
I JUST had to draw up my personal development plan on communication and already I’ve failed an objective.
I have one for communication too…
This is starting to get weird…
Yaaaaay, PD.
What type of stuff do you want to do?
You can search for it, and if no results come up, it might be worth looking into a variant of that particular exercise that they do offer 🙂
You can create your own exercise routine by customising. There’s plenty of good exercises that you don’t need equipment for, particularly body weight stuff. I’m in the same boat as you, not going to a gym and not having equipment, but I was able to do an exercise program that taught me some good exercises to do,
There’s a whole ton of workout routines out there which are referred to as ‘prisoner’ or ‘convict’ workouts because they’re completely equipment-free and bodyweight-based exercises. Their conceit is that they’re “exercises to get and maintain condition while in a prison cell” but some of them are fairly decent and you can find them with a google search.
There’s a 7-minute Bodyweight Exercise routine that you can add. It has a good range of exercises and will give you a good all-over workout.
Squats, lunges, step-ups, dips, burpees, pushups, situps and planks and mountain climbers are all great bodyweight exercises and they’re all in fitocracy. And don’t forget that you can do ALL of the dumbell exercises without actually owning dumbells – use something like a can of tomatoes (400g) or save a couple of milk bottles and fill (2kg) or half-fill (1kg) with water and do the exercises with them instead.
I will have to look that up. Sounds good.
Okay I grabbed it, but I know I cannot do that many Pushups.
Dumbells are the small hand held ones? I have some .5 kilo ones.
Yep – dumbells are the handheld weights. When the 0.5kg ones start to feel easy, you know it’s time to get heavier ones.
And if you can’t do floor pushups, start with wall ones, or table ones. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RtM3L00BUU
I did the knee ones, but I couldn’t do the burpees. I felt too shaky
So, is it Black & Blue or White & Gold? 😛
…what?
I think I overheard some people sitting near me saying something about those colours.
http://www.businessinsider.com.au/white-and-gold-black-and-blue-dress-2015-2
It’s doing the rounds at my work as well, I suppose I just like how it’s blowing up the internet.
Vision* dictates that it is a very gross light shade of blue and a very gross murky shade of gold.
Fashion sense dictates that it is white and gold.
*my results are skewed anyway. Colourblind :3
Also, upvoted to counteract downvote 😛
I hate seeing needless downvotes >:(
Thanks Stew! I don’t think I’ve ever been downvoted on TAY before, let’s be honest I deserved it though. No hard feelings @freya 😛
She’s just a meany.
Yup, that’s pretty much what I see and my reaction after that was a solid “meh”.
My eyes also see a light shade of blue and icky gold.
I said this on twitter, but you know what? I wish the biggest issues in the world every day were escaped llamas and dresses of ambiguous colour. And Potato CAKES.
My biggest issue is if I really like my bookmark I’m making as down time from cosplay.
https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xap1/v/t1.0-9/10364155_901756026511079_6669635419317794101_n.jpg?oh=2f8864815aefc41bb8e65c5de696ef75&oe=55934C7E&__gda__=1435179170_2ace5ee262e854a9a95860e7175e5091
I saw that, looks cool. If I may offer a minor critique?
I’d bring his left hand out from his body just a little, because of how the bottom of his tunic billows out. Other than that minor quibble, it’s pretty damn cool.
No, you cannot tell me how to improve me art! =P
Alright, I’ll try that. It’s actually my first time drawing directly onto the PC with a tablet. I’ve also got Midna in the works but I wasn’t sure if I should continue.
That is pretty damn rocking.
I’ve been lazy and haven’t done the fback yet. Planned for it to be two sided.
My biggest issue of the day was learning that some 34yr olds would rather fight you to the death than admit that they are in their mid-30s. Pro-tip: Do not show them the maths… it only enrages them. Especially diagrams on the whiteboard.
Downvote for the ridiculous cake comment.
I thought better of you Red. I really did.
I was always #TeamBlackLlama.
Well, I now know that was a thing.
Sudden paranoid urge that it wasn’t clear I was joking about it supposed to be scallop. If it didn’t come across that way I apologise.
There was no part of that Potato cake comment that wasn’t Schmuck bait
Though @35 beat you to it : https://twitter.com/number30five/status/571168660301025280
Surely you mean Potato Scallops.
No, I meant exactly what I wrote.
Why would you make a cake out of potato? Unless you’re doing some kind of Heston thing.
Don’t know, but I’m hoping that Black & Blue beat Green & Gold tomorrow. 😛
The Kiwi’s will be black and blue after the the pasting they’ll get!!
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Having said that, it may happen.Either way, I win.
But this literally the first time NZ has ever had a solid, competitive team in living memory so I’d really like to see them take the cup. Previously they’ve always had some quality players, but never enough of them to make a complete team around and so they were never consistent. Sometimes could cause upsets especially when chasing down a target.
They’ve got one of most balanced attacks and a very strong batting lineup. Southee and McCullum were brilliant against the Poms and Williamson is fast becoming one of my favourite batsmen. Australia haven’t played for a couple of weeks after the washout against Bangladesh which is not in their favour. I think whoever wins tomorrow becomes favourite to win the World Cup.
I’m betting NZ will win, Australia / NZ final, NZ chokes and Australia wins the cup.
It was more I didn’t want to see this discussion. I thought it was funny to downvote you but I apologise if I offended you!
Hahaha I figured, no problem!
Blue and very dark gold 😛
So everyone in Australia is ok with data retention now? Don’t they have enough things to be incompetent about already??
Data retention sucks.
Silly policy: poor articulation of outcomes, obvious provision for over-reach, no good for privacy, expensive and no worked examples.
Completely confirmed when TA was asked if Monis would have been flagged any higher if they’d had access to metadata and the answer was pretty much a no or unlikely.
Pfft, as if they want it for Terrorism.
It’s entirely so they can track down the filthy pirates that are stealing the food off the plates of their Big Media corporate overlords.
And we still have no explicit definition of “metadata,” from what I’ve heard.
‘um um ummmm um umm um um ummmm’ – George Brandis
I don’t think it’s a case of being okay with it, I think it’s more the general public have about as much of a clue of what it is than the government does themselves.
Shrug. That, the anti-piracy measures, and the results of our position in the TPP are election issues for me. I’ve told my local member as much.
I really don’t think they give a shit, and am pretty sure they went, “Whelp, that’s a vote I’ll never get,” and tossed it in the bin. But y’know. Yay democracy.
It’s not even about security anymore; all you need to do to bypass their proposed data retention is to join companies that don’t function in Australia i.e. swap from an iinet e-mail to a gmail account.
Everything this imbecile Brandis has brought forward has been pro-American media corporations and anti-civil liberties. UGH.
Ironically the US doesn’t have any mandatory data retention policies.
I liked the bit on Micaleff the other night. About how the census cuts will save 400mill, but the data retention will cost about the same. Something something ditching all the info we willingly provide so they can involuntarily take it instead, etc :p
The ASB are the ones that want to cut the census though, not the government.
Is anyone picking up Dying Light today? I feel like I may be the only one lol.
I want to play it, but I need to find out if it makes me motion sick on PC
Looked at it, but might wait till the price drops a little bit first
Regarding the Sarkeesian article (spoilered because I know some people don’t want to bring that in here but I want to vent):
Every single time someone says “but why doesn’t she talk about men?” I want to punch them in the face. Why does she have to talk about men? Why muddy the water? It just screams about “but what about my own personal stake in this?” It’s not about you. Just fuck off. Fuck off and accept that she has a valid point to make that is not related to the one that you care about.I’m not some sycophant that hangs on her every word. To be honest, I actually don’t care too much for her arguments and feel like they could be much more compelling. You’ll notice that I never bring that up in the comments about this stuff because it’s not addressing the points she is making. It’s ignoring the real issue.Leeching power in the food court while monster hunting. Because I ate too much battery today. Oops.
They’ll thank you when you bring Seregios meat for them to cook.
How easy is that Hermitaur monster, huh?
Hahahaha my friend was out with Dragonforce after last night’s concert, til like six in the morning. Got a nice pic being held in some kind of headlock by Sam Totman. Typical :p
We Happy Few looks amazing. Instantly has become one of my most anticipated games!
Kind of Bioshocky? Not sure if I can take the disappointment of another game like that.
I’M JUST GONNA LEAVE THIS HERE
*spikes link to the ground, moonwalks away*
Yessss. I was right to believe in you. 😀
And by that I mean… CONGRATS!
Young man, come back here RIGHT now and pick up your refuse.
Awesome. Congrats.
TWO TIME AWARD NOMINEE SHANE W SMITH?I have no idea if this is a valid thing in the publishing world, but I’m going to take it.
Battleship sure is a dumb film
Enjoyable thoughI liked it. I don’t understand how it gets all the hate it does. Rihanna surprised me, she was pretty badass. A pretty fun schlock fest, with Liam Neeson doing his thing (which is always fun).
It’s amazingly silly really. But who cares as long as it’s entertaining? B movies can be great. I loved the little bits of the game they’d incorporated, like the aliens shooting exploding pegs and the firing in the dark using a grid bit.
Heading to bed.
Night.
Shisha is pretty cool guy!
Stop doing drugs, Greeny! :’O
But I didn’t gamble!
One bad habit to another :'(
Been given a tour/intro to The Valley. Doesn’t seem so bad :p
I stole a tiki mug. Because they were dicks, trying to throw Laggy out for no reason.
And then I helped his cousin fix his sister’s busted dress zipper. And Morgan Freemans are pretty good. And oh we’re home now.
Well, looks like Leonard Nimoy has passed on.
Oh hey there’s a possum just chilling in the kitchen, snacking on a loaf of bread. Cool.
One redeeming thing about the tiki place – the bouncer there gave me a fist bump on the way in. Said it was for my shirt. Fuck yeah, about time the Great Fairy got the recognition it deserves :p
The man who brought Civ IV to life with his voice. I got pig iron. I got pig iron. I got all pig iron. Galvatron. One of the best guest stars on The Simpsons. Ambassador Spock. Once again, someone I never met has caused so much sadness, but infinitely more joy.
You have been, and shall always be my friend.
RIP Leonard Nimoy
I was really bummed out by that news this morning. Nimoy just seemed…a fixture? Of geekdom. Of course, I’ve seen Star Trek, but it’s more that everything I’ve ever read about him makes it seem like he was a great person.
Live Long, and Prosper \\//_
“To get upset at the death of someone you’ve never met would be… illogical.
But whoever said the human race was logical?”
Maybe we can trade Adam Baldwin for Leonard Nimoy?
In a heartbeat
I am hungry and don’t know where to get food.
To the food emporium!
The Queen St McDonald’s only got $70 000 worth of health violation fines last year so you should be okay there.
After finally downing damn Dala I am now HR34, my first time reaching G-rank quests.
SURVIVOR EP 1!
Who’s watching this season? Thoughts?
@powalen @f4ction @masha2932 @phoenix @mrtaco @sughly @strange
Still don’t really like the “gimmick” this season but the cast is looking alright! A better start than last season but still not as good as S28.Most of the White Collars are annoying but I didn’t mind So going home since I don’t usually like the deceitful cheaty people so early on! (unless it’s Russell :P). I don’t mind Hipster Professor and Talent Guy. Blue Collars are kind of annoying as well. I didn’t mind Dan at the start because he seemed like a cheerful fat dude but then he was all bossy and eh…!
I thought I’d hate No Collars the most but they haven’t bothered me as much. We haven’t really seen much on them except for Jenn (who’s my favourite this season so far) and Vince (who I don’t really like but I LOVED his jealous stares at Joe :P).
Seems to be a decent season 😀
No collars are my favourite team so far. Followed by Blue, then White. The jealous guy is going to be great to watch, I can feel it! One episode in and he’s already slightly insane. The bossy old guy too, he seems like he doesn’t think about what he says. Which is going to be great to watch.They’re really hamming up the stereotypes though. Hopefully in a few episodes once the teams shuffle/merge that will stop. How about that dude wearing a suit to Survivor. Seriously? 😛
No collars are my favourite group so far. Still too early to pick an individual though!
I think I mentioned previously, the gimmick is very similar to Brains/Brawn/Beauty. Until we get to know them a little better that’s all we’ve got to go on. I think it was a smart move getting rid of So. They tried to lie to the only tribe that actually could’ve guessed they were lying. I would’ve gone for something simpler like “big bag of beans with a catch, or small bag of beans no catch”. Thought it was brilliant that Carolyn found the idol. Interested to see how Joaquin plays it from here.Not sure about the blue collars yet. Need another episode or two to figure them out. The no collars seem pretty on the ball though. Aside from Vince they seem keen to work as a team which is important in the early stages. I want to see how Joe plays the game, seems to be a hell of a lot more subtle than Vince.EDIT: SURVIVOR FRONDS!
I think I saw that. Collar collar.
Who’s High Rank (or above) in MH4U online? (HR4+)
Need to pick the right buddies now that quests are locked to High Rank or above!
I have finished every quest in the game.
Ok that’s a lie. I don’t own the game.We both hit HR4 last night. Don’t have any HR gear yet, that solo crab hit harder than I expected.
Wanna 4 player multi today? I’m keen to 4 player multi!
@Powalen
Sure
I’m HR4, finished most of the HR4 quests too, I think I’m well equipped I haven’t had trouble on anything yet. Got the crazy looking Crab Claw hermitaur insect Glaive (my attack is up to 515) and a full set of the S. Nerscella (big frenzied spider) armor (defence is at 314). Going to Soundwave today but hit me up after I’ll be keen.
We’ll probably be hunting again this evening at 9pmish VIC/NSW time! (@powalen @beavwa)
Have you finished the village quests? I’me still at the start of 7* because I just find solo so tedious. Though I have to get it up so I can unlock wystones :/
Nah. I’ve completed everything up to 8* (I think I’m nearly done with that?) and a few 6* ones I’m missing since I need to get further in online for them to unlock.
This is a question that goes out to the many parents of Tay.
After the birth of you child. Did you have random people come up and comment and or touch said baby?
If the did both how did you react?
I have been told it happens but have a had time believing that it does.
Like… Constantly. 90% of the time it’s old ladies. Generally it doesn’t bother me but I have spoken up when I’m not comfortable about it.
Great >.< I am not much of a sociable person so I know it will erk me. He’ll just the thought of it erks me and there is still 15 weeks left
The solution is a baby carrier like the Baby Bjorn or the Ergo. If bub is all bundled up against your chest (and baby wearing dads are awesome dads) then someone has to try REALLY hard to get too close. Next time around, I’ll be getting the ergo, because it’s better for slightly larger babies – mine outgrew the baby bjorn so fast we barely used it (he got too long).
Come up and comment… All the time.
Touch them… not so much (although Japan was a different story).
It might feel weird now, but as soon as bub comes along a lot of things you weren’t really comfortable with all of a sudden become pretty normal.
You will get the odd few who take it to far, but your parental instincts kick in really fast and you’ll surprise yourself at how all of a sudden your okay telling a complete stranger to back up. Also the tone you use will surprise you and helps those strangers get the message your not comfortable.
Just mentioned this to the wife – she said when our kid was 4 weeks old she did a quick woolies run for some milk, bub was screaming her lungs out and had 3 or 4 people in a 5 minute trip commenting/touching our daughters feet trying to soothe her.
Last night recap:
I intended on going to my university tavern, since this is my third year there, and I’ve still never been :3
Cause I don’t really have uni friends I invited my other friend along though.
I decided to drive there, so we ended up having predrinks in my car for about half an hour, sitting in the student accommodation parking lot, slowly getting drunk.
Then we walked around campus, slowly getting drunk :3
Turns out the tavern was closed though, and there was a UV party going on.
I really wanted to go, but we were in too fancy clothes to have them get ruined, so we went to a gay club instead.
My friend told the guy who served us pizza at the club that I fancied him, next minute I have his phone number (still don’t know what to do with his number… :S), so it was an interesting night, to say the least… 😀
You ring it… duhhhh.
PS. Sounds like a good night out! Reminds me of the night me and some mates broke into a rave that was happening on campus. Good times.
Nobody rings anyone these days, Sunny… duhhhh 😛
It was a good night 🙂
Would’ve been better if my foot was feeling better though.
Spent most of the night hobbling around :’3
I always hate agreeing with you (or anyone, for that matter, except Rocket, or Pants. Pants is too handsome to disagree with), but you’re right that nobody calls these days.
Open with a dickpic. It’s how classy people get it done.
GO SEE A DOCTOR/PHYSIO. Stop being a dumb bloke and go get your foot fixed.
DON’T LISTEN TO THE VOICE OF REASON. HOBBLING AROUND FOR 6 WEEKS ON WHAT WAS MOST LIKELY A STRESS FRACTURE IN MY FOOT WAS SOME OF THE MOST FUN I EVER HAD.
But I >>am<< a dumb bloke
Woah woah woah.
Where was the Live drunk TAY’ing of this??I’m trying to cut back my drunk TAYing and Tweeting.
I only ever embarrass myself and annoy people.
I’m a subscriber though! I personally don’t find it embarrassing, I feel like it’s an extension of TAY like Pun Page 6 and Page R18+.
Sounds like a fun night though all the same, good to hear that the socializing was enjoyable!
after last years crappy display from ubisoft showing very little consideration for the consumer and their own product, I’m feeling uncertain about the much anticapated title “the division” from ubisoft. Not saying ubisoft is bad company some of my favourite games where published from ubisoft (SC blacklist, AC 3 ,etc.) I’m just saying there becoming the people who say “shut up and give me money” and i think when it comes to ubisofts games people jump on the hype train very quickly and then wondering why the hype train has hit a wall of disappointment. back to main topic, although the devision looks very good and i hope they make it fun for the off line players, not just going all out on the online market. What are your lads and ladies opinion on how you think the division is going to turn out and if its going to live up to the expectations of the public.
I think it looks pretty great, from what I’ve seen. Trying something new is always good, I think 🙂
The reason Ubisoft can be a little “shut up and give me your money” is cause they generally know what they’re making, and know how to make it well.
It just depends if you like their games or not, really.
I have hopes for the Division 🙂
Out of curiosity, what system do you usually play on?
yeah true, not saying that they can’t make great games just saying that they tend to be a bit broken upon release. used to be a long time xbox 360 user and thats where i played majority of ubisoft games but made the switch to Ps4 early this year
but then again games being broken isn’t unique to ubisoft it’s more of a trend now for lots of companies.
If you wanna add me on PS4 PSN, my id is “liondrive”.
*wink*
alright then cheers
I’m just wondering how they’re going to fit in the towers that you climb up to reveal all the sidequests in the surrounding areas on the minimap.
GOT TO WATCH PRIEST SECOND FROM FRONT, NOT TOO FAR OFF FROM THE SIDE
FUCK YES
AMAZING, AGAIN
How they’re not all dead yet I don’t know 😛 But glad to hear they were still good!
They got a deal with the devil.
…Cos you know that it’s real. Cut a deal with the devil. From a heart made of steel.
I was pretty much in the middle 2 or 3 back from the barrier. So many overcoat changes 😀 hahahahaha
Mr. Strange and I joked that Halford had more outfit changes than Tarja from Nightwish. 😛
Manson was even worse.. Then again he also came out sporting a leather corset, so yeah..
I first thought “oh he lost weight”, then saw his face was just as pudgy as ever, then I realized it was a corset.
Haha. He was a lot skinnier this year which reflected in his singing he wasn’t as out of breath. He’s just so past his prime, which sucks cause I don’t mind him, but yeah..
I NEVER KNEW RELIGION COULD BE SO EXCITING!!! DID HE TOUCH YOU INAPPROPRIATELY?
IN ALL THE RIGHT WAYS
Father Rob will baptise you in the soundwaves of heavy metal, don’t you worry son 😛
We are privileged to bathe in his glory.
Haha, shirt comment again. Two for two, let’s go for a third :p
Cool Mario shirt, broski.
He’d look better if he wasn’t wearing it…
*wink*
#Page18 #InMyHeart
What’s with the nerd shirt, poindexter?
All the better to geek you with.
One day a florist went to a barber for a haircut. After the cut, he asked about his bill, and the barber replied, ‘I cannot accept money from you, I’m doing community service this week.’ The florist was pleased and left the shop. When the barber went to open his shop the next morning, there was a ‘thank you’ card and a dozen roses waiting for him at his door. Later, a cop comes in for a haircut, and when he tries to pay his bill, the barber again replied, ‘I cannot accept money from you, I’m doing community service this week.’ The cop was happy and left the shop. The next morning when the barber went to open up, there was a ‘thank you’ card and a dozen doughnuts waiting for him at his door. Then a Member of Parliament came in for a haircut, and when he went to pay his bill, the barber again replied, ‘I cannot accept money from you. I’m doing community service this week.’ The Member of Parliament was very happy and left the shop. The next morning, when the barber went to open up, there were a dozen Members of Parliament lined up waiting for a free haircut. And that, my friends, illustrates the fundamental difference between the citizens of our country and the politicians who run it.
Wow, Soundwave you sure fucked up a good idea, I really love the idea of us having a 2 day rock festival, I really do. But it was poorly executed, shame they won’t be repeating to fix those mistakes. Oh well.
Slipknot & Slash were amazing last night though.
Edit: It’s a real shame the problems I had yesterday I found such an issue for me just wanting to watch the bands and have fun down the front like I do every year that I didn’t even contemplate bothering today. Since I hate watching from afar, makes me feel so disconnected and can’t get into the group participation, blah.
I was up front for most of what I saw, I hurt. Ageing sucks 😛
Apparently during Slipknot in Sydney they managed to break the barrier I heard. All I could think was Brisbane Big Day Out sideshow 2005 where the fans managed to break the barrier during I think Pulse of The Maggots haha. So glad I wasn’t in that.
Somehow managed to score the exact same spot I had last night for Priest when watching Dragonforce tonight. Fuck yeah!
Wait, I thought you were at another state’s one, I shoulda met up with you.
Came up to Bris to see it all with a friend. Though he went MIA today so ended up wandering around on my own anyway 😛
Should have! But I am bad at organising things.
http://www.siliconera.com/2015/02/27/combichrists-andy-laplegua-is-handling-the-music-for-hellblade/
This is very cool. Sounds like he’s really put some experimental stuff in there and the soundtrack seems like it could be incredible. I liked their work in DMC and I was already pretty interested in it simply because Ninja Theory are a seriously underrated developer, but this improved hype levels significantly.
See you in new TAY.
Soundwave was awesome, I hurt everywhere. That is all.
I concur.
“Hmm, feeling kinda hungry”
*opens bag to start packing*
Oh hey look at that, it’s my second Subway cookie I put away for later. Thanks, Past Me! *brofist*